Fat Tuesday!

Yesterday I was going to impose a self induced mandatory lock in. I have noticed since John had left that I had purposely been keeping myself out. It was about time for me to turn and face the aloneliness (my own word). Then I found out that today was Fat Tuesday and well .... i just couldn't NOT go out and join the fun. So I asked around to see who wanted to go and no one was up for it. I was going to go out alone and I decided to text an old friend of mine. Ariel and I use to be really close when we were in high school. We were a close bunch of guys during that time. So i texted him and asked him if he wanted to come check out the downtown tonight. I had come once before ... for like an hour. He hadn't been down here at all. I wasn't even sure what would be going on but I took a chance ... heck its Fat Tuesday... SOMETHING has to be going on. I bought a blinking beaded necklace from work and picked up one more from the house and then headed out. We had a blast! I wanted to check out a place that a coworker said she liked called Speak Easy but it was closed! So we walked down to a place called The Dive. It freaking rocked! It was definitely my kinda place. They played lots of 90's 80's and 70's rock. You know the place is special when they have TWINKIES on the menu! After a while there we went next door to a place called Rhythm and Brews. It was nice. a little more upscale from the blue jeans and t shirt place of The Dive. Guys were dressed up in nicer shirts, and girls wore short black dresses. The place was a lil nicer. I like to think the waitress thought I was cute because she gave me my Dr. Pepper's for free while she charged Ariel for his beers. The last two of the four had cherries in them. I probably got them for free though because she probably thought I was a designated driver. Now my blinking bead necklace had been coveted all night with three girls asking where i got it from . One told me she worked at moon beams and told me to visit her during the day sometime and squeezed my bicep...I'm pretty sure she was dissappointed. Anyways, at Rhythm and Brews one girl came up to me and asked me if she could borrow my necklace because her friends told her there was no way that she could get it from me and that she would give it back when she leaves. She was the only one to ask me if she could have it and i was going to get it back so i said yes. Anyways Ariel and I left first and so I went to go get it back. She told me she would give it to me out side. I suppose she wanted to save face in front of her friends. She gave it back to me and she like everyone else asked where i got it from. And the she asked if she could have it. Me being a nice guy of course said yes. I got a big hug for it. ^.^ . Of the evening I started of with two strings of beads and ended up with five even after giving one away. The last place we stopped out was an old old movie theater called El Cine Rey. They had a blues and fusion band playing in the lobby of the theater with lots of couches inside and out. It was smaller crowd and more intimate. I liked it. It had red lights and red velvet couches. My favorite place was still The Dive though. This saturday they are going to have some Industrial bands play. I want to check that out. It's going to be a saturday where I won't have the kids so that should work out nicely. Plus there is another place called Lounge M that is going to have a punk band from Portland, Oregon play. That is in March. I had a wonderful night and I am glad I went out. I loved catching up with Ariel. I hope we can make this our thing.