Day 48 - February "Holidays" in These Foolish Things

Good morning. It’s President’s Day, and therefore, I have the day off? I don’t remember getting this day off with other jobs, but we get “post office holidays” off - I guess that means Federal Holidays? Bottom line, we get the days off that happen when the post office is closed. I’ll take it.

Not really into honoring any presidents right now. I think I want to take this day and use it for organizing things. And think about things - hopefully get some clarity about my living situation for the year.

I have a few entries rattling around in my brain, and that’s why I haven’t updated in a while. Trying to organize my thoughts. Valentine’s Day and a recent dream got me thinking about love and my relationships and things related to romance and partnerships.

And now there’s a new-ish pseudo-holiday called Galentine’s Day. I guess it’s official now because there were sooooooo many opportunities to get out with the girls last week (and really, all month long!). It’s been nice to hang with the girls.

Earlier in the month, I wrote about a Galentine’s party at Diane’s apartment, which was fun, and I was able to meet a few of her fun neighbors.

Then, Diane later invited me to go to another Galentine’s happy hour downtown with some of those girls, and that was fun to chatter and laugh, sitting outside in our coats under heat lamps…and I also got invited to another thrifting event that same night (Feb. 13th is “officially” Galentine’s Day, according to its creator, Amy Poehler), so I party-hopped!

And I took Martini to C’s brother’s place so they could hang while I galavanted all over downtown! It worked so well I think I’m going to have to do that again.

If you recall, my friend C. dicked me over on New Year’s Eve, showing up several hours late with a cold pizza and a dozen red roses (so weird!), and I haven’t talked to him since. But I’ve struck up a separate friendship with his “suicidal brother”, I. Now. I. is a whole other story and he’s a strange, strange dude. He suffers from many unknown demons, but I know one thing for sure: he loooooovvvees my dog and treats her with kid gloves. I trust him implicitly with her after multiple babysitting opportunities, and he has asked me time and time again to bring her over to his house so she can hang with him.

I took him up on that last Wednesday and it worked perfectly!

See, I. was given the opportunity to house sit at one of C.’s business colleague’s houses. It’s a beautiful old cottage in one of the older, ritzier parts of town, just south of downtown and next to the super hip, historic entertainment district. I would DIE to live in that neighborhood! And he’s there, housesitting!!

The good thing for him is that it gives him responsibility and meaning. He can now work from this home (seems like indefinitely??) and stay out of C.’s hair (he works for C. and drives him insane), and now…babysit Martini - ha!!

I’m excited about being able to do this because you know I hate leaving my dog home alone. This could open a little more of a social life. And I. adores Martini and she loves him too. It’s a win/win!

I’ve also kickstarted a brunch club this month! You know I’ve been missing the brunch club that [Athena] and I founded back in [former city]. And I talked with Diane about it last month. She suggested this great jazz brunch in a super cool hotel, and we did it!

There were four of us at this first one - between the two of us, we’d invited maybe 8 or 9 woman, but as schedules (and a death in the family of one) would have it, there ended up being four of us. It actually worked out best because somehow my reservation was lost and I couldn’t find a confirmation email, so that means I probably screwed up the reservation somehow, but luckily we were able to sit at the corner of the bar and have brunch there.

Sadly, we didn’t get a group pic because Diane ate a big portion of bacon and then got sick! Turns out, she’d forgotten that the nitrates in bacon give her a migraine and make her nearly deathly ill. How do you forget something like that? Well, she did. Luckily, it was at the very end of our brunch, but I didn’t want to ask for a group photo because she was turning green.

She’s fine now.

Anyway, day off today and I want to get it started. There’s a thing at my favorite coffee house that I’ve been invited to, but I’m not sure I’ll go. It’s an intro to mahjong and I don’t love mahjong. My brain doesn’t work like that. In my head, mahjong feels like playing poker. And I’m not a poker player.

And it’s super COLD today! We are in for several days of super freezing weather and I don’t like it!

So I may just spend this holiday puttering around the apartment, spring cleaning and getting organized for the week. Or maybe I’ll start that entry rattling around my brain.

Enjoy the day!
xox,
GS