Catch-ups in Adventures in paradise

I’m at the gym, but there’s an usually large amount of people here for 5am, so I’ve decided to just cycle and write instead.
My membership runs out in 18 days, and I’m going through that annual thought process on if I want to renew or spend all that money on something else and just improvise somehow. I find it difficult to adequately improvise however :(

Last night I went to Benji’s get-together at Jackpot Dining. He was actually meant to meet me at 4pm as I finished work, but I couldn’t see him and I’d been there all day so I just went home.

I get this text a half hour later, saying he was waiting for me outside. I said I was already home, and asked how slow his watch is.
To which I get the response, “Shit, I forgot to change from Adelaide time.”

Anyway, so he came to mine. I just had to have a shower and he charged his phone, so I did that and we chatted until his phone was at 100% and it was close to the time he’d organised.

As we were leaving, he took this chance to feel me up, but I just brushed it off and off we went. Why feel me up when we no longer had time? Anyway, we’re kinda passed that anyway, and I’d hooked up the night before, which I haven’t written about but that was okay.

Of course, people all rocked up at different times, but the good thing about Benji is we have a lot of mutual friends so it was great to see guys I hadn’t seen in some time, like Sheldon, who actually works in the city now, but ironically I seem to see less.
So us three ordered, as others were taking their sweet-ass time to arrive. Rhys arrived a short-time later, the Vish and James finally found the restaurant lol then Moe and Steve turned up but there was no space so they sat at the next booth over and I leaned over the divider to chat with them for a while, as uncomfortable as that was since I was squished into the corner lol.
Then Rick turned up, so yeah nice turnout.
We chatted and laughed and the food wasn’t all that bad. I think I prefer the place next door, but at least this place had the Asian fruit milk drinks I like.

Moe gave me a personal invite to his birthday party in October. He goes to so much effort that guy. I got home and laughed reading it. It’s a mediaeval theme and the letter was written accordingly, all scroll-like with a stamp of approval.
Should be fun. I have a few months to think of something to wear. It’s at some North side club so I probably can’t gay-it-up too much without some bogan causing shit.
I like to think society is getting better, but history tends to repeat.
Not that I can really gay-up mediaeval, but I can try :P

I applied for the weekend of my brother’s wedding off in a few weeks. I decided to apply for 4 days off rather than just the weekend, so technically I’ll have a 10-day holiday, with the wedding smack-bang in the middle. Dunno what else I’ll do for it. I could go to gay ski week, but it’d be (naturally) freezing and I could only attend for 2 days. I highly doubt I’d even attempt skiing. The idea of breaking my legs or wrapping my face around a tree whilst on holiday isn’t that appealing.