704 Events

Michelle has a friend who came up with a cool website idea. Look over in the right hand corner for "Charlotte Events" and that will take you to one of the links. The premise for the site is to have a place for people to go to find out what's happening in their area code. The subjects are quite varied. And it's very cool. Well, the launch party for the Charlotte branch was last Thursday (23rd) up at the Flying Saucer near where Michelle lives. She's the main local coordinator for this branch and I am one of her administrators in my copious amounts of free time. (Can you hear the sarcasm?) I'll be doing more when the summer comes around.

Anyway, Mike had to be in Raleigh so he planned to meet me there. Jonathan and Kelly (co-worker and friend from the bookstore) said that they would go with me. We had to wait until Jonathan was done at school before we could leave. We got up there about 6p. Mike was already there. There was a little bit of a pall on the event for us because one of Mike's former co-workers and friends died on Wed. It was very sad. Mike seemed to be doing pretty well (or as he put it, "A guy losing a guy isn't the same as a girl losing a girl.").

I was wrangled to cover the door for a while. That was interesting. Took a little while for me to get into the swing of telling incoming people about the site and the raffle that we were holding. But eventually it went well. My damn foot was acting up so I didn't spend much more than an hour doing that. When I got back to Mike and the others, he was sitting in a chair. I suggested he move and sit on my lap (hee hee) but he had me sit on his. Then he proceeded to bounce me on his knee. I don't think I've played horsey since I was a child. lmao Then I sat on both legs and he bounced me to the "Lone Ranger" tune. He is so silly. (big grin)

Mike had to leave early for some annual thingamajig that he does. I have no idea what it is. He's been having me guess but I have no idea. I think he just likes keeping the secret so I'll let him have it.

After Mike left, Kelly, Jonathan, and I went to McAlister's for dinner and had a fine time laughing and joking. It was hysterical. Let's just say that at one point there were images of a giant marshmallow penis and a gimp mask. (rolls eyes) I was laughing so hard that I almost cried. By the time we got outside, it was colder -- as Kelly's chest could attest too when she said, "It's a tad bit nipply out here." I thought Jonathan was gonna choke to death.

Overall, I think that it was a successful party. It was certainly fun. By the time I got home after 1a, Mike had already been in bed for an hour and a half. I was fairly successful at crawling in quietly beside him after my shower. It was a good night.