I was out of town, did you miss me?
What kind of stupid question is that when it's in a blog?
Oh well, whatever. And that sums up my general attitude right now.
I'm so fucking sick of insomnia.
>walks off to grab coffee as sleep is obviously pointless<
Not ready yet. Dammit.
Here's whats going on:
Spent the weekend at Mr. Wonderfuls moms house. Mr. Wonderful wanted to go visit his old buddies. I wasn't particularly happy about this plan seeing as how his old pals are drunk whores, the lot of them. He was too when he used to hang out with them. It is a point of contention, let me say. To be blunt, his past makes me want to vomit sometimes but I try to deal. I have a past. You know. I should be a bit more... understanding of things. That's not always the easiest thing to do however. Meaning, being understanding is not something I succeed at, but I make a valiant attempt.
Whatever.
(I can hear the alarm going off in the bedroom...for quite a while....there. Anyway...)
So we go to his moms and that was stressful. His sister is in the throes of puberty, his mom in the throes of menopause. Between the two of them the house may as well have been drenched in flammable estrogen. One got the impression that playing with matches or even sparks of things was a dangerous idea and it was best to be as placating as possible.
Little old me is in the throes of PMS and placating is never my forte while wallowing around in the murky mire of my own hormones but I tried to pull my head out of my own ass for the extent of the weekend.
Then, we go visit his ..... friends. (Had to resist urge to put that in qoutes.)
On the way there I am completely overtaken by a raging panic attack. I didn't want to go at all, but worse would have been him going without me and me wondering what was going on for the hours and hours he was gone. THAT would have made me totally homicidal. I've heard plenty of stories from Mr. Wonderful himself. I was hopeful that most of them were drunkenly inflated tales told with a male perspective. I mean, there can't possibly be an entire town full of drunken whores, right? College town or not, the girls can't be THAT easy anywhere, right? Right?
Wrong. This town is so full of skanks I was just flabbergasted. I wouldn't have been surprised if the girls just laid down on the sidewalk and waited till guys laid on top of them. Seriously. I was half surprised drunk college girls weren't coming up to the car at a light and offering blow jobs for free.
What shocked me most is that I really thought, I really did, that most women at least act coy...but these women were aggressive about getting laid, as if it were a difficult thing to accomplish in a town full of drunk college guys.
As soon as we walked in this club I wandered off to find the bathroom. I don't see it, and turn around. Already there is some girl hugging Mr. Wonderful and she's smiling hugely. I think, ok, must be someone he knows. I walk up behind her and stand there casually waiting for him to notice me. It takes longer than I want, I note with mild distaste. At any rate, he notices me and says, "Oh hey, this is my fiancee!" and I feel a bit better. The girl reaches out to shake my hand but is giving me this ice dagger expression and then shakes my hand with disgust as if I've just announced I eat my own feces. She coldly says, "Congratulations" in a flat tone that left me no doubt I should avoid her in the bathroom and dark alleys. Even semi dark alleys.
Needless to say, I did not find this comforting. She wanders away and Mr. Wonderful informs me she came up to him and announce she just graduated, would he like to kiss her?
>pause<
She hasn't seen him in a year, doesn't ask how he's doing, if he has a girlfriend, hey, where've you been? No. Just Hi Let's Lock Lips.
Fucking gross dude.
I told him she really didn't need an excuse like that and that I thought anything would have been a good excuse for her.
"I had Fruit Loops for breakfast, let's make out!"
"I'm wearing clean underwear, let's get it on!"
"I remembered to floss last week, how 'bout swapping spit?"
Fucking nasty.
This was, I might point out, EARLY. We JUST got to the club. Within 2 minutes of us walking in the door! It wasn't crowded yet. And some girl is already crawling on him....
Fucking awesome.
Must I add that my anxiety went immediately through the roof? No? Ok.
Need I tell you that instead of vomiting my anxiety chose to come out the other end? Repeatedly? No? Ok.
Must I explain how awesome it is to be in a club with a bunch of drunk ho bags trying to fuck your man and all you can do is run to the bathroom to shit? No? Oh, good.
Cause I would hate to have to get into all that.
And the club starts filling up and Mr. Wonderful is having a great time seeing old friends and is drinking like a fish. A happy oh-look-there's-so-and-so fish and people are slapping him on the back and looking all crazy glad to see him again and he's even SMOKING. He quit a while back. Cause it's... mmm... what's the word I'm looking for?...oh yes, RETARDED. Super fucking retarded. So he's drinking and smoking and my anxiety is rising like a great tide of I-wish-I-could-stop-crapping-and-maybe-start-puking-intead that is going to swallow me up. I am claustrophobic, and the people piling in there are not helping. The loud music is causing anyone I do speak to to smash themselves into my personal space and yell in my ear and the place is getting smokier by the second. I want to puke, but it only comes out the other end. Awesome. But the waves of nasuea leave me even more frightened that I might just hurl on someone cause there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to shove my way through this crowd to get to the bathroom in time.
In the meantime, I'm checking people out. I'm watching the drunk sluts on the dance floor with most of their tits hanging out, a cigarette in one hand, a drink in the other, retardedly girate to some imaginary beat that had nothing to do with the one actually playing. Their lack of rythym made me want to put bags over their heads for the shame of all white people everywhere. I wanted to get out there and show them how to really dance (people, I can bust a fucking move, let me tell you...) but I'm too busy with my non compliant bodily functions.
And OOOOOOOOOOH (steam pouring out of ears) there are few things that annoy the fucking crap outta me more than dumb ass drunk bitches taking up a dance floor. Worse? The drink and the smoke in either hand. Not only are they taking up space that someone with an ounce of rhythym could use, but they're spilling their fucking drinks all over everybody and burning peoples clothes and flesh all over the place with that fucking cigarrette. Is it possible to be any more annoying? Possibly. But not by much. Maybe if they were loudly screaming the lyrics to "Achey Breaky Heart" or something, maybe. Maybe. I don't know.
And besides all of this, only one of Mr. Wonderfuls friends is actually speaking to me. The rest don't seem to give a fucking crap about me, and I fairly quickly decide they are impolite assholes. There was two other nice guys in the bunch but they seem to be really shy and when I talk to them they look like they would rather run away. (Judging from the Whore Level I was guessing they might be afraid that I was Yet Another Whore, so I quit trying to talk to them.) Mr. Wonderful keeps wandering off and back again, and thankfully the one nice friend he has stuck pretty close to me. I decided I loved him. I'm not sure if he's really as cool as I think or if he just seemed like a beacon of comforting light compared to all the drunken fuckwads that were in this club. (shrugs) I don't know.
But every girl that Mr. Wonderful introduces me to shakes my hand and looks oddly frightened. Smiles, but looks totally freaked out. I can't decide if the news of my vomitous ass has reached every girl in the club yet or if it's just that I'm 6 feet tall in heels and obviously posess a brain that they found intimidating. Who knows.
I tell Mr. Wonderful that I'm sick and that I know he's having a good time and I'm going to try to hang on as long as I can because this is important to him. He hasn't seen these people in a year. I personally feel they aren't worth seeing ever again but I also realize I am insanely uncomfortable and it's easier for me to judge them then it is to deal with my concerns of inadequecy. And so, I judge.
They all fail my judgement, except for the one nice friend, who also mentions he is a freak in this town because not only does he HAVE a girlfriend, but they are MONOGAMOUS.
(rolls eyes) Un huh. I was guessing that was an oddity, yah. (sigh)
Another issue I'm having great difficulty with is seeing Mr. Wonderful drink. I've seen him drink maybe 3 times since we've been together, and it's a beer with his mom or mimosas at him birthday party, but nothing serious. THIS, now THIS was serious. He was pounding em down, and smoking! WTF?!?! And instead of my usual Us Against Them feeling that I find so comforting, I was looking at him like Do I Know You? You look like the guy that I'm in love with and trust with my very life itself, but I'll be damned if you don't fit in with these drunken losers just a little too well... (squints at him) Hmmm.....
Not comforting.
Finally I tell him that's enough, I just can't bear it any more. We leave. He's content, thanks me for hanging out as long as I did. We walk back to the car. I feel a bajillion times better once I am breathing oxygen again (the place was FULL of smoke by the time we left) and we walk holding hands and talking, laughing. All is well with the world. I have left The Place of Stupid.
We get in the car and I drive (duh) and within 5 minutes he's ready to hurl and talking about how maybe it all wasn't such a good idea. I am, I must confess, totally overjoyed at this. He drank WAY too much, way TOO fast, and I'm pretty fucking relieved he's getting sick. If he didn't get sick from all that I would be seriously concerned and the red flags I'd been noticing all night might stay up forever. ~sigh~
But he's ill, and I mean ill. He's ill for basically the next 3 days. Good. Serves him right. Stupid boy with his stupid drinking and his stupid smoking and his stupid friends of debauchery. Hmmph!
I tell him yesterday that I'm sorry I don't like his friends and that I don't even think they are his friends. He tries to explain how some alcoholics can be good friends, that they aren't ALL bad, but I disagree. I tell him alcoholics want alcoholic company. That is their priority. Your alcoholic friends don't want whats best for you; they could give a shit less. As long as you're hanging out with them and getting drunk then everything is cool. Otherwise they don't really want much to do with you now do they? If there isn't alcohol involved in the plan they don't want any part of it. And God forbid you should decide you don't want to drink with them. I assume most of you have known at least one drunk in your life times to guess how well that goes over.
All in all I was totally dissapointed. I had agreed to go with him because I was hoping I could get over my paranoia about these people but if anything they managed to not only confirm my worst fears but magnify them by another million or so.
In retrospect it was the whores that did that, though.
I told Mr. Wonderful that and he said not to worry, that he is my protector and would not hurt me nor cause me to get in harms way. I said, "Good. Then don't ever take me back there again."
I meant it.
But I'm sure we'll be back at some point. Curiosity is a bitch like that. Because soon I just won't even believe that one town could be so full of alcoholic sluts. And I'll have to go back to see it again. Fucking amazing.
(No, I'm not blogging where this town is. I don't want the alcoholic whores of that shithole to flame me. If you're a drunken whore looking for your own kind, write to me and I'll tell you.)
Even just retelling this story made me poop. I told it to my friend Anne yesterday and had to poop twice. Somebody needs to call Ripleys. I must be The Shittiest Women Ever or something. If not, they could at least give me a consolation plaque that says in huge bronze letters "Dude This Girl Can Shit" and in smaller letters beneath "Seriously. It's Fucking Crazy. We've never seen anything like it!"
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Speaking of drunken whores (and shit), my sons dad is back in town. Yes, apparently he needed another excuse for a vacation and decided to use his sons birthday as an excuse. So he drove 500 miles to come here, and managed to hang out with his son for a whole hour and a half yesterday. Awesome parenting, fucking astounding. Calls us at 6:15 at night and doesn't understand why I'm pissed off already. Then asks if it's ok if (my son) just skips school so he can hang out with him more (which he doesn't actually want to do, let me clarify- he's asking this to put up a front about how he really WANTS to see him more but I just won't LET him.) Of course, he could come on a weekend? But that's inconveniant. So he came on Monday and calls us late Tuesday and acts like he's just so put out that he doesn't get more time with him while he's here. I coldly tell him that if it was so important he could have tried calling AT ANY POINT DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS. Fucking jackass.
You see, I'd forgotten. I keep doing that. I think now that he's (supposedly) sober (and not smoking crack, doing coke and meth and whatever else) I assume that I can deal with him like normal humans. No, no no. I still need to treat him like a fucked up shit head and so once I remembered that it was fine. You see, he told me he was coming on Monday and I said, "Ok," assuming he would call when he got into town and make some plan with us. Oh, stupidly stupidly no. He would OF COURSE wait until I was certain he wasn't actually here at all and (hopefully) died somewhere (in a flaming car crash involving sleep deprivation and some kind of amphetimine induced hallucinations). Then he calls. And wonders why I'm not falling over backwards to accomodate his stupid ass.
I forget how it is with him.
Eh. There's more but thinking about him makes me borderline homicidal. Well, no. It does make me feel as if someone has replaced a good portion of the blood that runs through my veins with liquid poisonous rage though. And that's awesome.
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Mothers Day came and went. I tried to find a card for my mom that expressed...I don't know...something besides bitter resentment. I found one that had this long message about "You made me who I am" and thought that was really fucking apt. No doubt about that.
The next day my Grandma calls me to chew my ass out about not calling my mom or anything. I tell her I did but she's pissed off and ready to tell me off about it. I wonder for a minute if she got a hold of some whiskey or something. I explain to her that there must be some miscommunication somehow because I did send her that card and I did call her. She calms down and quits snapping at me.
I felt bad. I should have called my Grandma too really. But with the stress of this weekend (a lot of which I didn't even bother to get into because otherwise I'd be typing all freaking day) it just slipped my mind.
I did explain to my grandma that Mr. Wonderfuls mom lives 7 hours away and that we spent most of the day in the car driving. I didn't bother to get into the fact that he was hung over and I was still a shitty mess.
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I haven't quit having daily panic attacks yet. Maybe today they'll stop. Heres to hoping.
And also, I have this whole chain of thought about some fascinating info my new pal Patti passed on to me. Alas, I am too full of shitty shitty anger to ponder that for you all right now so it will have to wait.
But there's some exciting sparkly thought process in the works. Just know this.
That and I'll probably poop again today.
Cause
I'm Awesome Like That.