Tails of a 17th Street Geisha

I have no time to write, so I’m just going to include a chronological summary of events with corresponding pictures!

Drea and I throw a pizza party to celebrate her 14th birthday for 25 of our closest friends. The gay to straight ratio is alarming balanced! She cleans up on the presents, getting at least 75 bucks worth of itunes certificates, pedicure set, makeup, ultimate frisbee and how-to DVD, punk rock jewelry, and even a best-of Ramones punk rock CD! Sweet. Oh yeah, and a mondo bag load of skittles!!!

Drea bakes a turtles themed cake (she loves animals) and there’s a blue ocean and brown-sugar and cinnamon beach with chocolate turtle candies on top, all lined with skittles!

Later that night Drea and I hang @ the Black Cat, a great venue and all ages hang-out in DC.

Slumber party after the Black Cat. Andrew, Drea and I crash at Wendy’s Palace of Wonders! We go to a delish brunch the next day and Drea and I cruise the circle. This time, we don’t people watch and I don’t fraternize with the local homos, but Drea chases after dogs (as well as one with a knee injury can chase). She loves animals, esp. dogs.

Drea and I have shennanigans on the metro to watch our very first Nationals Game (vs. Braves).

It’s also our first major league game. It was fun!

Drea told me she wanted Shake and Bake chicken so in that third picture, you can see I was trying to get me some chick’n.

Drea and I cat sit @ Roz’s place. Kitten-la is freaky and this picture really captures her crazed possessed spirit. I love kitten-la though. Drea and I later hang out with Filip and she starts to get knee pain. poor drey drey.

Drea and I get into our first big fight. She likes to run and hide when she gets angry at me. This time, she finds a metal box that we use for a coffee table and proceeds to scootch along the floor with her upper body in it. If she could bend her knee she would have put her entire body in it. I have a great video of her scootching along the floor. It was hilarious, but boy was she pissed.

Andrew saves the day and drives Drea and me to the ER where we finally get the MRI that we were ordered to get some 3 weeks prior but were denied because of insurance issues. We stay up at the ER until 1am because Drea gets her blood drawn, an x-ray, ultrasound and a closed MRI on her knee that took 45 minutes. She was so incredibly brave that I let her sleep in. Unfortunately, I was at work at 9am!

Drea, co-worker/friend Diane, and I go out to dinner, hang out at the teeny-bopper magnet astro-turf lawn in downtown Silver Spring. That place is fun! We watch 15 year old boys eat concrete as they fall from their skateboards and long for the day that we can do the same. When Drea’s leg heals! It seems like Drea and I have finally found a rythm and balance to living together. I no longer spoil her and I tell her what to do when she needs the push. She no longer looks to be babied ALL the time and allows me to get groceries and leave her at home when I need to. She still doesn’t let me make out with boys. hehehhehe

We’re going to get picked up by Andrew from work and go see his turtles and hang for a bit! Then we’ll go read our books somewhere outdoors where she can elevate her foot. Then we have to take it easy. She really wants to go see my friend Steve’s band play at the Black Cat and we even have a place to crash (thanks Wendy for the open invite to the Palace of Wonders) but I want her to keep it easy on her foot……………..

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