OK so I just got back from a Christmas party, this one hosted by (and attended by) different people from work. Anyway it was pretty fun, but not as much fun as the first one. The first one was more everyone I'm close with, and was in a familiar setting. This was with more "friendly acquaintances" and I'd actually never been to the girl's apartment before. Anyway when I got there I only knew like two people, and to make matters worse most of the guys there seemed like your typical redneck southerners. There were two cute guys there at that time though. One of them was an exboyfriend of one of the hostesses (and one of the reddest necked of all, but still pleasant to behold). Anyway he was actually pretty nice, just obviously not really the tolerant type, BUT the cool thing was that I thought he was really cute, and woulda guessed him to be a little younger than me, nope 8 years older! LOL I hope I can still look early twenties when I'm 30. Anyway the other attractive one was the same girl's younger brother. Also I'm pretty sure straight, but really adorable (LOL he was the youngest there at 19, probably a little too young for me anyway ). Actually I've always found the girl attractive too, so it's no surprise she'd have a pretty brother (or be able to date good-looking guys).

Anyway like I said it was slow at first, but then more people I knew showed up, including this guy who works at the same place, but never with me. Let me describe the guy (Michael). He's about 5'9'', rail thin, bleached blonde hair, pierced lip, nose, eyebrow, and several per ear, as well as 4 or 5 tattoos, deep blue eyes, and the best smile ever! He's also extremely friendly, nice, and cheerful. So as soon as I laid eyes on the guy several months ago when he came in to apply, I was instantly taken with him, after I got to know him and found out he was really cool (and saw that smile close up), I was even more interested. Unfortunately it was then that I found out he had a girlfriend (he definitely had the emo thing going and I was actually thinking he may have been gay before he mentioned just reconciling with his girlfriend.) Anyway I was of course disappointed, but I never let myself fall for straight guys, or anyone in a relationship (even a cruddy relationship, which their's isn't), I just won't go there. Anyway a couple of weeks later I met said girlfriend (Liz), and really liked her, and thought they were perfect for each other. She's pretty much the same description I gave of him only female, no tattoos (yet she's planning on getting two), and her smile, though bewitching, doesn't have quite as strong an effect on me. Anyway they're both terrific, and I'm really happy they're together because they fit so perfectly in style, personality, etc.

So anyway I'm really glad when they get there, and immediately go strike up a conversation. Well after a bit Michael decides he wants a cigarette, but neither Liz nor myself smoke (actually it seems she smokes pot sometimes, but that's irrelevant) so he goes outside, and we stay and chat. So this girl's incredible, I mean I don't even know her that well and we're having this great conversation. (Yeah actually some girls can turn my head a bit, and she was definitely one of them, though again I'd never hit on someone seeing someone else) So anyway we're talking and the next thing I know she's saying "I should introduce you to my roommate, I think you'd really like him." and yeah it was obviously not a casual "you two could be friends" kinda thing, but a "you two would hit it off". So I was pretty happy, mostly because considering a gay friend of mine was trying to fix me up with a girl, I was feeling really "off the map" so to speak. But Liz, sweet, cute, perceptive Liz had me sussed. Anyway the conversation only picked up from there too; turns out her other roommate is a girl I know casually. So we were talking about her (Mallory, another cute, punkish girl) and she was like "yeah she's doing fine, she's excited because her girlfriend's about to move up here". Then she went on to talk about how she and her friends (guys and girls) used to all make out with each other when they were in high school. Which really got my mind racing considering I'm pretty sure Michael was one of the group .....Yeah yeah I know that's really promiscuous, and I'd never do anything like that, and would probably even be a little hesitant to date someone that "open", but it still put a pleasant little mental image in my head.

It's interesting really while I can be attracted to any "type" of person, I find that goth/punk/emo boys are kinda over-represented (and yeah actually girls fitting that description too, to a lesser extent). Then way on the other end of the continuum I'm usually attracted to the cute, really Christian evangelical dudes (fundamentalists are a turn off, but if their just passionate about it without trying to force feed it to everyone they meet). Which of course isn't really fitting on either account, I mean I generally find both types really cool, and people of both genders from both camps have made up some of my closest friends. But I'm probably too tame for the "freaky" ones, and probably too freaky (read "gay", or "not sexually repressed") for the tame ones . Oh well I think I just dig non-conformists.

For the record, I don't have any piercings or tattoos and probably won't ever get any. And while I'm a Christian, I don't like to get too mixed into the groups and things because I find too much closed-minded fundamentalism. So I probably wouldn't be very comfortable getting too far into either culture. Still they're fun to mingle with.

Oh yeah so I did pretty well with the not getting drunk tonight, I had ONE beer, and a couple of small shots of this lime drink (which I think is just a friend's personal creation, I only drank it at all because I remembered it being really good from last time). Then we played "dirty Santa", I ended up with two little bottles of bubble bath in champaign shaped plastic bottles. Which is great because I actually got something similar for someone else as a Christmas present, and ever since I bought it I keep thinking "So I think I'll use some of that cool bubble bath tonight", then it hits me "oh yeah, you didn't buy any for yourself". So anyway now I have some

Have an awesome day everyone!

Kevin