Ok so let's see. Here's a quick recap of what happened over the Easter holidays.

My mom and I went and visited my grandmother and aunt (dad's side of the family). My grandmother decided to give me my graduation present early. Yay! It was a check and it'll really help assuage my financial stress with the move.

Then I found out that my cousin had written this nice little article about romantic love which had gotten accepted and was being circulated in papers all over the country. So I thought that was really nice! (This isn't the cousin I'm closer with and whose sexuality I have wondered about . Actually I don't think she'd ever write an article like that . A few years ago we were sitting in the car on the way the mall and this nice little love song came on, and I was like, "awww isn't this a great song!?" and she was like, "well it's nice but completely unrealistic." "what do you mean", I ask. "well" she resonds, "there's just so many other things out there more important than love." **me giving her a sad/shocked look**, "what? you don't really believe all that do you?" she askes, "I mean love's fine, but I'll take fame and fortunate any day" ) Well anyway at least one of my cousins is romantic and happily married. I also found out that she'd been having trouble conceiving, but they'd discovered a cyst in her uterus and removed it, and they're pretty sure that was the culprit.

So on the way home my mom and I stopped at a casino. It was pretty fun. We both ended up winning a bit, I was way up until right at the end when I lost a bit , but at least I still left ahead. I'm actually really looking forward to moving to a state that doesn't have gambling. I've pretty much kicked the habit -- I only go when other people want to now -- but it'll be nice to just not have the temptation at all.

Anyway as for my main grandparents (...well that doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean). My grandfather's still very sore from the ribs, but he refuses to let it slow him down much. So he's still out in his garden etc. every day. Which I guess is nice, but on the other hand it seems to be keeping him achy longer, and may be slowing his recovery. Meanwhile my grandmother's Alzheimer's is getting worse . After we got home that day (Saturday) she asked my 3 times (within the span of 40 min. ) If I wanted to go to church with her the next morning. Each time I said yes. The next day I woke up to discover she'd gone without me. She said she wasn't sure if I wanted to go. (I ended up going that evening after I'd gotten home).

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So anyway today was an interesting little day. I woke up certain I was going to skip class, in fact I even got up to go to the bathroom intending to go back to bed. But then I realized I wasn't that tired, and if I hurried I could still make it. Plus I realized today would probably be the day we'd find out our scores from the last test. And it was. I made a really high B. So now all I have to do to pass that class with a C (which is the minimum passing grade for this class), is get a 46% on the final. So I can breath much easier now. Not getting a C in this class was the only possible way I wouldn't graduate. So I'm in complete coast mode now (hence the skipping )

Work was interesting. On two seperate occasions someone came up behind me and grabbed my hips. First Stacey, then a couple of hours later Patrick. LOL I guess I should wear that pair of (snug) pants more often . Of course I'm sure it would have bothered some people, but given my flirtatious relationship with both of them it wasn't really inappropriate, more playful. LOL I thought it was a pretty big coincedence though. Believe it or not I go weeks at work sometimes without anyone grabbing my hips, then lo and behold twice in one day .

So anyway then I got home and was just setting in for a nice quiet evening when the power went out . So I called the electricity company and found out it would take about 2 hours to restore. So I decided to go out to dinner, and elected to walk since I was in an energetic mood (It was probably only about 5 or 6 miles round trip anyway). I'd called my friend Mandi to see if she wanted to come with me, but she was eating at the time. I couldn't hear her too well on the phone, but I think she said she was eating with Joe, her long distance boyfriend who'd come to stay for Easter, but should have been home by today! So I guess I'll get the scoop on that later lol.

So anyway I get to the restaurant and the hostess takes me to this table, but the busboy is in the process of bending over it, clearing everything away. So the hostess says, "Oh Jeremy, I thought you'd finished that already" then she turns to me and says, "Sorry, it'll just be a second". Now the thing about Jeremy is, Jeremy is well-built. Now the thing about me is...well you guys know the thing about me . So anyway I really didn't mind waiting on Jeremy at all . So anyway when he's done she seats me and hands me a menu and says, "Cody will be right with you to take care of you." So of course I'm thinking, "Why can't Jeremy take care of me?" ....well at least that what I was thinking until I met Cody .

So Cody was really cute! He had these really pretty blue eyes. Speaking of his blue eyes they kept making a good bit of eye contact with my own blue eyes. Not only that but I swear I saw him looking me over a few times. Not to mention smiling, there was lots of smiling on both our parts. So I dunno, I was actually thinking he may have been gay. Plus he was pretty willing to engage in conversation with me and we both seemed disappointed when he kept having to get back to work. And you know how sometimes if you're interested in someone you have trouble thinking of what to say to them? Well I talk too much so I don't usually have that problem , but anyway I still had lots of things left to say to him that I never got around to saying. But anyway I'd just finished my first drink, a mudslide, and decided it was so good I'd have a 2nd (hey I was walking after all! ). So anyway he was saying, "yeah, it looks so good I want to get one now." so I was like, "Oh, have you tried them?" and he responded, "not from here." So I really wanted to say, "well I'd be happy to buy you one." (or maybe something a little more subtle like, "well they're so good I insist you try one" ) But I figured that was way too forward, plus I was only thinking he was gay, no real "proof", I mean heck it may have just been good customer service . So I just said something like, "yeah they're really awesome, you ought to try one." . I dunno, I'm guessing he probably wouldn't have been allowed to drink on duty anyway. And is it really okay to hit on your waiter? I mean isn't that really rude or something? **Sigh** but it was a fun dinner.

So anyway I got home and my lights were back and now I'm doing some laundry.

Take care and have an awesome day everyone!

Kevin