hodgepodge.

yesterday was fuuuuuuun :] i mean, except for someone still catching an attitude with me, but right about now, that's whatever to me. so i woke up around 11-ish and lounged around the house a lot... then i finally built up the care to go to the store and spent like twenty bucks on chicken, sausage, chicken broth, tomato paste, stewed tomatoes, onions, half-and-half, and sugar for gumbo (and for iced coffee). i cooked up my gumbo (which wasn't as awesome as the first two times i made it... delicious, but not my best) and then cleaned up... cleaned my room.. got dressed... and headed out the door to spend the rest of the night with Kimberly. so we went down to South Street Seaport to see all the friends she made when she was working security at the docks. chilled with them for a while, then took the water taxi over to Brooklyn and went in that new "park" they got that looks over those manmade waterfalls, which is SUPER WACK, i mean, there's a little stand to eat at and some tables and pockets of grass, but honestly, unless you're with friends, there's nothing to do. but anyway, there was an ice cream shop over there, so we got milkshakes and went to the little park. there were two dudes working security there and the puertorican one motioned to me like to say "where mine?" and that just snowballed into us staying with the security and cracking jokes the whole time. it was.... Pete and Lamont, that was their names. maaaddd cool peoples. Lamont was doing Sudoku and was getting mad because Kimberly was figuring it out way faster than him, lol. it was a lot of fun, though. oh and after hanging out with Pete and Lamont, we went to this "asian fusion" restaurant because we wanted sushi.. OMG, the food was great... Kimberly got a sushi platter and i got unagi don, which is barrbequed eel and brown sushi rice. good stuff, especially since Kimberly let me have her wasabi and pickled ginger. it made the meal THAT much better. oh, and we split some crunchy fried calamari and then split two desserts - chocolate cake (with chocolate ice cream) and fried ice cream covered in coconut liquor and then lit on fire. i swear, though, not all of the alcohol in that coconut liquor burned off. you could taste it pretty strong, but it was GOOOD. i was happy. OH, so we get back to where Lamont and Pete were, right? and only Pete was there because Lamont went to the back of the park. Kimberly said she was gonna go see if we could take a boat back and i was gonna stay with Pete. so, i'd had my fake lip rings in all that day, one on either side of my bottom lip, and everyone had taken them for real, so i admitted to Pete that they were fake.

me: [ pulls them off ]
Pete: [ eyes go wide ] wow.
me: [ laughs ] yeah.
Pete: you know what, though? like... i've seen you with them in and with them out now... but even before you took them out, i'd made up my mind that you were prettier without them.
me: people say that about me and my glasses.
Pete: yeah, but those are nice, they fit your face.. with the lip rings it was like "really, TWO?"
me: [ laughs ]
Pete: lemme see you without your glasses, though.

but Kimberly was calling me, so i didn't get his full reaction to me without glasses, i just told him to say bye to Kimber on the phone and ran to catch up with her. then we sorta hijacked a water taxi back, lmaoo, nah, Kimberly just knew the people who were running the taxi on special for some wedding party and got us a ride back to Manhattan. fun stuff, having a boat all to ourselves. then we listened to a street performer play "Wonderwall" by Oasis, gave him a dollar. and then we went home, lol.

so after not speaking to him for 24 hours, i decided i'd try to call him. no answer. alright, yadda yadda, i go about the rest of my night. he hits me up on AIM about midnight, acting real normal at first until i asked him how he was feeling. then he went into this whole thing about how he didn't have the cash to get to Miles and ladeedadeeda... so i'm trying to give him suggestions and all he's doing is getting madder [ rolls eyes ] i told him get a loan and he dismissed the idea. i told him that if worst comes to worst, he could start spring semester, which he nearly blew a fuse about. so i told him to call the school an ask them for help, tell them his situation and everything since they'd probably be more than happy to help him out. but he's on this "i can do it on my own" kick... a'right, fine. [ holds up hands ] i plead no contest. i tried my best, y'know? if you wanna take it upon yourself to put the entire burden on yourself, i can't stop you, can i? he MGHT be coming to NY tomorrow, but idk yet.

anyway, today i'm supposed to meet Khalid down at his job so we can go to dinner. i haven't seen him pretty much all summer, so this'll be nice. he's always fun to be around and we have really good conversations. i mean, i kinda missed being around Khalid all the time like we did in high school, but, that's the way everything goes.

okay, i'mma go choose between my gumbo and the lasagna my daddy made for lunch.


peace.