Y2 D10

I'm getting there, I'm getting there. It's Saturday dammit, I can take my time.

With the exception of one piece of harsh news, yesterday was an awesome day. The harsh news? My Kid has a tumor in her back. Now before you freak out like I did, it's a benign fatty tumor and the doctors aren't worried about anything. They do want to cut it out in the few weeks, but it's weeks, not days or hours. Still it's kind of fucked up that my poor kid has to deal with this. She has had this lump on her back for a couple years now and it was pretty tiny. She showed it to me before and said it didn't hurt but I took her to the doctor anyway. The doctor said it was nothing, probably a muscle mass and not to worry about it. It's never hurt her or grown bigger, until recently. The other day it was hurting a little bit and she looked at it; to her it looked bigger which is what prompted this new doctor trip. We are waiting for the surgeon to call to setup the appointment. We will then find out if it is going to be a quick thing or not.

My sister is home from the hospital. She had surgery on her back Thursday and is recovering well. She had some shit going on in there that was pinching things causing her problems. I won't go into details, but this has been bugging her for a while and they finally figured out what was causing the problem and decided to operate. When I spoke with her last night she was high on the oxy feeling no pain. You go Sis. :)

Alright, now that those things are out of the way, let's dive into the day. In the morning I meandered around until about 9 then headed out to find a Target or similar to get some sunscreen, body wash, etc. Just odds and ends. Found that, took care of those things then went downtown. All week I have noticed a Gentlemen's Store in the strip mall attached to my client. I decided I wanted to check out their stuff. Got there around 10 only to find none of the stores open until 11. Ugh. Decided to walk around downtown Phoenix. Yeah, that lasted about 20 minutes before I started to melt. I could literally feel the backs of my legs shriveling under the sun. So I did what I do best -- I found a Catholic church, took out my phone, and typed "pub" in the GPS. Voila, one block over. Seamus McSomething or other. Irish breakfast time. It was about 10:40 am and of course the Irish pub was open. Bushmills on the rocks please...

Sipped that until it was time to head back to the shops. I went in and got four great shirts for under $200. This is awesome since the original regular prices for all four would have been about $750. That's MSRP of course, but still, even if they were normally $400 for all four, I did really well. Best part is I ended up meeting the owner of the store and we talked for like an hour. She even offered to steam one of the new shirts as I wanted to wear it then. As we talked I asked her where I should buy N1 jewelry since I didn't want to get ripped off. She totally took care of me. Turns out the shop just moved from Scottsdale and she knew all the jewelry people. She gave me a name and an address. Done and done.

Headed into Scottsdale and asked for this dude. He turned me on to this coral piece with a silver and copper cross. Perfect. Sticker? $350. For me? $200 out the door. Booyah. I then headed back to the hotel, slept a little, and headed out to explore. Ended up in Tempe. Found this marketplace mall with restaurants, shops, etc. Got turned on to a place called LoLo's Chicken and Waffles. You KNOW I am going there for lunch today. They are about 5 miles from hotel and I will be there shortly baby. Some chicken and waffles. Oh yeah.

Spent another 2.5 hours on the phone with N1 last night. We discussed some serious things like exes and sex. We have agreed to both go check a checkup before we sleep together. That's pretty damn responsible. I should be clean -- check that -- I BETTER be clean, but I thought it interesting she wanted us to do that. A little intense for me, but I understand where she is coming from. Honestly if that's the only request she ever makes of me that is serious like that, whatever. I can deal.

I did ask some friends for advice on T1 last night. I think I will call her today or tomorrow and gently break up with her. I am usually the dumpee, not the dumper and this is going to be tricky. I don't want to hurt her feelings, but...

Slept moderately well. Back is starting to hurt a little bit. Bed's too soft.

Off to get ready so I can go have chicken and waffles beeyatches. :p Tonight is the party at the W. Looking forward to that...