Y2 D247

Yesterday during the day I was in a lousy mood. Mostly because of the driving I was forced to do for work. The actual meeting which took me 90 minutes to get to, lasted roughly 90 minutes and was a complete waste. Sorry boss, but I didn't need to drive for 90 minutes to hear what I heard. I could have easily done it on the phone. I don't have to be back out there until February 8th, but even then it is going to be a bitch of a daily drive. Since I didn't want to backtrack 50 miles to go home before the play, I decided to head straight there. I arrived an hour early even with it taking me two hours to get from the client to where the play was downtown.

The night however in a fraction of the time, made up for any issues I had during the day.

While I was waiting for my friends, I got some AWESOME news. For the kid's birthday next week I am taking her to Disneyland. Stressing a little on how I am going to pay for everything, but I think I have it budgeted well. It's budgeted VERY tight, but I think we can do it. Someone might get paid a couple days late, but it will be worth it, especially with the news I got last night. For those who don't know, inside Disneyland is a restaurant not open to the general public called Club 33. It is the only place in the park where you can order a drink. I got us a reservation for dinner. Thanks to a friend who has a client with a membership, we are having dinner at 8:45 next Friday at Club 33. I have waited my entire life to get into this place. Membership for an individual is $7500 a year and the last time I tried to become a member, it was a four year waiting list. The kid gets to go on her 18th birthday. I had to wait until I was 42, but just because I fucked up my life, doesn't mean I will fuck up hers. She is going to have everything I never did even if it kills me.

But that was only good news number one -- E2, a friend of my director's whom I have had the chance to spend time with now a couple of times, lives down there. She has flown in for a couple of recent events which is how we met. I decided to be bold and see if she wanted to join us Thursday for the kid's actual birthday dinner and she said yes. Nice! So on Thursday we are going to bum around, do some shopping at the mall, hit the old town, and then have dinner at my friend's restaurant where I am hoping he goes gentle on me, hookup with some other old friends, and enjoy the day. Bonus points for E2.

The play by the way was incredible. I felt so urban watching small live theater on a Thursday night. Something I have never done before like that. The last time I saw any live theater was with X2 and it was during the day, proper setting, blah blah blah. This was gritty, small, and real. Seriously I felt so alive doing it. Granted I didn't get home until 11:30 because of it, but it was totally worth it.

Today I am back at my local client, then a 4 course suckling pig dinner event where I am meeting up with a friend I haven't seen in five years. This should be interesting...