Sunday, October 12, 2008

My life would seem sad if it weren't funny


I was telling Mindy June yesterday that I had finally reached the "oh fuck, I moved" freak-out phase which is an inevitable part of any significant relocation. It came about as I was tackling my first home-improvement project, which is to open all twelve of the painted-shut windows in our new fixer-upper house.


I had gone shopping for supplies at Lowes on Friday night after having my In-N-Out Double Double, alone, where I sat next to a teen couple that I assumed to be newly dating. I was practicing my eavesdropping skills, which don't come easy to me these days as I grow increasingly hard of hearing wherever there's background noise.


Just as I was grasping the late-teen drama as it unfolded, I up and spilled my root beer, creating a coolio dark brown waterfall over the edge of the table. It would have been really pretty had it not splashed the legs of my teen dining neighbors and caused a general commotion in the surrounding area.


The kids were nice about it, but the whole thing made me feel like a sad-sack middle-aged loser without a dinner date. Of course this didn't stop me from refilling my root beer and finishing all my food. I also hope I set a good example for all the teens in the restaurant by thoroughly sopping up my mess with a stack of wet napkins.


After dinner I proceeded on to Lowes where I spent $200 on sundry house supplies such as garden clippers, trash cans, putty knives, box cutters, razor blades and the like. I dropped it all off at my house before proceeding "home" to the apartment I rented for a few months so that I could have a clean place to live while I get the house ready for regular habitation.


Yesterday afternoon I began the task of opening the windows. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say I now have two fully opened windows and one which I got open two inches before breaking the window pane, which will now require my purchasing two new windows on that side of the house. (I know I only broke one window, but they will have to match on accounta I'm a gay man.)


That process took about two hours, which is fine except that it was REALLY REALLY BORING. And I was all alone. Lonely, sad-sack house-poor me. Poor George won't be able to get here until early 2009, so this is my life until then: really boring house tasks that I have to do all by my sad, sad self. I called Mindy June.


"You've been working hard all week getting settled, shopping for a car and all that. Maybe you should take the night off and do something relaxing or something that you enjoy," she said. Great advice. I wasn't really in the mood for much, but all day I had been craving some Mike's Hard Lemonade - I love that stuff. I decided to get a six-pack, some fish tacos and tamales and rent a movie or two to watch back at the apartment.


In about an hour I was sitting on the couch in my temporary apartment watching "The Office" and "Superbad," eating tacos and tamales with Cool Ranch Doritos and drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. I capped off my meal with a Kit-Kat bar and some new-fangled combination Butterfinger-Reeses thing that I was not very impressed with.


The lemonade didn't make me drunk, but I must have been a little tipsy or something because by the end of the night, after drinking four of them, I grabbed my laptop and started composing a deeply felt blog entry on the moral worthiness of the movie "Superbad." I didn't finish it because I was distracted by an impulse to play a few rounds of Yahoo! Pop & Drop, after which I lost the inspiration to write. Probably a good thing, but the fact remains that my life has temporarily been reduced to drinking alone while eating junk food and watching silly teen movies.


Hmmm, it doesn't really sound that bad now that I describe it. I guess I'll let you, my Gentle Readers, decide.

21 comments:

Joe said...

"...my life has temporarily been reduced to drinking alone while eating junk food and watching silly teen movies."

Well, there are worse things. I have to tell you, though, you're totally killing my image of you as a suave urban sophisticate. Your midwestern roots are showing.

Chris said...

That reminds me, I need to go get the DVD Lars and The Real Girl ;)

Hang in there CPW!

Cap'n Ergo "XL+II" Jinglebollocks said...

I felt kinda' sad-sacky myself the other day going into Hot Topic. I was in me teeshirt and shorts, grey socks and brown loafer-shooz, and everyone else was punk't owt.

Not the SAME thing, but close.

Melinda June said...

Well, at least you become less of a pathetic newcomer than me tomorrow when you start your job. My days stretch out like that endlessly.

Remember, pathetic is a scale, and I'm here to give you solace by tracking higher on it that you are.

More importantly, was Superbad any good?

Anonymous said...

I thought Superbad was hilarious. If I were feeling lonely thats the first movie I would pick, no the second. If I really needed to laugh I'd pick "Shaun of the Dead" or "old School". Yeah thats the ticket, Mike's, Taco's and Will Ferrell when he was funny.

The Lady Who Doesn't Lunch: said...

You are never alone in blog land. We're here for you.

lulu said...

I really liked Superbad, but I'm totally pathetic.

Dino said...

totally get the part that it sucks to be away from your better half. While I totally love my new job and i dont mind the fact that i travel 3 weeks out of the month - when i sit in my room (in vegas for this week) and have dinner by myself I really miss Grumpy it will get better for you once Poor George gets there

GETkristiLOVE said...

Life without Poor George's cooking and Mama Gin. So that's the tradeoff, huh?

BeckEye said...

"I was sitting on the couch in my temporary apartment watching "The Office" and "Superbad," eating tacos and tamales with Cool Ranch Doritos and drinking Mike's Hard Lemonade. I capped off my meal with a Kit-Kat bar and some new-fangled combination Butterfinger-Reeses thing that I was not very impressed with."

Holy shit, that sounds AWESOME!!

GrizzBabe said...

Awwww. Poor thing. I hope PG sells the house soon so that you guys can be reunited.

Cup said...

drinking alone while eating junk food and watching silly teen movies. Welcome to the single life, if only temporarily.

deadspot said...

You mentioned teen movies and I wondered what happened to John Hughes.

"Drillbit Taylor"

Oh.

Mnmom said...

Kind of sounds really good to me - isn't that pathetic? I would love nothing more than an evening of junk food, some good movies, and the TV all to myself without having to drive a load of kids someplace, or pick them all up and drop them at 13 different households. Not to mention the incessant talking of a 9-year-old, and a cute hubby who think every weekend night means sex. Yeah OK, sometimes that's OK but not ALL THE TIME.

wonderturtle said...

I feel you CP. And I recommend "Can't Hardly Wait."

Creepy said...

Sounds like a hell of a Friday night to me.

Dale said...

You've always been Superbad, find a friend and go make a buddy cop movie while you're waiting for the world to turn.

Moderator said...

But you are in San Diego which is beautiful. Although I've never been there.

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