Random..

A few nights ago I had my first dream that involved a fellow blogger, JR. He had IMed me after he left his first comment and we have been talking pretty much everyday since. We have similar jobs, and get along pretty well over AIM. Anyway, he was in my dream and I found it fun.

I was outside of an arena and it felt like a concert had just got out and my friends and I were heading back to a hotel to change and JR was one of the guys that needed a ride back to the hotel as well. He pretended not to know me but once we all got to the bar he was smiles and fun. That's all I really remember. There was no naked fun time.... YET.

SIGH

I called Gino today because I did not hear from him at all this week so far. While Cooper has been talking to the guy he met this weekend, I am facing the hard reality that all this guy wanted to do was have sex.

I am also in a big "FATE" mode lately. Running into him in SoHo was random, but could it have been part of a predestined plan? Who knows. I think I may be going on hiatus like Cooper has.

The one guy that does call is Carlos. We were supposed to go and get dinner tonight but he isn't feeling well and didn't sleep much last night so he wants to do it later this week or this weekend.

Revalations

I wrote an entry not too long ago called Cursed. I now know that I am cursed. I met a guy named Carlos about 2 weeks ago. We met at my softball fundraiser and I was really happy that he had walked me to work and all. I felt really good about it. So, here is my cursed weekend.

Friday I worked, took a nap and went and played company softball in Central Park. We ended up coming from behind and winning. It was great. After the game a few of us went to this bar called PJ Clarks. It's an Irish bar right near Lincoln Center and we drank a few beers, got burgers and hung out until 6ish. This guy Chris and I needed to go back and shower and get eady for this girls going away party. I got off the Subway and called Carlos to see what was happening. We talked and he said to call him once I was done with my work friends because he wanted to see me. I hung out with my work friends and gave him a call.

He told me he was at The Ritz and wanted to see me. My work friends were leaving so I took a cab downtown and walked into the Ritz. It was like something out of a TV show. As I walked to the back patio I see Carlos. Standing back-to-back with him is this guy Kevin. Kevin and I are late night hook up buddies. I wish it could be more but it's not. Kevin sees me first and his face lights up.

He smiles when he sees me and had the cutest look on his face. we chit chat and Carlos sees that I am talking to Kevin. He comes over and I introduce the guys to eachother. Carlos asks if I want to get out of there and I say sure. Kevin has this hurt puppy dog look on his face as I say goodbye and leave with Carlos.

We walk outside and he asks me what I want to do. We decided to go catch a late movie and during the movie he took my hand and held it. Right near the end of the movie he leaned in and kissed me. A sign of things to come. After the movie we went to Posh for a few drinks that I didn't need and then we headed to my apartment.

The next morning I told him I had Yankees tickets and he wanted to go. He had only been to 1 Yankees game and really wanted to go. We showered, separately. When he came out of the bathroom I was checking my Facebook page. He wanted to see my profile and we talked about some of my pictures. Then he asked me to search for his profile. I did and his picture popped up.

Before I scrolled down he asked how I could see his profile and explained that he and I were both on the New York, NY network and you can see anyone on the network depending on their privacy settings. He looked nervous and asked me to look at his schools...

I scrolled down and saw three entries under colleges. William and Mary, 99'... Grad school at GW in Washington... and then there was an entry for Law School... graduation 2010... no where NEAR New York. I looked at him and he looked like a freight train hit him.

"I was going to tell you at some point..." he cleared his throat.

"I am heading down to Georgia on a scholarship to go to Law school for pretty much nothing."

It's exciting when you get into Law School and find out you are going to pay next to nothing. We went to the Yankees game and had a blast and he said he may not want to go. We had an amazing few hours together.

Between meeting up for that drink and the Yankees game he told me how sexy I was, how cute I was, how funny I was and how I was the perfect package. It was so sweet. He leaves in the beginning of August.

After the Yankees game he said he would call me during the week and wanted to grab dinner. Saturday night I spent with a bunch of different people. I started off at a birthday party downtown for a guy on my softball team. Then I headed uptown for a party at a friends place where a few guys met up with me there. We left and went to this bar on the Upper West Side and just hung out. Great time drinking and just being fun.

We hit a diner up at about 4am and ate some food and thats when Kevin called. He wanted me to come down to see him. I did. I walked into his place like I had done before and he kissed me. Then he hugged me and we stood there for about a minute holding eachother.

Carlos has brought up after we left the Ritz that Kevin really liked me from the facial expressions he had and the way he acted when I introduced them. I spent the night at Kevins. No sex, but we had fun.

Sunday was painful. I woke up with stomach pains. It was agonizing. I spent most of yesterday nauseous, dry heaving and with a pain on my right side. After a few doses of pepto I fel asleep and woke up today at about 1pm.

Carlos is leaving for law school soon and I am sure we will hang out a bunch more times before he leaves. We had a really great time together this weekend which means I am not too cursed because I am meeting guys. Now only if they would stay in New York.

SIGH.

Happy at Work

wait... WHAT!??!?!? Could this be happening? JP happy at work? Yes you read it right folks.

It's what we call VR season at work, Vacation Relief. So, for my shift there are 4 of us all doing the work that really only takes 2 people. So there is room for us to go off and do other things if need be. I have been miserble lately at work so it's nice to feel accomplished at the end of a work day knowing that I have been a help.

I went to our Exec. Producer and asked if I could work in our editing facility the next few weeks as an extra hand to do anything possible for the morning show. She agreed. My position is entry level. My title is entry level. But I know how to edit video and am a pro at finding video fast and being able to cut it down. It's a skill I have always been good at. So I have been filling in as an Operations Producer making sure that video used on the show is on the right sever for playback to use. The Ops Producers know me and I have got beers with them outside of work and they are a lot of fun to hang out with.

The first two days I did some stuff that helped them out. No big deal. Today for some reason was a disaster at work. I didn't do anything wrong... I had to fix what a lot of other people did wrong. I was busy the entire day till the show was over and was given responsibility beyond anything anyone has ever done with my title at work. I gained a lot of respect from people and for the first time in a long time, I am feeling good about work and my job. Crazy eh?

As I write this I am chatting with Billy telling him that since I have met him and Cooper, life has been a lot better. Guys to hang out with who have similar interests, and in Billy's words, "like dick. :-)" Yes, he put a smile on it.

Anyway, thought I would share that with you guys. It's a good week so far... now if only Carlos would call me soon it would make this the BEST WEEK EVER for JP.

Raising Ca$h Money

Thursday night my softball team had a fundraiser to help pay our umpire fees. It was such a good time and I seem to be making a habit of going out on a Thursday before work. First I need to thank Billy, Cooper and Chris for coming out tonight and supporting the team.


Cooper had a really good night winning a David Barton Gym package and a nice silver bracelet. Anyway, we had our fundraiser at the Ritz, a bar in Hells Kitchen here in NYC. I walk in and see Billy and we end up at the bar with Cooper and Chris. One of my teammates needed me to sell raffle tickets so I left the blogger boys and went off to sell some tickets.


The first guy I sold tickets to was nammed Carlos. A very cute Puerto Rican who now lives in New York. He bought some tickets, we talked. He has a very cute face and loved to flirt with his eyes and facial expressions.

We kept talking and at one point I had to go and sell some more tickets to people. He told me to come find him. Selling these tickets gave me free reign to go and flirt with cute boys and sell tickets. One guy who I sold tickets to also won and he gave me his number.

I was walking back into the backroom at the Ritz and Carlos and I make eye contact. He waves me over. We started talking again and the rest of the night we chatted and I feel bad that I didn't spend time with Cooper and Billy.

It was ready for me to go and he was sad that I had to leave and I said, "How about I take you to dinner sometime so we can continue this?" He said sure and wanted to walk me to work. It was about 15 blocks away and we walks, held hands for a little bit and he said he would call me later. We will see.