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You guys. OMG. Brian of cheapblueguitar fame just left. I miss him already.

Yes, it was only our second meeting face to face. Yes, he stayed with us all weekend. Yes, it was awesome.

It all started Friday evening. I had had a CRAZY workweek. I got home later than expected and had to do this wonder woman twirl and show up at the airport. Richard was off later than me! He didn’t even get to twirl! Anyhoo, we arrived at the airport at the proper time, snatched Brian off the curb and took him basically across the street to out favorite “toast to your arrival” location, C-Level. It offers the most amazing view of downtown San Diego I have discovered yet. Also, I am now mayor of that venue on FourSquare. HA! (I literally screamed like a girl. My first real mayorship couldn’t be more awesome!) From there we of course took Brian to Urban Mo’s, our local gay hot spot. Drinks were had. And so yeah. The post below, Touched for the Very First Time occurred. Because Mo’s virgins get a sticker!

The next day we did the Marathon Tourist Day. We kicked it of with brunch at R-Gang Eatery (where the Bloody Marys were a MEAL). Then it was off to Balboa Park, where Brian and I (okay, more ME) were enamored with a band of robotic singing pantomimes. I immediately bought the CD on iTunes and friended them on Facebook. LOVE STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE!!! OMG! It’s like this amazing retro-gothic-sexy-funny Robots that performed on the side walk near the pond on The Prado. LOVE.

After that we were off to downtown to catch the ferry (on Joelle's">Joelle’s of Tenth-muse.com suggestion) which was amazing. We took a few pics (one upside-down) on the boat. Then it was all about strolling on the Island. We lunched at the Coronado Brewery where Brian enjoyed beer with an orange wedge. Yummm? We followed that up with cocktails on our friend Sheila’s patio. Luxury. After that it was a quick stop at the Coronado Cupcakery for dessert and catching the ferry home! And much needed sleep!

Then it was Sunday. The Big BBQ Day. All our local besties were present! (Twitter names to follow) @goostersd, @uberglitterati, @tenthmuse, @richardallen, @dano413, and non-twitter Matt. Such a great time at the Tiki Bar (which is now an official place on Foursquare) Around 7 I had to rush Brian off to the airport! I got back in time to clean the kitchen…

It was the best weekend ever. We all love Brian, and no one wanted him to go home to the fiery hot Phoenix…
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So if you follow my Twitter stream at all, which I’m sure you do, then you know I was in Yuma yesterday. I know what you’re thinking. OMG WTF Yuma?! Haha, yes. You see it is pretty much the halfway mark between Phoenix and San Diego and as such it was where Brian of Cheap Blue Guitar and myself decided to meet. Of course it was a year after deciding that we finally did it! I packed up my man Richard and he packed up Dyanna (@dyanna on Twitter) and we each set out on our 250+ mille journeys.

Oi. It’s totally farther than you think. Richard and I arrived a bit early and went off to explore the mall while Brian and Dyanna did their last 40+ miles. Haha. At exactly 2 PM Daniel from danielphillip.com and Brian of cheapblueguitar.com met face to face. So if your internet konked out at that time or you saw a blinding light, now you know why. LOL. Internet personalities collided. Once we did the always weird ‘I read you and chat with you everyday yet NOW we’re meeting’ thing, it was like chatting with old friends. It took a bit tho, because our waiter wouldn’t give us more than 2 minutes alone at a time. Poor ADD kid… Anyhoo, Brian and Dyanna are as awesome as you think. We gabbed a lot, enjoyed the unique culinary flair of The Outback, and the air conditioning. (I don’t know if you know this about Yuma, but it’s hot. It is past all these sand dunes and really in the desert. It was, I kid you not, eleventy million degrees out there.)

So after lunch we decided to treck out and explore the city.. erm, town. It was kinda like a ghost town. There was no one out, what with the oppressive heat. Also there is not much to see. But that in itself made it fun. We’ll always have Yuma! And I have added two more people to my list of Real Life friends!

Pictures were taken and I’ve swiped them all…

 

 

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My good friend Brian has lost a dear friend today. Please stop in at Cheap Blue Guitar and give him a hug. I’d appreciate it.. *kisses*

(Brian, I know all to well how badly this hurts. We are thinking of you…)

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(Thanks Brian!)

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OMG. Lunch was so bad I had to Yelp it. Ugh. Bland food = bad reviews yo.

Other than that these 2 days off were just peachy. Really! The nice part about trying not to spend money is that Richard and I have spent a lot of time at home. Together. I like it, actually! I forget how nice it is just to hang out with nowhere to be and nothing to do. Together, though. I have had a blast! Plus we have the new kitten to play with/fight over all day. Heh. The only downside is that leaves little blog fodder.

UPDATE: I can’t believe I forgot this part! I had to take my car in to the shop! You see, last week or maybe it was 2 weeks ago I had ran over something on the freeway. I was on my way home, it was late at night, and it looked like just some cardboard. I knew as I went over it that that was not the case. It was wood. And I basically hit it as I went over it. There was a load crash, but my car seemed to be okay, so I continued home. Over the next few days something seemed off with the alignment. The steering felt funny, but not *that* bad. I drove as normal the next week or so. Until yesterday.

Yesterday I had parked with my wheel turned and that action somehow motivated me to look at my tire. I saw that it had a gouge, as well as being split in three places. It also looked much more worn down than the one on the other side. Uh oh. So I brought it in today. I was so afraid I had bent something, because the alignment only seemed *funny*, not that bad… Anyhoo, 523 bucks later and all is well. So much for catching up on bills this year. *sigh*

Oh! Do go kiss Brian for me though. He needs some love! (Hang in there my friend! We are here if you need us!)

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November is always a tough month for me. Really. There’s the work thing that drives me insane, for one. Something you may not know about me; I work in the retail industry. This means that the last two months of the year really suck. But I do little things to make it more fun (read: challenging) like introduce new house pets, which I am doing this year. Also the past 2 years I have participated in NaBloPoMo. It’s just like that book writing thing, except we aren’t writers. We’re bloggers. So we blog for a month. Heheh.

Last year I convinced Brian to join in with me. You know Brian, right? Super internet celeb from the Cheap Blue Guitar? Him. So that was fun. Look at this post. Don’t you just feel the fun? So anyhoo, I do have a point here. Let me remember it…

Oh yeah!

So this morning I woke up to this:

it’s november! it’s national write your ass off on your blog month.

i triple dawg dare you to do it this month… with me!

are you in?

c’mon. you can do it!

xxoo,
brian

It’s so on betch!

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What an exciting week. Of course there is all the Big Birthday Fun for my man… We’ll have to do a re-cap of that at week’s end. Birthday Week is a process. Srsly. Huge fun, but a process. Then I got mail! You see, there was a little offering put out to take part in USPS fun over at the Cheap Blue Guitar. Of course since me and Bri-Bri (Brian) go way, way back I had to sign on! I mean, who doesn’t love getting a little sumptin’ sumptin’ by mail. Thank you Brian!! So well.. Yeah. Lemme just show you my treasures!

Amazing booty, right? Yes, that is a Hannah Montana Punching Balloon. Here, let me model a bit for you…

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I mentioned the possibility of my attending a sort of blogger meet-up. Well, not sort of.. An actual blogger meet-up. I know, I know. More with blogging about blogging. I just think I should know bloggers in real life. I feel like such a novelty act around a lot of my friends… Anyways. I clicked around over at the MeetUp site, like snooping… No one seemed gay. Not that I am looking to hook up (hello, totally like married), but it’d be nice to meet some more gay folk…

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Granted, it is only 6:30 in the morning. We have a long way to go today, but I still think this is probably the cutest thing I will see today. You might think so too.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…

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I swear I am not usually a follower.

Oh, who am I kidding? *cough*blueteam*cough* Okay I take that back. I am totally a follower! So when the fabulous podcasting sensation Ragan Fox said that we needed to check out Summer Heights High, I was totally going to… But I tend to listen to podcasts in bed, and I went to sleep and forgot all about it by morning. Luckily my good friend, and Arizona blogging sensation Brian mentioned it to me as well, but more like a recommendation. And he provided a link! Apparently you can view the series over at the Daily Motion. Summer Heights High is amazingly brilliant! I loved it immediately.

Sometimes following brings me good things. But I don’t think a show recommendation, regardless of the source is like the Color War thing… I just thought it made a good segue. And I still find the Color Wars fun. So basically this post is just to let everyone know about my new favorite thing from Australia. In a creative way…

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