My wish for you
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:35 am
Is that you have a friend like my friend PAFBoy. I just spent the weekend with him, and I make him happy just by choosing the right movies and beating him by one point at Foosball and making him eat a big meal. It is a good thing to be the person who makes someone happy, not by doing anything in particular but just by being there. He has been kind of lonesome since his move in September, and his hours make it hard to meet new people.
I got there Friday night in time for a big Cajun seafood dinner, then we picked a free movie on his cable thingy, and it was Dirty Dancing, and of course it was awesome. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Saturday we had planned to go to the Georgia Aquarium, but apparently so had half of Georgia. Our tickets are good for a year, so we bailed on that and went to the Martin Luther King Jr. historic site, which includes his birthplace and tomb, two blocks apart. We only half-explored the site but spent a lot of time looking at the houses in the neighborhood - a passion of ours.
A nap, and then dinner at Eats, which is awesome in its simplicity, and then we picked another free cable movie - Escape From New York. It was beyond awesome. The the tail end of a dreadful Star Trek episode, which we love the bad ones even more than the good ones.
There were the ritual quizzes on which three sitcoms we would choose to take to the island (I picked Friends, M*A*S*H, and The Golden Girls), which three dramas (I picked Law & Order, Northern Exposure, and ST: Next Gen), which musical genre (I chose reggae), and this time there was a game of "what would you say to your favorite celebrity if you met her?" (we decided I should ask Bea Arthur if that was really her in that horrible ST original series episode). We have the same favorite Beatle. Like that.
This morning I had to leave, but over the weekend he crystalized plans for a children's book and also a specialty food stand, in case his job falls through. He'd been thinking of both before I arrived, but in telling me about them, we finalized some of it.
He has been losing weight due to not eating more than the minimum, and he did not need to lose any. He says his house is cold, and it is, which will feel great in July, but there is also the matter of him having only 4-5% body fat. I was not so cold because I have a few percentage points more BF. My mission is to fluff him up by next fall when it gets cold again.
It is not often in our lives we have someone who admires us exactly the way we are, and does not wish for any changes. Or it is not often enough.
I recommend it.
I got there Friday night in time for a big Cajun seafood dinner, then we picked a free movie on his cable thingy, and it was Dirty Dancing, and of course it was awesome. Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Saturday we had planned to go to the Georgia Aquarium, but apparently so had half of Georgia. Our tickets are good for a year, so we bailed on that and went to the Martin Luther King Jr. historic site, which includes his birthplace and tomb, two blocks apart. We only half-explored the site but spent a lot of time looking at the houses in the neighborhood - a passion of ours.
A nap, and then dinner at Eats, which is awesome in its simplicity, and then we picked another free cable movie - Escape From New York. It was beyond awesome. The the tail end of a dreadful Star Trek episode, which we love the bad ones even more than the good ones.
There were the ritual quizzes on which three sitcoms we would choose to take to the island (I picked Friends, M*A*S*H, and The Golden Girls), which three dramas (I picked Law & Order, Northern Exposure, and ST: Next Gen), which musical genre (I chose reggae), and this time there was a game of "what would you say to your favorite celebrity if you met her?" (we decided I should ask Bea Arthur if that was really her in that horrible ST original series episode). We have the same favorite Beatle. Like that.
This morning I had to leave, but over the weekend he crystalized plans for a children's book and also a specialty food stand, in case his job falls through. He'd been thinking of both before I arrived, but in telling me about them, we finalized some of it.
He has been losing weight due to not eating more than the minimum, and he did not need to lose any. He says his house is cold, and it is, which will feel great in July, but there is also the matter of him having only 4-5% body fat. I was not so cold because I have a few percentage points more BF. My mission is to fluff him up by next fall when it gets cold again.
It is not often in our lives we have someone who admires us exactly the way we are, and does not wish for any changes. Or it is not often enough.
I recommend it.