This morning when I was at work a guy named Rory called me to see what I'm doing this summer. He is being a sports camp counselor at Chelsea Piers for the summer. We talked for a while and then he asked if I want to hang out. It got busy and I told Rory I'd call him back. It took over an hour for things to calm down. It goes in waves.
When it was quiet again I called Josh's mom. She is so sweet - the very first thing she said was, "Are you coming home sick? Just get in a cab and we'll pay the fare." No, not sick - I just wanted to ask if I could invite Rory over for dinner. Josh's mom did such a mom thing. It was so anti-Aunt Elaine that I couldn't say thank you right away. She said, "Of course, we would love to meet a friend of yours."
Calling Rory back and being able to say come pick me up after work and come home with me for dinner was so awesome. I don't even know how I made it almost eight years without having people over. When my mom was alive there were people at our house ALL the time. People would just pop by, or I'd come home from school to see who would be there to eat snack, it was great. When I was little I could invite people over all the time.
Rory finished before me so he waited around in the reception area until I was ready to leave. He made faces behind people when they were standing at the reception desk talking to me and it was hard not to laugh. We got to Josh's house and I introduced Rory to Josh's mom. She offered us veggies and dip because dinner was soon and we took the food to my room.
It was fun hanging out and bullshitting at home for once. I kept listening for footsteps coming but Josh's mom kept my sisters away somehow until dinner. When we sat down at the table Josh's parents asked Rory questions about where he was going for college and baseball and stuff. He talked about how his girlfriend is also being a camp counselor but at a sleepaway camp. When Rory said that Alex audibly exhaled and was like "Oh thank god! All this time I thought Sammers brought a boy home to her boyfriend's house."
She can be so freaking embarrassing. Rory was really nice about it though and just told her "No, we're not hooking up, we just like to hang out and talk about everyone else who's hooking up." I felt like it was kind of ... not appropriate dinner conversation in a fancy house you know? After dinner we hung out watching tv for a while and Rory went home around 10.
Today was a little bit awesome.
2 comments:
Oh Alex... LOL.
I think since she's 11, she still gets to say embarrassing things and they aren't too bad...yet.
You know what I want to know? Remember how I asked on my blog about shampoo, and you were all like "it's the conditioner that matters?"
Well...what's in the bathroom now that you've moved into Josh's?!
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