This national holiday is a great reason to have a 3 day weekend. I had the most interesting, tiring, confusing, exciting, strange, loving, and fun weekend that I have had in a long time. I am trying to think of the best way to break it down, but there is just SO much to say that I am not exactly sure there will be a way. Maybe chronologically will be the best, though I may stray from this plan I will do my best not to lose you in the ramble.

Friday, July 1st

The day started as any normal Friday would. I got up to eat, shower, and head to work. Of course there was the standard lingering fear of the traffic I would encounter when I had to leave work at 4:00 but in addition to this there was the though that I had no were to go after work. After my short stint of dating ended with Chuck I really only had a few Western Shore choices. I could head to Joe's, but then Joe had plans later that night and I did not want to just hangout for a few hours and then head home all alone again. I could have headed to Kurt's, but I was going to be hanging out with Kurt and my family all weekend so I did not want to burn myself out to early on the festivities. So what was I to do? Well there was this guy, yes I met him on Manhunt, I know that nuts, but get over it and listen to the rest of the story before you judge. I had only just met him online, especially considering I had only been back on Manhunt for 1 day before he messaged me. It started out simple enough, with a hello and a comment on how he really liked what I have to say in my profile. Well I responded with the same and we went on from there. So I don't know if it was the fear of traffic or sitting at home alone on a Friday night, but I asked him if we could hangout that night. He was happy to oblige and we made plans for me to head to his place in Severn for beer, pool, and movies that night. Well it just so happened that I ended up leaving work early on Friday because my boss said it was fine and I did not want to get stuck in the crazy 4th beach traffic. It turns out that there was no traffic, but hey at least I got out of work early. I headed home, took a shower, cleaned myself up and headed over to Chris' house at about 7:30-8:00. It was nice because we talked about how there should be no expectations and how we were going to hang as friends, of course I was still a little nervous. I get to his place and we walks out to meet me, he was amazing, more then amazing even, spectacular. He is much more cute in person then in his pictures and very nice. We had some beer, shot some pool with his roommates, got some Little Caesars pizza, and watch Equilibrium. Well, by the end of the movie we were holding hands and kissing and proceeded up to his bedroom. What was nice is that we clicked so well that we did not need to have sex; we just talked, kissed, and went to bed. The next morning I did not want to leave him but he had things to do and so did I.

Saturday, July 2nd

I left Chris' place at about 12:15 to head to Arnold to get my hair cut. THANK YOU BILLY, IT LOOKS GREAT! Then I headed home to chill and relax. I ended up watching some TV, taking a nice nap and making up my mind to head to Chris' show that night in Ellicott City. You see already that I am very interested in him and things are starting to leave my control. So I get myself ready, threw on some cloths and headed out the door. I was headed to the Golden, Sports Bar and Grill where I was going to watch Splintered Image  perform. This is the name of the group in which Chris is the AMAZING lead singer. There show was great; these guys are definitely on there way to great places. I got to meet Chris' Aunt and then the bend packed up and headed back to Upper Marlboro to unload and cool down. I helped them unload and listened to them talk about the show and there practices to come and then Chris and I headed p to Severn to get some sleep. When we got back to the house we talk again, this was even better then the first day and I already started to see myself having feelings that I should not be having for this guy. He is amazing and was already working his way completely under my skin.

Sunday, July 3rd

Today I left Chris' much later then I should have, considering all the things I was doing. I met Kurt and Jason at my place after picking up food for my grandmother's party. We all had a great time that day at my family part, Kurt was a hit and there was a great turn-out. I was out in the sun for most of the day and so I got really tired and burnt out pretty quick. I just wanted to head back to my place to take a nap and then maybe do more later. Well it turns out that a bunch of people ended up coming over and we had a mini party. I of course played the good host and tried to make sure everyone was happy, but I had other things (Chris) on my mind so I was a little preoccupied. So the music was loud and so were the guests but I had them all out of there by 11:45 so I could cool down and get to sleep. I did however get a chance to talk to Chris on the phone during all the mayhem at my house. It was nice to chat and hear his sexy as voice for a while. Damn this guy is in my head!

Monday, July 4th

This day turned out to be rather interesting for everyone. This day was supposed to be my Sunday, let me explain. Sundays are my day to chill, hangout with me, and get things done around my house. This tradition will often be tossed along the wayside when I am seeing someone, but I do like it as my time. Well this day I had Jason and Kurt riding me to head out into the sun as early as possible to party it up and cook-out. I had NO interest in doing this so I stayed behind to clean my house for a while. I was going to head out later but I would have been no fun at all if I went out at that moment. Plus my stomach was really a wreck from the food and drinks the day before, so that was not helping the situation. Of course through out the course of the day all I could think about while doing my Sunday activities, was Chris.  I did talk to him on the phone a few times and we made plans for him to come over and hang out. I was missing him desperately (which scares the hell out of me) and I really wanted to spend some time with him. If I had known this was going to cause the drama it did, I would have made much different plans then I did. So Chris comes over and we hang out for a short period at my place and then I somehow talked him into heading to my Grandmother's house to meet a very large part of my family. This was a very bold move for both of us, being we just met and have made no official claims to each other as of yet. So we get to my Grandmother's and it turns out a lot of the people there are on there way out to see the fireworks, this includes Jason and Kurt. Well Kurt says hi to Chris and myself, everyone gives me shit for being so late, and then immediately Kurt turns from all smiles and all anger. Well it turns out that my friend Kurt happens to be the same Kurt that Chris went on a few dates with at some point in time. This was obviously a problem for Kurt. Chris and I stayed to talk to my Grandmother for a while, seeing as everyone left when we got there and then we headed to my mothers house to say hi and look around. Well we got there and ended up opening a bottle of wine. Chris really hit it off with my Dad by singing while he played the guitar in his little studio and he hit it off with my Mom as well. This of course was great and scored him even more points in my book. We were not at my Mother's house for more then 10 minutes when Chris gets a call from Kurt asking when I would be home so he could get his bag out of my place. Well I call Kurt back to say we were at my mothers and it turns out he was already on his way down there to get in the hot tub. Well I thought that this was great, worked out perfect, obviously I was very wrong. Kurt was very angry, he said because I "ditched him" and wanted to hang out with someone else because Jason and him were "not good enough". This of course is not the case; it's just how it looked when he saw how the night panned out. I would like to honestly say that I had no intentions of causing any problems between any of my friends. I am not a dramatic person and I really don't like drama in my life so this was not a good end to my night. I just hope that everyone understands how I feel about Chris and that him coming over was never meant to cause any trouble, it was actually meant to do just the opposite. I really wanted him to meet my great friends Jason and Kurt, of course people tend to look at things from there point of view and not others and blow little details all out of proportion. For the record: ME WANTING TO SEE A GUY I AM INFATUATED WITH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYONE BUT ME! If people can't understand that, then that is not my problem. Anyway, the rest of night was pretty nice. We relaxed in the hot tub for a while and then headed back to my house. Kurt picked up his bad and proceeded to head back to my mothers house to sleep because apparently me having company meant there was no room in my house for anyone else. Chris and I stayed up half the night talking and having a great time together and then feel asleep in each others arms. This morning I wanted to do nothing more then stay home and hold him all day, but of course we did the responsible thing and went to work.

With all this said and me ranting and raving about Chris, I will get a picture of him up here soon enough for everyone. I really do like this guy, probably to much and I hope everyone will get a chance to meet him someday. That is enough for now and I have to commend anyone who made it to the end. Thank you for reading.