Been really businy as usual. School is going well. Dad helped me get a loan to get me through most of school and I am thrilled. He called me tonight to check in on some of the paperwork. I am thrilled.

Adolfo and I have been really busy doing whatever. all is good. We had a fight that lasted through Saturday, but as usual we survived it. I am wondering about what we will do and when / if / where I will find work I can enjoy. The business is in a wholenew status… ie dying.

Scott

Happy Monday! I imagine that most people are home today… that I know anyway. With the holiday today many did not go to work and that snow storm on the east coast has also got a lot of my regulars bundled up. Hey Chippie, no way you’re gunna be running around Central Park today, huh? And what about you Ian, freezing your juevos off yet, stud-boy????

Well, Gary, my Valentines went off quite well. The day started off really rough, though. Friday morning I had a mid-term exam with my purchasing class and the truth is I barely read a thing in the damn book. Thank goodness the teacher is realtively leanient when it comes to grading. Well, we went over the szuubject twice before the test so I had a chance to memorize a lot. He called me later int he evening and told me I got an A…. yipeeeeeeeeeee…

The day itself was rough and for the life of me I cannot recall why???? I furget! I know I was looking around like crazy for a gift I wanted to get Adolfo which is the Moodolph Cow and it can be seen on www.cowparade.com … I went to three malls and more stores trying to find it. Argh! I bought him a dozen roses, a Guess Bracelett (that was too big for him), and a nice dinner. I planned on making a big dinner, but that went to hell …. because I was NOT going to stress mass out in the kitchen for the evening. We went to Outback (www.outback.com) and asked to be seated… they said it would be 2 hours. WELL… I already had in mind that we should take food out and eat at home. We had dinner in 15 minutes and were gone! I had a lovely filet mignon, he had prime rib. We had a double order of coconut shrimp… YUM!!!!! Later I made a banana-caramel sauce and a chocolate cake… we had this with a nice bottle of champagne I have been saving!

Be jelous!

Sunday was also Adolfo’s birthday. I managed to get his sister to get him out of the partment by 11 and the surprise was scheduled to launch about 2… soI had three hours to decorate the cake, set up a buffett, decorate, go to the store (Micheals’s and VONS). Basically, this weekend I spent more than 500.00 of money that should be going to bills. I am now distressed over the whole money thing AGAIN though I made some nice cash this month… important events swolled that up. OH! Less than 10% of the people I invited showed up to the party… I was disapointed. Adolfo was thrilled. His buddies David and Scott were here and were very very very sweet. A couple guys I know who really like US came, his sister and her family, and a long time freind of his came solo… it was intimate and nice.

I got Adolf a t-shirt from FCUK for his birthday with a chick on it and next to it says “Magnificent Cock” … it got quite a laugh! You have to get one of those!

Valentines Day is tomorrow and I am waiting til the last minute as ussual to get something planned. And… as usual I am stressing a bit over it. You see, I have a huge salmon filet in the freezer and I have been mulling over my recipe books looking for something special to make. I thought about a seafood terrine with a spinach mouse. Sounds good to me, but will it translate well? If I make these items and put them in a crust, I should make a sauce to compliment it. How is that for a V-Day Dinner?!?!?!?!

Then there is the whole birthday thing this weekend. I wanted to make a pate along with his birthday cake. I expect to put a picture of the cake in the site after it is all done. Hell I still have not finished updating the Recipe section of the site! Well, I expect things this weekend will go well. At least I am hopeful of it.

I will have the standard party foods there for a birthday including chips, dips, nipplies, my secret deviled eggs, pate, maybe some caviar (I love caviar), and cocktails galore. I invited everyone I could think of from Adolfo’s life including his family and my family. I hope I get an army of people to show up… I also hope this goes off well! An added surprise is that we are going to see Chippendales after the party which is a gift from his co-workers! This should be a fun night… thank goodness Monday is a holiday.

Wish me luck….

Someone wrote me and said that it looked like Adolfo and I have a LOT OF problems. So much so that (based on this diary) that we would probably break up soon? Ironically, this last weekend we had the best weekend of just relaxing and having fun. Ya know… I write in my diary when I have something I need to relieve myself of. I let my brain piss all over the computer in a golden shower of thoughts… often if something is troubling my brain this is where it goes.

Adolfo and I have many many good times. Although, I admit that I am surprised this last weekend went as well as it did. We are going through a huge period of learning from from/about each other. We are essentially married and have a home together here. He takes care of me in many ways I like to think I take care of him as well.

Not that I am defending myself to some people, but the truth is we do pretty well with each other. Our home is a loving and welcoming place.

Adolfo and I have been fighting again. This started on Tuesday night which grew from a misunderstanding and exploded all over the wall last night when he ended up sleeping in the spare bedroom. I was so pissed off I did not mind him being gone at all. The question in the end was… did I have the right to be pissed off at him? I asked myself that and have been doing a lot of thinking about it today. I even drove around the city just to assemble my thoughts.

Another issue burning inside has been me has been Allan. He has not talked to me since almost a week now. I had some words with him last Friday about company finances and I ended up hanging up on him. Ergh… it makes me rethink the whole business thing with him. The thing is he and I have developed this freindship which has a layer at business over it and it would seem the two need to be separated. How do you devide the last 1.5 years of building a business versus 3 years of a freindship?

Well… Allan need to do something. I wonder if he is still reading this? He has managed to alienate me and he is working on alienating other people in his life. Not to be judgemental or to turn into a Jewish Mother or anything, but this is a man who needs a good smack. I care about him a lot as he has managed to crawl into my life and take root! I think the trip to NYC in June 2001 was the time we traveled together and made the freindship.

Anyway… I find myself rethinking Las Vegas a lot. I am also thinking a lot about where I would go given the chance. I think about Boston and I think about Seattle. Did Boston and Boston has a lot of ghosts I may not want to run into again. Jinkies! The pacific northwest seems to hold a lot more interesting possibilities. Hmmm…

February has been okay. I am a little stressed as we are a little short on the rent this month, but both get paid this week… so hopefull the check I gave them today will not clear until Thursday at the earliest. Argh! Besides that, I am worried about my school payment, Valentines Day, Adolfo’s birthday… not to mention our 1 year anniversary coming up soon.

So, I am planning something relatively simple for V-Day and a special party for him on his birthday. It should be cool! I plan on cooking everything, now it’s also a matter of getting HIM away for the day.

Anyway…. this month will be financially better than last month, but the school payment is going to be a real bitch. It’s 600$ … Cheers