Focus Dude....

So let's just say I have pretty much managed to turn this frown upside down. :) I've had the best weekend/start of the week. Friday night I hung out with Paoli just to spend a little time before he leaves for Miami. That was nice. Saturday we played volleyball forever! It was so much fun. Straight from volleyball I hit the gay bars with Maria and Amir. It was a pretty fun night. I randomly bumped into this guy who I met at the Gaga concert. We talked for a bit so that was really cool. I didn't get home until 4am after going out that night. Sunday was also absolutely fantastic. I went out with the whole gang to a fun little karaoke bar. We didn't actually get to sing the songs that we wanted to because the bar closed before they got to our names on the list. We went and had Denny's at 3am or so and I ended up getting home around 4 that night too! Who knew I could still hang?! haha. I'm surprising myself. So this brings me to Monday..the best day of them all. Crystal, Erika, and I didn't sleep much that night so we just lounged around all day at our own houses... about 2:30 we all got on the phone and decided that we couldn't let labor day go uncelebrated. We each went to the store grabbed a dish and met up at my pool. Erika and Crystal frequently pull out some great one-liners. I'm not sure why it made me giggle so much but Erika showed up with a vitamin water for me that said Focus on it.. She said "I got this for you so you can focus on yourself and not Paoli." I loved that. Little did I know that focus water was magical :) We ate our food by the pool, drank our gluten free ciders and iced tea in the hot tub and then headed back to my house. Last minute, we get a call from Erika's friend Dean who she has been wanting to introduce me to....for no other reason than I get along really well with guys and he happens to be a very laid back, cool dude. There's not a person that Erika has introduced me to that I didn't love. She's pretty great at that. So we all got ready to go and headed to his house for some drinks. We were planning on it being a very chill, relaxed, and early night. It was everything but that. Dean has the most adorable, warm, homey apartment ever. It has a beautiful view of all of Hollywood. He was a great host. Being that he's a bartender, he made us some lovely drinks which definitely contributed to the fun. After lots and lots of talking, we all decided to head up to the hot tub..Erika proceeded to strip down to her panties and jump in the cold pool! It was pretty darn hilarious. After a nice soak in the rooftop hot tub, we all got the hankerin' to play shuffle board...so off we went to the nearest bar that had it. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! Dean and I played game after game against Arnold, Erika, and Crystal. We kept beating them and then finally realized in the end that we had been totally keeping score wrong! Luckily, Arnold was our designated driver so the rest of us got beyond wasted. So...anyway..again we shut the bar down and headed home. The rest is history :)

Cheers to new friends and many more good times with them!