Stuart’s Neighborhood

This clip is a year old..cracks me up though.

I miss them so much
Luke always spent xmas with me and the kids, then with us when I married.Xmas 2007 he brought Nikki home to meet the family. Wearing an  eye patch and experiencing double visiona nd headaches. The following week he was to have the MRI scan.

Fast forward a year to xmas 08, I last went to visit him in Preston on Dec 27th. I met my dad there.

I spent the last week alone. The kids got back at 4pm so this afternoon was nice.I needed the break and the fact it was xmas really wasn't an issue.

Merry Christmas friends and here's hoping for some good times in 2010.
I'll ;leave you with some Xmas tunes..

TOP RETRO

TOP CHEESE

TOP 'IF SOMEWHAT OVER-PLAYED' XMAS SONG EVAR

Happy Holidays to you, your family, friends and neighbors from all of us at Vox.
See you in 2010!

So after the party started winding down, Troy and his fiance left, and the rest of us decided to go over to Kevin and Eli's place--and there happened to be a party going on there as well.  MOAR PICTURES:

So, this is where the story gets interesting.  At the party, Cameron and I were just talking and catching up.  By this time, most people were toasty-toasty.  At some point in the night, Cetus (as I mentioned in one of these pictures) started flirting aggressively with me. I ignored his passes to the best of my ability, but he still managed to shove his face into my cheek.  Twice.  I figured that he was drunk, so didn't make a big fuss.  Caught eyes with Jesse and he just gave Cetus a dirty look.

Now, I'm just gonna tell this story from my perspective, and how I came to understand things and got revealed to me.  It just makes the story more fun to tell.

Jesse had to work the next morning, so he left the party a little early.  I stuck around to have a few more beers before I left, and when I went outside to have a cigarette, Cetus told me that Jesse elbowed him in the head.  I apologized of course, and said that Jesse is a bit protective of me.  I also asked Cameron not to talk to Troy about the things he and I have said, cuz naturally, that's what the bulk our conversation came to.  Cameron never gave me a real answer, but as I was leaving, he yelled to me, "Expect a text from Troy soon!" to which I called back, "Shiiiiit, he doesn't have my number!  And you don't either!"

The next morning, Jesse went off the work, so I didn't get a chance to talk to him about the night before and thought I'd talk to him when he got off.  Later though, I got a text message from Kevin asking if we were okay, and that he'd heard that Jesse and Cetus got into a fight or something, and that Jesse was mad.  I also got a text message from Krista asking of Jesse elbowed Cetus.  I responded to Krista first saying that it was a possibilty, because Cetus kissed me, and Jesse witnessed it.  Before texting Kevin back, though, I thought I'd get the story first hand from Jesse, so I decided to call him.  Jesse told me that yes, he elbowed Cetus in the SHOULDER, body checking him WHILE Cetus was kissing me.

Now I'm annoyed at Cetus for lying to my face.  But he was drunk, and was probably confused, so I wasn't actually mad.

Then Krista tells me that she needs to talk to me about the things that Cameron had been saying.  Apparently Cameron and Cetus had spent the night at Sean and Krista's.  This is the conversation that they had as told to me by Krista:

Cetus: "Some dude totally elbowed me last night."
Krista: "Really?  Who?"
Cetus: "I dunno, he was tall, had red hair and a beard..."
Krista: "What?  You mean Jesse?  That doesn't seem like him!"
Cetus: "Yeah, I don't know what his problem was."
[I'm guessing this is when she texted me]
Krista and Cameron: "It's because you were flirting really bad with his girlfriend!"
Cetus: "Really?  I don't remember.  She was cute though."
Krista: "And she has a boyfriend."
Cameron: "You know, I'm kinda worried about her.  She just seems so unhappy.  He seems like an asshole.  She even apologized for him!"
Krista: "Jesse?  No!  He's like the nicest guy!  He's so awesome!"
Cameron: "I dunno, she seemed really annoyed about him living with her, but paying rent someplace else?"
Krista: "That's because he's helping out his brother, because he has two kids."
Cameron: "I dunno, he seems like such a dick, and she was flirting with me baaaad."
Krista: "Nuh-uh!  She was NOT flirting with you!  Stop flattering yourself!"
Cameron: [gives her a look that said "well, you weren't there"]
Krista: "I was standing RIGHT in front of you!  She was NOT flirting with you!"

I'm paraphrasing obviously.  She was getting so mad at him, that she had to pop upstairs to tell me what was going on.

What kills me though, is that that night, I mentioned to Cameron that I don't associate with people who aren't up front about who they are.  Troy may be a good person, deep down inside, but I don't want to have anything to do with him because he hides behind a bunch of smoke and mirrors.  He has ulterior motives for most of his actions, and I can't decipher when he's being genuine, or when he has a means to an end.  I just don't have the time or patience to look for the good person deep down inside anybody.  After all, since it's all "deep down inside," they're probably not a good person in general anyway.  That's how I see it.

And the VERY next day, he starts making all of these bold faced lies to bolster his own sense of self worth and entitlement, and tried to collect as much information--real or not--to report back to Troy and cause all sorts of bad juju for me.

But it's nice to know I have good friends that will stand up for me.  She had to go back down there, since she just told everyone that she'd be right back.  I'm guessing they don't know that I live just up the stairs from them.

After hearing that news, naturally, I'm pissed off.  So I called Kevin, filled him in about what actually happened last night, and asked to go over there cuz I needed to surround myself around good people.  I got some other peoples' perspectives about what was going on, which got me even more mad at Cameron.

Blah blah blah, some inconsequential details... but the story doesn't end there.  Nonononono...

So, the next day, after work, I lost they key to my deadbolt.  Sean and Krista have a spare, so I knocked on their door, and they invited me in.  Sean then shows me a text message that he got from Cam, which said, "Hey, could you give me Helena's number?  I have this signed copy of a pride and prejudice zombie book that I want to give to her."

He had ignored it, and I said, "You can tell him to fuck off!  In fact, tell him that he's a two-faced mother fucker, and that I hope he dies in a fire, would ya?"

What he actually texted was, "I asked her and she said no.  She also thinks that you're an asshole.  Haha, don't blame the messenger"

After a couple minutes: "Krista... stop fucking with Sean's phone!  I try to do something nice for a friend, and this is how I get treated?  Fuck you!  I don't deserve this!"

After making a bunch of oh-my-god faces, Sean texts him:  "No, this is really Sean.  And don't say fuck you to either of us, or I'll be really mad."

Ugh, I thought I was done with this shit in high school.  I hate liars and sneaks.  Cameron is now forever on my shit list.