Warren's Visit

Julian was late for work. I was pretty shocked I didn't wake up crazy early, but I did hear him flying about to get ready. Saved me the dilemma of whether to wake him or not. Since I slept late, I was late getting going, but Warren posted they were still setting up at noon (the start time), so I didn't worry too much. Thought Julian might even get to go, if standard gay time pushed the party much later. I thought about asking for a ride up there, but my inability to ask for help fucked with me, so I ordered a Lyft instead. The pricing was weird - $10-15 to start, then up to $25, then back to $15, all in the space of 5 minutes. And after all that, Terry saw me as I walked out to wait and offered me a ride anyway. Still had to pay Lyft $5 because my ride was on the way, but that's $10 savings. I'll buy Splenda and creamer with it. The party was a blast, if a little smaller than the average gay pool party. I chatted with everyone, made several new friends, and reignited the party as it was dying just by diving into pool. Kind of proud of myself for getting into the pool at all since I rarely do. I met Warren's boyfriend, overshared, and answered Julian's texts in the afternoon. I suggested Trick for the evening, since he was frustrated over FOMO, and told him to swing by for some food and to meet everyone when he got off work. He wanted me to plead with him to come. I get egos and insecurity - he wanted me to want him there, but I think too much and just feel like I already invited him and told him he should swing by, I'm not going to beg. I planned to be all excited when he walked in but he was standoffish at first. Maybe it was more of that above, maybe it was a power play, but I'm always going to win that one. It is not possible to control my actions by withholding affection. He told his work Kujo has cancer to excuse his lateness. That is so cringe I can't even chalk it up to sitcom-esque happenings. There was a also big mistake at his work last night - someone rented out the same car twice or something and a comedy of errors ensued. He had a few drinks, relaxed some and had good time, and I didn't have to get a Lyft home. Julian drank more and talked again about the incident at work - apparently the customer still showed up, and there's a bunch of gossip and drama, people talking shit about each other to Julian. I advised him not to pay too much attention to any of it. We were going to maybe go to Trick but opted to save the $10 cover. Went to PECS instead, ran into Ed, Jason, and Nick. Almost had a 3 way with Nick, but I don't really know how to make that happen and both Nick and Julian were very, very drunk. Julian just kept going over the work incident, and while I definitely get it, especially given his phobia of blame, there's only so many times you can hear a drunk ramble the same story per day. We made out there in the bar but left before taking our pants off - go us! He even left half his last beer, not that he needed it. I'm back to thinking too much and might need some anxiety medication or something. Ran into Alan on the way out, straight from the Red Dress Party and covered in glitter. I wasn't a fan of his dress, but the red glitter beard was gawjus. Also talked to Cameron who works the door now, and he gave me the sage advice - you don't have to die on every hill. Back home with Julian, we fucked, I eventually came for him, but he was still drunk and randy and I told him he could go find another trick or another dozen tricks. He passed out on the mattress next to me instead, I put a blanket on him before crashing next to LMF