Oh No JoJo: TG Edition

Hey there - been a while. Posting will be sporadic at best for a while. It turns out I mostly just didn't realize that being in a relationship takes time and effort in and of itself. Much less this sort of full circle addiction experience. I woke up to more texts about him wanting a dog, and even an ad he said he'd already contacted. We already discussed this, I pointed out we have none of the resources a dog would need. He didn't talk about it in the morning, so I just chalked it up to wishful drinking. I felt more sick than the night before but Dayquil got me up and running. Julian asked me to chop vegetables for his turkey and left the amounts he wanted on top of the stove. Took care of that, swept up outside, cleaned up a little in the apartment, and that was about all I had in me.

Julian texted at noon to say he was doing something "extreme," but didn't respond after that. Even more troubling, he didn't come home. I contacted Rachel around 3, she also couldn't get ahold of him. She was going to pick me up so we could check his work; figured maybe he got locked out there or something, but then he walked in with a 9 week old German Shepherd puppy. He drove to LA and bought a dog. I have no idea what to do in this situation, or what was even going on, but I had a dinner to host and folks were already there. He opted to stay back with the puppy as she had separation anxiety, but took an Uber to Rachel's later and she brought him. She also brought a butternut squash roast and stuffing, both vegan. There wasn't much for me to do to help out, so I largely just chatted with the eclectic attendees. Roman, a gent I met at Adam's Halloween party, joined us, as well as Baxter, though Brad couldn't make it. I felt a weird sort of anxiety in the air and talked a lot, even for me. We had a conversation about weed, drugs, poppers, etc., and I overheard something about Baxter being uncomfortable. Roman joined us when Julian and I went out to smoke and we shared our weed. We ended up talking all night long and I am tremendously grateful. We stayed late, but eventually had to get home to the kids and couldn't help clean up much. It happens. And on returning home, we discovered that little JoJo is not house trained. At least she used the bathroom.