Obama and Firepit

Blog No. 170: Obama and Firepit

"When I asked about elections in 2008, he basically said that he had not made any decisions for either, but I did see a twinkle in his eye."

---Rory Gilmore, predicting the 2008 presidency. XP

That was my reference to Obama. I had watched one of the new reruns of Gilmore Girls, the episode itself aired in 2006. Just as I said, Rory Gilmore predicted Obama's presidency. XP

Anyways, JT sent out a mass text, inviting everyone to his firepit shindig thing, as mentioned in the previous blog. I texted him back to see if he could pick me up. Unfortunately, he had to stay there, mainly because he was hosting.

So I called/texted Piper to see if she wanted to go and could maybe tag a ride with her and Difuentez. However, that apparently ensued some drama. Apparently, Piper had kept Difuentez up the night before, doing who knows what. Then, Piper, I guess, promised Difuentez that he'd get some sleep tonight. As she said that, JT's text was sent.

If that wasn't enough, Piper called me up to try and get me to talk to Difuentez. Normally, you'd think he'd be okay about giving rides. This time, however, he would have to drive from his house in the hills somewhere, all the way to the city, then back toward ARC, then do everything in reverse when it ended. I could imagine the inconvenience for him. However, he was trying to talk himself to doing it, saying that because if he didn't drive Piper and himself, then he would be making me miss out on something I wanted to do... In the end, Piper had texted his reply, No.

Just as that text came, a text from Dictator Roze came to my phone. I thought I might as well explore different avenues of drivers, so to speak, so I can be less dependent on Difuentez driving me everywhere. I ended up convincing Dictator Roze to go and take me with her. XP

At around 11, she arrived at my house. Apparently, she was awake since early that morning, doing stuff like rearranging her high school's old band room and house sitting. I could tell after she had passed the stoplight on Whitney Avenue to get to JT's place. XD

She also mocked the "speed table" that Piper and I have mocked the first time we went to his house after the Anberlin concert. Not a "speed bump" but a "speed table". Exactly. XP

Anyway, Dictator Roze and I walked around the house, in the complete darkness, through the thick brush of dried grass to get to the firepit in the center of the yard. There were unlit tiki torches along our path to the firepit, unlit because "the wind kept blowing them out" as JT says. It was rather windy. If you weren't careful, the wind could blow in your direction, blowing cinders of flame in your direction and searing your eyeballs. XP

BLAH and Jason were there, surprisingly. We ended up talking briefly, before they made their trip to a gas station for marshmallows. Dictator Roze and I pretty much took their spots when they left. XP

It was pretty mellow. We just basically sat back on the couch, staring at the fire, talking about stuff. JT walked around to everyone and hopped over the fire a couple of times. He either sat next to me or behind us, where he had pet my hair... A little creepy, but all the same very relaxing... Dictator Roze had her jacket covering her body and half her face most of the time. I showed her my sketch of her and Taka and she basically thought it was funny. Not the haha it looks so weird funny but the haha of all the pictures you could've chosen, you chose this oh-so-flattering pose of me kind of funny. XP

When BLAH and Jason came back with marshmallows, all of us basically toasted marshmallows for awhile. I tried to throw one at BLAH's cleavage, which she ended up just inserting it in there anyway, which also ended up being eaten by JT. XD

I mentioned that I wanted to make the fire have different colors. It kinda changed when burning marshmallows, but I actually wanted to try and make the entire firepit all of one odd color, like green or purple. I looked it up and it basically takes a day or so, using some herbicide and some dissolving agents to make the actual chemicals, then the logs had to be soaked in it for a day for it to actually work... Someday! XP

We actually ended up leaving around 1:30 AM. My excuse for leaving early: "I forget that, although JT and others are 'peers', they are still older than me." Dictator Roze and I basically left before the alcohol and hookah.

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My sister's response: "Hasn't that been the case since, like, second grade?" What with skipping the first grade and graduating high school at the age of sixteen...

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Well, I was surprised that they actually still had those weird tall vases like the caterpillar had in Alice in Wonderland cartoon for smoking. Dictator Roze laughed at my reaction. Those vase-like objects served as a "catalyst for departure," as she puts it.

So, Dictator Roze and I basically talked about dreams as she drove me home. She talked about a couple of times she was talking in her sleep. I could only remember waking up saying or mouthing the words, "Get your hands off my cheesecake!", which Dictator Roze asked if I was saying that to Taka in the dream. :P

Dreams are weird. XD