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Rich Brown - Living My Life Out Loud!
Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Thursday, July 05, 2001
@ Work
It's really funny that I only have time to write when I'm at work. Well I don't really have time to write at work either, it's just that I get bored and need to take a moment to myself once and a while.
I can hardly believe that it is July already. This year is just going by us so quickly. It seems as though it were Y2K issues and the turn of 2000 and it's already July of 2001. So much can happen in such a short amount of time. Our lives here seem so short when you put everything in perspective.
I have to say I had a really great holiday weekend. I spent it with 4 of my closest friends, Bee, Steven, Philip and of course Justin. Bee brought over his grill, some chicken, and ribs and we had a barbeque on my back deck. Steven of course brought his Veggie burgers -- which are not half bad I might add -- with some potato salad and some sodas. Justin and I went to the store early yesterday to pick up some other things. Safeway was a total mob scene. It was like scrounging for the last bit of everything in that place. Next time I'll remind myself to go to the store earlier.
So we had chicken, burgers, ribs, corn, potato salad, chips, salad, beer, lemonade and soda. It was quite a food packed day for us all. We grilled out and just spent the day talking and laughing. It's so much fun for all of us just to share getting things ready and cooking out. I hope that we can do it again soon -- I really had a great time. The rest of the day was spent with all of us laying on the bed and watching some movies. We did attempt to go and watch the fireworks -- however that was sort of a bust. I heard that there were going to be fireworks at the Ferry building, however they had been moved to Pier 39. So as we were sitting there with hundreds of other people around -- the fireworks started going off on the other side of the hill. I guess I'll make sure to look in the paper next time. Justin wanted to go down to that side to watch the fireworks, however I was convinced they would not be as good as the ones at the Ferry Building. Gee was I wrong on that one. All we could do was laugh and head back to my place. We heated up the leftovers and then watched another movie to finish out the night.
It was a really good day and the food turned out great. I'm glad that we decided to have that little barbeque as it gave us all time to spend together to talk, and laugh and just have a good time.
Since I've been working from home for the whole week having to go back into the office today was extremely difficult. After not getting to bed until 2am last night I am so very tired. I really want to go home and relax tonight. I guess I'm going to help Justin get his things put together at his new place. It should be a mild evening.
I have to say that I've been feeling really great lately. I haven't felt better in a long time. I went shopping on Sunday to Ikea and bought a few things for my room including a new desk and some curtains. On Monday I got a chance to get all that together and hang the curtains. It's amazing what a difference it makes to your mental state when you start to personalize things like your room. I feel so much more at home in my apartment now. I guess I'm lucky that I finally found a decent place and some great roommates. Hopefully I will stay around for a while because I'm so tired of moving.
I was thinking about my father a bit yesterday. It occurred to me that it was just a year ago this weekend that we found out my father had cancer. As I said before it's amazing how much things can change in such a short amount of time.
Well anyway -- I really need to get back to work, it's going to be a busy weekend.
