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.
Monday, February 11, 2008
A Weekend To Relax
Well this was the weekend, the one I've been talking about, the one I've been threatening myself with, the one I've secretly been wanting for some time now. It was a weekend away from the party. I went into this weekend telling Justin that I didn't want to go out to a bar, and I most certainly didn't want to turn this into another house party weekend.
Having worked well over 50 hours by Thursday of last week I decided to take Friday off and start my weekend early. The day was spent sleeping in, cleaning out some clothes, reorganizing my dresser, cleaning out the hall closet and just getting rid of some clutter around the house. Justin got home from work around 6 PM and was shocked to see that I spent my day off working on the house.
Friday evening was spent with Ethan and Tom, at dinner and a movie. We actually met Ethan and Tom out last summer and have known them mostly as fellow party acquaintances, but recently Justin and I have been hanging out with them more and getting to know them in a non-party context. Ethan and Tom have been together just over 9 years and are another example of a gay couple who have found the key to making things work long-term. They live only a few miles from us and we planned on getting together sometime this week which turned into dinner and a movie on Friday night. We met at The Keg Steakhouse in Chandler, which is apparently one of Ethan and Tom's favorite restaurants. Justin and I had heard about The Keg before from Andrea since it started as a Canadian chain, but had never personally been there. Dinner was great and the conversation was even better. Tom is my age and in his second year of dental school after deciding to leave his career as an engineer. Ethan is Justin's age and has decided to take his BS in Biology and go back to school to pursue a career in nursing. It was interesting talking to them both to get their perspective on different issues.
Following dinner we headed over to the Harkins Theatre at the Chandler Fashion Center to catch a move. We agreed on 'The Eye' with Jessica Alba where a woman receives an eye transplant and can see the supernatural. I typically don't choose scary or horror movies as my first choice, but I'm ok dealing with them as long as they're more suspense oriented and don't involve torture, or unnecessary gore. It's not that they scare me; I just don't see the point or entertainment value in the gore that most of these movies focus on and I'd much rather spend my time sitting through something I enjoy like a good drama or sci-fi flick. Anyway the movie was pretty good and while I didn't find it particularly scary there were a few screams from people in the theatre. The movie ended, we thanked Ethan & Tom for a lovely evening said our goodbyes and then Justin and I headed home to bed.
While Justin had to get up and work a 1/2 day on Saturday morning, I personally spent it sleeping in until 10 and then laying in bed catching up on some overdue magazine reading. Once Justin got home we headed out to do a little afternoon shopping in Chandler. It was a beautiful shorts & t-shirt weather, sunny day outside. I'm glad we got out of the house for a while. On the way home we stopped by the grocery store to pick up some food for the week. I stopped by the seafood counter and decided to pick up some sea scallops and shrimp to sauté for us for dinner. This was probably the first Saturday night in many months that we actually stayed home and cooked dinner for ourselves. I sautéed the scallops and shrimp in a garlic lemon sauce with a little angel hair pasta for dinner. It was our first pasta dish in quite some time, and our last high-carb meal for a while since we're immediately going back to our low-carb, high-protein diet and gym routine in preparation for the White Party in April. We've been a little lax with our routine since the Holidays and have decided this week is the time for us to kick start things back into gear again, but I digress. We spent the rest of the evening catching up on a few back episodes of the Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency followed by some independent video game play. It was quite a nice change for us for a Saturday night.
Sunday was a day spent sleeping in by both of us. I got up a little earlier then Justin since he had to work on Saturday and wasn't able to sleep in. I picked up around the house a little bit and got caught up on the laundry. After Justin got up we showered, grabbed the leash and walked up to the park with Berger to get him out of the house and play a bit. I've been promising Berger for some time now that I'd take him to the park, so since it was nice out Justin and I walked up to the park and spent the afternoon playing ball with him. We all enjoyed getting out of the house and spending some time outside. Once back home we had a salad for dinner and spent the evening in front of the TV catching up on a few movies. It was a relaxing day and nice quiet evening together at home.
I can hardly believe that I actually managed to spend a weekend doing exactly what I wanted to do around the house. I joked for a minute with Justin on Saturday night saying I was bored and wanted to go out. I quickly said I was just joking and was completely content at that moment. I realize now how important it is every once and a while to take a break from it all and take some time to do something relaxing. I completely enjoyed the weekend and I'm well rested and I'm looking forward to getting back into our gym routine starting tonight. Cheers.
Only you could make normal seem exotic. -- Jeremiah
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Anonymous @ Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:40:00 AM
hi, found ur blog via the interest links in blogspot.com. good to read this post, as it puts ur life in a bit of perspective. reading the rest gives the impression it is one round of party circuit after another. it sounds very exhausting, haha. but this post puts things in context. glad that u r balancing the partying with some good ol time to yourself.Also interested to read that both of u r into the low carb diet. i have only recently read about the rationale of it fr thebook by gary taubes 'the diet delusion' (in uk edition, the usa edition is called 'bad fat, good fat' or vice versa). I was so impressed i have changed my way of eating to meat. how long have u been on this diet? u two look very fit, so is that the result of the diet or were u fit before? as for the relationship thing, from what u have said about urs, it looks like an open relationahip has more chances of lasting. maybe because it implies there is no jealousy nor possessiveness which i think are the two things that destroys any relationship whether friendship or as lovers.
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by anthony @ Friday, March 07, 2008 6:17:00 AM
