Been Out More

The past few days had been quite eventful. On Wednesday night, I met up with my girl friends for dinner at Eddie's restaurant. We had a worthwhile time chatting and catching up on each other. Diane, Julien and I ordered the philly cheese steaks while Myra had a chicken plate. Myra and Diane had two glasses of wine while Julien and I just had iced teas. Eddie gave us fifty percent off on our orders, and we were but grateful. We spent two and a half hours talking about our lives, other people's lives, we reminisced on our time during nursing school, that those times, those days, were truly the good old days. I am happy to have friends like them- they are my nursing buddies, and I am certain that our friendship will be long lasting.

When I came home from the dinner, about 9pm or so, I saw two raccoons gobbling up the cat food we always put outside for the stray cats. They were huge, and seemed hungry and vicious. I parked my car on the driveway while waited for them to go away. Instead, they were curious enough, or perhaps aggressive, that they walked up in front of my car and stared at me. I hissed them but to no avail. I was scared, and could not get inside the house-- I don't have a garage opener, and Eddie won't be home till 11. In order to open the door, I have to walk past them and I did not dare attempt to do that for the fear of them attacking me. Thankfully, Abby called me. I ended up picking him up and he asked me to stop at Taco Bell first before heading home. When we got home, the raccoons were gone and we safely went inside the house.

Yesterday, I did Abby a favor by giving him a ride to Pep Boys to get a battery for his car. His car broke on Tuesday so he could not come over that night, and he texted me later on that he was bored out of his mind. After Pep Boys, we went to where his car was, at his place in Del Mar. Abby still lives with his parents in a small trailer by the horse ranch. I liked it there- the smell of the horses, the nature, the rural essence of it, and just the feeling of being thousand miles away from home even though it was only about five to ten miles from our house. We were glad to see that the battery fit his car perfectly. Then we headed down to Hillcrest where we ate sushi and decided to go for a walk after to the magazine store to buy the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. We also stopped by at Buffalo Exchange just to window shop. We head home and watched Sweeney Todd which was good (I give it about 7/10). Then we parted ways, he went to Bourbon while I stayed home, and waited for Eddie to come home from work. I watched the special features on The Reader DVD.

I am glad I am beginning to lighten up, and not treating myself as a victim. As the Course In Miracles say, "I am not a victim of the world I see". Plus, it helps studying the book Power Of Now, too. What happened on Monday was a cry for love. I did not mean to hurt Eddie's feelings again when I brought up my unhappiness in this city, and that I wished to be in San Francisco. In the future, I see myself living in San Francisco, but for now, all I can do for the sake of me and Eddie is to be contented, and not let my ego take over my right mind.