Aug 20 2015

My Chemical Waitresses & New Friends: A 2006 Throwback

I haven’t done a throwback Thursday in a few months, and today I came across an old LiveJournal post from 2006 about the first time my friend Kara and I met in person!  10 years and three babies later, we’re still friends! Thank god for Myspace and awesome taste in music. Kara, I can’t believe Blogathon alone didn’t scare you away!

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Sometime last summer, I received an email notification that someone wanted to add me as a friend on Myspace. I was surprised to find out that it was neither a:

[a] screamo band from Idaho
[b] girl trying to break into porn
[c] married middle-aged man looking to just chat, he swears, with a young chick

Instead, it was a real life girl, Kara, from Pittsburgh who actually seemed to be adding me out of sheer interest and not to bolster a high friend count. A glance at her profile told me that she could type and spell properly, and didn’t have an annoying layout spewing out the latest Mariah Carey single, forcing me to scroll up and down in search of an off button. We began sending messages back and forth, making empty promises to meet up real soon for coffee. I didn’t have much faith in that, because the only other time I tried to meet someone from MySpace, she blew me off three times in a row (once was because she got her period).

But then a coffee place opened up in my town of Brookline (and it was about time since the only places around this dump to get coffee is an Eat n Park with awful service or a varied selection of gas stations) right by Pizzarella, no less! I figured this would be a great opportunity to meet Kara, until I sent Henry there one day for a smoothie and he was told that they had no refrigeration. The second attempt to humble them with my patronage was shot down when I wanted a cappuccino and was told that their microwave was broken.

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If they’re making their cappuccinos in a microwave, I don’t think I want one after all. I’m glad that I discovered this before having Kara meet me there, since I feel like a representative of Brookline and taking her to a bunk coffee house would be sure to hurt commerce.

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Another month went by and we finally solidified plans to meet yesterday at an Eat n Park near her part of town. She was already there when I arrived and I feared she would flee in horror as I waddled through the doors with the thunderous steps of a pregnant Godzilla. The most recent picture of me on MySpace was taken in November, when my face was half of what is now, so I hope she wasn’t too startled.

As we walked back to our booth, I begged her not to laugh as I kept my jeans hitched up with clenched hands to prevent them from slithering down my hips. Still, the crotch was halfway to my knees by the time we were seated. I embarrassingly told her that I’m between sizes in maternity pants.

After the initial awkwardness of saying hello 3 dozen times, laughing nervously, and trying to decide what to order (which is hard when two pages of your menu are glued together by an unknown and hopefully not unsanitary substance) everything went well. We lounged around in the booth for two hours drinking coffee (YES I HAD DECAF, GOD) and laughing at our waitress who looked like Gerard from My Chemical Romance. Then the smoke alarm went off and everyone sat there, staring stupidly at one another. “Should we leave? Is there a fire?” The host slouched past us and mumbled, “I wish this place would burn down” and judging by his lax movement, we figured we weren’t in any danger and there was no need to evacuate. But oh, that was the most excitement I had experienced all week!

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I don’t think that I scared Kara away (I’ve learned through trial and error over the years what subjects to avoid) and she claims (CLAIMS) that she had a nice time and would like to hang out again. I hope so, because I have this feeling that all my old friends are going to head for the hills once my chitlin’ is born. She said she likes babies!

That night, Henry treated me like I had just come home from 1st grade after making my first friend, and gave me that “I’m so proud of you” look. I realize that I’m a bit reclusive in my pregnant, unemployed state, but really, I’m not that bad. OK, I am. It’s just that you think you have a lot of friends until you actually need one of them, so I started to pull away from some of them. I’ve been very disenchanted with my selection these days.

Then I took my prenatal vitamin this morning like a dumbass (I always take it at night) and threw up so fiercely that I was seeing bright starbursts around the edges of my vision and one of them morphed into Cap’n Crunch, which is the second time I’ve seen his likeness outside of a cereal box (the first was within the scalloped texture of my old apartment’s ceiling).

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  1. Kara August 20th, 2015 10:02 pm

    Remember that time you posted a picture of my ass crack during blogathon?
    I’m pretty sure there was wine involved.

    I’m glad we are still friends! Bully to any folks that ran when you had Chooch because he is the coolest kid ever!

  2. Tuna Tar-Tart August 21st, 2015 10:09 am

    Oh god I don’t know how you hung around long enough for that to even happen! I was a bitchy mess during Blogathon!

    Remember when you got MARRIED and broke Chooch’s heart? lol!

  3. Octavia August 20th, 2015 10:45 pm

    That waitress sounds HAWT!

    I don’t know why people are so glib about people having internet friends. Clearly it is the place to find the best people <3 *scurries off to find above-mentioned ass crack photo*

  4. Tuna Tar-Tart August 21st, 2015 10:08 am
  5. Octavia August 21st, 2015 11:00 am

    What a glorious crack!

  6. Kara August 21st, 2015 6:01 pm

    How many people can say they have had a haiku written about their crack?

    I sort of remember blogathon being fun! Probably because I could leave when I got tired :-p

  7. kendahl August 21st, 2015 11:46 am

    The husband still doesn’t trust meeting people from the internet. He was scared for my life when I went to Vegas last month to meet up with nail girls at Cosmoprof.

    He’s sort of a weirdo.

  8. Alyson Hell August 21st, 2015 4:20 pm

    YAY KARA! We love her!!!!!!!!! :D She gave me another reason to go to Pittsburgh!!!

  9. Kara August 21st, 2015 6:02 pm

    <3!

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