Last Weekend: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Not to steal a title from my fellow blogger Villa, but it certainly fits my weekend.

THE GOOD
Shep came up Friday night as planned right after I got laundry done. We ended up eating some Taco Bell fourth meal and playing a World Cup. I had Iran and lost to England in the quarterfinals in overtime after beating USA in the Rd. of 16 in penalty kicks. Tom lost to Sweden in the round of 16, and Shep went on to avenge our losses and win the whole thing.

Saturday Tom and Shep went to pick up the ice, beer, and cigars for the nightcap and cleaned the place up while I relaxed and showered. Zach came up first at 3, followed by Daniel shortly thereafter. Of course Ahmad was late as usual, but Burton came in around the same time and we were off. Hooters was OK, good unhealthy food and good conversation to start the Bachelor Party. We also got to watch Argentina beat Mexico in the World Cup, which had a lot of trash talking in overtime (including continued bashing of America's team, EYEBROWS Reyna and BaLDEY Kasey Keller). Our night continued at Shadowbox Cabaret where we were one of 5 bachelor/bachelorette parties in attendance. The show was Best of 2006 and it was absolutely hellarious. I think everyone enjoyed the evening show and I am certain most of us will be back with girlfriends/wives/hookups in the future. Then it was back to the apartment for some poker, drinking and smoking. Everyone smoked one, and it was quite the atmosphere at the beginning. Poker was well played overall, and I think the first three people out lost on hands they definitely had the better percentage with when they pushed all in. Villa was the first out and he is the only player at the table I think is better than me, so his AA losing to KK of Daniel (who is the biggest lucksack still...go away beginner's luck) actually helped out. It took quite a while but eventually I knocked out Ahmad and fought with Daniel to get the chip lead. We got down to Tom, Shep, Daniel, and I and despite Shep and Tom being short stacks...they attacked Daniel and got him out. Then Shep was majorly short stacked and it took forever, but Tom and I eventually got him out and split the pot. I cannot say there were any amazing plays on my part, but I definitely had Daniel and Shep read on most hands. I'd like to thank Tom and the guys for an absolutely amazing night none of us will forget for a long time.

THE BAD
Well I guess it had to go sour right? The trip to Marietta was a quick one as I hit the road at 12:45 and had to get gas and lunch on the way. I got to Bonnie's at 2:58 and they were waiting to leave for the bridal shower. We got there a few minutes late and got going. Played a couple of games (21 things you might know about the bride and groom) and (make something related to the wedding out of a piece of toliet paper). We ate some food and were going to play one more short game but Granny Bonnie was making faces this whole time and bitched up a storm about people having to leave and we should do gifts. Whatever...so we did gifts. Kelley (and I) got a lot of nice stuff, mostly kitchen stuff such as bar equipment, towels, and a smoothie maker. It was not so bad I guess, but I was th eonly guy in a room full of women (appx 25) and Bonnie kind of ruined the mood by being bitchy the whole time since things did not go as she wanted them to. This is not her wedding.

THE UGLY
Well here we go. So after the bridal shower I go over to Mom's to get a haircut and we have a talk before we go over there. Mom is ABSOLUTELY INSISTING that I bring Kelley over and we talk out the stuff between the two of them that night, including the letter and everything leading up to it (this started in November and ended with the letter in March). I told her I would try my best and got the haircut and left. Dropped off Jon's last stuff at his Mom's as well and good riddance lol. Hopefully he pays me someday soon. I was still kind of ticked off that Mom wanted me to try and force Kelley to talk again...but I figured I would try. Kelley and Kelsey and Bonnie knew someting was up and I spilled before Kelley and I left to see a dog her mom and stepdad had over for the weekend. Kelley strongly refused and we got into a mini-fight over it on the way over to her Mom's. We get to her Mom's and it doesn;t take long for them to realize something is up, but we tell them what it is and move on. We watched King Kong with them and I had not seenit so I enjoyed it. The big dog they were sitting for the weekend was so cute, but too big for our apartment. About 10:30 and 2/3 of the way through the movie my Mom calls their house phone and Bruce hands it to me. This is how the convo goes:
Mom: Why do you not answer your phone when I call (second time she bitched me out for this today)?
Me: Ummm, let me pull out my phone, oh yeah just like I told you before I ge tno bars in half of Marietta!
Mom: Are you guys coming over?
Me after asking Kelley: No we are not coming over.
Mom: Why not?
Me: Because Kelley is not ready to talk.
Mom: That sounds like bullshit.
Me: Well what do you want me to do? You want to talk to her now?
Mom: No (hangs up)
Me: Well Fuck off then (using my better judgment and not throwing Bruce and Kathy's phone across the room).

I was pissy the rest of the movie, and mostly because I DESPISE people hanging up on me rudely. I just refuse to tolerate that bullshit.

So we leave after the movie and we get out to the end of their road and Mom is just pulling on the road. I was so angry I got out of the truck and stormed over to her car window and bitched her out in the middle of the street. I told her it was so rude and you should never hang up on me (with plenty of expletives deleted) and Mom yelled across the road to Kelley who stayed silent and looked ahead in the passenger isde of the truck. Mom accused her of not wanting to work things out and after about a minute I told Mom she could follow us if she wished but I was not talking out there anymore. I sped off and called my grandmother who couldn't console me at all and Kelley took the phone over and talked to her a little bit (which I think helped, but I was sobbing and speeding back to her grandparents). I got to the grandparents, Kelley said she did not want to go there yet, I left the keys in the truck and told her to go wherever she wants but I'm going wherever the hell I feel like and I ran inside right past her grandparents and Kelsey down to my room for the night where I cried and got angrier for 15 minutes alone. I do no know what made me more upset, the fact that my Mom does not understand that I have tried my best to get Kelley to talk for months (and caused many fights in the process), the fact that she stalked us to her grandparents (before we saw her on the road) and then to her mother's, or the fact that I was so consumed with rage I had a white treash screaming match in the middle of the road at night. Probably all of the above. Finally Kelley's grandparents and Kelley came down and tried to console me, which happened after another 15-20 minutes. I haven't cried so much all year I think. After I got back to good they left me and Kelley alone to talk about things and we got on the same page, since it was not us fighting (and we are sure of walking down the aisle and just want it to come...we are fine which is good because if we weren't and all this family stuff was happening...). I finally went upstairs and got some late dinner and watched a litle TV and read a little bit before hitting the sack. Just being with Kelley helped.

Apparently Kelley's grandparents, me in a rage fit in the middle of the road, and Kelley's Mom all told my Mom to back off and let us get married, since nothing good can come from forcing the conversation when both sides are not ready to talk. Kelley's Mom is the only person my mom seems to listen to now so hopefully all of us combined will shut her up. Nonetheless in the long term KElley and I need to have serious talks with her grandparents regarding their unacceptable behavior pertaining to the wedding and my mom on her relationship with Kelley (but we are not going to have these talks till we mov einto our new apartment in August at the earliest). Kelley's Mom told me that my Mom was afraid I wouldn't talk to her anymore since she hung up on me...and she probably deserves that. I intend to talk to her on the phone Wednesday telling her two things: the long term timeline of when we might get together to talk ON OUR TERMS and insisting she comes to the wedding and enjoys what should be a happy day for her.

It scares me that I saw an unpleasant conversation between Kelley's grandmother and my Mom at the end of the bridal shower and I got completely different stories of the conversation from both of them. I cannot trust either of them to give me the full story and that bothers me. It also bothers me that my mom would go so far as to stalk us at night trying to force the issues with Kelley. That is PSYCHOTIC and actually pulled Kelley farther away (as well as gave me something to be really upset at her about). I did a lot better today just chilling with Kelley, and our meeting with Pastor Steve to set up final wedding details turned into a talk about the family issues from Sunday. It helps to talk to him since he is impartial, and I intend to talk to Tom tonight about it and I know Sarah (maid of honor) was going over to talk to Kelley tonight. Back in Columbus now and good riddance to Marietta. I go home for a day and a half and my weekend goes from one of the best of my life to one of the worst.

There you have it...4 days and counting to the wedding and here we go.