blue_stiletto, posts by tag: the great white north - LiveJournal (original) (raw)

Today I hung out with Tob, whom I've known for nearly 11 years now. He's ridiculously tall, and quite good looking, with short dark hair and a goatee. When I first knew him, though, his hair was soooo long. Longer than yours, 0ddness . Very sad. I miss his hair. He's smart and funny, a shameless flirt, and one of the kindest, most generous people I know. But I digress.

We met up on Plainfield and left my Jeep in the parking lot of his local hangout, 'The Hideaway', and took his car. We started going out to Holland, but changed our minds and went up to Grand Haven instead, in search of a deserted stretch of beach in which to go kite surfing. To make a long story short, we couldn't find a beach empty enough, and ended up just walking on the beach and going swimming instead. After, we changed out of our wet swim gear and went into the city to his favorite kite shop/toy store and poked around in there for a while. We played with the toys, he found a few to purchase, and we examined the latest in kite surfing gear. Then we went out to another of his favorite breweries, so he could pick up some bloody mary mix that is absolutely to die for. THEN we went back to The Hideaway to meet with his friends Jeff and Susan, chatted with them for a few, and went out to dinner at Cheer's on Plainfield.

GREAT place. Absolutely loved it. The waitstaff was awesome (probably because he knew them all....but then again, he knows EVERYBODY) and his ex-girlfriend gave me the stink-eye as she was passing by with someone's food. It made me laugh. I had the Michigan Cherry burger, which had dried tart cherries, carmelized onions and bleu cheese on it... it was SO stupidly good. I was blissing out the entire time I was eating it. After, we went back to pick up my Jeep and parted ways.

We're getting together tomorrow to take the boat out on one of the local lakes and have an ax-catching contest. It's an inside joke.
"They decided to have an ax-catching contest...On a longboat...In the middle of the north sea."

So after I left GR, I drove back home feeling all blissed out and happy, with the warmth of the sun still soaked into my skin, and the inner warmth of good food and good company and fresh air, and rocked out to Led Zeppelin. Once I got to Greenville, I decided to stop at the grocery store. I'm starting a diet as part of a training program for a triathlon (more about that later), and needed some rice milk for my shakes. I also ended up buying regular milk for M&R, celery, carrots, lettuce, radishes, lemonade concentrate, string cheese, and a blond summer ale with notes of strawberry. :P Give me a break, it's 4th of July weekend.

I had just finished my shopping and was putting the bags in the car when I got a text from Rachel saying she and Matt were at Meijer. I texted back saying that was funny, so was I. So I went back in the store, met up with them near the bottle return and pestered them while they did some shopping. I left a bit before they were done, since I wasn't really helping all that much, just keeping company.

It's one of the best days I've had in a very long time.