Pride weekend begins

Pride weekend will be fabulous this year! It's sunny and warm with occasional cloud cover for relief. Milestones renovated last year, reducing the size of its balcony. That means Aunty Tinkerbell only got 4 seats on the reduced patio this year, enough for Peter, Michael & Scott from Calgary and himself. So for the first time in 5 years or so I am without plans.

Flash and Doozer will be coming in from Galiano Island late this evening, around 10, after Doozer finishes his shift at the restaurant and Flash has closed his table at the farmers' market. I'm looking forward to that. Neither of them has stayed with me since May 2008, a week after we returned from Tennessee, and I haven't even seen Doozer since then, although we have exchanged some great emails.

My oldest friend Larry was hoping to come into town from the Sunshine Coast today too, but mainly to link up with a friend visiting from the US. He was to share my bed, which I had mixed feelings about because it is already warm and he snores. Last night I got his phone message saying his friend would only be in town today so he decided not to make the trip into town. I sigh a sigh of relief.

Doozer will head home after the parade as he has to work Monday, so his visit will be short and hopefully sweet. Flash will stick around to Tuesday morning. Cayenne is arriving from the airport sometime after 3pm Monday and will stay the night. That puts me in a bit of an awkward situation as Flash refuses to sleep with me (doesn't trust the old troll), which required me to ask Cayenne, who barely knows me, to share my bed Monday night. That could be interesting, although he has warned me that he snores. Perhaps he will make it up to me in other ways.

I am still not at my best. After an evening of conversation and frivolity at Kal's Thursday night where I consumed more than 3 glasses of wine, my insides have been in havoc. He wanted his 5 visitors including myself over right after work. We began drinking without dinner--just spicy, greasy potato chips to munch on. I brought along some frozen mini-quiches and sausage rolls, a pie wedge of brie cheese and some wasabi dried peas to add to "dinner". Besides getting a bit drunk (Kal walked me home the 3 blocks to ensure I didn't end up in Emergency) the wine caused a huge acid reflex in me that kept me awake most of the night. The next morning I was sick, a disgusting flow of rancid diarrhea, and I couldn't stomach food.

I still can't seem to as everything I eat rekindles the acid reflex. Today my intake will consist of plain yogurt, Immodium and Rolaids. I have two loads of laundry underway.