NikB #24

[NikB]

Oh.. I nearly forgot two funny H related things I was going to mention.

One really weird thing is of all the people there who I knew (about 1/2), most of them knew at least somewhat about my sitch (of course Michelle you know a LOT more about it.. but most of them know at minimum about the separation and the rollercoaster I've been on). Only one had ever met H before. People kept asking me about it - "Does he live here?" and stuff like that. But H's friend ("K-Fed") has NO idea about the sitch at all. He constantly tells me how wonderful my H is, how great I am, how lucky we are to be M'd to each other, etc. Definitely saw a few people scratching their heads when he said a couple things like that last night.

We talked a bit about the party last night when H and K-Fed got home (I was starting to clean up a bit and he was laughing that the disco ball was on and asked me some about how the rest of the night went). I told him a bit about who stayed and when people left and such. This morning, out of nowhere, H said "I'm surprised some of the guys didn't stay later. There were a lot of pretty women who came, and that one guy was single right?" (yes he emphasized the "one"). I asked which one he meant and said that yeah he was single - then I said "Actually I think the only one who WASN'T single was Tom." H gave me a really funny look and said "Oh..wow.. well, I'm even more surprised they didn't stay longer." (I actually think they would have but they went from relaxed/hanging out to "hurry up and leave" as soon as the organizer left - think they were maybe uncomfortable knowing H might come home)

H has been halfway talking about having a party soon - we used to do 2-3 big 'blowout' parties every year and haven't done one in a long time for obvious reasons. He has mentioned it a few times though recently. What I'd LOVE to see (depending on how things are going in our sitch of course) is a party where - gasp! - we have BOTH of our "sets" of friends here. In the past he'd always invite everyone from work and such so I'd have a houseful of people and know maybe 1/4 of them - and NONE of them were really "my" friends. Think that'd be a lot of fun.