brownies for breakfast, blueberries and chocolate cake for lunch...yum. after another bout with illness i made the trek down to monroe to watch tommy and his friends play paintball for a couple of hours. they want me and wendy to start playing with them this summer, but after seeing the huge welts tommy got on his chest and arm after getting hit at fairly close range, i don't know...i bruise ridiculously easily. tommy also almost gave me a heart attack with one of his E-brake tricks on the way to pick up his friend jackie--REALLY not a good idea when your girlfriend was sick the day before and didn't know you were going to do it beforehand. he was pretty much just trying to repair his ego after horribly losing the first couple of games but still, not at my expense, please.

so a lot of what made me really want to feel ok enough to make it down there yesterday was tommy's promise that we were going on a real date, our first, which was surprise/related to some joke we had. naturally, i was excited, and i was even fine with paintball lasting till like 830 because i was looking forward to whatever he had planned after. after we returned to his house so he could shower (men stink) we headed out, and ended up driving by the housatonic river, and he said he could almost see where we were headed. so, i'm thinking, ohhh, a nice romantic spot on the riverbank, eh? how cute! when we pull into this giant parking lot for none other than mini-golf. yes, mini-golf. try to imagine the look on my face as whatever romantic possibilities i had been considering are blasted into dust. and yeah, i didn't hide it all that well, either. i hate golf (this was the joke) and i also hate hate hate mini-golf. i can only stomach it once in a looooong while, which was in this case a couple of weeks ago with amanda. this was, objectively speaking, a really nice course, with a giant waterfall at one end, but i was pissed, and it showed.

i was better after we finally made it to a bertucci's and had dinner. tommy felt bad for what was unarguably a really crappy first date (can you believe this was our first date? christ on a cracker). at first i was too grumpy to bother assuaging his feelings, but honestly, one bad date won't kill me, and he didn't know i hated mini-golf. it was mostly my fault for getting my own hopes up, anyway (you would THINK i would have learned, no?). next time, either i'll plan the date myself or ask wendy to suggest something.

this morning i woke up at the ungodly hour of ten to go over to wendy's house and go to starbucks and watch the first teenage mutant ninja turtles movie while eating the blueberries and delicious chocolate cake her mom had made. it was the first time we'd spent time alone in a loooong time, or so it felt, and it was really good, especially since we spent so much of it making fun of tommy lol. we decided that he is michelangelo, the really goofy one, and paul (his best friend) is leonardo, cause he's very calm and polite and always taking care of other people. now it's time to get ready for sofia's.....not whoo. BUT wendy will be coming to visit next week!!!YAY!