January 16th, 1983

Wow!!!  What an amazing weekend.  

Saturday:

I drove up to Wake Forest to spend some time with Will at school.  It was the first time I’d seen him since before Christmas – I was missing him terribly.  He showed me all his pictures from his Vietnam trip and gave me some really awesome gifts from there!  

We went out to dinner at this Vietnamese restaurant which was really good.  Hung out with his friends… and then came the best part of the night.  I finally got to see him play the piano.  (  Oh so cute!  I’ve wanted to see him play since the last time that we talked.  There’s just something about hearing a piano sing… and let me tell ya… Will can make it sing!

We went to Greensboro for dinner and to see Brokeback Mountain – but they’d sold out when we got there.  So instead we headed downtown to the Green Bean… this really cool little coffee shop that a friend of his that hung out with us knew about.  Great place – exactly the kind of place that Charlotte is missing.  There was a band that played – pretty good.  They seemed to be better when they first started and lost it as they went on.  

We then headed to Charlotte for the night.  

Sunday:

I woke up with the most amazing guy lying there next to me.  I don’t know what it is about that feeling… waking up next to the person your crazy about… but it’s almost too much to deal with.  

We went and had breakfast, hung out with Jay and Cathy for a bit and then finally got to see Brokeback Mountain.  Just like the preview said… thanks to Fandango.  When we got there at 4 the showing was also sold out, but we’d pre-ordered off Fandango.  

The movie was kind of what I expected.  I’d heard, however, that it was really great.  I guess I was just hoping for more.  It’s so easy to get caught up in the fact that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal played the lead parts of the gay guys that the intention of the movie gets lost.  That’s all you hear about… and I can’t say that I wasn’t excited about seeing those two kiss.  HAHA!  Although I don’t think their kissing was nearly as magical as Will and I.  I think we’ve got that down pretty well!  LOL.

I guess that’s what I wanted people to see.  I wanted them to see the romantic side of it all … that two people of the same sex can fall in love and their relationship be just as amazing as any straight couple.  Everything seemed so brutal between those two.  Their first encounter seemed more like it was about being along and stuck up on a mountain somewhere… being drunk and horny than anything.  

I won’t spoil the movie for those of you who haven’t seen it but want to (Mark), but go see it.  It’s worth seeing.

After the movie Jay cooked dinner for Will and me.  He made some pasta with Chicken… good stuff… even if it was wheat pasta.  The other night I had messaged Cathy and Jay was there who ended up making me feel like I was answering one of those crazy online profile quizzes.  He was actually trying to figure out what kind of cake to make.  HAHA!  Clever.  Ended up making a chocolate cake with peanut butter… yum… and ice cream.  Good stuff.  I’m actually kinda wanting a piece right now.

Hopefully were all going to go out tonight for one last B-day weekend celebration.  I like this whole… spend the entire weekend celebrating your birthday thing!  (