I ended up driving to the Ville Friday evening … I fucking flew down there and made it to Miss Sodapop’s apartment at about 7:05 p.m. As soon as I got there, we left for a GA meeting. This was the second meeting that I have attended, the first in the Ville. There is quite the collection of characters, let me tell you, including one gentleman who persistently petted Miss Sodapop’s arm, causing me to giggle during the middle of the meeting. He’s … intense.

I gotta tell you, though, I continued to be amazed and humbled by the work that people in this 12-step program have done on themselves. The individuals who have been in the program for a while and are working/have worked the steps are some of the most honest, caring and perceptive people I have met. Miss Sodapop was the meeting chair and she chose the topic of “change” to discuss. I think just about everyone in the room shared, including me. Now, keep in mind that just about everyone on the fucking planet calls Miss Sodapop by a different first name than I know her as. So I had to remember to use that name, which always freaks me out LOL. Anyway, I think I surprised Miss Sodapop by speaking up, but she is just such an awesome person, I had to. I didn’t know her before, but the Sodapop I know now is one of the best friends I have ever had. It turned into a bit of a cryfest, as she was already in tears, I was in tears, but it was a good girlie moment.

Afterwards, we stopped at Wal-mart then went back to her place to make yummeh dip because we were both starving. I hadn’t eaten since about 11:30 a.m. and it was about 9 p.m. when we got back to her place. I watched Rent for the first time and really liked it, although I was seriously bummed out by part of it and told Miss Sodapop that watching the move so frequently can not be good for her mental health LOL.

During the night, I slept on the couch and Miss Chloe the Chiweenie came out NINE motherfucking times during the night to see me. Ok, I shouldn’t swear, she’s the cutest little thing ever, but srsly. NINE TIMES? And she licks. Oh how she licks. A few times I got her to calm down and she slept by me for a while. Her collar jingles so at least she can’t sneak up on you.

Saturday we did some running around, took naps and then met Miss Laci and a friend for dinner at a yummeh Cuban restaurant. Now, we were a bit prejudiced against this friend because of some things Laci had told us about him and well, because, Laci is not only our girl, she’s the baby bitch (being a mere 28 to the rest of us post-30+ bitches). Miss Sodapop fucking went to town on this guy. OMG. That is one of her skills; she is direct and isn’t afraid to ask the hard questions. A few times I kicked Miss Laci under the table and well, I won’t tell you what I was mouthing to her, but *I* thought it was funny.

Today, I went to the largest church I have ever been too. There were escalators in the entrance. ESCALATORS. The sanctuary has stadium seating and had, I think, three levels. In the church bulletin, it said that last week, they had nearly 17,000 people attend worship. Holy cow. The service was totally different from I’m used to (I’m not demonstrative in church, yo) but the message was good and I am slowly getting over my dislike of “rock” type music in church. Not that I have any philosophical reasons against it, it’s just that most of the time it’s not very good!

Miss Sodapop and I sat with her friends GB and BB during the service, then met up again at Bravo for lunch. Yummeh. And Miss Sodapop ended up with half of a rosemary chicken panini because it had mayo on it and I didn’t want to risk eating it after a two-hour drive back home!

And now … back to work tomorrow. Dinner with MM on Tuesday so I suppose I’ll be thinking about that tomorrow night. I might invite myself to his house this weekend … well, bring the topic up and see how it goes over. We shall see!