someone exactly like me! only different!

i met another hat yesterday! his name is george-with-a-j! he looks just like me! only, he's a little more colourful. and he doesn't have any arms. or legs, come to think of it. and he has a little curly q on the top of his head. :) i met him at a party at the dot's! i was helping out in the kitchen and lo and behold! there was someone else helping too!



i think we did a great job setting up! the dot disappeared and entertained guests with her band and we got everything rolling:



i know it doesn't look like a lot, but we totally fed twenty people! there was more stuff on the stove. beef. yuck.




after dinner, the other guests worked in the kitchen and george-with-a-j and i hung out in the dining room with our hot chocolates and chatted. if you're wondering how he managed to drink his hot chocolate, i'll tell you: he adds lots of marshmallows! we exchanged numbers and i invited him over to my house for the evening tonight. i have a fun bbq out in the back yard. he said that would be great and we made a plan for george-with-a-j to head over tonight.



saying goodbye was interesting. have you ever hugged another same-sex person and sort of put your heads in the exact same place? like... you lean to the left and they lean to the right and then you're trying not to kiss and you have to turn your face away? yeah... we had one of those moments. that was a little... creepy and awkward. i mean... we're two heterosexual hats, here. yeesh! just didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea. (*shudder*)


i have to be honest, because of our strange hugging predicament the night before, i was a little worried that george-with-a-j wouldn't show up for dinner tonight. he was a little late and he didn't call. i kind of hate that, but... he's new and eventually, i will explain to him the gilbert rules. anyway!!



yup. there he is, coming up the walk. somehow, he managed to avoid all the doggy poo floating around in the yard. the mail lady didn't (she was really late coming by today) and she actually MADE ME STOP what i was doing--even though i OBVIOUSLY had company and clean her shoes.



at least i didn't let the dog eat her. you would think that would have made her happy. but no. so.. there i am with the clorox disinfectant. she held the shoe for me like i was incompetent or something. but we did manage to get it cleaned.


then, george-with-a-j and i went into the back lawn and sat down to a nice fire i had going in the fire pit. we had a couple of post-psycho-mail-lady beers and enjoyed the fire and the smells of burning flesh (okay, i do eat some meat--yeesh!).


eventually, after some scraping and flipping, the hot dogs were ready. no laughing about the cans. i'm the tallest hat in my family, by the way. and the tallest hat in the office. remember the monitor on the phone books? yeah, well... don't you forget it. the meat was great. the beans were delicious. george-with-a-j and i really had an awesome time together.


but as with all good things, there must be an end at some point. not sure what's up with our apparent predisposition toward awkward hugs...? interesting. hmh. i'll have to ask the tall blond what she thinks. she has pretty good gaydar.