It was like a 5 hour drive to the place where the wedding was at and so it was just Mom and I driving together. I offered to take a turn driving, but she refused. So I sat there the entire time watching Queer As Folk. It's pretty good. I like it. I've finished the entire first season and now I'm just waiting for the second season to come in the mail... But it was a little awkward at times watching QAF with my mom sitting right next to me... Let's just say there is plenty of gay sex in that show, and I like it! But yeah it's a little awkward to see that with your mom sitting right there...
Anyway, the wedding. It was long and boring. The actual ceremony only took like 15 minutes! But then there was a reception right afterwards that was about 5 hours long! My cousin who got married grew up mormon, but when she met the guy who she married, she stopped going to church so they just had a traditional wedding thing. My Grandma was pretty upset at first that she wasn't getting married in the mormon temple, and then when the groom's family wanted alcohol at the reception she started threatening to not even go to the wedding. Either way, it was really annoying to have all my aunt and uncles ask how school was going because of course the next thing they want to know about after school, is girls. And then of course after girls they all want to know about this "rumor" they heard that I "might" not be going on a mission. So basically I told everyone that I didn't have a girlfriend, there were no potential possibilities I had my eyes on, and that I absolutely wasn't going on a mission and actually hadn't been to church in about 4 months now. Most of my family was pretty cool about the whole not wanting to go on a mission, but when they heard that I haven't even been going to church, that's when they really got concerned.
My mom told me about how one of her sister's approached her and told her that she needed to start going to church so that I would start going back as well. My mom hasn't been going to church in about 20 years! Why would she start going back now! I just can't believe how bigoted a lot of mormons are. My mom said that my aunt was acting like it was the end of my perfect future if I didn't stay active. My mom just kind laughed it off though. My mom knows what I want and truly believe in, which makes things so much easier with handling the family!
And then because I took the whole weekend off of work to go to the wedding, I had to work 7 hour shifts on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Today I went skiing with a girl friend of mine. It was so amazing! I didn't buy a season pass this year because I thought I would be too "busy" with school and stuff, but I kinda forgot about the 3 weeks I had off of school in December...
Tonight I'm having dinner with my mom, sister, sister's boyfriend (future fiance...), and perhaps my grandma. It'll be a party! Oh, and on Monday night I went out to dinner with my sister and her boyfriend and it could have gone better...
I didn't know if my sister had told him I was gay or not so it was a little awkward at first because she was asking about school and friends and stuff, but she didn't ask how things were going with the Crush and I or any other guys, so I figured she hadn't told him yet. And then while we were eating, he told us a pleasant little story about how one night he and a bunch of his buddies went out to a bar and there was a group of obviously gay guys. He and his friends went over to the gay guys and starting picking a fight and eventually the cops showed up and actually arrested one of his friends...
Awesome! My sister is going to marry a guy that hates gay men! I can't wait to see how he reacts when he finds out I'm gay!
Oh, and I was called a fag the other day at work too! I was helping this one guy pick out some shirts to wear for his new job and he asked me how he looked in one of them after he tried it on. I just told him he looked really good and he quickly responded "Thanks, but what are you? Some kinda Fag!" I simply walked off, told my manager (the same one that was crying in front of me the other night), and then she went over and told the guy that he needed to leave the store. He threw a little fit and eventually left.
This is the first time anyone has ever attacked me for being gay. And I don't think I'll ever forget it. The guy was a total asshole about the whole situation too. I really wanted to do something worse to him, but I think he was pretty embarrassed being escorted out of the store. I didn't know what to expect. I knew that it was probably inevitable that something like this was going to happen to me someday, but I just wasn't expecting it to happen at work, especially when a majority of the male employees are known to be gay. I'm hurt, but I'll survive. I just wish it hadn't happened the night after going out to dinner with my sister and her boyfriend and hearing his little story. Plus, with the whole family thing this last weekend, it was just a lot of bad stuff to happen all at once.
But I found out that I rocked my chemistry final! I scored 60 points higher than the class average (there are +200 people in the class too...) and 23 points lower than the highest score. I practiced a little bit of what I remember from AP Statistics and found out I scored in the top 10% of the class, I think I should get an A right?! And now classes are done with for a few weeks and I have nothing to do! It'll be nice, but nothing too exciting. I'm still looking for something to do on New Year's Eve! I've already been invited to like 3 different parties with people I know from high school, but I really don't want to go to any of those because I'm not out to my high school friends and so it's really awkward for me to be around them. Plus, I don't really like them very much any more. I'll probably end up going to one of them, but what would really be awesome is if someone from work invited me to something, or better yet, maybe the Crush will invite me along to whatever he's doing...
Music: "Fortress" by Pinback
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