Aug 14/08/21 - Marketgrounds

(This is a late post, like 11 weeks late 🤣).

Week:

Monday - work then go Optus Stadium to watch the Eagles with Ben

Tuesday - usual

Wednesday - usual

Thursday - usual

Friday - usual 

Saturday - busy, this is where I begin

Saturday, am f**ked, usual. Get up, get dressed and go to Subi oval to kick the footy with Goat, possibly Trav. Meet up with reliable G-unit at Subi oval which is now hood territory. From Forrie and WG to Subi, Wembley & Jolimont - how things have changed. Was good to kick the footy again, Trav shows up too. Must be like 1pm by now and as we are kicking a guy who looks like Giumelli shows up. It is Giumelli? (Trav must have msgd him?). This is a good four-way crew. Eventually it’s getting to after 2pm and I have to go to meet with my parents to look at tv’s. 

The next three hours I’m out in Osborne Park looking at tv’s with mum and dad. We get some nice new ones and I get a bigger one for my unit as an early Christmas present. It’s like 530pm now and I’m seriously tired and trying to get some sleep so I have enough energy to go out tonight but I know I seriously have no chance of sleeping when I’m this tense! I may have gone to the gym and to get some food at this stage but I’m not entirely sure (I am 11 weeks late remember). Eventually I decide that I will go out as I half promised to Jas earlier in the week that I would.

I get dressed and head out, it’s like 840 at this point. I make it to the line at Marketgrounds and I’m seriously tired which means I don’t have much confidence. The line has moved to the other side and I haven’t been out for like three months so I’m pondering if I actually want to be here. Eventually make it in. 

Jas and Vesper are there, very happy to see them, have not seen them for three months! We talk for a while and sit down, sounds like they have gone out a few times whilst I’ve been hibernating at home. Jas has bought a house too - big news! They ask me what I’ve been doing and I obviously say “surviving” because this is true 😂. Anyway we keep drinking, go upstairs where there’s more room and easy bathroom access and eventually go downstairs to the dance floor. 

The music is good, we’re on the dance floor and like always there are a lot of nicely dressed women (guys too), always makes me feel good when I go out and see other people my age (or younger or older), looking their rest and happy to be out. Some time passes, Vesp and Jas have drunk more than me, they talk to a few people, we have a few more drinks and all having a good time.

It’s past midnight now and I literally have very little energy left, I know I gotta go soon. Two nice ladies seem interested, I’m like I’ve got no energy I can’t talk, I go to the bar to buy three more drinks, I spill one of them on a lady walking past and have to clean it off her. I get back to the crew and one of the two women interested in me but Vesper & I cannot work out which one it is. We talk for a bit and eventually they head out. It gets to about 1am now and my energy levels are too low so I say goodbye to Jas and LV and head onto Wellington St to start walking home. It’s pretty cold and I walk up Wellington St from Perth to West Perth and then cross into Subi onto Roberts Rd. It is so quiet and I am walking past all these nice, old houses and thinking that I would like to buy one and just live there by myself (if I’m still single) because it would be so quiet and I think I like old places that have nice trees / plants.

As I walk past Subi Oval lost in reverie I check my phone, three missed calls from LV?? I call back. He at Mint with Jas and the two women from before are there! I speak to them on the phone and the shorter, louder lady tells me to come to Mint!! I too tired so I cannot go but I say to LV “If they interested, they can have my number”. I keep walking home through Subi and make the turn up Hay St. I check my phone and there’s msg from a new number... am excited... could this be Mint / MG women?? It is the shorter lady who I spoke to on the phone, I msg back and keep walking home. Keep msging once I make it onto the couch to sleep. First time I’ve messaged a real world woman for quite a while. This is good and such a forgotten feeling 😂😂😂. I feel alive!

I fall asleep.