Personal Diary - 1/30/2005

I know.... all of you think that all I do with my time is sit around and write about the good, the bad, and the ugly in life. Not true! Last night, for example, we went to this awesome dinner at The Altnaveigh Inn at Storrs, where UConn is located, where Kent teaches.

I’ve always enjoyed The Altnaveigh. There food is good, though not terrible bleeding edge and adventuresome. None the less, it’s always good. I wanted to see what the food was like under new management. It’s been totally redecorated inside, and was beautifully done. The Inn was established in 1734. They also rents rooms, upstairs.

After dinner, we went to a concert by The American Brass Quintet, which was extremely well done. It was also the first time I had been in the new performance hall at UConn, which was smaller and more intimate than the larger one. It was just right for this kind of concert.

Afterwards, we came home and went to bed, around 10:30pm. Sorry to you young folks out there.... we didn’t go to other parties and dance until four in the morning. We are “old folks” now and bed was much nicer to me! Someday, you will understand that.

Today, we are going to the mall to buy new toys for our cats, Maxwell and Mimi (terribly spoiled), and then off to the health club. We are going about four times a week now, and I’m starting to look much more in shape. I’ve lost weight, so now if I can just keep going....

It’s all part of my new year make over. I’m losing weight, rekindling old friendships, and last weekend, got my hair style completely redone. Had it recolored, totally different style, and yes, even had my eye brows waxed! And yes, it did hurt!

I suppose one thing about being gay is that when you want to go have stuff like this done, you don’t really have to worry about what people are going to think about you using different products and doing different things, such as coloring your hair, having your nails done, wearing makeup, waxing, or anything else. You are gay, they expect it. Is that part of “gay license”? You got me, but if there’s an up side to being gay, that’s one of them.

I was sitting in the chair getting the brows waxed, and the gal doing it said, “You know, this area under your eyes could be much smoother, let me show you how...”. Well, she did. I ended up with the complexion of Princess Diana, (before her death). It was an amazing experience. There were a larger number of older ladies there, with their fur coats on (old money) who live in posh West Hartford, but they all seemed to love me. I treated them like my grand mother.

All the time he was working on my hair, I wasn’t allowed to see it. He wanted me to look “less corporate”. After the towel came off my head, this man, who had just brought his six-year-old daughter in for a haircut, looked at my color and said, “Oh boy!”. I asked, “Is it bad?” He said, “Not if you like canary yellow.” I said, “You are kidding?” The stylist from across the room laughed and said, “Start tweeting!”

I laughed and just went with it. It’s pretty radical. Kent says that he is starting to like it. People at work were in shock at first. My boss, who is quite conservative actually said that it looked very nice. You can never know what people are going to think about anything.

Kent leaves for Potsdam, Germany on Tuesday and won’t get home until Sunday. I’m not too happy to see him go, but I’m happy he gets to see different places. I think it takes three plane connections and a train ride to get there. How grueling.