The Peanut Chronicles

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Here comes the story of a Hurricane

Last night was mommy’s night out. Oh yes, I went out. WITHOUT NUT!! Where did I go? Simple, the Hurricane is in town for Nut’s Baptism, which is currently not taking place (don’t ask) so we decided last night to go out for drinks. After all, that is what I do when Hurricane is in town: we drink and laugh a lot.

We went last night to a suburb of Metropolis. We went to our favorite dive bar around here: The Cabana Club. It’s very Hawaiian themed for the city. I guess you can call it a mini-vacation spot. Too bad there are no Cabana Boys (other then the booze that is.) Only Rico, the Latino guy with no hair except bangs. Nice.

I went out and was able to wear my boots, my hair up and just relax without the screaming and teething Nut. We had fun. When we arrived we walked in and grabbed a table near the front of the bar. It was a calm night, good mix of ages, not too crowded. For about 15 minutes we waited for our waitress. She was nowhere to be seen. Finally, just as the Hurricane was getting up from the frustration to order us u some drinks at the bar, Rico came and asked us we had been helped.

“Nope.”

“I’ll get your waitress.”

Our waitress was actually up front fiddling with some wire things at a dashboard looking thing. When she finished what she was doing, she came over to us for our drinks. What was she doing? Setting up the very LOUD music. We, of course, had picked the table right near the speakers! Not only was it loud music… it was rap. Oh my.

With our drinks we had some conversations over the music. When Hurricane and I get together we run the gauntlet of subjects. Its almost as if we are making up for time with the fact that we see each other maybe once or twice a year now, unlike when we were growing up.

Here’s what we talked about (in no particular order):
Dogs
Nut
Religion
High school
Grad school
Better halves
Road trips
Music
Pu Pu platters
Getting older
resumes
job woes
crab boats
Gray hair
Annoyances with people
Drinking and partying less
Vomit and former visits to the Cabana Club
OC’s wedding
Her trip to Alaska
Relationship and parties
Alcoholic friends
Priests

Like I said, we run the gauntlet. Further more, we have a lot of fun doing it. We laugh… a lot. And laughing is always good.

Yes, we have a blast.

And yes, the Nut’s baptism is off… for now. That, my children, is a story for tomorrow…after my job interview!!!!