The Pink Shirt Phenomenon

Hey guys!

So a few of you may remember the story about this pink shirt I bought.  It's quite fluorescent.  I bought it because I have this blue t-shirt that I bought on the fly and it fit really well so I got this bright pink one and I wore it to Jake's and that night I was accosted by all kinds of people.  Strangers telling me to shake it and many other inappropriate things.  I wear the more subtly coloured shirt and people don't feel the need to come up to me and talk to me about how I look but I wore this pink shirt and the night was a crazy disaster that led to the bar owner asking some guys to leave.  Anyhow, I wore the pink shirt today, probably for the first time since this incident, and I'm walking to bring Tiemus some lunch and I see this guy in plaid pants who has to be at least fifty-five walking toward me.  He isn't exactly stumbling but he keeps veering from one side of the sidewalk to the other.  He gets to about 15 feet in front of me and he stops and he's wearing bling.  He has this honest-to-god gigantic cross around his neck and he starts yelling "MA'AM! MAAAA'AM!" so I smile but I know how crazies work, Toronto taught me this.  You give them a tiny bit of attention but you never slow down. So I'm like right next to him but he's still talking at a yell and he says "You're very pretty!" and I say thank you and keep walking.  Stupid pink shirt.  Anyway, he keeps yelling after me, calling me ma'am of all things, and I say "Have a nice day!" and I swear I did not look back for ten more blocks.  I might burn this t-shirt, I swear.

Now, you don`t have to worry.  This crazy person was yelling at me in the street but it was a busy, populated, and relatively safe area with lots of eyes and lots of storefronts to escape the crazy man if need be.  I would not put myself in an unreasonable amount of risk.

So this morning Tiemus was tired and not interested in going to work so I sent him along crankily and got up and made him a pretty awesome sandwich and cut up some fruit and made a healthy sandwich for myself and walked the 45 minutes to bring him lunch -- how cool am I!  I have some dishes to put away and I still haven`t made the bed but yesterday was the big clean up day because the weekend simply is not conducive to keeping things organized and clean.

Tomorrow is independence day!  Tiemus and I are looking at going to a bar and watching a soccer game with some people he works with.  This bar is in our little area more or less and not downtown so I'm sure it will be busy but not insanely so.  The soccer team we are watching is the Seattle Sounders and ask me a question about soccer and I might just stare at you and then shrug but it'll be nice to go out and have a couple of beers and meet some more of Tiemus' people.  I've even planned my outfit.  It's actually supposed to be sunny tomorrow and about 20 degrees (the heatwave wont hit until like Sunday).  Anyhow, I am going to wear my shorts for the first time since I've been here and I'm going to wear my blue t-shirt with a white shirt underneath that you'll probably see out the bottom and I'm going to bring my red knitted sweater and suddenly I am celebrating America's independence!

I now have to make an effort to plan some dinner.  I am running out of ideas already.  Jeeeez.

Love and miss ya! <3


Amanda