With friends like these...

I was going through photos the other day and I found some oldies but goodies. I'll be sharing them whenever the spirit moves me. But today - after a very crazy, busy and hectic day my best friend Dbud called me up at work and wanted to have an impromptu beer/dinner whatever. I said - "hell yeah" and we went to Health Bar - had a beer, yes just ONE beer, some food and then headed back to my place to shoot the shit. What was meant to be a lil quick beer/dinner turned out to be a full evening of just doing what we do best - hanging out, talking about life, drinking some beers, making poop and fart jokes and generally enjoying the memories and memories yet to be made of our friendship. In short - whenever we hang out - we do just that... no agenda, no rules - we just really do whatever. It's not a new thing - we've been doing it for years.

Dbud and I are like peas in a pod - albeit a very unique pod unlike most other out there. My whole life I've known I was different & while I've always had lots of friends and been semi-popular in high school terms I always felt like a bit of an outcast. Nobody ever seemed to "get" me - until I met Dbud. We seemed to just be friends from the first time we met (same goes with his partner Mr. M - the dynamic is slightly different, though equally as beautiful & special though with markedly fewer poop and fart jokes - I daresay if any - but we have our own set of special thing - I blogged about some of these after our trip to Amsterdam together. All in all - I am a doubly lucky sonofabitch - if not triply lucky! I have 2 best friends and a third best friend in the combination of the two of them - how lucky can a boy be?)

I daresay this was one of the better Mondays I have had in a long time. I'm very lucky - I count my blessings daily and my best friends Dbud & Mr. M are definitely the incumbents. Not only are they my family, who care for me & look out for me like my brothers but my true friends who seem to be content to just hang out (and graciously put up) with me, just for me. We've gone through some sad times, some glad times, some mundane and some extrordinary - but we've always been there for each other. Today was no different - nothing needed to be discussed, there was no crisis, decisions to make or any pressing reason for hanging out - other than to just be together on a Monday night. Laughter, nostalgia and dreams for the future (we must win powerball!) were the order of the night. And I dare say there is nothing more I could ask for than to share our lives - just for sharing's sake (and throw in a couple of poop jokes for fun).

I'm nothing short of the luckiest man in the world. I have the type of friends people think only exist on TV or in movies. I have a boyfriend I'm crazy about and a family (both gay and my blood family) that loves me, plus health, good job, sanity and after many years a true sense of self. For that I am truly grateful and I should drop to me knees and be thankful - I'm lucky, no maybe not, I guess I'm really blessed - and all it takes is an uneventful night with your best friend and partner-in-crime to realize that - lucky me :-)