the arizona bar crush story pt. 1..

this is a story from last august.. in about 6 weeks i will have the final conclusion.. i'll prob put up a few of my rave stories from the last year and maybe stop being a slacker and write up a couple more.. maybe.. until then, enjoy this one.. (taken from my myspace and only slightl edited..)

i largely credit this event with the rediscovery of joy in my life.. i've been doing well lately, really well actually, but this just set me on fire.. and it's all been going awesomely crazy since then.. names may have been changed or omitted so as not to spill anybody else's business all over a public domain..


so ok, so it's closing week of sweet charity in tempe, az.., and it's pretty well just another week on tour, except i decide to go out a lot cause i hadn't been given my gym ratness and early morning schedule.. anyway, so it's wednesday night and i'm hangin at the hotel bar drinkin' maker's mark as per usual.. well, cailen decides he wants to do a shot of the daily special (which hadn't changed since we'd been there and kinda wonder if ever) which is old smuggler (i think) fine scotch whiskey.. aged 18 months.. i believe, however, that that particular nastiness somehow set off the awesomness to come..

after a bit a few of us bail out to the tiki bar directly across asu campus from our hotel (the twin palms, btw.. ghettoriffic it was..).. cool place.. outdoor bar.. mid-week and school wasn't in yet so very relaxed and chill.. good sittin.. anyway, so courtney.. she was the bartender that night.. very cute.. and as it turned out very interesting to talk to.. she structured interesting word usements in a very banterriffic way.. she stroked my brain real good.. and she was cute.. and i was a little drunk.. so i asked her to prom.. (remember that i'm 32..) she blushed fierce and said yes.. well of course everyone (all who were there were witness to this) has a laugh and it gets downplayed and if i wasn't drunk and stupid (the drunk i can help, the stupid not so much) i would've done something about it right there.. i, of course, didn't.. so we all stumble home and tanya now has some very interesting pictures of amazingly drunk jared getting creative with random objects along the way.. i have yet to see any of these, but if i can get hold of them i promise to share..


thursday.. never could get the hang of thursdays.. rob and deana showed up that afternoon tho which made me immensely happy.. we had dinner, they saw the show, i dragged them to the tiki bar.. one cause it was a cool bar, two cause maybe my new bartender crush would be there.. she wasn't of course, but it was still a lovely night with good friends.. i should mention at this point that i did, in fact, know her schedule.. she was off thursday (i was just hoping she would hang out cause she said she often did) on friday, off saturday, and on sunday thru wednesday.. yes, it's relevant..



so friday is the closing night party.. i had no real intentions of doing anything but heading over after work and getting hammered.. old news.. as it turns out i woke up that morning with a wild hair up my ass to get dressed up.. so i went and had an awesome workout (weird hearing that from me, isn't it??) showered, and called rob and deana cause they were still in town with a car and could help me implement my newly formulated plans..

they take me to an outlet mall where i find a super sweet kenneth cole reaction shirt.. it was maroon and shimmery awesomeness.. needless to say i fell in love and bought it.. i already had some new pantses to go with it (you're gonna laugh but i've really taken a liking to linen pants.. they're fucking comfortable and these were medium-dark brown and went well with the shirt..) so i was set for clothes.. but jared, what about shoes?? dude, it's arizona in august.. teva's thank you (note the important detail).. now it was time to find a some flowers..



yes flowers.. the real reason i got dressed up of course was that i was gonna go to the party for a bit, then head over to the tiki bar and see if the bartender crush wanted to have some dinner or whatever saturday night.. and of course the flowers (which i picked out and arranged and were fucking rad!!) would tie the whole prom thing in and maybe it would work and maybe it wouldn't but who the hell cares cause there's nothing to lose and it's about goddamn time i grew a set.. i mean really, i get into some good trouble but when it comes to girls i puss out a lot.. you all know this..

anyway, so it's friday afternoon, rush hour traffic is happening, and we're trying to find a flower shop and get me to work on time.. –BACKTRACK.. we had just eaten lunch with nova (beautiful.. cool as shit.) at a sushi place called ra.. i guess it's a chain but it was still really good.. would totally go again and i don't do a lot of sushi.. go there.. have the crazy monkey roll.. i did.. of course i did.. and it was gooood..—i'm not sure how it happened, but rob drove us straight to one.. he must've cheated and asked someone somewhere when i wasn't looking.. at any rate we found one, got some sweet flowers (if i knew anything about flowers i would tell you the names, but i don't.. i can tell you the center piece was a sunflower and it was surrounded by blues and purples and some orange and a little more yellow and it was all wildflowery and cool.. many a dancer was envious of my bouquet.. hehe..), and got me back in time to get ready for work and all that but unfortunately not in time for them to miss traffic back to tucson.. thanks again rob and deana for takin one for team head.. go team head!! i love you!! (most of you don't know but head is my nickname in the theatre world and team head just sounds naughtier than team jared.. hehehe..)

so work happened, and i was totally distracted and neurotically excited about the game i was playing.. i can't even tell you how much fun i was having at this point.. so i bounced around like an idiot (of course) and a couple people tuned in to my live action broadcast and there was definitely some more rooting for i.. (ps maia i miss the hell out of you..) ok, i need to go take a break.. good thing for you you don't have to wait.. however, if you need to use the restroom, have a smoke, get a drink or whatever, now is an excellent time..

(ok, this story was too big so i had 2 split it up.. when u hear the chime, plz turn the page.. *chime*)