Bah Humbug

I am not in the Christmas spirit this year. At all. I just can't seem to get there. And it is beginning to piss me off. I want to enjoy this season - it has always been my favorite time of year. I went to my office Christmas party on Friday, and I just did not enjoy myself at all. I tried my damnedest. It seemed like everyone who was having a good time annoyed the hell out of me.

So I have a crush (shock and surprise!!). Mystery guy has perked my interest quite a bit. He is just so, for lack of a better word, mysterious. I want to know his story. I want to find out what has made him who he is today. But I can't seem to get in. When we talk, which isn't enough in my book, he seems to get pleasure in trashing the Yankees (a big no-no.) I think he does this because he knows it bothers me. I talked to Loco about him recently and we have a theory. I'm calling it the "Hair Pulling" theory. When we were young, when a boy liked a girl, he pulled their hair because they don't know how to express how they feel. Loco and I firmly believe that this is what he is doing. But I can't be sure. Mystery guy was part of the reason I wasn't having a great time at my company Christmas party. (Yes Mystery Guy works with me.) We would run into each other every now and then, say hello, and then go our separate ways. Towards the end of the night, I noticed that he was deep in conversation with a girl who doesn't work with us, that I know did not come with him. I think she came with another girl that we work with. It just got under my skin. I wanted to be the one having a conversation with him, but it never seems to happen in any social situation I'm in. Arrgghhh!!

Then to top it all off, as I was leaving Loco sent me a text message telling me that she saw McMan at the bar and he had the CD's he has been promising me for weeks. So since I was leaving anyway and the bar is right by my house, I took a quick detour. When I got there, I found Loco and Ken Doll first, then went to grab a beer and say hello to McMan. First words out of his mouth - "They are transferring me." WTF??? First they move Bartender, and now McMan? This is ridiculous. I was upset about it. The only good thing is that he is being moved to a bar that isn't too far away. He isn't too happy about it either. And of course, he didn't have the CD's with him. He swore that he would bring them in on Saturday since he was working from noon to midnight.

So Saturday I walk into the bar at about 10 pm. All I want to do is get the CDs and get out of there. I have not been feeling well and I still had a few more errands to run. So I walk in and say hello. McMan grabs a beer for me, I said "Don't I'm not drinking tonight" He responded that one beer is not drinking. No big deal, I drink my beer and then I said I have to go, so he gave me the CDs. As I was leaving my friend Caroline came over to give me a hug and wish me happy holidays. There was this guy who was walking around the bar, he says to me "I want a hug!" I'm like "Seriously?" So I gave huim a hug. Then he asked me to stay and have a beer with him. I said okay since he seemed nice enough and he wasn't bad looking. Turns out Bumbles (I did not give him that nickname his friends did) had been at the bar since about 11 am and was pretty drunk by the time he started talking to me. I was basically humoring him, which is always the best thing to do if they are drunk. Well when I found out that he had been at the bar since 11, I said thank you very much for the beer and I took off. I was not sticking around.

Well on Sunday I went back to the bar to give McMan his CD's back since Sunday could have been his last day at the bar. I had baked cookies that morning so I decided to give him some. So I give him all this stuff, including a new CD for him and a copy of one of the ones he lent me since it doesn't belong to him. Once he sees everything I brought he said that I rock. My response was "Took you long enough to figure that out." Then he asked if I wanted a beer, I said no since I had a lot of errands to run. He told me to come back and see him on Monday. So tonight after work, I think I will have to watch some MNF at the bar and have dinner. Damn it, it makes me really sad that he has to transfer to another bar. Management sucks. As I told McMan as I walked out on Sunday, "This is the worst Christmas gift EVER."