make more friends

I’m seeing a great guy right now so I feel that my life is slightly at balance. I’ve been a little bit more reclusive, but I’m still performing in shows so I still get to hang out with my friends.

One of my friends is moving out of Oshkosh, but she really needs to get her stuff together and her life is so unbalanced, so it’s okay. I’m just waiting for the day that I get to move out too.

Going to the Mr. Shelter Club pageant in Green Bay was so much fun. I learned so much about being a Mr. performer, which includes TRAVELING. I also met some of the hotties that make up the Gay Mr. Wisconsin pageants and they were fun. I didn’t hang out with them as much because I went with my friend/drag mom John and I had fun hanging out with him, going out to dinner and then watching the drag show in Green Bay.

It’s just going to be hard when I start planning to move out of the state. I like Wisconsin but I want to move westward and to a larger company for the sake of my career. I’m planning to start looking in the next few weeks and, who knows, if the right paper shows up with the right position, my life will have to change again really fast.

Well, “Jet” has an unexpected new performance. I will be running for Mr. Fox Valley. It’s fun, but it is also stressful at times. On the bright side, my friends at the bar will be there to cheer me on as I go through a trial run of what it will be like to run for Mr. Club 1226 and grow as a performer.

Oh, and I did buy my tickets to Avenue Q and we’re going to Milwaukee on March 1. Also, my trip to Illinois is drawing closer. I plan to visit two friends in Illinois – Diane, my mentee, and Jaclyn, my friend from Sacramento. Soo excited abecause the trip is in TWO WEEKS AND COUNTING!

Meanwhile, I’m okay with being reclusive for the rest of the week. I’ve got work to do and a performance to get ready for and much, much working out needed. Okay, here I go to start the next week of work. One. Two. Three.

Well, Jet (my alter ego) performed at Club 1226 for New Year’s Eve and I/he had a real blast. We talked and bonded with the other bar peoples and I also bonded with my fellow performers. This is going to be my last performance until February, but I’m going to keep working on it because I want to do my best for the Mr. Club 1226 title.

My new challenge is finding that I am a little bit reclusive. Take today, for example, I have two days off which would be a good opportunity to go socialize. Instead, on New Year’s Day, I clean, cook, and stayed at home. On one hand, I’m working on being more independent and not depending on other people’s company for a social life. On the other hand, it’s quite a challenge.

But I do have a few social things coming up. I’m planning to buy tickets to go see Avenue Q with John (drag queen Patricia) since we both loove the musical. I’m also looking forward to my road trip to Peoria, Ill. to bond with my mentee and perhaps one of my friends from Sacramento who is living close to Chicago.

But for now, I have a solo date with a doctor’s appointment for a dance injury and a trip to the Milwaukee Public Museum…hopefully I will be able to avoid traffic today.

So far, I’m still making a few more friends by performing at the gay bar. One of the guys even made me tearaway pants for my next performance and last night, I had tea with the neighbors which was much fun and we played board games. Ah, how I miss having a social life.

Lately, it’s just been about balancing me-time and friend-time. I find more excuses to go to the bar now, not for alcohol, but to rehearse for my next performances and people are getting to know me better that way.