The Entertainer, life of the party

Ive come across some of the lies Nick tells about me.

Ill never forget, in Australia, travelling with Nick & Aidan. Aidans girlfriend, Lucy, was to meet us for a couple weeks there and they told me a little bit about her. She was black and rather on the large size.

I didnt find this a big deal but thought they were just giving me the heads up on her.

Lucy showed up. Not black and quite slim. I laughed and told her that I expected her to be black and fat. She replied with, 'I thought you were in a wheelchair.' I think that was our first lesson learned from our boyfriends. Basically, not to believe a word they say.

This has happened a few other times when I meet some of Nicks friends and they say to me, 'so you and Nick met on the internet?' or 'huh, I expected you to have dreadlocks and long hippy skirts, that’s how Nick described you.'

I am no longer shocked at the lies Nick tells. In fact, I have learned, from the beginning that they are actually quite funny.

Another friend thought my parents lived off the land in a commune in northern Canada and that we were miles away from any civilization. While some Canadians might, I do not.

Nick brings a little humour into my life and I probably have never laughed at someone so much since Jesse. She always told me that if I were a man, shed marry me. I always thought the same about her. As it happens, although I havent got the proper chance to know Ray very well, she claim he is similar to me. As Nick is to Jesse.

He is the type of guy who, on an innocent shopping trip, will try on a top in the aisle and manically dance around to it, bewildered by all standing around, and of course leaving me in tears of laughter.

Never mind the endless jokes. Its not the punchline, he says, its the delivery. And then he makes me tell my windy, thirsty joke. Only because this is the first and last joke I ever told him. I think he likes to see me clam up.

I always wanted a partner that could make me laugh (like Jesse).

Sometimes Nick (and Jesse) would be a bit bewildered by the things I did find funny. I do actually find a lot of things funny. I must admit, Im a bit of an easy crowd.

For the day I stop laughing could be the day he might stop entertaining.

PS Update!! Were STILL not in our house. 4 1/2 mths LATER!!! Its been pushed again by either tomorrow or this Friday. Im not getting my hopes up.


The windy, thirsty joke:

3 old men, hard of hearing, were walking one day.
1st man says, 'Windy, aint it?'
2nd man replies, 'no, I think its thursday,'
3 man says, 'so am I, lets have a coke.'

...Ahem