I have come to terms with the fact that I am a horrible blogger. You may not think so, since I have had this blog running successfully for approaching 5 years now... but it's the little things like me saying I will post "tomorrow" and "tomorrow" turn into "next week". Lol... and that's exactly the case for this post. Last week I said I would post about Asheville the next day... and a week later I'm finally getting to it :)
Ok so here we go... I try and do these things in order that they occured, however that may be a bit tough this time around. We will just have to see how this post goes... shoot I could've been halfway done if I wasn't blabbering off on the keyboard explaining what a horrible blogger I was :P
Tuesday, November 16 - Well I flew down to Asheville on Tuesday. Got there around 3:30pm and as soon as I saw Jared's car pulling up... I heard the familiar scream, "MIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCC"... yes the wonderful Elizabeth Presley was welcoming me in the way she can only do, and she does every single time I fly down :D That's when I know I have officially arrived at my second home. This time Jared was driving, his new beau, Nils, was in the passenger seat and Elizabeth was in the back with me. We go to the house but then Elizabeth and I went to get something to eat at Ianucci's and we left the boys behind so we could catch up. We went back and just had an overall good evening. Rachel and Garrett came over and Rachel cut my hair pretty short, and for the first time I had my eyebrows waxed. OUUCHHH! Haha... but it looked good :)
Wednesday, November 17 - I honestly have no idea what we did this day lol. I could look back on my Twitter and see... but I don't feel like it... and it's not like you really care anyway :P... actually I just went back in time on Facebook and saw that I went to The Grove Park with Jared, Nils, Elizabeth and Anthony. Fun times... we walked around this cool place and we looked at a whole bunch of gingerbread houses. Of course, here are some pics lol.
Thursday, November 18 - Ok I've decided I'm too lazy for this post. Lol... soooooooo I'm not gonna do it day by day anymore... im just gonna give you a run down of the rest of the trip in random order...
- went to a mall in Greenville, SC with Rachel. It was a pleasant hour drive each way and got some amazing chocolate :) - had a party in the basement with just Jared, Eizabeth, Anthony and I. It was random and strange lol. - got really sick the last 2 days there. My nose was a virtual waterfall. Ew. - overall a nice retreat from all the drama that people brought into my life. I love Asheville and can't wait to go back. :)
So... I have finally made time to explain the past 4 weeks or so. I figured that after everything has happened, yet before I fly down to Asheville would be the perfect time to catch you up. I am warning you though, I will probably leave some stuff out and I will make it as short as possible... however this will still be a very large, likely biggest post I have ever posted in the past 4+ years this blog has been in use. Ok let's go in order from beginning to now...
Visit Christie at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA
Friday, October 22- Sunday, October 24
Ok, so after a 3 and something hour drive through the Virginia mountains watching a beautiful sunset in the western horizon, I arrived at James Madison University in the mid evening hours. I get a warm welcome from Ms. White, get my bags settled into her dorm and then we pretty much immediately head off to dinner and start making plans for our evening. We eventually decide to go to a sorority party... boy... what followed next is almost indescribable lol. Let me start with the "Drunk Bus" ride. That is an adventure all on it's own. We were at the bus stop at around 10:30PM and people were already drunk HEADING to the parties. But anyway, people had jukeboxes blasting and I'd say about 100, possibly more, college students were singing "Don't Stop Believin' " in perfect unison. After waiting about 3o mins or so, the first bus came... and let me tell you... I have NEVER seen a human stampede like that one. I literally went into partial shock lol. Thankfully that was not our bus, however ours arrived about 5 mins later. So Christie and I get on the bus, ride about 30 mins and then we finally arrive at our pre-game party at the sorority house. Christie and I had already had a couple shots of Vodka before we arrived... but as soon as we got there... they practically shoved gulps of Vodka down our throats haha. This is where I leave details out and just say... I got very drunk, took some hilarious videos and pics, went to a crazy party down the street where I blacked out for a time, made it back to the house, thought I was gonna die, called my mom and other people and so much more lol. Here are just a few pics from that night...
Christie and I eventually passed out at the sorority house, and we both lived. Now, Saturday comes along... we wake up, I have THE WORST hang over I believe possible... we get a ride back to her dorm and I just crash onto her bed and sleep most of the day away. Let me tell you, I did not know hang overs could be that bad. Whoa! Lol. Anyway, that night we just chilled, stayed in and played on the computer and had some friends over, we did go watch a soccer game... that was fun. All in all a much more chill night lol. Sunday was very easy going. I slept in a bit, said good bye to Christie and started my next journey... to Buckhannon, WV to visit Courtney.
Visit Courtney at W. Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV
Sunday, October 24 - Thursday, October 28
Life changing? Maybe, not quite. What do I mean? Well let's rewind to the very beginning of the West Virginia trip. To get there, I had to drive 3 1/2 hours on a two lane state and county road through steep mountains, hours without cell phone reception. It was an interesting drive for sure. Isolated and feeling alone most of the time, however it was a beautiful drive and a good experience, however one that only needs to happen once lol. Anyway I get to Buckhannon, and pull into the college. One of the very first things I do once I get settled into Courtney's dorm is take a shower. Lol. Then she takes me on a tour of Buckhannon......we eat at CJ Maggies with some of her "friends" and then go back to her dorm and we play some Family Feud with Jessica, Matt and Tim... I think that's it. I don't remember, cuz honestly that night is the only non drama filled one lol. But it was a fun night :P
The innocence and uncomplicated memories of night number 1 are but a distant memory. Now, as far as Monday - Thursday go... I will tread these waters carefully. And I am opting to leave some, if not most details out. In doing so, it will eliminate a lot of drama and information and thus will make this post much smaller than it would've been. However, I will do the best I can, breaking things down by day.
Monday- During the day, everything was fine. Not much happened. At night however, LLLOONNNNGGG story short, we had another Family Feud night and this time a guy named Todd and his then boyfriend were invited to come over and play. Nor Courtney or I knew Todd or his boyfriend, but somehow they got invited via Facebook. Now, Todd chose to come over and his boyfriend chose not to. We had a good night and Todd left and that was that. Todd and Courtney seemed to have hit it off pretty good Monday night. Then as Courtney and I were getting ready for bed... Todd contacted us and said he and his boyfriend had a fight and he needed somewhere to stay... and THIS is where details are left out. Todd, myself and Courtney were up until 7AM talking, laughing and watching TV. Good times.
Tuesday- Well after about 2 hours of sleep, we all got up and about. It was an ok day. Not too too much to say. You know, with me having to leave most things out. But I will tell you Todd had to stay the night again. And that started some drama Tuesday night.
Wednesday- This, arguably, may be the most drama filled day of my life. And if not, it's certainly top 3. It ended with a physical exchange between Todd and his ex, Courtney forcing the ex out. And a ton of drama that followed. Peaking at a point I could not stand any longer. I chose to remove myself from the situation and packed my things... however I couldn't leave Todd there alone or make him stay with Courtney and put her well being at risk by "harboring" him. So I invited Todd along with me to go to a hotel in a neighboring city. And that's what we did. Unannounced we packed our things, he from his dorm he shared with his ex, and I, my things from Courtney's dorm... and we left. I then called Courtney and informed her of things while she was talkig to the "mad mob" down the hall. I get to my car and found this lovely note on the windshield......isn't that mature!? Gotta love how some people are raised or choose to act. Now, I am SO SO SO tempted to name names, go on a rant and callout these lower-than-scum-pieces of trash... but I won't. I'm bigger than that. Anyway Todd and I get to the hotel and actually had a decent evening and overnight sans the drama. Anyway here is a pic of Todd sleeping in the covers lol. Now let's move to Thursday.
Thursday- Wake up. Drop Todd back off at college. Say a very VERY quick goodbye to Courtney. And then I returned home with a much more elaborate and detailed story for my family. What a trip.
Halloween Party at Paige Hill's House
Friday, October 29
To start off, this years party, for me at least, was not as enjoyable as last years. But SOOOO much was different this year from last in my life. Last year I was happily in a relationship, had a ton of friends, the confidence of a pro wrestler and everything was looking up. This year, you can pretty much just reverse all of those things lol. I'm single, although for now at least that's probably best. My friends have all either moved away, are busy, or I have discovered are secretly selfish backstabbers. Because of my last relationship my self esteem and confidence went through the floor... thankfully I'm making a comeback from that, slowly but surely. And as far as the future, it looks ok. I am trying my best to shape it to be a positive one... but really only time will tell. But I definitely see how it will be more of a positive than a negative one :) Now, back to the party that I somehow got sidetracked from lol. It was ok... not as many people there that I knew last time. I mean it was a good time... but I don't know... I guess mentally I just wasn't there. At least I had a GREAT story to tell everyone from the previous weeks events! Haha! After the party, I picked up Kristianna and we sat in the McDonald's parking lot and just talked for hours. It was nice.
Give Mom a Tour of DC
Monday, November 1 - Tuesday, November 2
So you may be surprised to learn that even though my mom has lived 40 mins from DC pretty much all of her life... she had never really seen the city. So we decided to do an overnight trip to DC and I would show her the city. Of course we stayed at my beloved Hilton Garden Inn Downtown :) SOOOO many memories have happened there. Later that night we went to this French restaurant I have walked by countless times before and wondered how the food was. I believe it is called Bistro Bistro. It was ok. I tried mozzarella cheese made from buffalo milk. Ew. Anyway I gave her a tour and on Tuesday we got haircuts from the fantastic stylest Jonathan at PR and Partners. Who just happens to be a great friend of mine :) And of course Aris works there too so I got to see him too :D All in all it was a good trip :)
Phil Visits
Wednesday, November 3 - Monday, November 8
Yayyyyy :D As you know, or possibly you don't but you should, Phil is one of my closest and longest known friends I have. As you recall, he came down last year to visit me while I was with Nic. Well he came back down this month :D I mentioned that in previous posts, but there was one small change. We had to stay at a hotel. I just wasn't ready to spring having people spend the night on my dad quite yet... in time though. Anyway we really only did one thing really worth mentioning while he was here... and that was we went to TOWN Friday night. I had SO much fun! I don't think I've ever had that much fun at the club before... I usually hate the club, but not this time. It was awesome :D Anyway, honestly there isn't much to say about Phils visit. We hung out with Elle, went to my dads, hung out with Kristianna and pretty much that's it. I was sad when I had to take him back to the airport on Monday... but all good things must come to an end.
Impromptu Visit To West Virginia... Again
Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14
So you may think I am crazy... but I went back. I wanted to spend some time with Todd. So I went back, unannounced except to him. You would think I learned my lesson from my previous visit. But I did not. I will not mention much of the trip except I did enjoy myself. It was pretty fun and relaxing. However, one night, the same scum that messed with me last time, searched for my car and egged it one evening. We called the cops and had them taken care of. People are so stupid sometimes. In the end I had fun and laugh in the pitiful faces of such insecure people.
Well that's that! My whirlwind month of excitement and adventure. And it continues tomorrow when I fly to Asheville and visit my friends and family down there. I am so excited! And you bet I will be posting about THAT in the days to come. :)
So I just got back from a 4 day trip to West Virginia Wesleyan College... again... and more drama happened! I will explain everything as in the coming days. I know I haven't been doing very well at updating... but a lot is going on! Maybe I will tomorrow... or maybe I will at the airport Tuesday or possibly while I'm in Asheville.
So as eluded to in the previous post, I have been busy. Very busy. This is why I haven't posted much. What you have been missing for the past 2 weeks range from drunken nights in Virginia, to drama filled romantical happenings in West Virginia, to running from a friends scorned ex in the the same state. How about a new hair style and giving my mom a tour of DC? Phil comes down tomorrow, and so much more. Yup a lot has happened and it will probably have to wait until next week for me to explain. Excited!?
Alright so I have eluded to this for a while now and I can finally say that the plans are all falling into place enough for me to announce them. Are you ready? Ok.
This weekend I will be going to the mountains of Virginia to visit Christie at college and have a good time. Then I plan on going from there to Courtney's college in West Virginia the beginning of next week. And then head home the middle of next week. Then at the end of the month I plan on going to Paige Hill's Halloween costume party for the second year in a row. Last year was a blast :) Then November 3 Phil is coming down from New York! I'm so excited! I can't wait to see my friend again after a year :D He's staying with my dad and I... my dad just doesn't know this yet haha... I hope he understands! Anyway Phil stays here for about 5 days then I take him back to the airport. Then a week later I will be making my own way to the airport to fly down to Asheville, NC to visit Jared and Elizabeth and my whole North Carolina family :) I CANT WAIT! Then I fly home just in time to have Thanksgiving with my dad and the family.
Now as far as December goes, I'm having a battle with myself about that one. I'm not sure if I want to start working or if I want it to be busy like October and November... or maybe even chill? That my friends, is to be determined.
So there you have it! BUSY BUSY BUSY! In this relatively emotionally difficult and confusing time for me after a recent break up, I need to be busy and distracted, and I sure as heck plan on being just that... BUSY and DISTRACTED :)
So its 4am and I'm still up. Why? Because I have no job lol. AND because I'm excited and using my BRAND NEW MACBOOK PRO! I bought it earlier and am loving every minute of it. I can take my entire life on the road with me now! Whether it's down the street or across the globe :) I'm so excited! But I should probably get some sleep now lol. Oh and by the way... that announcement I eluded to a few days ago will be announced tomorrow :)
So many big things are about to happen. I assure you they will be worth blogging about too. More to come. I'm working out the details now. The end of fall 2010 and all of winter 2010 are looking to be amazing. :)
No my post title has no meaning... it was just the first thing to pop into my mind lol. Anyway let's see... what has been happening the past week or so? Hmmm. Well David and I went to DC and did some fun things there. We rode the metro a lot. We went to this place called "Corner Bakery" and OMG IT WAS SO DELICIOUS! Then we went to the Pentagon. A place called Pentagon City which has a HUGE 4-5 level mall and its own metro stop. I got in a little tiff with a ghetto girl who hit me with her stroller and then yelled at me. Then we went to DuPont and walked around. It was nice. Also later in the week we saw "The Social Network". Nothing else really has happened. Haha lame I know. Oh and also as seen in the previous post, Jolene graduated doggy school.
After 8 weeks of vigorous training, Jolene has graduated doggy school :) She can now sit, lay down, come, leave it and watch me. All good, fundamental tricks a dog needs to know. CONGRATS JOLENE!
So lately ... as in all of my adult life, I have always spent way too much money on eating out. And now that I'm approaching 5 months of unemployment, you'd think that with no income, I would've found a way to curb... or even completely halt my spending on culinary tastiness... well you'd be wrong. Being unemployeed gives you nothing but time. And to fill that time, I have eaten... and eaten and eaten. Olive Garden, Friendly's, Chili's, T.G.I. Fridays... and so many more places I lose track. So why am I talking about this? Well... I have no clear reason or goal from it. Just felt like talking about it. I love food and I love eating out. Lol.
Well, like I said in the previous post, David and I went to Dutch Country (Lancaster County, PA) this weekend. And it was a nice, relaxing getaway. From doing "modern" things such as bowling and going to the golf range to the more "Amish" things like walking thru little towns, buying Amish made foods and watching horse drawn carriages drive on by, it was a beautiful vacation. And driving around for hours thru the rolling hills seeing all the Amish homes, villages and farms was absolutely breath taking. I have posted some pics below for your viewing pleasure :)
Bowling at the 24 hour 52 lane bowling alley
Golfing range...
...I sucked, but loved getting some frustrations out on the balls.
Beautiful scenery...
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Small town charm
I have no idea what they were doing.
I ate an ice cream here... it got ALLL over my hands.
David and I are going to Lancaster County, PA today and staying the weekend and I'm so excited! I haven't been this excited about something in a long time. I plan on blogging from up there and tweeting plenty of tweets and pics. So make sure to FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER! Click here to follow me now... even when I'm lacking blog updates... I tweet daily. I will be back soon to post about what's happening up in Amish Country later tonight or tomorrow!
Alright... so I am going to try and do this respectfully and honestly without going too far or pushing any buttons that don't need to be pushed. Ok so here we go... Lately you have probably noticed I've been down. Lack of posts and unhappy posts when I did blog. Well... what's up with that? It's not a secret that David and I have had our issues... some major. However we are working on them. And doing so as responsibly as possible. As for me personally, it's hard for me to give up on a relationship. I will admit, there isn't much "glue" left holding us and the relationship together anymore... but it's still there and there is always the ability for more "glue" to be added and strengthen the relationship. I care for and love David very much. We are approaching 6 months together and I hope we spend many more months, hopefully happier months, together. However I am also aware of the possibility that it won't work out. I hope it does though. Either way... I am making paths in my life that will hopefully guarantee my happiness no matter what. Of course being with someone and sharing my life with them is the ultimate happiness and I can only hope it continues like it is now.
The last month has been probably one of the worst in my life. I haven't updated just for that fact. However I will a bit later, when I gather myself more and am ready to talk.
So on Saturday, August 14, David and I went to Dc just to hang out for the day. We had nothing better to do. So we rode the metro into DC and then we walked around for a bit. We went the the Smithsonian where I saw so many awesome things. Yes, even tho I have lived here all my life, I have NEVER been to the Smithsonian! And then we went to DuPont Cirlce and walked around there as well. It was a nice chill day.
And as far as the rest of the week up until now goes, I hung out with Courtney and Kris a lot... Court and I saw "Twilight: Eclipse" and "Vampires Suck" yesterday. Courtney leaves tomorrow for college. So this was like a goodbye. Anyway, who knows what this weekend has in store.
So its a bit past 1am and I'm about to head to bed, but I wanted to briefly touch on what fun I had earlier today. At around 3pm I picked Kristianna up and we headed to my dads house. There she got to meet my dad and Mrs. Jessie, and grandparents. We all met there and then headed to Rips in Bowie at around 4pm. We had a nice dinner there. During dinner my dad got a phone call from one of his friends saying they weren't gonna make it to the Baysox game to which we were going after dinner. So that freed up 2 tickets so I let David know and he said he'd come. So we get to the stadium and its all Navy people. All midshipmen and everything. It was awesome :-) Anyway we get there around 6pm and David got there around 7pm. We had a BLAST. It was so much fun. The Baysox lost, but its ok. We had a great time. Then there were fireworks after the game and it filled the stadium up with thick smoke. That was entertaining lol. Oh and during the game, we had a very successful wave going, thanks to all the coordinated midshipmen. At the end of the night, around 10pm we headed back to my dads house where we played some pool and then left around 1130pm. It was a great night and I'm glad my friends were there to enjoy it with me :-)
So last week was ok. On Monday I spent some time with Kristianna and Travis. And then Tuesday I went over Davids... and what was supposed to be a few hours of me showing him and his mom how to use their new Android phones, turned into me staying almost a full week until Sunday. On Saturday he and I went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. We got there at 3pm and couldn't even get in until 6pm. It was fun though. We walked around the Inner Harbor a few time and then sat around in the shade. Very nice. Great weather Below is a pic of me in the grass... amusing I know lol.
And finally on Sunday I left David's and went to Scott and Jackie's 18th birthday/ graduation party. That was a lot of fun. We played about 3 hours of baseball and a few other unnamed games. It was a blast :D Who knows what this upcoming week is in store.
The last couple weeks or so have been completely insane. As you can tell by my previous post, I have been and petty much still am an emotional wreck, or rather I guess the best way to put it is emotionally down. I'm not really a wreck at this point. I will explain further in a bit, but first, let me update you on everything else that has been happening.
I will start off with Jolene. Who you ask? My new dog... sorta. See David's family had a dog and long story short, now she lives with my family and I. She's so much fun lol. She's so hyper and loving. She gets along great with all of our other animals... except the cats... she's terrified of them lol. It's hilarious. Oh and she needs to sleep UNDER the covers on my bed RIGHT against my body.
Ok now let's jump to going to the club. Boy, that's a LONG story in itself. But let's make it short shall we? Ok. I went to TOWN with Ashley Smith (her first time at a club) and we had a blast. We met up with Molly, Nic, Mat, Christie and Matt Cash there and other friends I know through the "scene"...ew... lol. We had a blast and it was a good night out. Below is a blurry pic of Christie and Matt on the table in the middle of the floor dancing.
Moving on to... MY DAD! I've been spending quite a bit of time with him. Last week we went to Hong Kong with Mrs. Jessie and Brett and Craig, just like old times. And now he has completely made another level to the house and upstairs is a game room where he and I shoot pool all the time. It's been fun. So that's a continuing of that story.
CRAZY STORM! Yeah can you guess what this section is devoted to? Haha. Two Sundays ago, I was over Davids, and we had a CRAZZZZYYY storm! Definitely the strongest winds I've been through before. It blew trees completely out of the ground and knocked out power for days. Driving around PG county without any traffic lights is HORRIBLE! Below are some pictures after the storm...
Finally, last night Kristianna and I went to Travis Dragan's house and hung out there until about 1:30am. We had a blast pretty much doing nothing at all. But somehow, it was so much fun. And then when Kris and I were driving home from Pasadena at 2am, we had the top down and we were blasting Whitney and Mariah... epic <3. Anyway here is a pic of Travis trying to be all gangsta haha. Gotta love it :D
Ok, so FINALLY we come to what's been so bad in my life. I am going to try and make this as generic and respectful as possible. David and I have admittedly had some issues lately and we went through a period where we were broken up. However we decided to try it one more time and again, recently it has fallen apart. I care for and love him very much and it's hard right now. I have treasured every moment with him and I hope with all my being that we can stay friends. If not, I definitely have no hard feelings for him or our past. He means the world to me.
Life is throwing me a lot of curve balls right now... and I'm having a hard time dealing with it. That's why I'm not really updating or saying much recently...I've just been keeping to myself. When I have more to say, I will. I'm just trying to deal at the moment, that's all.
So yesterday was a party for my grandfather and dad's birthday. Everyone was there, and I got to see my dad and everyone else again. We played baseball and swam and some other fun stuff. It was great seeing my cousins again and everyone. Definitely cool.
I've watched this video countless times in the past couple of weeks and decided it should be posted on here for all of you... even though you've probably already seen this video out in the wild.
When I turned 22, I said that I thought this would be a big year for me... and already that's proving to be true. I think the biggest, by far, event is me being back in touch with my dad and his side of the family. I'm talking to about half the family right now, including my dad. I've seen Aunt Marianne and Uncle Kurt in person and I will meet up with my dad in the next couple of weeks. I would post more about this, but really there is nothing more to say other than I plan to stay in touch with them.
Other news would include the fact that I went to OC with my mom, David and Kristianna on Wednesday to go to court for the ticket I got when I drove David and I down. Well when I showed up at court, the officer never showed, so the whole thing got thrown out :) We stayed Thursday as well and left Friday. It was a nice trip.
I'm also still looking for a job and am having an internal battle with what I want exactly. I mean, I want a career... but I don't know what I'm willing to do/give up for it... so that's on going.
I went to Six Flags with Kristianna and that was fun. Not much else to say there.
On the Fourth of July, David bought a whole bunch of fireworks and we had a blast (kiterakky)letting them off in his yard... it was awesome :)
And finally... THE HEAT!!! The past couple of weeks, low 90s are considered cool! We have hit 100* several times in June and July. And one day Baltimore hit 105*, Frederick hit 107* and DC hit 103*. The heat has been insane and of course record breaking.
