We are driving up the turnpike to Boston, it’s a good time. Landon and I are hitching a ride with his aunt and cousin, they are awesome, amazing… etc!
We have this Range Rover full to the brim with goodies and foods and… everything.
Gotta go! I will post pics later!
Tags: Amazing, Boston, Fun, Landon, TravelInsane woman in Dupont Circle
Campers waiting for the iPhone
So I’m in DC right now, tonight going to Boston and tomorrow going to New York. Just a little update :)
Tags: New York, Travel, Washington DCThe last several days have been full of ups and downs. So much stress, I think I aged a few years in just these days!
It all started when the Budget moving truck we rented didn’t work out. The office was supposed to close at 6:00 but when we called at 4:45, they had already left the office. We had a $150 deposit on the truck and didn’t want to lose it but if we waited until the next day to pick it up, we would be one day behind schedule.
My dad and I found the last U-Haul in town large enough for my stuff but not too big, it was an additional $200 to the price of the Budget but it was available. So we pick it up and drive to my grandmother’s rental property to pick up a dinning table, side tables and coffee table. Off to my parents house to pick up a couch and chair for my uncle, then to my uncle’s for my couch, my bed, my night stand and to move a dresser to my brother’s new place.
When we got there in the early morning Saturday, we realized that the movers we had in place to move the furniture out of the second floor apartment of my uncle, were not showing. So my dad and I moved it all. Then we went to my brother’s to drop off the dresser and then to my parents new house.
We needed the furniture dolly that my dad loaned my brother… who loaned it out to a friend of his who loaned it out to his cousin. Yikes. So we have this 55″ HDTV that weighs 276lbs to carry now, instead of roll, onto the U-Haul. We load the TV, some granite counter tops, some shelving, boxes of CD’s and DVD’s, my refrigerator, chairs, this that and the other, packed full and then start our drive.
Since we got such a late start with the rental truck fiasco, we were forced to drive from Houston to Columbia with no stops. My dad and I split up the driving, he did the first half, i did the last half. I had driven the last half a dozen or so times and he had driven the first half several times, so that worked out nicely.
We did get a nice stop for dinner but that was pretty much it!
We got to Columbia at around 6:30am and crashed at my old apartment. I couldn’t sleep at that point so I watched some TV and relaxed a bit. Met the movers at my new apartment and helped them unpack it. They did a great job, but charged us for an extra 45 minutes! That was upsetting, and expensive. But everything fit.
We ran to my old apartment, loaded up a bunch of stuff into the U-Haul and drove it to the new place, started unpacking and wrote down things we needed to fix at the new place. The bathroom needed new shower stuff, all the light fixtures needed to be replaced, new ceiling fan, new air conditioner, new power outlets, new kitchen countertop/cabinets… We had a lot of work in store for us.
We worked through fathers’ day until 12:30 AM on monday, and four hours later I was driving my dad to MoExpress to go to the airport.
The next day I worked, unpacked boxes but had an OK day. The DSL was installed and it didn’t work, my gas didn’t work and my car needed to be picked up.
Most of my “friends” wouldn’t lift a finger to help, though I have to give huge thanks to Dave, Brenden, Ryan, Brandon and Nicole. Dave helped almost on accident and then was the hero who drove me to MoExpress today. Brenden SAVED me by driving me around town yesterday and Ryan took charge to help me put my apartment together. Brandon took two car loads of stuff from my old place to my new one, thanks!
See, the day after I picked up my car from the autobody place, where they didn’t actually repair my car as quoted… it broke down. Nicole, a friend from work gave me a ride to work, only two minutes late, and just the day before had driven me to the autobody place to pick up the car from the U-Haul place when I dropped off my truck. She was an absolute gem.
So, the car breaks down, my gas is turned on in the wrong apartment, my DSL is broken, after paying $85 to get it installed, my drains aren’t working, my shower still isn’t fixed, the light in my kitchen shorted out my electrical in my apartment, my computer is running with only 1-2% of available processor (no idea why that as going on), my other apartment was supposed to be moved out by yesterday at 5:00 for my sublease, I fuck up my knee hard core… and it seems everything I touch gets cursed. My computer at work overheats (104 degrees Celsius which is about 40 too high) and our hot water tap catches on fire. But I have a good time at work, really enjoyed it.
This was such a stressful week, everything I tried to do, backfired at me, nothing went smoothly and so many of the people who I have called friends, boyfriends, etc, wouldn’t even attempt at helping me. The help came from people who I am realizing are true friends. I would have done any of these things for any of my friends yet, only a few came through for me. Thanks so much guys, you really saved me. Ryan, Nicole, Dave, Brandon and Brenden, thanks so much.
I made it to my flight and am writing this as we approach Indianapolis. I hope to have a great time visiting Klipsch and hope some wonderful things might come from it. After this it is back to Columbia for a few days, then to Washington DC and New York City. Then back in town for a week and a half and then to California and then Chicago and then finally back to Columbia for good… unless I go to Nashville and South Carolina!
Maybe I can finally get some sleep once this is all over. I love my new apartment, it’s going to be so awesome once I get it totally set up.
Ciao my loves.
Tags: Branden, Brenden, Crap, Dave, Debbie Downer, Honda, Klipsch, Money, Nicole, Ryan, Travel, UghThey have such adorable ways to show you new features to their services. You can tell Steve Jobs sits on the board at Google…
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Tags: Google, Video, YouTubeSo, I first want to shout out to a few friends. DJ, SHOUTOUT. Ryan, SHOUTOUT. Gus, SHOUTOUT.
Ok, I’m done.
I was supposed to hang out with Trina tonight but I get no signal here at my parents new house and thus, missed her call. Well damn!
Mom and Dad are both out of town on business trips so I’m taking care of the pets and watching over the house. It feels great to just kinda hang around and be lazy, even though I wasn’t so lazy today. I had my lasik appointment which went fabulously well followed by lunch with Melissa and Jeanne and then off to Ikea. I found so many fabulous things at Ikea but didn’t buy any, not just yet.
I spent my evening watching TV and chatting online, it was a fun time for sure. Plus I played with Gracie and Charlie. Wooo! I feel like I’m back in high school haha.
I lomo’d that pic above from a pretty boring shot, I think it looks pretty fun.
Tags: Gus, Just My Art, Photography, Photoshop, Ryan, Texas
Tonight was my last night in the Texas Hill Country. I made the most of it. More on that later, perhaps…
Tags: Photography, TexasLet’s get a solid back story here before I continue with the current situation.
I moved back to Columbia and brainstormed with Jim this great idea that we could move in together in this three bedroom apartment off campus with his boyfriend David. I didn’t really know David but he seemed like a nice enough guy, plus he was from Texas so I liked him that much more
Things worked out just fine for a good while. I mean, I had to do most if not all of the cleaning and every once in a while David would drink too much and be a little annoying. Nothing really bothered me too much except that I never got to hang out with Jim.
When I first moved in, I was super busy with work, I had about 40 hours a week over at Starbucks on top of class work. When my eyes got fucked up, again, I had to cut my hours to around 12-20 per week and then further when I got sick from the other stuff.
At one point I was pretty damn sick, I even had to take a cab to the emergency room. This was followed by three surgeries and some annoying preparatory and recovery procedures. Throughout all of this I never asked for a ride or anything special, except one time I did ask Jim if he could bring me to the hospital for my surgery, unfortunately he had class and couldn’t, that’s fine, I understood completely and never asked again.
Right before David moved out to finish his graduate requirements in Houston, he had this big drunken fit. He called me an asshole and many other mean and untrue things. It seemed then that he thought I didn’t want him to be with Jim and that I wanted to be with Jim.
Oh yeah, Jim and I dated years ago, for a few months. It never progressed to anything as serious as Jim’s last two relationships and we had both moved on completely, absolutely completely.
Jim and David moved out completely last… Saturday. Jim had asked if I could get the cable box to Mediacom that Friday or Thursday if he didn’t make it in time. I let him know that I would try but my last two days, Monday and Tuesday, in Columbia were already packed with work during Mediacom’s hours of operation and errands I had to run to get my shit together with my new apartment, work and planning for the rest of the summer. On Tuesday I literally had every hours planned out with appointments, ask Kevin, Geoff, Curtis, Chadd, my family…
Furthermore, I had told Jim that he could take it back whenever he wanted as all of my television watching was now done with my AppleTV. I only watched regular television in my bedroom or otherwise basic cable broadcast, I didn’t use the cable box function, at all.
Tuesday night I got out of work at 12:30am (which is actually Wednesday morning of course) and Geoff was kind enough to pick me up at Columbia Autobody about 10 miles north of town around 1:00am and bring me home. I finished laundry, packed my stuff up and at 4:30 a bus picked me up to bring me to the Saint Louis Airport.
On Monday or perhaps early Tuesday, I told Jim that I might not be able to make it to Mediacom until I got back into town, which would be a Sunday, the 17th, Mediacom opens the next day, Monday. I won’t have my car until the afternoon on Monday and I work in the afternoon Monday so who knows when I will actually be able to pick up my car, probably Tuesday.
David sent me a text message tonight because he was mad that I didn’t make it to Mediacom.
I was immediately floored. No one likes to get messages like that, especially when you feel that you are totally innocent of any wrongdoing. Jim understood that I would try, but just as he had run out of time, I did not have the time. I was stressed out about getting just my stuff done. With a co-worker’s baby on the way, I had been given extra shifts, working as much as 14 hours a day on top of moving to my new place, planning and organizing trips to Austin, Houston, Indianapolis, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Rosa, New York, Washington DC, Nashville and South Carolina. Plus trying to figure out how I would pay for these trips and still afford to finish off my apartment.
Despite what some people think, I’m not rich and I don’t get everything I want from my parents. If I can’t afford something right away, I save up my paychecks and wait until I can. I’m very good at saving the money before products come out so I can get them as they arrive, such as the AppleTV and Airport Extreme and my iPods and such.
I called Jim to apologize if I had upset him and let him know that I would get it returned as soon as I could. I also told him that David had sent me that really mean, unwarranted text message. The phone service out here in the hill country isn’t so great and we got cut off twice, through kind words. He apologized for David which isn’t something he should have done or had to do. Jim had written me earlier saying if I could just get it done when I get back, OK.
Then I got another message from David.
It just never ends. I’m not sure what to do. Micheal told me to just ignore David and not respond to him, save the friendship I have with Jim and forget that David and I had ever had this one sided conversation.
I have never responded to David’s accusations, his quips and whips. I have never voiced my opinions of David to Jim and have never actively done anything to David. He has used my computer to log into his email on Gmail. He has printed from my printer or at least taken ALL of the paper out of my printer four times, the last time being their last day in Columbia. Nothing like pulling an all-nighter to find your printer out of paper right before you have to run to class and turn in your report.
This summer I have been really enjoying work. I have been hanging out with great old friends and making new ones. I have made more new friends this semester than I ever expected; Ryan, Beau, Scott, Chadd, Justin, Nick, Carrie, John, Justin, Justin, Michelle, Jessica2, Scott…
I’m going to be in Washington DC for some eleven days visiting Landon and experiencing the Fourth of July at our Capital. I really hope to hang out with Jim while I’m there and to spend some time exploring the city with Geoff when he arrives later in the week. I am going to have a blast hanging out with Landon and his friends and expect to share those experiences with Jim. We have been great friends through so much for so long. We have helped each other through heartbreak, through depression and through some soul searching. We have shared so many wonderful experiences and have grown up together into completely different people than the ones we were when we first met in 2003.
I love you Jim.I don’t think I’m a loser. I think I’m a really nice guy with a winner personality and lots of wonderful friends like many of you reading my blog right now. I don’t think I would have you as friends if I were a “fucking prick” a “loser” an “asshole”.
Now that that is out of the way, I’m going to get some sleep. I have a busy day ahead of myself.
Tags: Beau, Carrie, Chadd, David, Facebook, Geoffrey, Hate, Jerkface, Jim, John, Justin, Landon, Michelle, Money, Nick, Ryan, Sad, Scott, Ugh, WTF?
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