Monday, December 21, 2009

San Antonio Zoo - Day 5

Today we decided to go to the zoo. But before we did that, my legally blind aunt and grandpa with memory failure decided to go to the bank and do stuff. Needless to say, it took them over an hour to complete a somewhat simple task but apparently it wasn't their fault. We had to wait on them before we could go...

The zoo was actually pretty fun. My cousins can be quite the handful. There are twin girls less than 6 months old, two boys aged two, one aged three, and one aged 10. Before you think my uncle and his wife are crazy, all children under age 5 are adopted. My 14 year old cousin and Andrew didn't come (and neither did grandpa) because they were out running. The only thing the little boys wanted to do was ride the train. They walked around the whole zoo looking for the train. They didn't really care about the animals but they did seem to enjoy feeding the fish. Zach (the three year old) was a menace running around in every direction. The other two were apathetic about the whole ordeal saying, "Choo choo?" every five minutes. The boys all seem to be fond of me. They are all just so cute though. :)

When we finally got on the train, they were all incredibly excited. It was even a blue, number 1 train (like Thomas). As soon as the train started moving though they went ballistic. Tyler started screaming, Zach wouldn't sit still, and Kaden was afraid of monsters. The ride was dreadfully boring. We got a little history of San Antonio and saw some golfing places... Of course, when we got off, they all wanted to get back on. It was a pretty exhausting day. We were at the zoo for about 3 hours. Tomorrow I think we're going back to the River Walk with everyone so that's another nightmare waiting to happen.

*side note* I have been dragged to Wal-Mart literally everyday since we got here. I'm pretty sick of it... The internet here is also really awful. :( I kind of can't wait to return to Georgia (definitely for more reasons than stated :] ).

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ramblings - Day 4

I was tricked into going to the building this morning. The conversation went like this:
Me: What are we going to do there?
Aunt: Eat at the bistro.
Me: *thinking* Damnit. She didn't answer the question but she got straight to the point...
So basically, it was either go and eat or don't go and don't eat. It wasn't a dreadful experience. I had to walk around and take pictures of the building inside and out from every angle imaginable. We couldn't have been there for more than 30 minutes. And, after I got my food as promised.

The rest of the day we just lazed around. I really get no consideration or respect for having to sleep on a couch in the livingroom. In fact, I think I get quite the opposite. When one person is up, they go to the livingroom to do nothing or talk to other people who are up. It really doesn't matter if I'm blatantly lying there on the couch with my eyes closed clearly sleeping. My grandpa is the worst. He will wake up at 2:30am (probably an hour after I've gone to bed) and just turn the light on in his room with the door open so it shines into the livingroom. Doesn't matter. It. Does. Not. Matter. Hopefully tomorrow I'll actually get to stay at Andrew's place but the way things are going it doesn't seem so. My uncle, his wife, and his family are apparently staying with Andrew starting Christmas and since there are 9 of them I can't see there being much room... Only 7 more days of potential suffering.

I got to pet the donkey! And then I pet the horse! And then I punched the horse in the face and rode it around the pasture. Just kidding. I didn't ride it around.

All 15 of us went to dinner together at The Alamo Cafe. It was probably the first time I hadn't played video games in the car. The ride is very boring. I think I'll stick to video games. We got there and I've yet to see as many gays in one place. It was ridiculous. It must be where they go to hang out. My cousins are so adorable! (well, the ones that are under age 5) While we were there we decided to all go to San Antonio Zoo tomorrow. I think that will be a lot of fun. Hopefully. None of these paragraphs flow very well. It's not like anyone reads them anyways :)

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Something to Do - Day 3

Well, I didn’t go hunting. Who is surprised? Not meeeee. I thought going hunting would involve me, my grandfather and some older guy named Andrew. Turns out Andrew is my 26 (?) year old uncle that I’ve met before but don’t really remember. *side note* He’s quite attractive. So if any single ladies want to marry into my family… Anyways, it was very cold this morning and I was incredibly tired so I’m kind of glad I didn’t go. At about 9am everyone congregated in the livingroom aka my bedroom. And it’s not like I was trying to sleep or anything. I was forced to get up and converse with my family. Chatting with my mom or aunt doesn’t really involve me talking at all. Both of them know everything about me so they answer for me. But enough about them.

There are animals right outside of where I’m staying: two large horse-dogs, an actual horse, a donkey, and some cows. I want to pet the horse really bad but it won’t come to me! I swear we’re going to fight. Every time I go out there and call for the animals they just look. That’s all.

We (me, mom, aunt, Andrew) went to Wal-Mart today for something to do. We’re staying in Jourdanton so we had to drive 3 miles down the road to the thriving metropolis of Pleasanton for Wal-Mart. It was fun I guess. My mom and aunt kind of separated from me and Andrew so I had a chance to talk to him. We made the Wal-Mart lap three times before we met back up with my mom. (I didn’t see a single black person. Welcome to Texas) Andrew’s a pretty cool guy. It turns out we are having Christmas at his place. He wants to make his place more Christmassy; I’ll probably end up helping him with that. And starting tomorrow I’ll be staying with him because it’s closer to everything we want to do while we’re here.

This evening we went to the San Antonio River Walk. I have fallen in love with San Antonio, plain and simple. There were so many people! The river was very beautiful (ok… the water was actually quite ugly) and all of the trees had lots of colored lights on them. It just seems like there is always something to do. If I can’t live in NYC then I’m convinced San Antonio will be a close second. I’m not really sure what is in store for tomorrow. My mom and aunt have to go look at a building that they are going to receive/purchase/something maybe for free that they want to turn into a restaurant/bar/something. Doubt I will be attending but we shall see.

The Grueling Drive – Day 2

6:20am – Leave Valdosta
6:36am – Florida: breakfast, time change
10:38am – Alabama
11:30am – Mississippi
12:29pm – Louisiana: lunch, I start driving
4:30pm Texas: standstill traffic
9:30pm – Arrive San Antonio
9:32pm – I’m ready to go

It was a miserable 16 hours and I had to drive for over half of it. I hate driving! I don’t have internet yet but it should be coming soon. This blog will be uploaded then.

Apparently I will be waking up at 4:30am so that I can go hunting with my grandfather. He said it would only take a couple of hours (leave/be back at 7:30) so it shouldn’t be that bad. It will definitely be an interesting experience; I’ve never been hunting before. Call me evil or conniving but my grandfather has a lot of money so I need to find a way to get some. Going hunting and bonding will hopefully be the answer. We shall find out. I guess I need to go to bed if I’m going to wake up early… Not like that will be hard: I’m dreadfully tired.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Winter Break Begins - Day 1

Winter break has officially begun. I took my last final yesterday. I did much better on all of my finals than I thought I would but it still wasn't good enough to get HOPE back. Oh well, I've already had the talk with my mom and it looks like I will be staying at UGA (somehow). My classes were unnecessarily hard this semester... Final grades: 3 B's, 1 B-, and 1 C+. Oh, and I passed dance :)

Yesterday, after my finals, I had a date in Atlanta (sorry I had to bail on ours, Danielle). His name is Matt and he's amazing. Upon finishing finals, I quickly packed and rushed out the door so I could be in Atlanta by three. I met up with Matt and we were supposed to go see 2012 but the theater's fire alarms kept going off so they couldn't play any movies. We decided to go back to his place and watch the live action "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." After the movie, he took me to Everybody's Pizza. It had a really nice atmosphere and the pizza was pretty good, too. We talked and connected really well. We went back to his apartment and hung out some after dinner because it was too cold to go to the park. I was supposed to drive back to Valdosta then but it was already really late so he suggested I stay (my mom also said it was too late to drive) so I stayed. We played four rounds of Boggle. I definitely won every time. Mostly because he didn't really understand the rules I'm awesome. We just talked after that and told each other interesting things about ourselves. I made some comment about how "I hate that he lays so close to me" so he rolled away. Jokingly sarcastic, I said, "Just kidding... I like it when you lay close to me." So he rolled over ever closer and we started cuddling. It was pretty magical. After a while we decided to watch "Moulin Rouge" but fifteen minutes into it we decided we were too tired so we went to sleep...

Only to be woken up to the sounds of a homeless person playing some foreign percussion instrument (a bucket) right outside his window. Everyone's an artist, right? Wrong. It was dreadful. He was playing to some song, but he had headphones in so no one could hear the song and he kept playing the same beat over, and over, and over again... He literally played for hours! The noise finally stopped and we got to sleep. Needless to say, we slept in and didn't get out of bed until 2pm. After a mild panic attack (I told my mom I would be home by 2) we set out to grab a quick bite to eat. I had some Christmas gifts in my car, that weren't for any specific person, so, I gave him a glass hummingbird. In return, he surprised me with a video of him singing and playing on the piano the song "Where Are You Christmas?" It was very beautiful. I had tried to get him to sing the whole time we were together and he wouldn't.

But now I'm in Valdosta and in less than twelve hours we will be making the trek to San Antonio, Texas - a mere fifteen hour drive. The entire trip will be the interesting experience that I'm almost not looking forward to. Oh well, at least it will be somewhat warm.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Wow Summer

Summer has been overwhelmingly busy for me. I've done so much that it doesn't even feel like it is still May. For once, summer isn't dragging on. The first Thursday since my return, and every Thursday following, Jarred and I have traveled to Gainesville to go to a club and watch a drag show. The first Thursday I went, a guy was kind of checking me out and I'm kind of disappointed I didn't actually go and talk to him. Oh well. I haven't seen him since and if I had gone and talked to him then I probably wouldn't have had the chance to meet Chris P. the next Thursday. Well, we didn't actually meet that Thursday but we danced and he asked to take a picture with me. I didn't find out his name until after when his friend kind of drunkinly walked up to us asked if we were single and gave us his name. So the next day I looked him up on Myspace and Facebook and I wasn't going to add him but I read his profile and discovered that we really had a lot in common. We chatted some on Facebook and I started falling for him. He ended up staying the night that Tuesday and I introduced him to Legally Blonde the Musical. Nothing happened except when he left he pecked me twice on the lips. It was magical.

The next Thursday, Jarred and I decided to go early to Gainesville to hang out with Chris and his friends before going to the club. Chris was late getting to his own house because he had to take his friend home and this upset Jarred. I convinced Jarred that things would get better and that did. I stayed with Chris Thursday and Friday night and he took me home on Saturday. Thursday night we had a really wonderful make-out session. Friday, Chris and I went to his family's house (about 45 minutes away) to do some work, picked up his sister, picked up his friend (who lives in the same city), took his friend to a church, went back to Chris' house, back to the church to pick up his friend and then to see Prince Caspian. It was a really long day. When we got back, we played some Cranium and then went to Chris' room so he and his friend could watch videos on YouTube. I'll admit I was kind of upset and jealous that he spent more time on his friend when he sees her all of the time. Finally, after several hours, I had a chance to talk to him about it even though I knew I shouldn't have but things immediately got better. I certainly don't have a good record with relationships and I didn't want another to fail over something petty before it even got started.

He took his friend, his sister and me home the next day. We talked quite a bit on the way home. It was, after all, a two hour drive. When he got to my place, we napped and cuddled for a bit and then sadly it was time for him to go. I missed him before he even pulled out of my yard. I watched him pull away and he didn't get very far before he stopped in the road. I had no idea what he was doing but there was a turtle in the road and he stopped to take a picture. So, we said our good-byes again and somehow that event made me miss him less. I certainly didn't mind missing him less because it really does hurt to miss someone. I really do like him and I really do hope it progresses farther.

Well, other than Gainesville, Joanna and I went to Panama City for my cousin's wedding the Saturday and Sunday after my second Gainesville trip. I thought it would have been really awkward seeing that side of the family again after so long but everyone really had a good time. Everyone was so excited to finally see me again. Then, that Sunday night I stayed with Jarred. Woke up early the next morning so Maggie and I could drive to Auburn for a night to visit one of her friends. It was a very eventful week. And then the next Monday, two days after Chris left my house, I spent the whole day at Suwannee with my mom, Aunt Margo and her family. It was quite fun. Other than those trips, I've mostly been lounging and hanging out with friends and such. This has probably been, so far, one of the best summers of my life and it's not even 1/3 over yet. <3

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

End of Semester, Beginning of Summer

I don't think there could have been a better way to end a semester. My first year of college was pretty much amazing and I loved 99.9% of it. Friday, Emily's friend Stephanie came into town and so of course we had to go out. I was planning on going out with Jenna, Natalie and Lily but I hadn't seen Stephanie since Christmas so I went out with them. We went to the Level and when we arrived there was absolutely no one there. It was kind of sad. Stephanie, being Morman, is sheltered from many things such as clubs, dancing, and caffeine. It got better after a while and Stephanie said she really enjoyed herself.

I can't really remember Saturday so I imagine I did a whole bunch of nothing. I watched Jumper some time during the day. Caleb and I had been planning to go to Blur together with Ali for some time but, of course, when the time came, Ali backed out. I didn't want to go downtown alone so I decided to stay in and watch August Rush. I got to thinking more and more about going downtown because it would be the last night I was able. Caleb texted me and told me that he wasn't even going out now because he was going to stay in with Joey. I see this being a major problem in the future. Daniel was at Blur though so I thought that if I went I would still have someone to hang out with. Jenna then texted me telling me they were at the Loft so I decided to go out anyways. I went to the Loft for about 10 minutes but I couldn't find anyone I knew so I walked to Blur. I hung out with Daniel H. and his friends Ryan P. and Ashley. They were fun. Afterwards, we went to McDonalds then bed.

Sunday, Daniel, Ryan and I were going to go to East-West Bistro for brunch and to see Ashley at work but when we got there, we decided it was too expensive and we didn't see Ashley there anyways. We decided to go to 5 Star Cafe instead. I ordered these HUGE blueberry pancakes. They were soo good. After that, I kind of invited myself over to Daniel's house to see his cat while he got his stuff together to go study. I asked him if I could stay the night because my room had nothing in it since I had to be out the next morning. I then went back to my room and slept for about five hours. I woke up, got food and then watched The Golden Compass. After this I decided to head on over to Daniel's house even though he was still in the SLC studying. I called him and he said he'd be back in an hour. So I studied at his place for about two hours and he still wasn't back so I decided to go to bed in his bed. He got back after midnight, I think closer to one or after, and went to bed because he had to be up at 5 30 to finish studying for his final at 8.

Just as a side note, I met Daniel when I was a junior in high school and I have liked him ever since. He was with Dustin B. at the time and I couldn't understand why. Dustin wasn't good enough for him. But at the end of the year Daniel left for UGA and he kind of just ignored me for a long time. He then started dating Chase which kind of broke my heart. A year later, I arrive at UGA and I try again to hang out with Daniel, much to no avail. I'd see him around and we'd say our heys but that was it. Finally, kind of ironically, but with the opening of the new gay club we had a chance to hang out. We finally had mutual friends. Also, maybe about a month ago he had broken up with Chase. When we hung out Saturday, he apologized for what happened and we were friends again. It made me so happy.

So, back to Sunday, I was in his bed with him. It makes me sound selfish but I was almost angry that he didn't cuddle with me. But I made the best of it attempted to sleep to the sounds of his cat mewing. After some time, I couldn't believe it, he put his arm around me! It made me feel amazing. After cuddling for some time, he rolled over and I really couldn't interpret this action. Did he want me to put my arm around him? Was he done with me? I didn't know, so yet again I made the best of it and tried to go to sleep. But, not much longer, he rolled back over and put his arm around me. He then started feeling me up and some groping followed. Which I absolutely did not mind. A little later he then rolled over but this time I knew. I started to scratch his back and then started rubbing my hands on his back and stomach. I then began to feel around his member. He then rolled over and started feeling mine again. We then started to make out and he pulled me on top of him. We made out some more and I started to make my way down his body. I couldn't believe what I was doing. I don't know what was going through my head but I knew I was about to give my first blow job. It was so weird. I became really giddy and had to stop myself from laughing several times. His body started to lose control and I knew he was close. I pulled away and after we cleaned up he started to go down on me. But all I could think about was how successful my first blow job was. It was so silly. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing. Needless to say, the mood was kind of gone so we just went to bed.

The next morning, actually about an hour later, Daniel woke up and went to the SLC to finish studying. He hugged me good bye and kissed me on the neck. I then woke up an hour or so later and went to take my final, which was supposed to take three hours but only took thirty minutes. Every time I thought about the previous night I couldn't help getting a little giddy. I had to wait until 11 30 so I could check out of my hall. So I went back to Daniel's house and started to watch Love Actually. After check-out I went back to his place finished watching and then went to his work so I could tell him good bye. I then proceeded to drive four hours back to Valdosta. It wasn't so bad. When I got back I texted Daniel and he said he wanted me to come back. It was so sweet :)

Not long after, Jarred asked me to meet him at Starbucks. After that we ate at Moe's. He has a new job as the make-up artist at Sublime. He had to learn about the colors and everything so I decided to help him. We went back to his house and played with the make-up some then watched Awake. We then went to bed. Everytime I return to Valdosta I'm so afraid that either Jarred or I have changed and that we won't be friends anymore for some reason. But I'm so glad everytime to see that we both have indeed changed but our friendship never dies.

Today I had an eye appointment and I'm so glad to see the professionals can't do their job. I know for a fact my eyes are getting worse but they don't seem to think so... Maybe they aren't. I don't know. I just want perfect vision :(. After my appointment, I went to Lauren's house and hung out with her and Arie, her daughter. She's sooo adorable. She's walking now. We watched Balls of Fury and then I took her to Zaxby's. We went back to her house for some time and now I'm back home. Yay Valdosta!