Not Dead!

So… after almost a 4 month lapse in writing on here, I’ve decided that I really should write more often. It’s good for me… and stuff like that. Because I am quite lazy, I think I am going to post a list.

1) On June 5, I broke up with Adam after close to 3 years of being with him. This is the hardest thing I’ve had to do because I knew it would break his heart, he hadn’t done anything wrong, and I still love him, but I cannot keep going on in a relationship where I don’t feel the other person loves me *romantically*

2) I really enjoy rollerblading. I don’t know why people act like it’s such a hard thing to do. Shoot, if I can do it, it must not be THAT hard. I mean really.

3) Cake Boss, the new show about Carlo aka Buddy Jr. from Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken, NJ is just… priceless. Maybe I love the accent… I don’t know.

4) I really wish I could bring Oreo into school and have him in my classroom. I think he would regulate quite well… give him a radio and a blue polo shirt…

5) I am totally looking forward to 16 days off (other teachers get about 9 weeks…but 2 weeks is better than none at all! See how I chose to call it “16 days” rather than 2 weeks… it sounds longer :)

6) I still want to swim from Cuba to FL with a shark cage around me.

7) I live in a town full of jerks.

8) I just so happened to meet this new awesome guy named Chris the day after I broke up with Adam… I feel like a dickhead, but I didn’t cheat on Adam so I don’t know why I feel sort of guilty about being so happy with Chris.

9) ShaqBron O’James bitches.

10) Wes hates Gran Torino, but something about Clint Eastwood talking about getting “babbling gooks” off his lawn makes me laugh really hard.

11) Making bracelets is just awesome. I kind of spend too much money on beads to make them. Anyone want to buy a handmade bracelet for $3?

12) “Toddlers and Tiaras” on TLC is like a car accident… it’s so horrible and people are getting hurt but I can’t look away.

13) I miss my mommie.

14) Ok seriously can we talk about Rasheed “Hockey temper” Wallace being on a team headed up by Doc “Hey wow I didn’t get a technical THIS game” Rivers… talk about civil war…

15) I really need a new cell phone… the sad part is I kind of only want a green one… I’ll likely settle for something else. lol.

16) I just bought a navy blue 2009 Honda Element which Adam named “The Lunch Box“

17) Who the hell kicks a door in to an apartment and kills a 19 year old pregnant woman?

18) Chris is in the process of moving into a house with his friends who are all musicians… I am so excited to hang out with him and other music people :-D

19) One of my students likes drinking blue raspberry juice, chocolate milk, and salt all mixed together.
I don’t ask either.

20) Breaking up with Adam, while extremely painful, is quite a relief because now when I look at him I don’t think “Why don’t you love me romantically?!!!!” and get all angry, I look at him and think “What a cool funny guy that I get to hang out with!” I’m able to enjoy what I love about him as a friend now that I don’t have to lug around all the resentment for our lack of romance.

21) I think I’m going to make an effort to watch more NHL games this year because I like hockey and Sue likes going and so that will be cool.

22) I’ve really enjoyed going to see Chris’ friend Ryan’s band Gumbo Boogie every Wednesday at Pelican Pete’s on Cortez Rd. in Bradenton.

23) Am I really 26? I feel like I’ve been through enough and look like I could be 45 but as far as my attitude and where I am in my life as far as marriage and family, I’d say I’m more 23ish.

24) Helen is going to India in around 6 weeks I think… I am so excited for her!

25) My brain is a blender that makes good smoothies.

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Excited doesn’t cover it.
I am pretty much in complete and total disbelief about how well everything is turning out. I don’t want to jinx myself, the way things turned out is just awesome. Not red and yellow socks awesome, but truly, breath-takingly, I-am-totally-excited-and-this-really-rules awesome.

I believe this picture of Oreo captures it best.

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Notice how he is so excited that his ears are back *and* his tail is wagging so quickly that it’s blurry…haha. Oreo has the best attitude ever. Every day when I come home, he’s all excited.

Seriously.

I have so many blessings I can count!

1) While my current school may be closing and this is truly sad for the girls, I found a new job! I am going to be working in a similar situation with at risk kids aged 7 to 17! It is still not going to be easy to say goodbye to the girls next Friday, but at least I know I am going to be able to use my skills to work with some different students instead of having to go back to waitressing by necessity.

2) My mommie got me a new phone *AND* it’s green and sparkly! I was using this old one because my good phone got stolen in April.

3) I got an 1160 on the GRE! USF said that I needed at least 1000 to get admitted to the graduate program I want to do and I got 1160! I got 640 on the quantitative and 520 on the verbal. I think if I took it again, I could study more and really blow the verbal away.


4) I wrote about Tupac on the analytical writing portion of the GRE and I am very confident I blew that section out of the water. That’s right, I said I wrote about Tupac Shakur on the GRE. I signed a bunch of stuff saying I would not reveal the questions so I can’t tell you *how* I wrote about him, but none the less, I kept it straight gangsta on the GRE.

5) I got a $500 scholarship for this semester to start working toward my Master’s Degree in Special Education at USF on August 25!

6) I can walk to work and to the gym each day so I won’t need to use gas unless I’m going to USF!

7) My Dad and I understand each other a lot more now than we used to and, as a result, we get along much better. He also offered to help me subsidize graduate school if I score well!

8) Despite the fact that I am far away, a lot of my family is still very supportive of me.

9) Last, but definitely not least, Adam. Adam has stuck with me through thick and thin. He has stood by me through all the crazy ups and downs over the last 2 years while going through problems of his own.

I do, however, miss Ohio. I hope I can go visit sometime soon! I miss my family, naturally, but I’d like to shout out to my Ohio friends Brian W., Brijette N., Dawn M., Heidi G., Janice D., Neil E., & Trevor E.!