Before I start, let me just say a late Merry Christmas to everyone! I've been at home with the family enjoying everything that our Christmas traditions bring about, including homemade (from scratch) raviolis...by the way I did most of the work this year and mom and I made over 100 ravs! I've also been indulging myself with lots of sweets...cannolis, sfogliatelli, stocking stuffers, chocolate covered pretzels, etc. By the time New Years comes around, I'm going to have gained at least 5 pounds, maybe more....oh man, am I going to have to rollerblade and work out a ton to get this off! We also did our traditional midnight mass celebration followed by opening presents in the early morning and going to bed around 3 or 4am. So far, it's been a great break and a much needed one!
So, why am I writing today? Today marks my one year anniversary of singledom! And when I say singledom, I mean completely single. I haven't had any routine friends with benefits, no unofficial relationships that didn't turn into anything....I've literally had nothing at all. This is very interesting, for you see, I have never gone a whole year without a boyfriend, or at least not without a friend with benefits to call up and have come over right away. I have to say, I am kind of proud of myself for being unattached for a whole year!
See, last year on December 28, Roberto broke up with me and I thought my life was over, but what I didn't realize then was that it was really just the beginning! I've done so many things that I wanted to do over the last year and although at times I do get lonely, I realize I am so better off not being with him. He probably would have held me back.
Here's a recap of the awesome things I've done this year that I may not have been able to do if I were still with Roberto (and I'm probably missing some, but this is what I could think of):
I went to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter twice, got to see my best friend from college twice during these trips, and FINALLY went to Universal! I've lived in Florida for 7 or 8 years now and it seriously took me this long to go...wow!
I finished all my classes for my Master's degree, plus I completed my exit exam! Now all I have to do is finish my thesis and I'm out of here!
I bought my own SCUBA gear and have been a hell of a lot more than I used to in undergrad! I have more bottom time under my belt, I feel more comfortable in the water, and I'm also a member of our Scientific Diving Program! Go me! Oh...and last February I went on a shark dive in Jupiter, which I am totally doing again this year!!!
I am a volunteer (although I really need to get more involved because I haven't done much at all) with the Marine Animal Rescue Society (MARS) and have been trained on how to handle injured whales, dolphins, and manatees!
I've also, although not lately because I've been bad, been doing more Zumba classes, as well as rollerblading along the beach. I also joined our intramural softball team...most of the time I played 3rd base...one of my favorite positions!!
I FINALLY visited Key West, visited my friend out there for his Navy Commission Ceremony, which was pretty cool! I walked everywhere on the island, partied at Rick's, got chocolate covered Key Lime Pie, and had a blast! Now to go diving and camping there.....and also possibly sky diving there!
Last March I got a kitten...a sweet little Calico who has tuffs of hair on the tip of her ears, making her look like a miniature bobcat! She is definitely better company than any of the guys I've met in Florida! lol I miss her so much....I had to board her in order to come home this year for the holidays. It's my longest time away from her and I felt so guilty dropping her off at the vet...I didn't think I was going to cry, but I definitely did!
I also went to a Salsa dancing club this year and re-learned a few basic steps! You know me and dancing...I just love it!
So really, I've done a lot this year....a lot of which I either wouldn't have been able to do or would have had to drag Roberto along too. Sometimes I look at couples and I get very bitter, really upset....but then I think to myself, 'Wait a second...I don't have to have the pressure to do things I don't want to, I don't have to get in petty fights over things, I don't have to plan my schedule around someone else, I don't have to waste gas money and miss entire weekend and awesome times with friends because I have to drive 4 hours to see my ex, I can do what I want when I want....this is GREAT!'
I'm walking bare foot right now and I LOVE IT!
And now I leave you with the words of Barney Stinson: Everyone I know is getting married or pregnant...I'm just getting more awesome!
Have a good New Years people! I'm out!
Until Next Time,
Reaching for Reefs
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
SO PISSED OFF, I'M FUMING!!!!!
Hi all...WARNING: YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR A BITCH FEST, SO IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE HEARING ME COMPLAIN ABOUT MY IDIOTIC, SELFISH, HEARTLESS NEIGHBOR, THEN WHO GIVES A SHIT..GET OFF MY PAGE!!
For a while now, I've been recording dates of every time I smell smoke in my apartment...That's right! First let me to describe to you how I can smell cigarette smoke, which is not mine (I have never touched a cigarette in my life). See, the apartment complex I live in used to be an Inn, that they then converted into apartments and my apartment shares a door with my neighbor's. I ALWAYS keep this door locked and I have my dresser and boxes against it, just in case my crazy neighbor tried to pull anything on me. This connecting door has a pretty big gap at the bottom and so air can travel between our apartments pretty easily. The first time I realized this was when my neighbor complimented my on the perfume I was wearing and asked what brand it was...that's how bad the gap is.
Getting back to what I was saying, a few months before Memorial Day was the first time I smelled cigarette smoke emanating from his apartment. Apparently, my neighbor's brother was visiting and was too handicapped to go outside to smoke, so they both sat inside smoking. I walked in to my apartment a bit hazy and immediately started to hack and cough so hard that I actually pulled a muscle in my abdomen which hurt for about a week! I immediately knocked on his door, asked him if he had been smoking, and asked him nicely if he could stop, because I have "smoke allergies" and "asthma." Also, I explained that I would rather not have my clothes smelling of smoke and that I do not want to get cancer. Months went by and then on Memorial Day (5/30/10), I again smelled smoke. I was rather irritated, because I had already done the neighborly thing and gone over and asked him nicely myself. I again went next door and asked him to please stop smoking. I also told him that if this happens again I would "Get management involved." He looked at me rather shocked...I guess not expecting that I had the nerve to say that, because usually I'm very sweet to my neighbors. On August 5, 2011 I came home at midnight to, yet again, my room filled with smoke. This time I texted our apartment manager and told him that my neighbor has been smoking in his apartment, that I had already talked to him twice, and that I wanted him to talk to him again. I don't know if he ever talked to my neighbor, but about a month later (9/16/11) I smelled smoke again, then again on 11/3/11, then on 11/8/11 in which I woke up at 8:13am to smoke coughing. All the while I had been texting the apartment manager about his, asking him to seriously talk to the JACKASS, because now I was getting PISSED OFF, or seal off my door. Still to no avail, my neighbor continued to smoke in his apartment...and now we come to tonight, 12/2/11.
I had shut off my A/C before I went to bed, because it's starting to be just cool enough here that I don't need it...so why waste energy, ya know! I awake at 1:00am to my cat making the strangest sound I have ever heard. At first I thought she was coughing up a hairball, but when I turned on the light, there was no hairball in sight and she was just sitting on the floor wheezing. I started coughing and sat for a few minutes sniffing the air, thinking: 'Ok..this is not a coincidence that my cat's wheezing and so am I...and I faintly smell cigarette smoke in the air'...so I sat in bed for a while, the anger building and building til I was fuming, fantasizing about killing him or chopping off his balls..man was I PISSED! See, it's one thing to threaten my health, but my cat's?!!! I DON'T THINK SO. MY PETS ARE LIKE MY KIDS..FUCK WITH THEM AND YOU FUCK WITH ME!!! SHE'S INNOCENT..SHE HAS NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER AND NEITHER DO I REALLY!!! So, I went over there!!! Now listen, I know it's late at night, but this neighbor of mine is an insomniac and literally doesn't go to bed til 5am..
I RAPPED on the door...YEA, A NICE LOUD KNOCKING TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF HIM AND LET HIM KNOW I'M SERIOUS...he finally opens the door and I ask him if he has been smoking in there. HE STRAIGHT UP LIES TO ME...no he hasn't been. I look at him like 'Yea Right...Lie through your teeth you asshole.' I say: 'Really..because your apartment reeks of it. I've asked you nicely several times not to' and he says "I haven't been, I come outside..." and when I continue to give him a face that says 'YOU AIN't FOOLING NO ONE MISTER" he says..."Most of the time I come out here to smoke." Then he goes on to say that I should talk to your apartment manager and that "Until I pay [his] rent, he'll do what he wants and if I don't like it I can move!" BITCH, I WAS HERE FIRST..YOU LYING SACK OF DOG SHIT!!! And he has a dog too...that poor dog's gonna get cancer, asthma, emphyzema or something. WHAT A FUCKING SELFISH PERSON, PUTTING ME AND MY CAT's HEALTH AT RISK! SERIOUSLY...WHAT THE FUCK EVER HAPPENED TO COMMON COURTESY! I try not to be too loud, not to vacuum too late at night or early in the morning...I TRY TO BE CONSCIENTIOUS OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS!!!! I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS!!!
I know what my weekend projects going to be....SEALING THAT DOOR SHUT WITH STYROFOAM, WEATHERSTRIPPING, AND CAULK! And if the apartment manager goes apeshit about it, I DON'T FUCKING CARE, because I've asked him at least THREE TIMES to seal that door...SO FUCKING SUCK MY NON-EXISTENT COCK!!!
Oh man..I feel so much better now that I've got that off my chest. After talking to my neighbor and him not giving a fuck, I literally thought I was gonna knife somebody tonight! Oh btw, he totally was smoking and then tried to cover it up by spraying cologne, because now I can smell the cologne seeping into my room...
Anyway, hope everyone else's night is going better than mine and you are getting a decent sleep!
Until Next Time,
Reaching for Reefs
For a while now, I've been recording dates of every time I smell smoke in my apartment...That's right! First let me to describe to you how I can smell cigarette smoke, which is not mine (I have never touched a cigarette in my life). See, the apartment complex I live in used to be an Inn, that they then converted into apartments and my apartment shares a door with my neighbor's. I ALWAYS keep this door locked and I have my dresser and boxes against it, just in case my crazy neighbor tried to pull anything on me. This connecting door has a pretty big gap at the bottom and so air can travel between our apartments pretty easily. The first time I realized this was when my neighbor complimented my on the perfume I was wearing and asked what brand it was...that's how bad the gap is.
Getting back to what I was saying, a few months before Memorial Day was the first time I smelled cigarette smoke emanating from his apartment. Apparently, my neighbor's brother was visiting and was too handicapped to go outside to smoke, so they both sat inside smoking. I walked in to my apartment a bit hazy and immediately started to hack and cough so hard that I actually pulled a muscle in my abdomen which hurt for about a week! I immediately knocked on his door, asked him if he had been smoking, and asked him nicely if he could stop, because I have "smoke allergies" and "asthma." Also, I explained that I would rather not have my clothes smelling of smoke and that I do not want to get cancer. Months went by and then on Memorial Day (5/30/10), I again smelled smoke. I was rather irritated, because I had already done the neighborly thing and gone over and asked him nicely myself. I again went next door and asked him to please stop smoking. I also told him that if this happens again I would "Get management involved." He looked at me rather shocked...I guess not expecting that I had the nerve to say that, because usually I'm very sweet to my neighbors. On August 5, 2011 I came home at midnight to, yet again, my room filled with smoke. This time I texted our apartment manager and told him that my neighbor has been smoking in his apartment, that I had already talked to him twice, and that I wanted him to talk to him again. I don't know if he ever talked to my neighbor, but about a month later (9/16/11) I smelled smoke again, then again on 11/3/11, then on 11/8/11 in which I woke up at 8:13am to smoke coughing. All the while I had been texting the apartment manager about his, asking him to seriously talk to the JACKASS, because now I was getting PISSED OFF, or seal off my door. Still to no avail, my neighbor continued to smoke in his apartment...and now we come to tonight, 12/2/11.
I had shut off my A/C before I went to bed, because it's starting to be just cool enough here that I don't need it...so why waste energy, ya know! I awake at 1:00am to my cat making the strangest sound I have ever heard. At first I thought she was coughing up a hairball, but when I turned on the light, there was no hairball in sight and she was just sitting on the floor wheezing. I started coughing and sat for a few minutes sniffing the air, thinking: 'Ok..this is not a coincidence that my cat's wheezing and so am I...and I faintly smell cigarette smoke in the air'...so I sat in bed for a while, the anger building and building til I was fuming, fantasizing about killing him or chopping off his balls..man was I PISSED! See, it's one thing to threaten my health, but my cat's?!!! I DON'T THINK SO. MY PETS ARE LIKE MY KIDS..FUCK WITH THEM AND YOU FUCK WITH ME!!! SHE'S INNOCENT..SHE HAS NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER AND NEITHER DO I REALLY!!! So, I went over there!!! Now listen, I know it's late at night, but this neighbor of mine is an insomniac and literally doesn't go to bed til 5am..
I RAPPED on the door...YEA, A NICE LOUD KNOCKING TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF HIM AND LET HIM KNOW I'M SERIOUS...he finally opens the door and I ask him if he has been smoking in there. HE STRAIGHT UP LIES TO ME...no he hasn't been. I look at him like 'Yea Right...Lie through your teeth you asshole.' I say: 'Really..because your apartment reeks of it. I've asked you nicely several times not to' and he says "I haven't been, I come outside..." and when I continue to give him a face that says 'YOU AIN't FOOLING NO ONE MISTER" he says..."Most of the time I come out here to smoke." Then he goes on to say that I should talk to your apartment manager and that "Until I pay [his] rent, he'll do what he wants and if I don't like it I can move!" BITCH, I WAS HERE FIRST..YOU LYING SACK OF DOG SHIT!!! And he has a dog too...that poor dog's gonna get cancer, asthma, emphyzema or something. WHAT A FUCKING SELFISH PERSON, PUTTING ME AND MY CAT's HEALTH AT RISK! SERIOUSLY...WHAT THE FUCK EVER HAPPENED TO COMMON COURTESY! I try not to be too loud, not to vacuum too late at night or early in the morning...I TRY TO BE CONSCIENTIOUS OF OTHER PEOPLE AND THEIR NEEDS!!!! I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS!!!
I know what my weekend projects going to be....SEALING THAT DOOR SHUT WITH STYROFOAM, WEATHERSTRIPPING, AND CAULK! And if the apartment manager goes apeshit about it, I DON'T FUCKING CARE, because I've asked him at least THREE TIMES to seal that door...SO FUCKING SUCK MY NON-EXISTENT COCK!!!
Oh man..I feel so much better now that I've got that off my chest. After talking to my neighbor and him not giving a fuck, I literally thought I was gonna knife somebody tonight! Oh btw, he totally was smoking and then tried to cover it up by spraying cologne, because now I can smell the cologne seeping into my room...
Anyway, hope everyone else's night is going better than mine and you are getting a decent sleep!
Until Next Time,
Reaching for Reefs
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