Loving It!

My new place is great. I've lived in my place for a week now. Things are coming along. I've saved up for a dining room table & my brother in law has offered his HUGE t.v.!! I just have to wait until he gets his new one. He also keeps telling me how HEAVY it is so I'll need some muscles to move it. That will save me quite a bit! now on to living room furniture, I've found a set I like so it will come along soon. I'm enjoying it for sure.

One more week!

Only one more week and I'll be in Big Ocala (or Slow-cala as it's also known; obviously these individuals haven't lived in Webster or Sumterville). I signed my lease today, I hope I like it there. It isn't that I'm concerned about my apartment complex or the area ... I just want to be happy. I want to have friends like I did in the military. I want people to hang out w/, have bar-b-q's, just have fun. I just want to be happy. I think I'll be in the middle of everything. I went out Saturday night and until then I hadn't realized how many people I already know. I think it will be good; if not I'll tough it out for a year (my least is for one year) & try somewhere else. I don't know exactly what is going to make me happy but does anyone? Getting on my own again after living w/ my parents for 2 years is a good start. I am excited!

I made my first big purchase today.

Yeah, I couldn't afford them so I got:

Not nearly a fun but I guess laundry isn't supposed to fun for poor people :)

So now after my first big purchase & my moms yard sale things are coming together. I have plates, a vacuum & casserole dishes. My next purchase will either be a t.v. or patio furniture; depending on which is the cheapest. I'm not concerned w/ living room furniture ... I'll spend more time on my screened in patio smoking than I will setting in a living room w/ no t.v. : ) only problem is that no one has patio furniture. I spent all day in Ocala today looking for a patio set. I went to Walmart, Target, Kmart, Hobby Lobby (picked up a HUGE mirror for 1/2 off) & Sears. Christmas decorations are taking the place of patio furniture ... I don't want a Christmas tree; I want something to set on outside! I wish I had been looking for a set a month ago; I would have got it for cheap! I guess I'll go online and see if Walmart has anything, if I have it shipped directly to the store it's free.

So, that's all for me. I hope you all are doing well.

Moving

November 14th is the exciting day! I'm moving out! Finally I'll be on my own again. It seems to be a nice complex; 2 pools, gym and in the middle of everything. The mall, Wal Mart & restaurants are all just a few blocks away. Bye bye reckneckville.

Now I have to decorate ... I have no artistic abilities.

Go Go Go

Man, October has been a busy month. I went to the much anticipated Girls Weekend 07, the Charlotte NASCR race & fishing at the Suwanee River . I've also been in Ocala, Tampa and Gainseville a few times. What a month.

Things are going okay. I dropped my classes this semester. Being sick after the girls weekend put me behind. The only class I liked was Algebra. I was off for two days w/ my cold and didn't call my professor. I missed a test and went from a high B to a 57. Yeah, wasn't happy about that. Biology I haven't had a clue since day one & my two electives were stupid. My one elective "Success in College and Beyond" I played charades for 2 weeks ... WTF?!?! ("Am I going to play charades for my final exam?") So needless to say I'm not upset about dropping that class. My other elective was "History of Music" and this a-hole would have an 80 question test every other week; 30 of the questions we never discussed & the other 50 were worded so tricky no one could pass. So school is done for this semester. I was upset about it but my doc and I both feel it's not worth getting upset about.

Went to the doc a week or two ago. Things are going well. I'm not where I want to be so we are doing some routine adjustments, nothing drastic. I am feeling more like myself so I'm all for it.

I'm ready to move. I am grateful to my father and mother for letting me live w/ them (and taking care of me during my desperate time of need) but I am ready to have my own place again. I will miss my Mom though, I have enjoied living w/ her.

I've finally (thanks to my service in the Air Force) been able to get caught up on all the bills I wasn't able to pay after my stint in Maryland and not working for 6 months. All of those are paid off and I am ready to move out! I don't have anything ... I have my bedroom furniture & a Playstation 2 so I guess I'll sit on my bed and stare at .... nothing, I don't have t.v. :) It's all good, piece by piece I'll build back what I once had (wall to wall furnished 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, loaded kitchen, my LazyBoy sofa :( ...). It's just material things right?

Moving leads me to my next topic. I love my sisters. I love the kids but I hate cold weather. I don't know if I can bring myself to live in North Carolina. I need the sunshine for my mental health. My idea place to live would be ... Costa Rica, I haven't been there yet but once I go I won't be coming back. Since that isn't an option right now Florida is as good as it gets. I don't want to live in this small of a town ever again (like Albermarle or Matthews N.C.) so when I move it will be 5 minutes from a city. I lived in Tampa for a short while & loved it. I've thought about moving back down there but I don't know anyone. I still have some folks I keep in touch w/ from when I worked at Mac Dill but I didn't "hang out" w/ them when I worked w/ them; I'm sure their still home-bodies. If I move to N.C. obviously I'll have my sisters so that is a great advantage. For now I'm thinging Ocala (also known as Slow-cala). I have friends/acquaintances up there and it's where we go when we go out, its the same distance to work I'm dirivnig now, closer to Gainseville and there are things to DO! Ocala isn't a great town (I guess you could call it a city but it's not Virginia Beach, Honolulu or Tampa) but it's better than being stuck in redneckville! There's a decent mall, movie theaters, restaurants, bars ... better than where I'm at now.

So my plan for now is to stay out of school until I can mentallty handle it, move to Ocala, work through season and around March or so ... No, when it gets WARM in N.C. I'll check out the Charlotte area. Maybe I can live in Florida through snow-bird season & N.C. during off season ... if only I were that rich :)

Currently

School's going okay. I took more time off work (was working 6 days, now I'm working 5). My priorities are Health, School, Work, Saving & F.U.N. I've met some new friends and work is work. I've picked up a few more bar shifts so that's good during slow season.

I'm looking forward to a girls weekend the first weekend in October (a friend of mine, Tara, and I are meeting up w/ my sisters and thier friends) for Oktoberfest in Helen Georgia.

The following weekend my mother, grandmother and I are going to North Carolina for the NASCAR race. I'm also going to go see a friend at Fort Bragg while I'm in the area. So that's that as far as an update goes.

About Me

A bit about me, I've done it all. W/ my life experiences I should be 40 and well into retirement but I'm 29, bartending and living w/ my mom. Having experienced the things I have makes life a bit easier. I now know what not to do, how to better deal w/ the situations that do and exactly what it is I want. As for the boyfriend situation, I want one but haven't found him yet.
What do I do?

I was in the Air Force for 5 years. I have the best memories and miss active duty a lot. I tried the civilian contracting for a year or so but it didn't work out. I've been bartending and serveing since 2006. I enjoy it most days but feel I should be doing something else. I don't want to end up 20 years from now feeling like I haven't lived up to my potential. My goal growing up was getting out of my small home town by joining the Marines (went Air Force instead), I never thought past that and now that I'm here I'm making it up as I go. I'd like to do something in the mental heath field for Veterans but the more I go to school the more of a retard I realize I am. I hate school. I'm not good at it and positively HATE it! I think I'd be better off updating my Microsoft Certifications and going that route -- it's just hard for me to find a work enviroment I enjoy. I hate setting behind a desk all day.

What do I want?

Loaded question. I just want to be happy. I don't need money or material things to be happy; I found that out the hard way. I don't NEED a companion to be happy or complete but it would be nice to have someone who thinks I'm great. I don't (DO NOT) want children so that weeds out most men.

What I enjoy doing?

I love visiting my sisters and thier families. I am truely blessed by the hand of God for my family. I visit my sisters as much as possible which isn't often enough. I love thier kids and enjoy spending time w/ them watching them grow into little people. I do enjoy smoking & drinking but I DO NOT drink if I'm driving. (FYI: Drinking and diving is a CHOICE and your a selfish idiot if you do.) I do enjoy my Red Bull ... I know it's not good for me but I'd rather down a 12 pack of Red Bull than a gallon of Margaritas ... I love it! It's my crack. I LOVE fishing and i don't mean bass fishing! I mean REAL fishing on a REAL boat in the OCEAN or a nice speckle trout or red. A perfect night would be having friends and family over drinking and playing cards ... that's what I enjoy and miss the most.

So I think I've covered it all. I hope you enjoy my blog.

Pictures

I think i have the hang of this. So this is my blog. The pictures are from last weekend (9/22/07) when Tara and I went to Ocala.

Here I Am

Let me figure all this out ...