Jimmy Buffett, a Gecko, && a Conch

"There are no words to the song of the ocean, but the message is and always has been simple: not to forget where we came from. The melody is locked in the water that composes much of what we are. Most humans tend to ignore the song, but not all. But be warned: it is a wandering song carried by the winds and the currents. It can turn you into a piece of driftwood that washes up on shore after shore, but one day, when you find the place that is meant to be, you will take root."

Jimmy Buffett is one of my favorite musicians/authors. My favorite book at the moment is "A Salty Piece Of Land". It's an amazing story of Tully Mars, who decides that he is unhappy with being a ranch hand at a farm tucked deeply in the Midwest. He gets on his horse and rides, to the southern most part of the country, meeting people along the way, and collecting stories as he goes. He eventually ends up in Cayo Loco and begins to rebuild a lighthouse, the proud piece of that land.

Also, in the book, Buffett talks about a gecko and a conch shell. Tully is given a necklace in the shape of a gecko and a conch shell by a good friend of his before he leaves the barren Midwest.

The gecko is his travelling partner and keeps him from feeling alone. The conch is representative of the ocean and Tully's goal to reach it.

(I'm avid on getting a tattoo of the gecko with a conch in its mouth)

Buffett is an amazing writer and even if you don't like his music, you at least have to get lost in his soulful way of looking at life. Let things go, learn to relax, and listen to the sound of the ocean.

I have my dad to thank for that. My dad is an avid Buffett fan, who has every cd, book, bumper sticker, shirt known to man. As I've grown I've taken alot from Buffett's laid back tone. His music is silly, his books teach you that life isn't always hard, and sometimes you just have to embrace life for what it is. Look out unto the sea of your life.

GET CARRIED AWAY....

Wow, Thursday Already?!

This week has gone by soo frickin fast, seriously! I feel like just yesterday is was Monday.

Anyway, I have nothing really impressive to talk about. Um. Hm.

Well, last night I actually got to talk to my bestest friend Fred. He's been in a bum kinda way, because of the situation with his potential hire at the fire house. He's right on the bubble as they say. Apparently, there is six positions for this "class" and that they are all pretty much filled, because two brothers have military experience, one kid is a godson of someone high up, the fire inspector wants shift work again..blah blah. The poor kid. He has worked his butt off for this.

(I couldn't be prouder. =D)

But, bascially, it's just a matter of him waiting and hoping that he will be the one to fill the spot that will open after someone else from shift work becomes the new fire inspector. I'm crossing my fingers like crazy.

Anyway, I'm very excited because know I kinda get the weekends with baberz. He only has to work till 4 on Saturday and 330 on Sunday. (yay!) I mean right now, they're kinda cutting hours because it's winter...which kinda doesn't make sense to me, because I'm sorry I feel like I go to the parts store more in the winter than the summer because you need salt, sholves, winter brushes (that wont scratch my paint!), etc. But at the same time, I understand that not a lot of people go out or stay out late in the winter.

God, I despise you winter. You and your freezing coold, dark, snowy nights. I would love to be in the warmer, dark nights of Florida. Because no matter what, to me, it will still feel like summer. It's just something about down there, maybe the way the sun sets.

Damn, there I go again on my rants bout Florida.

Well, thats all for today. I really got nothing.


OH BUT I DID GET A RAISE!!! =) YAY ME!

23. That's It.

Holy cow, there's only 23 days left till Christmas. And I still have tons of presents to buy.

(Ok so not tons, but enough)

I still have to buy my dad a giftcard for Starbucks, my mom a giftcard for oh I forgot, my brother a giftcard for Best Buy and baberz his limited edition red Xbox360 controller. I'm going to have to break it down in the next 3 weeks. Oh, and that grab bag..can't forget about that.

So, last night, baberz, myself, the bestie and her boyfrann or whatever all met up to eat some Arby's and play some laser tag. I'll admit I wasn't crazy about meeting the guy. I mean, like I've said in the past, I'm sorry but I just don't understand why you would continually meet guys on an online video game and talking to em and then finally meeting them only to realize they weren't all that they were cracked up to be, plus it's extrememly dangerous!!

So, baberz and I met him and he's kinda strange. But, not like retarded funny strange like me and baberz are, no, just strange. He kept hitting on baberz in a "joking manner" but somehow I'm not really sure if he was or not. I mean, he was a respectable, cool guy, but I don't think the bestie is really into him all that much. I feel like she's totally turned off by his odd behavior. But, I suppose it was nice to give it a go.

(Now if she could only meet someone in the area!)

We played some laser tag, there was only six of us, the four of us and these two other guys and I got my butt whooped. I came in last place, but that was ok. I'm sure I don't need to tell you that baberz came in first, no surprise there! (But for the record I'm better at Call of Duty) Nah, he used to be on a paintball team, so he has that advantage, it was cute watching him play. And he kinda looked funny in the black light, because his teeth and earrings glowed. But, that was a good time had by all.

After that we went back to his house and just chilled and watched The Real Housewives Of Orange County, it was like a marathon leading up to the start of the new season. And somehow baberz found it interesting. Then, of course the night wouldn't be complete without the usual hour long of Family Guy. That is when I got in bed with baberz (his mom doesn't like us snugglin in bed anymore and its because its awkward for her, we're good, promise!) and fell asleep.

I was awake for a while, but then all of a sudden, I turned to face him and woke up around 12, then said to myself, 15 more mins and then I'll go home, which turned into an hour more. The next I knew I got right up because it was 100am..in the process scaring the crap outta baberz.

The Pros/Cons to Napping At Someone's House

1. It's nice to cuddle with someone and very warm. Plus, it helps that baberz sleeps just like me, no snoring, or really cuddling, just to yourself.
2. Napping isn't a bad thing. I absolutely love it. <33
3. Waking up to that person, is surprising but nice. Even if you do scare them.

1. I wake up extremely grumpy. It's just my personality. (sorry)
2. I hate having to drive home all groggy. I just wanna be in a nice warm bed.
3. I hate being cold. Especially last night I was all warm and loved and whatnot, then had to go out and drive home in the 26 degree weather, 15 mins. to my warm bed.

(I'd totally do it again though...baberz is a great sleeping partner!)

Plus, he told me, he's never just passed out like that before with someone. (Implying it's good by the way! lol) I'm glad to be that comforting to allow him to sleep. (= Overall, except for one particular convo. we had about him and his exs and ya know stuff, it was a usual very happy night. (=

I LOVE YOU! <333

Bored.

So, I pretty much failed on trying to insert a hyperlink in that last paragraph. I was trying to say that I was reading Clever Girl Goes Blog's blog and it inspired me to think about the people I know in the military.

(Wow, I feel stupid that I could not figure that out.) (Yay me for doing it!)

I absolutely love the self assured post that Simply Me wrote today. It was about how she's finding out alot about herself. I'm slowly drifting into the self awareness period myself. Where you take more time to reflect on things, and decisions aren't made by your heart but by your head.

I especially enjoyed her blurb on drinking. I find being only 22, that many of the girls out there, feel a need to still drink like crazy. I, myself, have never been into that. I drink occasionally here and there, may have gotten drunk 6-7 times in the past almost 2 yrs that I've been legal. But, for some, they enjoy that.

(I'm in no way saying that getting drunk and partying is bad, within reason of course).

I just enjoy being with my friends, I don't enjoy the way alchohol makes me feel. I don't like what it does to some people.

(To each their own I guess.)

Tonite, Baberz, myself, Cheryl and this guy Mike she's kinda seeing are supposed to go play Laser Tag, which quite frankly, I'm not really up for. I mean don't get me wrong, I love my best friend, but eh..I just don't wanna play. I feel like crap yet again. I don't know what's wrong with me!

(Am I dying?)

My God, is it annoying. Maybe it's this weather. I don't know.


Oh Florida, 2 yrs is soo far away to be with you.

You Are My Life Now.

I was thinking today after reading
about how much I actually miss J alot. J is one of my other good friends from Florida. He's a crazy little redneck that occasionally gets on my nerves. But, I do miss him. He's currently in the United States Navy, and is in bootcamp in Illinois. I'm so proud of him, just like I'm proud of my cousin for being in the Army, and B for being in the Marines, and Fred for being a firefighter/paramedic. I'm soo proud of the 4 of em, and I'm also really proud of and fear slighty for Bri and Matt, who have just left for Iraq about a week apart. (my exs btw).

Good luck boys.

Anywho, it's about 10:00am on this fine Tuesday. It's a nice sunny, but kinda cold Tuesday. (which is nothing new being from New England in Dec.) I absolutely loathe the winter. I hate being cold, it doesn't matter how many layers I put on. I'm still freezing. At least in the summer, if I get to hott I can just walk into an air-conditioned building. It takes me forever to get warm in the winter.

I cannot concentrate today for the love of God. (I hate my ADHD kinda days). Not to mention, I'm slighty hungry.

Anywho..I kinda faded away from this and have no clue what I was writing, so I'm just gonna get back to work now. =)

Silly Stuff.

I stole this from http://www.average20something.com/.
Check out her blog yo. =))


It's All In A Name

1. Witness Protection Name (mother's & father's middle names)
Monique Edward

2. Nascar Name (first name of your mother's dad & father's dad)
Hector Edward

3. Star Wars Name (the first 2 letters of your last name & first 4 letters of your first name)
Brnick

4. Detective Name (favourite colour & favourite animal)
Blue Llama

5. Soap Opera Name (middle name & city where you live)
Lynn Bristol

6. Superhero Name (2nd favourite colour & favourite alcoholic drink, optionally add "The" to the beginning)
The Pink Cap'n Coke

7. Fly Name (first 2 letters of first name & last 2 letters of your last name)
Niad

8. Gangsta Name (favourite ice cream flavour & favourite cookie)
Birthday Cake Chocolate Chip

9. Rock Star Name (current pet's name & current street name)
Lucy Cameron

10. Porn Name (first pet's name & street you grew up on)
Princess Meriden.

Monday.

So, first question how was everyone's weekend? I've read many of the blogs I have favorited and it seems everyone had a fantabolous weekend. It's Monday again and honestly I am not sure what to do. I'm in super lazy mode. I have a folder sitting right in front of me that can go out, but I'm in blogging mode. I've just been reading for the last hour which is what I love doing. Anywho, giant recap. I know I posted some stuff in the previous blog and it's probably gonna be repeated in this one..but its my usual weekend recap, just extra longggg.

Wednesday
Wednesday, I got out at 2pm which was freaking awesome. I had just come back to lunch around 1 and was talking to baberz on AIM, and I heard Patti say to my boss, "Nick is on line one." Which is code for: he's gonna let us go home early!! Which he did. At that exact moment he did. And so about 15 mins I was out the door and on my way to baberz. We just went out and ate some lunch...I don't even honestly remember what else we did, except we went to see Twilight!!!!!!!!!! It was sooo amazing, I just could not believe it. Baberz actually enjoyed it quite a bit himself too, which honestly surprised me. Then, we just went back to his house and chilled.

Thanksgiving!
I got up around 9 Thanksgiving morning. I picked up baberz and took him to the annual cross-town rivalry football game. Bristol Central (my old h.s.) v. Bristol Eastern. We went just about when half-time started, so we watched the two marching bands perform. (Yup I was in marching band, haha). I mean I suppose this is a biased opinion since I believe my school was alot better. Apparently Mr. A put a lil New Britski in the routine. (New Britain has a sick marching band for being an inner city school, they're very southern style). After that, I took baberz home because he had to go to his sister's for Thanksgiving. So, I went home, watched some cartoons and pretty much napped till my memere and pepere came over. Got up, enjoyed some fooooddd and then went and played some Guitar Hero with my brother.

Around 6, baberz finally came over and we had dessert. He met my memere and pepere and they loved him. My pepere at one point in time actually pulled me aside and told me how polite he thought baberz was. (awwww).

After that, baberz and I went to the bestie's house. We just chilled out and drank a little. (I was driving so I had one tiny drink!) And baberz ended up getting really drunk. Which was kinda funny. Till he realized as I was driving around looking for food that he didn't like the decision he had made. So, he got all self-pity on me..and it irked the crap outtta me. (sorry baberz!) I ended up driving him home, cause he was still slighty intoxicated. He left his car at mi casa and I went home and to bed.

Friday
Friday, I woke up at 530am instead of 4am. I'm not sure why, either my alarm didn't work or I hit the button and didn't wake up, but all I know is that my phone went off and confused me a bit. I couldn't really figure out why someone was calling me that early..till I realized it was Black Friday. So, I hopped outta bed, got dressed, went to the besties, picked up her cousin and started our adventure. We went to D&D first of course for some coffee and bagels. (mmmm)

Then we were off to Kohl's, Wal-mart, Target, Ac-Moore, and L.L. Bean. Then, went back to her house and just chilled, watched some tv and then I went to baberz.

Saturday
Saturday I got up at 730. The rents, my bro, baberz and I were all going out to breakfast. Which is of historic porportions. No boyfrann of mine has ever gone out with my family to breakfast before. And my dad paid for him. (lol). We had a lovely little breakfast, just talked and such, then left.

Baberz and I went to the mall because I thought he wanted to look at something for his rents. But, instead somehow, I lead myself into Macy's because I wanted to take the elevator which is extremely weird cause I rarely ever do. When we got to the bottom floor, baberz took me over to look at some rings. I ended up picking out a beautiful emerald one. (pic on previous post!) Then, I had to bring him back to my house to get his car so he could go to work.

After that, I went out with the bestie for the day. We went to L.L. Bean again because she wanted the fleece lined hoodie. We pretty much just shopped around for a while, visited baberz at work,etc. After we went shopping, we went back to her house and waited for baberz. We just hung out making necklaces and bracelets outta the beads we had gotten. Then, I went home and to sleep, I was getting up early again.


Sunday
Yesterday, I woke at 830 and went with the bestie to make cookies wit her aunts. It was pretty fun. We made lil Italian cookies, that we frosted and put sprinkles on. We did that till about 3 and then went home and just watched some tv. It was freezing outside, not to mention it was rainy and such out. Eventually baberz came over, because his boss let him out earlier. He was supposed to work 900-630, but his knees and back have been killing him, from working such long shifts consectutively.

So, the three of us chilled again for a little while. Then baberz and I went and looked at stuff at Kohl's then got some ice cream and Friendly's, and of course...watched Storm Chasers!!!!!


I'm so sad, next Sunday is the last Storm Chasers episode of the season. I freakin am obsessed with that show..so is baberz. (lol).


Well, that was pretty much the holiday weekend..nothing to exciting. Now I'm pooped.
Gay.