Better late than never

Here we are in week 2…Last week was pretty awesome. I met a lot of the rangers…went to some pretty amazing places…ate free food with all of the people who live and work here. All and all it has been pretty awesome. Only thing that I can say is raining on my parade is A: the rain…haha…and B: freaking spiders! I hAtE spiders. There little creepy crawly legs…there beady little eyes…and the way they are 50 times bigger than the spiders back home!

There was a spider on the ceiling last night so I grabbed the spider spray…this shit doesn’t work but it scares them off…I sprayed him a bunch until he lost grip and fell…but he swung into the wall and made a thud…then I sprayed him some more and he hit the ground with a splat…yet still unscathed. He continued to crawl down the hall and I kept hitting him with the spray. He either eventually died (keep my fingers crossed) or he made his way to one of the rooms down the hall…but not my room

Next week is full of adventures. Tomorrow we are going with one of the geologists here down to this place called Castolon…seems like great fun and great connections for my 20 page paper on the geology of Big Bend!! Then Wednesday is our 12 mile hike that I am slightly worried about…and Friday is the over night rafting trip!

And after that I start work…which is actually a little undefined in itself. We have not really been told what days…where…or what we will be doing whatever it is that they are going to want us to do…apparently it is a big hodge podge of things…and they really don’t know. All I know is that I need a program ready in a bout 2 weeks…so I started it…

I am giving a program to visitors on “Why NOT to wear flip flops in the desert” using my own dialog of an injury I got from wearing flip flops when I lived in Arizona! Should be pretty fun…and hilarious with all of the smelly feet jokes I plan to squeeze in there!

82% ready 18% FREAKED OUT!

Car is back and better than ever. I even had the brakes totally redone. All of my rotors were ready to go and my front pads were done…I am hell on brakes!

Half of the car is packed up…I have a list of about 25 things that I still have to cram in there…but that includes my toothbrush and a bunch of other tiny things! I am pretty crammed in there! It will be a tight fit. And a slow ride…but I have no problems with that! I will get there eventually!

Mom and I went to Mcguires tonight…I didn’t tell anyone from Pensacola…but I was sitting right next to Donna’s section…she was super nice to me. Made me feel pretty good. My mom had a good time which is really great! Dad went to Amarillo TX to get their RV that has all of her stuff in it! It was a super huge weight that has been lifted so it was cool that we got to go out after! Super stuffed!

Speaking of stuffed…I need to start working out BIG TIME! I am bringing my Yoga Booty Ballet…haha…yeah, you laugh…but that crap will kick you BUTT! For real!

Oh…and for my fReAkInG OUT!!! Not only am I still pretty pmsy like…but my stress got the better of me the other day when I was trying to get my car back and fixed and back together…I finally got my radio fixed today…I pray to God that everything else will go as planned…

And speaking of God…I will be going to church with my Grandparents tomorrow…I hope its not all weird and stuff…They have a tendency to make me feel a little awkward…But whatever. It will be cool!

load ‘em up

I have finally begun to pack. I leave for Big Bend in less than a week. OMG! I have everything packed up except for things that I can’t really pack up yet…clothes and stuff. I get my car back on Friday so I will be able to actually pack up the car…hopefully everything will fit!! It seems like my pile o’ stuff to take has doubled in size since I first made my list!

As Friday grows near I am getting more anxious about my car! It had better be fixed tomorrow or I will freak out! These people are the worst EVER! Billy Owens Collision is HoRrIbLe just so you know! Not that you will ever be able to find them bacause they don’t even have a sign! I don’t even know why I left my car at this posunk stupid shop…but I did…and they are causing me so much heartache! Grr to them!

Just when I am not looking for a relationship because I am leaving…here comes the best relationship ever. Even more interesting is that he is going this weekend to the Nascar races in Montgomery or something and will be back the day before I leave! One day! We went to a movie tonight and I left early because I knew he had to pack…but we have spent almost every last moment together the past week!! We went to the fair…he came with me to Pensacola for my going away thingy…tonight we went to a movie…hmmm…I am gunna miss him! It will be worth it though! I will have a lot of fun! And he will miss me

sittin on the dock of the bay

A week and 3 days…this is coming very fast. I don’t need to do much else before I go except replace my book for one of my classes that was ruined in the great flood (turtle tank). And do a few assignments. Hmm…butterflies are taking over my stomach. I think every day I get even more anxious. Especially with everyting that is going on!! Shall I explain?…

Well…for starters my mom backed into my car! So I can’t pack until this place fixes it. Which really isn’t a big deal because her insurance gave me a rentall car! It’s way sweet! A 2008 Altima. It only has 27,000 miles on it. Almost brand new! I think I can live with this

Football…I hate football…it is so retarded that these millions of people pay millions of dollars so they can sit close to these fat sweaty guys who are dumb as shit and throw a ball around for MILLIONS of dollars…I just don’t get it…

money and madness and a million other things

For starters…I suppose I could talk about something important…the stock market and the housing crisis…for those of you who know me, you may also know that I am broke…always…And I don’t complain. I am perfectly fine counting out quarters for gas and food…Although right now I actually do have some money saved up, that is beside the point. What the hell is going on with the government bailing out Freddie, Fanny, AIG, and all those other mortgage companies?!? They buy them out so that all of these people who have taken chances to live the “American Dream” don’t lose their homes. I am sorry. But it you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. I live in an RV…not a trailer…not a house…an RV…with an engine, and a steering wheel…and a drivers seat. It’s money that doesn’t exsist!!! DOESN’T EVEN EXSIST. And when the stock market goes down…money goes down…and those companies that gave these people ‘fake money’ are freaking out. And even more people are freaking out and selling their homes…selling their stocks…Well what do we do now?? So here comes the big bad government to save the day…save the day…how about these people in the slums of America still haven’t had a bite to eat. And you are buying out these mortgage companies because the simple two bedroom house on the east side of town just wasn’t good enough for the Smith family. Now I understand that some people have to buy a home…families and whatnot…but I am telling you now…if you want to have a happy stressfree life with your new family…it would be in your best interest not to get a couple hundred thousand dollar loan to buy your home you should ask a grandparent or beg for money on the street or live in a tiny apartment on the lower east side. Trust me.

Now onward…something that I thought was pretty interesting…and totally pointless…involves Sarah Barellis…So this whole “Don’t want to write you a love song” thing was supposedly a song that she wrote for her record company because she didn’t want to write a ‘love song’…but has anyone listened to this CD?!? Ummm…so I bought it…and every song on that CD mentions the word love…and I am not over exaggeraiting. So…how could she ‘not gunna write you a love song’ if she already wrote 10 of them!?

Hmmm…what else what else….ahh yes…so I got my first comment!! I am super excited…even though it is from my friend Bree. But still…maybe more people will finally start to read this thing once I start having a little bit more excitement in my life!!!

the final countdown

With another week behind me, and only one more week ahead (at crabs), I am finally starting to slightly freak out. I am not scared about my physical safety…I know I will be ok…I am more ‘worried’ about the culture shock. I am going to be in Mexico pretty much…what the hell am I gunna do?!?

Things that will change…
No more perfect cell reception
No more easy access internet
No more fast food
No more bars
No more cable (even though I don’t have it now…but not even basic there)
No more Blockbuster
No more Crabs people
No more friends
No late night trips to the gas station for ice cream
No more candy bars
NO MORE OCEAN

Nope…nothing…just me…my fellow intern…and the dessert and cliffs…some shrubs…a tree or two…some wild animals and spiders…haha…what am I doing?

I know it will be a great experience. I am sure I will have a good time. At least I will lose some weight and get in shape!! Haha…and might get to see some snow!! Sweet!!

good morning america

Here it is, not even 6 o’clock in the morning, and I am awake and blogging. Is this the twilight zone?! I usually need 12 hours of sleep…but here lately all my body will let me do is 7!! This is all well and good…except I went to bed at 10…which means I woke up at 5! There isn’t much you can do in an RV at 5 am.

I have watched several different versions of the news this morning. I like to switch back and forth between 3, 5 and 15…Apparently OJ Simpson is again facing life in prison. Something about robbery…what a loser! He says he is “putting his faith in the jury.” Yeah because he probably pays them off!
In other news…Ike is headed toward Houston and the coast of Texas…And will probably make heavy rains for Big Bend. I hope it doesn’t mess anything up! That would be horrible. Hopefully will just bring a lot of rains so it will be nice and cool when I get there! And hopefull it won’t hurt Houston because that is where my mom’s family lives.

So, only 12 days and counting until my final day at Crabs – We Got ‘Em…WOO HOO! I am not too excited about the next too weekends though! I just want to quit, but then I wouldn’t have health and dental insurance anymore! It’s 450 for the 3 months that I am gone. I figure it will be great to have that just in case a boulder falls on me or I get attacked by a Panther while I’m out west. Haha…hopefully that won’t happen…but it’s better to be safe than sorry!

After my last day is Sarah’s 21st birthday on the 23rd. My last day is 2 days before her birthday…and then I move to Alabama later that week. I leave my RV in Bama and drive to Texas starting the 5 of October. I have to be in Big Bend on the 12, but might get there a day early so I have drive around.

That’s about it…hope you didn’t fall asleep over there!! I think I might have to take a little nap before I go for my bike ride!

lobbyist shlobbyist

I would like to start off by saying that for the highest bribing lobbyist…I will sell my vote. Either way you want me to go…I am pretty sure if you just bought me a new car…even a used car…even a motor cycle…you would probably get me on your side…just throwing that out there!

Keeping up with politics is absolutely draining. Country this…economics that…all it does is rub it in your face that there is something messed up…and it is your job to choose the right person to fix it…between 2 people?!? What the hell happened to the green party…or the independents…Nader…HELLO?? I mean not even that…can’t we just blend a party? They could be a purple party! Girls will like that! Black people like purple too…and you would get the gay people! You’re a shoe in!! Hell…we could just find some intelligent black woman to run for that party…Oprah…or how about Venus Williams…she could make Serena her VP! YEAH!

In other news…I would like to say that I am beginning (mind you this have been a gradual yet steep increase in excitement since I found out that I am leaving…so that “beginning” word is to be used lightly) to get even more exited about my internship. I have all my bills paid for while I am gone…I am moving to Bama in 3 WEEKS! My last day at Crabs is only 3 weeks away!! That’s only 9 shifts…and really only 17 days away! Wow…it has been a long 4 years coming…but PEACE! I am out! My internship starts in only one month! My first day there is October 11th or 12th.

About that…one month…wow…how much can one girl think about one thing…you would think that after hours and hours of thinking about the same thing ones brain would start to smoke…or nose would start to run….or gears would start to squeal!! SOMETHING…but no…I fall asleep at 3 and wake up at 7 and bike ride at 8 and run around town all day…very unlike me. Usually I have to take a nap just to get through the day after I woke up at 1 in the afternoon. Speaking of sleep…it is about that time…so over and out!

How bout a round of applause

So of course I am watching the lame ass GOP…def not a republican…I am a nothing. I listen the to views and how the candidates carry themselves and base my vote on that. Most of my views match with those of non-republican candidates…mostly because they are too harsh with no hearts…and greedy with no souls…well…haha just kidding…but I usually feel like they are they are being dishonest. Voted for Obama during the primary and plan to vote for him in the final vote…but I clanged my mind on Kerry during the DNC 4 years ago…and decided not to vote at all…but this year I am hoping not get a clear understanding of all of the candidates and hopefully get my vote to count. I am going to submit an absentee ballot…so that kind of freaks me out. Never trust those things. Very scary!

 

Anyway…to the point of this post…I am totally not a Bush fan…and you should have heard me laughing during his simulcast for the GOP. He was pausing for a while in between almost every sentence he said…like he was waiting for applause…but you couldn’t hear  anything because of a technical issue. It was funny as hell. I didn’t know what was going on at first…sounded like he was just reading really slow…but late one of the news anchors said that he was listening to the audience in his ear…and we just couldn’t hear it. None the less…I am still not a Bush fan…don’t think I could be a McCain fan….

McCain really scares me. That little wink and his thumbs up. I would rather vote for his wife than him…she seems less invasive. McCain looks like one of those creepy uncle guys…or those weird guys that used to come into Waffle House when I worked there and ask me to put my finger in their coffee to sweeten it up. I think it is great how he chose a female to be his vice president…seems like some sort of political scam!! Like he is scared that Obama will win because he is black…no…Obama is going to win because he is genuine…and McCain is full of shit. Just another Bush…only short and pudgy.

what a slacker

Forgive me bloggers…for a have sinned…it has been 2 days since my last confession. I would like to tell you that a lot has happened in the past few days. Not anything that I can say public…but just a heads up. the several things have actually shaped the way that I will think about things from now on. Which is a great thing. I am very excited about the changes that will come in the future as well. One more month. It is getting really close. There are a few things here that make me want to stay, but who knows how that will work out anyways. I really hope that things in the past can be forgotten and that we could try everything again. I have changed so much in the past few years…in a big way. Not only with maturity, but also with security. My life is so much more care free now with the love of my parents…and the ability for them to be there for me emotionally. It makes me be able to live my life the way I want to rather than worrying about protecting myself and my heart from anything. I will just keep my fingers crossed. If it works out, it works out…if it doesn’t, it doesn’t…but I would love it if it did!!