Last night right after I posted Jenn came over and we hung out for a while and figured out who some people in her phonebook are. That was great fun. This morning my mom and I rode our bikes to the Brick for breakfast, and we sat next to the weird group of people. This girl was wearing a red beret with a bill on it, a white shirt with some sort of image on it with rhinestones, and a red short skirt. It was not very Ortega-ish, to say he least. And they were talking and I was listening of course, and she was saying how recently he got really drunk “at this place downtown. Like TSI? TIS? I don’t know.” She was talking about different forms of transportation when you are drunk, and how when she is drunk, she gets a tow tuck to take her and her car home, and its free. The guys that she was with were both like, “No I don’t think they do that” and she was dead set on it. It was hilarious. And then one of the guys kept saying how he knows one of the guys in Lynyrd Skynyrd and how “Lynryd comes into the store all the time.” No one’s name in that band is actually Lynryd, first off. Yet again they were like, “No, I don’t think you’re right.” It was funny to hear each person at the table do the same thing.
After a nap and a Target run, my mom and Jenn and I went to Timiquana and laid out for a bit. Jenn and I were swimming at one point and talking about apparently strippers at the Dollhouse make around $1000 a night. I don’t think that’s right, and I said, “Well its only $5 for them to get naked.” And Jenn said “Also its like $30 for a 3 minute lap dance.” And then we remembered that we were surrounded by children and there was this mother right next to us and it was very awkward. We just… swam away…
Tonight Jenn and I went to Kickbacks with Colton and Ben. That was fun, since I haven’t hung out with Colton in a really long time. It was nice to catch up and everything. I forgot how hilarious Colton can be. After Kickbacks we were sitting at their house, and it was 11:11 and everyone was like “make a wish!” None of us did, then Ben made us say what we would wish for if we wished on 11:11. Jenn and I both chose not to answer, since our wishes are probably similar. And Colton was like, “I just wish I could always be doing something sweet.” Which is such a Colton thing to say. He went on and described what his perfect life would be, where even flying wouldn’t top the sweetness of his day to day life. After he finished, both Jenn and I wished we had written it down. It was amazing.
I silently stressed about something for the past 2 days, and I think everything was resolved tonight, which I am excited about. Oh and I bought more wine. Woo!
Jenn is sitting next to me in my bed right now, stealing my music from my hard drive. I am falling asleep. There is a beer teetering dangerously on my dresser. Ironically, it is a beer from Colton’s, and it is sitting on top of my Pray for Jax painting. Funny.
“My days begin with a holla, end with a Creamsicle, and if there is time in between: Thunder Cats. Ho!”
My mom and I were going to ride our bikes to the art market in Riverside today, but my aunt and grandmother came over to go so we didn’t get a chance to do that today. I went to my dad’s though to get my bike back, and barely spoke to him while I was there. I am still livid with him. I don’t plan speaking to him for a while. But that probably wont work out. Marsha, my mom and I went to the art market, and I was really disappointed. I went once when I was home in March or early April, and it was the second week of the market being open. Then it had a lot of art, and little tents for a bunch of different local galleries. But today it was all food and clothes and regular vendors. There were a couple of cool artists though. There was one I fell in love with. His name was Schallenberg, I think. All his work was really textured and abstract, kind of like a really 3D Pollock.
Afterwards my mom and I went to the outlets to get work clothes. I am not too fond of this people work clothes and I just don’t mix. I don’t have a very feminine style and everything is skirts and blouses and slacks. I hate slacks more than anything. I cant even wear normal jeans. F I can feel fabric flapping around my ankles, even in the slightest, I cant stand it. I have been wearing skinny jeans for far too long to ever go back to normal pants. Also, the people that shop at the outlets are… interesting. You get such a range. While we were in J. Crew everyone was normal, and dressed cute. But then we walk outside and first thing I see is a woman in a huge grey shirt, red, ill fitting sweat pants, and carrying a child haphazardly on one hip and smoking a cigarette. Can we say classy?
Rob met us at Marsha’s house to fix up her internet and then went to dinner at Barbara Jean’s. every time I go there I think, “OK, lets be open about this, maybe I will like it this time.” Nope. I still don’t. The fries are delicious, but I don’t like anything else. The majority of their menu is sea food, and I don’t eat sea food so I am kind of screwed there.
Finally I am getting my iPod to work. It is too small for all of my music, so I have to pick and choose what I want on here. I went through and put everything on it that I would like to listen to driving up and down between Miami and Jacksonville, and it was only about 2,700 songs, which is about a third of my iTunes library. I miss my iPod, and I am excited to have it back.
I am riding my bike to the Fox tomorrow morning for breakfast with my Mom. I may die, for reals. I am so out of shape, which hopefully will change this summer. I haven’t ridden my bike in so long, aside from between my mom’s and dad’s today. And even that was kind of painful. My mom and I watched a bit of Running With Scissors tonight. Earlier we listened to some of an Augusten Burroughs audio book while driving out to St. Augustine and that got me in the mood to watch that movie. I forgot how weird it is, and now I just really want to watch the Royal Tenenbaums. I haven’t seen that in a really long time.
I am falling asleep while typing this and I have to be fairly soon to go to the Fox. Although this is a video from Davey Dance Blog, where he goes to historic locations, picks a song, and dances. The song he used in this video is one of my favorite songs, and it was the finale of the CollegeHumor all nighter this year.
This morning Jenn came over and we made muffins. More like she watched me mix them and then burn them. And I burned my finger. St. Marks had their last day of school today, so my mom and I took Liam and Jack to the pool and had lunch. I saw some girls from high school which is always fun. People I care to just never see again. I am ready to get out of Ortega. Everyone is stuck up. I don’t get it. And today just confirmed it. I don’t get some people.
So apparently I give awesome advice when I am drunk. Last night I was talking to a bunch of different people and giving advice, and apparently it was amazing advice. Then this morning I was trying to help Jenn with something and I had no clue what to say. I can only give good advice when drunk. Not good.
This afternoon I went to Sports Authority to get Liam’s baseball coaches end of the season gifts. I took I-295 as usual to get to Blanding, although I was a little excited listening to Ratatat, and I missed my exit. Usually that’s no big deal. However this time I had to go 10 miles out of the way and a 10-minute drive ended up taking a half hour. O barely made it back to Ortega in time for an appointment with Denise. Turn out I didn’t have to be there at all, and I accidently fell asleep in the waiting room. That was awkward to wake up to the receptionist staring at me.
I took a nap this afternoon and had a serried of really weird dreams. The weirdest was a dream where I went skiing with Eddy Ospina. Why?
I saw my grades tonight, and I was really disappointed. I worked harder this semester than I had in past semesters at school. I got all A’s and B’s, but a D in Spanish. I hated Spanish with a passion, and I am not surprised I got a D. My GPA was only lowered a little bit, but it is so frustrating that all of the work I did basically just got erased by one class. Good thing is that I don’t have to deal with Spanish anymore. I wanted to go to the art show at Ocean Club with Jenn tonight but because of my grades I couldn’t go and I feel bad. “/
I have spent the evening watching TV, which is something I never do. Now I am watching Frasier. Odd. I think I am going to sleep in the TV room tonight. I’m cozy. Jenn sleeps on this couch a lot. I’m guessing it’s comfy. I guess I will find out.
The weather has been getting a lot better lately. Today I took full advantage and went to the beach with Jason. Watched him surf for a bit and just walked around. This evening was the Village dance recital. I wanted to go, but I stayed back with Liam instead. They did a piece just for Allison in the beginning, which was apparently really sweet.
I love how when I am typing “Sweet” into Word it auto corrects to Sweet Briar College. Jason saw the Sweet Briar sticker on my car today and wouldn’t stop making fun of the name. Granted, it is a sort of silly name for a school. And it sounds so girly. Sweet Briar. Pfft.
I found out today that I don’t have to go to Miami for another week. I am so excited about that. I still haven’t unpacked from school, and I don’t feel like I have had very much time getting everything together to head down there. I am glad I have more time to sort everything out. Tomorrow I am supposed to get some stuff from Tenet to complete, like a drug screening and what not.
Tonight Rob and I went to sonic, like old times, and then just drove around trying to figure out what to do. In what he said was our greatest adventure in the last 2 years, we drove though Riverside and Avondale and ended up at the park at Stockton. We recoded a video from Sonic that perfectly shows our relationship. Some people act differently when they are being recorded, but sadly enough this is exactly how Rob and I are. He hit me enough today to leave some intense bruises I’m predicting. We will find out in the morning.
Today was pretty laid back. I just had a hair appointment and went to the dentist. I usually love going to the dentist, but today it was miserable. The nurse was a tad too rough, and there was too much blood for my liking. After my hair appointment I went to Smoothie King to see Emma before I came home to do laundry. We were just standing in there talking, and this guy came in. He was super tan, orange tan, and had the spiky hair and oddly pouty lips look about him. I couldn’t help but laugh at him. He asked for a large smoothie, and as usual Emma asked if he knew how big that was, and he was like, “Its alright. I can handle it. Bigger is better.” All while still wearing his sunglasses. He was he definition of a douche bag.
This afternoon I hung out with Liam and went to dinner with Emma. Emma hung out here for a few hours tonight and we just sat around and talked. I deleted over 900 people off of my Facebook, and that felt awesome. I really can’t think of anything interesting from my day today to share. Oh well. Tomorrow will be a good day.
Today was lame. Ill just leave it at that. All I did was work clothes shopping, dinner with dad, TSI and Kickbacks. My mom and I talked about my dad being engaged today. That was pretty much the highlight of my day. She told me this afternoon before I went to go have dinner with my dad, because she apparently knew and wanted to give me a heads up. I told her that I have known, and I told her about how I found out about it. I cant tell if she is upset or not about it. I am pissed though because when my grandmother died, she left me a lot of really beautiful jewelry that I was supposed to get when I turned 18. I am 20 now, and I have never seen any of it. Apparently my dad gave Kathleen one of my rings as her engagement ring. Tonight at dinner I told my dad that my mom knows, and we started to talk about it for a bit. My mom had told me about the ring thing, so I asked him if he had bought her a ring. And he said no, that he was still looking. I told him that I know she has a ring, and he fessed up that he gave her one of Nana Helen’s. I made sure he knew that its my ring, and I told him that I am 20 now and I want all of my jewelry back to my by August. It is mine, and I do not want that woman wearing my ring. After diner Jenn and I went to TSI for a cookout then Kickbacks for dessert. Both places were pretty dead though.
There is something that has been bothering me for a while, that I feel like the majority of my friends do. With my core group of friends, we are all addicted to our cell phones. With any of them, we go out to eat and we are texting almost the whole time, and it’s all right. We all have an understanding that we aren’t being rude, and we are still paying attention. With a few people I feel like that has been abused lately. Like out to dinner and I am trying to have a conversation and I am being completely ignored. Also, lately I have felt like a bunch of people I have been spending time with choose to constantly talk about how popular they are. That was an odd sentence to word. So many times lately I have heard “Oh my god so man people just texted me,” “So many people just asked me to hang out today,” “My phone wont stop blowing up,” etc. I feel that is just one of those things that you shouldn’t feel the need to talk about. Maybe that is just me, since most people do that. It makes me feel bad because I don’t have many friends left in Florida, and when ever I am down here I have a small pool of people to spend time with, and hearing about other people’s amazing social lived makes me feel pretty shitty. Give me Virginia, and I am set, but not so much here anymore. I don’t know if I am over reacting, and this is just normal, or if it only applies to my friends. Everyone seems to be doing this lately.
I have been thinking about some things more lately, and these small things are really starting to get on my nerves. Just stupid small things that no one notices, but they are all really huge to me.
I leave for Ft. Lauderdale in a few days, on Sunday. I got some clothes today for work. I have mixed feelings about going still. I will only get a total of 4 weeks in Jacksonville this summer, and I am really not okay with that. I had a rough year at school, and I need down time. I know I am going to enjoy this job and learn a lot; I just don’t want to deal with the stress and the work I have to do for school to get credit for this on top of normal work. I am trying to be positive about it though. I was talking to Colton earlier, and I told him about my job:
Colton Lane: What are u doing after that?? Kate Gorman: living in ft Lauderdale for 2 months Colton Lane: Damn Colton Lane: Party Kate Gorman: haha i wish Colton Lane: What are u gonna be doing there? Kate Gorman: working Colton Lane: Oh yeah? Doing what?? Kate Gorman: marketing for a hospital. its gonna be rough Colton Lane: That sounds like a grown ass lady job Kate Gorman: hahaha Kate Gorman: I like that Colton Lane: Yeah for real though Colton Lane: That sounds like a legit job Kate Gorman: its an internship, so its more of a fake real job Colton Lane: I am proud of u Kate. Kate Gorman: Thanks Colton Lane: I'm for real like none of my friends ever do anything with the lives. But like it seems like u are Colton Lane: That's cool Kate Gorman: thanks. Im trying. Colton Lane: Yeah I realize that may seem a little weird to hear Colton Lane: But.... I'm kinda wasted so its alright lol
That was nice to hear, except for the last part….
Tomorrow I have random appointments then hopefully hanging out with Emma. I just realized that I have been listening to the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack in the background while typing this, without realizing it. Hm…. Changing. Back to my current favorite song, which SURPRISE, brings the livelavalive video I am in love with right now. I love Ghostland Observatory, and I love that he used this song in a video.
