Sunday, November 04, 2007

A friend of mine made a comment one of my many blogs that this whole job situation with just another hurdle I’ve had to get over… And he’s right. Nothing in m life has ever been easy. But its always been worth it. Perfect example. My bachelors. After umpteen years I finally earned it in December of 05. Sure it in general studies (the equivalent of a liberal arts degree) but it’s a bachelor’s nonetheless and I worked my ass off it. And I had to live in small town Arkansas while getting it. If that’s not difficult I don’t know what is. Especially considering the fact I’m a Houston girl to the bone. Born and raised here in a city of 4 million with a zillion things to do and places to go and things to eat. To a town of 6,667 people, with one movie theater (with 3 screens) a Walmart, Tyson factor, and Movie Gallery for entertainment and only a few chain restaurants and one 24 hour restaurant (the truck stop). If you really felt adventurous you could go to Russellville (20 miles away and about 36,000 people) or one of the bigger cities like Little Rock or Ft Smith to go shopping, out to eat or whatever you wanted to do.

Pretty much in Clarksville, unless you were really into nature (yeah, not so much) and hiking (yeah right) or any other sort of outdoor activity you were kind of screwed on stuff to do… Did I mention it was a dry county with only one ‘club’ that served alcohol? The nearest town to get liquor was 20 miles away and the closest place for beer and wine was 10.

Is it any wonder we had to create things to do? Co ed movie nights in the dorms, pizza parties, parties at peoples houses, going home every chance we got, nights of board games and video games, sitting on the porch talking about anything and everything. In a way it was a lot better way to get to know people and a lot easier since the campus and town were so small. But there weren’t a lot of options for entertainment.

I was going somewhere else with that but I can’t remember where I was going… Ah well.
Screw transitions I’m just going to go randomly into stuff like I always do.

I just realized tonight that most of my blogs here lately haven’t been 1. As boy crazy as usual, 2. As crazy as usual, 3. As funny as usual, and 4. As often as I used to post them. Though in the last couple of days I think I’m more than making up for that last one… And the only reason I’m not talking about number 1 is because I’m keeping this crush a lil closer to the vest… A few friends know about him and that’s how its gonna stay til I figure out whats going on. I think that’s another one of those signs I’ve grown a bit since I first got my job. Usually I’d be bursting at the seams to tell everyone every lil detail about him. But not only has that gotten me in trouble (whats that?) I don’t wanna share this one. At least not yet.

Also in the last few days I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad. He would have been 71 last month. And December 18th is coming up soon… Then it’ll be 17 years since he died. Honestly I didn’t even think of his birthday til the other day when I was telling someone how old my dad would be. And I ALWAYS remember the 18th…. Even when I try not to. It’s the one day in the whole month of December I DON’T like. I’m just hoping theres something going on on that day this year to get me out of my head and not dwell on it too much. Sure its escapism but dwelling on his death isn’t going to change anything. Kind of like my last break up. Ok, bad comparison…

But speaking of break ups… I had a friend compare the whole losing the job thing to an amicable breakup… I’m not mad at them and they’re not upset with me. And hopefully we can still remain friends.

Sounds like most of my break ups.

And while I’m thinking of being single. AGAIN. This night’s been rather nice… The only way it could be better would be if I had someone to snuggle with. Watching movies on the couch I swear theres no better way to spend an evening. Too bad I don’t have anyone to snuggle with… Ah well. Maggie’ll snuggle with me a little… A dogs not the same as a guy but as close as I’m getting for now…

Speaking of which she needs to go out one last time before bedtime. (another good time it’d be nice to have someone to snuggle with but Maggie’ll have to do.)

Some people may find that odd… The thing I miss most about being in a relationship is snuggling. Most would probably think it’d be sex or fix stuff that’s broken or drive when I don’t want to (or can’t). Nope. I just wanna snuggle. Go fig.

Next time I place a personal ad (just not on Craigslist ever again… *shudder* I saw scary crazy people…) I think I’ll use that… Must like snuggling… And kids. And dogs. And be intelligent. And like sports (and understand that one day I’ll marry Brandon Backe… hehehe…). And be able to make me laugh. And take and be able to dish out crap without having their feelings hurt. And understand I don’t do sex casually cuz I was brought up thinking that was only meant for people in a committed relationship. I’m worth waiting for dammit. And please for the love of God, be somewhat attractive, under the age of 40 but over 21, single, straight, sane and male….

Yeah that’ll get a lot of response I’m sure. And the response I get I probably won’t want.

Ah well. Off like a prom dress to walk the dog one last time.

Laters.

posted by Ali @ 12:04 AM

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