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Tuesday, 30 November 2004

I re-enlisted yesterday.  I should be happy.  Yesterday, I didn't want to go home.  I feel so alone at home.  Funny, considering that my roommate and I are usually in the same room for most of the day.  I was depressed and that made me anrgy, and I don't want to be angry, so I became frustrated.  I felt defeated.  I felt like drinking and wining to someone.  Unfortunately I cut everyone out of my life a year ago, even if they don't know it yet.  For the last year I have been waiting to move.  Instead of being sad about leaving everyone, I decided to let them all go ahead of time.  It really is my own fault, and my best excuse for it is reminisant of a line from "A Walk To Remember"; "I don't need a reason to be angry with God."  Replace God with Navy and that was my reason.  It is best to go some place new with hopeful thoughts, than to miss those you have left behind and be there depressed.  So I suffer now, but I can't wait to leave.  Does any of this make sense?  Or is it my strange logic?  In the end I decided to sleep it off.  I woke up six hours later and felt good.  It is a bad thing that I am sleeping more in the days than I am at night though.

Last night my dreams where strange.  I was a Transmuter (I could change an object into anything I chose) and lived in a dorm.  I remember being angry that I was in a dorm instead of living in an apartment.  Anyways this lead to many strange adventures.

There is so much more that I want to talk about; polotics, sociology, and such things, but maybe next time.

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Saturday, 27 November 2004

where to start?  Lets just go at random

Ron finally hit on this girl who works at this local store.  It was getting kinda funny listening to his stories of going to the store and chickening out.  He ended up in the purses section one time, cause it was near her!  Unfortunately she had a boyfriend, so no date there.  He had more guts than me though.  I couldn't have asked her out.

Traffic was horrible on Wednesday!  Glad I slept on the drive! lol

Ron's family was really nice.  Had fun talking to his uncles and playing video games with his younger cousins.  The younger cousins were funny.  I think the youngest (Alison, 12) liked me.  It was cute.  The older one(Samantha, 13) was actually hot.  Too bad she is a DECADE younger, lol.  Made me wonder when it is exactly that women lose that "fun" and carefreeness.

Drove back on Friday and got home around 10pm.  I was bored so I went to Sidelines to watch the Laker game.  This was the first one I have been able to watch since the season started.  Kobe was great, and happens to be the NBA scoring leader so far.  This helps my arguement with Ron, that Kobe is better than Shaq, and the Lakers made a good choice trading Shaq when they did.  Unfortuantely, my team didn't win.  This put me in a bad mood at the bar, so I left.  There is one bad thing about watching my favorite team at the bar; missed oppurtunities.  There was a few girls that night that I should have hit on but kept saying,"After the game."  One was a beautiful 30 something woman, who carried herself like a lady.  She would come up to the bar and stand nearest me in the more crowed area to my left.  On my right there was no one and would have been the much better choice for someone tryig to get a drink.  She would look over and patiently wait to order.  I should have said something.  Another girl (Samantha) would do the same thing but get even closer and she would make small talk.  I kept thinking that I knew her somehow, but didn't want to say, "Have we met before?"  Eventually I broke down and asked, because she would get friendlier each time she came up.  She said, "Yeah, I met you and your roommate here a few months ago....you were really trashed." and laughed.  I laughed too, and had to ask her name.  I knew there was a reason I couldn't think of her name!  But then again, anyone who has been to Sidelines can say they met me while I was trashed and be lying.  I would never know, because I usually am.  The other was  a cute trailer girl.  I call her that because she had a horrible "white trash" haircut.  Regardless she was beautiful.  She was talking to one guy all night, but kept looking over.  She was only a barstool over, and I know I was better than the guy she was talking to.  Not to be concided but I am very vain, and analize every guy as competition.  I am sure that every guy does this, but most don't admitt it.  Anyways, when the game was over I was going to go talk to Samantha and her crazy friend, but was just upset about the Lakers losing.  And I was a little more drunk than I thought I was, so I just went home before I got too drunk to drive the three blocks home.  I was going to post all of this last night, but thought I would save you all from the dreaded drunken post.

I went to a retirement on Wednesday before leaving for Miami.  It was great.  I love going to retirements.  They always make me want to cry.  For all the "We apprieciate(I will take a spelling class one day)  your sacrifices"  It means so much more coming from those of us who know exactly how those sacrifices effect you.  So I always go to show my support.  (Family also knows the sacrifices)  I can't imagine retirement, but I know I would break down and cry the way every retiree always does.  If you ever get a chance to go to one, I highly recommend it.

I got into many debates and won them all, I am so smart!  I will describe them later.

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Wednesday, 24 November 2004

This morning I kept hitting snooze thinking that when it went off again, I would wake up in Baby's arms.  The thought never accured to me, "Who the hell is Baby?"  In fact, I didn't even remember until I was shaving and found myslef humming "Back in Baby's Arms" by Patsy Cline.  I don't know what made me think of her or specifically that song, but I went with the flow and threw in the greatest hits compact disc.  Strange dreams last night.  That's all for now, folks.

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Tuesday, 23 November 2004

So the thought came to me a few hours ago; Angie is going to Bremerton also.  I was thinking next week she will be gone and that will be that.  Then I realized I will be there a month later.  What are the chances of running into her there though?  I ask because I don't think I am going to tell her.  Is that wrong?  Whatever.

I leave tommorrow for Miami.  I almost backed out of going, but figured when will I get the chance to go to Miami again?  Might as well, huh?  Should be back Saturday, so don't get carried away!

I saw a movie today called "The Shape of Things".  I think that is what it was called anyways.  One fucked up movie.  Don't watch it because I am about to give it away.  It was about this girl who pretends to love a guy and changes everything about him and makes him give up his friends for her college thesis.  I was pissed by the end of the movie.  Mainly because I can see that happening to my dumbass.  His character was so me.  I have given up friends for love before.  Well, not totally because of her.  I am the kind of guy who can hang out with a guy and his girlfriend and she will be my friend too.  This friend had a girlfriend who was a good friend of mine, but when I got a girlfriend, he became different.  It didn't help that she didn't want to hang out with us, so it was always a choice between the two.  I thought I balanced it pretty well, apparently they didn't.  Anyways, it tore us all apart.

I should have saved that for last because it made me lose all train of thought.  Goodnight.

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Well, apparently I was a little presumtuous in my last post.  I got my orders today, and they were for the USS STENNIS (CVN 74).  It is a carrier based out of San Diego, California.  The beautiful southern California.  I know they say Florida is the Sunshine State, but seriously, California should have that title.  Screw Florida!  lol  Anyways, I looked up the Ship and it turns out that they will be changing homeport from San Diego to Bremerton, Washington.  I knew it had to be too good to be true.  Not that I really mind Washington, but I guess I got my hopes up.  I was looking forward to being only three hours away from home and more importantly only two hours from Kristi.  My friend Dee is going to San Diego next year and thought we might end up roommates.  That's right, Dee.  The one who's girlfriend I slept with earlier this year.  Our friendship made it through, somehow.  I think maybe because we both don't like her, lol.  No, that's not true.  Oh yeah, we were talking about orders.  I also considered having my cousin Frankie move in with me.  That would have been a lot of fun!  Now I am headed to Washington.  I don't know anyone in Washington!  How is that I chose three different locations, where I at least know some people, and end up in a place where I know no one??? 

I didn't mention when this was all happening did I?  I leave next month.  My choice as to the exact day, so I think I will leave on the 17th when my command goes on Christmas standdown..  I have until the 11th of January to report to the Stennis.  This is actually the good news.  That means that I get the holidays off and guess what else???  That's right MY BIRTHDAY!!!  Yay!  I hate going to a new place for my bday.  No one to celebrate with.  But now, I could be home for my bday and party like it is the end of the world!  This will be my frist bday at home in six years.  WOW.  Six years.

So to sum up, I guess I am still excited, but just not as excited.  I have to start car shopping now.  I saw a nice BMW for only 17k.  I think that might do.  But then again, I should wait until I get to Washington to buy one.

well, thats all for now folks. Goodnight!

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Monday, 22 November 2004

I AM GOING TO SAN DIEGO!!!

Can you tell I am excited???

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Sunday, 21 November 2004

O.k., Lets see how fast I can get this all out.  Friday I get a call from Katie (Angie's friend).  I was surprized to say the least.  She asked if I wanted to go to Bourbon St, which is a bar in Jacksonville.  Even more surprizing was that I said yes.  Immediately.  So an hour and a half after they wanted to leave, they are finally ready.  No matter what people say about how long I take to get ready, I do not take longer than a woman!  I ran to the bank, cleaned outhe car and put gas in it before they were finally ready.  Anyways, Katie rides with me and Angie rode with Jared.  I thought it was a little odd, but figured maybe I was just being paranoid.  I mean, was I still suppose to hit on Katie?  We get to the club and Katie spent most of her time with me, alone.  I had a few Leg Spreaders, cause they are soo good.  Through various questioning I found out the information I was looking for.  It was a lot like playing MYST, for those of you that like puzzle games.  I would ask one a question, ask someone esle a different question that will cross reference the first and so on.  This was the end result.  Katie was hanging out with me alone because the other guy that we left with Angie kept hitting on her and she didn't like him.  Angie apparently was bored being left with him.  I had thought maybe she was ignoring me, and pawning me off on Katie, but I was wrong.  I still didn't talk with her much.  Katie was really friendly, so much so that I think she must consider me a friend.  I hadn't seen her smile like that since I have known her.  A genuine smile.  When we got back to Angie's apt, Angie showed me some photo's, interesting.  Did I mention that Angie dyed her hair blond?  It looked nice.  Anyways, went home and slept for about fourteen hours.  Standard recovery time after partying with them.

Saturday night my roommate and I decided to eat out.  We  went to the greek resturant that we use to go to every saturday morning, and I guess for me, it was morning.  After that we stopped by sidelines for a few beers and to see who was there.  The other Katie was there.  Did I mention she is single now?  And looking for her new "fuck buddy".  Ron and I were playing pool and she spent most of her time with us.  She had this extremely low cut shirt on and kept putting her cleavage on the table anytime I took a shot.  Interesting?  Am I the one that got away?  Probably not.  Then out of nowhere Angie called to see what I was doing.  I was just surprized she called.  She is too confusing.  I was suppose to call her back today, but just didn't know what to say to her.  So I didn't call.

Today- I finished my book!  Time to start a new one.  Maybe the L. K. Hamilton ones.

On another note, I am getting old.  I think before the end of the next year, I will be shaving everyday!  I am almost there now.  I hate shaving!  I guess it isn't bad considering I will be 25 in January.  Maybe I will get laser hair removal someday.

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Thursday, 18 November 2004

This morning I don't feel like working. Actually, I haven't felt like working for the past two weeks. There are things I have to get done though.

Let's talk about the girl at work. I haven't talked about her in a while. She also got promoted with me yesterday. But bigger than that....she is pregnant again. Granted she is married, but I was still crushed. When she told me, I just stared at her. Maybe I was waiting for a punchline or something. I knew I had to say something, but couldn't think of anything. I just stared. Finally, I said, "Congradulation." It was nowhere near even hald hearted. It came out sounding more like a sorry. A sorry that you say when one of the relatives dies. I don't think she caught on to it, but I knew that I couldn't even fake excitement. I guess it is a good thing for her and her husband, who I met yesterday. They seem happy. Enough about that. I am tired of talking about women.

I guess I will mention one other thing about women, but it is more about me being stupid. Last week when I left Angie's apt, I left a note. In the P.S. I called her a Controversal Anchorman. I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but I was drunk. Luckily I reread it, and left a P.S.P.S. to say I meant confusing girl. I was also practacing my handwriting at the time so that could be a reason for the randomness. End Paragraph.

I watched "Letter to Home" on HBO. It was a bunch of short segmants on the hero's who died in Iraq. It was more about their last letter home to their family who died. I watched about twenty minutes of it. It was just too depressing. A lot of those guys where younger than I am. I did think it was funny that on one of the letters (they didn't read it, but they showed a little of the writing) had a P.S. that said, "Iraq STINKS!" I laughed hard. I know how the arab world smells and let's just say that it is different.

Well, time for work, post more random thoughts later.

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Tuesday, 16 November 2004

So much on my mind that I will forget all of it before I write half of it down.

Angie is gone.  At least I think she is.  End paragraph.

I have realized that I am an absorbant.  When I see someone cry, I want to cry.  But that is fairly normal,...I think.  When I watch television I imagine myself as that character.  What ever I am reading is the view point I take.  Like the book I started Sunday; Sunshine by Robin McKinley.  The main character Sunshine is a bakery girl who also happens to be a little bit of a witch.  Her element is the sun...go figure.  Anyways, she describes the way she loves the feel of sunshine on her body and how refreshing it is.  Lately I love the way the sun feels.  I have always enjoyed the warmth, but today it was bliss.  It could also be the fact that has been cold lately, and the sunlight makes it feel at least ten degrees warmer.  I watched a french romance movie last night that I have been putting off for over a week.  I felt like that girl in the DISH network commercial.  The one where it is girls night in, and they are trying to decide on a movie.  One of the girls is describing the movies and another one starts crying just from hearing what they were about!  Anyways, twenty five minutes into the movie, I had to stop it and take a break before it overloaded me.  If I had watched the movie straight I would have gone to deep.  It was an overall great movie, but the ending was a little out there, even for my imagination.

The mixture of my emotions is crazy right now.  One part sadness, one part regret, a teaspoon of confusion, a helping of excitement, a heeping of anxiety, and happiness sprinkled all over that.  A lovely sweet and sour mash, with a subtle texture.  The first parts relate to everything that I have already mentioned in my blog.  The last few relate to what I am about to write.

I found out yesterday that I was promoted.  I am now an E-5 instead of an E-4.  Well, I will be tomorrow after the ceremony.  Funny thing is that if I didn't get in so much trouble I would be an E-6 by now.  But alas, I am a trouble maker, or so I am told.  Anyways, this is what I had been waiting for to reenlist.  As an E-5 I am now able to go overseas.  I want to go overseas.  I made my choices today for where to go next.  I had to choose jobs today from a  list of "hot" jobs.  It was really funny to find out that all of the "hot" fill jobs (the ones I have to take) are in San Diego, Ca.  I have been trying to get San Diego for my whole time in, with no luck.  Now that I am forced into taking a job, it looks like I might get what I wanted.  Funnier still that I no longer want San Diego, lol.  I want overseas!  I made three choices for SD and one for Guam (A US Territory) and another for Japan.  I think my last choice is the one I will get, because that is just how the Navy is, but the odds right now are 50/50 for SD or overseas.  Those odds are fine with me.  I can live with all the choices.  SD puts me close to home and more importantly Kristi.  Guam is where a buddy of mine is headed, and so is my current boss (who is great).  Japan has a friend of mine already there, but he probably won't be there long, and on top of it, I will get an extra three hundred dollars a month for my "inconvienence".  Isn't that nice?  Oh, and then there is the pay raise that I get for being promoted.  Thats another 3 a month.  If I got SD though my housing allowance would be about 8 more than it is now, so I really will make money anywhere I go.  Guam, is probably the worst one, but hey I will get to save money.  So I will be reenlisting for what I think will be four years, I think, next week.  I should be gone by the new year.  I figured all of this would happen months ago, but now that is happening, it feels too fast.  I am almost going out-of-body for this.  Just letting it all fly by.  Now all I have to do is tell Kristi.  I think I will tell her when I find out where I am going.  Problem is that I want to talk to her now!  but I will wait.

See, I told you I would forget half!  Good night.

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Saturday, 13 November 2004

OK, part 2 and some of 3.

That night we played more drinking games. And as I meantioned, I never play them much, which results in me drinking a lot. My normal drink limit is around eight or nine, any more and I am wasted. Like I said I drank most of what I brought, which I thought would be for all of us. Long story short, Angie and I spent most of the night getting to know eachother. At several points in the conversation, I remember thinking, "No!" There were so many things that said "Run!" I even told my self to remember this, "Fear a woman who knows her perscription medicine." But I am stupid.

We were the last two drinking, and the talk became more intimate. Not sexual, although it did at times, but as in how close we were to each other. I told her that she isn't very difficult to understand, and she said, "OK, what am I thinking then?" I said I couldn't tell her, but if I knew her for a longer time I could easily tell her her own thoughts. Then she pulled a guy move! She said, "I know what you're thinking." So I fell for it, and said, "What?" She leans in to whisper it to me, so I lean in too. Then she starts kissing my ear, which lead to us making out. She stopped and asked if that was it. I just laughed and said no. I honestly wasn't thinking about it. But since I asked so many times the night before she probably thought that was all I was thinking about. When I like a girl though, sex rarely comes in to play during normal conversation. We continued making out for the rest of the night. At around 630am I decided that I had to go. I had to at least shower before work, even if I was going to still be wasted. So I go to kiss her goodbye, and she attacks me. I think she thought I was doing something else (besides saying goodbye). I had to make a quick decsion, "How much trouble am I going to get in?" Well, I am well liked at work, and since I work with mostly guys, I was sure they would understand. And I was right. They pretty much threw me a party when I got to work! But I get ahead of myself. I finally left at 9am when she passed out, and ran home. My roommate showed up shortly after to give me a ride to work. I showered and left. I completely forgot that I had DUTY that day. Which means that everyone was looking for me, not just my immediate coworkers. Luckily I still didn't get into too much trouble.

Slept when I got home, until the next day. Had duty again the next day. Got home late, called her. That was aqkward. Made a sorta date for Wednesday, since Thursday was a holiday. Wednesday- had duty for most of the day! Three days in a row really sucks! Get home and eventually go over to her apt. She was dressed up. I didn't realize she wanted to go "out". It was really cute. I know she doesn't wear makeup often, but she did that night. The only things to note about that night were the comments made. I was walking outside when I heard her say to a friend, "But I am leaving and he is staying here." To which her friend replied, "Awww, that's sweet!" Knowing what I know about Angie, her saying something sweet must mean a lot. Then later in the night, Katie asked her who her best guy in bed was. There was an awkward pause then, "Well......He is stationed here...." and Katie said, "That's enough, tell me later." I don't know if either of those comments where said with me in mind and it drove me crazy trying to figure it out. Everyone passed out that night, so I went home. Was asleep by 4am Thursday morning. I didn't wake up again until 530am Friday morning. Went to workout, went to work, got off went to going away luncheon, went to Jacksonville.

Will finish after I get back form the bar, tonight.

I am now drunk, which is better for the reader, because, now I spill my guts. That means those of you who don't want to hear about certain aspects about me should stop now. This means you MOOKIE. I will be mentioning sex in some detail, so please stop.

There was something about the sex that I forgot to mention, but is very important. Ordinarily, when I have sex, it is in the third person. That sounds funny, but let me explain. I detach myself form the act, and watch myself, analyize what is happening. It puts me in control, weather I am the dominant one or not. It also detaches me from the person. Most of the women I have been with were carefully chosen, so that no feeling would be hurt, and no relationship could develop. You get that breif history lesson, because it effects my next statement. I lost myelf in the feeling. I dwelled in the connection and didn't want it to end. That was a mistake. After that is when all of the emotions came. She gave me a brief connection that I had missed for too long. Not sex, but the feeling you get when you have sex with someone you love. I didn't/don't love her, but at the time, I let myself feel it. And now I feel a bit lost.

All that being said, lets get to the problems. She is still married. Says she is getting a divorce, but that doesn't matter because she leaves on Teusday. She has three kids, and I think at least one is from a different dad, if I remember correctly. That wouldn't bother me so much, except...I don't know, it doesn't help my chances? It took me four days, after having sex with her, to even figure out if she like me. And last but not least, there is no future between us. We are far too different.

Here is another problem that you may have forgot about. Remember two posts ago? When I was wondering weather or not to love? That was about a different woman. One I have been friends with for a while, and have grown to deeply care about. We had talked of taking the relationship past friendship, and that was what the post was about. I think I ruined that now. Funny thing was that I knew I would. I can't let myself have someone. It would be to nice, and way more than I feel I deserve. When it comes to love, I do not have the confidence I have in other aspects of my life. I am constantly stopping relationships before they ever start. She has made it clear to me that I am lucky to still have her friendship, and for that I am grateful.

Last night I was supose to go to Gainsville, Fl. Didn't happen. Got drunk in Jacksonville. Then Angie called me. Said that she wanted me to come see her. It was then that I finally figured out if she liked me. I could almost swear she was going to tell me that she loved me. She was really drunk though, so even if it was what she had said I don't think she meant it. I do that some times. I mean to say I could love you, not I love you, lol. It is true. So I call Kristi, Dee's girlfriend, to give me a ride home. For those of you who have been reading long enough, you know why that is such an awful thing. Her car breaks down in Jacksonville, and long story short, it took four hours to get home when it should have taken forty minutes. Angie was now wasted and half pasted out, so I went to bed.

Today, was productive. I did a lot of things that needed to be done around the house. Sandra (my first girlfriend) called me and told me she was mad at me for not saying goodbye the last time I left home. She said, "Didn't you notice that I wasn't calling?" I thought I wasn't calling her! I was/am mad at her for pretty much saying that I wasn't important enough to spend time with. And she wanted a goodbye??? Fuck her! Anyways, went to the bar. As soon as I get in, this girl is all over me. She is hitting on me and being pretty straight forward about it. I just kept thinking, "You have got to be kidding me! Like I need more women to think about right now?" I played along and let her feel liked, but made sure that I said noting about liking her. Very tricky to do. Then went to Huddle House for what? That's right, a gross omlette, a waffle, and some chili! Oh now I enjoy my chili!

None of this makes any sense does it?

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~~The Walker~~

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Book: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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