So I just got this new app that let's me make blog post from my iPhone which I'm sure you guys would appreciate, because now I can post more frequently; not that you guys care that much to read this that much....
But ok, so I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I drove from my apartment in DC on Christmas morning to come home to VA Beach, and it was soooo great to be home; I love spending time with my mom; but I made a huge mistake, I drove to my grandmother's to see her, and my sister and her 3 kids were there, So since my sister has no car right now she caught a ride back with me back to my parent's house. Well the reason I love being home so much is because is so peaceful, when 3 kids under the age of 3 are thrown in, not so much. So now I'm ready to go back to my apartment where there is semi-peace when I'm not being robbed! I know, short trip home, but even though you miss being home, there's nothing like being in your own apt in your own space!
Oh so normally I hate those mass Christmas/Thanksgiving text that everyone sends, but I think people learned their lesson this year, out of the 21 Christmas text I got yesterday 15 of them were personalized to me! That made me smile, I really appreciated that! So if you were one of those people, you made my day thanks!
Well that's all I have this time guys; I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their break, and I will repost when I'm back in the capital!
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Merry Christmas to All Bitches!
So it is the night before Christmas Eve, and I'm not out celebrating... I'm not packing to head home.. no I'm taking it easy because I have to be to work tomorrow! Great, welcome to the real world, you know the non-college real world! Whatever happened to the days when you get like a MONTH for the break! Gah! But I did take off pretty much all of next week, and GUESS WHO'S COMING TO VISIT... B, G, & F! I am so excited! B & G have been planing to come this entire time, but we've been trying to convince F to come along. And I think she finally came to her senses and realized, why the HELL wouldn't she??? So one of my friends that I met over the weekend invited me out on Monday night to this place called JR's in Dupont and that was pretty fun. Apparently every Monday they do this thing where they play music from musicals and all the little gay boys sing along. Who would've thought this would be a hit amongst the gays in DC. Of course I'm not singing along because I don't recognize any of the music. So our plan was to go out for a little bit, and head home early so we could catch the metro before it closed. Well, the plan was working perfectly until some guy offered to buy us drinks for the rest of the night AND drive us home. Uhh can you say BAD IDEA! 2 beers turned into 5 and a mixed drunk. Bitch was DRRUUNNNKKK! And I didn't make it home until 3AM! FML! To bed at 3AM, up at 6AM to work by 7! Needless to say, I was feeling it BAD at work the next day. Thank GOD we have a sauna at my job, PERFECT for hiding and for hangovers! So yeah that was the excitement of my week, everyone else is so excited about going home for the break, me I really could careless about going home; I have absolutely no desire to go home. Is this bad? Maybe I'm just getting old; I find myself enjoying just sitting at home all alone, and watching TV, and drinking Capri Suns! I swear something about those things take me back to the kid soccer days!
But OK! So there was something important I wanted to mention in this post. Oh yeah, so I'm thinking about moving; why, well because I'm really sick of every time I meet someone they ask, "where do you live" and I'm like, "Oh, SW off the waterfront" and their response is "OMFG! THE GHETTO! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!" You know, I have no problem with my apt, I actually love it, but I can't have people thinking that I live in the ghetto! Plus, I hate the green line, especially when heading to Branch Ave, just too many GHETTO people on that train, I can't stand it; even though I have kind of accepted the fact that being in this city you will NOT escape the ghetto no matter where you go that's metro accessible. But YES, so where do I want to move, well of course I have been looking in Dupont, and in Chinatown. For some reason when I was looking for an apt when I was looking in Raleigh I couldn't find an apt in my price range in those areas, of course now that I live here, I see them all over! That would have been nice to know about 3 months ago! So yeah I think next year, I will be happy in a new place; doesn't help that I was robbed my first week of living here, I'm just saying!
So it's really depressing me that I have to leave for job training next month in Richmond, VA. I know it's close, but I've been meeting so many people, it just sucks to have to leave for 3 months! Ugh! But whatever, I will definitely be back here on the weekends which is all that matters, that's when all the action happens; I doubt I'll be making any weekday trips back unless someone gives me a really good reason to. Ok now I'm just blabbing along, I guess I don't have much else to say. Life here is calming down, nothing else exciting is happening. I can't allow that to happen, gotta cause some mischief somehow. Don't worry, I'll have something scandalous to talk about soon enough, just keep reading. :)
D's Quote of the Day : If you live your life and never face hard times, adversity, and everything goes right, you're definitely living your life wrong; and quite frankly, your life SUCKS! Go out and get a new one and quick! MOVE TO DC BITCH!
(Sorry the word bitch was used so much in this post!)
But OK! So there was something important I wanted to mention in this post. Oh yeah, so I'm thinking about moving; why, well because I'm really sick of every time I meet someone they ask, "where do you live" and I'm like, "Oh, SW off the waterfront" and their response is "OMFG! THE GHETTO! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!" You know, I have no problem with my apt, I actually love it, but I can't have people thinking that I live in the ghetto! Plus, I hate the green line, especially when heading to Branch Ave, just too many GHETTO people on that train, I can't stand it; even though I have kind of accepted the fact that being in this city you will NOT escape the ghetto no matter where you go that's metro accessible. But YES, so where do I want to move, well of course I have been looking in Dupont, and in Chinatown. For some reason when I was looking for an apt when I was looking in Raleigh I couldn't find an apt in my price range in those areas, of course now that I live here, I see them all over! That would have been nice to know about 3 months ago! So yeah I think next year, I will be happy in a new place; doesn't help that I was robbed my first week of living here, I'm just saying!
So it's really depressing me that I have to leave for job training next month in Richmond, VA. I know it's close, but I've been meeting so many people, it just sucks to have to leave for 3 months! Ugh! But whatever, I will definitely be back here on the weekends which is all that matters, that's when all the action happens; I doubt I'll be making any weekday trips back unless someone gives me a really good reason to. Ok now I'm just blabbing along, I guess I don't have much else to say. Life here is calming down, nothing else exciting is happening. I can't allow that to happen, gotta cause some mischief somehow. Don't worry, I'll have something scandalous to talk about soon enough, just keep reading. :)
D's Quote of the Day : If you live your life and never face hard times, adversity, and everything goes right, you're definitely living your life wrong; and quite frankly, your life SUCKS! Go out and get a new one and quick! MOVE TO DC BITCH!
(Sorry the word bitch was used so much in this post!)
Sunday, December 20, 2009
I HATE SNOW!
So for those of you who did not catch it on the news, this past weekend DC experienced one of its worst snow storms EVER! I mean this was seriously ridiculous, 25' of snow!; a definite WTF moment when I woke up on Saturday morning. THANK GOD the boys were here this weekend to keep me company. So, yes the boys got here on Thursday evening, and it was definitely a great time overall. So let me begin with Thursday after work...
17 Dec : So they meet me at my apartment after work, and we decide to grab some food before we went out. We decided chinese would be a good option! So i just typed chinese on google maps on my iphone and this place called "Jenny's Chinese Restaurant" pops up. So we give this girl "Jenny" a call, and asked if she could deliver. Apparently Jenny is high class, because it is $50 to get your food delivered! We immediately say FUCK THAT we'll drive, it is literally like less than a mile up the street. So we head to "Jenny's Chinese Rest." and of course it's quiet, not very busy and just looks like your typical Chinese restaurant. We order our food, and Jenny lets us know that the wait will be from 10-15 mins, and makes the suggestion that we wait at the bar. Seeing that it was 9pm at this point, and I needed to get an early start on drinking since I had to be to work in the morning, of course I thought this a GREAT. So we walk to the bar, and it's seriously a like GHETTO club! Like I mean GHETTO! They are playing gangster rap music, and we are all just sitting there wondering WTF?? How is this a bar at a Chinese Restaurant?? So after a few minutes of feeling as uncomfortable as I have felt in a VERY long time, we head to go grab our food (needless to say we did not drink ANYTHING there). We head back to my aparment and eat (my recommendations, don't EVER eat food from Jenny's, it was terrible!) and then we prepare to go out for the night. We head to this bar called duplex, which was pretty fun; it has a very good crowd, and it was very chill. I could see myself returning at some point.
18 Dec : So this is where the fun begins. Now we've been following this storm all week, and this particular night is the night the snow storm was to begin. But of course we were not going to keep let that keep us in the apartment. We get beer from 7-11, (yes I have a 7-11 down the street from my apt!!!) pregame, wrap up hardcore, and walked in the snow to this club called Town. We make it there, completely covered in snow, and we're all ready to DANCE. This club was actually really fun. It definitely has a bad rep though from what I am gathering from all the others that live here. I think it's probably the $10 cover that keeps most locals away from this club, and the fact that it is 18 and up. Who wants to be partying with a bunch of kids! But it's here that I meet the Hawaiian. Why do I call him the Hawaiian, well that's because he's actually from Hawaii; he doesn't look Hawaiian though, but he does have a bit of an accent. We talk for a while until my friends let me know that we didn't have much time until the metro stopped running. And we could NOT miss the metro because the snow kept the cabs from operating that night, so we did not have much of a choice. So my time was cut short with the Hawaiian, so we exchange numbers and we say that we will definitely stay in touch. (Yay me! I've met someone!) I get a text from him that night saying that it was nice to have met me, and really wants to see me again, score one for D!
19 Dec : So the snow has gotten ridiculous at this point, and it will not stop. We got 25 inches of snow, like that is ridiculous! I am definitely not used to this. It just kept snowing, and snowing, and snowing and it did not stop! But we decide to venture out into town anyway despite the slick sidewalks and part of the metro shutting down. We grab food in dupont, and I bring my friends to Soho, because I love it! Then we went to the mall to take photos of the Washington Monument covered in snow! It was pretty amazing! You know I realized, that was my first time going out there since I was 13 years old, WTF?!? I really need to get out and experience this city more! But yeah, we ended up getting some great photos, I'm going to have to post them at some point. Well that night we ended up going to two bars, and I don't remember their names because I was very intoxicated. Haha; but one of my friends had a couple of his friends meet us at my apartment to pre-game before heading out. They were both very cool, one of them is in medical school at GWU. This night was really fun, and went kind of fast; but the bar we were at was so, so; but the people I was with made it a lot of fun! We ended up calling it an early night, but I've exchanged numbers with my friend's friend that lives here, so that makes friend number two!
10 Dec : So the boys left this morning and it made me really sad! But it was definitely good to have them here during the snow storm, and to help me meet some people out here. Now I don't feel so alone out here. Things are starting to look up! Work still keeps me super busy, but it's all good. I've been spoiled these past two weekends because I've had visitors, it's going to be really hard when I actually have a weekend alone. We'll see how that goes. But I'm lucky to have such good friends, they've definitely made this transition A LOT easier for me. Now this upcoming weekend is Christmas, so I'll be home for that, and then the weekend after that is New Years Eve, and B & G are going to be back for that! YAY! So I think I'll be covered for a little bit haha. Now I've just gotta convince my friend F to come up here too! And my little J too! But I think I've bored all of my followers enough for one post so I'll leave you with this, stolen from the show Weeds, my new favorite addiction now that I've been going all this time without cable.
Nancy of Weeds : "Love means always having to apologize"
I heard this and thought there was definitely thought there was some truth to it, but I decided to throw my own little spin on it of course
D's Quote of the Day : Love means always having to apologize, sacrifice, and know which battles to pick; never settle for someone who is not willing to do all of these things, because you'll find yourself miserable at the end of the day.
17 Dec : So they meet me at my apartment after work, and we decide to grab some food before we went out. We decided chinese would be a good option! So i just typed chinese on google maps on my iphone and this place called "Jenny's Chinese Restaurant" pops up. So we give this girl "Jenny" a call, and asked if she could deliver. Apparently Jenny is high class, because it is $50 to get your food delivered! We immediately say FUCK THAT we'll drive, it is literally like less than a mile up the street. So we head to "Jenny's Chinese Rest." and of course it's quiet, not very busy and just looks like your typical Chinese restaurant. We order our food, and Jenny lets us know that the wait will be from 10-15 mins, and makes the suggestion that we wait at the bar. Seeing that it was 9pm at this point, and I needed to get an early start on drinking since I had to be to work in the morning, of course I thought this a GREAT. So we walk to the bar, and it's seriously a like GHETTO club! Like I mean GHETTO! They are playing gangster rap music, and we are all just sitting there wondering WTF?? How is this a bar at a Chinese Restaurant?? So after a few minutes of feeling as uncomfortable as I have felt in a VERY long time, we head to go grab our food (needless to say we did not drink ANYTHING there). We head back to my aparment and eat (my recommendations, don't EVER eat food from Jenny's, it was terrible!) and then we prepare to go out for the night. We head to this bar called duplex, which was pretty fun; it has a very good crowd, and it was very chill. I could see myself returning at some point.
18 Dec : So this is where the fun begins. Now we've been following this storm all week, and this particular night is the night the snow storm was to begin. But of course we were not going to keep let that keep us in the apartment. We get beer from 7-11, (yes I have a 7-11 down the street from my apt!!!) pregame, wrap up hardcore, and walked in the snow to this club called Town. We make it there, completely covered in snow, and we're all ready to DANCE. This club was actually really fun. It definitely has a bad rep though from what I am gathering from all the others that live here. I think it's probably the $10 cover that keeps most locals away from this club, and the fact that it is 18 and up. Who wants to be partying with a bunch of kids! But it's here that I meet the Hawaiian. Why do I call him the Hawaiian, well that's because he's actually from Hawaii; he doesn't look Hawaiian though, but he does have a bit of an accent. We talk for a while until my friends let me know that we didn't have much time until the metro stopped running. And we could NOT miss the metro because the snow kept the cabs from operating that night, so we did not have much of a choice. So my time was cut short with the Hawaiian, so we exchange numbers and we say that we will definitely stay in touch. (Yay me! I've met someone!) I get a text from him that night saying that it was nice to have met me, and really wants to see me again, score one for D!
19 Dec : So the snow has gotten ridiculous at this point, and it will not stop. We got 25 inches of snow, like that is ridiculous! I am definitely not used to this. It just kept snowing, and snowing, and snowing and it did not stop! But we decide to venture out into town anyway despite the slick sidewalks and part of the metro shutting down. We grab food in dupont, and I bring my friends to Soho, because I love it! Then we went to the mall to take photos of the Washington Monument covered in snow! It was pretty amazing! You know I realized, that was my first time going out there since I was 13 years old, WTF?!? I really need to get out and experience this city more! But yeah, we ended up getting some great photos, I'm going to have to post them at some point. Well that night we ended up going to two bars, and I don't remember their names because I was very intoxicated. Haha; but one of my friends had a couple of his friends meet us at my apartment to pre-game before heading out. They were both very cool, one of them is in medical school at GWU. This night was really fun, and went kind of fast; but the bar we were at was so, so; but the people I was with made it a lot of fun! We ended up calling it an early night, but I've exchanged numbers with my friend's friend that lives here, so that makes friend number two!
10 Dec : So the boys left this morning and it made me really sad! But it was definitely good to have them here during the snow storm, and to help me meet some people out here. Now I don't feel so alone out here. Things are starting to look up! Work still keeps me super busy, but it's all good. I've been spoiled these past two weekends because I've had visitors, it's going to be really hard when I actually have a weekend alone. We'll see how that goes. But I'm lucky to have such good friends, they've definitely made this transition A LOT easier for me. Now this upcoming weekend is Christmas, so I'll be home for that, and then the weekend after that is New Years Eve, and B & G are going to be back for that! YAY! So I think I'll be covered for a little bit haha. Now I've just gotta convince my friend F to come up here too! And my little J too! But I think I've bored all of my followers enough for one post so I'll leave you with this, stolen from the show Weeds, my new favorite addiction now that I've been going all this time without cable.
Nancy of Weeds : "Love means always having to apologize"
I heard this and thought there was definitely thought there was some truth to it, but I decided to throw my own little spin on it of course
D's Quote of the Day : Love means always having to apologize, sacrifice, and know which battles to pick; never settle for someone who is not willing to do all of these things, because you'll find yourself miserable at the end of the day.
Monday, December 14, 2009
The Mysterious Break In
Ok, I know you don't think I was going to leave this part about the weekend out! I feel like it is so important that I needed it to be in it's own posting! But now that I think about it, since my post go by most recent first, most of you will read this before reading the next post, so! If you are reading my blog, my suggestion is to read the post created before this one FIRST then come back to this one. Thanks!
Before I start, on a side note, I am at Soho, and I just witnessed some boy outside rolling a blunt out in public, like right in front of this store! Really? are you serious? God DC is so weird!
OK, so as B & G are packing up and getting ready to leave on Sunday, G realizes that her wallet is missing. So we go searching all over for it but can't find it anywhere! So we immediately raid all of their bags and my apartment looking for this wallet. After a while we kind of give up and decide it's probably in their bags somewhere and they'll find it when they get home, or I'll find it one day somewhere in my apt and I'll send it to her. Well we do one last sweep through my apt, and B noticed my computer is missing. That's when we realize, oh CRAP, someone must have broken into my apt. So G checks her credit card history and indeed someone has used her credit card at Macy's and made some random purchases. So at first it does not really phase me too bad, we call the police, I notify the front desk of my apartment complex, and I am kind of calm. It is not until B & G leave that I finally start to loose it. I start freaking out, thinking someone in my complex is following me, waiting to kill me or something! Yeah, it was very scary. But with time I've finally come to realize, living in the city, this type of stuff just happens, I'm not in the good old Raleigh anymore; and also, it was probably some kid that doesn't know any better. So I've gotten the locks on my apartment changed, and two additional locks added to my door (extra protection) and I plan on getting an alarm system. I was going to move but why should some thief keep me afraid of living where I enjoy living, and inconveniencing me. So bump it! I have just learned to be a little more cautious, and I will definitely NOT trust anyone in my building :). Lesson learned.
You know, it's always something with me isn't it? Haha! I'm glad I can laugh about this now, because I definitely was NOT laughing yesterday. So that's what I meant in my earlier blog that I "kind of" survived my first week of living here. I swear I will be posting my pictures soon! But yeah that was my week! My boys are coming up this weekend and I am SUPER excited, I'm sure there will be lots of craziness to post about that, so keep checking for new posts!
Before I start, on a side note, I am at Soho, and I just witnessed some boy outside rolling a blunt out in public, like right in front of this store! Really? are you serious? God DC is so weird!
OK, so as B & G are packing up and getting ready to leave on Sunday, G realizes that her wallet is missing. So we go searching all over for it but can't find it anywhere! So we immediately raid all of their bags and my apartment looking for this wallet. After a while we kind of give up and decide it's probably in their bags somewhere and they'll find it when they get home, or I'll find it one day somewhere in my apt and I'll send it to her. Well we do one last sweep through my apt, and B noticed my computer is missing. That's when we realize, oh CRAP, someone must have broken into my apt. So G checks her credit card history and indeed someone has used her credit card at Macy's and made some random purchases. So at first it does not really phase me too bad, we call the police, I notify the front desk of my apartment complex, and I am kind of calm. It is not until B & G leave that I finally start to loose it. I start freaking out, thinking someone in my complex is following me, waiting to kill me or something! Yeah, it was very scary. But with time I've finally come to realize, living in the city, this type of stuff just happens, I'm not in the good old Raleigh anymore; and also, it was probably some kid that doesn't know any better. So I've gotten the locks on my apartment changed, and two additional locks added to my door (extra protection) and I plan on getting an alarm system. I was going to move but why should some thief keep me afraid of living where I enjoy living, and inconveniencing me. So bump it! I have just learned to be a little more cautious, and I will definitely NOT trust anyone in my building :). Lesson learned.
You know, it's always something with me isn't it? Haha! I'm glad I can laugh about this now, because I definitely was NOT laughing yesterday. So that's what I meant in my earlier blog that I "kind of" survived my first week of living here. I swear I will be posting my pictures soon! But yeah that was my week! My boys are coming up this weekend and I am SUPER excited, I'm sure there will be lots of craziness to post about that, so keep checking for new posts!
Heaven and Hell... ALL IN ONE WEEKEND YAY!
So, I officially survived my first week of living in DC... or kind of survived it; yeah long story, but you know of COURSE I'm going to tell it to you.
Well it all started this friday...
WAIT; before I start this story, I know I promised photos... but.. ok so the internet at Soho is ok.. but not THHAATT great, so I tried posting my photos of my apartment up here one night but it was taking forever so I gave up. I am now on a mission to find a coffee shop with better internet. But in the meantime, I'm still at Soho and cannot post photos. So just hold tight, I will post them soon!
Ok, so where was I... oh yeah, so it all started this Friday...
11 Dec : So I spend all day at work, working my ass off and then I leave! Yay! And my friends B & G were driving up to visit me; so I was so excited to have people I knew here with me in DC. So after two accidents and a 6 hour drive, (keep in mind it does NOT take 6 hours to get to DC from Raleigh; I don't know what the girls were doing), they finally make it to my apt. So I show them around my apartment a little, but then we hurry up and start drinking because we have to go out to PARTY! So B & G have this friend who went to school with us in Raleigh who now lives in DC, well we decide to meet up in Adam's Morgan to go out to some bars out there. This was my first time actually going out in Adam's Morgan so I was really excited about that. So we'll call him... A, (I'm going to run out of letter's in the alphabet soon enough); so we get out to Adam's Morgan and this A boy has fallen asleep on his couch and tells us he will drive and meet us out. So here we are 3 people completely unfamiliar with the area, trying to find a bar to go to. Well we catch a BUS, yes a FUCKING bus out to where the bars are. In the meantime G is getting hit on by some guy who thinks she's hispanic; sorry genius G is italian! Anyway, we stop in some random bar to use the bathroom, and leave because B was about to get beat up by some random girl in the bathroom! Well we get to the next bar, and it is really cool, with the exception of the dance floor which smells like must, it ended up being a lot of fun, and this is where A meets us. So in the interest of saving you time so you aren't reading this post for days let me explain some of the awkward things we saw at this bar that you'd ONLY see in DC:
1. Random girl from NC State that graduated with us and used to live in B & G's freshman year dorm... yeah weird
2. Counless makeout sessions at a particular spot in the the bar by multiple couples, including a threesome with a dude and two girls a guy I initially thought was gay.. ha! fooled me!
3. The new love of my life, Osama (my personal nickname for him), and in an effort to introduce myself, I had my lovely wingwoman G push the living shit out of me into him; uhh yeah worst pick up idea EVER!
4. Some random fat girl falls on B, and proceeds to stay on the ground for a good 30 seconds before deciding to get up
Yeah so after we couldn't take anymore we moved along to bar #2 where the events got even crazier; we witnessed...
1. 3 crazy fights, brought about by god knows what... no seriously!
2. The jolly RED giant! (aka some random 6'9 girl in a tall-t mistaken for a dress and HUGE boobs!)
3. The near death of some 90lb girl
Yeah so after we had enough, we headed home! We ended up taking a taxi where some guy with a very thick accent (I couldn't tell you where he was from) gave us a tour of DC and I got to see Obama!.. well kind of.. :)
12 Dec : I make the girls wake up at 9AM, they hated me for it! And we did a little shopping and I drove them around... yes I repeat DROVE them around. Ok, one with road rage like mine should NEVER drive in DC, and especially not after a night of heavy drinking. I think B & G immediately regretted that decision as G got carsick in the back and B was forced to be my navigator. So later that evening we went out to A's apartment in Friendship Heights (which is a VERY nice area btw, I had never been but it was awesome), and we had a great meal and I got to meet some cool DC people, including one girl who told me that I live in the ghetto. It's funny because even though I spent a good 5 minutes trying to defend my apartment, it was being broken into probably at that very moment, literally AS I SPOKE, BUT we'll get into that later. So yes, we ended up going out in Dupont that night afterwards, and I honestly don't have too much to say about it because I was soooo drunk, like seriously WASTED! But somehow we were able to navigate on the metro and make it back home.
Well that was my weekend in B & G and it was pretty amazing. I am so happy that they came this weekend, and because of them I was able to meet some very cool people. A is pretty much the nicest and most talented person on the planet, and his roommate (we'll call her K) is really nice too. So things are starting to look up for me from here! Thanks B & G, ya'll are the best!
Well it all started this friday...
WAIT; before I start this story, I know I promised photos... but.. ok so the internet at Soho is ok.. but not THHAATT great, so I tried posting my photos of my apartment up here one night but it was taking forever so I gave up. I am now on a mission to find a coffee shop with better internet. But in the meantime, I'm still at Soho and cannot post photos. So just hold tight, I will post them soon!
Ok, so where was I... oh yeah, so it all started this Friday...
11 Dec : So I spend all day at work, working my ass off and then I leave! Yay! And my friends B & G were driving up to visit me; so I was so excited to have people I knew here with me in DC. So after two accidents and a 6 hour drive, (keep in mind it does NOT take 6 hours to get to DC from Raleigh; I don't know what the girls were doing), they finally make it to my apt. So I show them around my apartment a little, but then we hurry up and start drinking because we have to go out to PARTY! So B & G have this friend who went to school with us in Raleigh who now lives in DC, well we decide to meet up in Adam's Morgan to go out to some bars out there. This was my first time actually going out in Adam's Morgan so I was really excited about that. So we'll call him... A, (I'm going to run out of letter's in the alphabet soon enough); so we get out to Adam's Morgan and this A boy has fallen asleep on his couch and tells us he will drive and meet us out. So here we are 3 people completely unfamiliar with the area, trying to find a bar to go to. Well we catch a BUS, yes a FUCKING bus out to where the bars are. In the meantime G is getting hit on by some guy who thinks she's hispanic; sorry genius G is italian! Anyway, we stop in some random bar to use the bathroom, and leave because B was about to get beat up by some random girl in the bathroom! Well we get to the next bar, and it is really cool, with the exception of the dance floor which smells like must, it ended up being a lot of fun, and this is where A meets us. So in the interest of saving you time so you aren't reading this post for days let me explain some of the awkward things we saw at this bar that you'd ONLY see in DC:
1. Random girl from NC State that graduated with us and used to live in B & G's freshman year dorm... yeah weird
2. Counless makeout sessions at a particular spot in the the bar by multiple couples, including a threesome with a dude and two girls a guy I initially thought was gay.. ha! fooled me!
3. The new love of my life, Osama (my personal nickname for him), and in an effort to introduce myself, I had my lovely wingwoman G push the living shit out of me into him; uhh yeah worst pick up idea EVER!
4. Some random fat girl falls on B, and proceeds to stay on the ground for a good 30 seconds before deciding to get up
Yeah so after we couldn't take anymore we moved along to bar #2 where the events got even crazier; we witnessed...
1. 3 crazy fights, brought about by god knows what... no seriously!
2. The jolly RED giant! (aka some random 6'9 girl in a tall-t mistaken for a dress and HUGE boobs!)
3. The near death of some 90lb girl
Yeah so after we had enough, we headed home! We ended up taking a taxi where some guy with a very thick accent (I couldn't tell you where he was from) gave us a tour of DC and I got to see Obama!.. well kind of.. :)
12 Dec : I make the girls wake up at 9AM, they hated me for it! And we did a little shopping and I drove them around... yes I repeat DROVE them around. Ok, one with road rage like mine should NEVER drive in DC, and especially not after a night of heavy drinking. I think B & G immediately regretted that decision as G got carsick in the back and B was forced to be my navigator. So later that evening we went out to A's apartment in Friendship Heights (which is a VERY nice area btw, I had never been but it was awesome), and we had a great meal and I got to meet some cool DC people, including one girl who told me that I live in the ghetto. It's funny because even though I spent a good 5 minutes trying to defend my apartment, it was being broken into probably at that very moment, literally AS I SPOKE, BUT we'll get into that later. So yes, we ended up going out in Dupont that night afterwards, and I honestly don't have too much to say about it because I was soooo drunk, like seriously WASTED! But somehow we were able to navigate on the metro and make it back home.
Well that was my weekend in B & G and it was pretty amazing. I am so happy that they came this weekend, and because of them I was able to meet some very cool people. A is pretty much the nicest and most talented person on the planet, and his roommate (we'll call her K) is really nice too. So things are starting to look up for me from here! Thanks B & G, ya'll are the best!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Finally Here
So I have a lot to update you on because A LOT has happened in the past few days. So lets start from the beginning.
4 Dec : So I spent the night in Raleigh to say goodbye to my bests B & G! We went and saw my friend E's senior design show and she got second place! I was really proud of her, she did a great job! Then we went out to a bar and got to spend those last moments together. I am really going to miss those girls, they have stuck with me through everything.
5 Dec : So I wake up early in the morning to take the drive to DC, and OF COURSE it is snowing like crazy. I literally go like 50 mph the entire way because the storm was so bad, and only got worse the closer I got to DC. I meet my parents at my apartment and they have brought my TV and that's it. So at this point my apartment has.... a TV! The movers have let me know that they will not be able to move my things into my apartment until Monday. So I have two nights to sleep on the floor. AWESOME! No big deal, right? So first day in DC, what the hell do I do with myself.... NOTHING! It's no friends, no idea what to do, all this anticipation to get here and I have no idea what to do with myself. So I try an occupy myself, I went to target to get some things for the apartment, I walked around the city a little bit, got some dinner, and then headed home. The snow put a damper on my sightseeing so I came back to my empty apartment, alone, watched some dvd's and went to bed.
6 Dec : So a 22 year old, is all alone in the city; what is a kid to do. Well I did what any kid my age would do.... I shopped, and I shopped, and I shopped! And about $600 later I realized, oh shit I need to stop! I went and got somethings for my apartment, did some grocery shopping, got some clothes, you know, it's very easy to spend all your money when you have nothing else better to do. But then I realized, I need to get out, it's a Saturday night, and I need to do something with myself. So, while I was in Atlanta, GA a while back, I met who live in DC, so I decided to give him a call and see if he wanted to hang out, and of course he did, I mean honestly, who would pass up and opportunity to hang out with me?? Ok haha, I'm totally kidding. Well we met at Krispy Kreme and tried to come up with a game plan of where we wanted to go. Well within 5 minutes of hanging out I realized, this kid is going to annoy me all freaking night, which he did! We first decided to go to this one bar Cobalt. The bar was fun, and the crowd was really cool, but this kid put me in such a bad mood, I couldn't even concentrate on anything else other than how the HELL I was going to get away from him. So I the entire time, I'm not listening to anything he's saying, I'm just in my head planning my next course of action of getting out of there. So, I decide I don't even remember what he said to annoy me, but I remember just yelling, "Don't fucking touch me" and walking away, and not talking to this kid again. Yes, I was that mean. Because I finally came to the conclusion, just because I'm in a new city and don't know anyone, doesn't mean I have to force myself to be miserable hanging out with people I don't like. I'm fucking 22! I should be able to do whatever the hell I want. Well needless to say, my night was ruined, so I headed home early saddened, wishing my friends were with me here. It's really hard starting from scratch and not knowing anyone, but I mean, I had only been in DC for a little over 24 hours, so I can't expect much, I'm still new. So again I arrive home, to an empty apartment, alone, $600 poorer, and pissed! Yay for night #2!
7 Dec : So my furniture arrives, and my mood immediately changes! My apartment is complete, I have a brand new queen sized bed to sleep on, nice leather couches to lay down on and watch TV, I'm only missing a dining room set, that side of my apartment is looking a little bit bare, but it will come with time. I pretty much spend this entire day going through boxes wondering "why the hell do I still own this." It also sucks because living in the city in a tiny little apartment, there is no where to store things, so I ended up throwing A LOT of JUNK away that I would normally keep because I think to myself "man... i may use that one day." Well so much for that! Haha
9 Dec : Now today is Wednesday, and my girls B & G are coming on Friday and I am soooo excited. This week pretty much everyday after work I have been exploring somewhere new every night and keeping myself occupied. I have been remaining social and I have met 3 "new people." I say new people because they are people that I have made short conversation with while out and they have gone to say "hope to see you around" Cool thing about DC, it is very tiny, compared to other big cities, so you are likely to see many of the people again. Going out in Dupont just in this week, I have seen people on more than one occasion, so it gives you a sense of security that it has a small town feel in the midst of such a big city. I really think I am going to like it here! I am currently at Soho Tea and Coffee since I don't have internet yet in my apartment. This place is awesome for food and coffee, and internet, and the people here are very friendly. It reminds me of this coffee shop Helios at home, so I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time here.
OK... so now that I have updated you on my LIFE! Time to add photos, I will add those tomorrow so be on the lookout for those. You will be able to see my APT and photos that I have just been taking of the city. I really can't wait for the weekend, work has kept me super busy that I don't even see the light of today. Today I worked for 11 hours! AHHH! But hey, it keeps me busy so I'm for that!
D's Quote of the Day : What did people do in the city before IPhones; it's my radio on the subway, it's my navigation system when I'm trying to find my way around, it's my communication with others, it's my computer/internet when I need to look up information or find a place to eat, I would be totally lost without it! My advice, get one, you'll never understand it until you have one!
4 Dec : So I spent the night in Raleigh to say goodbye to my bests B & G! We went and saw my friend E's senior design show and she got second place! I was really proud of her, she did a great job! Then we went out to a bar and got to spend those last moments together. I am really going to miss those girls, they have stuck with me through everything.
5 Dec : So I wake up early in the morning to take the drive to DC, and OF COURSE it is snowing like crazy. I literally go like 50 mph the entire way because the storm was so bad, and only got worse the closer I got to DC. I meet my parents at my apartment and they have brought my TV and that's it. So at this point my apartment has.... a TV! The movers have let me know that they will not be able to move my things into my apartment until Monday. So I have two nights to sleep on the floor. AWESOME! No big deal, right? So first day in DC, what the hell do I do with myself.... NOTHING! It's no friends, no idea what to do, all this anticipation to get here and I have no idea what to do with myself. So I try an occupy myself, I went to target to get some things for the apartment, I walked around the city a little bit, got some dinner, and then headed home. The snow put a damper on my sightseeing so I came back to my empty apartment, alone, watched some dvd's and went to bed.
6 Dec : So a 22 year old, is all alone in the city; what is a kid to do. Well I did what any kid my age would do.... I shopped, and I shopped, and I shopped! And about $600 later I realized, oh shit I need to stop! I went and got somethings for my apartment, did some grocery shopping, got some clothes, you know, it's very easy to spend all your money when you have nothing else better to do. But then I realized, I need to get out, it's a Saturday night, and I need to do something with myself. So, while I was in Atlanta, GA a while back, I met who live in DC, so I decided to give him a call and see if he wanted to hang out, and of course he did, I mean honestly, who would pass up and opportunity to hang out with me?? Ok haha, I'm totally kidding. Well we met at Krispy Kreme and tried to come up with a game plan of where we wanted to go. Well within 5 minutes of hanging out I realized, this kid is going to annoy me all freaking night, which he did! We first decided to go to this one bar Cobalt. The bar was fun, and the crowd was really cool, but this kid put me in such a bad mood, I couldn't even concentrate on anything else other than how the HELL I was going to get away from him. So I the entire time, I'm not listening to anything he's saying, I'm just in my head planning my next course of action of getting out of there. So, I decide I don't even remember what he said to annoy me, but I remember just yelling, "Don't fucking touch me" and walking away, and not talking to this kid again. Yes, I was that mean. Because I finally came to the conclusion, just because I'm in a new city and don't know anyone, doesn't mean I have to force myself to be miserable hanging out with people I don't like. I'm fucking 22! I should be able to do whatever the hell I want. Well needless to say, my night was ruined, so I headed home early saddened, wishing my friends were with me here. It's really hard starting from scratch and not knowing anyone, but I mean, I had only been in DC for a little over 24 hours, so I can't expect much, I'm still new. So again I arrive home, to an empty apartment, alone, $600 poorer, and pissed! Yay for night #2!
7 Dec : So my furniture arrives, and my mood immediately changes! My apartment is complete, I have a brand new queen sized bed to sleep on, nice leather couches to lay down on and watch TV, I'm only missing a dining room set, that side of my apartment is looking a little bit bare, but it will come with time. I pretty much spend this entire day going through boxes wondering "why the hell do I still own this." It also sucks because living in the city in a tiny little apartment, there is no where to store things, so I ended up throwing A LOT of JUNK away that I would normally keep because I think to myself "man... i may use that one day." Well so much for that! Haha
9 Dec : Now today is Wednesday, and my girls B & G are coming on Friday and I am soooo excited. This week pretty much everyday after work I have been exploring somewhere new every night and keeping myself occupied. I have been remaining social and I have met 3 "new people." I say new people because they are people that I have made short conversation with while out and they have gone to say "hope to see you around" Cool thing about DC, it is very tiny, compared to other big cities, so you are likely to see many of the people again. Going out in Dupont just in this week, I have seen people on more than one occasion, so it gives you a sense of security that it has a small town feel in the midst of such a big city. I really think I am going to like it here! I am currently at Soho Tea and Coffee since I don't have internet yet in my apartment. This place is awesome for food and coffee, and internet, and the people here are very friendly. It reminds me of this coffee shop Helios at home, so I have a feeling I'll be spending a lot of time here.
OK... so now that I have updated you on my LIFE! Time to add photos, I will add those tomorrow so be on the lookout for those. You will be able to see my APT and photos that I have just been taking of the city. I really can't wait for the weekend, work has kept me super busy that I don't even see the light of today. Today I worked for 11 hours! AHHH! But hey, it keeps me busy so I'm for that!
D's Quote of the Day : What did people do in the city before IPhones; it's my radio on the subway, it's my navigation system when I'm trying to find my way around, it's my communication with others, it's my computer/internet when I need to look up information or find a place to eat, I would be totally lost without it! My advice, get one, you'll never understand it until you have one!
Friday, November 27, 2009
7 Days!
So I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving Day and are still enjoying their break. My break has consisted of me getting things together for my move in 7 days! Exactly one week from today I will be in my apartment in DC; I am very excited!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
10 DAYS!
So, I figured I'd start a little countdown since my move to DC is approaching very quickly (and since it's been a while since I've posted and I don't want you to think that I have either died or forgotten about this blog). So there are approximately 10 DAYS until I finally drive my happy ass on up there and can finally call DC home. So I will keep you all posted and get ready because I will frequently post once I'm finally there so hang tight guys.
D's Quote of the Day: There's nothing in life that a smile won't fix, at least temporarily while you search for a more permanent fix. :)
D's Quote of the Day: There's nothing in life that a smile won't fix, at least temporarily while you search for a more permanent fix. :)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Pics From DC!
They have a Krispy Kreme; this is a good sign!
I thought this was a cool view
I believe this is the actual Dupont Circle
These look pretty cool
14th st
The Time Has Come
Have you ever packed up your entire life into a box? That’s what I spent my entire day yesterday doing. After packing my kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room up into separate boxes it finally hit me that this is it. The time has finally come to move on with my life. I have been living the past week at my parent’s house and I must say, being at home isn’t all that bad. See, my parents are very strict; the summer after my freshman year of college living with them got so bad, I actually moved out and stayed with my grandmother for the summer. Normally when I come home, I stay for a max of 2 days and then I’m running out of there; not this time though.
During this past week I took a trip up to DC to sign my lease and visit my apartment. I’m going to be staying in SW, which is the southwestern quadrant of
Now I’m back in Raleigh visiting and man it feels weird to say that. Being a “North Carolinian” for so long it’s hard now to come here and not have my own bed to sleep in. But I am happy to see my friends one last time here before I make the big move.
D’s Quote of the Day: Life happens when YOU say go; never wait on the ‘perfect’ moment, it does not exist.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Welcome To My BLOG
College is one of those times in your life where it goes by so fast; you work so hard to get out and the moment it’s over you wish you could go back. That’s where I am now; having now completed undergrad, I find myself thrown into what most refer to as the Real World. What’s even harder for me is I have been relocated from the small town feel of Raleigh, NC, to the U.S. capital of Washington, DC. I am engulfed in nervousness and excitement; nervous to be in a new city and excited to be in a new city, just all around filled with different and conflicting emotions. This blog is intended to document my adventures as a new resident of the capital, from the people I meet, to the neighborhood I live in, the nightlife etc. So follow me and see what this next year has in store.
D's Quote of the Day: “Shut up” was probably the best advice I’ve ever received from anyone
D's Quote of the Day: “Shut up” was probably the best advice I’ve ever received from anyone
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