Sitting at home on a Saturday night...
Regardless of what the entry heading reads, it's been a great week all in all. I think it's safe to say that it's been the best week of my summer so far. No room to complain.
My sitting at home tonight is probably for the best. Work will have me up by quarter to six tomorrow morning.
You'll have to bare with me for a while here, because for now, I think I'm going to step outside of myself to write this entry. Maybe a little bit deeper of a look into my life...deeper than anyone was wanting to go.
Sunday
Nothing too out of the ordinary for a Sunday morning lately. Got up and was at work by eight. Worked until four and came home and got ready to go out. Jessica (16; childhood friend; knows more about me than most people), See Yee (18, co*worker, guy I'm, I guess what you could call *dating*), and Dan (18, co*worker) had made plans to go out to a movie that night so Jessica and Dan could get better acquainted. To make a long story short, it didn't work out too well, and Jessica was far from impressed with Dan and his lack of ability to be smooth. King Arthur was a little bit of a dissapointment as well. There wasn't much of a storyline to it. My apologies to Jessica for putting her through that. Here's hoping that doesn't change her mind about coming back out to Brooklyn Park anytime soon. See and I had a good time if that means anything.
Monday
I devoted most of the day to catching up on sleep (though it's not really possible to ever catch up on sleep), and didn't drag my sorry butt out of bed until 1:40. Went in to work at four and was there until eleven. I came home and talked with See for a few hours and went to sleep (AGAIN).
Tuesday
It was the perfect day. Not much more I can say aside from that. See Yee and I ran into Target for some unknown reason (between the two of us, I think we spend half of our waking lives in that damn store)before driving out to Boom Island in Minneapolis. I'd never been out there before, and although we had a little bit of trouble finding it, it was completely worth the trip when we got there. The weather was gorgeous, the people that were around seemed friendly (save the hobo who looked a little disgruntled but minded his own business), and we got a chance to spend time just getting to know one another. He was the perfect gentleman, and it made me feel terrible talking about him going away at the end of the summer. A few of the things he said got to me, but what bothered me even more was the fact that I was having such an incredible time with a guy that wasn't Nathan...up until recently, I didn't think that that was possible. After walking around the park and on the trails through the trees for a couple of hours, we ran and grabbed lunch just off of the UofM campus. See called up Ben while we were in the area, and told him we'd be stopping by so I could check out where See always crashed after his classes in the afternoons his senior year. Definitely a male-dominated apartment. It wasn't a bad thing though. Ben ended up playing the piano (keyboard that's no smaller than a piano) while we were around, and I about lost it right there. There's something about a guy who's musically-inclined like that... You could have nothing else going for you, but if you have that, that bumps a guy up quite a few notches. See got a call while we were there, and they needed him at home for something, so he dropped me off (at Target) so I could get my car, and I went to run and finish my errands that I'd started. Nothing too great went on the rest of the night. I fell asleep fairly early and woke back up only to have See call and thank me for the day. It needed to be the other way around...it's been a while since I've had that much fun.
Wednesday
WORK. I was at work from eight until just about four-thirty on Wednesday. It went by damn fast though. It's nice having a longer shift like that, not having to sit and stare at the clock every twenty minutes only to realize it really has only been five. See came in early (earlier than he had to be there) to take me out for an "expensive lunch" as my supervisor put it. We went to McDonalds. It's an on*going joke that he's going to take her out for an extravagant dinner one of these nights, and she was joking around with me, telling me to have him take me out somewhere nice. That's pretty hard to accomplish in a half hour. Aw well. After work I brought the car home so Josh could make it to some type of appointment. Kellie came over and we washed her car before part of her little male posse pulled up. They hung around for a while, and we somehow got a $6 pizza out of that deal, give or take a lil something extra. ;-) Eh, nevermind...I made an attempt at getting some of my old clothes together to take over to the GoodWill, but we both said *fuck it* and went to bull shit around for the rest of the night. I must have used up half a tank of gas running a two mile radius trying to find friends of hers. We would have been better off sitting in one place.
Thursday
Worked again. I really don't remember much of Thursday. It's all one big blur right now. Awe well. Couldn't have been that good then, huh?
Friday
I set out to try to get some things accomplished, and that didn't end up happening right away. See Yee called after he got done with his first shift at a different location to tell me to meet him for lunch with Ben and Mai (co*workers) out in the next city over. What should have taken half an hour at most turned into an hour lunch. Left there, went to grab some cash, and ended up forgetting my ATM card in the machine. Got half-way home in rush hour traffic only to realize I didn't have the damn card on me. See and I went all the way back out to retrieve it. After that he gassed up my car, and we went over to the park by work for a few minutes before he was supposed to start his next shift. I'm probably on your brother's shit list, Bowman. He was late on his (Aaron's) time, and it was partially my fault. Kellie met me at Target and we ran to KOHLS and to the "ghetto mall" in Brooklyn Center. Nice little drama there. Some guy held himself up in a fitting room. Don't ask me how that's possible. It was apparently intriguing enough to make the ten o'clock news. She bought jewelry, and I spent too much damn money on clothes. I spent time trying to justify my purchases to myself. Kellie and I pulled a blonde before the night was over. I dropped her off at her house, and no sooner did I walk in the door then Kellie called me up and asked me where in the hell her car was. We'd left it at Target. Not the brightest crayons in the box. FAR from it actually.
Today was fairly low key. I worked another 8+ hours to almost hit full time for the week. That doesn't mean much on my pay though. Kellie got abandoned at my door and we got a good laugh at cheesy dating shows on TV for a while. I also talked to Nathan for a good forty-five minutes earlier, and it felt really nice. We went the whole conversation without arguing or making false accusations which is, in my opinion, a good start.
And now, looking back, I've written far too much. This will be one of those entries that I can pull up and smile on a year from now, and hopefully, there will be no regrets to go with it.
Love,
Ashley
My sitting at home tonight is probably for the best. Work will have me up by quarter to six tomorrow morning.
You'll have to bare with me for a while here, because for now, I think I'm going to step outside of myself to write this entry. Maybe a little bit deeper of a look into my life...deeper than anyone was wanting to go.
Sunday
Nothing too out of the ordinary for a Sunday morning lately. Got up and was at work by eight. Worked until four and came home and got ready to go out. Jessica (16; childhood friend; knows more about me than most people), See Yee (18, co*worker, guy I'm, I guess what you could call *dating*), and Dan (18, co*worker) had made plans to go out to a movie that night so Jessica and Dan could get better acquainted. To make a long story short, it didn't work out too well, and Jessica was far from impressed with Dan and his lack of ability to be smooth. King Arthur was a little bit of a dissapointment as well. There wasn't much of a storyline to it. My apologies to Jessica for putting her through that. Here's hoping that doesn't change her mind about coming back out to Brooklyn Park anytime soon. See and I had a good time if that means anything.
Monday
I devoted most of the day to catching up on sleep (though it's not really possible to ever catch up on sleep), and didn't drag my sorry butt out of bed until 1:40. Went in to work at four and was there until eleven. I came home and talked with See for a few hours and went to sleep (AGAIN).
Tuesday
It was the perfect day. Not much more I can say aside from that. See Yee and I ran into Target for some unknown reason (between the two of us, I think we spend half of our waking lives in that damn store)before driving out to Boom Island in Minneapolis. I'd never been out there before, and although we had a little bit of trouble finding it, it was completely worth the trip when we got there. The weather was gorgeous, the people that were around seemed friendly (save the hobo who looked a little disgruntled but minded his own business), and we got a chance to spend time just getting to know one another. He was the perfect gentleman, and it made me feel terrible talking about him going away at the end of the summer. A few of the things he said got to me, but what bothered me even more was the fact that I was having such an incredible time with a guy that wasn't Nathan...up until recently, I didn't think that that was possible. After walking around the park and on the trails through the trees for a couple of hours, we ran and grabbed lunch just off of the UofM campus. See called up Ben while we were in the area, and told him we'd be stopping by so I could check out where See always crashed after his classes in the afternoons his senior year. Definitely a male-dominated apartment. It wasn't a bad thing though. Ben ended up playing the piano (keyboard that's no smaller than a piano) while we were around, and I about lost it right there. There's something about a guy who's musically-inclined like that... You could have nothing else going for you, but if you have that, that bumps a guy up quite a few notches. See got a call while we were there, and they needed him at home for something, so he dropped me off (at Target) so I could get my car, and I went to run and finish my errands that I'd started. Nothing too great went on the rest of the night. I fell asleep fairly early and woke back up only to have See call and thank me for the day. It needed to be the other way around...it's been a while since I've had that much fun.
Wednesday
WORK. I was at work from eight until just about four-thirty on Wednesday. It went by damn fast though. It's nice having a longer shift like that, not having to sit and stare at the clock every twenty minutes only to realize it really has only been five. See came in early (earlier than he had to be there) to take me out for an "expensive lunch" as my supervisor put it. We went to McDonalds. It's an on*going joke that he's going to take her out for an extravagant dinner one of these nights, and she was joking around with me, telling me to have him take me out somewhere nice. That's pretty hard to accomplish in a half hour. Aw well. After work I brought the car home so Josh could make it to some type of appointment. Kellie came over and we washed her car before part of her little male posse pulled up. They hung around for a while, and we somehow got a $6 pizza out of that deal, give or take a lil something extra. ;-) Eh, nevermind...I made an attempt at getting some of my old clothes together to take over to the GoodWill, but we both said *fuck it* and went to bull shit around for the rest of the night. I must have used up half a tank of gas running a two mile radius trying to find friends of hers. We would have been better off sitting in one place.
Thursday
Worked again. I really don't remember much of Thursday. It's all one big blur right now. Awe well. Couldn't have been that good then, huh?
Friday
I set out to try to get some things accomplished, and that didn't end up happening right away. See Yee called after he got done with his first shift at a different location to tell me to meet him for lunch with Ben and Mai (co*workers) out in the next city over. What should have taken half an hour at most turned into an hour lunch. Left there, went to grab some cash, and ended up forgetting my ATM card in the machine. Got half-way home in rush hour traffic only to realize I didn't have the damn card on me. See and I went all the way back out to retrieve it. After that he gassed up my car, and we went over to the park by work for a few minutes before he was supposed to start his next shift. I'm probably on your brother's shit list, Bowman. He was late on his (Aaron's) time, and it was partially my fault. Kellie met me at Target and we ran to KOHLS and to the "ghetto mall" in Brooklyn Center. Nice little drama there. Some guy held himself up in a fitting room. Don't ask me how that's possible. It was apparently intriguing enough to make the ten o'clock news. She bought jewelry, and I spent too much damn money on clothes. I spent time trying to justify my purchases to myself. Kellie and I pulled a blonde before the night was over. I dropped her off at her house, and no sooner did I walk in the door then Kellie called me up and asked me where in the hell her car was. We'd left it at Target. Not the brightest crayons in the box. FAR from it actually.
Today was fairly low key. I worked another 8+ hours to almost hit full time for the week. That doesn't mean much on my pay though. Kellie got abandoned at my door and we got a good laugh at cheesy dating shows on TV for a while. I also talked to Nathan for a good forty-five minutes earlier, and it felt really nice. We went the whole conversation without arguing or making false accusations which is, in my opinion, a good start.
And now, looking back, I've written far too much. This will be one of those entries that I can pull up and smile on a year from now, and hopefully, there will be no regrets to go with it.
Love,
Ashley