I haven’t updated in a while because I’m really just too lazy to do it. In the past I have always updated before work, but ever since I started this new job I’ve been in the habit of reading news and gossip before work instead. It’s a hard habit to break.
Not much new going on in my life. I’m finished with all of my Real Estate classes, and I’m basically just waiting on approval from the Texas Real Estate Commission so that I can take my exam and get my license. Lame. There’s so much waiting and paperwork involved with getting a license, it’s pretty ridiculous. The entire process needs to be streamlined.
I’ve been super tired lately, and I think it’s because of allergies. Although it might have something to do with having gone out dancing two weekends in a row, and last weekend I went out Friday and Saturday. Shame on me!
The first weekend I went out was SO much fun. It was Robert’s birthday, but he didn’t hang around Rainbow too long. I had the best time. The music was good, the crowd was good, and I have great partners to dance with. I even had two little fan clubs! There were two packs of girls sitting by the side of the dance floor screaming and hollering for me and at me every time I went by them. It was super fun and a little embarrassing. The guys I danced with were like, “Are they screaming and clapping for us?” Uh.. no. Just me. lol! I’m a total ham about it too. If I know someone is watching, I totally play it up. I should have been a performer.
I was totally feeling the energy that night and the dancing was great. I had two different people ask me if I danced professionally, which was a huge compliment. Someone else asked if there was a line or tickets being handed out because I was dancing all night with so many different people. Time like that make me miss performing with the University of Texas Ballet Folkorico.
The next weekend I went out Friday with Robert to El Chile and then to Charlie’s. I never go to Charlie’s anymore because it is scary and that’s where all of my past hangs out. I was kind of thinking it had been so long that it would be ok to go back and I wouldn’t run too many people I know, but I was wrong.
It was not a great experience. I ran into some people I used to date, and that wasn’t so bad, but the majority of people that hang out at Charlie’s are horrible train wrecks. It was pretty scary in there. Robert and I both agreed never to go back.
I did get one piece of really sad news while I was there. It seems that an ex of mine is now dead from an overdose. He died a year ago. I wish I would have known so I could have gone to the funeral. He was such a nice guy and pretty much the only reason we ever broke up was because of his drinking and drug use.
Saturday night I went out again and it wasn’t so much fun. The dance floor wasn’t slippery enough which caused everyone to wear out faster and it also causes blisters. The music wasn’t so great either. Combine all of that and then not having any fan clubs screaming for me, it just wasn’t the same.
I had my first knitting class last Monday. It was ok. The teacher was not great and she was very picky about everything. I didn’t like her telling me how I should hold the needles. I do what’s comfortable for me, and what’s comfortable for her may not be so for everyone else. I thought it was odd that we didn’t spend a lot of time on the basics yet were supposed to knit a dishrag by the next week’s class. Then we’re supposed to learn how to do a hat and knit in the round? I just don’t know about that.
This past weekend was pretty tame. I have been so exhausted lately, I think from working the regular 40 hour a week job and then doing the part time cleaning job on the side. I’ve always been the kind of person that needs 8 to 9 hours of sleep every night and at least one full day to relax every week… otherwise I get really tired.
Paco and I went to bed early Friday and then Saturday I spent most of the day doing knitting practice and watching TV. We had plans to go to his mother’s house for dinner, which I wasn’t entirely excited about because she was making fish for dinner. Because, as he said, “It’s no eat meat day.” Which translates to “We’re Catholic and it’s holy time!”
Saturday night we went to his mother’s house for dinner, which was traumatizing because she made a whole smörgåsbord of fish and seafood type things. I was TRAUMATIZED. She made a seafood soup with huge pieces of crabs and lobsters, whole shrimp, and cut up tentacles of an octopus. The lobsters, crabs, and shrimp were all still in the shells. The shrimp still had their heads, tails, and eyes attached. OMG
I don’t like eating animals as it is, especially if the meat in any way resembles the animal it came from, so this was beyond horrifying to me. I get grossed out sometimes just putting sandwich meat on bread because I start thinking about how I’m touching some dead animals flesh. She also made fried fish, WHOLE fish with the head and eyes still attached. I’m sorry but I just can’t do that. I can’t sit there and eat an entire animal and pull the flesh from it’s bones like I’m some kind of caveman. NO.
So the real reason we were over there was so that I could put together a desk for his mother. That was quite to ordeal. You know how furniture comes all neatly packed in a box, all perfect, right? We unpacked the box and put all the pieces and Styrofoam aside and then realized that one of the pieces was broken. I thought we could just take that piece back and have the nice folks at Target open a new box and take out the piece for us to exchange. No.
The insisted that we bring back the entire box. Now you know that all those pieces are NEVER going back in that box the way that they came out. It’s just not going to happen. Amazingly, I got all the pieces back in, but no Styrofoam and no wrapping materials. So that ate up a huge chunk of time running back and forth to Target to exchange the desk.
Sunday Paco and I did NOTHING, ok mostly I did nothing. He did laundry. He doesn’t like when I do laundry because he doesn’t like the way I sort the clothes. Whatever. He is free to do it himself. I don’t like when he does laundry because it usually takes him three days. I do it all in like 3 hours.
So that’s all… my long update. You’re all caught up now. Oh, I’m still waiting to take my final exam for my real estate license. I need to start studying for that.
