OK - so I survived the trip, I’ve made it to Orlando in one piece!  I have had one hell of a first week!  Luckily I made a couple friends here when I visited on my birthday in January, and I have managed to talk to them quite a bit online and via text so when I got here it was like I already had a group of people waitin on me.  This has completely shocked my roomies and best friend here as I came down and already had plans

Found my way around pretty quickly.  Last weekend I got a year pass to Seaworld, and went there with 2 of the girls I met in January.  We bought 1-liter bottles of sprite and dumped out a ton of it and filled it with grape vodka!  Let me just say, that wow did that make seaworld much more interesting.  Needless to say the 3 of us were pretty drunk seeing the shows.  But it was hilarious and we had a blast!  Then we sobered up for about an hour before we were drinking again that night haha.  And that was about the case for 3 days straight.  We kept holding up our glasses and doin a cheers to what we called “SPRING BREAK 0-SEVENNNNNN.”  Anyway, we went to about 4 clubs so far, they were all fun.  I also have been hanging with a girl by the name of Megan that is a rower for crew at the University of Central Florida.  She is GREAT and we have a lot of fun together…not to mention, she is quite the lil hottie!  I get to go to a kick ass St Patty’s day party in Tampa this saturday night, then some friends and I are renting an Island next weekend to go camping on. 

I have also had an interview for a job at a Soccer/Lacrosse store that is in the outlet district of Orlando and they said they would match my salary as well as give me incentives to make more money, like make a % of the store’s profit, very cool!  I have lunch again with them next week.  If they approve, I will start mid April.  Soccer starts April 27th, and I’m getting anxious to just have it start so I can get into a routine.  What they keep calling a winter down here reminds me of a VA Beach Summer - I workout outside every day, and I’m already sunburnt!  It is HOT down here, gonna have to learn how to drink more water definately! 

So it seems as if I have hit the ground running here, and I’m really excited, I shall keep you all posted.  If my family would just move here it would be perfect, I miss them ;(  But I’m sure I can visit for the holidays.  And shoot, I got Disney world 20 minutes away from me should anyone want to visit!!

Last week I got a phone call while I was about to go into Bed Bath & Beyond.  The phone number was from Florida and since I have friends in Florida I figured it was one of them.  The voice said “Kelly it’s Shane” in such a way that I was all, hmmm I have to know this person so I responded with “OH Hi.”  Well obviously at that point I thought that maybe in a minute or two something would flag me as to who I was speaking with….I was wrong.  I talked to him for over 20 minutes and literally NOTHING let me know who this was!  We were just gabbing about random bullshit - like “yes I still play soccer, oh I work for a construction firm, blah blah blah.”  He ends it by saying he would call me next week to catch up some more and I said Ok.  Hung up and and thought “who the f___ WAS that?”  A couple minutes later I’m at my moms and she says “Oh did Shane call you from college”….WHAT CRAZY SHANE!  This guy went to my college for ONE semester my freshman year, in 96!  It took me a while to shake him then - he was a little wierd, I helped him to his room ONE TIME after knee surgery with another friend of mine and the boy started callin me like crazy - sent me letters, and one time I got a box with silk disney boxers with hearts all over them (they went in the trash). 

Anywho - you heard how the conversation went the other night - and now I would like you to actually LISTEN to the messages I recieved from him after that.  This first one I got the day after I talked to him, and remember the conversation contained nothing negative and ended with “I’ll call you next week to catch up some more” in a lighthearted voice…..

KOO KOO MESSAGE NUMBER 1

Ok crazy guy…that was strange - so I left this message as a text to his phone number:

“Leave YOU alone lol, are u currently in a looney bin, u on crack, u hunted my number down n called ME crazy ass!  This is y I stopped talking 2 you 10 yrs ago!”  (this was in text so the decoding is: lol=laugh out loud, u=you,  y=why, 2=to, yrs…you get it)

Then I got another even funnier crazy message…

 KOO KOO MESSAGE NUMBER 2

UMMMM YEAHHHH - GET HELP NOW!

I try my damndest to not shop at Wal-Mart, in fact I even have my niece who is 5 saying “Wal-Mart is evil!”  So I try if I need something to pick it up at Target, I don’t mind paying a buck or two more, it just seems nicer, you don’t have to fight some old person with a ‘Have a Nice Day’ smock at the entrance waving at you.  And well, lets be honest some of the trashiest people in society shop at Wal-Mart.  However I took a nice lil trip to Target for some last minute shopping with my sister and on the way in I noticed some Target workers gathering carts.  One of them took a whole bunch of trash that was in the cart and just threw it all on the ground!  I was appalled, being the nature loving hippie that I am, I almost went in to complain!  But I didn’t want to hold my sister up and those people have to listen to so much complaining during the holidays that I knew me saying anything would be like talking to a wall!  I know this employee shouldn’t reflect all Targets, he was just ignorant as hell, but DANG I feel like Target has lost some appeal to me!

Just thought I’d share one of my tasty treats with ya - today for lunch I made one of my specialties which is a Ritzy PB&J - You make a PB&J like normal, 2 pieces of bread - peanut butter on one side, jelly on the other piece, then right before you slap those baby’s together you toss a bunch of ritz crackers in the middle.  I like to get creative with it and bite them down to where they fit PERFECT on the bread.  You know bite a moon outta one and snuggle it up so it’s spooning the ritz next to it.  It leads to a crunchy sensation in your mouth you least expect out of a PB&J.  Try it people, it’s really good!

I think in the last 10 years I have moved all my stuff like 100 times.  It’s getting really old doing it.  But I’ve got it down to a science.  What I did notice during this current move is that there are like 6 huge rubbermade bins that I never open, never use anything out of, but can’t quite bring myself to get rid of.  So from place to place, I haul them around, just so they’re close to me.  It’s like old T-shirts, Books, childhood keepsakes etc.  And everytime I do this I think of that show Cleen-Sweep cuz I KNOW that english dude woulda made me throw it all away!  One day when I’mma grown up I’ll settle down into an actual house I own and then never move again………hahahahahaha man that was funny to think about, me in one place for a long time!

I started my hell with the personal trainer I am giving my left arm to have right now.  I get 3 group sessions a week and one personal session, and I get all this for the low low price of 340 buckos a month!  Keep in mind that is merely replacing food money haha, so I’ve been moochin at my parents house every night now - “hmmm wutchu guys got for food up in here?” :)  I have had one group session and one personal thus far and well, I cannot move my arms from tonights session.  He had me liftin weights in ways I’ve never experienced in my life!  It’s gon be hard jus to brush my teeth tonight!  And last nights group session - everything the ‘group’ had to do I had to do with an 8 pound ball.  Try jumping up and down facing a wall with an 8 pound ball over your head for 3 - minute intervals.  I thought I was gon shit myself!  But the good thing is that I feel I’m gon be ready for my tryout.  If I can AFFORD to keep this up with this ex marine-football player, I’ll be ready!  Any donations can be sent via check or money order to my work OR home address which I will supply upon request haha!

Jus to keep you informed, the man with the crushed fingers is doing GREAT!  He has already gotten the pins taken out and believe it or not they are round again.  (I never would have thought it, but hey) So they are still like twice the size of his other fingers, but they are moving, still attached, and seem to be making a good recovery.  I can’t believe he actually kept his nails.  Coulda swore at least those woulda fallen off!