I just realized that I never posted a blog about moving to a new apartment, ha ha. The last post that talked about my living situation said that I was saving up money so that Kim & Mac and I could get a bigger place. Well... what actually transpired turned out to be completely different.
We all had a conversation one evening about how cramped we all felt sharing their one-bedroom apartment, and I knew that my 5-month stay was long enough... Even before I said it, I knew they agreed. It just felt like it was time to stretch my little wings again and find a place of my own. They weren't ready to leave their kick-ass 6th-floor apartment with an amazing view of the bay, and I don't blame them. Also, they get their privacy back and I don't have to feel like I'm mooching off some of my closest friends. (Although, I did buy all the groceries nearly the whole time I lived there, I tried to contribute more, but they wouldn't let me... ha ha) So after that conversation, I stopped going out, tried my best not to spend any money and saved two paychecks up and moved out.
I now live with two lovely ladies, Diosa and Ashley. If you haven't met them yet, you need to come over to my place after 6ish on a weekday or anytime during the weekend pretty much... and do just that. They will crack you up and have you saying "OMG I LOVE YOU" to them before you've left. I promise. These ladies are amazing. Clean. Friendly. Giving. Caring. Humorous. The good kind of smokers. Although they are straight and they EAT MEAT... I've decided to let those two factors slide and deem them totally rad! Can't blame them for being born that way, and carnivorism is a choice I leave up to each person and don't try to force my herbivorism on them. We signed our lease today (finally, it'd been a month since we moved in!) and so we are officially going to be living there til June of this year with a lease renewal until June 2010... So most likely I won't be moving for almost a year and a half, which is AMAZING for me.
I am going to make the ladies have a photo shoot with me sometime soon, I want to frame some pictures for our apartment and post them all over the internet. :) Until then, I think I have a picture of each of them on MySpace as well as links to their pages via their names above.
g'night kiddos!
The Face
Saturday, February 28
Headlock.
I feel so strange lately. Slight contradictions are occurring, and I dunno... There's a curve in the road of my life and I don't know what's around it just yet. Here's more patience the Universe is trying to teach me, I guess. Though, I will admit, I am vastly more patient than I was a few months ago... so obviously the Universe knows what it's doing, as per usual. Don't know why I even think of doubting it.
There is also a situation I find myself in... and it feels oddly familiar, except I'm on a different side of the spectrum, now seeing it in its entirety... and understanding why people do the things they do, even if it would be so easy to change the situation. Yes... someone is going to get hurt. I won't even say probably because it's a simple fact: someone will get hurt. Change does NOT occur without someone's parade getting thrown off course. Thankfully enough I have a heart and a brain that are both fully functional, and I have the sense and decency to remove myself from the situation completely until things settle down and the necessary changes have been made. Again with the patience thing... just gotta take a step back, wait it out, and resume the friendship.
The other situation in my life is constantly throwing me for a loop. One minute, the story goes like this, the next minute... it's that. But honestly, I prefer the latter. I want to be missed, I want to have plans, I want this feeling to last, I want it to grow, I want it to be something wonderful... I want, I want, I want.
"Patience, child." The Universe tells me. "Patience."
I'm usually a quick study, but in the practice of learning patience, there's obviously no 'quick' is there? The constant struggle in my life is letting go. I used to have things put together in my life so I controlled everything, and I would get upset if it did not go according to plan. These days, I try not to plan much in advance, and set little to no expectations for everything. I think that these things have helped to build to this learning experience, or at least are enhancing the learning process, so that I learn it better.
ZEN.
Someday I will be a patient person. For now, I shall simply strive to be.
There is also a situation I find myself in... and it feels oddly familiar, except I'm on a different side of the spectrum, now seeing it in its entirety... and understanding why people do the things they do, even if it would be so easy to change the situation. Yes... someone is going to get hurt. I won't even say probably because it's a simple fact: someone will get hurt. Change does NOT occur without someone's parade getting thrown off course. Thankfully enough I have a heart and a brain that are both fully functional, and I have the sense and decency to remove myself from the situation completely until things settle down and the necessary changes have been made. Again with the patience thing... just gotta take a step back, wait it out, and resume the friendship.
The other situation in my life is constantly throwing me for a loop. One minute, the story goes like this, the next minute... it's that. But honestly, I prefer the latter. I want to be missed, I want to have plans, I want this feeling to last, I want it to grow, I want it to be something wonderful... I want, I want, I want.
"Patience, child." The Universe tells me. "Patience."
I'm usually a quick study, but in the practice of learning patience, there's obviously no 'quick' is there? The constant struggle in my life is letting go. I used to have things put together in my life so I controlled everything, and I would get upset if it did not go according to plan. These days, I try not to plan much in advance, and set little to no expectations for everything. I think that these things have helped to build to this learning experience, or at least are enhancing the learning process, so that I learn it better.
ZEN.
Someday I will be a patient person. For now, I shall simply strive to be.
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