It's been a long time...

Eek! I haven't blogged since February! Thats terrible. I'm racking my brain to see if I have a good reason...nope. For a while I was too busy. Then I was too lazy. Then I didn't want to post about all the things that are going on in my life. But here I am, back in the blogosphere with a post that you may or may not find interesting, but it's a post nonetheless. Its too tricky to remember everything that's happened since February, so I'll just go with the most recent. I have a new job!! I'm in the process of becoming a server at Jaleo in Crystal City. So far I LOVE it. Its pretty exhausting honestly, very different than the cushy life of a nanny, but I really enjoy having coworkers and being around people that I don't have to talk to in a baby voice for several hours each day. Oh yeah, and my Spanish skills have knocked most of the dust off and are back in full effect! I'm still nannying too, but this job gives me something else to do to occupy my extraordinarily long days. Since school is out for the semester and I'm a newly single lady (more on that later) I have A LOT of free time on my hands. I figure I should be productive during that time. That doesn't mean I don't still have fun though. Whitney and Latrice have been good sports about hanging with me on random nights or hitting the bar with me when I need to get out and have drinks (trying hard not to do that whole drinking alone at home thing this time around...) And even though she doesn't like to party like the rest of us Melissa's always down for going to lunch or something. It's good to have supportive friends around you when you need them, because let me tell you, I NEED them right now. This break up has been tougher than I ever imagined, but it's a learning/growing experience, blah blah blah, all that bullshit you're supposed to say when you find yourself newly alone and searching for ways to make yourself feel better about it. Sadly I don't have the desire to jump back into the dating world to keep myself occupied. Boys are scary! LoL as I wrote that, I just realized maybe that's my problem; boys ARE scary, men are not. Maybe I need to change up my clientele...Hmmm. Anyway, this post is not to rehash my stupid breakup or the downward spiral it temporarily sent me into. I'm feeling better now, slightly more normal, and I'm sure I will be back to my typical hijinks before I know it. Another BIG piece of news! I have decided that I want to join the Air Force! This isn't one of my wild whims either, this one I'm really going to do. Am I super excited about it. Monday starts my "get right so I don't die in bootcamp" plan. I actually started it last week, but 150 days of rain and trying to get my body adjusted to my new work schedule kinda threw things off, so I'll be back on the grind tomorrow. People have been asking, why? Why would you want to do this? We're in a war! You could die! Perhaps I'll dedicate an entire blogpost to my decision in the near future, but for now, just know this: This is something that I'm very passionate about. I understand why people are afraid for me to do it, but I implore you to trust my instincts and know that I will be so much better for this. Okay, end of my public service announcement. :) You know, you'd think after 4 months of not blogging, I'd have a lot to say, but it seems my well is running dry. I have to update my other blogs anyway, so I suppose it's just as well that I end it here. I promise that I will make more of an effort to post more. I should have more to say soon enough anyway; work stories, nights out with the girls, and in 73 years when I'm ready to date again, maybe I'll even have some funny stuff there! Who knows? Anyway, it feels good to be back :)

Making my house a home

So I'm finally actually decorating my apartment! Yeah, like after a year and a half...oh well. Last night the CEO and I put up shelves in my room, a wine rack, and white board type thing in my kitchen. I got rid of my other wine rack and put my toaster on the counter. My little kitchen looks so cute! And my room looks awesome too. Its weird how two shelves and moving your bed can change the look of a room so much!! Also while we were out and about for those many hours yesterday he bought me a set of Ginsu knives! They're so fancy! LoL they were a gift for him as much as they were for me because he hated trying to cut with my "crappy knives." I still stand by my thoughts that the knives I had weren't that bad. I really like the new ones though :) So today I will be cleaning up all the dust and vacuuming and such from all of last night's decorating. Nothing too interesting going on in my life honestly. Decorating my apartment thrills me death, and I love that the CEO helps me. He suggested that we do the kitchen next weekend, which sounds like a good idea to me. I really want to paint the walls green, but my microwave and crockpot are red and I don't want a Christmas kitchen. I guess I could do a nice shade of yellow, but I really like the green. We'll see how it pans out...I've also been trying to wear my hair straight lately, but I think I'm over it. Its a little too much work for my taste. I'd rather spend 3 hours twisting it and not having to mess with it for the next week and a half. Plus I'm not so good a remembering to wear a scarf so that messes up my straight hair too. I think this week will be the last week I give it a go. Then its back to the old curls for me! Or maybe something else, if I can think of anything else, who knows. Well I'd better stop blogging and get to cleaning my house. I have a buttload of homework that I have to do today and I still want to take a nap this afternoon.

My neck, my back, my neck and my back!

They hurt! Yesterday at work I fell down the stairs! Yes, laugh if you must, but that junk HURT. So now I'm hobbling around like an 84 year old man who needs a cane. This sucks, I didn't even go to class today. I've just been trying to lay very still in my bed and muster up strength to go to work later today. I wish I had a job where I could take sick days. You can't just say, oh sorry, find someone else to take care of you kids! Laying around all day makes me sleepy, but I thought I'd give a little update. I apologize to all 2 of my adoring fans for making you wait for this update LoL Life as I know it has been pretty good. School is going well this semester. I decided to ditch the French and move on to Japanese. I'm getting pretty good at it!! Drawing the characters is a little tricky, but I can speak like nobody's business. I'm trying to get up enough balls to go and order sushi in Japanese one day. I'd be so pleased with myself. Work is fine. I started this new job and its a little tough. The kid doesn't like me very much and I'm severely allergic to their cats, but hey, I needed a job, so what can you do? Hmmm...what else? You'd think since I haven't updated in like 2 months I'd have something to say. Last weekend was Valentine's Day. Since the CEO is a self professed hater of this particular holiday, it wasn't all Valentine's Day themed, but by far the best I've had. Perhaps by not focusing on the holiday, we focused on each other more. It was as love filled as one could hope for. I mean, how wonderful is it to have a man that wakes you up in the morning and asks you how you slept and just cuddles you?! Okay enough of the mushy stuff, I may be losing half of my fan base with that crap. But I can't help it. I will totally admit it, I am ridiculously and severely in love. I hope writing that in my blog isn't like going on a reality show with your significant other, inevitably dooming your relationship...I suppose I'll hush now just in case. In more entertaining news, the two kids that I watch on Tuesdays and Thursdays have a new obsession...naked dance parties. I'm not even kidding. If I'm not in the living room with them, I will hear them turn on the iPod, move the rug, strip off all their clothes and start dancing like madmen. The little boy seems to have taken an interest in break dancing, while the little girl is content to do the typical two year old dance (you know, flailing your arms and legs and spinning in circles). It makes me laugh, but I try my best to keep them clothed. Who knows what hi jinks they'll be up to today, they always crack me up. Hopefully I can laugh away a little of this body pain. Admittedly this is kind of a wack update, but I need to start my other blog (stay tuned!) while I'm thinking about it. I'll be back eventually...

Love...among other things

Well, its almost 9 on Sunday morning so of course I'm awake. I hope one day I'll regain my ability (have I ever had it?) to sleep until noon. Perhaps I'm still recovering from when Latrice and I went out on Friday, but I still feel a little off. I think I'll make some muffins and see where the day goes. I'm leaving on Tuesday morning to go to California for a few weeks. I was excited before, but now I'm kinda over it. I'm going to be there for a loooong time. And I know that part of my lack of excitement is knowing that I won't see the CEO for a long time. :( I decided to go back a read through a few of my posts and they make me laugh. I was like "oh, I think I really like the CEO, he's nice, I wonder where this will go, blah blah blah." LoL well for anyone who was wondering, it's going somewhere quite nice. He really is amazing. Even when I'm a complete weirdo he doesn't mind. That may stem from the fact that he's weird too, perhaps that's why we're so compatible. The other night I left his house in a bit of a rush because he was going out with his friends and I'm not the type to impose on his man time (mostly because I'm just so happy that he has man time. Being with someone who has their own friends is WONDERFUL). So as I'm driving home he called and says "hey, I didn't get a chance to tell you I loved you before you left" :) How cute is he? Oh yes, that was a sly little newsflash there eh? Yes, we're in love. I said it. On the internet. LoL But seriously. I don't want to say he's perfect, but he's pretty damn close. Sigh, I feel all Coming to America-ish. "To be loveddddd...oh to be looooooved!" While running the risk of sounding like one of those stupid sappy girls, I really wish that everyone gets the chance to feel the way I feel at some point in their lives. Being able to love someone without drama or pretenses or even having to work that hard at it is amazing. And to have someone who really meets you in the middle on most things and likes what you like and you truly enjoy each other's company is freaking awesome. I can't believe this year is basically over. Where does time go? But you know what the end of the year means? We are steps closer to my birthday!! Hooray!! I LOOOOOOOOOOVE my birthday. I get excited just thinking about it. I can't wait to buy my new birthday crown. Whew, I'd better calm down. I don't know what we're going to do this year, but hopefully we (me, Fanny, and Trice) can find something fun to do. Its a little tricky now that all my friends have moved away. But what can you do? I wonder if the CEO will plan something fun for my birthday...As much as I love him, planning is not his strong point. He's always down to do fun stuff, but admittedly needs a little help with the execution. He's more of a "wow we should do this and go here" but isnt so grand at making the plan. But thats good with me because I'm quite a good planner. But I digress. I'm sure the three of us will probably end up at Tom Tom like every year. LoL Blah, I was supposed to wake up early today so I could go to the store and get gifts for Jack and Kate...I guess now I'll have to fight the Christmas crowd :( Okay I'm off to do semi-constructive things with my life.

Didja miss me?

This will probably quick since I have to leave for work soon, but for some reason I felt compelled to update this morning. I haven't blogged in forever! Things in Princesa's life have been pretty freaking awesome as of late. School's going okay, work is great, and I'm going to see my family in less than a week! My friends are wonderful, doing big fancy things as usual. Brittanie went to China for her job, Lesley's been to DC twice for recruiting events, Latrice got a job, and Melissa's going to Bangledesh! Oh yeah, and Fanny's moving back to the city!! Even my OC friends are great. 2 weeks ago, I went to NY to visit Peanut and I got to see her in her full working glory, I'm so proud of her. We're all becoming such real adults! And speaking of real adults, I went on my first real vacation with a boy last weekend!!! :) Not to visit a friend or family or anything, just me and him. The CEO and I had the freaking best time ever! We went to Philly and it was wonderful. I still can't believe what we've become. If someone had told me a year ago that we'd end up together I would have been like yeah, whatever. He is definitely the closest thing that I've ever found to my other half. I mean I'm not saying he's my soulmate and we are destined to be together or anything, things can change (although I sincerely hope they don't!) but he is really like the male version of me. Which is quite fun I might add. And a little frustrating from time to time because he's always stealing the thoughts out of my brain and doing cute things before I get the chance to do them. :) I think I can live with that though. Oh! I forgot my other big news!! I'm MOVING! Next year. The original plan was to go to France, but my French skills aren't panning out as well as I'd hoped, and lately I've been having this hankering to go t Italy. I'm going to do a year long au pair program. I'm going to be submitting my application soon, and I'm super excited about it! Ah crap, now I want to keep writing, but I gotta go get ready stinkin work and since I was like a half hour late on Monday I'd better be a little early today. I'll try to start posting more often. I'd forgotten how much I like doing this...

Hey look, I'm back!!

Yay!! And guess where I'm writing this blog? In my living room! PrincesaNet is back!! Too bad I don't have time to give a good update right now, I honestly wouldn't even know where to start, but I gotta do some homework and I'm trying to watch this football game. Just wanted to let the people know I'm back, so definitely expect more frequent updates!!

A blast from the past...

or two actually. I've been pretty MIA getting ready for school and such, but I thought I'd post these two blogs I wrote while I was at home. On a happy note, within the next few weeks I should have PrincesaNet up and running in my apartment again so I'll finally be able to access the internet from the privacy of my own home instead of having creeps look over my shoulder! Now, on with the old posts!

Written 8/12/08
Okay so this is going to be pretty bootleg because I’m blogging in Microsoft Word since I can’t get online on a plane. It is approximately 9:30 pm and I’ve been on the flight to Orange County for all of 20 minutes. And you know what happened? I dropped my fucking iPod. BEHIND ME. So that means I have approximately 3 hours and 55 minutes to fly with no music! Why don’t I ask the person behind me to pick it up you might ask? Well because I can’t see the person behind me but through the crack of the seat, all I can see is an arm filled with liver spots, signaling to me that they are probably too old to be bending all up under their seat to retrieve my iPod. And what’s more is I think they are having some weird body tremor issue because they keep hitting/kicking the back of my seat. And it’s really pissing me off. I’m already in a rather foul mood because I had a connecting flight which I hate. But what I hated most of all about my last flight is that I sat next to a couple. Now, although the CEO and I are venturing out into couplehood ourselves, it still a little annoying to be in that close of proximity to two people who are all booed up and you’re just trying to sqwunch (yes sqwunch is a word now) over in your seat and not feel like a creepy third wheel. All of this I could deal with honestly. My issue stemmed from when the lady spread a blanket over the two of them. No big deal, I had my sweatshirt on, it was a little chilly. Rhythmic motions under the blanket ending with the man making an odd, muffled, grunting noise, big deal. SICK! Look kudos to them for keeping their love alive or whatever, but airline seats are too close together for you to be whacking off your boyfriend or husband or whatever right next to me! And the grossest part of that is that I heard them mention that they had a connecting flight. So was that man just walking around with jizz in his pants until he made it to his destination? Yuck. Okay I’m still annoyed about my iPod. I need music. I don’t think I can make it all the way there without it. I might have to ask Grandma Moses back there to see if she can reach it. This blows. Oh wait, here’s something that blows even more. The lady just said the tvs are broken. Oh wait, breaking blowing news, the asshole in front of my just basically put his seat back in my lap. Literally so far back that he pushed the screen of my laptop down! ARGHGHGHGHGHGH!! FUCK FUCK FUCK. I’m so annoyed!! I want to shoot everyone right now. I suppose I’ll try to sleep or something…I can’t wait to get home. I would say this flight can’t get any worse, but I don’t want to tempt the fates…

Written 8/18/08
Okay back for another round of bootleg blogging. This time is not because I’m on an airplane, but because I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport and I refuse to play for internet. Its 5:30 am (hooray red-eyes I suppose). I should be boarding my plane in the next 20 minutes or so. Well as per my last entry where I didn’t want to tempt the fates…The rest of my flight wasn’t too horrible. I really couldn’t make it without the music so I wrote a note to the guy 2 rows behind me and he ended up getting for me. Sweet, right? So I jammed a little and slept a lot and ended up in Orange County just before curfew thank God! So I’m feeling pretty good, saw my mommy right away, got my bag and we were waiting for my dad and my mom’s friend to come back around and pick us up. We were waiting for a pretty long time. Then I see my dear old dad shuffling on over to us. But he didn’t look so happy…why you might ask? Because the breaks on my mom’s friend’s car went out. Great, cool. So I’ve flying all night, all I’ve eaten since 11:45 am (East Coast time I might add) was a bag of gummy bears, witnessed a creep getting a handjob in my row, and had to put up with Grandma Moses’ body tremors and now you’re telling me that I can’t get home because this damn car has shoddy breaks?! End the end we had to call my sister to come and take us home. She was so mad and driving like a bat out of hell. But alas, I made it home. It was a pretty good trip I must say. I spent a lot of time with my parents, which was nice. I saw some friends from high school. Oh yeah! So they had the Obama/McCain thing at Saddleback Church which is like 4 minutes from my house. Of course I couldn’t get a ticket because the cheapest tickets were $500, but whatever. So Brooke and I drove by there so we could see what was going on. They had a lot of demonstrators with some pretty hilarious signs. One of my personal favorites was the one that said “Rick Warren is a lying whore!” I found that one so funny because it was professionally done. Like I wonder if dude went into FedEx Kinkos and was just like can you print up a few of these? But my all time favorite was the crappy looking cardboard sign that this grungy 20 something guy was holding. It said “Fuck Obama Fuck McCain & Fuck You.” But what made that sign priceless was that when I looked over to read it, he promptly gave me a very mean face and flipped me off with a passion that I hadn’t seen given to gesture in quite some time. Brooke and I cracked up laughing. Today I ate at In N Out with my parents. It was soooo yummy, but as I was watching my parents eat their Double Doubles, I felt compelled to eat meat. It might be a fleeting thing, but maybe it’s time. I don’t know yet. I mentioned this to the CEO and he offered to make me one of his “amazing” steaks. Apparently all the meat he makes is amazing. I suppose I’ll be the judge of that. I think he’s coming over tonight, but I’m not positive. That’d be nice. Okay this is starting to get a little less coherent and it’s almost time to get on the plane. I suppose I’ll post this when I get back to a free internet connection.