Wild Nights & Root Canals!

Oh what a weekend! I started my Friday off with a root canal then headed off the Miranda & John's wedding weekend! Swollen Jaw and all I was out drinking, laughing and drunken debauchery! Saturday morning was a rush of getting ready and off we went! Once the I DO's were shared, the drinking, dancing and all out debauchery began. I ended the night with a pair of sore knees, no shoes and 2 broken wine glasses.... All out good time. Oh yeah.... guess who caught the bouquet.... I don't see me being the next to get married though....

Done-zo

1 word! DONE! I am tired of being the only one trying..... so I quit! If it means as much to someone other than me, they'd try too! Oh well!

Gonna love me some Lubbock!

Lubbock, TX, birthplace of Buddy Holly and soon to be home to me for 11 days. I am absolutely stoked about heading to Texas in the dead of July. I am guessing, I am going to leave that state, a little tanner, a little thinner, and very grateful for where I live. In an attempt to stake out this town known for it’s…well other than Buddy Holly I don’t know what it’s really known for, I looked up shopping in Lubbock, Night life in Lubbock and attractions…. Imagine this a bunch of jumbled mess that basically screamed out to me…. You can buy your Armadillio hats, drink beer out of mason jars, and visit the taxidermy museums all at the same time! It’s Texas galore! I am packing my boots (too bad I can’t fit my hat in the bag) and I am gonna do it up big in Texas! Yeehaw!!

How I learned Life & Men have a lot in common...

Let me set the mood for you… So here it is about 5pm or so on a Tuesday evening and I am sitting at the bar with my favorite girl Crystal mulling over this guy, this guy, whom we will call Mark Darcy or M.D. (seeing as so many of you compare me to Bridget Jones, it’s only fitting…). I start talking about how much I like M.D. more and more everyday and the nervous smile starts to emerge. I take a big gulp of my beer and I begin explaining why I think he only wants to be friends. Mind you, I have no clue what he wants…. But no reason to get my hopes up just to be disappointed later on. So after my explanation of how smitten I am over M.D. and my confusion as to whether he was truly interested in more than just a friendship. I listen to Crystal tell me he HAS to be interested in more than a friendship… I didn’t like that response. I think I would have rather heard he’s just not that into you. It’s a lot easier than taking a chance on being hurt. So unhappy with her response, who else to ask advise from but a guy who has no alterior motives, so I asked Shina. I explain that this guy is not like any guy I have ever dated or been interested in. He isn’t an aggressive jerk and he has more to talk about than beer & sex, he is super respectful, makes me laugh, gives me butterflies with just a phone call, and honestly cares what is going on inside my head! He calls when he says he’s going to and even when he doesn’t say he’s going to. However, I am confused about his intentions but most men confuse me anyways so not much is terribly new here. I talk to him almost every day but it stays pretty much friendly NOT AT ALL WHAT I AM USE TOO! As we all know, I usually end up with pretentious pricks, block heads, and/or self absorbed losers. This guy doesn’t fall in to any of the above categories which deemed him worthy of asking Shina advice. Shina looked at me and said something I never thought I would hear a man say. “They are not all the same, they are not all jerks, they don’t all have bad intentions, they do not all think the same…. Ashton…. Men are like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get! Stop trying to figure it all out and do what your doing and go with the flow” And then there it was, the most genious and honest advise on men I had ever gotten…. Genius Shina! Genius! And I thought Forrest Gump was a genius! All this time and Shina was holding out on me. So there it is ladies and gentleman, Men ARE like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get!

10 Days in Counting....

10 days in counting until my birthday yes but really until I quit smoking... Ummm..... Whole new life with out smoking! YAY!

He's just not into you!

Great book, AMAZING MOVIE! Ya know, I myself want to elaborate on this whole he’s just not into you thing. If you have heard this, he’s just not into you….

From your friends:

-The right guy will never make you cry: Ok, dead give away… All men good, bad, horrible, AMAZING men will make a woman cry. Guys’ regardless of how great they are clueless and just straight up stupid sometimes…. Good men just don’t make you cry all the time so when your friends say this, what she is really saying is, he has made you cry too many times and he doesn't care about you. Cut him loose!

-Maybe his phone isn’t working/Maybe he lost his phone: Really? This is 2009 no one goes more than a day with out a cell phone. How long could you go with out your phone? Think about it…. This is not the early 90's.... We don't have to fight people in our households for the landline, we don't have to scrounge for change to use the pay phone, there is a new epidemic of smart phones. Especially if this is a PDA that is involved. Everyone syncs their phones to their computers and hell I even sync mine to my email. I can access my phone with out even having my phone on me.... If I lost my phone and there was a guy worth my time.... I would find a way to call....

-Maybe he’s just super busy: Now, I have been super busy but I still make time for a special guy…. If you were a special girl to him, he would find the time even just to say hello. The only excuse that would be acceptable is if he was helping children in a 3rd world country or a million miles out to sea, saving whales & dolphins. Let’s face it…. A guy that busy doesn’t date so there are no excuses. Even if you were traveling all day, stuck in a million meetings, had a wedding weekend(which as we all know is crammed full of activities and very little personal time to do anything short of going to the bathroom & sleeping) you would find a way to call him or even shoot a text.

-Well maybe you said something that scared him?: Ha! Believe me when I tell you, as long as you haven’t been deemed certifiable by the state or even the county jail, you didn’t say anything to scare him. He probably wasn’t listening as intently as he pretended to be in the first place. If you are any kind of normal you were not discussing your future children's names and planning your wedding... complete with him chained to the alter so he couldn't get away, you probably didn't bust out into tears because he smiled at the waitress or bring a picture of your future house with a picture of him and you photo shopped into the front yard. I am sure your conversations consisted primarily about work, your families, and favorites sports. He caught every other word you were saying because he listens like a man. You didn't scare him.... You should be scared of him.... He's a JERK



Maybe, Maybe, Maybe…. MAYBE HE’S JUST NOT INTO YOU! I am so tired of friends making excuses for men and even I, myself have done it… We have to stop lying to each other and to ourselves!

SMILIN BIG SMILES!

Gone and done it again! Big smiles all day!