I wrote my first post here on October 15th, 2008. Here is what it said:
“I like the nerdiness of “hello world!” as my first post here. It reminds me of me – nerdy, but cute enough to pass. Like those photos you see of animals that are a little MR… you wanna laugh, but at the same time it’s like “aww…”
My friend Jason and I are trying to find an apartment together, and I hate apartment hunting.
**Number one, I have a pitbull which is on everyone’s do no admit list.
**Number two, filling out applications only to wait on a credit check that comes back DENIED is a super bummer.
**Number three, I always get excited about a place and then find out one of the first two… and yeah.
Then I have to get back in my car, play some soothing tunes, and cry quietly on my way home… BUT – I just got the call that we got the apartment we were lookin at yesterday, snap snap! We are the two least likely folks to qualify for an apartment that’s as nice as this one, yet here we are movin in! I would be doing my little vicotry-over-the-man dance, but I’m at work and it makes little to no sense.
I’m figuring that the living sitch will be a piece of cake cause Jason’s a chef and I like to eat. Once, we went to his apartment and in fifteen minutes he had made this risotto thing with canned veggies and spices that was WAY better than anything I’d eaten in like… 4 days. So I’m pretty excited about that. Plus, we’re members of a small secret society. And we have extortion plans. Things are lookin good here.
It’s not like I don’t WANT a house, with a yard and all that for the dog, but for the time being the 3rd floor next to the tennis courts apartment with Jason is lookin pretty fly… from the tandem seat view, anyway.”
So what had happened was…
Jason now lives with his girlfriend in a house somewhere. I know it’s in Charlotte, but I’ve never seen it. We rarely see each other anymore, but I will always have a place for him in my heart. He was a huge part of my world while I was going through a LOT of loss. I am incredibly grateful for the role he played in my life. We never moved into that apartment, btw. I ended up moving in with Superdave, then with Sarah in Plaza-Midwood, then with Ben, then into the condo with the Hazerton, Dexerton, and Jaimerton. Soon enough, it will be just me and Haze. And who knows? Maybe that is exactly how it is supposed to be.
100 posts. I’ve changed a lot over the past 100 posts, but mostly I’d like to think I’ve grown a lot. I think I’m probably a skosch nicer than I used to be. Just as goofy. Maybe a bit more conscientious. Hopefully less of an a-hole. Expanded horizons. Maybe some wrinkles… for sure some dangly earrings – which, btw, were totally foreign to me when I started this little corner of my world.
It’s weird to think I’ve sat here 100 times and typed little blurbs about what’s going on. But, I’m weird, so it all works out. Sidenote: my office is FREEZING. WTF is that?