70 days
so i open my buddy list today. i haven't updated in 70 days. wow! so much for tracking my first year of teaching.
i'm just back from my cruise to the caribbean. look at me world traveler. i loooove traveling. sometimes i forget how good it is until a trip comes along and it sweeps me off my feet once again. im in love with travel.
we went to jamaica on the forementioned cruise. we were supposed to stop in grand cayman also, but the huge wave swells made the small tender boats too dangerous. instead we were treated to another fun day at sea. (they actually call them "fun" days at sea. perhaps if you have an "unfun" day you feel compelled to still call it a fun day?) jamaica was awesome. we went horseback riding in the ocean, we climbed a waterfall, and we went shopping and to margaritaville. all in all i think i could move there. (or perhaps just bring home some of the beeeautiful specimens of manness that they have.)
the ship was awesome too. we ended up sitting with 7 strangers that instantly became BFF. they were awesome. 3 of them were boys that happened to also be our cabin neighbors. the 10 of us termed ourselves the family and hung out together the whole time. (scandal when some of the family members start hooking up, stripping down in front of each other, and getting in huge cat fights.) a bit of drama, but it was good times for me as i wasnt involved.
i talked to marissa the other day and she mentioned my previous most current entry, a la 70 days ago. i was at that time dreading a date with a really, really............. "special" boy. this boy had many striking qualities such as his attempt to kill a fellow army person (what word does one use there?), a lack of any mode of transportaion, a job at a coffee shop (and no real plan to move from it), and his name "willy". as it turns out, i did not go on the date. i think that was the time i got a flat tire. whatever time it was, i kept not being able to go because of circumstances. eventually fate got through my thick skull and we stopped making plans to date.
currently, fast forward 70 days, i am dating a new boy. luckily i am going up the boy ladder instead of down. pond scum has always had a special place in my heart, though. the boy i'm dating now is from michigan. he moved here to get a better job. he has a car. he has never attempted to murder anyone. he has a normal name, kevin.
however,
and don't judge too quickly...
i didn't know this at the time i met him, or started dating him.
he's a really good guy...
and laura says he's walking sex (very hot for those no comprende).
he is 35 years old.
what did i tell you about judging?!?!?
i'm still getting used to the idea so i am a bit insecure about it. i don't know how i feel about it, and i would never date anyone 11 years the other way (13 year old middle schoolers do not have to run for shelter). but. i kinda like him. so for now, i'm living in the moment and i'm dating his cute self.