Well, I went out to do some things earlier today, after I finally forced myself to get out of bed and shower. I need to get in the habit of a proper morning routine or something. Otherwise I don't see how I'll be able to handle a job when I finally get one.
Anyways, job hunting was what I went out to do today. I also stopped by the CVS Pharmacy to drop off a disposable camera and to buy a lighter (for the incense Kitiy got me).
I started by going to my favorite eating establishment: Which Wich. They've had a "Now hiring" sign for a while now, and I figure if it's my favorite place to eat, I should apply. Though, honestly, I would love to completely avoid working at a food joint. They were out of applications today, though, so I'll have to go back another time. Not that I mind, seeing as I love their 'wiches.
Ironically enough the only other place I applied was TCBY, down on MLK. If I have to work with food, it might as well be frozen.
Yeah, I only applied to one place actually, after stopping in on two. The heat today was just that unbearable. I was walking down the street, eating my TCBY Shiver, and I was sweating through BOTH shirts, not to mention I'm out of shape...I walked from the CVS to campus to begin with. I was physically exhausted, and the sun was not helping. Maybe I should've worn less black? Probably...but I'm still a wimp anyways.
I'll continue my job hunt Monday, though, or possibly even later. It seems it's been decided that I'll go down to San Antonio tomorrow to visit my folks. I'll get to do my laundry free and shove off my old laptop onto my brother, who's going to Germany on Wednesday and won't be back for a month, (I'm sure he'll regret using the laptop in the end as I doubt it will survive a trip to Europe).
I'll also be picking up my new cell phone, seeing as my mom decided to get a better cell phone plan and order everybody new phones (I chose to go with one of the models we can change to for free, and it's definitely like three times better than my current phone).
Anyways...I need to eat, so I think I'll make some Mac n Cheese with tuna and peas stirred in...and then I'll see about getting the rest of these photos scanned in.
...but seriously. I really don't belong in Texas. The summers just kill me, and the rest of the year ain't much more pleasant for me. I'd love to work for Microsoft just for the chance to live in Seattle.
All the more incentive for me to move up to Tulsa for a year. Sure, it's only one state north, but Texas is a big state. It would be at least 10 degrees further north (latitude scale thingy, not temperature :p). Okay, so Austin is at 30.16 and Tulsa is 36.09. So it's more like 6. But that's still a big difference for somebody as anti-sun and anti-heat as me.
Tulsa was unbearably hot one or two of the days I was up there, but I'm not moving anywhere until August...summer will be over by then, so it won't be so bad.
I think they actually get snow, too, so that will be fun. This "live in Tulsa for the next year" idea is really sounding better and better to me.
6/08/2007
6/06/2007
Reluctant Return
Well, just in case anybody is wondering, I am safe and sound back in Austin. Once more, nothing of real import happened on the trip back, unless you count almost sleeping through the bus's stop in Austin. Fortunately, the bus driver was going through the bus asking for people's tickets and managed to wake me up with little effort.
Anyways, I suppose I should go through what little occurred on my last day in Oklahoma. First thing I should mention, Kitiy fortunately did not do any sort of attempt at running away. I'm hoping this will last, mostly because she does need to finish high school. I still want to be with her though.
Anyways, I started out my day with a continental breakfast and a shower, as all days should begin. Well, all days should begin with a full-fledged breakfast of several helpings, but I only think this because I absolutely love breakfast food.
I got to packing when that was done, being that her dad called me and said he'd come by at about 11am. I was just about done when Kitiy knocked on my door. All I really had left to pack up was my laptop. At least...so I thought. But I'll get into that later.
First thing we did, I think, was stop at the Army Surplus store for the hell of it. And because I've always wanted to buy myself a katana, and they apparently have several of the real deal for sale at low prices. Hell, they even have had two flails, a pair of sai, a battleaxe, a morning star, and two claymores. They even had a sword in the style of Ichigo, from Bleach! I will make a visit and purchase some sort of blade someday, but I'm attempting to hold back on money-spending as best as I can.
Anyways, we stopped by Walgreen's to get one of my disposable cameras developed to be picked up later. It was the one that I still had from that Project Graduation about two years ago. I think the age might be bad for such cameras, because it seems like some of the photos that I took aren't there, and the negatives do include two blank strips.
Anyways, we went back to her place then and ate some food. She decided to make some sort of special snack for us involving honey and peanut butter. She put that onto a slice of regular bread and toasted the other side, then put it together as a sort of sandwich. Definitely tasty, and messy.
We let the food settle for a bit, then for some reason we decided to make a visit to the neighborhood pool. Neither of us are very socially inclined, but I recall that she suggested swimming at one point. Well...she'd wanted to go to one a tad less populated by people. So we went there and did some swimming for an hour or two. I remember her her complaining that she was starting to get a tan from all of our outdoor activities. Yes, she likes being ghostly pale.
By that point we only had a couple hours left together. My bus departure time was 5:55pm, which meant I had to be there at around 5pm or so. It was about 4pm that we discovered I'd forgotten to take my bus tickets with me when I checked out of the hotel. Oops! x.x
Well, we went to Walgreens and picked up my photos, and then decided to check the hotel just to be sure. Naturally, the room had already been cleaned and my tickets were not to be found. So I had to spend $88.50 to buy new tickets down to Austin. How troublesome.
So we waited at the bus terminal until it was time for me to leave, chatting a bit. I made sure to thank her dad one last time for being so very hospitable about me visiting his daughter. He said that I impressed him a lot in doing this, which I find to be a bit of surprise, but I am pleased. I think, all in all, this trip was a great success, and certainly very enjoyable.
So the clock got to about 5:40pm...and they finally announced to start boarding my bus. I shook her father's hand, hugged Kitiy goodbye...well, actually, she hugged me very tightly goodbye. And by very tightly, I mean it was almost painful and my eyes might have bugged out a bit. It wasn't a very long goodbye, but we hugged for a bit, saying our dramatic farewells, and then we parted.
Trust me, it was a bit of a struggle for me to actually walk onto that bus. I didn't want to have to leave her after we finally met in person. There will be other times...and someday we won't have to part ways. But for now, I've got a cat in Austin to care for, an apartment to pay rent for, and a temp job to find. I want to be in Tulsa so badly.
I have barely been gone from her for 24 hours and I already want to go back. A part of me is still hoping she does decide to run away with me...not that it's the wisest life decision a person can make. Maybe if she just lasts until August I'll be able to move up there to an apartment and be with her for her last year in high school. I'm already going to be out of college for one semester, since I'm on academic dismissal...so maybe I should go ahead and take the whole year to just chill out and get my life together?
It seems like a good idea to me, but it'll involve quite a bit of work. At least I have until August to figure things out.
Well...after the bus departed 20 minutes late, I was off to Austin. First passing through Oklahoma City, then Dallas, first. The bus left late because some lady with 6 kids was apparently moving and had a shitload of stuff to load. Very annoying, and very crowded, but oh well. Once we got on the move things weren't so bad.
The one thing that worried me on the trip down was that my luggage would be lost or something. Somehow, I just couldn't trust that my suitcase would be automatically transferred buses at each stop. Fortunately, my worries were unfounded and my bag was waiting for me in the terminal.
My body was quite happy to be off such a cramped bus, but at least I had a whole two seats to myself for the last two hours. Maybe that's why I'd managed to fall asleep.
At first, I had planned to take the city bus home to my apartment, but then I figured I should at least give Will a call to see if he'd be all right with giving me a ride. After all, I was not at all familiar with the particular bus route I was set to take. Fortunately, though I'd woken him up with my phone call, he was indeed willing to give me a ride back. Yay!
So...I managed to stay awake long enough to unpack, back in my messy apartment room, before I realized, though I wanted to stay awake, that it was impossible. So I just kinda passed out at about 8am.
And so ends my trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully I'll get to make many more such trips, and perhaps adventures to more interesting parts of the world.
For now...I'm going to rest my body for this day before going on the painful search for a job, or going about the painful process of cleaning my room. It's in sore need. Hopefully I can get a job in less than a week, because I sorely need to be making monies.
Anyways, I suppose I should go through what little occurred on my last day in Oklahoma. First thing I should mention, Kitiy fortunately did not do any sort of attempt at running away. I'm hoping this will last, mostly because she does need to finish high school. I still want to be with her though.
Anyways, I started out my day with a continental breakfast and a shower, as all days should begin. Well, all days should begin with a full-fledged breakfast of several helpings, but I only think this because I absolutely love breakfast food.
I got to packing when that was done, being that her dad called me and said he'd come by at about 11am. I was just about done when Kitiy knocked on my door. All I really had left to pack up was my laptop. At least...so I thought. But I'll get into that later.
First thing we did, I think, was stop at the Army Surplus store for the hell of it. And because I've always wanted to buy myself a katana, and they apparently have several of the real deal for sale at low prices. Hell, they even have had two flails, a pair of sai, a battleaxe, a morning star, and two claymores. They even had a sword in the style of Ichigo, from Bleach! I will make a visit and purchase some sort of blade someday, but I'm attempting to hold back on money-spending as best as I can.
Anyways, we stopped by Walgreen's to get one of my disposable cameras developed to be picked up later. It was the one that I still had from that Project Graduation about two years ago. I think the age might be bad for such cameras, because it seems like some of the photos that I took aren't there, and the negatives do include two blank strips.
Anyways, we went back to her place then and ate some food. She decided to make some sort of special snack for us involving honey and peanut butter. She put that onto a slice of regular bread and toasted the other side, then put it together as a sort of sandwich. Definitely tasty, and messy.
We let the food settle for a bit, then for some reason we decided to make a visit to the neighborhood pool. Neither of us are very socially inclined, but I recall that she suggested swimming at one point. Well...she'd wanted to go to one a tad less populated by people. So we went there and did some swimming for an hour or two. I remember her her complaining that she was starting to get a tan from all of our outdoor activities. Yes, she likes being ghostly pale.
By that point we only had a couple hours left together. My bus departure time was 5:55pm, which meant I had to be there at around 5pm or so. It was about 4pm that we discovered I'd forgotten to take my bus tickets with me when I checked out of the hotel. Oops! x.x
Well, we went to Walgreens and picked up my photos, and then decided to check the hotel just to be sure. Naturally, the room had already been cleaned and my tickets were not to be found. So I had to spend $88.50 to buy new tickets down to Austin. How troublesome.
So we waited at the bus terminal until it was time for me to leave, chatting a bit. I made sure to thank her dad one last time for being so very hospitable about me visiting his daughter. He said that I impressed him a lot in doing this, which I find to be a bit of surprise, but I am pleased. I think, all in all, this trip was a great success, and certainly very enjoyable.
So the clock got to about 5:40pm...and they finally announced to start boarding my bus. I shook her father's hand, hugged Kitiy goodbye...well, actually, she hugged me very tightly goodbye. And by very tightly, I mean it was almost painful and my eyes might have bugged out a bit. It wasn't a very long goodbye, but we hugged for a bit, saying our dramatic farewells, and then we parted.
Trust me, it was a bit of a struggle for me to actually walk onto that bus. I didn't want to have to leave her after we finally met in person. There will be other times...and someday we won't have to part ways. But for now, I've got a cat in Austin to care for, an apartment to pay rent for, and a temp job to find. I want to be in Tulsa so badly.
I have barely been gone from her for 24 hours and I already want to go back. A part of me is still hoping she does decide to run away with me...not that it's the wisest life decision a person can make. Maybe if she just lasts until August I'll be able to move up there to an apartment and be with her for her last year in high school. I'm already going to be out of college for one semester, since I'm on academic dismissal...so maybe I should go ahead and take the whole year to just chill out and get my life together?
It seems like a good idea to me, but it'll involve quite a bit of work. At least I have until August to figure things out.
Well...after the bus departed 20 minutes late, I was off to Austin. First passing through Oklahoma City, then Dallas, first. The bus left late because some lady with 6 kids was apparently moving and had a shitload of stuff to load. Very annoying, and very crowded, but oh well. Once we got on the move things weren't so bad.
The one thing that worried me on the trip down was that my luggage would be lost or something. Somehow, I just couldn't trust that my suitcase would be automatically transferred buses at each stop. Fortunately, my worries were unfounded and my bag was waiting for me in the terminal.
My body was quite happy to be off such a cramped bus, but at least I had a whole two seats to myself for the last two hours. Maybe that's why I'd managed to fall asleep.
At first, I had planned to take the city bus home to my apartment, but then I figured I should at least give Will a call to see if he'd be all right with giving me a ride. After all, I was not at all familiar with the particular bus route I was set to take. Fortunately, though I'd woken him up with my phone call, he was indeed willing to give me a ride back. Yay!
So...I managed to stay awake long enough to unpack, back in my messy apartment room, before I realized, though I wanted to stay awake, that it was impossible. So I just kinda passed out at about 8am.
And so ends my trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hopefully I'll get to make many more such trips, and perhaps adventures to more interesting parts of the world.
For now...I'm going to rest my body for this day before going on the painful search for a job, or going about the painful process of cleaning my room. It's in sore need. Hopefully I can get a job in less than a week, because I sorely need to be making monies.
6/04/2007
Important Thoughts
In some ways, today was a somewhat big day...momentous perhaps. In other ways, it was a nothing day...a simple day where a boy and girl spend their day together as best they can.
Well, the day started out rather dull. Take a shower, eat breakfast, get dressed, etc. Normal routine. I even played (or attempted, what with how the game doesn't like my video drivers) GalCiv 2 for a bit. It's a match I want to finish, because it's been pretty tough, what with two other civilizations declaring war on me much earlier than I was prepared for. Somehow I've been winning against them militarily, though my military is weaker.
Anyways, I played that for a while, before it finally crashed due to an "out of memory" error. Le sigh. I wish I could get that fixed and fully enjoy the game. About the time it crashed, Kitiy woke up and messaged me in Yahoo. We chatted for a bit, waiting for her folks to be ready to deal with us and play chauffeur. Eventually, around like...1pm I think, her dad finally showed up with Kitiy in tow. She came up to knock on my door and we hugged as usual, and off we went for our day.
The plan was for us to do some roller blading that day, and pay respects to Tramp, Kitiy's beloved feline companion throughout her life, recently lost. So, first, we went to a place where they sell fresh-cut flowers fairly cheaply. We got three bunches of flowers for only $10. One group of red roses, one of white tulips (or maybe it was white roses? I'm no flower expert) and one of mixed flowers (purples, yellows, various colors).
We went off to the house of Kitiy's mother in Tulsa (her dad and step-mom are in Broken Arrow) and paid our respects to Tramp. I never knew the cat, but if he was important to Kitiy, he's important to me, so I was there with her and helped her to arrange the flowers. She still wants to have him cremated, but her mother is against it...and it may even be too late for that now. It's been about two weeks, and I'm not sure what sort of time limit on cremation there is. At least we could do the flowers. That much helps a bit. I even took a photo of the grave with the flowers arranged all around it.
We then went off to the roller rink they have in Broken Arrow, although Kitiy wanted the one in Tulsa. We got there only about an hour before they would close, though (who the hell opens at 11am and then closes at 4pm?), so we decided to do it the next day instead. My last day here.
We ended up getting towed off to a couple of other shopping places with her dad as a result, including Lowe's I believe. We at least managed to get some washers for the collar we picked out, so now the studs should be able to fit. Maybe I'll do it myself tonight and wear it for her tomorrow. It looks like they'll be just right, too.
Well, we eventually got back to her place, after picking out a swimming top for her at Wal-mart. We had decided we could go swimming. Unfortunately, her neighborhood pool was closed, and her dad wasn't willing to take us anywhere else. So we gave up on that idea, (with a rather ticked-off Kitiy I should note about how the day was not going as planned at all), and went with sprinkler and water balloons (there were a lot left after all) for passing the time. It's not a bad way for lovers to spend time together at all, I think, though I would've preferred the roller rink. That way is less cold and less wet.
For dinner, her dad grilled burgers and hot dogs, and we had baked beans as a side. And soda from the fridge as drink, of course. It was a good dinner. Afterwards we played more with the water balloons, and generally had a good time getting each other wet. We even decided to be nice at one point and have an impromptu contest to see who could throw the water balloons farthest. It wasn't as easy as it sounds, as if you throw too hard, you might break the water balloon from squeezing it when you throw.
Anyways...yeah, it was a bit of a short day compared to other days. We did at one point go down to the neighborhood pool to make doubly sure that they were closed. Sadly, they were actually closed. After that we went into the bathroom to scrub to make sure we didn't get bitten by something called chiggers, which I've never heard of. According to Wikipedia, they're actually the larva of harvest mites, but whatever.
What happened afterwards...I'm still entirely sure what went on. There was some sort of tiff, it seems, between Kitiy and her step-mom...probably not even something too major. All I know is that it put Kitiy into a very bad mood very quickly, and her dad is certainly not of any help.
We'd changed and become remotely dry by that time, so we were sitting on her bed. I just kinda sat there holding her hand and listening to her rant and vent about how much she hates it there, not saying too much. Not just because of her step-mom, but her dad and mom, too. You know...to be completely honest, they're not even her real parents. She was adopted from birth, so...there are times when that is very much an issue brought to mind.
When she finished venting her steam...she just kinda collapsed onto the bed and started crying. There wasn't much I could do but to put my arms around her and hold her tight. I've only known her folks for a week....I've only seen a small glimpse of her home life for the past week, and even then, you know they're going to act slightly different when I'm around. But I can see why she hates it here still, and it's affected her this badly. She's broken down and crying when I'm not even sure what exactly happened. Some small tiff, from what I saw and heard, but maybe there was something more.
This...this is why I'm really here. I came up here to finally meet her, to have fun with her...but I'm mainly here because of this kind of pain that she's been going through. She barely has any friends, and none of them very close. She needs somebody like me to talk to and be close with, and I want to be there for her.
I'd been thinking heavily on all this stuff for so long...and I finally got around to putting into words, telling her myself. I told her I wouldn't mind going to live up there in Tulsa/BA for the next year, after my current lease ends. It would mean putting off college for a full year, rather than just the semester from academic dismissal, but she means more to me than any college degree. That's probably the sort of thing my parents might not understand, but it's the truth. Besides, in CS, the degree doesn't mean anything in comparison to experience.
I could get an apartment up in Tulsa, or possibly in BA (either one would work, considering she has homes in both places), and find some sort of hourly wage job to work at for a good year, while I spend my free time with her as much as possible, helping her through the last year of high school.
I know that's the kinda of thing she needs. Somebody to be there who won't judge like her parents will. They've apparently outright called her evil before, them being of Christian faith. I don't think it would be so bad, even, though I know my parents would be pissed about it. All they want from me lately is to finish college with super good grades and to get rich with a high-paying career job. Le sigh.
Well...you know...things kinda went like that for an hour, maybe longer. I don't even know how long. I just know I was there on her bed, holding her in my arms while she cried her heart out, comforting her the best I could. With her saying things, and me saying things. It was a lot more dramatic and emotional than I make it out to be, but I'm not good at detailing things so much.
I had an idea at some point...and I thought hard about it. It's actually a thought I've had for a long long time now...I've never really put too much stock into it, but...it's always been there in the back of my mind. I told her then that...if she wanted to run away from her folks, I'd be willing to help. All she'd need to do is give me a call. I'd go up to her right away, be it Greyhound or some other method, and be there as fast as possible to help her. I would drop everything to do that and not care. All that would matter is that she'd need me.
And...from there, I told her I'd take her with me if she really seriously wants to run away from her folks. It sounds like one of those things you say when some very intense emotions are flying around and it just bursts out, but I really did mean it, and I still do. It would mean a very hard life, among other things, but I'd go through with it for her, whatever it takes.
I would even be willing to take her back home with me tomorrow, if she really wanted. It's something that would worry me so very much, and I'd be very nervous in doing it...and I could be made out to be a pedophile or kidnapper or something as bad with very little effort on the part of her folks, as untrue as that is. I dunno what she would do about her senior year of high school if she did such a thing, but I'd go through anything for her. I think...I think even some of my friends would be willing to help us, if it came to such. At least I would hope so.
I'm being serious about all of this. I'm a bit shocked at my conviction myself...it's just that, after this week with her, finally meeting her after all these years between us...I know she's the one for me, and she says she feels the exact same way. I know...she's still a 17-year-old girl who might not be entirely in her right mind, but such is the way of things. I'd do anything to help her get through things in life, and if that means helping her run away from home, I will do it.
I'm sure some of you are kinda surprised by these things. It's not like I told many people about this girl that I care for so much in all this time. But it's true...we've only met about a week ago, in person, but we've known each other for so long, we've talked so much for so many years, through mic and long distance phone calls and IMs...we've been through a lot, and we're already so very close to each other after only having seen each other physically for a week or so. Hell...I'd propose to her if she was old enough to marry, and I know she'd say yes. It's just that strong of a relationship.
A part of me hopes it doesn't come to her running away with me...but another part of me would welcome it. The first part is probably the part of me that worries, and tries to think about how things *should* be done. The way things would go if everything was ideal. The second part is probably the part of me that loves her and cares about her...a part that's probably thinking that everything would be better just because she and I would finally be together, even if not in the best of circumstances, and finally away from that household of pain centering around her parents.
It seems to me that she and I have a lot of thinking to do...and I hope we both come to the right decisions...whatever those may be.
Well, the day started out rather dull. Take a shower, eat breakfast, get dressed, etc. Normal routine. I even played (or attempted, what with how the game doesn't like my video drivers) GalCiv 2 for a bit. It's a match I want to finish, because it's been pretty tough, what with two other civilizations declaring war on me much earlier than I was prepared for. Somehow I've been winning against them militarily, though my military is weaker.
Anyways, I played that for a while, before it finally crashed due to an "out of memory" error. Le sigh. I wish I could get that fixed and fully enjoy the game. About the time it crashed, Kitiy woke up and messaged me in Yahoo. We chatted for a bit, waiting for her folks to be ready to deal with us and play chauffeur. Eventually, around like...1pm I think, her dad finally showed up with Kitiy in tow. She came up to knock on my door and we hugged as usual, and off we went for our day.
The plan was for us to do some roller blading that day, and pay respects to Tramp, Kitiy's beloved feline companion throughout her life, recently lost. So, first, we went to a place where they sell fresh-cut flowers fairly cheaply. We got three bunches of flowers for only $10. One group of red roses, one of white tulips (or maybe it was white roses? I'm no flower expert) and one of mixed flowers (purples, yellows, various colors).
We went off to the house of Kitiy's mother in Tulsa (her dad and step-mom are in Broken Arrow) and paid our respects to Tramp. I never knew the cat, but if he was important to Kitiy, he's important to me, so I was there with her and helped her to arrange the flowers. She still wants to have him cremated, but her mother is against it...and it may even be too late for that now. It's been about two weeks, and I'm not sure what sort of time limit on cremation there is. At least we could do the flowers. That much helps a bit. I even took a photo of the grave with the flowers arranged all around it.
We then went off to the roller rink they have in Broken Arrow, although Kitiy wanted the one in Tulsa. We got there only about an hour before they would close, though (who the hell opens at 11am and then closes at 4pm?), so we decided to do it the next day instead. My last day here.
We ended up getting towed off to a couple of other shopping places with her dad as a result, including Lowe's I believe. We at least managed to get some washers for the collar we picked out, so now the studs should be able to fit. Maybe I'll do it myself tonight and wear it for her tomorrow. It looks like they'll be just right, too.
Well, we eventually got back to her place, after picking out a swimming top for her at Wal-mart. We had decided we could go swimming. Unfortunately, her neighborhood pool was closed, and her dad wasn't willing to take us anywhere else. So we gave up on that idea, (with a rather ticked-off Kitiy I should note about how the day was not going as planned at all), and went with sprinkler and water balloons (there were a lot left after all) for passing the time. It's not a bad way for lovers to spend time together at all, I think, though I would've preferred the roller rink. That way is less cold and less wet.
For dinner, her dad grilled burgers and hot dogs, and we had baked beans as a side. And soda from the fridge as drink, of course. It was a good dinner. Afterwards we played more with the water balloons, and generally had a good time getting each other wet. We even decided to be nice at one point and have an impromptu contest to see who could throw the water balloons farthest. It wasn't as easy as it sounds, as if you throw too hard, you might break the water balloon from squeezing it when you throw.
Anyways...yeah, it was a bit of a short day compared to other days. We did at one point go down to the neighborhood pool to make doubly sure that they were closed. Sadly, they were actually closed. After that we went into the bathroom to scrub to make sure we didn't get bitten by something called chiggers, which I've never heard of. According to Wikipedia, they're actually the larva of harvest mites, but whatever.
What happened afterwards...I'm still entirely sure what went on. There was some sort of tiff, it seems, between Kitiy and her step-mom...probably not even something too major. All I know is that it put Kitiy into a very bad mood very quickly, and her dad is certainly not of any help.
We'd changed and become remotely dry by that time, so we were sitting on her bed. I just kinda sat there holding her hand and listening to her rant and vent about how much she hates it there, not saying too much. Not just because of her step-mom, but her dad and mom, too. You know...to be completely honest, they're not even her real parents. She was adopted from birth, so...there are times when that is very much an issue brought to mind.
When she finished venting her steam...she just kinda collapsed onto the bed and started crying. There wasn't much I could do but to put my arms around her and hold her tight. I've only known her folks for a week....I've only seen a small glimpse of her home life for the past week, and even then, you know they're going to act slightly different when I'm around. But I can see why she hates it here still, and it's affected her this badly. She's broken down and crying when I'm not even sure what exactly happened. Some small tiff, from what I saw and heard, but maybe there was something more.
This...this is why I'm really here. I came up here to finally meet her, to have fun with her...but I'm mainly here because of this kind of pain that she's been going through. She barely has any friends, and none of them very close. She needs somebody like me to talk to and be close with, and I want to be there for her.
I'd been thinking heavily on all this stuff for so long...and I finally got around to putting into words, telling her myself. I told her I wouldn't mind going to live up there in Tulsa/BA for the next year, after my current lease ends. It would mean putting off college for a full year, rather than just the semester from academic dismissal, but she means more to me than any college degree. That's probably the sort of thing my parents might not understand, but it's the truth. Besides, in CS, the degree doesn't mean anything in comparison to experience.
I could get an apartment up in Tulsa, or possibly in BA (either one would work, considering she has homes in both places), and find some sort of hourly wage job to work at for a good year, while I spend my free time with her as much as possible, helping her through the last year of high school.
I know that's the kinda of thing she needs. Somebody to be there who won't judge like her parents will. They've apparently outright called her evil before, them being of Christian faith. I don't think it would be so bad, even, though I know my parents would be pissed about it. All they want from me lately is to finish college with super good grades and to get rich with a high-paying career job. Le sigh.
Well...you know...things kinda went like that for an hour, maybe longer. I don't even know how long. I just know I was there on her bed, holding her in my arms while she cried her heart out, comforting her the best I could. With her saying things, and me saying things. It was a lot more dramatic and emotional than I make it out to be, but I'm not good at detailing things so much.
I had an idea at some point...and I thought hard about it. It's actually a thought I've had for a long long time now...I've never really put too much stock into it, but...it's always been there in the back of my mind. I told her then that...if she wanted to run away from her folks, I'd be willing to help. All she'd need to do is give me a call. I'd go up to her right away, be it Greyhound or some other method, and be there as fast as possible to help her. I would drop everything to do that and not care. All that would matter is that she'd need me.
And...from there, I told her I'd take her with me if she really seriously wants to run away from her folks. It sounds like one of those things you say when some very intense emotions are flying around and it just bursts out, but I really did mean it, and I still do. It would mean a very hard life, among other things, but I'd go through with it for her, whatever it takes.
I would even be willing to take her back home with me tomorrow, if she really wanted. It's something that would worry me so very much, and I'd be very nervous in doing it...and I could be made out to be a pedophile or kidnapper or something as bad with very little effort on the part of her folks, as untrue as that is. I dunno what she would do about her senior year of high school if she did such a thing, but I'd go through anything for her. I think...I think even some of my friends would be willing to help us, if it came to such. At least I would hope so.
I'm being serious about all of this. I'm a bit shocked at my conviction myself...it's just that, after this week with her, finally meeting her after all these years between us...I know she's the one for me, and she says she feels the exact same way. I know...she's still a 17-year-old girl who might not be entirely in her right mind, but such is the way of things. I'd do anything to help her get through things in life, and if that means helping her run away from home, I will do it.
I'm sure some of you are kinda surprised by these things. It's not like I told many people about this girl that I care for so much in all this time. But it's true...we've only met about a week ago, in person, but we've known each other for so long, we've talked so much for so many years, through mic and long distance phone calls and IMs...we've been through a lot, and we're already so very close to each other after only having seen each other physically for a week or so. Hell...I'd propose to her if she was old enough to marry, and I know she'd say yes. It's just that strong of a relationship.
A part of me hopes it doesn't come to her running away with me...but another part of me would welcome it. The first part is probably the part of me that worries, and tries to think about how things *should* be done. The way things would go if everything was ideal. The second part is probably the part of me that loves her and cares about her...a part that's probably thinking that everything would be better just because she and I would finally be together, even if not in the best of circumstances, and finally away from that household of pain centering around her parents.
It seems to me that she and I have a lot of thinking to do...and I hope we both come to the right decisions...whatever those may be.
6/03/2007
Quality Time
Well, yesterday was another fun day with Kitiy. We didn't really even do much that was special, we just managed to have fun. She's decided she finds ice skating boring. Her dad was going to take us bowling, (yeah, not the way a couple normally spends the day but...eh, I kinda like bowling), but not only does Kitiy hate bowling, but she got a bit sick after eating lunch, so we just did some random stuff.
We went to this dollar store place where we bought water balloons...then we decided to buy some guy's swimming shorts for the both of us. Yes. We were going to get good and wet that day. It doesn't sound like much of an event with your girlfriend, but it WAS fun. But we'll get to that later.
We also went to Hobby Lobby nearby and looked around. She wants to make me a cloak like the one she made for herself. It sounds like something I'd love to have, and I have always wanted a cloak. So we looked around at fabrics, but we didn't buy any. She apparently has a lot of people wanting her to make cloaks for them, and she plans to save up money to buy some good amount of fabric. I told her I wouldn't mind buying the fabric for mine, but she can be quite stubborn and persuasive.
Anyways, we ended up just buying some things that she wanted for making herself a cat-like collar. Some kinda fuzzy thingy and some bells make up her materials for it. You get the idea. I dunno when she'll make it, but I bet it'll look cute on her. I just hope she doesn't use the second bell to make one for me. I wouldn't mind wearing a bell collar, I just don't want the fuzzy stuff. That's a bit much for me.
Anyways, we went back off to her house after that, while her dad decided to work on their old house, (they apparently recently moved to where they are now). So we went to the backyard and found a hose and started filling up a bunch of water balloons. We got soaked just doing that, partially because we kept splashing each other with water just for fun. We didn't use all the water balloons, (they've gotta pay for water after all).
Naturally, we then used the water balloons. Tossing them left and right at each other and getting downright soaked with freakin' cold water. It's a good thing we bought swimming shorts. And I wear undershirts. This means that, though I got soaking wet, I didn't get all my clothes wet. I had time to dry off anyways, but still. When we were done with the water balloons, her mom drove off to pick up some pizza for dinner, leaving us alone for a short time.
By the time her mom got back we were mostly dry, so we went inside to eat some food. I know for sure I was hungry. I've noticed Kitiy never is able to eat all that much in one sitting. She couldn't finish two slices of pizza. I don't think she's anorexic, especially since she thinks it's ugly to be too skinny, but it still bothers me that she can't eat much.
Though, she did seem to be a bit sick today. We ate lunch earlier at a Mr. Goodcents, which is a sub sammich shop that's pretty good (not as good as Which Wich though ^.^;), and she got a bit sick eating there. I don't think it was the food, though. She just seems to be a bit...delicate perhaps.
I'm not sure what the problem was exactly. All I know is that, in the car on the way back to her house, she leaned against me, clinging to my arm. It feels good to know that I'm comforting.
Anyways, after the pizza, we just spent some time hanging out in her room after our fun. You know, most people might think it's not to special, but to me, just being able to spend time with her at all really means something. The more time I get...I just wish it wouldn't ever end.
Anyways, when it got to around 9pm, it was time to go off and meet her mother, who took me off to my hotel before taking Kitiy home. Well, we stopped by Best Buy to get her a new mic (she kinda...broke her old one throwing it across the room).
She always hates having to do that, and so do I. Taking me back to my hotel, I mean, and having to spend our night apart. I want so badly to be able to just fall asleep with her once instead of having to spend our nights apart. I don't think I'll get my chance with this visit...but I still wish I could. I'm just one of those people who enjoys the cuddling...and when I hold her in my arms, things just feel right.
Well, the next day, which was today, I woke up a bit after 9am, (which meant no continental breakfast for me). I then waited until about noon for Kitiy and her mom to be ready for the day. Well, more the both of us waiting for her mom to be ready to take us out to this other mall called the Promenade. They apparently like this one better than the Woodland Hills Mall that we went to the other day.
Yeah, yeah, I know....another place to spend money at. I should be trying not to spend too much money on this trip, but...eh...you know.
Let's see...first we at lunch, as we were both very hungry. We got some pizza from this place called Sbarro there in the food court which makes big New York style pizza.
Then we went to one of Kitiy's favorite stores, a place called Romancing the Stone. It's a pretty neat little shop with all sorts of shiny things and neat-looking knickknacks. She decided that I should get myself an incense burner and some incense, which should help with any smelly smells at my apartment. It made sense to me, so I went along with it. Who knows, maybe I'll like it and keep buying incense now and then.
She also insisted I get a little pendant with my horoscope symbol on it, so I decided to go with the Chinese calligraphy for the Tiger (rather than the M-looking thing for Scorpio).
After that we explored a little. We mostly looked through the shops, while I made myself not buy some of the neat things we found. We stopped by the Oklahoma Store not too soon after that. It's basically this little shop with stuff from right here in Oklahoma, rather than from other places. One of the neat things they have are these things called rose stones. There's apparently this area where stone grows in the shape of a rose in bloom, and it's only here in Oklahoma. She decided it would make a neat gift for my dad, so I figured "Eh, what the hell." and got one. Father's Day is coming soon anyways...
We also got some home-grown honey from there too, as Kitiy insists honey, peanut butter, and something else makes a delicious snack. We haven't gotten around to that yet, but we probably will before I go.
We explored a little more and then made our way to Hot Topic. It's another of her favorite stores, after all, what with her clothing style and such. We looked through the t-shirts and saw one I just had to get. If you're a fan of TMNT, you'd agree: A sketch of Splinter and the words "Splinter's Dojo" on it.
There were other shirts I probably could have gotten that I'd like, but again...trying to hold back on big spending, eh? I've got plenty of shirts anyways. She's been hoping to get me a Hot Topic hoodie, but we didn't see anything there that I could go for (in my size at least). I'm thinking I could go for a Zelda or a Bleach hoodie, if she so insists that I get a hoodie.
Anyways, we got that shirt, some new socks for her, and then some semi-permanent hair dye. She had plans to make use of it. One bottle of blue for me, and a bottle of green for her. Green's her favorite color, I should mention. We went back to exploring at that point. We actually didn't do so much shopping this time as exploring, which was pretty fun. We went into this one toy store place that had neat things, I remember, but we didn't get anything. Well...we stopped by a small stand that sold fudge. Tasty.
Also, we did stop by this place called Icing, apparently some off-shoot of Claire's. She wanted to get black eyeshadow and black nail polish, both of which with me obviously in mind. I sense tomorrow that make-up will be applied to my person. I already have black toenails, and she's already played with my face a bunch, but she can't seem to get enough of it. I don't mind, though. I just wonder how long I can go before I decide to let her get me a piercing...and a tattoo.
I insisted, at that point, that I buy something for her, as I just feel guilty when I buy things for myself and nothing for her. It took me a while, and a little exploring, to decide, but we headed back to Romancing the Stone and I got her a little gargoyle figurine. For some reason, she's been wanting a gargoyle. She liked it, I remember, but I wasn't satisfied with my gifting. We then went back to Hot Topic and I got her two new pairs of pants. She only has one pair of pants from Hot Topic, and she just loves their pants, so I figured it works.
We eventually went back to the food court once we decided we were hungry again. We didn't eat much food the first time anyways. I insisted that we had Chinese, though she said the only Chinese she likes is sweet n sour chicken. I had her try the orange chicken, but she didn't like it. Oh well. We had some ice cream from this place called Dippin' Dots that put a clever twist on it. What they do with ice cream is they have ice cream dripping down and then they flash freeze the drops, so they sell to you cups of what look like crumbs of frozen ice cream. We shared a large mint chocolate, and it was certainly very tasty. Very cold, too.
After that, we decided it was plenty shopping, and called up her mom for a ride. We made a short stop at the Candy Castle there for something to drink and a bit of a chocolaty treat, but then we went off to her house.
It was there that she did some hair dying fun. She tried the blue on me...she said it looked really good, but looking in the mirror I couldn't really see the blue. I guess it just kinda got absorbed a bit much into my hair? We did the green on her, but just on her bangs. It looks really good on her, I must say. We tried adding more of the blue stuff to me, but again it seems the blue isn't quite showing up. My hair looks a bit silvery though. Maybe if she applies what's left of the bottle to my hair it'll work...but my hair is pretty thick, and is very good at absorbing, so we'll see. If anything, we'll have learned that my hair would need to be bleached before trying to dye it.
Or maybe I just need to shower once and it'll come out better. I'm not sure. We didn't exactly follow the directions on the bottle after all.
After that, we mostly just watched anime from her bed in her room. Her door is apparently broken so that there's no door knob, but it can close. It just means that her mom can peep in any time she wants to. I was there for several hours, spending quality time for my lover. Her mom went out at one point for food. She got McDonald's...which wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm not really all that picky about things. It may not be all that healthy to have chicken nuggets, fries, and a small fudge sundae for dinner, but it's still food. I just need to make sure I try to get myself into exercising ASAP so I don't keep getting wider and wider. I definitely don't want to have to buy XXL pants. x.x
Well, though it seemed for a short bit that her mom kinda forgot I was there (which I would honestly like to have happened), at about 10 she said it was time to pack up and take me back over to my hotel. Sigh. Yet another disappointing goodbye to Kitiy as we go off to spend our nights apart. I have no idea what tomorrow will have in store, but her mom will be busy with stuff, so the plan so far is for her dad to pick us up and to go over there.
I was kinda looking forward to the zoo, but oh well. It might still be an option...but we'll see. Maybe I'll just end up spending the day in her room again. I don't care what we end up doing, so long as I get to spend my day with her. It's why I'm here, after all.
Two days left...I'll let you know how those go later, though I probably won't get around to that until after I make it back to Austin safe and sound.
We went to this dollar store place where we bought water balloons...then we decided to buy some guy's swimming shorts for the both of us. Yes. We were going to get good and wet that day. It doesn't sound like much of an event with your girlfriend, but it WAS fun. But we'll get to that later.
We also went to Hobby Lobby nearby and looked around. She wants to make me a cloak like the one she made for herself. It sounds like something I'd love to have, and I have always wanted a cloak. So we looked around at fabrics, but we didn't buy any. She apparently has a lot of people wanting her to make cloaks for them, and she plans to save up money to buy some good amount of fabric. I told her I wouldn't mind buying the fabric for mine, but she can be quite stubborn and persuasive.
Anyways, we ended up just buying some things that she wanted for making herself a cat-like collar. Some kinda fuzzy thingy and some bells make up her materials for it. You get the idea. I dunno when she'll make it, but I bet it'll look cute on her. I just hope she doesn't use the second bell to make one for me. I wouldn't mind wearing a bell collar, I just don't want the fuzzy stuff. That's a bit much for me.
Anyways, we went back off to her house after that, while her dad decided to work on their old house, (they apparently recently moved to where they are now). So we went to the backyard and found a hose and started filling up a bunch of water balloons. We got soaked just doing that, partially because we kept splashing each other with water just for fun. We didn't use all the water balloons, (they've gotta pay for water after all).
Naturally, we then used the water balloons. Tossing them left and right at each other and getting downright soaked with freakin' cold water. It's a good thing we bought swimming shorts. And I wear undershirts. This means that, though I got soaking wet, I didn't get all my clothes wet. I had time to dry off anyways, but still. When we were done with the water balloons, her mom drove off to pick up some pizza for dinner, leaving us alone for a short time.
By the time her mom got back we were mostly dry, so we went inside to eat some food. I know for sure I was hungry. I've noticed Kitiy never is able to eat all that much in one sitting. She couldn't finish two slices of pizza. I don't think she's anorexic, especially since she thinks it's ugly to be too skinny, but it still bothers me that she can't eat much.
Though, she did seem to be a bit sick today. We ate lunch earlier at a Mr. Goodcents, which is a sub sammich shop that's pretty good (not as good as Which Wich though ^.^;), and she got a bit sick eating there. I don't think it was the food, though. She just seems to be a bit...delicate perhaps.
I'm not sure what the problem was exactly. All I know is that, in the car on the way back to her house, she leaned against me, clinging to my arm. It feels good to know that I'm comforting.
Anyways, after the pizza, we just spent some time hanging out in her room after our fun. You know, most people might think it's not to special, but to me, just being able to spend time with her at all really means something. The more time I get...I just wish it wouldn't ever end.
Anyways, when it got to around 9pm, it was time to go off and meet her mother, who took me off to my hotel before taking Kitiy home. Well, we stopped by Best Buy to get her a new mic (she kinda...broke her old one throwing it across the room).
She always hates having to do that, and so do I. Taking me back to my hotel, I mean, and having to spend our night apart. I want so badly to be able to just fall asleep with her once instead of having to spend our nights apart. I don't think I'll get my chance with this visit...but I still wish I could. I'm just one of those people who enjoys the cuddling...and when I hold her in my arms, things just feel right.
Well, the next day, which was today, I woke up a bit after 9am, (which meant no continental breakfast for me). I then waited until about noon for Kitiy and her mom to be ready for the day. Well, more the both of us waiting for her mom to be ready to take us out to this other mall called the Promenade. They apparently like this one better than the Woodland Hills Mall that we went to the other day.
Yeah, yeah, I know....another place to spend money at. I should be trying not to spend too much money on this trip, but...eh...you know.
Let's see...first we at lunch, as we were both very hungry. We got some pizza from this place called Sbarro there in the food court which makes big New York style pizza.
Then we went to one of Kitiy's favorite stores, a place called Romancing the Stone. It's a pretty neat little shop with all sorts of shiny things and neat-looking knickknacks. She decided that I should get myself an incense burner and some incense, which should help with any smelly smells at my apartment. It made sense to me, so I went along with it. Who knows, maybe I'll like it and keep buying incense now and then.
She also insisted I get a little pendant with my horoscope symbol on it, so I decided to go with the Chinese calligraphy for the Tiger (rather than the M-looking thing for Scorpio).
After that we explored a little. We mostly looked through the shops, while I made myself not buy some of the neat things we found. We stopped by the Oklahoma Store not too soon after that. It's basically this little shop with stuff from right here in Oklahoma, rather than from other places. One of the neat things they have are these things called rose stones. There's apparently this area where stone grows in the shape of a rose in bloom, and it's only here in Oklahoma. She decided it would make a neat gift for my dad, so I figured "Eh, what the hell." and got one. Father's Day is coming soon anyways...
We also got some home-grown honey from there too, as Kitiy insists honey, peanut butter, and something else makes a delicious snack. We haven't gotten around to that yet, but we probably will before I go.
We explored a little more and then made our way to Hot Topic. It's another of her favorite stores, after all, what with her clothing style and such. We looked through the t-shirts and saw one I just had to get. If you're a fan of TMNT, you'd agree: A sketch of Splinter and the words "Splinter's Dojo" on it.
There were other shirts I probably could have gotten that I'd like, but again...trying to hold back on big spending, eh? I've got plenty of shirts anyways. She's been hoping to get me a Hot Topic hoodie, but we didn't see anything there that I could go for (in my size at least). I'm thinking I could go for a Zelda or a Bleach hoodie, if she so insists that I get a hoodie.
Anyways, we got that shirt, some new socks for her, and then some semi-permanent hair dye. She had plans to make use of it. One bottle of blue for me, and a bottle of green for her. Green's her favorite color, I should mention. We went back to exploring at that point. We actually didn't do so much shopping this time as exploring, which was pretty fun. We went into this one toy store place that had neat things, I remember, but we didn't get anything. Well...we stopped by a small stand that sold fudge. Tasty.
Also, we did stop by this place called Icing, apparently some off-shoot of Claire's. She wanted to get black eyeshadow and black nail polish, both of which with me obviously in mind. I sense tomorrow that make-up will be applied to my person. I already have black toenails, and she's already played with my face a bunch, but she can't seem to get enough of it. I don't mind, though. I just wonder how long I can go before I decide to let her get me a piercing...and a tattoo.
I insisted, at that point, that I buy something for her, as I just feel guilty when I buy things for myself and nothing for her. It took me a while, and a little exploring, to decide, but we headed back to Romancing the Stone and I got her a little gargoyle figurine. For some reason, she's been wanting a gargoyle. She liked it, I remember, but I wasn't satisfied with my gifting. We then went back to Hot Topic and I got her two new pairs of pants. She only has one pair of pants from Hot Topic, and she just loves their pants, so I figured it works.
We eventually went back to the food court once we decided we were hungry again. We didn't eat much food the first time anyways. I insisted that we had Chinese, though she said the only Chinese she likes is sweet n sour chicken. I had her try the orange chicken, but she didn't like it. Oh well. We had some ice cream from this place called Dippin' Dots that put a clever twist on it. What they do with ice cream is they have ice cream dripping down and then they flash freeze the drops, so they sell to you cups of what look like crumbs of frozen ice cream. We shared a large mint chocolate, and it was certainly very tasty. Very cold, too.
After that, we decided it was plenty shopping, and called up her mom for a ride. We made a short stop at the Candy Castle there for something to drink and a bit of a chocolaty treat, but then we went off to her house.
It was there that she did some hair dying fun. She tried the blue on me...she said it looked really good, but looking in the mirror I couldn't really see the blue. I guess it just kinda got absorbed a bit much into my hair? We did the green on her, but just on her bangs. It looks really good on her, I must say. We tried adding more of the blue stuff to me, but again it seems the blue isn't quite showing up. My hair looks a bit silvery though. Maybe if she applies what's left of the bottle to my hair it'll work...but my hair is pretty thick, and is very good at absorbing, so we'll see. If anything, we'll have learned that my hair would need to be bleached before trying to dye it.
Or maybe I just need to shower once and it'll come out better. I'm not sure. We didn't exactly follow the directions on the bottle after all.
After that, we mostly just watched anime from her bed in her room. Her door is apparently broken so that there's no door knob, but it can close. It just means that her mom can peep in any time she wants to. I was there for several hours, spending quality time for my lover. Her mom went out at one point for food. She got McDonald's...which wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm not really all that picky about things. It may not be all that healthy to have chicken nuggets, fries, and a small fudge sundae for dinner, but it's still food. I just need to make sure I try to get myself into exercising ASAP so I don't keep getting wider and wider. I definitely don't want to have to buy XXL pants. x.x
Well, though it seemed for a short bit that her mom kinda forgot I was there (which I would honestly like to have happened), at about 10 she said it was time to pack up and take me back over to my hotel. Sigh. Yet another disappointing goodbye to Kitiy as we go off to spend our nights apart. I have no idea what tomorrow will have in store, but her mom will be busy with stuff, so the plan so far is for her dad to pick us up and to go over there.
I was kinda looking forward to the zoo, but oh well. It might still be an option...but we'll see. Maybe I'll just end up spending the day in her room again. I don't care what we end up doing, so long as I get to spend my day with her. It's why I'm here, after all.
Two days left...I'll let you know how those go later, though I probably won't get around to that until after I make it back to Austin safe and sound.
6/01/2007
Shopping can be...fun?
Today was really a blast. In fact, I think it was more fun than our first day. Possibly. The jury is still out on that one.
Well, as I said, the plan was to head off to the mall for the day (most of it), which we did. I woke up at about 6ish and discovered that my clock was blinking, so there must've been a power outage earlier. For a second, being only half-awake, I was afraid I'd slept in to 1:42 pm. That's a fright to me. It would've ruined such wonderful plans.
Anyways, I slept another hour, woke up at about 7ish then and couldn't get back to sleep. That's when I was getting around to finishing yesterday's blog, actually, as I had nothing else to do, and Kitiy wanted me to publish it.
It wasn't until after noon that we got to head off to the mall, though. First, though, we went to a Coney Island shop, a place I've never been before, and we had lunch. Delicious chili-cheese hot dogs, I must say. Then we crossed a busy street to the mall and went on a fun day of shopping, with much of walking.
Let's see...first...first we went into this neat crystal jeweler's place where they had crystal figurines and fancy jewelry. We didn't buy anything, but we looked at this crystal dragon with a colorful metallic pearl, that the lady at the store even took out for us to see. It was absolutely magnificent, and I'd so buy it if I wasn't worried about breaking it in my travels. Not just travels between Texas and OK, but also travels between apartments.
We went to Hot Topic next. We had an amusing incident when we walked in and we set off the alarms. We dug through my laptop bag trying to figure it out and it turned out to be C&C 3, which I'd bought down at the Highlands Mall in Austin a month back or so. That explains now why I set off the alarms when I walked into a clothing store next door to buy Dr. Scholl's for Brett that day...
The kind lady working there fixed it for me though. :)
So, we wandered the store a little and bought me two pairs of pants. Heavy, baggy pants with chains on 'em and everything. They're the kinds of pants Kitiy almost always wears, and I like their style muchly. The hip pockets could stand to be a big higher-up and larger, but I likes 'em. Kitiy either didn't want something, or didn't know what she wanted, and we decided we might go back another time.
Oh, we also got a collar for me (that fits) and some studs to put on it, but it turns out the screws for the studs didn't quite fit. We'll fix that up with washers or better screws or something.
After that...we went to this place called Claire's, because they apparently sold some things for guys that Kitiy wanted to look at. She decided that I should buy a necklace with a dragon pendant thingy on it.
I don't know why we bought so much for me at first, rather than having me pile presents on her, but neither of us really minded. And it also seems much more even to me, and less selfish of both parties, that we both get things.
After that, I noticed a Marble Slab, so we stopped there for some ice cream. She got Cake Batter with rainbow sprinkles, while I chose the route of peanut butter with Butterfinger. She said it's just like the Coldstone we'd originally planned to get ice cream at, so she loved it. We went off to the food court to eat our ice cream, and fiddled with my collar while we did, discovering the problem with the screws then. The ice cream made us thirsty, so we went and just bought two fountain drinks from Sonic there at the food court. She insisted to pay for both the ice cream cones with her own money, so I decided to let her.
After a short restroom break, we wandered through some stores looking at things. I'm not sure which. She was of a mind to help me get a father's day gift, but we didn't get anything. Then she dragged me into the Build-a-Bear Workshop to get a bear for me. Yes. That kiddy place where you fill a bear (and now other kinds of stuffed animals) with stuffing, then fluff it up, dress it up, and name it? Well, she made me get one. I had to warm up the heart and rub it against my head and kiss it and everything.
She picked out the bear (white fur with blue streaks in it around) and then picked out the outfit for me. I probably looked like a lost puppy and was apparently obviously being dragged through it by her. I wanted to be sure it appeared that way too. >.>;
Then we saw a place called Candy Castle, that sold lots and lots of candy of all sorts. By this time our feetses were hurting a bit, but we kept on going cause we were having fun. Anyways, we got jelly beans and some sour belts (like sour power straws, but in a belt form), and then she needed another trip to the bathroom. We went right back, actually, and I decided to buy her a large stuffed cheetah. I think she decided to name it Monoh, rather than keep the name SuperSonic (Silly TY company). It didn't cost much, either, and she really really liked it.
Then we wandered a little, not really with a plan of what to do next. We tried a photo booth because I insisted, and that one was actually broken or out of printer stuff or something. Not sure, no pictures were printed. Don't worry, we found another later. Anyways, right next to the booth was a chocolate store and they sold chocolate-covered strawberries. I decided to go in and buy one for her and one for me. The big ones. They were like an inch in width and worth $4 each! Delicious, too. I've honestly never had a strawberry before today.
The chocolate made us thirsty then. It must be the sticky sweetness of chocolate and fruit that did it. Instead of Sonic, though, we decided to get a bottle of Mountain Dew from that candy store earlier. Went in there three times then. XD
I decided to buy her another gift, and it required a trip to Radioshack. On the way there we saw another photo booth and gave it a try. This one worked. We're now officially "Wanted for just about everything." I had such a cheesy grin, because I forgot that I'm not supposed to smile for photos, but oh well. It's the photo-taking that's the fun part I guess.
Anyways, we went into Radioshack, and I got her a small mp3 player, so she wouldn't have to deal with CDs anymore. It's the exact same one I have, too, so I was able to show her how to get music to it and all that when we got back to her place.
Well, by this time we'd been at the mall for three hours. So we called up her dad and let her know we were all set to go. I think all in all, I may have actually spent about $300 at the mall. It was a fun trip, though, and I don't normally enjoy shopping. Maybe it's because this was our first official date together. I know she had a blast.
After that we went off to meet her dad, who bought some things from Sears (trim being part of it, apparently, and probably a tool or something), and then I spent the rest of our day at her place.
She got to show me off in my new pants to her parents, and they commented on how neat the pants are and all. Her grandma commented later "I can hear you coming" which I just had to smile at. These pants really are quite noisy, with the chains moving around so much.
Well, then I pulled out my laptop and hooked up her mp3 player to it, and she started peering through my music collection. She added a bunch of music from my stuff to her mp3 player, mostly stuff that she hasn't heard before and rather likes.
We had dinner later, which her step-mom Lyn cooked. It was apparently sausage meatballs with a neat sauce added on for flavor, on top of rice, and it tasted good. We also had a small side salad, which I at least picked at.
I should note at this point that I'm walking around in one of my new pairs of pants, with strings trailing from the edge along the floor. In a house with cats. One cat followed me the rest of the night, randomly attacking me. It was cute, cause he's so delicate that he could never be vicious. Not to anything but string anyways.
We said grace before the meal, something I'm really not used to. I've done it before, I think, and I've seen it enough to know to hold hands, bow my head, and listen respectfully. I may be apathetic agnostic, but I don't wish to be rude to other people about their beliefs. It's their choice, their life, not mine.
Anyways, mini-rant to the side...We ended up doing some outdoorsy stuff after that. We played frisbee at first, and apparently her dad is impressed at how well I can throw the frisbee. We did that a bit, and even Clarence (one of her cats) joined in to play! I think Frank walked over too, just to not be left out of the attention. We ended up playing some badminton after that, too. I'm new to the game, but we had fun with it, and I did hit the birdie most of the time. I was able to properly serve this time. I just need work on hand-eye coordination. Depth and the like.
We also got out their leftover sparklers. Although I told her she should wait another month, since that's the 4th of July, her argument is that I won't be here then, so she wanted to do this now. It got very very smoky, and I learned the hard way not to stare at the burning magnesium stuff. Ow. Saw leftover light in my eyes for a little bit.
Once that was done, we went back to her room and fiddled with my computer, my music for a while, with the TV on Cartoon Network. Hey, there's nothing wrong with cartoons! We went onto her own computer (her parent's now, I guess) so she could read my blog from the first two days (as my laptop couldn't access their messed-up wireless network). She likes reading my blogs I've noticed.
I had to head back to the hotel at about 9 then. I didn't want the day to end, as we really had a lot of fun, but I guess that just means the day was worth the trouble of waking up and all that. It's not bad to end a day that went so well, I think. Said our good-byes, and then we went our ways.
Tomorrow will be more fun, though we don't quite know what yet. Maybe some ice-skating? I'd like that. I know she would, too. More on the adventure as it continues, if you care to keep reading.
Well, as I said, the plan was to head off to the mall for the day (most of it), which we did. I woke up at about 6ish and discovered that my clock was blinking, so there must've been a power outage earlier. For a second, being only half-awake, I was afraid I'd slept in to 1:42 pm. That's a fright to me. It would've ruined such wonderful plans.
Anyways, I slept another hour, woke up at about 7ish then and couldn't get back to sleep. That's when I was getting around to finishing yesterday's blog, actually, as I had nothing else to do, and Kitiy wanted me to publish it.
It wasn't until after noon that we got to head off to the mall, though. First, though, we went to a Coney Island shop, a place I've never been before, and we had lunch. Delicious chili-cheese hot dogs, I must say. Then we crossed a busy street to the mall and went on a fun day of shopping, with much of walking.
Let's see...first...first we went into this neat crystal jeweler's place where they had crystal figurines and fancy jewelry. We didn't buy anything, but we looked at this crystal dragon with a colorful metallic pearl, that the lady at the store even took out for us to see. It was absolutely magnificent, and I'd so buy it if I wasn't worried about breaking it in my travels. Not just travels between Texas and OK, but also travels between apartments.
We went to Hot Topic next. We had an amusing incident when we walked in and we set off the alarms. We dug through my laptop bag trying to figure it out and it turned out to be C&C 3, which I'd bought down at the Highlands Mall in Austin a month back or so. That explains now why I set off the alarms when I walked into a clothing store next door to buy Dr. Scholl's for Brett that day...
The kind lady working there fixed it for me though. :)
So, we wandered the store a little and bought me two pairs of pants. Heavy, baggy pants with chains on 'em and everything. They're the kinds of pants Kitiy almost always wears, and I like their style muchly. The hip pockets could stand to be a big higher-up and larger, but I likes 'em. Kitiy either didn't want something, or didn't know what she wanted, and we decided we might go back another time.
Oh, we also got a collar for me (that fits) and some studs to put on it, but it turns out the screws for the studs didn't quite fit. We'll fix that up with washers or better screws or something.
After that...we went to this place called Claire's, because they apparently sold some things for guys that Kitiy wanted to look at. She decided that I should buy a necklace with a dragon pendant thingy on it.
I don't know why we bought so much for me at first, rather than having me pile presents on her, but neither of us really minded. And it also seems much more even to me, and less selfish of both parties, that we both get things.
After that, I noticed a Marble Slab, so we stopped there for some ice cream. She got Cake Batter with rainbow sprinkles, while I chose the route of peanut butter with Butterfinger. She said it's just like the Coldstone we'd originally planned to get ice cream at, so she loved it. We went off to the food court to eat our ice cream, and fiddled with my collar while we did, discovering the problem with the screws then. The ice cream made us thirsty, so we went and just bought two fountain drinks from Sonic there at the food court. She insisted to pay for both the ice cream cones with her own money, so I decided to let her.
After a short restroom break, we wandered through some stores looking at things. I'm not sure which. She was of a mind to help me get a father's day gift, but we didn't get anything. Then she dragged me into the Build-a-Bear Workshop to get a bear for me. Yes. That kiddy place where you fill a bear (and now other kinds of stuffed animals) with stuffing, then fluff it up, dress it up, and name it? Well, she made me get one. I had to warm up the heart and rub it against my head and kiss it and everything.
She picked out the bear (white fur with blue streaks in it around) and then picked out the outfit for me. I probably looked like a lost puppy and was apparently obviously being dragged through it by her. I wanted to be sure it appeared that way too. >.>;
Then we saw a place called Candy Castle, that sold lots and lots of candy of all sorts. By this time our feetses were hurting a bit, but we kept on going cause we were having fun. Anyways, we got jelly beans and some sour belts (like sour power straws, but in a belt form), and then she needed another trip to the bathroom. We went right back, actually, and I decided to buy her a large stuffed cheetah. I think she decided to name it Monoh, rather than keep the name SuperSonic (Silly TY company). It didn't cost much, either, and she really really liked it.
Then we wandered a little, not really with a plan of what to do next. We tried a photo booth because I insisted, and that one was actually broken or out of printer stuff or something. Not sure, no pictures were printed. Don't worry, we found another later. Anyways, right next to the booth was a chocolate store and they sold chocolate-covered strawberries. I decided to go in and buy one for her and one for me. The big ones. They were like an inch in width and worth $4 each! Delicious, too. I've honestly never had a strawberry before today.
The chocolate made us thirsty then. It must be the sticky sweetness of chocolate and fruit that did it. Instead of Sonic, though, we decided to get a bottle of Mountain Dew from that candy store earlier. Went in there three times then. XD
I decided to buy her another gift, and it required a trip to Radioshack. On the way there we saw another photo booth and gave it a try. This one worked. We're now officially "Wanted for just about everything." I had such a cheesy grin, because I forgot that I'm not supposed to smile for photos, but oh well. It's the photo-taking that's the fun part I guess.
Anyways, we went into Radioshack, and I got her a small mp3 player, so she wouldn't have to deal with CDs anymore. It's the exact same one I have, too, so I was able to show her how to get music to it and all that when we got back to her place.
Well, by this time we'd been at the mall for three hours. So we called up her dad and let her know we were all set to go. I think all in all, I may have actually spent about $300 at the mall. It was a fun trip, though, and I don't normally enjoy shopping. Maybe it's because this was our first official date together. I know she had a blast.
After that we went off to meet her dad, who bought some things from Sears (trim being part of it, apparently, and probably a tool or something), and then I spent the rest of our day at her place.
She got to show me off in my new pants to her parents, and they commented on how neat the pants are and all. Her grandma commented later "I can hear you coming" which I just had to smile at. These pants really are quite noisy, with the chains moving around so much.
Well, then I pulled out my laptop and hooked up her mp3 player to it, and she started peering through my music collection. She added a bunch of music from my stuff to her mp3 player, mostly stuff that she hasn't heard before and rather likes.
We had dinner later, which her step-mom Lyn cooked. It was apparently sausage meatballs with a neat sauce added on for flavor, on top of rice, and it tasted good. We also had a small side salad, which I at least picked at.
I should note at this point that I'm walking around in one of my new pairs of pants, with strings trailing from the edge along the floor. In a house with cats. One cat followed me the rest of the night, randomly attacking me. It was cute, cause he's so delicate that he could never be vicious. Not to anything but string anyways.
We said grace before the meal, something I'm really not used to. I've done it before, I think, and I've seen it enough to know to hold hands, bow my head, and listen respectfully. I may be apathetic agnostic, but I don't wish to be rude to other people about their beliefs. It's their choice, their life, not mine.
Anyways, mini-rant to the side...We ended up doing some outdoorsy stuff after that. We played frisbee at first, and apparently her dad is impressed at how well I can throw the frisbee. We did that a bit, and even Clarence (one of her cats) joined in to play! I think Frank walked over too, just to not be left out of the attention. We ended up playing some badminton after that, too. I'm new to the game, but we had fun with it, and I did hit the birdie most of the time. I was able to properly serve this time. I just need work on hand-eye coordination. Depth and the like.
We also got out their leftover sparklers. Although I told her she should wait another month, since that's the 4th of July, her argument is that I won't be here then, so she wanted to do this now. It got very very smoky, and I learned the hard way not to stare at the burning magnesium stuff. Ow. Saw leftover light in my eyes for a little bit.
Once that was done, we went back to her room and fiddled with my computer, my music for a while, with the TV on Cartoon Network. Hey, there's nothing wrong with cartoons! We went onto her own computer (her parent's now, I guess) so she could read my blog from the first two days (as my laptop couldn't access their messed-up wireless network). She likes reading my blogs I've noticed.
I had to head back to the hotel at about 9 then. I didn't want the day to end, as we really had a lot of fun, but I guess that just means the day was worth the trouble of waking up and all that. It's not bad to end a day that went so well, I think. Said our good-byes, and then we went our ways.
Tomorrow will be more fun, though we don't quite know what yet. Maybe some ice-skating? I'd like that. I know she would, too. More on the adventure as it continues, if you care to keep reading.
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