Jun 26
DOING THIS
I'm downloading music, but choosing the music via friends' music lists on Myspace.
LAST NIGHT
I woke up yesterday in the middle of the night and decided to start writing because I had this great idea for a story but I'm not so sure it's great anymore. I used Kristy's name ( always use her name for the leads cuz I always imagine someone like her in these situations ) and gave her a lover named Jack. Love that name. I think I'm going name my kid Joshua, Jakob, or Jack..
I think the lack of sleep came from the food we all crammed down our throats yesterday afternoon. Had some people over, about 10 or 12, ate a crapload, drank wine, played trivial Pursuit (popculture) and called it a night. My partner was Russ... a guy I met in Sicily with the ultimate surfer accent. He's a good time because he'll throw out off-the-wall references that leave people wondering if they should laugh or scoot away from him.
Russ and I 'technically' won the game because of my amazing knowledge (excuse me as I buff my nails with my shirt sleeve) of movies prior to 1998. I used to be a huge movie buff, as some of you know...now I can't even stand to sit in front of a television and I can't sit still in movie theaters. But I can still enjoy a good book.. go figure!
Most of our game wedges we won fairly, and one of them... we won because Bob shouted the answer before it said "all-play"... so Russ and I looked at each other, looked at everyone else, and repeated what Bob said and we won the wedge.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I'm sad to have to leave because I'm comfortable here. But I know the grass is always greener on the other side. I remember leaving home in 1998 and traveling to all of these places that the navy sent me but my heart would ache for home. I could never listen to "Be like that" by 3 doors down ("spends his nights in california..."), "Santa Monica" by everclear ("..I am still living with your ghost, lonely and dreaming of the west coast...I just want to see some palm trees, I will try to shake away this disease") or any other song that mentioned a bit of California that I missed. Hell, even last year when I watched the Anchorman here on the east coast I was more interested in San Diego in the background than the movie.
I've grown up a lot and realized that there's a lot more outside of california that's better and not so better.. (it reminds me of that scene on Sex and the City when Miranda meets the guy who never left Manhattan.."Why on earth would you do that?" she asked. He answered. "Why would you want to leave, everything's here.") I met an australian in Queensland who told me the same thing.. He'd never left that half of Australia because, "I've got everything I need here. I have no interest in California or anywhere else...just home."
I've also realized that everything is the same, whereever you go, except the weather. The southern hospitality is a lot different here, that's for sure; random people come up and start conversations with me and I love that..
Dunno. My flight leaves tomorrow, tuesday, and I'll be back in San Diego.. Back with Bette, my sweetheart. Back with my cat who needs to go to the vet, my car...and leaving the fiat behind.
I'll give California another few months before I decide on whether I'm going to move out here and eventually make a home near DC. I think it's my favorite city in the entire country...I could make it home.
I'm downloading music, but choosing the music via friends' music lists on Myspace.
LAST NIGHT
I woke up yesterday in the middle of the night and decided to start writing because I had this great idea for a story but I'm not so sure it's great anymore. I used Kristy's name ( always use her name for the leads cuz I always imagine someone like her in these situations ) and gave her a lover named Jack. Love that name. I think I'm going name my kid Joshua, Jakob, or Jack..
I think the lack of sleep came from the food we all crammed down our throats yesterday afternoon. Had some people over, about 10 or 12, ate a crapload, drank wine, played trivial Pursuit (popculture) and called it a night. My partner was Russ... a guy I met in Sicily with the ultimate surfer accent. He's a good time because he'll throw out off-the-wall references that leave people wondering if they should laugh or scoot away from him.
Russ and I 'technically' won the game because of my amazing knowledge (excuse me as I buff my nails with my shirt sleeve) of movies prior to 1998. I used to be a huge movie buff, as some of you know...now I can't even stand to sit in front of a television and I can't sit still in movie theaters. But I can still enjoy a good book.. go figure!
Most of our game wedges we won fairly, and one of them... we won because Bob shouted the answer before it said "all-play"... so Russ and I looked at each other, looked at everyone else, and repeated what Bob said and we won the wedge.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I'm sad to have to leave because I'm comfortable here. But I know the grass is always greener on the other side. I remember leaving home in 1998 and traveling to all of these places that the navy sent me but my heart would ache for home. I could never listen to "Be like that" by 3 doors down ("spends his nights in california..."), "Santa Monica" by everclear ("..I am still living with your ghost, lonely and dreaming of the west coast...I just want to see some palm trees, I will try to shake away this disease") or any other song that mentioned a bit of California that I missed. Hell, even last year when I watched the Anchorman here on the east coast I was more interested in San Diego in the background than the movie.
I've grown up a lot and realized that there's a lot more outside of california that's better and not so better.. (it reminds me of that scene on Sex and the City when Miranda meets the guy who never left Manhattan.."Why on earth would you do that?" she asked. He answered. "Why would you want to leave, everything's here.") I met an australian in Queensland who told me the same thing.. He'd never left that half of Australia because, "I've got everything I need here. I have no interest in California or anywhere else...just home."
I've also realized that everything is the same, whereever you go, except the weather. The southern hospitality is a lot different here, that's for sure; random people come up and start conversations with me and I love that..
Dunno. My flight leaves tomorrow, tuesday, and I'll be back in San Diego.. Back with Bette, my sweetheart. Back with my cat who needs to go to the vet, my car...and leaving the fiat behind.
I'll give California another few months before I decide on whether I'm going to move out here and eventually make a home near DC. I think it's my favorite city in the entire country...I could make it home.
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