I've been wanting to move to Wordpress for a while but I kept putting it off. When you work and freelance, your personal projects become low priority. But there's no better time like the present right? I'm hoping to have my website up and running on the wordpress platform within the next week. I promise to come back and notify everyone of the official move when it's complete. =)
29 Around The Corner
The other day AJ was watching TV. Although it was a cartoon I recognized, it didn't look quite the same.
"Are you watching the Transformers?" I asked.
"Yeah!" he replied.
"Hmm.... I think I like the old Transformers better." I told him.
"What do you mean?" I could tell he needed a minute to process that. Kind of like when my 16 year old cousin asked how I knew the CareBears. Pffff....
"They used to have a Transformers cartoon when I was little." He got excited at that.
"You mean in black and white?" he asked with child like innocence.
:sigh: Even though I clearly remember watching cartoons in color, I still feel old. My approaching birthday doesn't help. I remember going into a panic on my 27th birthday. I went shopping and bought tons of anti aging anti wrinkle cream.
What do you guys do to stay and feel young? Please, I'd love to hear it.
"You Don't See Me!"
While still living in NYC my apartment was home to 4 cute and cuddly cats. For the most part Charlie, Azreal, Lokki and Bloopy are all very friendly. They rarely hide when company comes over and are usually eager to greet our guests. During my last week there, I had a handful of people over helping me pack, clean and move all my belongings. This activity turned out too be a little much for my kitties. Each one 
found his own secret place to hide.
All was well until we picked up the moving truck and began moving all the furniture. Piece by piece the hiding spots slowly disappeared. I clearly remember John lifting my mattress and watching as 3 frantic cats dispersed.
We only had 2 travel crates (though one was large enough to house two cats thankfully!), so we needed to make more than one trip to get all the cat's to Jeff house. Bloopy was the first one to be unhappily put in a box. Charlie and Azreal soon followed. This was mainly because Lokki couldn't be found. He's got to be somewhere we thought and shrugged it off. We didn't have crate room for him then anyway.
After confirming the three of us were hungry, John, Jeff and I headed to Bay Ridge for food, and later to drop off the crates at Jeff's house.
When we returned from dinner the guys loaded up the last bits of furniture. Shortly afterwards, Jeff worriedly approached me to say Lokki hadn't been found. "I've checked everywhere! There's no place left for him to hide. Where the hell could he be?" he asked.
It was probably an hour later that I walked into the kitchen (to make sure we weren't leaving anything behind) and saw him. I had to laugh. "I found Lokki!" I shouted wondering if he had been there the whole time. "What?!?! Where?!! I looked everywhere!" he yelled back. I don't know how Jeff could have missed him. Remind me never to put him on the search committee should AJ ever turn up missing. lol
There Lokki was, in my kitchen, in complete and total plain site, trying to hide behind pipes no thicker than my first three fingers. lol He looked so pathetic. I still don't know who's worse; Him for thinking he was fooling us, or us for taking an hour to find him!!!
This just goes to show; Always check the most obvious places first.
My Cotton Candy Obession
I've always loved cotton candy. If you don't believe me just ask my first boyfriend, we used to fight about it all the time. "You're such a little kid!" he'd say while waiting impatiently for me to stand in line and pay for it.
With the invention of the internet and netflix my love for cotton candy dwindled. I bet you're wondering 'where's the correlation?' Well, you see... there are only a handful of places you can get cotton candy. The most popular place is an amusement park or circus. Occasionally in NY you may randomly see a cotton candy guy selling bags for a dollar on the subway. But what good is that really? Chances are he won't be there selling when you actually want him to. So that leaves only one place I could get cotton candy when I wanted it; Blockbuster. Since I don't rent movies at Blockbuster anymore cotton candy has been pretty much 'Out of sight. Out of mind' for me, that is until John started working at G-force Amusement.
G-Force is a ride located at Fun Spot in Kissimee. Being as he works in an amusement park, John is exposed to cotton candy all day. He brings some home pretty regularly. Sounds perfect doesn't it? Well there was only one problem. He was living in FL while I was still living in NY. Just to show you how sweet of a guy John really is I'll tell you how he solved this problem. He'd collect 3 to 4 bags, put it in a box and ship it to me. You can say it. 'Awwwww...'
One time in particular, John bought a jumbo bag to send me. Not wanting to carry it around with him all day, he decided it would be safest in the back seat of the car.
Hmm... This was, how do you say 'a really stupid idea'? (please see Exhibit A below)
The bag melted to about 1/16 of it's original size and went from cotton candy to rock candy.
John saved the bag to show me and probably never thought in a million years I'd actually eat the thing. Talk about totally underestimating my love for cotton candy!
It felt a little like chewing on a pumice stone, but boy was it tasty! I bet you think I'm kidding. I'm not. I ate through almost all of the red part before stopping to take a picture of it. lol
Orlando Again!
Here I am! Finally in Orlando again. Things are going better than planned. There are still tons of boxes to unpack, but I have an office once more which makes me very excited.
I believe I may also have a job lined up. I should know more by next Monday.
The fourth of July was pretty fun. I took pictures and even have some video footage of the fireworks. I'll post that as soon as I find the software for my camera.
Anyway... Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still alive and kicking. There are very interesting things in motion and I will tell you all about them soon. =)
Hugs!
Desirai
I Hate The Heat
Who turned on the furnace in here? The weather has been absolutely disgusting. I've been taking a second shower at 2 a.m. for the last few nights in a row. I wouldn't be able to sleep if I didn't. Shower time is approaching. I can't stand feeling as though I have a film of oil and sweat all over my body. Bleh!
"Aren't you moving to FL soon?" I am indeed. But at least down there I have central air. I don't recall ever feeling this icky while living down south.
As if the heat weren't bad enough, I had to deal with someone blaring their stereo this afternoon at unreasonable decibels. It wasn't even music! It was talk radio! .... on for 10... straight... hours!
Around 9:30 pm I could hear someone in the next building yelling "TURN IT DOWN ALREADY!" to no avail. She also spent ten minutes loudly and angrily banging her pots and pans. Needless to say this did not help the noise pollution.
By 10 pm I had had enough and decided I was going to call the police; a sure sign of getting old. One could argue that closing the windows might have blocked out some of the sound and I would agree. However please refer to paragraph 1. I needed all the air I could get, closing the windows wasn't an option.
I asked Jeff to grab the phone from the bedroom and before I got a chance to dial the local precinct's number the noise miraculously stopped. Perhaps I should have tried calling the cops a few hours earlier.
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