Monday, June 9, 2014

Geez Louise!!

Dateless in Dallas

Linking up with my girl Bella today to fill ya in on my weekend. So if ya follow me on Twitter you noticed I mentioned the fact that I got to hang out with Ginger Beard this weekend. Keep reading to find out what happened.


So on Friday, of course I worked. It was a pretty busy day for me because I had some projects I needed to get done. 4:00 on the dot & I was outta there!! Went home and got dolled up and went out on the town with some girlfriends! Every year Johnson City has this festival called Blue Plum. I have lived here for almost 7 years now and have never been! So that's what we did on Friday.

First of all I never got to see an actual Blue Plum, I was told there would be some free things such as wine tasting, food sampling...uhm there was none whatsoever. I did however spend some money on some handmade jewelry. There were lots of booths set up for some crafty people. I'm thinking about setting up a booth next year to sell my canvas...maybe. I'll have to look into prices. But anyway.. It was a good time with good music.

So on Saturday I had to work at my 2nd job, practically a 12 hour shift. By the time I got home I was exhausted, I smelled bad, and my poor dog was attached to my hip because I was gone all day. So at that point after I had showered and put my pajamas on it was around 8:00, I cooked dinner.. actually cooked! It was so yummy. Turned on the t.v. to watch this past week's Catfish episode on my DVR. 
9:00 p.m. rolls around and I get a text

"Whatcha got goin on tonight?"

From the infamous..you guessed it...Ginger Beard. I had every plan and fiber in my body to stay home and be lazy because I was exhausted. I didn't get home til midnight the night before because of Blue Plum, and then worked a long day. So of course my intentions of driving to Knoxville(a 2 hour drive from JC) to go to the Joe and dance my ass off were non-existent. 

So, I got off the couch and got ready to go to the Joe. 
And I'm telling you now, I wish I had just stayed home.

It was fantastic, at first! He thought I was going to stay home, because I never told him I was gonna go. I told him I was absolutely going to stay home. Everyone was out on the floor doing the cowboy shuffle line dance, and he was behind me. He had a little towel (sounds weird I know) hanging out of his back pocket..for sweat because it is hella hot out there and while you're dancing I totally understand. One part of the line dance involves turning around, I grabbed the towel out of his pocket and he whipped around and saw me, I smiled at him and he got this big ole goofy smile on his face that made me blush and all giggly blah blah blah...

We hugged, exchanged 'so glad to finally meet you's, and started having a great time! We were dancing and flirting, all that jazz. Then the hip-hop/freestyle songs came on (basically just to bump and grind) and we were dancing.. all was well, then he backed a way for a bit and was dancing with his friends, no big deal.. here's where things take a turn..

Some other dude just came up behind me and started dancing with me. I didn't tell him to stop (apparently I should have) but hey, I was still feeling pretty good with the few beers I had in me and thought why not? So I just kept dancing, GB never stole me away, butted in, or anything (I assumed this is what a man would do if he was interested in me). Instead he marched off the dance floor. At first I thought well maybe he's gonna just go sit for a bit b/c we had been dancing for a while and sweatin.. I kept dancing (apparently I was supposed to stop). The rest of the time, he was avoiding me. The next popular line dance came on, I go over to stand next to him and in mid-song, he moves away from me. 

At this point, I've got it in my head that maybe he just stopped liking me? Maybe he thought I sucked at dancing. I honestly forgot about dancing with another dude and thinking that might have pissed him off. About an hour passes by and he's being shady as I'll get out, my bff asked if I was ready to go, and I was like sure. So he's out doing some line dance that I don't know, and I am in his view waving him down to try to say goodbye. I know he could see me but was ignoring me. At that point I was like f- it, I'm gone. I texted him, 

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Was TRYING to feel out the situation to see if he'd respond.. lame.

So most of my morning after, we texted back and forth arguing about the one freaking guy I danced with like I intentionally danced with the dude in front of him. I am so frustrated for a few reasons:

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1. We are not in a relationship.
2. I didn't intentionally dance with him in front of GB.
3. I didn't even dance the whole song with him.
4. I left the floor shortly after GB did.
5. GB made no effort to prove to the dude that I was "with" GB.
6. Grow a pair and get over it.






Seriously he kept going on and on and on about how I disrespected him by dancing with another dude. I JUST MET YOU GB!?!? At a bar, even. instead of properly asking me out on a date after ALL the opportunities you had while we've been talking, you suggested that we hang out at a freaking bar? For the first fucking time?!? How respectful is that? How do you expect me to respect you when you haven't made ONE effort to hang out on a proper date? Huh? How? 

AGHH makes my damn blood pressure rise and I was trying my hardest not to curse in this post but it's happened and probably gonna happen... whatever.

After all of the arguing I left him with 'K' and everyone knows that pisses everyone in the world off to leave someone with a 'K' but it finally shut him up. However, it didn't stop him from checking my MyStory on Snapchat for the rest of yesterday.. and this morning. Ugh. Boys suck.

I tried to keep my mind off it all day but I just couldn't.

However, I do have a date with someone this Wednesday, I'm pretty excited about it. Hopefully new guy will keep my mind off of GB. I just can't be involved with someone who gets so jealous over something so stupid, when we aren't even dating.

Help me out, am I in the wrong? Should I be kneeling at his feet begging for forgiveness? Or do you agree that he is over-reacting? Please be honest with me because I don't know what to do... I really freaking like him.

Anyway, if you've made it this far.. you must really love me!! I love you back for sure!! I have some AWESOME hall of lamers premiering tomorrow so make sure to check in =)


Thursday, June 5, 2014

Psychic Reading

So, while in New Orleans there were gypsies, palm readers, psychics, you name it all around the French Quarter. Some of them had their own little shops with a back room and curtain, and others were just sitting outside with a table and umbrella.
I've always thought this was a crock of you know what... until I had my tarot cards read to me...

Omygosh it freaked me out.

She was a gypsy, and knew everything about me!
Said I had 2 major heartbreaks:

  • One really hurt me (the ex-fiance)
  • The other really hurt my family (live in boyfriend)
  • She also mentioned that I had a recent heartbreak that wasn't shared with my family (TacoBell) and that I needed to just forget about him and move on. 
She told me that going back to school is a good idea, and I knew that it was a good idea. (I begin classes in August)
She said I'm a little boy crazy and that I should just be patient.
I'll find someone who will make me happy, we will get married and stay married.
We will have 2 children together and our family will be able to travel like I've always desired.


If anyone truly knows me or has read my Single and Ready to Mingle posts ( here & here ) you probably are just as freaked out as I am. I have no clue how she was able to be SO spot on with this but geeeez.

I'm going to try extremely hard to not get too excited and expect my prince to just show up anytime soon. I may tone down the boy-crazy part of me, but I can't make any promises.


Don't forget!! In 2 weeks, Krista & I will be hosting a monthly Link-Up party called Date Disasters!!


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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

New Orleans in Review

So most of you knew and read that I was in New Orleans last week. It was absolutely AMAZING.

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If you've never been to New Orleans, you need to go. Just to say you did! There are things to do other than party, I promise. Although, the partying is pretty fun too!! Just imagine 3 single ladies in their early 20's in New Orleans...yes we had a blast. We stayed in Slidell which is about a 30 minute drive from New Orleans. The hotel we stayed at was SUPER nice and the price was not bad AT ALL. 

Most of our time was spent at the French Quarter where the French Market, Bourbon St., Voodoo Shops, and drinking in the streets was happening all at once! Also, the balconies were just sooooo pretty I couldn't stop taking pictures of them:
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Notice the sky in the above picture... this is what our weather was like the entire time. 
Seriously, couldn't have been any better!
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I spent all my dang money and then some at the French Market.
That place is super neat to get all of your souvenir needs as well as some unique gifts.

T-shirts, handmade items, jewelry, clothes, you name it. 

Tried my very first Boudin (pronounced Boo-dan) It was absolutely DELICIOUS!
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Saturday night we partied on Bourbon St. til 5:00 am. We left and people were STILL going at it!! They don't stop down there! It was a blast. Definitely going to have to travel back there pretty soon. We didn't get to do all of the things we wanted to because you really can't do it all in 4 days!! 

&The Botanical Gardens were beautiful!
I'll leave ya with my favorite picture from there :)

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Agh

Forgive me for my sucky title but seriously, that's the only word that comes to mind about my emotions today.

First of all, thank you ladies on Facebook and Twitter for being supportive of my lack of date issue with ginger beard. A couple weeks ago before my trip to New Orleans, he snapped me a pic with the question, "When do I get my invite?" naturally I'm thinking ..what invite? Am I going to a wedding? Was I complaining about not having a date? I'm so confused...

My response was, "an invite for what?" with the clueless expression of course...
He said, "To see you"
Wtf dude...I shouldn't have to invite you anywhere. You are the dude and if you want to see me just say so and we'll make some plans. I didn't know that I had to be the one to say, "Hey I would like to invite you up to my town to take me out to dinner and possibly another fun activity that I really don't want to pay for but hopefully you'll be gentleman enough to pay for me because that's what dudes are supposed to do on the first date..."

I can be honest, but I'm not always harsh. So yeah, I told him that I was going to be in town (the town where he lives) this weekend, today, actually I got here Friday. He knew this. Ever since I got into town, shadyyyyyy as efff. Why? So last night around 8ish I texted him (well I was driving and had my sister help me figure out how to ask a dude out, needless to say she didn't know what to say either because she never had that problem!!!)

"Whatcha getting into tonight?"


No response 14 hours later. I won't get to see him. Today I'm attending both church services today and probably visiting with family. He had allllll day to ask to see me... his MyStory on Snapchat? Fishing pictures in the morning, which I was aware of and then the rest of the day whenever I'd try to chat with him, he barely responded!!! What is up with that?!?!

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