Things I Love About Living Here
I talked to my mom the other day. I hadn't talked to her almost since I started working. She asked me how I was, I told her I love Florida. She got all quiet-like and said "I'll come visit you when you live there." I love my mom. I don't know if I'll want to live here. Perhaps. But I'm certainly not deciding that now. Heehee. I'll come home again, Mom, I promise!! I've still got one more semester of school left. I have to go home.
But really. Some things I love about this place:
- The asthmatic squirrel who wheezes as he bounds across the lawn
- The funny white birds with the long pink legs and long pink beaks that stand by my stairs when I'm leaving for work
- The tiny lizards that dart across the sidewalk when I walk to the clubhouse in the mornings
- The fact that we have a turtle in the lake/pond behind our building, and sometimes he suns himself on the "beach" beside it
- The rumor I hear that the turtle laid eggs
- The frogs that jump at the walls thinking they might get somewhere
- All the things there are to do at night: PI, bowling, karaoke, mini golf, Comedy Warehouse, City Walk (never been, but will go), the clubs downtown (also never been, but will go), the Ale House (thanks, C!), the Boardwalk, Wal-Mart at 2 am...
- Of course, the Parks
- Beaches! Oceans! Blue skies!
- The fact you can wrestle a gator at Gatorland, which I will never do but find amusing anyway
- The fact that there is a Gatorland, and a Gatorland Motel with a huge gator out front
- The rather, um, bright colors of buildings
- PALM TREES
- All of my friends who are down here
On Tuesday, we went to Jellyrolls. That was so much fun! It's a dueling-piano bar, and everyone sings along. It's like karaoke without the embarrassment. ALL of my roommates went, even Minhee. But she didn't see us, and would never hang out with us. The other five of us, however, had a great time. I'll definitely be going back, and I'll know to put in my request when I first get there.
Last night, Carolyn took Gina, Andrea and me to the Water Park Cast Member Party at Typhoon Lagoon. We got there too late for the free food, but we played in the wave pool for ages. I hadn't been to a water park or even a pool in longer than I can remember, so that was a ton of fun. And it was dark, which somehow made it even more exciting. Lol.
Yesterday I worked at Backlot Express instead of Pizza Planet. The costumes are WAY cuter, but I missed my PP buds. I just like having people I can talk to about more than where the extra tuna subs are kept while I work. But I will miss the costume. White shirts with diagonal black-and-white striped (like those clappy thingies they use in movies) bars around the sleeves, black pants, a red apron and a Grandpa hat. Ha ha. We looked like movie people, which was the point, I guess. Back to the tapered black jeans and the red polos with aliens all over them today. <.g>