So today was totally amazing!

I had work, which was pretty much uneventful. Then as I was about to leave, Amber came in for her shift. I hadn't seen her in about 3 weeks. See she basically transferred to our other location, but was filling in for someone. Well I pretty much had felt like it was all for the best, that she'd made it more or less clear she wasn't interested in being close friends anymore, and that I (and she) was better off. Then I saw her. I had a reaction which rather took me off guard. I really wanted to just run up to her and hug her. It's like as soon as I saw her alarms started going off in my head "It's your friend! ". Well I didn't run up and hug her, because I figured that was a bit extreme and I didn't know how she'd react. But she did seem happy to see me as well, and we had a nice chat, I stayed for awhile after my shift ended so we could catch up. It was nice.

Anyway then the afternoon/evening got really good. I went for a run/walk. My grandpa recently gave me this little radio thing that clips onto your belt w/ headphones. Anyway it was nice, I had music for once. And I think it actually motivated me to run further and more. So then I was going to go swimming (if you can call it that ), but it turned out the pool was closed for Martin Luther King day. SO instead I did something I've always wanted to do. I walked to campus, and then climbed around......sounds weird I know, but there's all sorts of nifty things to climb/walk on. Walls, that can easily be scaled; LOTS of curbs to walk on, and I must say the two highlights were a parking garage wall and this funky fence. I'll explain: see the parking garage wall just pretty much loops around (like all parking garage walls) at a slight angle, and gets higher and higher, but it's easy to get onto it because there's a little metal rail (probably for people to hold onto if they're actually walking, which I don't know why they would be, but anyway....) I could climb onto the rail and then reach the wall. So I had a great time doing that, it wasn't that narrow about the width of one of my feet (with shoes), and I'd been climbing around like that all evening so I wasn't too worried about falling. Still when I'd gotten up to about the second story I decided I should get down since I really could theoretically kill myself if I fell off the tall side.

Then I realized something. Pretty much the ONLY memory I have of being with both my parents at once (for more than an hour or so), was this one time, about a week, when I can remember my mom and dad BOTH being there and taking me all around the town, and the bigger city nearby, and we went to all the parks and stuff, and I climbed the trees, while my dad stayed right there to make sure I didn't fall or catch me if I did. I'm guessing that's why not only have I never been afraid of heights, but actually always had an affinity for them. Looking back I'm really not sure WHY they were together then. I mean I must have been about 5 maybe 6, and they devorced when I was 2. I don't even know why my dad was in the state (.....well I'm guessing to visit ME as well as his mom and sister who live a few hours away). I even recall thinking "hmm, I wonder if they're going to get back together?".....Now before anyone starts thinking how sad or tramatic it must have been when they didn't, don't. Even then I don't think I cared much. And I've always said I'm glad my parents split up because I really liked my childhood and wouldn't have wanted it any different. and I KNOW that at the time if I'd realized that them getting back together would have meant moving away from my grandparents and aunt and cousin, I wouldn't have wanted it. It's just funny that I can remember that little event. Wait actually now that I really think about it, I think maybe it was because that's about the time my dad's second marriage ended, and I seem to remember my mom was kinda supportive when that happened, I know years later she told me he called and talked about it with her as soon as they knew they were splitting up. So maybe that's it. Anyway back to the story.

Nest I found this awesome fence! It was about three feet off the ground. It was all metal and consisted of this square post, about 5'' by 5'' which was attached to this little 2'' wide bar (flat), and it went about 4 or 5 feet, then there was another post where it ended, BUT there were about 30 or so of these all in a line with a little 3 to 4 foot gap between them (I have no idea what purpose they served, but I'm guessing they're purely ornamental). So it was really fun trying to walk along the little 2'' wide bar, then when I got to the end, I'd jump to the next fence and repeat the process. I never missed a jump, but I kept having to jump off the bar (or I'd have fallen). I got to where I did about 3 in a row though, so I thought that was pretty good.

Another challenging thing was this little black bar, fence thing they had. It was only about a foot off the ground and ran along the street, in front of the parking spaces, I'm pretty sure it was just to keep people from driving too far or going off the road and completely and driving into a building or something. Anyway that was definitely the hardest thing to walk on, it was about 3''wide, but it was completely round and very slick, I pretty much sucked at it! But I had fun.

I'm also guessing a gave people a good show. The parking garage was in the center of campus and completely empty, but the fences were only about 20 feet from the main road which runs through campus, and it was still rather busy. LOL guess I gave the drivers something interesting to look at as they passed .

It was a great walk too, and a very pleasent evening (mid to high 60s). Plus I had that cd player with me the whole time so I had something fun to listen too. I listened to a cd I hadn't played in awhile. All together I'd say I walked about 6 or 7 miles round trip, from my apartment to/through campus and back. At one point I saw this really cool, high wall set up with ropes hanging off the ceiling to use to scale it. So I almost went over and gave it a try....then I realized I'd accidently "snuck" into the ROTC training area. So I figured I'd better get out of there before I got arrested for espionage or something. So I just climbed a quick tree on the way home, and off I went.

I realized how much fun it would have been if I had a boyfriend to do that stuff with.....then I got to thinking how much I'd like to kick around a soccer ball, and find a jungle gym to play in, and of course someone to go swimming with, and ice skating, and on and on....then I realized something: maybe it's not so much a boyfriend I need as a playmate . On the other hand though I definitely want to do all the romantic stuff, and just in general have someone great to cuddle and "connect" with; someone to love .....and of course I'd like to take some of the games to the bedroom too . So I do need a boyfriend.....I think I just need a fun, energetic, "sporty" boyfriend.

Anyway take care everyone and have an awesome day! Oh yeah it's my first day of the spring semester tomorrow! Wish me luck!

Kevin