I made the big move this week (wtf... why is it that when i start typing, the jeep drives by again! its such a tease - especially since its snowing, it just adds to her beauty.) soooo... as i was saying, i made the big move this week into one room of my apartment. I've basically sealed off the others. In my one room, I have everything I need to survive. I have a bed, table, refrigerator, toaster oven, tv, computer, wood burning stove for cooking and heating the room, i have access to wood for the stove, exercise equipment, and my clothes. the only thing i need to leave the room for is laundry, showers and bathroom breaks. but lets be honest - laundry is a weekly or bi-weekly thing, showers are like... once every 2-10 days... haha ok, like 2-4 days... so yea. i live in my one room now. its kinda nice, but im sure i will go crazy (more crazy, crazier [i dont know which is grammatically correct]) But my wood burning stove is a fun experience. I am getting good at lighting and maintaining fires, and yesterday i learned the importance of the correct amount of air to feed the fire so it doesnt spew smoke all in your room forcing you to have to open the doors and windows to allow non-lethal/cold air into the room which in turn defeated all the warmth the stove produced. a valuable lesson. another valuable lesson - make sure the chimney is attached to the wall so it doesnt smoke you out either. i breathed a lot of smoky air yesterday...
Last weekend I went to Pleven with Dan and Cveti. Pleven is one of the larger cities in Bulgaria and is home to around 130,000 people or so. Which means it has all sorts of fun things to do! We went to a movie... we saw A MOVIE. IN A MOVIE THEATER. it was awesome. we saw Paradise Getaway or something like that, it was good and enjoyable and in English. After the movie, the 3 of us went to a pool hall and shot pool for a few hours... it was pretty awesome.
I think I am spending my Christmas Day at an orphanage with Dan to share the day with the kids there. After that, I have no idea what I am doing. I am sure I will be travelling a lot during that time. To Ashley's, Dan's, Cveti's, Rosen's, and around Koynare.
Uhm - yea, I dunno what else. It's cold, dark and winter. The holidays are coming and I'm in Bulgaria. Those are all facts.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It's a Jeep thing. You wouldn't understand.
Welcome to my blog! or whatever. Things, I guess, are moving on cruise control. But the great thing about MY cruise control is that it's like putting cruise control on Ruby while offroading... I'm never in control and I never know what is going to happen next. Best thing to do is sit back with your seatbelt on and enjoy the ride... I have gotten pretty good at that too. I just go where I'm told, do what is recommended to my best ability and enjoy the ride. I am making more friends in town, none of them are my age. They are either kids in school, or people over 50. Cool by me, I like both groups. The older group has interesting stories, traditions and tricks. But those that know me well, know that I like the younger kids more because I am one, at least in my heart. Cveti is convinced I'm 13 years old!
I left work the other day and I started to cry. I got very emotional and was overcome with nostalgia for my previous life. Rory 1.0 was resurfacing and trying to get out of me. I felt a heavy weight compressing my chest and heat in my face. The tears were starting to show themselves when I was standing outside work by the road. Pepi asked me what was wrong. I told him nothing was wrong. I looked at him for a second, then I started to run down the road away from him, away from everyone and everything. I just ran - I didn't know what else to do. Everything in my heart and soul told me to run, it told me to go and be alone with my nostalgia. So I ran and ran the 15 meters or so to look at the dirty 2001 black jeep wrangler with off roading tires parked near my work!!!
haha - ok, I didn't really cry, or even get that sad, but I did walk over to it and admire it for about 5 minutes. Someone in this town bought a jeep wrangler. The thing is BEAUTIFUL. It literally took my breath away when I saw it. This is a bad thing to say, but I think it's true - If a supermodel in a bikini was posing for me on my left side, and a tricked out jeep wrangler was on my right side, I would turn my back to the supermodel to look at the jeep. It's kind of a problem. This jeep is the only TJ that I have seen in Bulgaria and it's black, with big tires and covered in mud. I am so excited that it is in Koynare! Pictures to come. haha!
So I got a big chunk of my firewood delivered to my apartment yesterday and I moved it out to my balcony. The wood was delivered from my coworkers shed to my apartment by a student in 7th grade with his horse and cart. Pretty awesome.
Oh, and let me tell you of a failure I had. Well, not a failure, but not a success either. On Saturday last week I tried to organize a "let's clean up the park near the school cause it's freaking filled with trash" day. During the whole week, I told kids about it and got names of kids that wanted to volunteer and all that jazz. Well, I was excited on Friday because I had about 30 or so kids that promised to come help us clean up! But on Saturday, Cveti, Dan (Brave Yankee came to help with the cause) and I went to the park at the time we were supposed to meet everyone. We waited. We got 4 kids. 4 kids came to help clean, and Pepi came. So there were 4 adults, and 4 kids. It only took us like 30 minutes or so to clean it all, but I was a little sad that (sorry for the interruption - I just saw the jeep drive by outside. It's raining outside so my vision might not be perfect right now, but I swear she winked at me.) we only had a few kids show up. Maybe next time we will get a bigger showing. (oh this jeep is teasing me... it just drove my again.)
So all in all - things are good. I am getting support and having successes with work. I have a great girlfriend. I am making more friends here. I have firewood to keep me warm. The dog that lives outside my apartment building has become my friend and now sleeps outside my door. If she wasn't so dirty, I would let her in but that would also result in lots of new stains, I'm sure. I dunno - today I feel good. But remember, I'm in a Jeep on cruise control while riding over unpredictable terrain. Who knows what the afternoon will bring (THE JEEP DROVE BY AGAIN!!!! AHHHHH!!! She is beautiful.).
Alright, I'm out.
Rory
Oh - Sorry, I forgot to mention this. Everything with my MRI is fine. Nothing to worry about. :)
I left work the other day and I started to cry. I got very emotional and was overcome with nostalgia for my previous life. Rory 1.0 was resurfacing and trying to get out of me. I felt a heavy weight compressing my chest and heat in my face. The tears were starting to show themselves when I was standing outside work by the road. Pepi asked me what was wrong. I told him nothing was wrong. I looked at him for a second, then I started to run down the road away from him, away from everyone and everything. I just ran - I didn't know what else to do. Everything in my heart and soul told me to run, it told me to go and be alone with my nostalgia. So I ran and ran the 15 meters or so to look at the dirty 2001 black jeep wrangler with off roading tires parked near my work!!!
haha - ok, I didn't really cry, or even get that sad, but I did walk over to it and admire it for about 5 minutes. Someone in this town bought a jeep wrangler. The thing is BEAUTIFUL. It literally took my breath away when I saw it. This is a bad thing to say, but I think it's true - If a supermodel in a bikini was posing for me on my left side, and a tricked out jeep wrangler was on my right side, I would turn my back to the supermodel to look at the jeep. It's kind of a problem. This jeep is the only TJ that I have seen in Bulgaria and it's black, with big tires and covered in mud. I am so excited that it is in Koynare! Pictures to come. haha!
So I got a big chunk of my firewood delivered to my apartment yesterday and I moved it out to my balcony. The wood was delivered from my coworkers shed to my apartment by a student in 7th grade with his horse and cart. Pretty awesome.
Oh, and let me tell you of a failure I had. Well, not a failure, but not a success either. On Saturday last week I tried to organize a "let's clean up the park near the school cause it's freaking filled with trash" day. During the whole week, I told kids about it and got names of kids that wanted to volunteer and all that jazz. Well, I was excited on Friday because I had about 30 or so kids that promised to come help us clean up! But on Saturday, Cveti, Dan (Brave Yankee came to help with the cause) and I went to the park at the time we were supposed to meet everyone. We waited. We got 4 kids. 4 kids came to help clean, and Pepi came. So there were 4 adults, and 4 kids. It only took us like 30 minutes or so to clean it all, but I was a little sad that (sorry for the interruption - I just saw the jeep drive by outside. It's raining outside so my vision might not be perfect right now, but I swear she winked at me.) we only had a few kids show up. Maybe next time we will get a bigger showing. (oh this jeep is teasing me... it just drove my again.)
So all in all - things are good. I am getting support and having successes with work. I have a great girlfriend. I am making more friends here. I have firewood to keep me warm. The dog that lives outside my apartment building has become my friend and now sleeps outside my door. If she wasn't so dirty, I would let her in but that would also result in lots of new stains, I'm sure. I dunno - today I feel good. But remember, I'm in a Jeep on cruise control while riding over unpredictable terrain. Who knows what the afternoon will bring (THE JEEP DROVE BY AGAIN!!!! AHHHHH!!! She is beautiful.).
Alright, I'm out.
Rory
Oh - Sorry, I forgot to mention this. Everything with my MRI is fine. Nothing to worry about. :)
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