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Name: Rachel
Country: United States
State: Utah
Metro: Salt Lake City
Birthday: 7/17/1981
Gender: Female


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Thursday, October 09, 2008

My favorite time of year!!


Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hurricane Ike

90% of my friends live in Houston, TX. A hurricane is hitting them at this very moment.  A big one.  It's weird to think, a year ago, I was living there.  I'm grateful I missed this storm, but at the same time, I wish I was there.  Is that a bit weird?  My friends are still there, and I won't know how they are until this has passed.  It may be a few days before I hear from them.

 

If you pray, please pray for them.


Saturday, September 06, 2008

Yikes!

At work tonight, I asked a lady how she was doing.  She told me she would be doing better if she was packing a gun.

WoW!

 

Anyway, I just killed a huge spider in my bathroom and now I feel like I've got spiders crawling on me.  There is a single stray hair touching my neck and I can't get it off.....but I know it is there.  Since I am now paranoid about the spider, it's giving me the creepy crawlies!


Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Currently Listening
One of the Boys
By Katy Perry
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Something's been bothering me

It is not something that's controlling my life, it just bothers me.

A quick recap.  About 2 1/2 years ago, I dated a certain guy.  I blogged a little bit about him along the way.  We both knew nothing serious would come out of our relationship.  We were simply just using each other.  Sounds terrible, I know.  He was very recently divorced.  But when two people are intimate, it's hard not to have feelings for the other person.  Even though I knew we weren't meant to be, I secretly had hopes.  As fate would have it, we ended the affair but stayed friends.  When he started dating someone else, she didn't want him talking to me.  You see, they started sleeping together when Rey was still sleeping with me.  (Blunt enough?)

Well, Rey still wanted to keep contact so he would call now and again while he was at work.  Nothing else happened, all we did was talk on the phone, just keeping up with each others lives.  I still liked the guy, even after everything that happened between us.

I moved back to Utah last October, and Rey called a few times to see how I was doing.  The calls became less frequent, and I eventually got a new phone number.  I was okay with the idea of never talking to him again, for my own sake.

Then out of the blue, 6 months of not talking, he sends me a friend request on TAGGED.  I accepted only to find that he deleted me as a friend the next day.  The following day he sent me a message on TAGGED.  (You don't have to be friends to send messages).  His girlfriend has an account and he didn't want me on his friends for her to see.  Then he tells me some horrible news of is ex-wife dying.  He also told me he is planning on proposing to Rachel (yep, we have the same name).  He would message me when he saw I was online and have me call him at work so we could talk.  I never called him unless he told me to.

This went on for less than 2 weeks.  Long enough for old feelings and memories to come back.  We stopped talking because...he deleted his TAGGED account!  Just like that!  No warning, he was just gone and I haven't heard from him since.  (It's been about a month now).

I'm not bothered that we don't talk.  I'm bothered because after moving on with my life, he unexpectedly shows up, in a sense, for a very brief moment and then disappears.

I'm just left wondering....

WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT???

 

 

***EDIT***

I just checked my message history on TAGGED.  Our conversations started on the 22nd of June and ended the 20th of July.  It didn't feel like we were talking for a month.  Felt more like a few days.  The last message he sent was... "Have a good night.  I'll check to see if you're online later".


Sunday, August 31, 2008

Currently Listening
Flyleaf
By Flyleaf
There For You
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I was browsing through my blogs (yes, blogS [plural] I have 2).  Anyway, last night I was going all the way to the beginning of my blogging days.  That is about 4 years worth.

I read everything last night.  Everything.  Took over 3 hours.  Why....you may be thinking.  I just couldn't stop reading.  There is so much I don't remember happening.  I was very much medicated for a good majority of the time, so that could be a good reason why.  I don't know if I just found it fascinating, or if I was just curious.

I do know one thing.....it was depressing.  Even the couple of years that life was great.  I suppose it was depressing because I survived what felt like a lifetime of hurt, moved with a second chance at life, and then lost that happiness.  I "saw" myself crumble [again].  I have picked myself up recently, but nowhere near those 2 years of bliss.

That was the eye of the hurricane.  All was calm there.  But if I were to go back, there was madness.  Even going forward turned into madness.  Now it's just a struggle to not lose myself like I did before.  Somedays I want to give up and give in.  Just let myself go.  I guess that is how addiction is.  No matter what the addiction may be.

 

 

I have had temptations lately.  And it's only bringing me down.  But giving in isn't the answer.



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