Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Rest

These are all going to be short stories seeing as how most of these encounters never developed into anything at all.

Amanda (Leto) - She was a girl who seemed to like me, but I was so blind to girls and how they show interest in guys that I spent four years oblivious to this girls advances. What a waste!

Courtney - She was a family friend that I always had a crush on. She was older, and I was super shy during these times. As I grew up, so did she, but I still retained my shy tendencies around her. I got the nerve to ask her out, but it never amounted to anything.

Tiffany - Another Publix chick. I don't really know if she ever liked me. She was Jessica's best friend, so something wants me to believe she was just playing me for a long time. We talked, and she flirted and showed me lots of cleavage, but I got nothing other then being blown off on more then one occasion.

Ashley - A Publix chick that seemed to know me through my step mom? I am not sure. I can't even remember if I went out with her or not, but all I remember is nothing ever happened between us.

Jessica (church) - The girl I used as a cover up for my infatuation with the other girl named Jessica (Jessie). I was almost forced to talk with her to make a good cover up, but I did not really like her, so I used my shyness to stay far enough away from her.

Ana - The first girl I had a crush on at Publix. She went away for a long time, and I thought I lost my chance with her, but she came back which made me happy.  The thing was, another one of my friends also liked her and told me that he wanted to try things with her. I let him and that was pretty much that...

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Amanda

And the Coup de grĂ¢ce. 


It's my girlfriend's birthday today so I figured since I ran out of failures, I would go ahead and talk about the best relationship I have ever been in.

It's been almost a year now and I am loving every second of it. This relationship has been a blessing and it was much more then I could ever wish for. Amanda is the one is have been waiting on for so long.

I met Amanda when she was the tender age of 19. I was freshly 26 year old and the idea of dating another young girl were far from my thoughts. But there was was, she was so beautiful. I knew she was special, and I acted on my gut feeling.

We met, we became friends. She dismissed the notion of us becoming a couple off the bat at first. She was already in a relationship and I could tell she was one of those girls who was not going to do anything to ruin that bond, that was something I loved very much about her. I was very glad she never did anything with me while she was still with her old boyfriend because that would have changed how I thought of her. Think about it, if she was wiling to cheat on her ex, she could be convinced to cheat one me, but she did not cheat on anyone and my mind was put at ease.

Her other relationship was doomed the day she met me. It lasted for about 4 months before she finally ended it with him. I waited patiently. I knew my time was coming, our time was coming.

Amanda came from a mixed family. Her mom was white and her dad was black. That left her with a light tan complexion, darker then my own. It gave her a very natural beauty that I mistook for hispanic origins at first. She also hardly wears makeup. I know most girls rely on that kind of stuff, but Amanda has no need for that because she is naturally beautiful as I specified earlier.

She is just like me. It makes us the perfect couple. She is a little naive and supremely stubborn. She is super shy and enjoys being a loner. These are all traits I share with her or used to have in common with her. The world is a confusing mess of colors and situations I am just unfamiliar with. I am a pretty naive person myself, so I can appreciate someone who shares that naivety. I am also a very hard headed person. I used to be shy, and t an extent I still am, but she is much more timid then I am. It took a couple years for me to break out of my shell, I'm sure she can do the same. The loner title just means her and I can enjoy the simple company of solitude and not freak out about it. I enjoy that quality, it means we don't suffocate each other which is a good thing.

Amanda also likes playing video games, watching anime, and reading manga. I wish I could get her more involved actual books, but oh well! The one thing I can't seem to get her into is sports. Personally I am in love with most sports and I am deeply involved in the local sports, but Amanda could care less. It's a darn shame too because if she could only open up and embrace sports like I do, we could get along much better. We could go to games together or sit at home and watch a game casually. I doubt that ever happens though.

So...we met each other at Home Depot. My last attempt at a relationship had ended during my trip to Tallahassee and I was plain ticked at the female species in general. When I laid eyes on Amanda, my dislike for women vanished and I was smitten.

She is a kindred spirit. She is my significant other, my thought provoker, my positive inspiration, my movie date, my music regulator, my massage therapist, my play date, my playmate, my dance counterpart, my confidante, my co-conspirator, my eating colleague, my companion, my chore helper, my sidekick, my all, my pen pal, my texting buddy, my doubt disolver, my player two, my reassurance, my true love, my soul mate, my beloved, my life partner, my best friend...

My everything.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Irene

This one could have been something good, had I ever been able to close the deal. Damn my ineptitude!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Karla

Yet another girl from Publix I attempted to woo that ended in disappointment.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Kelly

Looking back, Publix sure looks like a long list of failures.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Andrea

Girls with boyfriends are a tricky lot. This one liked me, I could tell. I just could never get her to leave the D bag she was with and try me out. Again, this was a girl who was friend's with that Jessica chick from Publix. I do not know if she was whispering anything in Andrea's ear at the time, but it seemed every time I was getting somewhere with this girl she backed off unexpectedly.

Andrea was another new bag girl at Publix. She was just about the cutest girl I had ever seen working at that store. I really wanted to make us a thing, more so then any other chick I pursued at that job. She was a dark haired girl of Latina decent I imagine. She wore glasses and had a wonderful physique. I wanted her for myself. Damn the arrogance of it all. This was another that hurt since I never sealed the deal.

At first Andrea played hard to get. She had a boyfriend, I understood the distance she kept at first, but my persistence eventually broke through her defense. After that it was the usual. I would see her, I would go over and spark up a conversation, she would resist at first every time, but eventually she was joking and playing around with me as if she were single. I almost had her wrapped around my fingers.

And then, I didn't. The next day after we spent enjoying each other's company at work together, she would ignore and avoid me. I could almost see Jessica's smirk somewhere hiding around a corner. If I was a betting man I would say she had something to do with Andrea's cold demeanor's, but who is to say.

Nothing happened between us. She never came around to view me as anything other then a friend at work. Later on I would find out she ended up having a kid with some D bag who left her. I felt bad for her, because that would have never happened between us. Even then I tried to spark up old memories of us to her, but she never bit at any of my offerings, so that became the end of that story.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Alexis

Proms are fun. I only went to my Senior year Homecoming and Prom, so both of these experiences were a first for me. I never had a girlfriend my whole time in high school. I never had a date for any dances I attended either. I was "selected" a date for Homecoming because I couldn't find one myself and my friends needed one more person for their limo. I say that like it was an act of kindness, but I was really there to dish out the extra money they were lacking.

Plus, my date was a huge bore. She didn't even talked with me all night. What a major let down. I eventually left her side and went around dancing with some of the other girls who were less prudes. I digress though, I had a good enough time.

Fast forward to Prom though. I actually asked someone out, and they said yes! I was very proud of myself. Although I wanted to take a certain someone else, the fact that that other person did not live in Tampa kept me from asking, though later one she revealed that she would have gone....ah well.

I asked this girl named Alexis out. She was the Homecoming Queen or something special, I forget. I remember she had some sort of status within the school for being popular and winning one of those awards.

Whatever.

In any case, she actually wanted to go with me. That or I was the last option? Who knows! I had a date, and I was done asking questions.

Prom was whatever. I don't think I took many pictures with my date, which was my fault. I was too busy going around taking pictures with all my buddies. This was my last party with all of them. Some of them I haven't seen since. Those pictures are all I have left of them.

But don't get me wrong, I danced and took a couple of pictures with my date. I mean, the girl said yes to me, I felt a special connection with her.

The after party was where I struck out. Alexis was a good girl and did not want any part of me after all the glitz and glamour was done with. We talked a little, but I took her home and that was the end of that.

I did not bother calling her and she didn't call me either.

Not very exciting, huh?