Posted by natalienoa.
Jun
17
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my grandmother on my father’s side passed away last week. i got a call while sitting at red mill in seattle eating a veggie burger. i felt guilty for not letting myself feel grief or sadness while i was away when i knew my family was having to face the situation without me. clayton and i arrived in tampa on tuesday morning at 11am. the memorial service for my grandmother was at 3:00pm. by that time, i hadn’t slept in …
Jun
14
Posted by natalienoa.
clayton told me tonight on the phone that he misses me. he said that after going back to tallahassee and talking to girls at work, he knows that i’m not like any other girl. i almost cried.
and then i spent the rest of the night looking at wedding dresses online.
travis and i had a brief but profound exchange at the airport while clayton wasn’t around. he said after spending a few days with clayton, he approves (which was actually important …
Jun
13
Posted by natalienoa.
i spent 14 of the last 36 hours catching up on the sleep that i’ve missed in the last week. translation: last night i went to bed at 7:00pm and woke up this morning at 11:00am.
but to say that it has been worth it would be quite the understatement. clayton and i left for seattle last wednesday. we spent thursday figuring out the seattle bus system, and i must say that we are route 16 experts. we found target first, …
Jun
4
Posted by natalienoa.
yesterday i had the privelege of experiencing what might be the most uncomfortable thirty seconds of my young life. it wouldn’t have been so completely awkward had it taken place anywhere else besides a church bathroom. but it makes a funny anecdote. and the five minutes that followed were surprisingly normal. i like to create scenarios in my head with a hollywood amount of drama and emotion. in real life, it was two strangers meeting and two old friends catching …
Jun
2
Posted by natalienoa.
looks like they are now my dinner-with-leah-and-dara jeans. which is perfectly fine by me.
i think it is so refreshing that, no matter how hard we deny it, we are all exactly the same as we were in 7th grade.
Jun
1
Posted by natalienoa.
being in tampa is starting to get lonely.
last weekend, however, was anything but lonely. thursday night in tallahassee was a whole lot more fun than i was anticipating. i went to aj’s with clayton, tori, wes, elizabeth, johnny, erin, and two of tori’s friends. also in aj’s were the twelve other people left in tallahassee for the summer. so we basically had the place to ourselves. a couple games of really bad pool playing and several drinks later, we were …