Summer, 2010. The Beginning

So, summer has began. I am staying at my boyfriend's house in Pennsylvania for the summer. I got here last Tuesday afternoon and I haven't really slowed down since. On that Tuesday, I went to Andy's brother Scott's baseball game. Scott is a senior in high school and he is the catcher on their baseball team. I don't know much about baseball, but I think he is really good. Haha.

I have also applied to a lot of places. I have applied at:
Red Lobster
Applebees
TGI Friday's
Red Robin
Max & Erma's
and another Applebees.

So far, I have an interview at TGI Friday's and both Applebees and Max & Erma's said that they would call me this week. I am hoping to work nights at Friday's and possibly work the lunch shift at Max & Erma's. Or just work Friday's. Haha. I will just be happy to have a job.

The only reason that I am even posting is because I am so excited that I have access to the internet. I spent almost 3 hours today trying to set up the wireless internet here.

Wish me luck at my job interview on Tuesday!!!

My Own Hell?

Barack Obama
Circle I Limbo

Goths
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Scientologists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Hipsters
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Nancy Pelosi
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

PETA Members
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

General asshats
Circle VII Burning Sands

Democrats
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Osama bin Laden
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

P90x Day 2 and other things too!

Well, I have survived day two, barely. My legs were like jello when I woke up this morning. Walking down the stairs to leave the building and then up the stairs to my first class was brutal. It's a good hurt, though. I am so ready to stick to this workout plan.

I don't really want to talk too much about it today, though. I mean, I worked out my shoulders and arms. haha. No excitement there.

I registered for classes today. I am taking some hard classes next semester as well as some fun ones. I am taking genetics, physics, a science methods class, astronomy and fly fishing. Yup. Fly fishing. I am pretty excited about it.

Also, as I never ever ever update this, I got sort of a promotion at my job here on campus. I went from being a resident assistant (RA) to a lead resident assistant (LRA). I have more responsibilities and get paid more. I also get to live in an apartment, which I am pretty happy about. I am going to be on a floor with is all science, technology, engineering and math majors (STEM). They will (should) all be upper classmen, so hopefully some of the issues I have had to deal with this year won't arise next year. I'm just pretty excited about the entire situation in general.

I am also currently trying to figure out my summer plans. I don't even know where I am staying yet, let alone where I am working. I hope to have that all figured out within the next couple of weeks.

I am having a really hard time concentrating right now when all I really want to do is sleep. Haha. That's p90 for you.

P90x, Day 1

Yeah. I tried it two summers ago, and today, I started it up again. P90x. If you have never done it, you don't know what you're missing. It's intense. Really intense. I'm always panting and sweating in less than 5 minutes. I don't know what happened last summer, but I worked out one day (yes one. I did laps in a pool) but I lost more weight (and fat) than I did the summer before when I did a mix of P90x and weight training.
Well, I went an entire semester and the only thing that I lifted at all was my grades. Haha. It was also probably the most stressful semester of my life. Long story short...I put on all of the weight I lost over the summer. I'm not happy about it because, well, I looked better without it.
I have made a vow to eat better and stick to this workout plan. I am giving myself one "off day" a week, and the other 6 days, I am going to push it hard with P90x. I am going to try to post on here as well to keep my motivation up. I will not be posting progress pics, though. I am a little too self conscious for that.
I am also going to eat better. I make smoothies (or eat a peanut butter sandwich) for breakfast. I plan to stick with that.
So, what's on deck for tomorrow? Shoulders and arms and ab ripper x. I am thinking that I will get up early to do shoulders and arms and then do ab ripper x in the afternoon.
Wish me luck!!

The Holidays

I'm pretty beat. I have been going nonstop since break began. It's sad to say, but I almost can't wait to be back at B-W. *Almost.*

I am staying at Andy's house for the holidays. Everything is going okay. It really could be better, but, right now, I will settle for okay.

I have also been working. At the closest Lone Star. Which happens to be almost 40 minutes away and even slower than the Lone Star in North Olmsted. Oh well, it gets me out of the house.

I actually have been working a lot. Thursday, I worked an 8 hour shift (which, if you have never worked at an actual restaurant, is a long, long, long shift) without a break. I have another one of those shifts tomorrow and even a longer one on Monday. So much for only 3 shifts a week. (I got 6 this week.)

I seem to have had a really short temper lately. Maybe it's cabin fever. Or maybe it's how much I am working. Anyway, I am working on it.

My holiday was great. I really like spending time with Andy's family. It makes it not-so-bad that mine lives so far away.

It's really late. And I am tired. Exhausted, really. It has been a long day. Which, by the way, included me setting up the wireless network for Andy's family. Which is why I am able to be on my laptop at 1:16am making this available to you fine people. Merry Christmas. I hope yours was as heartwarming as mine.

Crazy Times

I have had such a crazy, crazy day.

Andy told me before we got together that he had a crazy ex girlfriend. I never thought that things would get this out of hand. A couple days ago, a friend of his ex friended me on facebook and I added her, not knowing who she was. When I realized who she was (and also, that I have never met her) I deleted her and blocked her. I don't need that kind of drama in my life. She sent Andy a message on facebook:

Thanks for deleting me off of facebook and your girlfriend or whoever the hell she is for blocking me.That's good because maybe you shouldn't hide hide things or people from your girlfriend. Oh and **** is my bestest friend and she tells me EVERYTHING. She's way to good for you she just doesn't realize it yet. I always thought you were a pretty kool guy until now. Thanks and have a great day!!! :)

**** Is this girl's best friend. I don't want to put names on here because this is my personal therapeutic blog and not a place to talk trash on other people. I know and trust my boyfriend and I know that he is not cheating on me. Which brings me to the next message, an email that i received this morning:

Amanda,

I know this will be hard for you to believe well it really shouldn't be but your so called boyfriend
Andrew Betts is cheating on you with other girls while you are not around such as during the summer, holidays, and pretty much any time he's home and away from you. Sorry, don't mean to sound blunt but I just thought you should know the truth becuase I've been told once a cheater always a cheater. He tells everyone at home that you have told him it's alright for him to see other women and even have sexual encounters when you guys are apart becasue you are doing the same. I guess the way he explains it is you guys have an open relationship? I know you'll probably ignore this but this is only to benefit you and help you, because I don't think any women should be treated this way. Feel free to email me back if you have any questions! IMy mom has even witnessed him at the meadows racetrack with a girl with blonde hair and they were extremely friendly with each other while betting on the horses. My mother actually had an encounter with them and he had his arms around her and kissed her.

Again I am very sorry for you to have to find out this way.

I have very good reason to believe that they are from the same person. It really makes me angry that someone wants to cause so much drama in my life. My relationship is probably one of the most stable things in my life right now. It really hurts that someone is trying to sabotage it. I really love my boyfriend and I trust him. Completely.

I believe that this whole ordeal has actually made me stronger. Despite my anger, I am really glad that it happened because it made me realize how much he means to me. I love him very much. We were talking about it afterwards and how strong it is going to make us. This is how the conversation went:

Andy: This is one of those things that either can break you or make you stronger.

Andy: I vote for the making us stronger.

Me: I agree, sweetie.

Andy: Let's get married.

Me. Um, Andy?

Andy: Ya?

Me: That's a little drastic, don't ya think?

Andy: Haha. Okay. We will wait.

I have no reason not to trust Andy. He even previously gave me his facebook password. Not that I have used it for anything, but if he was hiding stuff from me, then he wouldn't be so willing to share his passwords.

Anyway. I don't want to dwell on this situation anymore. The girls have caused enough unneeded drama.

My Life and Why He's Awesome :]

I have been promising to blog about Andy for a very long while now. Well, I am tired of making empty promises. The time has come.

Andy is an amazing person and a wonderful boyfriend. I know I complain about him a lot, but I wouldn't have him any other way. I love him more than anything. Which is pretty surprising considering how, when we met, I didn't even like him. I actually thought he was an arrogant asshole. But I am going to tell the story. And believe me, it's a funny story to tell. This is taken from my Myspace blog from last year. It just kind of tells how we met:

My roommate and I wanted to go outside and shoot basketball. I'm not very good at it, but it's something that relieves stress and something that I love to do. We also had another friend, who we met while wandering around campus orientation weekend, who was going to shoot around with us. So there we were, vividly engrossed in our game of horse when I notice this older-looking guy walking toward the basketball courts. He had a basketball, and appeared to be an upperclassmen, so my first thought was "Great, I hope he doesn't think we are going to give up the court for him just because we are freshmen." Well, he ended up joining our game of horse and proceeded to completely own everyone else playing. Lucky me, the one who has never played basketball before gets to go after the basketball player. =/ Anyway, the entire time he played all he did was make fun of the way I played, the movies I had and hadn't seen, and pretty much anything else that came up in conversation. All the while, I am thinking, "wow, how can this guy be such an asshole?" A little later, the other guy we were with had to leave, and it was just me, Andy and my roommate. We were just standing around talking about high school, movies, music, pretty much anything, and Andy was still sliding in insulting remarks about me wherever he could fit them. Finally, I was able to find a movie that I had seen that he never had, Nothing to Lose. My roommate happened to have that movie in our room, so, I don't know if you would call it spite, or fate, or whatever, I invited Andy up to watch the movie. (Let it be known, that at this point in time, I wasn't even interested enough to remember his name. I seriously had to keep glancing at his ID to remember it...pathetic, I know.) Anyway, we watched the movie and then parted ways afterward, with the plans to meet up at the same time the next day, for basketball.

Well, the next day, after classes and whatnot, it was collectively decided by my roommate and I that we should do our laundry. Because of the lack of available machines, our laundry time ran over into "basketball time," and we ended up not being able to meet Andy for basketball, and my roommate and I were going to a Greek cookout (free food), so I invited Andy along. To make a long story short(er), I ended up helping him with his laundry and afterwards we got coffee and went down to the lake to talk. Somehow, we ended up talking about absolutely everything and pretty much anything and stayed out until 3am. (I later realized that the only one who was negatively affected by this was me. He didn't have class until 2. Lucky bastard.) Things after that are a bit fuzzy, but thats how it all started. Oh, and obviously the asshole first impression was some sort of ploy that I still don't understand. Apparently, all guys stand by the whole "Nice guys finish last" thing. oh well. It worked out for the best because I am now much happer than I have ever been with any other person.

Every bit of that still stands true today. I mean, yeah, we fight, like any normal couple. But I can't stay mad at him. All he has to do is smile at me and all of my anger is gone. (He doesn't know that...yet...) It's hard to be away from him, even for a summer. But I know it's going to be okay. :] I wish I could do him more justice than this post; he really is amazing.

Thanks for reading!!