I'm off to Lisbon tomorrrow morning!!!! I'm so excited, I love that city so much and it's gonna be so beautiful since it's December / almost Christmas! They'll have all the pretty Christmas lights up just like they did when I first went there a year ago! It's too bad I'll only be there for 5 days, but that's a goodish amount of time. I hope I get to see my friends and my favorite family ever which includes Mia and some of the SiPn fam <33. Ooooh and possibly Marta, I should message her. I'm gonna be so so so happy there, yay. And of course I get to spend the whole time with my boy, well, when he's not working lol.
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Do you ever just get really sad and cry for like no reason at all? Maybe it's because I haven't cried in a couple of months and I'm prone to bottling up my emotions for a really long time, so every now and then they just spill out? I don't really have anything to be sad about like there's nothing that triggered this, it's just kind of a general sadness. Like I really really miss my dog and I hate not being with her and I just wish I could cuddle with her and walk her and have her lick my face until it's soaking wet with her slobber. Maybe it's because I keep dreaming about being back home and I have a lot of dreams of being with Zoey, so it's always super disappointing when I wake up and realize I still have 2 more months before I can see her. I also really miss my grandma and I have these terrible dreams where she's still alive and it fucking sucks because then I wake up and remember she's not here and she never will be again. Like fuck why does my brain do this to me? I have dreams with her in them at least once a week. I just wish I could call her and tell her I love her one last time. She was so sick at the end that I never got the chance. It's been 7 months since she passed, but shit it still hurts.
This weekend was great! My friend and I went to Valencia for the weekend. We left Murcia on Friday evening and got to Valencia around 8, checked into our hostel, got some dinner, then looked for the nightlife. We were really tired because we went out the night before in Murcia, so we didn't stay out too long on Friday night. Buuut we went into a bar that was having a Captain Morgan promo where if you buy a rum and coke, you get a free gift. We both got Captain Morgan t-shirts so that was pretty cool and a light up bracelet. On Saturday, we got up pretty early because we were in a hostel dorm room with 12 other people and a lot of sunlight, not the best place to sleep in. We walked around the city for a while and went to the Central Mercado, one of the first gates into the city, the Botanical Gardens where there were a bunch of kitty cats roaming around. One of them was super sweet and kept rubbing against me, I loved it. We took a nap in the middle of the day so we could rally that night. I wanted to go down the to "river" (it doesn't have water in it, it's just a huge long strip of park and stuff). We walked to this playground / sculpture thing that is super awesome, it's called Parque Gulliver, check it out if you're ever in Valencia, so much fun. Then we went to where the museum of sciences and art and the aquarium thing is, we didn't go inside because it's expensive but the outside is pretty damn beautiful. (I explained this in chronological order with the pictures, by the way). We had dinner at an Italian place that had ALFREDO, I haven't found any pasta with alfredo sauce since I've been in Europe. It was amazing. Then we went to a pub crawl !!! It was both of our first pub crawls so it was dope. Went to like 4 different bars, free shot at each one. Then we got on a party bus which was awesome and got a shot on it, went to a sick ass club. There was a room upstairs with techno and it was so dope. Got back to the hostel at like 9 am, slept for 2 hours then checked out of the hostel. I was a little hungover and tired so we just chilled in a park and smoked and listened to music while waiting for our ride back to Murcia. My friend took this really good photo of me being super happy hanging in Valencia.
Well. Donald Trump is our next president. Wow. I thought his campaign was a joke when I first heard he was running, but it kept just getting more real and real. Not that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was any less of a joke. I don't like either of them and I still don't know which one is the lesser of two evils. Then again, I actually know nothing about politics. I know nothing about Hillary and I know nothing about Trump. However, I do know that Trump is a business man, he's not a politician like shitty Hillary and for the first time, we have someone who isn't a politician as a president. This could be great. I mean, yeah, it could be horrible, as well. And yes ok maybe Trump is a racist, homophobic douchebag, but what will that change? Do you really think Congress would let him do anything to change the rights that the LGBT community has earned? I think a lot of people forget that Congress has the most say in what happens, not the president. I'm not saying that I support Trump, I'm just saying that our country has come a long way and there's no way one man can screw it up that much in only a 4 year period. SO I think everyone just needs to take a chill pill and stay optimistic. We still have 2 and a half months with Obama, so no need to panic quite yet.
My poor pup at home isn't doing so well. She's got a UTI which costs me $415 just for the test and now another $175 for the antibiotics. She's been peeing blood and the vet thinks she could possibly have crystals or stones in her bladder. If the antibiotics don't work and she continues to pee blood, then it's probably crystals. If it's crystals, it shouldn't be that hard to treat, but she would need an X-ray or an ultrasound. If it's stone, she would probably need surgery. I've been reading online and it says average costs is around $1000. I don't know what to do.. I can't afford that. I'm a college student who has been studying abroad for the past 6 months and I have absolutely no money. I made $1000 from my internship in the summer, but that's obviously gone. The only money I have now is money to cover my costs of living. I got Zoey for free and I guess this is why, she has a bunch of underlying health issues, apparently. I have no source of income right now and I won't again until maybe February. I didn't want to get a job in my last semester of university, but now I'll probably have to. I'm like do I set up a gofundme for my dog?? No one would give me money for her. I mean everyone loves her, but like not that much. My mom told me when I got her that she wouldn't help me pay for anything for her. She also told me I shouldn't have gotten a dog, so I doubt she'd be willing to help. I don't understand why all this shit costs so much money, it's ridiculous. I guess for now, I'll pray that it's just a UTI and we'll check back in a week. I hate vets, they are evil money sucking people.
My Halloween week / weekend was wild, man. Last Wednesday, I got pretty hammered and fell off a bike. (For some reason, I was riding my friend's bike while drunk, bad idea.) I fell pretty damn hard and had a bruise on my hip and elbow. Also, that night, my friend accidentally cracked my phone screen. I took my first shot of absinthe and it made me really angry, but that could be partly because my phone screen got cracked. Thursday night, I think I went out again, nothing significant happened. On Friday night, I got really drunk again and ended up losing my wallet. I didn't realize until I was about to leave to go out on Saturday night. I was going to a rave with two of my girl friends here. I didn't have any money though, so I was really bummed, but then my friend lent me 20 euros so it was ok. We stayed out until like 6:30 am after the rave. It was a lot of fun. The DJs were actually really good and I met some cool people. I slept all day on Sunday then went to class on Monday morning, to the bank to cancel my debit card, and right after that, I got an email that someone found my wallet!! Everything was still in it except my money. They took like 60 or 70 euros from it and all my change which was kind of petty. But at least I got all my cards and shit. Except I can't un-cancel my debit card, so I have to wait until Monday to get a new one. Since Monday was Halloween and it was a festival on Tuesday, we all got dressed up and went out. My friends had a pre game party at their flat and everyone was dressed up. I was Mia Wallace, as usual. It was a lot of fun, but I'm bummed cause I only went out to one place since that's where everyone was going and I wish I had gone more places.
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Maddie Lang
Dreamer. Adventurer. Wallflower. Lover. Fighter. Kentuckian / Californian. Finding my purpose in the world. Archives
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