After I asserted my independence from this guy I met thru the internet, I was able to live my life the way I wanted to. I started to have friends, acquire the things I actually wanted rather just get leftovers from people, and started to do stuff that I didn't get to do when I was younger. During my childhood, my mom raised me being overbearing and having many restrictions. I lived a sheltered life.
Things I have done for the first time when I was in my 20's that should've been done when I was a kid:
- Planned my own birthday party
- Got my own birthday cake with my name on it and specialized it with my favorite cartoon
- Sleepover with a group of girlfriends
- Finished collecting majority of my Sweet Valley High book collection
- Went to Chuck E. Cheese (after thought - 2010 in KS)
I also began living the single life as an adult. I dealt with guys flirting with me and the way I flirted back! Oh boy... I was a menace lolz... And then I had 5 friends with benefits that infamous summer of 2006. Alot happened that summer. I went clubbing with my new friends I made from working background on Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, that was fun and one of the greatest times of my life. We all went to the after party, post production party, wrap party to the actually movie as well as celebrating two of our friend's birthdays as well as mine at some of Hollywood's bangin night clubs that summer. I learned my body's tolerance level towards alcohol as well as new drinks that I grew to love. My favorite drinks are long island ice tea, adios motherfucker, hypnotique, mai thai and some others like it.
I continued to work the same jobs but I concentrated on saving money which I was really proud of myself. I saved enough to buy myself a car even though technically my ex husband had my other car. One of my girlfriends successfully helped me get my car away from him. At once point, I had 3 cars under my name:
- 2004 Honda Accord silver
- 1988 Mercedes bergundy
- 2002 Honda Civic blue
I worked hard and played hard that year. I became the social butterfly that I wanted to be. I made new friends wherever I went. I never thought I would make friends on set when I work on different TV shows and movies but I did. One day, I met Rambo, Patrick and his two friends on the set of Miss Guided, a TV show produced by Ashton Kutcher. Who knew I would end up being their roommates later that year? But it happened. Patrick's two friends moved back home to Missouri and his other friend, Dustin moved here and then he moved back in a month as well. Rambo, Patrick and I just clicked and we started hanging out. Our friendship was great. Rambo hooked up Patrick with a job at his work which was doing production on Ultimate Fighter. They do shooting in Las Vegas so they left for a couple of months. I was getting used to living by myself in my new apartment. During that time, I was beginning to see Robert, a friend of mine that I met through my ex. Valentine's Day, we went out and became romantic for the first time. We were inseperable ever since. I even asked Rambo and Patrick if he could move in while they were away and they said yea. After working one season of Ultimate Fighter, Rambo and Patrick came back home. It seemed that everyone clicked very well and we all had a great time living together.
Wow! You've lived an amazing life up to now! Sometimes in life we're dealt a hand that sucks. So we have two choices, we could fold or we can play the hand and see how the cards play out. Looks like the cards have played in your favor. I can only wish you the best of luck.
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