My parents decided to surprise me yesterday with an early birthday present, Cavs tickets. Naturally I told my dad that he was taking me since that's all I've wanted was to actually become closer to my dad. I wanted one of those "Daddy's girl" relationships for the longest time, and hopefully its finally starting... Anyways, I had fun. Just my dad and me, finally "bonding," joking about the dumb old ladies sitting next to us who had no idea what was going on. We share a hatred for Bosh and Turkoglu, we argue about Jamison (I dislike but he likes), and we both agree that we want playoff tickets with amazing seats. As we were walking back to the car (which we parked about ten minutes away from the Q), we were talking about the weather and we we're playing the Prius game. (Side note: Its like the VW Beetle game, only with Prius' since they're a cooler car and I want one eventually. Lisa can't play the game since she doesn't know what a Prius even looks like.) The gamed ended up being I hit my dad with whatever car I can identify (Civic, Camry, Corolla, Escape, Forte, Sienna, Rav4, Tundra, etc.) and he just laughs and sarcastically threatens me he'll get me back soon.
Cleveland is the most beautiful city in the world, don't try to prove me wrong. There's such an energy that gets over looked, it's a shame.I want to live in Tremont and be able to walk the city streets and just take in the city. Naturally my dad thinks I'm crazy and refuses to let me dream I'll live there one day. Once we get to the car and starting making our way home, lo and behold we've got a flat tire. Needless to say, this was close to the highlight of my night. We were in such a sketchy neighborhood my dad told me to stay locked in the car and watch for people. I've never seen someone change a flat tire as fast as my dad did. We got back into the car, listened to Kenny Chesney the entire ride home, windows down. This brought back memories of the summer at Myrtle Beach, which is my favorite place in the entire world. That's the only music we listened to for the entire 12 hour drive. I've got the CD memorized. We were close to home, my feet were hanging out of the car window, and I was singing "Summertime" and "Anything but Mine" and I finally realized something. Even though everything has fallen apart with my friends, I've got my family and my best friend still standing by me. The new girls I'm friends with are hilarious; I can't believe I've never even attempted to be friends with them before now. I've burned bridges, and hurt others, but I'm trying to make amends. The one person I'm trying so hard with thinks I'm kidding when I say I miss him, so I'm close to giving up. I can't keep living in the past, waiting for a possibility when I have a guarantee somewhere else.
Life's about choices. You've gotta look out for yourself before others. Why? No one else will. It's not selfish, its called protecting yourself.
you are, anything but mine.
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