Tomorrow 11-6

Institute Park

Ben had suggested that we get to the Dive early as Shana Morrison was performing last night out in the beer garden, that we also bring food, goodies, antipasto evening. So everyone brought some food from hummus to cheese and we sat at one of the big tables. Everyone showed up chatted and listened to the very soulful voice of Shana Morrison, which she did a very long set.  The Dive Bar was alive last night, everyone was out enjoying the perfect Thursday air, the music and each other. Got up and mingled for a bit and said hello to other friends, meet some new people.

The group of us discussed how the Dive is just this perfect place, where a group of friends who want to just enjoy the music, the air and good conversation can be. Last night was one of those nights.

Got home pretty late and stayed up even later, thinking I am going on about 2 hours of sleep, but I will do fine. I have a Hurricane Adventure Date tonight in Boston, we will see how this goes. Tomorrow with the group to the Open Road Music and Art Festival… Can’t wait

Some had to do with this : Vegan and Omnivores in Dating . It is a hard thing to decide vegans take up 1% of the population in the United States and even vegetarians vary so much in what they will eat and not eat. Hard being a single gal with such a restrictive lifestyle, but ethically it is how I must live.

I have a constant need to be needed, to be the one person another can lean on, feel good around and hopefully I bring them joy. But the burden of being that type of person is sometimes much more than I can bear. I am strong and independent, due to my ability to manage not only my own life but others as well I am sometimes taken for granted. I invest in almost everyone I meet, another mistake, another extremely ammature move on my part.

Has experience and age not made me more cautious, when will I learn my lesson. My character is very much optimistic, I believe that something amazing will happen at some point. But over the last year my mind runs to doubt, doubt that I will find someone who compliments me, who will car or love for me in an equal way to the way I care and love for them. Maybe I am just in love with love, yet I am so not one to rush it. So I think I need to meet that person who I will sooner or later fall for, 100% fall for because it will take me some time to feel as if love is what it is.

I am not afraid to say that I am lonely, not all the time but mostly in the evenings when I crawl into bed and think about how great it would be to have someone there with me. But most of the time I look forward to time with my friends much more than time planned with a guy.

But I need my happiness back, I need the spirit that surrounds me that is fun, colorful and the person that brings a smile to everyone else’s face. I like that Crystal a great deal, she is pretty amazing.

I suppose I am trying to get use to the fact that I am sleeping very little and with my workouts back in gear (good lord the Muscle Conditioning class is kicking my butt) 40 hour work weeks once more it is tough to go out on a school night- more than once a week.

Tonight a night at the Dive, where I believe I will be bringing Jose (God I have not seen him in a long time, going to be great) to see Shana Morrison (Van Morrison’s Daughter) perform. My friends and I have decided to have our own antipasto night in the beer garden at the Dive so to “reserve” OUR table. No one else is ever crazy enough to take our table because while it is always closest to the band, it is the one where you can not carry on a conversation. But it is all good..

Tomorrow night headed into Boston to meet a fellow for dinner and pool/bowling/coffee/shenanigans. While things as of late in my non-existent love life have not been so great, I am still going to be optimistic that there is someone who is “right” for me out there. That person being someone in which I do not need to compromise who I am and what I want in order for it to work. I know I kick ass and the right guy will also believe this

Saturday I do hope EARL stays away, The Open Road Music Festival is occurring at Institute Park, then a birthday celebration at Liz’s and then Labor Day Good Times Party @ Monika’s. I prey FOR NO RAIN as all of these events take place outdoors. Sunday Labor Day Beer Event at Emily and Keith’s house the one Memorial Day weekend was a great time, very much looking forward to this one. Monday I have no real solid plans just yet, may help Kelly with her beer wench costume for her upcoming Oktoberfest Party, which means I need to think about what I am going to wear also.

So although I am stuck at work all day today and tomorrow- my Labor Day weekend really does start tonight.  Have a Safe and Fun Labor Day and stay dry.

and…..

“Love Hope Sex Dreams” Opening Reception

Tomorrow I have plans to go to the rock gym in Everett  and then dinner at my brothers to celebrate he and his amazing girls engagement. Maybe grab a drink with another friend at the end of the night.

Sunday heading up to Maine with Kelly to spend a day at the beach, play on some rocks and just get out of Worcester for the day.

I can’t see how this weekend will go bad except I am a bit tired and my brain may shut down on me at some point.

HAPPY WEEKEND !!!!!

The Good: Pretzel and Cocktail Night at Kelly’s, The Attempt to get into the Tom Petty Concert and the Fishy Fishy Fishy Cook-Off at Dr. Gonzos, and hanging with a new friend on Sunday.

The Bad: interactions that went bad with a certain someone, thinking the people who we went with to the Tom Petty concert put something in our drinks, and overall not being happy with the direction my life has been going.

I have an amazing job with a significant amount of responsibility which is the one thing that motivates me, but I still live my “off-time” as if I do not have this important position that requires my A-game each and everyday. So I am making some life changes, that to include how much time I spend with people who are not good for me in ways that remind me of being 20 again. I am back to working out which for me makes me pleased.

I have opened myself up to meeting other guys at this point, maybe I do want someone who is a constant in my life, someone for adventures but who knows. I still don’t know what I want and I only can assume that I will hopefully recognize it when it comes along.

Well I started knitting last night, not very good but with practice I will get better..

Update: ** Well it seems after a day and half of trying to work something out the P.M. has decided to honor my request. I don’t like the headache involved in the process but thankful for the fact that they are now working with me and trying to make me happy.****

I believe my patients have worn thin this past week when it comes to Bancroft Commons; this is the apartment complex in which I have lived since last October. They “sell” a product that being small, “inexpensive” urban apartments in Downtown Worcester. Inexpensive it is not, my rent thanks to a free month spread out over the year is $698.00 plus $50.00 for my parking spot. This is for a 400 sq foot studio. The rent will go up if I renew by a $100.00.

I pay for a parking spot in a designated lot, color coded parking passes, well over the last month the Mayo Group has been working on what seems to be a new apartment building made from an old garage from Bancroft Motors. Well in that process they have blocked off a good 10 parking spots, so if you get home late one evening you are stuck parking on the street. The catch is that the lot was pretty close to being full before they blocked off a good portion of the parking spots. Did they give any notice to those of us who park in this lot? No. This is the story of Bancroft Commons; they are not at all proactive everything is done after the fact. To say that even once I brought this up to the Property Manager “K” yesterday, nothing was done about it.

The real issue as of this week deals with the fire that occurred late last Thursday night at the Paris Cinema, it seems the fire interrupted the electricity for a couple of the Bancroft Buildings mine being one of them. Friday we were told it would be fixed on Friday, and then I got a call to stay in a hotel in which they were going to cover the cost, but I was heading out of town so I did not utilize said hotel. Saturday turned to Monday and then Monday turned to yesterday. In this process I could not stay in my house, ended up at Paul’s on Sunday night and then I utilized the hotel for one night on Monday evening. I little fact about me is that I am vegan and my food is not cheap, in this time the fridges which are 300 dollar specials thawed all my food and anything I the fridge and freezer was spoiled. I asked nicely if some sort of concession could be made to help me cover the cost of the food that spoiled because the amount of time it took the repair to be made. I asked for reimbursement or a cut on my rent in order to be able to afford to restock the $150-$200.00 worth of food I just threw out last night. They came back with $50.00 as an amount and I stated that this was not good enough. I was told to put a claim in thru renters insurance, yeah because that is going to put food in my fridge this week! The emails went back and forth, while the P.M. wanted to sound intelligent it did not. Her argument was “Again, we did offer a hotel room to everyone for each night you were without electricity.  You decided not to utilize the hotel room.  If you have renters insurance you can put in a claim.” Then she gives me the name and number for the lawyer for the Bancroft who would “reiterate what I have told you.”

This went back and forth for MANY emails, I am not getting anywhere with them.

Today I sent this email:

K: “Once I came home last night and there was 3 garbage bags worth of food that spoiled, I am not backing down from the $150.00 reimbursement. I spoke with a couple VERY unhappy tenants in the building last night. I know I am not the only one who is not happy with the $50.00 reimbursement you are willing to offer. That will not buy 3 bags of groceries never mind 3 garbage bags. Not sure how much your corporate rate was for the Hilton, but 3 nights that I did not stay I am sure is more money than what I am requesting.

Again I referred two people to the Bancroft say on average $750.00 x 13 months x 2 = $19,500.00 and one of them just had a referral move in so another $9,750.00 for another 13 month lease. I have paid for parking the last two months @ $50.00 a month and I have had to park on the street more times than not because of lack of parking.”

This was the straw that broke the camels back, there have been small things in the last 10 months that have left me unpleased but this whole interaction has just topped it. I will not be renewing my lease, and I will not be referring people to live at the Bancroft. The only reason they keep full buildings is because there is an influx of students that live in them, I am sure most of them don’t really care that the beer and condiments in their fridge went bad due to a fire in a building that belongs to the Mayo Group. But I am not 20 years old, and I do not take bad customer service well.

On a side note the elevator is not working- AGAIN.

And what is up with a Fitness Center that can’t be used in the Summer because there is no AC and all the equipment is broken. What happened to that state of the art fitness center that was going to be done by the spring.

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