Short n' Sweet

Gonna keep this week's post short, as I'm actually trying to be productive and keep myself busy.

To take a break from the nautical theme and the third person viewpoint, if only for a moment, I have gotten settled in to the new living situation. I've gotten a lot of help from new friends in transitioning into life after the break up.

I'm looking forward to all of the new experiences that await me.

I'll miss what I had, but, as with all the others, I have to move on and hope that one day I'll get this relationship thing right.

Everything is slowly piecing itself together in my new room, which is like a mix of bedroom and living room smushed together, at least that's the plan anyway.

Thank you to everyone who has still been supportive of me and this random creative endeavor I've been pursuing. I know that it hasn't been the tour de force piece that my first one was, but I figured that I should take this post to take a step back and appreciate the fact that, even though it didn't work out the way I had originally wanted to, things could be a lot worse for me. I'm glad that I was able to find a new situation and a really good group of new friends that have helped me pull myself up off of my moping ass and try to pick up the pieces.
 
This blogger is gonna have to get some shut eye soon for work in the AM.

Much bandaged and stitched love,

HR

Clear skies ahead?

Sorry to keep you all waiting ladies and gentlemen (Especially the ladies ;) This guy is available again)

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Hehe, *ahem* whoopsies.... still getting the hang of this....

Err....

Ummm.....

*Kicks side of blog until it restarts properly*

It is the Captain's deepest regret to inform you that this post will be going against his solemn promise last week that he would not get on the subject of lost love. However, even though this post is going there, you will be happy (at least somewhat) to note that it is not all doom and gloom, and there will be a light at the end of the tunnel.

So, Jr has been wracking his brain this past week trying to come up with destinations for this ship to go without coming up against the dreaded lost love iceberg, but he's narrowly avoiding them, though they seemingly bar the way and it is what he's been focusing a fair chunk of time to himself on doing.

Captain Blog Jr has been doing his best to keep busy, not only to have things to talk about with this lovely audience (who showed so much love and support last week that he cannot thank enough for) but to also try his best to take his mind off of the ex (which has been an emotionally jarring rollercoaster at times).

Jr is hoping that he will be able to start moving in to a new place and getting away from some of the hurt that has been left behind. He spent some time with his (potential, though I hate saying it, I have to use it until things are officially approved) roommates and some of their friends. We started watching Season 1 of Once Upon A Time and I have thoroughly enjoyed watching it so far.

The downside to this new place? The path to get to and from follows pretty much the same path that I took to get to the ex's house and it's still a little too fresh to get to the new place and come home without getting a little misty.

This ship has had some close calls with the ex-bergs floating about, but Captain Blog Jr is gripping the wheel tightly, swaying the ship to and fro in the choppy waters that threaten to send him into the shimmering Goliaths that threaten to tear him down and drag him to the depths of the Sea of Regrets; the bitter taste of which caresses the Captain's taste buds with every spray from the sway, causing him to feel the stings of what lies beneath if he cannot make it through.

Fear not, however. For there is a lighthouse in the distant horizon, faintly pulsating between the crags and crevices of the drifting bergs. The Captain is getting professional guidance coming in through his marine radio at least once a week (skipping the flowery details, Jr is seeing a psychologist) giving me breathing techniques to help give me the patience and strength to focus on the narrow misses that have caused panic attacks through the journey thus far.

Certainly, the Captain is in over his head at times, more often than he wants to admit, but he is making progress and is looking forward to making it to that lighthouse on the horizon. The beacon for a new hope. The light that is tracing the path for me to follow to better myself during the course. And finally, when I have reached port, that is where he will meet the one person that was truly meant to be in his life for what remains of it. Who will be there for him, through all of his ups and downs, always wanting to shower him with the attention and the affection that he shows her.

The Captain relishes that day.

So, until that day comes, Jr will have to live his life to the fullest of his capabilities and with that being said:

Stay tuned and stay classy, my friends,

Much love,
Blog Jr (The Hapless Romantic)

My Fellow Americans...

Ladies and gentlemen of the blogiverse, I want to apologize in advance, this blogger tends to switch between the 1st and 3rd person. I know it's not apropos in the literary community, but let's face it, this blogger isn't trying to win any Pulitzer Prize Awards for Letters, Drama and Music. So, with that being said, onward we go.

At the behest of the BlogFather, Blog Jr is taking the helm of his very own blog for its maiden voyage. In the many blogs to come, Blog Jr is looking to share with you the things on his mind. Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry. Some will make you just want to reach through the ethereal plane that your Ethernet cable connects to and slap Blog Jr in the face and say, "Get the fuck over it!!!"

The main reason the BlogFather has suggested doing this is because in the stresses of his life, he gets great relief (and probably takes great pleasure in) ranting, raving and ranting some more, about the goings ons of his life. And currently, Jr. is no stranger to stress (whether it be external or self induced) ranging from the financial to the romantical (you're damn right I'm making that a word). So, it is my goal that, with control of the Blog ship Lollipop, I will find some relief from what ails me, and maybe even give you, the audience, a better understanding of what's running through my mind and why I am the way I am.

To those of you who know the man that is Blog Jr., you all know (probably ad nauseam) that Jr has been going through the pains of a fairly recent break up to ex #3 (#4 if you count an approximate 2-3 month im relationship with a friend of a family member, but my guess would be most of the people in the real world would vote that as a resounding, "HELL NO WE DON'T!!!") of whom he thought the world of, but due to issues that he did not want to foresee, though the writing was apparently on the wall, lost without the possibility of a second chance.

So, it's time for Jr to move on. Easy to say, harder to do. My mind is a complex array of wires crisscrossing every which way and when good advice travels down one of these wires, it apparently makes the wrong turn in Albuquerque at Stubborn Fool Junction and Jackass Avenue, and I seem to do the exact opposite, half (if not all) the time.

Recently, Jr did something stupid that he thoroughly regrets doing. Jr thought that he was ready (when in fact, he was being too impatient and jumped the gun) and recreated a profile to the website to which he encountered the fair maiden that has most recently broken his heart. It's unknown why he thought that this was a reasonable thing to do, just 2 and a half weeks after the break up. Maybe it was a curiosity as to what new fish lie in wait out there in that infinite ocean everyone speaks of where the White Whale of soulmates supposedly dwells. Unfortunately, to his dismay, after searching through a few schools of fish, he found the new profile of the woman who crushed him thoroughly to a pulp. This reopened the wounds that he thought he had sewn to a reasonable extent that he could try a fresh start.

After discovering that he, in fact, did a rather shoddy job at mending his newly torn heart, he decided that it was time to give that profile a rest and just hope that she finds someone else that will treat her better than I ever could, then he shall return if no one in real life shows up to help mend his heart and put back together the pieces left behind in the massacre.

With copious amounts of Häagen Dazs ice cream, a steady stream of Air Supply and a binge watching of How I Met Your Mother, Jr will rebound from this. Jr is going to do his best to tune out the things that have reminded him of the good and the bad times from ex #3 (4) and just hope that he doesn't do anything to fuck up his relationship with future gf #4. Of course, as stated before, easier said than done.

It is my promise to you that Captain Blog Jr shall not make all of his posts love lost themed, he's just going through a phase, one that is reminiscent of Season 2 Marshall pining over the lose of his soulmate Lily. The Captain requests all hands on deck to be his Ted and Barneys to help him get his Titanic through the icy North Atlantic Ocean and make it safely to the shores of Actualsoulmatethatwillstickbymyside-ica.

In fact, the next one will be absolutely nothing to do with love at all...

Stay tuned and stay classy, my friends.

Blog Jr