I can’t get no…

Got back from Florida about a week ago, and had a great time.  Reconnected with a good friend and hung out with him and his wife a little bit (hey gus!)  Now back to reality  That week in the sunshine should be able to hold me off until spring comes around here.
Driving long distances by myself is truly enjoyable for me.  I seriously get irritated sharing a small space with someone for several hours at a time.  I guess I’m just too fixed in my ways…but driving down to Florida always gives me time to think and ponder over things.  I recently had an exchange with someone who separated and there was a lot of bitterness and disappointment, and I can’t help but wonder how are successful relationships even possible with our lives being so short?  It takes someone the better part of their life to even know and find themselves, so how does it work when you complicate things by adding another person to your life whom you have to learn about; a person who most likely doesn’t know him/herself either and just like you is trying to figure out what he’s all about?  By the time you figure yourself out your imperfect body begins to fail, your mind starts going and then you die.  I guess it’s easy to become jaded at this life and at watching people around you fail at their relationships.  Why is it so hard to find who you are?  Why is it so hard to figure out what you want out of life?

I’m so tired of living in Detroit.  I hate the cold weather, the gray skies the beat-down city.  I feel like a trapped animal that’s ready to gnaw it’s leg off just to get away.  I’d love to move to south Florida, hurricanes or not.  You’ve got one life to live why make it worse by crummy weather?  I don’t know if I’ll succeed or if my plan will come to fruition but I’ve decided to start toward trying to sell my house.  Making the necessary improvements and see what I can realistically get for it on the market, then start looking for a job down south.  I don’t want to live here anymore.  I’m ready for, and need a change of scenery.  I need to be in an environent that makes me happy just to walk outside.  I often tell my friends that if I could wave a wand and do anything, I would move to the Keys and buy a charter boat and take people fishing on the ocean…you see, Andy Dufresne had the right idea!  Why *not*?  Why not strive to live your dream?   I won’t really have play-by-play updates on how my plan is going on this site, but when and if I hit any milestones toward furthuring my plans, only then will I write about it.  Anyways…dinner’s in an hour, so I’m outta here.