Meet Me :)

*The SQUARE -Often imitated, never duplicated*

My name is Courtney and I am from the Outer Banks, North Carolina. It’s a very small place where everyone knows everyone and everyone knows everyone’s business. Sometimes its annoying, but sometimes it is interesting to know what is going down with everyone around you. 

“There is something different about people from the coast of Carolina. Its like we are our own race. We love things people that arent from here hate, like the salty water, the pluff mud, the sting of a sunburn, the sand. Our day starts with gasing the boat, loading the cooler with beer and heading for the water. We never see the sunrise but we watch it set from the harbor. Our blood is a mixture of salt water and beer. We love a good time, we love classic rock and Jimmy Buffett. We wear flip flops, even when its 40* outside. We live for shorts, tshirts, and that pair of costa’s around our neck.We work hard all week, but we play that much harder on the weekends. We are devoted to our friends, the water, beer, and music. See thats the thing I have learned about being from the coast… I could never guess where life will take me, but I will never forget where I came from…”

I have gone through some pretty tough times in my life. I lost an uncle to AIDS. lost my father (dumbass..), I lost my grandmother to cancer; and just within this past year I have lost my friend Alex to a horrible car crash and my grandfather to cancer. These are just the deaths that affected me the most, I have lost so many loved ones, its rediculous. Be careful, don’t get too close . I have had my heart broken in the worst way and have learned from that point on that you can not trust anyone, not even someone who you love and/or someone who claims to be one of your best friends….cause chances are, the person you love and your friend are probably screwin’ behind your back

“Tough girls come from New York, sweet girls, they’re from Georgia. But us Carolina girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all while makin sweet tea darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know you’re going to hear it.”

I am not ashamed to admit that I have already gone through my “party” stage. I mean, I still get down and have a good time but not that way I used to.

“They say you only live once, but at the beach with the way we live, once is enough.”

People have said that only horrible, useless people do drugs and fuck their life up. And personally, I get pissed off when people say that. Everyone does drugs – codeine, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana and up into the heavy shit. To those who say they have never been high, you can wag your fucking finger all you want and say “Drugs are bad. Just say no.”

But if you make it far enough up the ladder, drugs are a social thing. Like drinking. Everyone does them, and you do them too. You have a good time and you don’t think about something that casual and that fun biting you in the ass, especially when it doesn’t seem to be biting anyone else in the ass. Millions of people do them and don’t die from them.

A couple of years ago, one person described me as “wild and loud.” I don’t know how accurate that is. I don’t really think about it, but it probably fit at the time. Who knows. I can analyze myself to a certain degree but it doesn’t come out in little media-friendly terms like that.Going to college parties when you’re 16 years old, sitting there so high that you’d basically left the room, watching a couple of people going at it on the couch across the room, or snorting coke, and only half interested because you’ve seen it so many times before. But then, you’re friends are having a good time, laughing and drinking in another room. It’s a really hard life to back away from. Everything else seems boring or like you’re not living enough. Other things get replaced by that.

I’m still young, and I think it’s good that I’ve got all of that shit out of my system. You change, and people you hang out change. Especially your lifestyles. People who are worth it will change with you, and the rest you can leave behind. I’m going to leave you with a quote from one of my all time favorite movies, “Blow”, which kind of sums up everything I just said:

“So in the end, was it worth it? It’s always the last day of summer and I’ve been left out in the cold, with no door to get back in. I’ll grant you, I’ve had my fair share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by, while they’re making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I’ve left pieces of my heart here and there. And now there’s almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent”

Girlfriends – Until The END

I then decided to go to Wilmington with my two best friends for school but after dating one of my roomies family members plus partying to hard, I landed back on the OBX! Not happy, I started working for an attorney and from then on I have been doing my paralegal thing. I also wait tables up in Duck at the Sanderling a couple nights a week.  I plan on keeping this going and one day I really want to be a private investigator or a spy of some sort (i know it’s like a 5-year olds dream but I will do it).

*My Roomies*

I am very opinonated and plan to share my views on all sorts of topics on my blog. So sit back, relax, and get to know the real me with one blog at a time!

 

Now on to my love life. I have been dating my boyfriend, Quinn, for almost two years (it will be two years on July 4)! We met through a mutual friend (Tommy Ritchie) and this is how it all went down: I went over to Tommy’s to have a few beers with him and there he (Quinn) was but the twist is that Tommy’s daughter had a friend over and I thought that Quinn was that kids dad so I decided not to flirt with him. Once I realized he was free game and came with no baby mama drama, I went in for the kill . I casualy came over to have a beer with Tommy more often, haha! Then the weekend before 4th of July my sister threw a big block party with her neighbors and I invited Tommy and told him to bring Quinn. I really thought they weren’t going to show but they did, and I was WASTED! HAHA! I had to work the next day and I kept telling Quinn over and over and over again that he better come visit me at work and blah blah blah, then I asked him for his number as they were leaving the party, then needless to say that night got way to crazy and I didn’t work the next day. I waited a few days to call him but I remember exactly how it went. I called him, he said hello, and I said you don’t even know who this is do you, then he said yes, its Courtney and I think I said something along the lines of ohhh brownie points or something gay like that. Anywho then we would talk and I would come over for a beer or two. On July 4, Seth’s parents were having a lil shin dig on their yhact so after boating wiht my normal crew I bounced to Manteo to go find Quinn. I called and called and walked all around the water front trying to find him. His phone was dead and I couldn’t get up with Seth. I was so pissed off so I headed back up the beach, but as soon as I got to the hump of the Manteo bridge Quinn finally called. Apparently he jumped in the water with his phone in his pockets trying to save Seth’s cousin from getting run over by another boat, so I couldn’t be mad. I dove back to Manteo and met the boys, we boated and tubed and ate and drank, it was to much fun. Once the fire works started, me and Quinn sat up on the front of the boat and watched them. It was too sweet . Too bad I had to work the next day and I definately did not show up, haha. Me and Quinn laid in bed all day long and thats how this whole shin dig started ladies and gentlemen!

We pretty much have lived together since we started dating and yes, like every coupe we have our ups and downs and rounds and rounds. At the beginning of last summer he moved out of Tommy and Heather’s house and into Martins house and then once Martin moved to Wilmington (again) we got the whole house to ourselves. Quinn has been good for me. He helps mellow me out because he likes to be inside watching movies or playing video games and I like to be out partying and getting loose so it’s kind of nice to have that balance. We are both big ol’ nerds who love watching nat. geo, history, animal planet, etc. We’re happy and taking life one day at a time and seeing where it takes us. I love my boyfriend