i dont care if it’s against your beliefs, or religions, or if this has been posted before, anyone worth knowing and respecting will try to know others for who they really are rather than who they like or what they believe in or what they look like. 

you never ever ever fully know someone’s story before you get it from the honest source. 

i’ve been off tumblr for a little while now, and i come back to tumblr, and i just dont care anymore. crazy how that happens huh? so i dont think i’ll be reblogging much anymore. I’ll still post and i’ll keep up with the gentleman blog, but i dont think i’ll reblog much.

rulesofagentleman:

Wisdom from my daddy.

-Annakah

I TOLD YOU THAT!!! i was complaining about being greasy and pulling into port looking bad!!

its called the coffee prince, and i love it. hahaha its a Korean drama, and its fantastic. you guys need to check it out.

i saw christie and chris sanborn and i had SO MUCH FUN. i have about a million pictures for y’all, and honestly, i had an amazing time. they were both really happy and goofy and i havent been around anyone careless and happy like that in a long time. Justin was always sorta intense, but christie and i just giggled and goofed and talked about our inside jokes and i really had a great time. It made me a lot less sad about leaving tennessee(though the sadness came back to get me even greater later) and a lot more hopeful about being in Marathon again. if only Chris were to be there as well and everything would be much much better. anyways, here are some pictures from my fantastic evening with my best friends.lilo loved her. haha

hahaha chris’s eye. loli really love this one. hahah

i’ve noticed something. In demopolis there are a lot of people doing the great loop, some of them new to boating and obviously new to common sense. but im not here to complain about the loopers, im here to complain about how they just always assume that WE are loopers. GOSH. boatists. i guess since its more of a trawler thing they just assume; you motorboaters out there, stop discriminating based on boat type!

hahaha thats really all i have to say. Demopolis is fantastic. we had a “get together” last night to “plan our departures” but really, everyone gathered in the room with the TV and washing machines, (its niice.) and sat and drank and talked. hahaha it was still nice though. im making friends(yes, all of them middle aged to old people), and they’re all very nice people. well… everyone here is nice. okay, the land people are kinda sucky and rude, but whatever.

i guess thats about it. for everyone concerned about lilo, she’s doing just fine. hahaha:) my marina, the tennessee one. :(

Pretty much, today we left our home to move to another. I don’t know what to expect from this trip, not at all. Im scared out of my mind, and I am sad to leave. But, im going back to Florida, like I always wanted, I get to see Christie again(:D:D:DEEEEHHHEHEHEHE!!!!!!!!!excitin!!!) and daniel too, and Lisa(IM SO EXCITED.) and I get to go meet new people, and see new things(yes, new things, I’ve been on this path before, but I didn’t care about it or pay attention. I was too busy being a brat.) so, pretty much, im scared, im sick, im tired, but im completely hopeful and I know that if this isn’t what God wanted, I wouldn’t be here right now.
As it is, we’re out on the river. It was a long day, as I said, and im ready to go to bed even if its just 8:05PM.we took out winter clothes today, secured bikes, filled water tanks, said more goodbyes, watched a movie(the Grinch. :D) cut out a skirt, anchored, and anchored, and anchored, and anchored again, then celebrated because it caught, we pulled up the dinghy, watched the simpsons, I cooked dinner(shepherds pie!:D), we drove inside, outside, I took about a million pictures(or maybe it was 86.hehehe) I ate a cheese sandwich, I ate some ice cream, and I THINK that’s it. My goodness, its been a long day. And its getting cold. I don’t know how well the whole… sleep thing is gonna go. I need to study, I need to do dishes, and I wanna see my best friend again. Hahahaha im so anxious for seeing Christie. HOW CAN I WAIT ANYMORE?!?!! Hahaha I guess I’ll deal with it. I guess im done writing. I figure I’ll finish this Big Bang episode, then study at least long enough for my bed to be warm, then go to sleep. Im SO sick of noise. All day just noise, noise, noise, NOISE!!(please, please just someone catch The Grinch reference in there?)

HOLY CRAP. I just realized something ya know Leonard from Big Bang?(Hahaha im gonna keep talking like everyone does….) he reminds me of DANIEL!! And now those of you that don’t know daniel don’t care. Back to my main thought.

The generator, or the motor, or the water, or whatever, and so on, so loud. All day. Im just so tired of it all being so loud. It’s gonna be this way for the next couple of months. Ehh. I hate that. It ONLY being quite at night or in the morning so like ¾ of my quiet time, im asleep!! Yep. Generator just went off. That means, im going to bed. Night, or good morning, or good afternoon.

-aspen

and now i realize, that i wrote ONE blog while we were out. hahaha its been a long trip so far and theres no way on EARTH i can make up for all the lost posts, but i can summarize. i havent written much lately because i’ve honestly just been too tired. we get up at 5 every morning(or 5:30) and then travel until around 4(sunset) and then i have school to do and once im finally done with that(which takes longer than usual because we have to pause a lot for locks, errands, food, etc.) and once thats all finally done and im done with school and homework, we dinghy(yeah, im the motor. its too hard to take the motor off every time we go to shore, so i paddle.) to shore so lilo can do her business, then i paddle us back then by the time i get back to the boat, eat and get relaxed, i call christie, write some if i feel like it, and go to bed usually around 9 though im ready for bed by 7. i mean, the suns down, so i just kinda sit around until 8 when i can call christie and then im just so tired i just go to bed. it gets so tiring that every morning when i hear the motor or generator i dead it and go “uuuuuuuuuuuuugh” because i know that means i have to get up soon. and besides that, some days what is there to blog about? “well… today we drove. i did school. then we anchored.” and thats really it. though i did have a day to write about that by the end i only wanted to sleep. so thats what i did.

we were out in a canal. it was probably 60 feet wide. maybe more maybe less, im not a math person, thats as close of a guess as i can do. our engine died. our boat is 36 feet long, and there was a wind pointing us into one of the rocky banks.

*suspense filled pause* we were held up there for about an hour and then finally my dad figured out that it was a fuel filter and then he fixed it and we traveled on. in the mean time, he told me and mom to watch outside the boat and if we thought we were getting close throw out the anchor. the anchor that i mentioned wouldnt stick the first night out.(we switched a primary back to a better one.) so, the boat and all its power couldnt get the anchor to stick, but i had to just throw it on out and hope it stuck. wind, or maybe God was on my side and it did. which was good for us, because we got close y’all. we were standing on the back of the boat with boat hooks. it was horrible. i was like all nauseous feeling. you throw me out in 5 foot continuous waves and i dont get sea sick, you get me scared and its all over. hahahaha

i guess thats the most exciting thing. we docked twice, (a few more at free docks)

OH! i had my birthday party(did i blog about that?) it was SO much fun! i loved it so much. it was fantastic, i really enjoyed that. uhm, i guess thats it. we’re making a lot of friends, which is so weird for me. these people, they’re all SO friendly! its crazy!! like, people will just walk right up to your boat(complete strangers) and be like “so, how you doing today?” and they just really want to know. which is awesome. when have i ever been this happy? i certainly dont reme- oh yeah, i remember. hahaha okay, i have to go. computer’s dying. love you guys.:D

im in Demopolis Alabama. i couldnt pick a place i would rather be at this second. i could pick people i would want to be here, but im happy here. for the first time in what feels like a long time, im just contented. happy. peaceful.

no, no, it has NOTHING to do with the stunningly gorgeous guy that works here. maybe a little, but its like i forgot how to be me when i was in tennessee. sure, i was just different, but i forgot that i had this girl in me. this girl that can be pretty and peaceful and just happy alone doing whatever. theres a slight breeze but im in a tanktop for the first time in a while. and i dont have two pairs of socks on, and im happy.

there are a few differences between the aspen i am now and the one i was last time we were cruising. this one isnt heart broken anymore, she’s mending, this one is happy with herself, and this one, is listening to country music. the old one listened to rock turned up with headphones in ignoring the world, and she wouldnt have noticed how sweet the wind feels or how great the flag sounds. She wouldnt be happy like this, because she was too busy being mad at everything and every one.

oh, and this girl has two more amazing friends than the last one had.  im happy. just wanted y’all to know. now i guess i’ll post some more about the recent cruising.