Oh I'm feeling restless

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I’m feeling just that-restless. The warrior woman within feels like packing up, selling off every earthly item she has and backpack around the world. She wants to ride a horse thru the Gobi Desert, camp and ride a boat down the Amazon, drive a Land Rover across parts of Africa and take pictures of the Masi dancing. Learn how to tango to get to her heart to feel passion. She wants to meditate with the monks in Thailand or Tibet and do some yoga in India. Listen to some Enka and do some people watching on the Champs Elysees.

If you’re restless, what are you going to do?

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Hold out till spring…go to Jamaica…Get Yer Groove on…and be careful!

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Hell I’m almost as old as Stella. :laughing:

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Wait for me … I’ll join ye …

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So what’s stopping you? :happybiker:

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“It’s not your fault, you got that blood from your daddie”, that’s what my mama says every time I talk to her. I have never been able to remain stable, even when I achieved the so-called American dream. I tried, I tried really hard, but just couldn’t do it.

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I’m the same exact way! The thought of settling down in one place for good frightens me just a much as the thought of having children. :smiling_imp:

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Oof, loadsa plans, just no money…

Actually, I want to stay in the UK for a while. My work keeps me in the metropolis, but it’d be great if I could go and live in Derbyshire for a while. Caving!

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My God, me too! What the hell is wrong with me?

And ooh!, Nama, I’d take a long drink of Stella’s groove any day! In fact, girl, I CONSTANTLY feel the way you’re feeling. I cope with it by waisting larg amounts of time planning my escape!! I have any number of possible escape plans laid out. And I watch the travel channel–times like these, the travel channel is almost like porn!

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Hi Namahottie,

I understand your restlessness, because I feel my own.

Here’s your solution, but it is not mine. (We each walk a different path): Go shopping at Zhongxiao East Rd after work on Friday. Buy a fake LV purse. Then go to a nightmarket for dinner.

On the way home, drop by Blockbuster for a few New Release!!! DVD’s. Watch them at home.

The next day, Saturday, SLEEEP!

Later that day, have some pao4 mien4 and then play online games until late. When its late, start MSN’ing friends, or checkout new “friends” on Facebook.

The next day, Sunday, you can strive to be so self-unaware that you won’t even remember what you did the next day!

Monday morning, all that restlessness is sure to be gone!

If that doesn’t work, then go to KTV with some female (ex) students. Drink beer, eat terrible food, and sing sappy love ballads with your face close to the TV.

If that doesn’t work either, and you still feel restless, then girl, you need a fortune teller.

I hope this advice is useful.

PS Are you a hottie? And why “Nama”? Is that Namibia?

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:eh:

(I want a “pass the popcorn” smiley)

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In my life I have often stirred myself to travel, but when I get there I realise I am with myself, and forwards is the only option. Look at what is around you, before you run off and expect a situatiion to change your mood.

I’m one to talk. Trapped in myself like I am!

Advice: Read childrens books, it makes you look prolific, and you understand all the words!

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That worked quite well for me yesterday. After watching some travel videos on km42.de (in German, but have a look, it’s an amazing website) I spent some hours looking for a camera which I could theoretically use to shoot equally appealing travel videos. Afterwards I had to work until the wee hours of the moring and today I was too tired to think about any sort of crazy escape. That is, until I clicked on this thread. :laughing:

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[quote=“TomHill”]In my life I have often stirred myself to travel, but when I get there I realise I am with myself, and forwards is the only option. Look at what is around you, before you run off and expect a situatiion to change your mood.

I’m one to talk. Trapped in myself like I am!

Advice: Read childrens books, it makes you look prolific, and you understand all the words![/quote]

You know, Tom, my mom said almost that exact thing to me when I first went overseas. “Wherever you go, housecat, there you’re going to be. You can’t run away from yourself.” I was so pissed at her! I took it as pretty insulting, comming from my mother. But I see now that it was pretty wise. However, I don’t always travel to get away from me. When I am feeling like I’m tired of finding myself in every mirror I pass, and around every corner I turn, I know it’s time to do some traveling around in my own heart and mind. It’s a scarry place that I seldome go cause I’m really a bit of a coward.

Don’t Let Me Get Me lyrics

Never win first place
Don’t support the team
I can’t take direction
And my socks are never clean

Teachers dated me
My parents hated me
I was always in a fight
Cause I can’t do nothin right

Every day i fight a war against the mirror
I can’t take the person staren back at me

Chorus
I"m a hazard to myself
Don’t let me get me
I’m my own worst enemy

It’s bad when you annoy yourself
So irratateing
Don’t wanna be my friend no more
I wanna be somebody else

La told me you’ll be a popstar
all you have to change
is everything you are

tired of bein compared
to that brittany spears
she’s so pretty
that just aint me

so doctor doctor wont you please perscribe me something
bein the life of someone else

chorus
-PINK

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Watch The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension…again.

“'Cause remember…No matter where you go…there you are.”

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Nama: I was just kidding about the ulitmate boring Taiwanese weekend. I gather you’re bored because it’s not easy for you to leave the island now and do something really exciting. But, if you’ve got your PADI or equivalent, you could go to Orchid Island, and go spear fishing with the locals. They have a tourist-friendly set-up for that, but it’s based on a longstanding local tradition. The island doesn’t feel at all like Taiwan. You could go down 15 metres and harpoon a grouper or tuna with some local guys and be back in time for Monday’s class. It’s a real escape and if you kill something big they’ll all invite you for beer and etc.

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She COULD do that, but it’s an awful long trip from Chicago.

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OK then! Namahottie is not in Taiwan, she’s in Chicago. Right. OK. Well then… she should: a) Tell people she’s not in Taiwan. b) Go to the Montreal International Jazz Festival in late June. c) Get a decent boyfriend d) Go kayaking in Georgian Bay. d) Take a motorbike trip around Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, or e) Get a job at Hooters, and make fat bored men happy.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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What’s to stop you getting a month of work and doing some of these things?

Take a break, go wandering for while, then go home when the windy city is a little less chilly.

L.

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If I was single and bored, I’d go to Central & Eastern Europe. Learn brewing, enroll in a University, try to master some of those slavic tongues, making lifelong connections with the Russian Mafia in the process…

Ah, daydream believer that I am…