No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem

Hola!

Sorry for the delay in posting...too tired last night and now is the first time today I've really felt like typing it up.

So...yesterday and today...Friday and Saturday...my last two nights at home for winter break. I received a text from my ride back to school asking if it would be alright if we leave tomorrow night in order to avoid a snow storm Monday, so we're leaving approximately 18 hours early. That means I'll be back at school by late tomorrow night, back to school, bad food, and worse decisions :) Not overly excited (if ya can't tell), but it'll be good to see everyone again and I'm actually kind of excited for one or two of my classes. I'm also anxious to get started on my not-New-Years-related resolutions, which will either last the first two weeks and more or they will not survive.

One such...experiment...I just decided to start a day or two ago. I'm not shaving (facial hair, pervs) for a while. Well, to be more specific, I will only be shaving my neck for a few days. I'll gradually start shaving other areas of my face as they irritate me...my money is either on my upper lip or my lower lip, above my chin (if that makes sense). The goal? There isn't one. Get my parents to complain (they have just under 24 hours to do so) or for someone to make a comment about how nasty I look.

***EDIT*** The facial hair experiment was restarted today as I figured I should be clean-shaven for church and in order to give my mother a proper hug goodbye tonight.

Yesterday was somewhat eventful for me, definitely not in a good way. For one thing, iTunes crashed on me again and erased my entire library. This means that I must go through my entire library of music fixing all the artists, genres, and song titles for the second time in just a few weeks. It may be a small blessing in disguise, however. Before I put everything back into iTunes, I'm going through all my music folders and re-organizing my music so song files will no longer be buried 4 folders deep. Instead, I will have My Music>Music>*artist name*>*song files*, which will hopefully make it much more easy to access and determine what music I do or don't have at any given time. Also makes locating lost iTunes files much easier. Despite this blessing in disguise, I would like to call for everyone who does not currently use iTunes to boycott it. It's not worth the trouble when you can just drag and drop music to a normal mp3 player. I specify people who don't currently use iTunes because I know those iPod users won't give up their iPods just because I had a bad experience.

The second event yesterday was the dreaded bi-annual dentist appointment. No need for details just in case any of you are woozy, but let me say, for not having any cavities and "near-perfectly clean" teeth, there sure was a lot of blood and pain involved.

Speaking of injuries...the injury report: busted up knee; ankle still very tender, but scabbing over; still potentially broken hand; sore, swollen mouth and gums. One thing gets better, something else happens...Geez.

And now...The Main Event...which deserves a post of its own. Coming Soon :)

Thought of the Day: "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

-J

0-21-21-59

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All In All, It's Just Another Brick In The Wall

Hey everyone! Long time no see!

Today, absolutely nothing happened so I decided to combine Tuesday and today. So yesterday I realized I have a newly found (but somewhat old) addiction: Excel spreadsheets. I go online, downloading template after template tracking anything you can imagine and I try to make it fit my life situation. If I can, I save the spreadsheet and fill it out thoroughly, if not, I trash it and move on to the next one. I spent FIVE+ HOURS finding and saving spreadsheets yesterday, and another many hours today changing and fixing them. Great time waster, but really, how many budget spreadsheets could I possibly need?!

Speaking of needs, all of my friends used to be women. I had maybe 2-3 female friends to every guy friend throughout most of high school. Recently though, I realized I now spend very little time with women due to friendships that have somewhat disintegrated, which is unfortunate because they are usually who I feel most comfortable with for some reason. So, new task for myself. Get out and meet women. Not necessarily to date or pick up, but just for some friends to hang out with, get back in that comfortable zone again. If a relationship happens to come out of it, awesome!

Now to old relationships: last night, I hung out with a young woman whom I had not seen for well over a year. We do text constantly, although there was about a 6-month hiatus on that too during my last relationship. Most people you would figure it would be awkward to hang out after all that time, at least for the first time or two. Not us. We jumped back into "normalcy" (we're both horribly weird) in a matter of minutes. Go figure.

NEWS: Nothing new to me, but I haven't mentioned it yet...The family and I are going to Disney World this summer! Whoohoo! Warm Weather!!

Injury Update: Ear not as bad, ankle wound re-opened, possible bruised bone in my foot, possible broken hand. I tell ya, living at home is DANGEROUS.

I want everyone to go check out my favorite comic EVER. This link will bring you to the most recent comic, but I suggest going through and reading all 1700 strips. It'll take a while, but the whole story won't make a lot of sense without reading it all. Anyway, HIGHLY entertaining.

One last announcement, I am currently working on a fairly comprehensive autobiography to post for all of you so you can get a better idea of who I am and what I'm like. It could take a while to get up but you can be sure I'm workin' on it.

Thought of the Day comes from a fortune cookie: Think like an acting man. Act like a thinking man.

-Jake

7-18-18-56

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Halle BerrrrrryyyyyyHalle Berry

Another day in the life...almost two full days, actually, since my last post.

Sunday was rather uneventful...visited my grandparents, which was nice, and had some awesome chicken pot pie for dinner, but beyond that, I can't remember doing anything, so I must not have done anything too special.

Monday was a different story. I was super productive today...got clothes put away, emptied and re-filled the dishwasher for my parents (I don't do that normally), headed to work to pick up over $100 from that overnight shift on Friday/Saturday, and then I headed to Lifetime where I proceeded to run 7 MILES over the course of an HOUR. Needless to say, I was a bit tired. Once I got home though, I re-hydrated and headed out with David, Nick, and Ryan to screw around at the mall for a bit. Got some Chinese, bought a couple t-shirts and then we headed out and drove around for a while, just jammin' out to the totally random CDs I have in my car. Eventually ended up at another friend, Robbie's, house and we watched The Fellowship of the Ring. Interesting choice, but a good movie. Follow that with some driving/jamming home and that's pretty much the story of my day.

And sorry for the step-by-step journalling here tonight. I had some awesome introspective, philosophical thoughts today and now that I'm actually sittin' down to write this, they've all disappeared. I also can't come up with my own TotD so that'll be a quote. So...instead of me breakin' something down...do it yourself. Think about money, friends you've gained and lost, and music that you've forgotten over time. I feel like those would be good philosophical topics for the night.

Thought of the Day: All you have to decide is what to do with the time given to you.

-Lazyass

Miles: 7-18-18-56

ps. I'm changing my run totals to daily-monthly-yearly-lifetime

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