Thursday, January 10, 2008

New Year

DSC_4397 This is an infamous catch up post with some foreshadowing of my life to be.

A few weeks ago, my friend Ryan invited me to a party that had a bunch of high school friends attending at one of there houses.  While it was last minute (only about 2 hours notice) I ended up going.  Took my PS2/Party Box (has guitar hero 1/2/3 80's and Karaoke stuff) to help with some of the fun.  I am not a big wine party person and just a big kid sometimes. 

Sidebar: Actually when you really think about yourself, you are just a kid on the inside also afraid to let him out for fears of what others would think.  Yes you.  They key to staying young is letting the kid out and have some unadulterated fun.  Parents get to feel this when they have kids and can play in the sand or with the kids toys.  Do not deny it.

So I went to this party and had a blast.  Played Karaoke and Guitar Hero 3.  Some of my friends were too shy to sing karaoke (let the kid out man, nobody cares if you sound like a dead horse) but for the most part everyone had a blast with it.  Yeah there was some idle chitchat about politics, abortion, elections, religion etc.  While as interesting as they were (the conversations) I believe everyone had the most fun just being there with everyone.  The conversations did not matter nor did the Party Box.

Since the party, my friend Ryan has lit his blog on fire with a bunch of heated posts and comments.  It kind of inspired me to get back on the saddle and start writing "good" articles for my blog instead of these hollow praises for stuff.  No I was not paid for them.  Back up off me.  Back to the distaste of the way people handle certain things like Illegal Immigration, religion, etc and my boring boring life.  Yep if you want to read the juicy stuff you have to read the boring stuff. 

So there you have it, my past few weeks.

Now onto the future...  This is a new year and new me.  I have slacked off on everything for the past 13 years.  Yes 13.  My birthday rolled around and I hit the nice round age of 33 and decided that its time to take action.  My present to myself was an MP3 player, decent headphones (earbuds suck balls), some workout videos; "The Biggest Loser Workout, Vol. 1" and "The Biggest Loser Workout: Cardio Max"and some audio books.  The audio books are to listen to while I take my new found "freedom walks".  Why do I call them freedom walks, because I am freeing myself from the chains of my computer and obese life.  Actually I do not care if I am fat.  I care that I am out of shape.  It sickens me.  I could weigh 1000 pounds, do not care but losing my breathe going up the stairs is totally unacceptable.

So the foreshadowing is really just a desire to get back into shape and be able to do things again that I once did.  The fat is secondary, if it goes, it goes, if not, oh well.

I got me some really good audio books.  The Hobbit (about 11 hours - or 11 days of walking), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Virtual Light, Neuromancer, The 4 hr Work Week, and one others may not be interested in.  Its an Al Gore book, we all know he has turned green, The Assault On Reason.  I actually caught his movie, An Inconvenient Truth (website), the other day and was astonished at the research he does.  Why is this not main stream or at least sub main stream like a Michael Moore movie.   America was served a great disservice when Florida screwed America over by letting Bush in office.  That is another post and a mistake us Americans get to rectify this year.

- SJ

 

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