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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

I guess a few things have happened lately.

I went to a Three Days Grace/Breaking Benjamin concert. It was great.

I talked with MSX a few days ago. That was pleasant. I’m still thinking about her a bunch. I miss her.

I’ve been going to physical therapy a bunch. I have fun there and all the staff likes me. Today I helped one of their kids with his math. He’s a smart kid, I gave him a few pointers. Unfortunately, I reversed a problem and gave him the wrong answer and he had the right one! Oy. It felt good to do a little tutoring there. :-) My last appointment is coming up soon. Damn. I’m seeing lots of improvement though.

I may have sprained or fractured my finger. I don’t think it’s broke as I’m typing with it now and it doesn’t hurt. It’s just sore and purple and slightly swollen. That’s gone down a bunch since a few days ago.

I’ve a few other little things coming up. I’m still packing for my big move. I can’t wait! I am getting more nervous though. Blah.

This past month has given me a time to step back and review where I’m at. I wish it wasn’t like this but I’ve made the best of it and am improving myself so it isn’t a loss. I wish there was an easier way.

I’ve had maybe 6 Pepsis in the past month. It’s weird. I crack one open and drink 1/3-1/2 of it and don’t feel like having any more. I’d say it’s psychological. Heck, as soon as I can I’m going to start working out again, I’ve lost too much weight. :-/ I need to gain 15-20lbs of hopefully muscle. Fun stuff.

Right now there’s a mix of psuedo depression, anxiety, realization, learning, and hope going on right now. I get glimpses of each I suppose you could say. Hope is what I hang on to.

I may go running in shorts with snow on the ground. I’m debating it right now.

Fuck it. I plan on having fun and doing things my way.

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I Called Her And My Demons…

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

…I kissed them both goodbyyyyyyye.

I’m sneaking in a post here as I don’t know when my next chance will be. I still think about her every day and I try not to but I can’t help it. So many small things remind me of her and I just remember things that she did that I love about her. :-) I want to call her up and tell her I’m sorry for being a jackass but I know I can’t. She is right in that what I did was stupid and she’s over it and so am I. I also realized that I was “smothering” her (sorta) and not letting myself be. She didn’t mind it but at times she thought I was not doing myself any favors. I was aware of it but didn’t pull my head out of my ass. It sucks seeing yourself fail but it is also satisfying in realizing them and improving yourself.

Every day has been rough for various reasons as I’m trying to get to where I want to be. I’d love to still be with MSX but I know that isn’t happening. I’m at a shitty job. I am recovering from surgery. I just want to heal up, move, get settled, and then try for the job I want. I’m getting anxious and all those factors are working against me here.

I just wanna “…take this horse and ride it off this merry-go-round.”

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Good Bye Ruby Tuesday

Monday, January 11th, 2010

She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don’t matter if it’s gone
While the sun is bright
Or in the darkest night
No one knows
She comes and goes

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you…

Don’t question why she needs to be so free
She’ll tell you it’s the only way to be
She just can’t be chained
To a life where nothing’s gained
And nothing’s lost
At such a cost

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you…

There’s no time to lose, I heard her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time
Lose your dreams
And you may lose your mind.
Ain’t life unkind?

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you…

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still I’m gonna miss you…

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Four Seasons

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Where does it all start and stop? I’m afraid if Ms. Sexy X breaks it off of where I will go. I know the future isn’t hopeless but there will always be a hole that cannot be filled. I’ve been picky with whom I want to date, lowering my standards resulted in utter failure which I knew to be a mistake. Lo and behold along comes Ms. Sexy X and she’s everything I’ve been looking for and then some all in one package. She’s far from a package – I adore her intelligence and thought process. To clarify she isn’t breaking it off, she stated as such. She is just unsure where to go and filling me in on what she’s thinking. It’s tought but I’m glad she’s informing me so we can talk it out. I would do anything for her and that includes dropping everything and going to her. She just has to say the word.

Right now I’m listening to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” I have no idea who is preforming it nor do I care. I just love listening to the violins. It’s both cheerful and depressing, I suppose you can hit every emotion through the sound of the violin. I love guitars too but there’s something about classical music – though I can’t stand to listen to it for too long.

I’m not even sure where my day has gone. I worked out for about an hour, I know I’ve spent 2 hours watching a show but I can’t really account for 4 hours. I ate some, cleaned a little, watched some ESPN but what else? I know I spent some time on the computer. I don’t know nor do I really care. I’m trying to figure out how to get out of this place. It’s a scary proposition. At one time I had no qualms because I had a plan. Now I don’t, I’m just going to wing it. Given my anxiety, I can’t believe I’m doing that but I shall.

I wish I had money. Not even a lot, just enough to do what I need to do. I’ve got enough to barely scrape by. That’s fine, I’m not asking for a lot. I’d like more to enjoy myself, granted. But I want more so I can be with Ms. Sexy X. But how? I need something and in a legal way. It’ll just take time and that’s what I’m scared of. I can’t believe it could come down to this, surely not. It’s not a deal breaker but just another hurdle to leap over, nothing that can’t be solved by some resolve. I haven’t talked with her since but I’m at a loss.

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Choke Out

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I went into work not feeling like doing shit. The machine was broke again and after spending 4.5 hours on it I gave up and went home early. That gave me from 1500 on to do whatever and with it being 70 and sunny, I opted to stay outside. What to do though? Well, it had been a while since I had a cigar so I got a glass of water, a Bolivar Cofradia No. 754, my dual torch lighter, cigar cutter, and put on some shorts and sat out on the deck. I smoked it for a good hour and twenty minutes down to the very end. It was very relaxing. I just sat outside thinking on what to do. I didn’t come up with a damned thing. I just have to take it a day at a time. I hate the uncertainty.

After that, I threw a football with my brother for about an hour. He stopped by and I was feeling energetic. So much so that I was going to go for a mile run. I don’t need to tell you that running after smoking isn’t a smart idea but fuck it. I barely made half a mile before resting for 2 minutes then running back a half mile. I was tired… not really out of breath but I figure I didn’t have a whole lot of oxygen in my system.

I went up to the roof right after to catch my breath and cool off and watch the sunset. Much to my dismay the clouds rolled in so I didn’t get to see much of anything. I went back inside and took a hot bath, I just soaked my legs for a good while before I showered. I watched the Ultimate Fighter and then watched “the Shining.” I forgot how looooooong that movie is. Jeez.

Rampage Jackson is such a dick. I don’t like him at all. He berates and berates. He is a horrible coach, he doesn’t build his guys up but merely talks smack about the opponents. It’s no wonder he is about to get sweeped just like last year. He kept calling Darrill “titties” even though his own boy Zac had bigger man boobs. Darrill is beastly for drinking that much alcohol especially when trying to get in shape to fight. Stupid. I wanted Zac to win, he’s a bit of a social outcast. He looked okay in the fight but kept his guard too low and took too many quick shots to the face. He had the nice and much needed takedown to escape defeat and he hammerfisted nicely. You could see how tired or dazed he was. He allowed himself to get into a triangle choke within Darrill’s legs. He held on for a long time but made no attempt to break it and Darrill finally got the extra leverage using his arm to help choke him out. Oh well. I like Rashad and I think he could easily kick Rampage’s ass especially since that pussy chickened out on the fight. (Rampage commented that Rashad wanted to hold on to the belt longer so he refused a fight. Riiiight, like he wanted to get his face destroyed by Lyoto Machida over your pansy ass… that totally makes sense.)

I slept in until 1000 today. I was happy about that. I got on my computer just fiddling around, putting off what I needed to do. There’s a song called “Breathe Into Me” by Red that I discovered and like. I finally got to writing a letter to Ms. Sexy X. Well, it was more of a poem I had written for her a while back. I have one more as well. I also sent her a long email about some stuff. I don’t know when she’ll read that as she doesn’t have access to it. I was going to send via regular mail but she won’t see that for a while and it didn’t feel right to send it through that. It took a little while for both things to get them perfect. Then I went to the hospital to fix some billing issues. I just got back and ate.

I’ve gotten a bunch out of the way today. I feel good to some extent. There’s a depression looming overhead so I can’t get too excited. I have to come up with ideas. Oy.

A new Vampire Diaries is on tonight. I like the show well enough but it’s a bit too… teen/high school/dramatic for my tastes. That said I read the books and they’re only loosely following them but I still enjoy watching them. True Blood doesn’t start again until next summer I think. So fucking far away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkXPw_lorew

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Down in a Hole

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

That’s such a great song. The way Cantrell sings “woooomb… holding rare flowers in a toooooomb” you can feel the pain in the voice. The lyrics are great, the music and guitars are great, the voice is perfect. If I had to pick one complete album among all artists that’s the best, Dirt would be it. Every song on there is great, this one the best of them.

There’s a caveat though. When you’re depressed, this song just holds you there in that suspension of nothingness. It doesn’t make me feel more depressed but it doesn’t lift either. It just sums up how I’m feeling – so fucking perfectly that it is scary. That’s how you know you’ve made a great song, when people can connect. Unfortunately, I don’t want to connect to this song but I do. I mentioned how I liked this song to Ms. Sexy X once and she said she listened to it a lot to0 after… something happened a few years ago. I know why she did as I’m doing it now and I’ve done it before so I understood her meaning immediately. Your mind goes to certain music at certain times because of certain moods. Say that 5 times fast. ;-)

“I give this part of me for yooooooooooooooou…”

I was in the shower singing the song in my head, watching the droplets form on the side and run down. I was entranced. I don’t know if a tear ran down my cheek or if it was water. It felt like water but it ran perfectly from my tear duct down… if I shed a tear I didn’t know it. It felt very surreal, like I was watching myself from outside the shower.

I guard her heart with my own.

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Fundamentals Of Depression

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Funky title, huh?

I was thinking. Well, actually I was listening to Shinedown’s “Sound of Madness” and one of the lines says “the darkest hour never comes in the night…” and the song is about depression and people that can’t handle it. I really like the song, they’re exactly right.

Anyways, that one line got me thinking. When I’m depressed, I believe the lowest point is in the morning. (This morning is a good example.) Why is that? Here’s my theory. In the morning you wake up to find your life the same and you’re already dissatisfied. In the afternoon you’re generally doing something so your mind is not focused on the bothersome thing. At night you’re looking forward to sleeping and getting temporary relief and perhaps the morning will bring something new. Of course when morning comes and nothing has changed… the ugly cycle rears its head and you shoot back to your lowest point.

Does that make sense? Maybe that’s just me, I believe that’s how my pattern is. This is all assuming something is depressing you to begin with.

Shinedown video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtJ0dHK5WHQ

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In the news

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Famed guitar maker Les Paul died yesterday. I’m not a musician but I know the vast majority of rock and roll used his instruments so that is about as good a reference as one can get. He’s surely had a major impact on the music scene and I’m sure he’ll be missed.

Michael Vick signs a 2 year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. I’m sure he’ll be used at quarterback and perhaps wide receiver. The question remains as to when he can actually play since Roger still has to lift his suspension if I’m not mistaken. He’s slated to make $7M and some odd change but none of it is guaranteed. This seems to be a risky move given his record, his status, and the fact that he hasn’t played in a few years.

Tiger Woods is leading the PGA Championship at the moment. We’ll see how long that lasts. He hasn’t been the same since his return. I’ve watched numerous majors this year and his putting has been atrocious by his standards. Granted, they’re hard as hell shots but that’s what he’s famous for. His drives have been off the mark too, but he seems to be able to recover those fine, it’s the green that’s been killing him. This is the last major of the year so we’ll see if he can retain that lead.

I saw a blurb about scientists finding a medicine that better attacks cancer stem cells which is excellent. They said breast cancer so I don’t know what that means for other cancers but this is always hopeful. Of course, that’ll take years to test and hit the market but it’s an interesting tidbit nonetheless. I absolutely despise cancer and I hope that one day someone finds a cure. I would gladly watch that person become the richest in the world if it meant an end to this horrible disease.

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Now you’re my whole world

Monday, August 10th, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npE8QdDtN4I

This song is a good one for summing up how I feel for my Ms. Sexy X. It makes me smile.

I need smiling right now. I don’t think a call is coming tonight. I have no idea when the next one will be and that scares me shitless. I haven’t gotten an email or text either. Anything – and I mean anything – would help sate this anxious feeling I have. I’m so fucking worried for her. What if something happens to her or her parents? Would they contact me? I believe they would but I could easily be forgotten in the confusion. I care about her parents too. From what she’s told me and from knowing her and from talking with her mom a little bit I know they’re GREAT folks, folks I’d love to be around. Her parents love her deeply and she loves them. :-) I wish all this shit with “the situation” never happened. Life would be going perfectly right now. It threw such a fucking wrench into things. We should all be hanging out right now actually. I had planned on meeting them by now with her as we spent some time out there. It’s like life just squatted and took a huge shit on me. Not just me, no. Even more so on my beautiful Ms. Sexy X. That pisses me off more as I’d rather take the worst of it anytime and spare her any pain. I swear we had the perfect storm of shittyness descend. Fuck.

As you can probably guess, my depression worsened a little today. Today has been stressful. I have been hoping on a call all day knowing that I might not get one. There is a slight possibility I get one tonight but I just can’t get my hopes up this late at night.

My appetite has quelled some and that’s never a good sign. However, this day has sucked so I’m writing it off to that. I’m sure I’ll feel hungry tomorrow.

I just don’t know what to do with my time. I finished reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries. Book ten isn’t released until late fall. I love this series and it kept me hooked. That was eating up all my extra free time for the past week. I was hoping she’d say the word by now. I’d fucking do anything to get to her if she’d say that word.

I’m afraid to stop typing here because that’s going to leave me alone with my thoughts which is dangerous. She will contact me soon, I just don’t know when but I do know her.

I love you, my Ms. SEXY X. I wish you were here.

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Favorite songs

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

My top 3 favorite songs:

  1. “Ruby Tuesday” – Rolling Stones
  2. “Tuesday’s Gone” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
  3. “Fade to Black” – Metallica

I guess the common theme is that they’re all fairly sad songs. LS and Metallica have some of the best guitar sounds out there.

I’m not a huge country fan but Ms. Sexy X introduced me to some songs that I really like. I actually had a few that I do like but she’s gotten me interested in a few more. There is still a large chunk of country I don’t like but it’s not all that bad. My brother and some friends listen to country from time to time so I’ve heard a bunch. MSX’s tastes are mainly the same as mine though her’s is a slightly different shade of rock. Boy, does she know her music. I love her knowledge… she’s great with that stuff. I wish I knew as much as her. She’s heard all sorts of stuff. I’m working on it. Hey, I know she likes to talk music and I sure as hell don’t mind so you bet I’ll try especially for her. :-)

I used to be a huge oldies fan. I still like them but I moved on to more modern rock long ago. Well, 70’s on up. I do like country-ish songs which is why I like Lynyrd Skynyrd (original lineup) and Allman Brothers, etc.

I think the Rolling Stones crosses the oldie/modern rock lines and I really like them because of that.

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Catchy song!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

“I’m the kind to sit up in his room.
Heart sick an’ eyes filled up with blue.
I don’t know what you’ve done to me,
But I know this much is true:
I wanna do bad things with you.”

Needless to say those lyrics hit home with me. I won’t go into it but damn! This song is “Bad Things” from Jace Everett. Catchy lyrics with a good voice/music to go with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjHwSShzsc

The brilliant True Blood intro is at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wet5OM7RR8Q

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