Good lord I'm done with today. After more than two weeks of waiting for my new ATM card to come in the mail (I lost the old one when I lost my wallet) I get a ride down to walmart to buy weeks of supplies to tide me over, only to realize that the pin on the card changed. I couldn't do credit because I didn't have my ID (another casualty of my lost ( Read more... )

Have you ever looked up into the night sky at the stars and contemplated the sheer vastness of space? When was the last time that you looked up at the stars and realized that nothing mattered? We work, we play, we laugh, cry, win, lose, build, destroy, make war, make peace, make love, make meals, make houses, make families, make careers. We fool ( Read more... )

http://www.lolblog.co.uk/2009/07/this-is-beautiful/

Seven years... it's been a long time, but I've decided to make my first serious attempt to kick the habit. That's right, I'm finally going to listen to the one topic I've refused to agree with my friends on, cigarettes. In the past I've tried to knock it off by tearing up packs, failing to buy new ones, bumming out all my cigarettes, or just ( Read more... )

So I've managed to return my savings to at least what they were before I left Phoenix, and to celebrate I decided to undermine myself by buying a 42" Samsung LCD display. I never claimed to be the most intelligent of people, but in my own defense, the display was a steal. A floor model that had been further reduced in price due to long exposure to ( Read more... )

"I hate AZ, the only reason I stay is for my friends ( Read more... )

Okay, it's been forever and a day since I posted on LJ, but I just couldn't give up this moment. For those of you who don't really play WoW, you won't give a damn. But for those of you who did ( Read more... )

So as some of you may know, I've enrolled in a course to become a certified nurse assistant. Been going to class all week, determined to not only pass, but pass top in the class with 100% on all the daily tests, flying colors in the practicals, and a perfect state test. This far I've managed to do live up to my own expectations though dedication ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT9SvWGOt24

During my break between papering this tiny ass town with my resume, I decided to get a sammich and tool down to the local state park, Fort Worden, to eat it. It's a pretty nice park with all of the traditional structures of an old school military outpost, including things like barracks and officers quarters. From what I'm told it was set there to ( Read more... )