| It's Finally Over! |
[May. 9th, 2006|01:53 am] |
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It's been a long hard road out of hell but I have finally done it. On Thursday of last week I graduated from the University of Central Florida with my Bachelors in Business Administration! I cannot put into words how happy I am to be finish with school. I had a big celebration that involved family members that cam from as far away as California just to see me walk. I am going to have another celebration soon so that my friends can join me in celebrating my accomplishment. I had hoped to be able to invite friends to the graduation party that took place the day of the event but there was simply too many people. I am going to wait until Arron gets home so that we can do a celebration for the both of us. He is graduating from his Army training which is no small matter. I am currently open to suggestions as far as what we are going to do. I had talked about maybe just doing a big dinner or possibly a bar-b-que, maybe going camping. I honestly don't know though. I hope that I can get out of this house and move in with Jenn fairly soon. I am so ready to move out, but I am sure that you already know that! |
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| Worst week of my life... |
[Mar. 20th, 2006|06:41 pm] |
Spring Break is supposed to be a time too relax and enjoy yourself. This is not how my spring break has gone. On Sunday of last week my step dad was taken to the emergency room. It seems that he had gastro-intestinal bleeding. I have never seen someone so pale. My mom and I were taking turns sitting at the hospital with him until Wednesday. On Friday morning my Grandmother was taken to the emergency room because she has pneumonia. It turns out that she also has Congestive Heart Failure as well. On Saturday sometime late in the after noon my Grandmothers blood pressure dropped to 70/40. She was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit where she has been ever since. The doctor told my Mom that she was about as close to death as someone can get. I honestly don't know if she is going to pull through. I am going to talk with my teach about the paper that is due next week. I haven't felt the urge to do much research like I intended to during my spring break. This sucks so much... |
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| IT'S ALIVE! |
[Feb. 23rd, 2006|11:13 am] |
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The Beast, a.k.a. my new computer, is freaking amazing. By the time that I was getting home on Tuesday Troy was almost done putting all the pieces together. Jenn's dinning room looked like a mad scientist lab with all the random computer pieces scattered around. My speakers are really awesome. I decided to turn them up and give them a test yesterday and completely freaked out Tabby and Loki. Wow looks like a completely different game. I am so happy about it. I will continue to be happy until the credit card bill comes in! :) |
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| Rock Climbing Competition |
[Feb. 5th, 2006|01:17 am] |
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I went to my first rock climbing competition today! It was a lot of fun. I didn't place or anything but I didn't really expect too. There were so many really good climbers and I just haven't been climbing long enough. Jenn, Jenna, Jana, Paul, & Pam came out to cheer Charlie and I on. They were all real supportive and I really appreciate them coming out. I met a lot of cool people that I otherwise wouldn't have been able to meet. I recommend climbing to just about anyone. I would like to see Jenn get into it but so far that hasn't happened yet. Maybe one of these days it will happen. If nothing else today showed me just how much harder I need to push myself. |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2006|06:27 pm] |
I can't believe that so many family members are wanting to come to my graduation in May. I can think of ten family members just off the top of my head. It is getting to be a little bit crazy. Mom is getting stressed about it which in turn gets me stressed. I just ordered my class ring today. I think the lady actually heard me choke when she told me how much the ring was going to cost.
On a different note, my monitor showed up today. I now have the monitor and the keyboard. All I need now is to get my order to go through on newegg. I called them up today and they told me basically that my order should have gone through but they screwed it up. I think that I am going to wait until I pay for my Christmas credit card bill before I try to order the parts again. Well see... |
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| Let's do it Fight Club style |
[Jan. 20th, 2006|10:24 am] |
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Do you remember that moment at the end of Fight Club when all the credit card company buildings blew up? I remember it well. I thought of it vividly as I was talking to my credit card company this morning trying to get my online order confirmed. These cock jugglers gave me a complete run around yesterday which has kept me from getting my new computer. I was trying to get the parts sent to my girlfriends place rather than my house since I didn't feel like explaining myself to my family members. Its my money and I will spend it how I fucking choose. Mom has a hard time understanding that though. After talking to the credit card company three times yesterday and once today so far I am finding out that I am not alloweed to have a shipping address that is different than my billing address. I might have been okay with finding this out if I hadn't already spoken to the bastards three times previously! Now I have to call the online company for the fourth time so that I can get the address changed to my house rather than Jenn's. I hate it here... |
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| I don't fear hell, I work retail! |
[Dec. 4th, 2005|12:00 pm] |
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I didn't realize how little I had posted recently. Sorry about that! I have been rather busy recently. Work has been trying to kick my ass. I was actually the only manager on the floor this past Thursday. That was some fun shit! I have had tests going on recently as well. Actually my last test for this semester is tommorow morning at 7:30! If I haven't mentioned earlier, I am making sure that my classes aren't until at least after 10 in the morning! I have also become completely addicted to World of Warcraft. I now truely understand why the call it Warcrack! I have a level 19 gnome rogue. I actually played in my first battlegrounds last night. We stomped them good! Troy you would have been proud. I waited until I was 19th so I would be one of the heavy hitters. I gotta get going, time for work. |
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| Monday Night (Not Just For Football Anymore!) |
[Nov. 22nd, 2005|12:05 pm] |
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My birthday celebration took place last night. I had a lot of fun and I was able to spend some time with quite a few of my friends. There was plenty of food for everyone. We had steak, corn on the cob, baked potato, and rolls. I received all kinds of great stuff. I am amazingly close to finally finishing my Transmetropolitan series of trades. My D&D book collection is growing as well. My collection of sharp objects has also grown. I also received a few spider-man items as well. Jenn also got me a new carrying case for my miniatures. I will also begin playing WOW soon. I had to clean the grill after everyone had left. No big deal, it just took a couple of hours. All in all I think that the night went really well. I hope that everyone had a good time. |
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| Birthday! |
[Nov. 20th, 2005|12:01 pm] |
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yup, it's my birthday. I am now getting ready to go to work. I am probably going to get thrown into the backroom. I will also get slammed with 6000 pieces of freight coming off the trucks again. (That is not an exagerated number) The good news is that it can only get better since I won't be working tommorow. |
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| Dad |
[Nov. 16th, 2005|07:13 am] |
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Haven't really been in the mood to write about my experience with Dad until today. I guess I had to let some shit settle for a bit. Here goes...
After some careful weighing of the pros and cons of it all I was able to get my Dad to come to my house. It may have been some what of a dick move on my part since I did it to make him feel uncomfortable. I didn't see much harm in making him squirm a little bit. He saw my Mom and Grandmother for the first time in a lllllloooooonnnnnnnngggggg time. After the hello's were all done we went to the Fashion Square Mall. He and I sat down to talk while his significant other went shopping so as to not make things more uncomfortable than they already were. I will not go into detail about what was actually said in our discussion but I will say that a lot of thing are clear to me now. After our talk I convinced Dad and Jean (Dad's new lady friend) to try rock climbing with me. We had to drive out to Jenn's place first so that I could pick up my climbing gear. Dad and Jean got to meet Loki and Tabby for the first time. Loki must have known to turn up the cute factor or something because he was really pouring it on. We only stayed at Jenn's for about five minutes then we headed out to Aiguille. Once we got to Aiguille I convinced both of them to try climbing. Dad actually didn't do to bad for somebody trying it for the first time. Jean did pretty good too especially for someone who is afraid of heights. After we were done climbing we went out to dinner. We went to Harry's at 436 and 50. It was really good seafood. I ordered king crab legs. After that we drove back to my house and said our goodbye's. After all was said and done I think that it went rather well. I got answers and Dad and I are going to try and start to build a relationship. Well see what happens. |
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[Nov. 12th, 2005|01:28 pm] |
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My dad will be here any minute. He got a little lost on his way but that really isn't a suprise since he hasn't been here since 1987. I wish that he would just get here so I can get this over with. |
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| Just when I thought that I was starting to feel better |
[Nov. 7th, 2005|12:25 am] |
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Well, I had my first migraine of Friday. I must say that I never thought that my head could hurt so bad that I would throw up. FUN SHIT!...
Anyway, Dad will be here in less than a week. I still don't know what I am going to say to the man. I woke up with a sour throat today. It has progressively gotten worse as the day has gone on. It probably didn't help that I worked in the back room unloading trucks and inhaling massive quantities of dust and all kinds of unknown shit. On the lighter side I scored a 98% on my exam from last week. Don't forget boys and girls For every silver lining there is a dark cloud. Good night |
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| I hate exams. |
[Nov. 2nd, 2005|07:24 am] |
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I am about to take my test in Training and Development. I would love to just curl up into a little ball and sleep for about twelve hours instead. I can't wait to be done with this thing so that I can go see my buddy Doc and then go climbing. I refuse to let this test get me down. I studied too hard to fail it. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2005|07:19 am] |
I was able to hang out with Rob this past Thursday. I hadn't seen him in weeks. We talked for a long time and then we went over to Jenn's and played x-men legends II for a couple of hours. I am hoping that I will get to hang out with him a lot more now that he is living closer to my house.
I am probably not going to be moving out anytime soon. My job is a little to unpredictable as far as the assistant manager position. They could potentionally screw me and make me wait over a year. I have mixed emotions about this to say the least. I was excited to be moving out yet concerned about how I was going to do it financially. I will have plenty of time now to establish more credit and put back some more funds.
Dad called me this past Tuesday. It seems that he is coming to Florida to see my half-brother Heath and while he is down here he would like to see me as well. I actually got the 12th of November off and he and I are going to spend some time together. I am looking at it kinda like an interview for a job. He is basically trying to reestablish some kind of relationship with me. I am going to give him the chance to either sink or swim. I just hope that this doesn't end up back firing on me and end up hurting me even more than I already have been in the past.
I am not really doing anything this Halloween. I am probably just going to be staying at home and helping to hand out some candy. I was going to be going to a party but that fell through and now nobody else seems to be doing all that much either. Maybe a few of us can get together and hang out tonight but I am not sure. |
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| Damn ticket! |
[Oct. 19th, 2005|07:14 am] |
I have been putting off paying my ticket that I received for as long as I can. I figure that I will let them wait for my money for a little while. Dirty Bastards! I feel really naked right now. I decided not to wear any of the stuff that they would make me take out of my pockets or off of my belt, because of this I am going without either knife my chain off of my wallet and my zippo. I just want to get in and out of there as quickly as possible and if I don't have to stop for a full pat down from some cop that can't work on patrol for some unknown hygiene reason then all the better.
I am not climbing today unfortunatly. I think that I have been over training recently. I was climbing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and I was not seeing any big improvement. I am going to give my body a chance to rest and see how everything goes. the last thing that I need is to pull a muscle in my back or arms. Ryan I am sure you know how shitty that can be. Class is about to start, I gotta go. |
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| While the cats away... |
[Oct. 17th, 2005|07:45 am] |
My parents are out of town all this week. This is kinda nice but it doesn't really change things all that much. I am hardly ever home as it is. Jenn might spend the night and I some friends might come over to my place rather than Jenn's but nothing crazy. I am not going to throw any wild party or anything like that. I don't like parties for the most part. There are usually too many people that I don't know at parties.
It is getting closer and closer to Christmas. I kinda like it and yet at the same time I am some what apprehensive. I work retail so it is going to get more and more busy. This sucks but I will be working layway. I like working layaway because I get to hang out with my friends that work with me a little bit more than I normally would. That can make all the difference in the world. |
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| I Hate It Here |
[Oct. 10th, 2005|07:33 am] |
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I have an exam today at 1:30pm for my international management class. I have studied but I still don't feel ready. i am going to go to the library after I am done with my morning class to finish studying the materials from the study guide.
I am just about fed up with most of the crap that goes on at work. I don't have the time to get into it right now but I get the feeling that I am just another meat puppet. Gotta go, class is about to start. |
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| A long day ahead of me |
[Oct. 5th, 2005|07:09 am] |
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I am going to be going to the bank today to see what I can prequalify for. I honestly don't know what they are going to tell me. I know that my credit is good and I am going to have a down payment but I don't know if that is going to be enough to get a decent loan. I am personally looking into getting a condo more than a house. I want to see what kind of price range I will be able to look for. jenn is pretty excited about the whole thing. I am fairly nervous about it all and I don't even know why. I guess I just don't know what to expect. Wish me luck. |
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[Sep. 29th, 2005|04:16 am] |
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Bombed my test today. I alway hate the first test in a new class. No way to know for sure how to study for the damn things. I guess there isn't much that I can do except pick myself up and try harder for the next exam. I am also going to look into trying to get some extra credit if at all possible. |
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| I am starting to get a little nervous now... |
[Sep. 21st, 2005|07:09 am] |
May.
In May of 2006 I will be graduating from college. I am going to be doing some growing up real quick when that happens. I am going to be moving out of my home where I have lived for about nineteen years now. I honestly don't expect it to go to well. My Mom and Grandmother are going to have a great time yelling at me for moving in with my girlfriend. I will mainly catch it from my Grandmother I assume. EJ never has like Jenn since she met her during graduation. We have been together for over five years now and still she can't seem to come to terms with the fact that I love Jenn. It is a big leap for me. I have caught a lot of shit from my friends about me staying at home for as long as I have but I was looking at it from a financial aspect. I don't pay for rent, utilities, or food. There are also the problems that i am expecting to have with Jenn. Don't get me wrong, I want to move in with her. I think that we will be happy. I just know that there are going to be some trying times ahead. She does things differently than I do. I will just have to come to terms with that. I guess that it is just the uncertainty that I am worried about. |
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