I think it’s about time to break the ice and wipe the dust off of this blog. I’ve been holding out on writing the past couple weeks, really for no apparent reason. It took me for awhile to get back into real world mode after Cancun. I don’t know why, but I was just out of it for about a week and a half. Physically I was in Michigan, but part of my brain was still kickin it on the beach, while the other half of my brain was dead weight. It was weird, but I think I’m good now. (more…)

So I’m up a little early this morning because sleep just wasn’t on my side last night. That makes the last 2/4 nights bad sleeping nights for me. The first of those two nights I had some not-so-fun dreams, one being that someone came into my apartment and tried to kill me. So you can imagine that it was not too easy to fall back asleep after waking up and looking at the door to make sure that no one was standing there. (more…)

What up peoples! I feel like I haven’t really written a blog in forever. I had wanted to for the past couple of days, but free time has not been on my side this weekend, but for good reasons. Momma Philly was in town for the weekend to visit me and my sister, and damn we were all over the place.

I went to meet them up at the hotel right after work on Friday and we went to eat at this place called Magnolia’s. It’s like this soul food place that was quite mediocre. I got the salmon and the shit sucked. It looked like 5 chicken fingers that they put on my plate. Now I can’t say that it tasted bad, but it was easily the worst salmon I ever ate. So I think it’s fair to say that I’ll never be eating there again, they lost my business.

Saturday morning didn’t exactly start off the way I wanted to. I woke up so that I could go work out and stroll over to Meijer, so I walk out the door only to realize that I don’t have my keys. I was not happy about this. It was like 9 a.m., my phone battery was low, and the front office of my apartment complex doesn’t open until 10. The gym was too far to walk to, so I just walked to Meijer. Luckily it isn’t that far, maybe a 15/20 minute walk. So I go there to kill some time, buy something for breakfast, and then walk back. I was a little behind the schedule I had for my morning, so I didn’t get back into my apartment until almost 11. Then I grabbed my keys and sped to the gym to blow off steam because I was a little frustrated at this point.

So anyways, my sister and mom were scheduled to look at this apartment in Canton at 2:30, and I was supposed to meet them there. I got back home from the gym around 1, and I had to scramble to make a breakfast, shower, and then meet them there at 2:30. This also failed pretty damn badly. I didn’t leave til about 2:15, and ended up getting lost because the bullshit directions that Google gave me screwed me over. They basically put an extra street in there, that didn’t need to be in there, which of course was the one I took. At this point, it’s like almost 3, and my sister calls and says to just meet them at the new Ikea.

This is where the day gets better. First off, Ikea is a sweet ass store. They have everything, and I am pretty certain that the next time I get a new apartment/condo, I am going to bend Ikea over backwards and spend major coin in there. They have everything you could possibly want for where ever it is that you live. And it was pure madness in there too, people everywhere, and I can’t imagine the amount of money they bring in on any given weekend. We spent about 3 hours in there looking at stuff, and that’s not from backtracking, that was a nice brisk walkthrough looking at any and everything. So if you haven’t been to that Ikea yet, go there, it’s worth it even if you just look around.

After Ikea, we drove back to the RO so that my mom could see my apartment. So of course I had it extra clean and smelling like a fresh spring morning……………..maybe not that good, but it was clean, and my mom liked my place a lot. We had easily worked up an appetite, so we headed over to the mall. But before we ate, we stopped by the Apple store. You’re probably wondering what the hell I got huh? Well I jumped on the bandwagon and got an iPod nano, courtesy of momma Philly. Yes I know I’m spoiled, it’s no secret, get over it. I didn’t get the super expensive one though because I really don’t need a billion songs on my iPod just for the gym. I finally have a reason to use one though, so it will accompany me on when I’m at the gym. I conveniently named it “iPhilly.” My name is just so versitile!

After the Apple store we went to P.F. Chang’s, but we had to get carry out because I don’t know what sane person would want to wait an hour and 45 minutes to eat. So we went back to my place to eat, and we watched Hitch. It was more of me watching Hitch, because my mom and sister both fell asleep.

This morning, I woke up early to meet them at the hotel downtown, so that we could go to breakfast and then church. Yes, I went to church, which I usually do when I have time and I’m with my mom and sister. It was good to go again though because I haven’t been in forever, and I was long overdue for a visit. The pastor was a guy that used to go to the church I went to growing up so he’s an old friend of the fam. This guy is also a baller. To give a quick idea, his wife had this 5 kt. diamond on her finger. Now, I’m not a ring person, and diamonds don’t really move me, but I couldn’t stop looking at the size of this thing. It was huge.

So anyways after church we were invited, from the pastor, to go to dinner at P.F. Changs once again. I didn’t mind at all though for two reasons: for one, the food is damn good and I could always order something different; and two, I wasn’t going to have to pay for yet another meal for the weekend, so who am I to care where the hell we eat. The only thing that bothered me was the day was that I felt like I was being pressured into going to church, and I felt guilty for not going more. So that got under my skin a bit, but I won’t go into all fo that.

After dinner we came back here to relax for a last few moments that my mom was going to spend on this visit. Then iPhilly and I scrambled to the gym to get in a power workout before it closed! It was a very good weekend, yet very busy and tiring, and I’m hella sick of driving right now. I’ve been driving so much this weekend that I am thrilled to just sit for awhile. So I’ll be spending the rest of my evening eating, watching Entourage, and sitting on my ass. Hope you all had a good weekend, I’ll catch you on the flip side.

peace

So I’m trying to set up a blog network. Not exactly sure how I’m going to go about this, but I want to do it. The biggest challenge I see right now is finding people (preferably close friends) who like to blog. Most of the people that I know who ‘blog’ gave it up awhile ago. I obvsiously love blogging, so I want to do this with people who like to blog also. I pitched the idea to my boy Tyler, and he said he’s definitely on board to try this thing out.

With anything, there’s a chance that it might not work out the way I want it to. But at the same time, if I find passionate people who want to try it out along with me, it could be a success. Never the less, I think it’s worth a try. Bill Gates got rich because he wanted to try out something, and to say it worked is an understatement. Not that I’m saying I’m trying to do this for money or anything, I just want to set up a network of bloggers who like to write about whatever they want. I have a few ideas of other blogs that I would like to start, that would be specific to a topic, but I’d like others to help run it.
So if you would like to help out, let me know, I think it would be cool as hell though if it worked. If if there is a specific topic that you like talking about, let me know and I would be more happy to assist. Anyways, I hope this works, I guess we’ll have to see, and I’ll keep you posted.

peace

To start this off, I just want to mention how glad I am to have a few days off to just unwind. Last week, and this past weekend were hectic. So Sunday through today, I’ve been able to sit back and just let my thoughts come to me, and I came across a thought this morning after reading this article, and that is, why I like to write?

I’ve been blogging, on the personal end, for a little over a year now, and I’ve loved basically every minute of it, even in the times that almost got me in trouble. Would it have been worth getting in trouble for? Who knows, but I know that when my blog came to an end, I felt a little relieved knowing that I could somehow vent my thoughts. Lessons were learned from what happened, and I think my writing matured from those situations.
I consider myself to have a pretty heavy thought process, and I tend to question just about everything that isn’t as clear as day to me, or question something that I don’t agree with. Aside from wanting to write about things under those two categories, I just over all like the creative thought process. What got me into liking to write is this creative writing class that I took a few years ago. I loved being able to express my creativity through a pen (or cpu). We had certain assignments is that class where the prof. would just let us have at it with our imagination, obviously following some guidelines, but not many. I loved it.

I’m not one to be big on writing with an actual pen these days, so once Bill introduced me to blogs it was most certainly game time. So yes I guess I can credit my blogging partially to Bill, who doesn’t blog anymore!! But anyways, ever since I’ve started, I’ve just felt so comfortbale being able to express thought and vent when I need to. I wouldn’t exactly say it’s stress relieving because well when you need to relieve stress you need to go to the gym, or hit a punching bag, or scream into a pillow (which works very well). And on the flip side, when you need to vent, you just need to express thought/feeling and get words out.

So overall, yes, I love to write, especially when I have topics in mind. I really wish I had all of my old blog posts from when I first started because I definitely feel that my writing style has progressed and matured since then. If you have been reading my blogs from the start, would you agree?

peace