In case you wanted to know...

1) The only channels I watch on a regular basis are the Food Network, Cartoon Network, only for Adult Swim, and Comedy Central.

2) I have a concept of something I want to sell/make called Dirty Pillows. No more details.

3) I play guitar and have been playing since I was 14. I don't play as much as I want to, but I still love to do it when I can. iown 3, 2 of which are working. The other is my project.

4) If I were to stumble on large amounts of money I would either become a professional ghost hunter, stand up comedian, or open my own diner and be a chef.

5) My true dream is to play in a band and make music for a living. Not going to happen around here. But I would give my left nut to play music live and travel.

6) Two things are required when I sleep: 1) I must have a fan on 2) TV must be on, usually with no sound. If these things are not present I tend to not sleep very well.

7) No matter what I do or wear I constantly pit out. Nothing works. And it is embarassing. It could be -5 out and I will still be pitting out.

8) I must work out everyday. Not in a crazy way, but just so I can function in a way. I feel useless if I don't, plus it's my stress reliever.

9) I cannot workout without my iPod. Especially if I am doing cardio or if the gym is playing techno/top 20.

10) I will take Brians side on this one and say, if you are a female and your favorite music is country I am instantly uninterested. I am not shallow in any way, thats one of the only things I cant stand. Exceptions are if the country you listen to is Johnny Cash or any old school stuff.

11) The only rap music I can stand is the old school stuff. NWA, Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, etc...Other than that, I cannot stand rap

12) I am conissour of calogne. Gift idea #3.

13) Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino movies are far better than any other movies out there. But I do enjoy a good comedy and cheesy horror movies. And of course kung fu/martial arts movies (The Protector and Enter the Dragon are the two favorites)

14) I still miss my Cadillac. Crashed it twice and it still ran. That is until the engine fell out while I was driving and could have killed me. And maybe the seatbelt thing was broke and my passenger window wouldn't go down. I still miss the damn thing. And if I ever rich I will still buy myself a Cadillac or a boat of a car.

15) Once I finish school either after Scott or University I want to move to another country and live there for a year. Just for shits and giggles. Travel and enjoy life before I have to grow up and work for a living.

16) I am part Swedish/Irish/Native American. Which means 1/3 of me wants to fry in the sun and the other 2/3s wants to become an alcoholic.

17) I have no political party I support. Nor do I support politics. I have my ideas and views, I can't be restricted or put into a certain group.

18) Along the same lines, I do not practice any religion. I do not believe in a God. My views are more buddhist but that does not mean I am a follower of that religion. I do not have a problem if you have certain religious views, just as so long you do not think you are more rightous than me/other people and as long as you don't push your views on me. I have an open mind.

19) I wear the same jeans usually 3-4 days in a row. And I only wear 2 pairs of jeans. Due to my awkward body-frame finding jeans that fit are next to impossible.

20) Anyting paranormal or abstract fascinates the hell out of me. Seriously.

21) I save all of my change and cash it in when I can. I also take half of my tips from work and save it and put it into my bank account.

22) I cannot do homework at home. I can't focus worth anything. I am always at Village Inn doing homework. And when I am not doing homework, I usually go to Village Inn anyways. State Street represent! I am always down for coffee and talking. Are you?

23) I have over 6gbs of music on my computer. Which is about half of what I really have. My music collection is large and I am always adding to it. It ranges from the Misfits to NWA and Tiger Army to Iron Maiden. I love all kinds. Except what was stated above.

24) My clothing selection is limited to band shirts and the occasional polo. Most of which are black. I need to go shopping. Which leads to number 25...

25) I have a weird anxiety when I go shopping. I don't know what it is, but I get really nervous and usually end up not getting anything. I do most of my shopping online anymore. I haven't been to the mall in over 6 months.

26) I do a good Evan Stone impression.

27) I drink tea on a regular basis. Thanks Scott Community College for selling pure leaf raspberry tea. I also drink large doses of coffee. Usually a pot of it won't affect me.

28) I have thing that when I buy new clothes I must wash them. Not for sanitation reason but for the fact I hate the way they feel when they aren't washed.

The Day the Music Died

Today was the day.

Murphys Law

Tomorrow is the number 1 call in sick day, all because of a football game and the many brews consumed during that game. Superbowl didn't phase me, even though I was cheering on Arizona and only watched the 4th quarter. And of course, my team loses. Another reason why I don't bet on sports.

Anything new in the life and times of Joey? Not really. Lets recap a bit. (Must get old reading bulleted statements all the time.....)

• Friday night was a bummer. I had to dog sit for my cousin. Which I thought was a grand idea. No. And I had to spend the night to add to things. So of course the 2 year old boxer didn't want to sleep at midnight. Instead it wanted to chew on toys and run around the bed. Resulting in 3 hours of sleep. Did I mention I had to get up at 6am to go to work. Yeah, terrible.
  
• My Saturday was shot because of this. Ended up playing Call of Duty 4 for 2 hours. Then decided to wash my car, but I wasn't the only person in the Bettendorf area that wanted to do the same. Scratch that idea. Instead went to my buddies apartment, which is where I hit a wall, becoming drunk in a way from my lack of sleep. By 12 I was knocked out, slept till 2. Yeah.
• Today actually washed my car. It looks clean. But of course something has to go wrong, my luck. My back passenger window decided it would roll down on its own. And not wanting to go up when I pressed the button. Wonderful, doing 65 on the highway freezing my balls off. Don't worry all my other windows, except the driver, won't go down or up. I can just see my money disappearing...
  
• Sidenote, car washes are evil. I had washed my car and cleaned it out the day before it broke down. And, the day before that, I bought a for sale sign for it. Weird has shit works, eh?

So now I have to get up at 4:30am to take my dad to the airport. Which means I have his car for the week. Kinda nice actually. Which means, I should go to bed. And if I can't fall asleep when I get home after the airport, I am going to be really pissed off.

Tomorrow, post should be more stimulating. Trying to keep up with Brian and his witty posts, impossible. But, something just might as well arise. Stay classy!

We'll I'll be damned

Not many people read my blog. I guess that is good and bad. Not that I have anything useful to say, I try, but I get to this blank page and brain fart. Wonderful.

Back to the ole grind again. School is slightly improving, being there truly motivates me to get out of that place. Am I looking forward to my classes? No. Summer is too far away and it seems taking each day as it comes is really helping out. Work, is well, work. Seems my hours will be taking a cut due to someones higher priority of wanting to close every night during the week. Bullshit. I guess it's time to pick up another job or something. It weird how fast money can fly by.

SIDE COMMENTS

• Watched RocknRolla last night. Great movie. I swear it was only in the theaters for like 2 days. Maybe I am wrong, but still. Go rent it.
  
• I need to stop drinking coffee at 10 at night. Now I will never sleep. Not good since I have to get up at 7am. Damn.
  
• I was told I have different personas. Huh?
• Still confused about somethings.
• At 8:15pm someone's total came to that name number. Freaked me out. What are the odds?
  

Well 7am isn't too far away. Kinda wish I had more to say. But I don't. Sorry.

1/25/09

Slightly better day today. Still confused, but I guess things will work out in the end...

• Slept in today till 1. One of the only days I am capable of doing that. My body takes a toll on having to wake up at 9 and 7 every morning. Doesn't help I can't sleep till 1am.
  
• Talked some things over with someone. Still confused.
  
• Worked out. Half assed. Tried to work out some of my frustrations. All ruined by my back pain coming back again while doing dead lifts. Did 275 though. Ended up slightly jogging on the treadmill.
  
• Went and saw Underworld 3. Pretty bad ass. Just need to watch the first two again.
  
• Hung out at my buddies.
  

And here I am. Its 12am and I have a bag of close I need to hang or put away. Ugh. Can't wait to move out.

I'm lazy tonight, that's all you're getting. More tomorrow, maybe. And possibly a picture!

When life gives a swift kick to the balls...

...what do you do?

Pick yourself up and ice them. Thats all you can do. And thats what I am going to have to do. Try to keep myself level, head up, and positive thinking. I don't wanna go into detail. Normally people go to school for 8 years to listen to other peoples problems, and get paid for it. As usual, its one of those things I am gonna have to deal with on my own. Guess it's time to listen to what everyone was saying.

ANYWAYS

Been up since 6am, it is currently 2:30am. I am wiped. No work tomorrow, woo! Sleeping in for sure. As for plans, who knows? I'll leave you with this from one of my favorite movies. And I promise next post will be a more positive one. Just had a shitty night. That is all.

A monkey humping a football

Welcome fellow readers. Today I will enlighten you with a picture. I know what you are asking yourself, what the hell is that and why did he take a picture of it. This my friends is what gets me through the day. Pop 2 of those and you will be good to go for 4 hours. And by good to go, I mean in every way. Its a supposed fat loss/cutting supplement, but I don't believe that garbage. And you know its good when the label has a horse on it. Come on? And the essential BCAA in the back and Glutamine right beside it. With the early mornings the JetFuel gets me going, something a pot of coffee can't do. Yeah, I said a POT of coffee. I highly recommend it, unless you are pregnant, nursing, going to be pregnant, suffering/recovering from a cocaine addiction, etc.

• Extremely tired tonight.
  
• My workout was subpar, kind of upsetting. Just too distracted by peoples lack of knowledge and oversized egos. Remind me to never work out past 3. Thats when the wierdos start filling in. Cut off sleeves and sweatbands is the dress code.
  
• Tomorrow is Friday, mood point really, I work, get off at 8, then back at 6:45am Saturday. Fuckin eh.
  
• Turns out the job opportunity is a pyramid scheme, not that I was surprised.
• Azteca can still crank people into their resturants and still make wonderful food.
  
• I've got a headache and its been coming in spurts. School related? We'll see...

I'm off to bed. I will leave you with one of my favorite songs right now. Crank it.

I know the pieces fit...

My main goal of this blog is to see where I have grown and come from a year from now. I am not a fan of living in the past, but to be able to see where I have come from and how I have grown means a lot to me. I want to recognize my achievements and my downfalls, its how you grow. Well for me at least. So welcome, enjoy the ride. In other news...

Nothing out of the ordinary, the same ole schedule. School, work out, work, homework. Stimulating? Slightly. I hate getting into routines, I get bored easy. But, what can ya do? Got offered a job at work today. Funny how that works, eh? Going to discuss the finner points tomorrow at the rip off that is Starbucks. See where that goes...

Well, early morning tomorrow. Note taking gone wild is what I am going to start calling my Tuesday/Thursdays from now on. Sorry for the lack of blog today, I can't help that my life is unstimulating today. Quit crying and go outside. Nevermind, its 20 degrees out.

TILL NEXT TIME...

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss....

An important day today. Not for me. New president, hopefully he can follow through with his words. I don't have faith in any politician so we shall see. It was emotional and moving to hear him speak and to witness it. And it is getting old hearing the wealthier people at the gym bitch and moan. How he's a terrorist, a Muslim, non-American, blah blah blah. Everyone has a right to their opinion, but really? At least make a valid argument. In other news....

Spent 5 hours today of note taking. Realized stacking my classes this way was a terrible idea. Ah well. 2 of my teachers are from Africa. Kinda cool actually. Besides the thick accents, which isn't that bad. Makes you pay attention a bit more. Should be required on all teachers. Though my history teacher proved to me you are able to ramble in a monotone voice while jumping around topic to topic like a kid with ADHD. My notes are a mess.

Today makes a year for my female friend and I's "relationship." 4 months of the actual label and the rest has been a roller coaster of ups and downs. What we are now, who knows. She is someone who I hold dear to my heart. Sure things have been fucked up at times. And I am not a fan of not having the label, but she is someone who I hold closet to my heart. I could go on more, but this is public and somethings I just leave to myself. I more of a listener than a talker anyways.

And I finish up on a lighter note and something you should keep in mind. Over the past couple of years I have been saving up my loose change and putting it into jars. Every once and awhile I will put into my back account. Often times 50 to 60 bucks, the most has been 200 bucks. That took too much patience and too many zip lock bags. And to add onto that, I now take half of my tips and put away for safekeeping. So now I am going to make this a monthly thing. It's truly something you should consider. Especially in times like these at least. But I'd be the last person to take financial advice from, my views? Save!

Well, hit and quit it. I am off to slumber. 2 hour lecture for human bio tomorrow, whoopee! Carpal Tunnel is going to kick in here soon. Sorry if this blog was sub-par, but atleast I didn't skip a day...

Shave your privates tonight, its the last night for Bush!

I am terrible at keeping up with this thing. I am easily distracted I guess. Or just lazy. And no, you arent getting a photo tonight. Sorry.

Nothing new in my world really, besides this:

• Friday, finally went to class. Excited for human bio, don't know why
• Saturday, moved furniture up and down stairs.
  
• Also went to dinner with my friends, played 7th wheel. HA! Everything was packed so ended up at Wendys. Then spent $12.50 to see My Bloody Valentine in 3D. Sub-par. The pain the glasses caused to my eyes resulted in me removing them every 10 minutes. About shit my pants a couple times though. But pretty sure the guy below me was close to, since he was ripping ass throughout the movie, his poor date.
• Sunday was Katies b-day. Watched a bunch of girls get drunk and dance around. Highlight would be the driving, not once, not twice, but four times out to Eldridge. Fucked my gas for sure. Then stayed at my buddies apartment till 4am watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 (EXCELLENT MOVIE/SHOW!) and the ending part of Death Proof. Drove home half awake.
• Today I went back to my normal schedule: wake up at noon thirty, worked out, ate, went to work. Attempted to do homework at VI. Didn't succeed. Need to get back into that habit, much like how I am supposed to be reading but instead updating my blog.
  

Back to school tomorrow. I have to wake up at 7. Yeah, fuck me. My fault for having 3, hour and half classes in one day. What was I thinking? No work though, thats a plus!

Off to sleep. Update this tomorrow. Catch ya on the flip sideeeee

I am man-nipping, that is how cold it is....

Well this whole taking a picture thing is going to be hard. Until then I will substitute it with either a video or a picture I enjoy. I was never a person to follow things to a T, take my own way around things sometimes. That can be good and often times it is bad.

I lied about class. I didn't go on my first day. I rarely ever do. Anxiety of some sort, always struggle with going on the first day. Plus it was negative 30 out, yeah, and you expect me to show up? Ah well, I am so out of the loop that going to school is far from my mind. Looks like I gotta pull myself together and show up tomorrow. At least its human biology, a class I am surprisingly excited about.

So lately I have been thinking about where to live after I get my associates degree. Here are some of my ideas, no perticular order.

• Australia

Beautiful weather. Beaches. Cool culture. A lot to explore. Maybe get over my fear of the ocean and surf.

• England (London?)

Big city. The people are awesome. Great beer. So much to do. And, so close to other European countries. Music scene.

• Fiji

Just look at the picture. Imagine me serving you drinks at my make shift bar on the beach. In a speedo. Exactly

Until then, roadtrips and vacations will have to do. Speaking of roadtrips, I am reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Great read. Makes me wanna hitchhike around the country. Also, interesting writing style. Quite enjoyable. Its up there with Against the Stream, if you are into Bhuddism or just revamping your life it is something you should read.

Well better get to bed, school tomorrow, and yes I am actually going. But don't think I have a slight desire for it to be canceled tomorrow. Just sayin...

Getting back in the loop

No picture tonight. I apologize ahead of time. Been too busy today. Lemme list off what I accomplished today, I feel kinda proud.

• Woke at 1. Yeah, in the afternoon.
• Worked out.
• Bought my human bio book since its a bundle and I can't get it online. 220 bucks. Plus a huge binder of class notes.
  
• Showered
• Mailed my old books off
• Ate at Red Robin (first meal of the day, at like 8)
  
• Went to VI for a bit
• Stopped by my buddies apartment

Yeah, not looking forward to school tomorrow. Waking up at 9 and 7 in the AM is going to be tough. My classes should be somewhat entertaining, maybe run into some cute girls. Preferably ones that don't have kids and/or husbands and/or have done time and/or not mentally stable. There seems to an abundance of those at Scott.

Out of things to say. Wish me luck, I have to be up soon. Take'er easy, and if she's easy, take'er again!

Slowly getting there...

So, I haven't been totally up to date with all of this. And I apologize. I have been busy trying to enjoy my last few days of winter break. Only to look forward to another quarter of school. Which usually means summer will be making its appearance here soon. Till then, let it snow. This weather is terrible. Crazy soccer moms doing doughnuts, pickem up trucks going 80 not understanding simple laws of physics, and people doing 5 mph.Well here is a picture of the view from my buddies apartment. I think I spent majority of my break over there. Which is awesome. It motivates me to move out. To have a place like that would be excellent. I dunno, who doesn't want to move out when they are 18? Economically it doesn't make sense right now, but when summer rolls around...

Speaking of money. Got my bank statement the other day. Christmas shopping robbed me, ah well, gotta spread that Christmas glee right? Taking half of my tip money and saving it has seemed to help out. Along with the 60 bucks in change that I have right now. No roadtrip anytime soon...

Well, off to work. Well first spend an hour sweeping the snow off my car, then another driving to work. A 5 minute drive has now become a 15 min. drive. Fantastic.

I have more to post about, just not the time. Some shit in my life, women....

Untill next time, keep it sleazy

First post

I, much like my pal Brian, got guilted into this blog thing. I am to post a picture a day for the whole year. Which is tough because of the lack of excitement in my life right now. But I down for trying new things and doing something slightly creative. But rather just taking a picture and posting it, I am going to enlighten you on current goings ons in my life. Maybe a story. Maybe a joke. Who knows.

Lately I haven't been able to take a picture of anything worthwhile, so the first one I will post is me in Belgium enjoying one of the countries brews

By the picture you can tell I enjoyed more than I should have. Those were good times. Still would like to go back to Europe one of these days.

Well, its 4am, work at 4pm. Now the problem arises if I can keep up with this. We shall see. Till next time....