A little cleaning house

So I just spent the night doing all the shit I should have done last night. Cleaning, went on a run, and did a little work. I also turned on the TV and watched a little bit of Playboy Club. Not a huge fan, I love Mad Men and while it took a while for Network Television to catch up to the retro trend, I really would have thought that something better than Pan Am and Playboy Club would have come from it. I don't really watch much TV anyways so I was never going to become a regular viewer but it is too bad more great shows didn't come out of this.

In the theme of cleaning house, I cleaned up the blogs I read. I got rid of some of the guys who called it quits and added a couple. My favorite new blog is Bi PNW Dude. I think it is in part because I envy the part of the country he lives in, but I really like reading his blog (I don't think I have told him that, but I do) and he seems like a really chill normal guy. Which is something I think we all strive for, normalcy.

I also added Pathologically Confused, reading about being a Med resident has been sweet and I really like his blog as well. Wish I had updated this a while ago. There are a ton of sweet blogs out there so if you are like me and stumbled into the blog world while looking for porn, stay for a while and read a little bit about one these guys. They are way more interesting than I am.

For me, the appeal of these guys is that they are a little older, more established in life. I am one of those people always looking for the next thing. Which is good in the sense that I am always working towards something but I have to constantly remind myself to stop and enjoy the shit around me. Which I do, sometimes a little too much, but I think I have a pretty good balance.

Alright. two posts in one day is a lot for me. Even though they really are not about much. Just me going off about random shit. But even while writing this my outlook has gone off 4 times for work at 11, people need to get a life (I say, as I go to check it). Well me and my dying house plants are signing off for the night. Right now I am listening to Pumped Up Kicks by Foster the People.... I wasn't gonna put it on here, but why not.

Sunday Night Slowdown

Every Sunday night I do the same thing. I putter around the apartment either cleaning up or packing depending on the week and really get hardly anything done at all. During this time I drink more beer than someone who is alone should and listen to whatever music I discovered on Pandora that week.  This is one of my favorites from this week.

And then eventually I get into bed with my lap top and read some of the wrap up about college football that weekend and start to realize that I have stayed up entirely too late to be functional at work tomorrow. To make matters worse I usually don't go to sleep then either. I just moan about it in my head. At some point in here there is a phone conversation with the gf, where we talking about what we did today and all that boring shit.

Then finally when I am ready to pass out I pull up Post Secret and look over the new secrets for the week. There is something about that website and the honesty that it contains that draws me in. I read every secret, usually twice, and then I am finally ready for bed. I know some other guys have talked about post secret before and I believe I have mentioned it as well, but I am really blown away by some of the stuff on there, it touches every human emotion and can sometimes expose things I didn't know were still bothering me. A couple years ago I went to one of the events and it was awesome to be there looking at secrets in person and seeing how much effort people put into exposing their secrets to the public. This blog is kind of like my postsecret but there are still things I wouldn't write on here but may one day send in as a postcard.

Anyways, I really enjoy that website and the release it gives me. Other things I am enjoying right now, fall weather, pumpkin beer, and the fact that Nebraska thought they would win the Big Ten their first year in the conference and they got put in their place this weekend. My thoughts aside on the changing landscape of college sports, I love to see someone put in their place. 

Keep on, keeping on guys.

Out with the old

So instead of finishing my posts I decided to write a new one first. As I have said, my life has changed a lot over the course of this summer but I think I am adapting pretty well. But I have decided to stop focusing on the maturity that has been thrust upon me by the situations I find myself in and focus on enjoying the things around me. My new friends in this new city, my ability to just take off for a weekend and do something, and my ability to stay relatively sane.

Luckily for me I have had some great support from multiple areas of my life. My new friends I started with at work and some of the people on my team, a couple of my best friends from the blog world and real world, and a little bit of alcohol never hurt. Okay there was a lot of drinking and more tears than I care to admit, but I am only human. And moving forward things will be different.

Anyways what I want to get out of this post is that I have adapted to my new surroundings and still have a lot to say on here, I just had to get used to everything this summer. Now that those days are over and I am wearing sweaters to work (because I am too lazy to iron) I can focus on enjoying the fall, college football, and this new chapter of my life. And I think my dick will be enjoying this time of my life too, soo look out for those updates.

PS. To the reader who called me out today. Don't worry, no more posts about how I am not writing.

Here is a song to end of summer fellas. I hope you all take the end of summer as well as I am.

Unfinished business

I just counted, I have 8 unfinished posts in here. I suck at this. I am gonna finish at least on, if not two after work today. Last night I stayed late at work and then came home and did more work. I now regret bitching about my workload in college. I would go back in a heart beat. But I am still loving living alone and the world of being an adult but I am ready for a few months of nothing changing. From may to August so many things in my life changed, from where I live, my friends, my daily routine, and my parents signed their separation a few weeks ago and I am the only one speaking to my mom right now so things are strained to say the least. 

I think back to graduation and I am slightly amazed at how my life got here so fast. Anyways I will update this afternoon, not that anyone really reads this.

Never look back...

So the title of this post is somewhat misleading, but it is something I think about. I have been traveling on and off for my job and this increase in travel has brought to the surface something I used to think about a lot. There are 300 million plus people in this country, and while technology makes things harder this day, I have always wanted to just get on a plane and disappear. poof. gone. No more snowsportsguy. Just toss my cell phone and start over. Live a whole new life, in a new city. Be the guy I want to be. That is the thing about this dream or idea though. I always picture myself living one step ahead of where I really am. with a better body, more money, and this awesome life. It just seems so care free. I know it isn't real. But on some level I am ready to get out of the heartland of the country, live in a costal city and be an asshole for lack of a better word. But something holds me back.... I guess it is my heart. I am too close with my family and the gf has really become something special to me. We have really grown together and it has been awesome. And even though my life is great, I secretly long to get on that flight to who knows where and just live a whole new life.... but that isn't reality.

So instead I am going to try and sleep because I have to get up pretty early for a long day of work tomorrow and slowly work towards my real dreams. (currently my dream is to take a sweet ski/board trip this winter, I'm saving up so I am hoping it happens)

I think I am going to start writing on here more again. Not sure what it will be about, but I have stuff to talk about, I really don't care anymore if anyone reads it. I just want to write to get things out of my head. That being said, I wish anyone who reads this the best of luck, and if you happen to be in an airport and see a guy zoning off with blue earbuds in, it might just be me.

MIA

Wow. It has been a while, and I regret that fact but I have been somewhat distracted recently in my life. I am currently working through my parents separating and have had other family stuffy going on this summer. This has lead to some spill over into other areas of my life including my new job and my relationship. Things are pretty much back to normal at work and I will start traveling here soon, so hopefully I will be able to update from many a hotel room across the USA while on business travel.

This is by no means the way I thought my first summer out of college would be going, but I guess we are all forced to grow up when we least expect it.

 I have 5 posts started that are not finished, I feel like failure. But I will update more, it is helpful in sorting out my feelings.

Last things, shout out to RJ for the year mark. I can't thank you enough for everything man.

Real World

Graduate, find a job, and become a productive member of society. Got those things handled. I am done with school for the time being, I have started my job, purchased insurance and all those other grown up things. And now what...

Anyways I am a few days into the job and I like it so far. Good company and good coworkers. We had an orientation event last week and then some of us got together and hung out this weekend so that was cool. A lot of us are new to the town and having friends my age is nice. One of the things I was looking forward to the most about leaving school was living alone. I'm still on the fence about it, I love having a clean place when I come home and I don't mind washing my dishes because I know they are mine but I am not used to all the quiet. It is going to take some adjustment.

Well this is just a quick update, I can't really fall asleep early yet so I just suffer at work but before 1 is an improvement. I have a few things to update you guys on with friends if anyone actually cares, well actually I am going to write to clear my head about shit but I don't want to rehash that right now. For now I am going to try and sleep.

Hope you guys have been well. Here is a tune I have been digging.

My Life

So it is a monday and I am posting. This just is a week later than I said I would post so I want to apologize for that. Not that anyone really cares, but I still want to say it. Anyways as school is wrapping up. As in I have 8 classes total left and then two exams starting later this week and then I graduate and move all my stuff to my new place and start a new life for myself.

I have a lot to say about that and I imagine as I get settled in my new city I will post a lot because  will be living alone won't have nearly as much going on. Right now I am trying to balance my time between my last bit of school work, making the most of the night with my friends and having good time with the GF before I move away.

Things with us are going much better now and I am optimistic about our summer even with us living in separate places. Only time will tell there. Anyways this is really just a filler post, I am avoiding a 5 pg paper on a book I have not read. But this is at least the last of those I will ever write. Anyways guys I hope everyone is getting to enjoy this nice weather (no tornados) and I will be back in a couple weeks.