Getting Caught Up

It's been a little bit since I've updated this blog. I'm trying to keep up with it, but I've also got two others on two different websites to try and keep up with, so it's.....trying to say the least. Anyway, I haven't been up to much as of late, just hanging out with friends and so on. My best friend Jason got married last month. I was the best man, so I held onto his wife's ring during the ceremony and all that jazz. It was a pretty damn good time that night. I was a little nervous about the reception because I had to make a toast, being best man and all. I had planned to throw a little funny joke in there beforehand, but when the mike was handed to me, I just thought "Screw it" and made a toast on the spot, from the heart. All in all it went over well, and I was quite proud of myself afterward. Not much else had happened on the personal front, like I said, just hanging out with friends and all. I'm going to start looking for a job here soon, through Social Security Disability Insurance. They have some programs to help people find jobs, which is good considering I could use one. Thirteen hundred dollars a month is definitely not going to go far if I want to move out any time soon. One of the stipulations of getting a job though is that after a certain amount of time at that job they will discontinue my benefits. I'm relatively certain though that it's a long bit of time before they do that, and hopefully if that happens, I would've qualified for benefits at whatever job I was working at, so it shouldn't be too much of a loss. A plus in getting a job besides the obvious extra money inflow, is getting me out of the house and actually doing something besides trying to fight extreme boredom. That should be good, really good. So that's that then, I'm all caught up to the present. Until later then.

Insomnia is a bitch.

Here I am, wide awake at 6:11 AM. I didn't sleep at all Friday night, and then I only got maybe three hours of sleep Saturday afternoon. Now here I am, on Sunday morning, wide awake. My sleep schedule is really starting to become a nuisance. In the past three days I've only gotten three hours of sleep. I wonder if I'm going to continue on this no sleep journey and start hallucinating. I wonder what I would hallucinate, it's almost enough to force myself to stay awake. ALMOST. Here's hoping I'll be able to get some sleep here in the next few hours.

Stop the presses!!! The first lady wore SHORTS!!! On her VACATION no less!!!

Apparently there is a recent headline making it's way around the major networks today. The Obamas were on a family vacation to the Grand Canyon, and there were pictures of Michelle Obama wearing.....SHORTS!!!! Oh dear God, who wears SHORTS!!! Honestly, this shouldn't even be fucking news. I just saw on The Today Show on a poll they ran, 17 percent of voters found that her wearing shorts was inappropriate. Really? Those 17 percent of people should be euthanized to get their defective genes out of the collective gene pool. Oh wow, she stepped off of Air Force One in shorts, who fucking CARES? I somehow think that some of those people who found it inappropriate also follow other celebrities lives because their own lives are so empty and hollow they have no other reason for being. Aren't there more important things in the world today to report on other than following what the first lady wore on her family vacation? Like, I don't know, the American's being held in Iran? Or perhaps the fact that the only person convicted in the Pan Am 103 is being set to be released because he has three months to live, and is being set home to Libya to die there? Hmm, seems just a bit more news-worthy to me. God, if this ridiculous garbage about Mrs. Obama wearing shorts is news, I have lost a lot more faith in humanity.

Another funny website

Just thought I would swing by and post another link to a very funny website. It features a certain hilarious squirrel who goes by the name of Foamy. Here's the link: www.illwillpress.com . Check it out, funny, funny stuff.

Blah.

You know, sometimes I really do like the amount of free time that comes with being on SSDI and not having a job due to a disability - I really do. However, a good portion of that time is spent just sitting with my laptop on my lap (NOW I understand why they're called laptops!) and just browsing the internets, visiting my usual spots, which I will leave links to at the end of this post. I want to go out and do something with the copious amount of time I have, but I have one friend that's getting married (I'll never see him again after the wedding), another that's working to become a teacher, and another living in Texas now. So yeah, everyone is usually busy half the time. Another reason I don't go out that much is all due to the fact that the town I live in is completely and utterly BORING. We have just around three bars, and a bowling alley that I wouldn't step a foot into if I was paid for it. I'd go bar hopping if I could actually drink alcohol without worrying if I'm going to wind up in the hospital getting my stomach pumped. That's a big down-side to being on prescribed pain killers, especially morphine. There's litterally NOTHING to do in this town when it comes to the night life. I'm a night owl, I usually cannot sleep at all until around sun-up. That, of course, leaves me with a very limited amount of things I can actually do at night. I could go someplace else with some friends, but even if we did go out and do something, we'd wind up calling it a night at midnight. Again, leaving me with exactly nothing to do.

So yet again, here I am, sitting at home at 6:08 AM when other sane creatures are still sleeping, writing in my blog. I pretty much did nothing at all today, yet again. The highlight of my day was going out to buy a pack of Camel Wides and then go to Acme and pick up my mother's pills. I really hope that my friends can hang out soon, otherwise I might just bash my head into these same four walls I've come so accustomed to over the past few years. Here's hoping I suppose.

If only...

Sometimes I really, truly wish that I could just will away any and all emotions. Anymore it just seems like feeling anything at all is just a burden too heavy to bare. I don't know, maybe I'm just more messed up than I first realized.

Monopoly the....movie?

I read in an issue of Maxim magazine that director Ridley Scott is going to be making a movie based on the board game Monopoly. Seriously, Monopoly? There has got to be a better subject for a movie than a board game, and not even a really good board game to boot. Don't get me wrong, I like playing it, if there are enough people to play, but it's not one of my favorites. Either Mr. Scott has run out of ideas for films, or he's low on money and is just trying to make a quick buck with a crappy idea. And since it's Ridley Scott pitching the idea, who would say no? Apparently it's going into production in around nine months. I really wonder if they are going to have the character from the game in there as well. I also wonder who they would get to play him. I also wonder who in their right mind would go and see a movie like that.

Honestly, there's got to be better subject matter to make a feature film about. C'mon Ridley, dig harder next time.