Couldn't be happier!

I Love You Man, Black Hawk Down, Panic, A Scanner Darkly, Traitor, an episode of Weeds, Entourage, True Blood, and 3 episodes of the X-Files.....it's Friday, I've only worked 4 days this week and I've watched all of those movies and shows at work so far. The 11 hour days are always long, but this week....this week has been the longest ever.

I'm getting out, breaking free from the vortex. The "Giant" grasp has a hold of me no longer. I've been so much happier the last week, and for good reason. I FINALLY got a new job. 8:30 to 5:30 baby! Just the thought of getting out at a normal time and having weekends off makes me wake up with a smile daily. Although this week has been the longest ever, clearly because I know that these are my final days, there is a great satisfaction in knowing that when I punch out tonight, it will be for the last time.

I'm joining a gym and I'm going to be working out with a friend every night as well as playing basketball and raquetball. I won't have to worry about my schedule changing and missing my basketballs games on Monday nights. I'll be able to go to church on the weekends and go out with friends when they go do things when I used to be working. Ring Ring, "Hey what's up? Oh you're going camping this weekend? I'd love to come" That's what I'll be saying instead of getting pissed about another fun time missed because of my work schedule.

I just couldn't be happier! I'm sitting here at work with a smile. No more frantically rushing to get home from work to start having fun. No more being the last person to a friends house or to meet at the bowling alley. AAAHHHHHH! And that's a relaxing aaahhh like when you take a sip of cold water on a super hot day. I haven't even started the new job yet and I've already been so much happier just knowing that I'll have time for life again. Not to mention I'll be around people at work, no more being alone all day every day. That takes a toll. Sweet deal!

Who knows, maybe when I tell people from now on that I'm, "Living the dream" it won't be a total lie. Alllright giggity giggity goo

Amazing Fox

This is just so cool to me. Crazy how it can tell by listening exactly where the mouse is.

Poetry

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator

Ventilation

11 hours, that's how long I work everyday. When you go to work at 10 and leave at 9, it really leaves you with the feeling that you have no time for life. I leave work every night in a frantic rush to get home so I can relax, or go out and have fun. This mindset has set me on edge. "Crap, I need to get gas." There goes 10 minutes. "I need to do laundry again already?" There goes some of the few precious moments I have to enjoy. I haven't even folded laundry in months. It sits in a pile on my floor because I don't want to take the 20 minutes it will take me to fold them, because that takes away from my few moments I have for myself. I've become lazy and that's the worst part. I'm lazy because I don't want to spend the sliver of "me time" doing anything, except what I want to do.
My phone rings, it's a friend of mine. "Nope, sorry man I can't come, I'm working." It's the same thing every time. I'm sick of it. I'm 23, I should be out with friends and meeting girls, but I'm not, I'm here, at work. Thankfully, God has blessed me with a family I cannot describe with words. They aren't perfect, but they are perfect to me. Thanks to them and some great friends I am truly happy, without them I'd probably be walking across America, like Peter Jenkins.
Happiness is what you make it. You can choose to be happy no matter what the situation in life, or you can choose to be miserable. Work has me teetering on the edge, it's pushing me toward misery, but prevail, it will not. I am okay now, but things will get better, I will get what I want out of life, especially once I get a job with normal hours.