New Years

Alcohol, drugs, & sex will be all around us tonight! 70% of people will be doing 1 out of 3 of these sinful acts this evening, 20% will be doing 2 of the 3, 5% will be doing all 3, and the rest well are just losers. Which percentage will you fall into this evening? I personally will be shooting for 2 of the 3. I'm very excited for the evening planned as I hope it will be pretty eventful! A very close friend from Houston had flown in last night to come celebrate this evening and has brought along one of the Holiest Grail status beers known to mankind with him! Yuengling which is brewed and only distributed out east is one of the best Lagers that I have ever had the privilege of ever consuming will be at our get together this evening for our drinking pleasure. I am truly blessed for all the things that have happened this past year and greatful that I will start the New Year with my best friends and relatives I've ever had! Much love and respect to all! Be safe and Welcome to 2010!

return of the space jam

I for one am not a fan of retro's and especially re-retro's of Jordan sneakers but if done right (staying within the original colorways) I will make the exception. Early this year it was rumored that the Jordan XI Space Jams were going to be re-retro'd and a possible release date was stated. They (Jordan Brand) had stated that the original release date was for November 23rd but then was pushed back to December 24th. The 24th is drawing near (2 days) and I am personally not a big fan of the patent leather design on the 11's due to nasty crease marks that can come during wear. I have debated on purchasing these or save my money and collect the Jordan IV's that are set to release next month. My main reason for considering buying these is that they stayed true to the original colorway and that the movie had a positive influence on me. What are your thoughts on the shoe and the movie?
FYI:
St.Alfred will release these the 23rd midnight as well as finish line online and possibly eastbay too.

Do you feel it in your fingers?

or do you feel it in your toes? Do you feel Christmas is all around you and will the feeling grow? Is this the only time of the year we all rack up credit card debt? I know for me it is! I feel that every time I buy a gift for someone, I have to buy a gift for myself! One reason being is that (don't hate me for this) I really can't count on too many people buying me things that make me truly happy! The one person I can always count on is myself (sorry)! reason being is that people think that I'm a hard person to shop for and they fear that whatever they buy me, I would hate it or not be as pleased with it. Of course it's easy just to ask a person, hey what do you want? but the best is when someone can buy you or make you something that lights you up when first open your gift then you know they went above and beyond of what you've originally expected out of your present. Unfortunately I really don't expect people to buy me gifts because they know that I'm high maintenance and the things I like come at a price! The things I ask for rarely come and if or when they do, I now have to compete with myself (because I hinted at an awesome gift for myself) in buying a better gift than what I thought of for myself but for whomever bought the gift for me (make sense?). Unfortunately this year is going to be a tough one because I'm broke (mainly because I'm paying "rent") and all the gifts I'm buying are going to have a lot of thought into it and at a budget...for the ones that will be receiving a gift from me let me say that "I'm sorry and I'll try harder next year!" lol...

needs and wants

Can you differentiate the two? I often can, as long as I'm not blinded by my awesome taste in materialistic things! I guess this is what has us swimming in and out of debt. If we can separate our needs from our wants we all would be less stressful. All my life I've surrounded my life with "wants" and always put off my "needs", unfortunately many of you can say the same. I've had the privilege of meeting and making some friends that really understood the difference between the two and fortunately their lives we're simpler with no debt, a savings account, and their whole life ahead of them without the stresses of having to worry about paying bills! The main reason for this blog for today is that I just recently received an email from "Coarsetoys" announcing a new art piece release "False Friends" will be dropping very soon. Unfortunately this will set me back quite a bit on paying off my bills. I know this is a want and not a need but here's my situation, I can try to get my hands on another amazing piece of art (retail $650 < resale $1500) to add to my collection and if I decide to sell it later I can always profit from it? or shall I hold all my wants back and concentrate on my needs? I think I already have my decision made but, let me know what your thoughts are...

p.s. Yes, this will make me very happy Randy

the broken reality/the ugly truth

when I find myself alone in a quiet place I often start to think about the ugly truth about anything and everything. Upon pondering this repugnant reality (but somewhat pleasant to me), I've come to realize that we as people avoid the ugly truth about everything! Who we really are, our true intents, and even our very purpose. Question, when you buy a present for somebody, do you buy a present for that somebody because it's just to be nice? maybe if you hated that person but the ugly truth is that you bought that gift because you didn't want to feel guilty for being the only one not to buy a gift for him/her. Now, say you do buy something for a relative or for close friends, you buy and put some thoughts into it that will always benefit yourself (OMG this is going to be fun). My cousin, close friends, & family may already know this but whenever I get a gift, the ugly truth is that I'm really only doing this to benefit myself. For instance, I built my cousin a bike from scratch although I had other presents in mind, this one came at an awesome price that I was willing to pay & play. I had put together a one off bike that he can call his own and knowing his posse they could not bite this style (my pet peeve). Sure anyone can buy and ride a bike but to ride one that was made for you, in your style and taste is on a whole other level. After the build and having to give the bike to him, I knew 1)he would gloat to his friends about his new bike and 2) how awesome his cousin is. My original intentions were to make him happy and to get him to shut up about buying a fixed gear that we all know he was never to going buy! Now upon planning this build I realized what I was really after, which was 1)building up my "Awesome" cousin status 2)showing off my creativity & taste 3)my vast knowledge of bicycle parts. Throughout the process of this build people complimented the bike and asked constantly "is this your bike?", "who are you building this for?", & "how much does a bike like this cost?" (no,my cousin,priceless). I'm going to spell this out for all my readers, "these are the questions that fill my ego and make me who I am". I don't go fishing for these questions they just come along and what I don't understand is, why do people ask these questions when they already know the answer? I hardly ever answer questions because I'll give you this look and maybe raise one eyebrow until the ugly truth of an answer slaps you across your face and then I'll smile and you go "AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" If you've ever received a gift from me or anyone else, ask yourself "why did they buy this for me?" think and then think about it again. I could go on but I've grown tired of this subject. In closing I am awesome and manipulative, and this is my ugly truth!

p.s. I'm Hella BOOJEE!

inspired by the inspired

do you ever wonder what inspires you to go on with everyday life, to want to live, to want to write, to be awesome, or to be motivated to do something else? who and what are your influences? majority of people will say "my peers" inspire me and motivate me to accomplish certain goals. I myself look to my peers to open doors for me and once my foot is through the door, I personally think that from here on out it's all a mental game against myself. As broad of a subject as this sounds, I think this applies to majority of situations. Think about the many situations that you've been in and ask yourself this, "Who have I looked to for strength to help me push through this wall that I have hit?" Have you helped yourself or depended on a friend to get you through this? I know that most of your answers are pretty much going to be that you have depended on someone else to help push you through a certain situation. I personally like the challenge of pushing myself through the wall I have hit. I love a mental challenge because it's puts you on a different level and alters your thoughts about how to approach certain situations. For example, I almost hit a wall today after thinking about my workout schedule, I found myself starting to fall off after my cousin has worked soo hard to get me back into the gym (thanks ron for opening that door). Today I had a choice of either raising my BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) by doing my hour of cardio or finish a movie I had started about 30mins ago. I didn't turn to my cousin for advice nor did I turn to a friend but I turned to myself and weighed my options. Do I wanna finish a movie that I'd rather watch with my cousin instead of by myself or should I go after my goal (break into the 180's lbs) and just hit the gym. My heart didn't even miss a beat, I stood up off of the couch, changed clothes, and scadadled my fat arse off to the gym because in the end I knew that this decision would be a good effect to later this evening. I hit my goal (189lbs) and me and my cousin can watch "Inglorious Bastards" and laugh about it later tonight. My main trick to what inspired me to hit the gym rather than sit on my arse is this, I didn't think but rather I reacted because through past experiences the more you think about it, the more you delay yourself from doing it and after wasting countless minutes (maybe even hours) of thinking, now you have grown lazy and tired and just don't want to do anything! In this certain situation I applied the saying "actions speak louder than words!" which worked out pretty well, I didn't call anybody and asked for their advise but rather I acted on my own and inspired myself to achieve my goal. After reading this and after you find yourself in another sticky situation, think about what I said and try to alter your train of thought and motivate yourself to push through your tough situation!

chocolate cake holiday nightmare

I am going to start by saying that I'm very luck to have an awesome family, cousins, and friends! I am very fortunate to have my closest relatives and friends stick with me through thick & thin and always help by pointing me in the right direction at my most disarrayed moments. I look forward to what the holidays have to offer this yeas as I am very fortunate to have a glimpse of what my belated birthday/Christmas present will be this year (thanks humberto! although I would have loved to see which portrait of J.D. you had originally picked out for me to have painted). I will be trying hard this year to be able to afford gifts for all my closest relatives (as if my sense of humor and being around them isn't enough J/K!). I can't wait until this Thursday as I will stuff my face with turkey and pass out. Just out of curiosity, how many of you like stuffing? Do you prefer eating it as a side dish, next to the turkey? or stuffed in it's arse? I think it's pretty disgusting to go picking into the turkey's arse for food! sorry I was digressing a little bit. So this holiday season is turning out very good for me so far and I hope you all have an awesome one as well! I just wanna say thank you to my family and friends for being supportive of my decisions, my cousin ron for motivating me and getting me into better shape (not quite jacob yet), & humberto for making blog post #5 real and true! Thank you all!