Back to school

So I was supposed to make some sort of post a while ago to update this, but at least I'm getting a bit better with keeping this updated. Anyways, school starts in two days, really not ready. Still need to finish my summer reading, the bane of my existence. I mean I've read the books, but the analytical portion is what I haven't done. The last thing I want to be doing though, is spending all Sunday night/Monday morning working on the essay/poem annotations.

Anyways, since I last updated, I've went to see the Goods with my cousin. First time I've ever bought my own ticket for a Rated-R movie, feels great except the $10.50 price. Saw live boobies that I paid for, only another year before I can buy my own porn. Saywhat?? Haha, sike... sticking to free shit. The movie was pretty funny all in all, pretty glad I went to see it instead of District 9. Pretty sure I can easily watch D9 on OVG anyways so it's probably not that enthralling for me to watch. Besides, The Goods has Will Ferrell and Jeremy Piven! More than enough reason for me to watch. However, I felt some parts were overdone to make it seem more epic than it needed to be. I understand it's a movie, but I felt some things were forced as though the director's said, "Let's just throw in a female sex-crazed pedophile! We haven't seen one of those in years!"

Speaking of Jeremy Piven, Entourage has been having a great season until last week's episode. Just hoping they redeem themselve's with tomorrow night's episode. Not much happened really, was expecting a lot more since Drama busted his boss trying to get at Jamie-Lynn, but instead Drama ended up being his bitch which really disappointed me since I figured Drama to be just the badass older brother that just fucked shit up.


Also, not as much action with Ari Gold nor any Sloan. THE PEOPLE DEMAND MORE SLOAN!

Aside from Entourage, I've also been heavily following Hung which is actually a pretty great show. Maybe it's because I've always wondered what it'd be like to be a "Happiness Consultant" aka man whore. Except I detest the word whore, I wouldn't even refer to any woman with that term. I mean there's sluts, but you can't call someone a whore, it just sounds like some Elizabethan shit. Anyways, the show's been great. Heavily anticipated Ray boning his neighbor's wife and I haven't been let down. She's seriously hot as fugg... Wish I could find a video of her, but oh well. You have to see the series to see it anyways. A little mad about the last episode with Jemma since she was hot too, but it would've defeated the purpose of the series if all went well between the two. She was a weird bitch though in the beginning which made things hard to follow until later in that episode.

The reason why I like this show so much is probably because of how Ray resorts do doing something he would probably never do by choice when hard times come and it's pretty much a motif about American society doing unspeakable things just to get by. Some tough shit, but at least some of it can be laughed at in this show.

My life's been so-so lately. Parent's are still trying to find a way to allow my dad to keep his social security checks he's been getting in, but child support has been trying to take that from him to give to us since he hasn't been paying for quite a while since he was unemployed and from then on my mom hasn't bothered about it especially since he's been giving us half of his checks when he received his disability checks. All that money, however, has been going to pay the mortgage which has meant not much going for us. Hell, we still haven't gotten a single thing to go to school with so basically me and my brother will have to start my Senior year and his Freshman year with old school supplies. Still not all that bad though since I bought myself a used Northface pack last year for pretty cheap. I still need a new one since it's been getting a ton of wear lately (I abuse my packs a lot) so I can probably try to save up for one if I can get a job. So far, I've just been searching around places to see if there's any places hiring aside from the mall so that I don't get stuck with minimum wage. I mean shoe discounts would be great, but if I have a well-paying job, it can go a long way. My father's been pretty devastated about child support taking so much of his money, but I suppose that's what's to be expected when we try to avoid our problems even though it was unintentional since he was fired and had no place to stay except with family in another state. He even was considering selling my (his) camera which I really needed for photography as well as listing shit up online since I'm so broke. I even bought another memory card to replace the one that his D50 came with since the lock slider button had been broken off and I couldn't remove it from the lock mode.

To stray away from depressing you guys about my situation, might as well tell you guys what I'm getting. I recently bought a pair of all white size 11 Air Max 90s (Air Max IVs, see I got it right UFB!)

Planning on making these my weatherproof leather Infrared Air Max 90 customs. Still have to finish my Hufquakes, but I figured that I'd be able to finish Infrareds a lot easier and faster to have more shit that I can wear for school.

Photoshop Wars

Okay, so I was supposed to do a more meaningful post as an update before school start. However, photoshopping pictures of fatjodz (fatjodz.blogspot.com) has really consumed up my time that I should've been investing on finishing up summer reading. In my eyes, I think I won in terms of having the most photoshopped pics of him, but since my photoshop skills lack, he may have won even though I may have had better ideas than his. Jodz, if you ever do read this, know that you suck, haha. Don't ban me...

Anyways, here's my contributions:

Shooting Stars

So last night, I went to go watch the meteor shower with one of my close friends because she didn't have anyone to go with. Little did I know that her situation the other day was as serious as she had made it to be on Facebook so I was surprised when I saw her limping. Being the nice guy I am, I let her use one of my crutches so that we could make our way to the baseball field without her looking overly pitiful. Apparently, she had gotten surgery on one of her ass checks, well right below it which I found pretty ironic because of how she used to flaunt it and now she had to go to the hospital because of it. Anyways, we finally get there after a few minutes of walking and waiting for her to catch up with all her limping. She had originally invited whoever was interested to drop by and watch the meteor shower, but no one else ended up showing so it was just the two of us. Pretty romantic, eh? Well nothing really happened, we just talked for a bit until some guys come over who were going to do hookah while they waited for the meteor shower. Getting tired of waiting about 30 or so minutes after the supposed meteor shower time, we end up chilling with the other two guys waiting. After about an hour or so, we end up hitting up McDonalds. Still a pretty fun night to get out of the house and probably the first time I stayed out that late with a friend. Anways, lesson learned: Don't wait for meteor showers on a cloudy night in the city.

Also, not having a camera is seriously pissing me off. Time to start saving up for a new one, I guess.

You see this, this my new haircut!

Promised to myself that I'd do a better job of updating, just wish I had my camera.

I got a new haircut today, nothing new. The usual stuff, but it's great to finally get my haircut by someone else. Just been doing it myself for a while on my vacation and it wasn't that great as you can see by my last post. Also, having a dad who would rather be bald than have his hair normal didn't help me when I tried to make him give me a shape up and clean up areas that I had missed. He ended up rounding off my hairline which made me look like I was wearing a helmet, haha. Anyways, I got my haircut today because I had to have my senior photo taken soon which I'm pretty excited about. 

After my haircut, I took the bus home because I didn't want to be apart of any of the nonsense with my mom having to make me help her at her job. I learned that they stopped giving out transfer slips on the bus which sucks and they told me I'd have to pay $5 for an all day fare pass which is ridiculous to me. I also forgot I had my student ID on me which is from my sophomore year since I lost my new one I took. While waiting for my transfer bus, I saw a kid from my school jerking which literally made me SMH. I just find it kind of sad that being in the DMV, kids can't even do the local dances, but have to follow some faggy SoCal fad that they ripped off the bay and gang dances.

Anyways, after getting home I had to rush to get my bike out so I could make it to the post office on time to cash a money order since it was almost closing time. Before making my way home, I stopped at the dollar store and picked up some jerky and Arizona since I was pretty hungry and thirsty from cycling down to the post office. I also took my Street Fighter shirts to the dry cleaner and found out how I could've saved $11 just by buying Woolite dark instead. Well, at least I learned how to get stuff dry-cleaned from first hand experience at the cost of getting ripped off. I also figured out I have this girl stalking me which is pretty weird. Anyways, that pretty much summed up my day. My legs are still kinda sore from all that pedalling, but it's mostly because I'm out of shape. Just got to get on a new workout plan I've been wanting to do for a while now.

Been a while...

Sorry that I haven't been updating my blog as frequently as I would have wanted to. I've just been pretty busy as of late with being ineligible for the first marking period and having to go to summer school as a result, to being in North Carolina for a month with family, and just overall laziness to update combined with just being apathetic about the whole situation. Since I've been in North Carolina, I've just been doing a lot of soul searching to try to get my head together and reflect on what happened. I also had to look at my own parent's lives and realize that making their same mistakes won't get me where I want to be in my future. On the same topic, my dad has been in the hospital quite frequently while I was in North Carolina and even missed my birthday on the 13th, which pretty much sucked for me because I figured my dad was capable of keeping himself healthy without me or my brother being around to remind him.

Did a lot of driving around in this. Gotta love being out in the country in this.

Aside from that summer school was probably what I needed to help myself get my head together to do well in school. I pretty much showed myself that I could actually do well and get exceed my typical expectations in school. My visit with my school counselor also helped me to just do my own thing to get to where I want to be since I'm even at more of a disadvantage than the rest of my IB Class in terms of getting into the school I want. 

Returning to weight lifting with my former teammates was also a bit more of a struggle than I had thought it'd be. Having to swallow my pride to approach them was probably one of the more difficult thing I've done recently. Just not being able to be apart of the team I've been with for the past three years ago has been a great pain to me. On the brighter side, this time allows me to focus on wrestling and track now as well as try to get a job during school while still having time to do well in class.

Some things I got over the summer were my Laney Air Jordan Vs that I had shipped to my grandparent's house in North Carolina which I'm planning on restoring. My 3Sixteen SL-1000xs came in as well right before I was about to return to North Carolina from the week that I had to be in to go to appointments.I also had Jason ship out my gray Huf Quake v3 which has been my fitted grail for quite sometime especially after having San flaunt it at me whenever we'd get on StickAM, but I never got around to taking a picture of it. I also used part of my birthday money that I got from my godmother to buy a new copy of Street Fighter IV and a new memory card for my camera that my dad still has until the end of summer.

Some minor yellowing and the paint on the midsole is chipping in unsightly places, but now that I have the right paint, I can fix that which will just leave me to acquiring seaglow to restore the soles back to an icy color.

I really like the fit of these, easily way better than the typical Nudies and APCs I see around in terms of quality and fit. Also took some updated shots of my 514s as well, like how the earth tone came out in the shot.