Chi-City

Chicago! That's where I'll be at this weekend and I am so excited I'm actually going there with friends. I've been there plenty of times when I was younger with my parents but to go at it with my friends is going to be crazy. We're going of course to catch a Bulls game but we're spending Friday through Sunday and hopefully we can totally take advantage of the city life. Des Moines is pathetic to this city, Chicago I feel has a lot more to offer. Food, culture, and nightlife. I hope we can make an itinerary that day because it seems like the guys I'm going with don't really have any other plans outside of the Bulls game. I hope I can Google something up for the weekend so we can enjoy this new place to just go all out. Would be pretty amazing if we can do the hooking up with girls for one night thing since we don't live there, there wouldn't be any attachments.

I'm sure we're going to hit up some deep dish pizza joint because obviously that's what Chicago is known for. I remember going to Gino's back in the day which was pretty amazing but I hear that it's not comparable to other places. If there are any suggestions hit me up! Bars at night, I'm not much of the clubbing places, but it seems like when I'm here in Des Moines that's where I end up going. I'm more of a sports bar or a piano bar kind of guy, live music is always a plus and going to Chicago I think Jazz might be the type of music I should search for. Of course once again, any suggestions would be most gracious.

Horrible Nightmare

I didn't sleep well last night, I had one of those dreams where it felt so real that you wake up in pain. I had a dream last night that my mom was diagnosed with cancer and she was just deteriorating every time I went to visit her. It's upsetting because I've lost both of my grandpa's from lung cancer it was just hard seeing them suffer through it. I remember it was only a time frame of may half a year (probably less...) where he would go to his treatments of radiative therapy with really no results at all. He did try everything to fight it but it was inevitable. I hope soon they will find a real treatment for it.

My dream pretty much reliving that pain of watching my grandpa go through all of that except it was my mother and as I love my grandpa, it just seem to hurt more when it's your mom. By the end of the dream she did actually die and it started with same ritual when someone dies how everyone comes to the house to show respect and prepare for the funeral. I woke up and tears were coming down my face uncontrollably until I got myself to calm down realizing it was all a dream.

Just a Few Thoughts at the End of 26

I'm about to turn 27 at the end of this month and I still can't figure out what's my purpose. I haven't really experienced much, haven't made any big accomplishments, never been in a serious relationship, no plans on kids any time soon. I just don't really have any major goals in my life. Is this how it's going to be for me? Just stuck being comfortable of what I'm doing? I know I've made a lot of similar blog entries like this in the past and I really haven't done much about it. I'm always too scared that I'll fail or don't live up to people's expectations.

I'll try everything once...

I'm Leaving... Unless

I get offended easily sometimes, especially when it comes to my ability. There is a group I'm involved with and I went ahead and try to reach out to take on more responsibility. The thing is, I'm not getting any feedback or acknowledgment from it and it's been more than a week. I know they are needing help but right now as we stand I think I want to detach myself from them... Before, I felt I was needed and had responsibility but without that, what am I there for? Do I really have a say in this?

I really love how things were working before and I miss the relationship I had. I love how my feedback matters and I love how I feel like I'm part of a "committee." Because of that feeling and relationship I had, I made a best friend, I made a relationship with someone I respect, I made a group of people that I didn't know at first, a group that made me be comfortable of who I am.

A Picture a Day

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Just a site where I'm posting pictures everyday for a year and maybe some more after that I started it on Dec 24, 2010. Check it out and follow me on Tumblr!

I Just Found Where I Want to Retire

Just at work and I get bored so I go to food or photo blogs to keep me going throughout the day. Today I found Amalfi Coast in Italy. I fell in love with this town just going through these pictures and realize that this will be the place where I settle down...

You can find more pictures at the address below
http://www.pbase.com/chuy/amalfi_

Pictures from Marisa Haralson
PBase Profile

Debt

Being an adult sucks. I have to say I really hate New Years Resolutions because no one ever follows through but maybe I'll try it out this year. I am so ready to get out of debt and I think this year is the year to finally do that. I don't think I really spend too much through the week, it's just the weekend that kills me every time. During the work week I just go to work and go home and that's pretty much all of it, but during the weekend I'm always having to go out and buy up the bar or spend money on shots for the whole gang. Sometimes I would end up the next day checking my bank account seeing there's 100 bucks from just one night alone.

I'm definitely going to be tighter with my money. I just signed up for Mint.com which goes through my bank account and credit cards and it helps me with budgeting and telling me how much I need to be paying each month on my cards. It's a pretty neat site and I never really knew how much my spending really was until I had the site basically tell me. What I blogged about in a couple post back was that I was wanting to travel a lot more and see more of the world but I think before I can really do that is to get out of own personal debt.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Censoring

So I was on Twitter today and noticed that Huckleberry Finn was a Trending topic. Apparently they're thinking about censoring the "N Word" on all copies of the book. I have to say as much as I dislike the "N" word I don't think it should be censored that is a right to free speech and back when it was written they used that and it's part of American History. We shouldn't cloud young people's minds like this, I feel they should have every right to know their history that the world isn't as cream filled as their innocent minds think.