The Life Beyond Mediocrity

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Well, it's not THAT new.
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I wish I'd kept up with mine since January like I meant to.
Oh well!

Anyway.

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Anything else new...
Hmm... I think I start on the line this week at work.
But, I don't think I'll be sticking around much longer anyway.
Probably gonna put my two weeks in, Mid-May.
My parents reminded me that I have full-time available to me in their business.

It's so much more freedom.
SO much more than most kids my age get, so I'm gonna hop on that.
I'd be stupid not to.
To waste my days trapped inside the restaurant.
Bummmmer.
And, the only reason I even started working there was to get my bike and feel like I actually earned it.
Working on my own and not having the work handed to me from my parents.
A little lesson in growing up.
And come that tail end of May, first of June...
I'll have my bike and my goal reached.
Not to mention a whole new group of friends I never would have met had I not started there.
Experiences I would have missed.
BLINK. I would have missed Blink 182.
That... At this point, is unimaginable.
Many, many times, laughs and experiences are at this point, unimaginable.

But, they don't have to be, because they happened.
And, I guess I have someone and something to thank for that.
But, I'm not quite sure what.
So, as always: Thank you, Universe.

I talk of growing up, way to soon.
Like I'm ready.
Because I am ready.
For the next chapter and the next part of my life.
"It builds Character." They say.
And with just under a year of character building under my belt at that place, I feel like I've pulled all I can from it, and I'm thankful for it.
But, I won't get trapped there for the next 8 years of my life, like so many there have.
Get drawn in and get comfortable. Content.
I won't wake up one day, realize I'm 26 and be at the same mediocre place I was when I was 17.
I won't be content with mediocrity.
School... College, in it's academic, institutionalized form may not be for me.

But that won't mean I'll become content with life in it's present form.
That's not to say that I'm not happy.
Because I am.
So happy.
SO much happier than I've felt in a long while.
I finally feel like things are right where they should be.
Nothing is a touch out of key or a step out of line.
I won't though, become stagnant and allow things to become that way.
In all it's cliche, I will be a student of life.
Learning, growing, loving, being.
I am, that student.
Will continue to pursue, to do.

I'm just ready for that next step.

Next chapter in my book.
I'm ready to surround myself with people of the same.

That maturity.

I'm not calling myself wise, but to be surrounded by those who share, for the lack of a better, wisdom.

To see that the life laid out in front of them is not set in stone.
Nor will it ever be.

But like a rolling ocean, it comes in fluid, malleable.
Sometimes it'll crash in hard, in waves.
And then it'll roll in softly, the surf splashing and bubbling.
Calming.
Every day changing, every day bring something new.

Something for you to seize.
For you to live.

Stay safe.

_jakoby

Music For Ya'.

Love this dude.
Love this song.

Love this video.

The Drops of Rain, They Fall All Over...

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One small thing!

This video.
It gave me goosebumps.
I dunno why.
This was kind of my album there for a little while!
Lotsa' memories and meaning in these jams!

Stay safe.

_jakoby

The Morning After.

And I'm glad I didn't.
Things almost got unreal.

And I felt it, so I didn't post it.
And this morning, I feel better for it.
I've found that to be the best medicine and cure for just about everything.

Emotional to physical.
Just sleep on it.
Let your head clear and see how you feel at the dawn of a new day.
You'll be amazed at the clarity.
Oh, and when I say "dawn", I literally mean dawn. For me at least.
Was up dark and early at a heavenly hour of 6am.
Not quite sure why I was so awake.
But, I definitely was.
Made some oatmeal. Tasted like shit.

Threw it away.
Handled some business/banking type shiz.
Watched Pirates of the Caribbean.
And here I am now.

Haha, a typo made me think of a joke!

Since Johnny Depp is the only original cast member signed on for number 4, do you think they'll just call it Pirate of the Caribbean?
#lamejoke
Since the invention of and my discovery of Twitter, I've began to use their processes in every day text/speech/blog.
As in... Hashtags, and @'s.
Sometimes the world would be more clear if everything were as blunt and to the point as 140 demands that you be.
Currently listening to this band, A Bird A Sparrow.
I italicized "band", 'cause I think it's only one dude, but then he also has a solo project under just his name, so I'm not really sure... Confuses me a little.
But, at any rate it's pretty good stuff! Give it the ol' look up on Myspace, which I feel is only good for music these days.
And 14 year old whores.
Which of course, I my two favorite subjects.
I kid.
I only like one of those things.
Ugh, direction change.
My stomach is a wreck! And has been for a week now.
I'm never drinking again.
Until the next time.
Haha, but yiiiiikes.
I don't know what the deal is.

I'd understand the next day rumbles, but a week? For two nights?
I'm not getting a deal here.
Speaking of those nights...
I once held a stripper's hair back as she railed lines off the beer-pong table.
#LOVE

Haha.
Nooo... She's not professionally a stripper, I just like to call her that instead.

It's a compliment.

Welp, the day is young.

And I'm not quite sure what to do today.
Second day off in a row.
Luuuccckky.
A positively gray day and I do enjoy that. Thoroughly.

Got my blinds open and all I can see from my view is the gray sky.

NO complaints.
So, I think I'm gonna grab some chai, sit back down at this computer and work on Big Bang Theory for the next couple hours.
It's coming along and sounding exactly as I want it.
This Rebirth is coming along just nicely.
Oh, and thank you for my chai.

This can is still going strong.

Think I'm gonna aim to start, starting all my days around 6.
SO much more time.

Oh, and... I start a lot of sentences with "but" and "and", isn't that a big English no-no?
Oh well, they seem to be the best sentence starters.
So, eff off English majors.

Stay safe.

_jakoby