christmas break

well well well... i suppose it's been a while..

I would like to say that i've been so busy on my christmas break that i just couldn't find the time to write... but that would be a lie.. actually i haven't been doing much of anything... besides spending money,, laying around, occasionally working out,, buying books but not reading them,, looking at my guitars but not playing them,, etc. etc...

i did travel to arkansas for a wedding though.. I actually had a whole blog worked out in my head to dedicate solely to that trip,, but it's all gone now... i will say that it was a nice drive,, and that i saw a carnival tent set up on the highway that appeared to have people living out of it.. quite a sight..

and then there was new years eve.. I got to see ghostland observatory again.. as usual,, they put on a bad ass show.. pretty cool environment too,, and i used the occasion to showcase my new blazer (one of the christmas presents for myself)... however afterward I fell asleep on a train and ended up in south dallas.. at 3 am... stranded.. the cab companies were so busy that they wouldn't even talk to you on the phone... We almost had to sleep in a hospital lobby,, but eventually a cab did stop,, and we did make it back to our hotel..

and now,, here i sit.. a week away from my next semester,, flat broke,, wondering how i'm going to pay for books.. and how i'll make it through the semester without starving.. or strangling one of my roommates.. last semester at this time i had four thousand dollars saved up to survive the following three months of part-time wages... currently i have seven hundred... but hey,, i always seem to find a way to pull through... I should mention that there is a brand new engine sitting in my garage, that came with a hefty price tag.. perhaps i should have thought that one over a little while longer..

i think my mood is a little sour today,,, perhaps due to the fact that it's monday and i didn't get to work.. as i was driving to the office this morning i received a call from my superior, who stated that the roads were bad and we were going to wait a couple hours to go in... as he was saying this, i was traveling down the highway at approximately 70 miles per hour.. no ice or snow in sight.. but i said "ok" and turned around... i proceeded to snooze on the couch and wait for the call to go in,, which never came... to make matters worse i would have been on overtime today because our pay period ends on monday and i had worked a full day saturday...

oh well...

speaking of saturday,, i played disc golf for the first time in probably 7 years... it doesn't just come right back like one might expect... but it was still fun.. think i'll start playing again..

anyhow,, i think i'm going to curl up with a book.. one of the many i've bought over the past month with full intentions of reading before the semester starts...


and yes,, i'm aware that this blog is really lack-luster... no grand ideas or jokes. but hey,, they can't all be award winners..