30 Days of Me: Fictional Book

So it looks like we have some book posts coming up, which may be a challenge for me. But if I had to pick a fictional book, I would go with The Husband by Dean Koontz.

My uncle actually slid this book to me after he always asks me when I visit LA if I "have read anything lately." He told me I would like this one and I started reading it when my plane left the Burbank airport on my way back to Alabama and by the time I landed I was halfway finished.

It was great. I know I'm going to sound like a book-reading rookie, but it read like a movie. I could see everything that was going so vividly and it kept me interested the entire time.

I can't really tell you what it's about because except a man's wife gets kidnapped. Anything else would be spoiling, but it actually inspired my roommate to pick up a lot more books by the same author.

30 Days of Me: Nothing Update

Today is a "tickle your fancy" and/or "freestyle day."

I have nothing creative to post about, so I will just go on a life update.

*I am watching the pre-game for the USA vs. England match as we speak. I tuned in an hour early. Whoops.

*I got the Green Day Rock Band game... and love it. The band may have their haters, but I am not one of them.

*Went to a concert on Tuesday with headliner Emery. If you want to read about the details, do it here. But my cool story is that the opening band was really good and I got to talking to them and they might come in to the studio in the future which would be really awesome.

*I see blogger has some new templates. I may have to mess with those because finding ones on the internet is frustrating sometimes. And I especially am inspired after jeanette's update.

*Something interesting happened last night. I'm not sure I can really go into detail about it, but it has to do with a subject I have talked about in the past.

Well, I'm gonna check out this game. And then spend my weekend playing video games, doing random clean up around the house and hopefully watching Pirate Radio.

30 Days of Me: Recent Photo

Today's assignment: a recent photo of yourself. How about as recent as 1 minute ago?

Sorry this picture sucks, I'm not used to doing self-portraits with a webcam. But the main thing to discuss is that it's "casual Friday" at work so I am sporting my USA soccer shirt in anticipation of tomorrow's game with England.

As to why I'm covering my mouth? I don't know, it's early...

30 Days of Me: Old Photo

For today's post, I had to find a pic of me that was from over ten years ago. I'm glad the option was for "over" because I had a lot of old pics but they were on a computer that broke. I fear I have lost them forever.

With that said, this pic was taken about 22 years ago. I love it because that's pretty much how I sleep now -- passed the F out.

30 Days of Me: Photo I Took

*It's 2:30 in the morning. I should not be up. But I'm posting this so hopefully people can see it during the day if they want.

Today's post is a photo we took ourselves. I've never been one of those people that is really great at photography, like some of my excellent bloggers, but I did always like this pic. It was taken at some beach near LA in the summer of 2005. It was just a really good day spent with my family and I feel like I captured things pretty decent here.

At times, this has been used as my desktop background and I think this was about the time I started to fall in love with the beach.

30 Days of Me: Angry Photo

*Today's assignment was to post a photo that makes you angry. You may be asking yourself "what could possibly make you angry at this picture?"

The answer?

My brother-in-law is offering to take a picture with me because he knew I was mad. He knew that this would make things temporarily better because a) he rarely takes pics and b) c'mon, we take a good picture.

But I wasn't pissed at him. I was pissed at my girlfriend.

This was 4th of July weekend. We had all gone down to Crestview, Florida to watch a UFC fight. My girlfriend came with me so we could spend some time together after her moving back home for the summer.

*Before I go on, I have to say if I offend anybody in the following paragraphs, I am truly sorry. This is just my opinion on a subject I have dealt with all my life.

One of the things we started to have disagreements on was her smoking. I can compromise on a lot of things. But if I am going to be in a relationship with you, it is going to be known that I am not going to be a supporter of you smoking. Simple answer? It's nasty. Even more simpler answer? I don't want you to die.

She started off saying that she only smoked when she drank because it made her more drunk. This was a time period when I had only drank like two times (since then, my number has increased by about four or five). I'm not stating a belief; just saying that I didn't understand that logic. But I let it go.

Regardless of how anyone feels about it, I can't hide the fact that smoking bothers me. It has made just about everyone in my family sick and to this day still has control over my sister. So I tried to deal with it and get her to at least not do it around me.

So back to the get together. My sister is outside smoking and the door swings open and I see that my girlfriend has one of my sister's cigarettes. I just couldn't shake the funk I got in after seeing that.

We ended up fighting about it the entire drive home. We actually stopped to eat and I explained to her just how much it meant to me. I thought I had gotten through to her. Little did I know I just sealed my own fate. 4th of July 2008 is the pinpoint date that our relationship fell apart.

We broke up the next month (August) and began a time period of a whirlwind of emotions that would last until the following March when she started dating someone else. I guess you can say there is still debris that we are dealing with now, but it has gotten better.

Looking back, did I over react? Probably. But I can't help but think I had to stick to one of my few beliefs in this world.

And that is the long and complicated story of why a seemingly good picture can bring up so many bad memories and make me "angry."

30 Days of Me: Happy Photo

*Today's post is a "photo that makes you happy." This pictures is Shedrick and I at one of our high school pep rallies. I can't even explain how much fun that was, hopefully the picture kind of shows it.