So...I've started a new exercise regime. Ok, not started yet, but I'm planning on it. It's been an interesting ride these past few months. One that I've had to take lying down unfortunately. Life gets you down sometimes, you know?
I'm sorry I had to bring you all down while going through it. But I like to blog and I like to write, so I felt like I needed to express myself through this medium.
However, I'm beginning to take the road which will lead me out of my funk. I'm taking the necessary steps for me to feel better about my life and just stop making excuses for everything that's happened to me. I can't use my situation as an excuse because if I do that then the others will have won. The people who say that I can't do something, or that I will never amount to anything. I know in my heart and soul that isn't true about myself. I know I'm meant to be great and do great things. Which doesn't always mean fame or lots of money (although that is something I've always secretly wished for myself.)
Sometimes it means bouncing back from horrors or atrocities in life and just saying, "I got through it. What else do you have for me, life?"
It's not what you do in life but how you come back from what life throws at you, that tells your true character. Ok, so maybe I'm not the strongest and I haven't been in the past. But all of that ends when I say it does. I have always had the power to control what I do in my life and where it goes. I've let things just 'happen' to me while I idly let them happen. Well this time now, the time meant for recovery and for me to bounce back, will not just be another thing that goes wrong and 'happens' to me. I recognize the need for self assurance and action.
That's what I'm doing now. Getting back on track and focusing on my life and how I can improve it. I'm starting school again. Just a few more kinks in the process and I'm on my way to getting readmitted to KU - something I should have started a long while ago. Now I'm trying to get the body and the health that I've always craved. I know what I want and I'm going to get it. I want to have the slim shape and internal well being that I've never had in my life before. So wish me luck! I'm starting a work out blog if you all are interested in reading that! I'll post the link soon.
Basically I'm working for four or five months to lose as much weight as I can. Then in September I'm going on a trip with my mother over a long weekend to Oregon. I feel like once I reach that point, it's all gravy after that. I should be back in school and getting the education benefits. So that's all I'm looking forward to.
All this time has left me with the ability to write more often and I'm thankful for that. I have to visit the projects that I've been putting of in lieu of other things. I've been posting my fan works on various sites and they are all getting really positive feedback, but now I want to focus on original works. I have two chapters written of a novel that has been in the works for a couple of years now. It all comes down to the execution now.
Also in the works: I've recently read a book called, "Before I Fall," by Lauren Oliver and it is such a wonderful reading experience! If you have a chance, go ahead and read it because you will not regret it. It's a hard hitting look at life and the things we all take for granted and the opportunities we miss because of things we think we want. We get in our own way a lot of the time, to having the life we want for ourselves. So you can see why this book would resonate with me. I wrote the author in hopes that I could turn it into a film adaptation but we'll see where that goes.
I've been in a really creative mood lately and I'm itching to film something. Or perhaps make some jewelry. I'm always inclined to make jewelry at the current moment. I think that if I can make enough then I will sell a few key pieces on facebook. I know a lot of people have this hobby but I really enjoy doing it and I wouldn't mind making money off of it.
Oh! I got a new car recently. Well it isn't new but it's new to me. The car is a '98 Ford Tauras and it's white. I saved up money off the top of my allowance to get it and thankfully the auction (Purple Wave) that I bought it from, had kept the prices pretty decent. I mean it looked for a moment as if someone else was going to outbid me on it, but I pushed for it and with a little help I was able to grab the winning bid. So thanks to ma mere!
Now I have to return my old car to my father. His name is on the title and all of that. I need to have him switch insurance over to it and also to register it. So lots to do in that department. It still needs to have it's interiors cleaned, which I will probably do myself and it needs to go through a car wash, but other than that it's perfect. I'm certainly not complaining since my other one was falling apart.
I've been having offers for roommates from two seperate people and I'm more inclined to go with one over the other - but either way it looks like I'm moving again. I know, I know. I can't seem to stay in one place longer than six months eh? But I figure that I'm young and in college, so that's to be expected for someone living off campus. After this roommate experience hopefully I'll be able to just settle down for a few years somewhere. Maybe in a house or something (with roommates obviously). The point is to keep the cost down.
Well that's pretty much it from my corner these days. Just taking life one day at a time and trying to enjoy it the best I can. I'm working towards getting myself together and it isn't an easy process but...I have faith that I'll get there. I have the fact that I'm still an eternal optimist on my side. You can't keep a good gay man down for long.
That's all.
-J-
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