...still alive
So I knew I'd be back to typing another entry one day, though perhaps not 96 weeks later!
I stumbled upon a link to live journal on accident not too long ago and to my delight was able to log in(after several failed attempts at my old password). Since then I've been glancing through all my 200 something entries that trace back to age 13. I'm really glad that I was so active in my writing over those years. It is extremely rewarding to look back at some of the fond memories I documented while at the same time observe how I've matured and grown up a bit. Even the comment conversations seem to capture a part of me that I almost forgot about. God I feel old...
...Which brings me to the present. I turned 18 back in January and am currently awaiting Highschool graduation with little patience. Most of my time lately is occupied with work, school, working out, and of course spending time with all my still-awesome friends (being the social butterfly that I am :p). I work at Blockbuster now as a Customer Service Representative (its not as fancy as it sounds, I just check in movies and shit), and am loving the job! Aside from making $9.50 an hour, free movie and game rentals are a major perk. From reading through old entries, its obvious I longed for this job since before I knew jack-shit about work ethic. I'm glad theres at least one goal I followed through with since then :D
As for working out, my parents bought me a gym membership for Christmas and one thing led to another. I fell into a significantly healthy lifestyle and ended up loosing around 38 lbs, and still counting! I've become pretty addicted to running and the natural high it offers and am generally much more happy with myself than I used to be. I had been becoming gradually more self conscious about being somewhat overweight last year and am glad I developed the will power to change things. In doing so I've learned a lot about self discipline and productivity, and feel that aside from looking better I've acquired a good attitude to step out of High School with.
Below is a picture of me from about two months ago thats really the most recent picture I could dig up in my files, followed by a picture of chubby Max taken last Summer!
VS
And man I missed using HTML...^_^
Right so...as far as my friends go, I am happy to say they are all the same people and then some. It seems that senior year has brought a ridiculous number of new faces into my life. I've had several other jobs since my last entry- On the Border, Mellow Mushroom, Tropical Smoothie- and have made a lot of good friends through those alone, on top of the many new people I've met at school. I feel like I've taken advantage of my last year at Brookwood and befriended all the people that I would care to. As if that wasn't enough, I have a new wonderful girlfriend as of three weeks ago. Or perhaps I shouldn't say 'new', as I dated her Freshman year, but either way the years have been kind to both of us and now I sense a strong connection. Life is good..
Of course- life isn't perfect. My main issue right now is graduating on time and walking with my class, which has just introduced itself as what seems to be an impossibility. Some of my online credits fucked up- and my school is just fucking lame in general (theres the rebel in me talking). So anyway, it looks like I wont be receiving my diploma with the hundreds of kids I've been in school with since day 1, but I guess I'll get over the embarrassment. I will still graduate this Summer and go on to college in August...
Speaking of which, I'll be attending Georgia Perimeter for my first year to knock out my Core classes and boost my GPA, then going on somewhere to study music. Ah, music. Yes I'm still a striving musician who will be trying to make ends meet doing so when I'm living on my own. My old band, Surreal, whom I spoke of often in the entries below, will be printing an album at the end of this month. Our singer, Corey, has been working on mixing and tweaking our recordings up at Berklee all this year, and has finally been able to hook us up with some professional mixing dudes. I couldn't be more excited about this...of course we are no longer really a performing band, but it will be incredibly rewarding to have these songs to enjoy forever.
I think I am up to 7 or 8 paragraphs now, so I'm gonna go ahead and call it quits. I miss all my old LJ buddies and would love to hear from some of you, so please hit me with a comment! ^_^
One more thing...I got this huge tatoo finished a few weeks ago that I'll post a picture of below. My sister drew it, the music shown is the vocal melody in the chorus of Across the Universe by The Beatles. Hope you like it (I know I do, which is all that matters!) :)
I stumbled upon a link to live journal on accident not too long ago and to my delight was able to log in(after several failed attempts at my old password). Since then I've been glancing through all my 200 something entries that trace back to age 13. I'm really glad that I was so active in my writing over those years. It is extremely rewarding to look back at some of the fond memories I documented while at the same time observe how I've matured and grown up a bit. Even the comment conversations seem to capture a part of me that I almost forgot about. God I feel old...
...Which brings me to the present. I turned 18 back in January and am currently awaiting Highschool graduation with little patience. Most of my time lately is occupied with work, school, working out, and of course spending time with all my still-awesome friends (being the social butterfly that I am :p). I work at Blockbuster now as a Customer Service Representative (its not as fancy as it sounds, I just check in movies and shit), and am loving the job! Aside from making $9.50 an hour, free movie and game rentals are a major perk. From reading through old entries, its obvious I longed for this job since before I knew jack-shit about work ethic. I'm glad theres at least one goal I followed through with since then :D
As for working out, my parents bought me a gym membership for Christmas and one thing led to another. I fell into a significantly healthy lifestyle and ended up loosing around 38 lbs, and still counting! I've become pretty addicted to running and the natural high it offers and am generally much more happy with myself than I used to be. I had been becoming gradually more self conscious about being somewhat overweight last year and am glad I developed the will power to change things. In doing so I've learned a lot about self discipline and productivity, and feel that aside from looking better I've acquired a good attitude to step out of High School with.
Below is a picture of me from about two months ago thats really the most recent picture I could dig up in my files, followed by a picture of chubby Max taken last Summer!
VS
And man I missed using HTML...^_^
Right so...as far as my friends go, I am happy to say they are all the same people and then some. It seems that senior year has brought a ridiculous number of new faces into my life. I've had several other jobs since my last entry- On the Border, Mellow Mushroom, Tropical Smoothie- and have made a lot of good friends through those alone, on top of the many new people I've met at school. I feel like I've taken advantage of my last year at Brookwood and befriended all the people that I would care to. As if that wasn't enough, I have a new wonderful girlfriend as of three weeks ago. Or perhaps I shouldn't say 'new', as I dated her Freshman year, but either way the years have been kind to both of us and now I sense a strong connection. Life is good..
Of course- life isn't perfect. My main issue right now is graduating on time and walking with my class, which has just introduced itself as what seems to be an impossibility. Some of my online credits fucked up- and my school is just fucking lame in general (theres the rebel in me talking). So anyway, it looks like I wont be receiving my diploma with the hundreds of kids I've been in school with since day 1, but I guess I'll get over the embarrassment. I will still graduate this Summer and go on to college in August...
Speaking of which, I'll be attending Georgia Perimeter for my first year to knock out my Core classes and boost my GPA, then going on somewhere to study music. Ah, music. Yes I'm still a striving musician who will be trying to make ends meet doing so when I'm living on my own. My old band, Surreal, whom I spoke of often in the entries below, will be printing an album at the end of this month. Our singer, Corey, has been working on mixing and tweaking our recordings up at Berklee all this year, and has finally been able to hook us up with some professional mixing dudes. I couldn't be more excited about this...of course we are no longer really a performing band, but it will be incredibly rewarding to have these songs to enjoy forever.
I think I am up to 7 or 8 paragraphs now, so I'm gonna go ahead and call it quits. I miss all my old LJ buddies and would love to hear from some of you, so please hit me with a comment! ^_^
One more thing...I got this huge tatoo finished a few weeks ago that I'll post a picture of below. My sister drew it, the music shown is the vocal melody in the chorus of Across the Universe by The Beatles. Hope you like it (I know I do, which is all that matters!) :)