Sunday, April 19, 2009

And Things That I Care Less About

Keeping up with the Joneses
Typical-gays
The next high
The next lay
The GOP
Bible-thin arguments against gay marriage that never prove their point
Email
Being the number one guy in charge
Trying to keep up with people that never cared to keep up with me
Phone calls
Bill collectors
Dwelling on mistakes

Just to name a few.



Random Things That Make Me Happy

Mickey Mouse
Dance/Pop Music
Rollercoasters
A man who really adores me
Buffy
Angel
Charmed
Singing in the car
iPods
Saving money
Starting Grad School
Parents that have shown unconditional love
Being back in DC to see my neice grow up and a new neice or nephew on the way
Building a relationship with my Dad
Sleeping in
Getting up early
The gym and watching me grow naturally
Janet Jackson
Britney Spears
Madonna
The View
Ellen DeGeneres
That I'm not afraid of making mistakes
New friends that have opened my eyes to how life is lived on the other side, away from drama    and drugs.
Hoping that my old friends that are still in drama and drugs may one day come out of that.
$40 haircuts
That I drive a pick-up truck
Talk radio
UFC/MMA
Wikipedia
Entertainment Weekly
TV Shows on DVD
That I got my self-pride back

Another Reboot

Tired of reducing thoughts to a few simple, thought provoking lines on Facebook or 140 tweeting characters, I'm re-embracing my blog. 

I care about what's on my Facebook page status, and society tells me I have to care about posting ad nauseum on Twitter. I care less about what is posted on here, because I don't know how many people out there ever read my blog. I know past friends have, my ex-boyfriend has, an old fraternity brother has, and a few people who felt moved or amused enough to comment back (Thanks! I enjoy the comments.)

I never censored on here, and I don't plan on starting. At this point in my life, if I censored, I'd have nothing to say. Having nothing to say is like not existing. I promise to offend, amuse, stir the pot, call people out, ramble on, etc. 

I was trying to focus energy on writing a book or memoir about my twenties. Not from the "gay" angle, or the "drug" angle, but from the "one foot in front of the other" angle. I'm not defined as gay or recovering addict or male or white; I share those aspects with millions of other people. I am defined by the choices I've made and will continue to make. I chose to let getting high take priority over a lot of real and tangible things during the entire Bush Administration (I think a lot of you did too.) I chose to move to New York, I chose to socialize in a way that would not produce long lasting friendships and I chose to move back and start on a different way of living my life, that is closer and more true to who I am.

The book would have put the last Harry Potter novel to shame in length.

It was to be too self depricating, too self absorbed, too preachy and I didn't want to run the risk of Oprah or Starbucks choosing it as the book of the month.

A book has a begining, middle and end. I'm not finished yet.





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