Happy ThanksGiving Folks

Goodness, it's Monday Thursday so soon! Someone needs to slow this train down cause I'm getting motion sickness!

So I've been debating what to post for this week. A photo? A story? A commentary on how Thanksgiving is the skipped holiday because there is no money to be made? I liked the idea of making it centered around this particular week.

We've got Thanksgiving, the forgotten holiday. And there's black Friday, the retail workers dreaded D-Day. Plenty to write right?

But it occurred to me, that there was a very simple thing which I could do that I feel like gets forgotten in modern American culture. Thinking about what I'm thankful for.

So, what am I thankful for this year?

I am thankful for Sam, who became my fiancee this year. (Really glad she said yes!)

I am thankful that her family liked me enough to both take me on an amazing road trip, and allow me to marry their daughter.

I am thankful that Jonathan helped me get a nice job at one of the better restaurants in the city.

I am thankful for my mother and Mike because in addition to buy me a giant box of nerds which has lasted me since last Christmas, they also got me the camera that I've been taking photographs with all year. The quality is outstanding.

I am thankful to be able to go to school. School sucks sometimes. Debt sucks always. But honestly I know how lucky I am.

I am thankful that I can finally start affording to get my teeth fixed up.


So I know that this list might seem pretty short, and it kinda is, but I'm only saying what I'm thankful for this year because if I did more I'd just end up sounding like a cheesy Thanksgiving special. And I'm only doing major events because it's how I'll remember this year. And only stuff pertaining to me, but don't for a second doubt that I'm not thankful for others happiness too! My mother's health. My fiancee's aquatic addiction (fish). My friend's relationship. Etc.

Have A Happy Thanksgiving and a Safe Black Friday,
Timothy

Inarticulate Ramblings Part II

I haven't gone to sleep yet so it's still Monday! Which means this post is still in time! And means I've caught my blog back up to the correct week! (The editor in me cringes from all the exclamation points.)

So this is a rambling post, which lets be honest can sometimes be the most interesting. 

And no, I'm not just filling space, I actually have quite a few plans for this blog. Future posts.

Okay, so first off lets talk about the blog itself. I feel like a blog will only be successful if it has a goal or purpose. So far I'm not sure if this blog is following any definite trail or is just wandering around in the woods of the web. I've got a lot of photography and quite a few stories and some personal opinion pieces. I guess that's a good start.

Actually that's a great start! The pilot episode is always all over the place, introducing the range of the show right? That's what I've been doing so far. 

Did I ever tell you I co-wrote a TV show? Just a little though. Script writing is too annoying for me. I just like character detailing. 

But the question remains, where do I go from here and is there more I want to do?

Part One - I don't know! I haven't even been doing this for half a year yet. How do I know where to go? I'm still testing the water. What do people (you) like most? The photography? The trail reviews? My occasional rants (of which I want to post more often but am so hesitant to)? I just don't know yet. I'll just try to keep on keeping on posting once a week. We'll return to this later. 

Part Two - Okay, so this has been building up to this actually. I've been chewing over the idea of writing a blog story! I've done it before, rather successfully actually. 

This blog (the blog I wrote a story on) has remained silent for many years now. Written back in High School (Pre-Meyer, thank you very much. Rice Era!) it got quite complicated when the girl I was dating at the time became the main female in the story, there was a baby hoax in the story which leaked to real life, then me and that girl ended things. So I just walked away, swore I'd never write people into stories again. Then I met my fiancee (she was the one with the yellow umbrella) and the rest is history in the making. 

Anyways if you want to check it out ----> Living With Lycanthropyh Lycanthropy <------

Be warned, it's as bad and as good as you'd expect. Possibly more.

I LOVED writing it though. Developing the characters in a paced way, kinda like they do with sitcoms, web comics, book series, etc. And I kinda want to do that again. I miss writing. 

But now I'm tasked with the question of should I. Right now, my core readership is about three or four people that I know of(THANKS GUYS), and I'd like to expand that. Would a story help or hinder? It wouldn't be all I did of course, it'd be additional to the content I already provide. 

And the second question to this sub-question to the main question I asked at the beginning of the post (I told you this would be inarticulate ramblings, I told you.) What would I be writing? 

I'm a sucker for werewolf/vampire fiction but lets be honest I think we (as in book lovers) are getting somewhat tired of it. Plus I've already done it before. It might be fun to try and redo Living With Lycanthropy (love this title, best title I've ever come up with, probably) but I think it'll remain on the table for now. 

I've been playing with the idea of a dystopian technologic world, set mostly underground with grungy characters and cool gizmos. I've never really written anything tech though, I'm usually a more medieval/organic author doused in fantasy so it'd be a challenge. 

What do you guys think? What would you like? What is your opinion? JUST COMMENT DAMN IT! (Thank you to the guys who have. Makes my week to see a single comment on any post.) 

Is lets actually a word? It's a contraction so I probably should use an apostrophe right? Let's. Let us. Lets. The spell check (got it for you three out there, you know who you are, and you're welcome) does not approve of lets. At all. Grammer nuts and technical writers, what is your opinion?

Whelp, that's all for tonight. Let(')s get some sleep. 

Life -uh- Finds A Way

I couldn't think of a less cheesy and overused title. Sorry 'bout that.

Just a road that got cut off from a main road and nature is slowly reclaiming it. Also, I hid a geocache in the area, so it's a cool little place for some photography. 

The Wisest Men Have No Teeth

Oh geez, time has a habit of getting away from me. I'm not two WEEKS behind with posts. *sigh* A post a week won't be that hard I told myself! Okay, I owe three posts between now and the end of today (It is currently 12:05 Monday morning).

This post is my excuse for not posting last week.

I got my wisdom teeth removed! Now this might not seem like a big deal to most people but I've got quite a few dental problems (poor brushing habits and a massive sweet tooth, curse younger me!) so this was the first step for me. Also, lets face it, I'm just a big kid! 21 an adult does not make. So this is one of the first things I've done with was 100% me (with some prodding from my fiancee of course)

So, I should have guessed from the fact that to get three wisdom teeth removed was only costing me in the ball park of $400 that I wasn't getting put under for the procedure. However it was only until the day or two  before that this fact because terrifyingly obvious to me. I was going to be wide awake for this thing which almost everyone else I talked to say hurt like hell, after they woke up! If it hurt so bad after the fact what would it feel like during?

Oh, and if you're curious why it was only three, it's because my fourth is impacted. The tooth literally grew in at a 90* angle to the other teeth. (Bottom Left) Just my luck.

Please note, that while I wouldn't classify it as a phobia or anything dentists FREAK ME OUT. (I'm writing in capital letters for emphasis.) They always have, always will. They take very sharp looking object and jam it around in my mouth which I have to keep open for ungodly amounts of time trying not to think about what they are doing, which is easier said than done. And it's no small feat to speak when someone has their hand rammed in your jaw playing with your molars!

I digress.

So Sam drove me to the dentist, assuring me that I would hardly be in any condition to walk much less drive and I got situated in the comfy chair and have three match-like sticks with some raspberry flavored goop rubbed on my gums. Shortly afterward the doctors came in with, I kid you not, an almost two-inch long needle and shoved that puppy deep into the flesh of my gums.

And here's the kicker. While all the other teeth only needed about two shots of a numbing agent to be lost to me, one wisdom tooth required six, SIX TWO INCH NEEDLE STABS, before I lost feeling completely. Of course, I was glad the dentist went to such lengths to make sure I'd feel a little as possible.

The rest was actually fairly easy. He'd poke the gums (he told me this, I really didn't feel much) and wiggle the tooth a little before taking a pair of pliers and ripping those teeth out. He gave me a quick lecture about how to care for my bloody sockets and I was out the door feeling hardly worse for wear.

Luckily, while I was feeling fine Sam was wise enough to buy the soft foods and strong meds so when my face regained feeling it wasn't as bad as it might have been. Thank goodness for her!

The first day wasn't so bad. Second day I slept. A lot. And discovered that I'd last exactly 24 hours on a diet of applesauce and jello before my body would start shaking from hunger. Worst part of the whole thing. Third day I worked, was NOT ready for it. I was still on pain meds and so dizzy and drowsy that my co-worker kindly kicked my butt out. Fourth day (Yesterday) I felt pretty much back to normal. I'm no longer in pain or sleepy or unable to open my jaw all the way!

So that's what happened last week. Kinda got in the way of . . . well anything productive, this blog included!