Boring Schmoring

I read enough of these posts, but I really think it is needed:

To the few people that occasionally read my blog, I'm sorry my blog has been crap as of late. I will do some fun stuff this week so I can have an awesome blog. Promise.

Waking Up

There are morning people in this world. And then there is me. This is what I feel like pretty much every day. Except I am not waking up with Jennifer Aniston.

How Awesome Is This

I know it's kinda long, but one of the coolest things you will see in a while.

Taking a Break from Taking a Break

After I came back from my time in Fort Worth, I had a rough few months. Some of the lowest of my life for different reasons. I wasn't working. I applied for probably thirty jobs and didn't get any of them. I couldn't apply for summer semester at ASU because they didn't have a transcript of mine. Then I was shot down when I applied for the fall. I couldn't date cause, well, I was a loser. I just did a bunch of nothing. I contributed very little to the world. I felt like this really:



Things have definitely taken a turn for the better. Security work picked up dramatically and I was pretty busy for most of November, December, and January. ASU let me back in. I like my classes. Even better, I'm doing really well in my classes. I might actually graduate one of these days.

Things definitely aren't perfect now. I still have my own issues. I still have no idea what I am going to do with a degree when I get it. My mom still thinks I need to be on Ritalin. But I feel like there is actually some progress in my life. I am really happy with a lot of things. And that is really nice for the moment.

Throwing the Diet Out the Window

Through high school I weighed about 175 pounds. I ate like garbage. With the exception of the very healthy dinners my mother made me, I really lived mostly off of Jack in the Box, Fiesta Ole, McDonalds, corndogs, Totino's Party Pizzas, ramen noodles, and canned ravioli. Yep. And I played football and worked out, and I looked awesome.

Then I went on my mission and I got fat. A few months in I stepped onto a scale in a hospital and I was 197.7 pounds!! Luckily I lost a pound or two before I went home. And then another bunch right after I got home and found my nice 175 pound range again.

Then I had jaw surgery. I dropped to 158. I felt like I was dying. In the three years since then I was back up to almost 170. The other day though I stepped on the scale at a whopping 159.5. Crap.

So I bought some weight gainer. One little shake has a whopping 800 calories. Maybe with this I can actually have an acceptable number of calories in a day. Then I won't die. I am also going to start to eat more crap. More Party Pizzas I think.

Sleeping Potion

I don't really take medicine that often. Despite that, I feel like I have a relatively high tolerance for drugs. When I had jaw surgery three years ago, I was taking something for it every few hours and it didn't seem to hardly touch the pain. I occasionally take sleeping pills (like once or twice a month). When I do, I usually take two Unisoms because one really doesn't do much for me. If I decide to go the natural route, I will take three melatonin before I feel anything. The other night I decided that I should combine those. One Unisom + two melatonin = Brad hardly able to stand up in a half an hour. And it was awesome! I have since realized that that is what Christin and Adam feel like every night. I am still a little in awe of that feeling. Really the only times I can remember it occurring naturally to me is after staying up all night.

With that I just want to say I really wish I felt it more often. I have laid in bed for almost an hour every night this week before falling asleep and I am getting sick of it.

The Last Rainforest

Avatar has become one of, if not THE, highest grossing movies of all time. I asked a friend about it a few days ago and he told me it was really just a souped up Fern Gully. I saw it tonight, and yes it is incredible and the IMAX 3D experience is something well worth the $10 ticket, but ... he was exactly right. In fact if you begin to type "Avatar F" into google, Fern Gully is the first to come up suggested. If you actually search for it, you find dozens of these remade trailers of one of the first tree-hugging movies ever made. It would be funnier if you had seen the movie and understand how RIDICULOUSLY similar the story lines are, but you still get the idea.