the vinnie stream

In less than six weeks I’m turning our lives upside down and I sure hope it ends up working out for the better.

Two more days…

I worked outside of my house the last two days. I’m going out to dinner tonight. I’m going on vacation in a couple of weeks.

Having a life is weird.

A sincere plea

weselec:

For myself, and on behalf of those others fortunate enough to be able to spend some downtime each day browsing the web from work, I beg you: think before you reblog. It’s easy to identify and unfollow those who make trouble for me by posting their own tits. I’d prefer not to worry about people reposting somebody else’s tits too. Link OUT to that stuff, and label it NSFW. Please. This should be obvious by now.

When your blog’s title has a reference to drinking urine I think a stray titty is the least of your problems.

If the first 36 hours of this year are any indication, I’m going to be spending a lot of 2010 cleaning up the messes I made in 2009.

Best of times, worst of times

Worst years for me this decade:

• 2001 - Got my first failing grade ever in any class, right before I was supposed to graduate.
• 2002 - Lost my great grandfather on my father’s side one June day.
• 2003 - Lost my great grandfather on my mother’s side one June day.
• 2004 - Got fired from a crazy-paying job that killed my self-esteem for a long time, worked at an airport for a while to make ends meet.
• 2006 - My wife lost her grandfather, who was the only man in her life that wasn’t me and pretty much raised her as his daughter. My dad lost one of his best friends for the previous 20 years to cancer. My family lost the dog we had since I was in 8th grade, also to cancer.
• 2008 - Moved across the country AGAIN to be with family. Realized I moved to a corporate office park vanilla city that I don’t like very much and fucked myself by buying a house 2 months before the financial world went to hell. My family doesn’t understand why I don’t like it here and they probably never will, which to this day creates the tension that I hoped to avoid by moving up here in the first place.
• 2009 - Learning that the true value of a house is what someone is willing to pay for it, as long as there’s someone willing to pay for it, and that doesn’t apply to this house.

Best years for me this decade:

• 2002 - finished college, got my first “real” job, got my first new-to-anyone car, partied like a rockstar.
• 2004 - got a crazy-paying job (to me anyway), got married, moved across the country without much of a plan and without many cares.
• 2006 - Took a huge risk by moving to Florida without a job lined up and handing in my resignation at my workplace. Rather than accept my resignation, they offered me a deal I couldn’t refuse. Still working there to this day.
• 2007 - Living the dream in sunny south Florida with a telecommuting job and little to worry about.
• 2008 - My kid was born this year. Duh.
• 2009 - Coming to terms with where I live and realizing that even though there’s a lot of stupid shit here, there are a few cool people here that I’ve met and call friends, even if I don’t hang out with them often. Hoping I can change that in 2010.

Yes, I realize that many of my best and worst years are the same years. Life likes to hand me diamonds and lumps of shit at the same time and honestly I prefer it that way. Better than the dull monotony of a flatlining life.

GOALS FOR 2010

1. Have less shit. I don’t need all the crap I have.
2. Do more shit. Explore the world.
3. Don’t be such a shithead.

Maybe next year won’t be so full of shit?