The new year rang in just like every other, a big ball dropped and i was tipsy. I imagine 2012 will be exactly the same, even though were all supposed to die. There's been a problem though, for the last two years i've been living with cancerous thoughts of regret in my head. I haven't been myself for a while, and i want to get back to being the easy going smart ass i used to be.
I've been living with regret because of the pasts failed decisions that led me down a road of unemployment, lost friends and a renewed drinking problem. It's getting to the point where i have started lashing out at people for trivial and pointless things.
The way i see it, i need to make this a turning point in my life, stop worrying about the past and start thinking about the future. I've already created a five year plan but it's time to really put it into action. On top of that i need to let go of everything that's been troubling me, there's nothing i can do to change it so it's pointless to keep dwelling on it like this. I have a great paying job and some of the best friends and family in the world.
I've learned a lot, some of the past problems were caused by my arrogance, i wont let that happen again. Someone jokingly told me the other day to "be my own man" but it got me thinking A LOT about life. I'm going to be a better person, i wish i could be more like my father but he's a better person than i'll ever be, so i'll have to be content with who i can be.
Life is complicated but i'm figuring it out. Who needs a shrink when you can talk things out on your own right? I hope this day is a turning point for me going forward, i dont see why it shouldn't be.
Josh
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Welcome back me
It was a busy summer, working crazy and weird hours throughout the week and then working the weekends a lot. It didn't leave me much time to do anything, I didn't go on any trips and I didn't have time to write in my precious blog...right...
Anyway, as you can imagine there's been a lot that's pissed me off or influenced my mind a lot lately and you'll probably hear about it. If I get this job with Clifford Jacobs forging working 3pm-11pm I might not have any time to write so i'll make the most of it while I can. In the meantime I also got my Insurance license for Illinois but I didn't realize how hard it was to get started in Insurance, not only are businesses hard to get a meeting with, even your friends and family balk at you even trying to give them advice, that stigma about insurance salesman is so true.
I have a new niece Ava, which is pretty exciting and takes even less pressure off of me to make a grand baby, of course the pressure is still there to carry on the Jacobson name but that can wait.
Blah blah blah this blog is boring Josh, get on to something exciting...well other than kicking ass like i normally do there's not a whole lot else to say you dont already know, the Packers are going to win the superbowl, the Illini Football team is going to a bowl game this year and our basketball team's gonna win a national championship!
And one last thing, Team JJ is 4-0 in this years fantasy football league so far, and i'm looking to take the title...because i'm awesome.
p.s.- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HEIDI AND JEREMY!
Anyway, as you can imagine there's been a lot that's pissed me off or influenced my mind a lot lately and you'll probably hear about it. If I get this job with Clifford Jacobs forging working 3pm-11pm I might not have any time to write so i'll make the most of it while I can. In the meantime I also got my Insurance license for Illinois but I didn't realize how hard it was to get started in Insurance, not only are businesses hard to get a meeting with, even your friends and family balk at you even trying to give them advice, that stigma about insurance salesman is so true.
I have a new niece Ava, which is pretty exciting and takes even less pressure off of me to make a grand baby, of course the pressure is still there to carry on the Jacobson name but that can wait.
Blah blah blah this blog is boring Josh, get on to something exciting...well other than kicking ass like i normally do there's not a whole lot else to say you dont already know, the Packers are going to win the superbowl, the Illini Football team is going to a bowl game this year and our basketball team's gonna win a national championship!
And one last thing, Team JJ is 4-0 in this years fantasy football league so far, and i'm looking to take the title...because i'm awesome.
p.s.- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HEIDI AND JEREMY!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
A Super Sonic thought!
I have channeled my inner Nostradamus and have selected events to foretelling the return of the Seattle Super Sonics basketball team to Washington!
The signs will be as follows!
1) Ken Griffey JR finally retires from baseball and takes up permanent residence in the Seattle area, while here he will take a job as an executive with Nike.
2) Nike executives secretly put one of their own people up for mayor of Seattle, this man will win the election, the citizens will be somewhat oblivious to what's going on.
3) Phil Knight uses his vast resources to build a new 300 million dollar stadium in downtown Seattle claiming for it to be a "Nike athletes training center."
4) Shawn Kemp, Ken Griffey JR and Gary Payton join forces in a coalition for the betterment of Seattle athletics fans lives. Through a fund raising project among the state of Washington and with state legislature funding they are able to raise 140 million dollars, the people by now see what's going on and start to take interest in revitalizing an NBA franchise.
5) Ken Griffey JR subsequently bitch slaps David Stern and the leader of the group called "Citizens for more Important things" Chris Van Dyke. Shockwave felt all over the country and people bow to the greatness that is "The Kid."
6) Upon completion of the new stadium, Nike uses the 140 million dollars that was raised and announces the return of one of the oldest NBA franchises. The money is used to hire a top notch coach and 2 max salary studs who will lead the team to great heights (just not past the Bulls). Ken Griffey JR, Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton have statues erected of them in downtown Seattle, and the people see them as heroes.
This will probably happen, i'm somewhat of a prognosticating genius, and if it doesn't...oh well it's just Seattle.
Stay tuned next week when i discuss the finer points of vehicle maintenance, because i'm tired of people not knowing!
The signs will be as follows!
1) Ken Griffey JR finally retires from baseball and takes up permanent residence in the Seattle area, while here he will take a job as an executive with Nike.
2) Nike executives secretly put one of their own people up for mayor of Seattle, this man will win the election, the citizens will be somewhat oblivious to what's going on.
3) Phil Knight uses his vast resources to build a new 300 million dollar stadium in downtown Seattle claiming for it to be a "Nike athletes training center."
4) Shawn Kemp, Ken Griffey JR and Gary Payton join forces in a coalition for the betterment of Seattle athletics fans lives. Through a fund raising project among the state of Washington and with state legislature funding they are able to raise 140 million dollars, the people by now see what's going on and start to take interest in revitalizing an NBA franchise.
5) Ken Griffey JR subsequently bitch slaps David Stern and the leader of the group called "Citizens for more Important things" Chris Van Dyke. Shockwave felt all over the country and people bow to the greatness that is "The Kid."
6) Upon completion of the new stadium, Nike uses the 140 million dollars that was raised and announces the return of one of the oldest NBA franchises. The money is used to hire a top notch coach and 2 max salary studs who will lead the team to great heights (just not past the Bulls). Ken Griffey JR, Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton have statues erected of them in downtown Seattle, and the people see them as heroes.
This will probably happen, i'm somewhat of a prognosticating genius, and if it doesn't...oh well it's just Seattle.
Stay tuned next week when i discuss the finer points of vehicle maintenance, because i'm tired of people not knowing!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Das ist mein team!!!
So I almost never watch the Olympics, ever. It's not that I find them boring I just find them pointless. No one plays for national pride anymore they play for fame and cash, and some even get endorsements. So I thought, this is only the case in the major sports and huge countries. That's when I had a brainstorm! I'm gonna watch the Olympics and throw my support behind a random tiny country!
My selection process was pretty simple, get a list of the small countries participating and draw a name out of a hat. Ingenious right? So who was the lucky winner of my undying and fanatical support? The great country of Liechtenstein! Population 32,000... Small enough to be an underdog but I was a little concerned because technically they're German speaking people, how would they possibly understand me? It's ok though because they're my team now and it's time to do some research. Crap...the last time they won ANYTHING in the winter Olympics was in 1980 and 1984... Well lets just see what events they're competing in shall we? Alpine Skiing and Bobsleigh...that's it? Ok Bobsleigh it is then, my support will be with Lichtenstein bobsleigher Jürgen Berginz and his crazy team of...well they're going down a mountain in a metal sled at breakneck speeds... winter olympics suck...
So my country is picked and my team is set, the game is on! I hope to see this flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Liechtenstein.svg flying proudly when the dust settles!
I will update this thread after the olympics so I can come back and gloat on the greatness that was Lichtenstein!
Update: So they sucked, but that won't deter me from future predictions or support!
My selection process was pretty simple, get a list of the small countries participating and draw a name out of a hat. Ingenious right? So who was the lucky winner of my undying and fanatical support? The great country of Liechtenstein! Population 32,000... Small enough to be an underdog but I was a little concerned because technically they're German speaking people, how would they possibly understand me? It's ok though because they're my team now and it's time to do some research. Crap...the last time they won ANYTHING in the winter Olympics was in 1980 and 1984... Well lets just see what events they're competing in shall we? Alpine Skiing and Bobsleigh...that's it? Ok Bobsleigh it is then, my support will be with Lichtenstein bobsleigher Jürgen Berginz and his crazy team of...well they're going down a mountain in a metal sled at breakneck speeds... winter olympics suck...
So my country is picked and my team is set, the game is on! I hope to see this flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Liechtenstein.svg flying proudly when the dust settles!
I will update this thread after the olympics so I can come back and gloat on the greatness that was Lichtenstein!
Update: So they sucked, but that won't deter me from future predictions or support!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I don't spend a lot of money at all anymore, i'm kinda terrified to let it go because of what happened last year. But I gotta say that i've never made this good of a purchase, these headphones i bought are AMAZING. They make listening to music a million trillion times better.
I'm almost low tone deaf so i don't enjoy music like i used to, but with these...it's unbelievable...
What headphones you say?
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665520560
Those bad boys...for the price..you cant beat it...
I'm almost low tone deaf so i don't enjoy music like i used to, but with these...it's unbelievable...
What headphones you say?
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665520560
Those bad boys...for the price..you cant beat it...
It's Illi-Noy...NOT ILLI NOISE
If i hear one more person pronounce Illinois as Illinoise...i'm gonna lose my god damn mind and go on a kitten punching spree...
Seriously is it really that hard to keep the S silent? I mean really? We all went to grade school right? Oh wait it's mostly southerners that pronounce it like that and most of them cant spell their own names let alone pronounce a state that was named after an Indian tribe... GRR!
Bite the curb you hicks!
Seriously is it really that hard to keep the S silent? I mean really? We all went to grade school right? Oh wait it's mostly southerners that pronounce it like that and most of them cant spell their own names let alone pronounce a state that was named after an Indian tribe... GRR!
Bite the curb you hicks!
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
ugh...politics
So i thought "great idea, i'm going to join the Libertarian party". Because i was thinking how much i hate the two main parties and how you can't possibly be anything but one or the other in most peoples eyes. But lately the agenda of the Libertarian party is "lets just not do anything that will piss off the democrats or republicans."
So here i am, without a party affiliation but with a lot of thoughts on what i want my party to represent. I'm not Liberal and i'm not conservative, i dont lean a little to the left or a little to the right, and i'm certainly not "in between" because i dont consider myself to have to choose between those two. I'm just myself, and i'm tired of the typical crap that our politicians try to pull, especially being that i live in Illinois anyone who reads this can understand after the two governors we've had.
What we need in office is common sense, and no agenda, people who will do what's right for the people not what's right for campaign contributors. But there's to many hands in to many pockets so this will never come true. We'll forever be stuck with the Obama's and Bush's of the world.
So here i am, without a party affiliation but with a lot of thoughts on what i want my party to represent. I'm not Liberal and i'm not conservative, i dont lean a little to the left or a little to the right, and i'm certainly not "in between" because i dont consider myself to have to choose between those two. I'm just myself, and i'm tired of the typical crap that our politicians try to pull, especially being that i live in Illinois anyone who reads this can understand after the two governors we've had.
What we need in office is common sense, and no agenda, people who will do what's right for the people not what's right for campaign contributors. But there's to many hands in to many pockets so this will never come true. We'll forever be stuck with the Obama's and Bush's of the world.
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