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~ I'm watching the Patriots game (WHOO! GO PATS!) and I find myself thinking the same thing every week. If Bob Kraft (the Patriots owner) is such a billionaire then he can buy another fucking shirt. Seriously. Same damn shirt every week. I don't believe it's a superstition thing. I really think he just needs to go to the mall.

~ I'm really enjoying my new gadgets (camera and phone). I like the phone. Sometimes it takes me a minute to realize that it's my phone that's ringing just because I'm not used to listening for that. That, and it's so long between calls that I forget what my ringtone sounds like. I like my camera, too. I've kinda been ignoring it, though. I want to take pictures, but I don't know what sort of pictures I want to take. So far, the only suggestion I've gotten is to take pictures of hot girl-on-girl action. While I'm more than willing, I don't think I'm the sort that can make that happen.

~ My goal of shedding pounds is slow-going, as I'm not working out. I know my apartment complex has a fitness center. It has a good treadmill. It has an elliptical and some bikes, too. It also has a circuit machine. That, however, sounds like it's going to fall apart when I'm using it. There is apparently some new fitness equipment on the lower level of the leasing office. Why it isn't in the fitness center, I don't know. I don't know what's down there, as I can't really get there when it's open unless it's Saturday. I'm thinking about joining a gym. Some may ask why I would pay money for a gym membership when there's fitness equipment around here. I found out that Kenwood will reimburse gym memberships. As long as you go eight times per month, you will be reimbursed $25 per month (or the full monthly fee if it's less than $25). So, I look at it like this. I figure I'll either stick with it this time and finally work myself into shape and get a check every quarter for $75, or I'll simply be paying a $35-a-month fat tax. Just a tax for being too fat. There are some good gyms around here that have all kinds of things included in the membership like classes and the use of a personal trainer. There's one that's running a membership special right now. Only $29 per month; essentially $4 per month if I go more than eight times. Maybe Aspen, since that seems to be the most popular one. Probably not that one since it is the most popular one around. Somewhere, though.

~ I've been reminded over the past few months why I stay out of anything political. I've heard all kinds of discussions about the candidates and why this one is great and why this other one sucks and it's all just lame. Everyone is so black-and-white about this stuff, it's really just a waste of time to even start a conversation. All I can really say about it is that I'll probably vote for Obama if he gets the nomination, I can't imagine voting for any republican in the race because they just make me sad, and I still want to hit Hilary Clinton with a sock full of quarters (but I won't, Feds, so plz don't arrest me).

~ Another goal of mine this year is to bowl in the PBA regionals at Lancer. I've actually wanted to do this every year since I came to Iowa, but my skill has exponentially decreased every year. Since bowling is dirt cheap on Mondays at Westdale (and actually every day at Lancer. Only $2.25/game on Sundays. That's crazy.), I figured I'm going to try and practice every week then. Based on the past two weeks, I have a long, LONG way to go to be able to compete again. Apparently, I can no longer make spares to save my life. It's very sad.

~ I have a job interview on Tuesday morning at Aegon. It's nothing special, basically the same things I do now just for (theoretically) a better company. We do stuff for them now, and when the prep leads went down there to basically get trained, they said it looked like a pretty great place to work. I hear the benefits are really good, too. Could be a pay raise (could be a pretty significant pay raise), but it's basically the same job. I'm actually not really nervous about this one. I mean, I've been doing this job for a long time now and I know I'm pretty good at it (On a side note, if I were as confident in other areas of my life as I am in regards to how good I am at my job, I think I'd be a lot better off. Something to think about.). It's weird. I think if it were a "real job" I'd be a little more nervous. You know, one of the QA/testing jobs I've been looking for. I hope I get it. In other ways, though, I don't really know. Brings me to my next point.

~ I've been thinking about change a lot lately. I'm not afraid of change. Some change, that is. I know there is a lot of things that have to change for me, and I'm cool with that. I know I want a career in QA/testing. I know I want a house. I know I want a girlfriend and eventually wife and eventually kids. I know I want a new(er) car. There are things in my life that just will change. Problem, though, is that some things I really don't like to change. I know how much I bitch about my car and my job, but I've had both for so long (6 years and 2.5 years respectively) I can't imagine changing them. I really love my car, even though it sounds like it's going to break every time I drive it. Despite how much I constantly complain about work, I like the job. It's kind of (read: REALLY) tedious at times and there are three days a month where I want to really punch a certain coworker of mine and the management makes TERRIBLE decisions a lot and I don't have a lot of security, but I do actually like the job and most of my coworkers. The environment has been great over the past two months, or so. The problem is that I get attached to things VERY easily. People (especially people), places, things, whatever. If it's a noun (or some verbs), I can probably get attached to it. And when I fall, I fall hard sometimes. I know if I get this job, it could lead to bigger and better things since Aegon is such a huge company, but there's still part of me that is loyal to Kenwood. I really think if there's one thing I am, it's loyal. I'm loyal to my friends pretty much no matter what. I'm loyal to my job no matter how sad it makes me sometimes. Sometimes, though, certain parts of who I am conflict with other parts and a lot of those times, the part that wins isn't necessarily what's best. If I get this job at Aegon, part of me wants to turn it down, even though I KNOW I shouldn't. On the other hand, though, if I were offered one of the QA jobs, I KNOW it wouldn't even be an option to turn it down. I'm sort of rambling, and I think I completely forgot the entire point of this, but oh well. It's just what's on my mind.


I think that's it. I think. Oh, I changed my myspace page to one of those 'myspace pages that don't look like myspace pages' layouts. I like it now.