After an extended vacation from the world of blogging I have made it one of my New Year's Resolutions to get back into the swing of things.
Now before anyone makes a crack about it being the 28th, this was a resolution I came up with just the other day, so it's not like I've been procrastinating or anything. I swear.
A quick recap of the past year (or two):
- At the turn of 21 I found a new love for Las Vegas, four times.
- I attended my first concert. Fall Out Boy, thank you for returning.
- I wrote a short film. It's in production.
- The car that was the bane of my existence, the source of copious anxiety attacks and late night tow truck encounters, has been murdered! Well, I don't know for a fact, but I like to imagine it's been hung or stabbed repeatedly, maybe even dropped into a deep pit and forced to spread lotion on itself. The magical Debt Fairy has replaced it with a newer car that is much more well behaved.
- I may have developed allergies. I didn't know this was possible. Thank you Santa Ana winds for turning what could have been a wonderfully warm winter into a coughing nightmare. I sounded like a hellbeast from one of the nine circles.
- Spent my first Christmas alone. It was bittersweet. I drove around, looked at all the stores that were closed, spent most of the day watching Netflix, then around 11pm I decided I was hungry. Thank you 7/11 for the DiGornio pizza. But now I can officially say that I am perfectly capable being by myself.
- I tried to get back to the gym again. Failed. I tried working out at home after cancelling my gym membership. Failed. I have made another resolution to start working out...again. In the works. I don't want to talk about it.
- Scared the shit out of my mother at Knott's Scary Farm.
- Developed abandonment issues at work from my manager leaving, then a week after my district manager leaving.
- Ate some ice cream.
- Discovered my new family-in-law is just as amazing as the rest of my family.
- And got mule-kicked by my genius into writing a new book that I am so very pleased with.
I forgot how much fun I had last year (or two) until I started writing that list. It's crazy how many things you forget as you go about your life, doing the day to day. That is why I have decided I need to blog, it just has to happen. If I don't record these things that happen I may just forget all about them. And then when I'm aged by wisdom and experience I'll be able to whip out my laptop and show my grandchildren the archaic piece of technology, and that there was this thing called the internet where I used to post ridiculous entries onto a digital journal known as a blog. My grandchildren will laugh and call me a crazy old man, and then go plug themselves into the wall and link up with every other youngin' and their crazy virtual reality. Back in my day people actually lived in reality! Damn whippersnappers.
So be prepared for I have returned. With my Flaming Sword of Inspiration and my Golden Paladin Buckler of Determination (+3 DET) I will slash into the blogosphere and rain my literary and pop culture vengeance upon my foes! So stick with me. I swear on Styx not to be boring.
-- Eryk
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