Here’s a minor update for ya.

• Author: Wunder
• Filed under: Life
• Date: Feb 29,2008

I don’t really have any pertinent topics to talk about, but I wanted to get at least something posted on here, so here it goes:

 Lately has been going rather well.  I spend my weekends with Dani and during the week I work and sleep.  Every now and then I’m able to get in some video games and hang out with the roommates, but I pretty much just try to get enough sleep.  I don’t know what’s going on with my sleep schedule lately, but it’s been pretty messed up.  Some days I’ll be so tired when I get home from work that I’ll pass out by 8am, then I’ll wake up randomly throughout the day and end up waking up at 6 or 7pm, then other days it will be nearly impossible to stay asleep for more than 2 hours at a time.  It’s pretty bad.  I’m extremely tired lately, so I have to do something about that.

Work is going well, I think I’m making some good contacts here, and hopefully next month or the month after they will hire me on fulltime so I can get a benefits package and tuition reimbursement.  I’m really looking forward to that because I’d like to go to college and get my degree.  Being stuck where I’m at right now just isn’t going to cut it a couple years down the road.  I really want to stay with OneNeck, because I do like working for this company, and I’m genuinely interested in the work that I do.  There’s a lot of different avenues I can take at this job, so we’ll just have to see what happens.  School will have a lot to do with my decision as well.

Music is still a huge influence for me.  Not as much as it used to be, but I still love it.  I’d really REALLY want to get back into DJing.  That was such a relaxing thing for me.  Just me behind two turntables and a mixer with my headphones on.  It made me focused, attentive and forced me to pay attention to detail, it was such a great mental exercise.  I guess you’d have to try it to understand what I’m talking about.  I was considering getting started with some DJ equipment with my tax refund this year, but then again I was thinking of getting a laptop with that money too.  Damned decisions.  I’ll just think about it when the time comes. 

I think the wise decision would be to just spend the majority of my tax refund this year on paying off debts.  Ya my credit score has increased quite a bit in the last 2 years, which is great, but it’s still pretty bad in my opinion.  So ya, that’s what I’ll do.  Those things aren’t going to go away on their own, so I’m going to pay them off when I get my tax refund.  That will mean that I can at least get financed for a laptop or something, and since I know I make enough money to pay for one on a monthly basis, that will just help my credit even more!  You see?  It’s a win-win situation.

Wow, I can’t believe it’s already almost 4am.  I’ll be driving down to Tucson to see Danielle for the weekend in about 3 hours.  That’ll be fun.  We have a great time together.  I think this weekend just entails some at home karaoke (more details on that later), some wine (beer for me though, as much as I love wine I would just like to get some beer) and relaxing.  We’ve both been so tired lately that I believe we both should catch up on some sleep.  I know when I get there at about 9am today I’m going to be sleeping like a baby.  That’s going to be great too.  It always feels better sleeping next to her as well.

So about the karaoke thing.  A lot of people might frown upon or even laugh at karaoke, but you know what?  It’s fun.  It’s a LOT of fun.  Especially when you get a couple of drinks in you and you’re hanging out with your friends, then it’s just crazy fun.  I dunno, it’s a good time and I have fun with it. :)  Singing is a pretty difficult thing to do, and takes a LOT of practice and knowledge of the song you’re singing.  It’s just not as easy as picking up a microphone and singing some words into it.  You have to take into account your volume, the instrumental volume, your pitch, your tempo, if you’re on key or not, the style of the song versus your style of singing, your type of voice, etc.  A lot of people believe that some people just can’t sing and never will be able to.  I say that’s bullshit.  Anybody can sing, it just takes determination and willingness to learn and be patient with it.  Trust me, I know from experience.  A lot of people said I was a pretty shitty singer back when I first started karaoke, and I mean pretty damn shitty, but the past year or so of singing people have been saying that I’ve been getting really good.  So it just takes time, and you gotta keep at it just like with anything else.

Anyways, I better actually try to get some work done now, and I have a text message from Dani to respond to, so I’m gonna do that first.