Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
Published by Ryan on February 25th, 2010We were made to be unbreakable
Love was all we knew…- “Mistakes We Knew We Were Making” by Mae
So, it’s Thursday, 9:45 a.m. I stayed home sick today. I just watched an episode of The OC, Season Four. I hadn’t watched an episode in a while, and whenever I do, I get so happy. Anyhow, things are really good! I now officially have a Starbucks Gold Card (it has my name on it!) I’m one of our local Starbucks’s most valuable customers. I know all of their names, and they all know mine. Usually they ask me, “Hey, Ryan! How’re you today? Ready for your Venti Soy Caramel Macchiato?” Haha. Most kids spend their money on clothes or video games or booze. I spend it on the occasional book, daily Starbucks pampering, and cigarettes. I’m still working on quitting.
As for my exercise routine, I am doing well! I go to the gym usually Monday-Friday, for anywhere from 1-2 hours! It’s a great new hobby. It makes me feel so much better. And I love the results I’m seeing! This’ll be the first summer I have the body I want! I actually want to gain ten pounds, because I’m very thin–five foot eight and 130 pounds. I want to be stockier albeit toned. I’m getting there! I love Special K and Raisin Bran, and they’re both really healthy choices. I love life!
I’m still waiting to hear back from Columbia and Roosevelt, both in Chicago, Illinois, five hours away from this shitty town. My letters should show up any day now! I’m very anxious, but I’m sure I’ll get into at least one of them. Hopefully Columbia, it’s seriously the perfect school for me. I’ve always been one who does instead of says. Like, I wanted to be a vegan, I did it, hxc-style, for three years. I wanted to get clean, and I have been for two years in May! When I want something, I go for it. I don’t take “no” for an answer. So, whether or not I get into Columbia, which I’m 95% sure I will, I’m going up to Chicago and getting either a B.F.A or M.F.A in Fiction Writing. I’m working indefatigably on my memoir, 40,000+ words into it. And I’m still revising my first two fiction novels. I’m going to be a writer. I’m going to make my dream a reality.
Currently, I am reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (para school) and L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad (para leisure). I actually love LC from Laguna Beach and The Hills. I think she’s such a great person, and so independent! It’s not a prodigious novel or anything, but it’s your run-of-the-mill Gossip Girl-esque sort of story. My NaNoWriMo novel is going to be paperback! I’ll get a free copy of it! Which means I need to finish the revisions! Ah.
I work Saturday (12-7:30) and Wednesday (2:45-9:30), so that’s good! I always love work when I’m actually working. I always have a good time. I have a great job, and I’m extremely grateful. Tomorrow, The Crazies is coming out, and I might see the late show with my Mom! She didn’t like Shutter Island, which I saw twice and loved, (mm-mm, Leonardo DiCaprio!) so hopefully she’ll at least enjoy this one! I still have been meaning to see The Wolfman, Valentine’s Day, and The Lightning Thief. Who knows!
I have some big ideas for this site! I plan on making more graphics. I also would like to add more movie reviews, and maybe even add book and music reviews! Since I love writing so much, I thought I’d also write some advice articles–on relationships, addiction, friendship, love, success, acceptance, et al! I would enjoy expanding my site and getting to know more of my visitors! Let me know what you think of these ideas, and hope everyone is nothing short from amazing! Remember, as the French philosopher René Descartes said, “Cogito, ergo sum!” which (roughly) means “I think, therefore I am!“ Happiness is way underrated!
Ah, after getting clean and being a vegan quitting smoking should be a piece of cake
I wish I could afford starbucks every day. I go in about one a month and then look at my bank balance afterwards and cry.
Wow, you have written a lot, I don’t think I could write 40,000 words about my life if you paid me, I’m super uninteresting. I’m much more into flash fiction, but well done, that’s impressive!
And your NaNoWriMo novel is getting published?! Shit man, that’s so cool! Very jealous indeed!
Sounds like you’re making life the best you can make it! Hope all your dreams come true
Yay for the exersise plan! Its always great when they work out. I hope they go well for you!
Those articles sound well interesting. I’d probably read them - curious over what you’d say more than what the article is about, honestly
Life seems great for you, and good luck quitting smoking! I’m in the opposite direction, I’m 108 right now and I wanna lose like twenty pounds hahahahah. Special K is tasty C:
Glad you’re making such a optimistic outlook, you can do it
an*