I am old! I turned 37 a couple days ago. I celebrated by y going out for dinner with friends and their kids. Oh and I took out a library book and went to the farmers market. My 20th Birthday was a 4 day bender which had highlights like getting 20 some people kicked out of a bar on Whyte Ave. A female friend sleeping with a guitarist from a semi famous Canadian band at a rock concert and showing Twig and Berries to some random chicks on a balcony on Canada Day. I got a fit bit for my birthday which is a cool present but it to made me feel old. It is super neat how I can scan in what I eat and drink and it will count calories and junk for me but as I take my diabetic pill again I realize at 20 I would not have paid attention to that. My work has always given employees $25 o the Bday, it used to buy me a two-six. This year I bought fresh peas, carrots a starbucks coffee and a dog dish.
I realized also I have now lived in the Edmonton area for 18 years, 18! WTF! Now I moved here in 2000 planning on two years of journalism school and then to "live the dream" get my writing out there. Meet new and exciting people. I now work in the trades and right mostly for fun. I do have articles up at fansideseats.com if you ever wanna go read but that is the extent of my writing career. I was planning on A) Moving somewhere like L.A. where the world is constantly moving or B) Grande Cache a small little town where everyone says hello. I am in the Suburbs. So funny how the world plays out. At 37 my mother had a 21 year old son who had left to go to school, a 7 years old and a 5 year old with a very serious medical condition.... Not things I could see myself with at all. Oh and at 37 I am pretty sure that was when my grandpa became a grandpa for the first time. I have a dog who protects me from birds. So sometimes I sit back and play what coulda been. What if I had stayed in good ole GP. Well I woulda been there for the boom and I am almost 100% sure I would likely work for my parents. Would I be married and have a kid by now, I have a feeling I would. Not sure why but it just seems like it. BUT I would never had met all the people in my life now. I would never have had some of the stupid adventures I have had. What if I had stayed in journalism? Well the exact same thoughts come to me. I would not have met all the people I know now because I met 95% of them AFTER I dropped out. Would I even be working in journalism. Thats hard to say, the few people I saw after school weren't in it. So who knows maybe I would have still ended up in that lounge making food, talking with the guy who hired me on at my current job and the world would be the same except I would have an unused degree. Or I could have got a job and ended up in L.A or Grande Cache. All I know is sitting back and wondering is a waste of time. It is like when I spend the $60 million from the lotto in my head I never win.
Cajun house, a decent joint in St. Albert. That was were my birthday dinner was last night. I already yelped this but I will state it again. Yum, depending on what you get. I liked my meal. Never had frog legs before so I had to try, they were so so not amazing but I dunno what I really expected. The catfish was the same. Something I never had so I tried and it was okay. Now the Jambalaya was the bomb! I would go just for that again. It is pricey but I would say worth it. If you want a fairly nice meal in St. Albert give it a try. Now I heard a rumor that Louisiana Purchase is expanding onto the St. Albert Trail. If that is true Cajun house might have some competition....
Writing has been good for me, sort of. My Fanside stuff kinda took over for a bit. But I have to make an actual effort to work on my own stuff first. I finished y first novel and started editing it. I suck, much as I love to write I am terrible at editing and I find it so hard to do. I need to find focus and get it done. It would be pretty sweet to have something published one day. I haven't even blogged much recently.
The Witcher series had another book come out. Season of Storms. It is a decent read, but annoying that it doesn't follow up on the last book. Along with that I have been replaying old video games. Forgot how much I like Mafia 3, might finally get the DLC. Still need to finish Mein Kampf and the Satanic Verses. But like a dumbass I took out a library book.....
Its Canada Day, I very much want to get outside and do something but I need to get going soon as it looks like it is getting ugly out. I Wanna say as much as I worry about Canada and Politics and stuff, see my other articles for that..... I am a proud Canadian and I am happy I live here! Anyways just some random thoughts to get out. Have a happy Long Weekend everyone!
I realized also I have now lived in the Edmonton area for 18 years, 18! WTF! Now I moved here in 2000 planning on two years of journalism school and then to "live the dream" get my writing out there. Meet new and exciting people. I now work in the trades and right mostly for fun. I do have articles up at fansideseats.com if you ever wanna go read but that is the extent of my writing career. I was planning on A) Moving somewhere like L.A. where the world is constantly moving or B) Grande Cache a small little town where everyone says hello. I am in the Suburbs. So funny how the world plays out. At 37 my mother had a 21 year old son who had left to go to school, a 7 years old and a 5 year old with a very serious medical condition.... Not things I could see myself with at all. Oh and at 37 I am pretty sure that was when my grandpa became a grandpa for the first time. I have a dog who protects me from birds. So sometimes I sit back and play what coulda been. What if I had stayed in good ole GP. Well I woulda been there for the boom and I am almost 100% sure I would likely work for my parents. Would I be married and have a kid by now, I have a feeling I would. Not sure why but it just seems like it. BUT I would never had met all the people in my life now. I would never have had some of the stupid adventures I have had. What if I had stayed in journalism? Well the exact same thoughts come to me. I would not have met all the people I know now because I met 95% of them AFTER I dropped out. Would I even be working in journalism. Thats hard to say, the few people I saw after school weren't in it. So who knows maybe I would have still ended up in that lounge making food, talking with the guy who hired me on at my current job and the world would be the same except I would have an unused degree. Or I could have got a job and ended up in L.A or Grande Cache. All I know is sitting back and wondering is a waste of time. It is like when I spend the $60 million from the lotto in my head I never win.
Cajun house, a decent joint in St. Albert. That was were my birthday dinner was last night. I already yelped this but I will state it again. Yum, depending on what you get. I liked my meal. Never had frog legs before so I had to try, they were so so not amazing but I dunno what I really expected. The catfish was the same. Something I never had so I tried and it was okay. Now the Jambalaya was the bomb! I would go just for that again. It is pricey but I would say worth it. If you want a fairly nice meal in St. Albert give it a try. Now I heard a rumor that Louisiana Purchase is expanding onto the St. Albert Trail. If that is true Cajun house might have some competition....
Writing has been good for me, sort of. My Fanside stuff kinda took over for a bit. But I have to make an actual effort to work on my own stuff first. I finished y first novel and started editing it. I suck, much as I love to write I am terrible at editing and I find it so hard to do. I need to find focus and get it done. It would be pretty sweet to have something published one day. I haven't even blogged much recently.
The Witcher series had another book come out. Season of Storms. It is a decent read, but annoying that it doesn't follow up on the last book. Along with that I have been replaying old video games. Forgot how much I like Mafia 3, might finally get the DLC. Still need to finish Mein Kampf and the Satanic Verses. But like a dumbass I took out a library book.....
Its Canada Day, I very much want to get outside and do something but I need to get going soon as it looks like it is getting ugly out. I Wanna say as much as I worry about Canada and Politics and stuff, see my other articles for that..... I am a proud Canadian and I am happy I live here! Anyways just some random thoughts to get out. Have a happy Long Weekend everyone!
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