Welcome To Earth David

Let me tell you about my new favorite Nintendo Wii video game. It is called Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords. I have been wanting this game for awhile and I found a used copy last night at Gamestop. This game if you don’t already know is a mashup of RPG play with a bejeweled type battlefield. On the Nintendo Wii, the text in this game can be hard to read if you have a small television set, but I have read that if you have a large screen television then it’s not so bad. I had already read reviews on the game so I knew not to expect extravagant graphics and text. What I didn’t know however from the reviews I read was how addictive this game is. For the game play alone I can mostly get past having to squint my eyes to read the tiny text and I feel like this is going to be a game with a lot of replay value so when I am ready to upgrade to a big screen television then I’ll be able to enjoy it even more when that time comes.

When I got home with this game last night around 10 p.m. I turned it on, set up character, started playing the instant action battles and did not turn the game off until around 3:30 a.m. this morning. I just couldn’t stop playing. I haven’t yet started into the quest yet. I want to level up my character a good bit. I haven’t played a role playing game in many years and I am having fun just collecting spells and leveling up. If I had known how much I would like this game I would have bought a brand new copy instead of a used one, but so far I haven’t had any problems with the used game.

There is a new Puzzle Quest game coming out called Galactrix with a science fiction theme, but so far I don’t think it is going to be available for the Nintendo Wii and I will be really angry if they don’t make it for the Wii because I really want that game.

His name is Evan Bourne on the ECW, and he is fucking hot! It’s been a long time since a wrestler has had me standing up in my living room jumping up and down with excitement over his talent, but tonight I couldn’t help myself. I have never seen a WWE wrestler fly across the ring like this guy did. I think he will fast become one of my favorite wrestlers. I can’t wait to see him again on tv next week.

This entry is all about my new goal to start saving money and how I plan to find ways of doing that.

Obviously the easiest way to save money is not to spend money, right!? Well for the last two days my goal has been to stay at home and find things to do so that I wouldn’t get out and spend any money. The reason for that is because over the past few months I have really been splurging on a lot of excessive spending and I have gotten way behind on my savings goal for this year. I mean I have gotten waaaayyyyy behind. It is sometimes very hard for me to save my money because over the past couple of years since I started managing my money a little better than before I have gotten into a bad habit of impulse buying and I have a bad attitude of thinking if I want it I should have it and then I buy it just because I want it and just because I have the money to spend at the moment. That isn’t always a bad thing most of the time if I have the extra money to spend because there have been times in my life when I couldn’t buy anything that I wanted and because of that I feel like I deserve to get anything I want anytime I want it. Right now however I need to stop splurging so much and get back on track with my savings before I end up in the poor house again like where I was two years ago.

Two things that are really eating my wallet right now is my addiction to getting outdoors and my Nintendo Wii. I love to go to the lake to enjoy the scenery and go for walks. The problem with that is I love it too much and it is a 40 mile round trip every time I go. I usually go twice a week. I drive a big 2001 Dodge 1500 pickup truck that is a gas hog and I can easily use up a quarter of a tank of gas or more going to and driving around to the different park areas around the lake that I like to go to. I’d say I average spending around $25 bucks a week on gas alone just going to the lake. That doesn’t account for the money I spend stopping at a fast food place for something to eat along the way and for the ice and drinks I buy to fill up the cooler that I keep on the back of my truck… you know I have to keep cold drinks with me out there in the heat or else I would thirst to death and I am one of those people who have to constantly have something to drink all the time. So that bumps it up easily to around $35 to $45 bucks a week just going for joy rides around the lake and drinking cold cokes and gatorade and eating taco bell or arby’s every week to get outdoors. Now add to all of that my newest addiction to video games since I bought my Nintendo Wii awhile back. I have already easily spent $450 to $500 bucks on the console itself plus extra controllers and video games. That in itself has taken a huge chunk out of my savings. I’m not complaining about it too much though because I have thoroughly been enjoying playing my Wii games. The only problem here, once again, is that I am enjoying my new Nintendo Wii so much that I don’t think about how much money I’m spending on the games and those games can be fairly expensive. I have thought about taking up a membership at GameFly to rent video games like I rent my movies from Netflix. Yes I know that would be an extra $22 bucks more a month that I would be spending but this would be a good way for me to find games I like instead of going out to buy games that I end up not liking, which luckily has only happened once so far.

So having realized what my faults are for not being able to save my money lately as I should be doing I am trying to discipline myself which isn’t an easy thing for me to do when it comes to splurging.

Yesterday I spent the whole day at home downloading some new remixes, playing video games and watching television. Yesterday was Monday so of course you know I watched WWE Raw which is my favorite show to watch. After that I watched Burn Notice and Monk and went to bed soon after. Today is Tuesday which is normally my favorite day to go to the lake. However I have been at home all day fighting the urge to get outdoors by trying to get some things done and scratched off of my To Do List which I started adding things to three months ago. If I can make myself stay at home and work on this to do list for at least three days out of the week and really focus my attention on not splurging on expensive games and other stuff then I think I can get myself back up on my savings. Today I just need to focus on staying here at home and not going out to spend any money.

I have too many goals and things I need that I’m not getting because of my splurging so I’m hoping my to do list will help me get where I want to be. It is going to take a lot of time and effort however. Things I’m talking about staying home and saving my money for are getting a new apartment, buying new furniture, paying off my truck, getting a new big screen television… you know nice things. I can’t get those things if I’m spending all of my money on lots of little things here and there. So it is my goal right now to spend more time at home enjoying the things I have now and hopefully get lots of things done on my to do list so that I can get a better home, some better and more comfortable furniture, a better lifestyle, and still keep up on my savings. I’m also going to make it a goal to blog about this and things I am doing to keep up on my savings. I might also create a new page with ideas I come up with to keep saving money.

I was just going through one of my favorite groups on flickr and found this picture and realized that I didn’t post my MMM #12 picture last night that I said I was going to post. To me this guy has what I like to call the perfect body. He has muscle definition in all the right places without being overbearing. I would give anything to have a body like this guy. Well I had a pretty good workout with my dumbells yesterday. I am just starting out with my weight lifting and it is going slow. I’m gonna try to work out three times a week for the first few weeks to get myself used to lifting. I haven’t been getting out to take my long walks like I was at the beginning of the summer which is kind of a drag. It’s been so hot lately which is the reason I haven’t been walking so much. I need to make an effort to exercise more.

I forgot last weeks MMM post. So to catch up I will be posting another one later this evening. For now, here is this weeks Monday Muscle Madness picture post. Ok, I’m off to do a morning workout and some other things that need to be done.

I just found a really cool website where you can make some gorgeous photo books for a really reasonable price… Check out InkuBook where you can create and publish a beautiful photo book with your high quality photos starting at less than $14 dollars. That is not a bad deal. By the way, this is not an affiliate promo I’m pushing. I think the site is really cool and these photo books could make some really nice gifts if you have some nice photos to put in them.

I haven’t really had a whole lot to blog about this week. I just noticed also that I didn’t do the normal Monday Muscle Madness post this week….. ooops! Sorry. I’ve kinda just been in a slow motion state of mind this week I guess. Sometimes I need a week of carelessness to refocus my mind on the things I need to be doing. Call it a short break from life that I am having right now…. yeah, that’s it. About the only things that I have gotten done so far this week…. well lets see…. Monday I spent the whole day at home playing Wii Sports Bowling…. Tuesday I spent part of the day out at the lake enjoying the scenery and sunshine which was interrupted by a phone call from my mother who had to make an emergency trip to Panama City, Florida to babysit my niece and guess who was nominated to drive her down there…. it was me…. yayyyyyyyy. So I frantically grabbed everything and jumped in my truck so that I could get home and drive her down there…. but halfway home I forgot that left my laptop on a picnic table and had to go back to the park and get it….. then I drove home and took a shower and went to pick up my mom for the four hour drive. We didn’t leave home until 8:30 p.m. and didn’t get to my brothers house until right around midnight last night. I spent the night and got up this morning and drove home. When I got home I cut my grass and did some laundry and then went shopping…. I didn’t buy anything major…. just a few groceries and new video game, a t-shirt, and a hat. And now I am at home and I am so glad that I don’t have to do anything tomorrow. All I plan to do tomorrow is play video games. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I also attempted to start writing a new personal journal this week because a lot of crazy shit happens to me that I want to write about but don’t want the whole world to know about, but I failed at that attempt so maybe I’ll try to start on it next week when I go have my quiet time somewhere.

A letter I wrote tonight to someone who can still make me cry…
This originally started out as some poetry I was trying to write, but it ended up being more.

I CAN’T COMPETE WITH THAT

I’m sorry I had to write this but for some stupid reason I started crying after I got off the phone with you this evening. Isn’t that funny. 16 years later and I still cry….

It’s been years since I sent that letter saying mean things to you, and I don’t remember what all I said back then but I have regretted saying all those mean words ever since. I was just so angry that you had found someone after me and I had been waiting for a chance to get back to see if you might come find me. I was angry that it wasn’t me you were going to spend your life with, and there were some other things that contributed to my madness as well regarding those letters. That was around 14 or 15 years ago.

I don’t blame your partner for being so jealous of you then, and even more so jealous of you now. He’s had 14 years with you, and those 14 years of happiness and joy that he’s got goes far beyond the 16 years of a fucked up life that I’ve had since I last saw you. He got to go where I wanted to go, with you. He got to live the life that I wanted to live, with you. He got your love that I wanted so bad. It took me 12 years to fully get over not having you in my life. There were times during those years that I didn’t care if I was dead or alive because you weren’t there, and I know that it is for that reason alone that I never got any farther in life than I did. I was too depressed to try. Yeah I missed you that bad. I still miss your silly ass sometimes… just not as bad these days I guess… maybe…whatever …. Anyway….

You’ll never know what I went through in my mind after you were gone. You’ll never know what you meant to me and how hard it was to let you go, even after I knew that it wasn’t and would never be my place to be with you. I’ve spent many years knowing that the only dream I ever really had will never come true…. and that was the dream I had to be with you… a dream that has long faded away. I have faced the fact that I will go on living and never have what he has with you and that no matter who I may eventually end up with, if I end up with anyone at all, it will never feel like the right life for me because there will always be a small part of me in my heart that won’t let you go… but I will try to be happy with it, just like I am trying to be happy just being your friend and because of the blessing I have recieved for having your friendship I would never do or say anything to come between you and him.

I look at myself now, and listen to you talk about how wonderful your partner is and how great your lives are together, along with all the wonderful things that you guys do together….. the extravagant vacations, all the expensive toys, the houses, paying all those big bills and enjoying the big money lifestyle and I know that I could never have made you happy because I couldn’t have supported the lifestyle you love so much. For everything that I am, everything I’ve ever been, and for everything that I may or may not ever be, I have nothing that can compete with what you have with your partner. As much as it hurts sometimes to hear how happy you are with him and with your life, it makes me happy knowing that your living a great life and that you have someone who loves you that much to be so jealous the way he is. That is something I’ve never had and I wish I knew what that felt like.

I wish that I could go back in time and rewrite that letter to say how happy I am that you guys found each other. Then maybe I wouldn’t have to feel so bad that we all can’t just be friends and laugh about days gone by. You have something amazing with that man and I find it so hard to believe that after all of these years that he would get mad knowing that we have talked as friends and nothing more. If he could read what I am writing right now he would see that he has nothing to be jealous about. I wish that I could tell him myself how sorry I am for fucking up what might have been a great friendship with you guys so many years ago… or even if it might not have turned out that we’d all be friends at least I would like for him to know that I am sorry about those letters. I was a screwed mess back then. I had lost the one thing that up until that time in my life I had found that I loved, which was you, and the other guy I was with before I found out about you and your partner blew his brains out with a pistol. The two guys I loved most in my life back then were gone and there was nothing I could do about it…. so now you know why I was so crazy back then… but I’m over all that now and I am so thankful for all the little phone calls we have and for the chance to say we are friends….. but sometimes I have to wonder how far that friendship goes because if something were to ever happen to you I would never know it. And the reason I wouldn’t know it is because nobody would call me to tell me. And the reason nobody would call me to tell me is because nobody even fucking knows that I’m here.

I know it may sound like I’m fussing and raising hell, but I’m not. I’m actually quite sad. I’m sad that you can’t be honest with your partner about us talking AS FRIENDS and I’m sad that our friendship may never go beyond a phone call every now and then. But if thats all our friendship can be I’ll be happy with that. I’ll take the phone calls over not being able to talk at all any day. I just wish you could tell your partner about it and not be so afraid that he would get mad and I wish that he was better understanding about it. I love you Donald. I always have and I always will. And I love Chuck as well even though I don’t know anything about him…. I love him because he has taken care of you all these years. I think he has done a lot more for you than I would have ever been able to. You should let him know that. Maybe he won’t be so jealous anymore.

I finally got my own Guitar Hero 3 game today and a guitar hero t-shirt (bought seperately) for my Nintendo Wii. I have been dieing to get this game for weeks now. I have never played this game before but have watched many people playing it and always wanted to try it. I thought this game was going to be easy….. OH NO IT ISNT!!!….. but it is pretty freakin’ cool and might I add fun!! So far at this point I have only played this game one time and I am anxious to finish writing this blog entry so that I can get back to the game. I just wanted to post my first score on the song Slow Ride which you can see in the tv screenshot I took with my camera below. I only got 23% on my first try on the easy level which I guess isn’t bad since I have never played the game before. I guess this is going to be one of those games that will take a lot of practicing to be able to play it good. I think I’m going to be up very late tonight playing this game.

I got booed off the stage on my first try…… too funny!!!!

It’s that time of the week again. It is week #10 in my Monday Muscle Madness picture post. Each Monday I post a workout inspiration picture and talk about my progress in getting in shape. About the guy in this weeks picture. I don’t know who he is so don’t ask. I found this picture on this blog after searching online for two hours this morning trying to find a good picture to post today. This morning I went back into the spare bedroom and dug out my dumbells and did a short freeweight workout. I did a couple of shoulder press exercises and some dumbell curls to work my biceps, and then I did some crab walks across the floor… which I haven’t done since I went to basic training for the Army in 1990, and then I called it quits! It was a very short workout, but the point is I actually did a workout involving weights. That is something I haven’t done in ages. Could this be the beginning of my actually starting to workout the way I want to and get into better shape? I hope it is.

Well since I just wasted two hours to write this post I think I’m gonna load my bike up on the back of my truck and drive out to the lake and spend the rest of the afternoon riding it through Long Cane Park.

My webstats have been blowing up over the past couple of days with folks searching on information about Monday nights brawl between John Cena and JBL. On Monday Night RAW July 14th, 2008 wrestling fans witnessed what could have been the fatal end to one of the world’s most loved WWE wrestlers, John Cena, in a brawl he had with JBL that led up to JBL attempting to murder him by bashing a car in his face. However, as fans will be glad to know, as stated in the following article clipping I unashamedly stole from the WWE website, John Cena is ok and will be fighting on Sunday.

“Priceless” Collision

Earlier in the night, John Cena & Cryme Tyme had challenged JBL and two partners of his choosing to a Six-Man Tag Team Match. The self-made millionaire went for the best, recruiting the “simply priceless” World Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase, after they interrupted Kelly Kelly’s pending match and intentionally humiliated “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan.

Even though he handpicked his partners, JBL ended up disqualifying his team in the course of the match. Cena pursued his Great American Bash opponent into the parking lot, where the self-proclaimed “wrestling god” was waiting to club the Chain Gang Commander with a tire iron. After knocking Cena unconscious, Layfield propped him up and attempted to smash a car into the prone Superstar. Luckily, John Cena managed to escape at the last minute and was only grazed, meaning that Cena vs. JBL will still take place on Sunday night.

Incase you missed the WWE broadcast on Monday night, here is a clip of the parking lot brawl and the car crash. Don’t you just love how they do stuff like this to get you hyped up for those PPV’s!

I started collecting button pins in March of 2007. Most of my buttons have been purchased from Jera’s Custom Buttons on ebay. When I made my last button pin purchase on ebay just a short while ago, I wrote that I would display on my blog my entire button collection. Well, since I don’t have all of my buttons in one place, because some of them are put away in storage somewhere, I can only show all of the buttons I have purchased from Jera’s Custom Buttons store because I do happen to have all of those in one place out in the open. So here is the bigger part of my button collection and all of the buttons I have bought from Jera. I have found this form of button collecting to be pretty fun but it can be a little expensive sometimes. I estimate that I have spent around $75.00 on the 123 buttons pictured below…. not all at one time of course. I have no idea what I’m going to do with all of these. Perhaps someday when I get a better place to live in maybe I’ll create some wall hangings to display these on.

20 Chris Evan’s buttons.

30 Mark Walhberg buttons.

30 Justin Timberlake buttons.

6 Absolutely Fabulous buttons.

9 Heath Ledger buttons from the movie Brokeback Mountain.

9 Jake Gyllenhaal buttons from the movie Brokeback Mountain.

6 Madonna buttons.

7 Linkin Park buttons.

6 Depeche Mode buttons.

Ok so I wouldn’t know Adidas Logo 2 from Adidas Logo 1… whatever! But I do know that I just scored a really good deal on these brand new shoes on ebay. This is the first pair of shoes I have ever bought online and I am a little skeptical about the purchase. I have always gone to a shoe store where I could try on the shoes before I bought them to make sure they fit ok so you can imagine why I was skeptical about bidding on these shoes. The big reason however why I did bid on them is because the “buy it now” price was only $23.99 + $9.00 shipping for a total of only $32.99 which is a great deal I think on a pair of Adidas shoes. Other considerations that played into my buying these shoes online were 1.) the sky high price of gas and the fact that I didn’t really care to make a special trip to go buy a new pair of shoes, and 2.) I really need a new pair of shoes because the nice pair of shoes I bought just a few months ago are already worn out. Actually I need a couple of two or three new pairs of shoes because I go through shoes like a fish goes through water if that makes any sense. My shoes get dirty very quickly and it sucks a lot of times when I want to go do things like just go to the mall and all I have are one pair of dirty shoes to wear. You can’t go to the mall with dirty shoes on. People will look at you like you are a fucking bum. So I guess I’ll be looking for more good deals on shoes on ebay if these turn out to fit ok. I think for the price I paid these are a decent looking pair of shoes.

That is me dancing around with my Wii Zapper after finally beating the 4th level in Links Crossbow Training. It took me five days to do it so I am pretty happy to finally be moving on to the next level. I know some of you people out there that read this post will probably laugh because it is taking me so long to move through this game. Well, if I keep going… hopefully at a faster rate than I already am, then this will be the first ever video game that I have beaten ever in my life and I do intend to beat it… the game that is haha.

His name is Scott Caan. Fit, fine as hell, and makes me severely embarrassed that I don’t work harder to get in better shape. Ok I’m going for a walk now.