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This is another giveaway contest for our followers, to show them Thanks. This is the second time I’ve done a giveaway contest. The first time 2 lucky winners got “John Frusciante” T-Shirts. This time the winner will receive a DVD copy of the Red Hot Chili Peppers documentary “Funky Monks”.

Here are the rules as follows:

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Chan Marshall has my heart.

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And I love when I hear uncensored songs on the radio.

And I have no idea what the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is, and I hope never to learn.

I feel I will never be a good writer. I need some more creativity, originality, and time.

And a touch more humor.

So I constantly forget that I have a tumblr, but I think I am going to start using it. Right now I’m going to use it just to procrastinate on my editorial paper for my child communication class, which is clearly an excellent use of my time.

To start off, I want to say that I miss reading. I’m not sure exactly when I stopped reading, but it was somewhere around the junior high/ high school phase. I think I read a lot through 6th grade, and probably 7th, but maybe around 8th I think I just gave it up, and most definitely in high school. And I really wish I hadn’t. It’s always kind of a low point when you have to CliffsNotes Grapes of Wrath. Given, it was a fairly thick book and it jumped around a lot, leading to a less than linear read, not to mention that I was in the homestretch of high school and couldn’t be bothered to do any real work, but the sad fact still remains: I am definitely no longer a reader.

There was a summer when I would check out 5 books at a time and read them in two days, holed up in my slightly chilly basement with the awkward fluorescent lighting, plain white walls, and rough blue-green carpet with no social interaction. But it was all okay because I was in many other worlds that had nothing to do with my current situation, and I liked it like that. Nobody says you have to be a social butterfly at age 12. Not that I am at 20 either — but though I do have more friends, I definitely lack the quality “me” time that I used to achieve through reading. Watching entire series of TV shows uploaded illegally online does not quite count as an acceptable hobby, not in my world anyway. Actually when you think about it, TV show watching as a hobby is very similar to Reading Lite. Very 21st century, quick and to the point, for those who “don’t have time” to read. Bogus excuse. I’ve used it, it’s a load of shit.

Along with my fading reading has gone my writing skills. When I was younger, I would have all kinds of aspirations to one day be some famous published author. I never wanted to make it a living or have it be my sole source of income, but I guess you could say it’s been one of the few really personal, original goals I’ve had. Just to have the accomplishment of taking a story and crafting it and working long and hard enough at it for someone to go “this would be a quality use of our resources to print this book for the masses” and to see my hard work up on a bookshelf, once. Just as a side project in my life. And honestly I still kind of want to do it.

But based on my life now, I don’t know if it will ever happen. I used to keep a journal, which I definitely don’t do anymore. I used to come up with new situations to potentially write about, creating characters with relationships and birthdays and physical descriptions so that I could move them around through the pages. The ideas never sprung into more than a couple of typed pages before I would get bored and move onto a new idea, but they were always fun and always kept me engaged. My lack of anything creative nowadays leaves me so uninspired.

So I suppose we’re back to why I’m working on this blog. I want to try to keep this going as much as possible. I want to write as much as possible. I want to read as much as possible. I may be doing this only for myself, but sometimes, myself is just going to have to be good enough. For now, I’ll have to go back to my editorial and hope I can pull out all the right phrases in just the right formula for it to work, but hopefully I’ll be back on here soon.

And on a side note, I also promise not to make another post that contains “oh man, forgot about this blog” ever again. And I’ll try to ramble less in the future :)

Now it’s snowing out. I totally forgot I made one of these a long time ago.

Think I might post stuff here? Not that anyone will read, eh.

It’s raining out. Like totally thunderstorming.

S and I are totally playing in it.

It’s going to be awesome.