At the gym     I’m not in the best shape by any means. I’m currently 180 pounds and working to get better. While at the gym recently, I had a scary situation happen. It had been a bit since I last worked out due to the Christmas holiday. After getting off the treadmill following a short 1.15-mile run (normally averaging 2 miles), I started doing sit-ups on this machine that allow you to control your weight/resistance. While doing so, I didn’t almost blackout, I almost whited out. Everything seemed to be getting white around the edges, so I did the only thing I could think of and stuck my head ..read more

Frustrating bosses. Autistic or not, every working person is bound to encounter at least one at some point in their lives. When it comes to them, simply put, there’s not much you can do. Just keep your head down and move on to the next task at hand, least you get reprimanded or fired. If you need to take a moment after interacting with him/her, feel free to do so, as long as you get the job done in the required time and prove yourself a valuable asset to the company, thus keeping yourself employed until such a time comes for a better job and/or a better boss. The caveat, of course, being your ..read more

While I was getting over a throat infection a couple weeks ago or so, I got completely sucked into a YouTube channel called The King of Random. It’s an amazing channel that seems loosely based on the concept of Discovery Channel’s former show Mythbusters (2003-2016). Aside from the fact that King of Random is released on Youtube vice Discovery Channel, the main difference that there need not always be a reason or myth behind various tests and experiments. If something sounds fun and interesting and they can find a way to safely do it, chances were, it was happening. Bonus points if they found ..read more

Well, I recently went on another date. This time it was with a guy name Kanan* (name changed to protect identity) that I met over Facebook Dating. We went for an ice skate date, something I thought I could do, as the last time I was on the ice, I was a little speed demon, tearing up the ice. That is why I don’t know what happened to me this time. It was like every time I got my feet under me and found my balance, my feet would want to bow inwards and send me off balance. Honestly, how I didn’t roll my ankle, I have no clue. Anyway, back to the guy. While he seems nice enough, for some reason ..read more

Ugh, guys. I’ve been sick with a cold, sore, throat, laryngitis whatever you want to call it, for roughly a week and I can’t seem to completely kick it even with antibiotics. It sucks. While I can tell I’m getting better little by little, it’s not as fast as I need. I want this to end so I can get back to my normal life, i.e. going to the gym, working and earning money to live on, etc…Right now as I type this, I am still sick and don’t want to be doing this, but I figured I owed it to you guys so you know what’s going on with me. I’m not being lazy, just busy up until the point I got sick. No ..read more

Figures that just as I feel like I’m starting to get my life into some semblance of order, it goes and throws me the most wicked curve ball yet. Currently I’m talking to those around me in order to relieve some stress, so hopefully it helps. In the meantime, I can’t help but feel almost sick over everything I have to do over the next few days. Starting tomorrow, my schedule is 7am-2pm with a phone interview from the government smack in the middle to hopefully get some extra money, then working again from 2:30pm-12:00am. Then on Saturday my schedule is 11am-3pm followed by another shift from 5 ..read more

Ok, who knew that being overly helpful could be such a problem? I’m just trying to be as helpful as possible. Maybe overly so? My life had been going pretty good for the last little bit, so I was sort of waiting for “The other shoe to drop” as the saying goes. Now, it has. Luckily it wasn’t anything too big, but it was definitely hard enough to cause a drop in my self-esteem. Normally, I wouldn’t post this as it’s beyond embarrassing, but I made a promise to post the bad with the good, and this definitely goes in the bad category. The problem with this is that once one thing goes wrong in my ..read more

Wow, guys. Just wow. How busy my life has been lately. While I am still struggling financially, from the looks of things in my life, they are certainly picking up fast. More and more often, it seems like I’m getting calls to do more respite care (not my preferred choice of work, but it’s income for now), and now I’m going to be working for my local school district doing part-time stuff. While that technically means I’ll be working two jobs, I sort of think that’s like a rite of passage for any college graduate looking for their first real job and needing to generate substantial income in the ..read more

Whoo! That was a whirlwind! If I wasn’t looking for opportunities to work more in the part-time respite care job I have (and feel wholly unprepared for), I was applying for other jobs to get me out of this, both part-time and blogging, along with some other projects that could really help me professionally. As I might have said before, I can’t remember if I have or not, one of my goals would be to make even a small amount of money off this blog. Even if it’s not enough to support me, it would at least be something along the road to my dreams…and to help pay my bills. Every little bit helps as ..read more

  “Long Days” Credit to Dan McCarthy  Hey everyone! Welcome back! Wow, today has been long and tomorrow is going to be even longer. I have been so busy lately! Between work, looking for more stable work, working out, applying to jobs, blogging for a few different sites, working on some behind-the-scenes stuff that I don’t want to announce as of yet, and more, I feel like I’m lucky to have time to breath and sleep let alone do anything else. As it is, my mom somehow talked me into joining her hiking Potato Chip Rock in Romona, California tomorrow. From what I’ve heard of it, it will be my most ..read more