Here’s a Quick Way to STOP Negative Thoughts

Are you carrying around some junk? You know, those hurtful and disastrous things that you may have been told by someone during the course of your life. It was supposed to be taken with a grain of salt or simply ignored but most of the times we take that criticism and wear it like a hat of shame!

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Only fools are enslaved by time and space

I had a dream last week where I knew that a bomb was going to drop on my house - a big fat cartoonish bomb falling straight down on my house. And I was moving everything out of the way. I forgot what happened next, but I woke up thinking something's gonna happen, I just didn't know what. When I got a call from J. I knew what it was going to be before I spoke to him - my dad had to go to the hospital for heart related problems. They wanted to do an angiogram on him, but there were complications due to his diabetes medicine, so they had him on various treatments over the weekend to prepare him for an angiogram this morning. I spent the weekend at Northwestern Memorial downtown sitting at my dad's bedside with my mom, M., and my brothers. K. would drop me off and go back to my place to do her homework. I'd come home at night, we'd watch Lost then fall asleep.

Today I got up early, J. and my mom picked me up to go to the hospital to be there when my dad had his angiogram. They told us that the angiogram would tell us what they should do next: 1. best case scenario, an angioplasty, 2. second best scenario, bypass surgery 3. worst case scenario, they fit him with a pacemaker and fibrulator and send him home and put him on the list for heart transplant surgery.

We just got the results - he has to have triple bypass. I guess it could be worse. My mom's pretty much freaking out. My brothers and dad are surprisingly upbeat, I am too I guess. I feel numb, I told John during my therapy session on Saturday that I just want them to do whatever they're going to do so we can bring him home. Then we'll make him eat well and force him to exercise, and I'll come home more often so we can play golf and he can get his walking in. I feel like everything in my life has been put on hold until I they finish with the surgery. This is the worst time for something like this to happen to someone in my family, I guess it's always the worst time for something like this to happen.

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Everything's going to change. Have a cluckety cluck cluck day, Hugo.

This is very sudden, but it's good news. I've mentioned here how I was talking to my girl about eventually moving in with me - we could save money in rent and really start saving for our plan of getting rich through buying commercial properties. We thought that we would have to wait til May when her lease is over, but she talked to a lawyer from a tenant's rights group, and he told her that she can break her lease and move in next month. So we're moving her in slowly and she will be fully moved in by the end of the month. This is a big step. As soon as I found out I called my mom to tell her - but I chickened out and wound up just talking to my mom for a half an hour. I wonder what she'll say.

It doesn't matter who we were. It only matters who we are.

We went out with K's friend L. from da UP at House of Sushi and Noodles on Friday, then dinner with P. and R. and J. from work at Bob Chinn's on Saturday with a side trip to Ikea, then another painting and Home Depot excursion on Sunday. I didn't get any studying done over the weekend. Things are moving fast, it never feels like there's any time to do things. Maybe if I didn't have a girlfriend I'd feel like I have more free time, but that's probably not what would happen - if I didn't have a girlfriend I'd be going out all the time looking for a girlfriend, spending all kinds of money. Things would be about the same except I'd be drinking more, spending more money on bullshit things like going out and I wouldn't have cool stuff to show for it like a newly renovated apartment. I'd be depressed more often, I'd have more existential angst, my family would continue to wonder when the hell I'm going to settle down. Then again, maybe I'd be dating multiple women. Nah, I doubt it. My pal JCB is dating two girls right now - but I wouldn't want to have gone through all the bullshit he went through this summer in order to finally find himself in the situation of dating two girls at once.

No, I don't regret a thing, my girl makes my life better and I'm a better man for having been with her. Things are just busy - all the time I'd have left over to get some of my extra projects done we spend moving her in to my apartment and doing home renovation crap like painting and moving furniture. The apartment looks awesome now by the way - I just don't like a couple of the little monkey shaped figurines that K. brought over. I'm so glad painting's done, she promised me that it would only take a couple days and it took a month almost.

What else. I applied for my own domain name, I'm still sort of setting it all up - I have to change ISP's in order to host it at my house since RCN is blocking all kinds of ports. Weightwatchers is going ok - I can't believe I'm in weightwatchers now. I'm not exactly overweight, I am just frustrated because I can't seem to lose these last 10 lbs despite how much I work out. We've also decided the plans for the holidays - Thanksgiving we will be in Chicago, we will be in da UP on Christmas Day. This will be my first Christmas away from home ever. I don't know how I feel about this - I don't mind being away from the usually Christmas stuff at home, although I'll miss my family. On the other hand - I am sort of ambivalent about spending Christmas in da UP with people I don't know. At least K. will be there, as always the holidays will come too soon.

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Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Laughing or Dying?

I'm loving the new MacBook Pro. I thought my old PowerBook was powerful, but this thing just screams. I'm now able to watch episodes of Lost online, while playing guitar through my firewire interface and Guitar Rig 2. Simply incredible. We have some site licenses for vmware fusion coming in at work too, can't wait for that. One other cool thing is that work is buying me a Blackberry 8080 with unlimited internet. That would come in handy for this upcoming trip to Michigan this weekend, I don't know if I'll get it by then. The apartment looks great after spending all weekend painting. It's various shades of brown and blue, sounds weird but it looks nice. Work is good, I have the day off next Monday and I'm really starting to get a lot of good work done. I started doing some finances stuff yesterday, you really only have to spend about an hour a day max on that stuff aside from research. Can't believe I have to go away this weekend, I could use the time to get some stuff done. But I already agreed to this trip like two months ago. I'm kinda nervous about it - K's mom supposedly is planning a huge party with all their relatives where they can show me off. Kind of flattering, but all in all I'd rather be at home watching baseball and playing guitar. K. also made me join weight watchers last week, we have to go every Sunday morning now. It's 40 bucks a month and I don't eat as much now (although I eat surprisingly well for being on weight watchers). Also, finally got around to taking my Ibanez S470 into Guitar Center for repairs, can't wait to get that thing back.