Weekends Off

Nothing much to say and definitely nothing deep like my last blog but I have to quickly write how much I think I am going to enjoy my new schedule which offers me my weekends off and weekday evenings free! I just had my first week of my new schedule and although I am doing a extra day of work compared to what I am use to, I really think that I am going to end up liking this new schedule. Being off at 5 Mon-Fri makes it feel like I still have part of my evening available to do things rather than just grab some food and go home for the night. Also, having an actual sat-sun weekend is going to be very nice! for my first time since I started working at Disney, I truly have a "normal" human being work week and it is refreshing! Thats pretty much all I have to say at this moment! Later

Battles

So I am listening to some random music and "I've Got Soul, But I'm Not a Solidier" by the Killers started playing and I was already in a strong thought mode, but it just made me put everything going on currently in a very analogy format. When you think about it, life is nothing but one GIANT "battle". Somedays your battles are quite dormant, and other days it feels like a thousand armies are attacking you from every direction. Sometimes you have a mass battalion of fighters watching your back at all times, and others it feels like it is you taking on the entire world by yourself. Sometimes you even have battles within your brigade of soldiers. When we celebrate/party it is usually one of two reasons. Either we just won a battle and therefore feel the need to celebrate or we are trying to diguise as best as possible that we are marching onward to the next battle to arrive. Some days the course is smooth and clear and the sun is shining and other days it feels like we are marching through countless miles of muddy quicksand all the while it is pouring cold nasty rain down and there is not even a glimmer of light to be seen. There is every type of soldier in your platoon. You have the die hard combat fanatics who want to do nothing else in life but to serve in your army and will fight for you till the day they die, then you have the soldiers who are only serving their required time of duty before they are released to go live out the rest of their life. You have the (nourishers) who stay back from the battle itself and oversee all the off hand details- nurses, cooks, secretaries, etc..., the people who help map out your next plan of attack with you, and sometimes you even have the Judas Priests and Benedict Arnolds who disguise themselves as a friend and then turn on you at the first chance they get. Sometimes you are the General of your own personal army and somedays you are serving or fighting as a soldier in someone elses. Sometimes you are on leave and are able to see and visit with friends, family, and lovers, or go to church, or attend nearly any activity of your choice, or dine on a vast array of cuisines and other times it feels like you are pulled away from anything and everything that you are familiar with and/or enjoy and have nothing but water and old dry bread to survive off of and there is nothing to do but tread on in hopes of seeing something to smile about again. Sader yet is when you lose a soldier of your army either to a war casuality or they feel like they can't handle the fight anymore and take their own lives. Battles come in every shape and size and are caused by countless reasons and it seems like there is always the next one just waiting to pop up. My biggest hope for each and everyone of us soldiers is that we remain strong and steadfast, that we always march on to a solid beat of the drum and that we survive every battle and live until age not war causes us to stop.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Well its officially 2009! Crazy to think how fast the past year went! SOOO much has happened in the past 365 days that it is hard to think much more COULD happen in a years time! Guess I will just have to wait and see what 2009 has in store! Well its been over a month since I posted my last blog. Since then I have mainly just been working a lot due to the Christmas parade at Disney, and I was fortunate enough to be able to visit home around the holidays, which was great!!! In that time, I was able to: see a good old friend Charli get married, see Cassie and Andrea my 2 best friends from high school, visit with my high school sweetheart Erin, have our annual soup supper where I was able to visit with many neighbors and friends of the family, celebrate Christmas a few days early with my parents, brother, Papa Keith & Gram Rose, and great aunt and uncle Martha and Jerry, got some very cool presents including a camcorder and a hibachi grill, but the best gift was just being able to be home! On my last night I was even able to fit some time in at the hospital due to my dad slipping on some ice! I also got to experience what it was like to fly on Christmas Eve! Since then I have also managed to: celebrate Christmas day by doing 2 parades and then having dinner with some great friends and then opening presents with my best friend Tyler, find a new roommate who seems promising, made some great new friends, and rang in the new year with LOTS of champagne and wonderful friends to celebrate with! So needless to say it has been a pretty busy month, and a GREAT one at that!! I will quickly end this blog by including a few basic goals for 2009! I intend to: always seek joy wherever possible, strive to be as sincere/honest/caring/endearing/and helpful person as I can, make new friends, keep in better touch with old friends, have MANY new exciting adventures/experiences, offer a hug and a smile as often as possible, LOVE with all my might, and learn at least one new thing EVERY day! Happiest of New Years and may it be the best one yet!

Happy Holidays to me...

So yesterday started out as a very good day, spending it with my best friend doing some Black Friday shopping and having lunch and then watching Australia (which was AMAZING!- looong, but amazing none the less!) Only to come home to a VERY brief letter from my roommate saying that he had moved out to go back to his ex wife and that he was sorry. Well, thats great for the apology and all, however, I was left with no money for Dec. rent, nor for his part of Nov. electric! Happy Holidays Casey!! Oh, and to top it off, he left most of his stuff!! And not nicely put away in our empty storage closet, but rather strung around throughout the apt. So needless to say I needed to blow off a little steam!! Well, earlier that day my friends Stephen and TJ had made plans with me to go out since none of us worked today besides stephen but just for day parade. Anyway, we went out and had a GREAT time!! And along the way, we ran into my ex who I had not seen since the breakup (spoken to off and on) but not seen. I was actually quite glad to see him, until his best friend decided to start lecturing me on why I didn't call Danny on his birthday!! Thats nice he is trying to be a good friend, but don't be ridiculous about things!! Well, to say the least yesterday was an EXTREMELY eventful day, and tonight the 3 amigos strike again!! This night we ride incognito to- Tampa! Unless I have drinks bought for me I will most likely be VERY sober seeing as I have absolutely NO extra curricular activity finances due to my recent predicament! Thats it for now! Signing off. Oh PS - GO SEE AUSTRALIA!!!!

26th Birthday!!

So yesterday was my 26th birthday and though I had major reservations about turning another year older, I must say that I had a great time doing it!! Tuesday night I had my dinner/bowling party due to a busy schedule of other parties this week, and although the original choice of dinner locations (Tu Tu Tangos) fell through, we still had a great time at Don Pablos right across the street! After that we went cosmic bowling and more people joined us there making a total of about 30 people so it was a lot of fun and I can't say how thankful I am for all my friends! Then yesterday, actually on my birthday I laid around and did absolutely nothing during they day besides organize pics from the night before and then last night I went to the 3rd annual Thanksgiving Pot Luck (8 days early) at my friends' Kelli, Brandon, Katie, and Jon's new house. I had some great food there and took my new ipod mic stand that my parents got me for my bday and at the end of the night we started playing around with it and testing it out. All in all the celebrations were a great success. There were a few people who didn't make it to my party that I was bummed about, however I am still quite happy with the people who did! And as far as the age thing goes, its just a number and its all about how old you feel! Most days I feel younger, but somedays I feel MUCH older! Look out 26, I am ready for ya!

A new found suprising obsession!

Well to begin with let me define my use of the word obsession! What I am refering to has kept me pretty occupied the past couple of days and has shockingly left me wanting and looking forward to more of it! What is it you ask?! Well on a whim I decided to rent the first two discs (first 8 episodes) of season 1 of Gossip Girl. Somehow this cliche saga of what it is supposedly like to be a rich, private ivy league school, upper east side NYC teenager has sucked me in! The acting is decent for what it is and the story lines are so Soap Opera drama, twist and turny, but I still have managed to get grossly "addicted" to whats gonna happen next! Before that the only TV show that had really kept me waiting for more (besides AI and SYTYCD) was the drama of my favorite ladies from Wysteria Lane aka Desperate Housewives. But it seems as though I can now add these teens to my list! PS, although no one besides my wonderful mom as far as I know has read any of these blogs yet, if you do and you happen to watch the show, don't you DARE try to spoil any of what happens for me or there will be severe consequences!!

When do you stop trying?

So throughout my dating career, I have found myself a number of times "trying too hard" in every sense of that statement. In almost every other aspect of life I tend to think of myself as someone who is very easy going and who doesn't let peoples feelings or mixed signals bother me too much. I hardly ever think to myself why does this friend not want to hang out with me, or what is it about me that makes my boss not like me, or is this friend just being nice to me because they are too nice of a person to just not be friends with me. Those are just a few examples of questions that I don't ever ask myself....except when it involves someone who I am really "interested" in, then I begin to find myself asking TONS of questions! Keep in mind it only happens when I REALLY like someone so the amount of people this has happened for is only a handful or so. Well, without revealing too much, I must say I have found myself in that predicament again! I have found myself going through entire days stewing over silly trivial things. I won't reveal all the trivial questions i ask myself so that I don't make myself look like a complete loser, but I will say, I have it bad and don't know how to read the signs or handle the situation!