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I have noticed that every elder person I know says that 17 was the best year of their life, and I can't disagree too much. Most folks that age have transportation, sustainable income, have started to be involved with others romantically in a way that isn't too dramatic or immature and in general are starting to feel a sort of refreshing independence that doesn't go so far as to leave them stranded in life, as they always have a safety net in their parents. Well, I am eighteen now. I was fired shortly before my birthday this year, I do not have a car, I do not have a license, and I'm sort of thin and weak physically. I'm not trying to bitch here, I'm just telling it how it is. I have a wonderful girlfriend who I've been dating for almost a year now, but not much of a way to take her out and show her a good time. I feel the independence and I do love it, but I'm also used to it, as my mother was always very lenient with me. This is all leading to the point that I need to start improving myself and my situation. SO, here's the plan:
- I have in my posession a set of small weights. If I put all of them on the long bar, they would probably add up to be around 60 to 75 pounds including the 10-pound bar. If I eat fairly healthily as I'm wont to do, and do a lot of reps with a low weight (around 25 or 30 pounds) every other day, I figure my arms won't look and feel like boiled spaghetti noodles. I can do sit-ups with these weights on my chest and get a fairly tight stomach, and I already walk around 6 miles a day and as such my legs are hard as steel. I don't want to get huge or anything. I just want to be able to take off my shirt and look impressive. I am a slightly vain person.
- I need to get a job. That's pretty much all there is to that. I don't live in the best part of town, and there aren't many non-food service jobs around. I've been working in the food industry for around 3 or 4 years now. I don't like it very much. I can't handle pressure extraordinarily well, and when I try to rush to accommodate a large group of customers I get flustered and mess up orders and look pretty dumb. I've always liked kids, though. There are quite a few establishments around the town I live in that include a childcare program. Churches, daycare centers and the like. I think I'd like to work in places like that, but honestly, I don't have much room to be picky in this topsyturvy economy these days rite? I will try for those sorts of social jobs anywho, though and update on my status.
- Car car car car car. As much as I like walking everywhere I need to be, I can't really do that all over the place. There are some places it's just dangerous to walk to. Where my girlfriend is staying for instance, can only be reached by way of a highway leading to an exit that lets out to a road that leads to her house. I cannot walk there, and there wouldn't be much for me to do there anyways as her roommate does not like me at all. I'd be imposing, butanywaysineedacar. Job naturally comes before this, but it's still important. As I am or was homeschooled, I have had a hard time getting a hold of the document proving my homeschooledness, which I need as there is a retarded statute in Alabama that requires all kiddos under 19 to be enrolled in school to receive a permit or license. It will happen. I will get and learn to operate a motor vehicle with God as my witness.
- I should probably just sack up and go to college, so I am going study fervently for the ACT this year. I am only really lacking in math and science and will study an algebra book my mother is in possession of for a few months beforehand. I've been stalling on the taking of the ACT for quite sometime now as I've dreaded getting a shitty grade on it and not being able to afford college, but I really need to do something with myself and college just seems like the right way to go. I've always envied really booksmart folks and it's sort of an imbecile's dream to be smart like them people on the public television and the old books which mine mother used t'read me, but I gotta do this and study some cliched "I don't know what I'm doing with my life" subject like English for me and mine I guess. Updates will come and go.
Tl;dr CHRISTIEN IMPROVEMENT FESTIVAL BOOMKASLPOW.
