I'm not a grinch or a scrooge I just hate the fucking holidays

01-02-09

I believe the difference is that I don't ruin other people's holidays I just personally hate it. There are many reasons I hate the holidays. I'll just go through the big ones. I'm going to say my start of the "holiday season" is halloween. I hate halloween only for the fact that I'm at the worst age for it. Most people my age dress up and go get drunk and then walk around outside. Ok first all the girls are dressed like sluts which I feel its stupid that there's a day on the calendar where its ok to dress like a slut and laugh about it yet any other time you'll talk shit about a person dressed like that on a normal friday/saturday night, I don't drink and its fucking cold outside so doing the "norm" is out of the question. I'm too old to trick or treat and my son is absolutely adorable in his costume but lets face it my son is absolutely adorable in pretty much anything and he doesn't care about the candy he's just running around. Also let me proclaim right here I will NEVER be a parent that drives his kid around for trick or treating. You get out and walk the streets for candy like the hooker you are (ahhh get the irony because I was talking about girls dressing like supersluts....ahhh whatever). Then thanksgiving. Now this past thanksgiving was actually one of the best in recent memory. I ate with my family and Jeff (who's pretty much part of the family anyway) at my house then we went to my ex girlfriends (weird I know but I love her family) and stayed over there ate played board games and watched football. It was a lot of fun. But most of the time we bounce around to other families' thanksgivings and I can only pack away so much mac & cheese. Then my family isn't close (physically or figuratively) so I never see them or anything so its always just my mom my brother my godmother and me. Not much of a thanksgiving. Yeah I know its all about giving thanks for what you have but I'm one of those people that thinks you should do that everyday and not just 1 out of 365. Which leads into my most hated holiday Christmas. Yes I hate christmas. First it doesn't even make sense, everybody (even the OD religous people) pretty much agrees that its impossible that Dec 25th is Jesus' birthday but yet we still go to midnight mass and pretend it is. Then if you want to go with the St nick who use to leave gifts for kids in their shoes ok...so how do we get from that to the sheer madness that Christmas is today...I know capitalistic America, I hate it. Or you can go with what I think is the most likely answer is that it derives from christians trying to combat the pagan decmber holidays so as usual came up with some bullshit gave it some moral background and declared it true. You can look this up at www.thehistoryofchristmas.com and www.historyofchristmas.net if you're really really bored. Then I've already gone through my family not being close and I never get good gifts. My mom goes shopping like 5 months before christmas and never gets me anything on my list or does something like this past year where my christmas gift was paying for housing deposit and everything. I'm very appreciative of that and all but that's nothing to wake up on christmas morning to. Other things have included paying for my class ring, getting a laptop on black friday, another laptop on black friday, and an OD digital camera that wasn't wrapped(a nice thought but how many pictures do I take go check my facebook and go through my photos discount the ones of my son(because I got the camera before he was even thought of) and how many are taken by me? its hard to take pictures of people when you hate people). I mean they're all nice things that I greatly appreciated but like I said nothing to wake up on christmas morning to, which is suppose to be what its all about. But really I hate the bittersweetness of everyone's demeanor around this holiday where everyone's "so nice". Now hold up before you go hating on me for hating that people are nice let me ask you something. Back in the BC days around this time of year masters and slaves switched roles. Now does switching roles with the slave lets say a week (and that's being generous) does that make up for the other 51 weeks of the year where the master treated the slave like shit. Also the slave knew it was going to go back to being a slave so it couldn't enjoy it too much or their might be reprucussions. Anyway fast forward to today where charities are overflowed with donations over the holidays do people really think december is the only month these charities are open? How does giving a poor child an ipod help when its highly doubtful they have a computer and in a few months they'll probably have to sell it to put food on the table while your back to living your comfy life. Look I'm not saying don't ever be nice i'm saying be nice all the time and if your not nice then don't try to put on some front like your some great righteous person just because its the month of december. Just be your normal asshole self and enjoy your life as is. That's just my opinion. Now these are the holidays I really there's only 2 holidays that I actually look forward to each year. My birthday (yes its a holiday in my book) and valentine's day (what?). Well my birthday is the one day that's all about me (as really every day should be but I'll take my one day and milk the shit out of it). Its one day where the world excuses me for being my asshole self and hey if the world wants to do it who am I to deny them that pleasure. But yeah I get gifts and everybody pays attention to me and although I have yet to get laid on my birthday you still get special treatment from girls. So what's to hate about a birthday? Then valentines day, if you know me I'm a very sentimental person(aka a little bitch) so I put a lot of thought, time, effort, and if I have it, money into my valentines gifts. Even if you don't have a significant other its the perfect time to start something up or appreciate a friend of the opposite sex and if you do have a significant other than that is guaranteed get some night (although I have wondered if its that "time of the month" for the girl, I guess if you're comfortable with it you work around it or work through it but if you're not comfortable with it than what do you do?) Anyway this year both of those holidays aren't looking too hot. My birthday will come up 3 weeks after being texas so what are random people going to do for me except say "hey happy birthday how old are you wow 20". And its on a friday too. I'll probably just ask someone I become cool with to take me to a movie (even though I hate going to movies when everyone else goes) just so I'm not just jakking it in my dorm on my birthday (ahhh get it jakking it and I was talking about never getting laid on my birthday...ahh whatever). But yeah and then a week after that is valentines day (which is another reason I like these holidays.. they're proximity to each other). I'm calling I won't have anyone to share that with either. But its cool next year I turn 21 on Saturday and valentines day is on a sunday (which means guarenteed no class) and I'll OD then. So to hating the holidays this year and to beast moding next year.....AWAY!!

Finally.....A POST!!!!!

01-01-09

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! First let me apologize for the long delay, I was just being lazy. But now that it's all good. I'm typing now with my program that came with my OD operating system that lets me type was my voice. Yeah I'm that lazy. Anyway, onto the first blog.

Happy new year! I'm sure a lot of you out there had a lot of fun. I actually had more fun than I would have thought. Playing star wars monopoly and listening to old school rap videos, that is the way to bring in the new year. There are several reasons I hate the new year. The first you could probably guess a few it's an excuse for people to get wasted and make out with a stranger but that is not even what I hate most about it. I think people get the word resolution with the word declaration. To have a resolution is to have a plan you cannot just say " in 2009 I'm going to be happy" and not have any sort of plan. Because then what's the point? I can say that in june, July, October, really you can do a resolution or declaration anytime but the points of a new year's resolution is your suppose to actually carry out in my personal opinion that requires having a plan being ready for challenges and having good motivational reasons to do so. Without these you may start off great but you will immediately fall off and forget by spring break falling right back into your same ways. I'm not one to just hate though. I'll give you a few of what I think our real resolutions (of course they are my resolutions). 

In 2009 JD DeVaughn-Brown will....

1. Obtain a 4.0 GPR...that's right straight A's. New place, new school, and from my research Texas A&M's engineering program is easier than NC State's. There's many motivations for this. The first is to Texas A&M is kind of like getting something I wanted under the most horrible of circumstances. So I want to make the most of it. Also I need money to pay off all these loans no better way to qualify for scholarships than with a perfect GPA. Finally I have to desire to go to graduate school at MIT so I think I have played my cards right and I'm through all the BS courses so now I can just go into semi-interesting courses and actually do the work for it. 

2.Help out young people. Well first I live in a primarily freshmen dorm so they'll help me with learning about Texas A&M, College Station, and Texas in general and in turn I'll help them with the introductory classes and other young people stuff (like that wasn't me a year ago but I was never the typical "college freshmen" so I think I have some great knowledge to partake young students. But also I would like to become a tutor and I know next winter I'll be coaching a little basketball team if given the opportunity I'll do that this summer as well. Finally I would like to get some anti-suicide/depression organization started on campus. My plan is to just give high school/middle school students a young mentor to talk to about what parents and older people call "trivial" but means the world to them. Nobody understands that better than people who lived through that 5 years ago and came through it and went on to succeed. Other ideas may come to me but those are just a few. 

3. Gain to 10-15 lbs of muscle. Yeah I'm really tired of being made fun of being skinny (which i feel is a shame but that's another whole blog which will come). But also I have potential I have decent strength already and definition i just don't have bulk. So I signed up for this online dudes youtube vieos and he sends you emails and all this stuff giving you advice on everything from what to eat to when to work out to after work out sessions and everything in between. I talked with the buff people I personally know (shout outs to Tony and Jeffrey) to get more tips. So i'm going to follow their tips. I will sign up for a weight training class at Texas A&M so i can be on a set regimen. Once I get enough money I'll buy the muscle milk and vitamins and all that shit. 

There's other stuff I want to do in 2009 but those things are just that... things I want to do they're not resolutions there are no plans associated with them its either I'll do them or I won't. So what are your resolutions? What do you want to accomplish in 2009?