Let me take this time to relieve some stress.

Wednesdays are possibly the worst day of the week. Why? Here's two solid reasons. 1. It's the same schedule as Monday. 2. I always have more homework Wednesday nights than I do any other day of the week. If today were a person they would have already been punched right in the face and quite possibly curb stomped. I hate you Wednesday.

Let's talk about some happy things.

The last time I blogged I talked about how happy I was to be single and how ready I was to go party with my other single bro, Cody. Well a lot has changed since then. My long time girl friend in high school turned ex and I started talking like human beings again. No more hating to hate one another or pretending like we didn't care that the other one existed. Turns out we can actually get a long. Soooo.... we are. Courtney and I are going on close to two months of our long distance relationship. I'm absolutely infatuated with this girl. Although she's close to 6 hours away, it seems that I could never be happier. Not to get too cheesy but I'm definitely floating on air everyday that we talk to each other. I love her. Simple as that.

So in summary this year has been great, minus the school, and the homework, and anything academically related. I'm as happy as I possibly can be and it's all thanks to her.

Anti-Social Butterfly

5 More days until I'm back at school. I honestly never thought I'd long to go back to school like this. This summer has been my loneliest summer of all time. I was single for a summer for the first time in 4 years which actually kind of sucks when you don't have friends to hang out with everyday. Unfortunately for me I had to make that trek across the country like I usually do. It was weird not texting someone constantly. Most days I left my phone in my room because I knew that people weren't going to text me. What's there to talk about? Oh yeah, I went to ghetto shit-hole of a store K-mart today and then watched tv. Exciting life I live. I know I'm not supposed to bash but K-mart is like if Khols and Walmart had a retarded baby and then put it in a foster home 20 years later you'd have K-mart. But seriously 5 days and my life goes back to normal. The thing I'm most excited about (besides actually having a social life again)... I'll have a wing man that's ready to be a wing man. FINALLY. God I love Greek life. Not to mention I get to be sold to a sorority girl for a night (not prostitution, but close). Does life get any better? Spoiler Alert: Doubtful.

Lost My Drive

It's spring, school is almost out and I'm pondering what I will be doing when I get home for summer break. ROTC ended a couple of weeks ago and since then I haven't seen the inside of the REC center not to mention been inside. I don't have to run at this point so why should I? But when summer gets here I'm gonna work out everyday, I'm gonna get huge, wicked swollen. Run erryday, push ups every morning. Fast forward to summer. The first nice day I go to play basketball; jump, roll and sprain (Even a ten from the French judges). There goes all the running I'm going to do this summer. At least I can still do push ups right? Here's the classic morning/night thought "I should do pushups, nah I'd rather (insert any excuse you can think of here)." As the summer goes on I find that I'm more and more comfortable with my slacking. Let's think about this. I don't really care at this point. There's no one here that I'm trying to impress or care about. My family sure as hell doesn't care about what kind of physical shape I'm in. We're Italian we eat pasta on a daily basis; getting fat is just what we do. There are no girls here that I've seen enough times that I know are interested or I'm interested in. So enter the conundrum if you will: I want to get huge, ripped, and tone but on the other hand I could really care less. Working out alone is too much of a hassle and I'm not going to stop eating food. My fat kid would die. I guess all I can say is here's to losing another 10lbs when ROTC actually does start up again. At least I'm not as fat as last year! And I guess it's not all that bad. I mean could look like this:

I guess I'll save that for retirement. Note the big slice of cake. Yum.

I woke up at 4 this morning...

so I thought this was fitting.

I'm tan and fat(ter)

After a week in the hot sun of Corrolla (OBX) I'm happy to be home. There's only so much vacationing with my family that I can take before I'd like to feed them to the fish. Here are my 3 cheers/jeers of this vacation.

Cheers
1. I'm at the golden brown tan stage, it only gets better from here.
2. Sun just about errryday made the beach that much more enjoyable. I taught my sister how to boogie board like a champ.
3. Like every good vacation you have to eat good food ours was no different. I'm afraid to look at my scale at this point. "We bought those doughnuts for you!" "Yeah and I ate them all by myself."

Jeers
1. My 6 pack is slowly becoming a keg
2. Drunken adults and crazy little kids are never a good combination for a vacation
3. Having someone my age would have made this vacation way more enjoyable. Not saying that I didn't have fun but there was definitely and age gap that I fell right into. 2 Weeks on the east coast I definitely miss my Bros and Hos (the 9 most important ones).

Late add in (neither or a cheer or jeer): Watching dolphins have a 3 way is extremely awkward with sisters who know what is going on but at the same time are too young to really tell them what's going on.

Airports are like Relationships

I hate going to one just like I hate getting involved in a relationship. Everyday is just an emotional roller coaster that either brings you depression or overwhelming joy. They're both overly expensive but unfortunately sometimes necessary. There's always a variety of food choices. The airport has the power to save or ruin a relationship. The power to bring people together or send them apart. My relationship with the airport has become rather unfriendly. It has brought regret, like some relationships do for many. And yet at the end of the day reaching your destination is like a relationship that you wish would last forever in the sense that nothing/no one else can make you smile and laugh in quite the same way. I Love/Hate Airports/Relationships.

I'm gonna make you a mixtape

Last night on my way home while listening to the radio I kept switching between stations to find something good to listen to. While switching I came across two generations of love songs, one from the 80s and another from this year. It got me to thinking. What ever happened to the mixtape? Why did it ever die? I mean what's more romantic, funny, or cheesy than getting a tape of love music that you actually enjoy. It's so much easier than coming up with something original these days that's going to swoon your girl or boy since it's pretty much all been said before. Obviously technology has evolved so much to make the actual casset (so out of date that not even chrome's spell check would help me) tape obsolete. We could move onto the CD if we really wanted to and as for me I really want to. That's why I've decided to blog 4 songs from 4 decades that I would put on my mixCD/Playlist whatever the hell you want to call it.

1980s: Faithfully - Journey
Best love song of the 80s and possibly the greatest love song ever written although many on the internet would probably disagree (I don't care go write your own blog). The only thing with this song is you can't use it unless you're in the relationship with the person and they're not going to run off if you tell them you love them. Besides what girl doesn't like voice of Steve Perry? He's been giving broners since Journey was formed.

1990s Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Any Goo Goo Dolls song will work here since they helped make the mid 90s a great time for music. I had a hard time choosing one from the 90s since it's my favorite genre of music but it came down to this one. It's rare to find a girl our age that doesn't like this song. The fact that it came from City of Angels just makes it that much more of a love song. If you get it stuck in your chica's head she won't forget you.

2000s Kiss Me Thru the Phone - Soulja Boy ft. Sammie
This decade was hard to chose from just because of the way music changed. Hip Hop and Rap started to take over as the music of choice. You know I could have went with Candy Shop by 50 Cent or Goodies by Cierra but those may have been a little too suggestive for what I'm trying to do. Instead I went with Kiss Me Through the Phone a more recent song for all of those long distance lovers. I'm not saying that this is the best song in the decade but for what a mixtape tries to accomplish, it works.

Since our current decade is not even two years old I decided to go with the song that got me started on this whole mixtape blog.

2010s Roll Up - Wiz Khalifa
It says everything that a guy needs to tell his girl just in a way more ghetto way. For all the white people he's telling a girl that he's always there for her. Don't worry I understand him since I'm Blurple.

In the end when you make your mixtape obviously you want it to appeal to whoever it is you're going after. Who knows none of these songs may even apply to the one you're trying to swoon or impress with your taste in music. You should probably get to know their music choice (might be important if you want a relationship with them).