The Sweet Up and Down

I Googled myself this morning. I wanted to see what was the first thing that came up about me. The first thing came up on page ten and was a link to my short stories on AuthSpot which is cool because those are things I could get paid for (which brings me to an advertisement: Read My Stuff). The next thing was my Blogger profile which was on page 15 or so. My name is a lot more common than I originally thought because there are quite a few people with my name out there. Search on MySpace and there are two in Lawrence alone with profiles. I also share a name with a member of Monty Python who passed away in 1997, an author who wrote The Saskiad and I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company and a lot of graphic designers and photographers. I only went 39 pages into what ends up being roughly 1,170 but you know as you get further the results just turn into pages that just happen to have my name in them but do not result in anything important.

I noticed the "writer's block" section of the home page asked "Which of your five senses could you live without?" How would you choose which to get rid of. You certainly wouldn't voluntarily give up sight or hearing but touch and taste would be equally tough to give up. Smell would more than likely be my choice mainly because it's one sense that I think I could live without although I would relunctantly give it up. I came to the conclusion that I couldn't live without sight or sound because those are what make the world beautiful. While olfactory senses gives us smells like roses, steaks cooking, gasoline and smoke it also gives us poop, burnt popcorn and burning rubber but it's your choice which sense to give up. I've made my choice and I stand by it.

Also, I ended my comic strip blog for a while as I focus more on writing for both money and for my LiveJournal (I want it to be something more) plus get more involved with packing and moving (which happens September 15th). The blog will be back on September 20th which is also the day we should be completely moved in so I am looking forward to that. I'm hoping to update my LJ more frequently and am considering using it to post drafts of stories I think of but am unable to flesh out until I get my mandatory two a month written. I have a couple doozies I've been itching to write so they may appear here pretty soon.

Until next time, I remain...
~Brian

I beat and surpassed my previous record of having sex in a 24-hour period. The new record: 5. Six times if you go for a 36-hour period. It was all just amazing, including some things I'll tell you about when you're older.

This weekend seemed busy even though it really wasn't. Audrey and I made pizza Saturday morning when I got to Topeka after work, then we woke up early the next morning to eat breakfast at Perkins which was delicious even though they forgot to give us silverware which I thought was very odd. Afterward, we looked around Best Buy just to kill time then went back to her place for awhile and watched "Little Miss Sunshine" before we went out to a fancy restaurant called The Brick Oven which was so damn delicious I can't even describe it.

After dinner, we got some ice cream and went back home. We watched "Sonny", a movie directed by Nicolas Cage. We would've watched "Saturday Night Live" but the Olympics were on. Then we started watching "Juno" but Audrey got tired and went to sleep, I stayed up to finish the movie then went to bed with her. We woke up a little later this morning to grab some Mexican food at Tacos El Sol, ate and watched some of "The Office". I, of course, didn't want to leave but I had to go pay rent, mow, pick up Cameran and do some slight yard work.

It was a good weekend, one of the best in a while. On a side note, I need boxes. If you know anyone who has good boxes for moving, let me know. I'll take them off their hands.

Until next time, I remain...
~Brian

2008 has shaped up to be a really good year. After the massive disappointment 2007 came to be, I needed a good year. First, I met Audrey. I had originally intended to just test the waters with her, make sure I could sustain a relationship, get back into the flow of dating but no real attachment. I ended up falling in love with her and proposed to her back in June. We're moving in together on September 1st, finally being together all the time in Lawrence. Audrey is really the only major change in my life and I am so happy to be with her. She is the first girlfriend I have ever had where there is not a Jason, Matt or Dan also vying for her affection. I think I finally know happiness in relation to the person I'm dating and I could not be happier.

Elsewhere, I'm making it a goal to get two stories written every month. Hopefully I can follow through with it because I've been stuck on the same two stories (The Kings of Framingham and Seven) since about May or so and I have all this other stuff that I want to start getting down. But as for my other things such as my comic strip, it's slowly becoming more popular and I am actually starting to get more views on that than on my MySpace. But MySpace tends to be a huge disappointment anyway especially since I haven't gotten a message/comment/friend request in months. The same happens with my Facebook but at least other stuff happens on Facebook...MySpace just sits there.

Postings here my get even more scarce as I fill extra time I have with packing and getting ready to move but hopefully around moving day I'll let you all in on how that's going and maybe get some picture of my new abode.

Until next time, I remain...
~Brian