Slacker

Yes, i know i've been slacking lately :(  what can i say?  i'm trying to improve the GPA this quarter ;)  anyways, i think i'll finally check the "where did that blog name come from" box off the list.  but before that happens, i will pre-emptively strike with a couple pictures to make sure this post isn't a complete failure.  and just so you know...yes, i do believe i have the cutest lil' grill on the block :)

and since i know how much you loved her clogs from an earlier post, i decided to get a close-up of them just so you can see what 5 bucks will get you at the outlets :)

ok, now to bore you with another post.  where the grass is greener.  it comes from a saying i heard a few years back, but before i get to that, i'll set the stage a little bit.  i think it's safe to say that i was a pretty smiley kid back in the day.  there wasn't a whole lot that got me down from as far back as i can remember and even through the "dreaded high school years."  i don't mean to toot my own horn, but i think i was a pretty happy go lucky kind of guy (feel free to disagree and let me know how far off i am).  :)  so anyways, graduation day came and off i went to YOUR united states air force academy.  i was lucky enough to spend 5 wonderful years in gorgeous colorado springs, co.  (5 instead of 4 since i "wasn't good enough to get in the first time" and spent a year at the prep school).  now i'd like to say i did a pretty good job at not letting "the man get me down" but looking back i think i couldn't be more off.  it's like i got sucked into the cynicism that abounds at the "blue zoo."  maybe it was all the pointless rules we had to follow.  maybe it was living day in and day out with 4,000 other cadets who had nothing better to do than complain about how much life sucked.  maybe it was the fact that we weren't allowed to leave campus during the week until we were seniors.  or maybe, just maybe, these are all terrible excuses and there really was no reason to complain at all.  sure, the saturday morning room/uniform inspections sucked, but honestly, we were done by noon.  how bad could it have been?  i mean, who else gets paid to go to school???  sure, 80 bucks a month as freshmen wasn't exactly a lucrative nba contract, but it sure beats seeing 20 grand in the negative doesn't it??  ok, so anyways.  after graduation i really noticed how great i had it.  gorgeous campus.  rocky mountains.  all the basketball my knees could handle.  and those beautiful academy women.  haha, just threw that last one in there to see if you were still reading ;)  so right then and there i began to see just how bitter i had become and how much it changed my personality.  maybe that's just what happens when you grow older and the academy was just a small part of it.  but even so, is that really an excuse?  i can't say that it is for me.  so sloooooooowly but surely i've tried to get back to the easy going, laughing, smiling, grateful kid i used to be.  about a year or so after graduation i heard a quote that i absolutely fell in love with: "when the grass looks greener on the other side...water your own grass."  i had it on the bottom of my email for the longest time until the air force decided they didn't want personal quotes as footers in our emails and i got more responses about that quote than i did to my emails.  :)  but the bottom line is that it is soooooo true.  life isn't about how bad i have it or how much i wish i had something or sitting here being a pessimistic dirt bag.  there are always things to be thankful for and always things to make you smile (especially when you have a beautiful family :)  so find the good in life and the bad days will soon be forgotten.  i guess i need to wrap this up since it's already too long.  the reason i named my blog what i did was to remind me not to you this as a place to gripe (yes, i know i've already vented a few times...my bad).  i also think, though, that venting is different than complaining and everybody needs to vent every now and then to get a load off and get back to their normal self right??  so make sure you hold me to it and yell at me if i'm getting whiney and i'll gladly thank you for it.  oh, and i promise i'll try and blog a little more often :)   

Comments

[Miranda]

You forgot to say that the main reason you started to have a change of heart since the academy was you had ME in you life!! :) Just kidding:) Glad to see that you are back to bloging again! I miss reading them. Now can you please go do the dishes!! :)

[jessica]

miranda's response cracks me up.

totally... life is all about your outlook, mr. smiley diple face! (i am wriggling my fingers in the air, are you laughing uncontrollably??) seriously, there are so many 'glass half empty' people out there it's depressing.

so does your cutest girl on the block really need the mountain dew to get her pumped up??

[Jaime]

Yeah, I like it.

Cute grill! hehe...