Habitual

How do you fight habits?

I'm curious because I have a few habits that need breaking. Not that I'm specifically asking for advice, it's more that I'm just pondering out loud. I suppose it would be a pain if I mentioned habits worth breaking without naming them. Well.. I'm out of shape, so I need to break the habit of eating too much and eating too unhealthy as well as the habit of lazing around. We just got a trampoline, and I love those things. I find myself getting really worn out after five to ten minutes.. maybe a decent work out? This is one of my bigger concerns, cause I really would like to be a touch slimmer.

Also, I don't want to blow things out of proportion in my thoughts. I tend to dwell on things and make them worse then they are. Whether it's my snake not eating and my thinking I'll find him dead in the cage tomorrow when it's only been a week since he ate or me thinking that because I haven't successfully asked out anyone in a very very long time that I'm always going to be single, I'd prefer to not think that way. Basically I'd rather trade in some pessimism for some optimism.

I guess that's really it now that I think about it..

On another note, it's only two weeks away from move-in day in St. Cloud. Pretty soon now I'll be living in an apartment, more or less on my own! Saturday the 1st I'm going up to get my keys, Sunday the 2nd I'm filling my apartment up with my crap. From that point on it's open invitation for people to come on up and visit! Just let me know if you're interested! =D

Zaid is skittish, and wont eat frozen mice. I did some research tonight and found a couple tips that I'll try and employ over the course of the week to see if I can convince him to eat. Perhaps he isn't hungry, but I kind of doubt that. After all he last ate over a week ago and only had a rather small mouse. Supposedly Ball Pythons are very picky eaters and have been known to fast for as long as 6 months and still be fine. Almost every source I looked up tonight said not to panick when they don't eat, but I can't help it! After how easily Cairo died I feel like Zaid's going to croak tomorrow.. and I do not want that, no sir! He's got to last! Speaking of all these "he's," I really should take him to a vet sometime and find out if he really is a he and not a she. Would be nice to know, supposedly there's no real sure-fire way to find these things out on your own.

To end I thought I'd note that for some reason I've been listening to a lot of songs from the Across The Universe soundtrack and I can't stop. They're stuck in my head and I'm singing along and everything. I liked that movie.

Short Circuit

So there's this flash game I've been trying to find for probably a couple years now that Jarid posted on one of our older forum sites. The game was a very simple game where you had to dodge falling asterisks " * " that moved and reacted to the background music, which is done by Daft Punk. It's a great game and I finally sat down and found it the other day. It's called Short Circuit and it's made by armor games, which has designed a lot of my favorite tower defense games. Give it a try! http://armorgames.com/play/1369/short-circuit

Also, as a response to my last blog (seeing as if anyone is like me, they probably don't look at a specific blog entry after they comment, at least not very often.) the name Zaid is not pronounced "raid" or "Zah-eed". It rhymes with raid but with a Z at the beginning, if that makes sense. As for the comments, I'm seriously considering Akil, but I'm still leaning towards Zaid or Djet, even if they don't sound like snake names.. at least they aren't average people names (I really don't like when people name their pets common human names like Jack or Lucy etc.)

Any suggestions?

So I've been digging around for Egyptian names for my python and I came across a few I like.

The list is basically as follows:
Zaid (sounds like raid)
Djet (Jet)
Akil (Ah-keel)
Naeem (Nah-Eem)

I've decided I no longer want to rename it Cairo, That was a past snake and the significance of the name would be lost on practically everyone these days anyways. The list is ordered based on how much I like each name, but they're all close enough that I'm not sure what I want to name it. Any thoughts? Like any of these specifically? Anything you can think of that isn't up here, has an Egyptian flair, and sounds like a good name?

This Weekend

Ah this weekend, It's been interesting and fun.

I'm currently running off no sleep because I stayed up ALL of last night completely unable to fall asleep, so I passed the time by reading half of the Stephen King and Peter Straub collaboration novel known as "Black House" which started out excruciatingly slow but built up into a furious avalanche of awesome. Basically it's about a 35-year old retired Homicide detective who has to track down a killer who murders and proceeds to eat children in his local town. It's a pretty good book if you can get past the beginning. However if you ever do pick it up I would say you are required to read "The Talisman" first, also by Stephen King and Peter Straub which tells the story of the detective in his younger years and builds the foundation for "Black House". If you like SK and haven't given one of or both of these books a try, you should.

On to another note, I just recently turned 20 and I'm "almost dead," so to speak. I don't feel any great remorse or sense of loss for no longer being a teenager, then again I've always felt that the numerals attached to your length of life and the labels for numerical groupings really only represent how long you've been on the planet, now who you are or what you should act like. I'm 20! So what! It feels good to have survived for 20 rotations of the earth around the sun and I'm glad I'm proceeding into a more "adult" stage of my life, even though i have every intention of playing more video games, magic, and wasting my time procrastinating like all the years before. I just kinda wish maybe it was a bigger deal. I'm not at all excited to turn 21, that's just going to be a pile of annoying as everyone expects me to start drinking and bar hopping.. I have no real intention of that, I may partake of the drink here or there but I don't think I'll get plastered and pass out on my 21st, I'll probably just hit apple bees or something and order some frufy drink that's technically alcoholic but tastes just fine.

Recapping back to friday night, the night of my birth. I had a pretty average day, perhaps it was above average for the fact that I got some nice birthday wishes and such, but it wasn't spectacular really. It wasn't bad, just not amazing. Fireworks were pretty fun, but I've come to the realization that despite the fact that I have hardly a patriotic bone in my body, It kind of bothers me to hear 5 or 6 of my closer friends bitch about what is "american" on a day made to celebrate the founding of our nation. I mean I agree with you all, America is far from perfect and it has it's share of completely shitty problems, but can't you take one day to stop saying "fuck america" for no better reason then you can and just acknowledge that "hey, ya know, it's kind of shitty sometimes, but America really isn't that bad of a place.." I mean hell, at least it isn't like Ethiopia or Sudan, no one is riding down the street with machetes trying to cut your head off because you aren't the same race or religion.. just one day.. america not so bad.. is it that hard?

Sorry to bitch but it irks me a bit and i know I'm not the only one..

ANYWAYS on to happier, cooler things. I got a new Ball Python! I'm freaking ecstatic! This one is going to fucking live! I mean it! And if it doesn't I'm gonna be pissed! Yeah!! It's so sweet too, it's a touch bigger then my first one, a little bit older, hopefully more stable. I really want this one to last.. I kind of missed having a pet to call my own, even if I only picked up that garter snake once every other month or so, or that my last python died within a month.. I'ma feed him a live mousey-mouse tonight! It's going to rock! Only because I really want to see him/her (the shop owner didn't know, so I'll have to do some research and find out on my own) eat a healthy meal. Also, I kinda wanna name this one Cairo too, cause I mean the last one didn't even get to break the name in, but I dunno, I'm not sure if it fits right, even though I've already told my family I wanted to name it that. Perhaps I'll do some contemplating on the matter and make a final decision later. I still want to do something egyptian I think.. just seems to fit for some reason..

Anyways sorry for rambling, I think i do that when I get tired.. heh.. more then 24 hours without sleep, ~yawn~ Later friends!