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!