Random Thoughts From A Random Guy

Sunday, November 10, 2013

This Week on ADITLOAN

This is a recap of what I post on my Tumblr page “A Day In The Life of a Nobody”. The majority of it is TV and Movie stuff but I throw in other things I like occasionally.

Thursday, November 7th, 2013

The Big Bang Theory

A mix of the Title

Supernatural

Friday, November 8th, 2013

Father Daughter photo

Star Wars

Saturday, November 9th, 2013

Well it worked, didn’t it?

iRobot

Star Wars

There is a lot of gif’s in this post, so if they don’t all show up and you want to see them, go to A Day In The Life Of A Nobody.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

I don’t suffer from depression, but there are definitely things that get me down. I do have days where I seem to be down on myself or my life. I don’t know if it’s a chemical imbalance or something actually sets it off, but every so often I’ll just have one of those days where I can’t stop thinking about things that depress me. I thought maybe if I threw some out there, maybe it will help, probably not, but I can pretend it will

House – My only goal for this year was to purchase a house. The fact that it won’t happen depresses me, but more so, pisses me off. After my divorce, my credit score dropped (it was already low to be honest) because theEx never pays any of her bills. So pretty much any bills we had while we were together, I’m stuck paying. I’m still paying on a van that got repossessed because she couldn’t make the payments. On top of the reason my credit score is low, is the fact that the bank requires a certain score to be pre-approved. When I started this process at the beginning of the year, my credit score was way low. I paid off what I needed to pay off, my score went up a little over 60 points in 3 months which put it only 10 points from where it needed to be. Even my banker said he was impressed at how much I got it up in such a short time. I went back 3 months later to check my score, it only went up 2 points. There really isn’t anything I can do to make it go faster short of buying a new car or something but who can afford that. So now I sit here, playing the waiting game. So it pisses me off because they can’t overlook the 8 points I was short.
theEx – Since I’m bitching about theEx not paying her bills above, I’ll throw this in there. It depresses me that I do everything for the kids while she does nothing and they still love her to death. I know that’s not going to change but I just want them to see her for what she is. She’s got a new job recently and purchased a SUV. Meanwhile, her kids still wear clothes that don’t fit (at her house), and I still struggle trying to support them because her whopping $27/week support doesn’t cover hardly anything. Hell, it cost just under $20/week for their school lunches.
Stepkids – When I knew I was getting stepkids, I was excited because I see how much my brothers stepkids love him and the great relationship he has with them. But apparently I screwed that up somehow. Neither of my stepkids could care less about me. It’s not that they hate me or even dislike me, they just don’t care. All I am to them is their mother’s husband. Chris and I got along when he lived with us, but apparently I wasn’t what a “father” was supposed to be in his eyes. Now he lives in Virginia and I don’t ever talk to him unless I’m down there or he’s up here. Skyler just doesn’t want a father, has no need for one. Which is fine, but it would be nice to have some kind of relationship with her. The only time I ever hear from her is if she needs me for something. I can’t even get her to respond to text messages. I tell myself it’s because I came into their lives when they were older (15 & 16) but then I hang out with my brother at a family function and see all his stepkids tell them they love him and give him hugs and they were the same age when he came into their lives.
My kids – I worry too much about my kids. It’s not that I worry about them, all parents worry about their kids, it’s more that I worry about my kids fitting in at school. I never fit in and I was perfectly fine with it, and I certainly don’t want my kids to follow everyone else, but I was picked on and I don’t want them to deal with that. I worry about them getting picked on for being different but I want them to be themselves, even if that means being different. I know, I’m confusing. Samantha will think she’s best friends with someone just because they say hi and I foresee people taking advantage of that. Trevor will do anything for you and I fear people taking advantage of them for being nice and polite. I feel like I haven’t prepared either of my kids for the fact that people can be assholes. The problem is, I don’t know if how I raised them right or not. They are great kids, polite, respectful, behaved. The problem is most other kids aren’t. Maybe I’m just to critical of other people, either way I worry about it.
Health – Mine and Cheri’s. We know about her health issues and I am supposed to be here for her but I seem to be having my own issues. I’m having muscle and possibly nerve issues in my back, neck and shoulders. I went to a chiropractor yesterday for a consultation and he seems to think that he can help. I go back on Monday to see if he can start fixing my issues.

Those are my top depression buttons right now in no particular order. Maybe in a year, they will change. I suppose it would be nice to get rid of these buttons but I’m sure others will replace it.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

My Kind of Humor #14

Time for another edition of My Kind of Humor. I haven’t done one of these in awhile and I’m getting way behind. These were all posted on my Random Thoughts Facebook page at one time or another.

I don’t feel I need to say anything.

There’s some days I wish I had that license plate.

I can’t say anything about the obesity rate since I’m overweight but it’s still funny.

At least they include me in that aisle.

I feel so bad that I ate all their babies.

I don’t really run, but I do like to make fun of internet explorer.

You’ll find it funny if you lived in the 80’s.

See, we can be educational here as well.

My apologies to France, for calling you out.

I hate neighbors. Especially the ones I have now.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Why I Hate People #1

I mentioned in my last Randomness post that I came up with a new series for this blog and this is right up my alley and I will probably never run out of material.

I mentioned that I spent some time at the hospital recently. The first day while Cheri’s sister was in surgery, we spent 6 or 7 hours in the waiting room. A lot of people came and went while we were there. Being as I hate people, I was glad we took 3 seats with a table that was off in the corner so the less people we’d have to deal with. It worked for the most part as far as the people went, what it didn’t work for was all of their cellphones. I got so tired of hearing peoples phones going off. Every tone set for text messages going off constantly. For a little while, one of the phones would say loudly “message received” every time she sent a message. Is it really that hard to silence your phone or put it on vibrate? Heaven forbid your self centered ass doesn’t take a second to think about the people around you. There is no reason you can’t have your phone on vibrate. If your waiting for an important call or text, you just make sure your phone is in front of you so you don’t miss it.

Personally, my phone is always on vibrate, I don’t ever use ringtones. The only time you’ll hear my phone is when the alarm goes off in the morning and I guarantee you aren’t going to hear it unless your sleeping with me. Even my alarm starts off quiet and gets louder so I can hopefully get to it before it annoys my wife.

I could really give you a whole list of reasons I hate people with cellphones but I’ll save those for other posts.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Randomness #18

I’ve had 4 days off work and haven’t gotten anything done online. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing because I’ve been with the family most of the weekend. On Thursday, I had a vacation day because my sister-in-law was going to be in the hospital and we wanted to be there for her. So I spent all day at the hospital and then in the evening I took the kids trick-or-treating. We had planned on spending all day Friday at the hospital as well but Cheri’s sister was in a lot of pain and things weren’t going to well so she didn’t want any visitors. We did a little bit of running around but for the most part, hung around at home but I barely picked up my laptop so I didn’t get much done. Yesterday, we went and hung out at the hospital all day again. She was doing a little better and we basically just hung out in her room and chatted all day. Today, not doing anything. Sitting around all day. Cheri’s sister is going home today so she is doing better. So the only plans I have today are to pick up my kids at 7 tonight. So it looks to be a PJ day. Maybe get a couple of blog posts ready.

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)

I just finished watching the Hunger Games. I watched it when it first came out on DVD and liked it but I really didn’t remember much about it. But I had just finished the first book earlier this week and wanted to see the differences between it and the movie. As usual, the book is much better. The main reason is it just gives more detail about what is actually going on and what she is thinking. They do change a few things, but not too much. The book is definitely better. I just started the 2nd one yesterday but haven’t gotten very far and probably won’t read more until Monday. I haven’t looked to see when the 2nd movie comes out but I know it’s soon. I should have all 3 read by the time it comes out. I purchased the trilogy for $.99 awhile back so I’m reading all 3 back to back to back.

3 nights ago, we did our annual trick or treating at my grandparents house. We all get together for my grandfather’s “world famous” chili then take all the kids through their neighborhood. The kids group is getting smaller as the kids are getting older and wanting to hang out with their friends instead. As you can see, there are a couple of kids who don’t dress up now. Samantha even said after Halloween that she may be done dressing up, but we’ll see in a year. The tradition has been going on for a long time now so it probably won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Last night, or this morning rather, we got woke up at 5:30 by our doorbell. Cheri goes out on the porch (we live on the upper level but our door is at the ground level) and apparently some drunk girl was trying to find her apartment by ringing a bunch of doorbells. I guess, finally a guy that knew her saw her and yelled at her. But since I was awake now (I have trouble going back to sleep after I get woken up) and I thought of a few ideas. An article I might do for yahoo as well as a regular feature I might do here. So I guess I shouldn’t complain about the dumb ass who woke me up. Now it’s just taking the time to write them all up.

This Week on ADITLOAN

I’m going to try to do these posts weekly. It’s basically a recap of what I post on my Tumblr page “A Day In The Life of a Nobody”. The majority of it is TV and Movie stuff but I throw in other things I like occasionally.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

Wayne’s World, party on, excellent