Oh South Bend

I have lived in Northern Indiana for my entire life. The only real thing that it has to offer is Notre Dame, and its relative closeness to Chicago. I have taken advantage of Notre Dame just about as much as I possibly can, and have seen the general scariness and overcrowding chaos that Chicago has to offer. So, now, basically it becomes increasingly apparent to me that Northern Indiana is so yesterday. Which means, that my tomorrow is about to take place somewhere else. Unfortunately, I have no way of getting there. I am trying to find a way, and I will try and use every advantage that the people within my life can offer me, but I am afraid that I will always be stuck here in my already happened. I am thankful to Indiana for what it has given me and what has taken place here, but its time for a goodbye.

Caught off guard

There are times in ones life when you realize that you may have missed the boat on something. Or in other words, you were so completely unaware of something that when it revealed itself to you, it catches you off guard. I had such an experience recently while watching one of my new favorite shows.

The show is Parenthood, and it is about the only good thing that NBC is doing right now. It is not really a show for everyone, but it has a few of my favorite actors in it, and its familial theme is one that I have always enjoyed in my television shows. Now, the thing that caught me off guard involves an actress who recently made a cameo appearance on the show. I was not really sure who the actress was while I was watching it, but what I did know was that she was beautiful and very pleasing to the eye. I had meant to go online and find out who this woman was, but before I had the chance to do so, another one of my favorite shows opened my eyes to the truth. This show, Sportsnation on ESPN, mentioned that the actress' name is Minka Kelly. This is what caught me off guard. I had heard the name Minka Kelly before and I was aware that she was engaged to Derek Jeter, but I was unaware of what she looked like. I was caught completely off guard by the fact that this woman I had only heard of ended up being heart breakingly beautiful, and somehow I had managed to not recognize it before now. I had missed her in Friday Night Lights, and American Dreams, and whatever other shows or films she had been in. I am surprised by this, mostly because I like to think of myself as someone who knows a hell of a lot about popular culture and sports. Minka Kelly, a person who crosses into both worlds, passed by me without me having any clue of how truly amazing she is. Sorry Minka, my bad. (I admit that certainly some part of her attractiveness is her awesome name)

Lastly, I want to warn you all of the second thing that caught me off guard. This happens to pertain the the movie The Spirit. It is about a superhero and is made to look extremely similar to Sin City. Sin City was and is glorious, however, The Spirit is tremendously terrible. It caught me off guard how truly terrible this movie is compared to how absolutely marvelous Sin City is. Stay away from The Spirit, otherwise yu will lose more time than you will want to spare on such a piece of crap.

So, About Me

I think the hardest thing anyone has to do is take a good look at themselves and come to whatever realizations they need to in order to improve themselves. For some reason I have struggled with this in my life, and to be honest with you, I believe that my entire family has had difficulties with it. I have had to learn to admit that my self-esteem or view of myself is not as strong or positive as it could be. I do not like to make excuses or attempt to put the blame for my feelings on anyone else. Therefore, I have to once again look at myself and realize that there are several improvements needed. The first time that I decided to make changes was in high school. I did a lot of work to change who I was throughout college and over time the changes took hold and I improved a bit. However, ever since I finished college I have struggled to find my way in life and now I know that I must once again do quite a bit of work to change who I am and begin to improve myself. So, it is with this that I let you know that I am excited and scared about the road ahead, but I plan to finish the journey with a brand new outlook on life and a brand new life in general. Thanks for reading

Finding A New Way

Yes, it has been a while since I posted on here, but to be very honest with you I have a lot to figure out. I have been contemplating several things and trying to come up with a new direction. I have begun to realize that things need to start changing and that the spark for all of this change can only come from me. In the past I had always been a firm believer in having a phrase or ideology that I would repeat in my head over and over to keep me going. I always had that one thing to help me focus and keep me going, and over the past year, I have lost my grasp on that practice. I guess, basically, right now Im waiting for the next phrase to come along that I can latch on to and focus my life.

However, until that meditative state takes over, I have a few other things to mention. The first, is that I along with most of the people I know have been completely taken over by Old Spice's add campaign this year. They have provided us with tremendous commercials as of late and I would love to thank them. Secondly, I just got back from a trip to Cincinnati over the weekend, and it is a pretty sweet place. I can only speak for the Hyde Park/Mt. Lookout area, but it is a very young and active area that provides a lot for the people who live there. I would recommend checking it out if possible, and if you do beware of the crazy amount of small lizards who shoot around the ground.

Finally, I think its important that I touch on the missed opportunity that was Gordon Haywards life on Monday night. He is by far Butler's best men's basketball player, and it was thrust upon him to take the final shot in the national championship game to try and upset the almighty Duke. However, Hayward missed by a tremendously small margin and went from possibly being remembered forever for hitting the greatest shot ever, to now probably a mediocre NBA player who really never got to the status that he could have been. Now, thanks to your miss I easily cruised to a dominant victory with my brackets over certain friends who like to talk a lot of trash, so I am thankful to you for that. In the long run though, Im sure you would have rather had it the other way around. Sorry Gordon, better luck next year my friend. Thanks for reading