Lazy Days in Salt Lake

Days off are fantastic.

This semester I have class on two days.
Monday: 11:30-7pm
Wednesday: 11:30-2:45

The rest of the week, I have to do nothing since I'm not working right now. It is one of the most fantastic semesters I've ever had. I love it so much even if I'm not particularly fond of my classes. Oh well, I'm almost done and you can't always love everything that you're doing in school, right?

What did I choose to do with my day today? Well in all reality, very very little. The big thing I did was wake up and went for a run with Oakley. I did my usual loop that I've been doing for a while, although I haven't done it since it started snowing. This consists of from my house to 9800 south along 2200 west, then from 2200 to 2700 and then back to 10400 south and back home. All in all it's about 3 miles or so. Before today I've always been able to get roughly halfway before I felt like my lungs and legs were about to explode. Today I hit that halfway point and just kept going. I was expecting to hit my wall a little bit after but it never came. I completed this full loop without stopping or walking once! It was a huge accomplishment for me. Never did I think I'd be able to do this, let alone in the 40 minutes that I did do it.

My stamina is definitely increasing and it feels good. I need the snow to melt though so that I can get on my bike! I have to do the 26.2 mile bike tour at the Salt Lake City Marathon this year! It sounds like so much fun and I want to do it. I need to start getting bike legs. I really need to find a spinning class that I can attend regularly. I have a body built for biking, strong calves and thighs. I need to take advantage of it. Being in shape is one of the greatest feelings I've ever had and I never want to let it go.

Other than going for a run today I decided to start taking pictures again. I get discouraged since I think that pictures need to be of pretty things out in nature or somewhere exotic. I decided though to force myself to take 30 pictures in my own backyard. I did so with a lot of different settings and angles and then wanted to practice my Photoshop skills with my best pictures. Here are the 4 I chose:

Puppy

Winter

Warmth

Childhood

Love/Hate Relationship

I hate school and they love taking my money. That's the love/hate relationship that I'm currently in. Today was a long day. I left for Trax at 10am and didn't get home until 7:30pm and I got out of class early. On most Mondays I won't be getting home until at least 8pm. 10 hours is way too long! Oh well, it's worth it.

What is it people write about in their blogs in January? Generally the new year? I guess I'll do that. 2011, I guess a lot has changed. I'd say the biggest thing is that I'm 140 pounds lighter than I was in July of 2010. I feel good and it has been a long road that was well worth it. The other big thing in my life is that I have Emily in my life. Very lucky for that and very thankful.

My cooking, photography and other hobbies have kind of been put on the back burner lately. I need to get more into them and combine them! Take pictures of my food, yes please. I need to go on more photo adventures and would love company on these adventures.

I'm currently unemployed and getting a weekly paycheck from the government. Yes, that's right, I'm a burden on society and collecting unemployment checks each week. It feels good and I love feeling very democratic and liberal every time I file my weekly claim.

I so far like the new blog and the new blog content. I'm going to take it and run.

New blog

We're going to make this more adult and I'm going to actually start posting more.

Be ready my readers, I don't know if you'll be able to handle what is coming.

Ignorance is your new best friend

It was one of those weeks. You know the kind I'm referring to. It wasn't good, but it wasn't terribly bad. Overall it was more negative than positive though. There are only a few words that can describe it best...blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. A filler, not a good kind of filler but a boring one.

click, click, click. the faint sound of a rumble but still just that all familiar click. no turning over, no starting....just silence and stillness. you want to get going, you're in a hurry. the deafening silence broken again by the click, click, click. a jump is needed but there is none in sight. i need some cables.

Get me going, please, just do it. This lull and constant nothing is killing me. I feel like I'm at an in between in my life. Moving past a couple of things but not ready to jump into that next set of obstacles we like to call life. Oh life, you're a confusing mistress....you're exactly that, a mistress. The one we hide away but can't stay away from...ever tempting, I can't resist.

My sister is having a little girl...yay! I'm going to be the uncle to a beautiful little girl (I'm already expecting her to be gorgeous)

Riverton...blah. Good money, decent work, just bored of the construction industry.

Graduating in a year...best news I've had in years.

Still single....I'm sure that's a shocker.

The biggest news in my life is that I will be purchasing a dog in the following weeks...a lab of (hopefully) the chocolate kind from the Humane Society. Finally a companion who is easy to deal with.

I dig your style. I dig your smile. I dig your situation. I dig you.

Ya dig?

I'm tired, going to bed...will leave you with a picture before I leave.


Big Cottonwood Canyon Creek

Peace and Love.

-Aaron

i just wanna feel something today

g(r)asping

so crisp, cool and refreshing. you feel so light and free, the still and dark surrounding you. like floating in mid-air, anti gravity. nothing can stop you. euphoria, pleasure, carefree. over time this feeling starts to wain, your limbs become heavy, chest becomes tight. you get a sense of urgency, panic, your eyes widen. senses start becoming clear and more sharp. you can feel it now. the sheer pain shooting through your lungs and stomach. you reach for the edge but there is nothing to grab. there never was. you slowly start drifting, fading, becoming one with your surroundings. the panic fades, you can see the light now. things become a little more fuzzy and faded, you're getting that feeling again: crisp, cool, refreshing, light, free, stillness....dark.

just a little something i wrote a little while back after a rough night.

this has been a much better week for me. overall it was extremely good. i aced my test on monday, work went well. the rest of the week was mine.

met some new people who are very genuine, lunch with friends. my camera and i in a romance of our own.

wednesday was one of the best days of my year so far...these three pictures sum it up best:

Sanctuary

Dad and Duncan

Happiness is a snowstorm

i'm excited for summer, i love winter and snow and skiing/snowboarding but i want some spring/summer lovin.

camping, sitting outside, music at night with the windows down, driving down that familiar road, tans, shorts, flip flops and most importantly, love.

peace and love.

-aaron

a day in the life...

it's the beginning of the end....of my blog that is. today marks the day that i change things up a bit and give you a visual look (with some help from photoshop) into my life.

Monday
My Life

Tuesday
My Love

Thursday
My two favorite people

Friday
No end in site

Saturday
The city I was born to love

this has been a tough week, i'm not going to lie. a lot of emotions that i didn't think i'd have to go through again. it's for the better though, things will get better.

i can't say enough how thankful i am for my family. they are my biggest inspiration and i wouldn't be anything without them. my parents are by far the two best/strongest/bravest/*insert any adjective here*. angie and rob as well, i'm excited to be an uncle, i will love your child more than anything else whether it be a boy or a girl. i think it's a boy.

i haven't shown enough love to my TRUE friends lately. i've been caught up with some other things in my life and it saddens me. i wish most of you didn't live so far away but i'm glad that there has been a resurgence of you in my life.

things are turning around, we all have our ups and downs. you can't go anywhere but up after having a low. i look forward to the future, i feel good about myself and where i'm going.

lost 10 pounds and i feel good.

i've decided i'm never leaving this beautiful state that we all live in. take a deep breath salt lake, you're with me for life.

i like the change to the blog, expect one at least once a week.

peace and love.

-aaron

I Gotta Feeling

"I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night

Tonight's the night, let's live it up
I got my money, let's spend it up
Go out and smash it like oh my God
Jump off that sofa, let's get, get off

I know that we'll have a ball
If we get down and go out and just lose it all
I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go
Let's go way out spaced out and losing all control

Fill up my cup, mozoltov
Look at her dancing, just take it off
Let's paint the town, we'll shut it down
Let's burn the roof, and then we'll do it again"

It's just how I need to start living my life. Live it up! We're all too young to worry about everything. Everyone is too stressed these days. Thinking about school, work, the opposite sex, anything and everything!

When did life become so complicated? We all make mistakes! It's what makes us learn. Society puts way too much emphasis on being perfect. Perfect people are boring!

"Here we come, here we go, we gotta rock
Easy come, easy go, now we on top
Feel the shot, body rock, rock it, don't stop
Round and round, up and down, around the clock

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday
Get, get, get, get, get with us, you know what we say, say
Party every day, p-p-p-party every day"

Let's get out there and do it for ourselves! No one can do it except for you.

I need to take this message to heart more than anyone else, I need to do it for ME. No one else, just me. Too often do I live for other people. It's been my blessing and my curse for my entire life. I care way too much about other people that I put them over myself. When will I start listening to what I WANT.

FUCK IT! I'm gonna live it up! I'm 21, almost 22 years old. I have a long life ahead of me. Needless to say, I can't wait.

peace and love.

-aaron