Brandon's space

So, man..... it been forever since I've actually updated this thing. It was kind of an abandoned project for awhile. I really need to get back to working on it, so that anyone interested can actually see what I've been up to. So let me think about what's new....

      For starters I'm not only a football coach now, but I am getting more involved with my parents church youth group. Yes, I'm actually stepping away from Central Community just a little. I Figure that its for the better interest of the kids that I've been working with. I'm really hoping to keep all of them from making mistakes that are similar to the ones that I've made in the past. And to help them build a stronger community between themselves. And I hope that I don't step on to many toes while trying to do all of this.

     And as usual, I'm coaching. YMCA flag football now. I think its pretty funny that, in high school I had no interest in any sports whatsoever. But after coaching last year with pop warner, I cant ever see myself not coaching. I think that all ties back to the wanting to help out others. I love the fact that someone can make the biggest impact on someone's life, but doing the simplest things. Even if its telling little 8 year old kids where to stand when there playing defense. lol I'm deff glad to be able to say that so far this year we haven't lost a game. So were undefeated after a whopping 3 games. lol

     I'm also taking on the job of webmaster for riverside pop warner football. Ill post a link to my site and give more info on that later on.

     And last but not least, I've started, and I'm sticking to a 1 year through the bible plan. I picked up a 1 year devotional bible, and have been sticking to the 1 year reading plan so far. I'm just about 2 weeks in, and am deff not giving up on it until the end. After everything that I've been through, its just about been the best thing for me to take on so far.

     well that's all I've got for now. so more to come later. Actually writing and posting to my blog is something I'm deff going to make happen sometime soon I swear....

I don't think that that ever really happens. And if it does actually happen, I would be afraid of what else would have to fall apart to balance out the good and bad in your life, lol So here's what I'm up against for this Christmas....

For Starters, Working a full day on Christmas eve. All in all not a bad thing. But I'm telling you right now, making it to my church to practice our set list for the 7 o'clock service is going to be a tight one. But its doable. I've made it home in 15 mins before, so having an hour to do it in is going to be cake.

Second, I'm heading over to my girlfriends grandma's house to meet the family. Something that I wanted to do, believe it or not! I'm looking forward to that, because i love her family. It was a little disappointing to hear that most of them I've already met. I was really hoping for a totally new set of faces to work my magic on. But hey there is definitely always next year.

And here's the big one...... What to do on Christmas day. Normally this is an easy one. But this year things are a little more complicated. See, this is going to be my first Christmas that I'm out on my own, kind of. I moved in with one of my older sisters to get out of moms house. (but that's a long story that no one wants to hear) So now I'm faced with figuring out weather to spend time with my family, or with my girlfriends family. Which again, for most people would be a really easy decision. And nothing can be easy for me, because, life would be easy. lol And complicated and me go hand in hand. (not by choice) Because on Christmas day, all of those new faces that I've never seen before in my girlfriends family are going to be at my girlfriends grandma's house. And at the same time, everyone will finally be in one place at my moms house. And because I moved out, I never get to see anyone anymore. Because when ever I'm over visiting my mom, no one else is. And its impossible for things to go as I had hoped for in my head.

Here's a taste of what I wanted Christmas to be this year............

  Wake up Christmas morning, Call my girlfriend and say merry Christmas and say ill see you later, take a shower and get dressed, go and hang out with my girlfriend and all her family, at about 1 take off from there with my girlfriend, go to moms house and hang out there till everyone leaves, and go back to my girlfriends house to hang out for a little while, and come home and go to sleep.

But none of that will really be possible. Only little bits of that could actually happen. Which is leaving me kind of sad. Holidays aren't supposed to be this complicated. Life isn't supposed to be this complicated, so I guess that I should really be used to it all by now. But knowing me, I never will be. The whole situation doesn't really seem worth it, and I'm really thinking that this should be my first Christmas totally alone. Tomorrow I'm probably going to run by home dept and get some potting soil, and a big bucket. so I can mix up some new bedding for my tarantula. and go buy some more crickets because all the ones I have are to big for it to eat. And that way, I can spend Christmas day with my tarantula cleaning out its cage, and giving it a nice Christmas dinner. That deff sounds better than what any of my other options are.

Well I'm off to try and put more thought into my options for Christmas this year, till next time...

So one more weekend down. And there's definitely tons to talk about tonight. Between the car shopping, and wandering around downtown Santa Ana, I've got more than enough to say. Well lets start with what happened first. A few weekends ago, I got a letter from the Suzuki motor corp. informing me that the seat belt buckles on my car were recalled, and that i should take my car in to have those changed out as soon as possible. So naturally, i waited about 2 more weeks before i decide to call the dealership in Norco, to set up a time to have my car fixed. Well after a quick phone call i found out that they were going out of business. Making that the 3rd dealership to go under since i bought my car last year. So there i was stuck without a place to get my car fixed. So i did a little bit of research online and found that the next closest dealership was in santa ana. So i called them to set up the appointment, and luckily they had an opening on Saturday, so i made the appointment and everything was good. Kinda. I had planned on fishing on saturday with some friends from work at Corona Lake. So i had to put those plans aside for a bit, and take my car in before heading to the lake. When saturday came around, i woke up and started the day just like anyone would. I went to 7 11 and got a monster, and a protein bar for breakfast and hit the lovely 91 freeway. About 45 mins later i was at the dealership in santa ana. I dropped off my car, and decided to go on a quest for a denny's. lol (i wanted a real breakfast) well after trying to look up denny's with no luck on my sidekick, i called for reinforcements. aka my parents. lol And about 2 miles of walking through the ghetto, and 45 mins worth of cell phone air time later, i came to the conclusion that there are no good places to get breakfast in downtown santa ana. lol So after a long walk to the dealership, i found out the my car was going to take longer than expected. But it was my lucky day, cause there was a nice comfy chair in the customer lounge waiting for me. And even better, i got to watch telemundo with a family of about 8 mexicans that were waiting for there Suzuki XL7 to be worked on. For those of you who don't know, the XL7 is about the size of a jeep wrangler hard top. I wasn't there for too much longer though, and soon i was back on the freeway heading toward corona and the lake. Fishing wasn't to bad, but all in all, Corona lake sucks soooooo bad its not even funny. When i showed up at the lake, i had about to hours to fish. But i was going to make the best of it, so i called up one of my friends and they brought the boat that we had rented back to the dock and it was out on the water to make the best of my 2 hours. Which ended up being 2 hours of just screwing around. No fish for me, all the good action was in the morning. It was nice just to get out though, and to kick it with friends, and do nothing. We were going to stay for the night fishing at the lake, but to have to pay just as much for as we did for the whole days worth of fishing, for only 4 hours of fishing. That deff wasn't happening. So off to church i went. Church is something that still seems kind of new to me. I've never been really religious. But for awhile now I've been going every weekend. And its the only shot i've been given to keep playing music in a group. So I'm definitely grateful for that. And i love all the staff. and the services are always just amazing. Well that was pretty much all of my weekend. And after all that i've come to some pretty important conclusions lol:

• Don't mix monsters and protein bars
• Paying 20 bucks for 2 hours of fishing is always money well spent
• No matter how hard i try i will never be able to figure out what Spanish tv is about
• Suzuki cars Suck

And the most important thing i learned this weekend:

NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS MIGHT SAY, there is no denny's in downtown santa ana!

Soo. another work week done, and another weekend ahead. This week deff had its ups and downs, which is deff nothing new. I'm sure everyone's used to that by now. So ill just take everything as is and carry on as usual. the one thing that's setting this weekend apart from all my other ones is, I'm coming down with the flu. There goes my weekend of fun! Instead of getting out, having fun, and totally spacing out, ill be stuck in bed sleeping, and just being bored. Which i guess isn't entirely bad, because now ill have plenty of time to figure out cool things to blog about. Or give me plenty of time to think about things that I've been trying to figure out for awhile now. And give me time to think about how i can come to my girlfriends rescue. She's deff going through a lot right now. Only this time, i don't really have the solid answers to everything like i usually do. I'm kind of along for the ride this time. Which is something I'm deff not used to. But i know this will deff be a good lesson for me to learn. Because i'm not going to be the "Super Man" that i've always wanted to be. No one has all the answers 100% of the time. I'm just hoping for the best. And praying the her load lightens up soon. Because i know she's under a ton of stress right now. So i know exactly what's she's thinking, and feeling. Being in her position is something that im an expert with. The one different between what she's going through right now and what i've been through is.... I put all the stress on myself. And she just had it thrown at her. So everyone wish for the best. And im hoping that ill be over this flu in a hurry, so i can at least get a little something out of my weekend. Till then, I'm Out! 

Is..... Deff. not how mine started. lol The first thing that really sucks, I'm only 19, and already talking about how a work week sucks. lol I don't even want to know what I'm going to think when the fact that this is what's in store for the rest of my life finally sinks in. But oh well. Ill save that topic for another entry. But I pulled a usual Monday. I woke up about 30 mins before I'm supposed to be in the office. and my office is probably a 20 min drive if everything goes right. Which in So. Cal. never happens. So I was right on time. which all in all isn't a bad thing. Cause the on time part of it is all that matters. And the day dragged on for ever. but that's Mondays. And its finally over. So now I'm free to space out, and write this lol. I'm still getting used to this whole blogging thing. I'm really learning by just jumping in. and it'll only get better from here (at least in my head lol) well that's all I got, more to come later...