Brett Favre is conceited, Michael Vick is conceived

In 2004, these two Quarterbacks were my favorite NFL players back when I was in High school. Everybody had their jerseys and ESPN would never shut up about them. Brett was in Green Bay with his consecutive starts and Michael was in Atlanta with a 1,000 yards in less passing and more rushing combined.

That was then, This is now

In 2009, these two Quarterbacks will be in brand new teams, coming off from years of media scrunity and off-field attention. In the next 20 weeks, ESPN will never shut up about them. I'm gonna get their jerseys as soon as my debit card comes in the mail. Brett with Minnesota and Michael with Philidelphia.

A new generation of the NFL. That means more Rachel Nichols to make me weak every Sunday.

A Reason Under the Sun

to me, there's nothing to look forward to right now......until I get my check.

If I get it this Friday or next week with Monday being the earliest, then my lifestyle will instantly change. I'll be back to the way that I used to be before this recession took place.

See, before the economy started to go downhill like around late March or April of 2008, I was basically living a wealthy-ish lifestyle. I always had cash, I was working at a fantastic retail store, I was seeing this gorgeous Chinese girl, my pops was single, my mom had two whips, I was always buying shoes and other stuff from Amazon or eBay, Britney Spears would be doing something crazy everyday and I was transitioning from 35mm film photography to digital photography. That was the way I used to live.

But then things sarted to slowly drift off financially and I had to cut back on stuff. Now after over a year of misery and long-suffering, I think I finally lost what I found. I managed to get by by doing things on the side. Stuff like helping one of my friends watch Nickelodeon and DVDs with her son and getting $5 to $20 for a day. Or just roaming the internet for labor jobs like helping move stuff, which I only did once and got $70 for it. Then I had to sell my first-gen Macbook for $500 which was the most I ever gotten during these rough times this past year. Unfortunately that cash was gone within a week. The only good thing I did with a portion of that $500 was that I was greeted by a poor Hispanic couple when I was filling up my car at the gas station in Granada Hills. I offered them to buy them lunch at a McDonalds near my house. So I gave them a ride and I didn't just give them 5 bucks and drop them off, I went inside the restaraunt with them and I bought them 2 large grilled Chicken sandwich meals which was like $10. I even impressed some girl in line while I was ordering. If I was under 18, I'd score with her.

Once I HOPEFULLY get paid this month, and I will, I'm going to pick up where I left off. Got bills to pay, got fines to take care of, and I there are sneakers I need to buy. I emphasize "need" because these shoes aer avaliable for a limited time. Also, I got to take some people out to dinners and to the original In-N-Out in Baldwin Park, so that I can check out the In-N-Out store and get some stuff there. In other words, I'm gonna be out of the house more and I'm gonna enjoy myself. Walter Lee Younger should've set a budget list with his family and mother before they got their Insurance check instead of investing in some bar. I miss reading that story in the 10th grade just like I miss my old lifestyle.

Oh yeah, my brother turns 17 tomorrow. He's already growing and being more mature then ever. May God bless him for another year.

Another weekend

Freakin' Sundays. I dispite them.

To me there are good things and not so good things about that day. The negative aspects about that day is that if you haven't moved out yet, then you'll deal with your parents wearing their University alma matter t-shirts or their non-work clothes all day in the house fixing something or cleaning up the place. Another thing is that it's hard to contact people, especially in the morning. When you call them, you'll get their voicemail cause they're either at their godparents church for the morning service or their very hungover from some party the previous Saturday night. Plus the television ain't gonna do any help. They'll be showing countless infomercials, political roundtables, lame ass marathons of a reality show, and movies you already pirated over the internet. The NFL is an exception. The only sad part is that you only see action for 20 Sundays of the year, which includes 17 weekly games, three weeks of the Playoffs, and the Super Bowl. You can add the Pro Bowl in there if you wish. If you're a slow reader and have a $1.50 and wanna kill some time by improving your reading habits, there's always the Sunday newspaper. Maybe that's just a sign for me to move out.

Last week was something else. A lot of stuff happen which was the reason why I haven't been on here for a while. I'm still working up there in Lancaster unfortunately, doing graveyard shifts. Also, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is finally sworn in as the first hispanic Supreme Court justice. I did some reasearch on her background and she did pull a lot of weight to get to where she's at right now. She was raised in the bronx , went to Princeton where there no Spanish instructors at that time,  got her J.D. at Yale, worked at numerous attorneys, and the lady is single as of now. I'm sure every young female, including latinas and single women, should look up to her so that they can pull of  to the same extent as to what she accomplished. I hope Judge Sotomayor makes wise decisons and does well in the Supreme court. 

Oh yeah, I took my brother to the bank to open up his bank account last Friday. He handled the process very well by himself. I didn't say a word while he's talking to the bank tellers. He even corrected one of them several times, not because our last name is very long, but other things because one of the tellers were new to the bank. He's gonna turn 17 on Thursday so when he does, I'm gonna get him something as soon as I get paid.        

         

Straight Edge my black-ass

Aw shit....

For the past 4 and a half days I was up in the Antelope Valley without access to the internet, although I admit, I did swing by the Best Buy in Palmdale to check my Myspace but that doesn't count and I was on borrowed time. When I got home yesterday morning, first thing I did was I went to the upstairs computer in my house, checked CNN.com as always and I saw this....

immediately I was like "WHAT THE HELL?!?! WE'RE GONNA DEAL WITH HIM DOING THIS TYPE OF SHIT FOR 3 MORE YEARS?" I mean the guy has a young looking wife in Michelle Obama and two girls in Sasha and Malia for crying out loud. Plus he's a MAJOR influence to young African-American  males out there who have never had a father or a male figure in their lives. Next thing is that he'll be investigated for having a collection of belts up at Camp David (black people know what I meant). If he were to do this "White House Beer Summit" he really didn't need the damn press to do this. He shoud've done it on Air Force One so that he can have his own "Mile High Summit". If this was an exclusive shot, then that paparazzo or photographer would've made a sick fortune if he sold that print to People or a Scandanavian tabloid publishing group.

I mean really, this is very unncessary. First he fucked up at the inaguration with the pastor having to swore him in again inside the White House the following week. Next, he goes out on dates with Michelle to public theaters in New York. I mean, looked what happened with Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre back in 1865, and they have a Theater inside the White House. Then he swatted a fly on live TV which pissed off the People for the Ethical Treatmeant of Animals or PeTA for short. But they didn't put too much heat on Barack cause he's the President. To make things more ludacris and dangerous, Vice-President  Joe Biden was involved in this summit. According to the constitution, the rules states that the President and Vice President cannot be in the same area at the same time unless if it were the State of the Union, at a funeral for a death of a former President, or if they're indoors at some secret undisclosed location inside the White House, cause anything can happen. I don't like to freak y'all out, but there are sneaky people in this place and they are very patient.

One last thing I have to say is that I hope every black church, or just EVERY church for that matter, better pray to have God stay by his side so that he can make positive and adequate decisions in the next three years. The White House is a fish bowl and every country, including Russia and his native country of Kenya, is watching every next motive he does. Yes it's his first year as the leader of the free word and yes he's made some rookie mistakes since January, but just like he "changed" America, he needs to change his old motives by eliminating the Alcohol, otherwise strip clubs and theme parks would be selling Bud Lights and Dos Equis, and he should pull in a lot of weight to get this country back on track without any distractions. I mean come on, "beer summits"? It's August right now. It's summer. Save that for a trip to Boston's Cheers bar in October or St. Patricks Day.