What I’ve been doing

It seems that I’ve been out of touch for a while and all for good reasons. . . I think. I never know how to apologize for my absence and if I really should, but I am sorry. Since I’ve been back (January 15th) I’ve written a whole three articles and that’s not really fair, to you or myself.

Since you’re here I should tell you that it will be quite a while before I have any other adventures, and it all boils down to money. I have yet to find a secondary job and my current job doesn’t really pay well enough to keep my savings happy. Although I’m getting promoted soon to be Assistant Head of Security at Graham’s Central Station, that fancy title won’t actually earn me a pay raise until after April. It’s all in the budget, I guess.

In my time off I’ve been scouring the local job sites and trying to make sense of what I’m doing with my life. I fear that this blog is headed down a spiral tube into the Great Abyss of Forlorn Websites, due to my lack of motivation to write about travel, since I am no longer traveling at the present time. I had great plans for this blog, but I had also poorly laid out plans to travel for a lot longer.

I had wanted to take a trip out to Vegas this May for a concert to see Rammstein (yes, they’ll be back in the USA!) and then hitch-hike on up to Oregon to visit with my friend Jarrod. But that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen either. While lodging in Vegas could be free with the help of a couple of friends I have out that way, the travel, food and everything would add up pretty fast in a non-existent budget. Unless a job comes along soon where I can start putting money off to the side, traveling is going to have to wait.

Last I wrote I spoke of lodging that was provided by a “friend” of mine here in Albuquerque. After two months of living with filthy, drug-using, lying and stealing roommates I’ve had enough and my folks were kind enough to let me stay with them. I can’t stand being around low-lives whose seeming purpose in life is to bring others around them down to their level and suck them into their own misery. As the policeman (oh yeah, they were involved) told me the day I moved out of that apartment, “surround yourself with like-minded people”, and I plan on doing just that.

Every day I long for a trip to somewhere. To pack up my backpack and head down to the interstate; to hop on a plane to some far off land I’ve never been to. I will do this again someday, albeit differently from the mistakes I made. I thought I knew what Wander Lust was before my last trip. Until I came home and realized I would be stuck here for a while. It nags at me, like a child begging his mom for the toy in the store.

However, I think I’ve found a way to console this feeling. I’m going to start attending local meetups by the local CS community. They are usually once or twice a month and invite locals and nearby travelers, to share food and stories of their adventures. If you’re already a member of CS all you have to do it search under “Community” for fellow CouchSurfers and Hosts near you and see if their organizing a get-together.

In other news, the weight just keeps falling off. I’ve been on a new lifestyle/diet since the first of January and I’m losing so much weight. The program I’m on is called Metabolic Balance and it is absolutely wonderful. Each program is tailored for each individual and helps that person achieve true Metabolic Balance, hence it’s name. I’ve been tracking my weight loss on Skinnyo since the 8th of January.

I’m proud that I’ve been losing all this weight. I’ll have to soon change the logo of the website to a skinnier version of myself .

Thanks for reading as always and I’ll try to post more often.