It’s been a while since I’ve posted any kind of journal here. After much procrastination, I decided to finally sit my ass down and do it.

It’s been a quickly paced time of year for me. In some weird way, time seems to be flying by and it’s not for the better. Summer is, for the most part, gone and I’m getting closer and closer to yet another birthday. As usual, I feel like I didn’t do enough with myself in the warmer months and I’m regretting it now. I should have gone out more. I should have played ball more. I guess with work schedules and all, though, it’s hard to align lives. Let’s face it, I do most of that shit with Joe, anyway, so as soon as our schedules conflict (as they often do), nothing can happen. They don’t warn you about that when you’re 10 years old.

Work has been actually pretty good lately. I’ve had another wind come to me and I’ve been able to really do my job with at least some kind of enthusiasm. With the holidays quickly approaching, I’m trying my best to appreciate the calmness of the store right now. I guess after almost 3 years, you have to learn something.

A lot of new people have started to get hired, too. It’s always in the back of my mind whether or not there will be some girl that gets hired that I’ll click with like I did with a certain someone last year. Let’s face it: My love life is shot to hell. I guess after everything with Alex, I stepped away from the whole game to really get things straight in my own life. I even turned down a girl (I’ll keep them nameless) because I just knew I wasn’t ready to get involved with someone. Have I fixed my life up? Well, for now, it feels like I’m on the right track. Who knows how things will feel tomorrow, but it’s a nice change.

And with my life getting back on track, I’ve started to look at my future more seriously. Obviously, in the short term, I want to get that Magnolia position at work. An increase in pay and hours is a nice step forward. After that, I think I might want to risk things and see if I can land a leadership position. I’m still not 100% sure if Best Buy is the company I want to try my luck with, but I’ll decide that when I need to. Then again, I’m almost 23. I’m running out of time.

Let’s close with my birthday, shall we? I feel mad cheesy doing this, but I know I’m impossible to shop for. Hell, most of the times, I don’t even know what I want. I’ve spent a couple of days compiling small lists on Newegg and Amazon. Honestly, I don’t want most people to even bother looking at them since you shouldn’t give me anything, but for those few close people, hopefully this will make you curse me out less. I doubt that the lists are complete, but it’s all I could think of. I just feel really awkward presenting people a list of shit to buy me.

Chris’ Wish Lists:
Amazon.com
Newegg.com