Well I must start out by saying Happy New Year to all of you! Hope that you thought up some wonderful resolutions, and that all of you will have inspiration to fulfill them! I would love to hear about them. My resolution is to follow my dreams and to do the things I have always wanted to do, but kept making excuses not too (i.e. not enough time, money, resources; or whatever other lame excuse I could come up with).

My New Years: A short story by Yours Truly

I was nearly arrested, by ATF of all agencies, for something that wasn't even a crime! I was bartending a charity event when ATF busted in and started ruining the night! I was treated like a criminal, they confiscated all of our liquor and told us they were taking us all to jail. So I was detained until 11:45, when those barbaric idiots finally determined that we had a permit for the donated liquor that was raising money for a local charity. Unfortunately all the guests had been forced to leave, and were officially pissed since they had paid for their ticket in to an open bar and food. Apparently someone had told local authorities that the hotel that was hosting the event, and that the hotel did not have a liquor licensee. Long story short, people should mind their own fucking business, especially when they don't know all of the facts; and most of all law enforcement needs to stop treating people like they are criminals and be a little proactive in having some common fucking sense! Why would you harass the volunteer staff before you check with hotel management to determine if they have a permit or not! Why do my tax dollars pay for these bullshit agencies again?

There is however a happy ending... the charity still received the money that was raised from the ticket sales, and I didn't spend my new years in jail, I made my way to local venue to watch the ball drop!

I hope this doesn't indicate what I should expect for the rest of 2010.... hopefully since it happened prior to midnight, I will assume its the one last hoorah for 2009!

Hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and we can all think of something for which we are thankful! Mine was glorious! Lots of food, lots of drink and smoke, and my two wonderful families.

As for today, headed to lovely Gainesville to watch the Florida Gators beat the pants off of FSU! GO GATORS!!!!

Well after a week of being out from hurting my back, I am up and running again! Back to the gym, back to normal life, but most of all back to the energetic usual me! Finally put my next set up, its in review, but you guys will know as soon as I do when it will post. I'm feeling very accomplished today. THINGS ARE LOOKING UP! Keep your head high! They can take away your house, your car, and all your belongings, but they can't take away the one thing that you didn't put on credit... your life... so fuck the credit scores, banks, and credit card companies! Sorry a little off subject, but I think everyone has been feeling the crunch of the economy just wanted to put in some words for thought. DONT STRESS

Sometimes life lessons come at you in the least expected moments, and sometimes its takes a long time for the lessons to actually sink in to your brain. This one has seriously taken me two years to finally fully understand and follow. "Drop you expectations and live life for what it is, not what you want (expect) it to be." This can be applied everywhere in your life. Sometimes I think we expect to much out of our situations or the people around us, or for that matter even ourselves. We need to step back for a few moments stop expecting so much, and start enjoying life. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't have values or self respect, it just means that we need to stop be so damn critical, be a little bit more understanding. So my mantra for this week will be letting go of expectations. Hope some of you can share my experience. PEACE

As of last Thursday, I have swine flu. So if you have noticed that I have not been on here lately or I am not responding to you its cause I feel like I'm dying. Hopefully I will be better soon and back in action!

So my Dad was recently in the hospital for a little over a week in a half and he has finally returned home as of Sunday. These past two weeks have seriously been entirely too much for one person to handle. I am glad he is back home, but now I'm just hoping he will get better. I think I need a vacation, because all the stress is beginning to make me sick

My photo set goes up in the member review tomorrow =) I'm very excited! Send me lots of love, and some good advice!

Going to start on a new tat today, this is going to be a huge piece so it may take some time to complete, but I will have some photos up of the journey through completing it as I get each section done. I'm very excited! Big ups to Troy Brett of Big City Tattoo in Jacksonville Fl!

I just went and looked at a car that I fell in love with! Its a 1972 vw beetle, white, with white leather interior. Its sooo beautiful. Now I just have to scrap up the money to buy my little dream buggy!

Just went and got my nipples done... of all things Holy this is the most painful piercing I've had thus far... but it was so very worth it! I don't know why I didn't do this a long time ago. Something to look forward to for you next photo set!