I have had enough of looking at that last post. I try to make sense of things alot. Without getting into great depth, everything happens for a reason. May not realize it at first, but somewhere along the line later in life, I have always taken something from a shitty experience and applied it constructively. Life marches on.

On a brighter note, I had an epiphany today. Always thought of ways to start my own business, and I very well may have thought of something good ... possibly real good. A few obstacles to overcome, but I think they are achievable.

I am going to start looking for a second job. 1 or 2 nights a week in a bar or restaurant for spare money and in the meantime if I can get this idea to take off. I have been thinking of some goals I would like to shoot for by this time next year. I dont want this to be something I flake out on, Ive been doing that a bit more then I like or am used to. I keep telling myself that the things you want in life have to be worked for. No one is going to hand me anything to get ahead in life. I feel silly for even thinking about its because it something I should have known all along.

Thats about all I got at this point, there is more going on, but its Saturday night and I am sure as shit not sitting in front of my computer being a mope while life passes me by. Shake it easy people, this will be a fun ride.

Ohhhhh life .... why do you insist on kicking me in the balls at the least opportune moments?

Butt fucking son of a bitch ... suddenly my computers sound will not turn on!

Blah ... its been a hot minute I guess.

Guess I will start off with the tattoo situation ... Totaly bitched out of cancelling all together. I think with good reason though. Hyped myself up to tell him off and tell him what a piss pour attitude he has and yadda yadda yadda about how he should have some shit together for a tattoo that will cost 2 grand during a recession and blah blah blah. Grab the business card they gave me for my deposit and noticed in big print ...

DEPOSITS NON-REFUNDABLE FOR ANY REASONS.

Well, that settled that. So I get to thinking that I really dont want to pay him $100 for nothing, and that maybe my best course of action would be to see when and if he actually does get something drawn out, and maybe see if he will give me a copy so I can "look it over". Shortly after, cancelling my appointments and letting him have an earful.

In other news ... went with the girlie to go see Equus on broadway ... this was me the entire show >>>

gotta say, it was really good. Good career move for that Harry Potter kid. He would have been pigeon holed into dumbass Diseny shit for the rest of his life I'm sure.

Hung out with mydogfarted and khoos for mdf's birthday and subsequently have a new favorite restaurant that I will be needing to revisit sometime in the near future. Mason Jar in ... Oakland I think it is. Shit is goooooooooooooood!

Life seems to be getting busier and busier. This weekend going to my first bar-mitzvah (sp?) Zoo's little bro (who only 7 YRS old and hates you too) is getting bar-mitzvahed?? lol Is that proper terminology? Yea, I have no idea, anyway, lots of food, booze and a cool family to hang out with, should be fun. Evidentally I have to wear one of them .... fuck I really have no idea how this fucking things is spelled ... uhhhhh sounds like ..... Yamaha? That little beanie thing that goes on your head ... yea anyway I gotta wear one. I should wear it home in front of my HARDCORE European immigrant Roman Catholic mother. She will shit a fucking squirrel. lol I will have to take a picture at the very least.

The next morning the lovely Zoo and I will be taking a quick road trip down to Philly so she can get her half sleeve colored some. I am totally jealouse! At the same time, I cant wait to see my sexy little girlfriend getting more of her awesome work done. And for all you bitches that dont know ....

No Philly visit is complete without a stop at this mecca >>>
Best Philly Cheese Steaks EVER!!!!

Last Saturday of the month is SGNJ DOTM. Quite the unique outing since it will involve a professional womens roller derby match. Should be interesting at the very least.

Tops on the list of things to look forward to ....

I am going to New Orleans!!!! Zoo and I will be attending her friends wedding the first week of October, with a few days of debauchery sprinkled in I hope.

2 of my co-workers also asked me within the passed week if I wanted to go to Lake Tahoe for a snowboard trip, and Amsterdam for ... well, obvious reasons. New Orleans is definite, and I gotta say I am EXTREMELY tempted for those other 2 trips as well. See how the finances play themselves out over the next few months I guess.

Birthday is coming. November 10th ... kind of want to do something fun this year. Usually go to the same old bar every year and have a ho hum, yea I am another year older kind of birthday. So far, NYC comedy club and Atlantic City seem to be the more intersting ideas, but am not really to excited for either. Anyone have any ideas?

Oh, and for anyone who didnt catch the referances, this shit is still fuckin funny ....



you touch my hand for stupid reasons!

Shake it easy folks!

Ok, to say I am pissed would be an understatement ...

Anyone who has read my recent blogs knows I was all sorts of excited to get my other half sleeve done. It seems to have fallen through completely. Lets break the douche baggery down completely and I will see what you guys think before I completely cancel my appointments with this guy.

I made my appointment at the beginning of the summer, he has a bit of a waiting list and told me he couldnt get me in until September, I was cool with it and made the appointments. He asks that I email him any pictures and ideas I may have for the piece to get him started with ideas and what not. I ask when he will have things drawn up, he says not until 1 month before hand at the earliest. I send him the emails (4 to be exact, because he claimed he wasnt getting them) and finally print out the entire email, pictures and all and physically hand them to him. He looks them over and reiterates that he wont have anything until 1 month before. I ask what he thinks this will cost, he says he doesnt work by the hour, that he works by the piece and time spent ... sounds like by the hour to me, but I was willing to spend to have good work done. He says he isnt sure what it will cost me, not what I wanted to hear, but I grin and bear it.

Fast forward to 1 month before the appointment (August 10th) I go to the shop and hes like, hey whats up what are you doing here? I remind him he told me its 1 month before appointment, I would like to see what you have drawn up. He tells me he has been a bit busy and probably wont have anything drawn up until 1 week before the appointment ... more of what I dont want to hear, but I let it go and go on my way.

Wednesday the 3rd was 1 week before my first appointment, so I stop in again, and again, he looks up and say, hey, what are you doing here? I remind him the appointment is in 1 week, I would like to see what you have drawn, he says ... Oh I probably wont have it drawn up until the day of, its all in my head though. He proceeds to explain to me what he would like to do and pulls out a book and thumbs through some pages and points to one particular page with something similar to what I have been explaining. I ask again what this will cost me, he tells me probably around 2 grand.

Now, aside from the fact that it really seems like he flaked and completely forgot to draw up anything for me AND expects that I am going to decide if I like his drawing RIGHT before he tattoos it on me, the 2 grand is starting to sound a bit much. I paid 1600 for my other half sleeve, and again, I dont mind paying a bit more for good work, but someone else in that shop ripped off Zoo for some lettering and that just makes it more sketchy. I just am getting a crappy overall vibe about this guy and the way he handles his job.

I am about to cancel all my appointments and make up some bullshit about my car and just be done with the whole tattoo for the time being and invest the money I have put away for it for other pressing issues. Really bummed that after an entire summer of waiting and looking forward to this, it has completely fallen through and I am quite disappointed.

Anyone know any good artists in the area that take their job seriously?

For fucks sake!!!

Life sure seems like a kick in the dick some times. Work sucked my balls all week and today was a non stop flood of retards, ie ... this bitch comes in all snotty with her nose in the air and asks me to call the body shop to give her an estimate on painting her whole car. After I ask her a few questions, all of which receive cunt like answers, I say, "What color do you want to paint your car?" Her response ... I cant stress enough the bitchiness in her tone of voice ... "I'm not painting it, you guys are!" ... I am fucking dumbfounded on a daily basis the levels of stupidity in society today.

So, otherwise, weekend was ok, went to Ren Fair in NY state, it was ok, got meself a new smokin pipe that is almost as long as my arm, who wants to help me break it in? Went to my bosses house for a BBQ yesterday, it was equally ok, if my lovely Zoo wasnt on my arm it probably would have downgraded well below ok.

I seem to be having to spend money at every turn in the road lately. Belts on the Subie started squeaking, so I throw one of the mechanics some cash to throw them on, do an oil change and rotate my tires. He points out one of the motor mounts is broken, no big deal, I can just upgrade to polyurethane mounts, but its gonna set me back $300.

Well, he doesnt know I have a remote start (very few manual transmission cars do) , and parks my car facing a heavy wooden fence in gear ... I go to leave work, hit the remote start and turn the corner just in time to watch my car start up and lurch forward into the fence. I might as well fix the dings in my hood and get those painted too now. Dings - $50. Paint - $200-400 depending if I want to have him do some other small shit while he is at it. Driving home from work and I start to hear brakes squeaking, want to upgrade to a bigger brake kit, but with all this other shit, I may not be able to swing it and it will have to wait till next time. Sprinkle in my computer and it shutting itself off when it wants to, which will probably be a $50 power supply, and I am done venting. My tattoo appointment is rounding the corner as well, thats gonna be a couple hundred every other wednesday starting sept 10th.

I realize that none of this is really immediate concerns and yes, it could be worse. Other then that, I really dont have shit to say. I need to go to the dentist, havent been in a long ass time. I need another vacation. I need to start working out again. I need to stop bitching.

Ok, so its like this ... in one months time, I will be starting my second half sleeve. I made mention of it a bunch of blogs back and am going to repost that portion again at the end of this. Here is what I was hoping for from my more internet savy friends on here. I have a bunch of pictures, but would like more. I cant seem to find many more different types of pictures other then what I have already found. I am sure I have not looked everywhere, and if anyone finds me a picture that I really like .... I dont know what I will do, but will undoubtedly show alot of gratitude and probably get you shitty drunk at some point or another. I really dont expect anyone to be bored enough to actually do this, but its worth a shot, and I have a month between now and my first appointment. This is the description that fits the whole idea for it.

So I have been doing a little research for my next tattoo, I want a half sleeve for my other arm. As you may or may not know, I am Polish and am very proud of my heritage. I take offense to people who tell Pollack jokes, but only because they have no idea why Poles are considered stupid. It goes something like this ....

Forewarned, there is a big history lesson hiding in here. At the end of which is my tattoo idea.

Before World War II broke out, Poland was beginning to modernize its military. It was almost common knowledge, before the war started, of Hitlers intent to wipe out the Jewish race, and along with them, every person of Polish decent. Before the German invasion of Poland, which essentially started WWII, Poland, on the advice of Britain and France, ceased the modernization of its military as it may be seen as an act of war. So when the Germans invaded Poland with their tanks and aircraft, Poland was said to have about 1/3 of its military capabilities. To make matters worse, as Poland was being invaded from the west, basically fighting off tanks with cavalry, they were simultaneously attacked from the west by the Soviet Union. After 13 days, Poland surrendered, and while it was occupied by Germany, 2000 concentration camps were opened for business. One third of the eastern portion of the country was claimed by the Soviets, and the people in it now citizens of the Soviet Union. Anyone who resisted was executed. Along with its Jewish citizens, all teachers, professors, scientists, politicians and anyone of high standing were systematically murdered. 50% of those murdered were Polish Christians. 20% of the population was killed by the Soviet and German armies.

Hitler on the left, Stalin on the right.


So,
A) because the Polish people stood against impossible odds and did not give up their country, and
B) every smart person in the country was killed ...

Polish people are considered stupid.



Basically my tattoo idea is this, Polish Hussar cavalrymen, pictured above, at the top of my arm charging towards a bunch of tanks at the bottom. One of the Polish will be carrying a massive flag that spills out on to my chest, where I want the flag to drape over my heart.

Thanks for anyone who even attempts to help a brother out on this

Sooo much to say ...

At least it feels like anyway. Been procrastinating the shit out of writing this. Varying reasons, but part of it is I dont feel like sitting in front of my computer downloading pictures from camping. How fucking lazy has life gotten for me that plugging a wire into a computer and clicking on which pictures I would like added to a new file is too much for me to handle? My all around laziness this summer is astounding me. I usually am all sorts of gung ho about softball season, have made it out to 3 games ... none since late May. I usually go for bike rides everywhere, especially late at night, probably havent touched my bike since my last softball game. Havent gone to the gym in that span either ...

Ok, so I guess I will start where I left off, 311 and Snopp Dogg .... SOOO not impressed in the slightest, and I am a fan of both. Seriously, WTF!?!?!?!?!? 311 trounced out the same tired old act I saw them do 6 years ago, just rearranged in a different order. I mean shit, all the members of the band putting down their instruments and essentially having a big ass drum circle was cool the first 5 times ... new shit please? Snoop had to have been high and lazy. 1/3 of the shit he played was someone elses music, furthermore, he sang the last 2 or 3 words of every other line .... I want to kick you in the balls Snoop ... for serious.

Camping proved to be a large financial hit on me. Was a good time, but it will effect the way I camp from now on. Wasnt a big fan of the new site, to spread out, and never really made it out the main fire much or for very long. Camp No Pants was definetly where it was at, I would have just as soon invited everyone down to enjoy the cool breeze of pantless camping, but I didnt want to leave it lol. Highlight ... or lowlight depending how you want to look at it was me falling asleep outside in the hammock for an hour and a half at 3 AM and waking up to 100 or so mosquito and god knows what other kind of bites all over my back. Other corny bullshit prevented me from really having a good time, but it is what it is. I am definetly going again next year.

Fast forward to this weekend and Saturday night I hit up the city with the lovely Zoomusikgrl in tow, to celebrate JadeAngel's birthday with GetFighted, VaJaeJae, and my first mate Rickrolled. Good times were definetly had. Should I let it slip that I was actually drunk enough that I might have been coaxed into singing? Probably not, but maybe next time .... thats a big MAYBE Zoo!

Wake up Sunday and feel like I got hit in the head with a brick. Take a shitload of an asston of different meds ... nothing works. Start to realize that I in fact have a concussion. Nausea, migraine, loss of equilibrium, moodyness, all set in. Spend the day watching crappy, yet still funny 80's movies with Zoo. Get to sleep in because I am covering some dudes closing shift at work, which was all fine and dandy, until I realize the migraine is still there. Get to work, goes smoothly, find out that my engine mounts are broken when some new kid asks to rev my motor ... insert funny joke here .... engine is hopping around like a fucking hot potato. Blessing in disguise as I have a reason to get Polyurethane mounts now, so I can deal. Had a tech do an oil change for me and swap out some belts, he parks it by this heavy duty reinfocred fence thing and leaves it in gear, (its a manual tranny) I go out to my car and hit the remote start. Get outside just in time to hear the car start and see it lurch forward into the fence. FUCKING HOOKER! was the first thing to come out my mouth. Well at least I work at a dealership and we have a guy who does bumper repairs and this should only set me back about $100 after discounts. Would much rather have that hundo to fuck around with elsewhere, but oh well, such is life. Could be worse I guess right? Trying to keep a level head and not let shit get to me.

Ok, pictures may or may not come some time down the road, but thats about enough of my ramblings for now. Shake it easy ya'll

Ok, so looking through my pictures, I decided there were alot that I never posted on here. So to make up for it, I will give a brief rundown of the pictures and what was going on around that time.

Starting sometime in January, somewhere in a Canadian province, a party was had by some cool ass mother fucking people .....

One person in particular stood out as mohawks were had by many, some twice over ...

Things blossomed ouside ....

More importantly, they blossomed in many different ways ....

No one can touch my Mexican cooking, pretty fucking good for a Pollack ...

She swooned something fierce after I filled her belly with fajita goodness ....

Lots of playing with Molly in the park, looks like she is about to eat someobodys house in this one ....

Celebrated the girlies birthday, I made her a cake, sweat my skills ....

Bought her a necklace that she seemed to like, the smaller of the 2 in the picture ....

For my hard work, she tries to put a flaming marshmallow in my eye ....

The aftermath of her party, fun was had in the bathroom by me and one of those bowls

Me and my sexy girl took a trip down to MD to visit one of my good friends Adelayde, me n Zoo waited for people to show up before we got on one of the biggest boats Ive ever been on that wasnt a cruiseship or ferry ....

Said big ass boat had herself a funny name, also was numbered 420, lol a prelude for things to come? ....

CaptainBackfire looking like quite the pirate? lol crusing around the bay ....

We hurried home from the 4th of July weekend to kick SGNY's ass in kickball, but it rained, so we cancelled. Stopped in Philly for Jim's, the best cheesteaks in town as far as I am concerned. Drove back home, went to the diner for dinner, Q's was our next stop, had some drinks, watched people dance ....

Woke up Sunday, had a lazy type of afternoon, Zoo bought me a book that literally had me falling down laughing in the aisle of Barnes and Noble's. Best line .... Do you work for UPS? Cuz I could have sworn you were just checking out my package. lol

Afterwards we went and saw WALL-E, such a good movie, I really like how kids movies send messages now a days, cuz really, what the fuck did Bambi, Tom n Jerry and Snow White teach my generation? lol

Trivia with Rickrolled and Arbitraria late Sunday, more free bar stuff to add to my never ending collection. Nice mellow end to the weekend, except I had off today too!

Got some shit done today, end of my 4 day weekend is here and its back to work tomorrow at noon, one more day to sleep in. Working 2 days next week and its off to see 311 and Snoop in Brooklyn on the 16th and camping with ECCT right after. Man, life has gotten busy and hectic, but I wouldnt trade it in for the world. Coat Hanger!

The abbreviated update:

Girlies birthday was Thursday, got her a necklace, something for camping, and made her something as well. She seemed to dig it.

Her party is today, good times shall be had no doubt.

Her new set went up yesterday, check it out if you feel compelled ... band camp

Work has been kicking my ass, made a customer cry, but she was a sensitive, over reacting bitch so I wasnt bothered by it.

Appointments set for the other half sleeve, starting in September and by Halloween it should be finished as long as the funds hold up.

I think thats about it for now, back to setting up for the party ... shake it easy

Ok, so its been long enough in between me updating this, so here goes.

The most amazing girl I have ever dated has not ceased to amaze and dazzle me at every turn in the road, she is such a sweet heart. I have officially told booty calls to beat it, I actually did this some time ago, but am now 100% positive I will not be making any midnight phone calls. I may be a little flirty, but that girl is the fuckin tits and I sure as shit am not going to fuck this up. Other then that, I guess its been a pretty busy month since I last checked in.

GetFighted had her 21'st birthday party about a month ago, good times were had by all ... well maybe not ALL, but a major majority. lol I know I had a good time. Team Zoojew (thats me and the woman for those that arent savy), went to see a taping of Jim Nortons HBO series, it was a good time, think Def comdey jam but with alot of white guys telling offensive jokes. Went bowling with SGNY, good times once again. Had plans to attend some Polish festival, but opted out of it for lounging around the house instead. Went to a work party this passed Friday, kinda lame, but it was more or less the crowd, cant say I expected much though. Team Zoojew hit up the Yunegling brewery on Saturday, that was cool, little bit of history involved ... ok alot of history, but I was totally into it. THE freshest Yuengling I have ever drank. I NEED to visit more breweries now .... ROAD TRIP!!!! Afterwards we hit up a Sonic since we missed the meet up with SGCC a month ago. That shit was amazing. I really dont know why they show commercials, but dont have one anywhere remotely close. Fuckers! Had some other plans but nixed them as we were too tired.

Been slacking on my softball team lately. Call me competitive, a front runner, or what have you, but I cant seem to get myself motivated to play with a bunch of guys that dont play well and dont feel the need to practice. Ive just about given up on it all together. I am liable to change my mind, but its not fun getting creamed lol

This Sunday going to watch my sexy little momma get her halfsleeve started. I am so excited for her, she is going to look so hot. She is getting done at the tattoo convention in Atlantic City, which just adds to the good times factor. Speaking of sexy, her set is pending, so keep your peepers peeled, leave her some comment love, she is definetly sexy enough to go pink. The next day we are going to see Jose Gonzalez, I like a few of his songs, but havent really been exposed to him completely yet. Know enough to want to see him live though. Want to try to get tickets to see 311 and Snoop in Coney Island right before camping .... should be a sick show.

Other then that I got nothing people. Workin my ass off, Subie is getting louder, I need to get my ass working out again, or at least playing basketball or some fuckin shit.

Enough of this ramble, off to bed.