As the title says, today was kind of a sad day! It didn’t start out that way, of course; I don’t think that sad days ever start off in a sad way. All in all it could have been worse, but a few things made this New Year’s Eve less than ideal.

First I’ll mention the saddest bit of news: today, I found out that one of my favorite drummers passed away. The Rev of Avenged Sevenfold (love them to pieces!) died of natural causes on December 29, I believe. I just found out about it today from one of my co-workers. The news was both shocking and very, very sad. Honestly,  I’m still not sure if it has sunken into my head yet. I’m not too thrilled to believe it. If anyone happens to be reading this, please keep his family, friends, and fans in your thoughts. I can’t think of much to say now other than I know he will be missed–as a person and as a musician–and I hope that he rests in peace.  <33

On a bit of a lighter note, my other bit of sad news isn’t really as sad as it is pathetic. I guess I could have said that in the first place, but I’m not sure if “Pathetic Day” is as much of an attention grabber as the current title. Maybe it is, though… I’m going to go ahead and add that in now.

Ooh. I like the way that looks. Anyway.

I work at Hot Topic. I’ve been there for about two years and it’s a pretty decent job! The pay ain’t too great, but I have fun co-workers and the customers are pretty interesting. I’m sure I’ll have plenty of work stories in the future, but now the only semi-important bit of info is that I work at Hot Topic. For the past few days, we’ve had a sale going on: $10 off any of the bottoms (pants, skirts, etc). In addition to that, I get 40% off of apparel for working there! For those of you who are, like me, quite unhappy with the idea of doing any math, this means that the jeans were cheap, cheap, cheap! So, of course I rushed out there. I wanted to pick up a pair or two of jeans so I could show everyone a nifty DIY thing! It was going to be fantastic. As I went into the store, selected two quite cute pairs of jeans, and went to try them on, what was I met with?

Disappointment, that's what.

Today’s discovery: the girls’ jeans at Hot Topic run pretty damn small. How small? Well, let’s just say that I’m glad that dressing rooms are private; otherwise, people would have seen me dancing and hopping from foot to foot like a… well, I don’t even know what. It looked pretty stupid though. Let it be known that I’m not even a big person! But oh my goodness, I don’t know if I’ve ever battled with a pair of jeans that way. Needless to say, I returned home without a pair of pretty, cheap, new jeans; however, I did return with some things from Vitamin World though, so all wasn’t completely lost.  :]

This sounded pretty interesting in my head, but I’m not sure how interesting it sounds to anyone else. My apologies if this was boring, or whatever. It took me about six hours to crank out–not because I was uninspired, but because I’m very easily distracted. If, by some miracle, someone is reading this, let me know! You guys get distracted, right? Leave a comment telling me what distracts you. For me, I’m going to say QQ Games.

Okay, go!

Well, this is the first blog I’ve had in quite a while (years!) and I’ve got to say that I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it. The domain name is a bit random, the layout is kind of simple and uninspired (even though it took me hours to make, simply because I tragically fail at making decisions), and I have the sinking feeling that it’ll be at least a few months before anyone ever reads this.

What on earth was I thinking when I decided to do this?

Hopefully this will justify itself in time. I’m aiming for this thing to a way to monitor my progress in a few different ways (all of that jazz is on the About section!). It’ll be a home for different projects, rantings of mine, and a look into my exciting life (hah!). Judging by the title, I intend for this thing to be pretty entertaining or, at the very least, readable to people other than myself and my friends. At the same time, though, I won’t expect everyone to fall in love with it. That would be a stupid thing for me to do.

As time goes on, I’m hoping that these entries will be more exciting, since that will likely mean that my life is pretty exciting at that given moment. Most of my day today was spent watching movies and working on this, so I don’t have much to say. Will I have better things to say later? Maybe. As a person, I’m not so different from anyone else. I’m on the same journey that many other people my age are on: finding a general direction in life. If I can use this blog to relate to other people in any way, I’ll probably be pretty happy.

Uh…

For now, I suppose that’s all! I won’t be surprised with myself if I add to this five minutes from now, though. Anyway, here’s to kicking off the new year (which isn’t even here yet) with musings, madness, and merry times (hopefully)!