From Twitter 07-22-2009

• 10:03:05: @SkirtSports Resting/yoga today to be ready for tomorrow's run!
  
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• 10:03:54: RT @jkg_costumes Selling 2007 Royal Enfield motorcyle on eBay motors, starting @ $2K. http://tinyurl.com/ra74fq Please RT if you don't mind.
  
• 10:29:58: @Sgt_pepper_girl No prob! Wish I could buy it! It's gorgeous!
  
• 10:42:22: @Sgt_pepper_girl Heh, makes sense. ;)
  
• 15:13:25: @petullant That's progress. ;)
  
• 16:08:10: @aranel13 You and me both.
  
• 16:14:06: Starting with season 1 of The Simpsons to get better material for @hj_simpson
  

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Writer's Block: Youthful Transgressions

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Man, I don't even want to go there. . . which sort of defeats the purpose of doing this, doesn't it? Ok, fine.

Blowing $10k in less than 6 months as an 18-year-old with no bills and a free place to live and, maybe dad was even still giving us money for groceries at that point, I can't remember. It was stupid, stupid, stupid. And about the only thing I have to show for it all are some half-broken toys that Jonah now plays with from a shopping spree at Toys-R-Us (yeah, I was real mature) and a tattoo (the tattoo I totally don't regret, I just wish I had gotten it finished before the money was gone). Ok, and some life experience, sure, but my life is not richer for these experiences. Ok, so maybe it is, but. . . ok, I'll stop. It wasn't like I wasn't working most of that time too and any money I made was also blown on total bullshit. Just, don't even ask what I blew it on, I'm not even going to get into it any further than I already have.

Why I regret that the most, well, it was social security money from having a parent (my mom) die before I reached the age of 18. Of course, my dad put it in CDs so I couldn't touch it, but then one of them matured and he didn't renew it for whatever reason. When I turned 18, I got an ATM card, and there it was sitting in my bank account. Well, I was up to no good. No good at all. That money should have gone to college. It really, really should have. There was another $4-$5k that was still safe and sound in a CD. By the time it was up for renewal, I was a lot more responsible and *gasp* renewed it. So, that at least went in with the down payment on our house. So, that was worthwhile (or maybe it went into the Subaru, which is less worthwhile, but better than where the rest of it went). But seriously. With the two combined sums, I could have gotten a degree, or damn close to it. Stupid. Definitely the stupidest thing I've ever done. People who've known me forever might beg to differ, but from my standpoint, it is. It really, really is.

I will say one thing in my defense: at least this really, really irresponsible part of my life happened when I was VERY young and was relatively short lived. By the time I was 21, I was pretty boring. But ages 16-19? Yeah, just don't ask.