Welcome, Welcome and Welcome again to a very special entry from Jasyn.com! This Entry is dedicated to YOU the very special readers that have been keeping up with everything that has been going on for the past 5 years 4 months and 5 days since my very first entry oh so long ago! Today we have reached a Milestone of 150 Entries and if it were not for my readers I’d never would never have reached this many entries!!! So this goes out to you, my readers! Thank you!!!!
I can’t believe that I’ve been able to keep Jasyn.com going for so long… When I started this site back in 2003, honestly I thought it was going to just be a fun thing that I’d eventually lose interest in… However, after getting emails and seeing the stats and having people actually tell me that they enjoy my site, I’ve kept it going and going and now I don’t believe that I’ll ever stop… Well least not unless I have anything to say about it
So many things have been entered into here to tell about the story of my week to week life, and I’ve left everything on the table for everyone in the world to read just a little bit about a man just living a life worth living! Some people find my life to be comical, while others feel that my life could be described as tragic, and some find inspiration through my words to live their lives and find joy and happiness within themselves and the people around them… And that’s what makes Jasyn.com so special I believe, is that even though I tell the story of my life, everyone can take a story from here and learn from my triumphs and mistakes, and even learn to support someone that you might not have met face to fact, but still support that person because they are human and we all need a little support from time to time!!!
Over the years I’ve been able to see many great things, and reported them here on Jasyn.com… From going to watch the Indianapolis 500 from only 4 rows away from Pit Row, to watching a Cardinals game in the Lower Bowl; Going to see the Grand Canyon in the snow, and having a blast with the guys in the family in Vegas… but also many things have happened that also continue to leave me grounded and realizing that with life comes peaks and valleys… With the Lies of Malibu and Leigha, to the death of my beautiful son Andrew who I constantly think about… which leads me to my next point, and I can prove this to be true, that in you can gain everything just as easily as have everything taken away in the same moment in time… So my advise to anyone who is reading this: Enjoy the tiny pleasures and joys in life while you have them here in this moment…
This year has now coming into it’s final 2 weeks and with Christmas coming up this week, and New Years Day is just around the corner; Traditionally I Do my annual ‘Year in Review’… 2009 hasn’t been the greatest year, but then again a lot has been accomplished and many battles have been fought and won for myself this year… But starting this year, as I do every year, I have my birthday in Mid January… and I was able to have my birthday wish come true!!! To see my Cardinals go all the way to the Super Bowl… an Amazing run that saw them go all the way to the last possession and playing a truly awe-inspiring game… though they lost, it still validated everything that I knew to be true with my Cardinals and that they did have it in them to play on the worlds greatest stage!
A couple weeks later, I saw myself with my father, brother and cousin in Las Vegas for my first true Vegas experience… Leaving my girlfriend [at the time] behind to go gamble, see a comedy show, and see the sites of Las Vegas with my own eyes was a truly memorable and something I will never forget
Not too long after being home, driving along in Mesa My truck was slammed from behind by two vehicles… The truck was repairable but I had sustained back injuries that might be with me the rest of my life… I did go to treatment, and I do feel a lot better by now, but sometimes my back does get exhausted much easier and I’ve noticed that I do get pains more easily than I’m used to… But after 7 months of waiting it out, I was able to reach an agreement with the insurance company to settle out of court with my medical bills paid and some money for myself… hopefully soon in the new year I’ll be able to get myself a nice new vehicle! But only time will tell with that!
Well in May, after my fathers and brothers birthday, I had to get back into the dating game… After what Blair had done, I had to kick her to the curb to allow for a more loyal and committed person to enter my life… however the dating scene was bare at best… Date after useless date I went on in 2009 to no avail… If there was anything that I could say about 2009 is that all I kept finding was Flakes, Selfishness, Conceded, and just women who didn’t know what the hell they wanted and were only succeeding in wasting time… Blair turned out to be a flop, but at least she wanted something… I had gone on so many first dates from OkCupid and many other free sites, but then a friend of mine forced me into signing up on Match.com… I reluctantly agreed to join… and for the most part, during my 3 month membership, it was the same ol’ story… Getting first dates but never getting a call back; or starting to date someone who tells you exactly what you want to hear, only to have them break up with you for the most half-assed excuse ever; and others who are willing to text you 100x a day but can’t muster to schedule a 30 minute meal with you to meet up… well it’s funny how things work out… After almost giving up hope and packing it in, I meet the best one of them all in Susan… Who every day seems more and more like the one I’ve been waiting for… So many people have told me that I’ve had too high of standards and I’m being too picky with who I wanted to be with, but Susan validates everything that I had hoped to find in a woman and exceeds all my expectations… She’s in Michigan right now after dropping her off at the airport on Friday… But she’ll be back after the new year so that we can continue what we started
[do I hear wedding bells in my future? I think so]…
Phew…. I’m not even done yet and my fingers are getting a bit tired
But let’s carry on…
This year also helped me deal with a lot pent up issues that I still had over my son Andrew… With his untimely ending shortly after his birth, I still had blamed myself for the only decision that I had to make as his father… So just before fathers day, I wrote my son a letter and honestly felt much better for it… the only unfortunate part is that the letter made so many people cry after reading it that I had to quickly put it in my archives, but it did serve it’s purpose in letting my son know that no matter what, I still love him!
This year I also got a new roommate… My cousin moved in with me in August because he needed a new place to stay for the time being… it’s been nice to have a roommate, but I do miss living on my own… I mean I can’t walk around naked anymore LOL… (<.<)... (>.>)… (^.^)…. NO I didn’t just say that… but it’s kinda nice to have someone here other than just living on my own, and he helps out a bit with rent and cleaning sometimes… He’s here sometimes but also still stays the night with his girlfriend Margie from time to time… but when he’s here we still have good times
and if it weren’t for him, I’d never be able to do the haunted house that we built this year, and even hooked me up with cable in my room
… so Thank’s Erik for all your help with the apartment this year!
And now we return back to where it all started… the end of the 2009 year… just like any year, I’ve had my up’s and downs… keeping in mind that this hasn’t been like most years with something that severe looming in the shadows… even the Era of JASON was pretty mild and met my beautiful girlfriend towards the end of it… But again it’s going to be out with the old and in with the new… I’m looking forward to 2010 more so than in years past… with a bright future ahead and looking forward to starting to get everything in order once again… Now I want to make my predictions in 2010…
I predict that I’ll be back up in North Phoenix by mid 2010, that the Cardinals will fall one game short of the Super Bowl [I hope I'm wrong there], that I’ll be driving a new vehicle by the end of 2010, and that I will have quit smoking before New Years 2011… OIY that’s a tall order… I hope you want fries with that!!! But Everyone have a Merry Xmas! a Happy Hanukkah! a Happy Kwanzaa! and a Great and Safe New Year and I’ll See you all in 2010!!!
[Let the new Decade begin, Jasyn.com Style!!!]