What Whaaaaaaaa?

Cleveland

When you're used to Filet Mignon, it's kinda hard to go back to Hamburger Helper.
C-Town all dolled up for Christmas -- looked pretty great

What up 13th row, 45-yard line seats -- BTW, Brady Quinn is for real

My man and yours, L.T after passing Jim Brown on the all-time touchdown list

THHHIIIISSSSSSSSS close to getting Brady's autograph!!!

The motto of the city of Cleveland "we build great stadiums so shitty teams at least have a nice place to call home."

Seize The Day

Today was the kind of day to just pray to God and say Thanks for such an amazing, heartening day. I feel tremendously restored. Hearing nice things about myself from other people....it feels good and I believe it all. It's amazing when the progress you feel like you are making is validated when other people see it in you, and articulate that to you.

Or if you'd like, just sit back, at a distance and judge me without ever getting to know me....I'll take the love and affirmation from people who I hold dear in my heart.

A lil' Mason Jennings for you:

guess where I was....

Super eerie being in the bedroom Lincoln died in

perhaps Biggie and P. Diddy shot him because Abe 'repped the West Coast though??? Or perhaps I'm an ass and make my 12 year old cousin do ridiculous things in gift shops?

Ford Theatre

oh those witty children

3 hours of traffic for a normally 45 mintue drive, boredom, and a digital camera = making a beautiful 8-year old girl pose like she's 50 Cent

Yikes

I just wanted to share this and drop and F-Bomb, saying that this is exactly FUCKING it. This drills where I am at at in recovery RIGHT NOW.

STAIND -- FADE

I try to breathe
Memories overtaking me
I try to face them but
the thought is too
Much to conceive

I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

So where were you
When all this I was going through
You never took the time to ask me
Just what you could do

I only know that I can change
Everything else just stays the same
So now I step out of the darkness
That my life became 'cause

I just needed someone to talk to
You were just too busy with yourself
You were never there for me to
Express how I felt
I just stuffed it down
Now I'm older and I feel like
I could let some of this anger fade
But it seems the surface
I am scratching
Is the bed that I have made

I'd especially like to thank (nts) any of y'all who would have come to see me if I was laid up with a physical illness but haven't shed a second of your time for me because it's mental. If you even have to ask if I mean you, then I do.

Y'all who I love and know have been there with me, heart and soul, thoughts, prayers and simple gestures like a text, phone call a visit, or whatever...I love you and appreciate you more than I can express into words -- I love you more than I love Curtis Granderson and PS3 COMBINED (a lot more...sorry Curtis and Sony).

"So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person." -- Thich Nhat Hanh