Childhood was all right 👍

Most people have a pretty good childhood. It might be filled with watching Seasome Street or watching cartoons on Saturday morning, while eating some cereal. That was my childhood. I watched a lot of TV and played Atari all the time. I was six years old and I was playing chess with my stepdad. He would slaughter me a lot of the time. I used to get mad. So, I would go inside my room and practice chess on my Atari. Sure, the computer would annihilate me too, but at least I learned. Sometimes I would win my stepdad, sometimes I would lose. I got used to losing, so when I won. I was happy. I was getting pretty good at chess, but I still lost some games to my stepdad.

Threw all this chess playing. I read a certain book called green eggs and ham. When, I was younger, I read this book a lot. I had a little collection of Dr. Seuss books, but Green Eggs and Ham was my favorite. From moving a lot, I lost my Dr. Seuss books or when my injury (shot in the head) happened. My parents got rid of a lot of my items because they thought I was going to die, but I lived and life is all right now. I am grateful. Thank you for reading.

Laze around and eat salad

Salad all the time is the best meal for me. I am a flextarian, which means I am flexible about what I eat. I eat meat and dairy, as long as it tastes good. I will eat it. One thing I won’t eat is liver. Noooo! That is too gross.

But this salad was a winner. It had a little chicken, cucumber, lettuce, tomato carrots, mashed potatoes, and various seasons. It was nicely put together. Thank you for reading. I don’t feel like going into the books I read. When, I already did the assignment. I hope everyone on here has a nice night. Good night.

Salad and music

Salad and apples bring me joy. These two food items give me the energy to sustain all day. Without apples and salad I would get nothing done. They are energy food for me.

Also, music is the universal language. People can speak different languages and still enjoy playing music with each other. Music is a language set on its own. It can be hard, soft, fast, slow, as long as it has a beat and it is steady. It is considered music. Heck, some music doesn’t have a beat, but the beat is the way the instruments coincide with each other.

I like to play drums, shakers, write lyrics, and sing lyrics. It is the best way to pass time. Music gets me moving. I can’t be sad listening or playing music, as long as it is rocking, popping, or rapping. It is worth listening to them.

I play and practice music everyday. It is something that is installed in my brain. I would be lost without music. Music makes me feel great.

Also, writing on jetpack gives me joy too. It has become part of my routine. Everyday, around 12 am, I know I have to write on jetpack. Thank you for reading.

Time to unplug

When I’m eating something this good, such as the rice dish with tomatoes, broccoli, avocado, apple, letuce, noodles, bell pepper, and fried cream cheese wontons. I know it is time to unplug. Maybe come back to plug back in again, but just to unwind before I go to bed. Thank you for reading.

The fruit salad

This fruit salad was delicious. It had kiwi, mandarin oranges, grapes, pineapple, apples, pears and some more goodies. It was very healthy. It was just what I needed to wind down before bed.

Well, everyone needs friends from time to time. To help them out and pass time with their friends. Some qualities are better than others. One quality I look for in a friend is sticking with me. Sometimes, I get depressed because of the injury of being shot in the head. I walk with a gimp, my left arm doesn’t work right. Anyone, would get depressed because of this. So, I need friends to understand that I am not pissed off at them. I am just need time to sort through stuff and I still like them, but I am dealing with my own hell on Earth. Thank you for reading.

Salad and music

This salad was definitely one for the books. With the piece of tomato, cucumber, romaine, with rosemary, garlic, and purple cabbage. It was definitely delightful.

As far as jobs, I have done my fair amount of work. I started when I was 19 years old. I worked at the Blake Foundation doing janitorial work. I wanted to work with kids, so I guess this was close enough. I got paid to wash dishes and clean equipment, such as bicycles and three wheelers. I cleaned mats and windows, too. I also swept the outside patio. Then, they hired me to do some clerical work, such as filing, printing, and answering phones. All, this time, I was going for my bachelor’s in social work. Once I received my bachelor’s, I worked in the traumatic brain injury program as a service coordinator. I would provide a link between families and service providers, such as vocational rehabilitation. I worked at Americorps for two years and did my term of service, where I got paid through Americorps and volunteered at an organization. The first year, I volunteered at The Shalom house and would play games with the children there. I had to do a 1,500 hours to get the full education award of $5 thousand. There were plenty of hours to do there. In the second year, I worked at the youth volunteer corps. We would provide meaningful volunteer opportunities for youth, such as working with kids and painting murals. Things of that nature.

After that, I worked as a teacher’s aide for years and worked with a teacher who worked with children with special needs. We would run the classroom by making the children read, do math and science, and learn about work activities, such as going into the community and bus tables at Franks restaurant. We would teach the children how to cook, and go shopping too. Then, my current job is doordash, which is delivering food and other items to customers.

But music always looms in the distance, like a distant light. I always do open mics whenever I can because this is what I want to do all the time. Maybe i can get my chance one of these days. Thank you for reading.

Salad and more with religion

This was a killer salad with a hamburger, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese. The dinner came out marvelous. It was tasty to the limit

Now, when it comes to religion, everyone these days has a religion, such as Catholic, Jewish, Baptist, Johovis wittiness, or some other extension of Christianity. Or they may be Hindu or Buddhism. There are so many religions. It is hard to keep up with all of them. The number 1 thing that most religions should teach is the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This rule is said in the Bible and is followed by many Christians. It is a teaching that has a long history of not causing harm to you or other people.

Many people practice religion and are in a craze about their religion and try to recruit others into their religion. I don’t try to recruit anyone to my religion. Even though I am Catholic. I don’t really practice and go to church. I do pray the rosary, but that is it. The Catholic Church has done a lot of sexual abuse to young people that I don’t agree with. So I don’t care to ok that behavior by going to church. I don’t like to support an organization that has that in their background. Whatever other people do is not up to me, but I only pray and hopefully that is enough. I hope everyone has a great day, good night and thank you for reading.

Some things never change

Dinner was very nice with a salad, tamales, and Spanish rice dish, that definitely did not disappoint. It was delicious. It was the perfect amount of food so after eating the food. I was not too stuffed.

Life before the internet was mainly going outside and riding my bike, of course before being shot in the head. I would also talk with friends before the injury.

Life before the internet, after my injury, all I remember is always going to sleep or laying down. It was a lonely experience. I was so tired because of this pill I took called tegretol for seizures. I couldn’t even talk right because of this pill. I lost many girlfriends because I could not enunciate my words.

Thank heavens, I don’t have seizures anymore because this pill really made my life a tiring experience. I used to take it three times a day and the second pill would knock me out completely. Where ever I was, I would have to lay down. It was that bad. Like I said, thank God that he had mercy on me and healed me from seizures. Well, the funny thing is that when the internet was invented, I was still on tegretol so I still wanted to sleep a lot, but I did homework from college when I was awake. Or, I would attend classes also. I drank coffee to stay awake, or else I would go to sleep. Thank heavens, we didn’t have smart phones because I would always want to be on them and scroll through Facebook, Instagram, X, Blue sky, YouTube. Maybe, this would put me to sleep. So maybe it would have been a good thing. Thank you for reading.

Everyone is good at something

I am good at eating salads. I make and eat salads, everyday.They are healthy, light, plus diabetes runs in my family on both sides. So that is why I eat a lot of salads. I don’t want diabetes.

Sometimes, I splurge and get a pizza or a hamburger, but then I make my way back to a salad because. I have to have a little bad with the good. It is a balancing act. For whatever I put into my body that is bad. I need to put something good in my body and that is the salad. Plus, I don’t want to be over weight because with my limp. I would be more prone to falls. So, it is better I am thin. My mom is always trying to get me to eat more protein, but eating salads is way better. So I eat salads with some bad things along the way, but most of it is good for me. Thank you for reading.

The tide of change

I can say i had it all eating these salads because they were good. But in reality, I always have to come back to reality and think there is much work that needs to be in place to having it all. So, even though someone says they have it all, there is always room for improvement. I think people can be content with their lives, but to have it all is a little out of reach. Everyone has problems, even the richest person in the world has problems. It is that they can throw money at the problems and make them go away before they become a real problem. Take the American dream, a home, money, friends, elites, well you have to be asleep for that, or maybe some parts of it are achievable, but not all.

It is true that one person’s level of having it all differs from another person’s of having it all. In that sense, it is achievable because it is being happy with what you have achieved and being confident that you can achieve more success. Being grateful for all you have helps in the long run. You never know, you maybe setting yourself up for having it all. Thank you for reading.