Breakups

WARNING: If I’ve dated you or you don’t want to read a sappy post that jumps around, A LOT, then don’t read

What happens next? I mean you like evidence, well here’s the evidence. The evidence is that there is something wrong here. I fell in love with a woman I had a kid who doesn’t want to marry me, and then the next woman, well she’s… you. And now, what is it with women, who just don’t want what I’m offering here. I’m just mad. I’m just really mad at all of you. – Seeley Booth (From Bones)

Breakups. They suck. Just felt like that needed to be thrown out there before I started. It’s not even the trying to forget about you that’s hard, it’s the sting I feel every time I think of you. I knew our ship had sailed, but I never wanted to admit it, not to anyone, especially myself.

Your first love they always say is the hardest, and I’ll have to agree with them. It might be that that hurts so much, it might be the fact that I lost my best friend. Its hard to forget someone you love or loved, all those good times you had together, the adventures you had, and losing someone you opened yourself up to fully means you fully opened yourself up to heartbreak. But I guess that’s part of love; learning, loving, falling to where you’re nearly done with it all, picking yourself back up and trying again.

With an ex, you’ve gotta wish them the best, and hope they find someone else who will not only treat them greater than a princess, but want to, and yes there is a difference. I will hold the door for a friend because it’s the right thing. I’ll open the door, pull out your chair and do my best to treat you like a princess, because that’s what I want to do and what you deserve.

To those dealing with breakups, deal with it the best way possible, turn on some music or Netflix, have a friend come over and drink. Decide to hate everyone, and then remember you’re awesome, even without them in your life. In the words of the great band Poco, “I’ll keep on trying, I’m thru with lying, just like the sun above, I’ll keep on shining through.”

All we can do in these situations is to keep breathing, living day to day, trying to forget all that happened. It may not be what we want, but if you truly care about them, you’ve got to try, it’s what they want. You can be happy, maybe not right away, but one day, you’ll be happy again, with someone else who might make you even happier.

One can only hope.

Also, here is a playlist that I made a while back that tends to be really helpful (at least for me)

10 things to know about me

Ten things you should know about me (Inspired byhttp://virginconfessions20s.blogspot.com/)

1. I’m 19, unless you’re the cops or asking for my ID, then I’m 21 and/or forgot my ID back at home and I’m from the glorious state of Texas.
2. I love cooking, cuddling, chocolate, cakes, cupcakes, cookies, cookie dough, college football, cold beer, country music, and that’s just things that start with a C.
3. I haven’t been world’s most preppy guy always. (Don’t stop reading here, otherwise you’ll never get what happened) In fact, most people would be surprised to know I was that guy that wore concert t-shirts and reserved most polos for Sundays, at least back in high school. I didn’t own a pair of sperrys till college. In fact, people don’t recognize me when I go home these days. Anyways, when I got to college, I decided to clean up my act a bit. Got rid of all traces of cargo shorts, invested in polos and button downs (I only have 27 polos now…) and things started working out for me. But back to high school me. I went to a very prestigious public school but at that point, I never really fit in with anyone in my grade I thought. I didn’t really fit in any social group. Too weird and lanky for jocks, too kind and clean for the druggie emo kids and I just wouldn’t be a hipster. So I was that awkward nerdy kid. Which I was like since middle school.
4. I’ve only dated one person. I dated the same person for over 8 months, which is longer than most of my friend’s dated someone. It was also long distance, and for anyone who has done a long distance relationship, every week feels like a month. It was also the source of the best times of my life, and she helped me through a lot of things in my life. First kiss, first girl I ever felt in love with, and she was almost always there for me when I needed her. I would not be the same guy without it. The break up also caused me to be an emotional wreck for 2 months that I’m still recovering from. So to all of you wondering why my tweets will get really depressing for a day, 99.5% of the time, it’s because of that. It also doesn’t help that my roommate and most of my friends constantly tell me that I shouldn’t have let her go. I also know that she’s probably reading this so I’m not gonna say much more about her without revealing details, besides that I just want what’s best for her and could never hate her or wish her harm.
5. I love my alcohol. Shots over shotgunning though. Faster and honestly hard liquor tastes better.
6. I’m a Methodist by affiliation, non-denominational by beliefs. A guy was seemingly trying to instigate a fight with me the other day at the bars with me because I couldn’t explain it to him. I form my own beliefs. I won’t let others tell me what to believe. However, my beliefs tend to align with the Methodist church. On that note, I’d like to put my stance on homosexuality out here, even though I try to stay away from politics on here. I don’t give a damn. Let them do what they want. They aren’t ruining marriage, they can be better parents than a lot of parents out there today (I’m looking at you mom and dad! Jkjk love y’all.) But gays should have the same rights, including marriage, as everyone else. As long as they don’t try to kill people or force people to be gay, I’m fine with them.
7. Musically, I love pretty much all music. Doesn’t mean I can defend it all, rap these days, that’s just not really lyrically deep or defendable. But I love metal, classical, country, indie, electronic, rock, classic rock, musicals, rap and Christian rock among others (talking Christian hard rock, soft Christian rock I can get tired of really quickly…) I feel like I should just list my top bands, so that’s what I’ll do.
• Relient K
• Angels & Airwaves
• Blink-182
• EleventySeven
• Owl City
• Old Crow Medicine Show
• Zac Brown Band
• Taylor Swift
• Mat Kearney
• Schubert (the classical composer)
• OneRepublic
• Demon Hunter
8. I remember days. October 16, 2010 (technically the 17^th at 1:22 AM), December 2, June 23, 2011, November 13, November 15th, April 2^nd,2011, August 2009. All these have been important dates to me. I would list more, but anything past a year, I can usually only list the month and where and how I felt. 2 of these days the birthdays of two of my best friends. Another was at a retreat with my biffle. The other three someone else knows. And yes, knowing stuff like this is hell. It can be a blessing, but it can turn into hell at times…
9. Only one person knows my darkest secret (this person being my biffle.) She talked me down in some bad times, knows what to say, and she knows what I’ve been through. She’s what I tend to turn to when there is nothing else to turn to. I can never repay her for what she’s done for me, so I just tell her how amazing she is every time I talk to her and would give her an arm and a leg if she needed them. All I will share about this time was this was the song that helped me through - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD2t1qLJGLQ
10. I’m an introvert. I hate reality. I prefer living in a dream world. Where nothing bad ever happens. Where I’m never sad. And I’m a dinosaur half the time. Rawr! And when I say rawr, its either hi or the three words I have trouble saying these days, just fyi. Oh and I never eat, people should remind me to eat…

So there are 10 facts about me. Tried to keep some things vague. Expect another post sometime this week, with a recipe too (salmon like a pro.) Also, I write this not only for y’all, but for me too. I wouldn’t care too much if I only had 1 reader or 1000 readers (although 1000 would be nice.)

First Post

Well, this is the first post of hopefully something people get around to reading in their spare time. I’m just here to talk about various things, I might post a recipe or two, a couple drink recipes, favorite cigars and liquors and beers, and just general nonsense.

Now just a little about me before we get started, I’m a sophomore at Baylor who happens to be a double major in religion and business. I love cuddling, drinking and pretty much love everything, except people. Sorry people.

Just gonna start today off with a simple beer chicken recipe, which I’ve decided to call the Drunken Chicken.

Ingredients

• Chicken Breasts (1 per person)
• 6 pack (at least) of your favorite beer (I usually use Bud Light Lime because a friend is obsessed with it)
• Salt
• Pepper
• Lemon Juice
• Olive oil
• Oven (you can’t really cook without it)
• Foil
• Pan To fit chicken in

1. First defrost the chicken if the chicken is frozen. I prefer to naturally let it thaw, so if it’s a frozen chicken breast, put it in a pan about 2-3 hours ahead of time, otherwise microwave until the ice is gone.
2. Rinse the chicken with water (not sure if its necessary, but if you do hot water, it gets the rest of the ice off usually)
3. Line the pan with a sheet of foil. Try to only use one sheet so there aren’t layers for the juices to fall through.
4. Preheat the oven to 350-400 degrees. I try to keep it on the lower end of heats so its not burnt. Takes a bit longer but it cooks all the way through.
5. Place chicken breast(s) in the pan and then wash your hands so you don’t get any of the hippie germs that are in the air on the chicken.
6. Next pour about a quarter of a beer onto the chicken breast(s). It may seem like a lot, but it smells amazing and you can usually taste the beer in the first few bites.
7. After that, pour some lemon juice and a little olive oil on each chicken boob.
8. Put some salt and pepper on the chicken tits, and any other seasonings you feel like adding, then rub them around.
9. Flip each breast and repeat steps 6-8 with the other side of the chicken. Now we’re ready to throw this into the oven.
10. The total cook time for this is gonna be about 25-30 minutes, but you want to flip each breast every 10 minutes until you get to 20 minutes. Then I tend to flip it every 5 to check if it’s ready or not. You’ve seen a cooked chicken breast, remove it when it looks like that. However, here is the sign to look for, the center isn’t red anymore, but instead a nice white matching the rest of the meat.
11. Remove from the oven when it’s ready, and serve either alone with a beer or two, and not the one you cooked with, that should have been finished in the time it was in the oven.

If you want to serve it with a side, make some pasta with pesto sauce. I’ll post a homemade pesto sauce for y’all to make at a later time. Also, I would include a picture but I haven’t cooked it in a week or two and didn’t take a picture. On that note, keep raging, keep drinking and never let someone try to bring you down.