This Is Only A Blog Post Because It Would Have Been Too Long As A Tweet

     How about that title, eh?  Catchy as shit.  Long story short, I wanted to express something that hit my mind just now and it would have been too long of a Tweet, even with Tweet Longer.  This should be a short blog post, I hope.  My fingers have a mind of their own sometimes ;) (that was a wink for the ladies, not the dudes.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, just exit only on Michael Ryne) Okay, where was I?  AH, RIGHT!  My epiphany.  2011 was a tough...a REALLY tough year for me and yet, I feel stronger.  2012 is gonna be a year of personal growth for me.  Gone are the days of neurotic Michael Ryne, the days where I speak in 3rd person are gone too...possibly.  Maybe all the days where I forced myself to take care of myself have finally paid off, who knows?  I just get this feeling like, if I may pull out my inner nerd, that I leveled up, ya' know?  I reached a new plateau and I'm excited for the future.  I really improved myself as of late and I'm ready to keep that going.  Gone are the days of regression, that bullshit is in the past.  I'm finally becoming the person I want to be and continue to be as I grow.  I don't feel scared anymore.  I feel ready.  Bring it on, world, because I've taken plenty of your shit and I'm still standing.  There's only so many times you can bitch and moan about everything in your life incessantly.  I'm not saying I won't have some crappy days, I'm just saying that I will no longer let those days define me as a person.  You may be asking yourself why I would post the song Dammit by Blink-182 as the video accompanying this post considering the content of the lyrics.  Well, let me tell you before you judge, asshole!  (I'm just kidding, I love my readers.  All 3 of you.....hi mom) This isn't a case where I'm going to post a bunch of paragraphs of lyrics and I'll leave it all to you to decipher as to who I'm referring to.  The ONLY person these lyrics pertain to are myself.  There's one line repeated over & over, Well I guess this is growing up.  I feel like, for the first time in my life...I'm growing up.  All my life I've felt life pass me by and I wondered where the time went and when everyone passed me up.  Not anymore.  I'm catching up & I'm controlling my life now...and I'm fucking ready.

Things I Will Always Believe

     Everyone has their convictions, whether they be pivotal to your every day life or just a simple opinion on what you think is the best.  These are mine, also with a few random facts about me sprinkled in.

You Won't Hear This

     I know I said I wasn't interested in writing anything today but my feeble attempts at going to sleep at 10 AM went atrociously bad, even after only getting 3 hours of sleep overnight.  I'm thinking maybe, perhaps if I try to put my mind at ease and write a little something something then I can squeak out an hour or two before I have to go to work at 4 until 9.  I've grown to despise posts like this and haven't written one like this is quite a long time.  I've come to realize I'm smutting up peoples' Twitter with too much shitty posts about feeling shitty so I want to vent it out all on here so I don't continue to annoy the crap out of people.

Top 30 Roller Coasters

     Why 30?  Well, because I've been on 30 roller coasters total in my life thus far!  It was pretty convenient that it ended up being a nice even number, not to mention 30 isn't really that many to talk about in one post so I don't mind writing about them all.  I'm going to write about the rides and then even provide my own little score for each one at the end of the paragraph.  The scores will be from 1-10, 10 obviously meaning pure roller coastergasm perfection.  I LOVE amusement parks, I've been to Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure (twice), SeaWorld, & Six Flags Great America (4-5 times) in the past year.  I'm a roller coaster junkie, I never met a drop I didn't love.  Heights are a plus for me, the higher the better.  I really want to go on a cross country trip to ride all the greatest roller coasters, that would be a dream of mine that I one day hope to fulfill.  Until then, 30 roller coasters, past & present, ranked up to my all-time favorite, let's go...

Then & Now

     Back in the day (which was a Tuesday, by the way) I used to have a MySpace.  Who didn't have one, right?  You had your Top 8 where all your friends competed for the top honor, a sweet song to welcome people each time they checked out your profile, & an awesome comments section so all said visitors could see how much people loved you.  You also had some information you could post for people to read about yourself.  On my profile, I had 2 surveys that I had taken (I loved taking surveys for some reason) I thought it would be a fun post idea if I took those two surveys, posted them on here, and then re-answered them.  I must have filled these things out around 4-5 years ago so let's see how much of a douche I was back then and see how I answer them now.  You know, so in 4-5 years I can look back on my new answers and wonder how did I become so douche-tastic.

Oh Yeah, I Have a Blog (Mischief Managed)

     So here's my obligatory "Oh shit, haven't posted in this thing in over a week' article.  I swear I have a good reason!  This past week has been...hectic...to say the least.  I was originally dealing with some pretty significant and draining emotional/personal problems (problems that have since been resolved, it's amazing what you can get done in a week)  Then on Tuesday, I went in for an MRI on my back (an MRI given to me because I have right hamstring problems and the doctors wanted to see what the fuck was wrong with me) and they discovered I had an extremely significant herniated disc in my spine...

Popped My Blog Cherry

     For years I have heard the same question from my friends & family “Why don’t you have your own blog?” I never really had a substantial answer for any of them. Often times I would respond with a simple “Uhhh, I don’t know..” and then you best believe I changed the subject. Truth be told, I knew exactly why I didn’t have a blog. The idea of running a blog I knew nobody would read felt unfulfilling and down right embarrassing. So I create a blog that only I read and maybe a couple trolls who decide to leave their mark in the comment section? Sounds like fun.