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KyleWith in Real Life

By on August 10, 2011 in Journal

Excuse me for a second while I stroke my own ego.

I still find it amazing when I run into people who I don’t directly know who read my blog or follow me online. I seem to be running into more and more as the days go on.

Being a web celeb is not something I set out to be. Okay that might be a lie, I would like to be one, but that is beside the point. I certainly don’t write with the intentions of becoming a house-hold internet name.

Meeting those who read my stuff, however few it maybe, is still a grand feeling for me. I am forever thankful to those people.

To then get a compliment about my writing really puts me over the top. I’m mean lets be honest here, we all know my spelling and grammar skills can be compared to that of a 10th grader. Then again, maybe the sarcasm in my writing is finally coming though.

KyleWith in Real Life

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When I sit alone in my apartment

By on August 3, 2011 in Journal

I’m a relatively mellow person, I only rarely get hyper and want to run around like a mad person. Most of the time I’m just steadily going along my life without too much excitement. I don’t mind this, I actually prefer this. I’ll take a quiet coffee shop (late in the evening, hint hint), over any loud bar.

That being said I sometimes spend too much time by myself, which I’m getting tired of. Like this evening for example, I really wanted a nice mellow evening, again I’m much more of a morning person, so I wanted to keep it quiet. Oh, was it ever quiet, I ended up sitting in the middle of the living room with no electronics on, no music and no food cooking for just over an hour. I just sat there, with my thoughts. This is place I try to avoid, my thoughts get deeper, I start to wonder about my life, I start to get lonely and long for home again. *This is the part the dramatic music plays.

People ask me why I’m so public all the time, true is I’m not. There are many things I don’t talk about online, but I do share a lot online. Mainly because… it is an outlet to share life and meet interesting people along the way.

*Wow, this is a rather depressing post, I’m sure I can dig up another one exactly like this from a few months back, you’d think this was scheduled. Anyways, tomorrow morning I will wake refreshed and happy and probably not even remember this.

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July was a bad month for Food

By on July 26, 2011 in Journal

I think I know enough money people out there, and my father, who will tell me I should account for my spending a little better, but for a while there I was doing really well. Until July.

I was just reviewing my July Visa statement, which I have no problem paying off and I like using my Visa for everything, so I can get the point, but I noticed a lot was spent on food. Sure in the back of my head I knew this as well, but there is a sad realization when I see if on paper – or TD’s mobile app – that I spent more than I normally do.

Normally I would chalk this up to me eating out more, which I have been. With it being summer, I’ve wanted to get out more, but it turns out that means get out of my house and go into a dark pub for a meal. Oddly though that only makes up roughly half of what I have spent on meals, I don’t no exact numbers, the other half is from going to the grocery store and stocking up on food.

Since coming back from Yellowknife in June I have wanted to get more into seeing – see my Food Category – but I needed to get the initials first. You know, like veggies, and meats, etc. Things that I had to buy lots of and would use overtime.

I’m not going to do this though for August, it will be a cheaper month with less eating out and more using what I have in the house. If you have recipe ideas, please send them my way!

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I thought I left negativity!

By on July 24, 2011 in Journal

Many years ago I tried to put all the negativity behind me and started to think more positively about things. That is not to say I don’t ever complain about things, nor do I mean I’m not occasionally a negative person, but I rather try and be positive.

I have been able to keep those who are extremely negative out of my life, even while working in Social Media, but that has changed.

Now negativity is infecting a space I once and still somewhat occupy and I’m not sure what to do about it.

The easy solution is to walk away and shut them out, but they maybe more difficult in this public world.

I will express more of my thoughts in a coming blog post and for now, I will continue to be the positive person.

…and offer solutions, rather than pointing out the problems.

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I like to talk to myself!

By on July 21, 2011 in Journal
 

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There is a reason I don’t have many “in real life” friends and that reason is because I like to talk to myself.

Yes this morning I decided I wanted to finalize the set up of this audio monstrosity I have sitting on my office desk. So I turned on the Country station and pretended I was a lousy DJ. You have no idea the random joy I get from talking with myself.

In other news read this relevant Onion News article.

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Biking Inspiration

By on July 7, 2011 in Journal

This isn’t the biking you normally see a person doing, but I find it so fascinating. It is a lot harder than normal biking and something I have wanted to be able to do for a long time. Basically it is parkour for bikes. The idea is while on your bike you use the objects around you to find different and challenging routes to other places. So using walls, ledges, cliffs, benches, etc.

There is a reason I can’t do this, well actually there is about a 100 reasons I probably can’t do this. 100lbs, I think if I lost 100lbs I would be able to do this type of riding. If you watch the video you’ll see it takes a lot of muscle to pick up the bike and maneuver it through the air, bouncing it off different things.

I use to pretend I could do this, I think I even had a bike that was somewhat built for it, but I’m to much of a big lad. I like this video and I like the style. It isn’t a race, it is slow and thought out. I admire this as I like the technical component of it.

Doesn’t it look like fun?

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