Wasting time with Jet

Around this time of year, I had just finished my first 5-month assignment with IPS at Guardian Life, put Westchester and Community Choice behind me, and was facing a questionable future ahead of me. I was working out of my laptop, living alone in my studio next to Yankee Stadium, slowly falling behind on the rent. The Eagles had finally made it to the Super Bowl, and part of me was planning the trip to philly to see the Championship Parade.

What a difference a year has made. Lets look back at the highlights (and low points) 2005 has hit me with, SHALL we?

JANUARY:

After a month of misaps and redtape, my unemployment insurance finally begins, a month late after filing (They make up for it, by sending two big, life saving checks to start me off!).

First thing I did with some of that extra cash, buy a decient PC off craigslist. A Emachines PC and a big ass 20 inch compaq monitor to watch DVD's.

While surfing the web, and taking trash till the Super Bowl, I discover my first blog, "fruit loops and porn" and the concept intrigued me.

I also start IM'ing someone in Syacuse after a chance meeting in a AOL Chatroom.

FEBURARY:

After much thought and reseach, I start my own blog a week before the Super Bowl. Documenting my excitement to the impending victory of the Eagles.

Alas, I am dealt with heartbreak, as the Eagles lose to the Patriots. My dreams shattered, my soul left empty, I have no reason to live anymore.

Reality starts to set it as my back rent problems continue to grow. I pay October's rent in January, November's in Feburary, with no job aspects in sight.

With HER finacial problems on the rise also, MOM considers moving to a rent controlled apartment, only to find it to remote up in the bronx. I start planting the seeds about moving back in with her as a last resort.

After months of chickening out of meetups, I go to my first one and visit the Museaum of Modern Art.

Landlord finally hits me with a disposess, my 2nd, I go to court to stall, the snow helps slow things down as well as I start to possible moving scenarios and gather movie supplies.

With the depression of my situation hitting me hard, I seek some instant "companionship" for the first time ever on craigslist.

One daring friday night I visit an escort for a hour in a hotel downtown. It's the first sexual encounter in over 5 years, I accept what's happening at this time a brace myself for the impeading future.

My Blog attracts attention of my first regular reader, Kimmyk, I in turn frequent her blog "I have no name for this"

MARCH:

My patricular case grants me help from a social service agency that settles things with my Landlord's lawyers (To the best of my knowledge?) and arrainges me to leave my home of five years and move back in with MOM (Oh, the indigity of it all...).

I go on a couple of job interviews with temp agencies and get no results in the process. I check with unemployment, show proof that I'm looking, and start to consider taking Quickbooks classes at CUNY.

I start packing my things in boxes and make arraignments to movie at the end of march.

While mentioning a song by spybreak, I meet my second blogger friend, firestarter5.

MOBY's latest album, "Hotel" comes out, I find out he's touring again and inform my cousin. She ends up seeing him perform live down in virginia thanks to me.

My Quickbooks deposit it returned after the class is canceled due to low registration.

APRIL:

I move back in with MOM, life as I know it, is over, once again I have no reason to live, but yet...I continute to.

Salvation finally arrives when IPS calls me again to work out at their corporate office in Seacacus, New Jersey while they set up the next New York assignment.

I start discovering other blogs to read on a daily basis, soon, i'm reading more than 10 different blogs a week.

I discover my 3rd blogger friend, LadyLongFellow, she however does not discover who I am until a month later.

A new reader discovers me through Kimmyk's Blog, LadyRedRyder.

I miss Moby performing at Webster Hall due to my procratination.

I mourn the day of the car accident by not blogging for a week or so.

I finally get a DVD Burner for my PC, my PS2 finally dies on me, I give it JOE. I start copying DVD movies and making my own DVDs of downloaded TV shows.

Mitch Hedberg dies (don't find out till the middle of MAY) days after peforming at "Carolines" in New York.

MAY:

I start working at the UN Building, the security is tight, I procceed to stop wearing a belt and carry all metal objects in a gay-ish see through pink plastic purse pouch.

"Jack & Bobby" gets cancelled.

MOM starts spending money like a ghetto princess, making trips abd buying new bedroom funiture.

JOE fronts on me and I see "Episode III" by myself.

I try to meet more people by joining the Bowling Meetup.com Group. I attend one meetup during this month and then got kicked out in November when I don't attend another one after 60 days.

JUNE:

I discover a great blog called "overheard in New York". It was recommended to me by kimmyk.

MOM goes on her first of many trips this year (okay, only FOUR, but damn!) as she flies over to Vegas.

In a febble attempt to be bad, I try to smoke a cigarette for the first time, only to get foiled by my idiot sister stopping by.

I visit my grandfather's grave alone for father's day, another year goes by that mom fails to bring ALL of us to pay our respects.

I see Dave Brubeck for the 4th time (3rd at Carnigie Hall) at the latest JVC Jazz Fesitval.

SONY releases their answer to the Game Boy with the PlayStation Portable or PSP for short, the device is short from incredible with it's awesome capabilities. But at a hefty price tag (249.99) hesitation sinks in.

JULY:

Temptation get the best of me as my lust for the PSP causes me to find a deal on craigslist. After a week or so, I succeed in buying one for 224.00.

Then in a suprise twist, I actually WIN a PSP from McDonnald's through their online PSP giveaway contest! It is the first time winning a contest in any sort!

I join a PSP meetup group and socialize a bit more than usual. Between my other usual meetup group taking me on a circle line trip, and the PSP gamers, the summer was pretty cool for making friends.

I make a deal with JOE to sell him my extra PSP at a decient price once I get the one I won from McDonnalds.

I start getting my TV Script out in the world again by entering it in two new screenwriter contests.

AUGUST:

I start thinking about plans for my 30th Birthday coming up. I asks Auntee Tina if I could visit her down in VA and she agrees.

I start working on the TV show scripts again, completing a few episodes. I consider making a Blog dedicated to just my concept, and the show itself.

After three months of dial-up, MOM finally agrees to let me have broadband service!

MOM goes on her second trip of the year to go to a wedding in Ohio.

I miss JOE's 30th Birthday party, as well as my niece's 7th Birthday party waiting for the cable guy to install my connection. JOE's wife has yet another reasond to hate my guts, now.

SEPTEMBER:

As the UN assignment appears to come to an end right around the time of it's 60 Anniversarry...we get a extra extension that makes us endure SUPER security measures!

Football season starts again, The Eagles lose to the Falcons in the season opener, thus jinxing the entire season, and dooming us to fail.

I head down to VA to spend my 30th Birthday out of the city to think about life and what am I gonna do now that it's halfway done?...I ultimately get no answer and just teach my aunt how to download and burn movies.

When I come back, I pretty much get stiffed in the birthday gift department, so I treat myself to a 5 disc changing DVD player (No more looking at DVD's on the PC!).

My PSP from McDonnald's finally arrives and I sell my first one to JOE, the cheap asswipe haggles me on the price and takes a period of 3 months before he finally pays it off. By the time I recieve the last payment I have NO CLUE how much he actually gave me in total for the damn thing!

OCTOBER:

My assignment at the UN is completed (for now). I hear word that we may return early 2006 and may be assigned to their backup warehouse facility in Long Island City, Queens. At the moment of the assignment's end, there was no other new york assignment available at that time. I'm left dangling for awhile on what to do next. I apply for a few jobs, but turn up with zip.

One week, the apartment complex I live in suffered 3 electrical fires, temporilly shutting down all the elevators in the building. Like rapunzel, I remain trapped at home several stories up too tired to take the steps anywhere.

After 30 years, my mother finally gets some new bedroom funiture. She throws away two perfectly working antique vintage dressers for a TV stand and a gaudy, bulky, hidieous looking dresser that can barely hold clothes. Gold Star on Interior decoration, MOM!

I finally see Janet Jackson's boobs and they were SPECTACULAR!

Mom goes to Rhode Island on trip number 4 (Yeah, I know I forgot one trip when she went down south for some crazy ass family reunion) and I try to contact the escort from feburary again, only to discover her number was disconnected.

I dig deeper and engage in more IM conversations to meet new friends online.

For the first time in 3 years I didn't attend the Halloween Parade in the Village, obviously, moving back in with my MOM has made me into a wuss.

NOVEMBER:

The eagles struggle with their damn T.O. Situation, McNabb gets hurt and reality sinks in that they're not even gonna make the damn playoffs so I take a break from the blog in disgust.

I attend a concert in MSG to see Gwen Stefani and the Black Eyed Peas! But I also can't shake the feeling about the last time I was at MSG (Kings of Comedy 1999, my ex stands me up and I take JOE instead, me and her break up days later on the weekend of my BIRTHDAY!!)

I create and work on a new blog for my TV Show, "Call Numbers". It becomes a top 100 finalist on the "Screenwriters Dig" contest.

The impossible happens when the four of us finally gets together for a family portait and nothing goes wrong at the studio!

IPS comes through again by assigning me back to the Wall Sreet area for Guardian Life on a short project.

My PC gets fragged, most of my data is backed up and saved, the only thing I lose are a few valued emails, addresses, and a minor applications I've failed to put back on as of yet.

Thanksgiving is spent at my sister's house for the first time in awhile. I go there, see some of the extended fam, while being pissed off at all the riff raff trafficing in and out of her ghetto apartment. For their birthdays I buy mom the DVD of "Ray", and my sister a copy of the "Confessions of a Video Vixen" by "Superhead" to scare her straight from becoming a whore.

I join AdultFriend Finder and meet a couple of new online friends.

DECEMBER:

"Call Numbers" is named in the top 10 of it's category, but the contest has sorta taken a break to re-evaluate it's contest rules so it is unknown when a winner will be announced.

I return to blogging on the regular and reveal plans to expand some more with two more possible blogs in 2006.

The MTA and their workers go on strike for three days, fucking up my flow.

Christmas leads to drama as I skip going to my sister's house this year, fed up with her bullshit and the way she treats her daughter.

IPS reassigns me, yet again back to the UN building, it is uncertain how long we will be there and if we're actually going to Queens afterall.

As the year ends, next year shows potential for a change in work?, a possible relationship?, and a quest to move back out and apply for public housing as I'm pretty damn sure I made just enough income to qualify this past year!

In other non-related news to me but outstanding events reguardless...

Detroit loses to San Antonio for the NBA championship, proving last year was a fluke, Tyson bows out of boxing in the worst way, The Yankess choke days after the Red Sox do, Hockey makes the comeback, a potential triple crown misses again, Tiger's hanging in there, the Williams Sisters prove they're mortal.

Keanu gives the devil the finger, Sin City changes the comic-book movie genre into the "Graphic-Novel" genre in an impressive debut, the fantastic four kicks ass, but electra doesn't, video game movies take the back seat with flops like "Alone in the Dark", and "Doom", people got a dose of reality in race relations with "Crash", Cruise and Spielberg score again together with "War of the Worlds", Harry Potter did his thing, and King Kong ended the year with a roar.

TV said good bye to Raymond, and to Sipowicz. Dave Chappelle went AWOL, The Boondocks debuts and kicks ass on Adult Swim, corporate america recycles the looney toons into the loonatics unleashed, LOST shows us what's in the hatch, and there's still more to figure out! The Law and Orders are running outta steam as the CSI's seem to get better and better, HBO puts Six feet Under to rest only to dig up Rome, Showtime finally gets lifted as others get lifted on Weeds. TNT tries to outdo FX with some original series that don't get cancelled after 2 seasons (What happened to Witchblade, damnit!)

Music continues to slide as prices for tickets and albums rise. The industry tries to cut down of file sharing, but don't realize that this is american and we have the freedom to do what we want in private.

London won the 2012 Olimpics from New York (Thanks a lot Bloomberg, ya putz) and while rubbing their faces in it, they get the shit bombed out of them. I feel sorry and everything, but next time, try to win gracefully and others won't be snickering when watching the BBC News footage.

We got our share of disaster too with Katrina and even when the government dropped the ball, we had backup in the form of movie stars and musicians, oh and oprah, can't forget about her!

We also buried a pope and got a new one, richard pryor died, Luther died, a year after we lost Barry. Nipsey Russell, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Denver, and even scotty from star trek. We also said sayanora to Mister Miyagi and Sulu's heterosexuality.

Martha does her time, but Big Momma Queen Bee goes down for year and a day. Foxy Brown learns sign language (ok that was cold, i Know), Mobb Deep joins G-Unit, Nas and Jay-Z make peace (I guess), Bobby Brown takes Ozzy's title for most dysfunctional reality TV music family, did I mention we got to see Janet Jackson's boobies? Tyra steps off the runway and on the talk show circut. I love you, baby and all, but I give ya 3 years tops.

Trump gets married, along with Prince Charles, Garth Brooks, Matt Damon, Sandra Bullock, Christina Aguelira (sp check!), and Ashton Kutcher, then there were the break ups, Brad and Jen, Nick and Jessica, Renee Zeilweiger and whoever the hell she married.

Well, I think that wraps things up for 2005.

Things to look for in 2006...
Fugess reunion, X-Men 3, Mission Impossible 3, Sin City 2 (Yes, already!), Miami Vice, Ghost Rider, losing weight with trimspa (Hopefully), and Playstation 3.

Peace!