Get Your Cape On!

Just successfully powered past my post lunch 1pm impulse to fall asleep!

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:29:45 -0700

Just successfully powered past my post lunch 1pm impulse to fall asleep!

You probably should never shorten “hit me up!” to “HMU!” You actually...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:14:20 -0800

You probably should never shorten “hit me up!” to “HMU!”

You actually shouldn’t even say hit me up unless it’s ironically. That’s just my opinion, but I’m sticking to it!

Gettin some press!

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:37:22 -0800

I was recently features in my crossfit gym’s blog!

http://crossfitsociety.com/cfs-athletes-on-the-town

Perks of living at home when you’re 25 and you move back...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:41:59 -0700

Perks of living at home when you’re 25 and you move back after 7 years.

there is coffee made for you every morning when you get up
If someone is making food you can say, “do you think you can please make me some of that and usually they’ll oblige”
Family beach trips
You can marvel at the net earning power of your household
You can marvel at the neg egg eating power of your household!

Anyways it’s good to be back!

Yes!

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:25:54 -0700

Everything is going swimmingly. I feel amazing right now. Job is good. It’s amazing being back living with my family. I feel like I am surrounded by so many amazing supportive people.

I feel motivated, productive, confident and at peace with my life.

Family that eats Chipotle together stays together!

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:33:09 -0700

Family that eats Chipotle together stays together!

SD Update

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:35:54 -0700

Two nights down in my new home in San Diego and I thought I’d give an update because I know my blog is really popular and my readers are waiting for something. Just kidding hi mom hi claire… and I’m pretty sure that’s pretty much my base of readership (is that a word?).

Anyways I got to sleep in finally! After what seems like a month of waking up at 7:30 for one reason or another (work, bright light through curtains, trash men), I slept like a rock until 10am. It felt great and I feel completely rejuvenated except for a sore right bicep (from moving).

I’m pumped to power through some moving boxes today and get more settled in. I know this week will be over before I know it and first and foremost I want to get all the stuff on my to do list checked off.

I’m feeling very stoked and pumped about life. If I had to describe how I viewed life right now I’d say “full of possibilities.”

This has been such a crazy few months with so many major changes. One thing I’ve really realized is that a ton of people are dealing with things that are tough. Whether it’s a 13 year old who broke up with his girlfriend and doesn’t know if things are going to work out or someone much older who has been through some really difficult life experiences. I know this isn’t the norm and life is a wonderful beautiful thing, but seeing other peoples problems makes me realize that everyone’s life is up and down and yours will be too. It’s how you respond and move forward that really makes up you as a person.

That’s a pretty disjointed paragraph, but it’s all I could come up with on short notice.

Bottom line, I’m super happy to get this day started. Let’s rock and roll.

"So you have any kids, married?” “No nothing, I’m only 25” “Oh great..."

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:22:23 -0700

“So you have any kids, married?”
“No nothing, I’m only 25”
“Oh great then you’re totally unattached and can do whatever you want”
“Yeah it’s cool, I had a pet cactus for a while, but I didn’t water it and it died so now I really don’t have any responsibilities”
“Really, it died?”
“Uhh, yeah”

- Conversation I had with an anesthesiologist in the OR during a surgery

Image of me when I was pretty new in the desert over 2.5 years...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:07:29 -0700

Image of me when I was pretty new in the desert over 2.5 years ago!!! Whoa

Living Swole with a few bros

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:05:49 -0700

Living Swole with a few bros

State of the Union 10/1/12

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:02:47 -0700

Wow,

What a month. I haven’t updated this in a long time and I wanted to let YOU the reader know how my life is going. (Just a heads up I will be discovering how my life is going as well as I write all of this out.)

San Diego! A dream is realized! Wow, so happy to have a new position down there. I know it’s going to be great. I know it’s the right decision. I know it’s going to take me places personally and professionally.

Despite all this I still found a way to be scared as hell about it. How I’ve been describing it to people is bitter sweet. I’m sad because I’m closing the book on this chapter of my life. Just like high school, just like college, it will never be quite like this again. Isn’t that the beauty of life though. How great “just like this” always is. There’s so many things to be happy and excited about. In 2 and a half more years I’ll have a whole nother armful of “just like this” to be happy about.

I’m really going to miss everyone out here. My friends and co workers, to quote Rise Against, some that I hardly know, but we’ve had some times I wouldn’t trade for the world. Corniness aside, I love the people that I have gotten to know and I’ll miss seeing them day to day. My struggle will now shift to what happened when I first moved out from San Diego, keeping in touch and not losing contact.

How will I do this?

· Driving out with Ryan for weekends he stays with his mom to hang out. Come out Friday and leave Sunday
· Doing mud runs with the hospital staff
· Coming out for lifting competitions and seeing people at local lifting competitions

Talking to people while I was slightly buzzed tonight reminded me of what a happy upbeat person I have inside myself. I’ve been in a little haze of gloom and doom lately and it’s important to realize that that person is under there and he’ll be coming out soon. He just needed a little time.

Side note, as I started listening to music to write this too I thought I would go for my usual more somber slower stuff, (Postal Service, death cab) but I found myself listening to upbeat positive stuff (We were promised jetpacks radio)

I really do feel and know that my life is going in a positive direction. I know it, it’s just I needed time to work through some things for myself…

My inner monologue takes a detour here to some stuff that I’d rather not include, but I will leave you with my finishing thought, because I think it’s a pretty good one!…

Anyways, at this moment, I’m going to get a protein shake and go to bed happy. I’m not sure what tomorrow is going to bring. I know that it’s going to be in an amazing world with tons of possibilities and I’ll be surrounded/supported by a ton of people that love me, can’t ask for much more than that.

Wow what a roller coaster my life has been lately. Down at the bottom one day then feeling great the...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:17:00 -0700

Wow what a roller coaster my life has been lately. Down at the bottom one day then feeling great the next. Currently I’m very happy all things considered. I feel really fortunate to be surrounded by loving supportive people.

I feel like although I’m in an uncertain place I’m confident in my future. I’m feeling a little more in control that I was yesterday. Part of this probably has to do that I cleaned up my train wreck of an apartment so it was at least passably clean. I’m looking forward to really rolling my sleeves up and getting rid of some of the clothes I don’t wear so I can cut down my wardrobe a little. Then I can start adding in pieces I really need.

Whelp time for bed. I hope whoever is reading this is having a great day/night.

Just keep swimming

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:39:30 -0700

Some days it’s important to make sure you keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Consistency is key. Woody Allen says 90% of life is showing up. That’s not always my attitude, but on days when you don’t feel like showing up it’s a great one to adopt.

Feeling in a strange place today. Time for water polo!

A wirless combo color printer/scanner is something I could have never seen myself getting excited...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:53:52 -0700

A wirless combo color printer/scanner is something I could have never seen myself getting excited about when I was 11 years old… but look at me now mom!

Closet bed

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:42:30 -0700

After 3 months, closet bed, which originally started out as an amazing idea has become a huge nusicance(the program wanted to correct the spelling of this word to this to “anticancer” I think i misspelled it, but not that bad). I have not slept in it since about 2 weeks after it’s inception.

All that remains now is squeezing my body through about 8 inches of door because it will not open all the way because it hits the bed whenever I need to get to any of my clothes or shoes.

I was just packing for San Diego and after squeezing in and out about six times I realized how ridiculous what I was doing was and had to sit down and write this on the spot. I will look into remedying this situation when I return from my trip.

Home

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:40:07 -0700

Tonight while driving in the desert it felt like home for the first time after 2.5 years of living here.

It’s not any one thing, but driving down the familiar road, feeling completely comfortable and at ease with my life it just clicked. I’m home.

It was a great feeling.

"Why do you care about money?"

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:08:00 -0700

Someone asked me an interesting question the other day. “Why do you care about money?”

Normally that question is never put so bluntly and faced with the task of defending what everyone takes for granted caused me to pause a little bit. I had to defend why I care about money against a point of view that places no value in it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise that didn’t really lead me to any groundbreaking realizations, but still made me think enough to want to write something down.

I have to preface this by saying that I think money is far from the most important thing in life, and an excess or scarcity does not have the power in itself to make you happy/fulfilled/ect. Now that I have this obvious statement out of the way I can practically start examining why I care about money.

The easiest answer to come up with is food and shelter. Using money I’m able to buy both of these for myself. I also am able to pay a little more to put quality food into my body. Which is important to me because it directly affects my health, something I work hard to maintain. I’d say this basic level of spending is very important. If you’re not able to afford these things, it’s going to make for some tough times. You can minimize this spending, however I think most everyone needs to spend at least something in the “food and shelter” category.

Once we move beyond these “essential things” we can see why I would be willing work past the minimum amount required to support my food and shelter costs. The first item is being able to use money to support my hobbies. Not many of my hobbies cost money. Water polo only requires a yearly registration to USA water polo for insurance purposes, and tournament entry fees whenever I got to one. With weight lifting, I’m able to afford protein powder and a few vitamins, which helps me reach my goals of strength improvement faster and more efficiently. I am also able to afford scissors to cut the sleeves of all of my gym shirts, an activity that has an instantaneous payoff. Other than that I buy the occasional video game, and have bought a few accessories to make playing those games more enjoyable (This relates specifically to Starcraft 2 in the form of a gaming mouse, keyboard, and headphones. Trust me I’m really good at this game)

Another reason that money is important to me is that I can use it to do activities. Things like going to Vegas with friends, going to concerts (Coachella comes to mind), even driving to San Diego becomes expensive when gas costs 4.40 a gallon. Without a surplus of money these things would become impossible to do. That’s not to say you can’t have fun without money. Take college for example. If anything cost over five dollars, you could count on us not doing it. However, having money available to do these fun adventures is a luxury that I enjoy quite a bit.

The next idea I came up with for why I care about money is the notion of financial security. This being able to be secure if something unfortunate were to happen. Be it, health care costs , vehicle repairs or even a new car. Basically being able to keep on able to maintain a steady life even if you were to incur a large unexpected debt. The only way to achieve this security is to have a savings or have someone else who is willing to accept these expenses. I’m lucky enough to have an amazing family that is well off enough that I think that if I really needed it they would be able to help me out. However, being self sufficient is important to me. I wouldn’t want to have to rely on their help unless it was absolutely necessary. The only way to build up this savings is to keep more than you spend, thus leading me to care about money.

In conclusion, I care about money because it gives me the abilities to eat healthy and sleep under a roof, pursue my hobbies, engage in fun activities that can sometimes be costly, and have the peace of mind that if something unexpected and bad were to happen, I would still be able to support myself. It’s interesting to me that when I really parsed it out, I only found three important things that I really care about having money for. This kind of leads me to believe that at the moment, maybe money isn’t as important as I thought it was originally. I’d be interested to hear anyone else’s thoughts on the subject, get in touch and let me know.

What I just said to myself out loud after 30 minutes of guitar...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:47:44 -0700

What I just said to myself out loud after 30 minutes of guitar playing at home alone (It’s important to have positive reinforcement in your life, even if it comes from yourself)

Isolation

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:25:32 -0800

Something I wrote at midnight last night after cleaning my apt by myself and listening to music for about two hours:

I’m sitting here, in my apartment, by myself. It’s 11pm and I don’t want to wake the neighbors so I have my headphones in. I’m getting various stuff done around the house. Cleaned up my bathroom and kitchen, folded laundry. The headphones are noise canceling, so there is an additional seal between me and the outside world. I’m blocked off from everything.

I’m wondering if everyone else lives inside their head as much as I do. I feel like that is a symptom of the situation I’m in living by myself. People who are living around other people wouldn’t be able to let their mind drift to the place I’m in because there’d be a person walking past them to snap them out of it.

This isn’t necessarily a negative thing. I want to make this clear before I go any deeper. I feel like an important part of life is expressing yourself to other people. Telling them how you’re feeling, what you’re thinking about. What happens if that is taken away, or your only allowed to do that on a surface level. In fact maybe that’s most of what we do when we’re talking to other people because it’s really hard to dig inside someone.

By being by myself so much I’m able to dig inside myself. I’m not finding any answers, I’m just finding a state of mind that’s different from anything else I’ve felt before. It’s a feeling of aloneness, is that a bad thing though?

Obviously I feel some sort of need to express myself or I wouldn’t even be writing this down.

I’ve always been intrigued by sensory deprivation tanks. I’m getting some sensory input that my keyboard is dirty so I’m going to clean it. Good night.

-Pete

Goals

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:53:51 -0800

Your actions should help you accomplish your goals. I will expand on this later. I was just thinking about it and wanted to put something down on paper.