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These new LA Gear x Aerie Offline sneakers for some reason were available in every color and size online except my size and this color. Which were the ones I never stopped thinking about since I first saw them. When Sketchers made LA Gear a few years back,I only bought two colors and I have always wished I bought them all so I didn’t want to sleep on these. Went all over town because the website said stores had them,and finally found a pair to buy!!! I don’t feel like I need the all white ones but I’m still deciding if I need the grey and peach ones or not. Those aren’t colors I wear a lot. Still I know in another year I’ll have wished I bought those toom

I’m not seeing The Doobie Brothers at the Rose right now because I don’t have time or the extortionate amount of money they wanted to charge me to spend my evening in an amphitheater full of rednecks, but just so you know… back in the day when I needed tapes for my walkman, which was a pretty new invention at the time, I got myself a copy of the Doobie Brothers Farewell tour from the cutout bin and I wore it the fuck it out. Tom Johnston isn’t with them or i mighta pulled the trigger on the ticket for tonight, which sat in my cart earlier today twice before it timed out and released back into the wild. Instead I think I will just watch this, which is really the concert I want to see, while I finish doing my Comfest laundry.

Last year this time i got a better job.

Took a week off in-between but then i got covid like the first day off and ended up with two weeks off I couldnt enjoy at all.

In fact i went to my new job with a terrible cough that lasted at least another week and spent my orientation barely able to stay awake because Covid lasts forever. And I didn’t even have it too bad.

Ended up hating my new job so i got a new better new job. Only took one day off in-between because I have bills to pay.

New job is as good as jobs get more or less. I mean its still a job and it still comes with good and bad but its for sure an improvement over where I was last year when I left my job, which was a great pandemic job but it was time to go.

Hoping my 3-day weekend here is a little more fun than getting Covid and having my car sideswiped on the way home was last year.

A little less expensive too I hope.

Been spending a lot of time with people from my past life

in Cincinnati last few months. It’s good to see old friends but it also always takes me back to remembering all the reasons I moved away on purpose. I don’t think I was ever really happy in Cincinnati at any time. I found places I belonged here and there, but I was always a visitor to whatever scene I inserted myself into. I was never a gay man or a goth, even though those were the people I spent the most time with. I kept to myself a lot because I was never into drugs like so many people I met along the way were. I was never much of a drinker even if I always drank now and again. I was never really in with the metal scene because it was full of rednecks. I never liked any of my jobs very much or hung out with very many of my co-workers outside of work. I very rarely had boyfriends and when I did they were always some sort of obvious mistake right away. I moved to Columbus around 15 years ago give-or-take because I felt like there was a life for me to be had here. I think i probably figured i’d meet some man who was right for me and fall in love and live happily ever after. That never really happened but I do feel like I carved out some life for myself here that makes me feel content in a way I never did the whole 20 years i lived in Cincinnati. My life isnt all that different now in Columbus, but I don’t feel like I’m the supporting cast token weirdo anymore. I’m the star of my own show here. Every time someone makes me remember that one time we did that thing back in the day in Cincinnati, I feel like I say, “oh yeah, I remember that… i wasn’t in a good place back then” no matter what time or place or event they are recalling. I feel like when people make me remember stuff from Columbus… like free Metal shows after work at Carabar, or Monday grilled cheeses at Bodega, or how there was something really jacked up about every ladies room in every bar in this city, or how the power used to go off in Clintonville every time it rained for like a week and how they had a festival for something every weekend starting the first warm day of the year and carrying on through November and you could have a drink in a parking lot and watch a band play almost the whole year. I look back at those memories and think Columbus used to be a lot more awesome than it is now but I never think it was a mistake to have moved here. And I never think I was very unhappy here. Even though I’ve had moments for sure. I’ve gone through a lot of friend groups and career paths and living quarters and cars and cats and failed attempts at dating, but I have generally been mostly happy here doing my thing and being me.

I keep meaning to go and properly updated my tumblr

Upload my pics i sent to instagram that they no longer cross-post for me. becuase this page is/was/should be my scrapbook.

or else why am i paying for the domain name?

I never meant to not use this site and i like to be able to look back at my archives when i want to and find things.

Facebook’s memories shows you that day and thats it and it blows.

its on my agenda but its a big project that gets bigger literally every day i post on instagram and not here.

but its on my agenda.

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I guess I need to start posting things directly to tumblr since Instagram doesn’t cross-post anymore. I have a couple of months without tumblr posts. I hate to do twice the work but I like my Tumblr archives. I have to find a good solution here. Not tonight but it’s on the to-do list. PS my hot tub rules

I stopped posting because my instagram doesnt automatically post to my tumblr anymore

I love tumblr and i love my page but this not being able to cross post to tumblr is problematic for me and its ruining my dawnslife.com page :’(