What's your number?

After an fun and interesting night at dinner with friends tonight, there is one topic that came up that stuck with me. The topic is the numbers of sexual partners that is acceptable for both male and female. We bought up a little of everything including of course the double standard. And I'll be posting tomorrow about the convo, too tired tonight to post everything up. So until then, Hat to the Side Wit Ya Pants on The Ground.

The True New Beginnings

Ok, so today was full force in terms of training. It was the first day that everything was kicked up pace wise and had me sucking wind. I'm doing a little worse than my homeboy in our training because I picked up a few too many pounds im the "offseason". Trying to drop 20 immediately within the next week or so then work on dropping another 30 before Pro Day rolls around. I'm busting it out giving it all I have. Today was tough to say the least but I really want to Thank God for this Grind, because anything worth getting is worth putting forth work to gain. Tomorrow I will be another step closer to living the dream going to grind it out even more so. Let's get it!

Those who Pray Together, Stay Together...

Alright, so to start off I'm not the most religious guy in the world, matter of fact pretty far from it. But something hit me today that made me say I have to talk about relationships and faith. Strange thing is, my whole thought process came from a question that most would normally not answer this way. The question came from Twitter, gotta give her a nice RT @iAM_MissFeisty "#randomquestion for dudes: what is wifey material to you?" Definitely worth it to follow her I enjoy her posts especially the #twitterafterdark series! :-D
The first thing that came to my mind though wasn't about looks, sex, or anything along those lines. My first thought was, a woman that makes me want to Thank God every day for sending her into my life. And you know what, that's truly what I am looking for not any of the corny cliché things that everybody always says. I've only had one relationship where I can say I truly used to look at her and Thank the heavens for sending me someone like her.
Ok, so on to the real "meat" of my post. I think that relationship and faith truly go hand in hand. **WARNING** I'm not saying faith as most of you "fake" believers would think of it. Faith does NOT mean and has never meant being in Church every Sunday, because there are people that are still sinning inside the walls of the church just like the merchants in the temple in Jesus' day.** When I say they go hand in hand, what I mean to say is a relationship with a good woman/man brings you closer in your relationship to God. And like I said this doesn't mean just being in church. They give you an immense sense of appreciation for all that God has bestowed upon you. I guess this feeling is where the phrase "Behind every Good Man there's a Good Woman" comes from. I guess this is where people say they look at nature and see God, but at least with me, having a good woman shows me that he is around. She lets me know that there is something to the creation story, he took my rib and I'm incomplete without her. People always go on and on about you don't need anyone else to validate who you are and that's true. But without that rib, you are never quite complete and are always missing part of yourself. Every force has a complement that's the way of the universe. Even in many people philosophies and cultures they describe this, i.e. Yin-Yang. God didn't do this stuff in guesswork people just like everything else in the universe, there is someone out there to complement you as well.
For now that is all. Don't want to spread all my thoughts and emotions with the world.

Day 1 Of Training Complete

Well as many of you know I'm working out and trying to get in shape for the NFL pro day stuff. This is where NFL scouts come to your school and take all your measurements (the important ones) like 40, vert, pro agility, broad jump and a couple other out of the norm agility drills. But anyway to get to a point where I could possibly impress one of these scouts it's going to take a big push as far as preparation is concerned. Well today was day 1 of that preparation and it went well. My trainer who was one of my strength coaches while I've been here is starting this week slow working on flexibility, mobility and just getting back in the groove of working out again. This is because we haven't practiced since last Sunday the 3rd and even then it was light practices. We haven't throttled all the way up in awhile. But even still I can tell this training will push me to the limits because the so-called "easing in" was tough. The flexibility stuff stretched some muscles I never knew I had and it was a painful experience, I guess what's considered the "good burn". I've done yoga before but it still doesn't target these smaller muscles that are in sometimes inconspicuous areas. Then the mobility stuff though not overall exhausting had me breathing a little hard and had me doing movements that you wouldn't normally do in any situation. We did a skip, forward backward and lateral then forward and backward with opening our hip (this looked like a new level of homo) But I can already feel the difference in movement. He's also trying to break the habit of my slue-foot. Which sounds good but to redo things I've been doing for 20 yrs lol that's asking alot. My toes been pointing outward for awhile. But anyway gotta grind it out gonna do some light stuff tomorrow and Day 2 is Weds.

Senior Season, Can't Appreciate the Gifts God Has Given?

Well, all is said and done with the 2009-10 Georgia Tech Football Season. And to tell the truth we had a great run. Won the ACC Championship and went to the Orange Bowl even though we lost in the bowl and lost to UGA this year it was still a good year. But honestly I'm already missing it. The crazy thing is when you are in the midst of the season you can't stand how much of your time it truly takes up. Ask any college football player how downright bad the season gets. You don't have time for much other than school work and football because what spare time you do have you are normally trying to catch up on rest and take it easy. People at Georgia Tech often get it misconstrued, you athletes have the good life and you guys have it made. Well let me tell you from the perspective of a walk-on who was at one time a normal student before a student athlete. There is no comparison at all, playing ball and trying to get passing grades is damn near impossible especially at our school. Yeah our dining hall is nicer but students can purchase meal plans over there instead of the regular dining halls so you can't complain...Pay the extra I did. Yeah we get free GT stuff, but guess what you use alot/most of it to work out in so it's provided for a purpose. Not just to wear around and show off. And yeah most of the players are in an easier major because you don't understand the mental exhaustion that comes along with playing. Getting prepared for games learning your playbook and adjustments for each game can be a task all it's own. Plus you are up from sun up until sundown (6am workouts 8am start off class and a full schedule until 2:30pm meetings 4:00 pm practice then dinner @ 6:30pm) That doesn't even include any school work just going to classes and your sports obligation. But that is not the purpose of this post so I'll move on from this. I'm just documenting the drain you go through as a student athlete and that I went through since I've been here.

The main focus is that with all this going on I was still blessed enough to be in this position but that did not really appreciate it. I found a way to complain though my season. And now that it is over and may be my last football season ever, though I still will be training for PRO Day so I can get a look from the scouts, I am starting to miss it and regret how I approached things. I mean I enjoyed things but I had no reason to complain because the struggle of it all was a blessing and was something I loved to do. I mean things didn't go the way I wanted them to as far as my playing time but it was still a gift from God. But this makes me think how many of God's gifts do we squander and make light of. I mean so what your apartment heat sometimes blows out cooler air than it should, you have a roof over your head and a luke warm apartment, there are people on the street which would love that much. So you can't buy filet mignon and the finer foods, it's people that don't know what their next meal is coming from and when they will get it. We look light on what we have been blessed with and take it for granted that it should just be that way. It's not until you lose something or are down on your luck that you really appreciate things. And I guess that moments comes for me with the ending of my senior football season. Like I said it could be it and it bothers me that I did not FULLY appreciate all that I had until it was over. So take my advice appreciate what God has blessed you with I already learned that with women and relearned my lesson with football. So be thankful for what you got because you aren't entitled to it, it's a blessing and as quick as it was given to you, it could be taken away.

P.S. I'll be blogging about my training for pro day stuff in about a week or so getting the last of my partying out my system. Going to go through the fire to prepare myself for what comes in the hopes that I can make it to the next level. Wish me luck and even more important pray for me that God gives me the strength to press on and the opporunity to show what I can do.

Tatt Tatt Tatt'd UP!!! TATTOOS!

Ok in honor of my Truly RANDOM nature, I think I want to start off with my tattoo aspirations!

First off don't know who has seen my only (lonely ass) tattoo but here it is.

Yeah so pretty plain jane, right? Well now here goes the plan. I want to get it filled in with like a silver grey look where it looks metallic something like this.Obviously in a tattoo so it's not going to be exactly the same but it will be tough nonetheless. I'm also going to see if I can get two hammers cross-barred behind it. Not sure about the hammers though relatively new idea (about ten minutes ago).

Next I want a dragon on my left arm from my elbow up to my shoulder blade. The idea is for the tail of the dragon to wrap around my arm start at the elbow then progress to the body around the middle of my bicep where the head ending around my Shoulder Blade/Left Trap Muscle. Thought about having it breathing fire but then said hell naw that close to my neck people will think I have hot breath. Or as my boy YungCal says ASS BREATH (www.twitter.com/YungCal_HS).

Alright now this one is to REP THE GEMINIS!!! I know everyone has seen the drama masks...One Laughing and One Crying? Well I want a version of that on my right pec only diffferent from these is I want to get rid of the tear add fangs to both and make the "crying" more menancing by sharpening the eyebrows. Of course with the word GEMINI above it but not sure what kinda script to put it in definitely welcome suggestions!

Now my last tattoo is a little different because of it's size and will be one of my last because of the sheer expense. I want to get a tattoo that spans my back shoulder to shoulder but stopping before my lower back (not looking for a tramp stamp bad look for guys lmao).Yeah I know I know people think that tattoos in foreign script is played out and people don't know what their tattoo means. However, I definitely got the idea from the meaning it's roughly translated as Evil or Bad. It is said Aku (if anyone played street fighter it's where they got the name for Akuma, Duh! Also the main bad guy from Samurai Jack was named Aku) So far the estimates for this tattoo is anywhere from 900-1200 bucks. I guess having a big back doesn't pay off outside of football.

Anyway, anyone have any tatts? Where and what are they? Also any piercings woulld love to hear about them. Definitely a fan but too much of a pussy to get one myself.

Any Suggestions for me especially those who know me?

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