Been a while

It has been a while since I posted anything on here. I feel a little disappointed that I couldn't keep it up to date. Guess I'm just going to have to try harder. Anyway this wont be a long post as I can't really think of anything to write.  

Writing

Writing used to be a huge passion of mine. I attribute this to the fact that both of my parents encouraged me to read from a young age. Some of my fondest memories are when my Dad would bring home a new pack of comics for us to read together, my mom sitting there letting me pick out any book I wanted and her reading it to me. Literature has been a big part of my life. It was through them nurturing that seed that I would read for fun. I read both the Iliad and Odyssey for fun one summer before they where required for me to read in High School. It was through this love of reading that my imagination was allowed to flourish. I was able to go to places that I would never be able to. I started seeing places and people that had stories to tell, I knew it was my job to bring their stories to life. Except that my imagination would race a head while my fingers could only write so fast. A lot of stories never got told.

Personal tragedy struck when I lost my mom. I don't know what it was or why but that desire to write just wasn't as strong. I couldn't bring my self to write more then a few lines of anything. Nothing seemed good enough. Those things I did try to write always came out darker and more twisted then I wanted so I would stop. As time went on I would try from time to time but it seemed that when she left so did my desire. The saddest part of that for me was I knew my mom would never want me to stop writing. She always said I had quiet a talent that I should feed.

Time went on and I started dabbling a little more here and there. Mostly in online forum games. Nothing ever personal just a bunch of people pretending to be something else, sort of like D&D. It was fun. It allowed me to keep some skills polished. Though threw not using the full extent I also lost some of my ability. So here I am. It has been almost 8 years since I actually tried to write something because I had a desire to write. The things in those 8 years where more to see if I still could. I know it will be a hard road but I plan on persevering. I will write again. I plan on taking the challenge to write a novel in 30 days. I will force my self to rekindle this once burning passion thats flame has become but embers. It will roar to life again.

I will keep you up to date on how things go.

Family

What makes people family? Is it a blood relation or a shared since of unity? Maybe it is living under the same roof and deferring to a leader. Webster says it can be any of those. But what is family? I guess I'm thinking about that because I just got done watching the movie Unleashed with Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. It's sort of what that movie is about.

I guess I also started thinking about it because I seem to make family everywhere I go. Or at least that is how it seems to me. I don't know. I guess I get attached to people way to easily. That's not a bad thing, well not always. I have meet wonderful people and I know that no matter where I am or what I do I will have people who care about me. I am really thankful for all those people who have brought me into their lives and made me family.

My brain wont turn off

So I've found that lately my brain just wont shut off for me to sleep. It seems the more tired I get the more it wants to start thinking about random things that really at the end of the day don't need thought about. Like recently I was thinking about my roommates dog and how the wolf was breed in to a Yorkshire Terrier. Or why it is diesel, which is a by product of gas, is more expensive then gas. I'm really starting to wonder if I've crack a little and started the path to insanity.

The fact that I can wonder about such a thing tells me that more then likely I haven't. It is because I question my mental well being that I feel that while I may be some what odd I am not insane. Well at least not yet. But then one most stop to ask what insanity really is?

See like I said my mind wont stop thinking about random silly things. It is 1am now. It is time for sleep. Somehow I am going to force my mind to stop and sleep.

Remembering TMNT

I remember being in Cosco in 87 shopping with my parents. I always hated going there cause there was no toy section but I remember my parents promising me if I behaved I could get a video. So try with all my little five year old might i fought the urge to run around and be wild. I remember going over to look at the videos and there it was. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I had never heard of this before, but it came with an action figure! After all that is what I really wanted not a video. They had four different ones a blue one, a red one, a purple one, and an orange one. I chose the red because it was my favorite color.

Getting home I sat down to watch this video, to see what it was this turtle action figure was part of. I was blown away. My little mind just was amazed by the fact that these Turtles where Ninjas and kicking bad guy butt. I was hooked. As the show came on TV and the toys began flooding the shelves I got my parents to take me out each week for doing chores to get a new figure. I was hooked.

I followed that show all the way tell the end even when it started jumping around time slots in my area. I went and saw all the live action movies in theaters, read the Archie comics. Heck I was even Raph for five Halloweens that I can remember. For me Turtles has been a part of my life for almost as long as I've been alive.

While I have not always followed all the different branches it was nice to know they where there in case I wanted to. As I got older my taste changed and the Mirage comics became my universe of choice. Yet to original cartoon still brought joy when I would pop it in.

It was in 2009 that TMNT celebrated its 25 years, 25 years of it being creator owned and published. I couldn't believe it. It had been so great I couldn't wait to see what the next 25 held. I was shocked when I heard that Peter Liard, one of the original creators and owners, had sold the rights to Nickelodeon. I felt betrayed. I don't know why I felt this way but I did. My first reaction was to sell my collection and move on. I actually did sell a few things. But I just stepped back and let my self calm down.

I started reading Mr. Liard's blog and realized that these four turtles had taken up most of his adult life. That he had grown away from his family and wanted time with them. That he was burnt out and wanted out. After finding out his thoughts and feelings I began to understand. I am happy that he has started a new page to his life. In fact I wish him well and hope that can enjoy his retirement.

Should he ever chose to use to option to print more comics that he retains then I will be there. If not well I wish him well and thank him for the memories.