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  • Ok I was watching the people’s court earlier and I am STILL curious.  Who names a child Asia Shakespeare?
  • Some people can go to hell. seriously dont ask me how somthing is going and then tell me all i do is whine about it when i answer.  WTF
  • Why do peple like to try to piss me off...seriously what part of GO AWAY I'M MAD AT YOU makes you think I want you to message me

Thursday, 24 March 2011

  • update...mostly work stuff

    So since my last entry....i had surgery! Nothing to serious just had my appendicitis taken out.... i was having some pains and after talking to a couple people i ended up at the ER being prepped for surgery.  Everything went well, it was caught early and the surgery was done microscopically or something which means no nasty scare for me but it still hurt like a son-of-a-bitch....i guess some of the fatty tissue was inflamed to so he took that out to...i was out for 2 weeks and it has now been about 4ish weeks and i still hurt a little form it....the Doc says its normally and he said i could go back to the gym and walk on the treadmill or slowly on the bike..which is good cause i feel like a fat ass!!!!!!

     

    So i was at least back to work in time to go to the Governors Conference on Tourism which was AWESOME because i was up for 3 awards and it conference!!!!! I was pretty sure i was going to win until i got there and found out that ummm.....some of these places spend 4X as much as i do in marketing......i mean this one place has an 800,000 operating budget!! and they are still considered on the lower teer so my 300,000 operating budget (not marketing just operating marketing is well a lot less).  So at this point it sinks in that i may not win but i was still pumped for conference because i knew i was getting special recognition from the Illinois Office of Tourism's Deputy Director for my 'Serious Fun' Video (if you haven't seen it check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2e6AQydmI ).  So here i as thinking that during the directors speech i would get mention for creative video campaigns but oh no i got a big shout out and had my whole video played....YAY!  Anyway i spent the rest of the conference being known as 'the guy responsible for that Ottawa Video!'  That's right bitches you dont need a lot of money to be creative lol!!!!  Anyway so the award ceremony came and like i said i didnt expect to clean house on awards, i mean seriously i had like 20,000 to play with and the other places spend that on well....it wouldn't surprise me if they spend more in rent then i do in marketing, anyway that being said i lost  and i wasn't to heartbroken...that being said i have a few problems with the people who did win.

     

    So anyway the whole idea of the conference to be innovative, think out side the box...and the evolution of marketing.  and the people that won, won for doing the same old tired thing....the normal website upgrades, printed materials, the same boring polished videos just all the same and i mean call be bitter but its a smack in the face to be recognized for being creative and innovative with my marketing but then grant awards to people for not being creative...ugh!!!!!!  I did however walk away from this experience with a renewed drive to come back and whoop some non creative ass

     

    hmmm i think that about covers it for now lol

     

    -JDH

     

     

Monday, 07 March 2011

  • a long overdue update

    ok so I have been gone for awhile . . . well a lot has been happening to be since my last entry some

     

    well from my last entry u know i have entered the world of dating and its not going so well and i decided to just step back from that just hang out and see what comes my way which for a week worked and then i had to have surgery!!!! Yeah i woke up one day with some pains on my left side and after a day they settled to my lower left side.  I was talking to a friend and he told me it was my appendix..he knew the signs a friend of his just had theirs out.  So long story short the next day i am sitting at work in the morning meeting and according to my boss i just went pale white and started sweating accompanied by pain which took me to the ER and a few hours later they was preping me for sugary.  Everything went ok according to the doc my appendix was in the early stages but also some of the fatty tissue was inflamed to so the just took that out as well and i was laid up for about 2 weeks.  It was kind of rough but i have some good friends that texted or called me daily and once i was little better they picked me up and took me out to dinner and such....but i am well and back to work...still little sore but better

     

    About a week into recovery the doc let me drive so i went to visit my cousin Sarah...if you don't remember her she is my cousin i talked about before...she has terminal cervical cancer and she is dying.... sad Hopsice has been with her now for a month or so...I hadn't been over to see her in a couple weeks and since i was off work and a random day happened that both my sisters had off so the 3 of us went to see Sarah i wont say to much just it took me away how much she has changed in a couple weeks she looked so frail and.....but regardless it was nice to see her just pained me to her her ask about my older sis...my older sister and Sarah were inseparable for years and lately she has been absent in Sarah's life which is SAD because they are or until recently was her neighbor...smh.. anyway a few days later Sarah texted me she was in a good mood and was wanting me and Aimee (my sister) to join her for BINGO!!! lol so we went to bingo and it was a slow night which was nice because i suck at bingo (add and bingo don't always mesh well).  But it was a good night i love spending time with her!!!

     

    Lastly is a work update....So while i was off my boss filled me in on a couple of phone calls I missed out on.  First my grant got approved but with one string...i have to redo the budget to come in at 40,000 instead of 80 like i had applied for...this is exciting because it will allow me to change out a few things i know will work better then other items....the second call was from the Deputy Secretary of commerce and tourism she wants to use the Serious Fun video campaign i did last summer as a biases for her annual speech at the Governors Conference on Tourism (which is in 2 weeks)....this is exciting because not only is it bragging rights but that campaign is one of three awards i am up for this year...WISH ME LUCK

     

    well thats all for now

     

    -JDH

Friday, 04 February 2011

  • Last weekend

    Ok so last weekend was my friend dawns 30th birthday so to celebrate we has an 80's themed party for her.....it was supposed to be a house party but after a few drinks we decided that we needed to go out....here are a few pictures to enjoy....

     

     

     

    I have No idea what we are singing here

    Here is my costume......yeah i had this in the closet...Halloween costume from 3ish yrs ago lol

     

    ummm no idea what i am doing but i know i was feeling pretty good by then....btw in case you haven't noticed that is a royal blue, double breasted suite with heavily pleated slacks and a mullet weave lol...i am wearing a lot of polyester lol and the weave kept shedding all night.

     

    The bartender decided we needed to take glamor shots lol...if you dont know what that is go as your parents or older siblings

     

    ok that's all for now lol if you want to see more i have them on Facebook lol.....

     

    -JDH

     

     

Thursday, 20 January 2011

  • My hiatus

      So I am sure you can grasp from my last couple blogs my personal life has failed epically and i have been going back and forth trying to decided if i should write about it or not.  I ultimately decided that at least some mention should be addressed...hell even now as i am teetering on scrapping this entry for the 4th time Aerosmith's 'Cryin' ' just came on the radio.....so i will keep this short and sweet.... so after M (need a refresher please go back a few entries i don't write much so it wont take long) had decided that we should be just friends i spent some time, well you can read the entries, and  i met someone we can call him C..... still stayed in touch with M who during my relationship with C decided to tell me how much of a mistake he made and wants me back but i kept up the stance of friends i mean i was with C.  But then C and i split up, we were in two completely different points in our lives I am 28 and working and he is 25 just starting college so C and I split up.  

    M and I then started getting closer and he asked me out but i was still fresh off my break up with C and asked for a little more time.  He agreed and said that he had a plan and already knew when and where he would ask me out, awww i know little cheesy but so romantic and then one day he finally said the one thing i have been waiting to hear . . . . . " I love You " I remember the first time i told him that we was on the phone and he was walking into a friends house and it just came out and there was a long pause and he said it back happyheart.  Anyway i thought things were going good....we talked about our plans for the future and he said if i ended up in Chicago he'd come visit me every weekend and then he asked if he got a job in Texas if id go....i said yes.....we then started looking for jobs closer to each other.  So yeah things are going great with us and the the Fucking Holidays hit again!!!!!!  I partially dislike the holidays for 2 reasons (1) THEY ARE TO MUCH, I believe that xmas/Christmas/holidays or whatever you call them need to crack open a beer and fucking relax for once and (2) if i ever get close to someone its around this lovely time of year they deiced not to be with me. So thanksgiving came and went and then it all started again he distanced himself from me.................a few other things happened but those....i agreed to keep to myself which is why I'm turning to this for release....Anyway i was willing to work past what happened but then i got the same thing i got last time i let him into my life "We Need to be JUST friends" WTF!!!  also that i am not allowed to wait for fight for him.......CRUSHED i was and still am a little....I was and still am mystified at how it seemed like we when from wanting to be closer to .... its over just like that.....

     

    some time passed (a few days/short weeks) and we started talking......he told me hes going on dates with a friend named D . . . at first i was told it wasnt like that . . . . but i can tell it getting serious.....M and i talk it kind of pains a little when he mentions this D but i enjoy just talking to M regardless and yeah . . .. i am getting better day  by day so much id like to ask but i know wouldn't help really..... i still miss him tho.....he will always be my love....ok enough on that other fails

     

     

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    so during this hole M breaking my hear thing a friend could tell i was upset and also that i was free and i let her talk me into meeting this guy at a party a mutual friend was having.  I wasn't to thrilled about this but i figured y not!  so I went to the party and met the guy.  We hit it of and i really enjoyed his company and we spent the night together at the party just hangin out, very G rated, and then at then end of the night he kissed me...just a little peck and i felt like i cheated...sad i know...but we decided to make plans to meet again for a real DATE!  While i was on my way to meet him for out date when i was almost to his place i get a text that he was at work he got called in for a little bit and that he'd call....guess who i haven't herd from since...

     

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    So my Sister got her boyfriend to move out his parent house and to get an apartment and basically take care of her she has made it very clear she is not paying rent or on the bill or nething.....ugh all they do is fight..she complains that she works 2 jobs so she don't she works at a daycare during the day and one maybe 2 shifts at a gas station that closes at 7pm whatever...O O and my other lovely sister who hasn't kept a job longer then 90 days if the 30 years shes been alive also found herself a man that bought her a fucking house......serious how did i fail i am barely getting by and yet these tow just cruise by me....hell i just want a man to love me....he don't have to take care of me just love me but i guess not

     

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    Through out all of this i have also been job hunting and i have been getting calls but nothing ever comes of it and i have felt very alone..... and what has bothered me is that all the people that have leaned on me when they were down are no where to be found......sure i get the buck up chum speech but it seems when i open up the subject is hurried along or ignored.....this will not be forgotten

     

     

    oh its not really a fail but i have to wear glasses now for distance and night driving.....her is a pic its dark but everyone on FB seems to think i look good in them...ill have a better one on one day lol

    thats all for now......

     

    -JDH

Thursday, 16 December 2010

  • Wild Bill.....and my loser uncle

    Ok so many things on my mind and yet i dont know where to start.....ok i know i haven't talked much about my father so i need to give y'all a little background on him......about 5 years ago my dad lost his job because he failed a drug test (SMDH still) its been no secret that my father has been a pot smoker but until then he always put the welfare of the family first well since then he has had to take a pay cut and a union job which due to this awesome economy he hasn't work in about 2 yrs....Well now that he has been laid off he has turned into a drunk and i know he has moved beyond a little pot here and there because (a) im not dumb and (B) my looser uncle is around...also in this time he randomly buys things like the piece of property behind his house or he will randomly take a few hundred dollars out of the account but wont ever tell mom why he did it and he is also taking side jobs for money but he doesn't put any of it in the family account he and GET THIS actually told my mom that that is his MAD money!!!!!!!!!!!!! You got to be kidding me right everyone else has cut back but he just keeps on spending and gets his mad money.....see this is why me and dad have just been tolerating each other for the past 2 yrs...i want to tell him a thing or two about how he is acting but honestly mom made me promise not to ugh anyway i could vent on him for days. Just I am so tired of seeing my mother go through HELL trying to keep the family afloat whole he goes out and has a great old time with his MAD MONEY and this promise i made to mom not to say anything to him is annoying i didnt think i would have this much anger towards him but he makes it soooooo damn easy....ok enough on him

     

    My looser uncle, who my dad lets talk him into footing the bill for weekend parties, i just found out is moving closer to us because his parents finally sold their house here and since he dont want to move to West Virgina he needed to find a new place to live.  The other night i didnt feel like cooking so i ordered food for the family.  While i was out my dad and uncle came to the house where i was given shit for not buying enough for his looser ass to eat....if this is how its going to be i am sure me and my looser uncle will go rounds again....hes a sleaze ball druggie and i wont put up with his shit im not the rest of the family ill tell him how much of a loser he is....

     

    anyway im out i am getting infuriated just blogging about the two of them....

     

    -JDH

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  • About Me: Ok well the basics….my name is Justin I don’t know if I will ever blog or not. To be honest I signed up so I can follow a friends blog but you never know what will happen. Oh and im not from Dekalb but its the closest to my home town of Ottawa Illinois