Time is literally Flying... Its Friday bishes... -thread-

[-Ariel-]

I have a rather unenviable weekend. Since August is a slow month for us, nay all of finance, I won't actually have to do too much work. I will most likely follow my usual ritual of going to the movies Friday night. Dragging my sorry ass to the gym sat/sun, food shopping, laundry, catching up on some reading my boss asked me to do on accounting regs (I think interpreting SFAS 157). Then I'll do some reading of my own and work on this advanced financial modeling online module that I signed up for at the suggestion of some investment banking friends. So, yeah, that's it.

Please tell me atleast you will do some of this dreariness at the coffee shop where atleast the atmosphere is juxtaposed with the advanced financial modeling online module thing that you must do... it sounds like it would be wise to pursue that JR76, do not let my beatnik ways which are not lucrative in any shape or form, halt progress... no but atleast do it where you can be stimulated by an errant convo... and hopefully the errant convo is someone like me verbally spraying folderol like a yard sprinkler. Atleast it will entertain for a minute or two. Lemme know what you saw friday night...

 

[roadwarrior]

I'm not even going to comment on your lifestyle and how you managed it so well with clear cut ideas and a plan, but its so much more than that... I mean moods come and go, and perceptions are altered, and thats why most can't stick to the plan... you have done it though. You really made me think when you said you were teaching your kids hierarchy of needs principles and how to think critically, part of my project revolves around the idea that there needs to be implemented in our education system a sort of critical thinking education that promotes how to discern what should really be valued instead of just being conditioned by marketing stimulation. Kids consciousness is studied through surveillance, they figure out what stimulates them, then blare it back at them... watch saturday morning tv and notice how frantic, hyped up, and pervasively violent it is in its own way. Anyway, I really am impressed with how you have primed awareness in your self and your family. One example it can be done. But yes, in the end you are correct it is alot easier to be spiritual when you have capital.

Ariel... my motivations and actions are driven by experience. I did not grow up dirt poor but was definitely not from a priviledged family. My parents were divorced when I was 8. I developed a drug problem starting at 12 (it was the 70s), at 16 I killed and old woman in a car wreck and was ostrasized by many at school even though I was acquitted of the vehicular homicide charges, I did 2 stints in juvie ( one for hunting down and taking some guys down hard with a baseball bat that jumped my brother, the second for throwing a star football player out a window for picking on a retarded kid), my drug problems worsened and I ran with the wrong crowd that put me in the ACI for double assault with a deadly weapon for taking 2 guys out with a knife in a big fight, I got hooked on heroin. I kicked all this and straightened my life out. I worked hard and got 3 degrees along with half a dozen professional certifications. I was married and divorced. I lost a few million dollars in business dealing that went bad and the divorce. I have climbed back to the top and have everything now with my family that defines my life for me and gives me all the positive motivation that I need. My experiences make me hard on others. If I can fix my life then I accept no excuses from anyone.

I am determined that my children will never go through what I went through. They will be prepared to make good decisions in life. I see many young people at work whose parents have failed to prepare them for the world. My kids won't be like that. I really believe I am raising them to be future leaders with the minds/ hearts of warriors and philosopher kings/ queens. I ask for no quarter and I give no quarter. Life is something to be won or lost. My family will win.

 

[nefertiti]

I was supposed to be in NY this weekend, but now I have to be around to work today. I'll probably hang out with friends that I've been neglecting lately.

 

[RachelEFC]

I have nothing going on for the weekend and I have today off. And it's beautiful outside, I need to figure out something to do.

 

[EnderJE]

I have nothing going on for the weekend and I have today off. And it's beautiful outside, I need to figure out something to do.

I'll swing by and pick you up. We can go get a coke.

 

[-Ariel-]

I was supposed to be in NY this weekend, but now I have to be around to work today. I'll probably hang out with friends that I've been neglecting lately.

Hanging out with neglected friends is what the weekend is for... or hiding from them, in my case, Have fun with your neglects, yur guy, and diving. Something I could never do...

 

[EnderJE]

Hanging out with neglected friends is what the weekend is for... or hiding from them, in my case, Have fun with your neglects, yur guy, and diving. Something I could never do...

You in Vegas? I'll swing by and pick you up for a coke.

 

[-Ariel-]

I have nothing going on for the weekend and I have today off. And it's beautiful outside, I need to figure out something to do.

You should just take today off and reflect. Actually, thats my answer for everything, but it has some + but in too much some -

Unfortunately I missed out on your man troubles thread... but I think if you really want it too, it will work in your favor...

 

[-Ariel-]

You in Vegas? I'll swing by and pick you up for a coke.

My folks live in lake las vegas, I'm gonna visit them next week before classes start, I could not be anymore not Vegas... well I don't hate it, its allright, but I would never live there...

 

[hog#head#cheese]

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