WELL HELLO ALL AGAIN-
It's been a while since I've done this, and Yes I missed you all. This time I have decided again to change my life style, of course nothing as drastic as..(intro scary music!!) THE MASTER CLEANSE!! Which I still get terrifying night tremors of me naked huddled over the toilet shivering from withdraw and licking a can of tuna while caressingly whispering "My precious...!!!"
This time I have decided to do something much more healthy and less dramatic. Again I just feel in a rut, I feel like I've hit a plateau in every different venue of my life. My career although I'm still learning I've hit somewhat of a metaphorical brick wall with no metaphorical door to walk through or metaphorical hook and ladder to climb over, not even a metaphorical jet pack to fly with.
My condo in SpaHa even though it resembles an enchanted home (complete with live-in woodland creatures) it's not the goal that I had set out for myself when originally moving into this harlem homo hostel. I continuously ache for my studio or one bedroom in the east village complete with working fireplace, dishwasher and dryer, seductive bedroom furniture and a private terrace where I would have my secret garden of herbs and spices that I would tend to every Saturday morning in my matching Martha Stewart apron and gardening tools purchased at Macy's. I would have a doorman and beautiful marble lobby where only attractive people were allowed to reside with in the building. Sadly I've become too comfortable in Spaha, Spaha...where the folks are broke, Spaha...where my life's a joke..Spaha..where the crack heads flop in the snow...(you get the point)
And then there's my love life...or lack there of..let's just say I'm envious of those little boys that are allowed to play in MJ's Never Never Land - and do you think there's an age limit?
So I've decided to go on a sabbatical, because I want to keep moving forward and stop standing still. And to move forward I need to change something about my current behavior that is preventing me from saving money, paying off my debt, purchasing my luxury apartment and getting laid. So I had to sit down and seriously ask myself some hard hitting questions. "What am I doing on a daily basis that's burning through my money, energy, time and daily eagerness for life. Is it Prestige, no. Is it the 2 separate ushering jobs, no, although having to usher does slightly chip away at my soul to live but the small lumps of money I receive from ushering justify the castrating of my pride. Could it be the consistent drinking and other daily bad habits that I continuously purchase and induce into my body? Well I don't know but somehow I feel like this could be a lead.
So my plan: I am going to entirely cut out cigarettes - I'll miss you Marlboro Man you were the only man that was there for me every time I needed him. I am going to entirely cut out any other extra curricular bad habits that are way too expensive and in the end self-destructive. And finally the biggest one I am going to cut out…drinking. That's it goodbye my friends: Johnny, James, Jack, Gin, and Svdeka! I know it will be hard, and I'm saying that an occasional glass of wine while sitting at home watching Charmed or a beer while at a house party is allowed. But there is no more buying and guzzling the weekly 3 bottles of vodka with Freddy every Friday & Saturday night while pre-gaming and then heading out to hit the bars. Gone are the nights of purchasing the liters of only the most expensive wine SpaHa bodega's have to offer and consuming it by myself on a Monday night. Which would only cause me to get emotionally drunk stumbling around my apartment in my underwear with a cigarette hanging between my lips, crying in the bathtub as I drunk dial ex's and wonder why my life is going nowhere.
I know what you all are thinking…"Yay, right Josh…we'll see if you really follow through with this…YOU stop partying..that's like asking a Gay Bear to not have anonymous sex in Central Park". Well Bitches this is for real and I've already put it into notion. Tuesday night I went out to a bar and DID NOT drink. I did not have one sip of alcoholic beverage and afterwards although a friend attempted to lure me into the seedy bars of Hell's Kitchen, I kindly declined jumped on the subway and headed home~
My thought is with this extra time to give it back to myself, enjoy other healthy extra curricular actives, go to the gym, clean my apartment, hang out in central park on the weekend tanning instead of hiding hung-over in the dark. I do wonder though which friendships will quickly dissipate considering our only interactions were consisted of drunken debauchery. But I guess if the friendships fade then they were only fickle to begin with.
I can do this and I will continue my sabbatical until I have my new apartment! Get back on track with the reasons I moved into this oh so wonderful and magical city. And like another friend kindly put me in my place this previous weekend, "If that means I have to cut back and not go out for a couple months to save money and get my shit together then so be it!"
Wish Me Luck!