Category: Thoughts Catalog

• Shit My Dad Says

  My dad says a lot of crazy stuff.

  For example:

  “Where’s the plumber at? He must’ve stopped at the weed mans house.”

  Do you seeing what I’m saying? Just because the plumber didn’t show up on time today my father automatically assumed that he made a stop at the weed mans house before he came to fix our clogged sink.

  Heres another example:

  “Fatima (my sister) Krogers out of milk. (My sister got confused as shit when he said that… I did too.) All of the Krogers are out of milk. They said they got Chocolate, but I don’t want chocolate, I want vanilla!”

  Okay, so you might be puzzled as to what type of milk my dad is talking about. My dad has diabetes, so he drinks Carbsmart milk. His favorite flavor is Vanilla but when he asked one of the people are Kroger if they had it he was informed that all of the Krogers in town were out. Why he made just a big deal out of it we will never know but that’s just how my dad is.

  So yeah, just thought I would share with you those random spurts of nonsense my father usually brings to the table.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

   

  January 19, 2016

  carbsmart, carbsmart milk, carbsmart milk kroger, carbsmart yogurt

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• Thank You Martin Luther King

  

  In the world as we know it, hate fuels intentions and emotions. Overcoming adversity in this life is hard but can be done. Martin Luther King believed we needed to live in a world that allowed everyone to be equal no matter what color your skin was. He gave speeches, held marches, and more than likely had those sleepless nights where he worried for himself and his family.

  On this day, January 18th 2016, we need to stop what we are doing and be thankful for how far we have come. Us millennials haven’t been through the traject hardships our grandparents went through but we’re still close to the pain and agony they went through. Growing up as a brown kid in America has really given me an open mind on life. Viewing life from the opposite side gave me the opportunity to see the world for what it really is. I’m not saying that if you are white or any other race you won’t see the world as I do, but the background that I come from really has given me a unique perspective.

  Today I would like to Thank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr for everything he went through to get me where I am in life. If MLK hadn’t fought for our rights as humans than this blog may not be here on the internet. In addition, the almost decent world we live in wouldn’t have been molded into the way it is today. We still have a long way to go but the truth is, we will never be equal. No matter what we do in this life, we will never be on the same page. The only thing we can do is come together and practice peace with one another.

  Hatred will always be apart of human nature and sadly we must accept this dastardly principal in life. The only good we can achieve lies in the individual. Bettering ourselves and treating people with the kind of respect we would like to see can go a long way. If we can spread more positivity in this world than we can make it a better place, even with all the terrorism, school shootings, and violence that plagues us.

  Remember what MLK said… “I Have a Dream.”

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 18, 2016

  martin luther king jr, martin luther king jr day, martin luther king quotes, mlk

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• Canadian Snow Models are Crazy!

  All of my friends know for a fact that I love snow. Whenever I hear about snow on the news I am the first to be on all of the weather sites keeping myself up to date with amounts and cold temperatures.

  One blog in particular that I like to keep up with is our local weather man here in Louisville, John Belski. He’s always the first person to be on top of weather updates and how much we can expect in the area. He shares photos of the GFS, Euro, and NAM models. I can’t really tell you the meaning behind those names, other than that they show different snow totals. Usually they never really show a whole lot of snow. For example here is what the GFS model looks like…

  

  Every time I saw this on the radar I would speculate that the snow would miss us. The snow models that really caught my eye were the Canadians. They look a little something like this…

  

  The canadian model shows at least 6-10 inches of snow. How they comes up with these totals I have no clue, but it’s really awesome to look at and speculate. According to Belski’s blog, we won’t be seeing this snow until Wednesday. A second system is expected to come the following day so we will see how this turns out.

  In the meantime, I’m going to sip on my coffee and try to keep warm as these cold fronts make their way on in.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 17, 2016

  snow, snow blowers, snow white, weather forcast, weather louisville

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• Dear Old Man

  

  Im buying my own coffee machine and setting it in my room so all I have to worry about is making myself a pot of coffee. I’m tired of waking up every single day to find that nobody in the house has made coffee. So to solve this problem I have purchased a mini Keurig to place on top of my dresser so I can hop up and press the brew button.

  Sincerely,

  Jamil.

   

  January 16, 2016

  coffee, coffee near me, keurig

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• People are Highly Skilled in Drama

  

  I will never understand this, but people are highly skilled in drama. There just something about it that people lust over it; chasing it until they are dry of energy. I myself never really enjoyed drama yet I was surrounded by it growing up. Even during my weekly routine of waking up, skating, writing, and then going to work, I am still following by it.

  Usually trying to keep yourself absent minded from any dramatic situation helps but it’s always surprising to see how people love it so much. You’ll see facebook arguments, people with lightening fingers sending text, even retched confrontation. To me, its seems like this is all a game, which I will highly agree it is. People practice drama, day in and day out. People live, breathe, even feed themselves and their kids with drama. I really don’t like it and if you are a regular reader of my blog you will know that I dislike the matter very much.

  The skill people have in drama are amazing. For example, whenever Morgan (my ex) left me for some white dude (he msged me apologizing not to long ago) I watched drama unfold. Whats sad about the whole situation is that I took part in the mess but the drama was amusing on my behalf. Anyways, to cut through all all the bullshit, Morgans new man’s ex girlfriend was upset that they were dating. She wanted revenged and sought out my help. I was obliged to help her cause only becasue I was under the impression that I was helping out Morgan. (I’m a nice guy)

  To avoid from exposing too much business, I’ll cut to the end. Morgan ended up messaging me about the whole situation which I took deep interest in becasue it was pretty funny. The fact that that another female wanted to a newly founded couples relationship suffer in turmoil was crazy. The act of drama filled the air and plummeted all at the same time leaving everyone dazed in a midst of confusion and hate. It didn’t stop there, it continued through some text and facebook messaging. As I sat there in the mix like ice floating in kool-aid, I watched as both parties skillfully attacked one another. I myself did a little too but I was unsuccessful and less of a threat.

  The fact of the matter is, they have all been through some BS in their life that caused them to be soo good at trying to cut one another’s throats. It’s crazy.

  That isn’t the only situation that made me think that people are skilled at this, I’ve seen many other situations flourish in a realm of stupidity and nonsense. You’d think that these people would be exasperated by all the conflict but I guess not.

  My conclusion to this?

  People spend too much time arguing with one another instead of showing care and love. We need to live and experience life, not argue and bicker with people who have made us upset. So if you are cleverly experienced in Drama, you should re-check your qualities.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 16, 2016

  drama, drama movies, drama queen, dramafever, situation comedy

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• The Life of a Starving Artist

  

  I’m really discouraged with my father right now.

  This man is upset at me because I didn’t go far with drawing like he visioned. Every time we drive past a mural or see some really nice cartoon in the newspaper, he always says to me, “This is supposed to be you.”

  I love art, I like to draw. But if it was really something that was meant for me to do right now than I wouldn’t be at UPS right now. I’d probably be living in a studio apartment in downtown Louisville drawing/painting art for the masses. From a very early age I began drawing on the back of manilla folders and randoms scraps of paper. My mom eventually found some printer paper and I began to draw all over those. Once I started grade school I drew a lot more and loved art class.

  My dreams of becoming a cartoonist grew bigger when I was in the 5th grade. I bought a “How to Draw The Simpsons” book, tracing and sketching everything inside of it. From there I started taking note pad paper and created my own comic that I would sell to the other kids in class. My drawing slowed down a little bit when I went to middle school, I can’t say that I entirely stopped drawing, I just did it when I had time. Skateboarding crept into my life and thats all I was doing. I picked drawing up a little more throughout high school creating another comic that I was selling for a dollar. I tried to get into some art classes and discovered the Louisville Cartoonist Society but I never was able to go to any meetings.

  (I did try back in 2014 but they have their meetings in a bar and at the time I was only 20 so when I tried to sneak in some guy caught me and card checked me. That fucking bastard)

  Ever since then I have been on and off with my art. I draw here and there, usually on the back of notebooks. I have a few sketch books but I haven’t taken the time to get them out and draw something. Art has always been in my life and it will continue too. I still have this huge dream of having my own weekly comic in the newspaper.

  At this point in my life though, I just want to skateboard, write, create music, and just read. If anything, Art was the door opener exposing me to the other ways of creation. Like this is my purpose in life; I am here to finish off whoever I was in my last life’s goals. Whoever I was in the last life was a very creative person and all of that knowledge is in me. Now here I am trying to figure out what it is that I need to complete. I have an array of tools at my hand, I just got to use them.

  So Dad, if becoming a superior poet than then any of the surahs or bible verses out there is my goal, than that is what I will achieve.

  ps. This song always inspires me to do better. Bet you didn’t know I listened to them, lol.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 15, 2016

  comics online, drawing ideas, starving artist, starving artist cafe

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• i think I suffer from depression 

  Here I am at 5 in the morning listening to Panic! At the Disco in my mothers car pondering life in the driveway. It hasn’t been like this in a while. I usually will sit here for 20 minutes questioning my existence, only to grab my bag and slowly make my way through the back door. 

  I’m not sure why this happens. It didn’t start until I began my journey as a night shift employee. A layer of depression lies on my chest and I drift off with the dark clouds that the sadness brings. Surrounding myself with the joys of life somewhat works, but at the end of the day I sit in my room with a blank mind me wonder. 

  I think about a lot of things. I think about the present, past, then the future. A friendly reminder from Buddha occasionally pops up in my head which is to not focus on the last or future but I can’t shake it. There’s some answer I’m looking for, some light I’m trying to seek. This enlightenment that I have no clue about is dangling there in front of me. The midst of hate and cruelty in the world blind me from choices I pick and choose from.

  I’m never sure about what I’m really thinking but it’s dreadful. I sometimes don’t want to go home. I guess that’s why I stay as long as I can at a friends house or while I’m out drinking tea or skateboarding. It scares me. 

  I hate the feeling of sitting alone and self inflicting pain upon myself. 

  I don’t like it.

  ~ Absent

  January 15, 2016

  depression, saddness

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• Family isn’t just blood, Apply it.

  

  When the world Family pops in your head, what do you automatically think of?

  Your really close friends? Family at home?

  At this point in my life I have begun to think that the word Family can mean anything. Now I don’t mean that you can walk up the street and just claim that random hobo your family member, but in essence, you can apply it just like that.

  What got me thinking about this matter was while I was leaving work Monday morning after deicing planes all night. We hopped into the van and was on our way to the guard shack. As we rode along, dodging departing flights, I tuned in closely to the conversations going on in the back seats. What I heard was heart warming yet unnormal all at the same time.

  What I witnessed was the dividing line that separates an individuals outside life from work life, fall apart into a bunch of rubble. I was amazed by the closeness that these deice employees had with one another. They literally talked as if they were kids together on the block playing hide and go seek. I felt a little uneasy hearing their words since I kind of knew a few of them and their lives outside of work. Some of them have been through heartache while others just live and everyday life. The happiness in their voices carried a high tune as they spoke on relationships, news, jokes, and anything else that they shared.

  The entire time I couldn’t get over the fact that this was going on. My mind even drifted off, thinking about the other small little groups of people that considered one another family. I even caught a glimpse of the photo of Debbie (Head of the Deice Coordinators) along with the other deice coordinators. I even had stories fill my head from past conversation that I meddled in from family affairs to shit talk. The numerous thoughts that went through my head were a bit overwhelming but they filled me with joy that this was out here.

  I was raised t0 believe (mainly from my cousin) that family are the people who are in your family tree. As I grew older and began to make close friends myself, I quickly discovered that blood doesn’t make up family. Just because you’re “cousin” is considered a family member doesn’t mean you have to claim them, especially if they are a jerk and treat you like a turd.

  I’m glad to have had this experience.

  I’m glad I became a deicer at UPS.

  I am glad that I know what family is… a group of individuals that cares for your existence and will go out of their way to do anything that will help you grow.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 13, 2016

  family, family matters, ups jobs, ups store, ups tracking

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• Before John Boyega Was Famous

  

  So you know how facebook has that little trending bar at the side of their page when you’re logged in? Well one morning after work while I was scrolling around on facebook, John Boyega was trending. All I really noticed was the word “Stock Images.” I clicked on the link and was brought to a page that displayed 4 group photos, all of which included Boyega.

  Its pretty funny due to the fact that he is in Star Wars as a lead role, yet you turn around and see him in college universities plastered on the wall with a bunch of other smiling faces.

  Just take a look at them yourself.

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  I’d post more but I’m sure you can hit google yourself and see the others.

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 13, 2016

  fin, force awakens, john boyega, starwars, starwars the force awakens

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• I’m in College Again!!!

  Hey guys, remember all that ranting and raving that I did the other day dissing my college? Well its all good now. I went up there today and met with an advisor who put me into another college algebra class. For a second I thought I wasn’t going to be able to go to school this semester but I really want to get a degree in Journalism so I gotta do what I gotta do!

  My class is Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. I’m pretty sure I was supposed to go today but I don’t have a book or know what I am supposed to bring to class. I’ll just show up Thursday so my new teadcher can give me the low down.

  Anyways, have a good day guys!

  ~ Keep it all smiles

  January 12, 2016

  algebra, college, spring semester

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