Post #2- Complete Control... or not.

Hello, "readers"! I was actually surprised at the amount of people who either gave me feedback by commenting or just simply said "oh, I read your blog". I actually received a comment from my sister basically saying my blog wasn't flashy enough, and although this is coming from a student of Ringling College of Art and Design, she may be right... I'll work on it. However, from a good friend at FSU I received a wonderful comment- "You are my hero", although I laughed because not every day am I told that, I am extremely grateful she enjoyed my post.
You're going to notice I do this a lot, however last night I was laying awake thinking about going to sleep (obviously I was laying down) and I realized that its apparent that I have set myself up to go to sleep and I obviously chose that at that time I would "go to sleep", but I was still awake. This made me realize how out of control the human entity really is. I don't mean out of control like you're mom tells you, "you are out of control" I mean actually "not in control". This made me expand, when someone pulls out in front of you when you're driving you stop. Why? Now you're saying "Duh, Todd. You stopped because you didn't want to hit the person, object, or whatever- Old lady who knows" Agreed, you're so smart! However, is that really what you thought or did you just hit the brakes out of reflex? Total reflex, don't try to disagree. Never once has that happened and someone said "Fuck this old lady she's going down" on the spot. People say all the time I want to be in control of my life! Well, sorry dude but you cant even go to sleep when you want to, you just have to lie there and wait till you fall asleep, when's that?... No idea.
Today I received a jury duty summons. Haven't even opened it yet, may not even go, have no opinion on it what-so-ever... Dont even know why I brought it up... Perhaps you've been, I'd like to hear about it if you have. I can only imagine walking in on my first day and Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman are grilling me about my personal bias'. If you don't get it, see Runaway Jury... good flick. Enough on that though.
I was called in early to work this morning and normally it's an outside set up for me, loading mulch and other heavy things, today... not the case. My assignment as my boss says "If you're willing to accept... but you don't have a choice" was to change most of the bin tags in the store. A bin tag is the little labels in store that show the price and have a small description of what the product is, in the store they are basically the only way to know where a product goes. So telling someone to change the bin tags is like saying... "Hey you, touch everything in the store and in the order I say" I am not sure I'm conveying accurately how hideously boring that can be if you're doing it from 9-6. So as I am sitting there with nothing to keep me company but my brain parts, I think (at least now) "What am I gonna write in my blog?" I must go through a million things and say to myself great idea Todd, do that. Not one of those things made it in here yet and not one of them I actually remember. Afterward my parents dragged me to Lowe's and all I could think about was how all the bin tags where staring at me...

Speaking of my family I think it's a good time to describe them in the only way I know how, which is comparing them to pop culture characters. My mom probably Lucy from "I Love Lucy", Her nosiness gets her in to trouble, sometimes her voice can get on your nerves, she's hilarious to watch, she loves her husband greatly, and she keeps our house spotless. My dad Clark Griswald (Chevy Chase), he is very funny, never gets mad, but one day he will pop and go bat shit insane on everyone and its even funnier if you aren't on the receiving end and he really knows how to pack a van. My sister well.... idk how to describe her she is a plethora of characters, keeps me on my toes, we will get back to her, I love her, as I do all my family.

I think that's a sufficient second post, eh? Again, I love comments, if you read it and only if you just let me know you stopped in read a few lines and left, I want to hear what you gotta say about dis mang?(totally went gangster on you there... will not happen again) Really though suggestions anything... I hope this was more enjoyable than the last post... if not I'll work on it.

Thanks guys.

-ToDD