Showing posts with label Corona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corona. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Shout Outs


This is amazing!  I'm so excited that instead of watching the Country Music Awards, I'm sitting here writing you.  Earlier I walked by the TV room and saw it packed shoulder to shoulder with white dudes.  So, I knew it wasn't football or basketball.  Who needs a TV guide? Just look at the crowd.  White dudes mean either NASCAR or CMA's.  So, here I am.

Today at mail call I got a packet of Jailbird stats from Brooke.  I hadn't seen the overall map of hits in nearly a year.  The states blew up, but so did everywhere else.  For real!  Who is reading the Jailbird in Germany?  God, I hope you don't work for MIDAS.  We may lose you as a reader.

What about Spain?  I didn't think I knew anyone in Spain.  Well, we haven't had a beer, I haven't given you a tattoo....yet.  In some way we may be great friends.  Perhaps I make you laugh and help lessen your load.

Ahhhh.....Brazil.  Now there's a good one.  Thank you whoever you are.  You put Brazil on the map.  That's cool.  I'm a big fan of the Brazilian wax.  And that's about all I know about Brazil.  Well, they say Brazilian women are beautiful.  I should ask my lady if she's from Brazil.

That's funny.  Isn't there somewhere over that way where women don't shave?  This also interests me.  I find that kinky.  I won't address that any further.  MIDAS can go screw themselves, however, I don't want to upset any woman who doesn't shave.  That's got to be a hairy subject.

Russia is on the map as well.  I read a lot and they say the mafia is alive and well over there.  I suppose it is here in the states too.  They're just all super old and involved in those ponzi schemes.  Stealing old people's money so they can eat more pasta.  They say the Russian mafia is not to be fucked with.  They are the real deal.  Matter of fact, I don't even know why I'm talking about them.  I wasn't talking about them.  Mafia?  I never said mafia!  You're silly....

Anyways, I saw Russia and smiled.  To realize you all log in and read about little ole' me, the silly American who talks shit from his prison cell.  Speak of talking shit...."What’s up Gracie!!!"

Yep, my baby sister Grace moved to Australia.  She’s on a safari hunt.  Not for wild animals, she’s in pursuit of an Aussie.  Or is it bloke?  Truly I don’t know.  And when in a foreign country you shouldn’t say shit you don’t know what it means.  I may have just called her boyfriend a bastard or a fucker.  Didn’t mean to do that.  Can we start over?
 
“Hi.  My name is Mike.  I’m Gracie’s big brother.  Nice to meet you Hugh.  We will meet up later down the road and have a Fosters.”

Aaron, Grace, The MOM & J.J.

Ok, so I will stop.  Last time I included my sister in a post she disowned me for like two years.  She was livid that I would dare to put her life on blast.  She called me an asshole and told me I was a terrible big brother.

And, for those that do not know, Fosters is an Australian beer.  It may be kangaroo piss for all I know.  I told a Mexican I would drink a Corona with him one day.  He had some choice words for me.  I stereotyped him, and he was ready to fight.  Perhaps I should meet him at Taco Bell instead.

Check it out.  I see you.  And I wish I could give you a hug.  Here I sit trying to make you laugh and enjoy life, but all the while you are helping me.  You help me do my time here.  I give you a sincere thank you.  May God bless you.  As you go about your day, just know you are a blessing to this crazy American prisoner.

Much Love!

Monday, January 30, 2012

Just for Men....and Women

So, I'm in line for chow the other day and the dude behind me informs me that I have grey coming in.  I inform him that's what "Just For Men" is for.  Honestly, I don't care.  I will totally rock grey hair.  A bad ass will be a bad ass.  It's not our hair that defines us.  Yeah, some woman just disagreed.

My life has been interesting to say the least.  I have earned my grey.  So has my mother for that matter.  Today, I'm 33 and the world is at my fingertips.  Literally.

I'm learning how to work that to my advantage.  Truth is, if I was out there, life would be trying to consume me.  From here, I can consume life.  Did you hear what I just said?  I have to reach from here to try and grasp things.  If it's a 'stretch' or a 'reach', it's going to mean more once I grasp it.  If it's not worth it?  Then I'll let it go.  Just like that.  I'm not going to waste my time.  Or yours for that matter.

This has caused my passion for life to skyrocket.  My level of determination is through the roof.  And my focus?  If I put it in my sights, it's a done deal.  I am a train.  I'll roll into the station and rock your world.  Or I'll blow on by.  Either way...this mother ship rolls on.

Back here I focus to do my time, not let it do me.  I apply that to all aspects of my life.  Life does not consume me....I consume it.  My focus is not about where I am, but rather what I can accomplish from here.  Always reaching.

I don't reach for charity or handouts.  If I want it, I put it in my sights and I get it.  The legal system put me in prison.  Now I have all this time.  And look!  I'm in your ear.  Toby Keith says, "How you like me now?!"  I ask....how do you like me know?  Now that I'm on my way.

Corona says "Miles from nowhere."  That's right where I am, minus the Corona.  An island of my own.  Well, let's not forget the supermodel.  Yet another example of reaching out and grasping what I want.  Yep!  Even with this grey and a 20-foot fence surrounding me....I am still a beast.  Really, what I am is 'intense'.  Very intense.  For example.....

I take life and break it down into hurdles.  Manageable hurdles.  When you break down a twelve-year prison sentence into one day at a time....miles of 20-foot tall fences and razor-wire into steel hedges....guard towers with a loaded gun on top into a shade tree....when you learn to rest your head and sleep among killers....when you openly express emotion in front of these dudes when your 14-year old daughter writes you....you are a bad ass.  I earned my grey.

My friend, what is your hurdle?  Bills?  No job?  Someone passed away?  Someone you wish would pass away?  Maybe you are somewhere you do not want to be?  Is someone hurting you?  Do drugs have a hold of your life?

I've been where you are.  This dude has probably been anywhere you could ever be.  Now let me help you.  Break it down......

Step on the other side of the fence from your hurdle.  Put it just out of reach.  Lay it all out where you can see it in front of you.  Then decide what stays and what gets cut.  Focus.  Keep what you need and let the rest go.

Think of the junk drawer in the kitchen.  Yeah, the one full of shit.  Shit you want to keep.  Some day you will need it.  Then again...when was the last time you did?  That's your life.  Wasted space. Clear that shit out man!  Make some space for a supermodel in your life.  Make more space for your kids.  Make space and have a kid.  Live life my friend....don't let life live you.

Remember you are a fuckin' hooligan!  Declare your independence.....miles away from nowhere.