Welcome back, folks.
I hope that you are doing well.
I would like to take some time away from the jokes and such to send all of the positive energy and hope possible to the people of Florida and the surrounding states here in America.
It has been a rough past few days, to say the least.
And the people down there could really use all of the help that they could possibly get.
I happen to live in Wisconsin, so I am blessed to not have to deal with much and such extreme weather outside of the occasional blizzard.
I am a realist...
It is both a gift and a curse.
I know that people will lose their lives, I just hope that there are very few, you know?
I was maybe 16/17 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit the south coast...I went to help rebuild and such after it had passed.
What I saw during that week changed my life and my view of the world.
I really hope that as many people can make it out alive as possible.
And for those who stayed?
Hang in there.
We are sending all of our love, our support.
The storm will pass, and help will be on the way.
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April 18th, 2012.
Journal #031.
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XXXXX...I never ever once thought that I'd come to like that name again...
Part of me still doesn't.
But she is an amazing girl.
She is bright, beautiful, smart, funny, sexy.
I couldn't ask for more.
My heart is longing for that battlefield...
XXXXX need have to retreat.
Hmm.
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So...looking back now, I must have been really infatuated or something...
Or maybe the sex was just that good, so good that I was just enthralled.
Because I can tell you this much, this young lady was NOT nearly as attractive or sexy or smart or bright as this journal is making her out to be.
I am so serious lmfao.
Like...man.
She was clumsy as shit.
She couldn't hold her alcohol to save her life.
She was not funny in the least lol.
But I am not here to bash old flings or exes lol I just can't for the life of me understand why young me would have written any of this stuff.
A different time lol
I may have answered this myself though.
"My heart is longing for that battlefield..."
I am sure that I was still pining for love after the events of that last summer.
Ever quixotic, you know?
Even back when I was much, much younger, in Volume #1 lbvs.
Man, some things don't and didn't change much.
I will elaborate on the sword and shield references next chapter, cool?
I hope that, again, this finds you all well, and I will see you all soon folks.
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.
Stay vigilant.
-Redd.