I'm Surprised That You've Never Been Told Before, That You're Lovely, And You're Perfect, And That Somebody Wants You

Who are you?

Sounds like a simple question doesn't it? If I asked myself that question the answer would be I'm David Johnson a 20 year old radio DJ from Christopher Lake who currently lives in Yorkton. Here's the thing that answer isn't overly helpful. Yes it's true but it doesn't tell anyone who you really are.

What would happen if other people were asked who you are?

Now things get interesting. You could ask three people this question: A parent, a close friend, and a coworker/friend you aren't that close with and you would get a different answer. A regular topic of conversation with one group of my friends is who you really are since everyone acts and thinks differently depending on who they are with. It's almost as if there are 5 different versions of you walking around if not more! And on top of all these there is also the person you want to be. Now here is the question which one of these versions is the real you?

A week or so ago I decided to walk around for awhile after work since it was a nice night and for whatever reason my favorite time to wander is the middle of the night. It's quite relaxing there aren't many people or cars around so you can go wherever you please and clear your head or think about whatever drifts into your mind. While taking this walk I got on the topic of who I really am and realized that I wasn't happy with all the versions of me. After (over)analyzing various comments and situations from the past year or so I realized that I can come off as bad person. For whatever reason at some point in the past I decided to try and be more serious which lead to me being a bit of a jerk and a bitter person. This is not who some people see me as and this is not the version I want to be,

I got thinking about who I really am and realized that I am not a bitter person. Yes I am skeptical and cynical at times but at my core I am an optimist who has one goal in life. This goal is the reason I originally got into radio and is more or less the reason I do most of the things I do. My goal is simple, my goal is to make people happy plain and simple by any means possible. It's the reason why I have always enjoyed doing charity work and community service and don't mind being the but end of the joke or making a fool out of myself for the sake of making someone laugh.

Now for the fun part what does this mean? Quite frankly I don't at this point in time and I probably won't know for awhile. What I do know is that I am going to stop trying to be somebody else and some people are going to see some changes over the next while. Of course there will also be people who see no change whatsoever since they managed to see a version of me that I am happy with.

So if your looking for a good way to kill a lot of time ask yourself, who are you? And don't forget to tell the truth.

I Am Still Living With Your Ghost, Lonely And Dreaming Of The West Coast

Alleluia Christ has risen, Christ has risen Alleluia.

If you want proof that old habits die hard there it is. I have no idea but for some reason that is the only thing I remember from my time in Sunday school and despite the fact that I am not overly religious anymore I feel a need to say it on Easter Sunday.

 So the fact that I just went through the previous spiel means that lent is over. This year for lent I decided to give up meat, but not for religious or moral/ethical reason. I gave up meat because I wanted to challenge myself and experience just for a little while, the challenges that vegetarians face. I also inadvertently managed to learn stuff along the way thanks to various people from University students to  former vegetarians.

One of the first things I realized is that eating out can be nearly impossible unless you go to a restaurant that  you know has many meatless options. I am glad I decide to keep fish and seafood in my diet otherwise I would be hooped if I ever felt like not cooking at home and eating out. If you eliminate seafood I  found that almost every restaurant has 2-3 meals that don't have meat in them however one of those options will be bread sticks, one will be some unholy concoction of your least favorite foods and 1 option will be something you might enjoy. Add in the fish stuffs and your up to 5-7. I purposefully left out any meals where you can theoretically just pick the meat off and leave it on the side, because you fill like walking into traffic afterwords. I also left off salads because 9/10 times they are a huge rip off or fall into the category of picking meat out.

If I decided to try this out again I will not eat fake meats AKA anything that says meatless then a meat product. These things taste nothing like the originals and make you crave the original harder than you did before you had the imposter. I suspect that if I decided to go meatless for life I would accept these abominations since my tongue would someday forget what the real thing tastes like. The only exception to this is veggie meal (fake ground beef) and veggie burgers which are surprisingly delicious mainly because they offer an alternative to hamburger instead of imitating hamburger.

While going meatless I found that certain fast food places were better than others. When I first started I found solace in McDonalds Fillet O Fish. Before lent I would have one of these occasionally now that lent is over I hope to never put one in my mouth again. I rarely go to Tim Horton's but during lent I went at least 3 times on my way to work for a bagel and a fruit smoothie and possibly an egg salad sandwich. If you have never tried their egg salad sandwich I would suggest you never do it leaves a lot to be desired. Burger King has a decent veggie burger however I have never been a B.K. fan. One place that I found to be incredible useful was Booster Juice since they have various smoothies and some decent wraps. I am unsure of how good subway is. On one hand I went there a few times for tuna and seafood sensation subs. Tuna was fine however seafood sensation is rather perplexing. A six inch sub was not quite filling enough and a twelve inch was too much seafood to handle and there is a chance that it made me violently ill at least once but seeing as how I had it more than once I can't confirm if it was the sole cause.

After everything is all said and done this has been a more or less enjoyable experience and one I am not against trying again in the future for longer lengths of time and after finding out about the effects that meat has on the planet I will definitely be consuming less and will probably do something similar to meatless Mondays. Now that lent has run it's course I will probably wait at least a month before I tackle something else. I blame A.J. Jacobs for my almost need to be challenging myself in some way. If you have not read The Year of Living Biblicaly or The Guinea Pig Diaries I suggest you go out and read one or both of those books. I am not 100% locked in but I may take another run at radical honesty in the near future.

Also I am glad to report that my body didn't attack me after eating a sausage mcmuffin for breakfast and hopefully there isn't an intestinal revolution until well after Easter supper.

It Would Be Better For Us If You Don't Understand

For whatever reason very few people looked at my last post. Maybe 5 people tops which isn't overly surprising, in hindsight a post that is all links and no thoughts makes for a poor read. Here's hoping this one is better (Hint: it is!)

I spend way to much time online. I'm not sure why since I rarely do things that are important or productive online but from time to time I find things that are absolutely profound. Recently I have found two things that accurately describe to a point that is almost eery. Everyday I make sure I read the three daily articles on Cracked since they are always hilarious and/or informative. Two Fridays ago Daniel O' Brien wrote an article that basically covered how I live my day to day life. For those of you who don't know I am horribly horribly socially awkward and if you aren't but are curious to know how people like myself operate read here. Unfortunately blogger doesn't show anything from the other end of the link but such is life.

So as I said there are two things that describe me and how I live me life. The second thing is an internet meme that I didn't pay much attention to when I first saw it except that I laughed at it a bit. However the more often I saw it the more I began to realize that great jumping jehosophat that it is me. The meme I am talking about is of course the Socially Awkward Penguin. For those of you unfamiliar with SAP it looks like this

I do this everyday.

 and this

Those are just samplings of of the things me and the SAP both do. There are hundreds more SAP pictures  and all of them are just as accurate. So the next time you think to yourself "What is wrong with that fellow something isn't quite right with that boy" Refer to the previously mentioned works and you will realize that I am even more "wrong" than originally thought.

I Can Call You Betty, And Betty When You Call Me You Can Call Me Al

I have been trying to think of a post where I could work in some hilarious videos of Stephen Colbert preparing to meet the queen. Unfortunately I couldn't so I am just going to put them on here because I started crying I was laughing so hard. You might not find them quite that funny but if you get a fraction of the joy I did it will be well worth your time. So here they are in no particular order

So it seems I can't actually post the videos, just link to them so here it is Stephen Colbert preparing to meet the queen  Stephen ruining high tea and because 3 is better than 2 Stephen Colbert singing with roots The first two are definitely better than the third but I still suggest you watch it due to it's absurdity

While I am linking funny stuff I might as well throw The Pop Songs of 2010 With Proper English up as well.

This should keep you entertained on a Saturday have a great weekend!

Well I'm Running Down The Road Trying To Loosen My Load.

Don't worry I haven't forgotten that this blog exists I have just been very busy doing other things like cleaning my house finding a birthday present for my mother and submitting posts for SYP's Blog AKA the blog that has gotten more hits in one week than I have in 3 months. I suggest you check it out since I'm just one of many people with the privilege of contributing to it. Seriously if you haven't already read all the posts over there go now read them comment on them tell your friends about them then come back here I'll wait... Take your time no hurry... O.K. come back here now.

I recently made an interesting little discovery that I think is kind of significant. When you were in High school you were always told that all the stupid little problems you deal with on a day to day basis would disappear. You wouldn't have to worry about grades or who to take the dance next Friday or other trivial things like that. Unfortunately whoever told you such things was either misinformed or decide to lie to you just a bit. You see these problems don't disappear in fact they grow and evolve into things that aren't trivial. You go into University and grades matter even more and then you get a job and grades change into Job performance and now you no longer get a mark after every test. You may think your an A+ employee when in reality your one task away from unemployment. Finding a date for the dance more or less stays the same eventually becoming who should you marry. If you thought that after leaving high school you wouldn't have to worry about what clothes you wore and things of nature you were wrong again. The way you dress can decide whether or not  you get a job or promotion and then if you get to keep it or not. Plus once your done high school you get the joy of paying rent and buying your own food and creating a budget so that you don't have to resort to selling your kidneys on the black market in order to buy a bagel. I could go but I think you get the point.

Of course some things get much better once your out of high school. You no longer have a curfew your legal drinking age and can vote. You can more or less do as you wish without getting grounded and you have a greater choice in the people you associate with and you can also ditch some of the people you used to know who quite frankly you only tolerated because you had to spend 3 hours sitting beside them every single day. If your at a job or don't think your getting paid enough you can quit or get a raise. (Try telling a teacher or professor that if they don't bump you up to a B+ your dropping the class let me know how that turns out for you)

But back to the main point the problems you face now won't go away however if your smart you will deal with them now so they aren't as big of an issue down the road. Remember if you don't learn from your mistakes your bound to repeat them and I doubt you want to do that. Unless of course their awesome mistakes that make great stories like the time you woke up and didn't know what city your in. If you make those kind of mistakes don't bother learning.

Also it's Spring suck it snowmen!