Mondays Suck

It’s 0600 again and I’m awakened by the annoying tone of the alarm clock on my phone. Normally I don’t find it to be annoying; in fact it’s the song Extreme Ways by Moby that plays during the credits for every Bourne movie ever made and the only song I actually like that Moby has made. Naturally I don’t get out of bed for this alarm but instead I sleep for an extra forty five minutes allowing it to go off three more times. This no doubt annoys my wife, but I can’t help it. It’s so hard to get out of bed if I don’t allow myself to ease into it. I eventually do get out of bed and prepare for yet another Monday of the same old routine. Get cleaned up, brush my teeth, put my manly deodorant on, get dressed into the monkey suit the Air Force calls the Blues, eat my breakfast, drink my coffee, fill my water bottle to the top, and walk out the door to go to work.


While driving to the horrid destination I call work I have the same revelation I always do, Monday’s freaking suck. Why am I surprised by this every week? Monday’s do suck, they always have and they always will. I then begin to ponder exactly why it is that Mondays are the most likely the most dreaded day of the week by a vast majority of America (or just the people I complain to about). Is it the fact that our bodies are still in relaxation/party/wind down mode that makes this first day of the work week the worst? Could this be the reason we get to work and slack off for half the day before we realize that we haven’t accomplished any of the work we get paid for? Well that is pretty much how my day went, long, slow, and half of it spent with me talking to myself about how crappy Mondays are.

Eventually my mind begins to wander to other thoughts, like this blog for example. I started this blog ages ago to be somewhat of a gamer thing for the group I’m in, COG (Coalition of Gamers), a pun taken from the game Gears of War where the main characters belong to the COG (Coalition of Ordered Governments). Needless to say no one attends the group forums anymore making my would be blog as dry and useless as handicap porn. It was a little irritating knowing that I would be writing a blog and singing it to deaf ears all the time and it eventually died alongside the COG. Today, though, I began thinking about all the things I wanted to accomplish with my life and how a blog could be useful. In case my readers didn’t know (all zero of you), I’m aspiring to be a writer and video game developer because believe it or not, I don’t really like being in the military. I’ll save my complaints on my job for a different post and I’ll make sure it’s nice and juicy with all the pros and cons of the military but ultimately why I feel it’s not for me.

Yes, this is what I want to do; I want to write fiction novels and video game scripts as well as create the games themselves (alongside my Uncle). Shouldn’t be too hard right? Wrong. Problem is, I never seem to make any time to get on and write the book I started long time ago. Would you like to see what I did get done? It’s a whopping one paragraph.



“The cadence of the rain taps against my bedroom window steady and fast, as if it were trying to put a hole through the glass. It’s three in the morning and I have yet to succumb to the depths of sleep. It’s the rain that keeps me awake. That may seem awkward considering the rain’s pitter patter is usually a soothing sound that is considered by many people to be comforting. A doctor once diagnosed me with ombrophobia, the fear of rain, because of my sever discomfort and constant vigilance during nature’s shower. Doctors think they have all the answers, but I know that they don’t. I’m fearful during a rainstorm not because of the rain, but because I can’t hear anything other than the constant wet tapping against any surface that is exposed to the sky.”

How cute, that was a year and a half ago. It’s hard to believe that I knew what I wanted to write about then, yet now I forget where I wanted to go with it. This all lead me to the blog that I titled, “Inside the Mind of Halotitan”. Halotitan is actually my nickname/alias/gamertag, whatever you want to call it given to me years ago by my Uncle. I’ll actually make a post on it later and before the zero people who read this ask, yes, it is related to the game Halo and yes I’m freaking amazing at it.

Wow, I knew I might have ADD (not related to math), but I didn’t know that my writing would too. So I’m thinking of ways I could get my writing skills (or lack thereof) flowing again and that’s when it hit me. I have this giant empty blog and a head full of crazy ideas and thoughts that I could put down on paper, or electronic documents. I’m re-starting this blog (and keeping the awesome name of it) to get myself into the routine of writing again in hopes that one day I’ll be able to write something that will make me rich and famous so at my high school reunion I can laugh at how successful I am and you aren’t haha! I’m mostly kidding, but I would like to have some success in writing and game developing because if I don’t, I’m going to continue waking up on Monday mornings (realizing how much they suck) and spending the first half of my day thinking about the crap I need to do to start a career in the areas I want. If all else fails, maybe I can give you readers (if any) an easy waste of ten minutes.