Rainy Days Aren’t So Bad

I always thought that Rainy Days were the worst, for most people however these kind of days usually start off bad because of how the weather affects your mood and then more stuff just builds on top of it. Though this may be true, usually what you consider is going to be a bad day turns out to be good. When I woke up this morning the first thing I thought was “Oh crap it’s raining” mainly because I knew the drive into work would be hell. What happens on Rainy Days in the area work is usually people are slamming on they’re brakes last minute because they either weren’t paying attention or were riding some ones bumper. On top of that usually the traffic gets bad in a certain area which just makes matters worst.

The drive in today wasn’t too bad and I probably could have gotten in a bit earlier had I just taken route 78 to the Springfield exit and worked my way over to Route 22 in Union, so next time I’ll do that instead. But today so far hasn’t been so bad after all. I walked in and everything was at peace and everything is going smooth. So if your encountering a Rainy Day and it’s all muggy out. Just take a step back, a deep breath, grab a cup of coffe or tea and just relax because even if you just walk into an office or a house and things haven’t start off right it’s not the end of the world. And only you can control your mood and you feel, definitely try to make the best of it, even when something goes wrong.

So how have I been over all since my last post? Pretty good, even though classes are over I still feel like I have to do work for them and that I’m going to do poorly if I don’t. I’m sure that feeling will go away soon. Speaking of college, I want to quickly talk about the whole grading thing at my college. For those of you who don’t know I go to a Community College and yes my degree and the professors at my school are of the same quality as those so called “Real Colleges”. The grading policy might be slightly different then most schools as Julie was quite surprised to hear that I’m considered passing the class with a D. For whatever reason there are certain courses in my school where D is considered passing and obviously F is failing. However in other courses such as the Mathematics anything below a C is considered Failing. Again I’m not sure why this was done but it was. Now as for the class I got a D in I’m retaking it when my last semester for the college comes, I’d rather get done all of my advance courses first and then retake a prereq course for an easy A at the end of college.

Oh btw I turned 21 this past Sunday. I still feel the same and I don’t understand why people are asking me if I feel any different. Am I suppose to feel different? If so then how? Anyways I spent Saturday afternoon in Wildwood, NJ with my friends. We got a motel room, spent the night on the boardwalk and then celebrated. It was a great weekend and I couldn’t have asked for more. I plan on going down again in a few weeks if I’m able to, and this time I’ll take my cousin so we can both take some awesome photography down there. Well I’m off for now so I shall leave you with this small comic that stumbleupon threw at me. I think from now on I’m going to close off each post with a comic, enjoy!

Wildwood Days

Finally a new blog post! Things have been super crazy the past week with college. Everything is in pretty much crunch time right now and professors are starting to load a ton of work on to our shoulders for the next 3 weeks. So I’ve finally found some time out of my busy schedule to blog. So I figured why not write about my plans for Wildwood?

As I’ve written before on my old blog every summer my friends and I have made it a point to “go down the Shore” as we like to call it here in Jersey. This location happens to be Wildwood as it’s one of the best beaches at the Jersey Shore and it has the best boardwalk. Actually the good old and famous Wildwood Boardwalk. I grew up there during the summers when I was a child so I figured that my friends who have or even’t haven’t been there should share the memories I had.

Everything is still up in the air at the moment. There’s so much planning to do such as where were going to stay for the weekend, who’s coming, money, etc. I’m shooting for June as thats the last month I have to use my comp day. But it may look like it will be July or even August at the latest.

Things have changed so much down there since I was a child and since we sold our place down there. Most of the familiar motels/hotels are now gone and have been replaced with condo’s. There was one near our place that we went into all the time because they had a small gift shop where you could buy snacks, drinks, and kites. Oh and they had 3 arcade machines as well if I remember correctly. Now it’s gone though no more snacks, drinks, kites or anything of that sort. Sure you could go to a Wal-Mart, or an Eckerd/Rite Aid but you’ll be paying top dollar at those stores. Where as this place everything was reasonably priced.  The Board Walk has changed a lot too. The piers with all of the rides now have a new ticketing/wrist band system for rides. I would beg my parents to get the wrist band because it would get me on all of the rides and of course one Go Kart ride. Now a days it’s this plastic wrist band with what appears to be bar codes and they no longer apply to Go Karts. But hey they still work on all of the rides! But most of all what has changed is it appears Coca Cola bought out or made some kind of deal with the Morey’s. Everything such as the Tram cars are now branded Coca Cola and no longer have the signature bright yellow paint or the constant “WAAAWAWAAATCCHCH THE TRAM CAR PLEEAAASSSE!!!” when the drivers would hit the button repeatedly. Now it’s painted red, Coca Cola logo’s and “WATCH THE TRAM CAR PLEASE”. The Tram cars weren’t broken it was just the way they got peoples attention and boy it did. Everyone would stop walking and watch them pass by. Now a days barely anyone does. They also now do the fireworks display and are done every Friday night. That’s cool and all but I always saw them as being special. Something that only happened on holidays and special occasions. Now it appears they’ve lost the meaning of that. And finally the one thing I didn’t like that they changed was the roller coaster titled “The Great Nor’ Eastern”. The original color was Bright Pink and you could see it for miles. It was like a landmark and I loved seeing it coming over the bridge, and seeing it from our place when I was kid. Now it’s painted White with changing color lights, and this year they completely changed the hanging cars, and renamed it “Fly The Great Nor’ Eastern”.

However a lot of good has come out of this transformation too! They built a new convention center right on the boardwalk, new street lights, sidewalks, etc. Ok well not a lot but still those are some benefits but the demolition of most hotels/motels, Coca Cola,  and what not was a bit much.

So this summer I hope everything goes well and that everyone I invite can come. I absolutely love it down there and I can’t wait to share the beauty and experience with every one.