something you though you could never do and end up doing it. Overcoming adversity and becoming a champion(yes we are all champions at something)
These are my two best.
making up 60 high school credits in the final months of my senior year to graduate with my class. All the teachers told me that I was setting myself up for failure and that there is nothing wrong with graduating next year. Fuck that shit!!! I wasn’t gonna let that shit happen… for a little more than two months… I got up 3 hours early, did some homework,went to school,did some class work in between periods and lunch, stayed after school, did some more work,went home did some more work and finally slept.
This was all i did. I never counted the papers I had to complete because I knew I would freak out and not go through with it, but it must have literally been in the thousands(probably 2 thousand) and for most of my classes, I got A’s and B’s with a couple C’s, one D and No F’s.
I beat some loud mouth hot shot in basketball in front of all of his friends.
This guy was the best Basketball player in the school and everybody was afraid of him. He would constantly challenge people to play “one on one” for money and would never lose. he had a reputation of being undefeated all around school. Until one day, I beat his ass 10-3 infront of his entourage and all the hotties… I was the new king… But I never played again… I retired undefeated!!!
Back in 2001 I sent a bunch of illustration samples to Robert Kennedy (publisher of MuscleMag Int’l).
He actually called me back in a few days to tell me to send him an invoice for the work I sent. He bought everything! He also told me he constantly receives mailed in art samples from over 50 artists PER WEEK, but that they were mostly crap and that my work is “the cream of the crop”.
We had a badminton tourney and I beat this big douche that Ive always hated, he was 18-1 but im the ONE BITCH, it was pretty epic with lots of cheering and high fives from his friends.
We were playing hockey and one of the stars of the basketball team went in goal with no protection, NAILED right in the balls and down for 10 minutes.A few minutes later we were making teams and the captain of our team said I should be goalie (im a big guy) and A very hot girl =) on my team was like NOOOO WAY hes awesome lolz. Double win. We also won the hockey tourney
something you though you could never do and end up doing it. Overcoming adversity and becoming a champion(yes we are all champions at something)
These are my two best.
making up 60 high school credits in the final months of my senior year to graduate with my class. All the teachers told me that I was setting myself up for failure and that there is nothing wrong with graduating next year. Fuck that shit!!! I wasn’t gonna let that shit happen… for a little more than two months… I got up 3 hours early, did some homework,went to school,did some class work in between periods and lunch, stayed after school, did some more work,went home did some more work and finally slept.
This was all i did. I never counted the papers I had to complete because I knew I would freak out and not go through with it, but it must have literally been in the thousands(probably 2 thousand) and for most of my classes, I got A’s and B’s with a couple C’s, one D and No F’s.
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You did thousands of papers in a single high school semester? I’m in 4th year university and I’ve yet to do 1000 papers in my life. I think this is a lose in counting, memory or honesty.
I once pretended to make amends with an xgf who i had found out was cheating on me. showed up to a house party she was throwing. started boiling water on the stove and adding jello powder “to make jello shots”.
took the pot off the stove and brought it out of the kitchen “because i didn’t want drunk people knocking it over”
went upstairs to her room, went into her bathroom, flushed the toilet, and then started adding the jello water slowly to the bowl (if you just dump it in, the volume of water overrides the seal, automactically flushing the toilet)
anyways, filled it up, locked the door from the inside. locked her bedroom door from the inside. then went back downstairs, got her wasted, suggested they just let her pass out in the downstairs bedroom.
I beat some loud mouth hot shot in basketball in front of all of his friends.
This guy was the best Basketball player in the school and everybody was afraid of him. He would constantly challenge people to play “one on one” for money and would never lose. he had a reputation of being undefeated all around school. Until one day, I beat his ass 10-3 infront of his entourage and all the hotties… I was the new king… But I never played again… I retired undefeated!!!
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LOL. Sounds like that Seinfeld episode The Race… “I choose not to run!”
This one time at a university party I pissed in this girl’s (clean) laundry basket. Don’t really know why, exactly. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Back in 2001 I sent a bunch of illustration samples to Robert Kennedy (publisher of MuscleMag Int’l).
He actually called me back in a few days to tell me to send him an invoice for the work I sent. He bought everything! He also told me he constantly receives mailed in art samples from over 50 artists PER WEEK, but that they were mostly crap and that my work is “the cream of the crop”.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Back in 2001 I sent a bunch of illustration samples to Robert Kennedy (publisher of MuscleMag Int’l).
He actually called me back in a few days to tell me to send him an invoice for the work I sent. He bought everything! He also told me he constantly receives mailed in art samples from over 50 artists PER WEEK, but that they were mostly crap and that my work is “the cream of the crop”.
I’ve been doing work for him ever since. [/quote]
I agree, I like your illustrations as you already know. I don’t buy all the magazines but I check out your illustrations every month while I am at the store.
To anyone that has only seen ID’s avatar; head down to your local grocery/book store and check out his bad ass art!
I’ve got at least some talent at math, so it was a blow to the balls when I got kicked out of the better math track in high school. In my school you were basically a year ahead…or not. I wasn’t. Massive blow to my nerd pride and a badge of shame for most of my high school career to be stuck in a class with underclassmen (it’s probably not that bad, but it made me feel stupid). So… I accidentally signed up for some SAT Math that was a year ahead of me, crammed, and passed with a pretty good grade, and then I was like, hey, I can do this!
So I tried to skip ahead into calculus, and everyone told me a resounding no, without even giving me a chance to plead my case. Eventually I got so fed up that I just illegally signed up for a calc class in spring semester, got found out, and was kicked out into the class of one of the worse teachers in the school.
I had already signed up for the AP test, so they still took my money. Triple kick in the balls. So I got depressed, snapped out of it, hunkered down and studied, and aced the test and got ahead two quarters of math now that I’m in university. Go me.
My son was born on the day I graduated High School. I spent the next 14 years working two jobs and going to school full time to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. Divorced high school sweetheart and mother of my two children and married another Nurse Practtioner with three kids. I now have 5 teenagers and I am still mentally stable enough to speak in full sentences.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
My son was born on the day I graduated High School. I spent the next 14 years working two jobs and going to school full time to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. Divorced high school sweetheart and mother of my two children and married another Nurse Practtioner with three kids. I now have 5 teenagers and I am still mentally stable enough to speak in full sentences. [/quote]
Holy shit, that must take serious mental fortitude congrats.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
My son was born on the day I graduated High School. I spent the next 14 years working two jobs and going to school full time to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. Divorced high school sweetheart and mother of my two children and married another Nurse Practtioner with three kids. I now have 5 teenagers and I am still mentally stable enough to speak in full sentences. [/quote]
[quote]JLu wrote:
reddog6376 wrote:
I help people save thousands of dollars/yr in their homes and businesses, for which I get paid $3500/week. Win-WIN.
You make 170k/year? What is your job exactly?[/quote]
I won’t total that for '09, as I started slow, but 2010 should top $170k. PM me if your interested.
