A Friendly Reminder

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“If you already ready, you ain’t got to get ready” ~ Bishop Don Magic Juan

Every now and then, I have to put together something that lets folks know who I am. The stuff that people either forget, didn’t catch it the first time or 3, don’t care about, etc. It’s cool because I’m going to say again. 

For you that aren’t familiar with my blogs or if you didn’t know me during the Myspace days, my name is Koolaid “Da Blacghost”. I don’t like people calling me by my gubment online so don’t. You might know me as Kool Juice on Fakebook. I use that name since FB won’t approve Koolaid. I’m one of those people that do my own thing. I learn a lot by watching and doing it myself. 

I’ve been trying to get my mind right years. I mean, it’s a never ending process but I’ve made a lot of progress. For those that were paying attention to whom I really was instead of who you wanted me be, you might have noticed some of the changes. One of the many things that I’m working on right now is excepting that people do what they want to do. 

I like what I like. I like who I like for my own reasons and I still will be me where ever I go. I don’t have to prove that for the fact that if you already knew me, you ready know so you wouldn’t believe me if I did try to prove it because you already made your mind up of who you “thought” I was. That’s called a mind fuck. The good thing about it is that it’s a thought and thoughts can be changed. The hard part is recognizing it.

Speaking of liking what I like, I dig music, writing, things that stimulate my mind, the list goes on and on. I’m interested in a lot of things, even things I don’t like. I want to understand things. Maybe the things I don’t like aren’t so bad after all with a little more understanding of why it is or how it is. I ask a lot of questions to get that understanding. It’s never a bad thing to ask and the reasons I ask has nothing to do with wanting to be in a relationship with you. WTF?  Don’t take my character out of context.  

There are a lot of things that turn me off. Some of the things that really bother me are being lied to, lied on, ignored, people telling my business, being pressured to be someone I’m not or do something I don’t want to, arrogance, people expecting me to be who I’m not, sucker ass deadbeat daddies(chicks that are having babies with this clowns are on my radar). Those are just a handful of things, there’s a lot more but some fall under what I’ve already said. I’m working on another blog to elaborate. 

This blog is very general and I will touch on specific things in the future. Just wanted to let people know who I am and for those that have forgot, just reminding them how it’s going works. Any question? 

“You are not mentally strong enough to break me so why try?” ~ Koolaid “Da BlacGhost”

An Example of My Ways

This past Christmas, I got the opportunity to play Santa’s Helper. It was my first experience to wrap gifts and watch some kids other than my family open gifts. One of the gifts I wrapped was a DJ Hero 2 Party Bundle.

As soon as a saw this, I was instantly fascinated by it. I have no idea why. Then when I found out it was like $25-$30 at Big Lots around Black Friday, I had to have one. It came with the Dj Hero 2 game, 2 turntables and a mic. I never paid any attention to this type of stuff before. I decided that I’d hit Big Lots to try to find it. I assumed that it was something only on sale for Black Friday because that price was cheap. I looked online for it and it was at least $100 or more.

I think it was the day after Christmas, I started my search around town for Dj Hero 2.  I hit Big Lots and found

I was kind of happy about it but I wanted the Party. Actually Big Lots had like 2 or 3 of these, $20 each but I only bought. I continued to look everywhere around town for the P Bundle but no one had it. I would call Big Lots every week to see if they got one in but nope. You can’t really trust folks to look around for you at these stores anymore, it’s better to go to the place yourself. I was kind of bummed about not being able to find it anywhere for a decent price.

After month or so, I figured the P Bundle was just a Black Friday special. I wasn’t going to give up on looking for it, just wasn’t going to look around as much. I was up in Gamestop looking around and saw a Guitar Hero game for like $2. Then I see another one for like $4. I started thinking maybe I’ll go on the hunt for the Guitar Hero and Rock Band bundles. Then I became fixated on finding these. I know I’ve saw Rock Band bundles around but now I couldn’t find anything. I saw one for the PS3 but I didn’t want that.

Here’s where things get real. I decided to keep my eye open for any type of deals on videos games. Even if I didn’t play it, just wanted to be aware of sales. If didn’t know anything about it, I’d google or youtube it. I’m all about getting the best deals.

I hit Ebay, Gamestop and Family Video up for games in the meantime.

I also found some cheap deals on stuff like

And

This Mayhem edition was like $99 at Best Buy. I thought that was ugly. I got a bunch of other stuff too but not going to post it all.

Like 3 or 4 months after I started looking, I put an APB out for DJ Hero 2 because I couldn’t get it off my mind. Someone found it for me out of town for $30. I also found a Guitar Hero bundle for $50 at Big Lots.

This is what happens when I’m focus on material things. I don’t stop until I feel that I won’t find it and because I want it bad enough, I never except that I won’t find it. I just wish I could focus and aim for other things as bad I would for material things.  I think it’s crazy but I got what I was looking for and then some.

The aftermath of this is that I’m staying looking around for Guitar Hero bundles, why? I have no idea. I still go to Big Lots from time to time to see what kind of stuff they got or have been holding out on putting out. I’ve started to look around places out of town too whenever I hit the road.

Have you ever experienced something like this?

Are you currently searching for something that you can’t find?