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itzdarave – aka iamdengman

Been busy getting things done!

As I sit here at my brothers place in Mahomet, IL. The perfect chance to get a blog post in. =P

The last time I made a blog entry was in February. It’s the end of May! I was trying to at least get a few posts in a month but that obviously didn’t happen. So let’s go over what I should have posted? March… Thai lady that cooks in the kitchen had to go back to Thailand for her mothers funeral. That was mid-March. Which ruined my plans of going to Kansas City in April for my birthday. March and April I spent alot of time working on building the GS400 and on my business Getfitted Garage. Seems like time has flew by. The whole situation where I had to show up at the restaurant to cook when it got busy was tiresome. I value you my time and they had me on a hourly pay rate of $10/hr because I haven’t been “showing up” to help at the family restaurant. I’m sorry my work goes unnoticed. But I am back on a salary for the family businesses. After a month of getting crap pay and complaining. I don’t take my time and milk the clock and take all day to do tasks. I do work. In and out. Real fast. I said I work efficiently on a salary. Hourly I complain I have to work slower and milk the clock. LOL.

 

Follow my GS400 build and LS400 build on my “iamdengman” IG acccount

https://www.instagram.com/p/BUKskXsjmEV

Oliver

Welcome to the family!  Oliver Keo Soulisa!

He was 10 days early but a giant.

2/10/17 8lb 9oz 22inches long.

 

Baby cuz hahahaaaaa!  No I will not call your mother Aunty! She will be continued as BFF Grace =P

Category: Dear Journal

Planning Road trip 2017

 

I’m getting old still single. No kids.  I’ve be talking about going to see my father for a long time. I haven’t seen him in over 10 years!  Our only form of communication is E-mail.   I can take one of my three vehicles.  My Tundra, LS400, or Gs400.   Tundra is more out of the question since MPG and parking in a metro would suck, unless I get someone to pay for some gas and lodging.  Maybe send me some parts. I can do promos on a roadtrip. LOL…    LS400…. has less trunk space and Needs alot of work.   GS400 has more trunk space and needs work too… Either way both are 18 years old.  I would have to go through the entire car and make sure everything is good.  I’ll for sure bringing a tool bag, jack, and stands.  https://www.instagram.com/iamdengman/  If you want to check out my LS400 or GS400 both work in progress.  If I do this trip it’ll be summer time for sure.  Maybe I should plan for some events/carshows to attend to?  

So there’s going to be roughly 8000-10,000 miles for this trip depending where I go.  The map route is just the start to get a rough idea.

$800-1000 in gas.  Several hotel rooms?  Lots of friends couches for sure.  On this trip I’ll dabble more into my hobby of photography.  I’m certain there’s many breath taking shots to be made.  I’ll probably livestream on various social media platforms as well.  Should start vlogging. This whole blogging thing takes time to think of something to write about.  I don’t really take notes so I don’t remember everything. So a video would be instant note taking LOL.  But video editing is a whole ‘nother realm of geek I’ve never found time to mess with. 

I’ve made a list of cameras I’d buy sorta in budget.  I could sell some things I don’t use to make it happen. 

Either Sony a6500 or a7mkii

Some type of action camera.

samsung gear 360 camera and use it with my note 5

 

*Edit*

I’ve had a lot of feedback from friends all over on my FB post about this. I can change the route around in California so I can see/meet/hang with friends.  As for the northern part of Central US… That’s another whole road trip on its own. =)

Forgot I was gonna add pix.

The living room is just about done need a better tables but this will do for now. 

 

The entryway was just opened up entirely  and the closet was removed.   Who needs a guest closet anyways… Just another excuse to have shit in the closet that doesnt need to be there.. No need for clutter. 

 

Need a new dining table that can seat 8+

 

 

 

Category: Dear Journal

Positive Mindset

Have I ever mentioned I was way happier at this point in life?  After all the BS I went through feeling alone… and what not… My biggest low was back in Kansas.  Rock bottom. Didn’t give a fuck.   What friends I had didn’t want to come around. Thats how bad it was.  Ask Grace if you don’t believe me. Never again will I live 6 months and do nothing with my life.  I literally didn’t leave the house for 6 months. I hated the world. LOL  It has taken me year and years to find happy. Happy with myself. Content.

I thought I couldn’t be any happier but apparently these past few months things have been changing. I don’t know what it is but life is great. I’m happiest as can be.  Just surrounding myself with positivity night and day.   I been blocking out as much negativity as I can. I honestly don’t care about the negative things that cross my path.  I just know I’m going down this path that I paved through the years.   It’s strange I was reminiscing about my job at Scanics.  I loved that job. It was easy, I did geeky ass shit that no one cared about.  LMFAO.   It was important work that went unnoticed. I mean fuck I was in charge of scanning documents from the 1800s for several counties. Found a document that appeared to be signed by Abraham Lincoln before he was president… The county didn’t confirm or deny if it was his sig or not but it was one of the coolest finds.  But with such responsibility came alot of stress.  Which ended that career.   I wasn’t being paid enough for the stress.  I told Don I had to go help out the family businesses and didn’t know when I’d return.  He told me my job was still there if I ever wanted to return.   =)    

That was three years ago. Actually.. Almost 4!  Wow..  Time files.  I’ve been helping my mom with her dream dress shop, helping out with the family restaurant that I didn’t want nothing to do with..  I think they are indeed comfortable enough for me not to be around anymore.  I’ve been warning them for the past year about finding a house and me doing my own thing.  The house was bought. My business is established on paper.  I just need to do what I do best using my, as Mike said “natural talents” not skills, natural talents.  It honestly was refreshing to get to talk to mike via messenger last night.  Months ago I noticed him posting vids of him in Thailand being super positive.   I just happened to run into him on a fb group and he messaged me.  He’s doing well.  Catching up and he said he noticed the change from the selection of words I was using talking to him.  He caught my positive vibes.  Thats awesome.  Being positive brings positivity and we just happened to connect.  I told him about what I have planned and what I want to do and what not.  He mentioned that I should do things with purpose.   Which is funny because that’s what I’ve been doing!  All these years I’ve been doing things with purpose I’ve paved the way not just for me but my entire family.  I’m the next head of family.  I chose this house with 5 acres for a reason. I’ve been single for many years looking for myself. My happiness in self.  I’m finally content.  I’ve found purpose. 

These past few days I’ve decided I want to carry on with my goals of traveling.  I love to travel so I might as well fucking do it.   Money isn’t everything but to do shit requires money.  I’ve calculated my personal overhead and how much I need to make while traveling or whatever to keep traveling.  I could probably pull off traveling for a while if I do things correctly.  The new house is home base. Forever will be. 5 acres!  The family condo was sold couple weeks ago. Took a $60,000 hit.  It sucks but it happens.  I’ve told my mom to sell it many many times and she kept wanting to hold on to it.  Just my positivity and goals I mention to her… She felt comfortable with going ahead and selling it.  

The steps, the years, the time it took to get to this point have been my living and learning experience.  I lived the party lifestyle, spending money like it was nothing.  That didn’t get me no where, just depressed.  The more money I had the more I spent it on stupid stuff that had no meaning or purpose.  Even at my document imaging job.. Sure I made lots of money. But it wasnt worth the stress. To spend it on things to make me temporarily happy? It didn’t make sense.  The money at first was great.. Told my mom she couldn’t afford me to move over there…. As you can see I took a tremendous pay cut but I’m fucking happy as fuck. LOL. 

Content. Yes indeed.  

This shit right here…. Is my bed.  I wake up every morning thrilled to make my bed. All nine pillows. Yes.. NINE… LMFAO.. I only sleep with two and two fly off some times and three in front I move before sleeping anyways.  (the last two are up against the headboard so Its not really used)

Category: Dear Journal

End of the first month of 2017.

How the heck did I manage to drive 36,000 miles in my Tundra?!?!  I’ve calculated about $4500-5000 in Gas for the year.  Nucking futs!   I’m glad I bought it though. Replacing that MDX was the best decision ever.  Tundra runs regular. MDX ran premium.  Tundra gets 19mpg hwy. MDX got 22mpg hwy.   It was about the same in fuel costs.  Tundra has more cargo space for sure and it hauls trailers.    It’ll be paid off by next year I bet.   I just hate making payments so pay it of quick as possible and save $400 a month would be ideal.   

Today, I finally got my articles of incorporation and EIN paper work.   Now I can open a business bank account.   It’s just funny how I’ve help others with their business ventures for soo many years and I finally decided to do my own thing.   I could have gone back to college but I think it’s too late for me.  I mean sure I could but I would feel like the old guy living with his family going to school still. Just to get a piece of paper saying I’ve learned this in school.    Maybe I’m looking at it the wrong way..  It’s like college degree is the standard now. EVERYone is doing it.  Yet I know lots of people not even working in the field they went to school for.   Back when I was working at Scanics when I was the project manager I had college graduates working for me.   It’s like whaaattt you can’t find a job in your field so you working for me…   I tell you what it was delightful to get promoted to project manager after 2 weeks of working there.   The skills didn’t go unnoticed.   If he paid me more I would have stayed tell you the truth.  The amount of work I was putting in and the turn around on the projects was faster than ever but his personal overhead was too high and he didn’t want to risk paying me too much.  Such a shame.  I actually liked that job. Geeking out with document imaging. LOL.  $40k a year for that position wasn’t enough.  $60k would have been a different story.  $60k with bonuses I would have been game.   *sigh* reminiscing of geeking out at a document imaging company. LMFAO! Freestyle Friday!  

Anyhow. Getfitted Garage, LLC. is official.   Automotive Lifestyles company.  I don’t know how I’m going to pull this off but I know I have passion for car shit.  I just happen to have $20k worth of screen printing equipment, sign making equipment, and $5k of scanning and digital printing stuff.   It’ll all tie in somewhere.  Sure I should have gathered my thoughts and made a super dope business plan.  I just love chaos.  The process in which my mind works, as I was telling bff Grace earlier, 135 bpm background music helps me gather my thoughts.  With the occasional 140+bpm.. too many things crossing my mind at any given moment.    Grace said weed would help me.  I know it would but music happens to calm the mind for me.  Oh and driving.. Driving + music.  I have to concentrate on driving or I’m dead and music apparently slows my thoughts down to a certain pace? I don’t know what I’m talking about I’m crazy!  Just know Getfitted Garage is official thats all that matters right now.  In the next few days I have to jot down the goals for this company.  And execute with precision.   How to make six figures in one year?  make X amount in a month. make X amount in a week. make X amount a day.  That’s multiple chances. chances or should I say goals?  

Category: Dear Journal

2017 goals/desires/whatever you want to call it.

  1. Repair Tundra from accidents from 2016, Rebuild coilover shocks, buy new tires and go prerunner wide panels.
  2. Get GS400 on road so I can daily drive it instead of the Tundra
  3. Get LS400 buttoned up and make it to a few car shows.
  4. debut GS400 and LS400 on internet same time in Spring.
  5. Getfitted Garage 
  6. Get passport
  7. Shake more hands, smile, and acknowledge people.
  8. Find future wifey. 
  9.  Travel
  10. Be proud of accomplishments.
  11. Eat more.
  12. Figure out how to maintain 5acres of land
  13. Use the exercise equipment setup in the basement
  14. Use my rollerblades and bikes more often.
  15. Travel more… LOL