Yearly Entry

So it seems I only write a post once year. There was once a time, on MySpace I would blog up to 4 times a day. I used to love to write about the meaningless events of my life. I have Twitter for that now. But Once YouTube along and pretty much ended the steading writing online. I just remembered I had this account while watching Glee tonight and felt inspired to write something because I'm on the verge of something big...at least, I think so.

Ten years ago during a one-year break between the two colleges i attended I did two things. I joined a gym for the first time and I also completed two screenplays. Both events kinda went nowhere. Although the bathroom scale in the those 10 years have basically seen the same 70 lbs come and go and come and go...the screenplay writing took a major back seat due to life, family illnesses and just plain laziness, not to mention, procrastination and an unsettling comfort level with the mediocre jobs I've held since college. By the end of this Labor day weekend, i expect to complete my first screenplay in the last 10 years. COMPLETE!!! This is a pretty big freakin' deal and hopefully the first of many scripts to be finished. I have several others that are 10-40 percent range of completion. I found it best to just stick with one story and finish it rather than jumping from script to script. This process seems to work best for me.

So wish me luck and in the next coming months....maybe a movie with my name on it maybe coming to a theater near you.

Long Time No Blog

So its been a while, yes?  I was reading my previous blogs and thought it was funny that the financial ruin that struck me down almost 6 months ago is still here and yet now its almost unnoticeable.  It amazing how the human mind adapts to a situation and yet i'm shocked i'm not living in the gutter.  I guess someone up there likes me.

A lot has happened in recent months. Went to Cuba, met family.  It was awesome.  Had a good movie project rip out from under me.  No worries, plenty more ideas in reserve.  I started posting more regular vlogs on Youtube including my stint as the Wednesday host of the 5OldGays channel.  The glamorous life, yes? 

I dropped about 35ish lbs. Mostly due to lack of funds to eat out three meals a day like i used to and thanks to reading 'A New Earth' and I know consider myself and enlightened being....isn't that nice?  Maybe that's why all the other bullshit no longer affects me so.  Isn't learning to let go the bestest thing ever :)   

Anyways for all you interested  here are some web addresses that pertain to all things raul lara.

http://myspace.com/raul1974

http://youtube.com/raullara

http://youtube.com/5oldgays

I have a page on facebook, hardly use it but feel free to look me up there if yall want. 

thanks for reading.

KIVA.ORG

I wanted to let you all know about a cool non-profit that is doing great things: Kiva.org

Kiva.org is a non-profit that allows you to make a small 0% loan to low income entrepreneurs in the developing world (microfinance). Individuals like you can help provide affordable working capital for the poor -- money to buy a sewing machine, livestock, etc. -- and empower them to earn their way out of poverty.

What's Is gonna take????

I sit here writing this in complete and utter financial ruin. I have a job that no longer pays the bills. So i sit here and complain. I may have to get a second job....just to pay bills. First time in my life i'm facing with this crap to this degree. I've been strapped before, but never like this. Everything is so expensive. I see a pay check tomorrow that will be deposited into a back account that is alreay several hundreds of dollars over-drafted. Isn't that great? These extreme high and lows just keep hitting me. OVER AND OVER. My mistake was in upgrading everything. I should have stayed in the show box apartment and kept driving the clunker. I should have kept living below my means instead of wanting the same creature comforts that everyone else around me seems to have. The difference thought with everyone else....they have help maintaining their lifestyles. They live with family, roommates, spouses, wanna-be spouses. Doing it on one's own doesn't seem to cut it anymore unless you are VERY well off financially. So for a while Raul was restored and now Raul....is demolished once again. Starting at less than zero......AGAIN.

deconstructed,

Raul.

THE PLAN

So the plan goes like this......

I'm off from work starting the Wednesday and don't have to return to work until the following Tuesday.....that's almost a full week off work. The only commitments i have over this time period....lunch with my aunt of Wednesday, apply for my passport and Thanksgiving Dinner with Lisette. The rest of my time will be devoted to FINISHING MY SCREENPLAY....ya know, the one i'm selling for a million bucks.....you snicker at me???? just watch bitch.

hopelessly devoted to you

Raul....

Welcome

SO after near two years of blogging on myspace on three separate accounts, I've decided to take the plunge into real blogging on a real blogging website....don't you love it.

wanna know me???

do you care???

www.youtube.com/raullara

www.myspace.com/raul1974


Don't say i didn't warn you.

It starts now......