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11:16 PM, Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004:
 
Holy shit. I would try to hid teh fact that I'm drunk right now but I believe that is an impossibility. Tonight was the only night that I could do my annual drunken year-end video and I lost my ever-lovin' mind. I have never in my liufe cried the way i just cried (and truth be told am crying right now). I love Jessica so much and am second guessing everything right now. I am so lost and so hurt, and miss her so much and am so far gone. I've been cruing all day -a nthe alcohol just added to it. I tried to do what I walwasy do in my year end videos and just lost it agagin. I love her so much and she is gone. I love her so so so so so so much. I want her back, I wante her to be my wife, I want her to be the mother of my children, I am so heartbroken right now that what I want in my career and want I want as a family can't co0-exist. I'm just so sick, so drunk, so torn. I'm so sad. I'have never cryiend this mch ever. I realieze.....wait new paragraph.
 
I realizre that all my words are fucked up bu t I'll never edit them. For some reason alcohol not onmly takes awayin hibitions byut it show s my heart.; I ove JEssica. SHe is everything to me why - can't we co exist while I follow my dreams? Why doesn't she want me?1!??! WHy do I have to go elsewhere to feel WANTED??!?! Why , why, why, why, wy,.... I have never been so hurt - I can't keep the tears from rolling down my cface.
 
The year end video was a joke the last 5 minutes I wept like a baby. And I don't mena teared up - I wept and wept and wept. I feel like I've made a mistake. I'm trying to write as many sentences as I can before UI  fall over. I l=feel like I have to record all of this but I've run out of tape. Goddamnit I never should've let her go. I never shoul've done that. No one will ever love me like her. Why was so arrogant beofre? Why am I in italics rightnow?. Jesus - I will have no idea if any of this iws legible inrtil I wake up tomorrow and read it - christ did I drink that much? My head is spinning.
 
OK - so obviously I will add to this entry when I'm sober., ...so all I can say now is in my entire ligfe 0- Nana dying, losing burgundie all taht - I have never cired like I just did...EVER. Jessica is my soulmate...of course wi9th minor problems - but the biggest being LA. AM I REALLY GOING TO SACRIFICE TRUE LOVE FOR THIS FUCING DREAM!?!?!?!??! HWaht the vfuck is wrong wiht me?!?!??!??! DAMNIT.
 
SHe's still in Vegas - I could have her turn around if I wanted....what am I gonna do when I wake upt?!!?!? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCJK ME. I have never cried so much, I'm so heartbvroken -0 what witlll this entries video be? How can I show such raw emotion when I'm weeping so much it loiks like I'm laughintg?
 
I'm better off locking thsi - I dont' want peopl eto thin I'm insincere for posting such raw emotions - but what the fuck else will be this entries's video - -=HUH>? Obviosuly I'm drunk. I cant' type. THis vide (as an editor) should be me loksin gmy ever fuckin gmind because I just kicked out the one woman I've loved and felt a soulmate with EVER>.. Guck, fu ck, fuck, I can't even read what's on the screen - I'm sure thisw ill be amiuwsing tomorrow. Shit I didnt' eat today other than a burger at 3 PM..... when you'r eheartbroken - you don't eat. CVhrist is this really the entry right before the last one? s this Number #379?
 
ell, so bne it. This is who I am on December 22nd, 21004. Only prblem is I'm incredibly hungry and Jess took all the food. Thanks babe. Comebkac.,come back, come back. Here come the tears. Jesus am I really strong enough to be alone - it sure ash ell doesn't look like it. IS any of this even legible? Can I afford to havfge this unloicked? Well, ti is what it is. This is how much her driving away hs rippsed me appart. I ama compLETELY shocked by ti.. I was cool, dfor the last 5months - and now I'm losing my mind? JesusAdam, it's the right choice - whay are you losing it. I hoep cooler heas prevail for your sake, because you can't be stupid enough to stlell her to come back....
 
 
 
Becaseue you know she will. SHe'll come back, lvoe you. have a kid with you and be miserable - and you'll sit there and watch the woman you love bemiserable with a child and your hear t will break and YOU"ll come with her back to Ohio -0 then you'll be so resentful. SDon't do it ADam. Even though this hurts -0 do what is best for both you and Jessica., ALlow her to have her dream, as well as allowing you to have yours. This pain is temporary. SO what if it's hte hardest you'ev ever cried - ther will be worse times in the future. You just need to feel this emiotnion. Fell it deep wihthin you - don't hide it. Have it out there as raw as you can allow ti to be - fuck io t show the video of you weeping. You know?
 
A:L; therse people want to know whatr it's like to follow your dream? DO they really wnat to know?  It's like pulling your heart out and STAMPING ON IT. It hurst, it kiells -0 it can make yousacrificie all you've ever known for something YOU CANT EVEN PUT YOUR FINGER ON> Isn 't that tuhe fucker of them all?!?!?! Adam, you don't even know whqat eh fuck you'redoing - yet you're watching tis beautiful human being go for .....WJAT?!???!?!?! WHAT AR#E YOU DING,.. O)K - my grammare is getting worse. I'm going to go to bead.
 
You all asked for it - you wante d a chrocnil;ve of the Journey - and this is it. Ad runken entry where I'm so sad I can barely type. I can only imagine what my reaction will be tomorrow when I read this. I knwo what it will be :  "That was me being honest. I dare anyone to allow themsevels to be that open.,...EVER". THIS IS MAKING IT P{EOP>E. THis is your dreams. THis is what you hafe to give up for some stupid dream of "MAKING IT" WHICH NO ONE CANC FUCING DEFINE.
 
Tjhis was my choic. Domestic bliss with JKessic ain Ohio or this fuckin horseshit. What in GODS NAME was I thinking.
 
Hopefgully tomorrow I'll know. For now I will cry mysef to sleep and wonder what the FUCK have I done. I have lost everything.
ADam

 

The Sober Addendum (added the following morning)
 
(sigh). I haven't the slightest idea what the correct choice is here. This is easily the worst video I've ever shot. It rips me to pieces every time I see it. I don't want this public. This for the first time in 5 years feels too personal...Yet it's all right here in the entry.
 
I say nothing in the video I haven't said in entry after entry - but man, sometimes words just don't convey the full emotion...and this video certainly does that. My problem is - what the hell else goes with this entry? It's not like I can attatch a video of Shizzle lickin' his nutless sack or some shit... last night's yearend video is EXACTLY what goes with this and that is the story of my life at this moment.
 
I just don't want people to think it was planned like this. I never in a million years thought I would stumble to the computer and write this entry. And honestly, when I woke up? I had no idea what I had written. I just now reread it and it surprised the shit out of me because in my "sober" mind I still know that the decisions Jess and I made were correct. I also know that it doesn't matter that I don't know exactly what it is I want from my career - but I know I need to continue to push it. But when your heart is broken, and I mean truly broken...this shit just pops up. It just smacks you so hard that you can barely stand. That's love. That's the only thing that can bring you to your knees for both joy and sorrow.
 
I just did not see all this shit coming. Wow. I knew this would hurt but wow. Screw the italics - I should write about this...
 
So the day was upon us and Jess and I got up early to finish up all the packing. She was having a tough time, but I was doin' alright. I knew she had to get goin' by noon and I was scared things would go wrong - so I was in a different mode. It was tough to watch Jess losin' it throughout the day, and I wanted to hug her - but I just knew we had to keep working. We talked a bit, laughed a bit...but it was kind of like a funeral. You're just in a daze. We had to ignore this date for 5 months so when it arrived it was just surreal.
 
Then, I closed the trailer and it was done. Jess was alright...we hugged and I helped her drive off - and she turned the corner and we waved.
 
POW. Just melted. Even thinking of that sight right at this moment makes me tear up. I just cried and cried. And it occured to me that I didn't kiss her, and that all day I acted emotionless and I just couldn't let her think that she didn't mean the world to me. I just couldn't. So I got in my car and went after her - knowing she wouldn't even be out of our neighborhod with that big ass trailer. I scared her at first as she thought something was wrong, but then she saw me and saw the tears and just knew. And in my mind? I was thinking - WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO ME? I just cried and cried and cried. Out of nowhere. ALl of the sudden there wasn't enough time, and this huge list of things I never did and all of this shit just poured out of me and we're standing here in the street and you just wish you would've held each other longer, listened more, loved more, looked at each other more...just ugh...crying again. GODDAMNIT. I then went home, empty walls - cried some more. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, hell you probably all saw it coming - I mean I kept writing about the looming date, but man I never knew it would kick my ass like this.
 
Then of course I only have one night to do the year-end video and it had to be that night. I remember starting it thinking "It's a good thing I got that crying bullshit out of the way earlier so I can just have a fun video. bwahahahahah. Folks, what you see in the video is the part BEFORE I was crying. For the last 10 minutes I just wept. The dogs got all freaked and came over and I just let it all out. But I guess not really all as my ass is still crying. I feel tremendously alone, and like the biggest fool in the world at some moments...then others I know it was right. Up, down, up, down. Life is hard. You get to a certain age, and every choice is hard. Everything you do changes your life and you have no choice but to pick between a pair of what-ifs. You say, "Hmmm, which 'what-if' will hurt less down the road? The career what-if or the love what-if?" I don't know about down the road, but for the patch of highway I'm standing on right now? It fuckin' hurts more. Heh. Merry Christmas boys and girls, hold your loved ones close.
 
Adam
 
EDITOR'S NOTE, 01/16/05: Because of being in Columbus, then being busy, then having my C Drive crash - this was the only entry and video up for nearly a month. Of all the times to fall behind, huh? Anyway, I finally uploaded everything a month later (today), but I thought you reading this well after the fact should know that most readers thought I was dead or something...