Nate DaMac
Fuck erbody but me
I need to vent a bit, so I'm going to do it here. If you have no interest in reading a long ass diatribe about someone you'll never meet, then go ahead and move along.
My name is Nathaniel Jordan Couch. I am in the process of getting my last name changed to Riley, which is my mother's maiden name. It's not because I find Couch embarrassing or anything, I've grown used to it over the years. Hell, I'm certain some of you have lamer last names than me No, I'm changing it because it was my biological father's name and I haven't seen him for 17 years now. I'm not one of those people with Daddy issues, I could honestly give a fuck less. I know for a fact that I am better off not having him in my life and my Stepfather has been a better father to me than that turd ever would have been. Besides, I already gave my daughter the Riley name and after I get married this Spring, I'll be adopting her son and he'll be switching to Riley as well. Riley sounds better than Couch on both of them.
As I said, I'll be getting married this Spring to my girlfriend of almost a year and a half now(by then it will be 2 years, obviously.) When I made the thread announcing it, a lot of people told me that they hope it's the happiest day of my life, or how happy theirs was. While I appreciate the sentiment, this isn't for me. I don't need a silly label on my relationship for it to be official, I'd spend the rest of my life with her regardless. But she wants it, and I love her, so I'd gladly do it for her.
My relationship isn't perfect, as you may be able to guess from my charming personality. We tend to fight a lot about dumb shit, mostly things I do. The core of most of our problems seem to be my hatred of people. She always wants to go out and shit and that scene is just not me. I don;t do Bars anymore, I used to go to bars to find an easy chick to fuck. Going with my Fiance kind of shortens the odds of that happening. So instead I find myself paying way too much money to get drunk, listen to music I hate, and stand around a bunch of people I want to punch in the mouth. Not exactly my idea of a good time. The only time we ever go out with no arguments is when she wants to go out for dinner. I have no issue with that because it's more of an intimate setting where we can just sit and bullshit. Part of the reason why I love this girl is because I enjoy spending time with her just talking. But when she gets these ideas in her head like going out to drink or inviting her ******ed ass friends over or my... friend, a fight always breaks out.
My hatred of people isn't exclusive to strangers. Outside of my immediate family, I could really do without the rest of them. My mother, stepfather, and brothers are all awesome. But my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. are all the personification of white trash. I'm not going to pretend to be perfect here, my family and I get food stamps and daycare assistance, but we're actually using it as a way to grow. She works full time as a CNA and is going to school part time to get her RN Certificate while I'm a full time student. We're trying to get to a place where the assistance is no longer necessary and we can feel good about raising our family on our own. These fucking people get every single bit of assistance they can while they and their gang of kids sit in their cockroach infested homes smoking cheap cigarettes and playing games on Facebook all day. It just sickens me to see people be okay with being shit.
Then we have my friends. I guess in a way I have a lot of friends but at this point, at least 90% of them have been relegated to "phone only" friends, meaning I may or may not answer their calls or reply to their text messages, but I certainly am not hanging out with them any time soon. What it really breaks down to is this; I don't smoke weed anymore, but the majority of my friends still do. Hell, they live by it. I enjoyed hanging out with these people but the longer I've been sober, the more I've realized that smoking weed was the only thing I had in common with them. Now if I ever sit around shooting the shit with them, I find myself getting annoyed at how unbearably uninteresting and stupid they are. Now don't get all offended potheads. I have no issue with people toking up, it's fun I know. I'm not trying to say that all smokers are ******ed, just my friends in particular. I've met a lot of folks here that are smarter than me that smoke weed. But I'm confident that I smell better than you. Anyway, I only really have one friend I hang out with on a consistent basis these days. We've been friends since High School and he has also quit smoking a while back. Even still, we only really talk about Football for the most part. If it wasn't for that, we'd have nothing in common either.
Then there's the people who piss me off the most; her family. I'll break it down a little. First, there's her Grandma. She's kind of the lesser of the 3 but she drives me nuts. She's always being nosey, driving by the house and shit to make sure I'm home when my girl is at work, calling all the time and trying to tell Ashley how to raise the kids. Ugh. Then there's her brother who is supposed to be the funny one or something, but the thing is he is never even remotely funny. He is the lamest person I have ever met, bar none. Then there's her mom. She calls every single fucking day to get a run down of everything that's happening that day and if she doesn;t answer, she starts blowing up my phone. She helped us out by loaning us money now and then, but she uses that as a tool to hold over us whenever she wants something. We paid her back in full, and now she tries to convince Ashley to spend money she doesn't have so she can get back in. It's infuriating. I'm a bit of a strict parent by most people's standards. My boy doesn't get treats and shit without having earned them, but she tries to just drop by unexpectedly to give him shit. We've explained the rules to her multiple times but she just doesn't get it. Yesterday, she came by with a fucking Slurpee for him and he had been a bastard all fucking day. I dumped the fucking thing out in the sink right in front of her. Hopefully she gets the point now.
It's not like I'm some horrible dictator. My boy gets to play outside all day and we watch movies and shit. He has it good. But I don't reward him for bad behavior. If he cleans his room, I'll hook him up with a Snack Pack or something. If he behaves all morning, I'll give him a treat. But if he acts like an asshole, he gets nothing. If he has no incentive to behave himself, why would he? He always acts like a bastard whenever he's over at her house and she doesn't get why. Then when he comes home he has a cup of cookies or some shit. No fucking shit he's bad, he gets rewarded either way. I don't like having to be the bad guy but no one else will discipline the kid so I have no choice. When I first came around this kid's behavior was atrocious. He hit people, threw his food on the floor, wasn't even closed to being potty trained, and didn't listen at all. A year later, and the situation is completely flipped. People enjoy having him around because he is incredibly well behaved for a kid his age. The only place it stops is at her house. Who would have guessed?
Well, I feel better now. I just had to unleash some of this shit.
My name is Nathaniel Jordan Couch. I am in the process of getting my last name changed to Riley, which is my mother's maiden name. It's not because I find Couch embarrassing or anything, I've grown used to it over the years. Hell, I'm certain some of you have lamer last names than me No, I'm changing it because it was my biological father's name and I haven't seen him for 17 years now. I'm not one of those people with Daddy issues, I could honestly give a fuck less. I know for a fact that I am better off not having him in my life and my Stepfather has been a better father to me than that turd ever would have been. Besides, I already gave my daughter the Riley name and after I get married this Spring, I'll be adopting her son and he'll be switching to Riley as well. Riley sounds better than Couch on both of them.
As I said, I'll be getting married this Spring to my girlfriend of almost a year and a half now(by then it will be 2 years, obviously.) When I made the thread announcing it, a lot of people told me that they hope it's the happiest day of my life, or how happy theirs was. While I appreciate the sentiment, this isn't for me. I don't need a silly label on my relationship for it to be official, I'd spend the rest of my life with her regardless. But she wants it, and I love her, so I'd gladly do it for her.
My relationship isn't perfect, as you may be able to guess from my charming personality. We tend to fight a lot about dumb shit, mostly things I do. The core of most of our problems seem to be my hatred of people. She always wants to go out and shit and that scene is just not me. I don;t do Bars anymore, I used to go to bars to find an easy chick to fuck. Going with my Fiance kind of shortens the odds of that happening. So instead I find myself paying way too much money to get drunk, listen to music I hate, and stand around a bunch of people I want to punch in the mouth. Not exactly my idea of a good time. The only time we ever go out with no arguments is when she wants to go out for dinner. I have no issue with that because it's more of an intimate setting where we can just sit and bullshit. Part of the reason why I love this girl is because I enjoy spending time with her just talking. But when she gets these ideas in her head like going out to drink or inviting her ******ed ass friends over or my... friend, a fight always breaks out.
My hatred of people isn't exclusive to strangers. Outside of my immediate family, I could really do without the rest of them. My mother, stepfather, and brothers are all awesome. But my cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. are all the personification of white trash. I'm not going to pretend to be perfect here, my family and I get food stamps and daycare assistance, but we're actually using it as a way to grow. She works full time as a CNA and is going to school part time to get her RN Certificate while I'm a full time student. We're trying to get to a place where the assistance is no longer necessary and we can feel good about raising our family on our own. These fucking people get every single bit of assistance they can while they and their gang of kids sit in their cockroach infested homes smoking cheap cigarettes and playing games on Facebook all day. It just sickens me to see people be okay with being shit.
Then we have my friends. I guess in a way I have a lot of friends but at this point, at least 90% of them have been relegated to "phone only" friends, meaning I may or may not answer their calls or reply to their text messages, but I certainly am not hanging out with them any time soon. What it really breaks down to is this; I don't smoke weed anymore, but the majority of my friends still do. Hell, they live by it. I enjoyed hanging out with these people but the longer I've been sober, the more I've realized that smoking weed was the only thing I had in common with them. Now if I ever sit around shooting the shit with them, I find myself getting annoyed at how unbearably uninteresting and stupid they are. Now don't get all offended potheads. I have no issue with people toking up, it's fun I know. I'm not trying to say that all smokers are ******ed, just my friends in particular. I've met a lot of folks here that are smarter than me that smoke weed. But I'm confident that I smell better than you. Anyway, I only really have one friend I hang out with on a consistent basis these days. We've been friends since High School and he has also quit smoking a while back. Even still, we only really talk about Football for the most part. If it wasn't for that, we'd have nothing in common either.
Then there's the people who piss me off the most; her family. I'll break it down a little. First, there's her Grandma. She's kind of the lesser of the 3 but she drives me nuts. She's always being nosey, driving by the house and shit to make sure I'm home when my girl is at work, calling all the time and trying to tell Ashley how to raise the kids. Ugh. Then there's her brother who is supposed to be the funny one or something, but the thing is he is never even remotely funny. He is the lamest person I have ever met, bar none. Then there's her mom. She calls every single fucking day to get a run down of everything that's happening that day and if she doesn;t answer, she starts blowing up my phone. She helped us out by loaning us money now and then, but she uses that as a tool to hold over us whenever she wants something. We paid her back in full, and now she tries to convince Ashley to spend money she doesn't have so she can get back in. It's infuriating. I'm a bit of a strict parent by most people's standards. My boy doesn't get treats and shit without having earned them, but she tries to just drop by unexpectedly to give him shit. We've explained the rules to her multiple times but she just doesn't get it. Yesterday, she came by with a fucking Slurpee for him and he had been a bastard all fucking day. I dumped the fucking thing out in the sink right in front of her. Hopefully she gets the point now.
It's not like I'm some horrible dictator. My boy gets to play outside all day and we watch movies and shit. He has it good. But I don't reward him for bad behavior. If he cleans his room, I'll hook him up with a Snack Pack or something. If he behaves all morning, I'll give him a treat. But if he acts like an asshole, he gets nothing. If he has no incentive to behave himself, why would he? He always acts like a bastard whenever he's over at her house and she doesn't get why. Then when he comes home he has a cup of cookies or some shit. No fucking shit he's bad, he gets rewarded either way. I don't like having to be the bad guy but no one else will discipline the kid so I have no choice. When I first came around this kid's behavior was atrocious. He hit people, threw his food on the floor, wasn't even closed to being potty trained, and didn't listen at all. A year later, and the situation is completely flipped. People enjoy having him around because he is incredibly well behaved for a kid his age. The only place it stops is at her house. Who would have guessed?
Well, I feel better now. I just had to unleash some of this shit.
