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D "Life" Wrex

HEY NOW, THE STRAW DOGS OUT IN THE STREETS!!!!!

About Me


Hi Hi Hi everybody. My name is Derek. I love punk music, and could give a fuck less what people think about me. I am very open. I wear my emotions on my sleve. I am blunt as hell. Previously I was very trusting but I always seem to get fucked over so now I kinda have some trust issues. I am very calculating and use that to my advantage. I am terribly stubborn. I do not get frustrated very easily like some people I know. It takes a lot to make me angry, but there are some things that really push my buttons and could make me snap. I could basically talk to anyone and make friends with them. I love people. I am a very good judge of character. I do not lie ever, basically I say what I have to say, if you dont want to hear the truth or cant handle the truth well then you should not have asked me. I think things through before I act or open my mouth. I would like to think that I am wise as I have been through a lot in my life and have learned a lot of life lessons.
I am currently a recovering addict. I was assualted November 6th 2006 and shattered my leg and ankle. So I was on pain meds for about 13-14 months. I knew that after my final surgery that I would need to get off the pain meds. So 2 weeks after the final surgery I checked myself into Delwood Treatment center in Cambridge MN December 10th 2007. It was the right move. I had no clue what treatment was and did not know what to expect. But it gave me everything I needed to get off that wicked shit and get my life back. Now I am extremely happy and I love life. Even though my life was pretty fucked for a while I wouldnt trade it for anything. I learned a shit ton of lessons that I needed to learn. I was in treatment for a total of 18 days. I have been sober since December 10th and would never go back. I would not give up my sobriety for anything. As many of you probably know previously I was not a Christ follower and despised God to some point. However now to the surprise of many I have turned my life over to the hands of God. I could not live my life without knowing that God is handling all my problems. I could not do it without him.
The 2 loves of my life are m fiance Amber and my daughter Teagan. I have been with Amber since June. Our relationship is everything I could ask for. We are perfect for eachother. I love her more than I ever thought I could love another person. I thought I knew what love was before, I was wrong. I now know what love is. It is understanding a persons needs, thier flaws, and defects of characther and loving them even more for not being perfect. I have my daughter 50% of the time and she is the light of my life. I love her so much. She is just too fucking cute, I just melt when shes near me. Amber fell in love with her as well, and she loves when TT is with us. We do so much fun stuff when we have her. We actually applied for a 3 bedroom apartment and we should get that shortly. I am currently looking for a good job that I can turn into a long lasting career. Hopefully I can find on that pays 45-60k shortly. I do not foresee a problem finding a job soon.

My Interests

Spending time with my amazing girls; my daughter Teagan, and my gorgeous fiance Amber.

I also love to go Urban Exploring, and I am a decent photographer.

I just had surgery so I hope to start running and working out more very very soon.

Sushi is the best thing in the entire world

I'd like to meet:

My Fucking Hero: Andrew McMahon

Unfortenetly I will never meet this extremely talented & tortured soul.

Music:

I listen to Punk, Emo, Screamo, snything acoustic

Current Rotation:
Run Kid Run
Silverstien
The Starting Line
Jacks Mannequin
Something Corporate
Elliot Smith
Ben Folds

Actually its funny but Amber listens to country a lot and I started to take a liking to it as well. Its like the anti-rap. And I fucking hate the shitty rap that is played on the radio now a days. Its all the same.

Movies:

Feast, Donnie Darko, Willy Wonka(The original, I will not see the new one), The Jerk, Kids, City of God, Memento, Requiem for a Dream, Half Baked, Dumb & Dumber, A Clockwork Orange, Band of Brothers, Trainspotting, The Transporter, Braveheart, Glory, 12 monkeys, Sling Blade, Scarface(of course), Heat, American Psycho, Equilibrium, The Goonies, Alladin, The Lion King, Donnie Brasco, The Beach, The Basketball Diaries, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Cannibal! The Musical, Parenthood, Clerks, Dirty Pretty Things

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, America's Next Top Model, Survivorman, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, The Cosby Show, The Wonder Years, Space Ghost, The Office(The British Version as the American version is good, but complete rubbish compared to the original)

I also enjoy shows on astrology, The Cosmos, Ancient warfare, Midevil Warfare, WWI, WWII, and basically any history/military show

Congrats if you read this far..................

My alltime favorite TV show is Trailer Park Boys. This pure Canadian gold lays unseen by few American eyes, OMG download a few episodes and you will become addicted.

Books:

Books are for burning to keep the house warm in the winter or for reading to Teagan.

Heroes:

Any child strong enough to battle cancer, or any cancer survivor.

Any soldier who gave thier lives or fought in foreign wars to preserve our freedom and our way of life.

My Blog

Today is a bit better

Just being with TT & Amber makes me feel better. I may not have much, but just having them I feel like a rich man. The anxiety and fear is still there, thats part of PTSD, but I feel much better a...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:03:00 PST

Just as sleep, words also escape me

Finding out Amber has cancer was shocking, literally I was in shock, kind of in a daze for 5 days, it didnt set in. I havent cried until tonite. Cutting my loves hair to an inch was hard. Getting a wi...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:44:00 PST

Ugh, the ER is like my second home.....

Seriously, we had to take TT in today at like 11am to see if she had another bladder infection, which thankfully she didnt. Then Amber got a huge migrane so we had to go in for that at 11pm. Big props...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:17:00 PST

Even falling snow makes a noise

Snow flakes lightly kissing your facea slight touch so simple yet so perfect.Is life? Sometimes you forget such things.Thousands of thoughts in my head fracturedlike a shattered diamond, or is that me...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:18:00 PST

64 days sober, A whole new world

64 days sober, cant believe I made it this far. My world resembles little of what it did this past summer, this past year. So much has changed. I have learned so much about this world, about myslef, a...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:39:00 PST

So Im going to be gone for a while......

Im going into a chemical dependence clinic to get weened clinically off of pain meds. I could be there for 7 to 20 days depending on my how everything goes. I guess they give me methadone for a while ...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:45:00 PST

GOING TO BE A DAD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

Im so very excited. Amber and I found out Friday, then got it confirmed yesterday at the doctors. We both are very excited. I love Amber so fucking much, and now we get to share our love with a wee li...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:36:00 PST

Surgery Went Awesome!!!

It went very very well, and very quick. I can already bare 100% of wieght on it. So stoked and extremely happy about this yall. Im so excited I could hump a wildebeest, maybe I just did, wait no,...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:51:00 PST

Surgery Today

Either or it doesnt really matter to me. I still hat you one way or another and Im going to cut off your head and wear it as a hat.Shits is at like 3:30pm. Im fucking starved and dying of thirst right...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:29:00 PST

Opiate withdrawl is hell!!!!!

I have been on opiates(percocet, oxy, morphine, vicodin, etc....) due to my leg injury for almost an entire year now. I went to a pain clinic last wednesday thinking they would help me ease off the op...
Posted by D "Life" Wrex on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:49:00 PST