The first ramble, and a bit of history

Hello. I am an anonymous male from the near suburbs of Chicago. I have decided to use this outlet as merely a way to vent and get things off my chest without pissing off anybody I know. I do not mean to imply that everything I write here will be an angry rant, quite the contrary actually, I am going to write anything that happens to pop into my mind. Firstly, a little history of myself is in order, no? I was born June 12th 1982 into a lower middle class family. I was the 3rd of 3 children. My father grew up on the south side of Chicago and my mother grew up in St. Louis. They met when they were in their early 20's while attending Blackburn college which is somewhere in bumblefuck Illinois. They dropped out to get married and to raise approximately 3 children. Some 25 odd years later they seperated and are still haggling that out to this day. But I skipped ahead. This was about my childhood. As far as childhoods go mine was normal but not. My parents, especially my mother, were very religious. To a fault really, so much so that I and my siblings were home schooled for damn near our entire lives. This was because they thought that the public schools were evil and also because all of their friends in their church were home schooling as well. (although some would dispute it I firmly believe that the church I grew up attending was in fact a cult.) But I'm sure I'll be rambling about that in the future. Anyhow, although on one hand I resent my parents for not letting me go to public school like normal kids, I realize that I am indebted to my mother for teaching me so well. I realize that I may sound like a pretentious bastard when I say this but, with a few noteworthy exceptions, most people I know don't know what big words mean, can't spell them, can't do math, don't read, have a very poor grasp on geography, don't know history, etc. etc. This is the product of our public schools. On a sidenote it really pisses me off how texting is destroying the English language. I am an avid texter but I go out of my way to spell words right and use correct grammar, maybe I'm just anal but if my generation is too lazy to spell a whole word, that's just sad.
So....I grew up not having any friends that didn't attend the aforementioned "church". I didn't really realize what I was missing until I got my first real job at the local library when I was 16. From there I moved on to a job at Boston market and that's when I began to make friends and I discovered the wonderful world of partying. I moved out of my parents house when I was 18 (this was around the time when my parents marriage was beginning to go sour) and moved in with 2 of my best friends. That was the spring and summer of 2001 and I still look back fondly at that time as the best time of my life. I was living in an apartment with my buddies, all 3 of us were single, there were no worries, every night was staying up late drinking and having fun. It was during this era that I discovered alcohol cigarettes and girls. (no I hadn't had a girlfriend yet, and yes I was a virgin). But it wasn't all fun, during that summer I experienced my first heartbreak, followed by my second heartbreak, and then of course there was the events of september which prompted one of my roommates to join the military. So I and my remaining roommate moved and grabbed a different apartment. We lived there for a while until I had a personal breakdown (a suicide attempt followed shortly thereafter by a drunken hit and run, these were dark times) and I moved back in with my parents for a year. When I had gotten my shit back together and had saved a sufficient amount of money by working 2 jobs I moved back out with a couple of friends into a new apartment. Times were fun for a bit I dated a couple girls and had a few adventurous one night stands (would I do them all over again if I could go back in time? Eh....nah). The year was 2004, and I found myself unemployed, depressed, and drinking heavily. By remarkable chance I met a girl while partying at NIU, we developed a friendship and began dating 6 months later. I am still with her. Times have been good with her, she's been good for me but goddamnit she annoys the hell out of me and I'm sick of it. I'm about to close the book on it.
Anyway, that's a revised and abbreviated bit of my history. There are many things that I have left out and possibly forgotten but at least it's more shit for me to blather on about later, right? So here now in the present I have a pretty good government job, I live in my own one bedroom apartment, I play bass guitar in a band, I enjoy reading, and watching comedies that really push the envelope of good taste, I'm also a sucker for zombie movies. My favorite bands are Alkaline trio, the lawrence arms, rise against, everytime I die, local h, against me, and others.
Also, I'm voting 3rd party because everybody sucks.
Cheers