big bang theory makes me happy :D

I remember dancing with my daddy in the kitchen to this song.

good stuff

I got up yesterday at 6:30 am and was at the middle school to observe. I was there until 10:30 am. I was picked up by my friend T. She and I went to Borders to get coffee before went to lunch with L. Books snagged us and we didn't end up getting coffee because we were out of time. While there, T. got a call from her momma that her Dunckle was arrested for beating up her grandmother. Naturally, she was fairly traumatized. She sort of walked around in a daze for a bit. We went to luch and pretended she didn't get that call. I think it was necessary.

L. is a friend that is obsessed with her weight. She is very heavy and always on a low gluten diet. I have never seen her eat anything that had much of anything in it. She times how long she can eat. It's a miserable existence. T. was there to help me keep her from rattling on about diets and eating plans and so on. She was as successful as one could hope to be.

I then ran home to tutor D. S. had brought him from Shepherdsville - which was really nice of her! Then, G and P. showed up to get laundry. It was not done

I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

I think that this article is more my latest blog. I think I'm looking at this gig at examiner.com as a sort of online blog but on less personal issues. This article is on having a party as a grown-up. I don't know a lot about grown-ups so I hope it doesn't read like fiction 8-). As always, let me know if it sucks. And feel free to comment!

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I have a classmate coming to my house at about 2 pm. It is 2 pm now. I have straightened and vaccumed and organized and put away and swept and cleaned and picked up and blah blah blah. I had no idea my house was such a disaster.

Now I even have decent a shirt on. Yay me.

I LOVE this sound.

These swedish dudes got the swing in the snap!

I got this from seanmonster's lj. These guys really blow the lid of f the box.

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Thanks,

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Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

We had to work in groups today in class. This one guy came over and was very loud. I tried not to step on any toes but apparently he felt as if I was challenging his "au-thor-i-tie" and got pissy. It was all very quick but it took everything I had not to just go "fuck it" and walk out of the class. Apparently, offering an opinion is shoving it down someone's throat. I hate people who can't accept that other people might really be into something and insist on taking it as a threat or an intrusion on their beliefs. Just because I believe something strongly doesn't mean I'm attacking YOU - you to-cool-for-my-own-ass jerk.

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his armpits. :)

I'm making a new tag for this guy: jerks. I will now use that tag to record the outstanding jerks that attempt to ruin my day.

I think I'm going to start posting - from time to time - really good email stories that I get. Now it won't be often because 90% of them are crap. But, here is one I got from my Mom that I really liked:
_______________________________

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!'

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!'

'You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'

He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you havetwo choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can chooseto be in a bad mood ..

I choose to be in a good mood.'

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or...I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life ....

'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.

'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life.'

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?'

I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live.'

'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked.

He continued, '....the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action.'

'What did you do?' I asked.

'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity''

Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude...I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Matthew 6:34.

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

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I have a job. It's a tiny little job but its a cool job.

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Here is my first article. I'll try to put a reminder up again but let me know what you think. I could use your input. Thanks!

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I have a job. It's a tiny little job but its a cool job.

I am now the Louisville Pagan Examiner.

I am not sure if you can yet because I just posted this today and the head honcho has to check out my first article but - as soon as possible - please subscribe to it. It will really help me out if you do.

Here is my first article. I'll try to put a reminder up again but let me know what you think. I could use your input. Thanks!

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