In the past few months, I have had to endure the onslaught of many of my best friends and colleagues getting married and having babies…
Abby = married
Christie = baby
Kim = engaged
Karissa = engaged
To add insult to injury, Karrisa (as if to outdo herself from the engagement announcement from a month ago) just called to inform me that she is pregnant…oops….so the wedding is being moved up…blah, blah, blah!!!
Due to all of these "wonderful" events happening in everyone else's life, I once again found myself standing in the "Dishes and Flatware" section of an upper-end department store blankly staring at the registration list from one of the latest "invitations" I received:
-exclusive set of flatware for 8
-expensive plates for 8
-even more expensive bowls for 8
-a toaster….
"Now wait just a damn minute" I blurted out load, to the surprise of what I assume was a newly crowned bridezilla picking out her favorite things to register for.
"This bitch has 2 toasters and 5 full sets of dishes for 8 already."I know because I've eaten on all 5 sets of them.
"What the hell does she need with another set of dishes and another toaster?"
"More importantly, why does she think I should buy her upgraded dishes for her?I need a set of dishes more than that whore does!!!"
Yes, I was a little upset and rightfully so!!!
Why the hell does this stupid tradition carry on?
People are getting married later in life now and I do not know one woman age 28 or older that doesn't own her own home/condo, at least 2 nice sets of dishes, and has a fully equipped kitchen with more than $1,000 worth of Pampered Chef products stuffed in each and every drawer that they rarely if ever use.
Being the age that I am and being fairly content with the "situation" I'm currently in, I find it absurd that the only way I will ever get to go through this all too female right of passage of registering for all new kitchen and house thingies at expensive department stores and have my best friends throw me big parties where I get to wear ridiculous hats with penises protruding from the top and be lavished with more lingerie than I could ever possibly hope to wear, is to get engaged.
WHY DAMN IT????
Don't single women eat on plates too?Don't we eat toast?
And, since we are probably 'looking' for men, don't we need lingerie even more than soon-to-be married women?It's not like they're going to be having sex much longer anyway!!!
So, I decided to announce my engagement….to myself!!!
I am marrying my career, my house that I bought myself, my nice car, my self-esteem, my freedom, my traveling I get to do because of my career, the money I get to spend on shoes instead of baby formula!!!!!!All of it!!!!!!!!And I am going to do it on my birthday this year.
I might even register for stuff too….Just because I can!!!
I want stuff, damn it!!!!
And a cake…and lingerie…and nice dishes…and a diamond ring…and a penis T-shirt or hat or something…and a champagne toast to me and my self-esteem and my shoes and my house and my job!!!And may we live happily ever fucking after.
And I'm going to need all of your addresses too, so I can invite you to my wedding…to myself.
I have accumulated an enormous amount of wealth throughout my life.
I have accumulated...
...a wealth of knowledge from the choices I've made and the subsequent mistakes that have resulted from those choices.
...a wealth of regret for the past, but have forgiven myself because I realize that I have grown enough not to make the same mistakes that haunt my past.
...a wealth of dishonest words which I mistakenly believed and the sting of the reality of that truth serves as a deterent to trusting anyone new, yet I am ready to let the right person tear those walls down again.
...a wealth of realization that the people you love the deepest are the ones that hurt you the most and allowing myself to love again, anyway.
...a wealth of deep, meaningful friendships from kindred souls who are traveling down the same path of life searching for themselves and the meaning of it all!
I am an accumulator of wealth.
And I don't plan on quitting anytime soon because the more I learn, the closer I get to me.
I have always heard the streets of New York were dangerous, but I had no clue in what capacity I would find this phrase so true.
This is one of thousands of sidewalk vents around the streets of New York, which provide ventalation for the subway beneath the city.
It is also a mean, evil, Manolo Blahnik eater.
In case you have never been to downtown New York (or Chicago for that matter), there are hords of people everywhere...and stopping in mid-stride to avoid getting your bran new, $500 pair of Manolo Blahnik stiletto's stuck in the stupid vents, which have been strategically placed in the center of the sidewalk by some sadistic sociopathic bastard, is a bit frowned upon by the crowd walking behind you.
Thinking it was just me that was having an issue with the Minolo eaters, I was a little too pleased when I happened upon some poor women that had succumbed to the pressure of the crowds and forged directly in the path of the sidewalk vents only to get her heel stuck in the stupid thing.
I would have taken a photo for you, but I felt bad for her...so I refrained. Plus, I was in the midst of dodging and navigating through my own Manolo eaters to have the time to pull out the camera and sufficiently aim at the helpless soul with her shoe lodged in the steel grate.
I'm contemplating sending a bill for $500 to The City or The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, or whatever organization is responsible for these obscene, woman unfriendly, Manolo hating vents.
One of them finally got me, and destroyed a perfect pair of beautiful new Bruno Magli's.
Bastard sidewalk vents!!!
Fortunately, I know how to make the pain go away...
And fortunately, I still love the city. Who wouldn't when this is the view from your hotel window?
Little Catherine, the daughter of some friends, told me she wanted to be President one day.
Both of her parents, who were liberal Democrats, were standing there with us. I asked Catherine "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?
Catherine replied "I would give houses to all the homeless people."
"Wow, what a worthy goal you have there, Catherine."
I told her, "But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that, you can come over to my house and clean up all the dog poop in the back yard and I will pay you $5 dollars. Then we can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $5 dollars to use for a new house."
Catherine (who was about 6) thought it over for a second, while her mom looked at me seething.
Catherine replied, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and clean up the dog poop and you can pay him the $5 dollars?"
I said "Welcome to the Republican Party, Catherine."
I’m gonna huff and puff and blow your little fake campaign down!
FUCK YOU OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!! And your "God Damn" Bigot Pastor too....................
Obama’s Pastor’s Sermon: "God Damn America"
In a fiery sermon taped and available on DVD, Barack Obama’s longtime pastor and spiritual adviser can be seen and heard saying three times: "God damn America."
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., in his taped sermons, also questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus and suggested that the United States bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Confronting the content of some of Wright’s sermons, parts of which have been aired this week on FOX News, Obama on Friday moved to condemn the remarks in his firmest statement on the matter to date, after initially stopping short of a full repudiation.
"Let me say at the outset that I vehemently disagree and strongly condemn the statements that have been the subject of this controversy," he said in the statement. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue."
Obama said he never personally heard Wright preach the statements at the center of the controversy, but that he first learned of them when he launched his presidential campaign. YEAH RIGHT!!! LOL
Wright’s supporters say his Afro-centric sermons accurately portray black America, and they contend his sermons are widely studied by theologians. But critics are now calling attention to his more incendiary words from the pulpit.
The pastor delivered his final sermon last month and retired as leader of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama has attended the church for 20 years and calls Wright his spiritual adviser.
In a fiery sermon in April 2003, Wright said: "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing God Bless America.
"No! No No!
"God damn America … for killing innocent people.
"God damn America for threatening citizens as less than humans.
"God damn America as long as she tries to act like she is God and supreme."
In DVD copies of his sermons available for purchase, Wright can also be seen questioning America’s role in the spreading of the HIV virus that leads to AIDS. In another speech, made in the days after 9/11, he suggested that American foreign policy invited the terror attacks.
"We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye," Wright said.
"We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America is chickens coming home to roost."
The pastor also said: "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
Amid calls to fully repudiate Wright, the Obama campaign said late Thursday it has distanced itself from certain Wright comments.
"Senator Obama has said before that he profoundly disagrees with some of the statements and positions of Reverend Wright, who has preached his last sermon as pastor at the church," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said. "Senator Obama deplores divisive statements whether they come from his supporters, the supporters of his opponent, talk radio, or anywhere else."
That preceded the lengthy campaign statement issued Friday.
Last year, Obama rescinded an invitation to Wright to deliver the invocation at his announcement that he was running for president. He also issued a statement saying personal attacks have no place in politics after Wright delivered an attack on Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.
But Obama’s longtime relationship with Wright is continuing to spark controversy.
"This is not just someone that Barack Obama has a casual relationship with," said Tom Bevan, executive editor of RealClearPolitics.com. He noted that Wright married Barack and Michelle Obama, and Wright’s words were the inspiration for the title of Obama’s book, "The Audacity of Hope."
"Barack Obama has not out and out distanced himself from all of these comments … ," Patricia Murphy, editor of CitizenJanePolitics.com, said before the campaign responded Friday. "It’s unclear if he rejects all of these statements. I would assume that he does, but I think he is going to be pushed where he needs to come out and fully explain his relationship with his pastor."
Obama did not clarify whether Wright volunteered to leave his African American Religious Leadership Committee, a loose group of supporters associated with the campaign.
Some of Wright’s statements have raised eyebrows at a time the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing tax-exempt religious organizations for alleged violations of rules barring them from participating in political campaigns.
Prior to his retirement last month, Wright delivered commentary from the pulpit in which he praised Obama, as well as remarks focusing on the racial divide between Obama and Clinton.
"There is a man here who can take this country in a new direction," Wright said during his Jan. 13 sermon.
During a Christmas sermon, Wright tried to compare Obama’s upbringing to Jesus at the hands of the Romans.
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," Wright said. "Hillary would never know that.
"Hillary ain’t never been called a nigger. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person."
In a Jan. 13 sermon, Wright said:
"Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty."
So far the Clinton campaign has been quiet over Wright’s comments.
Wright has declined interview requests from FOX News.
NO...God damn YOU Jeremiah Wright...You fucking BIGOT!!!!
Can you people smell the bullshit yet???????
Obama’s "Church" is a Nation of Islam supporting CULT.
National of Islam supporters they are!!! YES WE CAN!!!
David is a bit odd I thought when I first met him. I have been working with him on and off for a few years now but didn't meet him until recently when he starting working in the Texas office every other week because his office was being closed.
He took over the small conference room next to my office, to my chagrin. He talked to himself…a lot, hummed at times and would even sing on occasion. I was constantly aware of his presence and he drove me nuts at first.
Then I began to get used to him being around. The office didn't seem as lonely the weeks he was there. I don't "click" particularly well with anyone at work, so I usually stay in my office which has become my own little world. It has a tendency to get lonely though, so when David was around, I didn't feel as isolated.
Although we didn't talk much, he became my entertainment and I really started to like him. He was a nice guy and he had the funniest laugh I have ever heard.
I walked by the small dark conference room today on my way out and I stopped. I looked at where he sat last week and I thought about his laugh. I thought about the last conversation I had with him when he came into my office during lunch on Friday and I was in the middle of something so I brushed him off…and I started to cry.
I won't ever hear his laugh again. I won't ever hear him talk to himself, hum or sing.
David got up on Monday morning
Got ready for work
Drove to a jogging trail
Sat on a bench
And killed himself!!!
I'm not sure if I could have said anything or done anything that would have made him chose differently in that moment, but the guilt of knowing that someone who must have been hurting deeply sat just 10 feet away from me all last week (and months before that) and I had an opportunity to make a difference…to say something more, to listen more, to have been more aware, will haunt me forever.
We never know what another human being might be going through in their lives.
If you knew you were going to be the last person someone spoke to before they died, would that change what you said or did in that moment?
Barack Hussein Obama is a piece of SHIT...
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Barack Hussein Obama is a piece of SHIT!!!
Let me repeat that for you less than educationally and intellectually equipped folks out there...
PIECE OF SHIT...
Anyone who votes for a man that REFUSES to place his hand over his heart during the National Anthem for President of the United States of America, should be denied citizenship to this country for the rest of their natural born lives.
I spent this past weekend in Arlington National Cemetery in Washinton DC where hundreds of thousands of Americans who have given their lives for this country are buried...and I guarantee you that NONE of them would vote for a man who can't simply place his hand over his heart during our country's National Anthem.
This is a place where the elite of the elite stand guard 24/7 over the 3 graves of the unknown soldiers from ALL of our previous wars.
Again, let me repeat for you mentally challenged, copious pot smoking morons, who shouldn't even have the right to live in this country with the rest of us...
There are only 3 unknowns left from all the wars America has faught...and the Tomb Guard's stand guard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during sun, rain, hail, sleet, snow, thunderstorms, tornados, etc...protecting the graves of the 3 unknown soldiers.
THEY STAND GUARD...and when you are visiting, you are required to honor that same integrity with silence, respect AND...BY PLACING YOUR HAND OVER YOUR HEART during the wreath laying ceremony!!!
God for fucking bid!!!!!!!!!! We were actually REQUIRED to respect the men who died to protect our freedom.
Yet the cock sucker who is running for the highest office in this nation refuses to do so. You have got to be fucking kidding me...............
I would vote for a grain of sand to make sure this BASTARD doesn't even become the Democratic delegate.
What is this country becoming???
These are the latest 3 people buried at Arlington National Cemetery (last weekend).
They were killed during the war we are fighting right now (whether you agree with it or not it doesn't make them any less dead. Nor does it make their service to this country any less valid).
I saw their families cry and their fellow soldiers paying respect at their graves. I assure you, none of them would take kindly to someone as disrespectful to their service to this great country of ours becoming the President of The United States of America.
How fucking stupid do you people have to be to vote for a terrorist with a college education in a Gucci 3-piece suit???
I am not a fan of any of the candidates running for president at the moment, but Barack Obama is NOT even close to being one of us.
I am ashamed of you moron's who are voting to elect one of our enemies into the highest office in this country.
This is why I support IQ testing before people are allowed to spawn!!!
Can you people pull your heads out of your asses long enough to see the light of day???
If you are stupid enough to elect him into office...you deserve what you get.
"Get rid of anything less than extraordinary in your life, and your integrity will increase."
This has been one of my favorite sayings for some time now, but I just recently took it to heart.
I believe in numerology almost as much as I believe in Voodoo and little green men, but someone I somewhat respect (who does believe in numerology) told me that 2007 was a year of closure and 2008 was a year of new beginnings.
It actually made sense to me when she said it, as I was in the midst of wrapping up the dark cloud that had been following me around for years and beginning a new chapter in my life.
I began this year "cleaning out" my life. Cleaning out the old shit that was pulling me down, the old disappointments, the old clothes...the old life in it's entirety.
I have gone through my closet and gotten rid of over half the clothes I had, 22 pairs of shoes, belts, hats, and coats. I've cleaned out my chest of drawers and systematically thrown out half of the crap that was in there.
I have even cleaned out people who sucked the energy from my life and made me feel like shit rather than making my life more pleasant.
That has been the hardest thing to do, but by far the most empowering. I will say that I have slipped up and emailed one of the exiled old friends recently because I missed her (or at least who she used to be), but fortunately she is so pissed at me she neglected to respond (thus proving that I made the correct decision in eliminating her mopy, "woo is me because I have a disease and a drug problem I'm not interested in getting any fucking help for" ass from my life. Hey Karissa, fuck you too!!!
Yeah, I'm a little bitter!!!! lol
This weekend, I started cleaning out my files. I actually had pay stubs from before 2000.…WTF? Why the hell do I hang on to things that are useless for so long???
So, I am currently sitting here surrounded by 4 very large trash bags full of shredded paper that use to symbolize my life...or shall I say, my past.
I have been carrying these around for years now. Filing them, worrying about them, protecting them from fire, etc…
Jesus, what the hell is wrong with me?
So, now I feel invigorated, and much, much lighter…yet, I somehow feel a bit vacant as well.
What's up with that???
I guess it's time to fill that vacancy with new things. And I am very much looking forward to the new life I have already begun this year.
Thanks for the numerology reading Tracy…even though I told you it was stupid!!!
It's so cool the way you totally ignore me. I'm glad you have the ability to overlook my short sightedness at times and force things on me, that you know I need.
I posted this as a bulletin and had so much feedback from you guys that I thought I would post it as a blog:
There ARE people who can walk away from you!!!
And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you: let them walk...
I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean hang up the phone...
When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.
People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can't make them stay.
Let them go!!!
And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person. It just means that their part in the story is over.
And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over so that you don't keep trying to raise the dead.
You've got to know when it's dead.
You've got to know when it's over.
Stop begging people to stay.
Let them go!!
If you are holding on to something that doesn't belong to you and was never intended for your life, then you need to......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to past hurts and pains......
LET IT GO!!!
If someone can't treat you right, love you back, and see your worth.....
LET IT GO!!!
If someone has angered you.
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction.......
LET IT GO!!!
If you are holding on to a job that no longer meets your needs or talents............
LET IT GO!!!
If you have a bad attitude.......
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep judging others to make yourself feel better......
LET IT GO!!!
If you're stuck in the past........
LET IT GO!!!
If you are struggling with the healing of a broken relationship.......
LET IT GO!!!
If you keep trying to help someone who won't even try to help themselves......
LET IT GO!!!
If you're feeling depressed and stressed ..........
LET IT GO!!!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. GOD is doing a new thing for 2008!!!
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