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| Greetings from the (sometimes dirty) South!!!!!!!!!
I'll write more later, but I love it here!!
All you Northerners...it's 50+ degrees here, not 50 below zero.
My damn flight is later today. I best remember my scarf and mittens. I really don't want to leave.
*sigh*
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| I started writing this entry with the intention of listing the things I'm ungrateful for this Thanksgiving. As so much negative has happened in such a short amount of time, I thought that I would express it as a "lesson learned in life" form here.
But then, lightning struck me and I decided to talk about what I am thankful for, rather than what could have, should have, but will never be. It's just a waste of time to dwell on it anyway.
So, without further adieu, here I present to you, as trivial as it might be for some of the items, the things I am thankful for on this, the 27th of November, 2008. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 
1. La familia. The 3 people that I could always count on, and always go home to and feel welcome at. My wonderful (and sometimes wonderfully annoying) familia. And, they have hundreds of tv channels which makes them doubly awesome
2. Los amigos. The few that I truly have that have been there to listen to me laugh and cry and rant and rave, particularly as of late. Thank you so much.
3. My job. With the economy in its current condition, I thank my lucky stars every day that I still have a desk with my name on it to sit at. Knock on wood.
4. Hockey. My Ice Hogs are doing great this year (#3 so far!). The fights are pretty sweet too. Each game just keeps getting better and better.
5. Chocolates by Daniel. This pricey chocolate place is nirvana for my mouth.
6. Amazon.com. The sales on there are truly splendid.
7. My "King of the Hill" DVDs. Dang old show.
8. "Celebrity Rehab" season 2. Fueling my addiction since earlier this year.
9. V8 V-Fusion Strawberry Banana Juice. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
10. Starbucks Gingerbread Lattes. Yummmyyyy.
11. The "In Death" book series by J.D. Robb. Eve is my idol, and I aspire to be as badass as her. For now, I will live vicariously through her.
Ok, that's all I can think of right now. This may be amended later if I can think of things. Till then, hasta la vista and muchas gracias!
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| Hey! It's Election Day! Go vote! If anything, to get out of work/school/etc. for a while! I know I will be
The past month has really put things into perspective for me. In light of everything that has happened in such a short amount of time, I've realized more than ever how so few friends I really have. Yes, I know several people, and yes, I do my best to maintain contact with as many as I can, thanks to Facebook and AIM. But there are very few people that I would feel comfortable just calling up at most any hour of the day (within reason, of course) to discuss things that are bugging me, or to make plans for another day. Very few people. I could probably count them on one hand, and have a few fingers left over.
That worries me, because I'd like to think I have interesting things to say, at least some of the time. I don't think it is possible for someone to have something fascinating to say 100% of the time. After all, there are elements of life that are mundane. Or maybe I'm wrong, and I might be a very boring person and not even realize it, which is the cause of all my troubles I do consider myself to be a good friend, but there are some things in a friendship that both parties need to put forth. I think reciprocity is by and large the key to a good friendship. With reciprocity, you can gain trust and respect for the other person. It does not happen immediately, though. You have to build it from the ground up.
Granted, there are some people you just connect with right away, but that is the exception, not the norm. I'm usually pretty good about taking the initiative to invite acquaintances out to various events I hear of, wherever I may be at the time, with the intention of getting to know them better. I'd like to think we have a great time. At least I have a good time. But then for some reason, we lose touch, or we just end up staying acquaintances.
I'm not saying that I need several hundred best friends, but I just wish there were more people who would invest as much into a friendship as I do. I know everyone is busy with their own careers and lives, as am I, but
there should still be a minimal commitment to keeping in touch, seeing
how things are, and hanging out in person occasionally, if you want to
call someone your friend.
I wish there were more people that if I needed a shoulder to cry on, I'd go to them, and I would not have to think twice about it. People always say that if you need a shoulder to cry on, they would be there. But their actions do not reflect that.
And, as I've learned the hard way in the last month, actions speak louder than words. They drown out anything you have ever heard. | | |
| Man."Sometimes it's easy to feel like you're the only one in the world
who's struggling, who's frustrated, unsatisfied but barely getting by.
That feeling's a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage
to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and
make it all ok. Because we all need a little help sometimes. Someone
to help us hear the music in the world. To remind us that it wont
always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will
find you."
Damn. That quote is amazing.
Not much to update on. Work is fine, you know, S.S.D.D.
And if I had school, I'm sure that would be fine too.
I just wish life was fine.
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| Heisenberg is my Homeboy.It's all fake. Just like when you learn the Coriolis Effect with regards to the direction of toilet flushing is fake, some things in life are just fake. Your elementary school science teachers were all a bunch of phonies, telling you to pay special attention to the counterclockwise direction that toilet bowl water flushed in the Northern Hemisphere. Did you actually think that in Australia, toilet water flushes clockwise? Fake, I tell you, fake!
I've definitely learned a lot in the last week about perception. Mostly about how we (mis)perceive one another based on what we "know" vs. what we think we know. What I mean by that is that jug of milk being sour, even though it doesn't look curdled and hasn't passed the expiration date. Or more seriously, something as simple as a friend turning into something much more, or a relationship turning into something much less. You know what I mean.
The interesting thing about human beings is that as soon as you think you've established an honest-to-God connection with someone, things change.
It's kind of like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, for all you science nerds out there. This "no-shit-Sherlock" theory states that it is "impossible to know with unlimited accuracy the position and momentum of a particle." This is because in order to exactly locate a particle, the observer must bounce light (such as a photon) off the particle. And doing that will alter its position in an unpredictable fashion. So the non-science part of this is that the more you know, the less you really do know.
Once you deem a person worthy to be an integral part of your life and thus allow them to enter into your heart, the person changes in a way that invalidates what perception you had of them. The fact is that you never really know them, you just know the way they reacted to you in the situations you have been in with them. And sometimes, that is fake as well.
We're all just strangers.
Oscar Wilde once said, "the truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar sure knows what's up.
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