Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Dry hump?
Wednesday morning and it has started rain already. Not liking this! Since I get to sit by the window during the day at work, seeing the rain makes me want to sleep so badly!! Hopefully it won’t be raining this weekend in Chicago!
On to other things. I have made some comments about my friend Wes, and people are asking if he and I are dating. The answer is no. I am single right now, although I wouldn’t mind a boyfriend. Wes has known me for four years now, and, although I disappeared from view for a couple of years, he ended up migrating down here and we have hung out a lot since being reunited. (He and I actually met right before I had started dating a recent ex-boyfriend of mine.) I will admit that we do occasionally have discussions regarding our status as friends, but it is more travel where the ball rolls. But that is more for another post. So, if you are interested, I am starting to accept applications for boyfriend and partner! ;)
Those who read more frequently know that I have been following through with Ethan and the progress that he is making with improvements for Brat Boy School. Well, I invite you check out his home now and see the latest improvements…admissions are now open!! You can check out all his partners and expand your horizons. Perhaps even make some new friends.
Oh, and I need to say thank you to Ethan as well for giving me a final push to check out Mozilla’s FireFox. I had been hearing about it a lot before, but being stuck with Internet Explorer at work, had to be very cautious about new downloads. Well, I finally said screwball it and took that final step. It is pretty cool being able to open in tabs and just close out what you want, instead of having twenty different windows open on the computer. (I already have that many for all the applications that I need to perform at work!)
One more week and it will be that lovely holiday we all know as Thanksgiving. This year will be the second year that I will be heading home to my parents home to enjoy some turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing. The only thing that I find sad about the entire situation is that I have to wait for an invitation to go home for the holidays. Guess I never really worried about it before because I always had someone else to go home with, or because I was working. My old job saw me working holidays for at least part of the day, but it was worth it. But the holiday seasons always see it being a hard time for me because of my dietary requirements. Mom always has to ask me for a list of the foods that I am able to digest so I don’t get sick…and somehow it always seem to fail anyway. That is okay, though…I am working on trying to get my body used to some other items.
I bring this up though for other reasons, though. There has been a recent rash of people getting pissed off because some stores are trying to be a little more inclusive when it comes to the holiday seasons. So, they stop utilizing Christmas in their holiday greetings and say “Seasons Greetings” or “Happy Holidays.” Well, our country used to take pride on being a melting pot of cultures. Was our nation not set up by people looking to escape the religious persecution of their home countries? I will admit that there has never been a true sense of acceptance for other people, but there has always been a “truce” between the different cultures as to coexistence. But lately I see/hear more and more people trying to push their religion on others. The most recent that I really had to laugh at was last week’s episode of Trading Spouses on Fox. The traded an ultraconservative church-going mother from Ponchatoula, LA, with a new-age family from Boxborough, MA. I had to laugh because the LA mother got extremely pissed off calling the other mother “unclean” and had tried to push her religion on the other family. (If you are able to watch the episodes, you will see how upset and “loud” she gets at the end of the second episode.) Okay, I can understand that people have their convictions, and that is all good. Perhaps it is because I grew up in a household that was a mix of Catholic and Jewish upbringings that I am more open about things. Who knows. I do know that it is not fun to be discriminated against, or to have someone try to change your beliefs. Or to have the church leaflets or whatnot passed out to you, especially by people who know that you don’t like it. What happened to the “live and let live” standard? Why do people feel that they have to change or control everything? I never did understand that.
Okay, it is hump day. So have a good one!
Oh! One more note. My closest friends know that I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when someone starts getting an attitude with me. I have to give myself a pat on the back because I actually managed to do that three times yesterday at work! Of course the mental pictures of flipping the people off and watching them burn at the stake helped me get through it, but I was a good boy and kept quiet! Yay for me!
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
~ William F. Scolavino
On to other things. I have made some comments about my friend Wes, and people are asking if he and I are dating. The answer is no. I am single right now, although I wouldn’t mind a boyfriend. Wes has known me for four years now, and, although I disappeared from view for a couple of years, he ended up migrating down here and we have hung out a lot since being reunited. (He and I actually met right before I had started dating a recent ex-boyfriend of mine.) I will admit that we do occasionally have discussions regarding our status as friends, but it is more travel where the ball rolls. But that is more for another post. So, if you are interested, I am starting to accept applications for boyfriend and partner! ;)
Those who read more frequently know that I have been following through with Ethan and the progress that he is making with improvements for Brat Boy School. Well, I invite you check out his home now and see the latest improvements…admissions are now open!! You can check out all his partners and expand your horizons. Perhaps even make some new friends.
Oh, and I need to say thank you to Ethan as well for giving me a final push to check out Mozilla’s FireFox. I had been hearing about it a lot before, but being stuck with Internet Explorer at work, had to be very cautious about new downloads. Well, I finally said screwball it and took that final step. It is pretty cool being able to open in tabs and just close out what you want, instead of having twenty different windows open on the computer. (I already have that many for all the applications that I need to perform at work!)
One more week and it will be that lovely holiday we all know as Thanksgiving. This year will be the second year that I will be heading home to my parents home to enjoy some turkey, cranberry sauce and stuffing. The only thing that I find sad about the entire situation is that I have to wait for an invitation to go home for the holidays. Guess I never really worried about it before because I always had someone else to go home with, or because I was working. My old job saw me working holidays for at least part of the day, but it was worth it. But the holiday seasons always see it being a hard time for me because of my dietary requirements. Mom always has to ask me for a list of the foods that I am able to digest so I don’t get sick…and somehow it always seem to fail anyway. That is okay, though…I am working on trying to get my body used to some other items.
I bring this up though for other reasons, though. There has been a recent rash of people getting pissed off because some stores are trying to be a little more inclusive when it comes to the holiday seasons. So, they stop utilizing Christmas in their holiday greetings and say “Seasons Greetings” or “Happy Holidays.” Well, our country used to take pride on being a melting pot of cultures. Was our nation not set up by people looking to escape the religious persecution of their home countries? I will admit that there has never been a true sense of acceptance for other people, but there has always been a “truce” between the different cultures as to coexistence. But lately I see/hear more and more people trying to push their religion on others. The most recent that I really had to laugh at was last week’s episode of Trading Spouses on Fox. The traded an ultraconservative church-going mother from Ponchatoula, LA, with a new-age family from Boxborough, MA. I had to laugh because the LA mother got extremely pissed off calling the other mother “unclean” and had tried to push her religion on the other family. (If you are able to watch the episodes, you will see how upset and “loud” she gets at the end of the second episode.) Okay, I can understand that people have their convictions, and that is all good. Perhaps it is because I grew up in a household that was a mix of Catholic and Jewish upbringings that I am more open about things. Who knows. I do know that it is not fun to be discriminated against, or to have someone try to change your beliefs. Or to have the church leaflets or whatnot passed out to you, especially by people who know that you don’t like it. What happened to the “live and let live” standard? Why do people feel that they have to change or control everything? I never did understand that.Okay, it is hump day. So have a good one!
Oh! One more note. My closest friends know that I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when someone starts getting an attitude with me. I have to give myself a pat on the back because I actually managed to do that three times yesterday at work! Of course the mental pictures of flipping the people off and watching them burn at the stake helped me get through it, but I was a good boy and kept quiet! Yay for me!
The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
~ William F. Scolavino
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere: Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in the rivers and lakes... Let us indulge in games... Let us be more simple: simple and true in our minds above all. Let us be ourselves. ~Robert Linssen
¶ 11/16/2005 05:06:00 AM
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See, I have to have an invitation to go home for the holidays. Last Christmas I stayed at home. Chanukah I can't really go home for since it spans eight days. LOL
But I have to laugh even more though at the fact that the groups that launched their attacks against the stores are even more pissed off by the fact that one company rep stated the true origins of our current traditions with Santa Claus and all that. They considered a "rewriting of the origins." We took everything from three different countries!! (Anyone want to guess those countries?)
But I have to laugh even more though at the fact that the groups that launched their attacks against the stores are even more pissed off by the fact that one company rep stated the true origins of our current traditions with Santa Claus and all that. They considered a "rewriting of the origins." We took everything from three different countries!! (Anyone want to guess those countries?)
The one thing I have griped about this year was the fact that stores were putting out Christmas stuff long before Halloween had even come and gone. Can't we at least get through Halloween and Thanksgiving before everyone goes mad with the tinsel and mistletoe?
I think the countries were Poland, Germany, and Russia, but as I'm unsure, that's just a random guess.
I think the countries were Poland, Germany, and Russia, but as I'm unsure, that's just a random guess.
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: 6:36 AM
It was HILARIOUS! She was telling the camera crew that if they believed in Gd that they could stay, but if they didn't they needed to leave her house right then and there. And the funny part was she finally went back and accepted the $50,000 that was allocated out to her...esp since part of it was going towards the gastric bypass surgery that she had been wanting so badly.
Its strange that the trend with Christians today is the idea that for them to exercise their religious beliefs, it requires the imposition of those views on everyone else. Certainly that's not true for everyone, but it seems like the vocal minority is pushing it more and more.
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