November 2010
72 posts
Willie Nelson was recently arrested again for possession of Marijuana...
Did anyone NOT see this coming?
Been quiet lately
The recent happenings are the following:
- Cousin got married tonight, wedding was outside at White Rock Lake & it was cold & awkward.
- Good thing the rest of my family is always a good damn time, I can’t say we all agreed with it, but I do hope we are all wrong.
- Have a sore throat so I’m drinking gallons of O.J. which makes the heartburn unbearable which leads to chewing TUMS like a club kid chews his gum (welcome to months 4 & 5 of pregnancy).
- Have used none of this holiday break for catching up on school related tasks, didn’t want to.
- Spending time with him, which is getting better all the time.
Play
“If something is going to make you happy, even if it requires moving mountains, why the he’ll aren’t you doing it?”
—Unknown
Listen
Weezer “Say It Aint So”
Hate to say it, but this has been my frame of mind on recent familial happenings. Oh well, C’est la vie.
”I can’t confront you, I never could do, that which might hurt you so try and be cool.”
Sarah Palin's choosing sides in the conflict between North and South Korea--and picking Kim Jong Il? →
alan.com
John Heilemann, co-author with Mark Halperin of the wave-making new book, Game Change, told Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” that McCain Campaign manager Steve Schmidt claimed, “She knew nothing.” She had to be taken through World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and Palin was not aware there was a difference between North and South Korea. She continued to insist that Iraq was behind 9/11; and when her son was being sent off to Iraq, she couldn’t describe who we were fighting. (h/t Think Progress) Schmidt does say she was a quick study.
Music Sounds Better With You
Stardust
Stardust - Music sounds better with you
It’s such a relief that I can finally listen to this song again without the flashbacks to 2001, light shows, scary faces, sore jaw from constant gum chewing & hours of bad dancing….
Nothing Left to Lose
Mat Kearney
Let’s go back to earlier this year, I was sitting on a front porch in Louisiana on the phone with him, listening to this song as he was catching a flight to Miami. I was ridiculously confused at the time, but after that day, something clicked for me, I just knew. ;)
How Do You Want It
2pac
How do you want it -
Needed some morning motivation to get me through the door, found the cell phone & I’m off.
Would somebody please bring me every Four Loko flavor?
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george michael | freedom 90
“I don’t belong to you and you don’t belong to me.” Brilliant.
The Pope just said that condoms are okay - in 'certain cases' →
bbc.co.uk
Thanks for the submission, I suppose this “softening” of his stance is a positive in some ways but it’s a long over due admission. The way he describes it still shows mostly contempt, but he has a lot of sympathy for prostitutes, even if he doesn’t care about the plague of HIV in Africa. This excerpt more or less sums it up:
The Pope gives the example of the use of condoms by prostitutes as “a first step towards moralisation”, even though condoms are “not really the way to deal with the evil of HIV infection”.
The pope says that the “sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalisation of sexuality” where sexuality is no longer an expression of love, “but only a sort of drug that people administer to themselves”.
Why I plan on never marrying & prolonging engagement:
There is an old saying I like, “Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity”.
There is nothing appealing or romantic to me about dragging legality, finality, God or Church into my love affair. Makes it less hot, that’s for sure. I suppose if a somewhat false sense of security, public acceptance or tradition is what you’re after, you may find yourself immediately disagreeing with me and that’s okay. A sense of excitement is taken away and replaced with consistent redundancy when I KNOW that I’m tied into this union forever. What is there to keep working for when you know you’re both locked into a contractual agreement regardless? No thanks.
I want the challenge of living with the same person day in, day out, knowing that each of us is free to go at anytime but is so enamored with the other that we make a decision every single day to stay. It’s such a happy sort of freedom, it’s indescribable.
I won’t get into the 50% failure rate marriage has. Without bringing God, how you were raised, tax breaks, personal insecurities, pregnancy, children, social norms & familial expectations into the picture, what reasons are you left with to marry? I see none. Besides, I can put on a white dress (or a red, yellow, black, gold, silver, you get the point) look jaw-dropping amazing, invite friends & family over for a helluva good time while the man & I go on about how in love we are anytime. In fact, we may do that multiple times, why do it once for the sole purpose of being bound contractually? I will admit to already wearing the most amazing diamond engagement ring I’ve seen to date. I’m content as can be, I’ll pass on the rest.
I leave you all with this: If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken
“Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.”
—Christopher Hitchens
