election

so when i was in Roxboro, North Carolina last month, i was amazed that there were no signs of the election anywhere. No signs. No bumper stickers. no nothing. Except....for one Ron Paul sign. So Obama and McCain better watch out, because Ron Paul totally has the Roxboro vote. I hear the Roxboro vote was the decider between Bush and Gore back in 2000.

breaking stereotypes

So, Saturday while driving home, i was stopped at a red light and the car in front of me was horribly tilted to the right. Since i was at the bottom of a hill, I figured that the road dipped down lower on the right side. After pulling onto the adjacent road, her car was still tilted. Then i noticed that her front passenger side tire was flat. It was a four lane road, so i pulled around next to her and tried to get her attention to tell her to pull off the road, but she didn't notice me. She wasn't talking on the phone or anything, so i have no idea why she wasn't noticing me. So we turn onto the next road and i get a view of the tire. Yeah, the tire had gone beyond flat. I saw rim, as in I saw the depth of the circumference of the rim, not just the flat face side of the rim. The tire was coming off of her wheel. It was crazy. She was sooooo close to actually driving on her rim, it was ridonkulous! At this point i was getting kind of angry, since she was not only a danger to herself, but other cars around her, and i was amazed at how she could not know that something was definitely wrong with her car and why she was still driving it. She could very easily lose control of her car at any time. As i was flashing my lights behind her and honking my horn and pulling around side her, motioning for her to get off the road, pieces of her tire were being ripped off and flying behind her car. crazyness. She finally pulled into some parking lot and we got out of our respective cars. I asked her, "you realize your tire is flat right?" She said "i knew something was wrong, but i thought i could make it home." We walked around to her tire and she was like "how did my tire get like that?" I figured that's what happens when you drive too long and too fast on a reallllllly flat tire. Of course she didn't know how to change a tire, so i had her pop her trunk which was messy and full of clothes (fun facts). I got out her spare tire and whatnot and started to change her tire. Luckily i've done this type of thing before. She kept saying "thank you" and then proceeded to tell me that she is going through a divorce and today her and her future ex-husband just told their kids about it. So overall, i'd have to say that this was not a good day for her. I told her i was glad to be the bit of sunshine in her life today. So after getting extremely messy and receiving countless "thank you's", we were about to part ways, when i don't know what came over me, but i told he that to help break stereotypes, she can tell all her friends that a gay guy changed her tire for her. Represent. Word.

CANDY!

i have pretty much cut out unnecessary foods that are malnutritious (sans ice cream). I never get a hankering for a past favorite food either like cookies or zebra cakes or sugar cereals. I'm also not curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth, jonesing for a Pepsi. Although, i will admit, once and a while when someone near me is drinking it, and i catch a whiff of its sweet aroma, i do get a little sentimental. With that being said, i'm not a total hard-ass on myself either. When holidays come around, i do cave-in and buy some candy. On Christmas Day, i help devour the double-decker box of chocolates/cremes with my family. During Valentine's Day, i will buy a bag of the large candy conversation hearts (Brach's only). And during Easter time, i will always have one Cadbury Egg. And now that it is Halloween, it is time for my most favoritist candies evar -- the Assorted Mallowcremes. Banana moons, lemon corns, maple haystacks and jugs, chocolate catfaces and bats and the large orange pumpkins. They are all so delicious. I used to not care for the maple ones (they're still my least favorite) but i now eat them and mildly enjoy them. I just bought my one bag of halloween candy i will allow myself last night, and i don't know how long it's going to last. I still feel bad when i eat them, but i also don't care. I have to remind myself to live a little.

quandary

i received this letter in the mail today. it was made to look personally handwritten to me, but it was just written once and photocopied onto notebook paper:

Hi my name is Ray. The reason for this brief letter is to hopefully brighten up your day with some "good news." With all the problems we face today, many people warmly welcome a bit of "good news."

The "good news" is this....Whatever your biggest problem is, be it sickness and health, financial concerns, loneliness or security, it will soon be solved by means of "God's Kingdom."

God's Kingdom is a real government that is already set up in heaven. It is soon going to take full control over this troubled earth. I know this may sounds like an unbelieveable dream, but it is not. It is reality that we must except

When God's Kingdom rules over this earth, it will be forever. Please notice this beautiful scripture as to what "God's Kingdom" will do for mankind here on earth. It is found at Revelation 21:4. There it reads ..."And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. the former things have passed away." Isn't that indeed "good news."

To be a part of this wonderful future, it is vital to learn about God's Koingdom and meet its requirements before it is to late. Jehovah's Witnesses are assisting people all over the world to do just that.

If it is your desire to see an end to all the problems here on earth please get in touch with me or anyone of the Jehovah's Witnesses. We are at your disposal.

I can be reached at your convenience at the following address

XXXX

thank you for reading this letter and i'd love to hear from you.

Sincerely yours,
XXXX

This letter made my day! but it left me with so many questions:

Why is "God's Kingdom" sometimes in quotation marks and sometimes not? and if it is real, like he says, then why use quotation marks at all???

also, why is "good news" in quotation marks. Is it good news or not? Is this a trick?!?! I don't think this guy understands how to use quotation marks properly. Not that i'm surprised, since there's a couple of grammar/spelling mistakes scattered throughout the letter.

hmmmm....quandary.

anonymous

So who is this anonymous person who keeps posting bail for Caylee's mom - Casey Anthony? this time it was $500,000!
Personally, i think it's Nancy Grace. This is the only case she's been covering for the past 2 months. I think she's keeping the ball rolling on this story, so she has something to talk about.

by the way, i love the poem Casey wrote on July 7, eight days before she reported her daughter missing: "What is given, Can be taken away. Everyone lies. Everyone dies." I like how the news calls it a poem. I think it's more of an admission of guilt, than a poem, but that's just me.

I also like how she says "I have spent every day since Monday, June 9, 2008, looking for my daughter." I wonder if she thought Caylee would be at that bar where Casey entered that hot body contest?

back of the class

So while at the power plant in the control room, i overheard a conversation between two operators. (actually it was more of a rant from one operator to the other). The one operator was saying how his grandparents told him that this is what it was heading to back then and that it still holds true today -- the government won't be happy until there are two classes of people -- the really rich and the really poor. By raising the gas prices and stuff and by letting all the immigrants in from Cuba and Puerto Rico, who will do the same job that the Americans are doing right now for half the price, the rich will keep getting richer, and the poor will get poorer. And until the good ol Americans, the ones who still have hair on their nuts, stand up and get their guns and start to bury those motherfuckers, we're going to lose all our jobs to those goddamn foreigners. At one point he also said "that's fucking bullshit, motherfucker" which i thought was amazing.

Now throughout all this as i was sitting right next to the guy saying this, I just thought to myself "good thing i have a salary job and am middle class. If this ever happens, i'm sure i'll be bumped up to the upper class and not the lower class, therefore i'm safe and don't have to care about this."

the other thought i had was: god, the poor are so annoying. whine bitch moan. waaaaah. seriously. sheeesh.

hotel rwanda

so i was at the front desk of the Holiday Inn i am staying at because i needed a plastic fork for my dinner. Upon arrival at the desk, I stumbled across a scene that makes me glad i never had a job in which i had to deal with customer complaints. So apparently this guy had money on his nightstand, which was gone when he got back to his room. Apparently, the cleaning people took the money. It's reasons like this why once i first get into my room after checking in, i immediately place the "do not disturb" sign on my door handle for the remainder of the stay so that i'm the only one entering my room evar. So the lady behind the counter was explaining how the cleaning staff sometimes receive tips from the guests if they do such a good job, so the cleaning lady probably thought it was a tip. i personally think that to offer this excuse is kinda bad on the hotel's part. There is no reason for the cleaning staff to take anything from your room except used towels, dirty sheets and trash. If something else is for them to take, there would be a note on it saying "for cleaning staff." But anyway, this is where it gets fun. Apparently, the money that was taken, was just quarters. But these weren't just any normal quarters. they were specific state quarters that this guy was collecting. so in other words, they were just normal quarters. And this guy was legitimately upset about these quarters being missing. He had laid them out on his nightstand in some kind of order and everything. So the hotel lady was asking him what state quarters they were so that they could try to reimburse him. and he was naming all these states - california, texas, new york.... and i was standing there thinking, "New York? that state quarter came out so long ago. you could get that anywhere. If he doesn't have that one by now, he must not be a very good collector." He would die if he ever saw my quarter collection book. I'm sooo cool!