I feel like I keep turning to the people in my life I'm supposed to be able to trust and share my problems with, and getting slapped in the face.
This is why humans get married; we do it so there is someone at the end of the day who we can expect to listen to what's wrong, sympathize, pat us on the back and help us fix it.
Everyone else in the world? Has the right to tell you to stfu, our relationship is not your blog.
Possible reasons: Stupid people piss me off. Life now includes regular date nights. This chair sucks and my ass hurts. Stupid ppl piss me off. Same routine is same. All of the above.
Everytime I compile something in my head, that I feel like I want to put down in real words other people can see, I find myself not wanting to bother by the time I wind up near the internet.
AKA most of the shit I read this year. This is by no means a complete list, as I am not listing craft pattern or technique books, or everything I reread; I seriously don't go more than 2 days without picking up something to read. Clap for me, people.
In a random order, from absolute soonest(finished Dec. 30) to what I probably read exactly one year ago, today:
Veil of Midnight - Lara Adrian -* ( Collapse ) I'm missing about a dozen, because FrugalReader went under suddenly, and so I lost the records of what I ordered and didn't add elsewhere : / </div></td><td bgcolor="#f6f6f6" width="5"></td>
How cruel is the golden rule? When the lives we lived are only golden-plated....
And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies And all the lovers with no time for me And all of the mothers raised their babies To stay away from me
Trying to make me say you are right Arguing with me about Cajun and/or Creole food is like juggling with chainsaws, mmkay?
Sure, I might let you act like you are doing ok with it for a few minutes, but at some point I'm going to get tired and cut your hands off. Let this be a lesson to you.
Ted Kennedy. I wish I believed in God, so I could think you were spending time with your brothers now.
To the Conservatives bashing him and using Mary Jo Kopechne (dishonorably) to do so:
Do what I say, not what I do, right? That whole line about redemption and no one but Jesus is perfect, it's just to pretty up the scenery, right?
This is gonna be long and teal dear. Bail now. There's maybe even TMI.
Frankly, I was shocked when I watched the bio about Ted Kennedy on PBS several months back. I was horrified; how could someone do that? How could they rightfully allow him to represent anyone other than his fellow cellmate??
Mistakes. Do they come in black and white? I don't know. But I know that I am terrified of being judged soley by the worst thing I have ever done. Sure, I've never committed manslaughter, but...
Sen. Kennedy was a flawed man who often stumbled in his personal life. Most of us are not old enough to remember, but there was a time when Ted was just the embarrassment of the Kennedy clan. The cheat, the drunk, the womanizer. Chappaquiddick was just the latest and largest in his string of disasters.
He made a terrible mistake that night. I will not pretend to know how he dealt with it thereafter, or if he thought of it at all. I do know this, though, life would have been much easier for Sen. Kennedy if he had just "retired" from politics after that. Ms. Kopechne has been thrown in his face forever after that. Kennedy didn't have to do anything with his life; he could have joined the ranks of the rest of the rich, entitled, and lazy, and frankly no one would have said anything negative about it. It's almost expected.
Instead, he took the hard road. Always. He forever sided with the majority of his voters, forever stuck to his ideals. After dealing with his son's cancer, and seeing the devestation the bills caused those families going through the same battle at the same time, he championed health care reform. He stood up for things that MOST senators shy away from, especially at voting time. Year after year, he voted to have Minimum Wage raised to a livable amount, even when it wasn't a hot button issue, and got him no press. Did your Senator do that? Mine didn't.
He was a loyal, hardworking Senator who cared deeply for the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There are numerous reports of Sen. Kennedy personally calling affected Massachusetts families after 9/11, regardless of whether they were Republican, Democrat or even bothered to vote at all. Did your Senator do that? Mine didn't. My "caring", "religious" Conservative Christian Family Value-loving Senators did not. On another forum, there are several personal stories from average people, recounting the ways Sen. Kennedy helped them cut through, or at the very least manouver through red tape, and continued to remember them with letters, phone calls and even sailing trips long after that. I couldn't even get MY Senator on the phone when I called about a recent electoral stance.
Even staunch Republican adversaries respected him, and have always been vocal, grudgingly maybe, about it.
Does any of this make him a saint? Do I think statues should be erected in his honor? No. He did what all of us should be doing, every fucking day; he did what he thought was right. He ran his Senatorial career the way everyone always says they will, come election time. For his people. For everyone without a voice, without a lobbyist.
It makes me wonder if, had the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and his horrible decisions not occurred....would he have been half the man he was? I firmly believe that the drive to do good in a way that requires self-sacrifice always comes from a defining moment; it is what seperates great men and women from the ordinary. And although everyone champions JFK and Bobby, Teddy, the "lesser Kennedy", accomplished so much more.
So, in summation, whether you vote left, right or not at all(raises hand), shut the fuck up and respect the man for tirelessly trying to help those he felt needed it. Up to his last days, when No One would have criticized him for saying "screw it" and just going home to die in peace.
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