Newt Gingrich

I find it laughable that Newt Gingrich has the audacity to announce that Obama has failed. Yes, indeed, Obama has not been able, in the not even SIX MONTHS that he has been in office, to fix the ENORMOUS amount of issues that our country is facing from the EIGHT YEARS that Gingrich's buddy, Pres. Bush was in office. Highly amusing. Let's give one man 8 years to destroy a nation and then scorn the man that isn't able to fix it in 5 months. Seriously? And Jon Voight, you should stick to memorizing scripts and saying what other people write for you.

STOP having babies! (Part 1)

I'm going to start out this little series by explaining to you some of my views on population.

I believe (along with quite a few others, I might add) that we are overpopulating the world. We are having too many offspring. The reason we're having so many environmental crises is because there's too many of us dumping too much crap on the earth. Our over population will eventually become our extinction. Whereas other eras of species have been killed off by falling asteroids or what have you, we will be our own demise (kind of fitting, actually).

The thing that is even sadder about this is that we know better! We could easily solve this.

I was just reading this book that included a little chapter about our population problem. It's suggestion: limiting one offspring/female. It wasn't just talking about for one generation, either. It's suggestion was for several generations. Here's what it would amount to: if all women were to have only one child, our current population of 6.5 billion would be 5.5 billion by 2050, 3.43 billion by 2075, and 1.6 billion by 2100. I don't even know if we'd need to go all the way down to 1.6 billion, but it would probably be best for the planet. At that point, females can start having 2 children to maintain the population at that level.

Back in the day, people were having huge families to help run the farms and other businesses. Back then it made sense to have numerous children. Today, it doesn't make any sense. There is absolutely no valid reason for having a large family in this day and age. It is irresponsible and selfish. For those of us that look beyond our own lives and how we affect the world by our decisions, we feel the need to sacrifice our one "allotted" baby because there are too many people who are having too many babies.

So, here is the ultimate question that I put out there to... everyone, I guess. Are you willing to sacrifice your desire for lots of children (or even for more than one child) to ensure the survival of the human race?

How unselfish are you?

Michael Shannon

Can I just say how happy I was to see him at the Oscars last night? So proud of you, Michael! I wish you had more of a chance, but the nomination was HUGE, and I'm so glad they took notice of you! YAY!

Grrrr....

I'm having one of those days at work. One of those days when every little thing that my boss asks me to do is just slightly retarded. It's easy enough to do, but annoyingly more complicated than it needs to be. Because he's stuck in his ways, that's how he thinks it must be done. Anyway, it's making me want to pull my hair out. I'm not very tolerant today. I think I need to get out of the city for a wee bit.

He's Just Not That Into You... WHA???

Alright, so I have a bit of a beef with this movie. My girl friend and I went to go see He's Just Not That Into You on Valentine's Day to celebrate our semi-singleness (well, semi on her part, total on mine).

Now, I "read" the book (I put that in quotes because I actually listened to the book on cd), and I loved the book. It made me laugh and laugh. It also reaffirmed things that women SHOULD know, but we don't always remember. And it was honest and made you think about the scenarios you come up with when you like someone.

Anywho, so on to the movie. First of all, I thought the character, Gigi, was way over the top. I know women who behave like that to a MUCH MUCH lesser degree, but she was outright crazy. BUT that's not even my beef because I know you want to make things bigger in movies. That's totally fine.

And you know, the majority of the movie stuck with the book until the MOST IMPORTANT part -- the end.

If you've read the book, then you know the one thing they stress OVER and OVER again is that YOU are not the exception, you are the RULE. Stop making excuses and find someone who will treat you like they should. You are NOT the exception, you are the rule.

They said this over and over again in the movie. AND THEN, in the end, the guy says, "you're MY exception." Very sweet, BUT WHAT THE HELL!?!?! You've got to be kidding me! Why don't you just PERPETUATE everything that the book goes against?? I mean, what is the POINT of the movie? And did the writer's of the book have an okay on the script? And if they did, HOW DID THEY LET THAT HAPPEN!??!

Yes, I know, I know. Hollywood wants a happy ending, but then WHY for all that is good and holy, would you make that book into a movie? That movie could have still had a happy ending, but not THAT happy ending. COME ON! Ugh.

So that's my beef. I guess I just expect too much.

I'm a horrible blogger!

Ha ha. It's been sooooo long, and sooooo very much has happened since I last wrote. How do I go about catching up on it? Bah. I'll give you tidbits.

I went to Bermuda for my birthday -- BEST VACATION EVER!

I FINALLY figured out what I want to do with this crazy daisy life of mine. I'm back in school working towards an Associate's Degree in Exotic Animal Training and Management. Now the program is a general animal program, and I hope to narrow my field to marine mammals. Honestly, though, who knows what I'll end up falling in love with doing -- maybe it'll be lions. ;) Ideally, I'll be working with dolphins, though.

I became an Iron(Wo)Man -- see my other blog "I think I can, I think I can." I lost my head and signed up for another Ironman, this one even harder. Woo hoo! I'm slowly getting in gear for training for that.

My momma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia at the age of 59. Pretty damn scary. I feel much to young to be dealing with this. Her short term memory is VERY bad. The long term memory is still there when you talk to her about it. I haven't wrapped my head around it. I'm still in denial a bit, and yet, I have enormous amounts of patience with her. So maybe I have wrapped my head around it more than I think. Or maybe coaching has made me more patient. I don't know. I'm getting used to having the same conversation over and over again with her. I'm getting used to telling her 12 times (within an hour) that "yes, I had breakfast -- eggs."

I need to spend more time with her. I'm working on it. We played Wii together this weekend, and she beat me 3 out of 4 games. There is something inherently wrong when your mom is better at a video game than you are.

Lots of people I know are having babies again. It's a baby infestation. My brother just had another little girl. Madeline Joy. I have yet to meet her, but I hope to in a couple of months when she's got a wee bit of personality.

My best friend's mother passed away. I was there the moment she left. It was a horrible/wonderful experience. I'm glad I was there with her. I'm glad I got there in time. I'm glad I got to stay for so long. I'm sorry her dad couldn't handle our laughter.

OBAMA is president!! WOO HOO! Very exciting times we live in. My fingers are crossed for change and growth.

OH -- I got a raise! And a CA driver's license!

And now I have to get back to work. I'm going to try to start blogging more regularly. I have a lot whirling around in my head these days. I think that's what school does to you.