I usually don’t pay much attention to commercials but this one made me nearly spit my dinner across the room it is so funny. Love it!
I need to follow this advice…
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."–
Yes! This is what I need to learn this semester! I always want to get stuff done in one big lump instead of breaking things down into more manageable jobs. I need to start breaking tasks down – I need to force myself. I have been so overwhelmed lately that this may be the only thing that helps. I just need to force myself to do it.
Octuplet Mom gets on my nerves …
So she had a litter of babies … how in the hell in she going to support them? On America’s tax dollars and donations? Yuck. She seems like a very vain and selfish person.
Secret to a happy marriage…
I love this advice from Kevin Bacon about having a long, happy marriage…
"You’ve got to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty." 
Death Sucks
Had to repost these poems. A former co-worker died in an accident and I am having trouble with her death – she was so young, only 20. She had her whole life in front of her and now it is all gone, over. Unbelievable and hard to deal with.
Here area couple of poems I find comforting.
Shakespeare Sonnet LXXI.
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
– Mary Frye
Can you afford to have a kid?
Here is an interesting article about being able to afford to have a baby:
I just found it interesting because I would like to have a child but I am afraid of all the expenses. I also think a lot of people should think about finances before they have kids. I know sometimes things just happen but people really need to start thinking before they mess around. With this in mind here is another article about a family close to where I live (Flint, MI). The article kind of sucks but the comments after the article are entertaining and thought provoking. Sadly, it is a good illustration of what is going on in America today – the choices people have to make or just ignore. I don’t know who is trashier in regards to the article though – the newspaper (The Flint Journal) for running the story, the Mom and Dad that the article is about, or some of the people’s attitudes/responses.
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