Annoying things:

1. Famous people name their kids strange names.
2. People who don't vote and then complain about the results.
3. Eating in bed and leaving crumbs.
4. People who can't seem to understand that " red eyes" are possible to remove in photos.
5. Dirty fingernails.
6. TV shows and commercials ads with ringing doorbells or phones, which make you into thinking the sound is coming from your house.
7. How commercialized the holidays are.
8. Wobbly tables.
9. Women who use PMS as an excuse to be bitchy.
10. People who always have to be right and have the last word.

Fun Suckers

I have negative people in my life. To be honest I mostly avoid them. But sometimes I can’t for one reason or another. They are like Black Holes that suck the life out of me. I try to stay positive and strong but they ooze negativity and it drains me and I feel exhausted and sometimes a bit depressed. Maybe you refer to them by the sob sister, the drama queen or king, the blamer. When I am exposed to one of them I become tense and on my guard. I can’t wait to get away from them and I can feel my energy drain from me. The worst offender to me is the person who complains and complains but never actually does anything to change things. The old “keep doing what your doing, keep getting what you get”.

Energy Vampires ( fun suckers) will appear in your life. I think the goal is to learn to deal with them before they appear. If you don’t they will suck the life right out of you with out even realizing it.

What is it about us Human beings that we can only see the negative in others? The negative in situations, the faults. We are all so ready to run people down, see the worst in each other. This causes us to become very negative people. We become bitter, angry and stressed.

There are a few things I try to do, and I stress TRY to be more positive in my outlook and conversations with others.

I am learning to think positive thoughts.

I know every one is fighting their own battle with life. I am. But I don’t think that gives any one the right to stomp on others dreams and happiness.

Schadenfreaude

Definition of SCHADENFREUDE

: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others

We all know people who love it when something bad happens to someone. It could be laughing when some one falls or secretly enjoying hearing that someone got arrested for shoplifting. Admit it, you either are one or you know one who feels better about themselves when bad things happen to others. It may have been an ex boss who treated you badly, an ex husband who was abusive to you. I don’t walk around and wish for something horrible to happen, like my ex to be hit by a bus, but if it were to happen I would admit to feeling a little tiny bit of enjoyment. I don’t think it makes me a bad person I think it makes me human. After all, I did not make it happen I merely would be indulging in a bit of schadenfreude. I think it is hard to not have at least a smidgen of schadenfreude for someone who has been mean to you in the past. I think that this is why Talk Shows like Maury and Jerry Springer are so popular on TV. We get to look into others misfortunes and that in turn makes us feel better about our selves.

My question is .. is it a shameful joy or guilty pleasure when something bad happens to someone. Or is it the happiness you experience when justice is served? Is Schadenfreude the stuff of conversation with buddies and beers at the local bar? Or is it best saved for the confessional?

Invictus

From Wikipedia: "Invictus" is a short poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).
It was written in 1875 and first published in 1888 in Henley's Book of Verses, where it was the fourth in a series of poems entitled Life and Death (Echoes).
It originally bore no title: early printings contained only the dedication To R. T. H. B.—a reference to Robert Thomas Hamilton Bruce (1846–1899), a successful Scottish flour merchant and baker who was also a literary patron.
The familiar title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by Arthur Quiller-Couch when he included the poem in The Oxford Book Of English Verse (1900).

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Sunday Sugar

Playing xbox with my daddy.

Happy New Year and some Facts

Happy New Year! I hope you celebrate safely with a few cheers, a few beers, and maybe like me with a few tears.

And some interesting facts:

1. The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays we celebrate. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
2. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible crescent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
3. The beginning of spring is a much more logical time to start a new year. It is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.
4. The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
5. In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.
6. A traditions of the season is making a New Year's resolution. That tradition dates back to the early Babylonians. Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.
7. Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.
8. Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.
9. Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.
10. The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility.