The Secret to Happiness (This may cross the line finally)

So what is the secret to happiness?
Here is a thought:

"Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
Dance like no one's watching,
and F- like you are being filmed."

Favorite Informative Web Sites

These are my favorite sites for information.
This is good educational stuff as well as good fun.

For the best news on technology and science:
http://www.physorg.com/


Good, accurate weather:
http://www.wunderground.com

The Solar Observatory! I love watching the sun do weird things:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

How's the weather up there? Space events and weather:
http://www.spaceweather.com/

More Space:
http://www.astronomy.com

Free Books and Audio Books! Download away, and it's legal:
http://www.gutenberg.org

Cryptozoology! Need I say more?
http://www.cryptomundo.com/

Hope these are good stuff for you too.
Let me know if a link doesn't work because I can fix it.

Do You Feel Lucky? Well, Do Ya?

It has been brought to my attention that I am a person of extreme luck, both good and bad. People I know say that things that are extremely unlikely routinely happen to me, for better or worse. I have come to believe this is true.

Tell me, what is being lucky mean to you?

Silent Treatment

How do you express your displeasure with the people you interact with?

In my life, I try to be as up front with people as possible. I like to put things right out in the open, in a constructive kind of way. I like to be treated fairly and expect the same in return. If there is a problem, I expect reasonable discourse.

This is not the case with the vast majority of people I know in my life. Most people I know give the silent treatment. You may get a, "Go away" or a "leave me alone" but that is it. Silence.

The beauty of this is that I have no idea what is wrong or what can be done to fix it. It is, without a doubt, the most maddening thing that I have ever had done to me. And, everyone seems to prefer this method of communicating.

Add to the stupidity, if I try to figure out what is wrong, and get them to talk to me, I will eventually get into trouble for being mean and not leaving them alone. Now I am really screwed. This really sucks if you happen to be married to the person that does this.

I don't really have anything more to say about this except that I am about at a point in my life where if people have a problem and won't talk to me, then they don't need to be around me.

Happy Halloween!

From goolies and ghosties and lony leged besties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord Deliver us!


Happy Halloween all!

Alone

There are those times in your life where you really really feel the weight of being alone. There are times when there are events in your life where the weight of it all just feels so incredibly heavy. When things don't go your way, you get sick or you have mechanical problems, whatever it may be, you have only yourself around to work it out, you feel alone. Or on those days that have always been special to you. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthday's, and you don't have anyone at home to go share it with, you feel alone.

It may be that you have family far, or not so far from you, but they are either far away, or busy with their life, and though you may talk on the phone, you wonder why you got the day off work when there will be no party for you. Or perhaps, you are left out of the party, for whatever reason, and you wonder why the people who you care about didn't invite you.

If you are lucky enough to have someone in your life, make sure that you do not neglect them. The worst kind of alone is when you are alone with someone else.

Dating Dating Everywhere

Have you ever noticed the shenanigans that people who date a lot buy into? I watch my friends do and say some very silly things in the name of dating.

"Do you jump in the sack on the second or third date?"

"If they look to the left on the second date that means that he is seeing someone else?"

"I have been dating (fill in name) for four years and we lived together for two, but we really just don't know if we should get married, it just might not be right."

I have never been good or interested in the stupidity that surrounds "dating." I really hate it. I don't know the "rules" and I don't care to know them. You need to wait 36 hours after giving someone flowers to call them .... Who says?! Why?

Another thing that makes me nuts is the break up/ get together drama. I know so many people that break up, cry, move out and carry on, then are back together the next day. I hate this. It upsets me when my friends do it and I really really hate when it has happened to me in my life. That is something that people thought was cute in Jr. High and I didn't think so then and I still don't think so. It upsets the people fighting and it upsets the people who care about the people that are fighting. If it is bad enough to break up, then it is bad enough not to be together.

Also, if you cannot commit to someone after four years, you are practicing to fail in a relationship. If you don't know if you want to be together, then the answer is, no you don't.

Seriously dating several people at a time is also something that several people I know do. Or dating one person seriously and seeing other people casually on the side. I have always thought that this is the mark of someone who isn't really serious about anything.

This may be my most boring and worthless blog entry ever.

EDIT: I have been told that this post is neither boring nor worthless. I repent in dust and ashes.