October 2009
4 posts
Healthcare
I have heard the conservative camp condemn healthcare as a thing of entitlement for deadbeats who don’t want to work. I have heard enough, and I am sick and fucking tired of it. Not everyone who needs this healthcare thinks they are entitled to it, nor are they deadbeats. Some people have exhausted all their options, and have nowhere else to go…especially if they have a terminal...
the hard way
Yesterday was the first day, I actually felt relaxed; and being a full on cheat day enhanced it. The night before, I hung out at Crystal’s place for the weekly british tv thursday. It’s a fun time for Carrie and myself because we enjoy hanging out with Crystal, Chris, and Jesse. Unfortunately, I ended up on the porch for most of the night talking with Crystal and Chris’ neighbor,...
I checked the scale this morning after my workout. I have lost another two pounds which, to date, is a loss of fifty five pounds. I started the journey back in the first of April by changing my food intake, and cardio. This consisted of walking and running in intervals, and by September 11 when I joined Cardinal Fitness I had lost forty three pounds; in the last thirty days, I have lost another...
seriously
I know that I am not a perfect man, and that my sins and inconsistencies are blatant. I also know that everyone lives in a glass house, and should be careful in where they throw their rocks.
September 2009
4 posts
Why I tell my stories
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I have told many stories concerning my pride in my ancestry, and heritage to the point of ad nauseum. Today, I told Carrie why that pride is there.
Growing up we were poor. I’m talking the kind of poor where your canned food has a white wrapper with black stencil telling you what is inside. I am all too familiar with the cheese that comes from Uncle Sam. Granted, we had plenty to...
The Lord goes before me as a dread warrior
“Put your hope in the LORD
travel steadily along his path
he will honor you by giving you the land.
You will see the wicked destroyed…
The LORD rescues the godly
he is their fortress in times of trouble.
The LORD helps them, rescuing them from the wicked.
He saves them, and they find shelter in him.”
(Psalm 37:34,39-40 NLT)
There are a few friends who would be bothered...
Life Lesson
I spent some time with my pop on friday just talking to him about the stresses and struggles I have experienced up till now. He’s been there, and still doing that. I asked him if there is a break, or if it gets any better. He shook his head, and in a low voice said “No it does not.” Not the answer I want to hear, but I prefer the pain of plain truth than the comfort of a pretty...
today
constantly struggling, and it seems that there is no end in sight. I have read poems and thoughts of people, particulary christians, who want to be taken out to the rougher, deeper, and unsure waters where their faith will tested, stretched, and, if they survive, strengthened. There is a degree of resentment that I feel when I read those things, because I live there, and would rather be on the...