I am a strip of beef jerky...
Shop til u drop...
Didn't get to sleep much from that late night, cuz I had to pick up mom from work this morning at 8...and by the time we got home, I could no longer go back to sleep. So I played a lil playstation2, and then proceeded to get ready for church. Ended up going by myself, but it was cool. Shopped afterwards and got me 2 pairs of pants and a new basketball...for outdoor use. It was good to spend a little time alone. Went back home and batted Jos on the Magic Mic for a bit before I had to get ready for my friend Phil's graduation from the nursing program at ELAC. I was disappointed that there arose no urge for me to say, "Hellooooooooooooo nurse," cuz there were none of that caliber present. But we were of course, one of the loudest support groups there, equipped with a foghorn and everything. Congratulations PHIL! You did it! And not that many people do. Ate a lil at his house and then went on to go hang out w/ my friend in Glendale. Saw "The Italian Job." I liked it. And now I want a freakin mini-cooper and I wanna rob stuff. I don't what it is about heist movies that turns me on so much...it's just cool like that. Anyway, thinking about those heist type movies...it's funny cuz I was thinking about it, and dude, we're supporting people do unethical things. And the justification in stealing in most of these movies is because...what else? The owner, or whoever has the goods is a dick. Like in "Ocean's Eleven." These guys were robbing a casino. Granted, casinos take all our money in the first place so the bastards deserve it anyway...but Andy Garcia's character? He was...a...dick...so it was okay to steal from him. Movies where we're cheering on the stealers is kinda amusing. We're condoning the wrong type of behavior. And we wonder where our kids get these ideas? We give those ideas to them. I must've seen like 20 kids in that movie theater...go figure. After the movie, we had some CPK and then called it a night...which brings me all the way back here, full circle, to my fake computer chair and typing on my desktop... I had a lot of fun and hopefully we can hang out again soon.
What I heard
Something the guest speaker(well she wasn't exactly the guest speaker, cuz the actual one coudn't make it) said something that really caught my ear today. The saddest part of it all is that most people did not get any of her speech cuz they were too busy talking to each other. And I'm not trying to slight people not paying attention at graduation speeches because I myself have been to many and have been guilty of talking and not paying attention as well. Rather, I'm just stating that they missed out on a really important message. Her name was Ms. Lurelean B. Gaines and she mentioned was the way we treat elders. How we kinda just shove them off to the side as we get older...even after our promises of taking care of them when they're old and grey. Hence, the abundance of nursing homes, often understaffed and underpaid. The world would be so much better off if we kept to our promises and take care of them. I hope that my kids don't toss me into some home when I get older. I've been to one of those places. Pop was there for over a month, and I'll never forget the atmosphere I was in and the feelings that ran shivers up my spine almost everytime I went to see him there. I wanted him out as fast as it was humanly possible, cuz the place was just that bad to me. I guess if I had a wish this very instant, it would be that families took care of theirs and that there was a ready and available staff for the elderly. So she challenged this graduating class to make a change...to try to bring some of these concerns to a resolve and thus, "purifying" the system.
"I trust every man(woman), I just don't trust the devil inside him(her)."
Shop til u drop...
Didn't get to sleep much from that late night, cuz I had to pick up mom from work this morning at 8...and by the time we got home, I could no longer go back to sleep. So I played a lil playstation2, and then proceeded to get ready for church. Ended up going by myself, but it was cool. Shopped afterwards and got me 2 pairs of pants and a new basketball...for outdoor use. It was good to spend a little time alone. Went back home and batted Jos on the Magic Mic for a bit before I had to get ready for my friend Phil's graduation from the nursing program at ELAC. I was disappointed that there arose no urge for me to say, "Hellooooooooooooo nurse," cuz there were none of that caliber present. But we were of course, one of the loudest support groups there, equipped with a foghorn and everything. Congratulations PHIL! You did it! And not that many people do. Ate a lil at his house and then went on to go hang out w/ my friend in Glendale. Saw "The Italian Job." I liked it. And now I want a freakin mini-cooper and I wanna rob stuff. I don't what it is about heist movies that turns me on so much...it's just cool like that. Anyway, thinking about those heist type movies...it's funny cuz I was thinking about it, and dude, we're supporting people do unethical things. And the justification in stealing in most of these movies is because...what else? The owner, or whoever has the goods is a dick. Like in "Ocean's Eleven." These guys were robbing a casino. Granted, casinos take all our money in the first place so the bastards deserve it anyway...but Andy Garcia's character? He was...a...dick...so it was okay to steal from him. Movies where we're cheering on the stealers is kinda amusing. We're condoning the wrong type of behavior. And we wonder where our kids get these ideas? We give those ideas to them. I must've seen like 20 kids in that movie theater...go figure. After the movie, we had some CPK and then called it a night...which brings me all the way back here, full circle, to my fake computer chair and typing on my desktop... I had a lot of fun and hopefully we can hang out again soon.
What I heard
Something the guest speaker(well she wasn't exactly the guest speaker, cuz the actual one coudn't make it) said something that really caught my ear today. The saddest part of it all is that most people did not get any of her speech cuz they were too busy talking to each other. And I'm not trying to slight people not paying attention at graduation speeches because I myself have been to many and have been guilty of talking and not paying attention as well. Rather, I'm just stating that they missed out on a really important message. Her name was Ms. Lurelean B. Gaines and she mentioned was the way we treat elders. How we kinda just shove them off to the side as we get older...even after our promises of taking care of them when they're old and grey. Hence, the abundance of nursing homes, often understaffed and underpaid. The world would be so much better off if we kept to our promises and take care of them. I hope that my kids don't toss me into some home when I get older. I've been to one of those places. Pop was there for over a month, and I'll never forget the atmosphere I was in and the feelings that ran shivers up my spine almost everytime I went to see him there. I wanted him out as fast as it was humanly possible, cuz the place was just that bad to me. I guess if I had a wish this very instant, it would be that families took care of theirs and that there was a ready and available staff for the elderly. So she challenged this graduating class to make a change...to try to bring some of these concerns to a resolve and thus, "purifying" the system.
"I trust every man(woman), I just don't trust the devil inside him(her)."
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