Over 16,554,060 people are on fubar.
What are you waiting for?
You can share 3 things if you like.Just a silly game.
1) I'm basically a nice guy, but I DO have a MEAN streak...
2) I like pretty women, but minds turn me on more than beauty.
3) I have the attention span of a squirrel on coff-
Why is it that...
- ...people run hoarbling and keep their profiles friends-only?
- ...people beg for help but don't help you?
- ...I have 11 points and can only shitface 10 people?
- ...people want to vote for someone with "family values" but elect a goober who says he was hiking, but was actually with his mistress in Argentina?
- ...people are anti-abortion, until their daughter gets pregnant?
- ...people complain about being overweight while eating a large bag of chips and watching "reality" shows?
- ...people believe "reality" shows?
- ...peepel posts public stuff with mispelled werds and grammar misteaks and complain when you correct them right?
- ...I really don't care anymore about "reaching across the aisle"?
- ...it's such a bad thing to elect a witch to public office?
- ...I feel like burning an elephant?
Okay... That's all - feel free to add your own.... And go comment on the previous blog entry, please...
Rock on! Shawn
Additions:
Why is it that...
- ...people say something, then deny it or say it was "taken out of context" or "reworded" it?
- ...a woman looking for a younger man is a "cougar" but an older man looking for a younger woman is a "pervert" or "cradle-robber"?
I just realized - I'm going to be 45 in a week...
I really don't know what to think about that... Or how to feel...
Reeka said I should feel "the same" - I guess so - I really don't "feel" different. Maybe "older"... but I don't know what older is...
I feel I SHOULD say something - like this should be some momentous occasion. But I really don't know what to say, either...
I guess I'll just be thankful that I'm still above ground... and that we still have a home... and that my sister hasn't killed my nephew for being an asshat teen...
That being said, I will say to save your bewbs! Get a mammogram, and self examine for lumps. Hell, ask a friend to help! =D
And I'm gonna slap the snot outta people today - PM me suggestions!
Rock on!
Shawn
I did this after Kloverlynn did. (I am SUCH a joiner! :P)
Hope, expectation, Bright promises.
The Star is one of the great cards of faith, dreams realised
The Star is a card that looks to the future. It does not predict any immediate or powerful change, but it does predict hope and healing. This card suggests clarity of vision, spiritual insight. And, most importantly, that unexpected help will be coming, with water to quench your thirst, with a guiding light to the future. They might say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
I saw this question in the quiz and it made me snort my Diet DP
:4) What's your Favorite Heavenly Body?
Mars Venus Mercury Saturn Jupiter Uranus Neptune Pluto Sun Moon Uma Thurman
I wanted to say Uma, but it wasn't entirely true...
Rock on!
Shawn
I was "tagged" by Husky Redneck to try and come up with a trivia question after answering his. So I have one.
Who was the assassin of the masked president of the fairies? Major Hint: it's from the movie Wizards. That's all the clues you get. And try not to use Google or Yahoo or any search engine.
First person to post the correct answer here gets a 1-credit bling, their choice.
Rock on!
Shawn
I don't like to do this usually, , but Kohls is sponsoring a contest where they are giving money to schools. Top prize, I believe, is $500k. Everyone can vote up to 5 times for up to 4 schools. Please go vote for yours, and for Great Lakes Academy, in Plano, Texas. If they win, it will help learning-different kids in the the area get the technology and . If you have a Facebook account, login and go to #mce_temp_url#. Click Allow access. Then you can look up the schools you want to support for the contest. If you don't have an account on Facebook, and don't want to create one (though it IS free) then please share this blog.
I can't really offer anything other than my great thanks. Unless you need a shitfacing! 
Rock on!
Shawn, AKA DurhamNtx
UPDATE: The link for GLA is: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fkck.contextoptional.com%2Fkck%2Fschool%2F1292201%2Fgreat-lakes-academy&h=faedd
I have wanted to Blog about me for a while now. But I don't know what to say. I see emo blogs, angry blogs, "Eff You" blogs (and status messages and mumms too) on here, and I feel saddened. All I want is to take their pain and turn it into an object lesson in life and help get over it. I usually can't.
I see people on the Gulf Coast suffering. And Somalia. And Haiti. And dozens of other places in dire need. And i want to gather up all the food and money and people and trucks and building supplies I can and go help. I can't do it.
I see people attacking ideas and actions that i perceive as positive (political and not) and all I have is the desire to show them how they are wrong, and how wrong they are. I can't.
These things coupled with the fact that, in the last year, my household's income went to less than half because i lost my job and my mom has been working for free some months, and my sister hasn't sold enough product to get her commission check, and I get so depressed that I have to go lie down. I think at those times I probably should be on meds...
But I will see a TV show, or a flower, or a cartoon, or one of you will say something off the wall, or one of my family will, and I have to smile. And I realize that, as bad as circumstances are, that I need to struggle to hang on to what little is left of my sanity and happy feelings one more day. The song Unwell by Matchbox 20 often fits me. To a tee. Even about the talking to myself in public.
There are so many days I have thought of running away, of Fuicide (No, I wouldn't - I might take a Fucation one day), just to start over. But one friend told me today that "life is tooo damn short to be sitting in a dark corner hiding." Which reminds me of my favorite response to people who ask If I'm ever serious - "Nope - life's too short, too important and too FUN to take too seriously!"
I hope that all of my friends are well today. I also hope that your lots in life improve, and that you find some little thing to enjoy in it every day. And I hope that, if you have problems with each other, you have the wisdom to log off and calm down, and the strength to return and face those with whom you have your problem(s), in order to air and resolve them.
I want all of you who read this and know me to know - I truly love all of you!
Okay, sappy-emo revelation over - let the lunacy resume!
Rock on!
Shawn, AKA DurhamNtx
Generic emo rant blog...
Okay, I feel better - throw me a beer!
Rock on!
Shawn, AKA DurhamNtx
Okay. I'm usually a "live and let live" kinda guy. No, really! I am! This week I got invited to a Facebook group about Fetishist (if you don't know him, don't worry about it. But you might as well stop reading here and move on.) Now, typically I would have ignored the request. I figured it wasn't so big a deal, but I was curious. I know of him here, but, well, I have no interest in his particular fondness in plastic-bags-as-sexy-clothing. So I went to look. I had to giggle. I joined.
I didn't realize that he is a Facebook Friend of mine already. He noticed the group, that I had joined it, and suddenly he's in my chatbox there all the time. I resented it at first. I felt like, Dude! You're a joke! Go away! Then I started feeling kinda guilty for laughing at him, and he made me feel more guilty. I wanted to delete my FB account and start it over.
But chatting with him some, I realized he just was like a lot of us - lonely and wanting attention.
I won't apologize for my giggling at him. Looking at his posted photos, I can't help but think "Clown!" But there are people on the Fu who act like Dom(me)s and shouldn't, which makes me giggle as well. And there are people who call themselves "sexy" in their funames, and I disagree. And I'm just some dork who likes to make smart-assed comments about others taking themselves so seriously, yet here I am doing exactly that.
I posted to that group the link to a video which was uploaded to Youboob against his wishes, and some of his pics. I don't feel bad about it - I don't think he'd mind. He seems to be proud of his fetish. More power to him. I still feel "Meh" about it. And as the French say, "chacùn à son goût" - each to his own taste.
Live and learn, and let live.
Rock on!
Shawn, AKA Durham
Some of you know the sob story from the weekend. Saturday afternoon, I was sitting outside talking with my mom about household projects we're planning. We went in the house for maybe 10 minutes and I went back out - to find it POURING. Not just raining - it was a full-blown gully-washer! My cell phone was on the table outside, sitting in a small puddle of water.
I grabbed it, took it inside, shook as much water out of it as I could, and used a hair dryer on it - all to no avail. It would NOT restart. I left it overnight, no battery, and tried the next day. It was dead. It wouldn't even power up.
Monday I went to the insurance claim site and filed for a replacement and paid my $50 deductible. Tuesday I found an e-mail saying they could not fulfill my claim and to call. So I did, and the rep said that they were out of the Audiovox XV6700. They would like to send me a Palm Pre Plus. Or a Palm Pixi Plus. Or something. It's a touch screen phone. So I googled the pair and decided she meant the Pre Plus. I said yes.
It came today! It IS a Pre Plus! Touch screen, 16GB onboard RAM, no need for a stylus, bluetooth, WiFi, 3G broadband capable - it's pretty sweet! =D
This is a pic of it...
Now I have to put apps on it...
Rock on!
Shawn
PS - IMPORTANT: If you have my cell number, text me your name so I can rebuild my contact list. Thanks!
