Happy Birthday, Lupa!

Confront. I'm not down with that crap. At all. Besides I have zero interest in having a racist or homophobe as a friend. If it's a relative, same thing. I can't dump you from my family, but you may wish I could after I get done with you.

As my friend's baby battles against cancer, he faces another challenge - a severe lack of platelets in Phoenix to help replenish those he's lost through chemo. It doesn't take that much more time to donate platelets. Wherever you are, the shortage isn't isolated to Phoenix, so please consider donating as soon as possible.

Clickety here

I'll be going this week.

"When facts and reason are thrown overboard and only timidity passes for wisdom, and we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter – that at that point we don't merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves." - Barack Obama

The speech tonight was further affirmation, for me, that *this* is where I want to be when discussing charged issues. Not to get down in the dirt with the worst, but to respond firmly with my truth, calling out those that need to be called out without demonizing them, and holding strong with a focus towards a positive goal.

Soon as I google the transcript it's being printed out and put into my paper journal as a reminder of how I wish to speak to others - those that agree with me and those that don't.

Sleep.

Snowball (2000-2009). All he wanted was to love us.

Wrestling. But not for long! I swear, it was just a phase. The Rock was a bad guy. Stone Cold Steve Austin was cool.

Look, let's just move on, shall we?

Paris Hilton will die and everyone in America will talk about how beloved she was, how she changed so many lives, and how misunderstood she was. Facebook will have tribute apps gone wild in her honor. CNN and MSNBC will provide 24/7 coverage of her life, times, and funeral. At least one California congressperson will try to pass a bill naming a "Paris Hilton Day", but it won't pass, sparking outrage, rioting, and the overthrow of democracy as we know it.

By December people will awaken from their Hilton-inspired rage, grief, and hysteria to ask, "WTF were we thinking?"

No one will have an answer.

I've tried. Sometimes it does, sometimes it blows up in my face.

Red Devils? Taste like fruit punch. Fruit punch of WHEEE!!!

Red Devil Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Southern Comfort
1 1/2 oz Vodka
2 oz Triple Sec
1 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
1 1/2 oz Sloe Gin
2 oz Orange Juice
1 splash Grenadine

Directions
Mix alcohols into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Add the juice and grenadine, and shake. Serve in a 10-12 oz. glass.

Serve in a Highball Glass

From mrockwell:

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

I only have a minute, as I'm writing from Phoenix Children's Hospital. Max was admitted on Friday after a routine visit to his pediatrician revealed what we thought was an enlarged liver. Turns out it is a tumor. He is having surgery to have it removed Monday or Tuesday. We don't know yet if it's spread anywhere else. Please keep me poor little guy in your prayers -- if he ever needed them, he does now.

"There are two different levels of reality: the raw experience, just as it is, and the overlay of mental reaction to it. If we separate the raw experience from the mental overlay we bring to it, we can clear a mental space. In that space there is room to examine whether we harbor distorted assumptions, ungrounded beliefs, or warped perceptions."

Tara Bennett-Goleman, "Emotional Alchemy"

(Psst, daleth93 this book is what I was talking about with how Buddhism plays into traditional therapeutic methods. It's really really really freaking good. Psst, lemon_cupcake can you resend that email about reviewing books? A/C trauma took all my brain.)

It signifies to me that the moon is in between the sun and the earth.

Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer.

DailyOm Horoscope loves me.

"You could feel a strong desire to promote what you believe in, which could motivate you to share your thoughts and ideas with others today. The more you find that you are passionately fervent about things that speak so strongly to you, the more you might notice that you can use your zeal to affect positive change in the world. Perhaps today you may want to get involved in a cause or organization that is aligned with your interests and apply your energy toward bettering the life of someone else. Melding your desires with an activist spirit could not only motivate you to improve your community, but it might also bring you closer to that part of you which is able to connect with and unconditionally care for others."

Peculiar plans or figuring out how to SAVE THE WORLD?!?!!!

Bite me other horoscope!

Oh lord, maybe I should just plan on having water at the bar.

Last entry had part of the horoscope smackdown, here's some more!

"You may be a bit pushy when it comes to telling others about your weird plans, but this isn't the first time you've faced this dilemma."

Weird plans? Look, dude, YOU DON'T KNOW ME!! My plans are reasonable!!

So much judgment so early in the day.

For today aka Saturday: "You appear normal, until you fixate on a peculiar fantasy that's all about what you want."

Um, how drunk do you think I'm gonna get, horoscope, and whatdoyoumean "appear normal"??!??!?!?!?!#J #O@*@#

My fantasies are not peculiar, they are .....

Just shut up.

Got my Dharma back.

"Experiencing the shared pain of humanity - the realization that all of us are acting out of protectedness and fear - allows forgiveness to come forth on its own." Ezra Bayda

So, with the recent drama, it was what it was, it had the same foundation of fear and protectiveness, actions/reactions that didn't come from healthy places, and it's done.

Om.