Sometimes in life people make really bad decisions, really stupid decisions.
Usually, those bad decisions, those stupid decisions, affect everyone around them.
Sometimes those people who make bad decisions, stupid decisions, figure it out on their own. But most of the time it takes someone else to smack some sense in to them and show them the error of their ways.
Those are the people we call friends. A friend is the one who looks at you says “damn that was stupid” and helps you pick up the pieces.
Sometimes those people who make bad decisions, stupid decisions, get a second chance to get it right. Sometimes they don’t.
The hard part is deciding on who gets that precious second chance and who doesn’t. Yet another decision.
How do you decide who gets the second chance?
The 101/1001
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: 02.03.05
Deadline: 10.31.07
Tasks Completed: 2
17. Go one month without wearing a hat
Uhhh….damn, went and got my hair braided and realized that its been over a month and I haven’t worn a hat. Well I wore one on Saturday for Big Dawg Z’s baseball game, but I was past a month at that point.
Sweet!!!
So there I lay, happily resting on the couch, when Hardcore and Grammy start talking about the baby whalfin.
“Huh? What is a whalfin?,” says me.
“It was in your paper,” Grammy says.
“Yeah right, I would remember that…what is a whalfin?”
“A whale and a dolphin hooked up and had a baby, it’s a whalfin. You think we are making this up?”
“Yeah mama, they had a baby and it’s a whalfin…there were pictures,” the HardCore one says.
Yeah, whatever, I say they are messing with me and my sleepiness…until I get to work and look for pictures of this whalfin…
Well I’ll be damned if there ain’t such a creature…
It has been brought to my attention that there are a few task on my 101/1001 list that can not be completed due to the actions of others. Is it ok to rewrite them? I’m guessing so since I still ain’t completed the 101 list anyway.
I finally feel good!
My friends smacked some much needed sense into my head and basically said a bunch of things to me that needed to be said…by them… to me!
Simply put, it’s time for me to stop the madness train.
Don’t really know where I will go from here, but I have their assurance that they will be by my side the entire way.
This means nothing to most, but the world to me.
Snotty, Large Marge, Beads, Big Dave…you guess are truly the best friends anyone could have.
TIFFANY IS BACK!!!
I knew one day this song would stand for how I felt…
POD - Alive
Everyday is a new day
I’m thankful for every breath I take
I won’t take it for granted ( I won’t take it for granted)
So I learn from my mistakes
It’s beyond my control sometimes it’s best to let go,
whatever happens in this lifetime
So I trust in love ( So I trust in love )
You have given me peace of mind
I, I feel so alive
For the very first time
I can’t deny you
I feel so alive
I, I feel so alive ( so alive)
For the very first time( For the very first time)
And I think I can fly
Sunshine upon my face (Sunshine upon my face)
A new song for me to sing
Tell the world how I feel inside
Even though it might cost me everything
Now that I know this is beyond my control
’cause I could never turn my back away
Now that I see you (Now that I see you)
I can never look away
I, I feel so alive
For the very first time
I can’t deny you
I feel so alive
I, I feel so alive ( so alive)
For the very first time (For the very first time)
And I think I can fly
Now that I know you
I could never turn my back away
And now that I see you
I could never look away
And now that I know you
I could never turn my back away
And now that I see you
I believe no matter what they say
I, I feel so alive
For the very first time
I can’t deny you
I feel so alive
I, I feel so alive(so alive)
For the very first time(For the very first time)
And I think I can fly
I, I feel so alive (so alive)
For the very first time(For the very first time)
And I think I can fly
I, I feel so alive ( so alive)
For the very first time(For the very first time)
And I think I can fly
And I think I can fly
And I think I can fly
Quick hits:
Would this have happened if it was 17 white kids from Cherry Creek?
Year-long expulsion unfair, students argue
Commerce City - Seventeen high schoolers who have been expelled for an entire calendar year are hoping for a reprieve.
The students, all boys, were expelled from Adams City High School after a fight off campus in which most of them were spectators. Only two students actually fought, but all received the same punishment.
Say what? Expelled for WATCHING a fight? Off school grounds? For some reason me thinks something is amiss in Commerce City?
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Hmm…maybe he gets it at home?
Boy charged with harassing black classmate at Jeffco middle school
In addition to calling her the N-word, students referred to her as a “monkey” and “blackie-chan” and told her to go back to Colfax Avenue in Denver.
In one incident, she and her cousin returned to the school cafeteria to find that someone had spit in their sandwiches
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The boy who was charged may have been trying to impress his friends, his parents said. His father warned him against making racial comments and showed him a television program on race.
“When he was in elementary school, there was one colored family, and there was no problem then,” he said.
It’s 2005, who in the hell still calls African-Americans, ya know black folks, “colored”?!?!?!
Some weeks it’s just way too easy…