http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154892017632&ref=mf

this is a Facebook page for wrtiers. I am sure some of you are on there. If you are, please feel free to join, if you know anyone who would like it, tell them to join.

     It is for wrtiers and their friends. With this writing thing I am going through right now, I realized that there has to be others going through what I am. From having a story that is demanding to be told to being a newbie with no idea on where to go once my story is edited...... I figured if there were enough of us, at different levels, we could all help each other out, I also figuered that it would be nice to have the family and friends be able to come so they can complain when we don't spend enough time with them  because we are writing.

So, what do you say? You wanna join?

Hey, on facebook I just made a group for writers and those that are around them all the time. Since I know several of you are writers, I thought I would share the link here just in case you all wanted to join it or suggest it to someone else.....

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154892017632

The simple answer is yes, I believe that everything has a scientific explanation. But, I also believe that science and faith/ belief in God can work together. I believe that just because you believe in God, doesn't mean that you can't believe in science.

a whole, brand new mind you, thing of frebreeze spilled in my car today.... can we say too much of a good thing? I think we can! WOOO

It discourages me how much some of the world hates America. The only thing that discourages me more is the fact that so much of it is warranted. I wish that so many Americans weren't complete and utter Douche Bags when we travel, or when people are traveling here. I really do. The last few years has been the least international in my life. I have been state side, with only a few trips to Canada, since August, 2005.
 
I miss my traveling.

Alot.

What I miss more, though, is seeing people's reactions to the fact that I am an American. That actually started when I frst started traveling back in high school. I actually had someone tell me something to the extent of "I wouldn't have pegged you for an American if you hadn't told me".  Their basic reason was that I wasn't a beligerent Douche all the time. I was a little louder than they were used to, which I guess they ascribe to Americans, but that wasn't nothing major to them since they know most people cut a little loose on thier holiday. They said I wasn't as aggressive or dominate as most other Americans they have met/ witnessed.

Through College, I learned really quickly not to identify myself as an American. After first year, there were actually very few new people that I told. And, for the most part, that would only be friends that I was getting close to or fall term professors that I needed to let know that I wasn going home for thanksgiving. I didn't want the stigma attached to the nationality. I really didn't. I still don't like it and I still don't publicly annouce my nationality when I am out and about. Especially since, during college, I began to see what everyone hates about us. I lived for three years on the Canadian side of a boarder. The most in your face people? Always Americans. A Canadian I knew during college, in passing, was killed by an American because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Towards teh end of college I often found myself telling other Americans to STFU. Most of the time it was because they were annoying me and ruining my good time. Other times it was because they were making us all look bad.

Americans have a really hard time with just being chill. I think that it is because our country's mentatlity is so based on aggressively doing *everything*. The acquisition of companies, sports, getting a job, what ever. Everything is aggressive and done hard. If you don't have some sort of hard shell, you need a very strong support system here or you get trampeled on. With that being said, I think it leaks over into other areas as well, like when we are holiday. *shrugs* 

We also atuomatically assume that eveywhere else is like here when it comes to that. I don't know how much of that is human nature and how much is American cause I know that I figure on that alot.

A part of me still really wishes I could live outside the states and be an ex-pat. In a lot of ways I don't "feel" American. That isn't how I identify myself, even if it is a part of who I am. There is now doubt that it has helped to shape who I am, and my views, but I would like to think that just as much of my thought process has been shaped by the times I spent outside the boarder and my international friends. I don't know how true that is, but I would like to believe it. You know?

I hate that Americans are viewed as such aggressive, war mongoring, narrow minded assholes. Not all of us are like that.  And, I have to believe, none of us are like that all the time. If I don't believe that, I cannot believe in anything. We are not all narrow minded douches. Some of us are compassionate people. The rest of us all have a little compassion in us somewhere, if it can only be found and reasoned with.

Maybe that is the real reason I have felt pretty content the last couple years? I am finally in a place I like and I am doing work with kids and the developmentally disabeled. It allows me the right to be more compassionate on a daily basis. For the most pat it also forces me to be less aggressive. I need that.

*sigh* sorry for the ramble.

With out any question, it would be Eric from True Blood. Actually, let me rephrase it. It would be Eric from the series of books that the show is based on. I am seriously crushing on the book Eric.

He is amazingly sexy, he has a pretty wry sense of humor that I find endearing, he is FIERCLY loyal for those he knows are in his corner and is an amazingly good screw. He is also smart very smart and, whether or not his views follow society's views of right and wrong, he has his own, very strong, sense of morals and beliefs. Plus, the dude is tall like WHOA and a blonde haired, blue eyed vikking. I LOVE IT.

So yeah, Eric Northman it is.

it is going to have tons and tons of sex. The only thing that will surpass the quanity of sex is the quanity of dialogue.


MMMMMM SEX

that is all

Alright guys, here is the deal. I realized over the last month that I need a vacation.... bad.... even just a mini one. With that being said I think I have settled on the location. I am going to hit up New Orleans. Right now, it is looking like my brother, sister in law and roomie might be going as well. If we all do we are going to rent a cargo van and just go that way. It would be *much* cheaper than flying and, really since it is only an 8 hour drive, not much longer once you add in the time you have to get to the airport then you have to check the bags etc etc etc....

Anyway, does anyone have *any* suggestions for this city? I want to have fun and I want to experience as much of the "local flare" as I can. I don't really do touristy, at least if I can help it. I want to go where the locals go. While in Rome right? With that being said, there are a couple tourist things I want to do.... I do want to see the Voo doo Queens tomb for example so if you think there is something really cool let me know!

Anyway, any suggestions would be AWESOME....

Being a total fan girl I was looking for some pictures of Alex Skarsgard... he plays the character Eric on True Blood.... I found this chat log (who knows how authentic it is really) and I had to laugh repeatedly. If this was really him and he is always this snarky/ full of quips I think I would love to listen to him interact wtih people.   I love me some smart asses....

Q&A

1)

skareb says: What do you think of the pope?

Alexander Skarsgård says: He seems pretty tired, but one can understand that, he has had to quarrel a lot with God.

2)

billabong says: were you always this tall?

Alexander Skarsgård says: No, I wasn`t more than 1.70 when mother gave birth to me
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that second one especially got to me.... Especially with my brothers all being so tall.... My one bro is 6'6" (a couple inches taller than this actor) and he *always* gets this question.... Once you convert the 1.7 out of meters it would make him 5 ft 6 when he was born HAHAHA... smart ass.... my brother always wants to say sarcastic stuff too LOL

.... Maybe....
( I really just like a good story )

I have been reading the books that the TV series, True Blood, is based loosely off of..... I watched all of Season one yesterday. I think I am going to be in Smit with the character Eric by the time they start getting in depth with him.... the dude they have playing him is *amazing*, looks almost par with how I pictured him which ROCKS.... just as tall as he is explained which also ROCKS....

I hope the series totally steers this dude the way they books have cause that is why I like him....I mean, at first he comes across as a complete and utter controlling jerk with tons of power.... by book #9 (where the books are now) the dude is still a TOTAL Alpha Male (or VAMP, what ever) but you see a lot of class act stuff from him and he is actually pretty fucking hillarious. In a brutally honest, sometimes (alright often) sexual sort of way.... I just.... something about him is sort of endearing too.... once you can look past the fact that he can kill with the snap of a finger HAHA

anyway, that is all

Back on Twitter Y'all....

ID is: crazy_tj

Gil Grissiom.... even if it wasn't murder related I want *him* that man is a master mind.....

This is a hard one for me to answer..... I have two hard core parts of me that are brawling out for being the thought process I use to answer....

there is the realist that says "Hell no.... people so rarely live up to being given that second chance and then you just wasted more time"

then there is the idealist which says "Hell yes..... Yeah, most people don't live up to the faith required to give an honest second chance but the ones who do make it all worth while since they often become indespensable friends and they also help restore your faith in people by showing they can change"

OMG yes.... and all of them were by the time I finished my first year of college.... although none are super fantastically A list or anything.....

I met all but a few of the 97-98 Red Wings (either at signings or the Charity Softball game they would do), I met Andrew Shue (when he was still experiencing his Melrose Place Hay Day, Sean Patrick Flannery (seen him at the detroit speed way but at the time I didn't really care who he was so I didn't fight to get his autogaph as it was WAY pre-Boondock Saints) and the dude had a sorta mullet at the time HAHA.... I also met 4 of the Barenaked Ladies.... I didn't meet Kevin Hearn... hmmm I think that is it...

Wow.... just, wow........... I guess I don't even know what to say.... BNL was one of the first concert (of many mind you) that I seen with my closest high school friends.  For me, I guess, this is another part of my youth just slipping between my fingers.  I sort of thought they would be like the Stones or something you know? Plus, the man's voice is fucking AMAZING.... this band is one of the few that I have seen *repeatedly* because the musicianship and entertainment value was *always* there.

*sigh*

I am including a video.... This is from their "bathroom sessions"... part of the reason I am including it is cause, as Page comes out to meet his cue, he is zipping his pant and doing his belt.... he literally just came out of the bathroom.

I made some yummy dinner tonight.... I made kabobs with steak, green and red peppers and onion.... and baked potatoes.... my roomie thought that were so pretty that she seriously sent a picture to one of her friends HAHAHA...

so, someone added me today.... I don't get why, it isn't some one that I appear to know IRL..... so that isn't the reason why.... it has me a little nervous because they seemed to adopt a bunch of people off my friends list and it is people I know IRL.... I messaged them back to ask them who they are.... if they do not give me an adequate answer I am not adding them back.  I am also going to let said friends know that I think they have been hijacked.... huh

I hope the day treats everyone as well as they deserve!