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Isaac Moore ‎- Dude, don't you realize that pickier you are and the big pain in the butt you are at the coffee shop, just means that you will have more spit in your "hollowed out sesame bagel with some seeds scraped off, with egg whites not over cooked, a little bit of ketchup and hot sauce and your iced coffee with skim and soy milk and 3 and a half Splendas"?

My suggestion for these instances: Hand picky person a box of crayons and sheet of paper. Instruct him to draw how he wants his order to be, then crunch the paper with his drawings in a ball and ingest.

Dream State

I had a dream last night that I was trying to build a fireplace in my apartment (only it was a different place than where I live now).

In this dream. after spending much time evaluating the wall on which I would put said fireplace, and what kind of materials (bricks and morter) I would be using, I finally found a place on the wall that was preset for a fireplace but had been boarded up.

As I attempted to remove this boarding, I realized that the shared wall with the next door's apartment already had a fireplace established and so I would be creating one back to back with it and would be sharing the same chimney stack.

Fireplace

A fireplace symbolizes your heart and circulatory system. Another word for fireplace is hearth which is a pun on heart.

I cannot believe that I even has such intricate thoughts on such a particular subject. From the thoughts within the dream, you would think that I was contemplating world peace or something grand like that!

Recent reading list

Eat Pray Love
Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
The Blue Tatoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
The Last Lecture

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Post Season baseball 2010
Has anyone watched the Ice Road Truckers, where a team with artillery goes around clearing snow build-up in high risk areas in order to prevent the inevitable avalanches? This is what needed to happen when AJ pitched in Game 4 and the score was 3-2 Yankees. So what if Mariano's arm would have fallen off pitching the rest ofthe game? At least they would have had another possible win.

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You would think this the ghetto in Czechoslovakia or the street of Iraq. Between the legionnaire's spores that we are sure are in the office air ducts/filter, the potential ex-employee crazies allowed to wander and/or sleep on our floor and the stress of the stupidity factor, I wouldn't be surprised if my job becomes the death of me soon.

Tomorrow, when I submit my complaint to HR about the unannounced "guest" to our office floor this afternoon, I am willing to bet the director of HR tells me she is not the point of contact for such a complaint, even though at a real company HR is the one to submit employee grievances to. And since we work for such a shady company, my life depends on the securing of the premises. And after the drunk ex-employee that was found sleeping in our hallway early this morning, i would say building security is 0 for 2 today. Even the Yankees have a better game ratio in the 2010 post season.

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Epitomy of hypocrisy: A chick complaining about the "mad rudeness" of someone standing in the way in a half empty train, when she HERSELF is being "mad rude" and standing smack in front of the fucking train doorway

Thoughts of the Day

It is hard work (exerting both physical and mental energies) to make major changes in our lives. Complacencies, as wells as memories and feelings of connection are hard to separate ourselves from.
Unfortunately it is hard to picture the light at the end of the tunnel, so more often than not we remain where and as we are.
I am someone filled with much hate and rage, so no one to give advice, but no matter what path you choose, there will be some sort of relief, if only temporary.

Being a wife in many cases is like being a surrogate mommy (why weren't we taught this reality as young girls so we could avoid this path if we so wished?), waiting for the teens years when they say they don't need us and leave us to be our own person again.

Six years later, I am still waiting for the pain caused by deceit and devastation to end.

During 2006, I had come to a fork in the road (one toward healing and the other toward continued mourning for the "family" I had lost). Unfortunately the gears broke (stuck in reverse) heading speedily into the darkness created by the original deceit and devastation, but this time because of the absence and distance of the kids. I find myself on a daily rollercoaster, waiting for one day for this contraption to break down so I can get off for good.

I do relish in the man-hating ways much of the time and would revel in ripping the balls off of most that cross my path. At times though, I do long for peace and to rid myself of these uneasy feelings because I feel it prevents me from moving forward, out of this darkness I find myself in daily. Maybe one day I will change that.

Either way, pieces of us survive in hopes that one day all the pieces can be remade and remodeled back into some semblence of the original puzzle we call ourselves.

Thoughts of the Day

People on high horses with no statistical proof they are better than the rest, should be brought back down to a reasonable level.

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Official Complaint

Dear Keebler Elves,

I am writing in complaint of a snack pack of cheese cracker sandwiches that I recently purchased. While taking a cracker sandwich out of its packaging, I came across a sandwich with one cracker's rough, flat side facing outward, instead of the puffy, rounded side where it belongs. I was thoroughly outraged! What an oversight on the parts of your factory workers and their machinery!

I must tell you that if this happens again, I will be taking my business to Kelloggs (maybe those Snap!Crackle!Pop! guys have their shit more together.

Sincerely,
Cracked and outraged in the box.

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1)You would think out-of-towners had never seen (either individually or in combinations of) the following: police, assault rifles, bulletproof vests, bomb-sniffing dogs

2)Guy handing out fliers: your negative comments to the air (i.e."no one thinks outside the box") and to the general passers-by is not going to peek my interest in what you are propagating. I have enough of my own negativity and this behavior will just encourage me to add you to the evergrowing list of persons, places and things that I relish to hate.

3)Guy cutting me off at the top of the subway stairs: how did that work out for you? How did you enjoy hurrying up to wait for the two old men in front of either sides of your path? Asshole.