Spaghetti

For several years, a man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back. He would then arrange for the child support payments to begin.

One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. 'Honey, 'she said, 'You received a very strange post card today.''Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it later,' he said. The wife obeyed and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted.

On the card was written:
'Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti.
Three with meatballs, two without.
Send extra sauce

apartment hunting

yeah so we are still apartment hunting...been doing so for about a month. Such a pain in the ass! This has been the most frustrating dissapointing and long apartment searches I have ever had. We've seen several dumps, including one last night that was just horrendous. We want to get a puppy, but it seems like the only apartments where you can have pets are the crappy disgusting ones. We did see a really nice apartment last night too, but its expensive, includes no utilites, can't have pets, and flooded in both the 2004 and 2006 floods. AAAHHHH! It sucks! I guess we'll just never really find what we are looking for until we get a house. I wish we hadn't put our money in a CD now...cuz the rent we'll pay for the place we saw last night is the same as a freikin mortgage.

A couple quotes

Some of my favorites:
"Confusion is always the most honest response." - Marty Indik

"I never said most of the things I said" - Yogi Berra

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

And a couple for the times we're in:

"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist.""

"Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." - Ronald Reagan

Mind Boggled Part 2

This comment was so amazing I had to post it. Kudos to its author, Karen, who I want to see clogging with a frog!

beck, your blogging boggles my noggin!!!
its like jogging through a thick bog through foggy smog!
or clogging with a bullfrog!!
or swimming to prague on a bulldog while drinking eggnog!
or believing that this is the prologue when its really a comment blog!
does that boggle your nog?

frickin hilarious...i love it!

Mind Boggled

LOL yeah so i am loving the word "boggled" right now. What a sweet word. Boggled. LOL. Boggle = to overwhelm or bewilder, as with the magnitude, complexity, or abnormality of...I'm loving "to bewilder with the abnormality of..." So anyone who gets to know me must certainly be boggled.

So instead of saying "that blows my mind" I'll say "that boggles my mind". HAHA does that make you mind-boggled? Sweet. I am mind boggled.

That's all for today...boggled yet by my blogging?

Becoming Pro-Active for your Own Life

So I've been really stressed out lately...just ask Greg...he doesn't know what to make of me. It rains every weekend, my job sucks, I'm saving for a house, finding a new apartment until then, sucking at hockey and wishing I were better so that I don't have to play with people who have no clue, family stuff...blah blah blah blah blah!

Enough already! After a weekend of total emotional chaos, I said something about someone else that I realized that I need to apply to myself. Actually, we all could probably apply it in our lives.

BE PROACTIVE FOR YOUR OWN LIFE!

People in life will screw you over...your job will suck at times...the weather will be rainy...but guess what? I don't have to let that take over my emotions. I can be proactive.

But what does that mean? Do we just ignore people that cheat us or hurt us? Absolutely not. Ignoring those things just leads to internal pain that will eventually manifest itself in our thoughts, moods, words...etc. Being proactive means dealing with the situation and THEN moving on from it. Dealing with the situation may be as simple as an apology or may be as serious as removing that source of pain from your life entirely...
And when thoughts of it get you down, hold the door for the little old lady at the store...let the guy trying to take a left on a busy road go in front of you (instead of getting pissed off when he tries to cut you off and take 10 seconds away from your day)...find a nice card to send to your grandmother to let her know how much you love her...

Good things don't happen to people. Good things happen to people who look for the good things in life.

Bad things do happen to people. Bad things only consume people who put themselves in a place to be consumed.

It's time to be proactive... Any thoughts???