Beyond the Stars

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"...someday we'll meet beyond the stars and it will be away from here. someday we'll meet beyond the limits of who we are
and it will be away from here..." [August] by Rilo Kiley

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Welcome Me Back!

Ok, so after a long absence and an addiction to MySpace, of which I have now fully recovered, I am back to blogland.

My experience with MySpace was a positive one. I really liked the atmosphere and reconnected with a lot of people I had lost touch with. Hopefully, I can direct those all to hear and actually have a readership here again. My MySpace was getting about 20 hits a day and I made a lot of wonderful friends there. It was just time to move away for awhile. It started to really consume me, like any addition. I'd get anxious if I couldn't get on for a day. And my life is really too full to be so dependent.

So, what else is going on with me?

Teaching 8th grade, going to school at night. I'm in a great program with an awesome bunch of people that I've gotten really close to. I'm going to a church that I love. I've recently been going through a family crisis that is beyond imagination, and that for many reasons, I can't discuss here. But it's been surreal and heartbreaking. It's made me very thankful for my husband who has been wonderful to me through it all. It has also made me appreciate the friends I have now, and miss some that have fallen by the wayside. I think of those broken friendships often and how important they were to me when they were a big part of who I was.

I want to make a new start here, and hopefully bring over some of my MySpace friends, at least as readers and I hope that I make new friends while I'm here.
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Lyrics: "Love Me or Hate Me" [this song right now plays in my car almost every time I am in it. It's also my cell ring tone, because this is just the way I look at things right now. I want to be loved, and many do love me, and if you can't see what's good in me and about me, get the heck outta my way because I don't need you.]
* by Lady Sovereign

yeah ...i'ts officially the biggest midget in the game
I dunno....
make way for the S.O.V.

love me or hate me it's still an obsession
love me or hate me that is the question
if you love me then thank you
if you hate me then fuck you

love me or hate me it's still an obsession
love me or hate me that is the question
if you love me then thank you
if you hate me then fuck you

I'm fat I need a diet
no infact im just enlighten, enlighten
got the biggest breasts
but I write all the verses
i got hairy armpits
but I dont walk around like this
i wear a big baggy tshirt that hides that nasty shit
errr
no I have my nails done
bite them down and faught the nun
im the one with non exsistant bum
now I don't really give a urghhh
im missing my shepards pie
like a high name chick missing a diamond
I'm missing me clipin' lights
now bow down to your royal highness
no I don't own a corgy
I'm not gonna trip that
cos I go there
go on then go on report me
im english try and deport me

love me or hate me it's still an obsession
love me or hate me that is the question
if you love me then thank you
if you hate me then fuck you

love me or hate me its still an obsession
love me or hate me that is the question
if you love me then thank you
if you hate me then fuck you

More Top Celebrity Crushes

Ten MORE Celebrity Crushes:
(after much pondering this list, I realized these names also belong on my personal list)

10. Timothy Hutton (he is dreamy!)
9. David Duchovny (he could debrief me anytime!)
8. Ewan McGregor
7. Cillian Murphy (he was in the new Batman Begins as the bad guy. He has the greatest lips ever!)
6. Jason and Jeremy London (since they're brothers, I won't give them two spots! I couldn't choose!!)
5. Jason Lee (he is hilarious!)
4. Michael Rapaport (I think he would be the coolest guy to hang out with. Before I die, I hope I get to do that :) )
3. Josh Lucas (even though I usually pride myself on liking the uncommon celebrity hunk, those eyes......)
2. Ben Chaplin (the accent...I hope it's real!!)
1. Cole Hauser (I'll sit through bad movies to see him, but he looks his best in "White Oleander!")

More may follow.......

The Sadness Attached To Blogging

For a long time, I resisted the urge to blog openly. I had a blog that I kept on my University's server and mostly only those who knew me accessed it unless someone happened to surf in following a search-gone-awry. Then, I started reading other Blogspots, or vehicles like Blogspot, and realized that much of what went on in "blogworld" annoyed me and insulted the intelligence of me and most people I know.

For example, people who use their blogs to advertise photos of themselves in vast quantities are desperate and sad. Perfect strangers might like to see ONE of your school pictures or sports team pictures, but once you've pasted those plus 5+ pictures of your friends you've really just wandered across the line of "no one cares" and deep down you already know that. And if you're maxed out on photos all of yourself taken by you with your own digital camera (and none of them are artfully Photoshop'd), I think it's time to start seeing a therapist. Esp. if any of those photos you took of yourself were done using a mirror, which causes that HUGE annoying flash. If said photos include gang signs or drug and alcohol pics (actual drug addicts and gangsters probably don't blog), then really....step away from the computer, shower, and get a job.

What's worse than too many photos of yourself? When you make a photo slideshow that plays on page-load and most of the photos are OF YOU. This makes me want to pray for your soul and then punch you in the throat. Video of any kind on a page, and graphics that require ME to download something I don't already have in order to view YOU are equally annoying and will force me to hate you.

Topics where you and a friend feel the need to seemingly "talk" to each other through your blog or through comments (MySpace) about how wasted you got, what happened on your "wild weekend", etc... is a feeble attempt to exploit the lesser known fact that you might possibly have a non-internet social life. If we know you, then we know about how many times you threw up last Saturday and if we don't know you, what kind of lame person talks about throwing up to complete strangers? This also applies to people who blog, but use code to disguise who they are and who they are talking about. If you write a blog and assume it's being read by people who DON'T know you, why would you further confuse the "conversation" by using aliases, initials, and code? If you're blogging just for people who know you and know your code, just pick up the phone and quit sucking up bandwith.

Posting a sentence followed by the word "baby!!" is not appealing...but is yet, very sad. So is WrItInG LyKe ThIs, posting topless photos (men and women), posting cleavage photos (women), and talking about how much you like sex, have sex, want sex, etc....

Telling someone their crush will call them if they email every person on their address list with some STOOOOPID gift certificate, sappy story, joke, etc.... is just mean. Don't do it. We both know nothing good nor bad will result simply from forwarding JUNK email. All the chain letters do is slow things down and cause Internet companies to put their site down for maintenance. If you email me with one of these, I will create a voodoo doll of you and pour salt into the eyeballs.


You're never going get to a free I-Pod, with no strings attached ever... sorry.

Top 10 Celebrity Crushes

I have lots to do, which is exactly why I'm making lists like this which take up time that I could be doing actual useful stuff.

The Top Ten Television/Movie Celebrities That I Have A Crush On....

10. Dan Futterman (Vincent, "Judging Amy" - but my crush came way before he was on television. Check out the movie, "Breathing Room").

9. Dhani Harrison (son of the late former Beatle, George Harrison).

8. Tom Cavanagh (TV's "Ed").

7. Paul Rudd (he's at his best in "Object of My Affection" as Jennifer Aniston's gay love interest).

6. Zach Braff (Garden State...'nuff said).

5. Martin Donovan (Saved!, The Opposite of Sex...)

4. Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy, Maxwell House commercials)

3. Dan Abrams (legal correspondent, "The Today Show")

2. Kyle McLachlan

1. JOHN CUSACK

Dancing, Stars, and a bad case of WTF???

Ok, so the person who damns reality television to hell has found a new passion, and it's "Dancing With The Stars.” B, P, and I can't wait until Wed. each week to gather around the television and see if Joey and Ashly have finally admitted they have the hots for each other. Man, I hope he's divorced!

I was so glad to see Trista get voted off, but Kelly Monaco has got to go. I don't know much about dancing seeing as I only had one year of ballet when I was 6-ish, but I do know that Kelly ain't doin' it. Kelly, when she *is* finally tossed needs to take Lisa Canning with her (who is she anyways?).

Now is the time for a properTom Cruise rant, but who isn't talking about him lately? Tom Cruise marrying Katie Holmes was bizarre enough, but taking on Matt Lauer? WTF???? I mean, I can't stand Matt Lauer, but I was rooting for HIM in the power of the minds.

But, other than that...I've still got some drama going on in my life and I'd like to say that it makes me not want to write as much, but the truth it, I just write about toally inane things to ignore the hurt that's actually going on. Good news is that I'm getting spent. I can't think of anything else shallow and pointless to write about, and even when I have an inkling of an idea I can't put it together when I sit down to type it out.

Where the heck is Nip/Tuck?

Who am I....really??

According to those reliable and always right online quizzes, my friends see me as painstaking and fussy. I appear very cautious, extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. I rarely do things impulsively or on the spur of the moment. Instead, I examine everything carefully from every angle and then usually decide against it. The true me expects my lover to be more relaxed, calm, and composed (than what, it doesn't say....hmmmm....).

With respect to money, I'm a bit stingy. I think good luck doesn't exist - reality is built on practicalities. The hidden side of my personality tends to be methodical - with trouble adapting to the rules of society. I'm the type of person who assumes that the world revolves around me. I actually act my age-pretty much. I'm excited about what's still to come in my life.

Apparently, I'm something of a perfectionist and individulaistic. I'm good at deep mental analysis and complicated reasoning. I'm very sensitive, but also a bit psychic and should follow my hunches. I do not take orders too well, and prefer to work alone or in a situation where I can be the boss. I have a tendency to be somewhat self-centered and a little stubborn (this is true).

My English skills are best in grammar and punctuation, although spelling and vocabulary aren't too bad. If I were a 2004 Hit Song, I would be Float On by Modest Mouse.