No less than the stars!

Cooking: Kinda makes you feel bad about yourself

Why do I say this?  Because the new recipes I try NEVER look or taste half as good as the Food Network people make you think.  Giada de Laurentiis makes her seafood stew look like the easiest thing EVER until you head on out to the store to try and make it yourself.  In real life, it occurs to you that seafood is ridiculously expensive, you don't have a Dutch oven, your store doesn't carry flat-leaf parsley, and any number of other things that are important to the recipe's success.  So you end up making a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup like every other night of your life.  Not to mention that when you DO find all these ingredients in your grocery store, you end up burning the bottom of the fish when you put it in the pan, most of the parsley ends up on the floor, and clam stock smells so disgusting you can't finish the process.  So yeah... I love to cook, but I have to be okay with failure more often than not.  Live and learn.

The wastebasket that is my life

Why do I pay $50 a year on a blog I write in once a month?  Because my life isn't nearly as exciting as I thought it was, I can't make it interesting when it isn't, and I am in denial.

Of course.

Also, why should I have to write an entire choral handbook for my high school music methods class, when I want to teach elementary school?

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Words of wisdom

Sometimes a jerk is just a jerk.  Sometimes the guy you describe to others by saying, "He's a jerk on the surface, but beneath it all, he's a genuine, kind human being," that guy?  Yeah, sometimes he's just a jerk.  There is no secret code to making him a better man.  He's just playing his game, he's a really good actor, and you're really that stupid.

You teach people how to treat you.  That is the best advice my mother ever gave me (and she gives REALLY good advice).  More often than not, when your friends or that guy takes advantage of you, it's because you allowed it to happen.  You were too soft to stand up for yourself.  Does that mean you suck at life?  No.  It just means that you are a human being who is capable of caring for others.  And when the world doesn't love you back, you get hurt.  So, learn how to love your neighbor without handing him a block of Kryptonite to kill you with.

kthxbai.

I like it already

So, here I am, trying out Typepad.  I currently blog over at Doodlekit for free, but I find it lacking in several things.  I've decided that the possibility of paying a minimal monthly fee for ad-free blogging just might be worth the investment.  ;)  So in the meantime, I shall repost the last entry I published at my current free blog...

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TITLED: TN would rather have better roads than smarter children

I am normally rather proud to be from Tennessee but not tonight. It is glaringly apparent that our state government decided to use the stimulus package money for road construction (99.9% of it, that is). The minuscule remainder went to such unimportant, negligible things like education and health care. I know what you're thinking: "But those two things are REALLY important!" Ah, but wait, my friends... get ready for this...

WE ARE RATED #1 IN THE NATION FOR BEST ROADS! HOLY CRAP WHAT AN HONOR!!!!111!111!!!!!!

How insulting is this to the citizens of Tennessee?! Teachers are losing their jobs left and right and all our sorry politicians can think of is better roads. Better roads, my butthole. I was happily, safely driving on ALL roads long before this sorry excuse done in the name of "betterment." Ugh, it just pisses me off. REALLY! Maybe the next stimulus package we get from yet another completely incapable president will be used for dressing all our 11-year-old girls in stripper outfits. One can only hope.