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Hmmmm About That Time Again :) Jul 18, 2007 1:45 pm
Mood: devious, 631 Views
Well it's been really hot here so I am strongly considering taking a swim today. It might be 100 degrees F today which is the hottest it's been.

I went swimming in Jackson Lake but haven't been to my pool yet this year. So I took my swimming suit out and put it on and looked in the mirror before taking a picture LMAO

Wow!!! I look tan and fit. I guess I should, being 25 and all Hmmm I've got sometan lotion. Any volunteers to get my back? LOL!

You can even come swimming with me if you do.

Ciao
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Waxing :)...... Jul 17, 2007 12:57 am
Mood: contemplative, 660 Views
Philosophically that is LOL! These have been kind of fun to think up so I hope I'm not boring anyone but they just seem so profound to me when I think about them:

While you may have heard that a fool and his money are soon parted, I personally don't think most fools ever have any money to be parted from

Have you ever noticed that the people who are the biggest and loudest of critics of someone else, usually have the most to hide?

Discussing politics or religion at a party is a little bit like a hostess serving everyone vinegar to drink. It leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

You know drinking lots of alcohol doesn't improve one's ability to sing karaoke LOL!

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me three times and I think that maybe I'm just a complete idiot.

Our lives are pretty short (and so am , so it is best to spend as much of our time as possible enjoying ourselves and doing as many kind, worthwhile and compassionate things for others as we can in the time we have. At least that's what I believe.

The real heroes of this world to me anyway are not the professional athletes, movie stars, wealthy people and rock singers, it is the nurse, the teacher, the firefighter or the paramedic who dedicates their life to helping others, for what small compensation society decides they deserve for such an important job while giving the afformentioned group, millions to entertain us.

Friends are a little bit like pizza. They are really great to have, they often deliver too if you need them to and they come in many varieties. Plus no matter how many times you see them you never really get tired of them.

Revenge is the most worthless of motives. Building one's entire life around vengeance is a little bit like drinking sea water to quench a thirst.

Jealousy is the most selfish of human behaviors other than perhaps suicide.
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Monday Morning Musings :) Jul 15, 2007 11:38 pm
Mood: funky, 571 Views
What the heck it's already Monday July 16th here at 1:24 am. Time to think of some things to say here before going to bed which seems to be happening later and later lately.

Have you ever noticed that almost everything that tastes good is bad for you and almost everything that tastes bad is good for you? Do you suppose this is some kind of revenge thing?

I think I am way too cynical anymore. I hide it pretty well sometimes through laughter and joking around but I have to work to keep it from coming out sometimes cause I really don't want to hurt anyone through it.

I think that way too many people do their thinking below their waist.

The funny thing about true love is that you can never really end it no matter what the person says or does to you. In my opinion if you truly love someone you love them even if they make you madder than hell sometimes and even if you can't live with them.

I love the excitement, fun and joy of being independent but hate the loneliness, lack of companionship and fun that goes without being with someone sometimes.

I am in kind of a weird mood tonight (this morning). I think part of it is that my son went back home yesterday and I am now reminded a little bit of what it was like last year when he left to go to St. Louis to jumpstart his life.

You know when someone uses the word "soulmate" around me it really irritates me. I think because to me it is an illusory concept that some people believe in. To me it neglects sacrifice, suffering, trials and tribulations that face any couple that stay together long term. If I could write a sequel to Cinderella I would make it so Prince Charming had a beer gut and sat in a recliner watching sports all day while Cinderella b*tched and nagged at him to go mow the freakin' lawn or she would not cook him dinner. They would sleep in separate bedrooms never have s*x, cause she wasn't in the mood and her favorite past time would be shopping, while his would be bass fishing with his buddies and watching NASCAR while they downed a case of Busch Light.
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Finally the Dust Settles :) Jul 15, 2007 12:24 pm
Mood: drained, 549 Views
Well the past two weeks since the beginning of July have been busy and hectic. On June 30th my son flew into town for a two week stay that included our much mentioned trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.

He also had time to host a big huge annual get together at the house for his friends that attracted about 25 people.

Plus there was the personal need to prepare and get ready for our afforementioned camping trip. Once we got back my son wanted me to come over and hang out nearly every night.

Plus of course there was trying to get in some of the hours I missed by being gone for 6 days from my other job.

Then yesterday said job hosted its annual summer picnic so I went to that which was fun and had me bowling two games for the first time in awhile.

Yesterday the Heathster went back to St. Louis and I took him to the airport to see him off. He has a grad class beginning tomorrow and also needs to work to earn some money after missing two weeks and living off his savings mostly.

Finally after two weeks of bustle and activity I am to the point where I can start relaxing as the Summer has only 31 days left in it for me before school starts back up again on August 15th.

I was considering one more trip before then but it may just not be fiscally possible. Ah well, I'm not complaining, one of the most wonderful aspects of teaching is the amount of Summer vacation I get.
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Another Bowl of Brucey's Wisdom Soup. :) Jul 13, 2007 10:45 am
Mood: contemplative, 610 Views
Okay sit back and enjoy another bowl of Brucey's Wisdom Soup where I offer up some personal reflections and philosophical musings about love, life, relationships and reality

You don't have to be married to be happy but it would better if you were happily married if you choose to go that route.

Would the world really be any worse of a place if there were no insurance companies?

Just think how your priorities would change about almost everything if you knew you had one week to live?

There are not very many things more important in our lives than family.

If you want to understand why a person is the way they are in attitude, personality, demeanor and even appearance, take a look at their parents.

You can't make a dish taste good by adding bad ingredients to it, anymore than you can make a relationship good by contributing nothing to it but negativity.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if instead of complaining, griping, losing our temper or making a rude or inconsiderate comment, that we just took a deep breath, smiled and said, "I'm not going to let this ruin my day."?

Are you one of those people who would never dream of saying the things you do about others when you're driving that you would about them in public?

Have you ever wondered how much our lives would be different if we didn't have clocks?

I think that elderly people tend to look at the past, while younger people tend to look to the future. Not too surprising I guess.

You can't change a person who is rude, uncaring, selfish, inconsiderate or bad tempered. That's the bad news, the good news is that you also can't change a person is kind, witty, considerate, caring and compassionate. What you can do is choose which one of those you prefer to be around most of the time.

Have you ever noticed that anger almost never leads to anything good?
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A Day Late, But Not Forgotten :) Jul 13, 2007 10:07 am
Mood: devious, 520 Views
Brucey's Thursday Numerology that is.

1-Day until my son flies back to St. Louis.
2-Women I like a lot and also like me right now.
3-Other women that I like quite a bit and like me
4-number of hours I worked yesterday
5-Number of nights I camped on my vacation.
6-Number of days spent driving on vacation.
7-Days ago today I was on Jackson Lake
8-Days ago today I saw Old Faithful.
9-Number of people I IMed yesterday I think
10-Number of songs I sang at Tuesday Karaoke
13-Number of days my son has been here vacationing.
25-My real age, I regressed back to 25 Mary LOL!
117-Current population of Spudville, Idaho after 4 wild geese were chased out of town for breaking the 8 pm curfew
175-Number of members of my Omaha Friends Regional discussion group.
197-Number of members of my Omaha Friends Part II 2006, romance discussion group.
685-Number of blogs I've written here on FF.
2,817-Number of blog comments I've gotten here.
33,182-Number of posts I've made to FF discussion groups.
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Why Do So Many Relationships Fail? Jul 11, 2007 2:11 pm
Mood: curious, 696 Views
This is not directed at anyone, this is merely me reflecting about the failure rate of relationships now days.

Have we gotten to the point where relationships are disposable like many other things we buy or use? Has divorce become so accepted that it triviliazes marriage itself?

Have we gotten to the point where men and women are so spoiled or self centered that "I" or "me" always comes before "we" or "us"?

Are we already past the point where a relationship lasting even 10 years is considered successful?

Do any of us foresee the day where only a tiny fraction of the marriages in this country will last the lifetime of the partners?

Why is not only the divorce rate so staggeringly high but an even better question is why are so many relationships even those where no marriage occurs, failing?

While obviously I am no relationship "expert" I think I have a better understanding of some of the answers to my questions above than other people do.

First of all you don't have to read the Venus and Mars books to realize that men and women don't think or act the same way in relationships.

I think that one huge reason why relationships fail so often is because of incompatibility. Most couples fail to recognize incompatiblity because they are blinded by the physical/s*xual aspects of a relationship, particularly when the relationship first begins. It is only after the physical/s*xual aspects lose some of their luster that the severe incompatibilities rear their ugly heads. By then it's too late and from there the relationship declines often into ugliness, hatred and sometimes violence.

Another problem I see with modern relationships is the lack of communication. Men oftentimes really s*ck at expressing their feelings or openly communicating with their partner, a trait which is socialized into us from the time we are children by parents and society. Weepy, emotional men are viewed with derision and suspicion at least by many in this country. Men have to portray this tough, stoic, "it doesn't bother me" image to the point of absurdity. I might add that this emotional clamming up drives many women up a wall and makes them want to smack us. LOL When men don't say why they are upset, women are left to guess or merely blame the man for being an insensitive jerk (which he may actually be .

The third problem I see with relationships now days is that people's attitudes and expectations (especially women's)are ridiculous. We have way too many people who think Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock movie plots are how love, marriage and relationships are in real life.

In real life people get sick, they lose their jobs, they experience stress, they lose their children in car accidents, they have problems with drug abuse, alcohol abuse or infidelity. These problems that the ridiculous "Cinderella stories" don't expose destroy or severely damage personal relationships and marriages. Yet people still talk about life soul mates, love that never dies and living the Cinderella experience personally even though the Cinderella story is a fairy tale and not reality.

A third major factor in my opinion is a selfishness that many people have now days. Instead of thinking "we" or "us" they think of "I" or "me". Maybe not at first when they are getting along or the s*x is good, but watch couples sometime who are not getting along and you will definitely see the "me" being emphasized and not the "us". Once "us" in a relationship is replaced with "me" the relationship is usually on the downward slope and divorce, separation or some parting of the ways is imminent.

Why did marriages last so long in the generations of the past? One reason was because people were more realistic and they sacrificed, suffered and sometimes put up with the annoying or even upsetting aspects of their partner instead of running to a lawyer to file the papers so they could look for their new "Prince Charming" or "Cinderella" since the one they are with now is not working out to their dismay.

The irony of allowing easier access to divorce is the trivializing of marriage. If you make divorce easy to get you make people's attitude towards marriage one of, "let's see how it goes and if it s*cks we can always divorce."

I'm not saying we shouldn't allow divorce, only pointing out that there is a negative trade off with making it so easily and readily available. I know of some people who are on at LEAST their second marriage and of course some people have been in many romantic relationships where they didn't marry but still cohabitated together for a significant length of time.

My mom and my dad stayed together their whole life (42 years)until my dad died. So did my grandma and my grandpa. But those generations did not have the liberal divorce options that couples of today do and they also would not have even considered the cohabitation thing which really only became "acceptable" in this country in the past 20 years.

So anyway, what I would like to know is your feelings about marriage, relationships and divorce and why you think we have such a high failure rate now days and what if anything can be done about it?
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Such Fun :) Jul 11, 2007 9:13 am
Mood: bouncy, 451 Views
Okay last night, Tuesday karaoke turned out to be a lot of fun. When I arrived at 9:30 PM to my surprise, my friend Chris was not there. His boss Scott was DJing because Chris had a meeting he had to attend and then afterwards we found out he had car trouble. When I left at 12:30 he had still not arrived. No matter, the place had a decent crowd and only 3-4 singers including me.

There was a man there sitting with three attractive women and they later invited me and several other guys to sit with them.

Two of the ladies were very nice to me and were named Amy and Meghan. Amy and I really hit it off and she is a great singer with a beautiful voice. When she heard me sing, she came over and asked me to sing a duet with her and we ended up singing two duets as well as numerous solos during the night.

Scott got me up there to sing numerous times in the 3 hours I was there and I ended up staying until 12:30. I sang Picture by Cheryl Crow and Kid Rock, and later Summer Nights from Grease with Amy. When Amy and Meghan tried to sing "If I Had a Million Dollars" they waved me up there to help them and that was a lot of fun too.

The ladies were all involved in jewelry sales and they were all flying to Dallas the next day for a big show. They are from Nebraska but not Omaha. The man's name was John and I know he was there last week so they were all out with him and must have known him in some way, but none of them were his wife or his girlfriend.

I hope that I see them again sometime because they were very nice and it was great singing a duet with a very strong and beautiful female voice. They were not too unattractive either I might add. LOL

Anyway after I left karaoke at 12:30 I ended up going to meet up with my son and his friends to play a game until about 2:30 am . I ended up getting home about 3:00 and going to bed about 3:30.
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Home at Last :) Jul 10, 2007 6:34 pm
Mood: content, 499 Views
Well my big adventure is over. The Heathster and I arrived back here in Omaha about 6:00 PM. After eating supper and unloading my car, I headed home to get ready for karaoke tonight.

The trip was a lot of fun, but gas is way too expensive and even eating a lot of grocery stuff, it still cost a lot to go. Still it was worth it, and we took over 300 pictures on a digital camera, many of which Heath is sorting through to make a slide show or power point.

We actually came back a day sooner than intended partly because we had pretty much seen and done everything we wanted and partly because of the high price of gasoline and the fact that it was expensive to live on the road, even camping.

All in all we went 3 national forests, 2 national parks, 1 national monument, 1 national historic battlefield and state parks in two different states. We saw at least a half dozen waterfalls, 13,000 ft. high mountain peaks, glaciers, beautiful mountain lakes and streams and numerous species of wildlife including elk, moose, deer, hawks, chipmunks, prairie dogs, bison and my son saw a black bear.

He is already talking about our next vacation and where we should go? So I guess he enjoyed it too. Still it is great to be home and able to sleep in my own bed tonight.

As I was visiting some of the same places we went in 2005, I was thinking just how much my whole life has changed since 2 years ago. I would never have imagined that I would be where I am now compared to where I was back then. Things can really, really change in a short amount of time.
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An Update on Brucey's Big Adventure. :) Jul 9, 2007 11:22 pm
Mood: content, 519 Views
Well time to update all of my friends and readers on Brucey's big Yellowstone adventure. Okay first on the day I wrote my blog from the pizza joint in West Yellowstone, I discovered after I'd written that that I'd left my credit card back in the Tetons and the lounge we'd gone to the previous night.

Obviously, I couldn't do without my credit card and so we decided to go back to Lewis Lake which we had visited earlier in the day and liked the looks of and camp there. Lewis Lake is near the south entrance to the park which would make it a reasonable drive back to the Tetons to get my credit card, which I had found out security at the lodge DID have in their safe.

While I was pretty annoyed at having to drive all the way back, I was unsure whether it was my fault or the waitress' fault who had taken the card. But, Heath wanted to do some art and so I left him at the campground and drove back to Jackson Lake, retrieved the credit card and then drove up to the top of Signal Mountain which was only a few miles further down the road and we had not had the time to investigate it the previous day. It provides a fabulous view of the Grand Tetons and the lake and valley below. I didn't see a bear, but a woman stopped on the road claimed to be watching one in the woods.

Lewis Lake is pretty isolated, so I mostly just relaxed the rest of the night and chilled with Heath after he drove into the nearest trading post and got some eats and drinks for us. He saw a bear on the way back home but couldn't pull over or take a picture.

On Sunday we drove the east loop of the park which goes past West Thumb an area of geyser activity that I hadn't seen since I was a child. West Thumb is actually formed by a volcano that is separate from the Super Volcano that makes up much of Yellowstone Park.

From there we headed east on the northern rim of the pristine Lake Yellowstone, reaching the Lake Resort area where we had camped in 2005. From there we headed north to the Yellowstone Canyon area an area made famous by the western artist Moran. Not only is there a fabulous waterfall, but the river has cut a deep canyon that you can view from above through the soft soil of the river bed. The Artist Point area closed for two years the day after we visited, so we came just in the nick of time.

Leaving the canyon we headed north to the Tower Falls area which has yet another beautiful waterfall viewable from above. We checked out the campground there but it was not to our liking so we headed north and west to the north entrance called Mammoth Hot Springs. We spent several hours here, not at the geysers but checking out the campsites and visiting nearby Gardiner, MT. The north entrance has a great visitors center and I watched a cool video on the park. While I found things to do Heath did a charcoal sketch of the mountains from the porch of the visitor's center there which drew many compliments and admirers.

At this point it was probably about 4:00PM and we decided to go back to the campground out by Cooke City run by the U.S. Forest Service where we had stayed in 2005.

We got there found the identical site where we had camped in 2005 vacant again and spent last night there. We chilled out, enjoyed the scenery and then went into Cooke City for a snack before returning and retiring.

This morning (Monday), we headed home via the fabulous Bear Tooth highway 212 which goes from Cooke City to Red Lodge over possibly the most beautiful highway in America. I stopped at the top of the pass at a store and bought a t-shirt and we then stopped on our way down the other side at a rest stop with a scenic overlook.

We reached Red Lodge and drove northeast to Billings to catch I-90 before continuing on to Custer Battlefield. We toured this historic site where George A. Custer and his 5 companies of men were killed and we drove up to the other end of the battlefield to see what it looked like, something we couldn't do the last time we were there.

Stopping for KFC after we left, we then headed to Sheridan Wyoming and then east on I-90 to go to Devil's Tower. Devil's Tower is most well known as the alien rendezvous point in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is huge rock tower that juts hundreds of feet above the surrounding lands. There are beautiful red rocked cliffs nearby and the land has many prairie dogs which are amusing to watch as the come out of their burrows to look around.

After leaving Devil's Tower we headed back to I-90 and drove into the Black Hills of South Dakota. We turned south on Highway 85 and went to Deadwood, SD, before deciding to just drive all the way back to Chadron so we can head home tomorrow.

It's been a fun trip and yet very different from the one we made to the same area in 2005. We have taken almost 300 pictures on the digital camera and Heath hopes to make a slide show with background music.

I am tired of driving and camping but have really enjoyed myself. As I write this I am about 7.5 hours from home so I should be back in time to karaoke tomorrow night
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