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Hmmm an Unexpected Saturday Off. Mar 25, 2007 9:22 am
Mood: content, 714 Views
Well I steeled myself for about a 4 hour day yesterday and went into work at about 2:00 PM. When I went in, the manager was busy giving people a free 4 hours off due to light workload so I readily agreed, turned around, got back in my car and came back home.

I put my dinner in the oven and then decided I needed some new movies to watch so I headed over to this used book store where one can buy VHS movies for $5.00 apiece. I ended up getting three films I haven't ever seen but would like to.

I got Austin Powers, the Spy Who shagged Me, The Wedding Singer and The Fifth Element. I spent the rest of the day cleaning my bathroom, chatting with friends, eating my dinner and watching the Austin Powers flick.

Hahaha what can you say about Austin Powers except that it is totally stupid but has some funny lines in it. I didn't like it nearly as well as the first one although some things did crack me up.

This is the last full week of school coming up before Spring break then it's off on my little St. Louis adventure.
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Post Friday Karaoke Report :) Mar 24, 2007 11:40 am
Mood: cheerful, 669 Views
Well, haven't posted since Thursday so might as well say something before heading off to work for 4 hours today.

Landslide was fairly good last night. I got there around 9 PM and was 1st singer in the rotation. I ended up sitting with my friend Marcus but later some other people joined us and sat at our table as well as moving a couple other tables over so a larger group could sit there. Ended up singing Coward of the County, Words, I Wanta Be Sedated and a duet with Chris the DJ that we love to do, If I Had a Million Dollars. My last song was at 12:15 but I asked Chris and he said I wouldn't get back up again due to a large list of anticipated singers so I took off a little early to head home.

Got home about 12:45 and ended up chatting online until almost 3:00 AM . Nothing wrong with that except that I slept today until almost noon . Now I'm getting ready to go to work after a brief lunch of a chicken sandwich which was yummy.

Not sure what I want to do tonight. I could drive out to Elkhorn and karaoke but I might just stay home and chit chat which I enjoy almost as much.

One more week of school and then a full week off plus the weekends for our Spring Break. I can't believe the weeks are flying by and before long the school year will be over. I will be tenured after this year too which is one reason why I stopped searching all that hard for other job opportunities. This week they had the annual career fair for educators in Lincoln but unlike past years I didn't take a personal day to go to it, because I'm pretty much staying put in my current school district. I feel pretty comfortable there and as I just said beginning next year I will have some job security that I would lose if I change school districts again.

Well that's about it for now. Just wanted to say hi to my lovely friend Romelda from the Philippines. She loves it when I mention her name
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Better Late Than Not At All.... :) Mar 22, 2007 8:32 pm
Mood: devious, 739 Views
When it's Thursday numerology

1-Day until my mom's birthday
2-Women that I like a lot right now and like me.
3-Other women that I like quite a bit and like me quite a bit.
4-Number of songs I'll probably sing tomorrow at Friday night karaoke.
5-Days of school next week and then a long Spring Break.
6-Number of new friends I've made this week.
7-Number of weeks left with my seniors
8-Number of people I think I IMed last night.
9-Number of numerologies left before school is out for the summer.
10-Days before I leave for St. Louis to see my son
13-Number of members of my fantasy discussion group here on FF.
25-Still my current age if anyone asks
50-Number of friends I have here on FF.
112-Current population of Spudville after two barnowls moved in to farmer Smith's barn and set up a nest
177-Number of members on both of my Omaha Friends discussion groups here on FF.
596-Number of blogs I've written here on FF.
2561-Number of blog comments I've gotten.
32,315-My current number of posts to FF discussion groups since Feb. 2, 2004.
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What I Like and What I've Learned from Lord of the Rings. Mar 21, 2007 8:00 pm
Mood: contemplative, 723 Views
I love to watch the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings movies. I also loved the books and have read them from cover to cover three times.

I have tried to reflect on why I love these stories so much? I think below are some of the lessons about life that I can learn from reading or watching Lord of the Rings.

a) Most things that are really important in life require hard work, risk and sacrifice.

b) There is not be anything more important in the universe than love and friendship.

c) Even the smallest and seemingly most insignificant individuals can make an impact on our world.

d) Bravery and courage comes in all shapes, sizes and forms.

e) Usually evil can be overcome, but only if people work together to oppose it.

f) There are many things, beautiful, good and worthwhile in this world worth taking chances to hang onto.

g) Although we must all face death and sadness in our lives we can still choose our path and how we wish to deal with it when it comes our way.

h) In the course of human history, not much has changed in what causes the downfall of human beings. It is negative emotions such as anger, pride, jealousy, or lust either alone or in combination with other sins.

Those who have the patience, faith, courage and stamina to see things through shall triumph.

J) There is usually at least some kernel of good in almost everyone although in some it is buried so deeply as to be difficult to find or bring forth.
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Running Out of Inspiring Ideas :) Mar 20, 2007 10:23 pm
Mood: contemplative, 699 Views
I really wish I could think of something really inspiring, moving or even hilariously funny to write about but i can't think of anything too much right now.

School is going fine and we've started the 4th Quarter now. Only 10 more Thursday numerologies left until summer woohoo.

The weather has been pretty decent around here, it's expected to be 70's tomorrow so we went as usual from winter right almost to late spring in 3 weeks, even though theoretically today is the first full day of spring.

I went to Tuesday night karaoke tonight and it was fairly light so Chris, Marcus and I played darts and I sang 4 times before heading home.

So what else is going on? Nothing really, just working two jobs, watching a lot of movies lately and doing a lot of chatting with friends all over the world.

I'd like to say hi to my friend Romelda who lives in the Philippines. She likes me to mention her so I will .

Less than 2 weeks now before my big trip to St. Louis to see my boy. I am flying because it's not really that much more expensive than driving there and I get there in an hour instead of 7 hours. Plus I haven't flown for a couple of years and I actually like flying.

I'll be gone for 4 days and if I get access to an online computer, well of course I'll be online . This past Friday, karaoke was kind of dead compared to recent Fridays but I think it's because people were going out on St. Patrick's Day.

Anyway like I said in the title, sorry for boring everyone but I'm in sort of blogger block right now. I think I need to be held and comforted. LOL! Any volunteers?
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The End is Near :) Mar 19, 2007 2:50 pm
Mood: cheerful, 805 Views
Of the school year that is. LOL! Today we started the 4th quarter which is really amazing to me. This year has gone fast.

Today was really pretty good and the kids were fairly focused and well behaved. We are starting Shakespeare and I am trying to use a simpler more understandable version of MacBeth because the language of the original play is just very difficult for my kids to wade through.

I finally gave up trying to find anything in print that I can get in time though, so I'm writing up the play on my own. It takes a lot longer than I thought though and I spent the entire day just doing Act I today and still am not quite finished.

More importantly we have about 8 weeks of school left for Seniors at any rate. We have two weeks in March, 3 weeks in April due to Spring Break and then about 3 weeks in May and then they are out.

Anyway it's a beautiful day today, and things are going well so not much else to say.
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St. Patrick's Day Detour :) Mar 18, 2007 8:18 am
Mood: cheerful, 772 Views
Well my PLAN was to go out last night on St. Patrick's Day and go karaoking but it turns out I mostly spent the evening at home relaxing and chatting with friends.

First I got off about 6:00 PM and came home to relax. I popped in Return of the King which I never tire of watching on DVD.

Things were pretty quiet until about 8:00 PM and then suddenly I started getting paged by friends. I would get done talking to one friend and just as they were signing off another friend would page me. What's more although I can stay on FF IM and not get paged the entire night, last night about 4 new people wanted to talk to me on FF IM.

So pretty soon I look and it's past 9:30 PM. So I decided what the heck I'll go this Irish pub and sing. Yeah right!!!! I drove down there which is about 4 miles away and first I have to park about a mile away on the other side of the parking lot and walk all the way over to the pub on the other side of this strip mall.

I will note that there are no less than 4 bars in this strip mall and all of them were jammed with people. What amazed me is it was cold and there were girls in their 20's strolling about or standing inline with short sleeved (green) t-shirts on.

So walk all the way to the end of the mall and there is a huge line to get in. So I thought what the heck. Then I find out there is a $10.00 cover charge just to get in and that once you get through the cover charge line, the line I was in you have to wait in long lines to find a place to even stand. All this to sing maybe one song?

So at that point I decided to forget it and just go back home and get online which is what I did. I ended IMing all the way into the early morning talking to friends all over the world.

So even though my plans didn't work out, I saved $10.00, a long wait in the cold and had as much or more fun chatting than I would have playing a sardine in an Irish pub on St. Patrick's Day.

Plus I didn't have to risk the dangerous drunks on the road, which was another plus.
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Hmmmmm, What to Blog About? Mar 17, 2007 9:26 am
Mood: contemplative, 787 Views
Well, it's St. Patrick's Day. Here in Omaha if this day occurs on a Friday or Saturday like it has the last two years, it's a big bar and drinking day.

My friend Chris who DJ's at an Irish pub in Elkhorn on Saturdays is going to be DJing at three different places beginning at 9:00 AM. (I'm wondering how anyone can begin drinking at 9:00 AM?) Then he is going to DJ a wedding of two of my friends named Becky and Jeremy who are getting married today at 2:00 PM. After that he will be at a bar much closer to me and will be doing karaoke at the end of the night around 9:00 PM.

I'm thinking I might stop over there and see but if it's jammed like I'm afraid it might be, I might just forget it.

Last night I went to my regular hangout and it was the lightest it's been for months. I suspect three reasons, one is that it is Spring Break here this week, the second is that it's St. Pat's Day Saturday (today) so many people were planning on partying today instead of yesterday. The third reason may be that people are watching round 1 games of the NCAA basketball tournament so they stayed home to do that figuring they'll catch up with their partying on St. Patrick's Day instead and just enjoy the BB games Friday night.

The good news out of all that is that I got to sing about 5-6 times. Well that's about it, off to run some errands and to work some a little bit later.
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You are not getting any......... Mar 15, 2007 10:41 pm
Mood: devious, 811 Views
Escape from Brucey's Thursday numerology LMAO

1-Quarter left in the school year. Woohoo.
2-Days with no students this week and 2 days until St. Patrick's Day.
3-Women that I like a lot and like me a lot too.
4-Songs I sang at karaoke on Tuesday night.
5-Songs I will hope to sing tomorrow at karaoke.
6-Hours of relatively boring inservice meetings today
7-Number of days until the first full day of Spring.
8-Number of people I tried to IM at the same time the other night and it didn't work at all
9-weeks left of school this year woohoo.
10-school days left until spring break
13-Number of active members of my Fantasy Discussion group here on FF.
16-days from today is my trip to St. Louis.
25-My 3rd week of being this age
110-New population of Spudville, Idaho when a rabbit took the official job as Easter Bunny and left.
172-Number of members of my Omaha Friends Regional discussion group.
173-Number of members of my Omaha Friends Part II, 2006 romance discussion group.
590-Number of blogs I've done here on FF.
2549-Number of blog comments I've gotten here.
32,292-Number of posts I've made to FF discussion groups since Feb. 2004.
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Recognizing the Flaws of the Passive Aggressive Personality. Mar 14, 2007 3:04 pm
Mood: contemplative, 795 Views
I spent almost my entire life before I realized that one of my biggest flaws or weaknesses as a human being was passivity.

Passivity seems like a positive trait to some people because passive people seldom make waves, confront others, threaten people or get violent or nasty.

Unfortunately passive people don't fail to experience negative emotions such as anger, hatred, jealousy or fear, they just suppress such behaviors and internalize them, causing health and relationship problems for themselves and others.

People have heard me (as recently as last night in fact) lambast passive aggressive conduct. Some people don't know what passive aggressive conduct is, so I thought I would define a few of the behaviors that are generally thought to tend towards passive aggressiveness.

Although in general women tend to exhibit passive aggressive behaviors more often than men do, men engage in them too, particularly if they are passive by nature. Look in the mirror and read some of the behaviors or characteristics below and see if you see them in your own personality? If you do, ask yourself why you exhibit them and whether they can cause harm to your friendships, your relationships or even to your own health?

The Seether-Seethers are people who outwardly show few if any signs of being angry or upset. They have learned to hide their anger from outside observation. In short they internalize their anger where it boils and festers until it can sometimes explode. Seethers stew and fume silently to themselves. They are people who are like a stick of lit dynamite waiting to go off when no expects it. Seethers are good candidates for strokes and heart attacks. Hard to stew and fume for years without externalizing any of that anger. The post office used to be famous for it's "seethers" who would snap and go beserk after years of quietly accepting whatever happened to them at work without complaining. If you've seen Office Space, think of Milton

The child-The child likes to play games with other people. When you're not looking they will demonstrate anger, disrespect, defiance, mockery or whatever. If you ask them what they are doing they will tell you nothing. The child will never admit that they are mad because that would be confrontational potentially, so they play little games and hide behind their passive nature. The child might make fun of you behind your back, or ridicule you when you're not there. But if you hear about it and confront them, the child will deny everything.

The Turtle-When confronted the "turtle" flees the scene of the confrontation. Much like a turtle will retreat into its shell for defense when attacked. Turtle people would rather get in their car and drive away than have an argument, fight or confrontation with someone. (This was definitely me). Unfortunately since Turtles retreat and never stand and sort it out, problems in life and relationships are often not solved, causing problems later on.

The Avenger-The avenger will get back at you for something you've done to them without ever telling you why they were mad. They won't do it in a confrontational way, they'll backstab you, betray you, make fun of you, gossip about you or even spread lies or half truths about you to get even. Although they are similar to the Child mentioned above there is a great deal of silent vindictiveness in the personality of the avenger. Yet the avenger will never openly admit that they are mad and are out to get even.

The Indirect Communicator-One of my least favorites the indirect communicator will show frustration, anger, jealousy or annoyance by a series of actions that make you guess or surmise why they are angry. The indirect communicator has an entire arsenal of weapons to show someone they're angry or upset without ever confronting them directly or saying anything to them. The indirect communicator will used body language (eye rolling, toe tapping, arm crossing, the silent treatment, the cold shoulder). If asked the indirect communicator can always say that it's just in your imagination. That they are not mad, why would you think they are? A person who ignores their spouse or girlfriend for a week until it is obvious they are angry is a prime example. Eye rolling is a way a person shows disrespect without saying anything. Crossing your arms is a sign that you are defending yourself against a person and are blocking out what they are saying to you.

Okay these are some of the types of passive aggressive personalities. Why do people become like this? Mostly they are learned our whole life. Why? Sometimes they are the way our parents were and they modeled them for us so we learned to be like them because of that. Other times it was for survival.

If you are short, lightweight or small you learn tricks to keep from getting hurt. Passive people tend to be well liked and popular because they seem to get along well so there are some positive reinforcers even in society for being passive. But passive aggressive behaviors are like a cancer, they do harm to relationships, they cause hurt, misunderstanding and sometimes even cause heart attacks, high blood pressure or strokes for the people who internalize their feelings rather than express them.

If you've read this far, hopefully I didn't bore you and hopefully you have learned to recognize the characteristics of P-A in yourself, your friends and your family.
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