WTF Wednesdays- The next generation

I ride a bike mostly by choice so I encounter certain situations that some of my vehicular inclined human beings might not on a daily basis. This usually boils down to weather issues but at least once a week I come across terrible human beings who make me wish there was a license to breed. Case in point I am riding down Main Street minding my own business when I rather nice Jeep Grand Cherokee appears next to me and rolls its rear passenger window down and out comes a tween aged blond girl. Now I ride with headphones in blasting at nearly full volume nearly 100% of my journey so I do not initially hear what the tween is screaming at me, just that it is apparently hilarious to her. So I pop my headphones out and catch the last few sentences which went a bit like this:

"Cant drive a car? You suck! Don't crash!"

Now I cannot attest to what other pearls of wisdom she spouted before the headphones came off but I imagine it was not much more intelligent than what followed. Now typically when this happens I ignore it and move on my marry way, writing off their behavior as the product of too many paint chips consumed or perhaps a glue sniffing hobby of some sort, but today was a little different and I was feeling feisty. You see the situation became interesting when said Jeep Grand Cherokee surged forward a few blocks and then parked in front of a Starbucks, and so I decided to confront the driver who was a middle aged gentleman that looked at least half way civilized.

After stopping behind the Jeep I asked what I assume was the father of this very rude tween if he realized what the girl had been shouting out the window, to which he replied "So the f**k what?". I was understandably taken aback by this and proceeded to tell the man this girl was harassing a pedestrian from his vehicle which WAS NOT A GOOD THING. After not getting any kind of apology I started to take down his license plate number, mostly as a bluff, to which he chuckled and continued on his way while saying good luck. What an asshat right? So this experience taught me two things, first that I should not have faith in the vast majority of people for they are rude, second that the future is screwed if this is how we are raising our children to act.

Tasty Tuesdays

We are gonna keep it simple today folks. For this meal all you need are two items from your everyday grocery store, Zatarains jambalaya rice mix and some decent Kielbasa Sausage. You can spice it up a tad with chile pepper or leave it be as I do, either way the meal is delicious and ready within 25 minutes. All the prep info is on the box so I will spare you those details and just provide the pics.

Slice and dice to taste.....

Grab your box o'goodness.....

Follow the directions.....

Enjoy the simple goodness!

Minecraft Mondays- Zombies

Still loving these Softer World strips, I think I will parody them some more! Zombie love makes my heart all a flutter, trying to turn this idea into something more...

Somber Sundays- Socially Antisocial

I have always been rather socially awkward and knowing this makes me very self conscious about how I act in front of people, specifically people I do not want to be awkward in front of. Eventually I get over my issues and just become myself, but generally its too late and I get written off as weird or worse....boring. Now I believe I am pretty darn interesting and sometimes my social issues can be written off as "quirky" or even "cute" to a ridiculously small percentage of the human race, but to the few people I decide to "let in" this is rarely the case. So why is it that I cant just let loose and be all the Blakely I can be right off the bat instead of whatever it is I am? Well honestly if I could answer that question I would not be typing this now would I? I have been to a few therapists in my life time, not consistently mind you, but I like to believe telling some douche with a degree issues I know exist would not help. Not that psychologists are unable to help people, just not myself personally. So I attempt to get through life on my own, adjusting my attitude and tweaking my neurosis as I go. Now if only this would help me with the aforementioned meeting, and subsequent keeping, of new people in my life.

Whatever though, Netflix will never judge me. Hmm, perhaps I have stumbled upon my next Thankful Thursday....

Synopsis Saturday- Griff is...awesome!

Much has been said about the recent explosion of "superhero" or "comic book" films so I am not going to attempt a detailed deconstruction of the genre as a whole, instead I will merely admit to being a fan and leave it at that. Now do I love every movie featuring a dude in tights fighting crime? No, after all a bad film is a bad film and though there are occasions when I can overlook the cheese and have fun I still have standards. So I enter the movie experience with a jaded expectation for it to be bad, and though I am sometimes rewarded with a great film I did not expect, often times my fears are confirmed and I want for my 90 minutes of life back. So after watching "Griff The Invisible" my feelings on the film were definitely refreshing...I loved it.

Griff The Invisible is an indy movie with but one recognizable face, Ryan Kwanten, or Jason Stackhouse from the HBO series True Blood. The film is much less in the vein of Superman than it is Special or more recently Kick Ass as much as I hate to compare anything to Kick Ass. It deals with what happens to real people when they decide that crime fighting is up to them and the mental instabilities that these urges stem from. Griff has no superpowers to speak of and his "equipment" seems rather high tech and expensive for a guy who works in an office cubicle, the twist being that since the film is from his perspective of course everything is going to look like its straight out of Batman. So once the outside world starts to seep into his fantasies there is much more duct tape and cardboard involved than Griff would like you to believe.

The film mostly deals with with Griff and his brothers new girlfriend, another socially awkward human being named Melody who, like Griff, is constantly forced into "normalcy" by her family. These two characters make up the heart of the story and you truly want things to work out when the inevitable problems arise. I wont spoil the later half of the film but it all becomes very much Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind by way of Super(Or if you really must....Kick Ass). Its a very sweet film with wonderful characters and its own way of showing you what it is like to not be "normal".

Then again, who is normal these days?

Fiction Fridays- Poetry

I close my eyes
and you are there
I open them
and you are gone


I close my eyes
and smell your sweet scent
I open them
and smell nothing


I close my eyes
and feel your smooth caress
I open them
and feel emptiness


I close my eyes
and you are there
I never open them again
and you never leave

Thankful Thursdays- Physicality of emotionality

I'm thankful on this day for many things. I am thankful for my overall health, I am thankful for a stable job, but most of all at this very moment I am thankful for my sanity.

Its a funny thing to be thankful of some might say but obviously those folks have never experienced a true mental "breakdown", the losing of ones self as they know it for reasons that are never quite clear, even after clarity is attained(or the illusion of it in any case). Though I definitely still encounter moments when I feel like things are not quite OK I have not questioned my mental health in a long time.

Not being sure of yourself is one of the true pains in life, no one ever wants to doubt themselves yet many walk through this world constantly unsure of the decisions and emotions they experience. It goes even deeper when you realize the physical manifestations of these doubt are so all inclusive that you can literally make yourself ill with negative feelings. This is something I have come to realize all too late and have only recently started to understand. A negative attitude begets a negative metabolism and vice versa, striking the balance between these too mechanisms in your body is key to a happy life.

So even though I have not always paid close enough attention to both aspects of my body, the emotional and physical aspects, its never too late to bring them both up to speed. I am physically happy with my body and I am trying my best to keep it healthy and in running order, and I am also emotionally stable in a way that I most likely have never been. I know what I want from life and who I want to be, even if there are some that might want to keep doubt in my mind due to their own insecurities and issues.

So here's to the future, may it be bright and shiny and full of fluffy pandas and may I never doubt my self worth again.

WTF Wednesdays- Anger and hypocrisy

So its time for me to really let loose on something, to get super angry at a particular aspect of my life. Small children and sensitive people should leave the room cause, yes, this shits about to get real.

I am divorced. No secret really, but generally I don't mention it in passing conversation cause then it brings up funny awkward questions like "so why did it happen?" and "so why did it happen?". The truth is everything was my fault and I went through a very self destructive time proving that I did not deserve happiness and such so talking about it over and over again is not my idea of a good time. Now this is where people get a little confused, me and my Ex are actually very good friends and do quite a bit together. We have made peace (more or less) with what has happened and attempted to move on.....or so I thought.

A few months ago I found out rather harshly that she was dating someone for quite some time but lied directly to my face about it for no reason at all other than she likes her privacy. That's cool I suppose, after all I am just a friend, but when things started to go bad with this dude and I was seriously concerned when her emotional state resembled a schizophrenic with Downs I think it might have been good to know what the hell was happening. For Bug and Bubbas if nothing else. So when confirmed by a mutual friend and then confronted of course she is going to flip out on me for not respecting her privacy, right? So yeah that was a blast!

Fast forward a few months and everything is fine and dandy. Mind you I have not dated for a long time, since the infamous fuck up, and have not really attempted to for fear of being an emotional basket case and the like. So I seriously did not expect someone amazing to show up in my life almost at random, it was not planned and I am still in shock. Now that's not really the issue, in fact its such a non issue that I wouldn't have said anything had it not been so integral to my subject. The issue is hypocrisy.

So I do my Ex the courtesy of telling her I got a date. Did I mention that this girl was so out of my league I was utterly flabbergasted she would bat an eye at me, no because I am sane and like my genitals exactly where they are. But I did tell her so she didn't find out in the same horrible manner that I had not too long ago. Everything is kosher right? Oh hells-to-the-no, this is where shit gets crazy with a capital WTF.

I am treated like the piece of shit she thinks I am, she cries about how I just dont understand and never will because of what I did two years ago, and then tells me I don't need to worry about taking care of the kids cause they obviously aren't my problem. Ummm excuse me? How does this have anything to do with my babies? In fact shouldn't she be grateful that I have been utterly ecstatic about life and all that good stuff since...you know...I met miss amazing? Apparently not. And how might me going on a date be any different than what she did other than the fact that I was honest and genuinely care about the person I am interested in?

Short answer, its fucking not!

So let me be happy and stop trying to unload your baggage on me, I have paid for my mistakes and then some.