What does your Mario Kart character choice say about you?

I had to post this because it's hilarious and often true guys. (I think I found it at collegehumor.com)......


The only thing that feels better then a solid game of Mario Kart is crack. Or maybe playing Mario Kart on crack, that be sweet too. But next time you and your friends play watch carefully which characters your friends choose, because believe it or not which character each person chooses says a lot about their personality...


Personality Select


Mario - You're predictable and meek. You picked Mario because the game is called "Mario Kart" and the only reason you're playing it is so you can talk about how awesome it is to play it. And you're right it is awesome put it's called "playing for love of the game" not "playing so you can attempt to fit in". Shame on you for tinting Mario's good name, put the controller down and never touch it again.




Luigi - You're a loyal friend that is often underappreciated by your peers. However you tend to attach your self to the most popular people and mimic them in every way. You'll go to a party with your "BOY!" and hover around him like a fuckin' herpes soar. You have no real self identity and you most likely cry when you masturbate, which you do a lot.



Donkey Kong- You're obnoxious and proud of it. You wax your chest on a regular basis and every time you poop you feel the urge to throw it at people. You wear your hat backwards and your sunglasses big.





Wario - You are clearly a homosexual. You're consistently cruel to people who you find threatening although you are the butt of everyone else's jokes but don't know it. You are overweight and have a poster of a classic hot rod on your wall. Quit being such a dick and acknowledge your sexuality.



Princess - You tend to get into trouble and rely on others to help you out of tough situations by using your looks to manipulate and control them. You preach about social issues you know nothing about to make people think you give a shit about anything other then partying. Your parents wish you were never born and deep down you know it.





Toad - You are the strong silent type, determined, and possibly retarded. You make others around you uncomfortable and don't even realize that you're just too random to be taken even remotely seriously. Success isn't easy for you; obstacles such as lack of size and being autistic stand in your way.





Yoshi - Your charisma and sensitivity make you a likable person. You constantly insist on giving people piggy back rides around campus and find your self on more then one occasion jerking off while watching "Jurassic Park".





Bowser - You are independent and constantly looking for a mate. You like to gel your hair, go to tanning salons, and wear tight shirts. You select the biggest, meanest, most manly character in the game because you think "He's just like me", but everyone knows why you really do it.

Unrequited love and the Science of wanting what you can't have.

Here are some exerts from various articles that I found on this topic that I think answer this question pretty damn well....

"It is instinctive to hunt for something better, it's a drive that has kept us humans alive and elevated among other animal species since the early days of mankind. It is this internal drive which most of us have that equates to wanting what we cannot have. It's almost as if we have to fool our urges into thinking that we must enjoy what we do have but sometimes self deceit is just not enough."

"We want what we can't have, simply because we can't have it, not because it's better. Eventually we get what we want (we date the man), things don't work out, and we realize that what we had to begin with was better than what we saw on the other side of the fence."

And something very interesting about unrequited love from a book by an expert on the subject that I just couldn't stop reading the other day during my research on the topic.... read it a few times because the jargon makes it a little hard to understand, the point it is making is super awesome and worth the extra effort. lol Disreguard my bold text. That's just for me because it's my favorite part. hehehehe

"Unreciprocated romantic attraction was explored by comparing narrative accounts. Unrequited love emerged as a bilaterally distressing experience marked by mutual incomprehension and emotional interdependence. Would-be lovers looked back with both positive and intensely negative emotions, whereas rejectors were more uniformly negative in their accounts. Unlike rejectors, would-be lovers believed that the attraction had been mutual, that they had been led on, and that the rejection had never been communicated definitely. Rejectors depicted themselves as morally innocent but still felt guilty about hurting someone; many rejectors depicted the would-be lover's persistent efforts as intrusive and annoying. Rejectors constructed accounts to reduce guilt, whereas disappointed lovers constructed them to rebuild self-esteem. Rejectors saw would-be lovers as self-deceptive and unreasonable; would-be lovers saw rejectors as inconsistent and mysterious. "

That's all for now. :-)

Shit You Should Know. You're Welcome.

Like I said in my intro Blog, I'm pretty interested in the genre of self help. I'm going to use this blog post as an opportunity to share some quotes and a brief synopsis of some of the more interesting things that I have learned about life, love, and happiness. Please read it. You'll be glad you did, I promise!

**Warning: These are totally random and from a few different very awesome books. If you want to know exactly where any of it came from feel free to ask.**

¶-"It's impossible to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law."(Meaning that breaking a law or a rule doesn't devalue it at all, it only devalues you.)

¶-"Centering your life on another doesn't show that you love them, it only shows that you're dependent on them." (Dependence is the opposite of independence, and independence is what makes you a strong person.)

¶-"Just because you like to lead doesn't mean he wants to dance. Some traditions are born of nature and last throughout time for a reason." ( This one answers the questions of why it isn't ok for a girl to make the first move when she likes a guy)

¶-"The best revenge is not anger, but emotional distance, as quickly as possible."( This is true because if you're mad at someone then they still have some control of you and your emotions, and they still have the power)

¶-"Unless he's all yours, he's still hers."

¶-"By staying with someone who's not that in to you you're ensuring that you're never going to find one that is."

¶-"We are not our feelings, we are not our moods. The very fact that we can think about these things is what separates us from the animals."

¶-"Freedom comes between stimulus and response."

¶-"As human beings we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate our feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen."

¶-"By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others little by little our honor becomes greater than our moods."

¶-"Real change occurs when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing."

¶-"It's not love that hurts. It's the infatuation that we so blindly and foolishly accept as love that hurts. True love never has to hurt."

¶-"Love is a verb. It's something that you do. The sacrifices you make, the giving of self. Love is a value that is actualized by loving actions."

Drunk Dial Etiquette

I found this somewhere a while back and decided that it's definitely worth sharing on here because it's freaking hilarious.

Proper Drunk Dial Etiquette:

1. Only drunk dial when you are drunk. Everything else is false advertisement.

2.It is okay to call someone 27 times in one night. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

3.If you are going to drunk dial a family member, say something nice. Ex. "Mom I'm in McDonald's and they're playing our song. I love you"

4.Dirty talk while drunk dialing is always preferred. Who doesn't want to hear your best raspy, phone sex voice at 3 in the A.M. asking to bend them over something.

5.Voicemails are always better. This way your friend can let their friends have fun at your expense for days, even weeks to come.

6.Drunk texting is alright... If you are prepared to read what you wrote the next day when you are sober.

7.It is definitely a good idea to call all of your exes and remind them that you were the best lover they've ever had and everything they know, they learned from you. This way you can sleep well at night.

8.You can also call this same ex and let them know, that you know, that they still love you. Then explain to them that I would still love me too!

9.If you are a frequent dialer, never get mad if someone dials you. Be happy they thought of you in this special time.

10.It is always a good idea to sing on someone's answering machine or voicemail. Especially a show tune.

11.Drunk dialing should be fun and light hearted or dirty and sex crazed... Never angry.

12.Most likely you will never drunk dial your best friends. They are usually the ones taking your phone away and reminding you that "you have a problem".

13.If you deleted a number sober, it was probably for a good reason. Do not try to retrieve this number. Nothing good can come from it.

14.Always call someone you know. Finding random numbers in phone books is bad and usually leads to angry dialing.

15.If your cell phone dies, remember everything happens for a reason. Never borrow a friend's phone to do your dialing.

16. Drunk dialing to a foreign country is usually too costly to be a good idea. But if you feel like if you don't call this person you'll just die, break rule 15 and use a friend's phone.

17.Drunk dialing may lead to drunk muffin stuffing.... Be prepared.

18.When dialing remember that "hanging out" at 3 in the A.M. usually doesn't involve cards it's probably going to be more like cheap lube and handcuffs. So be prepared when you really do want to play X-box when your drunk..... "you want me to do what with your box? Play with it?"

19.Don't drunk dial in the pool, tub, or rainstorm. It only ends up with you blow drying your phone when your far to drunk to be using electronics and you wont be able to drunk dial anymore that night.

20.Never, I repeat, never drunk dial your boss, preacher-grandpa, or friend's parents. If you are that hard up to call someone, there is an 800 number on Budweiser boxes. The person on the other line always sounds cute, plus I think they are used to drunk dialers.

Atheists are People Too.

"I never told my religion, nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged others' religions by their lives, for it is from our lives and not our words that our religions must be read."- Thomas Jefferson

I usually don't have a problem admitting that I'm an atheist, which means that I don't believe in God. I don't believe in the Christian God or any God at all. I;m not trying to turn this blog post in to any type of debate at all. However, I find myself pretty offended about the many negative stereotypes about my nonreligous world view. When I was 19 I decided to make a facebook group called "Atheists are People Too." (The blog title is a link to the group) in hopes of explaining what it actually means to be an atheist, at least to me.

I invited the small handful of my friends who were atheist/ agnostic and just left it at that. I didn't promote the group in anyway and it grew to over 200 members all on it's own. I would like to share what I wrote about atheism in that group here. Kinda just to get the word out. Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can clarify my point any better. Thank you in advance.

-Directly from my facebook group:
This is a group for people who are offended by the Stereotype that comes along with admitting to being an atheist. Most atheists are good people with strong morals just like everyone else. Studies have shown that only .05% of the American population are atheist.

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."Albert Einstein

A Newsweek poll found that 26% of registered voters think that Atheists are inherently immoral, only 29% would vote for an Atheist, and only 3% called themselves Atheists.

Atheists do not:
-Hate God.
-Preach against God.
-Worship anything.

This is a group for Atheist and Agnostic people alike, as well as Christians that understand that Atheist are people too.
Join this group if you are Atheist or Agnostic! Just in case there is any confusion...

Atheist = One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods
Agnostic = One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God, or one who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism

This group is not meant to offend those with differing religious beliefs, and is not meant to promote Atheism or Agnostism. This group simply reflects our views and we ask others to be tolerant and understanding, as we are of others' religious ideals.

FAMOUS ATHEISTS, FREETHINKERS, DIESTS, AGNOSTICS:

Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Darwin, Ayn Rand, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, Galileo Galilei, Freidrich Nietzsche, Helen Keller, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Dr. James Watson, Denis Diderot, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, George Orwell, Charles Schultz, Mark Twain, Vincent Van Gogh, Thomas Jefferson, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Edison, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Paine, Jean Paul Sartre, Bill Gates, Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie

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"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism." – Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." – Einstein


"The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people." – Marx

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet." – Napoleon

"I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force." – Mark Twain

"The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."-Sigmund Freud


----- So guys, how alone am I?????

** Disclaimer: The picture on this post is a joke. Laugh. It's ok.**

Mean People Suck: The Maturity in Forgivness

As you go through life you're going to run in to people that you just don't like. There are also going to be times where people you care about do things that hurt your feelings and/or make you really angry. It's inevitable. When that happens, more often than not, people tend to become spiteful and they look to retaliate. While there may be a few scenarios where retaliation is the best option, it usually isn't. The fact is that there are two sides to every story.

Most of the time conflicts are caused by PERCEIVED incompatibility or wrong doing, and not by what's actually fact. Taking the time too calmly look at both sides of the situation and to take in to account the motivations of your perceived adversary, a lot of conflict situations can be easily avoided or resolved. This can you from a lot of fighting and hurt feelings.

No one is perfect and everyone can be annoying at sometimes. Those are the times that it's most important to focus on the good things about the person and not over react like your emotions are telling you to. The more friends you have in life the better and a little empathy goes a long way.

Here's some very interesting stuff on this topic from a book I'm reading: Forgiveness can be a road to higher levels of psychological maturity. Famous psychologist Dr. Otto Kernberg argued that people with immature personality structures fixated at more primitive stages of development see themselves and the world in black and white terms. Mature personalities, by contrast, are capable of maintaining more realistic images of self and others that integrate both good and bad aspects. True forgiveness means acknowledging your anger at someone who has hurt you without demonizing them. Without minimizing the gravity of the offense you are able to recall your positive memories of the offender, and still have empathy for them, as you struggle to integrate your conflicting feelings into one realistic image of who they are.



For those of you who know about my personal friendship history, this explains why I have done some of the things that I have. What I try to do is look at the situation on a scale and keep the good things about the person in my mind while making the measurements. As long as there are enough good things about the person or the relationship in question and they haven't hurt you physically or habitually hurt you mentally/emotionally then you owe it to yourself to GROW UP and give them a second chance. Also keep in mind that all of your friends aren't going to be on the same level of closeness and trust. You can forgive someone and continue the relationship without going back to how things used to be. Forgive, but learn from the past and never forget. That's a little bit of my opinion on the matter. You're welcome in advance. What's yours? What do you think?

Have You Ever Had a Frenemy? It sucks!

Have You Ever Had a Frenemy? I sure have, it really sucked. A "frenemy" is defined as, simply, an enemy disguised as a friend. I've experienced it more than once now. It's a difficult and painful experience but knowing what happened to you and why can help you cope and move on more easily. Here are a few articles that I found especially helpful in dealing with my "frenemies" in the past.

**Here are some articles I found online...**

-You've been stabbed in the back by someone you thought was your friend. They may have lied about you, tried to damage your reputation and your self-esteem,tried to make a fool of you in front of a group you care about, maybe even tried to hurt your career.

Worse yet, you let them get close enough to really get to know you, your life, and how you think... in other words, you let them get close enough to really hurt you. Small comfort, but none of this is your fault.

Your "frenemy" is really the one with the problem. They are either evil, jealous, manipulative, mean, calculating, malicious, competitive (did I say EVIL?) -- or a combination of all of these. In other words, they are not a nice person. In fact, they are scary - willing to do whatever they have to do to advance themselves or their agenda. You didn't do anything to deserve this -- you only trusted someone who didn't deserve your trust. So how do you know if you have a frenemy and what do after you realize that you do? Here are 7 steps to help you figure out if it really is a frenemy that you're dealing with.


How to Spot a Frenemy: 7 Steps

Step 1
-Understand frenemy variations. Frenemies can range from calculatingly callous and manipulative to obliviously selfish and unkind. Just because a person doesn't "mean" to be mean doesn't erase the hurtful impact. Sometimes an unaware insult is more damaging than a deliberate jab.

Step 2
-Pay attention to how you act in the presence of your potential frenemy. Do you recoil at the thought of spending time with her? Do you clam up whenever he comes around? Do you often talk bad about her to others? Do you feel competitive when he discusses work, hobbies, love life or finances? If you continually act less than the highest, most loving, centered version of yourself when the two of you get together, take note. A frenemy may be in your midst.

Step 3
-Trust your initial reactions. The first feelings we have about people and situations are the most accurate. These pure, uncensored observations give us all the information we need to classify somebody as a frenemy. You do yourself a disservice (not to mention set yourself up for more abuse) by analyzing interactions, questioning whether or not you are being too sensitive or making excuses for why a person behaves the way they do. If you feel like you've just received an emotional kick in the gut, then you have just received an emotional kick in the gut. No analysis needed!

Step 4
-Look for patterns. If somebody lets you down or acts insensitively on occasion, that doesn't necessarily qualify him or her for frenemy status. Humans are flawed and friendships inevitably follow suit. On the other hand, a person who continually uses you for his or her personal agenda, dishes out insults, breaks promises, ignores your requests or manipulates you with passive-aggressive behavior goes beyond the acceptable friendship margin of error.

Step 5:
-Acknowledge your paradoxical feelings. Frenemies are hard to decipher because most of the time they have as many, if not more, positive qualities than negative ones. Frenemies will often share your interests and values; if you didn't have these things in common, it would be easy to qualify your frenemies as enemies and move them off your emotional radar entirely. Love-hate relationships are typical for frenemies.

Step 6
-Compare and contrast. When trying to decide if a friend is actually a frenemy, weigh the person in question against somebody who you know with complete certainty is a friend. Personality traits become more apparent when viewed this way.


Step 7
-Seek validation. If you can't sort it out, talk to a trusted friend or mentor. Perspective from a third party can help you get clear about the nature of your mucky, indefinable relationships.

---So what do you do after you've realized that you have a frenemy in your life? Here are 6 steps that will help you a lot. They really helped me make the best out of the terrible situation.---

How to Handle a Frenemy: 6 Steps.


Step 1:
-This is hard, but please, please, please continue with your life as if nothing has happened. No matter how much you've been hurt, paste a smile on your face and keep moving forward. When you see the frenemy, smile and keep moving. Practice the "SO good to see you..." greeting -- saying it with a smile as you keep walking purposefully forward.

Step 2:
-If you can, keep your distance from that person - they are toxic. They might not be toxic to everyone, but for some reason they are toxic to you. If you have to be with or near them, be pleasant - don't offer any information about yourself or anyone close to you. Stick to the weather as your major topic of conversation.


Step 3:
- Bite your tongue and only discuss the situation with one or two people that you trust absolutely...preferably family members or professionals. If the frenemy is at your place of employment, DO NOT discuss with this with coworkers, even though you will be sorely tempted. Your objective is to contain and control the damage --- and not to let the frenemy know how much they've hurt you. Don't give them that satisfaction.

Step 4:
-Keep your head up, keep smiling, and keep moving --- fast. Remember - it is harder to hit a moving target. The more you act like nothing is wrong, the less people will believe whatever the frenemy is saying or has said about you. Also, if you're not saying anything, whatever happened will soon cease to be a topic of conversation. Small comfort to know that many people have suffered pain like this --- many, many people have been badly hurt by people they have trusted.

Step 5:
-Use this as a learning experience --- don't let it happen again. Think back on your relationship with this frenemy. Weren't you getting little clues about them all along? Didn't you feel something wasn't exactly right, but couldn't put your finger on it? We've all been blessed with a sixth sense --- you just weren't tuned in to yours in this instance. Learn from this - Make a vow to yourself to pay attention to your sixth sense or inner voice from now on. If something doesn't feel right about a person ---if they are too interested in you too quickly, if they ask questions that make you uncomfortable, if things don't feel exactly right --- back off. There are plenty of nice, caring, genuine people in the world --- stay away from those that aren't.

Step 6:
-Don't ever let the bad guys see you cry --- SMILE! Being hurt by someone you thought was a friend is a painful, painful experience ---try to remember that this too shall pass --- the pain will lessen every day...hard to believe, but true. Speed up your internal healing by making a conscious decision to let go of your feelings and to forgive your frenemy. Allowing the frenemy and the pain they have caused to affect your life, thoughts, or feelings gives them a power over you that they don't deserve, and that you should not allow.

Obama Shouldn't Have Picked Clinton

*** Disclaimer= I wrote this way before she was officially selected. She's seems to be doing a damn good job utilizing what she does have working for her, but I still hold these views for the most part. (Love ya HillCat. <3)***

This post was adapted from a AIM conversation I was having with my friend Justin. I just took all of the IM's I sent to him on the subject and turned them in to a blog. My thoughts are of very poor quality in this post for that reason. They're unorganized and sporadic.

Still, There's no need for all of that rage to go to waste, right? You're welcome in advance.***

-President Obama shouldn't have picked Clinton to be Secretary of State because...

If Hillary Clinton becomes Secretary of State i might puke. Most people that know me know I'm a huge Clinton fan, but during her presidential campaign I believed that foreign policy wasn't her strong suite.


She wouldn't be respected internationally. I think her talents, which she has many of, are just much more catered to domestic issues. i.e. health care.

However the Obama administration knows all that and I highly doubt they'd make that move......

but CNN is pissing me off.

I understand the Chief of Staff decision.

But it's almost a catch 22, if he puts someone in who has been a part of Washington, they say he isn't creating enough change, then if he puts someone in who's new to the scene they say there isn't enough experience... wtf?


I've just been sick in bed watching CNN for too long... but I kinda want to harm Wolf Blitzer. I blame him. hahahahaha......

CNN is a business out to make money just like Starbucks and I think this situation is an awesome example of them doing what they have to do to make money.

Thoughts???????????

Here's why I started this Blog...

I have a lot of thoughts, and an opinion about pretty much everything. I've decided that instead of making my friends listen to my opinion about how they should live their lives, that it's probably a good idea to just document it elsewhere. This way I can spare them my long winded tales and still have something to point to and say, well, I told ya so. I love being right.

Ya see this thing is that most of the time I can support my opinions on various topics with much more back up data than people assume. Believe it or not, I read a lot. I'm extremely interested in self help and personal growth, as corny as that sounds. I genuinely believe that my life has been improved by these corny ass books that I love so much.

I have a lot about myself that I absolutely love, but there's still a seemingly never ending list of stuff that I would like to improve. As annoying as it may be I have an unstoppable urge to help others with the stuff I have learned. Most of the time against their will. I know that I'm cocky, probably overly, and I think I know it all sometimes(probably often, sorry), but I mean well and I just want to be liked, just like everyone else.

Well, I'm rambling so I'm going to end this first entry here. But keep in mind that if this blog goes according to plan, and it isn't conquered by my ADD, it's going to be pretty interesting, maybe annoying, place for you to spend at least a little bit of your time on the web. Thanks for reading this first entry, and, for all of the insight's you'll be provided with in the very near future, you're welcome in advance.


-p.s. I'm going to gather a few things that I've written in the past so that I'll have piece of mind in knowing that they're all finally in one place. So there are probably going to be a lot of entries posted from today's date.