Well, I guess I suck at blogging...

I guess I haven't taken the time out to really think about what it is that I have been wanting to write here. It's been months...so no one could ever accuse me of rushing into things, but still...

Those of you that know me know it's been a rough few months - my ex from 2010 and I got back together (kinda) but that didn't work..which sucked...

Then I got back together with an ex from 2003...

That REALLY didn't work...and it sucked even more, because it started so GOOD...c'est la vie, eh?

So basically I am over relationships for the time being - I think. Who knows? I certainly don't...

I have also come to the realization that while everything DOES happen for a reason, we as people don't know what that reason is (though we think we do) and we hide behind that excuse. It's like people who blindly follow religion, and when something adverse happens, it's "God's way of telling us something" or, it's "God's plan".

Bah.

Your kid fell out of a tree and broke their arm because they were reckless...not because its God's plan.

My ex and I didn't get back together and break up because God said so, or he wanted me to learn something - we got back together cause we wanted to get our rocks off, and we so happened to want to continue to see each other after...

I don't lose all my money gambling because some deity has a plan for me...it's because I have a gambling problem and I don't know when to stop!!! I don't blame God for my problems (though I may ask him for help every now and again - falls on deaf ears, if he has them), I blame ME for my problems. We lack so much accountability in this world that it sucks. Everyone is just waiting for someone else to clean the mess up - never a volunteer - but everyone has NO PROBLEM pointing their finger in the direction of who should be to blame, or who is responsible.

Look at our recent financial travesty as a country: we are pointing fingers all over the place blaming people, playing the hindsight game, wasting time, resources and money (lots of it), making threats... GET OVER YOURSELVES AND GET THIS SHIT DONE! It shouldn't have taken until the 11th hour to get a deal semi-done. That was a little ridiculous.

Dems blaming GOP, GOP blaming Dems, Al Franken is a douche, Bill O'Reilly is an ass...

WHO GIVES A RATS ASS?!?!?!?! GET THE F**KING JOB DONE, AND DONE RIGHT!

All this posturing and polarization...what has it all done? It reduced our AAA rating via S&P - who are responsible for a lot of this mess in the first place, so fuck them - it made the stock market become attached to a friggin' bungee cord, it didn't really solve anything, and created more issues then it solved.

I agree with Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, that we should pull our donations to campaign funds from these political jack-holes that got us in this mess - BOTH SIDES... Democrats AND Republicans! Hit THEM where it hurts, in their campaign coffers, and show these guys that WE elected them - and we have the power to kill their re-election. Send that message to those who lack accountability and point their fingers at others as opposed to trying to fix the problem! WE ELECTED THEM TO MAKE THINGS BETTER...are they better?

It's not Obama's fault - he is the figurehead and therefore the scapegoat - it's all the other politicians faults. Everyone is protecting their interests without paying attention to the people they should be protecting in the first place.

Accountability is what makes you a person - you fess up to your mistakes, and no one bothers you when you take a bow for your successes. You need to be real...

In my job, I see it all the time....I have one particular employee that is so hell bent on not getting in trouble, that he makes 20 billion excuses for everything. I would have a ton of respect for a "I screwed up" response rather than a "oh, well...um...there was a cat, and then UPS came and ran the cat over, and I had to clean the blood off my shoes, and that's why I am late..."

Do the right thing for yourself - admit a mistake...yes, it sucks because we are all human and we all like to be right. But, we ARE HUMAN and are prone to mistakes/failure. It's humbling, and it sucks, but learn from it and move on...

Wow, I really just went off on this...cool!

L8r

- M