Nafarious Pesky Mean Spirited Wasps - October 08, 2009

Well some might say I have an illogical fear of wasps. This is an understatement. I am absolutely petrified in the most illogical way of wasps. Yes, I do understand that I many times larger than a wasp, that I could "swat" them away (if I didn't believe this would infuriate the wasp to the point of an evil revenge style attack on me) and that even if I got stung (like that sounds even remotely OK) that I would survive as I have no allergies to wasps. I understand all this in the logical portion of my brain, HOWEVER, this does not even have a connection to the emotional, freak-out part of my brain. So here I am, 27 years on this earth, still terrified like a little school girl of wasps (and they are actually probably less terrified than me, both the aforementioned school girl and the wasps.)

An example of my ongoing battle with the wasps was a few days ago. I got home and was talking to my roommate when I noticed this evil little creature buzzing at the window by where her son's highchair was. I just about fainted and had a big uhm ah, yeah, uhm you need to, (insert sound of ferocious, angry buzzing) ack!!!!! Kill the ....eeeeep .... wasp.

So being the brave soul that I am, I ran to the other side of the kitchen and tryed to get my mind to stop FREAKING out and think of a plan!! Meanwhile, my roommate who is also not really a large fan of the angry buggers, is also trying to remain calm while her 2yr old is 189% braver than either of us and is pointing at it "What's that??"

So we wheeled her 1yr old and his highchair to the other side of the kitchen, attempt to move the 2yr old to a location somewhat far from the wasp, though to be honest, he looked quite a bit more calm than both me and the roomie put together.

We then devised a contraption to hold the malevolent creature in it's place until we can figure out how to remove him from the premise's (do we ever think of wasps as she's? I sure don't for some reason, hmmm.)

This is what we came up with:

You can actually see him all vile and large and trying to sting the window in contempt of his newfound prison!!

We then slipped a very thing cutting board under the contraption and hucked the device and it's vile prisoner outside and ran with a vengeance to the inside and proceeded to drink copious amounts of red wine!!!

PS What is the with the Wasp Woman at the top of the post? A Beautiful Woman by day, a Lusting Queen wasp by night? WTF!!! RIGHT?

Selfish - September 22, 2209

Selfish: arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others selfish act>

Now this is the definition of Selfish according to Mirriam-Webster. This being said, I disagree with the or portion. Selfish technically is more arising from concern with one's own welfare. The advantage in disregard of others could arise from trying to satisfy one's selfish needs in the way one goes about it. I was hungry at lunch, I ate food, that was a selfish act as it was concerned with my own welfare. Did I eat in disregard of other's? You got it, no. Now I know you could say, there are starving children in Africa, yes there are. Does it make me a horrible person that I ate lunch? No. Would someone in Africa have eaten my perogies given the chance? Probably yes, but that still doesn't make me a bad person eating food in disregard of other's.

Back to the word selfish. It has become in modern society a word that has moral and ethical implications when in fact, it really isn't a moral issue at all. Humans and animals (hell I imagine all living creatures) look out for themselves, it is called survival. Even flowers will push past each other to get to the sun first. I saw it in Spain everyday, and it actually made the world a more beautiful place, seeing the flowers blooming everywhere and up high.

It is in how you go about surviving if you will, that adds the moral aspect to the word. Looking out for yourself should not be considered a bad thing. One needs to take care of number one. If everyone spent all their time making sure each other was ok and not themselves, the world would fall apart.

One last question then? If one does a good deed for someone and it makes them feel good, does that then make that person selfish and looking out for themselves at the cost of another? I mean they benefited from the good deed. You might even say they were concerned with their own welfare as helping people out tends to make you feel better about yourself?

Anyhow, that was my ramble, food for thought today!

Charity begins at home, right?!

Memories - September 2, 2009

So I've been thinking a lot about the past. Memories, memories of memories, wishing I was living those memories. Not any particular time frame, it's all time frames, anything I now long for, miss, ache for.

The loving touch moments, the sexy moments, the crazy good times with friends moments, the laugh so hard you just about pee (or maybe you do, who am I to judge) moments.

Why am so nostalgic, so drippingly pathetic about missing the good times? Perhaps tonight I realize, there just aren't that many good moments this past bit. And that something needs to change, I need to change something. What?? Well if you know, how bout letting me know? Ha.

Lil One

Pic to be posted later once home
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