Black Friday…Bah Humbug!

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving. I know I did. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the holiday. Being Pagan, my thanksgiving is more around the time of Mabon, which falls on the autumn equinox. I celebrate traditional thanksgiving for my parents and as an excuse to see my family, not as a celebration of the pilgrims first dinner with the Native Americans. I feel like I would then be celebrating decades of death and destruction of the Native American culture.

Black Friday is another day that really has low moral standing in my books, and the same goes for the people who go out at 4 o’clock in the morning to get good deals and what not. Again, I celebrate Christmas, not for the christian aspect of it (even though that has mostly disappeared as well), but for my family. My family is not pagan, and so they do not celebrate my holidays. They are not really christian either, so they mostly celebrate these holidays because that is what society tells them to do.

Black Friday is just another day when people get to show off their greed. Christmas is so commercialized, that store owners decided to make their own little holiday out of people coming and buying their products. People search for the best deals, and they will do anything to get them: pushing, shoving, killing. When I did a Google search trying to find news from this mornings black Friday, I still just came up with how many great deals there were. Although I do remember watching my local news yesterday after the Parade, and a teenager was talking about her experience with black Friday last year. She said something how her hood was pulled as people tried to push past her, another teenager spoke about how she was even knocked down. And last year, a Walmart employee was even trampled to death. You can read that article here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/1/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html

Happy holidays…

Hello Again

Hey everyone! I have not forgotten about you! Things have just been kinda crazy with the end of the school semester coming up and my 21st birthday was this Monday so between studying for finals, doing term papers, and drinking with my friends =), I haven’t had a lot of time to write. But as of noon today, thanksgiving break started and I have already decided that I am going to give my self some quality me time, which includes me writing a post or two.

So I got on the internet earlier this week, and I saw this article:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/us-bishops-voice-disappointment-in,1057727.shtml

And I thought…. Separation of Church and State at its best…ha! Everyone can have universal health care for your medical needs, just as long as you don’t make the Bishops angry. This article inspired me and I came across Americans United for Separation of Church and State at their website http://www.au.org/. I am going to look into this website a little more tomorrow before my turkey dinner.

No money, no problem?

I always hated the idea of money. The world would be such a better place without money, if we all just decided to work together, not charge each other for what we wanted. If only we did what we wanted because we want to, not because we are a slaveemployee, working for money. Ah well, I suspect that this feeling is shared by about a million other people but the chances of it coming to pass are…well slim.

Money does not stop this guy though!

I only wish I had enough admission, but like the author I too like indoor plumbing and electricity.

Another Crazy idea…and cheating

But first, a sleep update:

Day 6: I woke up at a wonderful 10am. Not because I have lost the motivation to keep up with the system, but for the simple reason my phone died over night, and my phone is my alarm clock. I felt pretty good today though, thankfully. I will be up late, I don’t see my self going to bed until around 2 or 3 in the morning, so we will see how I feel tomorrow.

Remember that “next crazy idea” I mentioned in my last post? Well, I came up with one! I have been doing some research, and grocery delivery businesses do well in other cities, and there are no services like that in my city. If anyone is reading this, then please leave me your opinion on a grocery delivery business?

It occurred to me today that the act of cheating on ones partner really rips apart a relationship. Okay, well I guess I knew that, but what occurred to me is that cheating is such a made up, human emotion. Perhaps it is indeed an emotion that makes us human, but I still feel like it is made up nonetheless. You don’t see Mrs. Rabbit going around complaining that Mr. Rabbit cheated on her with Mrs. Rabbit number two, do you? No, you don’t. Want to know how I know? I checked.

Okay, I really didn’t spend months in the field observing rabbit mating patterns, but I think the above statement is pretty obvious. Cheating is a made up emotion, a lot like jealousy. What if you could rid yourself of jealousy? You would rid yourself of this whole idea of cheating. Personally, I do not believe in cheating, and my girlfriend and I have recently opened up our relationship. Its not like we are swingers, by the common definition, but we have given each other permission to sleep with other people. Now, before you all start gasping and swearing this off, hear me out:

My girlfriend and I love each other, so don’t think we don’t. We plan on getting married, after all. The only thing we do different from someone else, is we have eliminated the idea of cheating. We recognize that although we are in a loving, emotional, sexual, committed relationship, we are both horny. We acknowledge the fact that we will be physically attracted to other people that we meet, and we will both be tempted to “cheat” (keep in mind, WE STILL LOVE EACH OTHER!) So, instead of taking this negative idea of “cheating”, we have eliminated it. Now, neither of us are jealous people, so it makes it lot easier. We have simply decided to embrace our human nature, instead of ignore it.

What a long day

Hey all,

Sorry I didn’t get to post last night. Here is the sleep update:

Day 4 went very well. I woke up good, and I felt great all day. Although today, Day 5, was a little rough. I woke up a half hour late, but was able to get right back on track so I really didn’t lose any major time. I started developing a headache early in the evening though. I do not know if this is related to the sleep patterns or not. I know I don’t often get headaches, and so I thought it was noteworthy.

I am sad to report that my business venture is still going pretty slow. For those of you who don’t know, I started a basic business simply selling wood burnings and other crafts that I make at craft shows. Well, I have gone to four craft shows so far and well honestly very little money has been made. Ah well, there is nothing to do but keep trying, and if the business fails…move onto the next crazy idea.