Lyrical Genius? Lyrical Moron...

Hello hello!

Hope everyones doing FANTASTIC.  I know, its been a while since my last entry - forgive me.  Now that that's done, I'm back!  For those of you who know me, you know I'm a music lover.  All kinds of music, different genres, I love a good beat, a great tune, and of course, good lyrics.  Lately, I've noticed - lyrics, they're just not what they used to be.  NO, actually - they just suck, and I’m annoyed at stupid song lyrics.  Enough is enough.  I’m also annoyed that songs with moronic lyrics get SO much attention.

There are several thousand, but I’m going to use only a few examples:

"Tik Tok" by Ke$ha (I will say, this song has a great beat)

"Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy
(Hey, what up girl?)
Grab my glasses, I'm out the door, I'm gonna hit this city
(Lets go)
Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
'Cause when I leave for the night, I ain't coming back"

First of all, whats it mean to wake up feeling like P Diddy - what does that even MEAN? It's just nonsense, she clearly just needed a word to rhyme with "city".  Brushing your teeth with a bottle of Jack? Do I really need to hear about her morning routine? Also, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Is she using Jack Daniels as toothpaste?  Or is she brushing her teeth, taking a sip, brushing her teeth, etc.  Kesha, I think you might just be an alcoholic, furthermore, this practice certainly cannot help with morning breath. And is it morning or night? Shes talking about getting up in the morning, but then she says when she leaves for the night shes not coming back, its just all kinds of confusion.


"Upgrade You" by Beyonce, Feat. Jay Z.

"Hehehe Yeah b,
Talk your sh** heheh (partner let me upgrade you)
How you're gonna upgrade me
What's higher than number one"
Hmmm..."What's higher than number one"

LITERALLY, EVERY OTHER NUMBER.  I understand the sentiment here. He's trying to say, whats better or higher than 1st place...that's really what he should have said though. Retarded.



“Grenade” by Bruno Mars.

“I’d catch a grenade for ya
Throw my head on a blade for ya
I’d jump in front of a train for ya
You know I’d do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won’t do the same ”

I don’t need you to catch a grenade for me, I need you to push me out of the way of a grenade, or build me a bomb shelter.  Furthermore, in what instance would it ever be beneficial for me for you to throw your hand on a blade?  I’m going to go with, never. Seriously, who says "throw your hand on that blade, or the girl is dead...". And, you're willing to die for her, and she isn't...clearly, you're misinterpreting something. Not only is she not willing to die for you but the song goes on to say "If my body was on fire Ooh, you'd watch me burn down in flames" This isn't a girl who simply doesn't love you enough, this is a girl who really cant stand you, and pretty much wants you dead - by one of the worst methods possible. If you're willing to go through all this trouble for a girl that clearly cant stand you, that's not romance, that's just creepy. This song isn’t cute, or romantic, its just poorly written.

I love the Christmas mass text...(sense the tone)

Good morning!

After several days of rain, I'm glad to report that the sun is out, and shining, and all is well in southern California again! Thank God.

With Christmas rapidly approaching, I find myself feeling lots of things. Joy, excitement, warm fuzzies, etc. There is, however, one thing I know will come this Christmas, and I am NOT excited about it. You know it, I know it: The Mass "Merry Christmas" Text. It comes every year, and is certainly not limited to Christmas, but sadly, it rears its ugly head every major holiday.

You know whats funny to me about the mass holiday text? I'm fairly certain EVERYONE hates it. So my question is, who is still sending it and why!? (You know who you are, don't look away) There is no benefit to the text. It is not personal, thoughtful, or original. It's just annoying. Furthermore, just because I mention that the holiday text is not personal, thoughtful, or original, does not mean that I want a holiday text that is any of those things. It's ok to just let Christmas be the day that Jesus was born, and came to save us from our sins (between you and me, I think that's enough). It doesn't have to be the day you gave your meditations on "the joys of Christmas", or the day you flooded my inbox with your "insights" on Christs incarnation, or the day you just wanted to say "I hope you have an awesome Christmas full of joy and cheer". Its implied people. Its implied. I don't think if you spare the world from this ever-so-irritating text anyone will think: "Dude, I didn't get a mass text from ANYONE wishing me a Merry Christmas, why does everyone want me to have a miserable Christmas full of sadness...WHY?!?!?!". That isn't going to happen. People assume that everyone wants everyone to have a great Christmas (unless otherwise informed). In fact, I think if you do spare us all, just the opposite will happen. People will actually be able to enjoy their holiday without the following:

• Checking their phone every 4 seconds to delete said texts.
• Having to send the awkward "Thanks! Sorry, got a new phone, who is this?" text (they're always lying, you're just not saved)
• Scrolling through 4 texts sent by one person because their text was so unnecessarily long that the simple "Merry Christmas" turned into Archangel Gabriel's entire dialogue with The Virgin Mary

Trust me, if you don't send the text no one will be sad, hurt, offended, or feel forgotten. On the contrary - everyone will be thrilled that they'll actually not have to worry about their stupid phones, and be able to spend some good quality time with their family. Seriously, just consider it, or leave me off. Thanks!

Really? NOW you're not around???

Gooooood morning! I hope everyone is having a great Wednesday!

Today's blog is about something that happens all too often. Actually, every blog is about something that happens all too often...but today's REALLY gets under my skin. It has to do with cell phones. I know most people have issues with people constantly being on their phones, texting while driving, talking while out to dinner, etc. I get it, that's annoying...but you know what else is annoying??? People who are completely and totally unaware of their phones.

Has it ever happened to you (I know it has) when you were texting someone and you realized "I don't know why I'm texting paragraphs and paragraphs about this when we could just talk..." So then, after having texted someone for a good hour...you decide to pick up the phone and call. And then...NO ANSWER. WHAT IS THAT ABOUT. You and I were just texting back and forth, without pause, for the last 40 minutes, and NOW you're suddenly unavailable??? Where did you go? Are you suddenly underground??? (With the exception of new yorkers and the subway). Did you fall off the planet??? Did you suddenly lose your phone??? NO, YOU'RE JUST A MORON.

Or when someone calls you, you miss it because, I duno, you were in the bathroom. You call them back IMMEDIATELY, and no answer. Seriously? You JUST called me. It happens all the time! And you get the same annoying response every time "OH, my phone was on silent" Well you know what MORON, don't leave your phone on silent. If you call someone, its because you want/need to speak with them. If you call someone, you should be expecting a call back. Does this mean that you check your phone every 3 seconds, or leave your phone in front of your face everywhere you go? NO, but it does mean you don't leave your phone on SILENT after having tried to get in touch with someone. Stop being so friggen careless, and unaware, so the person you're trying to reach doesn't have the urge to rip your face off when you do finally answer your phone (although its highly unlikely that you'll answer anyway). The above actions literally send me into rage. RAGE. Nothing is more frustrating than knowing someone isn't getting back to you simply because they're lolly gagging, and doing nothing important. Get your head out of - the clouds...THE CLOUDS (please decipher that code) and get on the ball!

Also, Michael Ashamalla - I love you.

Get over yourself, PLEASE.

Dude, what is up with all the sensitive people in the world??? Im talking about being made fun of. With the exception of like your face - and things you cant change (lazy eye, wooden leg, etc.) WHAT IS EVERYONES PROBLEM. We all get made fun of all the time. I think I understand a little bit, that whole concept of "Behind every joke, there is truth." Yes, thats totally true. So when someone makes fun of you, or your lame personality...yeah, I'm sure a small part of that joke has truth in it. And you know what determines just how lame you are??? Your reaction. I bet, if someone said you were obnoxious (and it was true, and it probably is) and you didnt get all, well, obnxious about it - the person in front of you would think you were exponentially less obnoxious and maybe even a little bit cooler.

It's like people get all sensitive at the truth behind the joke. Why? If you someones calling you a skank, its probably because you're skanky, if someones calling you dumb, its probably because you're a little bit dumb, if someones calling you a lesbian...well, that happens to me all the time and I'm not really a lesbian, so I guess that joke is the exception - not the rule. My point is, if people are making fun of you for something that they see as a little bit true, you see as a little bit true, AND it bothers you, THEN STOP WHINING AND FIX IT. People make fun of me for being rude all the time, and guess what? I CAN BE RUDE SOMETIMES. Do I cry about what a sweetheart I am all the time? Am I confused as to why people think I can be insensitive? No, because its true, I can be very inappropriately insensitive. My options are to laugh at jokes that come my way, or STOP BEING RUDE. I do not have the option, however, to continue being rude, and get annoyed when people call me out on it. GET OVER YOURSELF.

The worst part of this is when the jokes are really funny, and people get all sensitivo. Get over yourself for a second, if for no other reason than to just appreciate the wit and pure humor. Some people are just really clever. Listen, you could make fun of me for days, maybe its not my favorite thing in the world, but I can definitely take a second to appreciate the joke, and then weep bitterly, alone, in the dark, face down about it later. Sensitive people are so irritating. Like I said, unless its a joke about something you really have no control over, something you cant possibly change, (you really are developmentally delayed, you're missing a limb, etc.) then shutup and laugh. LAUGH. Either fix yourself, or just appreciate a good joke when you hear it. No one likes a sensitive jerk...you just suck the fun out of everything.

On the flip side, I just want to give a quick thanks to the people who can not only make great jokes about other people, but also laugh at themselves. Lifes too short to be so concerned with what people think about you (unless you're a skank, seriously, put some clothes on.) And I appreciate people that can joke with me, and that I can joke with. Everyone needs to learn how to just take a hit, and roll with the punches, you're not any better, more special, or more off limits than anyone else.

We've lost the birds...

Good morning everyone! It's a gorgeous 70 degrees here in sunny California. I hope your morning is as lovely as mine.

A strange thing happened the other morning...I'm pretty sure I hit a bird on my drive into work. I don't want any emails from PETA or animal rights people, it was unintentional. But I must say, there is a lot going on here. First, I thought that deteriorating intelligence was a practice only reserved for human beings, as is demonstrated by the stupid things you see/hear people do/say pretty much daily. But apparently, it's gotten to the birds too. I didn't think birds could get any dumber, but clearly, I was wrong. What happened to the good old days when a bird would SUSPECT that you were coming near it, and immediately fly away ever so spastically? I mean, you could TRY and hit a bird, and you would be unsuccessful. If the shadow of your car seemed as though it was going to come near the bird, flocks would fly the hell outta there like...well, like birds! Those days are gone friends. Now, you literally have to hit the bird before it even realizes its in danger, and by that time, sadly - it's too late. I wasn't even on the highway, or on the street. It's not like I was driving at a high speed and the bird had no time to react. FINE, I know what you're looking for...my confession. Here it comes. I was in the parking lot of my complex leaving my house...going maybe 5-7 mph tops...I saw the bird, I wont lie and say that I didn't. But I thought it was a normal bird! A bird of my youth, a bird with wings, and sense! I saw it in the middle of the road and thought to myself "Surely, when I get too close...it will fly away...that's what birds do" so I crept up. Slowly, but surely, I crept up. Don't shake your head at me! What was I suppose to do??? Get out of my car and politely ask the bird to get out of the way??? IT HAS WINGS!!! It can fly through the air majestically, why was it just hanging out in a Fullerton parking lot anyway! It had the option to be anywhere in the world, and yet it chose to be an obstacle on my drive to work?! Slowly, I crept up...slowly until I couldn't see it and then I thought "Surely, it's walked away and I just didn't see it" And then it happened. I went over a speed bump...but there are no speed bumps.

Bottom line, I'm sorry it happened. However, it wasn't my fault. The birds an idiot...I dont know what else to say about it, except that I'm deeply saddened that "stupid" is sweeping the planet, one species at a time.

You're just so smart...

Hey All!

Hope everyones having a lovely Wednesday morning! Todays blog is going to be kind of serious (don't worry, I'm still going to be speaking about something that REALLY irritates me) but its not as light, or unimportant as everything else I've discussed.

As most of you might know (I'm talking to all 3 of my readers, hi Mom!) I'm a religious girl. Well, I wouldn't say religious so much as I know Jesus Christ. I don't know of Him, don't know about Him, I know Him. While I grew up in the church, I was never forced to attend. My father isn't really one for organized religion, my mother is religious, but not at all the type to shove it down my throat. Never once was I (nor my sisters) made to attend a religious service, never once was I guilted into anything religious. God, the church, and religion have always been completely and totally up to me. Having said that, I will say that I am frustrated. Frustrated with a number of people, but namely, the "intellectuals"

I'm so frustrated with people that think they're smarter than everyone in the world, and even God. That religion and God are "beneath" them. That they're so intellectual, that they can see past all this God/spiritual stuff, and that everyone else on the planet has just created God and religion as a coping mechanism, or way to deal with issues so they don't really have to. Roughly 84% of the worlds population believes in God. This isn't specific to Christianity, just God. Is anyone really SO arrogant, that they believe they're smarter than 84% of the WORLDS population? Sure this includes complete morons, agreed, but this also includes some of the most intelligent people ever to walk to planet (like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking who both strongly opposed atheism) Do you think you understand more than they do? Really?

On to Christianity. About 30% of the worlds population is christian (roughly 2.1 billion people). Sure, there are morons in this group too - but there are also people like: Mother Teresa, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King, etc. Examples of people that have truly impacted the entire world. Mother Teresa devoted her life to the serving the poorest of the poor in India saying "The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it". Its one thing for a cult to brainwash you into killing yourself with a group of people, it's another thing to say that someone has been brainwashed, to HAPPILY give their entire life (50 years) to the continuous service of others. Where do you think that comes from? I know personally (and you do too, you just may not know who they are) a man who studied for 10 years, became a doctor and only practiced 13 days before giving his life to Christ. I know another man who in his 20s was a practicing attorney, making well over 200k and living "the life" before giving it all up to serve Christ. I know people who have left their families, friends, and all that they know (gladly, willingly) to serve the Lord in impoverish nations. All members of our community.

These are not famous people, they are not people the world knows, they are people God knows, and that know God. Do you really presume to tell me that these people have done all this as a method of coping? That they've sacrificed all they know and love because this is the only way they were taught, and this is all they know? That they havent been out, havent seen the way of the world, and have chosen this because there is no other option? That they've done all this because they're not as smart as you? Because they just don't understand whats really going on? That they've done all this because they simply don't realize they're being brainwashed? That they've sacrificed everything (often times against the wishes of their families and friends) to serve God, because they're dumb, or not intellectuals? Really? Is that what you're trying to tell me with all your intellect? Because quite frankly, I don't buy it. Speaking as someone who didn't know God for a good portion of my life - there is no way I would have been able to commit anything to Him until recently. No way I could ever turn my life over to a God I hadn't seen, heard, felt, or understood. Sure there are plenty of people who are hypocrites, yes. But there are also plenty of people out there who are actually doing big things in the name of Jesus Christ, are you really so arrogant to tell me that they're morons? That you're smarter, and you know better?

Sure, there is a lot that we dont understand. But in all your genius, why is it that you expect to know and understand God and His ways. Answer me this, if you knew all there was to know about God - why would there be a need? Who wants a God just as smart as I am? Who wants a God that I understand completely and totally? Who wants a God thats equal with me - what makes Him God then? And if you had THAT GOD, trust, you still wouldnt believe him. You dont take Him now, because there are so many unanswered questions, but believe me, if those questions were answered, you'd still call him a God made by man, because he would be equal to man. The intellectuals have designed it so that they can never be satisfied, so that they can never try, never know, never be disspointed, and also, never be completed. And take a minute to ask yourself, what you've ever done to understand. What have you done to get to know Him. How much have you offered? How much have you committed? I dont think I've sacrificed enough, but I've been shown. I dont think I've fully committed my life, but I've been spoken to. I dont think I've totally loved Him, but I have been loved by Him. Me, and plenty of other people all over the world - we make our best efforts, truly, and He speaks. If you go the best that you can, He will come. I would actually venture to say its the opposite. It's the intellectuals who have ONLY done what they're told. Who have only done and seen whats exactly in front of them, and made no efforts to go deeper. Who have stayed completely surface, relying on their wits and made no effort to see what the world has seen. It's fine, call me an idiot, you can call me whatever you want, but God is not someone I believe in, He is not someone I hope for, He is not someone I have faith in, He's someone I know. My faith is my knowledge of Him, I personally, could not have faith, had I not known Him.

So, imagine if for a second, just for one second you could put aside your hurt, anger, frustration, sadness, disappointment, laziness, pride, arrogance, and intellect for just a moment - and consider the possibility that maybe, JUST MAYBE 2.1 billion people might know something that you don't. That maybe, 2.1 billion people have seen something you haven't. That 2.1 billion people have committed, and had an experience you are yet to have. Just consider the slight possibility that maybe you're wrong. That maybe we aren't all just morons who don't know any better, that we're not just a bunch of cattle being herded into a church every Sunday morning, and that maybe we are people who don't know about God, but who KNOW God, and are happy to greet Him as often as we can. Stop and consider the possibility that love of God isn't a law, but a choice that billions of people gladly make daily. I know, Christians are all morons, but maybe - we're not.

There are no dumb questions, only dumb people

Good morning!

Aside from getting totally lost in my native land this morning, I'm having a great morning - and I hope you are too! Todays topic is dumb people, or dumb questions? I think it's dumb people. Dumb questions, sure, they happen, but they come from people - so, I'm right.


What is it about these dumb people who ask dumb questions? I don't feel like people are just born dumb, I think a lot of effort goes into it. I think dumb people are just lazy, and that takes work. How many times has someone asked you a dumb question and you just thought "if you had just taken one more step in your teeny, tiny, peanut head, you could have avoided interrupting my snack." I know, I've thought it too. Why is it that people feel the need to ask, before attempting to even THINK of a solution. Literally, all you need to do is take it one step further. Or even worse, is the people who stop you, ask their dumb question, and then answer it before you can! "Hey, how do I turn on the light?" " Oh you-" "Oh, theres the light switch..." If you would have taken literally 7 seconds to not blink and look directly in front of you, you could have spared me the frustration. Or the people who ask the same question over and over??? WRITE IT DOWN, we've been over this. ORRRRR the people who ask questions, whose answers will have less than 0 affect on their lives. "Oh, you went to Rita's party? That's great, what kind of food did they have? What was her sister wearing? Who was there?" What does it matter? Who cares??? Its all useless conversation for people who are bored, and cannot stand to be in their own heads any longer than is absolutely necessary. On the one hand, I cant blame them, because I wouldn't wanna try and squeeze in there either, but comon!

We could save a lot of time, energy, and frustration if we all took 4 seconds to just think before we speak, and before we start asking random questions - especially once we realize we don't even care about the answers!!!