They climb!

So, Winter, our new hermit crab, loves to climb the coconut skin on the side of the crabitat. She truly loves it. She'll go eat some food, go for a dip on the pool then climb till she gets scared (about 4inches).

I've read that hermit crabs like to climb things but Echo never did. I wish him and Winter would go up there together and have a sort of friendly gladiator match 2inches in the air.

Oh that po' chicken.

My lovely fiancee and I had a gorgeous Christmas together baking cookies, visiting the nursing home, wasting gas looking at lights and eating delicious food. The Christmas chicken, however, was a much more formidable task than shaping spritz'.

I watched my father dozens of times carving a bird – turkey, duck, chicken – and it always seemed kind of self-explanatory. Tug the leg. Slice. Grab the wing. Slice. Just that simple. However, something I had never taken into account was that my father had done this routine, likely, hundreds of times, thus nearly perfecting the carving craft.

Damnit, I tried my best. That was enough for Adla and I.

The bar has been set a little higher for the Easter duck.

The Last Shot

Wow, could this shot really be the end all of all shots as the writer describes. OK, so it has a lot of alcohol, but does it really taste good?

NO!

Again, as I will confirm time and time henceforward, the white russian is the best drink ever.

ever.

Ugh. Finals.

Finals awake the intense anxiety in me.
I lost it. Truly. The weekend before finals I don't recall consuming anything other than alcohol and bacon, and alcohol-laced bacon.

I was scared. Paralyzed. Unable to move because of fear of the unknown. My psychologist calls it "anticipation anxiety." Yep, that sounds right.

it's like I don't know what's going to happen and the fear controls me – lays me in bed for hours when I should be studying, but what to study when I dont know what's on the test. Ugh!

So, I broke. I wanted to be void of all emotion and anxiety. No worry. A self-medicated relaxation.

No eating. Exercise. Alcohol. Bad choice... in hindsight, of course.

At the end of my restriction bender my fiancee found me pseudo-comatose in bed contemplating partial treatment.

Many times I like to feel like I've dealt with my anxiety. But, the reality is, I struggle daily.

I struggle daily.

Battle of Soldiers' Souls

There are many anti-war supporters. An anti-war fan myself, I never thought of taking it to the source of U.S. war: The Recruiter.

Their system completely under minds U.S. efforts to continue the war. However, the theory is good. Stop the soldiers before they are soldiers.

But, doesn't that leave the armed forces with sufficient troops? No, those left are commended to areas of minimal aggressor contact.

I feel bad deceiving a recruiter. Sure, that's natural.
Think of it this way. For every moment one occupies a recruiter.
You save a soldiers life.

Seriously, there are enough people doing this. And I admire the convictions of recruiters, they believe they do good work.

What I love is the ingenuity and creative uniqueness of the project.
The pro-war folks should be doing the same.

Bored and Awake

It's 2am and I am not tired. My fiancée is sleeping in the next room and all I can think about is how much a want to go for a run. I would be satisfied with only 20min., but would be extraordinarily happy with 2hrs of cardio.

I've been thinking of working out more often. Well, pretty much everything is more often. I've been thinking about fasting more often ('cause many articles on the Internet say how good it is to fast), and I've been thinking about how gross my body is much more frequently.

However, the most important strategy to overcome personal rhetoric is to reframe negative ideas i.e stomach becomes abdomen.

I am writing now and concidering the impacts of going to the gym. i would also like to cuddle up with my sweetheart for a cozy night. Hmmm.

Western Hatred Runs Amok. Rightly so.

The new Burger King ads are so obnoxious (in a bad way), they embody every negative stereotype of americans.

It assumes all those hungry in famine regions need is a whopper. Again, Burger King is feeding starving people whoppers. As a advertisement!

I just... I just don't know where to start. So the agency goes into starving regions and only bring whoppers? How does that effect their consistent regional diet?

But, seriously, a whopper! That may nearly kill someone whose had only 1500mg sodium their entire life, let alone a single meal.

What was the conversational meeting and critique behind this?

OK, I promise my readers I will email Burger King Public Relations and try and get an answer.

Keep updated.
I wouldn't want this to be the corporate america the international community sees.

My Hermie is moving on up!

Every night for about the last week, my hermit crab Echo has been investigating another shell in the crabitat. This evening he almost has his whole body inside it! I'm pretty sure he's gonna do it.

I looked at it the other evening at the shell was clean inside. Yep, he's getting ready for a move. I'm really looking forward to his new shell 'cause it painted like nemo. Nemo!

Don't worry. when he does move pictures will be posted immediately.

Multi-level marketing

Pyramid scams will alienate everyone around you. Don't do it!



No longer should I be surprised when someone offers me a way to get involved with an exciting new business opportunity. I know what's coming, but I'm still curious. So I say, sure tell me about it.

Always the same thing. Some enigmatic individual comes up with this great way to cut costs, but somehow only a select group of people know about it -- not financial advisers, not business/wall street types. Odd, hmm.

So, enigma man somehow gets followers, of whom I would have no idea would be susceptible to such fraud.

What do people fall for these things? Do they have no self respect or are they just lazy and want easy money?

As for my future responses, I will continue to ask why. Because I'm always interested in the different ways one can reframe multi-level marketing.

embarassed to be an american

Who would consider this funny?
Is this what the american government means by liberators. To exploit the friendship and generosity of a people.
The first thought through my mind was, "Wow, this soldier is an asshole. A complete, inconsiderate prick."
No wonder the international community doesn't like us. Our troops do disrespectful crap like this and under mind our governments already ill-conceived efforts to raise an occupied country's morale.