I can't get over this illness crap... I still don't have my voice back. I feel better, but am stiff coughing and I sound like Don Corleone in class... that sucks.
Blogging is amazing... I posted HERE the other day about the abuse that parents and family members have taken from a group of very mean spirited people... and lost two followers...
Don't worry... I think I am finished with clowns...
At least for a while anyway...
But on the upside, I've been honored by two bloggers that I hold in very high esteem...
Kurt, over at Krippled Warrior saw fit to give me this:
... and Indi over Indi at gave me way too much credit by giving me this award:
I consider myself lucky to have any of you reading my nonsense... I seem to drift from serious and dark sides over to goofy lascivious sides much like how that feather seems to float around in 'Forrest 'Gump'...
I will need to decide how to pass these on... Thank you, Indi... and Kurt... If you are not familiar with either, please go spend some time at their blogs. You will enjoy yourself...
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There are some strange headlines in the news today... I have no idea why the one that seems to stand out in my mind concerns a strip club...
It seems that a South Florida man got a little too close to the action at a strip club and got hit in the eye by a heel from a dancer's shoe... the article says he got hit in the eye during a lap dance, and I have to plead ignorant here... I've never been the recipient of a lap dance... but that must have been a very aggressive maneuver for him to get hit like this. The dancer, named Suki, managed to hit him, puncturing his eye socket and breaking several facial bones... he also claims to have permanent double vision...
The club decided to pay out of court, possibly avoiding potentially higher awards.
"When this case was first filed, many people criticized it simply because it occurred at a strip club," said Lake Lytal, Ireland's attorney. "But we feel the $650,000 settlement goes to show that this was a serious case with serious injuries."
All in all, I would think double vision in a strip club would be similar to dying and going to Heaven... twice the amount of butts and boobage...
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Lately, I seem to be drifting... floating, like that feather mentioned above...not really in charge of things that are happening in my Life. I wrote about my road trip to New Mexico back in August... and how I disappointed I felt because I didn't get to the Grand Canyon or to Monument Valley.
A couple of friends of mine that teach at other institutions have put together a trip to the Grand Canyon and maybe Monument Valley... soon too!!!
... and I can't seem to make up my mind whether or not to go. At times, I think I put off making decisions on things I want or need to do... and the end result ends up being that I don't go...
I'm at this point now...
I need to decide...
I wrote several times about the death of my friend, Robert, back in July... once HERE... The College of Business here at Alluvial Flood Plain State University is having a Memorial Service for Robert Thursday of next week... and I am to be one of the key speakers...
Maybe this is the opportunity to make the trip and get what I spiritually need.
Towards the end of the movie 'Forrest Gump', Forrest is talking to Jenny's grave and he says: "I don't know if Mama was right or if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze..."
Are our destinies pre-determined for us? Or do the decisions that we make daily in our Lives really shape what happens tomorrow or the next day??
I feel confused... Hell, the other day when i felt like this, I wrote the 'Clown' post... Maybe you all are getting away easy here today...
~shoes~
