Rantings of an open mind

I'm a candid, honest person and just get worse with age. I don't care if you don't like what I believe in or who I am. I'm 40 years old. I refuse to walk on eggshells after 40. Unless I get to crush them and make lots of noise!

So...here I am. I take an anti-depressant because I was once suicidal during a low period of my life. I'm not suicidal anymore. I'm very happy with my life and intend to live to a ripe, cantankerous old age. I believe in gay rights and gay marriage. I believe in weird hair styles and colors. I rarely watch TV and neither does my daughter. I eat carbs. I want a REAL tatoo. I'm happy being single and not in a relationship. I say what's on my mind. I sleep in...never mind, this isn't *WTMI blog.

SOAPBOX ALERT!!!!!

I admire people who are comitted to a cause and find creative ways to get involved and raise money for the cause. I have no respect for people who complain behind another persons back about making items available for purchase to raise money for a cause. Unless of course, that person held a loaded gun to those people's heads and told them to buy things or die. That might be taking it bit too far. Fortunatly, that doesn't happen very often.

I strongly believe that people who complain behind someone's back don't have enough to do to keep them busy during the day. They must have far too much time on their hands to engage in such juvinile behaviors. Perhaps no one's bothered to tell them that they aren't in high school anymore and the world doesn't revolve around them. Perhaps the soda machines and snack machine should be removed from the building so they aren't tempted to spend their money in them either. Afterall, the sodas and snacks are just sitting there, calling to them day after day. There's no escape! The horror of it all!!! It's so...so...UNFAIR! And what about those change catchers at drive throughs? They just DARE you to toss your change in...and for what? NOTHING! I mean, think about it. Some organizations and people ask for your money and don't even give you the time of day in return! How thoughtless...using our hard-earned pennies to raise money for a good cause and using ALL of it for themselves. It sure would be nice to get a little handout for the hard work it takes to donate a little bit of change...something like a nice nail file, for example. Really...raising money for a good cause...it's so altruistic, isn't it? Much more fun to gossip, back-stab, and play tattle-tale than it is to do something for the good of others...*rolls eyes into back of head. Folds soapbox and puts it back into pocket. Wonders how many people have to look up 'altruistic' in the dictonary and guesses it's the same people who like to spend their time acting like they're still in high school.*

Oh yeah...the second interview went ok, as far as I could tell. There's a job opening up where I used to work that I may consider applying for. E is taking the ISTEP this week. I fixed her computer so it will play the Sims 2.

*WTMI = Way Too Much Information (but you already knew that, right?)