Random Ghost Show Commentary

Yikes!!  Time for a quick sloppy blog.  I was about to head to bed when I remembered that it is Saturday and I haven’t written a blog this week.  I don’t want to fail only a month in. 

Have you ever watched Ghost Adventures?  I was watching it tonight on the travel channel instead of putting deep thoughts into a blog.  I have to say that it is one of the worst ghost shows on tv.  They over dramatize everything and they don’t even show you all the evidence.  Like one I was watching last week – I don’t actually know if it was last week, but I will go with the time frame – with some friends showed the aftermath of sheets being bunched up, but it never showed how they were bunched up.   Even if it happened slowly, they could have fast forward it.  I think that they probably messed up the sheets themselves, or their camera ran out of tape or something.  But the audience won’t ever know what the case is because they just leave gaping holes in their investigations by not showing footage.

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Symbiotic Friendship

Since I talked about parasitic friends last time, I will talk about symbiotic friendship this time.  This is the kind of friendship that benefits all parties involved.  It gives each person laughter and joy; above all else, it leaves those involved in the friendship feeling renewed and happy instead of drained and frustrated.  I am lucky and have quite a few of these friendships.  I tend to take these friendships for granted as I go ranting about bad friends, but I really do appreciate all of these wonderful people in my life.

Break from the mushy- I just saw a McDonald’s happy meal commercial.  Really McD’s, joy is a happiness that can be given through a happy meal.  Way to make people think you can be happy through materialist gain.  Yet if they fall for that, then they aren’t very smart to begin with.

Back to the mushy- Aww, now I forgot what I was going to say.  Guess that is all for this installment of the honesty blog.

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Parasitic Friends

To put friendship at its most basic concept, it is two or more animals working jointly together to improve their status.  They play a game of give and take, were they share food or status or time or any other valuable “shared item”. Each animal is trying to better itself the most it can in the game of give and take.  A friendship is sustainable if each side gives and gains equally of “share items” leading to a mutual uprising.  However, if a friendship is parasitic, with one side taking too much or too often of the “shared item”, then it will disintegrate. 

I recently confronted one of my parasitic friends.  She has been mooching of my sister and I for the last few years and I finally realized it; it only took her moving in with us for me to open my eyes.  At first it seemed like a good friendship; we would exchange time for entertainment.  She would drive us place and we would feed her.  But then I got a car and no longer needed rides.  She would ask me for rides because she drove me in the past, but we already exchanged that “shared item”.  She asked us to pay for part of an entertainment package, but when it came to us enjoying the entertainment, if it wasn’t what she picked out – meaning she didnot have the control of the whole account, only the third she paid for – she would get mad because it was her account first.  Weren’t we exchanging money for entertainment just as much as she was?  There are many more examples of this less then stellar game of give and take that I neglect to complain about sine I have nitpicked enough.   The point is that the sustainable friendship slowly morphed into a parasitic one and I finally got angry enough at the excessive take that I confronted the friend.  I am still waiting for a verbal or written response, which I probably won’t get since she cannot handle anger besides looking like a bewildered 5 year old and saying excessive sorrys - since when has sorry fixed anything?

Betty

P.S.  Don’t be afraid to tell your friends if they are being a parasite.  It makes a world of difference.   I’ve felt a lot more relaxed since.

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Baking Bad

After a conversation with some friends in the grocery store over  which oil they use – I use vegetable because I mostly bake and they use evoo because they cook -, I realized that my passion for baking will  probably be my biggest downfall for my get healthy goal. 

It isn’t even that I have/love to eat dessert; it is that I love the process of making dessert.  The precise details in measuring, the art in decorating, and the variety of flavors, textures and temperatures.  I love it all.  In making the dessert, I will always end up having a piece the test if it taste right and that means excess calories that I really don’t need.

As the saying goes, everything in moderation, right?

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New Year Resolutions

I generally don’t make New Year’s resolutions because I think if you want to change yourself why start on New Years; why not start the day that you want to change.  This year I am doing it differently.  I will join the masses and start today to try to better myself.  I am not going for big goals, like loose an Olsen twin, just small things, like exercise and eat healthier.  That way if I don’t reach my goal of so many pounds a month I won’t be discouraged and stop trying.  I have two simple goals which I will list below.

New Year’s Resolutions:

Get Healthier

Maintain this Blog

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