tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64817171646066877732024-03-19T01:12:17.606-07:00Meat and Pants FreeRhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-8758200064196304262015-01-27T09:29:00.000-08:002015-01-27T09:30:05.690-08:00Gettin my Hygge on<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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sick from work and I honestly couldn’t think of a better time to have a blog
conversation about something I saw on the Facebook that I had no idea I had
been practicing since before Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s called Hygge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you to
my new old friend for bringing this term (which I can’t even begin to
pronounce) to my life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Usually before and after
Christmas I have a hard time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not
that I hate Christmas but the pressure of what goes with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been told in the past by a friend I
might have SAD (lies) but really I just think this time of year is just a time
for calm and quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s cold so why not
stay in more with books, movies, writing and one or two friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you love Jesus then maybe it’s his way of
sparing us all from your company and neediness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway, turns out I think I just catch a bad case of the Hygge!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Danish meaning of hygge</span></i></h3>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Hygge is as Danish as pork roast
and it goes far in illuminating the Danish soul. In essence, hygge means
creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good
people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Friends and family – that’s
hygge too. There's nothing more hygge than sitting round a table, discussing
the big and small things in life. Perhaps hygge explains why the Danes are the
happiest people in the world?</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Also</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">"In other languages the word for hygge or
coziness is more a physical thing, and hygge is more a mental thing,"
explains Lotte Hansen, a library science student from Aalborg, Denmark, who's
interning at the <a href="http://www.dkmuseum.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Museum
of Danish America</span></a> in Elk Horn, Iowa. "It's like a feeling, and
it's big at Christmastime. The candles, the food, being with your family."</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">"It's not only Christmas, though," she
adds, noting hygge is a pervasive, year-round spirit. "It's like a mood
you have. We can see hygge in many things, in many situations."</span></i></div>
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living this last while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat down one
day after my last break up and decided to stop being made to feel badly for my introversion
but to also make a real effort to get out more to events that interest me and
stimulate me in the right ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
went to parties where the only people I knew where the hosts, took myself out
to dinner at a place I wanted to eat and made more of an effort to make new
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was happier without an unrealistic
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was striving to make the house feel more cozy by lighting candles, keeping the
lights off or low and if the TV managed to make it on it was the fireplace
channel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also worked over the
holidays with entertaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I took a
huge breath and let myself be more laid back again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read for hours covered in pets forgetting
to eat or that company was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over
the two weeks off I lost all track of time, worked on myself and kept pumping
out the tea lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even at the hardest
points I loved how it felt to be cozy, in my home, back in my mind and
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not felt that way in
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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been busy this season also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the
last two women I’ve dated and my friend Megan have seen me in this
monstrosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a huge ripped Michael
Jordan hoodie worn by I’m guessing a very large gangster.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This thing is three sizes too big on me and I’m
not small as we know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway with the
hood and terrible look it feels like a warm hug to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I am sick I wear it to bed with the hood
on and somehow I feel better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wear it
in the house and unless I’m cooking it feels like a soft back rub from someone
who cares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually wore it while
reading on the sofa one day and used the front pocket to help carry my
book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I later took that book out while
on the toilet and continued reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is how awesome this sweater is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m wearing it as I blog and perhaps the sweater is giving me a fancy
secret back rub to get me writing again?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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feeling I had been trying for was working big time. Now, what about the hygge
in my mind?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has been flowing
also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve spent quality time with
friends, no phones, less technology and made a real effort to connect with
myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting back to listening and
speaking to myself kindly has not been an easy task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this has however made it easy to connect
with others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like when I am in
the company of others now, (even if it is only one other person) I listen more
attentively and I speak so much more from the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friend has noticed how brutally honest I am
with myself at times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have almost found
it unable to hold anything to me that does not bring in some hygge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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January.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there more hygge to come
when the weather changes?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal is to work on my yard as
soon as spring comes to have a great place for summer BBQ’s, fires and to just
sit back and enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to have
people over all the time but in the last few years my world got a little too
small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s time to hygge and bring back
a wonderful attitude of bonding with friends, enjoying nature (a little) and
appreciating what wonderful feeling a person can create for themselves out of
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-75702588252743696312015-01-23T18:18:00.000-08:002015-01-23T18:20:15.131-08:00I am Not a Left Handed Jew! Have you ever tried to wipe your ass with your opposite hand? Or have
you ever tried to get someone off with that same opposite hand. Not as
easy as it sounds. Go give it a shot I'll wait here. <br />
<br />
My
point is change is not easy. I have so many examples in my own life I
could keep you here for days. In the past six months I've had a lot of
change laid on me. Make ups, break ups, make ups, break ups, health, money, friends, sex and love. All of it I tried to deal with with my
"good" hand. <br />
<br />
But what happens when things don't work out the
way you think they will and you realize that "good hand" has done you no favours? What happens when you realize that "good hand" needs an
overhaul? I'm not suggesting you use both hands to
wipe your ass but what I am suggesting is sometimes the other hand
might do a better job even though it's super uncomfortable to try. <br />
<br />
Before
my last relationship I had begun making my life very small. Friends had
changed, had kids and in many ways I felt like I didn't fit with anyone
anymore. A new friendship evolved into a romantic relationship and I
let it take the place of several friendships. Now here I am single again
and since Christmas I've made a lot of changes. I kind of feel like
I'm in a perpetual state of using my left hand all the time now. Over
the holiday I did probably the equivalent of six months of therapy (for
my shitty self esteem) in two weeks. I've explained it to a few people
that I feel like all of my insides were pulled out, examined and
bleached before being inserted back slightly incorrectly. Over dramatic? I think so. But I kind of need to gay man it up to prove
my point. <br />
<br />
Change is terrifying. I've watched friends stay in
terrible relationships for years because they're too afraid to be alone.
The unknown of what that will feel like after years with someone, even a
shitty someone was too overwhelming. I don't think I've ever been that
afraid of change but I have been guilty of complacency in my life. I
put up with people treating me shitty and not changing how I should have been treated. Now that I'm approaching 40 I don't have the time for that
nonsense anymore. I think this might be one of the good points about
getting older.<br />
<br />
So here I sit at my dining room table trying to
make sense of the change I have been through. Feeling so exposed after
all that therapy. I almost feel like a person who's been given a new
handbook on how all this is supposed to go. However I'm just learning
how to read English again and it's in Hebrew. And I'm not a Jew. Story of my life really
but thus far I've managed to muddle through and truthfully I wouldn't
change any of this for the world. All this change has provided me with
so much new opportunity. I now have the strength to spend more time out
of my introverted shell, I've made amazing wonderful new friends and
I've done a few things that need to be vaulted. <br />
<br />
I'm happy to
report that even though I feel naked, new and very confused at times I
don't think I've ever been happier. I have the full support of a
wonderful new friend (who won't let me get up until this blog is finished) and this past year I've made a couple friends who
even though they are new to my life, look past my weird quirks and are
there for me 100%. That feels amazing.<br />
<br />
So off I go with my left hand free and my right hand still MIA. I think she needs to stay gone a little while longer...<br />
<br />Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-82835915171978873812014-09-25T03:17:00.000-07:002014-09-25T03:17:18.643-07:00Diva Cup Shots! Day 1<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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old blogging game. I’m not fully sure why it’s been so long and we can
talk about that another day. Today is the start of my little series I’d
like to call Cheers to the Diva Cup and my very narrow yet perfectly fine
vagina. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So after years of making
jokes and being totally grossed out by the Diva Cup I have gone down the road I
never thought I would. First, lets just back up and talk about how this
all came to be so you can get the full picture into my feelings about the cup
and how the hell I now have one.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So being in social services
you hear things about things. While working at another agency we had a
talk about menstruation things and the Diva Cup came up. I had to google
it and was grossed right out. Mostly because I didn’t even use a tampon
until I was 30 thanks to all the emotional shit passed down from my
mother. Thanks mom. Anyway, I was now use to tampons and then learn
about Diva Cups and reusable pads! WTF. I felt all this was super
gross as in my book you throw all that shit in the garbage and return to the
sofa to eat chocolate during that week. End of story. Also, due to
lack of information, I just pictured having to pull out a cup of blood and with
my pants at my ankles toddle out of the stall at work to clean the cup.
Bloody hands and pants as co workers came in to see me in all my glory.
Then came my two phase education. I had begun listening to a podcast
called the Crimson Wave that was hilarious. Two chicks (feminists…whatever
that means these days) who talked to other comedians about periods.
Amazing. Even if you don’t have a vagina you should listen. Anyway,
so then phase two happened with 3 other work mates (all female) in a work
van. We were talking about periods, as women do constantly btw, and I
made a Diva Cup joke. Then it happened. “I use a Diva Cup!”
My holy grail! My unicorn friend! A real live person I personally
know who personally uses a Diva Cup! Now, when this kind of thing is
announced in a van that smells like homeless people the questions begin to fly
from all sides. “Are you crazy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Does it hurt?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it gross?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you use it at work?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So calmly in the parking lot at work my
Unicorn explained to us that the Diva Cup can be left in for 12 hours, hadn’t
leaked for her and she didn't have to wear a pad to bed. It all sounded so good. No more trying to
smuggle a mega pad or tampons to the bathroom. No more trying (usually
unsuccessfully) at work to get a tampon in the right spot with one leg of your
pants off and foot on the toilet. Some of us have some extra bumps on the
road…just sayin.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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questions for 20 minutes we left the van smelling like homeless people
ourselves with a new outlook on life and our lady parts. Not to mention I
was now seeing my friend differently. She was not a hairy lesbian with
picket signs, cats and a vegan diet because “meat refers to eating dick.”
She was a semi normal married mother of two who didn’t like to wear
underwear. What is not to trust really? So without others around I
asked my Unicorn all the questions I could think of. She was able to
answer every question without an angry environmental man hating reason.
This suddenly became something I could possibly get into…me.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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next weeks it was a conversation had many times in the office and
privately. To diva or not to diva. Then I had sex and remembered
that my lagoon of mystery is not made for a large swimmer. So to
speak. After that I had the odd second thought but ordered my very own Diva
Cup from the Amazon. Despite hearing they are available both at shoppers
and the granola homeopathic store. I will walk through shoppers with two
packs of pads and 4 chocolate bars but would rather ride a cotton donkey to
work then be seen in public with the big pink Diva Cup box. I can only
imagine playing the inflated price at the granola homeopathic store and having
the girl behind the till talk about the universe and how much she loves her Diva
Cup. “The stars and universe told me to use the blood in my plants.
It’s very special to me.” Lame ass.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></div>
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So we waited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Waited
for my next period after my Amazon delivery of the Diva Cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was it advised that I do a dry (literally)
run before my period which I didn’t do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I’m going in then I am going in when it’s needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to my order of the Diva Cup my Amazon
is now recommending a selection of cat toys and sad movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks Amazon for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, yesterday after an extra long weekend
of crying for no reason and cravings it happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My night before period anger!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I washed my Diva Cup and put it on the edge of the shower ready for the
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough, after my morning
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<b>*Now would be the time to stop reading if you don’t want to
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<b>Welcome back you filthy friend.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span></div>
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So back to where we were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After my poop I get in the shower ready to use this thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remembering the directions I make it into a C
or a U depending on how you want to be facing it and give it a shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Side note of things you should know about
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My back kills in the morning and I
have really short arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even with a leg
up I could not bend far enough with my morning back to get into the right
spot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also all I could here was my
Unicorn’s voice saying “you have to relax your vagina.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t tell me to relax!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say... I was not relaxed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I walked away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After 2 tries I did what I had to do and left
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So my day went on as normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Period aggression, chocolate cravings and my one day a month unnatural
attraction to men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My back got more
limber and by the time I got home from work I had to have a shower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My new hair cut had made me feel relaxed and
ready to wash off all the little bits of hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So back in the shower I gave it a shot again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No success and some serious discomfort which
led me to text my nurse friend “how do you know if you still have your
hymen?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In retrospect I should have explained
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So after eating a can of shame food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Spaghetti and meat balls and a chocolate
bar.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Don’t fucking judge me!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yet again went to the shower to give it a
shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used a very soothing low tone to
let my vagina know it was cool to relax, chill out and just be cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should have hummed some Bob Marley. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, after 3 tries it worked!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, it was in and not feeling like I was
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As I am writing this it has been almost 2 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have gone for a walk with the dog and
thought about twirling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus far we are
all good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know about the trauma
of emptying this thing but as far as I’m concerned I am signing off with a cup
in place and the granola lesbian gods smiling down on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-30640128033625171032013-10-03T17:42:00.001-07:002013-10-03T17:43:03.511-07:00Gone too Long<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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blogged about anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a whore I
am?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not like I have anything better
to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not like you will be getting
some big update on some amazing love affair that has swept me away to Europe for
months where I have lost 100 lbs eating fresh croissants and making love in
fancy hotels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trust me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That has not been happening. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I’m not sure what is up my ass when it
comes to sticking to writing out a topic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have started many topics from news events, funny situations and some
deep thought shit but never seem to finish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I write this I don’t know where it’s going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t really care about anything that much
to rant about it so really this could be very short or very confusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way thanks for sticking it out and
coming back to see if I give a shit about anything.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I guess I don’t give a shit about
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve noticed this about
myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep laughing at my lack of
give a shit when it comes to the gays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
gay community is starting to look like a swat team of haters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One person from a company or group says
something half shitty about gays and all of a sudden we get in a group like a
pack of wolves going after a bunny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Don’t eat that pasta, the CEO says gays suck.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time of year my mother and I are still
not sure if we can go to Trails End because someone who worked there gave a
trans person a hard time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fairly sure we
both want to go before the weather gets to shitty but as a gay will I be given
a hard time by other gays?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When do we
get to the point where we can say “We cool now?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">I do admire the young gays who have too
much time and energy to hop it a car with ready-made signs, a cooler full of
snacks and 50 of their closest friends and ex’s ready to voice an opinion on a
cold corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve never done anything
like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years ago I did go to Take Back
the Night but it was to get laid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly
I didn’t know the theme of Take Back the Night so needless to say the woman
that I was seeing at the time was not in the mood after a night remembering
dead women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see that now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I was a little put off.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">This summer I skipped gay pride in favor
of napping and working on the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ok,
I just napped but in my defense it was hot and I was not in the mood for that
many people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The year before I was
forced and didn’t fully mind once I got there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I guess I didn’t want the half my boob sun burn and full head burn but
it did feel good to celebrate my penis in vagina free life with so many people
who were fine with that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you hate gays then that’s on
you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the makers of Tim Tams or some
other product I loved said “We hate fat lesbians in golf shirts” then I might
have an issues but honestly I can separate the product from an over paid douche
who runs the company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s the
introvert in me but sometimes the best way to show someone you could care less
about their comments is to care less about their comments and more about living
a great life without anyone’s approval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-6137036340276359082013-07-23T08:56:00.004-07:002013-07-23T09:00:25.695-07:00Hot Dogs, Smoke and SprinklersToday is national Hot Dog appreciation day. I'm guessing only in America since Canada is busy making sure beer and smokes aren't getting over taxed again. It's how Canada is. We don't have to have days to celebrate everything. We just have a hot dog without all the fuss. I might even bust out some frozen sausage for dinner just because it's that day. Much like women hot dogs are great in theory but are terrible for you. That's a joke. I still like women and have not become more jaded then usual. Insert happy winky face here. <br />
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I don't like to think about what is in a hot dog. Learning about vegans and all that has put me right off the traditional made with about 400 chemicals. Now if I need to shove something phallic in my mouth I go to a butcher, that way I know what's in them. Sunripe has a hot dog with about 7 ingredients so that's something a little better. I do sometimes get the vegan dogs. They taste like a finger without a bone in it.<br />
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Today 3 clients have come in smelling like they just sit in their clothes and smoke all day in a closet. I don't know how anyone can sit in an office with the door closed talking to these people. Good lord. My area is open and I still smell them like they are on me blowing smoke in my face. "They" suggest you never smoke before a job interview but I'm starting to think smokers have the smell woven into their clothes. God knows my wonderful parents smell like they just came from bingo in the 70's some days. I used to smell like that constantly when I lived at home. Gack!<br />
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It just rained but tonight I am suppose to run the sprinkler at the neighbours. I'm going to run through it, or sit in it. Either way a spray of water will go up the leg of my shorts until it reaches my vagina. <br />
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-33652456049894932942013-07-18T13:17:00.002-07:002013-07-18T13:17:45.129-07:00This heat is Bullshit<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyone else’s wiener dog shit on the bed this week? No just me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say I had two loads of laundry done by 7:30 am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I asked Norman Earl “Who did this?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he flipped over and showed me his penis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know who that worked on in the past but he is really barking up the wrong tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say someone needs some retraining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve spoiled him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I own it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way things are going to have to change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I feel oddly unsure of this world right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are leaving dogs and babies in cars every day, 5 people have been hit by busses lately and in Florida it seems to be ok to kill kids (thanks for starting that ball running Casey Anthony.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think people are so self absorbed and think nothing will happen to them, that is when accidents and stupidity happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hey, I’ve done some stupid things and luckily didn’t get caught or hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, leaving a kid in the car when you run into shoppers for 3 things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t know how long the line will be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t care if the kid is sleeping or what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me started about Dogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leave the pets at home to enjoy the cool air-conditioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t need to go to the hot summer festivals or with you to the store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the video of the vet sitting in the car for a half an hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People don’t think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that people are getting in the faces of these jerks waiting by the car or breaking windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This to me is acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The creepy man who is always in a bathing suit a few doors down has been up blaring 80’s music at 6 am every day this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last night he cut the grass in his stained bathing suit and drenched in sweat he felt the need to go up his pant leg and rearrange his man tackle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Norman Earl found this disgusting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt like a lady from the early 1800’s in my floppy hat all Christian perfect judging his public sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess if I had big hairy balls and a penis that were very sweaty I would want to fix them too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, he had wiener sweat on his hand and went back to touching things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would never do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of the workers at work took clients to the beach this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m glad I’m a receptionist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My body was not made for either the beach nor this heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Putting them together does not sound like a fun day at the beach for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Literally and figuratively.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what I would do if I had to stand with some poor client sweating on the beach for hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure I would fake some sort of car trouble or something along those lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it feels like 45 outside this girl will be inside with her wrestling DVD and playstation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend working in a rehab has managed to fish clients out of a neighboring pool almost every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point the older couple now calls asking for her letting her know when the clients have come for a swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I didn’t have air I would be trying to break in a yard to swim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Asian neighbors have an above ground pool that is not being used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two kids perfect age to be the most popular kids ever and they aren’t able to use the pool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they used it once last year and this year just let it go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps it’s a cultural thing or the pool needs help and he doesn’t have anyone to ask what to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way it’s a waste of a pool and better not be attracting some new kind of diseased bug to bite me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-8491353683443799442013-07-09T14:43:00.004-07:002013-07-09T14:43:55.965-07:00Happy Anniversary!<div class="yiv2003563304MsoNormal">
Happy Diabetes Anniversary week to me!</div>
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know, who would celebrate this with such excitement? This chunky nut.
Why? Well despite not great news the diabetes wake up call did wonders
for a few aspects of my life. </div>
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<span>1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Staying
up late is no longer really an option. I know…fun. It jacks with my
sugar too much and I pay for it the next day way too much. Who wants to
waste a day of doing something fun when you are too tired or slow.</div>
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<span>2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>I
was never a real drinker before. Just not my thing but I did love a
good girly drink here and there. Sadly they are full of sugar. Now I
have to limit myself to one beer and maybe a rum and diet pop. Again,
sexy.</div>
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<span>3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Exercise.
I was never an exerciser but now I have to move and walk the dog here
and there. In the winter I will be working on my upstairs room to
create a Zen fun room with my Gazelle and space to stretch things out.</div>
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<span>4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Putting
myself and my health first. This was always a hard one for me. Due to
whatever you want to over think I seem to put others first way too much
of my life. Look how that turned out. So now I make sure I am ok
before I give my energy to anyone else. I have more energy in so many
aspects of my life.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373406143328_2263">5.<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1373406143328_2265" style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Thanks
to my good friend Stephanie who gave me no choice but to have her go
with me to pick up my stuff for the first time and show me exactly how
to use it until I was confident. I would have been scared and
overwhelmed but she made sure I knew what I was doing and took the fear
out of it all. That is what a friend does when you are scared but won’t
admit it.</div>
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here we are a year later and I’m up and down with the weight and
despite some acting out and not listening to myself a few times I’m
actually very happy with life. I wouldn’t say Diabetes was the worst
deal ever but it woke me up a bit to the unhealthy choices I’ve made in
my life. Either way I’m working it out the best I can. I’ve been lucky
really. I was reading about some of the side effects and it says women
are more prone to vagina infections. Knock wood my hot pocket has
never had any issues. I keep that shit buttoned up.</div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-52062198014629766272013-06-28T13:22:00.001-07:002013-06-28T13:22:09.762-07:00Wet Wet Wet<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As per any good Canadian long weekend, it’s raining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Regular people are up in arms about this but as nothing about me is regular I am excited by the prospect of rain all weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mainly because I’ve been chomping at the bit to reorganize a few things at home and read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love the rain and curling up with a good or bad book with the sound of the rain outside is one of the best things there is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This morning when I had the dog out I felt like a little kid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rain was heavy enough to create a good little flow in the gutter so in my flip flops with my little dog up on the grass I walked right in the gutter feeling the flow of water all around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I walked extra slow to enjoy even longer since I was sure the dog was not going to tolerate the rain for very long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked up and down the side of the street allowing me to enjoy the flow covering my feet while he sniffed then begged to go back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had of done this alone I would have looked like a crazy person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank god for that little dog not blowing my cover of weirdness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good Boy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-83613798080063184642013-06-26T06:16:00.002-07:002013-06-26T06:16:19.007-07:00Scooters<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I’m done sugar coating this blog to save anyone’s feelings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I am at work with a wicked case of the shits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I place full blame of this on my mother and the shake mix her friend told her she had to get while in the states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I am sitting on what feels like a lit curling iron up my ass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone at work has been very understanding however I don’t need everyone knowing the 15 minutes I just spent in the bathroom was me praying that I don’t shit myself while at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we have all been there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know if I got the shits at home I would be on the bowl reading happily and not focused on my now burning leather cheerio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I choose to take this as a sign that I should order the 20 dollar gel filled toilet seat from Regal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That and my ability to read 1000% better while on the bowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus I just like to read on the toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit there reading and peeing or pooping at will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, sometimes my legs fall asleep but when all is said and done I love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m like someone’s middle aged Dad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading on the bowl is my deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Grandfather (as was told to me) used to sit on the toilet with the newspaper on the floor in front of him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bent over he would leaf over the pages while taking his time releasing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the hounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I’ve actually been shitting while looking at Norman Earl and saying “Release the hounds!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why am I telling you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My loyal ten(‘s) of readers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all do it and most of us manage not to shit themselves while at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With some of the stomach problems I’ve had over the years I could open a beer with my butt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve clenched my buttocks for miles without one drop of excitement leaking out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I get older my trust for both my bowels and my bladder is shaky at best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You never know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As women get older they pee when they laugh, sneeze, cough, bend over, lift something heavy and breath too deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not every woman mind you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I of course am painting with a very broad (ha! Chicks are also called broads) stroke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still, it happens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if Mrs. Duggar has a catheter at this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean so many bodies have pressed on her bladder I’d be shocked if she didn’t have a cotton towel under that skirt catching what falls out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I bet she pee’s if hit with a good strong wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does Jim Bob even manage to get her pregnant at this point?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Either way thank you my ten(s) of readers for helping me win my wrestling match with the extreme scooters today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> You are a great listener. </span></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-2029754190911678442013-06-20T09:09:00.001-07:002013-06-20T09:09:48.803-07:00Books in the yard<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apparently putting on my underwear correctly was a bit of a stretch this morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t fully know what’s wrong but thus far I’m waiting for appointments to cool down before I fix myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are one of my good pairs too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way should my pants fall down I will be wearing clean and excitingly cool looking underwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s a bonus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Look at me boring the shit out of you people three days in a row.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve decided that during my downtime I will do my best to blog since I need to both look busy and keep my comedy mind working at all times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing helps with ideas so really this blog deal is an investment in my writing future and exercising my smart ass remarks to you guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So really you should all be thanking me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’re welcome guys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last night after a long day at work and a bad night for Basement Girl (Lets just call her what my Mother calls her from this point on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BG.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So BG and I opted to have some share the same home bonding time with a burger and some Value Village Shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swank I know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both have a slight addiction to the book section of Value Village so every few months we end up there scouting the books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last night and 28 dollars later (a little much for used books but I have no self control) we both walked out feeling happy with out purchases.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I of course gave into one of my biggest guilty pleasures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Biographies of almost any sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love a good biography of an interesting celebrity or historical figure who has lived an interesting life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These books I mostly read in the shitter or on rainy days when no one is around to mock the glint in my eye and smile on my face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am sure my mother wishes I had discovered this type of book when I was young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Summers at the cottage usually cost her and my grandparents about 50 bucks in books to keep me busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think this was where I began stealing books from the school library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say the security of Cartier PS Library was non existent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You filled out the little card and put it in a little bucket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned early on to leave my card blank and not return the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good luck finding me Mrs. O’Brian!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This lead to the great cleaning out my room in grade 8 resulting in about 60 library books that had been stolen over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sneaking them back into the library was no small event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up filling my back pack about 3 times and hiding the books in the closed off area where crap was stored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I managed to get them all back without being discovered or my Mother calling to follow up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clearly my obsession for books started early.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother was and is still a reader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know how you can not be a reader when one or both of your parent’s faces are pressed into a book much of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the age of about 12 I tried to relate to my Mom via books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the cottage I would read the books she had just finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually a mystery or a Danielle Steele book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would think I had an unrealistic view of love based on the romance books I was bored enough to read while with my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an only child I had to read to amuse myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading eventually turned to writing and coming up with my own story ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I could only focus enough to write my own book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">* Margaret Trudeau Bio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Newer and talks about her mental health issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">* Meredith Baxter (<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Elyse Keaton – the Mom on Family Ties) is a lesbian now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that should have some good action.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">* Barbra Walters far to publicized autobiography Audition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a book I have been avoiding since I came out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not a real fan but one thing I can’t take away from her is a life full of interesting shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is a full chapter on Hasselbeck I’m going to burn the book in backyard fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way I might burn it as I don’t want to die and be found with this book in my home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A tiny part of me wished I was both unemployed with a stunning yard to sit out and read in for the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I should also wish I didn’t burn in the shade and had a pool but the other two aren’t happening either so lets not get all caught up in my sense of dream entitlement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way its not going to happen so reading on the shitter and in my backyard is going to have to be all I’ve got this summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So is life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual I will be happy with what I have and just deal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve enjoyed being out more with Norman and Fred and think honestly more time this summer with the boys would be wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point I hope the neighbour gets his ass in gear and builds me up a privacy fence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I had one on both sides I could be pants free, reading in my yard...in the shade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-56602574818184833662013-06-19T13:18:00.000-07:002013-06-19T13:18:19.509-07:00Sandwiches and the North<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It might be early today but I might be on the track of getting back to my normal level of tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I typed that and yawned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Damn it all to hell!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did managed to sleep without moving until 3 am when I woke up with a full bladder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For about 5 seconds I thought about peeing myself then got up and staggered to the bathroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I might have fallen asleep on the toilet for a bit because at some point I noticed that my head was against the wall and my eyes had been closed for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way I went right back to bed and slept like a large baby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basement Girl will often work nights and another morning shift on no sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not something I could do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was offered some relief hours at one of the group homes but aside from the fact that I would be working with hardened criminals I would have to work nights much of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I could work nights and it’s not that I’m a princess and I’m too good to work nights, which could be part of it since I am a princess and could maybe be a little too tender to work nights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, enough about me being tender.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The issue I have with working nights is that when my father was working nights be was very sick with the diabetes and got worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It jacked so bad with his system and his memory that he “retired” early.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always felt bad for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved working at the College and still talks about it like he just stopped working last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom and I roll our eyes but aside from us it’s really all he had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I went to the store on lunch and when I was getting a diet coke I noticed in the cooler of the store they had those variety store sandwiches for almost 5 bucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How hungry does someone have to be to buy one of those?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t know when or where they were made and the meat I’m guessing is all slimy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if people eat these on a dare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen the hamburgers in there too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who just buys a 5 dollar burger that’s been in a fridge for who knows how long and heats it up?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That doesn’t seem right at all to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think this has ever been ok but honestly besides stoners with the angry munchies who would go into a store and buy this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seriously might buy one just to analyze this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By that I mean to take it apart and do some quality testing and not that I bought one and ate it already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That did not happen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I guess sometimes I wonder about things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it comes from being a people watcher, evaluator and general 5 year old about the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last week I grilled another new staff who spent 4 years working in Nunavut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poor girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank god she’s the new Mental Health person or she might not have been ready for my barrage of questions for 45 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bless her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The highlights that were not sad included fun food facts such as paying $9 bucks for a cucumber, fresh food being flown in and freezing on the way due to altitude and a huge pack of 24 rolls of toilet paper on sale for $58 dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am assuming in those homes 2 ply is unfolded to 1 ply and the 3 squares rule is law.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my after a weekend of eating bad poops would cost about $6 bucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to think about my period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another fun fact is she confirmed they do have 30 Days of Night (minus the non English speaking vampires) and 30 days of light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could do the dark as I love the dark but the light would jack with my system too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can nap the shit out of a sunny day but I think it not being dark when I have my big sleep would mess with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did say that when it’s dark, it’s dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The streets have some huge lamps so you can see in the downtown but that’s it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some times it gets a touch light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kind of a dusk but that is it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How awesome?!?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did say that when it’s light all the time the native people are up at all hours and think nothing of not going to work and hunting all night and camping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a cultural thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fascinating!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would love to go for a visit but I could not live there unless I was rich.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also I could not live there if I was rich due to the poverty and I would end up giving up a ton of money to kids without teeth or food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes I look a the world <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the eyes of a jaded approaching middle aged chick with bills to pay and other times I amaze myself with my hilarious innocence at the places I have yet to go and the billions of things I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aren’t I just a ray of sunshine today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-27896814104271900272013-06-18T12:17:00.001-07:002013-06-18T12:17:26.477-07:00Punch-drunk<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My friend Sheena (not real name to protect innocent) used to tell me she felt punch-drunk all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t fully get it until this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I am completely behaving in a bewildered, confused and dazed manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after a long break this blog could be interesting, confusing and bewildering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be worried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Again I have let the blog slide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry to those who check and find nothing updated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have started many topics but end up getting distracted and not finishing my thought or posting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No excuse really, just busy and spending my time keeping up with house stuff and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new bed is still fairly amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still firm and I still feel like it’s a big girl bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>High, well made, and with the headboard snazzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do have a funny story about my headboard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So as any adult knows sometimes when things are happening the headboard hits the wall and it sounds like someone is being murdered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After getting the new bed I was determined that this nonsense stop so I can enjoy sex without the fear of basement girl thinking I’ve joined an armature wrestling team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Team as in two, it’s a queen size not a king.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway so when the bed was delivered and I had it all made up I trotted off to the bathroom and got two of the thickest most industrial maxi pads that I could find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well they are now protecting my newly painted wall and the back of my headboard from hitting the wall during…wrestling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wrapper is not visible and the wrestling thus far has been muffled by the good people at not-name-brand maxi pad company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hasn’t marked the wall and basement girl can’t tell when I have company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SCORE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I wish I could take full responsibility for that idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly many years ago my Great Grandpa decided that with a free sample panty liner would prevent a wall mirror from touching the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the kind of handy people I come from. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his defense he had no idea what the pad was for as Granny hadn’t had a period since just after WW2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Always a thinker that man was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So thus far I’m at work still exhausted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s Tuesday for Christ sake and I am acting like I was at a rave all night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday was worse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was up late Sunday on the phone with a friend and that seems to have jacked me all over the place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had a few late nights over the weeks but I have been able to bounce back quite well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly yesterday, Monday, I spent most of my day trying to stay awake and focus on some fairly simple tasks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That didn’t go amazingly well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came home, got a 2<sup>nd</sup> wind, pulled some weeds, BBQ’d and then showered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In bed by 9:30 I passed out for the night and woke up bewildered in a confused and dazed manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So of course Norman Earl had to get up when I got up and needed out right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only able to see out of one<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eye I managed to get clothes on and get him out before any accident’s happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shockingly I managed not to fall down my front steps or kill myself walking across the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m at work, semi more alert then yesterday but still oddly tired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve checked my sugars and they seem ok.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I just need a good rest or a vacation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Laurie and I are debating on another weekend away but for now I think resting up and getting things done quietly around the house would prove to be less stressful for me in the long run.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have about 6 home projects on the go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly my own adult ADD has gotten the best of me so a few things are half done and it’s getting on my nerves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wonder if Amazon has a book for adults with ADD who can’t finish a home project?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d only order it and read the first chapter anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I own that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this weekend I can get a few things done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I seriously think I should have gotten a condo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those fancy apartment ones really high with a big balcony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then again I wouldn’t have found Fred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stray street cats don’t make it up to the 20<sup>th</sup> floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Despite being exhausted I am blissfully happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My off the blog life has been wonderful lately, work is going great and I’ve got some serious irons in the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I could just get some extra sleep…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_27_1368624614421_7668" style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m being a total hypocrite but when did our culture feel the urge to share everything with everyone? I was watching a clip of one of the late night TV hosts talking about CNN and it made me really think. The clip in question had Nancy Grace talking to another reporter. Both were in parking lots reporting but the other reporter claimed to be in Arizona. If you were watching a bus went by in the background behind Nancy and 5 seconds later the same bus when behind the other reporter. They were about 15 feet away from each other in the same parking lot. In the same city. For Christ sake CNN. The late night host accused CNN of something called News Slaughter. Basically meaning they slaughter us with ever piece of detail, useless or otherwise about a news story. Case in point when someone is murdered we get dramatic reenactments, an exact replica of the crime scene recreated and every expert in the world talking about people they have never met. <span class="mark" id="misspell-0">HLN</span> and CNN have hours of news based a few details and interviews with people who have nothing to do with the case at hand. I’m sure if I ever kill anyone Cliff the ginger kid from grade 3 will be on TV going on and on about how I switched his lunch pail for mine that was full of mold and fruit flies thus making the entire class think he was gross. Yes, this could have been a turning point in life making me a horrible person. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I won’t lie. I have read too much on those 3 girls found in Cleveland. 10 years held captive and raped. I don’t even understand how someone could do that to three girls and allowing a little girl to be raised in those conditions. Now that these girls are “free” lets have every detail of their 10 years being raped by some gross old guy. What the fuck do you think happened people?! He kidnapped them so they could just hang out, read and do crosswords? Come on. Do we need to know? I think we can all assume. The thing that got me angry was the little girl born in captivity. Now she is “free” also but at some point she will learn to goggle and all her little friends will learn to <span class="mark" id="misspell-2">google</span> so they can learn all about how her bio father is a creepy rapist. Thanks for the heads up. I do have to give Germany or one of those European countries credit. When the guy had built his daughter some creepy hidden apartment and raped her for 20 years. She had 7 kids. Well Germany or wherever stepped up and gave her a new identity and moved her away. Thank you! Way to give that girl and her children a life that <span id="misspell-3">does not </span>involve answering questions and providing updates we don’t need for the rest of her life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I used to love a good true crime book or show. I miss the old school shows on A&E and a good murder mystery movie. Seriously who <span id="misspell-4">did not </span>grow up Sunday’s watching <span class="mark" id="misspell-3">Columbo</span> and McMillan and wife? These days we have to know everything. We sit and watch Nancy Grace or pick up a book hoping we get to hear all about the details involving everyday life and sex. It’s almost that it’s our right to know exactly what happened. For some reason it made me angry that the world got the results on the DNA test done on the poor little girl in the Cleveland case. No shit she was fathered by him. Do we need proof and more importantly does the world need to know? I’m shocked we were not given the detailed metal records of them all after they were checked out at the hospital. Honestly! That will be next. No shit they were pregnant multiple times. I don’t think someone that crazy would wear a condom or have some sort of system in place. But for some reason we need to hear it, see it and feel it via everyone connected or not to the case. For what? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It used to make me think when they talked about JFK being shot on TV. Who <span id="misspell-6"><span id="misspell-4">hasn't seen</span> </span>the tape of him getting his head blown off about 100 times in their lives. It’s part of who we are now. I used to think about his kids. <span class="mark" id="misspell-5">JKF</span> Jr (who I loved) could just turn on the TV and see it. No warning at times. Now how would you like to be turning on your TV and with no notice watch one of your parents be killed…on a loop even. Then analysed over and over again. Now what if everyone in the world got to watch it too. I know that if I ever met JFK Jr (I would have humped him) I would have asked what that felt like to have something that awful put on display everyday. (After the uncomfortableness of my hump and generic conversation to get him comfortable again.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday the body of a 32 year old husband and father was found. He was just trying to sell his truck <span class="mark" id="misspell-6">online</span> and went for a test drive. How do you even think about that? He said he would be right back to his wife. That must have been the longest night of that <span id="misspell-7"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1368624614421_3738">woman's</span></span> life. The longest week really. Now she has years of hearing details, a trial and the case made an <span id="misspell-8"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1368624614421_3780">example</span></span> of for years to come. Don't <span id="misspell-9">forget</span> the joy of explaining every layer of that to their daughter. Totally heartbreaking. We will know too much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I remember before the Bernardo trial and the publication ban in Canada. There were all these <span id="misspell-10">false</span> details being reported just so people were kept interested. I'm ashamed to say I own 4 books on the whole Bernardo trial. The only good thing I can say about that whole deal is that the media at large does not see or speak to Paul <span class="mark" id="misspell-11">Bernanrdo</span>. He has tried and tried to talk to anyone who will publish anything about him or how he was wronged but thus far no one will touch him. Thank god. As much as even I would love to hear the rantings of that mad man lets respect the families who already live everyday <span id="misspell-12">without</span> someone they love and will never hear another word from.</span></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-39593934285778688272013-05-02T07:06:00.001-07:002013-05-02T07:06:33.786-07:00Salad Days<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I had four salads this weekend and feel like I could be dying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This healthy life style is for the birds, well I think birds are even eating meat and garbage thanks to this world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess I wish I was a bird right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrap a worm in bacon and I’d eat it right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday night was date night so we went to the works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aside from the steam rollers that are the most amazing things ever created I gor a veggie burger with pineapple and brie cheese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sweet and sour sauce that comes with it might be the stickiest yet most amazing thing ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also got onion rings that can never go wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best I have ever had in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that was my send off into a new healthy lifestyle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that it has been juicing and healthy salads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say I’m hungry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday morning I spent about 40 bucks at the market on fruit and veggies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then another 30 at the grocery store on other things I needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing was processed by the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t go up and down the isles for anything that didn’t come from dirt of some sort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hardfuckingcore I know but things do need to change in this little girls life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t mind eating healthy…it’s just not what I’m<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>use to really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How awful is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I think about how easy it is to eat processed food it’s clear why so many people struggle with weight and health issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I started here I discovered Wendy’s loaded baked potatoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sweet mother of baby lord Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First of all anything covered with that fake melted 7/11 nacho cheese from my high school days is amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<b>I once when to this amazing mall in the states with Mike and Johnny and found a dive restaurant where they had that and would put it on anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had fries smothered with it and a hot dog.</b>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, so with the amazing cheese you can get broccoli (lame) or bacon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My choice was clear and easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had a few of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last potato was clealy made by a teen boy who loves bacon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a layer of bacon, then cheese then bacon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bless his little heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know him but I love him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat at my desk eating thinking I was being massaged from the inside out with love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dirty and gross but it felt that amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was warm and wonderful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love a hot meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s how I was raised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You come home and have a hot filling meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you didn’t your mother didn’t love you and was a whore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say Debbie makes a mean hot meal that has been enjoyed by many people over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish my parents were more interesting but I was fed with love so thanks for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These days I have fed myself for many reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boredom, celebration, defeat, Wednesdays, friends, coupons and love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t we all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a million reasons why I’ve celebrated things with food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just picked the main ones to illustrate my point on how my health got so bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember looking back when I was unhappy or unsure in a relationship I tended to eat a little more in my effort to comfort myself and to try and push the other person away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly both never worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I’m counting down the minutes until I get to eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smell a few lunches around the office but nothing too amazing yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The school connected to the office hasn’t cooked anything that has smelled up the building in days so there is something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My first month here was filled with smells of garlic and what I am guessing was good hot meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was more ballsy I would demand a hot plate for home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I live alone fuckers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today I was wondering if they have been just feeding them sandwiches and juice boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I smell nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I need to know what’s happening!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes…I’m hungry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My lunch of a full on salad with avocado, cucumbers and some seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a bun with it but still…it’s not the smell of what I was guessing was lasagna and garlic bread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These thoughts are not helping my diet at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my last job I would have had the freedom to run and grab a stack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the better of my health I only get a half hour lunch and nothing good is really close so its variety store food or what a bring from home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m doing fairly well at bringing food so that’s something good that I’ve managed to keep up with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to be all hungry and angry when I get home from work either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m starting to think I’m lucky to live alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m starting to think others are lucky I live alone too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-19440900038705357322013-04-25T08:06:00.001-07:002013-04-25T08:06:00.522-07:00Tomorrow<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So good things are slightly coming to the one who waits without bitching and moaning all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve managed to get a new bed, job is going amazing and was extended and I’ve been rather happy in my personal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly I watched another documentary on health and am now terrified.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Needless to say we are for sure going back to Meat and Pants free in every way again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time I watched Fat, Sick and nearly Dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing and it actually really hit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you are unhealthy you tend to not think about it and think “it won’t happen to me” or next week I will start.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been playing that sweet game for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend works in a high end rehab and has managed to gain 15 lbs in a month from all the amazing food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is available constantly to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, the chef seems to have a little crush on her so she’s been getting extra thick chocolate mouse every night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have at her!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So the new bed came Saturday and after two nights of a bit of getting use to extreme firmness of things I seem to have gotten use to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bed is so high that I have to get a leg up to get in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt very perched up in it and not very cozy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m almost over that now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost…but I find it funny I got the lower box spring and was going to change my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another four inches would surely mean a hip replacement in a month or me falling out of bed full on peeing myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus should Norman Earl opt to try and jump down he would be jumping down from about 4.5 feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s an estimate but still the bed is so high that I feel like poor Norman could be hurt if he jumps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also the bed has a cooling layer so we both have yet to wake up all sweaty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My pre-menopause sweating has stopped and Norman Earls little sweaty dog arm pits are a thing of the past!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly things have changed with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He no longer sleeps under the covers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too many farts and hot boxing him with the smells have kept him on top of the covers and in his Mexican Stand off blanket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just talked way too much about the dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lame!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>totally jumped from an amazing life changing movie, to the new bed and now my dogs sweaty little arm pits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What has this blog come to?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mish mash of my random thoughts as I think them with no rhyme or reason? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently that is how my mind works now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My work is very much like that these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do accounting, then reports and manage to help several Justice Workers at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mind is never on one thing for very long and even around the house if I’m not playing a video game I’m up and down doing whatever while watching TV or playing on the computer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happened to just sitting and doing one thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or keeping focused long enough to write a blog on one topic?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was talking to someone about trivia earlier today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My ability to remember completely useless facts and such makes me a great trivia person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly if I was able to harness this trait at a younger age I could have focused on school and maybe stayed focused long enough to get a degree in something amazing and in demand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There should seriously be someone in schools who tests for whatever I have and gears some education toward helping me focus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also think this person would be amazing for people with ADD so they could find jobs or schooling that keeps them busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the most successful people in the world have ADD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why are they successful?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ability to multi task.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously we need to figure out how to let people learn what they are passionate to learn without barriers of useless courses they don’t find interesting or stimulating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s when people shut off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The longer you are shut off the harder it is to turn you back on to something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be it work or a relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about people who are in a relationship for a long time and it’s lost it’s luster or something has changed to turn you off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you leave it for a long time it’s much harder to turn it back on then if you work on it a day or two after a fight or change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Same thing with a job really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get stuck because the pay is good, work friends, know the job and safety when really we could be moving forward or doing something that pays more in contentment then dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I guess it’s important to follow your nose to what makes you feel alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “It won’t happen to me” or “I’ll start tomorrow” attitude doesn’t always lead to the passionate life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess the best I can do it keep working toward starting today what will make us better tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-4821288863435925772013-04-19T08:35:00.002-07:002013-04-19T08:35:25.717-07:00New Bed and Chicks<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One more sleep until I get my new bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t even get over myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could nominate basement girl for person of the year right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to lack of hours at her work she was way far to ok with spending her day expertly painting my bedroom in full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think she would ever get how much stress that takes off this chunky monkey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I get home from work I really am not in the mood for much so the thought of coming home to a full on painting job is nothing I’m interested in at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to be done…no point in getting a new bed in a bad juju room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way tonight will be spent doing laundry and getting everything ready for Saturday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve had a lot of struggles in the last while and despite being happy with some parts of my life I’ve really needed something to spruce myself and the house up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new bedroom and bed is just what I need to give me something to look forward to and enjoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chances are I will be off in the summer unless something comes up so I have that to prepare for mentally and financially for that joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m ok with it really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love working but I do enjoy time at home with the boys a little too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows, I could be blogging daily, even hourly with all that time to my own thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As per usual I’m trying to set up a Buddy of mine with a girl from work’s brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually my set up’s of my friends are terrible and don’t even get to the meeting phase but this one seems like it’s totally perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this could mean one of two things…either they will be perfect together and fall in love thus staying together for a while and breaking up in a messy way blaming me eventually or they can meet and really feel nothing too exciting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way I’m determined to get a finders fee for this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that’s fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clearly I’m a little jaded when it comes to love and romance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I almost always have been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People focus too much on what they think or want someone to be and not getting to know and enjoy who they really are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or who they really are not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When people just don’t fit then it’s really best to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why prolong things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was given a hard time about a break up not long ago so it got me thinking about relationships.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t plan on talking trash or details but relationships but I realize I need a few things to keep me from even wanting a relationship with anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expectations when women date seems to be that they have to spend every second talking about feelings and being together all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is nothing I am interested in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoy spending time with someone but I need time to do my own thing without having my balls busted for that not including the person I’m dating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m an odd bird that way but I don’t feel like a person needs to be involved in every aspect of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love my life and am protective of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the same token I don’t want to be immersed in every aspect of someone else’s life either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s your life…live it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can share in it on my own level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Chill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an introvert I can’t be having someone all demanding and rammy about things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do and talk about things in my own way and time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes that frustrates people but it’s part of who I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I say no when something is going to take too much of my emotional energy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I have a lot going on or a bad day at work the last thing I want to do with my energy is run around or entertain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never understood why someone would want or demand to be around someone who is not mentally there or open to spending time together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be cool and have some respect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For now that’s about all I can think of really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that’s why I seem to end up meeting people who either are on the way out of the city to follow a dream or living a dream outside the city?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard to tell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it works for me in some way or better yet gives me the freedom to do all the things I want while getting a sampling of a relationship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way…I plan to keep trying to set people up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-22963190846874944892013-04-12T09:33:00.001-07:002013-04-12T09:33:17.308-07:00The Wise Drag Queen<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So last week at work I had a wonderfully conversation with a Drag Queen about giving back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know that sounds odd but let me explain a little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First off I should explain that most of the time I’m scared of Drag Queens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I’m not in touch with my inner Diva the way I should be or the fact that a huge tall man looks more amazing as a woman then I do is weirdly threatening to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At any rate I have always had a hard time making eye contact with a Drag Queen in full Diva.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Diva was in scrubs coming from a day job of helping others as a PSW dropping of some cash he raised doing a drag show and as a donation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We talked for a bit and he told me about giving a woman crap for tossing out coats in the garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had told him that she didn’t have time to donate them, she was too busy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had told her “No, you mean you are too good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too London to be seen at a place where someone might benefit from your scraps.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now when you are in touch with the inner Diva inside then you have no problem telling some North London lady off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized I’ve done the same thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been rammy and just wanted something done and cleaned out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve tossed shirts I’ve never worn with tags on them in a garbage bag not caring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more I think about it the more angry I get at myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember a youth who was big looking for job interview clothes at Clothing Works and they had nothing in her size.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She left feeling ashamed and I’m sure slightly more hopeless then she went in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And this Healthy Helga is just tossing plus size shirts away like I was done with them and too good to take the extra 5 minutes to put a bag together for Goodwill or Clothing Works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a c-word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was no better really then snobby North London woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I do have to say that I’m 100 times better then I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve seen people who have maybe 2 sets of clothes, hardly any food and no money to even wash their clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve sat with them and had a chat about the weather and helped them with finding information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve secretly judged but when you can’t really do anything big to help you build up a wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to think too much about what they are dealing with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been bitching about my bed being so uncomfortable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have one and I didn’t fish it out of the garbage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t get me wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not trying to change the world or giving everything I have to a church or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m just saying if we all took a minute or two and put our crap in a box for someone to use then maybe we would make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So after my talk with the Drag Queen I made the choice to start putting aside house stuff for a youth I’ve been in touch with who is moving out with nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why not?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would rather have my crap go a kid who has nothing then to Value Village where they over price it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not a fan of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would donate to Goodwill since they are employing people and would not try and sell my gross used towel for 4 bucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just sayin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A while back I put a message on facebook that a friend needed baby boy clothes for twins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My Buddy Kim and her friends (all seem to have a lot of kids) busted a nut getting me garbage bags full of clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what I would like to see more of!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People asking for others and friends searching around and getting rid of what they don’t need to help someone who doesn’t have the cash for the basic things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So lessons to be learned would be not to fear a wise Drag Queen and give back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t have to be money or tons of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just making someone who feels like no one cares know that you took time to make sure they had some of what they need to do what we take for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who wants to dry their balls with the same towel for 2 weeks until you have laundry money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I’m going to try and give more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is hard enough so if I can make it a tad easier for someone with nothing right now I guess it’s good karma for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows where I will be when this contract ends?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could be needing some help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all could at some point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-47714624013861317072013-04-04T05:49:00.000-07:002013-04-04T05:49:36.656-07:00Fear and Disconnect<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don’t know what’s up with me these days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve not blogged in far too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long enough that off hand I can’t remember what I last blogged about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I think that’s a bad sign and who knows how long it will be until I loose this blog for lack of giving a fuck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the case but still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get my point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After the super long weekend I’ve really felt like doing nothing at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m oddly tired and am uber protective of my time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been invited out several times but have said no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After working till 5 and rushing home to let the dog out I really don’t feel like doing anything with anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even people I like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if it’s just still getting use to working or a little realisation of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After another birthday I seem to have realised that time is short and if I want to do nothing after work with my dog<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do have plans this weekend so will see how that goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m more then sure this is one of my weird phases…shocking that I have those but it’s true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m excited to be going out with my sarcastically smart friends for a battle of the minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that all my friends are smart but every friendship is built on something different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meat, sharing books, sharing secrets, sharing Capri’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Needless to say a battle of the minds is very needed for me right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve shut mine off for a while and it’s more then time it comes back on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Maybe I’m getting stupider?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been playing video games, not writing and watching too many reality shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At work I listen to Fresh FM which plays party songs and Pink every 20 minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like Pink but they play the same stuff all day everyday…3 times a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t really do books on tape here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I should switch to CBC?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss being as smart as I used to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly I was very up on things going on in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now if it’s not on facebook I don’t know about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who am I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some 15 year old girl who doesn’t believe life happens unless it’s updated on facebook?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hate people who go anywhere and have to spend the entire time they are at an even uploading pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enjoy the event and update after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve basically made a vow that if I am out with anyone and they start checking their phone and texting that I will promptly go about my business elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that’s fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I just realised right now I feel disconnected from life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or I’ve connected to other parts of my life more then usual?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All I know is that I’m just not in the mood for anything or anyone really and its not personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m almost glad my dating life is not very serious right now or I’m guessing it would be non existent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucky for me not much is expected out of me right now…so that works for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do tend to be known for keeping to myself but now it’s just part of who I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I almost feel badly for my family who never gets to see me but not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think I would trade the peace I feel for anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I do keep getting pushed by people I’ve just met to do stand up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it’s something new or age but it’s almost scaring me more then it use to, or I’m just in a place where I feel it more?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A friend who has had some major life changes in the last year is on a mission to do things that scare her this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s done more then one thing that normally she would never do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m oddly proud of this for her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We should all do more things that scare us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have done many things when I was younger that scare me…I’d list them but it almost feels too personal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I often feel that I can’t escape doing stand up at some point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get huge hints and pushes to it all the time but as anyone could imagine standing on a stage being judged is terrifying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-86301542038077592112013-03-11T09:10:00.000-07:002013-03-11T09:10:47.093-07:00Chelsea Handler and the truthToday being Monday and me being unemployed it feels like Sunday. I know. Don't hate me. With the dreary rain outside it's a perfect day for a Sunday. It's even March Break so the kids across the street at the school are gone. Lucky for me the people next door seem to keep their kids in the house all the time so it should be a quiet few days. Basement girl is even gone so I'm shirt free without the fear of being caught. This is livin.<br />
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I've had another interview that went well so I'm back to waiting to hear back. I don't know how I feel about taking just a short contract but it's something and in this economy with this lack of formal education it's not anything I can pass up. I want to stay in social services supporting people but the not for profit game is a cold mistress when it comes down to funding and such. Still, I would rather do something I love that makes some difference in the world then push papers all day. But for those of you who push papers...push away.<br />
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I had a thought the other day how interesting it would be to just do contracts around the city at not for profits. 3 months at each kind of in a pool of people wanting to go somewhere new but stay in the same sort of work. With the burn out rate so high people could feel like they are in a new job everywhere they go learning new things about other agencies. Again, brilliant idea on my part. <br />
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I actually opted to skip Walking Dead last night and watch Oprah interview Chelsea Handler. As someone who has read almost all her books and loves a few comedian writers on her show I just had to. Despite her getting slagged for sleeping her way to the top I think she is actually one of the most talented comedians out there. She tells it like it is. I'm just starting to write jokes and this blog but the one thing I struggle with is being mean. I love how she can talk about her personal life that is real with just a whiff of poking fun at those in it. Honestly, I worry about what people think too much and that will be holding me back with writing and comedy. My personal life is hilarious. From who I've dated to who I've wanted to date. How can I not talk about my hilarity with muddling around this life and who I meet along the way. <br />
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Now, in reading that a few people probably just tightened up anally and are now scared and that is fair. If you can't laugh at life...what can you laugh at. I don't think I would ever make fun of anything super personal like an abortion or accidentally blowing your boss for a raise. However for the sake of being real and facing the good and bad...I'm not going to leave too much out. I don't run from my life or the challenges in it. I might hide behind a bush for a minute and regroup but this chunky monkey is not going to hide for long.<br />
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I think people don't know what to do with people like Chelsea Handler. They speak their minds, opinions and truths in a way that you have to laugh at. I do the best I can with that myself but sometimes, like the rest of the world I fuck it up. That's where the fun part comes in. You kind of can't make fun of someones truth when they are living it. Now...if you are busy running from your life and hiding behind everything that will stand still long enough for you not to be living your life...you can bet I'm going to make fun of that shit. ;-)<br />
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Enjoy life and have a laugh. My dream is to find my own place to make people smile. What's yours?Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-17410020846675973582013-03-03T05:58:00.000-08:002013-03-03T05:58:14.942-08:00Tealights, horsemeat and healthSo despite a very busy few days of fun I've managed to get my ass up early this morning and make a little time to blog. Last night I was made an amazing vegan dinner and this morning woke up with equally amazing thank you farts. Farts that when I took the dog out were still waiting for me 7 minutes later when I got back in the house. Still worth the great dinner and conversation. I also managed to "borrow" a copy of this years Ikea Catalogue.<br />
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I love the Ikea catalogue more then the store almost. The beautiful rooms all done up and happy possible Swedish and the odd Asian models in happy home life scenes. Amazing. Ikea has always had a special place in my heart. I think it's more the act of going. I went the first time with a friend from College years ago and have maybe gone 8 or 10 times. Mostly with my gay guy friends. The greatest trips to the store have been early on weekdays when the store is not full of fighting couples and people in general. So full that you can't enjoy the visit. See, that's the thing. For those of us here in London to get to Burlington or Toronto for an Ikea visit it's a big deal. It involves planning and excitement.<br />
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My meat soul mate Jason lives about 5 minutes away from one just outside Toronto. He and his wife think nothing of taking the kids for breakfast for a dollar and dumping them in the ball pit for an hour while they go shopping either in the store or close by. Amazing. They can just run over for stuff. That would be deadly for some of us if they actually built an Ikea in London. That rumour has been around as long as I can remember. Seriously, every year or so someone tells me "they are going to build one in Hyde Park" or where ever there is some new construction. Lies. I never get excited anymore...ever. <br />
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I honestly do not get why they don't open one here. We have a University and College for fuck sakes! There is millions of dollars in discount furniture sales for students right there! September would be a nightmare to get near the store but amazing sales. *Fun Fact. London has more retail sales for back to school then it does for Christmas. Or it used to. Seriously!* That fun fact alone deserves an Ikea! <br />
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I have had 3 Ikea sofas now. The one I have now I found online and though stylish its not as comfortable as the long blue one I had. I loved that one. It was as big as a single bed to lay on and back when I got it and this house (both were 4th hand) I had a great time breaking that sofa in with my girlfriend at the time. I miss that sofa. Great for naps and I think about 7 of my friends loved it for drunken sleepovers. No one peed it either. Thanks guys. <br />
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I've only eaten at Ikea once or twice. I didn't eat the meatballs, I know that for sure. I don't trust non homemade meatballs, they never seem to agree with me. Now with all the fuss about eating horse meat I honestly think people need to figure it out. Yes, I might be the worst person trying to be a vegan ever in the history of people trying to be vegan but come on. What do you expect from companies trying to make as much money as possible? If you want to know what is in your food then make it yourself. I found out last year that all most all Harvey's burgers are made with soy. Check it out. <br />
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Think about this. Depending on how the horses were raised their meat could be leaner. I am guessing if it found its way into dollar meatballs and fast food burgers they were raised for slaughter. I learned long ago there are too many horses out there thanks to HRT (hormone replacement therapy) since only pregnant horses pee makes the HRT stuff. (Gross) So they keep horses pregnant and out come more horses. Since we all don't have our own horse you can imagine how many extras there are. Personally I'm good looking slightly manly and having night sweats. I don't want to ingest horse pee...at all. <br />
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Now I get that kids are picky and that's fine. But trust me parents. Diabetes, fucked up hormones and high blood pressure is picky too. It always picks those of us who ate like frat boys for too long and expected to be picked last like we were in school for sports. Little secret...that is our chance to get picked first. <br />
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So I plan on continuing to do my best to take better care of myself. Today that starts with a hot tea and slowly flipping my way into the new Ikea catalogue thinking about a road trip when I'm back on my shopping day trip feet. Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-89253325392956662012013-02-28T06:15:00.004-08:002013-02-28T06:15:40.978-08:00NanaSo last night I had a dream about the love of my life. My Nana. For the record I really don't believe that soul mates and or the love or someones life could compare to a pure friendship or love of one's Nana. There is no comparison really. Friends and my Nana were always there. Romantic love comes and goes, heats up and fades. There really is no constant. (Anyone who says different watched too many Disney movies and clearly didn't think a few years down the road when Cinderella pops out a few kids and the Price is banging the maids. Cynical...yes. I don't live in a Disney movie.)<br />
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Anyway, back to my Nana. Apparently I've been watching to much end of the world zombie crap because I was in an arena like the JLC with my Mom, Aunt Nancy and some other lady. I left them for a bit and then either these meteors or bombs hit and all I knew was I had to go up to the way upper area where my Nana was in a hotel type room. Way to go Nana. So in a crazy emotional state I told my Mom to leave and I would get Nana and raced around fighting crowds and these three Jesus loving girls who were doing crowd control. I called one of them and the lord some very choice things. I told the three lord lovers to look for an old lady who looked like Betty White. They tried to hold me back but I raced around. Finally they found her in a line. <br />
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Now, I should say that since my Nana died I've had about 4 dreams about here where I could kind of feel her. I crave them since I miss her so much. I choose to believe it's her way of comforting me. So, when I saw my Nana in the dream I felt so excited yet at peace. She looked almost spry and so happy to see me. (It was the end of the world ish in the dream so I'm guessing she was glad we didn't just leave her there or anything like that.) Hugging her in a dream is no comparison to a real hug of someone you love that much but for the first time in a while I felt a real calm. I got a chance to hug and hold my Nana for a bit and after that the dream was kind of over. She never seems to stay long but always gives me a dose of what I need.<br />
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I'm sure I will blog more later but I kind of wanted to get that out.<br />
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Last night a friend and I stayed up late playing a war game on the PlayStation. She didn't fully get the attraction until she started playing and like me tuned right out. I don't think teens should be playing these games at all due to the violence but I have to say adults seem to find real relaxation in checking out. You don't have to talk about anything deep or think really. It's almost liberating. Right now I've given up the Western game in replace of a war game. I even downloaded a WW2 update! It's very hard but I love the historical aspect of it. <br />
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Now that I have tuned out and have my comfort food (I'm sipping on hot tomato soup from a mug and it's heavenly) I have opted to do a bit more with my time off then volunteer, read, hang out with unemployed friends, babysit (loved it) and clean the house I've decided to re-do one of my favourite Buddhist work books ever. <br />
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Anyway, a few years back when I got the workbook basically because it was a Huber book. I looked at the first pages and saw the questions and put it away with the collection. Why? The book was asking me to look at myself and I wasn't ready to do that. At all. I really don't care how cool, new age, zen or free spirited you think you are but when you pick something negative about yourself and examine it you want to close the book too. It takes a lot to really look at yourself. I'm fairly happy with myself but the last time I did the work book I really had some honestly moments.<br />
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Now, I'm not saying I was fixed or am the best person in the world. But one thing I try to do is be honest about my feelings. This combined with my trying to be more assertive has had it's moments of going well and well....sucking large. Sometimes it seems as a woman when I am honest it goes one of two ways. I'm either a bitch and heartless or someone tries to talk me out of my feelings. I love that. Apparently I'm this big passive teddy and a little "it's ok, give it time, are you sure, just think about it?" is going to make me completely change my feelings? To tell you the truth...the passive part of me has let this happen. I know. We have all done it. I've done it to a fault over the years. You don't want to upset or hurt anyone so you agree or back down. In the end you only hurt them and yourself more. Then you become a bitch. HA! Life is fun that way. <br />
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Anyway, I'm more perfect then I was when I first did this book so will see how my issues and views have changed. I do enjoy learning about myself and figuring out why I do what I do. I am fairly sure there are some people out there who would love the answers too. I think looking at yourself is a wonderful exhausting thing. Let me be clear that looking at yourself doesn't involve other people. I learned that the hard way. "But he hurt me!" Looking at who did what to you isn't going to get you any more enlightened. In fact you will be stuck asking why they did something to you for the rest of your life with that shit sucking attitude. I felt wronged for a long time then finally I took a long look at myself and said "What about me thought it was ok to accept that for as long as I did?" Everyone wants to blame someone else for their feelings these days. I know...I'm ranting but come on. <br />
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Anyway, so today I will pick out a fresh journal from my stock pile of journals and start my workbook. Maybe I will toss some Tony Robbins in there and become a millionaire over night. Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-84462051709895809382013-02-23T13:05:00.000-08:002013-02-23T13:05:01.486-08:00Fake Meat while Pants FreeI do like to make people happy and after going over requests for topics (keep them coming) I opted to not talking about sex you filthy perverts and instead talk about cooking today. <br />
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STILL being unemployed means everyday feels like a weekend but I do like to make the weekends semi special so I opt to use this time for dates and cooking. Today I decided to stretch that non existent food budget and make a shit ton of pasta sauce filled with far too many vegetables and fake meat. I have an evil plot to fool myself into thinking that if the sauce is full of vegetables I won't eat as much pasta. Yeah...I'm already laughing too. <br />
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So I've already opted to make enough so that I have to use the long centre burner on my stove and mix everything in a roasting pan. I've done this before and it's a life saver. Who needs a pot when you have a penis shaped burner that also has an attachment for pancakes. Men would be a bigger selling point if they had a breakfast food option with the penis. (Save the baby batter jokes...I invented half of them.)<br />
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Now I know there are choppers just like this out there. I had one that I liked but had to replace it as the side nipple (yep...it's a nipple) snapped off when I was chopping something. The Paderno one is basically the same but with more inserts and said nipple has yet to flick off under my chopping demands. So good. <br />
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I love a good kitchen gadget. I think days like this when I do cook and get out a good pot, use more then one burner on the stove and dust off the chopper I think I'm the fuckin shit in the kitchen. I'm not at all cool in the kitchen but since getting really good quality knives for Christmas 2 years ago I seem to think I could get my own show on the Food Network sharpening the knives and chopping things. I give it two episodes. <br />
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In the past I have talked about the fake meat and I've taken a picture of the cooking of said fake meat. It's not bad but if you have the high blood pressure watch the salt. It can be a bit much depending on how much you eat. I have enjoyed in as taco's but really like it with pasta. The sauce and the veggies kind of mask the texture and you really can't tell it's soy based. <br />
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Since I'm shoving the importance of good cookware down your throat I should mention that the pan I'm cooking my fake meat in might be the best thing ever. It's what's apparently called an everyday pan. Basically because you use it for everything...and I do. I've cooked everything in it. It always comes back to great shape and cleans up super easy. I treat it well too...it's my Jesus of cookware. Where I go when times get hard and bacon needs to be cooked. Amen.<br />
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Everything is now cooked and soon the to be divided up and packaged for the freezer. I did have a small bowl of macaroni and sauce...amazing. I honestly think I might try something else to freeze. <br />
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So if you take anything away from today's blog is to invest in good pots and pans and use bleach. Seriously, if I ever meet the perfect person for me there will be a small war if it's even suggested we not use my kitchen stuff. Seriously.<br />
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<br />Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-20256031801484684242013-02-22T05:17:00.002-08:002013-02-22T10:27:44.038-08:00Eggs and lesbiansYou would think I would blog a lot more while not working but I've struggled for topics. Clearly if I'm writing about 3 ways. (Still on my sexual bucket list as my Mother doesn't read my blog.) I'm not one to care about what's going on in the news. I don't care if the Pope is stepping down before his time. I think the last one was dead about 10 years and he was duct taped up drooling for his public appearances. Still doesn't really concern me.<br />
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I did have a great laugh last night. So we all know my TV watching is questionable so of course I found the trashiest show I could find without even trying. It was one of those teen wedding shows. Canadian even! Good to know we have equally stupid kids here who what to get married at 18 cause it's totally cool to have a party with all your friends and like dress up n' stuff! I've watched this before...I will own it. Anyway, this one was two teen lesbians. Now...let me just say I enjoy being a lesbian but I can leave the drama that goes along with it on occasion. I've learned be it 22 or 62 women are drama. Worth it...but drama. So imagine the hormone, overly possessive, nothing to do but love you filled drama created by two 18 or 19 year old lesbians. We are talking the beginnings of drama that will play out for years to come...probably at a bar watching a lesbian singer.<br />
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Anyway, both lesbians lived in the basement of the mouthy girls grandparents who raised her. They had been together 2 years and had to get married. Clearly they are fast tracking the entire lesbian experience to coordinate with high school grad. Anyway, the doe and doe took place in a gym with about 12 friends and involved a boob cake and a random almost fist fight. A mom stepped in and reminded them that they were behaving like little kids on the playground. (Maybe don't judge the behavior of kids when you are letting yours make a lifetime commitment that is come very expensive paperwork to get out of.) Anyway the $112 dollars that raised went to the wedding.<br />
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The wedding itself was on a Friday during the day, so all the teens had to skip school which they were all bummed about doing since the smart ones had college paper work to hand in. (I was so proud of those ones.) Anyway, the 3 hours before the wedding were spend with the school skippers hanging streamers and decorating while bride one got a fresh coat of pink put on her hair and bride two was super late and bitchy cause she didn't get enough sleep. The ceremony was the usual. It was nice to here there perspective on marriage was "getting to start life with my best friend at my side." I see the 18 year old all the hope in the world point on that statement. Still, I tend to live a bit more real. <br />
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So off the 18 year old lesbians go, back to the basement to start life together. Get jobs, move out and think about college. It's a hard go trying to figure out who you are in general be it at 18 or 40. The only thing they seem to know about themselves is they are gay and love each other. I hope that's something that holds them together longer then their first anniversary. Thank god they can't get pregnant! <br />
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I should say that I'm not the biggest supporter of making huge commitments like kids and marriage until you have a good sense of who you are. I've watched too many women fall in "love" and completely loose themselves into being a couple or whatever they think they need to be to keep the other person interested. One day they wake up feeling like a stranger in their own lives. I hate romantic comedy's (by hate I mean I watch them alone with total shame) but I do have to say that every woman should take something away from The Runaway Bride.<br />
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Julia Roberts character gets almost to the alter with these guys she professes to love but the reporter looking into her story played by Richard Gere asks her how she likes her eggs. During every different relationship she likes her eggs how the guy likes his eggs. He likes camping, she likes camping. You get the picture. She looses herself in the guy but is smart enough to not marry them. As women why do we do this?<br />
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Again I shouldn't comment on relationships but one thing I love about myself is I know how I like my eggs and I'm more than happy to lend you a pot or pan to make your eggs the way you like them too. Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6481717164606687773.post-45550083922710853042013-02-17T06:22:00.001-08:002013-02-17T06:22:53.611-08:00Big SaveAh. My favourite day to blog. I was even happy to take the dog out and be woken up by the crisp morning picking up two tootsie rolls of dog poop behind him. One of my favourite things is brushing my teeth and going out in the cold air, it feels amazing. I actually brush my teeth before going out in cold weather just so I can enjoy that 5 minutes of cold mouth excitement.<br />
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So, yesterday I made the decision to restart my video game. I had basically finished it and with the extras I downloaded they were not going to work unless I went back to the beginning. It was heartbreaking but needed. My mom asked what I was doing and I tried to explain it to her. Lets back up. So before Christmas I got a play station 3. I hooked up net flicks to it and it's been amazing. I love it. My buddy Rex loaned me a few games and I fell in love with Red Dead Redemption. It's a western game where you are trying to find and kill people who wronged you to get your family back. You get to hunt, kill bad guys and help people. My mother of course has her own take on it. "It sounds an awful lot like that game you played in public school." "What game Ma? Oregon Trail?" I was thinking that she would never remember that. "Yeah...that was fun. I played it a few times when you weren't around." I remembered she liked the hunting mostly because when she was young my grandfather didn't let her shoot a gun. "Well this game is a little more adult. I get a horse, guns and actually blow peoples heads off if I stand close enough to them." She was quiet for a second and said "Well...I can see why you like it so much."<br />
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I used to think video games were for kids and teen boys with no hope of a girl touching their penis until the end of college but a few years ago when Rock Band was all the rage I saw women in their 30's and 40's loving the game. For one woman I worked with it was a family thing. She and her husband would play with the kids and when they went to bed they would play together. I don't have the coordination for Rock Band but I fell in love with the western game I've been playing. Its funny playing and thinking about it from a girl point of view. I had my buddy play with me once and he laughed at my excitement when I got a new outfit to change my character into. I am a girl after all. <br />
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I think starting over sucked basically because as a girl I wanted to see how the story line panned out. I don't think boys care about things like that but I wanted to know if he was going to kill who he needed to and get back with his wife and son. When that happened I was thrilled...then was thinking "Fuck...now what?" It lost it's luster after that and again when the main character dies and his son takes over with no real powers or story lines. Blows. <br />
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So back I go again playing from the start with all the knowledge I learned the first time, Don't you wish life was that way? You could go back to the last big save of the game and start over with a clean-ish slate and all the mistakes made and lessons learned. Who wouldn't? I don't know exactly where I would have made a big save. I think maybe after college? I think I would have (back then) continued on to University for Library stuff (it was way cheaper back then), gotten my BA and hopes for a career. I think I would have made a library career awesome in my own way back then. Either way I would have stayed in school. <br />
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On the redo I would have maybe missed out on buying this house but I do think I would have managed to find a great job and maybe an equally cool house. I guess I would have lost a lot in the redo too. Relationships both great and bad, friendships both good and bad and maybe pets. (They were all good.) I do think the biggest redo I would have done would have been my college and university education. Its not that I'm too old now...it's that I'm in a different place now. I'm at that comfortable with my life place and I get that I could do a total shake up and go back to school, but I am not in a place to loose what I have. Or risk it. <br />
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So, with everything I learned over the years would I be more successful or happy if I when back to a big save in the game of life? I'm sure there would be parts of me that would be much happier and a little more settled but what fun is that? I would have missed out on a lot of fun and experiences that have made me laugh, hate, grow, run, stay, fall in love, out of love, almost get arrested and of course find happiness in things big and small. <br />
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I really hope I still enjoy the game starting almost over with some downloaded updates. If not then on to the next game. Maybe not another western.Rhonda Kursackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008410375408808712noreply@blogger.com0