Anways, I dislike sour pusses and I’m trying to keep my blog on the positive note because nobody wants to read a negative. I don’t want to write a negative blog. I want my blog to be all sunshine and daisies and smiley faces. But after spending all day at that place where I earn my wages, I need to vent. I just want to tell people to shut up or get some help because I can’t be around the sour pusses. I don’t want to hear the Woe-is-me nonsense when all that person has to do is make a decision to change and do it. It’s not hard when people are willing to help you. You just have to say YES!

Anyways, Fox does it again. Dollhouse got canceled and I’m not happy about it. I swore after Sarah Connor Chronicles that I would never watch Fox again. Now I have a reason to stick to that.

I’m not one for discount shopping as I find discount stores are often disorganized. I almost went into Ross today but remembered how much I dislike the organization of the store. I only shop there when I’m in the best of moods.

I need a shirt to wear for the Valentine’s party I’m going to next weekend. I couldn’t find anything red. You’d think they’d have plenty of red but apparently the color’s gone out of style or something. Ha!

So I will wear a shirt I already have but haven’t worn yet. It will be perfect. It’s a bright green color and I’m sure I’ll be the only person wearing bright green.

I wonder if He will show up? Don’t ask who He is as I don’t want to mention his name. It would be nice to see him.

I think this will be his last year with us. He’s ten years old and for a chow, is pretty dang old.

I don’t feel like blogging much today. The rain has given me the blues. Until tomorrow.

The person I work with is around my age and hasn’t been married long. His answer to the question was love is a feeling and he explained that he never felt more love and hate for a person like he has for his wife. This is his first marriage and again he is young. So, I decided it would be best to ask someone who’s older and has been married a lot longer.

Today, I asked a man who’s been married for 20 years to the same woman. I also asked a man who’s been married twice; the first marriage lasted 10 years and the second marriage lasted 5.  They both said when you first marry, love is about the feelings but after they got used to their wives, love was about the choice.

I’ve read the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, and he says eventually the ‘in love’ will fade and people are faced with a choice: do they stay together or go their separate ways. With the high divorce rate, it is clear people choose to separate.

What are your thoughts on love? Is love a feeling or a choice?

I’m also looking forward to the Valentine’s Day potluck next weekend. There will be 80 single people attending, which means I should be able to find one single male who could possibly be a good match for me. I’m trying to stay positive about this as I often get discouraged at the possibility of marriage. I want to marry but I want to marry but it seems like the men attracted to me aren’t worth my time.

So I focus my energies on other things and try to keep busy to pass the time. Always looking for a way to avoid going home after work. After two years of not having much of a life during my deployment and grad school, I wanted to get out there and live more.

For the next couple of weeks, I have to plan my trips and also work on my tax documents. I am 10 months behind on the expenditures and travel logs and I’m even behind on this year’s documents and I want to catch up and schedule an appointment to do my taxes.

I don’t believe in taking care of people who can but are unwilling to take care of themselves.

Now, I can see why Europe has become the land of opportunity – for droves of Muslims looking for free speech and opportunity for a better life. Remember the Mohammad cartoons in Denmark? What about how Paris suburbs almost went up in flames? Wonderful examples of free speech and social welfare at its best. Give me some of that!

I heard an interesting quote in church the other day.

Do you really think giving money to people is going to do them a bit of good? You can give people money until you’re broke, but after all is said and done, not only will they still need money, but you’ll be broke, too. The problem with socialists is, many of them don’t believe in God and a lot of them either can’t do simple math or are in complete denial of where money comes from to see that social programs bankrupt governments!

Perhaps, the quote would make more sense to socialist if it read like:

Doesn’t it make more sense to teach people how to do for themselves? Make their own money? I blog a little bit about a quote (actually a Chinese proverb). I love Chinese proverbs as much as I love the Bible’s book of Proverbs.

So, I don’t think I lack a social conscience, it’s just my ideas on how to help people who need, want, have the ability, and actually desire an improvement in their lives will be better off with some mentorship and funds from charitable donations instead of government-run programs funded by forced deductions.

Chinese proverb.—The International Thesaurus of Quotations, ed. Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 76, no. 3 (1970).

I could be out right now. The night is still young.

I must read my read my Bible though. I hate going to bed early. I can sleep when I’m dead!

I have to plan out my trips and guestimate how much time I’m going to need for the traveling I plan on doing this year. So many places to go and so many people to see but I’m hoping to be able to write off every last one of my trips.

I’ve been eating a lot of Panda Express lately. Thought it would be nice to post the latest fortune cookie. Particularly like this one.

The evening service was much better and lifted my spirits.

I spoke to my dad today. It’s always refreshing to hear from him. He’s sending me something and I can’t wait to see what it is. I hope it’s beef jerky.

I need to get some laundry done.

I prefer a good book. I think I’m getting old, which is okay as long as I age gracefully.

I must be off to washing my hair. I had planned on going to a beauty school and having someone else do it but changed my mind. I dislike paying people to do something I can do better myself.