As I blogged earlier this week, Austin and I are set up to have our Engagement pictures taken tomorrow. We're both really excited to work with Amber. We also don't have a lot of pictures together, so now we'll (hopefully) get a couple really cute ones of us. We're planning on going to the Dallas Arboretum tomorrow. I think it will ba a lot of fun and we'll be able to really play around with the fun background.
Now, onto my aggrivation...
I have spent the past two weekends meeting with florists. Five of them. Every single one has primised to get me quotes within a couple days. Do you know how many I've gotten? None.
That's right, none. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
I want to give these people money, why wont they get me my information?! I understand that it might take a couple extra days to get a proper quote, but we've been communicating through email prior to me meeting with you. Why not just shoot me an email that says you need more time? I don't get it...
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Engagement Pictures!
Austin and I have scheduled our Engagement pictures and we are going to be taking them on Friday! We are both very excited about getting them taken and also to be able to work with our photographer, Amber! We have planned to go to the Arboretum and spend time in Downtown Dallas trying to get a couple really cute shots. I'll be sure to upload a link as soon as they're all ready!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Dear Republicans...
Dear Republicans,
Fuck you. No, I'm not joking. I'm sick of this bullshit.
I'm sick of the way you've corrupted the public discourse. The way you've made it acceptable to hurl any insult you like at public officials. The way you blame us for the current atmosphere of hatred by accusing us of starting it with hating Bush. Like Bush didn't come on the heels of eight years of your tireless efforts to destroy Clinton by any means necessary, like Bush didn't give us good reason to complain. A couple of posters on a website compared Bush to Hitler and you've used it as free license to compare Obama to Hitler 24/7 and I'm sick of your hypocrisy, where it's acceptable to say shit about Obama that you would have had an popletic fit (and did) if anything remotely similar had been said about your guys. Keith Olbermann calls Cheney a fascist when he was actually using fascist tactics and you think that gives you the freedom to call Obama a fascist, socialist, Marxist constantly for no reason at all. Fuck you and your bullshit false equivalency.
I'm sick of the way you've made the populace stupid. Around a fifth of your populace thinks the sun orbits the earth, over half think evolution never happened. Your populace actually believe the media has a liberal bias. Not because it has, you have the most conservative media in the free world, but because you've shouted it so loud and so often that you've brainwashed the public into believing it, like the battered wife who parrots her husband's insults. You've got a whole segment of the populace shouting about socialism and fascism and none of them know what the fucking words mean. You've convinced them that fascism is a left-wing thing. You've got them so turned around that some of them actually believe global warming isn't happening. Fuck you.
I'm sick of the way you try to destroy the whole concept of government. You've tricked the people into believing that government can't do anything right, always being careful to exclude the army because you love your bullets and bombs but you've so destroyed the public's ability to reason that they don't even think of interstate highways, the space program, the national parks program, etc. Government is always great when it's doing what you tell it and inevitably corrupt when it isn't. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your rewriting of history. You've bleated so loud and long that Reagan was a great president, that the New Deal didn't work, that cutting taxes increases revenues, that you actually have the people believing this bullshit. And these are the same people who will go on to become teachers and fill their student's heads with this self-same bullshit. Reagan was a mediocre president at best who had the good fortune to be in power when the USSR collapsed under it's own weight and you bastards have turned him into the Second Coming. You've rewritten history so that everything foul and hateful and wrong can be attributed to a Democrat while everything worthwhile is a Republican's glory. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your dragging the center ever further to the right. How many whack job fringe ideas have you dragged into the mainstream? The aforementioned idea that tax cuts increase revenues, the Laffer Curve, the idea that Welfare harms the poor, the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare, the idea that whatever is good for corporations is good for the country. And you push these ideas through your corporate media and you do it so long and loud that they become part of the accepted political landscape and because it is easier to tell a lie than to debunk one, we never get away from this rancid shit. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your casual criminality. Teddy Kennedy, a man who's boots you were not worthy to lick, was just buried and all I've heard from my rightist friends for days is Chappaquidick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquidick. Your fucking golden boy raped the Constitution, mainly because he wanted to; tortured random people (and water boarding is torture, fuck you too) essentially because he wanted to; spent like a drunken sailor, essentially because he wanted to; invaded a sovereign nation, essentially for the loot and destroyed people's lives, essentially for the evils and you bastards are obsessed with a fucking accident a Democrat had decades ago? You don't go on about Laura Bush killing some guy decades ago. Fuck you.
I'm sick of you praising pure evil. You're letting Dick Cheney be the standard-bearer for Republicanism. Dick Cheney, a man so nakedly evil that even his friends call him "Darth"; a man so callous that Lex Luthor would recoil in terror; a man who probably has dismembered hitchhikers in those man-sized safes and kills plants by his mere proximity. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your attempts to tilt the playing field permanently in your favor. Democrats filibustered a few of Bush's most hateful judicial picks and you pricks started screaming about doing away with the filibuster but now you're in the minority, you're filibustering absolutely everything you can and whining when you don't get the chance. You ignored everything the Democrats had to say when you had power and now that you don't, you scream that everyone must be bipartisan. You don't budge a fucking inch on anything but you insist that everyone must compromise to meet you. That's your idea of politics: Don't move an inch, force the other guy to come to the right to meet you and call the result a "compromise". Fuck you.
I'm sick of your corporatism. You dress it up in false populism but anyone with half a brain can see that you're the brought and paid for subsidiary of big business. You keep pushing tax cuts as the answer for absolutely everything, you keep sabotaging every attempt to control the excesses of big business. You genuinely think the world would be a better place if it was a combination of Bill Gibson's dystopian vision of a corporate dominated world and Ayn Rand's bullshit Objectivism, yet another entry in mankind's endless attempts to find a moral justification for naked greed. You've taken the clinically insane spewings of a woman literally to the right of Hitler (pardon my Godwins) and the 1984-like vision of a dystopian author and convinced yourselves that would be a good place to live. Big business is the enemy of the people, always has been. The ideal for the corporate class is to have a small pool of people rich enough to buy their fucking crap and a much larger pool of people so poor and with so few options that they can be used and abused at the corporation's whim. A corporation's objective is not to look after you, it is to make ever-larger profits by any means necessary. You bastards want to reinstate fucking slavery to the corporate class and you've made the public so fucking stupid that they actually swallow the bullshit you're serving up, they actually want to enslave themselves to the corporations that abuse them at every turn. They actually care more about the corporations right to make obscene profits than they care about their child's right to live on a habitable planet. Fuck you
Fuck you. No, I'm not joking. I'm sick of this bullshit.
I'm sick of the way you've corrupted the public discourse. The way you've made it acceptable to hurl any insult you like at public officials. The way you blame us for the current atmosphere of hatred by accusing us of starting it with hating Bush. Like Bush didn't come on the heels of eight years of your tireless efforts to destroy Clinton by any means necessary, like Bush didn't give us good reason to complain. A couple of posters on a website compared Bush to Hitler and you've used it as free license to compare Obama to Hitler 24/7 and I'm sick of your hypocrisy, where it's acceptable to say shit about Obama that you would have had an popletic fit (and did) if anything remotely similar had been said about your guys. Keith Olbermann calls Cheney a fascist when he was actually using fascist tactics and you think that gives you the freedom to call Obama a fascist, socialist, Marxist constantly for no reason at all. Fuck you and your bullshit false equivalency.
I'm sick of the way you've made the populace stupid. Around a fifth of your populace thinks the sun orbits the earth, over half think evolution never happened. Your populace actually believe the media has a liberal bias. Not because it has, you have the most conservative media in the free world, but because you've shouted it so loud and so often that you've brainwashed the public into believing it, like the battered wife who parrots her husband's insults. You've got a whole segment of the populace shouting about socialism and fascism and none of them know what the fucking words mean. You've convinced them that fascism is a left-wing thing. You've got them so turned around that some of them actually believe global warming isn't happening. Fuck you.
I'm sick of the way you try to destroy the whole concept of government. You've tricked the people into believing that government can't do anything right, always being careful to exclude the army because you love your bullets and bombs but you've so destroyed the public's ability to reason that they don't even think of interstate highways, the space program, the national parks program, etc. Government is always great when it's doing what you tell it and inevitably corrupt when it isn't. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your rewriting of history. You've bleated so loud and long that Reagan was a great president, that the New Deal didn't work, that cutting taxes increases revenues, that you actually have the people believing this bullshit. And these are the same people who will go on to become teachers and fill their student's heads with this self-same bullshit. Reagan was a mediocre president at best who had the good fortune to be in power when the USSR collapsed under it's own weight and you bastards have turned him into the Second Coming. You've rewritten history so that everything foul and hateful and wrong can be attributed to a Democrat while everything worthwhile is a Republican's glory. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your dragging the center ever further to the right. How many whack job fringe ideas have you dragged into the mainstream? The aforementioned idea that tax cuts increase revenues, the Laffer Curve, the idea that Welfare harms the poor, the idea that there's rampant fraud in Welfare, the idea that whatever is good for corporations is good for the country. And you push these ideas through your corporate media and you do it so long and loud that they become part of the accepted political landscape and because it is easier to tell a lie than to debunk one, we never get away from this rancid shit. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your casual criminality. Teddy Kennedy, a man who's boots you were not worthy to lick, was just buried and all I've heard from my rightist friends for days is Chappaquidick, Chappaquiddick, Chappaquidick. Your fucking golden boy raped the Constitution, mainly because he wanted to; tortured random people (and water boarding is torture, fuck you too) essentially because he wanted to; spent like a drunken sailor, essentially because he wanted to; invaded a sovereign nation, essentially for the loot and destroyed people's lives, essentially for the evils and you bastards are obsessed with a fucking accident a Democrat had decades ago? You don't go on about Laura Bush killing some guy decades ago. Fuck you.
I'm sick of you praising pure evil. You're letting Dick Cheney be the standard-bearer for Republicanism. Dick Cheney, a man so nakedly evil that even his friends call him "Darth"; a man so callous that Lex Luthor would recoil in terror; a man who probably has dismembered hitchhikers in those man-sized safes and kills plants by his mere proximity. Fuck you.
I'm sick of your attempts to tilt the playing field permanently in your favor. Democrats filibustered a few of Bush's most hateful judicial picks and you pricks started screaming about doing away with the filibuster but now you're in the minority, you're filibustering absolutely everything you can and whining when you don't get the chance. You ignored everything the Democrats had to say when you had power and now that you don't, you scream that everyone must be bipartisan. You don't budge a fucking inch on anything but you insist that everyone must compromise to meet you. That's your idea of politics: Don't move an inch, force the other guy to come to the right to meet you and call the result a "compromise". Fuck you.
I'm sick of your corporatism. You dress it up in false populism but anyone with half a brain can see that you're the brought and paid for subsidiary of big business. You keep pushing tax cuts as the answer for absolutely everything, you keep sabotaging every attempt to control the excesses of big business. You genuinely think the world would be a better place if it was a combination of Bill Gibson's dystopian vision of a corporate dominated world and Ayn Rand's bullshit Objectivism, yet another entry in mankind's endless attempts to find a moral justification for naked greed. You've taken the clinically insane spewings of a woman literally to the right of Hitler (pardon my Godwins) and the 1984-like vision of a dystopian author and convinced yourselves that would be a good place to live. Big business is the enemy of the people, always has been. The ideal for the corporate class is to have a small pool of people rich enough to buy their fucking crap and a much larger pool of people so poor and with so few options that they can be used and abused at the corporation's whim. A corporation's objective is not to look after you, it is to make ever-larger profits by any means necessary. You bastards want to reinstate fucking slavery to the corporate class and you've made the public so fucking stupid that they actually swallow the bullshit you're serving up, they actually want to enslave themselves to the corporations that abuse them at every turn. They actually care more about the corporations right to make obscene profits than they care about their child's right to live on a habitable planet. Fuck you
Friday, September 10, 2010
I was thinking about Justin today and I thought of this...
Sometimes I don't even know who I am. And I feel like no one does either. It's one of those scary moments when you think... "What if I'm this horrible person deep down inside and don't I even know it?"
The truth is we all are capable of being truly horrible people. Every single one of us. No matter how good we think we might be. But the only way to really know if you're good or bad is look at your intentions. All those screw ups don't count for anything if you truly intended for the right thing to happen.
I've noticed that people never actually stop to say what they really think of their friends, and the next thing you know, you've all parted ways. So I just wanted you to know I love you. Who knows if we'll ever cross paths again, but I figure life is too short to not say what you feel
You just have to be okay with the fact that our past does not define us.
Our hearts do. Be true to yourself.
Always say how you feel. Never let a moment pass you by.
The truth is we all are capable of being truly horrible people. Every single one of us. No matter how good we think we might be. But the only way to really know if you're good or bad is look at your intentions. All those screw ups don't count for anything if you truly intended for the right thing to happen.
I've noticed that people never actually stop to say what they really think of their friends, and the next thing you know, you've all parted ways. So I just wanted you to know I love you. Who knows if we'll ever cross paths again, but I figure life is too short to not say what you feel
You just have to be okay with the fact that our past does not define us.
Our hearts do. Be true to yourself.
Always say how you feel. Never let a moment pass you by.
Its almost time....
Most people look forward to football (boring) or baseball (yawn) or golf (snooze) or basketball (really?), but there are only two sports that peak my interest: hockey and soccer. And since the World Cup is over (with that dirty pack of cheaters Holland stealing second place... But I'm not bitter or anything...) this is obviously about hockey.
Anyone that pays any attention to the Stars here in Dallas is sure to tell you that the Stars really haven't been the best team for quite some time. Never the less, I"m still a devoted fan and hope for the best this year. I've been following the Stars even before I moved to Dallas, so the fact that I'll be able to go to the opening home game with this year is pretty exciting.
Yeah, that's right, I've been able to score free tickets to the Stars vs. Red Wings game on October 16th.
I know you all wish you had my job where you could get free tickets to great games. I've also been given several Cowboys and Rangers tickets which I've promptly given to other people. I've also been able to order tickets for the Stars vs. Sabres match on October 30th. I was able to get a couple extras so I'll be giving those to our friend Dan (who is a groomsman in the wedding).
Dan is a native Buffalonian. He's also a huge hockey fan. He's a goalie on a couple local teams (and a pretty good one, at that). He was pretty excited to find out that I was able to get us all great seats for the game at such a great deal. I love having a concierge in the building!
I digress... Hockey is getting ready to start and I'm very excited about that fact.
Anyone that pays any attention to the Stars here in Dallas is sure to tell you that the Stars really haven't been the best team for quite some time. Never the less, I"m still a devoted fan and hope for the best this year. I've been following the Stars even before I moved to Dallas, so the fact that I'll be able to go to the opening home game with this year is pretty exciting.
Yeah, that's right, I've been able to score free tickets to the Stars vs. Red Wings game on October 16th.
I know you all wish you had my job where you could get free tickets to great games. I've also been given several Cowboys and Rangers tickets which I've promptly given to other people. I've also been able to order tickets for the Stars vs. Sabres match on October 30th. I was able to get a couple extras so I'll be giving those to our friend Dan (who is a groomsman in the wedding).
Dan is a native Buffalonian. He's also a huge hockey fan. He's a goalie on a couple local teams (and a pretty good one, at that). He was pretty excited to find out that I was able to get us all great seats for the game at such a great deal. I love having a concierge in the building!
I digress... Hockey is getting ready to start and I'm very excited about that fact.
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