Fall Break is Here

So my son has made it to fall break and we have been on a roller coaster. Talking seems to be his downfall. I don't know what it is, but he has this need to talk to everyone in class, including the teacher. He's done better over the few days and hopefully the trend continues. Keeping his hands to himself is also another problem. He's not violent or anything, he just likes to touch people to get their attention. Of course, in today's society, touching other students is a no no. So he gets yellow lights, which means his teacher had to say something to him a few times about the same act. Again, he is improving and I truly hope the trends continue. He's a good boy and being in Kindergarten is different from daycare. He is adjusting and as much as I want him to get everything down immediately, I've had to realize that it will take some time for him to fully understand how he should act in school. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm definitely open to hearing them.

Relationship Question

I was talking to a group of people while watching football at a sports bar and we got on the topic of relationships. There were a lot of comments being floated around and the one that stuck out to me was, "I'm still in love with my husband, I just regret marrying him." That seemed like a weird statement to me. Is it possible to be in love with someone and regret being in a relationship with them? I thought I heard it wrong so I asked the lady to repeat it and sure enough, that is what she said. So I ask anyone who reads this, can you be in love with someone and regret marrying them? In my opinion, you can't. To be "in love" means that you are giving your all to a person and you accept them for who they are (good, bad, & indifferent). I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts. Let me know how you feel about this.

Checking on old friends

I've been on this kick to look old friends I went to high school with. I'm not exactly sure why. I've heard that a lot of people I went to school with didn't turn out so well, so I guess I just want to see if the people I was "close" with are doing good. We had this one guy that I believe could have made it in professional sports. He was a phenom. He was a star running back, terrific at baseball, and wasn't cocky about it. He was fun to hang around and I can't remember one person in school that disliked him. During our senior year, he started hanging around the wrong crowd and smoking weed. One of his new compadres laced his joint with angel dust and the rest is history. He ultimately dropped out of school and the last I heard, he was in and out of jail. That was the start of the downhill slide for my graduating class. I think I've heard of a couple of other people that got hooked on drugs and it is really disappointing. Facebook has really helped to get back in touch with a lot of my graduating class and it does seem that everyone on their is doing good for themselves. Granted that's like 45 out 100+ people. I want to reach out to some other people, but I don't want to look like one of those crazy stalker people who reaches out ask how's everything going and then never say anything to them again. I've had that happen to me a couple of times when I was in the Navy. I guess I will just go for the "crazy" reach out and see how people respond. Let me know what you think...

Can a married person flirt?

I've been watching Nip/Tuk on Netflix and I have to say that I really like the show. I'm on season 5 and the last episode I watched got me thinking. If you are married and you have a friend at work that you flirt with, is that wrong? This same discussion came up on Cosmo radio (Sirius/XM radio) and the responses were all over the place. I will admit that I am married, if you didn't know, and I have had what you could call a "work wife." We both knew our place and there wasn't any emotions involved, but we went to lunch together, talked about work issues, politics, work gossip, etc. Once work was over, we didn't email, text or call each other. We would always look at the schedule to see if we were working together and if for some reason we were on different days, we were disappointed. We didn't do anything to change shifts, we just worked the days as scheduled. So I guess my opinion on this topic is if both parties understand the boundaries a little flirting is harmless. I am open to hearing other opinions. Feel free to let me know what you think.

First Day of School

Today was the first day of Kindergarten for my 5 year old son. Where does the time go? It seems like it was just yesterday when he was learning to walk and eat on his own. Now he has to start doing homework and paying attention in class. My little man is getting older and he is already wanting his independance. His mom is all emotional because her baby is growing up and I had to comfort her today after she dropped him off. I always heard to enjoy your child because time goes by fast, I just didn't realize it went by this fast. Next think you know he will be looking for a date for prom.

A Complex Emotion

Love is a funny thing. We (people) do crazy things in the name of love. We move across the country, quit jobs, get married, have children, write poetry and even commit crimes. Love is so strong an emotion that it can cause us to turn on our family. Love is so complex that the Bible has multiple verses, chapter, & books to describe it. If you type "what is love" in the google search engine you get numerous pages with various definitions and descriptions. Different religions cannot even agree on the definition of love. Love can be firm and at the same time be compassionate. We have different opinions on how soon love is developed. A woman can give birth to a child and have "love at first sight" and this is acceptable. Yet a man can see a woman across the street and profess to have "love at first sight" and be criticized for acting to hastily. We can fall out of love as fast as we fall in love, but that doesn't mean that we didn't or don't still love that person. Being "in love" is different from "having love" for someone. It's still love, but apparently it isn't as strong. It is strong enough to still care, but not strong enough to go out of your way. If someone says they love you and you don't reciprocate, you can be called selfish, childish, or mean. But if you say I love you too early, you can scare a person off because they may not be ready to say it. In the days of old, daughters were "given" to men to marry and love had to be developed. Now, people are criticized if they marry for any reason other than love.

Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 32 and I honestly don't know if I understand what love is even after being married for almost 7 years. Love use to be enough to keep a marriage together. Now I hear that it takes more than love for a relationship to work. Again, love is so complex an emotion that it truly takes a lifetime to understand it. No matter what you believe in, love plays a factor in your life. Love is the one thing that unites all beings on the face of the Earth. Parents love their children in all walks of species, yet some beings are considered less than others. If all creatures have the ability to love, what makes one species better than the other?

This post isn't written to define love or give my opinion. It was written just to show how complex an emotion is and the effects it has on our everyday lives.

The People With the Power

This is long, but I swear it is worth the read!!!!

545 PEOPLE--By Charlie Reese


Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them..

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.... . The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace

545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power..

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.