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By Brianna, on May 21st, 2013 Hi. Remember me? Yeah, it has been awhile.
I have missed throwing my thoughts out to the interwebs. But really life just got away from me. I haven’t had time to be introspective enough to even to write whiny, thought provoking, muses about my life. I’ve been in the thick of it. Having a second kid laid me out.
Those people that say “A second isn’t much more work than the first” yeah… Those people are FULL of shit. F-U-L-L. Two under the age of 4 is like a barely controlled chaos. Maybe it isn’t even controlled.
And why? Why lord? Did I think I should go back to school at the same time. Who has a baby and takes 15 credit hrs in the same semester. Did I want to be a martyr? Maybe it would be different if I wasn’t obsessive about work, but I couldn’t stand to make less than an A.
Let’s throw on quitting my main job to be a workstudy, picking up part-time work from home, and basically being insane. Blogging took a back seat to living, and I hate to say it but, that seems just fine. Because, living is where it is really at.
Now I have finished school, I am in the process of trying to transition to an IT career, and the kids are a bit older. It seems like”actual time” has re-entered my life. I almost feel listless without my every second filled. Though just having time to watch McClain & Conlan play together, reading three books, and watching lots of Netflix and borrowed DVD’s the last couple of weeks have made those empty minutes quite full.
So, here is to yet another new beginning. Another fresh start. and finding that time to just stop and be in life.
By Patrick, on January 8th, 2013 So I was thinking the other day, and I’m not really sure why, way back in the 7th grade, our English class did a project where we put all of our stories, essays, poems and everything together in a book. The teacher gathered all of them together and gave us a copy at the end of the year. Just before she put it all together, she told us we had to come up with a suitable name for a title. She left the room while we talked about it. We wrote a few things on the board, had some short
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By Patrick, on December 22nd, 2012 Well, December 21st, 2012 came and went, with nary an apocalypse to speak of. Once again, the a select group of people get the whole “end of the world” thing wrong, and in consequence, make us suffer through agonizing months, weeks and days of non-stop natter about something that will probably happen in about 10 billion years, when the sun blows up (which, by the way, I’m not planning on being present for, but would probably be a pretty cool experience. I mean, if you’re going to go, that would be a nice way of going…).
The way I see
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By Patrick, on November 1st, 2012 I hate all the flip-flopping. Hey, at least the media doesn't calling it "Thonging", right?
So as we come down to the last week of the elections, it bothers me to see that (almost) no one has made the connection between Mitt Romney’s flip-flopping earlier this year to John Kerry’s flip-flopping of 2004. Is there something in the water in Massachusetts that makes you say things early in the election year and then claim the exact opposite later on?
What they need is a disclaimer in the beginning of every commercial and stump speech that says something like “Good
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By Patrick, on August 6th, 2012 
We need this sign.
I work in the public sphere. A big part of my job is dealing directly with the public. At my place of work, as with many places, there are two bathrooms, one for men and one for women. Thankfully, my job is not to clean them. But unfortunately, that’s where this post is heading…
You see, every once in a while when I peek into the public bathroom or use it, I do a quick check to make sure there’s no dead bodies and such. All to often however, I find that something HAS happened,
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By Patrick, on August 2nd, 2012 
The Elusive 2-Baby Nap in action
For those of you with more than one child under the age of three, one of the most blessed times of the day comes when the stars align and both children are able to nap at the same time. This may not seem that big of an issue for some, but for those of us with the rugrats, the silence that the dual-nap can bring can only be described as blessed. There’s no toddler sticking his wet, slobber-covered finger in your ear, or running around the house yelling at you to yell (not
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By Patrick, on July 25th, 2012 
Hehe, Blockbuster. Hehehe.
A couple of days ago I wrote that I suspended my facebook account because it was sucking my soul through the computer screen. Well, soon thereafter, we decided that we weren’t really using our Netflix account so……BLAM, that’s gone now too. Having a 5-month-old and a two-and-a-half year old just doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for mindless entertainment on the TV. It seems that the Bourne Identity sitting on top of our DVD player was not going to play itself after 2 weeks, so we finally gave in and made the decision to join
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By Patrick, on July 23rd, 2012 
Try it, you might like it
Well, I did it. Last week I suspended my facebook account to see what sort of physical/pyschological withdrawal I would go through if I couldn’t see what everybody else in my life was doing and thinking 24/7. I wasn’t sure what to expect. What would I do at work now? How could I handle not writing those witty remarks about all the idiots I encounter on a day-to-day basis? What would happen if I actually had to pick up a phone and call someone if I wanted to go out? These were
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By Patrick, on June 23rd, 2012 
Warning: Serious Post Beginning…
Serious post, but not a serious photo…
This past May, North Carolina voted for Amendment 1, which constitutionally outlawed marriage between same-gender couples. Now keep in mind, this was already illegal to begin with, but now that it’s written in the constitution, it becomes much harder to abolish.
I’ve of course heard of other states doing the same thing, mostly in the South. But for some reason, having it here in NC and living here really pissed me off. I honestly believed that my neighbors around the state were a little more open-minded/progressive about the
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By Patrick, on May 17th, 2012 
Me too.
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