Religion & the Backlash that will come with it (17 August 2015)

Now before everyone goes crazy this is not a debate and it’s not a criticism it is merely an opinion, a personal opinion at that.  When it comes to religion in MY eyes there is no right or wrong.

After years of being brought up within a mixed religion family, attended two different types of churches and grew up in mixed schools I had the holy bible drilled into me.  Not at home though, religion wasn’t strict in our house but my parents no longer go to church but they believe in their own way at home.

Now, coming from the country I come from the religious divide is infamous, sadly. Now the two different religions here are pretty much, in my eyes, the same but unfortunately a book of faith that was supposed to bring people together managed to do the exact opposite. 

There is always the mass debate of religion dividing us or brining us together, I would have to agree with the first point.  All I see, especially these days, is how it it’s tearing our world apart when it should be bringing us together.

I myself used to be a believer when I was young, it’s what I was told by all the adults around me (just like they told me Santa was real and I will never forgive them for that lie) so who was I to question my authority figure?  My education included the teachings of the holy bible.  As I grew and read bits and pieces of other religions I came to the conclusion that if I was to believe in one book why on earth should I not believe in the others?

This is when I started to doubt to whole God concept.  Now before you get on your high horse remember I said this is my opinion.  If I was to be open minded enough to believe in one, why shouldn’t I believe in others?  I know there is the bit in the bible about false gods etc but there was also the death penalty for cheating wives and fathers killing sons etc.

So after a lot of thought I just gave up on the whole idea.  I’m no religion what so ever now.  I believe what I see, if a God presents themselves to me who am I to deny it then?  For those who are believers they always tell me I’m going to hell, that’s ok to say that cos I don’t believe in hell so you work away with your threats (surely it is a sin to threaten someone with eternal damnation anyway).

Like I said, in my eyes there is no right or wrong religion, there are only the assholes that ruin it for everyone for an excuse for violence, bigotry and war!

I respect everyone’s opinion on religion cos no one on this earth has a right to tell someone that their beliefs are wrong! .........except those who constantly judge you with passages out of the bible telling you that you are living you life wrong according to the book......but when you happen to find something they are doing incorrectly according to the book well then they bend that rule by saying that everyone has their own interpretation of it.   People have a natural instinct to bend rules the way they see fit.

I will probably get a lot of backlash for this but you know what? go ahead, I don't care.  My thoughts are my own just like yours are.  You can tell me I'm wrong but to me I'm not so it wont matter.

Cracking During an Argument (14 August 2015)

I know I’m not the only one that does this although I have never had it done on me, probably because if someone did it to me I would just verbally crush them because I think too quick on my feet. 

Have you ever had a conversation with someone and your just thinking in your head ‘just shut the fuck up’.  You know this person is so full of shit but yet you stand there and bite your tongue.  Or the other person this could be is someone that you always have to walk around on eggshells with but they are quite an obnoxious person that is quite bossy.

You listen and listen biting your tongue as you go and you’re secretly patting yourself on the back for listening to this shit.  The conversation ends and you turn to walk away free as a bird from this nonsense and you have done so well to control yourself.......then......that voice in your head just says ‘fuck it, let them have it’. 

Uncontrollably you turn back to the person and the conversation always starts with you saying ‘actually, you know what.......’ and you lay into them calling them on all of the shit that they just blurted out of their mouth.  You have no idea what is coming out of your mouth at the time but by the look on their face it’s the last time that they ever spew shit in your direction.

Just me?  Nah I didn’t think so.

Deadpool Dreams (11 August 2015)

Another strange dream last night, it could be because I have been watching the Deadpool trailers recently.

Everything starts of black and I can hear a song playing in the distance and then it quickly gets louder.  Of all the songs in the world it had to be ‘Nessagh’ by Scooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wquCCFvbNhI.  When the lights come on I’m standing with Ryan Reynolds just facing him thinking to myself ‘What the hell is going on’, this goes on for the slow part of the song.  When your singer guy starts to speak then I notice that we are on a huge crane and we look down and there are thousands of people below us.

Being not overly fond of heights I took one look and crapped myself inside.  Then I looked back round at Ryan and he had his Deadpool mask on and he put an eye mask on me.  I assumed we were in a superhero movie from that point on, how wrong I was.  When the fast part of the song was going to kick in Ryan turned round to me and said ‘Are you ready?’ , I just looked at him blankly.  He took my hand and we began to run, right off the end of the crane, that’s when I noticed I had a bungee cord attached to my ankles.  So it was a bungee jump we were doing.  Needless to say it wasn’t long before I woke up.

Hate Your Job? (6th August 2015)

Are you like me and stuck in a job you don’t really like?  Do you sit and daydream in work about a better work life? 

Everyone always tells me I’m completely wasted in my job, I sit and balance figures all day and it’s the worst possible thing I could be doing.  What don’t you just get another job you say?  Well because of the recession there aren’t really that many jobs out there.  The jobs that I would like to take don’t have any vacancies anymore and as far as the ‘entry’ requirement go they keep moving the goal posts.

For example.....I remember when I left school and you wanted to be a bin man you didn’t need any qualifications.  Now when you look to be a bin man you pretty much need a degree and 2 years experience.  How do you get experience at a job if you need 2 years experience to actually get to do it in the first place? It makes no sense.

I once had my dream job, well maybe not dream job but I loved it.  I used to work in an animal sanctuary and then moved onto a boarding kennels.  I got to hang out with loads of dogs every day and that was just heaven.  I just love dogs; they are probably the best buddies I have.

I have a media background, I love to write, animate, take photos, play piano, drums and draw so being stuck in 4 walls all day really drives me nuts.  I would love to become famous one day; it’s not what you’re thinking because everyone wants to become famous.  I would like to be famous so that I could help animals in need and what better way is there to raise awareness than have a famous person do it?  The whole ‘fame’ life doesn’t appeal to me one bit, I’m a bit of a loner and like it that way but I would do anything for the sake of animals in need.  Maybe one day, although I’m doing nothing to make it happen.

Random Songs (5 August 2015)

This week there has been a mass of random songs plaguing my head.  For instance it all started off with ‘The Cat came Back’ it went on for a few days nonstop and I thought I was going to go mad.

Next to follow was ‘I’ve Been Working on the Railroad’, where this came from I have no idea, but it started mixing with ‘The Cat came Back’.  It was like I was a brilliant DJ in my own head.

What followed next is still going on and it’s all I can concentrate on every time I try to do some work but it is making me smile a lot today.  I’m not sure of the name of the song but it’s from the ‘BGF’ and it goes ‘Whiz pop, whiz bang feel the bubbles go round’.  Over and over this is going even as I type this.  I wonder what’s next?

Mary Poppins Shoots to Thrill (5 August 2015)

Mary Poppins

As usual I was out walking the dog this morning, the typical Irish weather is still holding strong with rain and today it invited its friend wind with it.  I had my umbrella with me; I’m smart like that taking it out on a windy day!  I was concentrating on trying not to let my umbrella blow inside out while I was leading the dog.  Now usually he is very well behaved with his walking but today he decided to be a pest!

He was lagging behind me and then decided to catch up with me on the opposite side to which I was holding his lead.  Since I was holding an umbrella you can imagine my dilemma.  So, I had to do a little spin, like a fairy.  The wind was howling and almost blowing me away like Mary Poppins, luckily I’m far too fat to blow away! 

You can imagine me walking along like Mark Poppins twirling round and round as my dog kept running up the wrong side of me; I looked like something out of Singing in the Rain.  Of course when I realised this then I started to laugh like an idiot!  Any passers by must have thought I was a complete mental case, but I’ll take that.

Shoot to Thrill

After my refreshing walk it was time to drive to work and what it going to cheer you up better that a little bit of AC/DC?  Shoot to Thrill came on and of course you get a little carried away with drumming on the steering wheel and singing as badly as possible.  My usual dilemma of being at the traffic lights and not stopping my shenanigans I kept the beat going, looked over at the car beside me to see the horror on this guys face, usually people just laugh but this guys looked a little scared.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQnJyP77tY 

To freak this guy out a little more I kept singing and drumming on my steering wheel while making eye contact with him, he couldn’t keep it going for more than a few seconds before he was just looking straight on waiting patiently for the lights to change.

Nothing is Forever (4 August 2015)

I’m going to talk about marriage.  Now this is going to sound like a huge contradiction but I totally believe in my views.

I’m married, I haven’t been married very long but all the same I did it.  Now, I have never been fussed on marriage and I never seen the point in it.  My hubby is quite traditional and really wanted to get married so for a long time before he proposed we discussed and discussed it.  Marriage means something to him and meant nothing to me so he put forward the argument of ‘if it didn’t matter to me then what harm could it do?’ so I give in and did it.

I didn’t want a big wedding; in fact I wanted it to just be me and him.  Of course he wanted to do it the traditional way so I just give in to that too (don’t worry I’m no soft touch, it just didn’t really matter). 

Anyway, my whole point of this is what is the point in marriage?  I realised a long time ago that nothing is forever.  Don’t get me wrong I love my hubby but I was also with the wrong person for a very long time before him too.  At that point in my life that person was the right person for me at that time.  Just like now my hubby is the right person for me now.

Will he still be right for me in 10 years time? Who knows? I hope so but as you change with age you just never know what is coming.  I would obviously be upset if we broke up but if it’s the right thing to do you just have to do it.  I would rather be on my own and happy than be with someone that makes me miserable.  You obviously do all you can to mend a relationship but something’s in life just cant be fixed no matter how hard you try.  It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just life.

Cats with Thumbs (4 August 2015)

Odd thoughts filled my mind last night, within a few seconds I had a whole weird scenario going on.

 We were walking home with the dog when he seen a cat and naturally wanted to chase it.  The car dived under a fence and when our dog went running up to it all we heard was a loud hiss, seen the claws come up from under the fence and then our poor big beast of a man got scared and ran away.

Now for the next whole minute walking which took us to our front door all I did was laugh at this.  Why?  Cos I’m weird.  Not only was this quite funny in itself that our huge dog got terrified of a wee cat but then the Cravendale advert (anyone from the UK will know this one) popped into my head.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHTXkaWA5q8

I had visions that all the cats from round our way would be at our front door waiting for him, cats with thumbs HAHA.  There would be one ring leader on his hind legs leaning against our wall just clicking his fingers and he was wearing a biker’s hat.  Then of course when I seen that I automatically imagined the rest dressed like the YMCA guys and off they went on their dance.  Sometimes I feel sorry for my poor hubby cos I was just laughing all the way home like some mental case.

Laughing is my all time favourite thing to do so I do it often J

Baby Ages (4 August 2015)

This might seem like the stupidest topic but it does my head in so much.  Working in an office there is a lot of women that work here, women with babies, toddlers and young kids.  When it comes to their kids birthdays they refrain from saying that they are 2 years old, instead they say they are 24 months.

What the actual fuck? Your kid is 2!!!!!  Just say its 2!!!!!!!

When it comes to a milestone in the kids life like first word, first step etc by all means tell it in months, but not when it comes to birthday cos you just sound daft.

I'm not a parent and I can see alot of these women don't want their kids to grow up but putting yourself in denial about their age isn't helping matters!

Over reaction? Fuck it, who cares :)

Annoying Eaters (3 August 2015)

Like my previous blog on Adult Toilet Training this one is pretty similar as far as aggravation levels go!

What’s more annoying than sitting in your office trying your best to work away and someone in the room is eating and making so much noise while doing it that you want to get that bit of food and just ram it clear down their throat?  A bit over the top?  I don’t think so!

Now there are a few different types of annoyance while other people are eating.  As I began above there is the ‘noise maker’.  These people chew and chew but breath so heavily through their nose that it is just so distracting.  There are numerous time I have come across people like this and it just winds me up so much.

On the other end of the scale there is the opened mouth eater.  To all of you that do this, I’m sorry but your fucking minging!  Holy shit like how hard is it to close your mouth? I don’t give a flying fuck how you eat at home but when you’re around people keep it closed!  I don’t need to see your burger being chomped around the front of your teeth thanks all the same.

I shouldn’t be looking you say?  Well now I wouldn’t be looking if old chomper wasn’t making so much fucking noise while smacking their lips together.  I’m only looking because I like to look someone in the eye before I beat seven shades of shit out of them (it may all just be a daydream in my head but I like a bit of eye contact all the same).

Now don’t start pinning me down as a gurney shits, well I am one a little, but it’s all just in good fun J