Apollo D Loose (apolloose)

A good way to vote I am told is to ask yourself, "Are you better off now than you were before?" Well, I can give you a resounding NOPE. After losing my job in 2009, collecting unemployment for almost a year, and now I am working for $10,000 dollars less a year. I know I am in a real tight spot financially. Politics had nothing to do with it, unless you can find a way to force them to find me a better job. There are still NONE out there, I am always looking, eh?

 But, nothing is going to make me vote REPUBLICAN. After, the IOWA Caucus I fid it quite hilarious that the goals of the next election have been changed to get "Obama out of Office."

Unfortunately for the REPUBLICANS -  I actually listened in school. The government has three branches. AND, most importantly which some people seem to forget, the President doesn't make the LAWS?!?! My wish for 2012, is a return for Democratic control of Congress.

The mid terms in 2010 seemed to show us that Congress has failed and miserably. The JOBS bill dead, balanced budgets, pffffft. And, finally a repeal of the Health Care Bill was money wasted, eh? Please, start now - vote DEMOCRAT. And fix the problem locally, call your Senators & Representatives in Congress - put them on NOTICE for 2012!!! 

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My World is not your world, but it is worth sharing it with you all the same. Praying works, living in the NOW works, and being greatful works, too. One day at a time, is easy to do when the day's are this good.

I guess if I was tweeting it woulda looked like this.

• Off work early
• The wife was still awake :-O
• The grocery shopping was done
• Sleep in, no alarm clock
• Cinnamon Pop-Tarts
• Mow the lawn
• Shower
• Birthday Party - Lobster
• Jump in the pool
• Meet the parents
• Fine Dining - Steak
• Plop down in front the TV - History Channel, Archer, Louie, and the Three Amigos

 Then, while watching "Louie" with Louis C.K. I realized TODAY (7-30-2011) was a win for me. His character is 42, divorced, and always the pessimist. He seems to me to be a glass-half-empty-comic, I get his humor because it seems so close to the parallels I see in my own life. He has taken stand-up-philosophy in a great direction. The sh-tuff he says is great!!!

BUT I always see my self as a glass-half-full-comic. A HAPPY CHRISTIAN, enjoying the ride, spreading the good news, and trying to make good choices. Of course I smoke, swear too much, and yell at my kids... Hey, we all have our faults, and that is the kinda sh-tuff I have to worry about, not others. 

 I usually work 3rd shift, so for me to stay up till 2AM is no real stretch. I will get a nap tomorrow during the Brickyard 400. I think I am going to have another good day, because that's what I want to do.

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I really DO find it difficult to communicate with those I love the most. Call it TOUGH LOVE or my own insecurity, but I can be a real A$$hole when I wanna be. I know I am hurting them, but I can't STOP.

Realizing that communication is possibly the single most important aspect of my success in LIFE, the people that love me the most can see past the "Smoke & Mirrors".

When, more people can relate to ME - my comfort zone grows, and things in my life just happen to work-out a lot better. I can be pretty infantile at times, but this way of thinking has always worked out to my advantage in the end.

Using the JEDI MIND TRICK! Try saying this to yourself - - "It's all about ME making the WORLD think the same way I do. Really, I need to be in tune with MY surroundings, see the path that others are on, and just bend their will enough to meet MY needs. I must be smart, humble, polite, and always communicate concisely with a PURPOSE that generates WIN-WIN results in every situation."

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I am absorbed by the Internet. The past two and a half hours I have consumed myself with surfing without direction, and now find a place to post a blog?!?!? It's not fair I have to goto work. Using HTML, to edit this blog is painful... why won't my blog work with CHROME?!? Somebody is newer than the other guy, and it makes writing 10X more difficult, adding a bold or italic takes that much more effort, and these are only words.

What next? Single rantings of a human being on-line. I know what I am thinking, and wish someone else would just get-it. As this is the 5th of July, I am now in my 38th year of life, but have crossed many milestones along the way. What is/was/will be the defining moment for ME?!? These words perhaps illustrating that a new chapter is beginning once again. Some past milestones, to help the reader relate:

• Monogamous - 14 years
• Husband - 12 years
• Father - 10 years
• Retired - twice
• Fired - once

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