"Who Reads the Newspapers?"

Everyone needs a little “pick me up” after hearing the same depressing crap over and over again. Here’s an item that flew over Internet transom. The title is “Who Reads the Newspapers?” and it doesn’t say whether it is a result of methodologically scrupulous survey research or just somebody’s hunch. Whichever, it has the ring of truth.

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they should run the country but don’t’ really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn’t have to leave L.A. to do it.
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and they did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t sure who’s running the country, and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country, as long do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from any country or galaxy as long as they are democrats.
10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

True Friendship

Friends

Written with a pen

Sealed with a kiss

If you are my friend

Please answer this:

Are we friends, or are we not

You told me once

But I forgot

So tell me now

And tell me true

So I can say…

“I’m here for you”

Of all my friends

I’ve ever met

You’re the one I won’t forget

And if I die before you do

I’ll go to heaven and wait for you

I give the angels back their wings

And risk the loss of everything…

Just to prove my friendship is true…

To have a friend just like you!

When peolpe exclude others it hurts and you begin to wonder who your friends really are. when people stop liking you for who you are and want you to be someone other than yourself, you wonder what happened to the great friendship. Life is full of many obstacles and we must face them all even when we don't want to. God never gives us more than we can handle although it doesn't seem that way at times.

SOmething to be Proud Of

Our girl’s basketball team made it to the state quarter finals. Last night in Fort Collins they were defeated by Buena Vista. That is something to be proud of. I don’t remember how far they made it last year but the year before that they made it to state and became champions.

When your parents say “we’re proud of you” when you get good grades or do something well does it discourage you? Do you get the feeling that they didn’t believe in you? I recently received my report card, and yes a 4.6 GPA is something to be proud of but when your mom keeps telling you that’s she’s proud and that “you really try hard but maybe should cut back on work”. If I can make a 4.6 work, get all my homework done and squeeze in some sleep I don’t know why she wants me to cut back. When I’m not working I’m either bored to tears or sleeping. I’m just not happy anymore, except when I’m at work and with the people there. My friends tell me that maybe I’m so bored because I actually did things with Katy and I didn’t realize how much time that took and how much fun it was. I mean it’d different riding to and from school with your sister, and to and from school with some happy psycho God loving morning person. There’s nothing wrong with loving God and being happy in the morning I’m just saying I don’t want to be with someone like that at 7 am. And to make it better my mom tells her everything about me. For example one morning I had the hiccups and she told my carpool that when she was pregnant with me I hiccupped. Ok NO you don’t tell people stuff like that unless I think it’s ok!! I never seem happy but it doesn’t mean I’m in a bad mood. I doodle so much in class I have created a notebook for doodling and random thoughts. One of my friends said I was going through some sort of social withdraw and someone else said it’s depression. I haven’t told my parents because if I do then we all know what will happen. We’ll be even more broke than before. When I’m at work or with Friends at IHOP I’m happy.

Since our classes changed our lunch schedule changed and I don’t have lunch with everyone like I used to. It’s bothering me because nobody talks to me in the class room anymore and when I see them they don’t always smile back. My social life is hopeless. In elementary and middle school I had my best friend taken from me and in high school I don’t really have a best friend. There was Pat. We were real close he was almost like my brother. And of course there’s Maura who has been my friend forever, but high school changes everyone and now she has a boyfriend. I like Machebeuf but if I don’t fit in socially I really don’t want to be there. The only people I talk to and trust are the people who don’t care about how cool you are and they actually like me for who I am and what I do. Life is like a box of chocolates. “You never know what you’re going to get.”-Forest Gump

Like no way

Oh my gosh, so Megan thinks that she is like so a way better valley girl than me. I like don't think so! I mean like uh she is so like not right about it. I must go get a manicure all this like having somone think they are like better than me is like making me sad.

Why does it seem...

like it's all happening to me?

I don’ know exactly what’s happened but times have changed. Pat has decided its ok to talk to me. The reason… his girlfriend’s mom was going through his girlfriend’s text messages and found one from Pat that had to do with being late to fourth period and getting high. So they got caught the mom called the police and pat got himself out of it with BS like always. He BS’s his way through everything and it’s really annoying. Kind of like the boys in my geometry class. I don’t know if their born stupid or choose to act stupid because they think it’s cool or something. We had a fire alarm today and someone, I only heard this, threw a rock at the fire chief’s car. That didn’t go over so well. Where was I …? Don’t’ know, oh well. Oh yeah today’s my mom’s birthday so I got her a big cookie with a leprechaun. I have an ear infection and can’t hear and everyone one at work thinks it’s funny except Cathy and Katherine. The other night I had to make an allergic aware and it didn’t go so well. Katherine told me, when she showed me how, to use very little water. The noodles started sticking to the pan. Noel, Shawn, Alex, and Megan thought it was pretty funny. Katherine does everything different I’m not so sure I’ll listen to her. So Megan and I were the only girls working so we were doing valley girl impressions. It was nice because nether Cathy or Katherine was there to rain on the parade. Every time Noel and I even start to talk Katherine glares. I mean anytime anyone does something she looks at you like you’re doing something wrong. Cathy is just weird about it. The other night she made me cashier, runner, garnish, and noodle while they had a meeting. All the managers thought it was pretty funny. She’s awesome though because when she’s in a good mood it’s cool, and she thinks I’m a funny, hopeless but that I will survive in life and can be trusted in a lot of things. It’s funny once in a while she say “you’re in charge, I’m going home” she’ll disappear. Then she comes back. I asked for a thermometer last night and she did the whole fake no thing. I was just like “ok”. She said “you give up too easily”. That’s fine I got the thermometer and was done before nine. I’m confused. I’m sorry I must go now. My brain is working to hard and I’m trying to think about everything at once I have to go clear my head. I’ll be back.