Mass Teabagging of Congress

This was the hardest I have laughed in days........

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Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk is a genius. This is a quote from one of his books Invisible Monsters .(see avatar picture left.) I always felt that the people in our lives shape us so much. I've met some people that I thought were quite original, but I wondered that if I knew the people in their lives if I would feel the same way. I think I would start to see pieces of that person in all the people that surrounded them.(People they love people they admire people they hate) I will hear a joke and from one person and tell it to a different person and boom thats how it works. You hear a song in someones car and you look it up on itunes and suddenly you have a favorite new band. I don't think we all have sociopathic personalities hiding underneath our exterior, but I do believe there are some unconscious tendencies. Another quote from the book is "The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person." It's like the song love stinks but way more profound haha. I think that when you are not attached to a specific person this is true. I have seen it so much in my life. Someone loving someone so much but that person is married or in love with someone or devotes their life to their child or to God. I think that some people suffer with unrequited love because that's what they like about it. If the love was returned that person would just fall in love with someone else. I don't know maybe I'm a little bitter or jaded about love. I have seen people fall in and out of love with the same people over and over again but is it love? I mean real and true love or is it something else? I'm going to finish this blog with another quote from the same book tell me if you think this is true? "Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love."

Soul Pancake

So I stumbled upon this website called soul pancake. It's a very beautiful website co-created by Mr Rainn Wilson or maybe better known to some of you as Mr Dwight Schrute from The Office pictured left. I have been following him on Twitter and he puts up some of the questions and updates from the website. If you have a chance I would go check it out oh and of course follow him on twitter. I will post links on the my blog link section. One of the items to chew on that caught my eye was: list 5 things you would cut your pinky toe off for. Soooo after a bit of deliberation I have my list for you.

1. The choice of any career at whatever salary I choose.

2. The ability to be a gifted musician at whatever instrument I picked up.

3. To be an amazing artist with any medium.

4.To have my brother alive and well again.

5. And of course end world famine and disease.

So there it is my list. I know some of it may seem superficial to you , but if cutting of my pinky toe I would improve myself as a person on the inside I would do it. I am currently taking to long way to get to those first 3 goals by the way. The last two are just up to the fates.

Thanks for reading! Feel free to post yours here or at soul pancake.

Hello strangers....

So ....it has been quite a while since my last entry. The holidays really did me in. I also managed to help my mom relocate to a new state. I feel like an orphan. I haven't lived that far from my mom in quite a while. I have not been one to accept change, yet I am one to just go with the flow.(If that makes any sense) My mom is quite a pack rat for lack of a better description. She has built up quite a bit of "stuff" since we moved into our house 15 years ago. So as you can see moving her was not the easiest of tasks. My mom rented a truck and I followed in her car as we hit the open road. We began the 20 hour long journey in Houston, Tx. The destination was Albuquerque, New Mexico. The trip there was interesting. I practiced my car singing and the ability to sleep with my eyes open. We drove straight through with no stops other than for gas and to walk my moms chihuahua Frankie. I took some time off from work and was already on holiday for school. I was only planning to be gone for a few days minus the drive there and back. Turns out the snow had other plans and I was stuck in ALB a little longer than expected. It was a great trip and I miss my mom terribly. Anyways I will be blogging more often. I did have this blog saved for a while but haven't posted. I wasn't going to post it but I decided to anyway. Thanks for reading.

Aurora Borealis

I was remembering a conversation I had with my mother a while back about her wanting to see the Northern lights or Aurora Borealis before she dies. It got me to thinking about them and how amazing it would be to see them in person. Since I live in Texas and probably won't get to see them anytime soon. I decided to google them just to have a look at the different kinds and came across so many beautiful pictures. I decided to put this one up because it just seemed so casual like someone stepped out on there porch and snapped a picture. As I am browsing these pictures I am a listening to a radio show and there is a dream expert talking about how to tap into your dreams to improve your life. He says to write down your dreams as soon as you wake up or even write down whatever is on you mind as you are waking up. I have heard of this before but never gave much thought into actually doing it. I might give it a try and post some of the things I write in a future blog. The people that are calling in to the radio show are asking this dream expert to interpret their dreams. He gives a pretty general interpretation. Some people have some pretty crazy dreams. I try to remember my dreams, but I am not usually successful. I guess I will look into this and blog about it next time. I also posted some links of some pages I like so check them out. Some of the lingks are local Houston stuff and some of the links are just sites that I have stumbled upon. So check them out if you want. I might blog about a few of them in the future. Anyways I think I am going off to have one of those crazy dreams of mine and see if I can tap in to some unused portion of my brain.

Until the next post!

I'm fairly new to this whole blogging thing. I have quite a few blogs I have followed and they have inspired me to share my thoughts with the world. This is the generation in which we do not hide who we are and our voices are heard all around the world. I sit in my tiny apartment, my safehaven, and hide myself from everything. I am still in this apartment, but I believe that reaching out to people may have an impact not only on myself but on other as well. I do not intend to force my opinions or my beliefs on others. I do not plan to stand on my soapbox and point fingers. I just want to have a place to show others what and how I feel about my tiny world. To experience how I see things. For those who have stumbled across this blog in its early stages maybe you will return maybe you won't. I'm not sure exactly what you will find here in the future ,but I'm sure it could be a number of things. This new endeavor I have taken on will hopefully change me by keeping me from staying indifferent to the world around me. As you can see the title of my blog is Vivid Apathy. I chose this because it is to me an oxymoron that describes my life up to this point. The quote beneath it was something I found about indifference and apathy. It really spoke to me and made me realize that the worst thing I could have ever done in my life is to turn away. Like I said I don't expect to change the world but I do hope that I will change myself. I intend to become less apathetic and more involved. I will do this by blogging as often as I can about the things in my life that I find funny, beautiful, creative, annoying, inspiring, etc. It won't always be serious or funny. You may disagree with some of the things you see or you may not.

Anyway thanks for taking the time

Cat