A badly written but well thought out DREAM ROAD TRIP

My best friend and I were talking one night and she randomly asked me if I could go anywhere and had any ideas for a major Travel list what I would contribute.

I didn't fix any of the grammar or make any changes I just started writing as if I was talking (I was even using voice text).

Soundpure content here is an ideal (yet non Californian) trip straight through America that I literally pulled out of the sky and covers everything I'd ever love to see in thus beautiful country.

Copied and pasted straight from the conversation itself.
You start in the Portland area and then head east.
If anybody wants to map it out, please send it over when you are done for giggles and wiggles.

Start:

One thing I've never done tho (this entire list) is take a road trip through America I always thought that would be really really cool.
Go east go through Montana and go down to Wyoming and go to Yellowstone. Then from there hit up
Deadwood South Dakota
The arches park in Utah
Some killer waterparks in Arizona
Hit up the grand Canyon

And maybe go to the east side like to Texas and see the Alamo go to Tennessee and Beale Street in Memphis and check out the country music scene down there

Keep going east and
To New Orleans, Louisiana then go
through Florida and then go north and head up the East Coast go to places like Boston and Myrtle Beach South Carolina xcetera

Make a stop in New Jersey
Drive on the turnpike and see different filming sites for the sopranos (haha! Only me would want that part!)
and try the food in Jersey
go to New York City

And as you venture back towards the west coast, hit up Chicago
Try the pizza
Either go north and go back to the Midwest and hit the Minnesota side and backtrack a little or go straight down the middle so you can go to Colorado and go through red rocks? I am not sure,
It's supposed to be the most purest sounding concert venue ever
Then head home

That would be a hell of a trip

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Why Donald Trump is a danger and not just a "bad nominee"

"A man you can bait with a tweet, is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons"

I don't know if you like Hillary or if you hate Hillary, but the point is that is a damn good and true quote.

You don't want a TV Entertainer running for president who has no tact, has already employed people in other countries, and has filed enough bankruptcies to probably have credit that was a negative number if he didn't legally bounce around that.

The most common excuse I have heard for people electing Trump is this alleged wall that he is going to build and the fact that he is a businessman.

The main Trump company was actually started up by his father he inherited it.
The funniest thing about capitalism, is that if you have a lot of money you are able to make more out of it much much easier.
You can build a mega company with enough money hire enough people but you are not a true businessman until you make it work and until everybody is happy.
Lawsuit after lawsuit bankruptcy after bankruptcy..... How much of him is actually a businessman and how much of it is all show? How much of him is a pathetic rich boy trying?

As for his wall: do you notice his white skin?
Can you say.....European descendant?
Unless you are a Native American you too have grandparents that are immigrants.
And if you are: you are surrounded by many MANY immigrants.
Anthropological experts say that people are always in motion. Even throughout history, nobody stays in one place forever. Humans are always migrating looking for something better and I can guarantee if you grew up in a country like Mexico; you would do the same exact thing.

I also want to point out that Trump is employing people in Mexico, India, China all of these other places as opposed to "Making America Great Again" and actually having people employed here.

How can you make claims that you were going to fix all of the issues as a president, but turn around and practice business in the completely opposite belief system of what you are preaching?

Republicans, don't just do it because he has an elephant on his sleeve.
Trump is a nightmare for both parties and he will make sure that this country goes straight to hell in a hand basket.
You still have other options.

You microorganism you.

What if I told you there was a big circular thang....it has this liquid iron core in the middle of it that creates a magnetic field in the middle from its spinning.
Aligning the solid portion of this circle was these tiny little microorganisms with these rather impressive brains, there were about 6 to 7 billion of them.
These brains spend everyday driving these little pieces of metal to a place where they make money to survive.
These tiny microorganisms hate each other. They do jot have to meet each other to hate each other- instead they hate each other for how they believe they got there and what color or accent each microorganism has.
They kill each other, they chirp nasty hateful things but yet... they are all the same.
So you have 7 billion people who just hate on each other....and for what REAL reason really?

Happy New Year, here's a little pep talk.

New years pep talk from me.
Lucky you!

1. You know those people that only have you around when you want something? Those ones that never greet you or answer you or call you but otherwise only offer you attention when it benefits them? They need to go.

2. You know those people who pick on you for your flaws or mentally compete with you all the time? The ones that put you down and think they or their people do better? They need to go too.

3. You know those energy suckers? Those negative people that bitch and bitch and bitch about how horrible their lives are with no thought or actual caring to your life or wellbeing? The ones who throw out nothing more than an obligatory HOW ARE YOU before directing the conversation to them and them only?
Get rid of them too.

You see, you deserve better than mentally taxing relationships. You need to focus on those who are true to you, who you feel like benefits you and who you too can equally give valuble love to.
Find your namaste people.

A stagnate relationship is one thing, we all have and need acquaintances and old friends.

But a friendship isn't measured on length of time, money, or routine..... its measured on value and love.

Does your heart light up or smile when (this tested) person is near you?
Okay, now ask yourself why or why not?

Be around family and friends that make you feel
TOTALLY ALIVE.
They are sometimes few and far between; and things will never be exciting 100% of the time; but your heart tells you when a friendship is healthy. Sometimes it surprises you in the most oddest place in the most oddest timing.

Make sure you take care of yourself in 2016. You deserve it.

Why racism in the 21st century?

I don't get it. I just don't.

Middle Eastern racism is OK
Black racism is FROWNED UPON
Mexican racism is OK, unless there's a Mexican in the room.
If you're a Spainyard, it's ok..because they were making fun of Mexicans.

None of it is OK, just because Middle Easterns didn't have a Martin Luther King or were sold as slaves, doesn't mean we can pick on them instead.

Someone in one of my classes made a comment today that boiled my soul.

In my class we divided into groups where we had to discuss issues and form a speech basis.

The group next to me has a Saudi Arabian man in their group, who got up and left in the middle of group work.

I said "why did 'so and so' (nameless to protect the innocent) leave?"

One student says "I don't know, maybe because we were talking about bombs".

I let out a ::gasp::

She said "no REALLY!"

What breaks my heart? I really think she DIDN'T get how racist that sounded.

I thought: "it would be like if they were black, and she said something along the lines of a fried chicken plate disappearing". Horribly wrong, and we know this because the person is black. 

What breaks my heart more? Nobody gets it.

Just because they are middle eastern, doesn't mean they affiliate with explosives.
Just because a guy drove a plane into two buildings who was middle eastern, doesn't mean they're all terrorists.

I have made two friends this term who I greatly respect and love, and I hate that America still won't get the horribly racist ideas about all Middle Easterns out of their heads.

We can't be that naieve, that stupid, we just shut our eyes, play the victim, and refuse to get rid of the racism and schemas that come with skin color.

Pesty phesty

I don't usually post Facebook banter on personal blogs-but here goes.

Recently an article in Psychology today talked about why people don't reply to messages.

I'm a person who advocates being an introvert- so I apologize if you're feeling my opinion reflect that too much.

Here goes: all raw and true.

I see a lot of self entitled individuals on this post.
A cell phone is a LUXURY.
I have a family, pets, stuff going on, people to see, driving to do, places to go.
I'm not going to just stop what I'm doing and reply to you.
What happened when you wanted to send me a message in "1975'. You left a message on my answering machine.
What about in 1900?
You didn't. See? Exactly.
I need to unplug, collaborate, and listen.

The other day I had lunch with a friend of mine, we didn't touch our phones the entire time we ate and waited for our food. We had fun and enjoyed each others company.
I wouldn't trade my good times, NOT PLUGGED IN, for anything. Not even your stupid text message.
My family is more important, my friends are more important, my well being is more important.

Work is hell on the home front

One of the greatest professors I ever had was a math professor a couple of years ago.
I can name about 5 or 10 that I have had a Clark that I've had a deeper impact on me then just the subject they are teaching.
He had a way of incorporating life lessons in algebraic equations in one of the things I learned from him that was probably something really mentioned in passing was
"Don't bring your work home."

Sure it's a phrase everybody has heard that sounds simple enough, but yet most of us do it anyways.

I get home the office calls, other caregivers call and text asking how the day went, I have to get voicemails during school breaks talking about how ugly things happened for that day and I have to worry about friends and relatives coming over babbling on about the same job that I have to put up with during the day.

I have a sister who's a lot older than I am and works the same job I do at the same company. She uses her own non-hippa violating stories as small talk when she makes an occasional visit on the weekend-and spends a lot of time on it.

One of my moms closest friends and I share a client, so when she comes over to visit I have to hear sometimes about things that happen when I'm not there.

Each time I'm caught in a scenario that is to worky for too long, I change the subject.
Part of my family thinks I'm crazy but I have a very exponentially stressful job.

We all do, while I'm not sure how it affects me from how it affects others I have my own coping method for dealing, just as they do.

I am polite enough to not say this to them and subtle enough to change the subject without it being odd, but going back to professor Joe's idea on work and home being separate, I have made a personal choice and I do not let the natural negativity affect my life outside of the workplace so I can deal inside the work place a lot better.

When my business takes off and I'm working from home that's going to be a different demon, but for now I am perfectly content with
"HOW BOUT THOSE MARINERS."