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Filter

I know you might think sometimes I need a filter and maybe sometimes I do.

But that is just how I roll. Besides, my friends who are around me the most seem to be ok with it. No one has ever really called me out on something that I have said.

I get that there can be a fine line between being bitchy for the sake of being bitchy and being brutally honest.


My biggest problem is my daughter is just like me. I know that it really isn’t a huge problem/deal in the grand Scheme of things. It’s just she is a bit more abrasive than I am. I totally believe in honesty is the best policy. Even if that means sometimes you don’t like what I have to say. I think having an outgoing personality and being honest are two good qualities to have.

Wouldn’t you agree?

What I really want to know is that kind of behavior/attitude a heredity thing or a learned trait? Or is there another word for that kind of behavior/personality? Strong willed?


In the world today, I think it’s kinda good to not care so much about what others think. I feel it’s good to listen to people’s opinions but not necessarily to run your life by what others have to say.


Sometimes that can be hard when you’re young. You spend most of all your time worrying about what others think. Very few kids are leaders. The majority are followers.


So if you have a strong willed, expressive, creative, carefree child, I say help them shine in anyway you can. I know sometimes that can be hard (specifically during the teen years) but who knows who they will become in the future. The world can be their oyster.

Don’t you want to be part of the reason they became such a successful person?

Am I really a "FUN SUCKER"?

So my son says, well and my ex husband that I am a fun sucker. I don’t really see myself as a “Fun Sucker”.

Once upon a time I was wild and crazy, no restrictions, lived my life to the fullest. Then…………………………………..

Yes, I got married! To someone who was just as much fun. Except, when you’re living on your own. Sometimes someone has to be responsible, that is if you want to be able to afford freakin rent and have food to eat.


Ok, so I am not bashing my Ex. I am just simply stating that I used to be fun. Then because of circumstances not within my control I had to grow up (in a hurry) and change.


My son just doesn’t see that. I don’t think I am a downer now. It's just there are some things that once you’re an adult you don’t do anymore. Right?


Like dance on table tops in bars, in short skirts. Or take a weekend trip on the spure of the moment with the girls, taking nothing but a cooler of beer and some wacky weed, or leaving school on a sunny day just to go wash your kick ass car.


I’m not saying you can’t have fun, but if you have kid’s life is a little more limited to say the least. I often wonder what my life would be like now if I had ended up with some one else, and had let them be the responsible one.


So without divulging in detail exactly how wild and crazy I used to be to my son, how do I get him to understand I am no party pooper?


I do get the reality that currently while my son is a teen, that any and all things I do, in his minds eye seems boring.

I’m not trying to be the “cool” mom,
I am still the enforcer.

Just want to be known as the enforcer

who has a kick ass time,

when allowed.

BAND of the Week

REVIEW

Soak

By Dan Birchall

If you enjoy bands like Live, Alice in Chains, Collective Soul and Our Lady Peace, but find yourself wishing their songs involved a bit more in the way of samples, audio loops and spoken-word rapping, Soak's eponymous 1997 release may be just your cup of tea.


To be sure, the fivesome - vocalist/guitarist Jason Demetri, guitarist Leigh Alexander Mason, bassist John Moyer, percussionist Heath Macintosh, and oddly-named keyboardist Turdlben - aren't the first to generate catchy hard-rock tunes.

Demetri's not the only vocalist out there whose lyrics are actually intelligible. And they're not even the first hard-rock band to make use of extensive sampling, as fans of industrial music or Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime can attest.


But in successfully bringing these elements together, Soak manages to carve out a niche of its own. The resulting sounds are diverse, and the band easily shifts between portions of their style. As the first full-length release from a band that's only been playing together for a few years on the Dallas scene, the album is surprisingly polished.


None of the tracks on this album will have you reaching for the fast forward button and the band really shows its strength and range in the middle four songs. "Shutter Gut (Caroline)" features sample-laden verses driven by a funky bass riff. "Me Compassionate" has a fast-paced, industrial feel. "Street Monkey" is a slow, jazzy instrumental. And the vocal harmonies in the chorus of "Transcendental Drift" are excellent.

Overall, the band delivers music that's technically and artistically solid without being pretentious, with plenty of what listeners want, and a few surprises thrown in.

Ads done in comic book style

Here are some more of the ads for Design PT that David Hopkins and I have been creating recently (him writing, me drawing of course). I really like the jungle one and the Star Trek one. Lots of fun to do. I believe we're signed on to do another 14 strips.

Check out the first set here.