Why screaming at people on social networking sites is dumb.

So as a member of "Facebook", "Twitter", "Skype", etc.  I know that putting my viewpoints out there is sometimes going to irritate another member. Usually, because the members (people, friends, tweeps) are part of a like minded group or are actually friends in real life, you don't expect to be screamed at for an opinion that may differ from anothers.  Now when I say "screamed at" I speak not just of those WHO SPEAK IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS to let you know they are upset, but also of those folks who will continue to rant against you on a topic that they just know in their hearts is right in their view and wrong in mine. Case in point...

Over the past 24 hours I have gotten over 18 twitter messages from an individual, who shall remain nameless, because someday he'll realize what an absolute ass he's been & I want that moment to be his alone (although he may just continue to be an ass, but that's his problem). This individual has a problem with the fact that I have some Palestinian friends and I RT (re-tweet) some of their messages about where they live & what they think. Now I also have some Israeli friends who agree with the Palestinians & I RT their msgs too. I would and do the dame with anyone reporting atrocities where they are. But this particular individual has taken it upon himself to berate, argue, offer deals, & a host of other things (calling me an idiot every other msg is my favorite) to get me around to his way of seeing things. He especially likes to reference Israelis as "dirty Jews" in some strange attempt at what I'm not sure, but that does trouble me, because to call Israelis that is just shy of neo-nazi propaganda. And I have never felt that way about another ethnic group (just to clarify). Now, his ranting, which after the 5th msg I stopped replying to and said "We're not going to agree, do let's just let it go", but he kept on going. I wonder if he feels he's going to change my opinions or just likes to berate others. Either way, he looks like an idiot.

And that's really the point of this post. If someone disagrees with you and has maybe gone back-n-forth a bit, but then lets go by agreeing to disagree, just let go. You can have your opinion all you want, # away! Let the world know, but stop trying to use Twitter or FB as a bully pulpit for what you believe if someone disagrees, its ok. It's our right as Americans! Otherwise you just look like a bully. And usually an idiotic one at that.

#Peace #Love & #Understanding

Suz

Concepts... Having a clue.

Had a conversation recently with someone about an issue that I am very familiar with. Tried to explain my position clearly and my degree of familiarity. To say I had hit a brick wall was putting it mildly. So this is truly a short post to just say to whomever reads it... Please make sure you really know what you're talking about before you begin to pass judgement on others or in any way criticize what choice someone makes. They may be making the decisions they do for reasons you can't comprehend, because a) you haven't walked in their shoes or b) its what they know is right for them.

Here's to a great week ahead! And to the best of friends. May they be plentiful and true in your life.  XO Suz

Juicers ROCK!

Just got a new juicer. Gotta say I'm a happy camper! Just gotta train Dave that force doesn't have to be the last resort! Goober almost broke it on the first use.... jeez! Anyhoo, buy a juicer for better living kids! 

POM-egranate juice

Just a short post. Bought a POM WONDERFUL Pomegranate Blueberry juice at the store the other day. Drank it yesterday and all I can say is WOWZA! Not only did it taste UNBELIEVABLE (like ripe blueberries and pomegranate) but I felt great after I drank it! So I'm drinking another one now (YUMMY) and I plan to make them when I get my new juicer in the next few days. I have to say thank you to Corey for introducing me to juicing and PomWonderful for introducing me to pomegranates. I know this seems like a bit of an ad, but its just me.  Happy me! (Note the empty bottle!) Suz

BTW I called PomWonderful and shared my happy feelings. They were very nice. They must drink this stuff to be so happy! Hehehe!

Friendship

There are all different types of friends.  Acquaintances, who blow in and out of our lives like a breeze or the seasons.  Friends, who take places in our lives but will move in and out as life moves along.  And then there are the best friends. The ones who take root in our lives like a tree in a garden.  A pairing of friends who care truly and deeply for each other, without looking for "what's in it for them".  The people you would do anything for.  The family you weren't born with, but found, by the grace of the universal spirit.  There is love there, but not a romantic love.  I believe it's stronger to be honest.  As true love can be.  Not to say that romantic love isn't important, but it grows into something different, better, more.  This is why the best and longest lasting marriages are between "best friends" as I have seen through my own life. (i.e., Jo & Tom, Holly & Thad, Cindy & Chris, March & John).  These types of friends are rare.  I would guess that they are usually of the same sex, but not always.  I have found that it's the men who I have had the pleasure of being on this level of friendship with the most challenging.  For some reason, it is just very different than a best friend relationship with a woman.  In the past few weeks I lost someone  who I thought was a best friend due to choices she made that effected me deeply. This isn't the venue for the particulars of the situation, if you need to know, you do. The interesting thing is that were it a man who was the "best friend", things would be different. The choices that I made and my reactions.  I find this interesting when I set myself outside the situation and look at it as objectively as I can.  The truth of the matter is that as acquaintances come and go, friends stay on and "best friends" linger in our hearts and to lose one is heart-breaking.  But if they are lost, then were they ever a best friend to begin with? Or just a friend who stayed on a little longer or someone who didn't share whatever it was that made you believe they were who you thought they were to have made them a best friend.

Sorry again to have been absent for so long.  This really will change. 

Love and peace to you all! XO.

Note....

Upcoming post.  Gotta get it all straight in my head first tho.  See you soon!
And hi from the goof balls!

Pain

For most of you out there, pain is something that comes around sometimes.  You take ibuprofen or acetominephan and go about your day.  Well, as those of you who know me, things are a little different.  Lately, Long with the thrilling combination of bronchitis and laryngitis, I find myself in more and more pain.  Specifically in my upper back.  You may not know it, but you use your upper back muscles for a lot of things that you don't think about.  Like your core muscles, when something is wrong you're in trouble.  Trouble here means pain.  So if you get a chance today, please say a prayer for me.  I would truly appreciate it.  Thank you and I'm sorry for being so maudlin.  I truly hope you have a good day, more than you know.  Suz

Ever get too tired to...

Sleep?  I feel like a little kid.  "But I'm no sleepy" as I walk into a wall or fall asleep with the blog half typed as such.. ccgseii .kxgzrezgb +) KC+h ťgkvwethigjxgi.       See?  Ok. Now I am that tired.  And here's Dory to cuddle.  Night! 

Just plain tired...

So after a z-pack and vitamins galore and sleep... all the things you should do when sick, I felt good for 2 days about.  Then no sleep (ok 6 hours since Monday, despite every attempt), fever, and guess what fabulous duo are back? Bronchitis n Laryngitis....with special guest star sinusitis!  Woot! Sniffle...

Now, i know that I'm lucky to have friends and my folks to help keep me goin, but jeezy chreezy!  I'm just done with it.  I don't know what else to do to be better.  Doc wants to see me to make sure it's not pneumonia... fun fun!  Let's throw in a spinal tap just for good measure, shall we?  Sigh.

I'm sorry for dumping all this on you my reader but who else listens as well?  Hollywood kiss (to avoid germs).  Thank you!  Love Suz

Am I losing my mind?

Let's say you lent me your car and I used it.  Now a few days later I don't remember where it's parked and you can't find it.  And I'm not really looking for it that hard.  Would you be just a wee bit pissed off?  Ok, then I'm not losing my mind.  What was misplaced is smaller than a car, but just as necessary to the things you've planned for your day/week. 
Just wanted to float that out into the ether.  Suz

How does hate keep a family together?

So after watching a documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church/Cult (WBC), one of many but the 2nd by Louis Theroux and the BBC, I have to ask myself a few questions.
1.  How does a "family" that purports to live God's law (according to the Bible, Old Testament mostly it seems) do nothing more than foster hatred in & thru their demonstrations?  According to their reasoning my Mother is to blame for raising me to basically go to hell.  But the people and children of high ranking members of the WBC who leave the ranks are blamed themselves.  Maybe they think that they had done all they could've done to raise these children & others "right"?
2.  How is it they know the Bible is really it when it comes to what is considered "God's word"?  They burn the Koran with what seems like a gleefull intent.  I mean, there are so many different writings out there that were written by all sorts of would be prophets.  I believe the Koran to be a true work of a Prophet.  I wonder if they even consider the writers of the New Testament to be speaking "God's words"?  I must admit here that I am not fluent in the Bible enough to say that they only speak from the OT, but they are very fire and brimstone and into a vengeful God. 
3.  My last point for the moment, even though they seem to be happy in their hate rhetoric, when asked about the children who have left, it feels like there's a moment when they hold back from the party line to show a little chink in the hate and vitriolic armor they seem cloaked in.  Maybe the reason the people who have left (or fled) found the hatred too much.  I couldn't live with it.  And I think my Mother and family & friends for that.
Anyhoo, I believe Love always conquer hate.  I don't really believe in hell and I see the WBC as a cult that seeks nothing but attention.  I hope that someday these people can truly see light and learn that love can conquer. 
Love & Salaam, Suzannah

REPUBLICAN TURNING POST

It was an April Fools Day post that got weirdly reposted for not April Fools.  All is well.  NOT A CRAZED GLENN BECK LOVING REPUBLICANS OR MEMBER OF THE RED PARTY!  Sorry Mom for worrying you.  Hehe.  Love you!  Suzannah

A big step

MY MOM HAS SUCCESSFULLY TEXTED! I know this because it came to me.... as if in a dream...No, not like that.  But it is cool.  I've been trying to get her to start for ages.  I feel so proud! 

Pic is of said genius Mom on a cruise recently.  Check the smokin hot lol' black dress in the corner of the pic.  Yeah, my Mom is a Hottie. 

Love to you all and happy rest of your weekend!  Suz

A time for change has come...

Its time to say to all my Democratic n Liberal friends that Fox News has turned me.  Glenn Beck just makes do much sense and can anyone really argue with O'Reilly?  My Dad will be proud and maybe a few others will think me a turncoat, but its time for me to do what I believe is right.  Oh, and Obama must be foreign born... I mean, that name is just not American.  Suz

Strange

How can I be attracted to someone I met on FB playing FT who lives across half the world?  Hmmm.  Especially when I have my Dave here? 

No more Evian!

After 13 years or so... We are now a non-Evian household.  I purchased 3 internal filter bottles that we are using instead and its working fantastically!  And no waste!  I feel like a true tree hugger.... well close to.  We still have plastic silverware.  But I swear to buy new ACTUAL spoons, knives & forks from IKEA when I go next.  2 weeks tops.  It's amazing how much those bottles piled up, even when crushed.  Woot for saving the environment and money!

Gotta love bronchitis and its friend laryngitis

So its been almost 2 full weeks this time (the last was about 6 weeks ago, lasted about 2 weeks  and just bronchitis, not this bad, went away on its own), however this time its like an Olympic event!

"Go ahead, load your body with vitamin c, a multi-vitamin, drink water like mad and eat well! I don't care and i'll invite laryngitis to the party" it says.  Doctor gives me an inhaler and a z-pack.  Since then, the b & l duo have gone on a rampage.  Now I also get to not breathe for more than 8 min at a time without feeling like I'm gonna pass out from O2 loss (oxygen to the non-nerdy). 

So any ideas?  Anybody?  3000 mg of vitamin c and blue-green algae and spirulina and more water than seems possible along with all the good things from childhood (mentholatum on chest, neck & back; vaporiser; sleep; OJ) aren't cutting it.  And I'm running out of ideas.  It's call the doc back day tomorrow and it'll be interesting to see what she says. 

If you have any thoughts, please let me know!  Thanks and good health to all of you!  I wouldn't wish this in people I really don't like.  Truly! Later gaters!  Gonna try and sleep some before the sun rises.  Suz

It's been awhile.... and CONGRATS MR. & MRS. BANERJEE'S!!!

So, it's been awhile is an understatement. I swore to myself that when I started this blog I would keep up with it. Sharing my thoughts, my witty (well witty to me) anecdotes, my general views on this big blue marble. Well that hasn't gone as well as I'd hoped. But along with the new year (yes I realize it's almost April!) I begin anew.... almost a year since I started I think.... or two? No one.

ANYWAYS.... This is just a short note to say Thanks Erin for not jumping ship and thanks for the pic of Tiff and Animesh from last night. I literally cried. So happy for them, cause she looks not just radiant, but perfectly happy! And also sad because I was missing it. But I got a pic of Dave in his tux, the stud he is, looking dashing!! And got a sort of run down of what happened throughout the evening. I love that Tiff is happy and hope that this was one of the best nights of her life (along with the wedding in Kenya... can't wait to see pics of that!) And so in a round about way I'm expressing my joy here on the place I set up to do such things. That's what this blog is for!

So YEA TIFFY AND ANIMESH!!! MAY YOUR HAPPINESS BE LONGER THAN THE DISTANCE TO THE NEXT PLANET INHABITED BY SENTIENT BEINGS IN ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM!! Thank you to God, Allah, the Universe and everything else out there that helps us find the people in our lives that make life worth living. Please keep watch over the girl I still remember from the "homecoming parade" way back when.... and her love. Help them to know that it's ok to not always like the person you love (something that took me a long time to learn) as long as you truly love them with your whole heart and that money doesn't always buy happiness (makes it somewhat easier, true) as long as you have someone you love at your side during the good times and the bad. So, with that said.... I will talk to you soon!!! Love from Suzannahstan (inmates and all!!!)