Monday Beginnings: Shoot Me Now Please

            Just rolling out of bed and getting my coffee even as I feel like I was rolled over by a steamroller. Hence the title of today’s post. Hoping I feel better tomorrow at the latest. I already called out of counseling just in case this is some sort of bug. Last thing I want is to get my counselor sick. She has done a lot for me, and has been helping me make a lot of progress lately. I plan to pick right back up where we left off last week next week too. I know I am a pain in the ass at times but she is still so patient and understanding with me and I appreciate it greatly.

            Going forward into the week assuming I am feeling better. I am planning a trip to the movies for Wednesday. It is long overdue and they have a lot of things I want to see. So now it just comes down to decisions, decisions. Tuesday I have a friend coming over if all goes well. Friday I am hoping to take a trip to the art museum with my camera and get some inspirational shots for the column. And in between I might take a trip to the library.

            That is what I hope to get done this week providing everything goes right. Keeping my fingers crossed. I know I need to get out more and I am trying to. And I have requests for more photos from around town as well from a friend. So I figure the art museum is a good place to start and maybe some of the library as well. At least the outside of the library. I might even get some shots of a tree I have been watching as well. For some reason it has caught my eye. Just some interesting thoughts running through my head right now on what to take pictures of in the future.

            Despite not feeling well I have a good outlook on the week, and I think I will be feeling better soon. And I fell asleep as I was writing this and just woke up a little while ago feeling a bit better. And still have the same plans for the week as before. Plus I am going to try and work at my desk a couple times this week. I’m feeling ambitious what can I say. And I have been slacking a bit. So time to get my butt back into gear as best as I can and then make adjustments as I go.

            For now I have an initially overdue, now cause of a technical glitch has the deadline extended project to work on. I’m feeling pretty good about the upcoming week. Feel free to leave comments below about whether you think I am being too ambitious or you think I should go for it. Before I get to that project I need more caffeine. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading for the kitchen.*

Saturday Thoughts: The Supreme Court’s Ruling On Same Sex Marriage

            I do apologize for there not being a column yesterday, just sometimes it takes me longer to craft a story than one day. This one is looking like it will be a bit long too, fair warning. Today is still a bit sluggish but working on getting past it as best as I can. Coffee as usual is being a big help in that. Still the procrastinator in me is trying to come out at every turn, and I keep blocking him as best as I can. I haven’t succeeded in getting out this week, but I am going to try again next week and see what happens. Also going to add to it to try and work at my desk at least a couple times next week. Going to add it to my to do list. Usually when I add things to there they get done. Eventually it will be able to come off there and just be natural but for now it will have to go there. Change is never easy after all and sometimes it even has to come with a court ruling like it did yesterday.

            And I applaud the Supreme Court’s Ruling. I know there are some who are extremely unhappy with it as is the case with any ruling. But what if it was them who was being told they couldn’t marry how would they feel then. I think they would probably feel the same as the LBGTQ community. Of course they would say it would never happen or that isn’t the same because there right is by divine law. For once people try to pull your heads out of your asses and try to see it from the perspective of someone else. Walk in the shoes of someone else for once in your life. I understand not believing in it and no one is asking you to have the service in your churches, they just want the right to be legally married. Which is different from a church wedding though some may get married in churches that allow it. But that is up to each individual church to decide whether or not to allow.

            Why is it so hard for us as a species to treat each other civilly and with decency? We are always judging one another or putting someone down it seems. I get that we can all do something that annoys others but that doesn’t require putting them down for it. Just let them be or ask them to stop when they are around you. If you don’t like someone just be civil when they are around but don’t associate with them it is that simple. We don’t have to judge everyone on what they do every second of every day.

            I swear sometimes the world makes no sense to me. But I am gradually learning to accept it for what it is as best as I can. Even as I try to make a difference in it. And tomorrow I think I will be doing my view on marriage as well in the spiritual column. For now feel free to leave comments on what you think of the ruling and how you think humanity can improve. For now I have a final project to get back to working on that is due this week. *Tips his hat and walks out the door heading for the study.*

Thursday Throwback: Saturday Morning Cartoons

Another night of insomnia, this is getting old fast. But I figure while I’m for now I might as well start on today’s column. I might even pull an all nighter and stay up all day. At least that way I might get some sleep at night instead of sleeping all day. Especially when I have an assignment due today. Pretty sure I can get it in fairly quickly too. I’ve even gotten some writing done outside of the blog lately. Been reading a good amount this week as well. So I’ll see how the rest of the week pans out but as I said in the beginning of the week it seems I am getting back into my groove.

            But as the week is coming to an end it makes me remember Saturday Morning Cartoons. Something I watched from when I was very young till into my young adult hood. I’d still be watching them too if not for my lack of a good television and my lack of watching television other than Netflix. But I have noticed changes over the years in cartoons. When I was younger they were more story driven and gave credibility to the viewer’s intelligence. All be it they were designed to sell toys as well. But now a days the intelligence in cartoons has seemed to have gone downhill. And there seems to be a lack of story in a great majority of them. Like you get a story for an episode and then next episode everything is back to the way it was before. Unlike cartoons when I was younger where there was more overreaching plots in cartoons from episode to episode.

            The only place now that I find there to be an overreaching plot that goes from episode to episode for the most part is in anime. I am sure there are other cartoons with it outside of there but they are few and far between. Though it seems to be turning around now in American Cartoons and they are starting to put long term plot back into them slowly. Mostly with comic book cartoons. But I think it will spread eventually. At least that is my hope.

            Maybe then I will invest in a television again and once more be an overgrown kid looking forward to Saturday morning cartoons. I would enjoy that a lot even more if I could do it with my own son in the years to come. I think I will also show him some of the classics I grew up on as well through Netflix. There are other things I will share with him but that is not in the framework of this column today. I think after I get done homework tonight I might go watch some of those old cartoons, maybe. Speaking of homework I hear it calling my name as we speak. Feel free to leave comments below about your favorite cartoons even if they were movies. Tomorrow I will be doing the story I was going to do last week before I got riled up. For now I am off to study. *Tips his hat and walks out the door towards the study.*