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This has been an interesting week and I have had a bit of a learning curve of late. I will start with how I feel about friends.

I try to be a good friend. I don’t seek people out. Sometimes I will meet people in my daily life and we hit it off. As a result I think it important that once you have built a rapport with someone it is your responsibility to do the right thing. I expect the same in return but have discovered more times than not most people don’t see things the same way I do. Maybe I have unrealist views. Women can sometimes be katty and it is not always easy to find a man to be friends with unless he is gay.LOL On a positive not, he could give me great tips on clothes and makeup. That could be the best of both worlds I think. He just can’t be too flamboyant. I have my limits on that! He wouldn’t have PMS and we could both check out the guys! Talk about making lemonade out of lemons!

I have been contemplating this for the last few days and I have come up with some possible reasons as to why this happens. Our society has become a throw away culture. We have become so inclined not to work at things. Friendships, marriage, you name it. With myspace and Facebook, there is very little personal interaction. On-line dating is another problem. All of it is very surface. No one really gets to the real person anymore. How sad. There is also the “Girls Gone Wild” behavior. Our children and the younger crowd seem to think that there will be no consequences if they run wild through the streets or on the internet for that matter. Friends are no a commodity anymore and if it feels good, do it.

I have only a few friends and I still only trust one of them…myself. It has to be this way. It has caused me to be more cynical and closed off but few know this as my general attitude is one of optimism. I am a fighter and a survivor. I don’t give up on myself and have faith in the knowledge that in the end I will prevail. I also do not want my son to feel that he has to be suspicious of his fellow classmates or contemporaries. He has to learn his lessons the same way I have learned mine. I can’t always protect him can I? I will be there to hold him up though. He knows that I always have his back.

I took him to the rodeo last night and we had a blast! It was fun just to be out with him. We watched the action and he is no longer afraid of clowns. He actually likes the rodeo clowns. I explained to him what they did and how important they were to the cowboys. I still think he is not too excited about the other brand of clowns though. I agree with him on that one.

Too many children don’t get the exercise that they require. Video games and other technologies are turning our children into future overweight, unmotivated adults. Many are overweight now. They have no reason to go outside and if it suggested many children cringe at the thought. They wouldn’t know what to do. When I was growing up, I spent all my time outside exploring my world. I grew up on a farm and loved being in the pasture with my horse and my dog Rex. That was where I found my peace. We were not allowed to watch TV. We had one but watching it was very limited. I read. I love reading and grew up with the World Book Encyclopedia. I read each one of them. I hid them under my bed and if my sisters needed one they knew where to find them. I full of knowledge as a kid and find it troubling how the written word is often going by the wayside.

My 6 year old doesn’t have video games whatsoever. He actually plays outside! He knows how to entertain himself as his brother is staying with his father for awhile in the Washington State area. People comment on how he is able to keep himself occupied. Why is this so amazing? I guess they are so use to their children being glued to the gameboy or the remote.He is athletic. He runs, jumps and climbs trees. I have rescued him a couple of times. We have an old tree out back. Several month ago I saw him up in that tree. I thought nothing of it as he would climb it all of the time. As I was checking on him I saw him still up the tree. I waved at him and he did not appear to be in distress. Well about an hour passed and the kid was still there. At this point I knew he is not up that tree for his health. I called to him and he starts yelling, “HELP!” His leg was numb from sitting on it and he had gotten wedged between the trunk and the branch. I was laughing so hard as I extracted him from the offending tree. He did not know whether to laugh or cry. I guarantee you that the tree has not been climbed since!

I have been having some discussions with a Russian on the VAJoe site. I am not sure if this person is actually from Russia but regardless I have to add this before I close.

Russia and Putin are up to their Cold War tactics. There is a stragetic component to all of this as far as the Black Sea ports goe. Putin wants to maintain control of the region so that the ports can be used by Russia.

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/blacksea/geography/index.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/216560.html

I found this in my research. It may have some teeth. Read it and make your own decision. From what I can tell this whole thing started somewhere and there are many irregulars fighting.

The bottom line is it comes down to oil and the control of the energy in that region by Russia and Putin. They are throwing in some ethnic cleansing as well.

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