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Current mood: content
Category: Food and Restaurants

Just thought I’d let you know of this awesome thing I discovered… Flat Earth Fruit Crisps. OH MY GOD! They are SUPER tasty! I have been wanting to try them, but I could only find them in big bags, and I hate to buy a huge bag of something that’s gonna end up becoming squirrel food. But I was at Wally World tonight and saw a small bag of the Wild Berry ones, and went ahead and bought them. WOW, they are like orgasm in a bag. Seriously, I don’t get fired up about too many food products that I didn’t cook myself, but these things rock. What’s even better? They have no wheat (Which I’m not supposed to eat much of), they’re super low in fat and sodium, no cholesterol, they count for 1/2 a serving of fruit, and they have vitamins. So, healthy AND tasty? Say it isn’t so! I’m so going to be getting more of these, and you should get some too!

Current mood: annoyed
Category: Friends

There’s something that I’ve been thinking about for a while… It seems to me that true friends are d@mn hard to come by. There are a lot of people we call “friends” but are they really? You have acquaintances, and then you have friends. To me, there’s a difference. I have quite a few acquaintances, you know, people I talk to sometimes, hang out with occassionally, but friends are different, and I think I have very few of those. Friends are the people that you can talk to when $hit gets rough, and they will try to help, or at least be there to listen. They are the ones who check in on you from time to time if they don’t hear from you. They care about you not only when you’re happy and things are good, but also when you’re angry, sad, sick, poor, and all the other bad times too.

I used to think I had quite a few friends, but then I realized over time that maybe they weren’t as true as I thought they were. Some people only contact me when they needed me to do something, or when they needed a shoulder to cry on or advice. Some brushed me off whenever I’d try to contact them, always having something else they needed to be doing. Some just ignored me completely. The sad thing is, I have never turned my back on them. I never say I’m too busy to listen to a problem, I don’t make lame excuses to get off the phone or the messenger, I don’t pretend they don’t exist. I check in on people I care about, I listen when they need to talk, I help them whenever I can. So why is it that they aren’t that way too?

The other thing that really gets to me is that I feel a certain dishonesty in the actions of some of my so-called friends. It seems to me that if you’re going to brush someone off, ignore them, or be rude to them, then obviously you don’t value them as a friend anymore. So why not be honest, and just say, “Please don’t bother me, I don’t want to be your friend anymore.”? It does happen that people change, their lives change, someone p!sses them off or whatever, and they just don’t want to be that person’s friend anymore. At least I’d be honest about it. There are some people out there, and I think that if they’re going to treat someone with such disregard, they should just speak up and say they want the person out of their life.

Is it that hard to be honest? Does it somehow make you a bad person if you decide you just don’t like someone anymore? I just think it sucks to string someone along, to know that they think of you as a friend, that they care for you and worry about you, but you treat them like they don’t matter, if you interact with them at all.

Just as a test, go look at your friends list. Don’t count the people that you would consider as just acquaintances or “online friends”.

How many of them have helped you through some rough time in your life?
How many of them will listen to all your ups, downs and problems, and be supportive whenever they can?
How many of them have done something for you and asked nothing in return?
How many of them check in on you if they don’t hear from you for a while?
Of those people in your list, how many of them have you helped without asking anything in return?
How many of them have you helped through a hard time?
How many of them do you stick by even when the chips are down?
How many of them do you check on?

If there are more people that you have been good to that were not so good to you, then I guess you’re in the same place as me. If there are more people that are good to you and you’re not to them, you might want to take a good look at yourself. You might also want to contact those people, and politely cut them out of your life, so that they can move on and stop wasting precious energy thinking about someone who doesn’t give a fu(k about them.

After a long while offline, Blue Dragon Creations is back with a new look, and products are being added back in. I wish the store had never gone offline, but some people are idiots and do things to others that are really crappy. That’s what happened to me. But, I found the time and motivation to rebuild the store, and I will be adding at least a couple new items every week. When I have the ambition, and my internet connection will cooperate with me, I’ll try to get up lots of new items. (I have over 450 items to put into the store) So keep your eyes open, and look for new additions each week. I hope to see you as a customer soon!