Category: Observations

Celebrity Couples

Look at John’s family, it makes me want to punch him in the mouf for being so lucky.

The Arquette’s aren’t nearly as pretty as John and Alison pictured above, but I’ve always had a crush on Monica from Friends – even though in this picture she looks a little mousy.

Okay, Dean and Tori are a beautiful couple. Tori never looked so good. I loved 90210, Kelly and Donna and the Peach Pit.

Hey, It’s Bill and Hillary Clinton… Couldn’t you just picture Hillary in a bathing suit by the beach reading a book in the Hamptons? It’d be one of those 1950’s bathing suits but bill would be wearing a speedo and surreptitiously checking out other women not realizing that Hillary has it all, brains and looks.

Guess Who… it’s Republican Presidential Candidate and his wife. Look at that bonnet she is wearing, it’s very demure and Little House on the Prarie – but I like it, who didn’t like Laura Ingalls?

And lastly, the beautiful Governor Palin who was Miss Wasilla a long time ago, whatever that means. This photo is from the beauty pageant. She’s what I’d call “A fresh-faced beauty”. I mean, who wouldn’t want to take this girl home to mama and then spend a lifetime with her?

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Stubborn

I recently had coffee with a friend. We went to 5th grade together and I hated him back then. He was a punk. Now that we are older we really seem to “get” each other.

He made a comment on Monday, “you have this kind persona, but beneath there is a real stubbornness.”

Intuitive he is. I don’t even remember what we were talking about, but it was in the first 5 minutes of our conversation.

The interesting thing was that he was dead on.

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A First At the Urinal

As a kid you may have pulled your pants down to your ankles when you needed to go pee, but today, while at work, I saw a man who had pulled his shirt up over his stomach so it looked like he was wearing a halfshirt. I did a double-take because this was a first in my 32 years and I’m still perplexed as to why this was necessary?

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“I’ve got this big honker” “I have a snaggletooth” and other things you shouldn’t tell people over and over…

Post author By Evan Stark
Post date March 26, 2008
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I used to be the world’s worst when it came to pointing out my inadeqaucies. In my head the list is long, but most people don’t notice them. When I went to New York on a mission trip I kept mentioning how I needed to watch what I ate and that I needed to lose a few pounds. This girl said, “You keep talking about your weight and I think you look fine.” I’ve actually heard this phrase a bunch of times and I realized that even if I do balloon up to be the size of a sumo I shouldn’t always call attention to it.

I was chatting with this girl at work (who is very pretty) and one day in an email she said something about her tooth being “bucked” and I had never even noticed it before – now I do.

There is a mole on my forehead right above my eyebrow and one day when I pointed it out to some friends they had never noticed it and if they had, over time they had forgotten about it as we so often do once we get to know people.

As a rule you should try to minimize the focus off of yourself as much as possible. People are so often consumed with their own short-comings that they don’t have time to notice yours and if they do, well, if you aren’t constantly fretting about it they will admire you for it. They will be like, “Look at her, even with that huge wart on the side of her face she acts like it isn’t even there… impressive.” And if they are still making physical judgements about you in their head it is because they need to put you down to feel better about themselves.

So hold your head high and concentrate on the person within because that person is what quality people remember.

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Repeating Bad Behaviors

I mentor or rather I try to be there for a handful of guys when they need me. I’m not much of a role model… wait, that’s not true. I’m a rockin’ mother effin’ kick ass role model. I mean, I have a blog and a job and a house! I bend the rules, but only the ones that aren’t critical and I love my mom. I know, stop it already, you want me to marry your daughter.

So I’ve been learning more and more about myself each year and recently I realized that I keep repeating a series of bad behaviors. Was it Einstein who said, “The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing but expecting different results”? I think he said that. Whoever said it, they are right.

I’m sitting at El Chico across from Josh and I ask him, “Do you spend money every day?” He responded with a chuckle, “Yes”. I replied “Me too” with a knowing smile. You see, Josh and I seem to be part of the same club. We overeat, we over spend, we like to play and shun responsibility. We are so alike on so many dysfunctional levels that we could be brothers. I know him better than he knows himself because I’ve had 8 more years of experience. 8 extra years of running up high credit card bills and then avoiding phone calls from bill collectors. 8 years of binge eating and drinking to excess in the name of “good times”.

Even though I know what Josh and I have in common, even though I can pinpoint behaviors now and take steps to avoid them, I don’t know why we have this similar problem.

Our childhoods are very different. He grew up with money and was the oldest brother. He had a brother and two younger siblings. Both of our parents were divorced, but his divorced when he was 12, mine when I was 2. His dad was around when he was growing up, my read dad wasn’t. We sometimes barely got by financially, money was always an area of discomfort for us, but for Josh it wasn’t. He is white, I am multi-racial. So I don’t get it.

In Genesis Adam fell because of the Lust of the flesh, Lust of the eyes and the pride of life… boy don’t those sound familiar. I’ve been stopping and making mental notes of when I repeat bad behaviors and why they happen. It hasn’t helped me to stop making bad decisions here and there, but at least now I am aware of them and I can work on them. And maybe, just maybe, I can tell Josh how to overcome his problems by the lessons that I have learned. If I can at least help him maybe all of this hard work will be worth it.