Monday, October 29, 2007

There's no place like home!

I know, you can't get more creative than that?! The wizard of Oz?!!! I am not clicking my heels together and closing my eyes! "there's no place like home! there's no place like home." My feelings the past couple of months have been the complete opposite, anything to do with family made my skin crawl,no offense, but i think it happens to all of us. You just feel you need a break from the pressure of family, especially when it's been mixed messages of approval and dismissal. It just get's taxing at some point, just needed to wooossssaaaaahhh!!!
Well after hanging out with family on Sunday and just opening up to each other, sharing of the rough experiences together, that life tosses our way, and encouraging each other, it was like a huge breath of fresh air was blown in to my lungs. It just kicked satrted my week on a great tone. Well till i screwed it up by sleeping at 1am, considering that i needed to up at 5am to be at work on time to finish some of my own work!It has been a great day so far, Ashley is back and it is super duper. The picture seems complete with her around!
There are friends who are like family and and Ashley is just one of the few, she's wild and crazy but she is just the perfect gift of friendship that any human being could ever ask for! After all is said and done,you love them you hate them, family is here to stay, the annoying brothers, obnoxious sisters and startling and annoying cousins, a non nonsense Dad, a cuddly and militant mother. They come in all varieties and traits. They are all we have, they are the only people on the planet who will genuinely accept you as you are!
A toast to family!
Lacheim!

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Gonads rule!!!

We live in a world that celebrates misogyny, caresses and envelopes nudity and adores infidelity! Welcome to the 21st century where it is all about a perceived perfection! The "perfect" spouse, house, car, mind blowing orgasms and everythng else! we are controlled by our hormones, it has reached a point that anytime you state the fact that you won't be going home in the evening it is perceived to be some sexual binge! I mean who would ever have thought that you are just going to spend the night at a friends house to.........I don't know......maybe just catch up, talk , watch a couple of movies, laugh! The mundane stuff!

I was caught up in a conversation last Friday that got me wondering which world it is that i have been cased in! Maybe you may know about it maybe not, but there have been several cases of local university chapters that have ladies (for the sake of being polite, but they don't quite fit the profile) busy having photos of their vaginas taken with their consent, evidently with them smiling at the cameras being sent around. It is becoming so normal that these same "ladies" actually take their time to go through and compare pictures of their gonads! Please explain to me why they are called private parts in the first place..i know there has been the "Vagina monologues" but damn! There is celebrating femininity, but that's just self degradation! What i realised is that we are living in a new age where self respect and dignity is a dying commodity, no regard for life or privacy! That's why we rape, we kill, we have sex with no regard!
Don't get me wrong sex is a wonderful thing, it is God made for crying out loud, but we can't let sexual desires dictate our thought and action cycles. Not that I'm mary Magdalene of course, but physical and psychological restraint is required! We don't need sex, if we did need it like food, even new borns would be having it as well!!!

I am not here to dictate what you should or shouldn't do, choice is a personal obligation, just remember the basis on which you make those choices, i believe that in most cases due to lack of proper recreational stress releaving outlets, we are using sex as a form of release, escapism from what is really plaguing us all!!!

Studies show that increased sexual drive or repeated masturbation and such may be as a result of stress or depression. I am no sexpert, i just got this from a Psychologist who spent most of his life doing this, if i am not wroing it was one Sigmund Freud! Or someother deep and profound person!

The long and short of it all is, do i want or need to have sex, and if i do need it,what's buring inside me to the point that i really got to have it! If it's just acting on the visual, forget it! You don't need it!!!

Monday, October 15, 2007

Bees....................busy?!

Another day!!!!
Bbeen a while sine i last said something!I am ok,this past weekend has been a back and forth tussle of emotions , trying to put my priorities into perspective! I am better now, focused, enjoying some Michael Jackson in the background and reading a great book, "Dispatches from the Edge" by Anderson Cooper, and awesome read! Being anti- social is the coolest thing ever, at times! Just allows time to reflect!
I was talking to a work mate who fled her desk to come sit next to me on the 3rd floor to play solitaire only to ask me how i landed doing what i was doing here! Then i thought about it, my cousin came and we got talking and it more or less threw are harder punch to my gut! I need to get back into the light of conventional writing some more!!!
Seriously!!! Need to get to work!

Monday, October 8, 2007

Well..........

This is week 2 of work, a rare, sane day. Was quite peaceful i have to admit...........Hmmm!!! Peaceful, that is not quite the word i would normally use to describe my work place. But it has been, either that, or just that i did have a peaceful and relaxed weekend!! No drama, just reflection and focus!! The way to go!

So be deep and profound, you know on Friday i was wiped out and there i was babbling the evening away with some new aquaintances, i did feel better though. I guess i have reached a point in time that i have realised that inorder to be comfortable you need to learn how to make yourself comfortable. That is just how the universe works, cause you won't always be in a comfortable environment. As i grow older there are more and more things that i encounter that make me want to retreat in my shell of comfort and never have to deal with. But if you always curl up into a ball of comfort and wish away circumstances, you will be stagnant from then onwards. We have to learn to bear the brunt of experience and circumstance positively to bring the best out of us. I am still learning the intricacies of life...but so far.......I can say there is more to celebrate than there is to whine about!

Friday, October 5, 2007

And we are done......

Another week is over, it is just the first week of employment and it is already a drag trying to get myself out of bed everyday.I have been quite low, Jay says the change in time zones can tend to screw you over cause i had already started adjusting to their time. Could be true, i am not quite sure, i should be happy that things are looking up, but i just seem so agitated all the time. Apprehensive and all!!!
I spent a good fraction of the morning while i was dressing up sending a mental email to a presidential aspirant. I even came up with a whole chain of conversations with the dude, to the point that i would have meetings face to face, after he realised that i did have alot to offer and he wanted to meet me in person. i know, chic grow up!!! I do that alot start imagining and i drift off to some very far off tangents in less than 5 minutes. Tried accessing the site.................maybe i will, maybe i won't! I don't know. I am just going through a phase, looking for cheap thrills!!!

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

So yeah!

Once again another day. No enthusiasm at all, just overwhelming loathe for any form of family at the moment. I just want absolute solitude, no contact, no pressure, just me, my music and my books. Soaring in to the world of fiction and just sail into oblivion.
i just feel pressure in all elements of the word, i need a break. I hoped to have one when i left but i didn't. I just want to vanish for a couple of days, maybe us moving out and living on our own is a good idea after all, even though it does scare me ( my cushion is gone!). I will have the excuse to lock myself away!
I am tired, i really am !!!!

Monday, October 1, 2007

Like i never left


So this was my first day at work offically. Got to work late first of all cause i really did not feel like waking up. Chilled a good fraction of the morning then finally, the afternoon came, only for work to pour in.
I am proud of myself though, i did manage to keep calm and write the scripts that i was meant to. Well i can say that it was a productive day, and i respect Ashely big time for doing all this creative work alone for over a month! let's see what tomorrow has to offer.