Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder...Right?

Christmas has come and gone and the end of 2009 is quickly approaching. Its time to say farewell to family and friends who must now part their ways and pack up the holiday cheer until fate brings them all together once again. Its sad how people just don't stay in one place anymore, but that's life--and sometimes life puts thousands of miles between you and your loved ones.

As my dear relatives must now return home, I must put faith into the old saying "distance makes the heart grow fonder." Living so far from the family I grew up with as a young child definitely has its obstacles, especially having such a large family as I do that consists of 39 first cousins. Yes that number is right people, Chaldean families trump all others.

However, whoever made and began praising this little saying forgot one factor; sometimes distance makes others forget. The heart can only grow if each person puts time, energy and love into making a relationship last despite the miles in between them. It makes the time spent together more precious than time spent with others. Yet, distance can weaken the strength and closeness a relationship may have been if miles didn't lie in between.

Time can only tell how close or distant these relationships will become, as nowadays there are so many modes of communication. It is so much easier to keep a long-distance relationship now (no matter if its family, friends, or a lover) than it was in the past. No matter, the time and energy that one must put towards the relationship should remain constant, as it is the love, not the distance, that can build on this relationship.

Nevertheless, God willing, I hope the miles in between my family and I are just a number--a number like the number of first cousins I have. God willing, I hope the miles in between us all will just make us closer--closer like we have all been in the last week. God willing, I hope the miles in between us will just make us love each other more--love and appreciation that has definitely grown during this holiday season.

Happy New Years everyone; lets hope the relationships you have, no matter the distance, remain in 2010.

Can't Drive? Take the Trolley

Its days like this where I desperately question the DMV's Human Resources department hiring capabilities. If the DMV allows someone to have a California License, than they should adequately or decently know how to drive...correct? WRONG!

I understand that it's only a few days before Christmas and everyone is in the Christmas gift finding rush, but that is no excuse for driving poorly. We all have to sit in traffic for 20 minutes and then look for a parking spot for another 45 minutes only to find ourselves in Rush Hour on our way home. There is no excuse to act like an insane idiot and pretend like you're the only one who has gifts to buy. But most of all--there is no reason to park so close to my car where my hand cannot fit in between our two vehicles. This is called rude, impatient and frankly, just plain old poor driving. Whoever at the DMV signed off your ability to drive should have their license suspended and should be degraded as a human being.

So what do I do in situations like this? Rely on my pen of course...and no I'm not trying to say I keyed his car, although if anyone were to deserve their car to be keyed it would not be under Carrie Underwood's specifications "Before He Cheats," but rather because you don't know how to park. If I can't reach my door handle because you are TOO close and I must get through my passenger side and am unable to open my door, you WILL feel the wrath of my pen by an angry letter left on your windshield.

I must say I was rather nice in my letter to this immature inconsiderate driving fool. I merely reminded him that next time he decides to leave the house he may want to consider learning how to drive before someone much more temperamental than I decides to slam open their door scratching his cheap car. But of course, I did end the letter with a good old "Merry Christmas," just to brighten his day a little after the inconvenience he caused me and to stay in the holiday spirit.

But seriously people, if you can't drive, then take the trolley. That's what it's for.

Evil Day

I have 4 finals tomorrow. Yes, 4 finals. I shall be testing from 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Not cool...not one bit.

And yet, I'm here writing a blog about tomorrow when I could be studying for it today. Isn't that always the case?

Let's see if no sleep and the last all-nighter of the semester can get me through all 4 tests. Hopefully I'll live to tell the tale.

Rain Rain Go Away

An ode to the unusually intense rain San Diego has experienced over the past week, inspired by the child song, "Rain Rain Go Away," and written by yours truly:



Rain Rain go away,
Don’t come back another day
San Diego is not supposed to rain
So you are not allowed to stay.

It’s alright to come for a date
But Don’t think you can stay too late
You can come wash all your friends
But they’ll probably be filled with hate.

So rain consider yourself warned
San Diego is supposed to be warm
Southern Cali likes its sunshine
No bad weather to sit and mourn.

Rain can be good, or it can be bad
But when you come you make me sad
You become a big inconvenience
And sometimes make me a tad mad.

So Rain Rain go away
I know you had to come today
But this is getting a little silly
I’ll get my water another way.

'Tis the Season

Well boys and girls, it's that time of year again!!

The temperature is slowly falling, Christmas music is playing, friends and family are calling, pine trees are swaying, Starbucks serves in red cups, Christmas lights are beginning to light up....

And oh yeah, its almost finals week. NOT COOL.

Yes folks, once again, it's the end of the semester, and yours truly seems to have to do everything under her Christmas tree to do...study for 6 tests, write 4 papers, attend 4 holiday parties, buy Christmas gifts--and all in two weeks.

I really do feel that finals week takes all the fun out of this time of year. By the time Christmas comes around, my brain is fried and I've lost all the Christmas spirit.

Here's to hoping that I'll survive and won't feel like a Grinch and run around in a bad mood telling little kids that Santa doesn't exist.

Good luck to all of you on your finals and Merry Christmas to those who have the time to enjoy this beautiful time of year. <3

Understand the World You Live In--Care Enough to Uncover the Truth

Its days like this where I seriously question what our society has become.

For those of you who are:

• browsing Facebook for the 3rd straight hour in a row looking at random people's pictures,
• watching mindless shows filled with love, sex, lies, and drama that you waited all week to watch,
• obsessing about how sexy Jacob Black looked in New Moon (for all you Twihard fans out there, you may want to read my previous post,)
• procrastinating, once again, on the paper you need to write by tomorrow, although you had all semester to write it,
• going out for the 7th time this week to hang out with the same people to do the same thing because you'd rather be anywhere but home,

AND, you had no idea that President Obama gave a speech today announcing his plan to order an additional 30,000 troops to invade Afghanistan towards the war against al-Qaida.....this post, this one right here, is for you.

Let me start by saying that lazy, ignorant, foolish, uneducated people, such as yourself, utterly disgust me.

It disgusts me how little people know about what is going on in the world, and put more input into deciding their Facebook status than forming their own opinions. It concerns me how so many people would rather hear about celebrities and their extramarital affairs or their trips to rehab rather than hear about what is happening on Capitol Hill. It frightens me how people just don't care, as long as it doesn't directly and negatively affect them.

Whether you work at a law firm or at a gas station--you're a housewife or a single mother--whether you're in high school or in graduate school...I can't stress how important it is for you to form your own opinions, and are aware of what is happening in the world.

One cannot complain, cannot provide input and cannot have an opinion unless they fully understand the situation. We live in a culture where news and information are at our fingertips, and live in a country that has so much influence and power within the world that our opinions have a much louder voice than others. Yet, people still don't bother to care.

BUT, when someone looses their job and stops receiving unemployment checks, when someone gets kicked off welfare, when someone thinks the government owes them something, when someone is informed their taxes increased due to the war, when an illegal alien is deported, or when someone doesn't get a stimulus check when their neighbor did....this, THIS is when they start to care.

And that my friends, is quite pathetic.

This post is not meant to reveal my opinions towards President Obama's speech, or to convince and inform you of my own political beliefs and ideologies. But instead, this post is meant to encourage those of you who are ignorant of current political and economic situations to educate yourself and form an opinion...and once this opinion is formed, fight for it.

Because at the end of the day, you can't expect to see a change in the world until you first make one within yourself.