Ever just have one of those really bad weeks. I mean the ones where you wish the world would just blow up, because almost everything around you is spinning out of control. I’m having one of those weeks. It makes me understand why some people drink and smoke, they need something to relax. I don’t and won’t do either of those two things, but I will however indulge myself with some comfort food. Thank God my wife is a good cook. What did my wife make that relaxed me so much? A nice Turkey dinner with all the fixins, it was like watching a rerun of your favorite TV show (in this case Thanksgiving) and you knew how it was going to end. Passed out on the couch.

I’m not going to get into the details of what happened this week. I’ll just say some people are jerks. I think there should be a law that says if someone is being a jerk to you or your family; you should be allow to yank them by the ear into the nearest bathroom, shove their head into a toilet and flush, a.k.a “The Swirly”. This is how we handled things on the playground growing up. It worked so well. We were taught at that age to stand up to a bully and they would back down. When do you reach the age when that does not work anymore? When the bully becomes of age to be able to hire a lawyer and sue you. So society tells us to be nice and ignore those who annoy you and they will go away.

I just don’t believe this works for every situation. There are pirates in Somalia that are just annoying the heck out of boaters in that area. I really haven’t seen anybody take care of things. I guess they are using the philosophy to ignore them and they will go away. I don’t want to be the one to explain this reasoning to the families of the hostages that the pirates just killed. Egypt didn’t learn the lesson of ignore it and it will go away, when the people got sick of how the government was treating them so they decided to throw out the dictator. It might just be because I’m a little steamed by the bad week that I am having, but it just seems to me that the bullies of this world are protected, and I just keep on getting kicked in the groin and have to ignore it. Thank goodness for leftover Turkey and here’s hoping that next week is better.

Just some rambling about this week, first of all it was Valentine’s Day this past Monday. It was so much easier being single during this time of year. While most unmarried people looked at it as a SAD (Single Awareness Day) day, I always told myself that I was just saving money because I didn’t have to buy a gift for anyone. So now that I am married it is a requirement to show my love to my wife on that annoying day, because Hallmark told me so. I personally think that day was made up by women so they can get the men in their life to buy them chocolate, like a druggie needs a quick fix. So the pressure of what to buy my wife began the week before. Not only what to buy, but to find the time to buy it. With my wife, getting out of the house to buy her a gift without her knowing it, is like James Bond breaking out of a terrorist compound. But I was relieved when my wife said that she had someplace to go Saturday morning, so I had a clear break. Plus that evening she said she didn’t take Valentines Day that seriously. I shouted a little Amen in my head. Long story short, I got a cool vintage Snoopy tie tack and she got a video game she had been wanting (yes you read that correctly) and a bag of her favorite M&M’s. Yes Hallmark I bought a card too, so don’t send your goons after me.

I got a weird letter mailed to me this week. It was from the company where I bought my jeep. Seems they were checking their files and when they came across my name they crunched some numbers and figured out a way to lower my monthly payments. Now wasn’t that nice of them to take the time to do that and pick me out from all of the customers that they had sold cars to. It had to be legit because it looked to be hand written on a piece of their notebook paper, even had my name on it. The thing is my wife and I paid my Jeep off last year, which means I have no payments. So unless they are going to start giving me money, I don’t understand how my payments can be any lower than nothing. I thought about giving them a call just to have a good time with them, but figured my time would be better spent finishing installing the new garage door opener for my wife. That was the real Valentine’s Day gift and she loved that better than anything else I could have gotten for her, plus chocolate. Don’t ever forget the chocolates; they get a little mean when they can’t get their hit.

We live in a very unique country when compared to others around the world. Every morning before I start my day I like to take a quick look at the headlines.

According to Yahoo here are some of the top Headlines

For the US:

Chipotle Mexican Grill Caught in Immigration scandal
Tenn. GOP lawmaker credits Hooters for success
Ranchers hope critters can weather subzero temps
NY Rep. Lee resigns after shirtless photo on Craigslist

My favorite

South Carolina may move against prison Facebook users

Meanwhile around the globe:

Egypt’s government resists mounting pressure for change

India, Pakistan say peace talks to resume
Somali pirates capture supertanker, $150M of oil
S. Sudan rebels break ceasefire, 16 dead
Suicide bomber kills Afghan district chief

At the beginning of the week our news was filled with the results of the Super Bowl and the commercials that were played. Around the world people were counting the amount of injured and dead from a day of protesting. No wonder so many people are either trying to come across the big ocean to the land of the free or fight for their own freedom. Our prisoners (the people who supposedly have lost their freedom privileges) are on Facebook, while people around the world are fighting for their basic rights as humans.
Just a little something to think about the next time you get on Facebook and whine to your 200 so called “Friends” that you are out of your favorite cereal. Which makes me wonder what our postings on Facebook would be like compared to someone in another part of the world.

Maybe:
USA
Woke up this morning looked out my window and prayed, ate breakfast, went to work.
Canada likes this

Middle East
Was glad I woke up alive this morning, hope no one saw me pray, now to look for food and hope my car doesn’t blow up to kill those around it.

England
Woke up this morning thinking about THE wedding!
USA like this

A week has gone by. It’s been the typical week of going to work and doing the same routine at home of watching the same TV shows. Not that I’m complaining sometimes it is nice to have that comfort zone of knowing what is going to happen next. But what I find interesting is everyone has a different daily routine and comfort zone. It’s the other people that might be involved in our weekly rituals that we can not control that sometimes change what we do.

Every week I try to call home to my parents to just say hi and that I am still alive. When I was single I might have called home twice a week, because my mother has a fear of her children being kidnapped by Mexican terrorist and making us work as slaves in their cotton farms. So for her sanity I call her so she can hear my voice and know that I am ok. I missed a week calling her this past week. Not that I forgot, my weekly routine was just a little more busy than normal and time got away from me. So I get this phone call. “Hey I know your busy, I was just wondering what’s been going on, I’m ONLY your Mother, so it’s not that important that you call.” For those who are not familiar with this sentence, this is the sentence of guilt. I’ll always be her little boy that shouldn’t mess around with her routine.

It’s not just people that have a routine, animals live by it. I’ve had my cat for nearly 8 years and he has a habit of going to his food dish whenever he wants and having food waiting for him. Well we recently adopted. No not a kid, but another cat. My wife named her Buttercup, it got shorten to Butter, and I call her Butt because she has no tail. Not even a nub, she is all butt. Well Butter (this is a family friendly blog so I’ll keep it clean) is a large cat probably twice the size of Shadow and she likes to eat. She’ll eat all the food in her dish then clean out Shadow’s dish as well. Then Shadow goes to eat and there is no food in his dish. Which is probably why Shadow chases her around the house, she changed his routine.

The moral of the story is “You can never be too big to mess around with someone routine.” or “Don’t be a butt by changing someone’s habit.”