Body Mod: How's That Workin' For ya?

I was watching a show called "Taboo" that my hubby rented from the Library.  This thought was brought on by the episode about Body Modification throughout the different cultures in the world.  Well, they had the infamous "Lizzard Man" of Austin, TX.  For those of you who do not know or have heard of this guy, he makes his living being, well, a human Lizard!!  Let me describe what this guy has had done to himself:

*Teflon Implant Bumps in his eyebrow ridges
*Had his toung split in two for a "Forked" illusion.
     ~NOTE: he can move both parts semi-independantly from each other.  ew.
*Nipple Piercing and Ear Spools...the least of the freakiness.
*FULL BODY TATOO IN THE DESIGN OF REPTILE SCALES, some colored green...
     ~plus a few tribal designs and the words "FREAK" across his chest.

Oddly enough, this wasn't the result of a guy who thought one day "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if I made myself look like a total nut job painted green and had a freaky tongue?"  As a matter of fact, he was raised by normal parents, had a pretty good childhood, and was majoring in Philosophy in College!!!!  His plan with this was actually brought on by a philosophical question he wanted to enact. 

Is it possible to cross the realm from Person to Reptile?  Or something very similar to that line of thought.

From there, he proceeded to invest his money, time, and personal "normalcy" to persue this feat.  To this day, he performs freak shows to captive audiences everywhere.  He is very happy with this choice and I'm sure if Dr. Phil asked him "How's that workin' for ya?", he'd honestly reply, "It's working quite well for me!  I've never felt freeier in my life!"...and I'd buy it!

But having said that, as much as I accept body mod as one's personal expression of themselves, and as cool as I think it is, to make the commitment to have something extream, unnatural, and most times permanent done to you, it's something that I think you would have to make ABSOLUTELY SURE you want done.  Seriously, with something like having tattoos, Piercings, Brands (shudder), and even Plastic Surgury, you really have to think of the long term repercussions of this decision and listen to who ever is doing the proceedure if they have any concerns with what you have chosen, placement, and possible side-effects from having said thing done.  Especially if they tell you "This could result in something VERY not cool if I miss the target even by a little bit."

The one thing, though I think people really need to ask themselves is what's more important to you in the world you live in;  Your own positive view of yourself and ego, or the ability to make a decient life for yourself?  Really, walk into a couple of businesses.  Any busienss, weither Blue Collar, Offices, or even Fast Food.  How many people can you visually pin point have visual body mods, not including peirced ears on women?  Less than 2 holes a lobe, mind you.  That right there should be a good gauge on what's worth spending the money and risk on and not. 

There is no knowing if you are going to try for a job at a bank, retail, or even high-paying job after you leave High School and/or College.  I'm sure that as free as one becomes upon leaving your parents house, you want to go and do all the things possible to define yourself to the world.  But when you go and get that Mike Tyson style Tribal Tat on your face, as hot as it looks on you, you eventually graduate Lawschool and are wanting to practice Criminal Law.  I don't know about you, but I don't want to be the Defendant in a Murder Trial and my Lawer looks like someone who's former girlfriend was his Cellmate Jimbo.  See?

So, to paraphrase, Tattoos & Peircings are cool, but keep it tastefull and hidden if you want a job.

School v. Long-Haird 4 year-old boy

I saw a clip about a little boy who was suspended from his Pre-School for having long-hair.  It's about time too.  We need to purge those hippie children from our youngster's lives and let them know that their social liberalness will not be tollerated.  There are more important things we need to teach our littler students like Tolerance of children who act-out with bad behavior or the practice of Second Chances to tikes who are physically & emotionally violent to others.


You see, when children are this young, they need to learn that it is NOT okay to be a kid.  We need to teach our children standards of the work-place now so they can start working in serious careers in the next two decades.  Heck, with the current removal of Music & Art programs, and soon Physical Education and maybe even Reccess in the future, we'll catch up with the Asians by next decade!!  


On a serious note, there are far greater things for a school to drop a student, let alone pre-school student over than how long his hair is.  I live in the great state of Washington...home of Seattle (a statement in itself).  Here, I've seen preschoolers with Mohawks (holla nephew!!), green hair, and afro's in classes, school yearbooks, and class photos.  It's not keeping them from learning anything.  It's not harming anyone.  We need to let kids be kids.  We only have so long in our lives to use our HUGE burst of juvinile energy before we become over stressed by life, depression, dire issues, and drama.  Once those things become our main concerns, we loose any energy we may have had for fun things in our life until we have children of our own.  And even then, we tack on more energy tax expendatures on things like feeding scheduals, playdates, the actually chasing down of said kids, and any other small details of their lives so that they may remember the fun times and events they did as a youngin'.


Having said this, I don't want anyone to be confused on one thing.  Children do need to learn what is appropriate, morals, virtues, and manners.  But don't bar them from the fun little things that don't hurt him and aren't healthy for him.  Common sense, folks.


As for the 4 year old boy...the school reasoned with the mother by allowing the boy to either cut his hair or have it braided.  The mother said "No" to both.  The child is caucasion, as is his mother.  Since white people have far more delicate and sensitive skin than people of darker skin coloring, she told them to braid his hair would make it bleed.  She did, however said she's be more than willing to put it up in a ponytail where it is out of his eyes.  The school is still refusing to let the boy back in.  The mother is still fighting.

I AM The Biggest Loser!!

My husband and I were watching the season 9 premier of "The Biggest Loser".  We love the show.  We fell in love with this show when we were staying at my grandmother's house when we were between places to live!  Well, toward the beginning of the show, I started to get the munchies.  When a show like that is advertising food, and I mean plugging the "Good for you" stuff, it happens.  Like hearing a faucet run makes you have to pee.  So, what do I go and do?  I go to the fridge, grab my snack, and munch away.  What was it I had so smartly choose to snack on while watching a show about Morbidly Obese peoples loosing mass amounts of weight?  MINT CHOCOLATE BON BONS!!  WTF?! RIGHT?! 

I would like to thank the Academy for this epic fail.  With out you, I wouldn't have obtained this award for "Dumbest Fat Person Fail".

Seriously.  I had to justify this in my head with "If it's not in the house anymore, I won't get eaten."  I blame my husband, Matt for this fail.  He bought the naughty snakins on clearence at Walmart after work one night.  One of his impulse purchases because his skinny-ass can't hold weight to save it's life.

Speaking of which, I would like to give an Honorable-Mention Fail to my Husband.  He, too is addicted to Biggest Loser.  He is a supporter of my loosing weight.  Not because he wants a hot bodied wife, he could have married someone else if that was the case.  He's a self-proclaimed chubby chaser.  He supports it because he sees me in pain and he knows how unhealthy and troubled I am by it.  He fails because he still brings home naughty snacks for the both of us to share.  Heck, he'll even abide my cravings every now and then.  God bless him.  I get to talking about my craving then he's down on it.  Or he'll get a nasty craving then buy enough for the whole class, but get eaten by just the two of us.  Yeah.  NO HELP AT ALL, BABE!!

So, I just wanted to fess all of that up to you all.  Epic Fail on my part for eating chocolate covered Mint Bon Bons.

I'm so fired.  n_n

Resolutions are for Digital Screens

I don't really remember the last time I ever made a resolution.  I don't even remember ever "officially" making a resolution.  There is one thing about resolutions, though, that I've almost always believed.  No one has ever really stuck to their New Years resolutions, or at the very least, not cheated on it.

Think about it.  Have you ever seen a resolution all the way through?  Was it something you should be doing in the first place like eating healthy, watching your pennies, not being as wasteful?  Have you ever made a resolution to break a nasty habit?  Well, I have heard all those resolutions made either by friends, family, or "other".  Not a single one has kept to it.  Resolutions are not iron clad.

But, with the New Year, I do believe people should at least do this.  Instead of making a resolution, just make thist time of the year, a time to just start it all over again.  Start your life for that year with a clean slate.  Any other time of the year you can't do that.  The way I see it, when you make a resolution, you are making a promise, either to yourself or others. 

When someone makes a resolution, it's normally one they feesibly CANNOT keep.  Let's say smoking for one.  It's a hard habit.  Once you resolve to quit, most stop cold turkey and go right back to it.  Some go on patches or prescriptions and those just give you nightmares and funky dreams so you go off and back to smoking.  Some just replace the habit with something else.  They start to indulge on that...while smoking.  It doesn't work.  If there is a bad habit or something you NEED to do to better your quality of life, do it when you're ready.  You can't guarantee you're ready once the "ball drops". 

But with starting the year as a blank slate, you set your mind-up, heart-up, and spirit-up to the possibility to anything!  To give yourself a blank-slate at the drop of a ball is easy and spiritually cleansing.  You feel lighter, clearer about your goals and directions, and you have the freedom to follow your instincts.  When you can do that, opportunities for bigger things.  More than what a single resolution can do.

With a resolution, it's a single focused task.  You take an avenue and stick with it.  Deter once and trip's over.  You feel like you fail and you double back harder than before saying, "Screw it.  I'll try again next year".  With a clean-slate, you are open.  your heart leads you to pick a different road and if you loose your way, all you do is take a deep breath, reorient, and you find either a new path, or a bypass back to where you were going. 

So, Don't ever ask me what my resolution is for the New Year.  I will say the same thing as every year.  I resolve to not have a resolution.  I can't keep one to save my life.