I find parents these days have grown soft towards disciplining their children. Society portrays spanking as irrational abuse.....i call it beating the brat out of you. Im not sure how the rest of you guys feel about this issue, but i strongly believe that some parents nowadays are promoting little hell-raisers and not exposing them to the consequences of their actions. I understand that everyone wants to be "friends" with there kids, but you are a parent first and foremost. You will be friends with your kids....when there 20, but until then, you feed them, love them, and show them whose boss. I bring this topic up because yesterday me and Jason went golfing at a par3. We paired up with this one kid and his divorced dad, and we knew from the getgo that it was going to be interesting. Jason goes out to shake the kids hand, who was probably about 12 or 13, and the kid just looked at jay disgusted without shaking his hand. Im standing there like...."its called a handshake :|". So then we are tee'n off later down the course and this kid nails the ball towards us, the dad trys to stop it, recieves the blut end of the impact on his finger, and deflects it towards me and nails me in the leg. The father looks horrified, makes sure im ok as his finger has a huge imprint on it, and proceeds to say nothing to his kid. The kid snickers a little, and proceeds to comment some quip remark to his dad about it being his second time today being hit by the ball. THEN, later on, we come across a golf club cover. The kid picks it up and starts shouting at the players next to us who are trying to tee off "HEY, HEY PEOPLE, IS THIS YOUR SOCK!!!!! HEY!" ya...you don't do that in golf....even i know that. his dad just sits there sheepishly.
now you all might think im being a bit heartless on this issue, but if you think back to the time your parents busted out the wooden spoons or leather belts.....you know it made you never want to do anything bad again.
Now im not promoting child abuse by any means. No parent should abuse their rights as adults on helpless children. Im not sure why im going so gung-ho on this issue, but i feel its getting worse and worse as the years progress.
there's my two cents

Giant sticker fun

so after half-expecting my weekend to involve rest, mom love, and waking up to roosters in picture butte, I end up baking my back mini-golfing (and beating jay I might add), and flying through a wall of tires go-carting. I must say, burnin rubber with jays dad was a great bonding experience. I even got to ride his motorbike, and now I have this annoying itch to ride again. Brings me back to days on the farm bootin around on my little red honda 50.

a little fyi, if anyone wants to hang out right now, I will be melted into a puddle in the middle of my bedroom floor, ok? Oh summer nights.....where you sleep with the windows open, fans a-blazin, and lying on-top of your blankets with nothin but your skibbies on....sometimes not even.

You know what else spring is good for? GARAGE SALES!!!!! I landed myself a sweet pair of keds for $2, which i didn't even pay for, so from my point of view, they were free ;). Me and jay also came across a rare treasure.....a Dick Tracy Sticker book. Remember those old books you used to get with pages of stickers you could punch out, and then you place them on the pages corresponding to them? If you haven't heard of them before, maybe you should get out from that rock your living in.

Yes, jay is on his way with slurpees and chocolate.....he really is perfect. I hope maybe one day soon the chocolate will turn silver and shiny and diamondy and......non-edible.....:)

Oh, I special ordered the TV serious Dinasours. Envy me

reason #43523 why guys are hopelessly flawed

you know whats retarded
guys who think they have balls to shout out cat calls towards a girl while wizzing by in their car at 60km/hr.

"...eeeeeeeOWwwww...."

she stands there unsure of whether it was a guy she heard or a bad muffler

his friends probably have a good laugh, throw arounda a few high fives and say "yo man, she totally winked at you".....

LAME!

you guys....i have won the lottery.....twice! at least thats what my new job feels like.
had a meeting today after work. it was sooo fun. we ordered pizza, drank beer, and discussed little rocks business ventures and propositions. I am now officially the front end production supervisor. I do alot of digitizing, which for all you designers out there, is somewhat like using the pen tool. I have my own little office space too. Im now fully trained in fedex, so if you guys need anything sent nationwide, I can hook you up. I get some fancy new duds, health and dental benefits, holiday pay, weekends free, all statutory holidays free, as well as the stampede weekend, young and rad work buddies, and raises every three months. This company is expanding dramatically, so its going to be good to start at the beginning. They already have this sweet building coming up in 2008 where we get an entire floor dedicated to design and print. The boss loves me, and has trained me in so much stuff that only I know. A few people from my class have called or emailed there to apply for a job but unfortunatly we are not hiring at the moment. To late suckas!!!!! bwahaha. jk. I did put in a good word for you....
Now i have to help MC a silent auction at some elite golf course in calgary. Little Rock is heading it up, and i have to mingle with the clients, smile pretty, and sell some random items for breast cancer awareness. If anyone wishes to take part in this event, I have tickets to sell. Its $60, but that gets you supper, a dance, an auction, a dj from revolution, and a donation to a great cause. Please come, I need to see some familiar faces in the crowd........theres going to be a bar....

and yes ashley, I will update the layout of my blog. soon it shall be a tropical oasis....

i bet you all are wondering how my job has been going, am i right? Well its going great. I had to quickly adapt to the workplace there, seeing as 3 people called in sick on my second day of work. So with no prior training, I had to take on the entire front desk, customer service, print, bindery and sales. Go me! Answering phone calls, making phone calls, talking to clients, creating reports, and printer maintanence is just skimming the surface of what my job entails. Overwhelming definitly, but i feed off of the pressure. I love the drive that accompanies a busy work day. I feel so accomplished when my day is finally over. My dilemma now lies in my jaded but promising future. Little rock is overflowing with potential to become a large print manufacturer. Graphic design is in the works, but at the time is financially unavailable. My aspirations lie in the graphic design arena, but it may take much longer than was expected to make it happen. So, do i stay with Little Rock where i will one day eventually become a graphic designer, or do I look at other propositions in Calgary? I love Little Rock, and all the staff that works there. So, if hypothetically speaking, I were to find another job that would offer graphic design, should i take it? or wait until i WILL become a graphic designer at Little Rock. errrg. Or do i persue my schooling in the fall, which was my original intent prior to being hired? I wish I were one of those people with only one dream and one clear path, but I can't force my heart to settle on one career. I want to do so many things with my life.

On a different note, Jason is gone for two weeks.... :(. I MISS YOU ZERBIT!!!!!!