Politics Schmolitics.

This was a Facebook thread I was minimally a part of this afternoon:

GAC Dear Obama, Fuck you. You're a disgrace.

GAC

Oh, and you're wife needs to stop wearing Pepto-Bismol.

55 minutes ago

TB

LMAO! Do I sense a bit of hatred?

54 minutes ago

GAC

Just a little bit. He makes America look more ridiculous everyday than it did the day before I NEVER thought that was possible after Bush. My comment when he got elected was "Anything is better than Bush". I was wrong.

53 minutes ago

Joshua Shane Robinson

hehe

53 minutes ago

TB

I totally understand how you feel. I was like "ANYONE CAN DO BETTER THAN BUSH... I KNOW 3RD GRADERS WITH MORE ORDER!!" I just hope he picks us up. I mean it took us 8 years to get to this and it's deff going to take more than that to get out.. lets just hope hes the man that can do this

51 minutes ago

Cory Megan Crose

What is he doing/not doing that you're unhappy with?

50 minutes ago · Delete

JSR

HE IS FUCKING OVER THE MILITARY FOR 1.

49 minutes ago

TB

shit on my face! lol

46 minutes ago

MM

It's easy to destroy something but difficult to fix it when your not the one responsible for the destruction. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

34 minutes ago

JM

OMG...i said the same thing.."anyone but bush". It is funny watching people defend those who steal $, rights, and freedoms from them. Bush was a facist and and a moron, and I thought Obama was just a standard liberal Socialist...but since he started taking over industries, he's starting to look more like a Communist. It's unfortunate.

27 minutes ago

TB

Mike- WELL SAID!

22 minutes ago

JSR

Ok I did vote. And I voted for Obama (mistake). 2. I technically can't say shit because he is my boss (to a certain extent). &3. I am in the military serving for our country.

22 minutes ago

JM

@Gregory Can i just say though how refreshing it is to see someone who is young and gay who isn't blinded by idealism and culture to defend a person, instead of a belief like so many people who prattle on about Obama's outstanding leadership.

17 minutes ago

Cory Megan Crose

I'm just interested in hearing what those who are opposed to Obama are specifically against. Making blanket statements and not giving reason, evidence, support and explanation isn't the least bit progressive. And if you don't like something, how would you specifically do things differently? I think calm intelligent discourse is much more effective than brash angry comments. Nothing closes my ears faster.

13 minutes ago · Delete

Cory Megan Crose

And by the way Greg, I apologize for the barrage of comments that have attacked your wall, heh.

12 minutes ago · Delete

JM

this isn't quite the forum for my op-ed, so forgive me if I don't want to debate the flaws in not only the presidents actions, but also in his altruistic and socialist premise that guides his hand to force the masses to live by his code of what he thinks is right. If you want to have a debate, start a meetup, talk with a friend, don't just ... challenge everyone who opposes Obama to PROVE to you why they're right...honestly if you need that kind of proof, then you're going to need to do a lot more homework before you're on par to debate with me. PS. Sorry about spelling & Grammatical errors...my iPhone doesn't like my stubby fingers today :)

5 minutes ago

Ok. So here's where my beef really lies. Honestly, I don't know that much about politics. Generally I pick the things I want to know about and look into them, but that's really it. After this, I definitely would like to get more involved. The thing that really bothers me about this whole thread isn't that people are unhappy with Obama's presidency. It's that people will just hop onto a VERY public and widely seen forum site, post these brash statuses and comments, and then not back them up. Take responsibility for what you're saying. You could argue that it's just a social site, and comments and statuses are meant to be taken lightheartedly or not taken seriously. Well I'm sorry but I strongly disagree. In a world where political figures are quoted on Twitter we shouldn't expect any less. I got too worked up to respond again on the thread, and felt it would take too much to explain myself, so I messaged JM personally, nicely explaining all that I just wrote above. I also asked him to tell me if he had a blog he wrote on about his views, because I would be interested in reading it and learning more about people's views.

I think because I am so ignorant when it comes to politics that I become easily upset.

I'm way too sensitive for politics.

bloggin'

howdy! just putting it out there that i'll be creating a new blog super duper soon! the boy and i are planning a semi-cross country travel adventure and i'll be keeping everyone up to date with our awesomeness.

love love love.

3.05am

i couldn't sleep so i reached for my pen instead.


I wish cameras could capture what eyes see. They only get a meager representation. The purples and oranges, dark shadows under the sculpted, yet slightly neglected, shrubbery. The shadows loom long, down the slight incline onto the street. I am a visitor, observing a world behind glass. The cars sit quietly as extensions of the landscape, emptied of their connection to actual life. Even the cars moving by seem devoid of life; quick creatures with eyes beaming through the dark, following their trail. Aside from the occasional hum it's otherwise silent at this hour. The sirens have calmed. The streetlights no longer serve to light the way, but to illuminate the air in specific pattern, like organized stars. They mimic my own lights which frame my window, my looking glass. A microcosm of this outer world. I will extinguish mine, but those larger orbs will continue to glow for a few more hours, until the sun takes their place of shining through my curtains, casting gold on all it touches. I hope sleep finds me before the slight trickling of life awakening thickens and invades my still dreamscape behind the glass.

cucumbers and pillows.

just watched "into the wild" for the first time.

true to form, i cried my eyes out.

"happiness is real only when shared"

i've noticed that i truly prefer to watch movies i've never seen with others. i feel like i need to be sharing the experience with someone, and i really try to avoid seeing new movies alone as much as possible. i don't necessarily feel this way about going to the movie theater, but definitely when it comes to watching things at home. i think maybe part of the problem is that it's very easy for me to get caught up in emotions of the movie, and it's difficult to pull away from. so, if i've just seen a happy movie, i want to be sharing that joy and happiness and exuberence and joie de vivre with someone else. if it's an intense, sad/heavy movie, i think i need someone to share it with in order to get it out of me, otherwise i'm caught up in it and it weighs heavy on me for a while.

damn those wild sweet pea plants.

besides from all that.

i truly can't wait for summer to arrive. it's something that i've been looking forward to for some time; and, following suit with my new years resolution still, i'm bubbling with anticipation over all the experiences to be had. ben and i are going to do some traveling, and i'm so eager to begin. the last 3 months, i've felt myself come full circle into a new wholeness, and i have been feeling so good, and.... full? enriched? satisified by life?

my soul feels nourished.

that is the best way to describe it, i think.

and as for the summer and the plans that are stemming and budding and creeping from the soil, i feel like they are going to breathe even more sunshine and exuberence into my life. imagine drinking down something warm, just almost hot, that is refreshing like cucumbers but zestful like ginger. imagine that radiating through your body, starting in the center of your chest and working out into your arms, your legs, out through your fingertips and toes, breathing it out into the sky and breathing in fresh air, giving your body life.

i'd say that pretty much nails it.

skates and cheese steaks

life feels so good. i've never had more on my plate, but felt so balanced and at peace. actually, it's strange, i feel at peace but at the same time have fire bolts rushing through me. in the best possible way, of course...

i'd forgotten what it's like to feel this way. and quite honestly i don't think i've ever felt this way ever before.

i don't even want to write any more about it, because once it leaves my fingertips the rawness leaves me, and i want to share that with him, and him alone.

after i do, then i can share it with everyone else :) or rather, sean and nathan, since i think they're the only ones who sometimes read what i write.

my heart is bursting quietly.

grime and fries

so i was wondering why the employees at the mc d's drive thru were giving me such strange looks. then i realized my laundry bag that i had in the front seat looked a lot like a couple kids shoved in a bag.

moon boots and gesso

vertigo
cookies
kisses
snuggle
sleep
class
scratch
drive
park
fail
laugh
burgers
walk
drink
vows
love
tacos
pictures
search
find
sledding
movie
crepes
coffee
wings
football
dishes
breakfast
benjamin.

blankets and flowers

firstly, my daily doodle


secondly, a chocolate covered strawberry bouquet from the nameth's

and my beautiful irises from benjerman, beginning to bloom (love alliteration)

it was a good day <3

id bracelets and hamachi

i'm back at my mom and dad's from the hospital! still feeling a little light headed - not woozy at all, but.... ok, you know that fun trick where you stand in a doorway and press your arms to the frame of the doorway as hard as you can for about 30 seconds, and when you step away it feels like your arms are floating up? well that's kind of how i feel when i stand up for too long. so i'm keeping my tush in place until further notice :).

mom, papa bear and myself stayed in a holiday inn last that was closer to the hospital. it was only about 45 minutes away from the house but the weather was so awful last night that we didn't want to have to worry about it.

then it was off to the hospital this morning! everyone was so nice there. i hate hate hate needles, and they had to put the iv almost immediately after i got there - my nurses Tara and Carol were wonderful, and we chatted the whole time - Tara laughed at me when Carol walked in the room with all the iv stuff because without really realizing it i took a huuuuge breath in and out. Tara had done all my pre-test stuff the few days before and knew needles aren't exactly my fave so she just burst out, which made me laugh and relax a bit. annny way, that was all good. they put my little i.d. bracelets on, one of which was a bright yellow one...

my brother just fell in love with when he saw it hehe. they're required to put it on everyone in the hospital, but still, it made us both giggle. col says i should where it ar

ound for a few days, just to throw people off. i agree.

so like i said, everyone there was so friendly. when i was rolled into the operating room, i had to wait for the anaesthesiologist. one of my surgeons and 3 of my nurses came out and were talking with me and we got joking and giggling, and then the anaesthesiologist, Steve, came out, which meant we were getting this show on the road. he was very funny, and he pulled out his syringe and assured me it wasn't a shot, it was just going right into the iv. still all giggly, nurse Chris asked if i was ready, and Steve said "You're gonna LOVE this." it hit me pretty quick, and i laughed and said whoa you're not kidding - i had been sitting up (i don't like laying down in hospital beds unless i have to) and decided it was a good time to lean back, which Steve confirmed by laughing and saying "yeah, that's a good idea." i giggled, and the next thing i knew i was waking up in the recovery room, where another nurse was sitting with me reading a magazine. she saw stir and cheerfully said "well hello there!" i smiled, said hi, and fell back to sleep, hehe. when i finally woke up, she was still there, and chuckled. "how are you doing? would you like to try to wake up, and we can take you back to your mom and dad?" i agreed, with a lot of hesitation, because all i wanted to do was go back to sleep, but i talked with her for a little while until i got out of my sleepy, resistant (and very typical sleepy cory) state.

long story short, i'm back, and feeling good. they got the results back immediately and said that it definitely was a fibroadenoma, and i shouldn't have any problems. there's a possibility that i could get another one, but if/when that happens we can reevaluate things and generally just cross the bridge when we come to it, as the old adage goes.

so i feel pretty great right now. so much better compared to the biopsy - i think that's what had me most nervous because recovering after the biopsy, while not too trying, just hurt so bad. i had a lot of pain. and with this, during surgery they inserted a type of numbing, pain med into where the F.A. had been, which is supposed to last for 5 days. sweet!

annnd i'll also be able to start swimming again really soon, and the doctor said it really shouldn't be a problem at all. yay! can't wait.

ok, i suppose that's enough for now. if blogger stops being sassy i'll upload that picture, and also upload a picture of my daily drawing (which has yet to be done, but will be done as part of my NY resolution!)

hugs
peace, and love

foxes

gotta love our lady reds!

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