Pepsi

Today I was going back and forth trying to figure out what to blog about tonight, but it just now hit me. As some of you know I have a dog by the name of Pepsi. So you can have a better visual here is a picture of him.

Before I get into the story I should probably describe his personality. Pepsi is a lovable and loving dog that under normal circumstances wouldn’t hurt a fly. We have to other dog one of them being a puppy, when we first got the puppy he would play with her constantly by chasing her around and letting her chase him around. Now keep in mind this puppy is about a quarter to half his size. Well one day while chasing her he accidently stepped on her, after that he stopped playing with her for a while unless she really provoked him. In the past we’ve had a friend bring their baby over and he sniffed him but that was all and he was just so gentle towards him. He loves to give and mainly receive hugs. Sometimes, even though he weighs like close to fifty pounds, he’ll jump on my lap and sit there for me to give him attention and hugs, and at night he usually sleeps right outside my bedroom door to “protect me”. So all in all he is pretty much just like me.

Any how today I warmed up a quick easy prepackaged type meal. It was supposed to be chicken, gravy and mashed potatoes. I took one bite and could not eat anymore it tasted so bad. So I gave it to him and walked away. Well I noticed he was having troubles with it so I was going to take it and just put it in his bowl to make it easier for him. I walked up to him and he started to growl at me and bark like he was ready to attack me. So I smacked his butt and he grew louder. This made me even angrier so I backed away and yelled at him and told him to get which thankfully he listened I picked up the container and made him go out on the back porch for an hour or so. The thing that gets me is after doing this I felt sick, not sick ill but more like a punch in the stomach sick.

After about an hour of him being out there I let him back in and scolded him verbally. I could tell his was sorry and latter on he even jumped on my lap for hugs. So I did feel better after we made up, but it was just such a weird feeling I got from punishing him.

On a side note I just found two more things that some young people do that drive me crazy. The first one is when you drive by them and they have their car windows up and you have yours up but yet you can still clearly hear their music. The other thing I noticed today was when, and this mainly guys, they seem to grab and hold on to the middle region of their pants, if you get my family friendly way of saying it. Why in the world do they do that? What do they think they’re advertising or something?

Ok and now for the Random Bachelor Dare Card: “Regardless of what song is playing, invite a cutie to dance the Macarena.”

That could actually be fun. Oh crap now I have that song stuck in my head. “Hey Macarena!”

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My upcoming hectic week (Warning slight UN-family friendly part in the cards)

For my fellow WARP bloggers yes I know I skipped a day, but pretty much so have most if not all of you and some of you more than one day. Any way I just came to the conclusion that I am going to have one hell of a hectic week coming up.

On Sunday my younger sister comes home after going to Korea to teach English for about a year. I have got to admit when she first left I did not realize how much I will miss her. She and I have been pretty close in the past. Growing up we used to hang out once in a while and our friend circles usually intertwined in fact one of my friends dated both her and one of her friends, not at the same time of course. There were times when we were smaller that we would take a day and just disappear we would walk to the restaurant up the corner from our house and eat and just hangout to get away from the family. However after the rest of our family moved to Akron we kind drifted apart. She at first moved down to Tampa and my best friend and I lived in my grandparent’s house that didn’t last too long though, and I moved into my own apartment while she moved back in with my mom. On weekends I’d bring her down so she could see her friends and do things like spork people’s lawns and other crazy stuff. Then I moved back in with my parents and we would briefly see each other. Then I was forced to move down to Florida and she stayed up in Ohio. After a few years I moved back up to Ohio however I rarely went to see her. After I moved back to Florida she followed about a year or so later. Then she moved out and after a while moved back in and not long after moving back in she left for South Korea.

Then I have all of my finals that I have to cram in to two days on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully; I still have to ask my professor about taking my final early. The only reason I have to cram everything into two days is because I’m leaving on Tuesday night to go to a Festival known as FPG. I have heard many interesting and wonderful things about this festival. Then best part is I won’t be back until Sunday.

However with me being gone for so long I’m almost afraid of how the house will look when I get back. Mostly though I’m not looking forward to getting attacked by dog on Sunday because I know he’ll miss me a lot and when I get back he probably won’t leave me alone for at the very least an hour. I’ll miss him though too so I know I will cherish that hour immensely.

Alright enough with that now let’s get to my favorite part of the blogs, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Since I missed yesterday however I give you guys a treat. Two cards for the price of one.

The First card of the day is: “Tell a hottie you’d pay $5 to see her do a Blow Job. The drink, that is. (Don’t be cheap — buy her the drink and pay up after she downs it.”

Wow that was a little on the not family friendly side, but would probably be fun to do.

Now for the bonus card: “Moon a group of pretty young things for a full ten seconds.”

Ok that does not sound like a safe one to do; in fact if I got this card I would not do it.

This has been another collection of random thoughts by me, Spence. I hope you enjoyed.

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Ways to know you've been single for WAY too long

Well you guys are in for a treat because I’ve decided to go with my original plans for today’s blog thanks mainly to my dog Pepsi. I was pretty enraged thanks to my jackass step-father, but after giving my dog a nice big comforting hug my anger seemed to go away and I was able to put back my ugly side, but that’s a story for another day. Today’s blog is about being a single guy for WAY too long and the signs to let you know that you fall in to this category. By the way this is in many ways a jab at myself so don’t think I’m talking about anyone else.

The one thing that will happen is your one to ten scale goes through some changes. Now don’t get me wrong this can easily be a good thing because if you don’t alter it you will never lose your status of being single. Take for example myself: before it used to be a complete turn off if a girl smoked however that changed gradually and now it’s not an issue with me.

Another way to tell is when you see a woman from far away, like say going into a gas station while you are at a gas pump, and thinking to yourself that she looks hot. Then when you go into the gas station and get a close up look at her and realize she isn’t that great looking and continue on your way then after she passes you again you say to yourself she isn’t that bad looking. When that happens it’s a sure sign that you’ve been single for WAY too long.

If most of the women you see while walking around the school are eights or higher, it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long. Heck if you go in to your first day of class and hope that there are some cute women in your class it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long.

Now you may be asking yourself “What makes Spence such an authority on being single for WAY too long?” Well that’s an easy question. You see I’m 30 years old and in my entire life I’ve been in .5 relationships. Now I’m sure you are wondering “How can someone be in .5 relationships?” Wow I’m glad you asked. You see back in high school, I think it was my sophomore year in fact, I had a friend who was having a problem getting rid of his ex-girlfriend who was being a little clingy in his mind so I made the suggestion of setting me up with her. We went to lunch after that and when I came back my friends told me that I was officially going out with her. So after eating lunch I went over to talk to her for a little bit to get to know her and after lunch we went our separate ways. The next morning my friend gives me a break-up note from her. Now considering this relationship lasted oh say only a few hours not even twenty-four hours at that, I personally don’t count it. On the other hand she does count it, so since only half of us count it, it’s only half of a relationship.

Now keep some things in mind first of all every single one of these could go for women as well. Secondly please I beg of you do not take this as an invite to try to fix me up with anyone. Where I’m at right now in my life I’m not looking for a woman, if one should happen across my path then I would not turn a way but please do not put one in my path. Finally this was intended to be a light hearted blog as opposed to yesterday’s blog this was all meant to be a joke.

Now for what really does seem to be a fan favorite part of my blog the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day.

Today’s card is: “Offer to buy a drink for the first girl who delivers her thong to you”

Wow I told you there was some interesting one’s in that deck. That one could be funny to watch and who knows maybe even could lead to something more.

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Ignorance and some other random stuff

Ok well this should be a real interesting blog because I will be covering many topics it was only going to be one but someone just had to ask a couple of questions. So for my first portion it comes with a warning to any young ones. You see some young people may get a tad upset about some of the things I may say but I can pretty much guarantee that most if not all adults will agree with me on some of these subjects however some kids who read this may agree but that’s just due to good parenting. Anyhow if you feel that you may be offended by my topic then just scroll down a few paragraphs where I will be talking about the other subjects, movies and teenage love.

So for those of you still with me I’m going to be talking about ignorance. Now when I say that I’m not talking intelligence I’m talking attitudes. I’ve been throwing this topic around in my head for a while now but then it was called something else. After yesterday and a little bit this morning it evolved. Yesterday my friends and I were cleaning up the park and had started to setup in the only shelter in the park. We had our banner proudly hung displaying our efforts to keep the park clean. We were putting our blood, sweat, and tears (or at least blood and sweat not sure about the tears part) in to cleaning it when a group of people came and without asking anyone in our group proceeded to take down our banner. When approached about it they proceeded to get ignorant about it saying that they had a reservation which would have been fine if they stopped there however from what I heard they proceeded to make threats of bodily injury to some of our members. Personally I think that may have been due to the fact of looking at those members and being frightened of them for various reasons. Well we finally settled things with them peacefully mainly because we were the better (read not ignorant) people. Well things were ok until in my mind the rest of the ignorant young people came. They proceeded to blast their stereos and their rap music walking around with their pants below their asses showing the world their underwear.

Well now here’s the part where I start to sound old. First off they call what they listen to music? That is not music. I have nothing against rap but most of the stuff they play nowadays is far from rap. When I was growing up we had the good stuff NWA, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, and even Run DMC. Most of the things they rapped about were smoking or sipping on Gin and Juice (laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind {oops sorry there I just couldn’t resist}) and the best part was they had a little something called a melody. Nowadays, from what I can understand, they talk about being thugs and pimps doing nothing but bragging about what they own. Which leads me to the other thing about today’s generation. Why the hell do they think we want to see their underwear? After all there is a reason it is called underwear that’s because you are supposed to wear it UNDER your pants. Now I don’t know if this is true or not but I heard somewhere that this was a fad that got started in jail, you see apparently in jail when you wear your pants like it meant you belonged to somebody, and when some rapper got out of jail they started wearing their pants like that and it caught on. Now don’t get me wrong I have no problems with that but I’m not so sure that they would be happy about it.

This leads me to another sign of ignorance now it wasn’t anything that happened yesterday but it still bugs me and that is prejudice. Now we all know that prejudice is not something that is limited to skin color. There are people out there that will condemn you for many reasons all due to one thing you are different than them or even different than the norm. One prime example of this is when people hear that we are pagans they immediately assume many things about us that are false. “Ooo you’re pagan you must be a devil worshiper.” Or even “You’re a witch huh? Well don’t go turning me into a frog or anything”. Of course there is my favorite “You are a witch? Well may God Bless you and prevent you from going to hell.” People do the world a favor and read and learn about us before making assumptions and discriminating us from doing things because of our religion.
Anyhow, now that the serious part is out kids you can start reading again. So the first question was do you think your teen would know if they were in love? Well I don’t have any kids but I do think that it’s possible for kids at a young age to find their true love. This is mainly due to the fact that I am a romantic person and sometimes even have a sort of radar for that kind of stuff. Too bad it doesn’t work for me but when do any cosmic things work for one self. Any how the second question asked was what movie do you hold above all other as your favorite? Well for me this was a simple choice, The Princess Bride. This movie has everything in it sword fights, pirates, comedy, action, and there was one more thing that made it great um let me think oh yeah true love.

Now for everybody’s favorite part the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Tell a gal a dirty joke. If she doesn’t laugh, keep telling dirty jokes till she does.”

Wow yet another lame one. I promise that these can and will get better but at least I’m weeding out the lame ones first.

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How I got into Paganism

So apparently there was another challenge that put out there that I skipped over. Sorry my mistake. Anyhow this challenge was how you first became a pagan. Well I sorta had a lot of help from many people namely my younger sister. She was a part of the Phoenix Council long before I was. She would speak about paganism quite a bit and at the time I was just sort of not really caring about religion at all. Then one day she invited me over to play some Dungeons & Dragons. I figured what the hell I’ve always wanted to play so why not. Well that night I met four wonderful people (and one not so great but I won’t delve into that) who would change my life forever and become some of my closest friends. Anyhow I would listen to them as they talked about paganism and its various aspects.

Well then my sister told us that she was going to be leading a ritual and asked us to come and watch. Well I figured why not. This ritual she did was the 2007 Beltaine ritual. I sat outside and watched and started to think this is pretty cool. After that I stuck around to see some more rituals. I went to a Samhain ritual and barely met another future friend even though I barley remembered him being there however there was pictures so we at the very least were both there. After that I was invited to go to a Yule celebration, and I got to watch and enjoy that. However, even though I did nothing other than stick close to the only person I knew there, my name was put into some controversy and I wasn’t even a part of any groups which was funny. This whole time every so often my friend was dropping hints trying to get me to join the Phoenix Council. After that it wasn’t long before I made the decision to join.

After I joined I still watched from the outside trying to learn what I could for fear of looking bad and messing up, but when it came time for the 2008 Ostara ritual/ toga party send off for my sister who was leaving for South Korea I participated in my first circle. Then came Beltaine 2008 where not only did I participate but I for the first time I called a quarter.

As far as any myths or anything like that the only thing I didn’t know was the difference between a witch and a warlock. However I now know that a warlock is someone that is pretty much a cast out. A witch is a magick user. In a nutshell at least.

Now for everyone’s favorite part and mine the random Bachelor Dare Card. Today’s card is: “Go up to a cutie and say in your smoothest voice, ’I just love you {insert wrong color eyes here} eyes!’ When she corrects you, wink and say, ’Sorry I’m colorblind.’”

Ok seriously now that seems pretty lame don’t get me wrong I’d love to get that card but as you’ll see there are some dares that are pretty out there.

This has been another bunch of pure randomness produced by me Spence.

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