The Little Voices

I think the things in life that hurt the most are often the little voices. The sly whisperings of people. The things that are said about, but not too you. The words not said to your face, but heard through the grapevine.
It hurts because they didn't say them to you. It hurts because you are the fool. The person that did not know. The last person to know? The idiot who expected better of people.
The voices hurt because how can you fight a phantom. How can you tell a faceless person the truth. How can you tell people who you are and explain the whole truth of your life to them, and why should you have to?
People are mean. Now I sound like a six year old, but sometimes thats just a thing you have to accept. People do hurt you, be it your best friend or someone that you don't even know, they can still hurt you.
I suppose the trick is to let yourself be hurt.
Because you can't wrap yourself up against people. That just wouldn't be living. If the voices get to you sometimes, just remember, they are only voices, and those that shout loudest don't always get heard by everyone. There are other, kinder voices too.

What passes for Love - other peoples say it better

I'm not very good at expressing my opinion. It tends to not come out right or I just end up not saying what I really mean cos I get confused. Or when I say it, no one is listerning. I think thats why I quote alot.

Well there is lots of stuff about Valentines day that been said and discussed and while talking to Emma about it these words kept going round in my head. So here is a quote that I think is appropriate. It may not be exactly what I think, but its better than my inarticulate way of stumbling around conversations.

Promises are made to be broken haven't you heard
You said he'd never break your heart now haven't you learned
You believed in the words and all that they meant
Whoaw, but love is not some popular song filled with empty sentiment

That's what passes for love
That's what passes for love these days
Oh these days

- Ron Sexsmith

Weird Laws

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal
So I think it is important that none of us ever go to Miami, what would happen if you started snorting? Can you say it was because you where laughing to much or will they cart you off for imitating a pig?Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
Dam it thats my life's ambition!!
In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.
So lets face it - Americans are weird!!
In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.
In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday
In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

Hope this helped you all procrastinate some more!! Is certainly helped me.

Home

Why do we like houses?
We like houses because they keep us warm, dry and safe. They are a shelter, they are a place to spend the night. I'm not sure that we appreciate them enough.
Even if we hadn't managed to get a house yesterday, we would not have ended up homeless, sitting out in the rain or the snow or the heat.
I suppose its good that we have never has to consider the possibility that we would be on the streets. Some people face this every day.
But yesterday we managed to find a house, half a days work. Not bad. Makes you very grateful.

A quote

More than anything I want to see you go
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world
- Snow Patrol
No reason for it, no deep point, and no reference to anything I've talked about today. I just like it.

A blog about fish.

I'm been doing some really boring work on fish. I mean fish locomotion is boring...they move in the water at different speeds according to loads of variables that scientists don't understand but spend a lot of time trying to work out. They have different types of muscle and generally... well they are fish.
But then again, they are pretty amazing...once you get past the fact that fish are fish.
There are so many different kinds of fish. There are tuna yes, but there are also Seahorses and Anglerfish and Butterfly fish. There are these fish called SeaDragons that look like seaweed but are actually beautiful delicate animals.
They have so many adaptations that allow them to survive, and live and reproduce and to be honest we really don't understand most of them, they're too complex. Out there in the Ocean they exist almost in another world, that is so far removed from our terrestrial world that we find it difficult to contemplate. A lost world on our door step.
So the moral of my little rant? I suppose there are two ways to look at anything. You can look at the mundane, or you can look a little deeper and see the beauty in things. Yes even fish are beautiful!!!