Always go with your gut.

Yes, please, let's. If your guts are saying, "Leave," just go. If your guts are saying, "Eat," then do it. If your guts are getting bigger, you should then stop eating. Your guts are a pretty good indicator of physical and mental health. Who knows, they might stop you from being a big, dumb idiot someday.

Side Bar to Life: Growing up, every Halloween my dad, all of my siblings and I would carve pumpkins, and while clearing out their insides (so my mom could cook the seeds), my dad would shout, "GUTS! GUTS EVERYWHERE!" Ah, the memories.

"Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets, secrets hurt someone."

1. Surprise Parties
2. Actual descriptions of pregnant women
3. The memory of junior high

Some things are better left unsaid.

Labor Day Makes Sense

Oh, the irony!

Today marks a free day essentially set aside to give thanks to the land of opportunity for just that. And, general stick in the mud that I am, I feel it my civic duty to note how strange it is to celebrate the fact that we have jobs by not working.

Except for retail places like J.Crew, the Jewel and other places of that sort, those with job-type-jobs get a solid 24 hours sans The Daily Grind. That's nice, right? I suppose, yes, it is.

But it's not really fair, is it? Having a job is nice too, if we're just about stating facts. This year it seems that taking the day off, or any day off for that matter, is a slap in the face to the unemployed. Having been on both sides of the line, my empathy this Monday has been awakened. While millions of people rack their brains and dust off their resumes hoping for the opportunity to clock in and punch out, I think it is sort of rude to have a day congratulating those with jobs.

Alas, "Life isn't fair" — another post for another time.

"Lighter than air."

Hyperbole has me annoyed today. Phrases like this one are what make anorexic people press forward with their non-eating ways. All I can say is, someone give me a cookie. Stat.

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

This seems rather narrow minded. What's meant is that people should be more aware of how they can lend a hand to those in need. However, who's to say that if you aren't actively fixing something you're causing a problem? I think the only instance where it was actually this case was during WWII. I'm thinking specifically about those who stood idly by as Hitler attempted to eliminate a whole sect of humanity. Scratch that, any sort of genocide falls under this quote.

Yet, there should be something said regarding the "Good Samaritan" Laws which were imposed to protect those who attempt to help should anything go wrong while lending a hand. If you think about it, it's pretty terrible that laws like these had to be put into place in order to protect those who choose to serve others in need. [Learn More: HERE]

Perhaps it's more an issue over what sort of problem there is, over anything else. Even still, it's sad to me that someone who has intentions of helping can find themselves in a sticky mess if anything does go awry as they nix their hesitation to assist.


The long and short: this world's got a lot of issues.