From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

I just found this on a journal site - I think we can all learn how to communicate better with our partners from it:<BR>
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...."YOU FUCKIN ACT LIKE THIS IS ALL MY GODDAMN FAULT DONTCHU EVER THINK N LOOK AT YOHSELF. WDF. YOU GON TURN AROUND ON MY ASS TELLIN ME PEOPLE YOU LOVE ME N YOU DO THIS N THAT BUT WHA BOUT ALL THA PROBLEMS HUH. SHIET... YOU ONLY SHOW MY BAD SIDE TO OTHERS. I SHO'LY AINT GONNA TAKE THAT SHIET. YOU CAN TELL PEOPLE WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT BC YOU'VE ALREADY DONE SO... AT LEAST I DONT TALK SHIT BOUT YOU. THA LIES. DANG. I TELL PEOPLE ITS ALSO MY FAULT... IVE DONE WRONG... GOD... YOU DONT EVEN KNO... THAT SHIT IN YOH XANGA STARTIN TO MAKE YOU LOOK IMMATURE... I CANT STAND THIS NO MORE..."<BR>
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I must be getting old....<BR>
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*wiggles out stage right*<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=801">Bridget O</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Jon~ I dunno, lol,summer has officially fried my brain excuse me :S<BR>
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Zero Love~ I don't think they all suck, i'm just very, um pessimistic i guess???? But i'm glad you like them, yours are awesome, all of them. I loved "i never seen you but i can tell that your there"<BR>
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Duct Tape For All Broken Hearts<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Misti~<BR>
are we drinking our water from the same faucet?  I LOVED therapy.  I loved the first 4 lines.<BR>
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I have come to finally believe that any emotion I have ever felt has been felt by someone else before me.  Maybe, you can rationalize that at least one or a few of your Blender pals has been there (wherever "there" is) before.<BR>
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I think that I become increasingly more instable the more I feel like I am in control.  It is a scary line to walk - thinking you are getting a grip on who you are and who you are aching to become, all the while losing sight of everything else as it spills down the drain.<BR>
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Ok..enough catharsis for me - have you had enough of me?<BR>
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Rhetty the Amazing Monkey-Girl
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=34">Just Some Girl</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Ah, Rhet!!  How I have missed your soothing words, rational words!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=205">Violet</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Misti~ <a href="/blend/wv.cgi?id=2002.07.08.00.57.5791">Green</a> !! I really felt this one. I've spent many a year in smalltown oregon... and sometimes I just crave those city lights. :-)<BR>
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Lupschada~ Okay, I forgot to grab the link code, but 'Medusa' was wonderful. I've been a fan since 'Dirty Boy'. You have a gift.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

ZeroLove; Well Zero, writers want it to sound real whether it is or not, that's the fun of it all, whether we're really sharing moments in our lives or making it all up as we go along or perhaps a bit of both. <BR>
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Deeva; Unfortunately not everyone has the gift for words but it's fun to look through peoples blogs in xanga. I ran into one with a kid that was sending people to my site and making fun of me. I started writing back to the kid, he couldn't believe I had found him,.. quite by accident...ha neither could I..ha It made me mad at first then it got funny and then I thought, what the heck, there's something in xanga for everyone, every age, size, shape, writing style. <BR>
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Misti; You had to mention vanilla sugar wafers didn't you..ha You made me remember I had them hidden from myself..ha You can't sell the computer you would be knocking on doors begging to borrow a cup of internet or hanging out at the library behind the stacks. Tell the shrink we are the blender 12 step program to keeping you and the rest of us motivated in gargantual creative bliss.<BR>
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Hey SC; Ha, Did you smell exotic spices and a strong odor as they barbecued that sheep over the weekend?<BR>
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Violet; Write something for us would you??<BR>
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Kirk and Mo; I saw it coming re-reading the poem I wrote for it and then forgot too, but Happy Belated 1ST Anniversary. (Does anyone really eat the frozen year old cake?) Blek!<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

oh I know LOADS of sheep jokes, I am a New Zealander in Australia after all... all I get is sheep jokes.<BR>
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Ross even has a t-shirt with a sheep joke on the front of it, not only is it not funny, but it's also super ugly so he wears it to bug me. LOL.<BR>
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I must not make fun of people who use words like "SHO'LY" and "YOHSELF" ... I must not.... must.......... not..<BR>
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=328">Rhetoric</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

lupschada - medusa is marvelous. Wow, I was absent most of last month with travel and completely missed your earlier posts.  Greatness and wonder...and all of the above.<BR>
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muryan - I remember is quite good as well.  It feels like the conversation you have with yourself (am I the only one who talks to themself?) when the words break and trail to a whisper.  C'est bon!<BR>
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superfly - time rocks!  Very clever and quick to the punch.  I like it - plus, superfly is cool as hell.  I need a cooler username.<BR>
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deevaa - wow. your son, he really is something special huh? Is he always so altruistic? wow<BR>
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Just Some Girl - I read the lyrics.  Oh, I had a few words wrong and I like it even more now, if that was possible.  <BR>
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If there are Moby fans out there - get his newest if you don't have it.  Well worth the 16 dollars.  The Great Escape is just one of many amazing tunes.<BR>
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Rhetoric
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=869">wandering_soul</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Hello-I'm new to this site but I think it will be my place to vent and show my "true colors". I started writing poetry awhile ago and then I stopped...I was told by a friend that I should start again because he thought I would be a success...I only know that what I write is how I feel...please give me some of your opinions. I think you all are talented writers...
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

when i go home all the sheep say....  Daaaady your baaaaack.....?
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=17">deevaa</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

I dunno, sometimes he can be really pretty selfish... then other days - with people he cares about he can be so very selfLESS that I don't understand how the two can be in the same child.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=5">jackryhme</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

welcome to montana where the men are men and the sheep are scared.......  welcome to north dakota where the men are men, the women are too, and the sheep are scarce....
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=795">muryan</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

Rhet~ No dear, you  are not the only one who talks to themselves. Most of my poems are me talking to myself. Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. I didn't really like it, but I guess it's cool.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1">Kirk, Blender-Keeper</a><BR>
Date: 8 July 2002<P>

July Blender is (finally) here...technically only one day late, but given that July 1st was a Monday, I took the most liberal use of "first weekend of the month" so that Mo and I could go up to Maine for our anniversary...<BR>
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...and bk-you know what? I think we totally forgot about the dang cake! Whoops! Maybe I should add that to this month's Ramble, which is all about all the things that went wrong with the wedding, it's kind of comical...
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