Mistakes & Rakes

This is a poem I wrote in August '05.
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Mistakes I have made,
this is true;
but how in the world
am I to know what to do?

I'm so scared;
I feel like I'm lost,
like I'm all alone.

How come it seems
so easy to just
dial a # on the phone?

Why can't I do it?
Instead I just wind up
throwing a big fit.

Confusion and animosity
are all that surround me.
There isn't even a peaceful
place to take a pee.

How is anyone supposed
to think in this mess?
There's nothing left to do-
nothing except stress.

No one to turn to,
nowhere to run;
there's not even 
time to have fun.

So many things have
changed. Lately it seems
from all my friends I've
become astranged.

Seems like trouble
is always around the bend.
Sometimes I just wish
I had that one special friend.

We'd laugh, we'd joke, we'd
even call each other dorks.
Sometimes we could even
stab each other with forks.

I seem to make the
stupidest mistakes-
like hitting my little
brother with rakes.

It seems like everyone
around me knows
my weaknesses.
At least this time
there were no witnesses!

I'm such an idiot sometimes.
I just can't get away from it.
Please excuse me now while
I sink in this bottomless pit!

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8 Toys from the 90's That I Really Miss (and 1 Toy I Don't)

I was a kid in the late 80's/early 90's; a bit young for New Kids on the Block, but way too old for Barney the Dinosaur. We did spends loads of time playing with Barbie, Legos, and these following toys that seemed to have been over in a time span shorter than Vanilla Ice's career. Hey, universe, plaid and ripped jeans have made a comeback; bring back my Super Soaker!

Tamagotchi's! Mine never lived that long, but wait! Sometimes the buttons would malfunction, making it impossible for you to remove their, ahem, waste droppings. I swear! (above)


POGs. Remember? You flipped them or threw them or something? The ying-yang POGs up there might be the most 90's thing ever.


Hungry Hungry Hippos was clearly the best game ever, although looking back, it might have secretly been an astute metaphor for capitalist greed...


Troll dolls. How did we ever sleep with these creepy things staring at us from the nightstand?? I loved them though, must say!


Gak. Did anyone else have the pizza-scented Gak? That stuff was nasty. Looking back, Nickelodeon was basically the cultural embodiment of the 90's.


Super Soakers! I'm sure they still make these in some super high-tech version that comes with a clutch and a gear-shift, but I remember pumping that air-pressure gizmo until I was blue in the face.


Skip-It. What other toy could you play with while simultaneously trying to trip your sister?



Beanie Babies. We all talked our parents into buying us fuzzy platypus after fuzzy platypus by saying that eventually we could sell them all as collectors' items and thus finance our college education. Well, that didn't turn out so well. UPDATE: I just did some Googling and found out Ty is still in business and cranking out the Beanies (and also something called "Ty Girlz"), but judging from their slightly ghetto website they're not pulling in a huge bankroll from pawning off Inch the Worm.

BONUS TOY I DO NOT MISS:


Stretch Armstrong. Remember how cool those commercials were of kids yanking poor Stretch's corn-syrup-filled rubbery limbs clear across the room? Where did you go, Stretch? Come back.... No wait please don't. I don't need to deal with that mess again.

What toys do you miss from your childhood?

Has Social Networking Gone Too Far?

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. Written by Columbia Pictures 

Has social networking finally gone too far? You tell me. The above is a plot summary for the upcoming movie "The Social Network" due out October 1st of this year. View the trailer...here

Facebook's Founders Talk About The "Facebook Movie"

Blogging

So many of you may be wondering... "how does she come up with all these blog entries?"

i subscribe to many sites, my uncle sends me lots of stuff, and I read others blogs so that's how i get entries. I always ask for a blogger's permission before I use their entry and when I use their entry, I make sure I give them credit.

feel free to take some of my entries if you want. just keep all the links that are in the entry and link it back to my blog (whichever one you took it from-all are set to public view and comment) then let me know you did it so I can read your blog :-)