The Briar Patch

My current relationship, well here we go. I guess I should start by saying I am engaged. Have been for only a few months now. We have been together for roughly 5 ish years now. It has been interesting, has had its ups and its downs. Here I guess is how we got here.... I was the captain of a co-ed hockey team. Also on that team was my girlfriend of 9 years. One season we really needed females so we asked another woman on the team if she could bring a friend or two. She brought a shy female defense woman. She played a couple seasons with us. During that time my personal life changed. We broke up. I moved in with a mutual friend and life carried on. I had a strong love affair with a few whiskeys bottles for a bit, but I was encouraged to ask the new girl out. Eventually I did. Our first date I brought her back to the house and of course my friends were phoning my ex. And her mother called her later that night worried as to were she was since dinner doesn't usually go from 6 till whe...

A fruit I dislike and why? Can I say Perez Hilton? Or are we being PC and meaning an actual fruit? I mean it would be way easier to rant about a loud mouth jackass than a real fruit cause I do like most fruit. Almost any fruit ending in the word berry is good. Raspberry, strawberry, blueberry.... All good. I am gonna say I cannot say anything bad about the berry family. Next you get apples and pears. I am not a huge fan of either BUT they are both good. Exotic stuff like bananas (Exotic being we don't grow them here in Canada. I mean yes you can get a banana anywhere that doesn't mean we grow the in E town.) Kiwi are awesome. These new super hybrid fruits like the Asian apple pear, while being a crime against nature are damn good. Plus who doesn't like watching a girl at a banana..... Oh and pineapple, good fresh pineapple can go on anything. And grapes I can never say enough about grapes. Red, green, concord, black whatever grapes are thee best fruit ever. I unders...

Some of these topics are so random!! My thoughts on ageism, that is a random frickin topic! Like what do you wanna know? Do we have an example to work with or something....... No, so I guess I will just go with some random age shit. I will be blunt, people go downhill with age. Can a 50 or 60 year old man do the same shit that a 30 year old can? If your honest no. And if they do I can guarantee they will feel it much more the next day. I don't just mean work either. I talking everything from sports to tying one on. Same with the mind. Don't get me wrong, I am going to get back to the mind. I am not saying it is gone but it ain't what it used to be. Not as quick. There honestly people go downhill with time. So is ageism is a valid thing. My thoughts are always the right person so for the right job. Your not going to get a 65 year old to run a race against a 20 year old. That's not discrimination, that's common sense and it is the older generation that seems to have...

I love to read. I don't even know how many books I have. It helps my grandma at one point had a second hand book store. SO it isn't just one genre, I own many genres. Plus for some reason in High School I liked to steal texts books so I have some of them too. Anyways I like this topic cause I have a ton to choose from. A book I liked, the list is too long. I just finished the Once and Future King. Loved it. So that is what I have on the brain. Any of the Pendergast series, any of the Bones series, any one of the Harry Potter books. Most of Anne Rices books, like I said the list is endless! But what I am going to use is a series. Actually a couple of series. I actually didn't find them in a book store but a co worker who knew I loved reading lent them to me. The Malloeran and the Beligrad. By David Eddings It is two 5 book fantasy series. The Beligrad is the original and the Malloeran is the sequel. My only beef is they are the same story. Or basically the same story but t...

In this challenge maybe they didn't make things broad enough. Not everyone has tattoos. Not everyone likes or wants tattoos or any body mods. I want tats! But the fact is I am a giant sissy scared to go under the needle for them! Major turn on. Some chicks with good tats are totally hot! But it has to be both a hot chick and a good tat. Some guys tats are pretty sweet too. (Not a turn on) Well done tats are awesome. Shitty tats are shit. If your gonna change your body for life you would think you want a good one. Again I am too much a baby to get one but I guess I can talk about them. Full body art while neat I think is dumb. What is the point in getting completely covered? You do realize with time your skin is gonna sag. And what looks awesome now, will not at 80! That doesn't just go for full body. I mean you gotta think am I still gonna like this tat 60 years from now? Like a ton of tramp stampers are gonna regret it! Also hollow words and Chinese symbols are oh so very ...

This is a tough one. I mean I am saying it can be living or dead, from anytime period it is just broad as shit. So I had to think about it, cause a million people interest me. From Jesus to Hitler and a million in between. So I figured keep it relevant to me. It should be someone in the modern era. Someone from a middle class background. Average in almost all ways. Not a pop icon (Cause Johnny Depp you woulda won) or some one who doesn't live in the same world. I hate to say it, as much as Eminem fascinates me I doubt he still has the same middle class day to day problems. So you know what the problem becomes? There is no average Joe people really know. The only ones are bad guys. Serial Killers are typically average Joes. The only time you hear of an average person is when they do bad shit. So then I remember a bad man who did bad shit but was also the most average dude. Roy DeMeo. If you don't know Roy was a mobster in the Gambino Crime Family back in the day. The reason an...

Well this one is hard. How can you pick a place to live that you have never visited. I mean I could easily live in Havana or L.A I love those cities but they are disqualified cause I have been there. SO I start to think of places I wanna go and the list is huge!! But would I want to live there? Russia would be amazing to see, actually most of the "Eastern Block" would be. I have a polish friend who has shown me pictures and it really doesn't look all grey and dead like TV makes it out to be. But I think that would totally be a holiday spot. I have a feeling that his pictures don't show everything that goes on there. Western Europe is like a dream for me, I would love to go there. And I think I could easily live there. Britain, France, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and on and on.... Problem is it is soooo far away. I am Canadian, even more so I am Albertan and 99% of my family and friends live here. 15 years ago I might have been brave enough to tread over...

10 facts about me that are interesting?? Do they have to be true?? I mean this challenge does make a person think a lot so I will try and find 10 interesting things about me..... 1) I am a big baby. Seriously I get choked up at shit. Like the movie the blindside. Ya I wont say what but there is a scene that comes on and I cant even talk without wanting to wail like a bitch. Also The Two Towers has a scene like that. And it is way worse when hungover, like I wanna cry. And it isn't always sad shit some is really happy shit! WTF is wrong with me?! 2) I never met my father. Game of Thrones I am totally Tavis Snow. Try my best to be like Jon Snow not Ramsay Snow...... 3) Writing is all I really wanna do. I mean books was what it started at. Comics would be amazing. TV or movies would be epic!! But right now it is a blog and soon an online series..... 4) Back in the day. (Again I feel old) My favorite pub wrote my name on the Wisers bottle cause no one else drank it! Back when i...

AH young love, the 3rd part of a 30 part challenge. I am a tenth done! And I already confessed my memories are hazy at best. This is more recent though, only 20 years ago (Fuck I am old) so I am a little less hazy. Lets start with young love. Does a 15 year old know what love is? Not familial love, for relatives but real love for someone else. Or is a great rack that puts out love?? I dunno if at that age people do know love but I do believe that my first real "girlfriend" was my first love. Not because she as the first girl to let me see her naked. Not because she was my first kiss,not even because we were together for 3 years. Which in teenage years I think is like eons.... We did a shit ton of stuff together. I mean in three years you will. It was Love because I could see a future. I even pictured one. I come from an oil city. Back then it wasn't booming. (Not that it is now. Thanks Notley!!) So I saw a "patch" future. But at 17 I did see a future with this...

I am gonna start this with my memory is awful. And I ain't sure why. I am by no means a pot smoker. Which I hear can affect ones short term memory. And I will admit I do drink, maybe more than I should in the past and still some now. But again not nearly enough I don't think to make me lose anything. My memory is just bad! So with that I guess for the challenge I will do a couple really old memories. First off might not be my oldest memory. But it has been around as long as I can remember. It isn't anymore mind you, my grandparents quit smoking years ago BUT while they smoked my grandma always rolled smokes. It was always before bed after I had a nice warm bath.  Gran would be sitting at the table. The tobacco was players green. She would stuff it in the black rolling machine put the empty cigarette on the tip, pull it back a viola! A smoke. Then tap it a couple times and put it in the tin. She had one and grandpa had one. This went on for years, as I got older I remember...

So as the first of thirty writing challenges, I am going to blog about social media. I mean I wanted to do this on its own but I will shorten it down for this challenge and rant my 5 biggest problems with this modern problem. Social Media. 1) Every clown can now say whatever they want to major audiences. I mean not me, my blog gets like 0 hits but some people can spit hate to anyone. Look at clowns like Return of Kings, retards like Roosh gain insane amounts of followers. Men who hate their lives find a spokesperson and parasites who in the past would not see the light of day become pseudo celebs. Look at white power or even black power on shit like twitter. Spitting hate towards fellow man. I don't think that is why the Internet or social media was invented. (Don't get your panties in a bunch I ain't saying it is a black or white thing I am saying any crazy group can spread. Hell look at Donald Trump!) 2) Politics. Notley, Trudeau ya these two clowns have governments i...