24. Bummer

Well, I was suppose to hang out with a friend today, we talked about it for a couple of days and when today came, she ended up having other plans. The plan for us was to hang out at my house and watch some movies, maybe some other stuff too. I wanted to start off with meeting her at this restaurant that I go to a lot beforehand. I guess you can think of it as a dating attempt.

I ended up going to the restaurant anyways, but while I was eating, I felt alone and wondered what will happen now. I don't know how much longer she has before going back to Boone and I feel like I should have talked more about it. The only positive is that winter break is around the corner if I ran out of time this break.

23. Remembrance Day

November 11th, the Day of Remembrance for those for fought and died for our freedoms all over the world. To me, I use to never take to heart the day until about three years ago when I started to think about my own familiy's history. My father's side had the war veterans while my mother's side had her father and brother who were peace-time vets. Ever since I paused at 11:00am for a minute or two to pay my respects to those who served, I have always wanted a poppy to wear to honor my family.

Also, this day even means more to me because of the recent death of my grandfather
(Roy Doucet) who served on the HMCS Saguenay in the Royal Canadian Navy back in the 50's. It might have been peace time when he and his brother Ralph were in the Navy, but they still served and were ready to defend the nation while on that destroyer.

My great-uncle's brother Audley, who recently died last year (I only saw him once at Uncle Frank's 80th birthday) was a Prisoner of War in the Asian theatre during World War II while my other uncle (I can't remember his name, but when I find out I will put up his name ASAP) was shot down and killed over Chester, England defending against the Germans. I also believe my dad's father was in the services as well, but I never knew him because he died when my father was four.

I will be forever grateful for their sacrifice, courage, and honor for being in the service and serving my country.

To my relatives who served on both sides of my family, I salute you and will remember you always.

To Papa, my Hero:

The Naval Prayer

O Eternal Lord God,
who
and rulest the raging of the sea;
who has compassed the waters with bounds
until day and night come to an end;
be pleased to receive into Thy almighty and most gracious protection
the persons of us Thy servants, and the Fleet in which we serve.

Preserve us from the dangers of the sea,
and from the violence of the enemy;
that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious Sovereign Lady,
Queen Elizabeth,
and her Dominions,
and a security for such as pass upon the seas upon their lawful occasions;
that the inhabitants of our Commonwealth may in peace and quietness
serve Thee our God;
and that we may return in safety
to enjoy the blessings of the land,
with the fruits of our labours,
and with a thankful remembrance of Thy mercies
to praise and glorify Thy Holy Name;
Amen.

Please, if you can, stop for a minute at 11:00am and think about who in your family or friends have served and sacrficed themselves for your country and for freedom. Thank you!

22. A Nice Argument

Open up and say Ahhh! It feels great to be alive today, the world makes a ton more sense than at did the past eight years. I wish I could have voted for Obama, but I would need to have my green card changed to a U.S. Citizenship in order to do that. The amazing part is that I didn't realize how many of my friends are republican or voted for republicans and I can only really count a handful of friends who are Democrats like moi. The downside of this election is that I notice a lot of ignorance and stupidity from my friends because the outcome, not all them, just the ones that are saying they are going to another country and they were probably the ones calling us lefty's cowards for the same thing if Bush was re-elected!

Anyways, I had a text message conversation with my friend Lydia who didn't take lightly the OBAMA!!! message I sent her (yes, I understand, duh), but she took it too hard and kinda hurt my feelings by calling me a baby killer because that was the big reason she voted for McCain because he was against abortions. So here is the conversation (I'll start a couple texts in where the argument actually started):

Lydia- Baby Killer
Chris- Aw, he'll leave that to the states.
Lydia- Psh. See where that will get him.
Chris- We'll see what he will do in the White House. We have to remain optimistic
Lydia- Psh he already said what he was going to do. It's sad.
Chris- Are you that concern about that particular subject?
Lydia- Yup.
Chris- So you are for taking a right of your own sex away?
Lydia- Since when is murdering a right?
Lydia- You can protect yourself beforehand but after the baby's there it's a life.
Chris- Lydia, you eat eggs for breakfast, right?
Lydia- And steak for dinner, but that's not a human.
Chris- Humans are animals too, some people are too protective of our species. I know a bear wouldn't care if we were human, we're meat to them.
Lydia- Just go to YouTube and look up the kinds of abortion he supports. It's sick.
Lydia- Haha, I don't think you even mean that? Human life is an invaluable thing. We are not meat. Plus bears eat humans for food. We kill babies cause we're selfish and stupid.
Chris- We might be the animal that talks and builds massive structures, but we are the first part the most and that is animals.
Lydia- Do animals have abortion Chris?
Chris- They do result to eating their young, it's about the same. We kill baby chicks while in the egg so we can feast on the yolk that was an aborted chicken.
Lydia- We're not chickens. Or animals. We're effing humans.
Chris- We are animals, we eat, breathe, swim, mate, and kill like other animals. We wouldn't be in the animal kingdom if we weren't.
Lydia- So you and your set goldfish have the same value?
Chris- Yes, and goldfish don't have a 3 second memory, it's been proven.
Lydia- Wow... special.
Chris- In fact, we are the only animal that purposely harms our own bodies with alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and obesity. Which would lower ourselves in reality.
Lydia- That's cause we're stupid.
Chris- And therefore no different from animals.
Lydia- Wrong.
Chris- Right. Haha. Can we end the argument? We have basically covered every thing.

I just notice while typing the whole conversation up that Lydia said we are not meat, but she says that bears see us as food, which means we are meat. Makes me wonder if she means that we are something like cheese or a piece of metal or wood...

We are no different from animals, we are the most complex of all the animals, but we are apart of the food chain like the rest of them.

I said this the last time when I had the other abortion blog, don't criticise me for my view, just try and understand that what I said makes sense and that you don't have to agree with it. I'm not saying I am right and you are wrong, I am saying this is what I believe and unless you can give a constructive response against it, do not comment.