I have gotten phone calls, e-mails and messages asking what is going on and why I haven’t posted in so long.
Well the short answer, I didn’t want to.
After the raving reviews I got from the Thanksgiving Blog I just didn’t feel like wasting my time anymore.
I figured when it was all in my head, people couldn’t say anything negative about it.
Once I put it into a visual word, people could take it the wrong way, and then say what they wanted.
People seem to forget that I used to be the guy who would tell you how it was, I guess I need to go back to being that jerk again?

This little break did give me a chance to get my comic strip up and going though.
It isn’t good, and God knows it still needs a lot of work, but it is up and going none the less.
I also sent off an ideal I had to a patent company.
The guy called me laughing at and loving the ideal and couldn’t wait to talk to me more about it.
I guess that’s a good thing?
So, I guess something positive did come out of all of this in the end?

Christmas has come and gone, it was a good one BTW, and now it’s New Years.
I am going to be the better person and I will forgive and try and forget some of the things that have happened to me over the last year.
As most of you know I, like so many others, didn’t have the best year.
Started the new job, problems rolling over from my old job, bills and just normal life.
That being said, I have it GREAT!
I still have a new house, 2 working vehicles with both having radios and A/C, I am in an enjoyable marriage, I have friends and I have family, I have enough money to pay all of my bills, then even enough to go out once and a while, I have satellite TV and internet, I even have little vacations once and awhile, but one of the big things is … I have a job to complain about!
All of the problems that other people are having in the world right now, well, I for one am not going to forget how good I have it and the blessings I do in fact have.

So, what do I have to complain about, right?
Yea, some people said some stuff that upset me.
Guess what though, I wonder how much of it was based from other peoples own guilt?
I am just saying, I normally don’t get offended or upset when someone says something negative and it has nothing to do with me.
So guess what, if it did upset you, that more then likely means that there is some thought of guilt within yourself, making you feel like it was about you, when in fact it might not have been.
We all lash out at others when they say something to hurt us though.
It is human nature after all to not wish to get hurt.
Well, human and animal … and vegetable too.
I mean plants do grow away from negative environments, and then also toward positive ones.
Hum, all this time I have been trying to figure out how to be more like a dog.
Yea, let me throw a little more into that dog comment real quick, they love unconstraint and forgive in a heartbeat.
We should all long to be more like dogs in my mind.
I have said in the past, (Yes I know I did not say this first) I only hope to some day be the person my dog thinks I am.
Now though, I am wondering if I need to be more like a plant?

So, I am going to wrap this up.
This is the last I am going to say about the Thanksgiving issues.
You say I am petty, I say you are guilt ridden, we can only agree to disagree.

It’s a new year, and guess what, I forgive you all.

For those of you who think I need to be apologizing, I have in E-mail, over the phone and on this very Blog.
We all have flaws, we will all upset each other some times.
The other person I tried to talk to and apologize to, well, they never called me back so if you still read over my site, that’s the best you are going to get I guess?
So, as I have been told of late, I WILL BE childish!
I will remember what they tried to teach me in school.
Forgive, forget and play nice.

Bar’s & Stripe’s Goes live 1/3/2010, so please go take a look at … and forgive the first strip, I know it sucks!

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