Is there a “Status Updates” protocol???
All these little internet sites…I.e., facebook, myspace, twitter…they all have status boxes…a place for you to write what you are doing, thinking of or feeling at that specific moment in time. What is the point of these things?
The reason I am asking is because…after a long conversation about life and relationships and all, with a friend of mine I hadn’t spoken to in a long time…I logged onto facebook. On the top of my screen, there was a box that said status updates…
so I wrote exactly what I was thinking…
“enuff with the BS, I’m looking for somebody that can develop into my wife…who is down?”
Now, my status was linked to my twitter as well (cheap advertising…follow me www.twitter.com/SimplyJayJay) Well, it was what I was thinking at that exact moment…being that I just had an hour long conversation about it. Within minutes…I had comments.
..things like
”soliciting for a wife over the internet is so not a good look”“…throwing you cards on table…you will be FLOODED with challenges…”“u a fool”“u had wifey…and let her slip away”
The private messages I received were so crazy…cant share those. But I was like damn…maybe I shouldn’t have written that.
At the same time, I saw some status updates from people on my friends list and don’t think mine was out of the way or would make me look bad. Some of theirs said…
Written from a girl…”I like it rough”
Written from a guy…”girl u got me up so its your job to put me down”
Aaaayyyyyyyyooooo! Craziness!!!!
So my question to all of you is…What is ok and not ok to put on your status updates?
Somebody help Simply
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Please watch your kids...
How hard is it for parents to watch their kids nowadays? Especially in crowded and busy environments. It is not only to keep kids out of trouble, it is also to protect them. It’s for their own good.
I was in Denny’s on Mother’s Day morning. It was packed. I mean like a million people…or 150 or so...lol. As you can imagine, all the tables were full, the waiting area was full…even people outside. They must have had their whole staff working that day. So lets add, 20 workers to that number…120 people in a Denny’s restaurant.
Kids are running around like crazy. They just roaming through the restaurant, here and there, bothering people at their tables as they wanna crawl under them chasing their toys. Ridiculous. It was all fun and games right???
Until…
This kid comes out of bathroom…alone, was looking backwards as he walked forward…he must have seen something he didn’t like because…PPPPPPUUUUUUNNNNNNNNEEEE…he just bolted like 100mph through the restaurant….still looking backwards. So obviously, he didn’t see the waiter walking across from a table to the kitchen carrying a stack of about 5 plates…with forks, knives, syrup, etc… so, by the time the kid decided ‘hey, if I’m gonna run this fast, maybe I should look where I’m going’…the kid turned his head…and …
SMACK!!!!…ran his head straight into the stack of plates. Glass went flying into the air…as the kid went flying to the ground. With one smack with the noggin all the plates smashed into pieces. You know what follows…kid crying, head leaking blood all over Denny’s broken-glass-covered floor…parents going crazy….
and guess what???
They blamed it all on the waiter carrying the plates. Parents yelling he should have been watching the kid coming. That the kid is sick mentally and all this other stuff. Until one smart person said…“if the kid is so sick mentally, then maybe you should have put a little more energy into watching your kid, and took him to the bathroom yourself.”
A hush went through the restaurant…as the parents slowly walked their son out stopping the blood leaking with a stack of Denny’s napkins. What a shame?
Whose fault is it?
Speak to Simply…
I was in Denny’s on Mother’s Day morning. It was packed. I mean like a million people…or 150 or so...lol. As you can imagine, all the tables were full, the waiting area was full…even people outside. They must have had their whole staff working that day. So lets add, 20 workers to that number…120 people in a Denny’s restaurant.
Kids are running around like crazy. They just roaming through the restaurant, here and there, bothering people at their tables as they wanna crawl under them chasing their toys. Ridiculous. It was all fun and games right???
Until…
This kid comes out of bathroom…alone, was looking backwards as he walked forward…he must have seen something he didn’t like because…PPPPPPUUUUUUNNNNNNNNEEEE…he just bolted like 100mph through the restaurant….still looking backwards. So obviously, he didn’t see the waiter walking across from a table to the kitchen carrying a stack of about 5 plates…with forks, knives, syrup, etc… so, by the time the kid decided ‘hey, if I’m gonna run this fast, maybe I should look where I’m going’…the kid turned his head…and …
SMACK!!!!…ran his head straight into the stack of plates. Glass went flying into the air…as the kid went flying to the ground. With one smack with the noggin all the plates smashed into pieces. You know what follows…kid crying, head leaking blood all over Denny’s broken-glass-covered floor…parents going crazy….
and guess what???
They blamed it all on the waiter carrying the plates. Parents yelling he should have been watching the kid coming. That the kid is sick mentally and all this other stuff. Until one smart person said…“if the kid is so sick mentally, then maybe you should have put a little more energy into watching your kid, and took him to the bathroom yourself.”
A hush went through the restaurant…as the parents slowly walked their son out stopping the blood leaking with a stack of Denny’s napkins. What a shame?
Whose fault is it?
Speak to Simply…
Blog Beef???
Blog Beef???
So, responses to blogs can come in many ways. Some readers look at them subjectively…and some take them personal. Well, I received a personal email from somebody that was very disturbed by a blog I put up temporarily.
This is exactly what they wrote:
“U call yourself a grown man but put ur info on blast. All ur blogs. Blogs are supposed to b used 2 express thoughts about the world in one’s own perspective. It seems as tho U have missed it.”
What does Simply have to say???
Hahahaha…oops, sorry. I’m still laughing. I guess the reader is right. Many blogs do talk about the world. But…if you research it yourself a little more, actually blogging can also serve as one’s online diary, and include events in one’s life that they encounter. It could simply just serve as an outlet of feelings to give yourself a fresh breath of air. It just depends on the writer. With me, I mix my blogs up to include personal events and other subjects. And I am a mature grown man. Don’t confuse my blogs with my life in total. I write my thoughts from a specific moment in time. I will include enough information to spark a reaction from a reader…
So that raises these questions:
What purpose should a blog serve?
Also, is there a such thing as an anonymous confrontation? Is there any dignity in it?
Hmmmm…to any of those that think there is…Kill yourself!!!
World, I’m waiting on your response.
Simply
So, responses to blogs can come in many ways. Some readers look at them subjectively…and some take them personal. Well, I received a personal email from somebody that was very disturbed by a blog I put up temporarily.
This is exactly what they wrote:
“U call yourself a grown man but put ur info on blast. All ur blogs. Blogs are supposed to b used 2 express thoughts about the world in one’s own perspective. It seems as tho U have missed it.”
What does Simply have to say???
Hahahaha…oops, sorry. I’m still laughing. I guess the reader is right. Many blogs do talk about the world. But…if you research it yourself a little more, actually blogging can also serve as one’s online diary, and include events in one’s life that they encounter. It could simply just serve as an outlet of feelings to give yourself a fresh breath of air. It just depends on the writer. With me, I mix my blogs up to include personal events and other subjects. And I am a mature grown man. Don’t confuse my blogs with my life in total. I write my thoughts from a specific moment in time. I will include enough information to spark a reaction from a reader…
So that raises these questions:
What purpose should a blog serve?
Also, is there a such thing as an anonymous confrontation? Is there any dignity in it?
Hmmmm…to any of those that think there is…Kill yourself!!!
World, I’m waiting on your response.
Simply
Are kids like dogs???
Kids on leashes…
So, while out here in Puerto Rico, there has been something that has been bothering me since I have been here. I have seen it happening in the mall, at the games, and sometimes just out in the middle of the town. What is going on? It may be happening all over the world, but I wouldn’t know because I’m here. So…
What is up with parents walking their little kids on leashes?
Now, at times they seem to want to dress the kids up. They will put a little teddy bear book bag on their back…or a little Barbie book bag. Make them look cute with matching outfits and all. Then you see the leash hanging from the back and in the palms of the parents hands. Everything be cool until the kid see something they like, as simple as a piece of candy or a little toy, and start with that little clumsy run. Then,
WHHOPPPP….they just yank they little asses. Snatch their damn feet right off the floor. Kids just lay on the dirty floor with the same expression a dog has right before it starts whining…those puppy eyes. Poor little kids.
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being a kid?…that curiosity, that wonderment of the world…wanting to learn more about the world…wanting to explore and find all the little things and experiences that all add together to form our personalities and characteristics of the adult we are today…
So somebody tell me…
Is it not enough to just discipline your kids when they do something that is so terrible and yet at the same time let them venture somewhat cautiously into the unknowns?
Are these cute, society and socially acceptable, leashes really necessary?
WTF!!!
Simply
So, while out here in Puerto Rico, there has been something that has been bothering me since I have been here. I have seen it happening in the mall, at the games, and sometimes just out in the middle of the town. What is going on? It may be happening all over the world, but I wouldn’t know because I’m here. So…
What is up with parents walking their little kids on leashes?
Now, at times they seem to want to dress the kids up. They will put a little teddy bear book bag on their back…or a little Barbie book bag. Make them look cute with matching outfits and all. Then you see the leash hanging from the back and in the palms of the parents hands. Everything be cool until the kid see something they like, as simple as a piece of candy or a little toy, and start with that little clumsy run. Then,
WHHOPPPP….they just yank they little asses. Snatch their damn feet right off the floor. Kids just lay on the dirty floor with the same expression a dog has right before it starts whining…those puppy eyes. Poor little kids.
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being a kid?…that curiosity, that wonderment of the world…wanting to learn more about the world…wanting to explore and find all the little things and experiences that all add together to form our personalities and characteristics of the adult we are today…
So somebody tell me…
Is it not enough to just discipline your kids when they do something that is so terrible and yet at the same time let them venture somewhat cautiously into the unknowns?
Are these cute, society and socially acceptable, leashes really necessary?
WTF!!!
Simply
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Feelings...
I recently put up a blog that hurt someone's feelings. That blog has now been deleted. In my blogs, in no way am I trying to hurt somebody. I am Simply writing. In any way, if I hurt somebody feelings. Understand that I did not mean it that way. I will try to consider others feelings from now on when I write as I have hurt somebody's feelings that I really do care about. Public apology goes out to you. You know who you are. Hope all is well. I will continue to post blogs. Enjoy.
Sorry...from Simply
Sorry...from Simply
Friday, May 15, 2009
Simply or Jay Jay...or ...Simply...Jay Jay
Simply...Jay Jay...these are labels that describe a lifestyle that he lives. Not a normal lifestyle that most think of, nor one that we dream of. It is just what he believes, goals he pursues, thoughts he put into action...simply, the life he lives! Accomplishments are things that everyone can enjoy at one time or another. Good for u, but he needs more! Achievement is something that not everybody can reach but when they do, are satisfied. Even better for u, but not even close for him! What this man strives for is Advancement. This is never being satisfied, always wanting to move forward and position yourself to stay one step ahead. That's the step that everyone is looking for, reaching for, lunging for...you can even say hunting for. He is the Game...the BIG GAME...
or...
Simply...
Jay Jay...
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Quarter-Life Crisis
This puts it all into words perfectly. The "Quarter-Life
Crisis" is when you stop going along with the crowd and start
realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't
know and may not like.
You start feeling insecure. "Where will I be in a year or two?
Hell, where am I now?"
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends
that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly so close... and the people you have lost touch with are actually better friends. What you do not realize is that they are realizing
that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that
they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would
be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going
to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same
people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so
great after all. You are beginning to understand yourself and what you
want and do not want.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find
yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that
you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of
what is acceptable and what is not.
You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest
force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused.
Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with
dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further
away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such
damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone
decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love
someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you
are not a bad person. One night stands and random hook ups start to look
cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with
your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a
decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for
yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just
like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that everyone reading
this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times,
trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
Crisis" is when you stop going along with the crowd and start
realizing that there are a lot of things about yourself that you didn't
know and may not like.
You start feeling insecure. "Where will I be in a year or two?
Hell, where am I now?"
You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends
that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly so close... and the people you have lost touch with are actually better friends. What you do not realize is that they are realizing
that too and are not really cold or catty or mean or insincere, but that
they are as confused as you.
You look at your job. It is not even close to what you thought you would
be doing or maybe you are looking for one and realizing that you are going
to have to start at the bottom and are scared.
You miss the comforts of college, of groups, of socializing with the same
people on a constant basis. But then you realize that maybe they weren't so
great after all. You are beginning to understand yourself and what you
want and do not want.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find
yourself judging a bit more than usual because suddenly you realize that
you have certain boundaries in your life and add things to your list of
what is acceptable and what is not.
You are insecure and then secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest
force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused.
Suddenly change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with
dear life but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further
away and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such
damage to you or you lay in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone
decent enough to get to know better. You love someone but maybe love
someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you
are not a bad person. One night stands and random hook ups start to look
cheap and getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic.
You go through the same emotions and questions over and over and talk with
your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make a
decision.
You worry about loans and money and the future and making a life for
yourself and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just
like to be a contender! What you may not realize is that everyone reading
this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times,
trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
What the hell is going on? The "Quarter-Life"... welcome to the crisis!!!
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