i really like nice people. It's funny how far and few between they are. i was hanging out with a certain girl today, and I have to say that she is one of the most noble people I've ever met. In fact, let's just give her the nickname noble .I was with the Noble, and about 10 of her friends. A couple of the people there were mad at one of their "friends" and started to talk all sorts of malevolent, slanderous, hurtful shit. Everybody jumped on the shit-talking bandwagon. The ring-leader was the best friend of Noble. People kept saying so and so is a bitch... isn't she noble! Noble, time and time again said... No, I think she's nice. No, I like her... etc etc.

I asked myself, how many people would do that... how many people would stand up to a gang of their friends and take the side of somebody that wasn't even there... the answer to my rhetorical question... not very many.

There's not a lot of people that I admire, Noble is definitely an exception. i love people that are genuinely nice... people that look for the good qualities in people instead of the bad. People that you know that when you aren't around them, they still have nothing but good things to say about you. I hope to surround myself with those people. I hope to be one of those people.

For some reason, it seems to be human nature to talk shit. Some innate instinct to belittle in order to boost your own ego. However, if you look at it from a logical perspective, in today's society, it's counter-evolutionary. i think that few people realize this important fact. Talking shit, though intended to make you look better, makes you look like a complete douchebag. How often do you hear somebody say... "Oh my god, I love so and so... you should hear the mean things they say about this person! It's awesome. They're so ruthless and conniving, I want to surround myself with them and put all my trust in them!" um... no. That's absurd. I'm also a firm believer that the opposite is actually true. I think that if you have good things to say about a person when they aren't around, or you stick up for somebody when they aren't around, it makes people really respect and admire you.

Hypothetical situation... maybe it's just my perception... but imagine the following scenario playing out. scenario a.)) Charlie, Tom, and Carl work together. Carl walks away and Tom says to Charlie.... "that Carl is so stupid, and the only reason he works here is because his cousin used to work here.

scenario b.)) Charlie, Tom, and Carl... again, Carl walks away Tom says to Charlie "Tom is such a smart guy, and he works so hard. I'm glad we work with him.

which Tom would you like more? the one in scenario a, or the one in scenario b?

it seems so obvious to me... but apparently it's not, because gossip and vilification seem to be the norm. So the moral of the story. Be nice. Ignore your instinct to talk shit. It only makes you look like an asshole. Take the high road. You'll be a better person for it, and other people will think so too. I apologize that I write like an elementary school kid. my thoughts are disjointed, unorganized, and horribly written.. . not to mention my grammar is shit, and I use ellipses a million times in each couple of lines. I'm going to blame it on the klonopine. hopefully nobody will talk shit about me because of it ;)

okay. tangent this deserves a blog of it's own... but I'm tired and figure I should say something about it in passing at least. First, I bought a new car. A 51 Dodge Business Coupe. It's a 12 second car... which means nothing to feminine lane... but I'm told it's pretty damn fast. It has flames and is super masculine. ha! I'm excited. I'm a manly man bitches ;) In all actuality, there was two reasons I got it. one a chance to bond with my father... that's his livelihood, and it will be nice to have some common bond with him. Second of all, it was a very good investment. My dad gets super cheap deals on cars, and I got this car for an amazing price. As far as me going fast or having an expensive car... not really for me... i think it will be kind of silly to see me having the car. So not my style. But, I'm very excited about it.

Oh also, I bought an investment house in ogden. 69k needs 25k in work. fixed up should be able to sell for 125 worst case scenario... 140 best case scenario... and that 25k in work is contracted out... because most of us know that I haven't done an ounce of hard work in my life... and I certainly don't intend to start now :) Furthermore, I lent some money for a share of equity in a reak estate llc called "vaunt equities" which contains 5 rental properties the mortgage on them is 1773$, the current rent with two out of the five houses rented is 1600$. and there's about 100k equity in them. Basically, what it comes down to me is I get a healthy return on my money as defined in a contract, and if not, i get a 50% stake in "vaunt equities" Pretty nervous/excited about the whole thing. Oh and there's a condo in my unit that is for rent... and it's for rent for 850. that makes me happy. Since I have no mortgage, if i decided to rent my condo and went back and lived with mommy i could make 850 a month... or i could buy a new house and use the 850 to offset mortgage costs.

and poker was fantastic today. that makes me happy. My day was absolutely amazing except for the fact that I didn't get to go see my friend Mike's band play. i was super excited to see them play. i love mike... and he's a talented little fucker too and I would have liked to be a groupie maybe throw him my unmentionables on stage. ;) supposedly it was videocamerad yes, i just made the word videocamera into a verb, and then conjugated it to the past participle. deal with it :p

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