self help

Warning: Talk about ex-girlfriend!

Happy New Year!

 Last night was of course New Year's Eve. I had a headache and a party to go to. I was also going to be house-sitting for a friend who would be out of town that night. 2008 was a pretty decent year for myself, much better than some of the previous years. At the end of 2006 I had two big things happen in my life, the death of my dog, Blitzen, and the end of a crazy relationship.

My dog had been in my life for 11 years, he was one of the most well-mannered, easy going, and loving dogs once could ask for. The relationship I was in I couldn't begin to describe, I guess I could say this much: very dysfunctional and  yet for me, exciting! There was something about this person that really grabbed me, I am still not sure what it was. Anyway, things didn't end well, we were both at fault and that was the end of that.

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Recently I have been enjoying the many different obstacles life has been giving me. Most of my life I have been a loose cannon and the past two years I have been continually working on controlling it. Anger has always been a problem for me. To some people, like myself, anger can be disabling and self-sabotage.

Driving is lots of fun and at the same time a major hassle. There are so many knuckleheads our there who just shouldn't be behind the wheel. Sure, we all make mistakes, but making 4 mistakes in a 15 second time-frame is just unacceptable. This kind of stuff happens all the time. I can usually stay cool but I sometimes manage to blow up at some unknowing jackass who just cut me off because they were too busy talking to their friend about their newest pairs of shoes on the cell phone! Obviously, I made some of that up, but I think you get it. So now without further ado I thought I would share my tools that I use to help further avoid making myself look like a nutcase and the violator a bigger idiot than they already are:

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