A friend of mine from college has been in and out of drug treatment centers for the better part of the last 20 years. I really wish he could get his life together, not only for his sake, but for his family as well. He’s got 3 kids and they barely even know him. His mother is always worried that she’s gonna find him dead in an alley one day and he doesn’t even seem to care. I really hope he can get his life on track soon.

Posting about my nephew made me think of a friend I had growing up. He was always a good kid when he was younger. He got good grades and never got into trouble. It wasn’t until he was about twenty three that he started experimenting with drugs and alcohol and really started to go downhill fast. He was in several different alcohol rehab and drug rehab programs and nothing seemed to work. One night he was driving around drunk. He ran through a red light and slammed into another car. Thankfully nobody was seriously injured, but my friend was sent into a drug rehab facility by order of the court. It took him almost 3 months to get clean.

My nephew recently checked himself into an addiction treatment facility. He has struggled with drug addiction and alcoholism for nearly 13 years and he finally was able to see that it was really affecting not only himself, but everyone who cares about him. I’m glad he was able to check himself into rehab before he was forced into it after breaking the law or anything. I wish him luck and hope he can clean his life up while he still has time.

I definitely have to get a new wardrobe for church. These fitted pants on my hour-glass shape just won’t do. The last time I went to church I felt like a complete sinner, I ran out as soon as service was over. My girlfriend was concerned afterwards, said that I should stay and mingle and that it’s ok to wear what I have. No way.  Lord knows I didn’t want to bring any temptation into His house. I haven’t been back to church since. That was six months ago. Go figure.

I absolutely love it when old friends get in touch with me via email. Especially if we have not spoken to each other in over two years or more. But I really do hate it when after such a long time these friends don’t care to ask how you’ve been but start filling your inbox with a series of jokes and chain letters. I have to seriously think about blocking these people.

Want to know what my biggest pet peeve is a gold digging woman. These are the women who get into relationships just so that they can get a man’s money. There is no love involved here, at least not for the man anyways. These women think that they are better than everyone else is but in actuality, they are just a step or two from a prostitute. Men be careful. Any signs of a gold digger RUN!

I was so appalled and concerned when I heard that actor Owen Wilson was admitted to the hospital for an alleged attempted suicide. He’s one of the funniest guys in the movie that I know why would anyone want to do that to him or herself. I mean it’s not as if he’s not getting called to star in movies or anything. Oh well, I guess having lots of money really can’t make some people happy.

I am in all support of those who have strong views about a certain topic in society and want to stick by what they believe in. I love that. But I think some people allow themselves to get too passionate and involved when trying to champion a cause. I never expected last week to go into KFC and see protesters in front of the restaurant holding up “Save the Chickens” signs. Clearly they are vegetarians but we can’t all be vegetarians or meat lovers for that matter. The minute I left out of the car walking towards the restaurant’s entrance, they all looked at me as if I was going to commit a crime. I graciously said “I’m sorry. But I’m very hungry!”

I grew up on wearing uniforms to school in another country where I used to live so I was very happy to see that uniforms were introduced to schools in Hartford Connecticut last year. There were a lot of kids who were against it and I questioned if the uniform idea would last for very long. I’m sure glad that it did though. When kids don’t have to concentrate on what clothes they are going to wear to school or about trying to outshine their peers with their style of dress, that’s the time when they would take their education more seriously. Kudos to Mayor Eddie Perez on this one.

Why do people wear eyeglasses anyway? Have you ever wondered about that? I wore glasses since I was ten years old and as I got into my thirties I still had to wear them. My vision was still not clear after all those years. So what was the purpose of getting glasses in the first place if after several years everything remained the same with my sight. So quite recently I woke up one morning and decided to get rid of the glasses. After all, all it ever does is to give you those unsightly dark marks on your nose bridge.