A bad Week

Well This past 2 weeks have been good and bad.  The good is that I went out with Erin the girl for some reason I felt would be able to help me take down my wall that I have build from all  the pain in the past.  The bad is that she dumped me yesturday after I found out  that my Grandma had a stroke and they don't think she will live past the next few days.  This is all on top of my car breaking which cost me $2,600 and trying to still get over the last girl I loved who I  still think about every day.  I was just thinking things were starting to go better for me.  I was over my depression I was feeling  good about myself and I was dating again and being happy being single.  Oh well back to the drawing board.  Please keep my Grandma in your prayers.  Thank You

JREAT

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STELLA AWARDS

It's time once again to review the winners of the annual "Stella Awards."

The Stella's are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's. That case inspired the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the United States. Here are this year's winners:

5th Place (tie):

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

5th Place (tie):

19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

5th Place (tie):

Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.

4th Place:

Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place:

   

A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2nd Place:

Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place:

This year's run away winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs.Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back &make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.

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Life Update

So I have not posted much lately or on XBL.  I have been hanging out with my friends and dating different girls.  This is all new to me because I have never really done this or been brave enough or confident enough to date much.  I use to do most of my dating from the internet.  I met my ex-wife though collegeclub.com, along with a lot of other woman that I dated or just went out with.  In the recent weeks I have gone out with many different women.  I am using other means other then the internet.  I mean a few of them have been from there but a lot of them have been though my friends or help of co-workers.  There are 2 that I think that might be good for me and one that I know that might turn out better and I see potential in her.  I say they might be good for me because they are more religious and that is one thing I have stepped away from in the last few years with my divorce and ex-girlfriend.  I went though some really hard times over the last few years, even to the point where I did not even care to live.  The only thing I had in life was Halo 2 it seemed it was my escape.  Anyway back to the story.  Erin is the newest girl that I just started to see.  She is a PT Therapist at the hospital that I work at, well this past Sunday one of her good friends had a very bad stroke and stopped breathing.  Erin had to do CPR or rescue breathing and 3 minutes later her friend Kate I believe started to breathe again.  The paramedics showed up and now Kate is in the hospital.  Erin saved her life.  Yesterday was a Catholic Holy day.  Erin and I are both Catholic but I have not been going to church.  Well Erin and I ate lunch together yesterday and she asked if I was going to church.  I said I did not know but I do like her and I cannot really say no to beautiful woman.  The problem was I had my Tuesday go-karting day all setup and had a lot of friends showing up.  Church was at 7pm I go right after I get out of work which is 5pm.  So I went go-karting and left at 6:30pm to make mass.  During mass the priest made an announcement about Kate and Erin stated to cry.  For some reason I had Kleenex in my pocket … I don’t normally carry any.  After mass she had to go to the hospital to visit with Kate but Erin thanked me for coming and for the support and gave me a big hug.  So I went back to go-karting with my friends.  It turned out to be a good day and I am glad I could be there for her.  Erin is a very nice person and she is tall about 5’11ish I am 6’2” so it is all good.  Anyway I just wanted to share a bit of my life it might not make much since but it does to me.   If any of you are religious I do ask that you pray for Kate so that she recovers quickly and for Erin to give her the strength to be there for Kate.

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Would you do this if you were drunk?

Jack wakes up at home with a huge hangover after the night of his office
Christmas party. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he
sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table.
And, next to them, a single red rose! Jack sits down and sees his clothing
in front of him, all clean and pressed. Jack looks around the room and sees
that it is in perfect order, spotlessly clean. So is the rest of the house.
He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at
him in the bathroom mirror, and notices a note on the table, "Breakfast is
on the stove, I left early to go shopping. -- Love you, Jill"

He stumbles to the kitchen, and sure enough, there is hot breakfast and the
morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, "Son,
what happened last night?"

Jack's son answers, "Well, you came home after 3 a.m., drunk and out of your
mind. You broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and got that black
eye when you ran into the door!"

Jack says, "So, why is everything in such perfect order, so clean? I have a
red rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me."

His son replies, "Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to
take your pants off, you screamed, 'Leave me alone, lady, I'm married!'"

Broken furniture - $85.26

Hot breakfast - $4.20

Red rose bud - $3.00

Two aspirins - $0.38

Saying the right thing at the right time . . .
Priceless


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Am I a Jerk for this?

OK so there is this girl that I have kind of been seeing but she lives 2100 miles away.  We have been arguing a lot lately and was trying to be nice and I sent her some flowers just for the hell of it to say that I Love Her and I am thinking about her.  She gets on messenger and calls me a Jerk, they are a waist of money because they have no use, and they are dead.  WOW I have never been called a Jerk for doing something nice.

All women are evil and all men are stupid but that is just what I am thinking now

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