JohnJohn's blog: "JOHNJOHN'S BORING BLOG!"

ifjfuktdhmgcjfgliukjtfhtfchn

THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND MY GRADITUDE TODAY I JUST WANT TO MENTION A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT I AM SO VERY GREATFULL TO HAVE IN MY LIFE. BECAUSE AT ON POINT IN MY LIFE NONE OF THESE THINGS OR ANYTHING MATTERED TO ME. NOW THE PAST 3 YEARS I HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT THE THINGS IN LIFE THAT REALLY MATTER ARE NOT THE FANCY THINGS THAT MONEY CAN BUY OR ALL THE HIGH-TEC ELECTRONICS THAT ONE FEELS THE NEED TO FILL THEIR HOME WITH. " NOT TO SAY THAT THEY ARE NOT NICE TO HAVE" BUT THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO SHOW MY REAL GRADITUDE FOR ARE THE EVERY DAY THINGS THAT I SOME TIMES I OVERLOOK. I FIRST WANT TO THANK GOD FOR PROVIDING ME WITH EVERY THING I NEED IN LIFE. FOR THIS I AM GREATFULL. I AM GRATEFULL TO HAVE A HOME TO COME TO AT THE END OF MY DAY. FOR MANY YEARS I DIDNT HAVE THAT I LIVED IN AND OUT OF HOTELS OR BOUNCED FROM COUCH TO COUCH AT A DIFFERANT FRIENDS HOUSES, OR WORSE YET ROAMING THE STREETS FOR DAYS AND DAYS. I AM SO HAPPPY TO BE OVER THIS PART OF MY LIFE. SLEEPING IN MY OWN BED IS AWSOME! I AM ALSO GREATFULL TO HAVE A LOVEING FAMILY AND TO BE BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM. MOM, DAD SISTERS, BROTHERS, NEICES AND NEPHEWS AUNTS AND UNCLES. I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING ME TO KEEP GOING WHILE I HAVE BEEN GOING TO COLLEGE. DAD I COULD HAVE NEVER DONE ANY OF IT WITH OUT YOU. YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME THAT I HAVE TROUBLE FINDING THE WORDS TO SAY JUST HOW I FEEL. I AM GREATFULL FOR THE FRIENDS I HAVE IN LIFE. THE REAL FRIENDS WHO CARE ENOUGH ABOUT ME TO SAY HEY YOU HAVE COME A LONG WAY AND I AM SO PROUD OF YOU OR CORRECT ME WHEN I START TO THINK THAT LIFE ISN'T AS GOOD AS IT IS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT AND THE HONESTY WHEN I NEED IT THE MOST. I AM ALSO GREATFULL TO HAVE THE LOVE OF A WOMAN WHO AT TIME IS A REAL PAIN, BECAUSE SHE HAS A WAY OF POINTING OUT THE GOOD EVEN IN THE MOST DIFICULT SITUATIONS. SOME TIMES I JUST WANT TO BE ANGRY AND SAD, BUT SHE HAS A WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS THAT NO MATTER HOW UPSET I AM SHE MAKES ME THINK ABOUT HOW FAR I HAVE COME IN LIFE AND HOW MUCH BETTER MY LIFE IS NOW. THANK YOU BABY. YOU SO RITE! I HAVE SO MUCH TO BE GREATFULL AND AT TIMES I TEND TO FORGET JUST HOW MUCH I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH IN THIS LIFE. PEOPLE WHO CARE FOR ME, PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME THAT I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND, I HAVE A GREAT SUPPORT NETWORK IN MY SOBERITY. THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. BUT DURING THE HOLIDAYS I GET A LITTLE LOST IN HOW MUCH I HAVE AND FORGET JUST HOW MUCH EVERYONE LOVES ME AND SUPPORTS ME. THE HOLIDAY SEASON IS A TIME OF HAPPINESS TO SHARE WITH THE PEOLE THAT I CARE ABOUT AND WHO CARE ABOUT ME. I CANT FORGET THIS, BECAUSE IF I DO I FORGET TO LOOK AT THE THINGS THAT MATTER THE MOST TO ME. IF I FORGET THIS I TEND TO WANT TO USE AND IF I USE I LOSE ALL THE THINGS THAT I HAVE GAINED IN LIFE BY GETTING SOBER. SO I WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK AND BUILD MY GRATITUDE LIST IN ORDER TO REMIND MYSELF OF EVERYTHING I HAVE IN LIFE. I AM GREATFULL FOR FOR THE OPPERTUNITY TO HAVE SHARED THIS WITH YOU AND FOR YOU TAKING THE TIME TO READ IT. HAVE A GREAT HOLLIDAY SEASON AND LOOK CLOSELY AT THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO YOU THE MOST, AND TREASURE EVERY MOMENT.

On Thursday November 15 I was asked to speak at the Carlton Sr. High. I was so scared I wanted to puke, but the more I thought about it I was honored to be given that oppertunity. I was asked to speak out on addiction and where my own has taken me. I spoke to them on how at first I was tricked by the drugs and alcohol into thinking that they made me feel better then anything ever had about being me, and that people liked me so much more when I was using, but a strange thing happend one day as the meth took over I began to feel less and less like a person. I began to lose the people that truly cared about me. I lost myself when what I thouhgt I wsa doing was finding myself. I got to the point in life that the only thing that mattered to me any more was getting high. And after several years of getting high to feel good about myself I began to feel worse and worse about myself wishing daily that I would just over-dose. I tryed to kill myself several times NOT because I wanted to die, but because I felt that there was no other way out of this addiction I have created for myself. I was thinking about death daily and I seen a friend of mine that I grew up with so I said hello and she took one look at me and began to cry. I didn't speak to her untill several years latter and she said seen I was killing myself with what I was doing and the pain was to much. When she moved away she continued to check the obituaries looking for my name knowing for sure it wouldn't be long and she would see my name. I told the high school kids about how this drug made me feel like it had given me everything, but in reality it was I who had given everything to this drug. My desire to live, My family, My friends, and even my DAUGHTER WHO IS NINE NOW! This drug called meth is a lier and deciever. It disrorts your thinking and behaviors so much that after a short time you wont even recognize yourself. It leaves you empty and soul-less, with no thoughts of any thing but death and freedom from its miserable grasp. I did tell them it is possible to get help if they are the ones suffering or know some one close to them whos suffers from addiction. I told them to talk to some one they can trust to help them find help, because this disease of addiction is a killer, but it doesn't have to be! There is help available. I spoke of how I cryed and prayed for GOD to release me from my addictions, and how I went to treatment for three months and then a half-way house for two months in order to get me ready for the world with out the use of drugs. I Also said that my life has gotten so much better now that I am drug free. I have my Family, I have some friends, I finaly have hopes and dreams, and I don't live each day with the thought of death in my head. its been replaces by the thoughts of helping others who still suffer from addiction. I am in the process of becoming a youth CD consouler and a social worker inorder to help kids that have been effected by methamphetamine and other addictions. At the end of telling my story a young man with tears in his eyes came to me from out of the group of students listening and asked if he could talk to me. He shook my hand and said thank you for coming here today I to have a problem with addiction and have been struggling with it. I havn't used in two months but it's allways there in my mind and I dont know how to deal with it. He asked if I could "SPONCER" him thats a person he can call if he feels like using. So I gave him my number and asked this young man to PLEASE CALL ME IF HE GETS THE URGE TO USE BEFORE HE USES. He said he will call before he does and I hope I he never needs to use the number to be talked out of useing, but just to say you made a diffrence thank you. I went out of that Sr.High with a diffrent mind set than Iv have had in a long time I felt like I had made a diffrance in some ones life. And for that I thank GOD, MY LITTLE SISTER RANDI, AND CARLTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIVING ME THE OPPERTUNITY. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU WHO READ THIS AND PLEASE PASS IT ON! Thank You, John

Drinking with a Redneck Girl A Mexican, an Iraqi, and a redneck girl are in the same bar. When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Mexico our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the Same one twice." The Iraqi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Iraq we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with the same one twice either." The redneck girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her .45, and shoots the Mexican and the Iraqi. Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill, she says, "In America we have so many illegal Mexicans and Arabs that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice." God Bless America !

> *Dear Wife:* > > *I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you >forever. I've been a good **man to you for seven years and I have >nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss >called to tell me that you quit your job today and that was the last >straw.* > > *Last week, you came home and didn't even notice that I had a >new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal and even wore a brand new >pair of silk boxers. You ate in two minutes, and went straight to sleep >after watching all of your soaps. You don't tell me you love me anymore; >you > don't want sex or anything that connects us as husband and >wife. Either you're cheating on me or you don't love me anymore; >whatever the case, I'm gone.* > *Your EX-Husband* > *P.S. Don't try to find me. Your SISTER and I are moving away >to West Virginia together! Have a great life!* > > > *Dear Ex-Husband -* > > *Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It's >true that you and I have been married for seven years, although a good >man is a far cry from what you've been. I watch my soaps so much because >they drown out your constant whining and griping. Too bad that doesn't >work. I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the > first thing that came to mind was "You look just like a girl!" >Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can't say something >nice, I didn't comment . And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must >have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork > seven years ago. * > > *About those new silk boxers: I turned away from you because >the $49.99 price tag was still on them, and I prayed that it was a >coincidence that my sister had just borrowed fifty dollars from me that >morning. After all of this, I still loved you and felt that we could >work it out. > > **So when I hit the lotto for ten million dollars, I quit my job >and bought us two tickets to Jamaica. But when I got home you were gone. >Everything happens for a reason, I guess.* > > *I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My >lawyer said that the letter you wrote ensures you won't get a dime from >me. So take care.* > > *Signed,* > > *Your Ex-Wife, **Rich As Hell and Free!* > > *P.S. I don't know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla >was born Carl. * > *I hope that's not a problem.* > > -- > "KEEP A SMILE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A HAPPY THOUGHT" >

> Three guys -- a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden, > and an American engineer are walking together one day. They come >across >a lantern and a Genie pops out of it. > > "I will give each of you one wish, which is three > wishes total" says the Genie. > > The Canadian says, "I am a farmer, my dad was a > farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever >fertile >in Canada ." > > Pooooof! With a blink of the Genie's eye, the land > in Canada was forever made fertile for farming. > > Osama bin Laden was amazed, so he said, "I want an > impenetrable wall around Afghanistan , Iraq and Iran with all believers >of Mohammad inside and all Jews, Americans, and other infidels forever >outside our precious state. > > "Pooooof! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, > there was a huge wall around those countries. > > The American engineer asks, "I am very curious. > Please tell me more about this wall". > > The Genie explains , "Well, it's 5000 feet high, 500 > feet thick and completely surrounds these countries........ it's >virtually impenetrable. Now what is your wish?" > The American engineer smiles and says, "Fill it with water." > > Pooooof! > > WORLD PEACE !!!!!

WIFE FROM HELL!!! >> A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer says, I clocked you at 80 miles per hour, sir." The driver says, "Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60, perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating." >> Not looking up from her knitting the wife says: "Now don't be silly dear, you know that this car doesn't have cruise control." >> As the officer writes out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, "Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?" The wife smiles demurely and says, "You should be thankful your radar detector went off when it did." >> As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector unit, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, "Darn it, woman, can't you keep your mouth shut?" >> The officer frowns and says, "And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine." The driver says, "Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over so that I could get my license out of my back pocket." >> The wife says, "Now, dear, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt when you're driving." >> And as the police officer is writing out the third ticket the driver turns to his wife and barks, "WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT UP??" The officer looks over at the woman and asks, "Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?" >> >> >> I love this part.... >> >> >> >> "Only when he's been drinking."

The Sheriff in a small town walks out in the street and sees a blonde cowboy coming down the walk with nothing on but his cowboy hat, gun, and his boots, so he arrests him for indecent exposure. As he is locking him up, he asks "Why in the world are you dressed like this?" The Cowboy says, "Well it's like this Sheriff .. I was in the bar down the road and this pretty little red head asks me to go out to her motor home with her... so I did." "We go inside and she pulls off her top and asks me to pull off my shirt ... so I did." "Then she pulls off her skirt and asks me to pull off my pants .... so I did." "Then she pulls off her panties and asks me to pull off my shorts ... so I did." "Then she gets on the bed and looks at me kind of sexy and says, "Now go to town, cowboy...." "And here I am."

The latest telephone poll taken by the California Governor's office, asked whether people who live in California think illegal immigration is a serious problem: 29% of respondents answered: "Yes, it is a serious problem." 71% of respondents answered: "No es una problema seriosa."