April 25, 2013

• Report # 995

  Hey everyone, I hope that you’ve been all having a fantastic week so far. It’s been a super nice spring week, with temperatures around 17 C (65 F) and for the most part very sunny. I’ve been running with Parker everyday, and now I’ve been walking with Molly. Molly is such a big dog, she doesn’t really run much, so I don’t need to force her to run up hills for a long distance, as she prefers just to go for nice walks.

  Parker however continues to be full of energy and drags me the first part of the run before he slows down. Each time he sees any type of animal however he bolts into first gear and I have to give it my all to keep up with him. As we were running yesterday I thought that we would have to turn around because as we were going up the road we normally go up, there were two adult Geese with their duckling, and as I tried to get around them, one of them was approaching us and kind of hissing.

  I know that he was just trying to protect the little ducklings, but I didn’t want to get Parker into a confrontation with a giant goose, so I was almost going to turn around. Fortunately I was able to go down the ditch and pass the ducks and finish the run. In the afternoon I went with my brother to Tynehead park for a park. It’s a beautiful forested park which I’ve taken pictures there before and posted on here, though I think it was the first time I was there in two years.

  After the walk my brother and I drove to my grandmother’s house to pick her up and go to Ricky’s to have dinner. My grandmother made more peanut butter cookies so there was dessert as well. I really don’t like peanut butter, but I’ll eat the cookies and the Reese peanut buttercups ! Unfortunately none of the two jobs that I was interested in phoned me back this week, so they’ve obviously chosen other people. I could have had the third job, but it just wasn’t really worth going so far for minimum wage to do something incredibly boring.

  I applied for six jobs yesterday, and I have an interview tomorrow morning at 11:00 am with a place that carries electrical equipment. It would be a fairly simple job, though it pays a little more than that other job, the work would be more interesting, and it’s closer, so it would be a lot better in every aspect. I will see how it goes tomorrow morning. I’ve already vacuumed the house this morning, and I still will have to go out with the dogs and go grocery shopping with my brother later, so it’s a busy day.

  I was able to download a program that allows me to watch the videos that I couldn’t watch anymore of the telenovela that I was watching, Cachito de Cielo. I am super happy that now I will be able to finish watching the series. I’ve seen 36 episodes, so I have 74 more to go. Afterwards I will find another one to start watching. I really enjoy watching these telenovelas as I enjoy them and it’s great for me to get 45 minutes of Spanish television each day.

  I’ve been given a number of great language sites, so in the near future I would love to be able to start learning French and German. Maybe I will try doing both of them at once as they are different enough that I wouldn’t get confused. I enjoy learning languages, and I know if I can get myself doing something everyday I can make real progress. It’s great to learn more languages, I just wish I had done more in the last 10 years !

  So today I wanted to talk about something that while the story itself is not important, the way it happen certainly is. Actress Reese Witherspoon and her husband were both arrested recently. He was pulled over and arrested for DUI, and then she was arrested as well for her outrageous behaviour. Basically the actress was pulling out the, do you know who I am card, and blah, blah, blah.

  Now obviously it can’t be easy to deal with this type of situation publicly, but the only ones to be blamed for all of this happening in the first place are Reese Witherspoon and her stupid drunk driving husband. Now I don’t care about all the gossip stuff, but I am writing about this today because this story shows that there are so many people who think because of who they can get out of certain things or act in a certain way.

  Personally I think they should even charge Ms. Witherspoon with threatening a police officer, since she was implying that she would do something in response to getting arrested. Maybe it was the alcohol talking somewhat, but Ms. Witherspoon can’t expect that she or her husband are above the law or get any special treatment…. no one is better than anyone else, and we all should be treated the same. So in all honesty Ms. Witherspoon should have just shut the hell up and cooperated fully with authorities during the arrest of her husband.

  Not only did Ms. Witherspoon behave extremely poorly in the situation, I think as a mother she set a very poor example for her children, and really she has no one to blame but herself for all of the embarassing news that has come her way. Until certain people realize that they are not above the law, and are no better than anyone else, these types of situations will continue to happen, I just hope the courts can give these arrogant losers more than a slap on the wrist to show them that there is no place for this kind of behaviour.

  Most importantly in all of this is however that Ms. Witherspoon got into a car with her husband who was driving drunk and putting themselves in a position to cause a horrible accident, possibly killing other people. They both exercised terrible judgment by choosing to get into that car and drive, so if they are going to be charged with anything, I really hope the verdict emphasizes the drunk driving that took place that night.

  There is absolutely ZERO excuse to drive drunk, and I strongly support the strictest punishments possible on anyone who chooses to do that. I don’t care who the person is or what their reason is for doing that…. all people driving drunk must be punished equally ! Now Ms. Witherspoon has apologized for her actions on the day of her arrest, but really what else was she supposed to do ? Anything less than any sort of apology would just have been added more embarrassment to everything that has happened here and tarnished her reputation even more.

  Now of course no one is perfect and we all make mistakes, so I am not saying that Ms. Witherspoon and her husband should be taken to the cleaners and hung out to dry for their horrifically stupid and dangerous decisions that night, I am just saying that they need to be punished accordingly. They should both be forced to talk about the dangers of drunk driving, as part of performing 1000 hours of community service, at least then some good would be coming out of all of this.

  Hopefully this will be a lesson to other actors, singers, politicians, or anyone else who chooses to start bragging about who they are and making some sorts of threats if they ever end up in a similar situation. I honestly don’t think so though, as there will always be such arrogant people who truly believe they are better than everyone else, and that their positions in this world give them special privileges.

  They can think this all they want, but as Ms. Witherspoon and her husband found out, they will just end up dealing with extremely negative press, embarrassment, humiliation, and an image tarnished by their own selfishness and stupidity. And I have to say if that’s the road these arrogant losers choose to go down, I don’t feel sorry for them one bit. For the next question:

  What do you think of certain people who try and use their positions as ways to deal with certain incidents ? What sort of messages should the police and courts be sending ?

  I hope that everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and a great start to the weekend. Take care and I’ll talk to you all on Sunday, bye for now.

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