Happy New Year

Remembering my year in 2014

I did yoga today.  You know what yoga is; downward dog and plank's pose that goes along with stretching every muscle in your body.  But today our Teacher told us to meditate take two long breaths and along with it think of two things that happened every month this year.  Those things could have been things like successes or challenges.  "Its important to reflect and take time to give yourself achknowledement for what you have done throughout the year." she said.

This is a list of my 24 things that happened to me throughout 2014
Breath in, Breath out

1.      Went to eat at my favorite restaurant Ocean (an Asian restaurant) three times

2.      Raced some people on the side roads

3.      someone passed

4.      Zahdi came to United States

5.      spent more time outside sitting on porch people-watching

6.      bought new used car by myself including loan etc

7.      found out my brother was moving out

8.      grandma passed on, I miss her tremendously

9.      helped someone

10.  read a big gigantic book called Little Friend by Donna Tartt

11.  read another big book called The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

12.  helped a friend get a job at a hospital

13.  went to Duluth

14.  Lost my $400 damage deposit to a woman who is a bad landlord and got it back by being assertive.

15.  Went to gym 12 times in a month

16.  Did some things I planned in October

17.  Helped My mom

18.  Said some heartbreaking words to people that I regret

19.  Took some people with disabilities to countless amounts of plays and outings

20.  Got recognized

21.  Lost two jobs

22.  Gained two jobs

23.  Found out that I am somewhat stubborn

24.  Enjoyed December holiday this year more than I have in the past 15 years.

 

A List of Must Listen to Detective Murder Series

Here is a list I create of several  detective like murder series to follow that are similar to serial podcast.  A nationally recognized podcast gaining popularity in America.
http://www.ibtimes.com/pulse/when-does-next-serial-episode-come-out-10-other-crime-podcast-episodes-worth-1729472

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
http://radiodiaries.org

Short Story

Short Story: 

The question should be what am I not?

Well, they say I am not a psycho.  I don't dry my underwear in the hand dryers of the downtown public restroom.  I don't shout "what uuuup" like a barely teen would in a grocery store.  A broken up women looking up me from the ground while I stock shelves and she asks, "Is that how you address your customers?"

I am not a therapist.   I do not listen to the hurt purge their problems on my ears as if my ears were their garbage cans.  I am not one of those psycho ex-husbands who takes a divorce the wrong way and decides to issue a restraining order against his ex-wife and calls the police if she even shows up at a restaurant to ask for her alimony checks, while her kids squalor in the background.

St Paul

      

Short Story

Short Story on the Woman State Trooper   

"Please make it, please make it!" I said.

"Damn, Damn, Damn you f-ing car."  I hit it, hoping that it would move but it did not.

It never did.

It was the first time the car had died on the highway though, and it was the first time that I got a woman state trooper.

"Excuse me, Excuse me" said the Trooper taping on the window. "What are you doing?"

"Well I'm just waiting for someone to help."  I said, opening the door.

She stepped back in alarm, seeing that I did not open the window like I should have.

"Well, you can't wait here" she said blocking my steps towards her.  Her hand brushed the side of the yellow pistol in her holder.  

"Well, my husband is coming to get me." I said frantically.

"Well your husband can't stop here either,"  she stated in loud exasperation.  The hair from her bun tilted gently as she gave me a closer look. 

I didn't look much the part of a professional driver.  I still had my yoga pants on from the gym which were squeezed inside a furry pair of brown camisole boots and I had on a black sundress tucked under a Sean John overcoat.  She must have felt I was a batty because she began barking something into her walkie: codes that were unrecognizable.

223 on I-94 to route 394.

"Triple A can come and get me." I managed to say gaining some confidence after I noticed her paying more attention to the cars merging around mine.  

(will continue)

When I have Problems I join the fantasy World

These are some of my favorite lines from the script, The Killing, a TV show series starring Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman).
I'll miss you show.....I finished the series.


1. Come here
I Need to give a  scrilla some jib jab, need to have a private pow wow
You need to learn to talk English




2.Let's go.
Ugly-a##   bi9^CDS, you get out of here! There's nothing on ViCAP or CODIS for Pastor Mike Sheehan.

3. It's a coward's refuge.
Opiate of the masses.
I thought you liked opiate of the masses.

4.blah, blah.
You know I been clean for almost two years now? Good for you.
That's great.
Not everyone finds their salvation in some stank-a&% basement with a bunch of old booze hounds.




5.Both laugh ] You sure I shouldn't be teaching you how to holla at the shorties, punk? Whatever.
I mean, you can be as smooth as Velveeta, but at the end of the day, you got to take care of your girl.
Protect her, you know? Keep her safe.
This ain't no kind of crib.
You be safe, Bullet.




6.Father of the Year 2013, failed to rehabilitate poor little fu%^d-up me.
That was his mantra.
Hard work and discipline will lead to strength in character.
Apparently, a sh^*-ton of money.
- You seen that house? - You did.
 

Dancing in the Winter

Take me Home

Serial Podcast made me feel despondent

 I finally finished Serial Podcast. First released in October 2014, it is a spinoff of the radio program This American Life.

 Season 1 is an investigation into a 1999 Baltimore murder.Hae Min Lee was an 18-year-old student at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland. She was last seen at approximately 3:00 p.m. on January 13, 1999. Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in Leakin Park and identified two days later. The case was immediately treated as a homicide^. Lee's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Masud Syed, was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. and charged with first-degree murder 

 As the podcast drew to a close after I had been  listening to  it for the past six weeks, I was not pleasantly surprised at the ending.  Of course they wouldn't say that a couple journalists were able to find enough evidence to say that a man who was accused of murder 15 years ago was wrongfully committed.  Adnan Syed may or may not get out of prison but I  learned a few things about the case:

 1. Don't ever think that by speaking with someone whose loved one is in prison that there going to agree with you that another man is innocent.-

 (I learned this the hard way by speaking to a friend of mine about the case she ended up telling me that Adnan Syed probably did it and doesn't deserve freedom, and this accusation is based on what???)

 2. I learned that what a person does before they commit a so-called crime makes a bigger difference than what most people might think.

 3.I learned that audio podcast is a great genre and something I will definitely enjoy in the futurew

Story #2, A story of Zombies: Five scares in December

The Zombies' quickened movements allow suspense in their dance. Their legs constantly fidget and move rapidly.  A scream
shrieks out at one point of the song and the sound is so loud that some of the audience screams in enjoyment matching the screamer's pitch.

There isn't for a moment a single dancer getting out of character, some of the looks on the dancers faces are so intense that they frighten the audience, their red lips reminiscent of blood of human they recently devoured.  A dancer bangs her head down, she's the obvious leader of the pack in an all-white tattered zombie dress. She dances in front of them.  The dancers are in four lines and each line slowly descends to the floor.  The front row is down first
till the very last row.  Each of the rows are crawling on the ground, and their newest captured human
emerges from a huddle that the dancers created to show that she's transitioned into a zombie herself.  Her first walks in front of the dancers show that she is staggering like a toddler taking its first steps.