Virginia Breeze

Good Evening. My name is David and I am a Themaholic. I can’t turn down a theme. It speaks to me and I surrender.

It doesn’t matter that I have pledged my allegiance to Sadish and his wonderful templates. Nothing matters except getting the next theme fix.

I keep telling myself “This time it will be different”.

Maybe it will. Or maybe I will wake up tomorrow morning full of regret and guilt because I traded Sadish and his great theme in for THIS.

But I don’t think so and besides the night is still young.

There’s lots of time left to install more plugins and see how they work. I don’t want to think about tomorrow.

When it’s still tonight.

Do you change themes very often?  Do you feel that people who change themes often are hampering their blogging efforts?

Well here we are and it’s the weekend again. The weeks are going by quickly now that the warm weather is here. Why is that? Maybe the heat warms up all the molecules in the air and that makes time go by more quickly.

Doubtful Einstein. And we can’t say time has been going by quickly because we have been having so much fun. Well, maybe you have been having a great time.

But it was not a fun week for your aged blogging buddy. It rained a lot for starters.  And then I found Lorelle’s reply to a comment I made about a month ago when I was experiencing blogger’s remorse and spent time wondering if anyone cared.

Lorelle suggested I not blog for awhile. Find something else to do. Don’t they have group recreation projects in the Happy Hotel where you and the other psycho’s live?

She didn’t say that but I can read between the lines. And she really is a nice person but somebody shoot me before I ever respond to one of her post’s again.

And then there was the surfing forum where I started posting some of my surfing guy photos. I have been trying to do the forum thing because you are supposed to do it.

So I posted some photos and this is what happened. My first mistake was misspelling Rudee’s inlet.

HIM: you would think if you have a house there you would actually know the name of the inlet…

ME: I do know the name of it. I just didn’t spell it right. Did you ever misspell a word?

Probably not in your state of near perfection. Could you please let the sun shine for a few days.

We are tired of the rain.

HIM: I think I have misspelled a word or two in the past.

Sure. I will make it foggy again tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I will allow you to have have some sun. I will keep it rather sunny for Friday and Saturday too. Happy?

Things were going pretty good at this point. I had arranged for some nice weather and my new friend seemed fairly content since I appeared to understand his grandness in the scheme of things. But things started to go south shortly thereafter as I posted some of the surfing photos you see around here.

HIM: I guess I am not the only one worried about our newest poster who can not spell the name of the place he lives and has a true fondness for VB, young boys and fat chicks. Great pictures of some ****ty waves though.

HIM’S FRIEND: got any killer photos of you david—barrels–airs–floaters–video?????????

ME: Sure. Just send me a SASE and I will send you an autographed copy. And thanks for asking. I knew you would come around.

ONE OF THEM: your photos are awful

ME: Appreciate your honesty there Gas

And things went on for awhile in this vein until one of the guys suggested that the FBI might be interested in some of my photos. Apparently he feels people should be dressed up at the beach like they were back in 1910 or thereabouts.

But enough of that. And then there was the guy over at LinkReferral who came out of the blue and gave my photoblog four 2’s when it had been getting 5’s and had an average of about 4.9 (no more). He also left a comment. It read:

Nothing great in this. Put up something new and useful.

Thanks guy! What did I ever do to you? Do you know some guys who post at a surfing forum?

Oh well. The nice things people say from time to time MORE THAN make up for these folks who walk around spreading negativity. And I guess this is the price you pay for trying to stir up some traffic.

But, thankfully, it is the weekend. And it’s not raining outside! It looks like it wants to but clearly someone is keeping their crooked finger in the dam.

Thanks guy! You are a Prince! But you really should start to wear a hat when you are out in this wonderful sun.

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And Jordin if you run into anybody who is spreading negativity around just let it slide off your beautiful self. They are out there but you need not be afraid.

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I was out and about this morning doing some Christmas shopping.

I decided this year to get it done early. And from what I can see there are still a few things on the shelves waiting for Daddy to buy them. If not on the shelves then under the table or on the floor next to the headless plastic dummy sporting the ridiculous bathrobe. Can you tell I’m having a good time?

I went to McDonald’s Cholesterol Kingdom this morning

and the most amazing thing happened. There was a middle aged guy in front of me as we headed towards the entrance . This guy opened the door for me and let me go in first. I said thank you and he said you’re welcome. But then I was first in line! He should have been first in line! And I thought about offering to let him go first. But then that seemed sort of lame. You can have too much politeness just as you can have too little of it. But as I was mulling this over another line opened up and we both got served at the same time.

And someone waited to let me out into traffic yesterday.

That has happened before but this time it was like “I will wait here until tomorrow morning if necessary to get you on your way. The Christmas spirit is alive and well in my heart. And I am tuning out the stares I see in my rear view mirror. ” Very nice. Of course, this doesn’t mean that everybody is going to be courteous or helpful. I’m convinced that some people use Christmas as an excuse to become meaner.

If that is possible.

Their reasoning probably goes something like this……”Look at that imbecile holding the door for another guy. Doesn’t he know how weird that looks? Man! Christmas really makes fools out of some people. I think I will write somebody a condescending comment or two. The world is full of idiots and it’s up to me to keep them straight. ”

That’s the spirit!

What would we do without folks who like to remind us that they know better and we should do what they tell us to do? They like to call it a “suggestion” but just imagine that this person was your boss! Suddenly it’s not a suggestion any more.

Thank goodness for the folks who are out here trying to be helpful.

You can raise my spirits. And I can raise yours too. It’s so easy to do with strangers or family and friends. It just takes a second. It’s a simple as holding a door or waiting a few seconds in traffic. Or giving someone you love a hug and a smile.