X factors blog and journal...

Rise and shine...

Or rather wake up, on a giant rock, earth, covered by a thin layer of life sustaining gases.
A rock which spins around 360 degrees, and where light comes from a big ball of plasma, known as the sun.



Odd indeed, like one giant laboratory, or petri dish.

To be studied and observed by whomever...

Odd indeed.

Rise and shine anyways, and have a swell day...back soon...

Hello...

I just really can't take talk radio anymore right now...It's like we've become a nation of cry babies...

Even being a 'cry baby' has become a marketable commodity.

If you cry and complain on the radio, and then call it a show, you can make money.

I just wasn't raised to cry over every little thing, or to always complain about others.

When you do that, it makes your spirit sour...

I don't need to turn on the radio, or media, and have others tell me what I'm suppose to be upset about.

There's even scripture in the bible that warns against letting the affairs of this world weigh you down, or dampen your spirit.

And I just don't think constantly criticizing others is a godly trait...

But then again, maybe there are different 'gods' with different traits.

Maybe not all gods are good and or happy...



Maybe different 'gods' have different characteristic traits...

If someone is mean, likes to slander, steal, lie, hurt others, are bias, narrow minded..ect...no telling what 'god' or 'diety' they may serve.

Maybe there indeed are 'gods' that are cruel and mean...and maybe some of these 'gods' are worshipped by man, and manifest themselves in how cruel some humans treat one another.

But I do believe there's only one 'God' of love, but many 'gods' of chaos...

All I know is whatever spirit or 'god' is in me...I'm very uncomfortable with how ugly things are getting lately with on air personalities...there's something evil about it, very evil...

And what's scary is folks don't see it...blind hostilities towards others is evil...and once we start trying to justify our hate towards others, we ourselves become lost...

This may be obvious to some...but it seems the best way to save or not spend money, is to not cash your pay check...(unless you have direct deposit, then you have no choice)...sort of.

I mean the only way money really continues to hold 100% of it's value is when it's still in check form...after you cash it, it goes...

So many of us are in the habit of instantly cashing checks, weekly, daily, and yet are always broke.

Maybe checks should only be cashed monthly, or bi-weekly instead...I mean after all it isn't going anywhere.

And of course this notion is for those who can afford to do so...who luckily are a few weeks or months ahead of bills.

It just seems when we cash checks, and deposit them into bank account...the money just goes...every week you look at balance and are like 'Hey, where did all the money go?'...

Truth is it just seems to get spent in bits and pieces while in the account, debt card spending, automated bills, fees, and things you forget.

So that you can receive pay checks all year long, and still practically be broke.

So I figure if some things not working, why not try some thing different.

This I know...and that is if I don't cash a check...I can't spend it, nor can anyone else.

If, when, I deposit it in checking account...no telling how it gets spent. (or so it seems).

Maybe the idea of home safes/vaults is an idea that needs revisiting...



We've all been so trained to trust others with our stuff...as if somehow money grows or works for you more if in a bank or credit union....and maybe it does if you also happen to have good credit.

But if you have credit not worthy of a loan...than what's the point?

If all your or a big portion of your dough is in a bank, yet they won't loan you any...than what favor are they doing you?

If anything you're adding to their wealth, but they're not adding a thing to yours.

And of course if you live in a bad, crime ridden area...home safes/vaults, are not a good idea.

But I am saying...when you keep your funds on you, in a vault, you have a much better idea of how it's being spent...you become your own cashier, clerk, and it might make you a much more responsible spender.

And if you train yourself to cash checks every 2-3-4 weeks, instead of weekly...I think your wealth would grow.

Cause again...you can't spend what you haven't cashed...and pay days would seem gigantic...

For instance..if you get paid...$700.00 a week...if you cashed that check every 3 weeks, your check would be $2,100.00

That's $2,100.00 of money straight to you, that you haven't spent...

But if you cash it weekly...3 weeks later that $2,100.00 might only be $1000.00...you have managed to spend $1,100.00 and don't know how or where it went...

This logic only applies to low earning wage earners...not high earning salaried types who earn over $8,000 a month.

I see it so often in poorer areas where people live week to week, check to check...so eager to cash check...and I'm thinking to myself..'What happened to lasts weeks funds?'...

They spend spend spend...and eagerly await next weeks check to spend some more...

Cashing checks every week is a recipe for poverty.

For 5 years, same thing, same pattern...as an adaptive species...you would think people would try other things, if one thing doesn't work...

I stopped myself within seconds of going out and 'mood shopping'



You know...when you convince yourself you need stuff you really don't.

Like a few movies, this supply, that supply, this misc item, that misc item...before you know it you've burned through $80-$120 dollars, all on stuff that won't even be around a week later.

I've done that plenty of times in the past...and end up regretting it.

I'm not saying shopping is bad...heck, you can only shop while alive...can't shop when you're dead...and markets, and commerce have been apart of human societies for 1000's of years.

So I can't sit here and blindly condemn recreational spending...cause everyone does it...just drive past a Sams Club today, or Walmart or Target, or any shopping center...millions being spent within hours...(don't tell me most people are struggling)...


Society is set up in a odd way...when folks save and look after own interest, others suffer. Meaning shop owners suffer.

But when you spend and go broke, you suffer, but economy gets healthy.

Most will never be millionares...but at least most can go out and shop, feel the empowerment of buying things...getting that rush.

There is no right or wrong here...if shopping makes you feel better, than shop.
If not, than stay home and save a few bucks...and get happy doing something else...

How in the heck can this thing hold $50.00 worth of groceries?

The price of food has really gone up...I deliberately grab small red shopping basket to 'govern' self on spending more than I should...and even in small red basket, still manage to accumulate a tad bit over $50.00 in total costs....

I can only imagine what people with full size shopping carts stuffed to capacity must be paying at register...



I mean if $50 + dollars worth of food can fit in a small red plastic hand held grocery bucket, I suppose one could cram $400-$500.00 dollars worth of food and items in full shopping cart.

Folks who live in rural areas, and have gardens, farms, chickens ect, probably can save over $5000-$10,000 a year just on their food bill...

Well lets see...if one spends say $200 a week on groceries...x 4 = $800 on food, x 12 = $9,600.00 grocery bill per year...

And if one has decent sized family...that's probably about just right...or more...say wife, husband, and 2-3 hobbits, a dog and cat...I could easily see $10,000 or more in grocery spending every year...

Oh well...what are ya gonna do...

I came so close to going out tonight...so close...
But at last minute just changed mind...



Just did...

Sometimes I don't start getting into the weekend until Sunday night, by that time you've been far enough removed from the previous week to start feeling complete and whole again.

Where you can start defining yourself outside of 'work'...and Sunday nights are kind of the last hurray, gulf, gap, between feeling whole, and the brutal work week that follows.

But for some reason...tonight I was just like 'nah', at the very last minute.

Staying home and going to bed is never a bad choice...it can be a boring choice, but not a bad choice.

Oh well, there's always next weekend I suppose.

Not really in a political mood right now...

It's like 'issues' have become a business...people are payed to 'rile' the emotions of others, to get them to listen to be able to charge high commercial revenues.

Over commercializing of everything under the sun will be one of the main things that help dissolve this nation...any nation.

I'm to the point now where other than living in a giant Mansion, all by myself, secluded from others...just not sure what would make me happy anymore...



This is a perfect night to me...

To live in a place like this, alone...financially independent...in that you have enough accumulated wealth to where you don't have to interact with those you don't want to.

Alone in a Dark Mansion on a hill or cliff somewhere...with a few pets.
With dozens of rooms, painted, decorated in different themes to match your different moods and mindsets.

A controlled environment where you only invite a few over that you get along with.

Where you can create art, ideas, free of time and constraint.

Where your soul, being, isn't defined by how much you earn per hour.
Or whether or not you can pay your bills on your measly pay.

A place where you're released from the constraints of poverty and instead allowed to experience life as a bird...where your mind and imagination are able to soar.

A place that is paid for, where everyone and everything just leaves you alone...where no one can use you for a social stepping stone.

Basically 'space'...it's all many really long for anymore is 'space'...space to freely roam.

The way many are forced to live all up close on each other is a perversion of what life was really meant to be like.

The more space people have, the more at peace they are...