Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in Ted's LiveJournal:

Saturday, June 26th, 2004
4:41 am	Grah Here I am again, almost a year later. O.o I dont really have anything to post at the moment, Im only posting for the sake of posting. Maybe Ill post later. Pheer the squirrels. Current Mood: drained Current Music: Eminem - Hailey's Song (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003
3:49 am	GST Now here is one thing that royally pisses me off, is GST. It was created during WW2 (I believe. Could be WW1, but I doubt it.) to help fund the war efforts. So, why is it still around? The war is, believe it or not, OVER. Why do we still pay 7% on everything we buy? And thats just alberta. The rest of canada has PST as well, which is another 8%, which means they have to pay 15% taxes on anything they buy. And then theres something called HST. Yet another tax. Im not sure where it applies or what % it is though, so I wont touch that one much. I cant really think of much to ramble about on this subject, because Ive never thought on it overly much, and it changes depending on where you live, so its different for everyone, but yeah. Current Mood: Pondering (Comment on this)
3:49 am	Gay/Lesbian Marriage (And a few other topics) I dont follow current events much, but I believe most or part of Canada has allowed gay and lesbian marriages, except for Alberta. I think. But anyways. Im having trouble seeing whats so bad about gay couples. People say that it isnt "Natural", but neither is being able to fight off viruses and deseases. The world is changing rapidly, and people are being selectively-fearful of that change. This world is rapidly becoming over-populated. Its a fairly accepted fact that deseases are natures way of dealing with this. Kill off people to make room for more. But maybe gays are also Natures way of dealing with it. Generally speaking, gay/lesbian couples do not have children of their own. It is, in my opinion, just another way to control how fast we reproduce. However, we are finding ways around that. Gay and lesbian couples can now have children of their own. And we are constantly getting rid of deseases. We are, pretty much willingly, sending ourselves towards our own doom, as we over populate this world and use up all of its resources. If I remember correctly, all known sources of oil will be used up in under 50 years, according to current projections. What then? We find something else to use up. I like how the movie 'The Matrix' classified humans as a virus, because it makes perfect sense. We use every natural resource that we can, and then move on. Well, unfortunately, this world only has so many natural resources. After that, sure, we can go to other planets or whatever, assuming were advanced enough before were all dead, but what are the chances of that? Anyways, Im completely off my original topic. Gays and lesbians, in case youve forgotten. No matter what the government does, it cant get rid of them. And trying to is taking away the basic rights that supposedly all humans are supposed to enjoy. The right to choose. Its not harming anyone. It may be offending some, but theres alot of cultures out there that do things that offend me. I dont complain, I simply try to avoid situations dealing with it. And if Im forced into it, I just do my best to not complain, and act as if it doesnt bother me. So why cant we do the same with gays and lesbians? Current Mood: Pondering (Comment on this)
3:48 am	Sex Now here is a topic with one hell of alot of views. Some people think that sex is something that you should just do when you feel like it, with whoever is convinient and willing (or in some cases, unwilling). Some think that it should be reserved for the person youre dating. Some believe that it should be saved for love. And some people think that even sleeping in the same bed is a sin unless youre married. I used to think that it should be saved for love. I personally dont agree with marriage, because I think its only a good way to lose your money. Although I still dont agree with marriage, my opinion on sex is rapidly changing :P Im not sure how much I believe in love anymore. So its kinda hard to only have sex with the person youre in love with if you dont think youll ever really fall in love. Im not even sure how much I believe in dating. It only seems to be a short burst of happyness, followed by mass depression when you break up :P So yeah. When do you think its appropriate to have sex? Current Mood: Pondering (Comment on this)
3:43 am	Love Im curious as to everyones views on love. Is there such a thing as true love? And does everyone in fact have one single person in the world that was made for them? Im not sure where I stand anymore. I used to think that there was such a thing as true love, and the whole theres a person made exactly for you out there type of thing, but Im not so sure anymore. It just seems to be too perfect in a world as screwed up as this one is. And look at how many bad relationships there are out there. People who are 'in love' get in a single fight and then never talk again. I dunno. What do you think? Current Mood: Pondering (Comment on this)
3:41 am	TV Censorship Im just wondering about everyones opinion on this. And I dont want simple replies like it sucks, or whatever, I would like to hear your reasons behind hating it or liking it or whatever. I personally hate it. I mean, even with the censorships, its not hard to figure out what theyre saying, or what theyre hiding. I mean, maybe a 6 year old wont understand, but I think that it should be there for them to see, and then there for their parents/teachers/older brother or sister or whoever to explain it to them. The only reason people find it awkward to explain, is because its never talked about. I mean, hell, whats so bad about sex? Your parents apparently did it (most likely anyways), or else you wouldnt be around now. They most likely still do it. Why hide the facts? If its not talked about, then they will just find out from their friends, and then it wont be complete information, because at the age that you learn about sex, you generally arent mature enough to pass on all the important information. And swearing. To be frank, who cares. Sure, it can be rude. So teach your kids that. Let them know, these are swears, theyre bad to say, blah blah, instead of letting their friends tell them how cool it is to run around swearing like an idiot. I mean sure, everyone swears sometimes. Me and my dad went fishing one year, and our boat starting sinking, and thats the first time Ive heard him really swear. Sure Ive heard crap and whatnot from him, but nothing like when we were sinking. And what really pisses me off is music videos that censor words like gun, or death, or even 'last resort', when its the name of the bloody song. The way censorship is going now, pretty soon everyone will be so damn sheltered that its going to be illigal to swear for fear of re-contaminating the world. I dont know about you, but I dont want to go to jail or get fined for saying a word to better express how I feel about a subject. Current Mood: pondering (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003
4:18 am	Commitment I dont get it. Watch any movie about love, and its always the guy who is afraid of a little commitment. And here I am, wanting only that, and I cant find a girl who isnt absolutely terrified of the idea. For some reason, thats all Ive ever wanted out of a relationship. I dont care for sex, I dont care for the popularity status it used to bring, all I want is someone to hopefully spend the rest of my life with. Everyone says just wait it out, youre too young, youll find it eventually, blah blah blah.. Well, in 10 years, I dont want to say to whoever Im with at the moment 'Hey, this one time I...', I want to be able to say 'Remember that time we'. Whenever things start to finally look good with a girl, it gets messed up somehow. Sometimes its just her thinking it wont work out, sometimes she finds some other guy. I can say either one is worse, because both always hurt like hell. But hey, thats life, right? Lots of pain and suffering. And the worst part about it is that every time I have a chance with a girl, I always take it, just in case its finally the right one. No luck as yet though. No matter how much or how little I offer, or what Im expecting out of the relationship, it never seems to last. And I am, quite frankly, getting tired of trying, just to get hurt again and again. Out of all of my relationships, I have never been the one to end it. I can only remember one time that I even considered it, and after thinking about it, I decided to keep trying. I dont know, maybe Im crazy. Maybe Im not supposed to find the right person. I cant say maybe Im trying too hard, because Ive given up once or twice, and thats never gotten me anything except a state of mass depression. And while they say drinking never helps, I find it helps just fine as long as you pay attention to how much you drink, and make sure to stop when you get in the right mood. Another problem I seem to have quite often is that girls never seem to want to tell me how they actually feel towards me. Its really hard to know how to act when they try to hide everything from me. Because they "Dont want to hurt me", or theyre "Too nervous" or whatever. If I feel a certain way about someone and they dont know it.. I just tell them. If a girl seems interested in me, but I already have a girlfriend, I just tell her. I dont claim to be afraid to hurt her, because I know that if I let her get her hopes up because she doesnt know I already have a gf, then it just hurts more when she finds out on her own. As I know from personal experience. But yeah.. I dont feel like rambling on about this topic anymore, so Im gonna end it now, until my next post. Current Mood: depressed Current Music: Tamia - Officially Missing You (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 19th, 2003
2:01 am	Work sucks Yeah, so, work sucks. I just got home from closing, at 1 in the morning. I "finished" everything, only to realize that, well, I hadnt finished everything, and had to do a bunch more. It sucks when you take two weeks off and then have to close 3 nights in a row, on the 3 busiest nights of the week. In other news, my manager got high when we were closing. So, yeah. Today was kinda crappy. I went to sleep at 5 in the morning, then woke up at around 7 in extreme pain. The type of pain thats so sudden and extreme that you dont know what exactly hurts, you just know it hurts, and you dont know what to do to get it to stop. Fun stuff. Fell back asleep, woke up at noon when my alarm went off, cursed and grumbled abit. My life is so exciting. Went to the bank to hand in my application for a credit card.. And was told i have to wait a month to see if Im accepted or not. I asked them to add another name on my bank account, only to find out that it was already on there. Was a bit confused at that. My legal name is Edward, so thats what my bank account is under, but I go by Ted, so I wanted them to add that name so I could accept funds with that name. But, somehow, it was already there. After that, I met my gf Krista at the bus terminal, and we came back to my place. We watched my bro play a game for awhile, then he got fed up cuz he kept dying, so he quit, and we finished watching a movie we had started yesterday. After that was over, we just kinda killed time for awhile, then she left to go to work, and I ... uh ... did something or other until I had to go to work as well. Go Pizza Hut. Yeah, and then I came back, checked email, and then wrote this. Isnt life wonderful. Current Mood: okay Current Music: Van Halen - Right Now (Comment on this)
Friday, July 18th, 2003
1:59 am	Restarting... Well, Ive decided to restart this journal, and maybe actually use it abit. Hopefully. Its likely just going to be a bunch of random, useless stuff, that really doesnt make much sense, but whatever. So, right now Im working at Pizza Hut, although Im not sure how much longer thats going to last, seeing as how I walked out yesterday, and I told my manager today that Im thinking of quitting (Even though Ive been thinking about quitting since pretty much my second week there). I think I might try to get a job at rogers video.. Seems like decently fun work, compared to making pizza, and I should get free rentals. Hopefully Ill get better pay and hours as well. Im also starting my own web hosting company, which is pretty cool. Im trying to charge less then everyone else, which isnt really hard to do. All I gotta do is get together abit more cash to pay for the server I need, and away we go :) But yeah.. I have no clue what to ramble about, so Im gonna cut this entry short. Hopefully my next one will be when Im in abit more of a typing mood, so I can get more out. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Darude - Sandstorm [Original Mix] (Comment on this)