pointless?

so are blogs pointless?

in a way i think they are. was having a conversation the other day who told me that blogs were amazing cos they could write up whats going on in their life and everyone would see it.

but really the only people going to bother reading it are people who know you who are either nosey or genuinely interested in what's happening in your life.

is it not easier just sending them a text?

im kind of debating with myself because obviously i have a blog but i dont really put anything grounbreaking on here. if i have anything on my mind i dont write it here, i just stress about it and let it get worse and eventually have a freak out and get it sorted while the world carries on around me oblivious to the amount of sleep ive just lost from worrying.

we're in an age now where everyone not only has an opinion but an opinion which they believe should be forced on everyone around them and agreed with without question. i think that is why so many people have blogs.

i sometimes wish it was 10 years ago and we had no blog's and no reality tv and the interent didnt have pages and pages of useless forums with people giving their opinion on everything, most of which does not actually concern them.

an historic day

so the other day america went out and voted and obama got elected! it was predicted but nonetheless it was an historic day and a day that america will look back on with great pride.

why?

im genuinely confused by this whole affair. i hadnt been following the election at all but as it got closer thought i better take a bit of an interest so i actually knew what people were talking about. ive asked loads of people who they wanted to win and the usual response ive got is "aw man it has to be obama like! there has to be a change, bush is a disaster!" admitedly im not a big fan of george w bush but i understand the fact that he is a role model for stupid people world wide - if someone that stupid can be in charge of the most powerfu country in the world then there really is hope for us all! but that aside, all ive heard is about obama is going to change this and that.

the impression im getting from people i that they have got caught up in the whole euphoria of having the first black president and wanting to be part of history. i looke dup the whole presidenttial thing on the internet the other day and found many websites listing his promises and then a list of reasons why they they wouldnt work. these were mainly financial, he appears to have promised many things which will cost a lot of money but he is working with a deficit of $6.9 trillion! 

ive nothing against obama, im happy for the lad cos he has acheived something and from his appearence on wwe television a few months ago he seemed like a witty kind of bloke.

but ive got one of those feelings where i think it will all end in tears. 

kind of like the feeling i had when ramos was appointed spurs boss - look how that turned out!

house

sometime soon i hope to draw a line under the whole house escapades. its been possibly the most stress ive ever encountered over a long period of time. i was told that when the work started in april that it would be finished in june. we're nearly in november and its still not totally finished!

although it's been torture at times im relatively happy with my "new house" although if id known all the hassle i was going to have i would never have went ahead with it.

part of the frustration has been people breaking promises they made to me and going back when theyd had given their word on certain things. i had a concersation with someone the other day and they said it was all my own fault as i was too trusting and shouldve been more hard on the people from the start. to a point i agree but at the end of the day you have to treat people as you would want to be treated yourself and i think ive done that over the last few months, just because one or two people took the piss doesnt mean i wont trust people again when in a similar situation. im sure i'll regret saying that at some stage!

Canada

so i applied for a job in canada recently but for various reasons it wasnt going to work out. it only came up about 2 weeks ago and it actually starts on 1st nov so i wouldve had to go over for an interview and then stay until around christmas if it had of worked out. my boss in simon community is great and supports most of the strange things i come up with but she may have drawn the line at me working 5 days notice instead of my agreed 30!

would have been great if it had of worked out but such is life.

as i was sitting wondering what might have been i had a quick look at the jobfinder in the telegraph and glanced at a job that would involved spending up to 8 weeks at a time in USA, Canada and New Zealand as well as doing work in belfast.

 I wonder.............

only in N17

flippin heck its crazy being a spurs fan!

so our season has been woeful so far and i was sitting thinking about what disaster would await us when we play our next game against bolton and then good old danial levy decides to brighten up my saturday evening,which was boring aside from the joy that is watching the x factor,  by sacking our whole management team!

so goodbye damian, juande, gus and marco - it's been a rollercoaster!

rather strange timing for the whole thing but i respect danial levy for coming out with a statement that addresses the criticism he's received. and fair play for admitting he made a mistake.

onwards and upwards though and we've got harry redknapp in charge which should provide some more ups and downs, im actually feeling quite optimistic tho. then again, im always optimistic about spurs - they say love is blind after all. Im almost glad the canada job didnt work out, i couldnt bear to miss a moment of the madness that usually surrounds my beloved spurs!!!

babies

is it just me or is everyone having babies these days?

ive lost count of the amount of friends who have just had a kid, just found out their pregnant or are about to give birth very soon!!

dont get me wrong, im happy for them all but flippin heck it makes me feel old!

a random rant

a lot of things interest me greatly but one in particular is how some people assume that when they have a bad experience of something that everyone else is also going to have this experience.

ive noticed a lot lately.

someone i know flew with ryanair and their flight was delayed and was then telling people not to fly with ryanair because their flights were ALWAYS late. i can vouch for ryanair on this on, ive lost count of how many times ive flown with them in 2008 alone and i think just one,maybe 2, of my flights were delayed slightly.

people seem to apply the same logic to pretty much everything. hotels, restaurants, cities. one person told me not to go to london as the underground was too confusing!

i think it boils down to not looking at the bigger picture and having tunnel vision.

Christians do this a lot. i told someone recently that i hadnt been to church that morning and they started giving me grief about how going to church is important and how i need to be going to a church etc etc etc. I hadnt been to church that morning because I was knackered and had decided already to go that night instead!

I think as Christians we are too quick to judge each other and we need to wise up big style. We seem to get caught up on being involved in our church but do so little to help people outside of our little Christian circle.

Whats the point of being at every church service, every bible study, prayer meetings etc etc when we dont lead by example in other areas of our lives?

is it really right to phone in sick to work so we can attend a worship event?

is it ok to lead worship in church despite the fact we're lying on our benefit forms?

is it ok to drive an untaxed car with the justification that we're using it to attend a bible study?

should we really prioritise our Christian friends over those who aren't Christians?

I think we need to look at ourselves before we criticse other people.