Random thoughts from a random woman.

Here I am blogging again, I really need to start doing this often I think it will help my get things off my mind.

So I have deleted this particular blog three times. I didn't know what to write about, or how to start.

I lost the good thing, and I am not going to have a second chance.
I feel stuck
I am at a crossroad and I do not know which way to go.
I am not happy here, but I do not know where to go.
I dont feel motivated, I do not know where it went.
The only thing I have left is being positive. I know we all go through things to learn from it. I am def learning tons about myself. Things I do not like, and I am going to change it.

I am not going to continue to lose good things, because of me anymore.



M.Lanzo
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One day here the next day there...

Homelessness: is the condition and social category of people without a regular house or dwelling because they cannot afford, or are otherwise unable to maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence."[1] Street people are the segment of the homeless who spend substantial periods of time on the streets in urban areas. The actual legal definition varies from country to country, or among different entities or institutions in the same country or region.[2]
The term homelessness may also include people whose primary night-time residence is in a homeless shelter, in an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.[3][4]
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines a "chronically homeless" person as "an unaccompanied homeless individual with a disabling condition who has either been continuously homeless for a year or more, or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years."[5] (Wikipedia)


Happy 2011, and so much for blogging everyday in 2010. That really went out the window, and I had so many good topics too. Sigh. Anywho, my blog if you haven't noticed is about the homeless. I've always had this weird-questionable-intrigued vibe about homeless people. I've only encountered the aggressive ones, from one jumping on my windshield asking for money, to another in a wheelchair cursing me out because we couldn't spare(to name a few examples). So for the longest I've basically judged them all and written them off. If I saw a homeless person I would instantly panic, start sweating, find another route to walk, roll up my window, and look the other way. You know how they say dogs can sense fear, well so can an homeless person. I think they communicated with each other to see which one could scare me the most. Not until a month or so ago, I really started to think about the homeless in a different light. Nothing happen for me to think this way, I just really started thinking about them. Questions like...

...How hard it must be to go from having it all to having nothing but the clothes on your back?
...It is cold in my house, I can not imagine how an homeless person is sleeping out side right now
...Is the city doing anything to help?
...Is the city doing enough?

Then I look down at my $15 meal that I am having..."I can easily spend this money to keep me full for three hours tops, but someone out there on the street is trying to collect $1 to buy a meal." Suddenly my $15 meal wasn't as appetizing anymore. I began to feel guilty and selfish. Yes there may be many homeless out there who have brought themselves to that point due to addictions (drugs, sex, gambling, etc) but there are a high percentage of honest people who many include their entire family, which in a lot of cases include children suffering. Mind you children who didn't ask for any of this...

...this is when it really hit me, I really needed to stop turning my head, wipe the cold sweat from my forehead and MAN-UP. I decided to cut back on my unhealthy food spending habits, and take some of that money and go out and feed five different homeless people or a homeless family every month. I know, I know it sounds crazy and unsafe, BUT I am going to do it. I am starting off small to feel it out and see how they react, then I will grow from there. What I am going to include in their meal for this month is below...

• Chicken Sandwich
• Bottle Water
• Banana/Apple
• Granola bar

Everything a person would need to have a healthy meal. I am also open to ANY ideas.

I do have fears...
...will I get in trouble?
...how will they react?
...am I going to get attacked? (I am not going at night, and I am bringing someone)

I am just hoping that my little meals every month will make a small difference and maybe even encourage any of my family and/or friends to help. I am going out this Saturday January 29th, to deliver my small meals, I will post pictures and also do a post blog after the experience.

Below I have included a few links of what the City of Orlando "summarizes" about our problem with homeless... Some of this shit made me upset, because one it looks like this is an outdated summary. Which leads me to believe that no one is following up on this issue. Two all these damn laws! They have to have a permit to ask for money?!? REALLY? Sighs... well you guys enjoy the links, don't get too upset.


http://www.cityoforlando.net/elected/mayor/pdf/MWCOH_Summary.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness
http://www.covenanthouse.org/homeless-youth/statistics-facts?gclid=CKKqoePS3aYCFRRg2godW0ZL5g

Be Safe
M.Lanzó 8)

What'eva happen to Forgive and Forget??

Things we should get over...

Tiger cheating:
Ok, look, seriously this is overkill. If I hear one more damn thing about Tiger, Elin or his 12266423088 mistress, I am going to drive a 9 in someones 'effin head! Men cheat,(women cheat as well. It seems like a lot of male celebrities and athletics (not all of them, but most of them... more then less)get caught up in this whole cheating game, but it isn't unheard of. It's like damn Tiger you cheated got caught your wife was pissed (of course who wouldn't) you crashed your car because she was trying to beat the shit out of you (punk!), the truth came out. Hey! Let's leave it alone already end of story. I am sure there are other important news out there that take priority to Tiger and his addiction to bartenders/waitresses. I'll tell you what though, if Disney or the Orlando Magic didn't put Orlando on the freaking map Tiger Woods sure as hell did! Our population increased about 35% thanks to the Tiger Woods incident. Oh and when did Isle Worth, Florida become it's own city?!? I don't see them on the map!! It's ORLANDO!!!

The Casey Anthony case:
Ok its been almost 3yrs since this poor little girl went missing, and I think this broke the hearts of many including myself I can't even lie. I even signed up to be part of the search team, but then I thought it would be my luck that I would find her, and I would be traumatize for the rest of my life. So I left it to the brave and bold. Here is what I don't get though, help me understand someone please...
All signs put to the mom, her hair in the trunk, her weird behavior, her baby-sitter story, her I working at Universal (which by the way I think its funny how, no one knew who she was, but the minute she mentioned UO people all of sudden knew who she was, or worked with her Lol. Band wagoners!)Her constant partying while her daughter was missing, DNA test from the trunk coming back as all positive that there was a body in the trunk. So why can't they find her guilty and why is the death penalty to harsh?!? She killed an innocent angel, because she was selfish. If she didn't want her daughter, she could have gave her to someone that would have loved to have her. Anyways let me put my emotions aside here, I am getting a little outta control. I am tired of going online to my local news station and there is an entire section dedicated to the Casey Anthony case! Look until she is convicted, I don't care to read or look at pictures of her crying in court, or of her tattoo, or her mom shopping at Wal-Mart.... Which speaking of, I saw Cindy Anthony at a Wal-Mart sometime ago, I was standing right beside her in the vitamin aisle. It toke every ounce of me not to ask her, questions, mainly rude ones. I texted my mom and told her I was standing next to Cindy Anthony and my mom texted the following back, "YOUR DAUGHTER DID IT, AND YOU KNOW IT! *#?$" now most of you know my mom, and you guys know she would never curse unless she is really angry about something...I mean REALLY angry, and apparently the Anthony's pee'd in her soup...speaking of pee'in BRB! Lol... Wow completely got off subject (My A.D.D. is kicking in) Anywho local news needs to stop giving us the play by play at this point and just tell us know when she is convicted. Like I said before, I am sure there are other important news out there that take priority to a full article and/or slide show of Casey drinking a glass of water in court. Hmmmf

The Oprah show coming to an end:
When I heard this I was shocked! I called my mom to make sure she hadn't jumped off and I-4 bridge. I wonder if the rate of women's injuries or deaths went up the day Oprah announced her show was coming to an end?? Hmmm....Anywho this was sad news a lot of us (ME) who grew up with Oprah, I mean at 4pm we weren't allowed to touch the tv, try it if you were bold, but I am sure you would walk out the living room with your feelings hurt. Many days I remember hearing my mom talking to the tv saying, "Esoy es verdad , Oprah or Aye mira quien ta en Oprah hoy!" (English translation: "That is true" "Ohh look who is on Oprah today") Truth of the matter is it is sad, but damn she has to live her life too, after 20+ years in our living rooms, you would think she would had retired a while ago. How about we get over it, and not treat it as a world tragedy...lets keep it at a entertainment tragedy. Thanks Oprah for keeping my mother entertained for an hour in a day, long enough for me to get into trouble and not get caught! Lmao...

The Balloon Boy:
Horrible, weird, and the parents deserve time in jail or the nut house, which ever one is more appropriate. Let's pop that news(bad joke I know) and stop talking about it, he wasn't in there, he is ok, and like a smart kid he ratted out his parents...End of story. Why am I in line at Wal-Mart trying to check out quick because I can't hold my pee any longer, and all I hear are people behind me talking about the Balloon Boy and his family?? By the way I feel bad for that kid, his whole life he has to live as "The Balloon Boy" Did they ever mention his real name???

It's Snowing in Florida:
If your from Florida, did you see any snow? I mean SNOW SNOW, not dew that froze because it was cold, not rain drops that froze a little and felt like snow flurries, but SNOW what our friends in the North have seen and are seeing? I know I didn't, but the news was predicting snow like we were about to get a foot of snow. The funny thing had to be when I saw this guy outside with a freaking mini snow shovel Lmao! Idiot... Again more useless news that clog up our Local News stations. I love this picture though I can not lie, look how amazed they are...


I am over it all and I am over this blog topic, Lol!
There will prob be another blog within a day, to make up for lost times... Stay tuned

PSA...a VERY SERIOUS PSA

Please please, if you haven't done so already, try to help support our friends over in Haiti. If anything do it for all the children who have lost their parents, and are hurt. I have provided some good sites and places to make donations.

Evans HS 9Th Grade Center is taken anything, but clothes (they have enough)

2751 Lake Stanley Rd Orlando, FL 32818

Memorial Middle School
2220 29th Street
Orlando, FL 32805

Lumière Magazine and The Greater Haitian American Chamber of Commerce of Orlando will be collecting survival kit items such as first-aid kits, medication (sealed), flashlights, batteries, candles, blankets, hand soap, feminine supplies and toilet paper at a candlelight vigil and survival kit drive at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Lake Eola Park. Details:1-800-260-2562

See this link as well for other places to donate
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/changetheworld/

Also text to...
“HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross relief for Haiti.
"YELE" to 501501 to donate $5 to the Yele foundation by Wyclef (This is where I donated to)
http://yele.org/


Be Safe
M.Lanzo 8)

Bathroom woes.

Alright here I go again, this one is going to be a bit weird, and funny, yet it will have you thinking and agreeing with me.


In our lives we have a lot of necessities that we HAVE to have and do. Example we have to breathe, we have to eat, we have to drink water or we will not survive...among other things. One thing that we HAVE to do that annoys me (go ahead start laughing now) is Urinating! I can not stand having to stop what I am doing to use the bathroom. Why do I have to accommodate my bladder at all times, WHAT ABOUT ME?!?!?

What urination REALLY is, and why do we HAVE to do it?

Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, peeing, and more rarely, emiction, is the process of disposing of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. In healthy humans the process of urination is under voluntary control. In infants, elderly individuals and those with neurological injury, urination may occur as an involuntary reflex. In other animals, in addition to urination serving the purpose of expulsion of waste material, the act can serve to mark territory or express submissiveness. Physiologically, micturition involves coordination between the central, autonomic and somatic nervous systems. Brain centers that regulate urination include the pontine micturition center, periaqueductal gray, and the cerebral cortex. (Wikipedia)

Now that we got all that educational information out the way. Read why pee is a problem for me, feel my pain like a bad uti. This is what always happens to me, never fails.

Bathroom Problem #1
Every time I go to the mall, this one never seems to fail... I will be fine as I am weaving in and out of the stores, trying on shoes, shuffling through racks, but let me go into a fitting room and try something on! Forget it my bladder and urethra go crazy, and I am forced to exit the fitting rooms at top speeds and find the nearest bathroom. By the time I finish using the bathroom I am too piss to go back and find what I was about to try on and try it on again, so I leave.

M.Lanzo: 0
Pee: 1

Bathroom Problem #2
I have a love-hate relationship with Wal-Mart. I enjoy going there, but I don't like how it is always ALWAYS busy. You can never just go in and out, I always plan for 2 hours when I go to Wal-Mart. Anywho I will be fine driving there, excellent getting out my car and getting that buggy, the second I step foot into the actual store, I have to use the bathroom, never fails! Sometimes I try to ignore it, but it always ends up winning forcing me to leave empty handed... I refuse to use the bathrooms at Wal-Mart.

M.Lanzo: 0
Pee: 2

Bathroom Problem #3
I am a strong believer of not "breaking the seal" when I am out having a drink or two. It seems for some reason I can never make it pass the third drink without my bladder screaming, "BATHROOM NOW!" Of course I try to ignore it, and continue to do what I was doing. As my song comes on and I am bumping to the beat, I find myself bumping my way to the bathroom like a bad instructional dance move. *Sighs* Needless to say I become a prisoner of the stalls all night and there goes my night. "Way to ruin my night bladder!"

M.Lanzo: 0
Pee: 3

Notice a trend?? Score is kind of looking like the score of the NJ Nets right now.

Then if it isn't bad enough that I am always losing the battle between my urine. It always finds a way to make me feel like an idiot, when I am in a panic to use the bathroom. It seems like I can never get my damn button undone on my pants! I promise you it is a fight of me holding my pee, while trying to unbutton that stubborn button, before I can't hold my pee any longer and I pee my pants with the stubborn button. What the freak! I just never win.

I wish I could just send my bladder a meeting request on when we can find sometime in the day to use the bathroom 8(. It would make my life so much easier. I did however find some funny sites on Urine facts, you should check these links out when you are not busy peeing.
http://www.urinecolors.com/fun_with_pee.php
http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=53822
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/282217/strange_facts_about_urine.html?cat=68

Be Safe
M.Lanzo 8)

Smart ideas aren't always so smart...

Happy 2010!

With that out the way....

Welcome to the inside of my mind. I decided (as you've notice) to start a blog of my thoughts. Some blogs will be more humorous then others and some might literally not make any sense to you, but will still be a good read. I think (Think: verb-to have as an opinion) the society has ridden a lot of people of having an open mind and expressing their opinions. Well I M.Lanzo promise to keep it real thru my blogs, I am not holding anything back, and if you get offended, or can't handle it, I advise you to suck it up and keep reading! Just joking if you don't like what you read , take your mouse move it up towards the little red x on the top of this screen and hey look at that, out of sight out of mind. Those who keep reading, feel free to leave your comments, as long as any feed back I get is real. As Ray J says on his reality show that seems oh so staged..."Keep it 100". With that being said...let's get it crackin'

I just read an article earlier this week, on Farmers basically being greedy. Apparently farmers are giving live-stock penicillin...yes penicillin (Penicillin: The most famous of all antibiotics, named for the fungal mold Penicillium notatum from which it is derived. Penicillin acts by destroying the cell wall of bacteria. medicinenet.com) to beef them up, I mean this shouldn't come to any surprise that they are using chemicals to give us beefy meet, but whatever happen to injecting them with steroids...or how about this, feeding them the right way?? Well anywho, medically proven when something or someone is given too many doses of antibiotics they begin to repel infections and other antibiotics. This "smart" farmer who was giving his earnings penicillin, ended up getting kicked in the knee by one of his live-stock (I would have aimed higher) busting his knee open, blood everywhere, big scene yaddy yaddy, drama drama.... Come to find out the pig, for some strange reason had a open wound in his foot and there was blood transmission between the farmer and his bacon...WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?!? Anywho farmer didn't think nothing of it, days later it apparently swelled up to an abnormal size, so he went and got it checked by doctors. Doctors then gave him the normal medication, days later BAM! Antibiotics weren't working, the infection was spreading and the knee was still ballooning. Well come to find out that, the penicillin the farmer was using to grow his pockets, was the same thing that was repelling the infection and the medication in his body. I am sure the farmer was thinking, "FML" (FML: F*** My Life).

After reading this article I laughed a little...actually a lot. Because it just shows how we (yes I said WE) will do ANYTHING to cheat the system to make a quick dollar. There's this Spanish saying that goes, "lo barato sali caro" which basically means, taking the cheap way out will always end up costing you twice as much at the end. I thought of this saying instantly when I finished reading the last sentence in this article. Then I debated with myself the pros and cons about becoming a vegetarian...then I thought HELL NO, I am a meat lover!! I popped a U-turn (yes I must admit I was driving and reading this article)

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Please do not text and drive, in 2009 alone 5,870 (washingtonpost.com) people have died from people who can not wait to answer that text message, or update their Facebooks, or Tweets just to post that they are driving. Let's make 2010 a safe year!

So I popped that U-Turn right into a local McDonalds and ordered a Double Cheese burger with no onions and paid .60 cents extra to add BACON. Needless to say I was in heaven!! Why should my stomach suffer because a farmer doesn't know what he is doing? I hope this was a lesson learned for all those farmers out there trying to survive in this recession, by trying to kill their consumers.

I provided the link below so you can read it for yourself.
...and don't worry the next blog will not be as boring as this one.

Be safe!
M.Lanzó 8)



http://www.localwireless.com/wap/news/text.jsp?bb=bbdown&sid=147&nid=4514491&cid=379&scid=-1&ith=0&title=National+News