Today's topic: TRUST. It means a lot to me. Once trust has been broken, it'll take a long time for me to trust that person again, if ever. Building up trust takes a long time, but once broken takes forever to mend. I've noticed this, and it might not be true for everyone, but why is it that once a person starts dating someone, they reveal their friends' secrets to their significant other? I've heard this from guys and girls alike. It just plain sucks. When your friend says to you "Don't tell ANYONE," that doesn't mean it excludes your boyfriend/girlfriend, and the whole damn population. As you can see, it's a very touchy subject for me, but I hate people with big mouths. There are those who tell everyone their secrets.. fine, that's you, but keep mine shut up. Anyway, I trust very few people in this world. I know a lot of times people say "trust is friendship," but it's not. If it were, then people would keep their mouths shut and not reveal your innermost thoughts to the world. The way to deal with it? Keep it all to yourself. You only have yourself to blame if you've been burned by a friend's big mouth, and you still go and tell her your secrets. People ask me why I'm so "secretative." I'm not really... but I guess I may seem that way because I just don't want to give anyone the temptation to reveal my "secrets." Honestly, trust NO ONE. Someone that you think you can trust probably has blabbed your secrets to someone else. I still have faith in a few of my friends, but I'm taking caution because I don't want to have to go through the same crap that I went through with some other people... who shall remained anonymous... but you know who you are... and now I'll keep the rest of those thoughts to myself... the words are too harsh for my site.

.: posted by Jen 7:30 PM

Just to give you a taste of just how fun(ny) dE VIP Forums really is, I'm going to show you one of the threads. Topic: How do you deal with telemarketers?
*devip: They ask you if you're head of the household. I say no, but then they ask if you are the spouse and etc! So, I tell them I'm 12. One telemarketer even told me that I don't sound 12! WT! My brother recorded a classical music piece, and sometimes we play that for the telemarketers when they call and won't stop talking. Someone else suggested that you ask the telemarketers personal questions, like "Are you married?" "Do you have kids?" LOL.. stuff like that.
*sniff009: I havent tried that yet. Sounds interesting. What I dont like is the door to door ppl. That's just messed up. Like 3 days ago a guy came to my door. Seriously he looked worse than Fat Bastard from Austin Powers. He starts out saying I am representing Fat People who help their public speaking skills. Am I drooling or anything? I was about on the floor but held it in. He kept on going off on strange tangents then I said thank you I am not interested. He walked away very upset. He smelled really bad though..... Not to mention he was making fun of himself......
*samuel: it all depends on what kinda mood im in. sometimes i just say 'no thanks' while they're still talking and hang up. or i'll say, wait hold on, put the phone down and go back to whatever i was doing. i hate when they ask why im not interested.
*sniff009: Like recently I had a telemarker call me on my cell. Kinda strange, but she was talking faster than the speed of light. I just hung up.
*phgurl: when my mom and I answer the phone cuz the males in my household DON't know HOW to..when we answer and say hell0 and don't hear anything soon- we hang up-they sure has heck deserve it-lately when ATT long distance ppl called- my roommate who speaks a different chinese dialect was trying to speak mandarin-and pretended to be a 12 year old - FUNNAY- so learn a few sentences in another lanuguage and outwit them.
*devip: My brother answered a telemarketer's phone call, and the person kept talking and talking. Since I was sitting next to my brother, I spontaneously starting screaming into the phone with my Southern drawl... "ARE YOU ON THE PHONE?! DIDN'T I TELL YOU NOT TO BE ON THE PHONE? YOU GET OFF THE PHONE RIGHT NOW. I'M GONNA BEAT YA SORRY ...." With that cue, my brother hung up on the telemarketer. This can work with any unwanted phone call.
*shakyjakes: I usually just listen to them...and try to be enthusiastically sarcastic...
Telemarketer - "We're having a special on chimney sweeping this week!!"
Me - "Wow...you must be very proud of yourself!"
Telemarketer - "Um...yes we are...when was the last time you cleaned your chimney??"
Me - "Last Christmas..a jolly but large man in a red suit cleaned it for us!!"
Telemarketer - "click"
shakyjakes: My favourite conversation was with 2 people trying to sell me Christianity...
Lady1 - "Hi...we're just passing through your neighborhood and thought we'd drop off a flyer about God...do you believe in God?"
Me - "Sorry maam, my family belongs to a satanic cult...just kidding...my parents are actually buddhist...and I'm an agnostic."
Lady2 - "Have you ever read the bible?"
Me - "Actually yes...on a few occasions...found the stories very interesting...almost Stephen King-like in terms of imagination."
Lady1 - "We're just trying to let everyone know that God loves them and to make people more aware about how God can complete their lives"
Me - "I see...can I be honest with you?...I've taken many classes on theology...and I really don't see the purpose of "God" other than to invoke fear into his followers so that they'd abide by rules that give society order as well as promote a more productive way of living...and from a personal standpoint...I find that I don't need God to do all these things"
Lady1 - "But God does so much more than that..."
Me - *growing weary and tired* "I really have no time for this...but you should try next door...I think they're a little more gullible"
Lady2 - "Thank you for your time."

There's more, but I left a bunch out to fit it in this entry. Go here to read the whole thing.

.: posted by Jen 12:51 AM

I'll use a separate entry to talk about my weird dinner last night. The food was pretty good until I found a piece of a bandaid in my soup! I was enjoying my soup when I saw this piece of thing with a few small holes in it. At first I thought it was some sea creature because there was a bigger piece of seafood in there with some dots, but I was suspicious. Upon closer inspection... IT WAS A BANDAID. Now that is just disgusting! First of all, whoever was making the soup and chopping up the pieces of food had a bloody finger... Yuck. Second, a piece of that bloody bandaid got into my soup. I hope the cook didn't have AIDS.

.: posted by Jen 10:03 PM

I've had my website dE VIP (click on that if you want to see it) for three years, but then I decided I wanted to make a more professional page. I needed a change, but I didn't want to redo the whole site because I had put a LOT of effort and time on it, so I decided to make a brand new page. So here I am. This blogger thing seems pretty cool. I just started this site this morning, so hang in there... I hope to see miracles. =) I have a lot of ideas for my site, and I hope to be able to convey them on here. I have another project that I've been working on since July 4, 2001. It's dE VIP Forums, which is a great place for people to talk about everything! It's been coming along rather well. Thanks to all of you who read and post on it!

.: posted by Jen 7:14 PM

dEVIP. Hey! Welcome to my site. I've worked hard on this. I'll try to work on this every chance I get. I hope you'll enjoy all the different things I have for you on here. If you have any comments or suggestions please let me know. If you know me then you know I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for coming!!! For those of you who sign my guestbook, I greatly appreciate it! If you don't sign it, it's ok, I'll live, too. =) Come visit again!
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