I pluralized thorns and misspelled kitchens and still got 177 points.
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I know I seem to ask a stupid question every week or so, but here's something that I've been wondering. How can you tell what blog a blogroll belongs to? Like if you have a referral in your site meter that is a link to a blogroll, how do you tell who it is? I like to check out the blogs of anyone who reads me, but sometimes I just have a blogrolling link in there. A lot of people have a 'me' or 'us' link in there, and then you can tell, but if they don't have that is there any other way? I hope this question makes sense, and I hope someone can answer it. Please help.. I have like 6 regular readers and I want to know who they are.
There's a song out right now called 'Walk a Little Straighter' by Billy Currington that I really love. If you haven't heard it, then go listen to the clip. You can read the lyrics here. It's a song about a man who knows his father is only human. He knows his flaws and he loves him anyway. Even though he loves him, he makes it clear the pain his father has caused him. I think everyone thinks about their own father when they hear that song. Whether you know anything about having a father that drinks or not doesn't matter. I think most of us at the very least evaluate how we compare to a child that can see his father as flawed and love him anyway, and we evaluate how our own dads compare to the dad in the song.
My father is a wonderful man. He's funny and he's strong. He's dependable and hard working. He was a wonderful provider for us and always made sure his family was taken care of. My father came from a big family that had very little money. By the time he was 13 years old he took care of himself almost exclusively. He's worked his entire life, and was the first person in his family to graduate from high school and attend college. He dropped out of college after 2 years and began working for the railroad full time to support his wife and new son. About a year and half later, I was born, and at 22, my father had a wife and two kids to support.
Growing up, my father was fun to have around. All the kids came to my house after school to play baseball or football. I can't count the number of times my dad played quarterback for both teams so that 6 kids could have a football game. He has a wonderful sense of humor, and is especially good with children. He's always had a way of making children feel at ease. He coached my little league teams, and I loved it. My entire life, I don't think he ever missed a sporting event.
My dad is strong and athletic too. We rode horses when I was a kid a lot, and I can remember being in awe of his strength. It seemed like he could lift anything. He could hold a horse that was fighting against a rope, and I never saw him thrown when one bucked. He could drive a wagon, and maybe most impressively, he could swing up into the saddle like the cowboys in the movies. He taught us to ride, and he taught us to work hard.