kazakhstan

Everyone has a story.

For some, this becomes their identity. Distinguishable from others only by the tale told. For others, it enhances their existence on earth, complimenting them. For me, it guides my life.

Welcome to my story.

This is one girl’s love story. This is my love story—my life.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is over

Submitted by kazakhstan on Fri.09.03.10 4:10pm

Tags: no more dead, no more war, Operation Iraqi Freedom is over

Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. Reading the text of Obama’s speech and various articles has brought tears to my eyes. This, not 9/11, will be one of the historical defining moments of my life. I shed no tears for 9/11. I think I was too young and self-absorbed to fully comprehend what it means. The Iraq conflict, however, was a bigger part of my life. I was older by the time it started and much more critical of our government. And now, it’s ending.

I never did see a purpose to going into Iraq. And now it’s ending. Sure, there’s still Afghanistan. But less people will be dying. Less people will be deployed. I hope Iraq is able to figure itself out and set up a working, legitimate government.

And if you’re curious, here’s the link to Obama’s speech: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38944049/ns/politics-white_house/

I’m surprised there hasn’t been more fanfare. But, maybe people are weary and exhausted from hearing about war. I think the real celebration will be when all troops have left Iraq and America is truly out of Iraq.

Let’s throw a party then, melo, and drink to the lost.

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disperse the wealth

Submitted by kazakhstan on Thu.08.12.10 10:20am

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opening thoughts

Submitted by kazakhstan on Sun.06.22.08 12:04am

Tags: giraffe, Love Story

"Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong." -Anne Lamott

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson.

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buggins42384 Fri.08.13.10 8:31pm

Re: disperse the wealth

If I was rich, I would donate a lot. :)
There is only so much wealth one person really needs.

kazakhstan Sat.07.31.10 11:40pm

Re: love story

I never responded to your gspot! Please, explain how your a monster?

kazakhstan Sat.07.31.10 11:37pm

Re: drip drop

Im well. Thanks. And you?

as_if_gathering_dust Sun.07.25.10 4:02pm

Re: drip drop

Greetings from random roaming, how are you?

brandillio Mon.07.05.10 9:08am

Re: love story

sup homie?

xxsandmanxx Sat.06.05.10 7:17am

Re: love story

im a highly controlled monster - but a monster never the less. if you want me to define this i will not.... this is nothing to be proud of.

lovedove Tue.06.01.10 12:16pm

Re: love story

Random hello =)

kazakhstan Tue.06.01.10 10:24am

Re: drip drop

yup, ballet... i've always wanted to learn.

zero_muyo Sat.05.29.10 12:50am

Re: drip drop

Ballet?

fright Thu.05.27.10 9:06pm

Re: love story

:D It's okay. I think San Diego would be wonderful to see. Better than all the sand here in Arizona. Husband took 2 and 1/2 - 3 months to get a job after he was medically retired from the Army. We were gettign $938 dollars a month, to survive off of, with his two children. It was hard. We ran out of money pretty quickly, because we just kept running into problem after problem.

I'm sooo glad he's got his job now.

fallen_seraphim Thu.05.27.10 5:02pm

Re: love story

Good deal, that will be on our list then. We want to check out Balboa Park as well for sure.

kazakhstan Thu.05.27.10 2:11pm

Re: love story

i just realized i never replied to this...

san diego is lovely. :)

"do everything that you possibly can..." i think that's what a lot of families that come here are trying to do. (regardless of immigration documentation)

2 months... that's about how long it took me to find a job, once i actually started looking. i spent abt 3 months being lazy until i ran out of money. :P

kazakhstan Thu.05.20.10 9:30am

Re: opening thoughts

haha... i bet! i know when i'm writing, i sometimes stop myself from rambling cause i realize im making no sense and must sound weird and crazy. but then again, that's usually when i have some thought i have to get out and it just cant wait!

nightofthelost Tue.05.18.10 3:51pm

Re: opening thoughts

Your writing quote reminded me of Anne Dillard, ugh. How writing seems so passionate and enthralling in our heads while we are doing it and how we must seem insane to anyone onlooking.

fright Sat.05.15.10 1:17am

Re: love story

Ooooh. San Diego. I've heard it's nice. :P

The way I was brought up, most especially by my father, you do everything that you possibly can, to provide that bread, instead of stealing it. My father lost his job in December of 2008, and he found a job two months later, but he was applying anywhere, and everywhere. He was doing everything, and anything he could, to keep his family atleast surviving.

The Medicaid issues I had, may have been the state I was in. I was in North Carolina at the time, and they tend to be ass-backward anyway.

kazakhstan Fri.05.14.10 10:23am

Re: love story

i'm in southern california, not AZ. and i live in san diego.

i'd say, sometimes the hope and possibility of a better life outweighs any possible fear that might exist. is it wrong to steal bread when your family's starving?

what tax brks do immigrants have? cause, this, i don't know... as for medicaid and other such government programs, these tend to be based around income and need, never race or ethnicity (that i'm aware of). it would be discriminatory to have such programs based on one's racial-ethnic background.

fright Thu.05.13.10 7:15pm

Re: love story

Thank you! :P No, I've been in Arizona for 4 months now. Hmm, where are you at in Arizona? if you don't mind me asking. I've babysat someone else's children, and mowed lawns, yes. Laying brick and tile actually pays very, very well. My husband flipped burgers, before he joined the military. I think, that a good part of Americans, would do those jobs now, to pay the bills. Americans are desperate, now.

Oh, I can imagine the constant fear. But if you don't want that fear, then you don't do things that are illegal, especially when you know they are illegal.

It would be good, if they could come legally. But so many that DO come here, get a great many tax breaks, that Americans can't get now. I had no health insurance for a long while, I WAS working, but I can't afford medical bills. I couldn't get medicaid to get me through until I was able to get insurance. I wasn't pregnant, I wasn't married to a foreigner and pregnant, I wasn't a minority. That's one example. Everything will work out as it should.

I like that we can share our thoughts, and opinions, and find a respect in the other's opinion, even if we don't agree. I like that we aren't yelling and cussing at each other over this. As many people do now.

kazakhstan Thu.05.13.10 3:31pm

Re: love story

i checked your profile before responding. congratulations on your pregnancy! and new marriage! :)

it seems, at least according to your profile, that you have only been in AZ for a month... yes?

I'm 20 minutes away from the border too. There are guns in every part of American, hun, not just the towns near the southern border. And, i'd say, the best way to keep drugs and those associated with drugs out of your city or any city is to lower the demand for drugs. If no one wants drugs, no one will sell them.

As for the economy explanation, imagine no illegal immigrants. Are you going to go out and pick crops, wash dirty dishes, clean poopy toilets, babysit someone else's children, mow lawns, lay brick/tile, do construction, flip burgers, or fry chicken nuggests for shit pay 8 hrs a day to maintain your family? I know i wouldn't. My mother raised me to not clean (like she does) for a living. parents want more for their children than what the parents grew up knowing. it's a fact of life. and parents will do anything for their children (as i'm sure you well know). sometimes this includes risking one's own life for the "American Dream." i use quotes because coming over illegally isn't all that it's cracked up to be. it sucks. try living in constant fear and worry about being moved away from your family without them knowing. alas, i digress. everyone has money problems. personally, i think it's just a matter of people and the government realizing that we don't need so much stuff. but that's another issue in itself...

i'll add this last thing... i'm not for illegal immigration. ideally, all that want to come would be able to come legally. but the process is too costly, and time consuming and may take yrs with no result. the immigration system is broken. the entire world system (government, economics, blah) is broken. everything's related. we can't stop or change one thing without affecting another.

fright Thu.05.13.10 1:28pm

Re: love story

I totally respect your opinion about the Arizona immigration law, but, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell you a little of what it's like, here. Atleast, where I am, in Arizona. I am 20 minutes from the Mexican border. We are backed up to mountains, and the drug runners and cartels go through the mountains, with AK-47s, various machine guns, and they come into the city sometimes. Now, my city has lots of guns in it. Border patrol, the military, city and state cops, and all the old military retirees with guns. Plus the Tombstone enthusiasts who enjoy carrying guns. However, the thought is still deeply scary. The MPs catch people trying to go through the mountains all of the time.

I understand a lot of the illegal immigrants here aren't like that. But if this law makes it just a little easier to keep drug cartels, and drug runners out of my city, then so be it.

In addition, Arizona is raising the state sales tax, and they cut out PE, Art, and Music from schools, because they don't have the money to sustain teaching all of the children, a good part of which, are illegal immigrants. I don't want to pay for illegal immigrants to go to school. I'm sorry. I don't. And it's not helping the Arizona economy any, because nearly all the money they make, goes back home.