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Monday Motivation: Express yourself

Too many times, we keep out feelings and thoughts to ourselves. We need an outlet.

It’s time we let our voices be heard.

It’s time to express ourselves.

Some people use song (singing, playing an instrument, whatever). Some write. Others might dance. Maybe there’s an outfit that really sends a message. However you choose to do it, do it.

The simplest of ways is to literally just say it. I talk to myself. It helps me to really sort out my feelings and thoughts. Maybe do that. Some of you might think it’s crazy, but my best work has started as a conversation with myself. To each his own.

Speaking from a USA standpoint, we are free to express ourselves. And we need to take advantage of this.

Welp, I gotta go. I can hear myself calling.

-DALANEL

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Top Ten Daily Good Stuff Themes

Daily Good Stuff has been around since March 2013. I’ve done a few “special” posts. It can be a challenge to find specific types of quotes or jokes or videos and such. However, themed posts get more views than others so I like to get as many as I can. Let’s look at the top ten so far. I’ll link that post to you so you can check it out if you want.

There’s some math involved. I’m looking at a combined number of likes and views for each post. So really, this is a post generated by you, the readers.

10. Daily Good Stuff 15: 5 Pictures Must Be Worth 5,000 Words

I was surprised that this made the list. This post was five funny images. That’s about it. But, as we’ll see later in this post, image posts are fairly popular.

9. Daily Good Stuff 140: Babies

Clearly the most adorable of all of the DGS’s this post was centered around babies and toddlers.

8. Daily Good Stuff 223: Get Dirty 2

On a couple of rare instances, I will make a second version of a theme. Most of the time, it’s the birthday stuff. However, I decided to do a second Get Dirty post recently. The views really came in on it. Interestingly enough, this post has the same amount of views as the babies one. So, it came down to likes. The babies got no likes while this post got two. There ya go: People prefer being dirty over looking at babies. Trust me.

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DALANEL Failed Experiments

At times, when you’re blogging and trying to figure out what’s going on and what works are doesn’t, you’ll stumble upon a few…not so good ideas. This list is four features that, I tried, but never got it up and running for one reason or another.

How Was Your Week?

Back when I made the mistake of trying to make this blog a comment driven blog, I had “How Was Your Week?” where I asked how your week went. The viewing was so bad for the four posts I did, not to mentioned no one responded, made this a failure in my eyes. Plus, I tried to talk about my week and that brings me back my growing belief that people don’t care to read about my life story. Would I ever bring it back? Hahahaha

Dante and Basketball

As soon as I announced that I would do this, I ended up reviving my sports blog. And so, this sports feature moved there. That’s pretty much why I stopped doing it here.

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Repost and Update: My Most Embarrassing Moments

We took a look at awkward moments sometime last week. Welp, today we’re gonna talk about some…interesting things that have happened to me.

You gotta laugh at yourself.

In my original post, I only had two moments. This time, those two return as well as a couple of new moments. I rarely feel embarrassed about something, but when I am embarrassed, it’s worth the feeling I guess.

My pants fell down.

I remember this day. I was wearing a pair of button down pants. The kind of pants that athletes wear for warm-ups before a basketball game. Well, over the course of the day, my top button on I believe the left side started to rip or something. Anyway, I was in the parking lot of my church. Right in the middle of the lot. The catch? Church had just ended and so there were a lot of people walking to their cars, driving around, or just standing around talking to friends and such. And my pants just fell. But I wasn’t the first person to notice. There were a couple of kids who were pointing and laughing at me. The very next second, I felt a nice breeze (it was Fall weather. Very fitting) in my private area. The next second, I look down and see my pants are sliding down . I managed to pull them up before they passed my knees.

That was one of the most humiliating moments of my life. I was just a pre-teen too, maybe even younger than that.

I peed on myself.

Not your typical pee on the self story. In fact, it wasn’t the sight of pee. Whenever I’m nervous, my bladder tends to want to empty itself. Most of the time, it’s #2 for some odd reason but there has only been one certain occasion where pee is the main culprit: Band concerts. Oh dear God. I mean, I’m a good saxophone player. I knew all the songs. I wasn’t nervous about that. I’m the stage fright guy.

You know how mom or dad asks you “Did you use the restroom? We’re about to leave and I’m not stopping anywhere.” or something like that? Well I always used the bathroom before I left for the band concert. But again, my bladder would not be denied. When we got to the church where the concert was, I needed to use the bathroom. I didn’t know where the nearest bathroom was. I eventually found one and just as I reached the stall, it started. I was peeing right there while trying to untuck my shirt and unbuckle my belt and pull down my pants. I managed to pee about half of it into the urinal but the damage was done.

But that’s not the end of the story.

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