I Came...............to the World of Blogging

So I really hope people read this thing since I'm taking the time to write it.

As probably all the people who are reading this know, I do a lot of facebooking, and I need somewhere else to do my ranting besides my statuses, since 420 characters is not nearly enough space for me to gripe.
I want you guys to ask for my opinions on things.  I want you guys to ask me what I think and how I see the world.  I want you guys to interact with me as much as possible, since I would really like to write a good long post every day.  I also promise to try my VERY hardest to only write on here once a day, since y'all know how much I like to talk ;D  Anyway, this first post will be a little addition to a pretty popular status I posted earlier today, so here goes nothing.

"Why in the world would you EVER take advice from someone who is widely known to be nothing more than a trashy idiot who can't keep anyone in their life for more than a week?  Words of wisdom for the day: If someone's life is a complete trainwreck, clearly they can't handle themselves, so why let them handle you too?" 

That's the status I posted earlier today (technically yesterday now since it's almost 2am, but I'm still awake, so whatever) that everyone seemed to agree with and what not.  Standing up for myself has always been a major part of my life.  I don't mean in the sense that I feel the need to try and justify everything I do to everyone, but I do feel the need to stick to my morals.  I am one of the most open minded people you will ever meet, that is for sure.  I am also one of the nicest, contrary to popular belief.  I pride myself in being a great friend to everyone that will have me as one.  SO, this little set up leads me to my main annoyance I was trying to get across with that status.  If you are having problems in your life, why would you seek advice from someone who cannot keep themselves in check for more than about 15 minutes at a time?  And on the flip side, if you are certifiably insane, why in God's name would you think you are in any position to be giving advice to ANYONE?  You have to fix yourself before you can fix anyone else.  This is something I've been dealing with the past few weeks.  Being the good friend that I am, I like to give advice, and from what I hear I'm pretty good at it, or at least I must be because people keep asking for it ;)  Anyway, I haven't been at my full potential these past couple of weeks, and still am not, but I'm trying my very best to get back there.  I like to help people and would never ever ever intentionally lead someone down the wrong path, even if they were my worst enemy.  Needless to say, it's really the hardest thing for me to have to stand back and watch someone run their life into the ground knowing that I could possibly do something to help them.  This is another problem I have: trying to help those who don't want to be helped.  There is a difference between someone who doesn't want to be helped and someone who is hard to help.  I like a good challenge, but I can't fathom the idea that someone wouldn't listen to good advice when it's staring them in the face.  I've always been good at removing myself from my situations and making level headed decisions, and I like to help other people try and do that.  I practice what I preach, is what I'm trying to say.  Basically, if I had to sum all of this up...I like to help people, I can't stand when someone won't let me help them, but I can't stand it more when people purposely ruin other's lives.  Hopefully things will get better for me and for my friends and for Japan and the world and dogs and all that.  Everything needs to just get back to being normal, because I'm tired of this feeling in my stomach that something really bad is always about to happen.  I'm out of things to say for now, so hopefully this post wasn't a complete disaster.

Love and puppies and cupcakes and whatever else makes you happy.
-Jillian.