My High School Sucked!

I grew up in BFE, otherwise known as Sterling, MI. (NO! NOT Sterling Heights, MI! Sterling, MI....) It's up in the Saginaw Valley about a half hour north of Bay City, MI.

I went to Standish-Sterling Central and that's where I graduated from in the late 90's. It was a typical small high school that actually had the Junior High down one wing. My graduating class was 140-something people, and the high school is surrounded by fields, and really the entire place, town, county, region, just sucks major ass. (And not super hot, I want to suck that ass, kinda ass. But nasty, drippy, smelly, smearie, warty, herpes, rotten, kinda ass....  But then again if you like your life in the sticks with no action, and with all the closed, overly religious, assholes living there..well then you'd LOVE it!)

Needless to say, I'm from that area but it NOT my home. My home is where I currently live and am very happy being here. (Can you tell I really fucking hate where I'm from? If not, please re-read the above again....)

Arenac County should be re-named.

Something I would expect to see in Arenac and Bay Counties..

SMH

....That now stands for "So. Much. Hate", don't forget that....

ANYWAY

When I was going to SSC, I was big into Drama..Huge Shocker I know!

So on my home home from work I commonly see the signs for what the local Ann Arbor High School (At least one of them) is performing in their Drama Group. This time they are doing Rent.
That's right RENT!

A musical about Sexuality, Aids, and Coming of Age in many different ways...

RENT!

It can be a bit sexual...

RENT!

Yes, that's a Drag Queen

RENT!!!!

Seriously.... I'm Amazed, impressed, and a bit jealous.... My senior year of high school we did Dracula and we cut out a "Sensual Hair Brushing" scene and these kids are taking on Rent!!??

On more reason I fucking LOVE living in Ann Arbor...

Death of a Friend

There is a lot that I could say.. There is a lot I want to say. This posting isn't funny, or anything like that, sorry.

What I will say is that Jake was a good guy that got himself into a bad situation. He loved his children dearly and tried to do what he knew how to do to try and be a good father to them. Unfortunately he got himself involved with the wrong woman. A woman who managed to break him down and ultimately put him in jail for bullshit reasons for her own drug induced enjoyment. This set off a series of events that ultimately lost him literally everything he had, even the custody of his kids. When he was released after 3 months, he had the clothes on his back and what little he had on him when he went to jail, that was it.

Jake was down, really down. We all tried to tell him that he just goes up from here, and he was even making plans to get back on his feet. The last time I talked to him, he said he hated his wife Samantha and was getting divorced once and for all and never wanted to see her again. About a week later I got the news from his sister that Jake committed suicide.

All I can figure is that he had a really bad night and in desperation he did what he did.

His "wife" Sam then paraded all over Jake's facebook page, playing the grieving widow. At his funeral she had posterboards with their wedding pictures on display. She made me sick to my stomach.

Jake is gone and nothing will bring him back. He was the victim here. He was a victim of his drug and alochol addicted skank of a wife Samantha, and also a victim of his ex-wife Liz. They banded together to kick the shit out of him for some unknown reason, and then made sure they finished the job once he was down. His death is on both their hands, but even more so on Sam's. I hope she finally overdoses on whatever she decides to shoot up with that day...

Jake, you made a lot of mistakes, but you didn't deserve what you got. Love ya man.

Jake Stafford Obituary