Wisdom, Common Sense & Outright Lies: 10/01/2004

Just Stuff and Hi Anna!

Decided I better blog before B evicts me from the blog.
A great big HELLO to Anna! (Brace yourself for this ride - we're all crazy in our own way!)
Not much new to report since the return from our trip. Had a bad lightening storm the other night and one of the new calves got struck and died. Was very sad, especially when her mommy stood by her and cried and bawled all day until we took her away and buried her. (Yes - people here think we are nuts for burying our cows, but they are pets to us.)We've been very lucky in that this is the first calf or cow we've lost, but I still told Darrel I don't want any more. He told me I will just have to suffer and get used to the idea that these kinds of things happen. (A big raspberry to him!)
Was supposed to watch the 3 demon seed children this weekend, but it was hubby's weekend to work and I refused to watch them by myself. I'm sure this totally negated any good kharma I've accumulated, but I know my limitations and have been very good lately about being vocal about them.
Preparing for Janelle, Cj, and Jaden McKenzie to arrive on Thursday for a 5 day visit. Preparing basically means sleeping as much as possible until they arrive and actually getting food in the house.
Keeping finger and toes crossed for Mishy's meeting tomorrow, and wishing Lydia good luck in her new venture. Doris - are you out there? Slip Brent a mickey so you can have the computer for a while.
By the way - Happy Halloween everyone and be sure to VOTE on Tuesday!!! Darrel and I will be voted, in essence just to cancel each other's votes out.

For a humorously different view of the debates

Hip-Hop Debate - Miniclip.com

Mozilla Update :: Extensions - List - All Extensions - Page 1

I was reminded by Forrest, from BlondeSense, who uses Linux(Smart Boy) that one of the joys of Firefox is add ons that "you" choose rather than the ones chosen by some giant software company. These add on are called extensions and perform a wide variety of tasks. The link below will take you to the firefox extension page where you can browse and download to your hearts content. Remeber that Firefox 1.0 is still prerelease and that some extensions at time may have little buggies still in them. This is part of the joy and frustration of beta software.

Both Dona and I have opted to still use Netscape for mail as the thunderbird mailbox still has some of those aforementioned buggies in its filtering and folders. But Firefox itself is still running like a charm.
Mozilla Update :: Extensions - List - All Extensions - Page 1

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes

Welcome Anna!

Still doing the heavy negotiations here...trying to figure out what might be behind some of the unexplainable...we have a mediation meeting in the morning...YIKES!

BloodyFingerMail.com : Leave Your Mark

Welcome Anna and Happy Halloween

Welcome Anna! I think that Halloween is probably my favorite holiday to celebrate with the children. I know that it should probably be Christmas but it just isn't. I'm rarely caught up in the spirit of Christmas during the actual Christmas season. I'm usually caught up in way to much commercialism and am probably missing something there. Halloween is pure fun, I have taken many pictures and will have at least a few up by the time that I get back from Florida. I'm employed! I'll be working as a book distributor while the kids are at school. Ranger will be going to daycare and Kelly pre-school. I am going to continue to nurse Ranger, he is a few weeks shy of a year but he is not ready to give up mommy's milk just yet. I am leaving on Monday. I had no idea how much I did until I had to make arrangements to have those things done by someone else in my absence. I am anxious and at the same time unsure. I am excited and yet feeling guilty for working as if this is some equivalent of child abuse. Lil Kel could really use some social interaction but my sweet little Rangy Roo will be so, so hard to leave. I am happy to report that my A/C works, my doors don't sag (breasts still do), and there is no trash in my car. May not get a chance to blog again for a week. If I have access to a computer I may.

Quote furnished by husband

Still waters may run deep
but usually it is just another scummy pond

Welcome to Anna

We have another new blogger, Her name is Anna, She is the Mother of 2. So lets all give her a great big crazy woman hello

Check out the billboards - Found by Dona

Funny pictures, jokes - Dribbleglass.com - Trivia, billboards, cards, fallacies

Something to consider when you decide who can lead us through this war

GreeneSpace: Patriot acts

I have already voted so I should probably shut up. I admit Kerry isn't perfect but when it comes to war I prefr to vote in people who have been there and have a clue and the current Republican Administration just doesn't. Read the list in the link above and decide who think might better handle a war

Correction to previous post about Firefox

It does have a form fill feature it just works automatically instead of having to click somewhere. It was so good it confused me.

Did the candy bar quiz and only missed 3 - Are you havfe a high carb craving Miss Lydia, When you finish the books I need you to bringthem back or send them on to MIshy

For all who care I have the next stephanie Plum novel

Name that Candybar - Science Museum of Minnesota

"Film Fans Make Bush 'Movie Villain of the Year'"

LONDON (Reuters) - President Bush may see himself as defender of democracy and compassionate conservatism but British film fans have voted him "Movie Villain of the Year."

The American "Axis of Evil" fighter is wooing voters with security pledges ahead of the presidential election next week, but it was Bush's role in Michael Moore's anti-war film "Fahrenheit 9/11" that won him the villainous title.

In a poll for Total Film magazine, the U.S. leader fought off competition from such well-known baddies as atomic scientist Doctor Octopus from "Spider-Man 2" and fellow Texan Leatherface from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

"The overwhelming response of our readers voting Bush top villain just goes to show how frightening people found him in Fahrenheit 9/11," Total Film's editor Matt Mueller told Reuters.

"He was absolutely terrifying in that film. The infamous scene where he's informed about the Twin Towers attack while visiting a school, and sits there absolutely paralyzed, is enough to strike fear into anyone's heart," he said.

Great News and Political Cartoon Site

Reason

Firefox & Thunderbird. All Hail The Return of A Real Browser

Anybody who truly knows me, knows that I do not like Internet Explorer, It is slow, riddled with security problems and the number one product that idiot hackers write viruses for. It is also the most suseptable to pop ups, ad-ware and spyware. Because of these many problems and because I hate bundled software which you can not remove, I have always been a big Netscape fan. This worked out great until a few years ago when AOL bought out Netscape. Suddenly Netscape became a large bloated piece of software with way too much junk and began having the same problems that explorer was experiencing. With every update the prgram became larger and fluffier.

Well if you are tired of fluff and want to get back to the basics of a lean mean browsing machine, now is the time. Firefox is now available. Firefox is an open source browser written by the Mozilla team and on the Mozilla platform which is also the heart of the Netscape platform. In other words Netscape without the fluff. It contains excellent security features, the code is nice and tight instead of bloated with things you will never use and it works. At the moment it is also less suseptable to viruses, popups and spyware. Thunderbird is the mail client you use with Firefox. Both are free open source downloads.

For the last Month my netscape has been degrading rapidly sucking resources and dying on a regular basis. I have been looking for a way to migrate all my Netscape info so that I can remove it from my system. Firefox worked beautifully, inn fact I had less trouble migrating Netscape to Firefox than I have had while Updating Netscape versions during the last three years.

All I did in fact was download the programs and install them. Everything down to the very last email I had received, every folder, bookmarks and setting was transfered automatically. Have only rarely seen this smooth a transfer in my life and it certainly hasn't been on the recent Netscape Builds.

So far I have only found 1 bug - In both Firefox and Thunderbird I requested that no desktop Icon be made during installation and both programs made one anyway but that is an easy delete and most people want it on the desktop so this is not a real issue. The other item I miss is the Form Fill out but I can reinstall Roboform to take care of this. Remember do not ever install Gator on your machine. Always use Robofill for forms and password saving. Gator is very evil spyware.

So if you are smart, want to surf more securely and wish to support something besides the Windows takeover of the world download Firefox Now.

Becoming a Real Man. - TWO YEAR DEGREE COURSE

For those of you who are married, were married, or are contemplating
marriage under the assumption that men need (or ought) to be trained for
marriage...

TWO YEAR DEGREE COURSE
A new two-year degree is being offered at the University that many of you
should be interested in:

Becoming a Real Man. That's right, in just six mini-semesters, you, too,
can be a real man as well as earn an MA degree. (Male Arts)

Please take a moment to look over the program outline.
FIRST YEAR

Autumn Schedule:
MEN 101: Combating Stupidity
MEN 102: You, Too, Can Do Housework
MEN 103: PMS-Learn To Keep Your Mouth Shut
MEN 104: We Do Not Want Sleazy Under things for Christmas

Winter Schedule:
MEN 110: Wonderful Laundry Techniques
MEN 111: Understanding the Female Response to Getting in at 4am
MEN 112: Parenting: It Doesn't End with Conception
EAT 100: Get a Life, Learn to Cook
EAT 101: Get a Life, Learn to Cook II
ECON 001A: What's Hers is Hers

Spring Schedule:
MEN 120: How NOT to Act like an arse when you're Wrong
MEN 121: Understanding Your Incompetence
MEN 122: YOU, The Weaker Sex
MEN 123: Reasons to Give Flowers
ECON 001C: What Was Yours is Hers

SECOND YEAR

Autumn Schedule:
SEX 101: You CAN Fall Asleep without It
SEX 102: Morning Dilemma: If It's Awake, Take a Shower
SEX 103: How to Stay Awake After Sex
MEN 201: How To Put the Toilet Seat Down

(Elective)
(See Electives Below)
Winter Schedule:
MEN 210: The Remote Control: Overcoming Your Dependency
MEN 211: How to Not Act Younger than Your Children
MEN 212: You, Too, Can be a Designated Driver
MEN 213: Honest, You Don't Look Like Brad Pitt
MEN 230A: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important

Spring Schedule:
MEN 220: Omitting %&*!@ from Your Vocabulary (Pass/Fail Only)
MEN 221: Fluffing the Blanket after Farting Is NOT Necessary
MEN 222: Real Men Ask For Directions
MEN 223: Thirty Minutes of Begging is NOT Considered Foreplay
MEN 230B: Her Birthdays and Anniversaries are Important II

Course Electives:
EAT 102: Cooking with Tofu
EAT 103: Utilization of Eating Utensils
EAT 104: Burping and Belching Discreetly
MEN 231: Mothers-In-Law
MEN 232: Appear to Be Listening
MEN 233: Just Say "Yes, Dear"
ECON 001C: Cheaper to Keep Her

Just a thought for all the women out there.
MENtal Illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause

GUYnocologist (poetic spelling)

Ever notice how all of women's problems start with men?
and when we have real trouble, it's a
HISterectomy

Rednecks, Bee Stings, and other annoying things...

Gee...that title sounds like I should complain for a while. Oddly enough, tonight I have nothing to complain about. (I'm sure this won't last.) Got home about 1:00 today from our trip to Tennessee (that would be where the Redneck part fits in). Had a great time with old dear friends, but I'm so damned happy to be home!! For someone who leads an incredibly boring life, I seem to be gone from home a lot.
Got home exhausted, but spent the last 6 hours rearranging my living room. This is extremely strange behaviour, so I'll chalk it up the the aforementioned menopausal mania. While away I purchased some over the counter items to try to curb the nasty side affects of menopause and I must say they have been very effective. I am still waking at night with sweats, but only waking up, throwing the covers off, and going back to sleep instead of getting up and spending 2 hours trying to cool off.
Got stung by a bee while in Tennessee on Saturday, which created great panic for everyone, as I am highly allergic. Darrel ran to our car and opened the newly created "CPR kit," and retrieved an item we recently purchased at Wal-Mart (yes, I hate it too, but shopping locales are limited) and "extracted" the venom from my rapidly swelling and mottling hand. It worked wonders and I was saved a trip to the emergency room.
All in all it was a terrific trip - good company, exceptionally good food (I think I gained 10 pounds while away!), and a couple of good movies (Hildago & Last Samurai). Now I just want to stay home for a while!

Organic Milk Pusher/Be Nice To Cristal/ Trashmobile

Just in case anyone saw the milk link I did not intend to be an organic milk pusher. I have a blog with Kelly and I thought that I was posting it there. It was sort of a joke. I found that I wasn't enjoying writing very much because I felt as if I was always complaining. Kelly asked me to start emailing him so I created him a blog and he is actually posting on it. He was a bit hesitant at first but I think it is an excellent idea, as we are away from each other over 50% of the time. The downside to this is that I have been neglecting my writing duties here. I know how you all depend on me for tales of diapers, depression, dieting, and not getting enough sex. Cristal complained that I was not writing enough. As if she has a right to complain. She totally snubbed us and went and started her own blog! Which is very cute and everyone must go and visit because she really needs love right now. She is feeling very pregnant and anxious. Her doctor put her on a terrible diet and she is going through sugar withdrawals. She will probably read this and be mad at me, but she will forgive me because she is a very nice person. Even nicer than me if you can imagine that. Let me know how that supplement works for you Brandy. If it does any good than I will order some. You can be the guinea pig! I have tried so many things that do not work. I recently started taking Ginkgo Biloba and I don't know that it has improved my brain function but I am sleeping better and feeling better in general, less tired mostly. Ranger has just started to talk! He started saying Hi Dad to Kelly on the phone. It is pretty awesome. The first time that he said it Kelly did not believe it was him. Brandy you will be glad to know that I never litter. My Truck is a trash can on wheels. Occasionally though something does fall out and then you'll see me running threw parking lots chasing my trash like an idiot. You would think it would be so much easier to clean out my Truck before it got to that point. Maybe this is like an exercise program for me, a sense of adventure, a little game or something like that.

Heavy negotiations going on here...I am confused...but trying to hang onto sanity and some sense of the possibility of resolution. Still trying to work it out so I can stay here in this place, but the thought of the mortgage is scary...no scarier I guess, than any other mortgage though...so what is the point of moving? I have credit card statements (most...) and have asked my attorney to go for a 'continuance', so I have a bit of time to peruse them. Already found a bit of business debt not accounted for...oops...

One of my Favorite Poems and the path I chose in life

The Road Not Taken - by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Many Foods Serve Up Health Benefits

iWon - Health: "Recent studies have given every chocolate lover reason to rejoice: Chemicals known as flavonoids -- found in abundance in dark chocolate -- loosen up the arteries and promote heart health.

This revelation may have many people wondering if other favorite foods might also provide similar health benefits. If America's scientific community is right, the answer might just be a resounding, 'You bet your life!' Literally.

Based on a spate of recent research, pecans, grapes, mushrooms, cranberries, blueberries, broccoli, kiwi, pomegranates, almonds, cabbage, cinnamon and a host of other popular foods don't just taste great, they may also be good for much of what ails you."

Just My Opinion - Not my Opinion- But a good Blog's opinion

Just My Opinion: "Guardian column calls for Bush assasination
There really isn't other way to read this column from Saturday's London Guardian:

On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?

Okay I admit it, this was not a very nice thing for the guardian to say and I truly don't wish the president harm but having the rest of the world think this way can't be a good thing for America. Besides that would have just put Cheney in Charge and while Bush may be incompetant and dangerous, Cheney is downright evil

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print: "380 Tons of High Explosives Missing From Iraq, thanks to US Government Inattention

Does the Bush administration make you safer?

Oh, really?

380 tons (that's 760,000 pounds) of high explosives have been looted from the Iraqi site of Al Qaqaa (sounds like 'Deep Shit'), which was supposed to be under U.S. military control but the security of which has been neglected since the war began. The Bush administration has acknowledged that the 380 tons (that's 760,000 pounds) of high explosives disappeared on their watch, after April 2003, as a result of chaotic looting. The U.S. military knew about the site and the existence of the explosives, in no small part because the agency that George W. Bush termed 'irrelevant,' the IAEA, specifically informed the U.S. about it and told them they needed to guard the site. But looters were still picking over the site of Al Qaqaa as recently as yesterday.

How much is 380 tons (that's 760,000 pounds) of high explosives?

* it would take 40 large trucks to hold all the explosives;
* less than one pound of the sort of explosive gone missing was used to take down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland;
* just five pounds could blow up a dozen jetliners;
* 760,000 pounds makes one and a half million downed jetliners.

(Sources: New York Times October 25, 2004 and Associated Press October 25, 2004)

Has the Bush administration made you safer?"

McDonalds Advertising gone bad - Funny But R-Rated - I hate McDonalds

McDonalds Advertising gone bad

To brush or not to brush, that is the question

One of my goals now that I am forty - is too take better care of myself, To get into a routine of washing the face every night and doing the brush the teeth thing before I go to bed and flossing at least once a day.

These are things I am horrible at. The teeth get brushed every morning in the shower for the prescribed three minutes and the flossing is no big to deal but I hate doing things at night and I am not sure why.

I have been trying to analyze this weirdness and with the brushing the teeth at night I think I have figured it out. Minty Fresh breath is a good wake up in the morning but it almost seems sacriligious to replace the flavor of a great homecooked dinner or dessert with that same fresh minty taste I use in the morning. And besides it wakes me up. I have enough trouble getting to sleep at times with the hot flashes and waining hormones anything that makes me more awake at midnight is not good.

So to you toothpaste manufacturers make me a toothpaste that is mellow, something light maybe a bit fruity, not candy like, but nice. One that won't startle my brain into thinking its time to get up or melt my tongue with its minty strength. After all my pillow doesn't care if my breath is minty fresh.

PS If you make lots of money on this idea send some my way.

Corpus Christi, Americas trashiest town

Ah, society as we know it, rude, crude and waiting for a beating. One I am sure will arrive when they least expect it. Last night sitting at dinner with my daughter and her family I was telling how little things make a difference. One night months ago while picking up trash, when we first started here at U-Stor, A guy honked his horn and threw out his whataburger bag at me. I believe he won the asshole of the week award at the time. Picking up trash is something we do constantly here in Corpus Christi, TX, I have never seen a city where the people were so intent on making things look like crap. Dirty diapers, half eaten food, broken beer bottles and any other form of filth they can find lines the streets of what is supposed to be a tropical beach town. I would hate to guess the amount of money this city spends on litter pick-up and its not enough, not to mention the fact that it could be spent on so many better things. Even the shopping centers here leave their parking lots filled with cigarette butts, can, bottles and other trash. Its down right disgusting.

At any rate, we are required to keep our lot as immaculate as possible, which is only good business and not something I mind, but it is a constant chore. The couple that lives across the street from the storage should get an award because they keep everything perfect at their house and yard and are excellent neighbors. Then they nasty filthy car dealership across the street on the corner was sold to Rockport motors and they also do an excellent job on cleanliness. So in the last year this little corner of Corpus has become one of the nicest on Ayers. We have even seen improvement in the littering content on our lawns. Last week one of the neighborhood residents who was out for a run as he does every afternoon while we are picking up street trash. Ran past me and then picked up all the trash he found as he turned around and ran back. I was impressed and grateful. Giving myself warm fuzzys for setting a good example and it helped restore a little faith in S. Texas humanity.

We came home after dinner last night full of the warm glow of family and food to the fact that someone had spread several Whataburger meals (Notice that it was Whataburger again, Maybe there is something int he food thats leads people to littering) across the front garden in our parking lot. It was disgusting, half eaten hamburgers papersacks and general yuck.

As near as we can tell from the video, (yes if anyone is curious we do film everything) They were trashing the place right about the same time I was telling the story of the good neighbor picking up trash to my daughter. Which proves once again that no good deed goes unpunished. So whoever you were, next time eat in Whataburgers parking lot and use the trash can instead of being a lazy good for nothing disgusting slob. Have some pride folks and some manners, please

Another really wonderful Female Blog in the Tradition of Blondesense who led me to this this link

Utopian Hell

The Joys of electronic voting in Florida

Voting_Machine.mov (video/quicktime Object)

Quote of the day

"Life may not be the party we hoped for...
but while we are here we might as well dance!"

Just for Laughs

Linda's Laughter

Art shows, Dinner and fancy capes

Went to an art show at K-Space studios today. They had some nice things none that I really wanted to buy but some cool stuff. Unfortunately as much as I love this particular studios atmosphere (even if they won't let me in because I am too traditional) It was just tooooo hot up there to enjoy. Too many bright lights and too many people and no airconditioning. Didn't stay very long as all of us including the baby were sweating rivers after 15 minutes. I won't go back unless the show is scheduled between december and February. Tried to go to another show at Artwerks, A much nicer studio than K-Space but I read the flyer wrong and there was no party so instead we went to dennys and ate dinner which was good. April, Michael and baby were with us and it was nice going out all together. I am going to have to do this more often.

MY son is coming to visit me in January with his girlfriend, I am beginning to wish we could all live in the same state again as I miss him terribly most days.

Blazermans costume sounds very cool. You should take pictures. I too love capes. My mother in a moment of inspirational greatness made me a hooded cape or cloak several years ago for christmas this is still one of my favortie things and it is too bad that it never gets cold enough to wear it here in south Texas. The Hubby still thinks its silly but I don't care it is my favorite coat and I would wear it all the time if there was a drop of cold weather to be had. The one I have isn't fancy it is wool with nice fuzzy fake fur lining in the hood and let me tell ya when we were at auctions in January in Kansas and it was snwing I was the totiest person there. I want to make a fancier one out of a light purply grey suede with flannel lining which would work better in these warmer climes than wool. I have the pattern and everything and someday probably when I am 90 I will finally get around to making it.

Lydia's Answers

1. What time is it? 6:27 PM
2. Name: Before Age 13 - Lydia Ann-Marie
3. Nickname: none! A few people tried to call me Lid but I put a stop to that. Kelly calls me sweetheart. Which is kind of corny but I don't mind.

4. Number of candles on your last birthday cake? 29.
Birth Date: November 26

6. Pets: 2 cats (Iris and Blaze) 1 dog (Rebel Weenie) 1 fish (Purple Nemo)

7. hair color: Very dark brown.
8. Piercing: Ears
9. Eye color: Brown
10. How much do you love your job? It could be worse.
11. Current Residence: Corpus Christi
12. Been to Africa? No but I'd go in a heartbeat...I love to travel.
13. Been toilet papering? Yes twice in junior high, once at a slumber party and once with my little bro (we even threw eggs at the house!)
14. Loved somebody so much it made you cry? Yes
15. Been in a car accident? fender benders (not my fault though!)
16. Croutons or bacon bits? real bacon bits
17. Favorite Day of the Week: every day
18. Favorite Restaurant: The Lagerhaus in Darmstadt Germany
19. Favorite Flower: Stargazers and other sweet strong smelling flowers
20. Favorite Drink: Ice Coffee
21. Favorite sport to watch: None
22. Favorite ice cream: An old 31 flavors flavor Daiquiri Ice
23. Disney or Warner Bros.? I do have a Winnie the Pooh tattoo!
24. Favorite Fast Food Restaurant: Any Good take out chinese
25. What Color is Your Bedroom? Washed Khaki with Autumn Oak trim.
26. How many times did you fail your drivers test? 2 First time I was so anxious I had to stop to puke. Second time failure to yield.

27. Before this one, whom did you get your last email? Cristal

28. Which store would you choose to max out your
credit card in? Don't know.

29. What do you do most often when you are bored? I have four kids and no time to be bored! Write, read, fantasize.

30. Most annoying thing people ask you? Why do you talk that way? Are you wearing a retainer? What did you do with my __________ (Insert anything there)

33. Favorite TV show (s): none When the Anna Nicole Smith show was on I use to watch that (I thought it was funny) I really got made fun of for that one.
34. Last person you went out to dinner with: Kelly, Kelly 2 and the Rangy Roo.
35. Ford or Chevy? Chevy
36. Time you finished this e-mail?6:47
37. Place you want to visit most? Don't know. Would like to take a cruise to Alaska.

American Indian Art at King Galleries - Leona King Gallery

It's the email Queen Again

Shirley sent this to me in Email but I don't feel like sending it to everyone so I am just answering here. Feel free to do the same.

1. What time is it? 11:04
2. Name: Before Age 13 - Kimberly Ann - After, Brandy Lare (Yes I was a rotten Child)
3. Nickname: dragonlady Although the husband has some les flattering ones and I have been declared a witch in several midwestern counties

4. Number of candles on your last birthday cake? 40
5. Birth Date: October 13, 1964

6. Pets: 2 sugar Gliders (Ruby and Riley) and 1 Cat (19 years old named patches)

7. hair color: Dishwater Blonde (doesn't that just sound lovely)
8. Piercing: Ears
9. Eye color: Hazel
10. How much do you love your job? I like it alot
11. Current Residence: Corpus Christi
12. Been to Africa? No but I'd go in a heartbeat...I love to travel.
13. Been toilet papering? Yes Once, Cactus of all things. If you use colored toilet paper and then water it down it leaves pretty colors that no one is willing to remove

14. Loved somebody so much it made you cry? I cry all the time
15. Been in a car accident?Yes
16. Croutons or bacon bits? real bacon bits
17. Favorite Day of the Week: any day I'm not working
18. Favorite Restaurant: Too many to list
19. Favorite Flower: Peony
20. Favorite Drink: Really sweet Green Tea
21. Favorite sport to watch: Politics
22. Favorite ice cream: Burgandy Cherry
23. Disney or Warner Bros.? warner bros
24. Favorite Fast Food Restaurant: Any Good take out chinese
25. What Color is Your Bedroom? Beige like the rest of my life
26. How many times did you fail your drivers test? 1 - Hit the damned curb when parallel parking and had to go back the next day

27. Before this one, whom did you get your last email
from? Someone promising me a bigger penis, breasts, longer sex and better drugs(don't you just love SPAM

28. Which store would you choose to max out your
credit card in? Don't do credit cards, don't like stores more likly to max it out on Ebay

29. What do you do most often when you are bored? read books and write silly things like this on my computer. Sex

30. Most annoying thing people ask you? Again Too many to list

33. Favorite TV show (s): CSI & Stargate & 7th Heaven & Andromeda &&&&&&&
34. Last person you went out to dinner with: My husband
35. Ford or Chevy? Chevy
36. Time you finished this e-mail? 11:13
37. Place you want to visit most? Egypt

Hey Lydia - This sounds like something you might like to try - I bought a bottle today will let you know how it goes

Trigger Factors Mood Food

A pony in a hatchback- How cruel can one person be. And how did you talk it into getting in

Dutch police fined the driver of small hatchback car after spotting a Shetland pony crammed in the back, police said on Thursday.

'The small Shetland pony had no room to move and his head was pressed against the window,' police said. A woman on the back seat held the animal by a rope.

Police fined the 42-year-old German driver of the Volkswagen Polo 220 euros ($277.1) for improper transport of the animal, just bought on a local Dutch market.

'Once the driver has obtained an export certificate, the pony can go to Germany,' police said."

Yet Another Thing in Life I do Not Understand

CBS News | Fan Dies In Sox Celebration Melee | October 22, 2004�08:37:58: "A college student celebrating the Red Sox come-from-behind victory over the New York Yankees was killed after a police officer called in to control the rowdy crowd shot her in the eye with what was designed to be a non-lethal projectile.

Fifteen other people, including a police officer, suffered minor injuries in Boston's Kenmore Square neighborhood early Thursday, after thousands of baseball fans spilled onto the streets near Fenway Park to celebrate the Red Sox winning the American League pennant at Yankee Stadium. "

Okay so you like sports and your team won, that doesn't mean lets go out and trash the the city, I just don't get it. It is a sad thing that the girl died and being killed by a rubber bullet is certainly something of a freak accident. But for Gods sake why were these people out there.

I don't understand drunk and disorderly. I don't understand why if your team wins there is this sudden need of the drunken crowd to set things on fire throw things through windows and in general act like throw backs to Neanderthals. OKay that might be an insult to Neanderthals.

Menino said he was considering prohibiting liquor sales and asking bar and restaurant operators to ban live television coverage during games to curb the rowdiness. "Since people won't accept responsibility, I, as mayor, will take it into my own hands," Menino said Thursday.

Please do take it into your own hands because America is certainy not willing to. And I hate restaurants that show sports games and other idiot shows on tv while I am eating anyway.

Never understood the new fad - Lets see I am going to pay 50.00 or more for this meal, in this lovely place, but Shit my table is next to the tv so I am surrounded by idiots who have to watch their game and the kids that idiot parents let walk around the restaurant unattached. I don't think so. That order will be to go or I just won't eat at your restaurant.

Dol't sell liquor at the games, get the tvs out of the restaurants, arrest and largely fine anyone involved.

Come on America lets teach our children to be civil, that rioting is bad even if they are happy when they do it. That destruction of property is bad no matter what the excuse. That fighting is bad unless you are fighting for your country or to save your family.

College students are too old to for this sort of thing. And again while I feel sorry for the girl that died. All of you who had children out there after the game being hooligans and all of you who participated are just as responsible for her death as the rubber bullet was.

Quotes of the Day

"Life isn't like a box of chocolates ...
it's more like a jar of jalapenos.
What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow."

"A good friend will come and bail you out of
jail...but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying,
"Damn...that was fun!"

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New Breast Cancer Vaccine Passes First Hurdle - Trustworthy, Physician-Reviewed Information from WebMD

New Breast Cancer Vaccine Passes First Hurdle
Experimental Breast Cancer Vaccine Halts Tumors in Mice

Capes

Went to Cristals house today and she finished the Blazerman's costume while I watched and helped the children get paint all over themselves. Blaze's costume is pretty darn cool or hot rather. I will describe it in detail momentarily. Blaze wanted to be a pumpkin for the third year in a row. I dissuaded him of course like any good mother would do. Squish his dreams, that's my job (only a sick joke). I asked him if he could be anything what would he be. He said as he grinned ever so widely, "A fire ball!" I said, "Right on!". Now how the heck do you make a fireball costume? I had no earthly idea but the pumpkin thing was getting pretty darn old if you asked me (which nobody did, but I added my two cents anyway.) So I got the idea to dress him in red from head to toe and paint flames all over the place. Except for I haven't really blossomed as an artist yet so I chickened out and enlisted Cristals help. It started out with painting flames and it ended up with cutting and sewing and before I knew it there was a black flamed cape lined with orange satin. Funky flamed gloves too! Cristal rocks! We are creative genius's! Blaze said so himself. He is wearing his costume right now. It thrilled him! Oh to be six years old again. I would love to wear a costume just because. Sew capes to all my clothes. When I lived in Sierra Vista Arizona there was an eccentric man that wore a vampire cape and ornate silver jewelry. I often saw him around town. It was pretty much a half a horse town or maybe we had all the same haunts. We called him THE COUNT. I thought he was sort of Silly at the time. This was about 13-14 years ago but now I admire him. He could have been mentally ill or he could have just liked wearing a cape and didn't give a damn about what any one thought. More later.

The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free

The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free

Please tell ten friends today The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman

It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "donating a mammogram" for free (pink window in the middle). This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.

Turning 40 and Things I want for my Birthday

Turning 40 isn't bad. Still feeling good, no obvious difference. Wrinkles did not suddenly appear overnight, nor did my boobs suddenly sag to the floor. 30 was much harder and left me depressed for years. The only hope I can offer you Lydia is that if you make it through the next ten years you can have your life back. It seems like a long time to wait but it will pass in a flash.

My code mantra for my 30s was "If I do what I am thinking they will arrest me". Remember to keep repeating this during the difficult moments, then smile, bite your tongue and move on because as that famous sentence said.

"This too shall pass"

For anyone out there interested(my mother, my son, perfect strangers - I am not picky) in buying me goodies for my birthday below is a list. This list can also be used for christmas. This year I am working on me getting a new computer. Last year we did one for Les, and the year before Joshua, April has been getting hand me downs but at this point even hers is faster than mine. so it is my turn. Especially since I do more real work on the silly thing than the 3 others combined. I am limiting my requests to things under 150.00 and mostly under 100, and some down right cheap

Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra (Black) VIA Socket A ATX Motherboard and AMD Sempron 2500 Processor at TigerDirect.com

Need 2 of These
CM-IDE-12C Coolmax 12" IDE Translucent Copper Round Cable at TigerDirect.com

Need one of these
CM-FDD-12C Coolmax 12" Floppy Translucent Round Copper Cable at TigerDirect.com

One of these
4R120L0 Maxtor 120GB 5400 2MB ATA-133 EIDE Hard Drive at TigerDirect.com

Only need one of these but 2 or 3 would be perfectly acceptable
ULT30092 Ultra 512MB PC2700 DDR 333MHz Memory at TigerDirect.com

And one of these
U-30267 Toshiba 8x4x12x DVD�RW 32x16x40x CD-RW Dual DVD Burner at TigerDirect.com

would like to have for my my painting
Wireless i-Pen PRO Presentation Digital Pen - iPen Optical Pen Mouse

In the wee hours of the night....

Up at 2:00 in the morning and oddly enough no one I know is online. Surely I'm not the only one with menopausal night sweats? Okay - maybe I am. I've been trying to convince myself for a while that these nightly bouts of waking up drenched in my own sweat and unable to cool off aren't what I know they are. I have fibro and chronic fatigue - this means I've had unexplainable fevers at night for years and they're nothing new. Since my trip to Connecticut last month, I've been sick, so of course the fevers have been worse. Ah crap - I can't lie to myself anymore. These are NOT my usual fevers and I AM getting damned close to 50!! Well, I won't be the first person to go through this and I suppose I'll survive, but this means most of my blogs from now on will consist of mindless ramblings and detailed descriptions of my physical condition. (What's that you say? "So what's new?" You have a point.)
I wonder if my body kicking into full-gear menopause would also explain the strange obsession I've had the last 2 weeks with cleaning windows? I wonder if I can use this new malady to explain lots of behaviour, and thus get away with even MORE quirks? Hmmm...maybe this won't be so bad after all?
Well, I'm off to peruse info on the net on natural HRT.

Uncle Sam Ate My Baby - Just couldn't resist the name

Uncle Sam Ate My Baby

1000 LIFE LESSONS or HOW TO STAY ALIVE FOREVER

Cristal and lawncare and the meaning of life.

Cristal is a cool cat. She was perusing our blog and was disturbed by my last entry so she called me to make sure that I was not going to jump off the harbor bridge or anything like that. Cristal is a sweetheart, I love that girl. I really do! I am so glad that I can call her my friend. Having things in common does not necessarily make for a good friendship but I think that we can really relate to one another because of similarities in our upbringing and then there are the obvious similarities. Like absent husbands and both of us being mothers of young children. We are both the same age. I will turn 30 a few months before she will though. A really late happy birthday to you Brandy. If you want to do a little late celebrating we can make plans for next time Kelly is in town. Did I happen to mention that I need a Margarita. Funny things that have happened to me recently-
Kelly is always blaming me for everything that he cannot find in his life. Most of the time I just apologize because it is not like I could actually remember if I was the last one to touch something or if the kids carted off the item while I was not looking. The other day he could not find the string to the weed eater and went off on me about it. Well this is where I drew the line. Kelly I know how convenient it is for you to blame things on me but lets get real here. Have you ever once witnessed me touch an implement of lawn care? Do I mow the lawn? No! Do I edge the lawn? No! Do I weed eat? No! Do I even water the lawn? Sadly the answer is still no! But some how this man thinks that I must be responsible for the disappearance of the stupid weed eater string. He worked himself into such a fit over the string that when he finally found it and did not apologize to his beautiful wife God struck down his only used on one other occasion weed whacking man tool. Ha! That's what you get Mr. Roar at your poor wife for nothing. He then announced that he hated his life and I just looked at him in shock. I should have said something but what I wanted to say is, "Your a big fat stinking baby". So I didn't say anything at all. Okay so this isn't really a funny thing but I am smiling as I type this.

I'm alive. (I think I am) I think there for I am or something like that.

Yes I am alive. I have not wanted to write lately because even I am depressed by my own writing. I am kind of in a funk of sorts. It was very odd how it happened really. I was pretty naively content with my life and then all of the sudden I became somewhat dissatisfied. I don't even feel like complaining about it anymore and then there is the issue of feeling selfish because obviously I have so much to be grateful for and here I am feeling this way. I got a haircut and then I felt a little better. I look a little better and vain as I am that always helps. Maybe it's the end of summer. I am loved. I am beautiful. I have family. I have friends. I want for nothing. Well almost nothing. I would like some time of my own but I guess that I made that decision when I decided to get married and have children. Some how I invisioned that I would continue to be me and have my own interests (that I would share with my family). It just has not worked out that way. I feel so consumed by them, these people that I love. Kelly is always going in his own direction and I guess that I need to learn to go in mine. I have traveled with him in his many endevors ignoring the paths that I wanted to explore.

And she rises from the grave....

Brandy has only chastised me once for my lack of blogging, but I feel it coming my way again soon, so this is my attempt to fend it off. I won't moan and complain about my lack of good health lately - just suffice it to say that I'm upright, mobile, and semi-human once again. However, Darrel came down with the same thing and I took him to the doctor last Tuesday, two days before we were supposed to leave on our trip to Tennessee. He is still not well. We were going to go anyway, but one of the new calves got sick on Wednesday and would have died by the time we got home if we hadn't stayed home to doctor him. He is well. (Perhaps Darrel and I should take a dose of what we gave the calf???)
So, now our trip is planned for this week. Will be leaving on Wednesday, provided Darrel feels well enough by then and neither of the other 2 calves gets sick between then and now. (This is worse than having children!)
Was happy to hear from Doris and her rainy night in Kentucky sounded divine to me!! Lydia - do we need to send out a search and rescue party for you?
April and Missy Em were in the vicinity this weekend, but stayed away due to the germ infestation in my house. Can't say that I blame them, but I would have loved to have gotten my hands on Emmy for a while! (Sorry April - once you have kids you take back seat. That's just the way it is.)
I can't say that I have much new to report, as I'll I've done since I got back from Connecticut is read books and sleep. And sleep and read books. Life could be worse.

Young, Female with attitude - Not really a good attitude but attitude none the less - Spells as bad as me

I'll teach you to fight like a girl

Kewl Pics

William Gibson - the Author - You Know Science Fiction

William Gibson

How does it feel to be forty?

Happy Birthday dear, belated...and...was just thinking about when I turned forty (six years ago +)...I vowed to make my fifth decade my best...so far it's been probably the worst, but I still have three + years to go, and I haven't given up on that hope.

Very Cool blog filled with pages and pages of ancient coins and information about them

HobbyBlog

dominattyrix redux

Lydia Where are you

We have two new art shows coming up soon - One at artwerks Opens on the OCt 25th. Just in time for halloween they bring you - Sticks and Stones - Roots and bones.

Starting on the 23rd at Kspace is the Man Show - An exhibition exploring the myths, misconceptions and the realities of a male dominated world. KSpace is a cool place but their leader is a tad insecure - I really wanted to work there but she just couldn't deal with the lady that introduced us. The sad part is she lost out on some of the best help a studio could have just ask Mishy.

Contemplating going to both openings. Anyone else out there interested let me know

April and her other half have taken the baby Em and run away to Kansas for the weekend. Hope they have fun but I hate having them out on the road. I do paranoid mommy very well. They would be so much safer tied up in a bx in my garage where they couldn't get into any trouble.

Survived the birthday - Pleasant and mellow - Took down the pool and declared an end to summer. Working on making curtains for my bedroom and maybe a quilt for Emily for Christmas. Life is good

Reaction from teens to the presidential debate: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

I am reading the divinci code, wonderful, full of trivia, Here are the origins of the much maligned pentagram,

Here are the origins of the much maligned pentagram, amazing how much we have changed, We have a bad case of forgetting the past and that will probably be our doom. Besides historical trivia is so much fun - These books get 4 stars

Pentagram, pentacle: "The pentagram is a five pointed star commonly associated with Wicca, Ritual magick, Satanism, and Masonry. The Pentagram has a long and complex history as a religious symbol. Found scrawled in caves of ancient Babylonia, the five pointed star was copied from the star shaped pattern formed by the travels of the planet Venus in the sky. The emblem remained popular through many cultures and time periods- it was called the pentalpha by the Greeks, who believed it had magical properties. For a time, it was the official seal of the city of Jerusalem:"

For the rest of the history click on the link above

Stupid politics of the day

One of the things that really annoys me about politicians is that rather than take an easy way and getting on with life they try to fight silly little spin wars over the various things that fall out of each others mouths. Things that either mean nothing or are not worth all the effort. For example Bush is using two thing Kerry said, against him(which shows Bush has no concept of the real world)And Kerry as Usual is trying to fight the battle with spin rather than telling the truth and going on.

#1Mr. Bush, also campaigning in New Mexico, ridiculed Kerry for saying in an interview published Sunday in The New York Times Magazine, "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives but they're a nuisance."

"I couldn't disagree more,'' the president said. "Our goal is not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance. Our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive."

It sounds great, defeating terror entirely, but lets face it the type of oppressive society that would be required to stop terrorism would be very close to life lived in George ORwells 1984 and even in that story the subversive element for free thought was still in the world. It is would in fact be a form of government sponsored terrorism all its own.

The fact is you can't stop terrorism, there will always be shallow people with complete disregard for human life and power hungry ambitions. Kerrys statement that he wants to relegate it to the realm of nuisance is at least possible without giving up the freedoms Americans hold dear.

So Kerry get off your butt and describe the world Bush would have to create to stop terrorism, trust me most American a chafing under the Patriot Act now they aren't going to want it to get worse as it surely will under Bush.

#2With another straight face, he tried to tell Americans that when it comes to his health care plan -- and I quote -- "the government has nothing to do with it." (Laughter.) The facts are that eight out of 10 people who get health care under Senator Kerry's plan would be placed on a government program. He can run, but he cannot hide. (Applause.)

What George boy does not understand and what Kerry is not saying is that all plans now a days come with restrictions of some sort. Even the current chips program which Bush wants to enlarge is a government program and they still tell you which doctors you can use. so how is Kerry's plan any different except that is covers the people who take care of the children not just the children. And for people like us who have worked all our live but do not have insurance at the moment, Tell me I can go to a few doctors is still better than telling me that I either have to go bankrupt or skip going to the doctor altogether because I can't afford it.

While I am not big on the total socialization of everything in our government I do feel that there needs to be more done to help with both dental and medical costs in this country. I also believe that most of the rising cost factor

Then he was asked to look into the camera -- (laughter) -- and promise he would not raise taxes for anyone who earns less than $200,00 a year. The problem is, to keep that promise he'd have to break almost all his other promises. (Laughter.) His plan to raise taxes on the top two income brackets would raise about $600 billion, according to our counters, about $800 billion according to his planners -- counters. The problem is, is that his spending plans will cost almost four times as much, $2.2 trillion. You can't have it both ways. To pay for all the big spending programs he's outlined during his campaign, he's going to have to raise your taxes. See, he can run, but he cannot hide. (Applause.)

Higher taxes or not it would be nice to have affordable health care. To know that you can walk into a hospital and receive their best care regardless of your ability to pay would be a grand thing to give our children and grandchildren.

Watched the debate tonight, I vote Kerry for this one too, although I am getting really tireed of the outsourcing on Osama. It is over and done move on. It would be nice if they had something new to say, sometimes you can see the wheels turning in bushes brain as he launches into a pretermined sound byte. I think Cheney loads him up with comments and he spends the debate trying to picks spots to insert them. And I could live with out the down home good ol boy act.

The main reason I don't like Bush is that he sets a bad example for his citizens by allowing the fear to rule policy he is slowly turning us into everything we hate. An into the tyrants other countries accuse us of being.

We are better than that, Blow up our buildings and we will return to rebuild them. we walk down the streets with our heads held high. We stand for freedom. Freedom for everyone, not just memebers of a particular religion or segment of society. We practice forgivness. We fight, we build and we move on. By preaching policies of fear, Bush denigrates the constitution stripping us of our rights. Is that truly what we wish to become.

1 More day and I will be old old old

Not that I really care, having more fun these than some others in my past. Life is mellow I am happy. April gave me a great present today she spent the whole afternoon with me, when she should have been studing and doing homework, traveling around to various errands with me. After errands we spent the rest of the afternoon shopping and of course by things for Emily. It is expensive but fun to have a new little one around and I want to buy her everything, but Christmas is coming and we have to start her on the road of good consumership young so she needs lots of toys. And its not like she already has stuff so everything I want to buy is fair game.

I wander around bookstores dreaming of a time when she won't just drool and soak the pages. I want to share everything with her the same as I wanted to share it all with my kids and I left so much out. So many things I wish we had done but life got in the way. Maybe grandparenthood is so cool because you have more time, generally less stress and you've already done the kid thing once so you have that mother voice down pat and of course more money. When they are your kids you are worried more about will you be able to continue feeding and clothing them, than will they get to smell roses or squeeze fresh oranges, wallow in giant mud puddles, sing nonsense through grocery stores and these are the important things in life, I tried to instill a sense of wonder and beauty in my children and for the most part suceeded. Of course I did all of the above mentioned things with them. And yes people do tend to look at me a little strangly when I am shopping. My children just think I am a little weird but they still smile and April has already informed me that I have to Sing One Tin Solder to Emily when she gets a little older because it was her favorite growing up and the message in the song meant something to her. Always a nice thing to hear. Dripping tears just thinking about it.

April is great to go shopping with more than willing just to wander, but Miss Emily was plumb tuckered out by the time we were done. I love this daughter of mine and am very proud of her. She is so organized and upright, honorable and honest to a fault with pretty much everybody including herself but yet self-delusion is also a practiced skill In other words she has become this great woman and a good friend.

Okay now I am getting totally maudlin.

When next we meet I will be standing on that mythical precipice called the hill getting ready to roll back down the other side. It has been a good walk up, If going down that hill is even half as memorable and happy as going up. I will die content.

Loved the movie and tv review, I watched a lot of those same series, regularly as a kid, and I know my kids watch 7th heaven with Gary and some of those others I'm sure. I don't watch much series tv these days, although I have watched a lot of movies since hooking up with Steffin, it has been a great distraction for him in the hospital and through this recuperation time. He had to show me all his romantic seduction movies....he's a sucker for those...sigh...too bad I owe DISH tv $110, and they turned me off...have to get that turned back on when things turn around. NYC was fun, but I could NOT afford it! I did sing, at the reception, I offered up a toast in the form of a song, and sang "Misty" for them. The supposed $200/ plate price (yes, my cousin exaggerated), yielded a fancy, but not remarkable wedding affair...good food but $200? Must've been the cost of renting the Rainbow Room at the Rockefeller Center, it's the top floor, 65th, with the beautiful view and it was breathtaking. Here are some pics of the wedding, me singing, and the view from the top. I look really bad, was forgetting the words, (drunk on flowing red wine), faked it okay, but I was annoyed at myself... hah I think the first pic is Steffin and I, dressed up and on the streets of NYC, heading to take the subway to Times Square and walk several blocks to the Rockefeller Center...youch my poor feet...

Anyway...my brother took these photos...
http://members.cox.net/alkatz3/MarkWedding/index.htm

deviantART: pupasoul - Cool art site - navigation isn't spectacular but worth the clicking

deviantART: pupasoul
This picture belongs to the artist page that I am sending you too, but there are many more and clicking on any thumbnailed picture takes you to a different place.

Another Aspiring Young Artist - Scroll down for her best work

Art Gallery - risawn.com

Independence Hall - Great Art and Poetry

Independence Hall

Mommy Blog

Funny in an adult political sort of way Rated R

Delapsus Resurgam - when I fall I shall rise

A brand new SWF Blog - Hope she keeps it up

The Ritalin Diaries

Anyone up for a photo visit of England

Slothful in England

A Denver Democrat

Mile High ConWatch

Some Great Photos

iuliaspictures

Blogging4Dummies - A new how to site which I need to link to

Blogging4Dummies

Movie Review - Walking Tall

Yes it was filled with gratuitous violence, but damned if the Rock don't look good swinging a stick. We give the movie 3 out of 4 stars because while it was a complete ripp off from the original it held to the same ideals and I loved the big stick.

I like the Rock better when he is doing mythic fantasies like the Mummy or The Scorpian King. What I would really like to see him in is a new Sinbad movie. A real Sinbad movie, not a joke, and not animated. Like the ones I remember as a kid yet with modern special effects. It would be great. Dancing Skeletons, chatty parrot and all.

I love movies and TV. I was a regular TV Junkie growing up, the only thing that probably saved me was the fact that I read as many books as I watched TV Shows.
I remember being 5 or 6 sitting on the cold ugly linoleum floor watching TV. The TV in our house was against a wall that turned into a hallway leading to the bedrooms. This means my spot 3 feet in front of the TV was in everybody's way. I sat there for hours watching my favorite shows. Perry Mason, Adam 12, The Rifleman, Mission impossible and the Big Valley. Occasionally drifting into Hawaii Five O but not often. Perry was my hero. I admit I was a strange kid. Hated Sesame Street, Like Zoom. Loved HR Puffinstuf, The Banana Splits, Speed Racer, Kimba The White Lion(Which I only saw in San Francisco),fractured Fairy Tales, Underdog, Peabody aand the professor and of course the Phoenix Standard, The Wallace and Ladmo show. I admit to watching every episode of the Brady Bunch, The partridge family and Gilligans Island. Even met Bob Denver once, I liked him better as Gilligan.

My viewing habits haven't changed that much, Today it is CSI(yes all of them), Law and Order, Hawaii and my two favorite family shows which I think everybody with children should watch are 7th Heaven and The Gilmore Girls. I love daytime TV. In the last three years I have been able to watch complete series day after day in a record time. Just started on the gilmore girls almost done with 7th heaven, which is a great great family show. Series I have pretty much completed are ER, Dawsons Creek, The practice, Charmed and I am sure more that I don't remember.

The hubby is a radio man, but Give me mindless sitcoms over music anyday. I think of all the good things I got out of tv and then listen to all the whiners out there about what is on now. There are some good quality shows on and a little escape is never a bad thing. I admit there are some really crappy things like every reality show too. The remote is a powerful tool and one should always know how to turn the power off.

Of course when raising children it is always good to force them to live without comforts and mine survived for about 6 years with little or no tv at all. Didn't seem to bother them much and today they generally tune into educational tv. My son does watch some questionable programming but then he is 23 and a boy, What more needs to be said?

Did China wake up and join the real world when I wasn't looking or what

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Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

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George's Resume

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under
the influence of alcohol. I pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and had
my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving
record has been "lost" and is not available.

Military:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused
to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid
combat duty in Vietnam.

College:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was
a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975.
I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.
The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal
that took land using taxpayer money.

With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry
(including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:

I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies,
making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my
tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden
city in America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of
billions in borrowed money.

I set the record for the most executions by any governor in
American history.

With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my
father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President
after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with
a criminal record.

I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of
*over one billion dollars per week*.

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S.
Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S.
history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in
any 12-month period.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month
period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history
of the U.S. stock market.

In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their
jobs and that trend continues every month.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire,"
Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by a U.S.
President.

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving
the most corporate campaign donations.

One of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest
corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys
to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my
election decision.

I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against
investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent
investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent
investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and
refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry
was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.

I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be
awarded government contracts.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than
any President in U.S. history.

I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest
bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

I've broken more international treaties than any President in
U.S. history.

I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United
Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspector's access to U.S. "prisoners of war"
detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva
Convention.

I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations
election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any
President since the advent of television.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year
period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided
over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade
Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most
hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in
world history.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people),
shattering the record for protests against any person in the
history of mankind.

I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
preemptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign
nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the
majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community. I have cut
health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty
benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in wartime.

In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans
(71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and
security.

I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster,"
a WMD.

I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden
to justice.

During the Iraq War and Occupation thousands of American troops
were injured and killed. I did not have the time to attend any of
the funerals for our fallen soldiers but I did have the time to
attend more than 43 fundraising events of the Republican party.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my
father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and
my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,
attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and
unavailable for public review.

Another Day another Debate

Enjoyed tonights debate. I prefer the town hall idea even if it does still seem a bit rigged in places. Questions were well varied and both candidates did fairly well. Bush showed a marked improvement in debating style since the last debate. He managed complete non-repetitive sentences for most of the debate.

The scariest words to me tht came out of his mouth were
"And so, I don't think the Patriot Act abridges your rights at all." In response to a citizens concern about violations of the 4th ammendment. I think it would almost be better to know that he is just flat out lying and doesn't care than to think he actually believes this.

Rather to high amped makes him look worried and the man has no chin but he bobs his head up and down like a banty rooster trying to stick that chin out and looking authoritative but he just looks like he pecking for worms.

Strange hearing both presidents lobby that they will be the ones to bring us cheaper drugs. Who says the sixty's generation gave up their habits. America the land of drugs.

Kerry by far still a much smoother debater also helped by the fact that he is taller, better looking and has some the whitest teeth I have ever seen. Plus he has a chin, these items alone boost his ratings particularly in a debate where he can move around looking tall and presidential. But I was noticing as they were showing several pic of the back of his head that his hair is so shellaced that it looks like the gray snap on hair that comes on young children's action figures.

The thing I was most tired of lisening to is "I have a Plan" Find a thesaurus and pick a different phrase. I am not into sound bites I don't need to hear the same thing repeated over and over again.

He also needs to drop the stupid quote over the iraq spending bill.

"I made a mistake in the way I talk about it. He made a mistake in invading Iraq. Which is a worse decision?"

This has sounded clumsy everytime he has used it. Like something someone else thought up but that Kerry was not comforatble with. I don't see why it is any different than the large supply of bushism we have to help us laugh at night.
Find some simple way to negate it and ignore it from then on. IF you have a specific reason for not voting for the bill such as it had provisions that were bad say and move on.

Still voting for Kerry - Still scared for the world in general and still proud to be an American

e.thePeople : Article : Careful with that vote!

e.thePeople : Article : Careful with that vote!

A powerful Governor dies after a prolonged illness. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.

"Welcome to Heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," says the gov.

"Well, I'd like to but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in Hell and one in Heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."

To read the rest Click on the link

I'm thinking upon it. (And taking drugs.)

After wishing for death for several days, my sister finally convinced me to call the doctor back. Doctor called in several new prescriptions for me and told me if I wasn't better by this a.m. that I was going in the hospital to be put on i.v. antibiotics. Since in my experience people who go into hospitals ocassionally don't come out, I have been a good girl, taking my new massive quantities of drugs and thinking upon getting well. It seems to be working, as while I'm not "well," I'm much better and can honestly tell the Dr. when she calls today that she can give my bed to someone else.
While nothing has been accomplished around here since my return, (imagine what my house must look like after leaving hubby alone for a week, followed by the 3 demon seed children being here for a weekend while I hid out in the bedroom, unable to follow them around with a trash bag and vacuum cleaner), I have read 3 books in 3 days. A novel and two "academic" studies of Stephen King's works. Don't ask why anyone would read these last 2 items - I'm just weird, or maybe I can blame it on the raging fevers.
I love the mural, and am more determined to kidnap Cristal and make her my mural slave.
I feel for Mish. Been there, done that, have the tee shirt. Being an idiot, I didn't seek professional advice and now, 15 years later, I'm still ocassionally blind sided by some piece of mail that informs me I have to pay some old debt of my ex-husband's.
B - I have to say that when I saw your link to the Downy site, I felt the cosmos slip a notch, tilted my head, and thought, "What's wrong with the world?" This was definitely NOT Brandy! Now I understand - turning 40 does strange things to us. I'm closer to 50 now and wonder what strange sort of turn my personality will take when that monumental event arrives.
We've spent the last few evenings going outside to "admire" the newest additions to Darrel's herd. While I was away, he purchased 3 more cows, each with her own little calf. They are cute, but I'm beginning to see a pattern - Darrel doesn't like when I go away, and I think this is a plot to keep me at home so he doesn't go spend thousands of dollars to make himself feel better. I suppose there are worse habits he could have.

Timing is everything

I have just spent the last 15 minutes entering sweestakes for cleaning supplies all because their email was the first one to wish me a happy birthday. Is my life pathetic or what. Will be officially 40 next week and I find myself actually eager to try the new scents in Downy Fabric Softener. Not to mention testing out the scrubber side on Mr. Cleans magic erasers. DO you think Mr. Clean and the Drano man are related?

Having trouble finding surveys that will accept me. I am signed up on 4 different surbey sites because I like to be a loudmouth and because they promise me a chance at a prize. You can't win if you don't play right. Found one survey site that even pays real cash have made 10 bucks off them inthe last three weeks. Not quite as good as the chance to win 5000 but it is spendable rathaer than dreamable.

Apparently I am not commercial enough. Even my cell phone wasn't good enough for the survey tonight because it didn't have a camera in it. And who makes up these survey questions anyway. I mean how do you answer a question like

On a scale of one to ten please rate the following about (Product you don't need but looks cute in its new packaging)

This Product makes you love your husband more
This Product makes my children happier in school
This product makes me feel better about myself

Now I could answer all these questions if they were talking about something real but it is usually salad dressing or a new brand of batteries. Do people realy think which mayo they use makes them a better or lesser person. Of course this does not include miracle whip which we all know is gross so reasonable people wouldn't eat it anyway right????

I think I am babbling again,
Good Night

Another sacrifice to the Gods of Chain Mail

Why Women are Crabby

We started to "bud" in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find that anything that came in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears. So came the ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.

Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding boobs, we bloated, we cramped, we got the hormone crankies, had to wear little mattresses between our legs or insert tubular, packed cotton rods in places we didn't even know we had.

Our next little rite of passage (premarital or not) was having sex for the first time which was about as much fun as having a ramrod push your uterus through your nostrils (IF he did it right and didn't end up with his little cart before his horse), leaving us to wonder what all the fuss was about.

Then it' was off to Motherhood where we learned to live on dry crackers and water for a few months so we didn't spend the entire day leaning over Brother John. Of course, amazing creatures that we are (and we are), we learned to live with the growing little angels inside us steadily kicking our innards night and day making us wonder if we were preparing to have Rosemary's Baby.
Our once flat bellies looked like we swallowed a watermelon whole and we pee'd our pants every time we sneezed. When the big moment arrived, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions invariably burst right in the middle of the mall and we had to waddle, with our big cartoon feet, moaning in pain all the way to the ER.

Then it was huff and puff and beg to die while the OB says, "Please stop screaming, Mrs. Hearmeroar. Calm down and push. Just one more good push (more like 10)," warranting a strong, well-deserved impulse to punch the ***** (and hubby) square in the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom-headed 10lb bowling ball through a keyhole.

After that, it was time to raise those angels only to find that when all that "cute" wears off, the beautiful little darlings morphed into walking, jabbering, wet, gooey, snot-blowing, life-sucking little poop machines.

Then come their teen years. Need I say more?

When the kids are almost grown, we women hit our voracious sexual prime in our early 40's - while hubby had his somewhere around his 18th birthday.

So we progress into the grand finale: "The Menopause," the Grandmother of all womanhood. It's either take HRT and chance cancer in those now seasoned "buds" or the aforementioned Nether Regions, or, sweat like a hog in July, wash your sheets and pillowcases daily and bite the head off anything that moves.

Now, you ask WHY women seem to be more spiteful than men when men get off so easy INCLUDING the icing on life's cake: Being able to pee in the woods without soaking their socks...

So, while I love being a woman, "Womanhood" would make the Great Gandhi a tad crabby. Women are the "weaker sex"? Yeah right. Bite me.

I went to a bankruptcy lawyer yesterday...had a free consultation and learned a LOT in an hour. She was sharp and gave me lots of info. Homestead exemption is $150,000 in equity...car exemption is $5000 now. She let me know that it is not in my best interest to do personal b-ruptcy now, advised me to wait til after the divorce. Said that she believes Gary could do Chapter 11 and stay in business, since he seems to want to do that anyway. I will have to do a chapter 7, post-divorce, since there is no way I will be able to pay the credit card debt I will likely have to agree to take. I'll have to buy back my studio equipment that goes over the $2500 tools of the trade exemption...and might lose my ponies, and/or some pottery in my collection, depending on how it goes. All in all, I feel better now, just having more information and advice to digest.

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Lydia's Mural In her Living room. I had a great time painting it. i am going to try and paint one in the church nusery before the baby comes.
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Actually mohawk boy is not a fictional character. I doubt that I'm his type though. With the exception of the lack of sleep thing which is a fairly recent development everything is the same. Some things may seem better or worse but really nothing changes around here. I'm convinced that my husband is somehow operating under the delusion that he would be better off without me because I can see no other reason for his insano behavior O66. I'm playing bingo with the kids N39. I28 N44 O64 it seems that I27 everything in life that does not go his way N32 is somehow N43 because of something I did or did not do. G56 Today for instance he could not I26 find the keys to the houses O64 so he of course thoroughly chastised me for being so careless as to lose them. He threw a I25 a full blown man baby tantrum complete with yelling and throwing things N34. B11 O75 B15 G58 I26. Obviously I took too long to write this ranting blog because by now enough time has passed and I am once again very much in love with the man child that is my husband. Cristal gave me a book to read today and very soon I may be able to own and operate my very own man. Well after I found the keys in a place that he had left them, suddenly these keys that were the most important thing in the world at the time of the tantrum suddenly meant exactly nothing. Which was pretty much a little less than what I thought they meant in the first place but I was expecting some praise maybe even kisses for finding them. Especially for finding them and not saying, "Looky here you big dope, I didn't lose them after all." I will try to write more. I have been busy living and feeling sorry for myself for no reason in particular. I know that I have so many good things going on. Sometimes I just get in such a slump being the overworked and underpaid domestic Goddess that I am.

Suffering outrage fatigue since Jan. 20, 2001 - The Arrogant Academic (in training)

Suffering outrage fatigue since Jan. 20, 2001 - The Arrogant Academic (in training): "Vote Bush!

Swiped from a poster at democraticunderground.com:

Why I’m Voting for President Bush

The President is a forthright man who not only knows what is good for America, but is willing to stand up, lie, cheat, steal, and send others to die to get it. He is a man who will keep our tax money out of the hands of the undeserving poor and ensure it goes into the coffers of our most valued citizens, the ownership class, where it belongs.

We need the war in Iraq in order to ensure the prosperity of loyal corporations like Halliburton. Only President Bush has the courage and vision necessary to prosecute this war to the end and then go on to Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and even all of South America until at last we own the oilfields of the world.

Only President Bush has the wisdom to pursue a policy of lowering taxes for the most deserving while building a trillion-dollar national debt that will forever bind the natural servant class in fealty to their rightful masters. A major, if unheralded, benefit that arises from transferring money directly from the public coffers into the accounts of the most deserving corporations is that it eliminates forever the temptation to divert these funds into wasteful enterprises such as public education and health care.

Public education is worse than wasteful. It is genuinely counterproductive to educate people beyond the specific skills they need for employment. Education is notorious for turning its recipients into malcontents who become resentful of their lot in life and may even refuse to conduct themselves in accordance of the needs and wishes of their owners.

Likewise, health care is a wasteful expense when squandered on the useless eaters, with the sole exception that a certain number of particularly healthy specimens from among the worthless classes may be selected for organ donation to their betters, and maintained in good health until their time comes for harvesting.

The President needs four more years to complete his work of converting America into a paradise for its rightful owners. It is with this glorious vision in my head that I proudly prepare to cast my vote for George W. Bush.

We must have circuses but treatment could be better at times - but our children need the wonder of lions and tigers and bears

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This pretty much sums it up

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So many shoes and so little time...

This is a total and complete cheat, as I am too tired to blog twice, so I am simply copying and pasting my blog from my Nana blog to this one. (At least B can't say I didn't blog??)

I'm happy to report that Jaden McKenzie Leann Marr has already acquired her grandmother's deep and abiding love of shoes. At 1 year old she is already Shoe Fetish Girl. Squeals of sheer joy (generally at an ear-piercing pitch that I'm sure makes dogs for miles around howl) come out of that tiny mouth every time she spots a pair of shoes. It doesn't matter what size, shape, or color they are - she must immediately put them on her feet and prance (or stomp, if they are too big for her to completely raise from the floor with her tiny feet) around, giggling and screeching. And we can't forget the ocassional "Ha ha" that comes out when she's found a pair she's particularly fond of. (Yes - that's the exact sound/word she says - "Ha ha" - usually with her hand placed oh so "girlie" in front of her mouth.)
She is also Sing-Song girl. Anytime she is awake and not interacting with someone, she is singing one of 3 or 4 very obvious songs, always repeated in the same individual tune for each, not just random sounds and tunes. There is the "Da-Da" song, the "Ma-Ma" song, the "La-La" song, and one other I can't quite figure out, but convince myself is the "Na-na" song. (As in Nana - me!)
She's quite the Drama Queen these days, also. Likes to place a hand over each eye, lay her head on the floor or your shoulder, and "weep" for consolation when she doesn't get her way about something. (Not a tear in sight, of course.) The nickname I gave her when she was born (Ladybug) had been replaced by my favorite thing (and more apt) to call her these days - The Diva.

a rewrite from this morning...

I wrote a blog this morning and lost it upon ‘Save as Draft’….so am attempting to recreate the gist…
Sorry to hear you are sick Dona, seems to be going around…Stef (love the nickname) caught some throat/sinus thing and is feeling miserable. He is a nice distraction but what with my financial stress, and our bizarre life situation, ‘getting to know each other’ is not always easy. I feel so close to him and very attached, but I have to remember we just met four months ago and both have lots to learn. I am trying not to freak out over the money thing, and have decided to go into the ‘minipot’ business. Have been making a few, and after Aliya claimed my first necklace pot, and I saw how cute it was, I decided, that is a low overhead, fun thing I can make and market and sell easily.
We head to NYC this weekend and I finally talked my cousin into putting a place setting in for Stef at the reception…upon my calling to beg (having been turned down via email), he agreed to squeeze him in, and informed me the reception catering is (cough) FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS a plate. So, take it from close-to-bankruptcy Mishy and waiting-for-Social-Security-disability Steffin, we will be out of our element. I was not looking forward to going without him, so I am relieved about that.
Well, I made eleven necklace minipots this morning (thrown off the hump), and cleaned in the studio, now going to shower and pick up Amory and Leesie at school, deliver Amory home to his dad’s and take Leesie skating. Hope Gary sends some money with her….

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda...

Was glad to see Mish, D2, and Lydia again! I've missed you guys, even though I have been very neglegent myself in the blog department. Brandy hasn't even yelled at me, but I think that's only because she knows how sick I've been and I expect she won't let me get away with that excuse much longer. I'm not much better, but can at least sit upright at the computer, so of course my first duty is to blog.
Sorry to hear Gary is still a thorn in Mish's side, but where there are kids involved, unfortunatley he will always be a part of your life in some form. At least you have Stef to divert your attention!
Lydia, I loved the punk story, but then I always love your imaginary tales the best.
On the political front - I did watch the debate, fever, headache, and all and totally agree with all opinions expresed here. (well, not with the one commment left on one of the blogs that GW was better than Kerry - but this is America and your opinion and your right to express it are respected, if not agreed with)
My trip was eventful and fun, except for the getting sick part. We spent one whole afternoon at the beach and I gorged on fresh seafood almost every day and I spent lots of time with my grandbabies. All in all it was a great trip, but I'm ready to be home for a LONG time before going anywhere again. Unfortunately, Darrel goes on vacation next Monday and we are leaving for Tennessee that Thursday to visit friends for 4 or 5 days. At least we aren't flying, which seems to be my downfall, as I get very ill every time I fly anywhere. I think it's being trapped in that small area with all those other people and inhaling eveything they exhale.
Well, I seem to have hit my "sitting upright and typing" limit.

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Sunday, October 31, 2004