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Unfortunately I would say you are pretty much screwed as far as volunteering before the background checks are complete because Texas and the rest of the Country, Have now passed mandatory background checks for volunteers and everybody else at the school, so unless you can prove they aren't doint it to everybody there is nothing ou can do. As for being allowed in the school at all parents do have the right to go into the building to pick up their children or to inspect the classrooms

From a house bill : {+ Parent's right to inspect materials: +} School
districts must have policies to ensure that a parent has access to the
child's classroom and school-sponsored activities to allow the parent to
observe class procedure, teaching material, and class conduct. The
parent must not disturb the class.

Parents' Bill of Rights for Texas Public Schools

And this bill of rights gives you access to everything but the school grounds. And while you can't fight the background check requirements you can certainly fight the not allowed in the building. It is important for parents to have access so that they can observe and monitor the schools and lets be honest we own the schools there is no reason you should have to take crap from a principle ever. Especially when the most terrible thing you are doing is volunteering to help with art in a kindergarten class that has none. And when did they lose art and music. WHat else should kindergartees be doing.

Has the entire world gone off the deep end. Istead of being the land of the free we are now the land of the fearful and nuerotic. What I don't get is that parents are willing to subject their children to security rules they would not willingly work under. I would miss you terribly if you quit working for but I have to say if I were you I would tell them all to go fuck themselves and HOmeschool. Oh wait I did do that. And they get a lot friendlier when you even threaten such a thing because that means they lose money and you have 4 kids so if you pull them you will cost the schools 25,000 a year or there abouts.


Don't put up with abuse, stand up for your right and tell that principle off. Better yet take a camcorder with you and start filming next time he gets stupid and PLease blog the whole experience and include the school and the principles name cause disrespect should never be tolorated. Without our children they would have no jobs, You have the power

Remember . . . Fairies Are Female!

A married couple in their early 60s were out celebrating their
35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on
their table and said,
"For being such an exemplary married couple
and for being faithful to each other for all this time, I will grant
you each a wish."

"Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband" said the wife.

The fairy waved her magic wand and
- poof - two tickets for the
Queen Mary II luxury liner appeared in her hands.

Then it was the husband's turn.
He thought for a moment and said:
"Well, this is all very romantic,
but an opportunity like this will never come again.
I'm sorry my love, but my wish is
to have a wife 30 years younger than me."

The wife and the fairy were deeply disappointed,
but a wish is a wish...
So the fairy waved her
magic wand and - poof - the husband became 92 years old.

The moral of the story:
Men who are ungrateful bastards
should remember that fairies are female.

Corpus Christi Restaurant Review - Landrys Seafood house

Landry's Seafood house

Went out to the boat today because I was craving their Mahi Mahi with Pontchatrain Sauce and it was excellent. As good as I remembered from last time I was there. But unfortunately the hubbys hamburger was burnt crispy on both sides. He did order it medium well but wasn't thrilled with burst and it took them 45 minutes to get it to the table so eat just ate it rather than complain.

While my food was excellent the ambiance has fallen off. We got there around three, And the place was empty just like I like it. When we walked through the door the waitress asked us if we were there for happy hour and we said no we were there cause no one else was.

You would think, at least I would that this generally means you want a little privacy. Unfortunately the waitress, (did I mention that she had troll hair. Just like mine if I brush it after its fry and stick it up over my head. Controlled better would have been more attractive and sanitary) did not take the hint and 15 minutes later when the 2nd couple came in she sat them right next to us. It was dumb and brainless, and we were forced to listen to stupid chatter. Things like he had to explain to her what an appetizer was and his love of cough syrup because it had alchohol in it. Yes they were both at least early to mid twenties it was a bad national lampoon moment. Not at all the quiet private lunch I envisioned.

BY the time we left there were still only us, them and one family in the restaurant.

Note to waitresses, if people are coming in at 3pm and specifically tell you they are there because no one else is try and keep at least one table between them and the next customer if possible.

also don't hover. Picking up my plate the minute I set the fork down makes me want to bite your arm and refilling the glasses everytime they are an inch below the rim just means you are hovering and again you are being annoying. Alone doesn't mean you want to stop the conversation every 3 minutes because the waitress is leaning between you.

The worst thing however was the smell. I said it smelled like mold hubby said it was fish and rancid grease.

Took a while to get over the smell and was real tempted just to leave before we ordered because of it, but I really wanted the fish.

And the fish was good. So the food gets a 3 because 1 was good and the other was burnt.

Smell gets a minus 1

Waitress gets a 2, She was nice but not very with it. Service was okay just too intrusive. Bill was 40.00 for 2 meals sorta pricey but it was my fault and I knew the costs going in. Still left 5.00 dollar tip and will enjoy my leftovers immensly.

Lydia's Bossy!

Lydia says I have to blog because I am bored and the Dish Network repairman is here and I have run out of "make busy" things to do and all I really want to do is plop on the couch.
He has been here over 2 hours and when he got here I was missing 4 channels that would no longer come in. Now I have NO channels and he's spoken to the "experts" on the phone and he says they are all stumped. If he wasn't 100 years old I would be getting mad. Instead, I gave him a cold bottle of water when he began to look peaked around the edges.
Let's see - what's new in my corner of the world that I can bore everyone to death with? We are converting our "cattle ranch" into a "goat farm" and that has kept us busy. (Lots of boring details I won't go into.)
We are leaving on vacation the end of next month and I'm excited. Except today one of the guys where Darrel works quit so there's a chance Darrel won't be able to go. Of course, all the tickets and reservations I've bought/made are nonrefundable, so I guess I will be going alone, if that happens.
I was practically bedridden for about 2 months, but am feeling much better now after giving in to the doctor and letting him give me crappy prescription meds. Hate that kind of stuff and if it wasn't for the vacation coming up, I would have still refused.
Stepson is AWOL from the army.
Granddaughter turned 3 last week and called me today to tell me she has some money and she is going to buy a baby turkey with it and she ". . . will be very, very gentle with it, Nana, cause you have to be very gentle or you will hurt them and they will peck you." (I have no clue why a baby turkey is the thing she wants to buy.)
Grandson started 1st grade last week and he's growing up way too damned fast.
Daughter, her hubby, and the 2 kids are moving to SW Oklahoma in the next couple of months. They won't be much farther from me than the are now (about 4 hours) so it's not going to be a big change. However, the place they bought has an extra house on it, so now I get to stay in the Grandma House when I visit. Yippppeeeeee!
The old Dish man has gone outside again and doesn't seem to be returning. I guess I better go check on him. I hate rotting bodies in the yard. The dog always drags the parts everywhere.

Corpus Christi CLEAN AIR TAIL GATE FAIR - SATURDAY, AUGUST 26 10am. – 2pm.

Under the Big Top next to Champion Toyota--Between Nile & Airline on SPID

The Pollution Prevention Partnership at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is hosting the Clean Air Tail Gate Fair, 2006. The purpose of the event is to engage community members about the important role their vehicles play in good air quality and the environment. Over 30% of the air pollutants generated in Corpus Christi comes from our vehicles. You CAN make a difference - and we make it convenient!

Get ready for a Clean Air Tail Gate party – Corpus Christi style. The event will take place at Champion Toyota and the lot adjacent to Champion Toyota under the “big top”. As participants drive to the “tail gate” party, they will get their “tail gates” read by AutoCheck, (a vehicle emission sensing system). Polluting vehicles will receive free mechanical service to bring them up to clean machines! Keeping with our Clean Machine theme, there will be LOTS of hybrid cars and SUVs available on site to test drive. Driscoll Children’s Hospital staff will be on site to provide child safety seat information. And what would a tail gate party be without barbeque? Under the Big Top will be barbeque and cold drinks. All FREE. Lots of giveaways too!

•FREE vehicle emission screenings – they are easy! You just drive past the computer and it reads your vehicle emissions. It takes only seconds and you never have to get out of your car!

•FREE repairs to bring polluting vehicles up to clean machines to qualifying vehicles

•FREE test drives of LOTS of hybrid vehicles including SUVs

• FREE vehicle maintenance logs for everyone!

•FREE car care kits including a tire pressure gauge for everyone!

•FREE lung function tests (are you a sensitive population?) courtesy of Driscoll Children’s Hospital

•FREE Information and appointments for inspection of child safety seats.

•FREE hibachi grills to the first 100 participants

•FREE vehicle anti-theft window etchings courtesy of the Corpus Christi Police Department

Questions? Contact: Gretchen Arnold, 825-3070 (office), 244-1633 (cell), getchen.arnold@tamucc.edu

I had so many words, thoughts and feelings that I wished to express but between then and now they have managed to slip away. They are some place else now, not with me, not in me. No part of me. At the moment I feel like no one in particular. Not like myself, not like an angry or sad version of me.
I was in a foul mood last night at dinner and I just sat there and observed it all not feeling much like participating. The waiter was had this sorry comic routine and I felt like telling him to work on his act but I didn't want to put forth the energy that it would require to speak to him more than absolutely necassary. The children were well behaved. My nephew commented negatively on my sons behavior. Saying something to the effect that his behavior had not changed at all in the last six years. I just dryly said, well neither has yours. He looked confused. I know you are suppose to be nice to people on thier birthday. I will try and remember that. My nephew is six years younger than me, that is funny stuff. I have watched change from a boy into a boy in a mans body. I honestly think that he has gotten stupider in the last six years if that is even possible. That has happened to a few people I know actually. Well now that I have written a few lines I just feel a bit better.
I've been having the strangest dreams, open for interpretation.
Kelly and I purchased a large primitive barn, possibly a farmhouse but there wasn't much too it so I really am not sure which it was. Kelly was going to renovate it and we were going to live there, but all he seemed to be doing was filling it with tools and organizing them. Nothing was actually happening. This went on for quite a long time and was very confusing. Then I drove away with the two youngest and there I was driving on a sandy dune filled beach. I drove into a body of water and I remembered thinking that I should be trying to escape but I felt sleepy and comfortable and did nothing. I think I knew that I was leaving my body and was expecting to float upwards and was surprised to find that I was spiraling down in a grey tunnel (like a reverse tornado) another life on earth. When I became conscious again I was someone else, my children were still with me. I went to my farmhouse and the people there knew me but they told me that I lived there in another time. They showed me pictures of myself and I did not recognize myself in the photographs.

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Women Take Note!! Warning! Warning!!

My thighs were stolen from me during the night a few years ago. It was just that quick.
I went to sleep in my body and woke up with someone else's thighs.
The new ones had the texture of cooked oatmeal. Who would have done it?
Whose thighs were these, and what happened to mine?

I spent the entire summer looking for my thighs. Finally, I resigned
myself to living in jeans and Sheer Energy pantyhose.

Then, just when my guard was down, the thieves struck again. My butt was next.
I knew it was the same gang, because they took pains to match my new rear end
(although badly attached at least three inches lower than my original) to the thighs
they stuck me with a year earlier.

Now, my rear complimented my legs, lump for lump.
I prayed that long skirts would stay in fashion...

It was two years ago when I realized my arms had been switched.
One morning I was fixing my hair and I watched horrified but fascinated
as the flesh of my upper arms swung to and fro with the motion of the hairbrush.
This was really getting scary. My body was being replaced one section at a time.
I gave up my t-shirts.

My poor neck disappeared more quickly than the Thanksgiving turkey it now resembled.
That's why I decided to tell my story.

Women of the world, wake up and smell the coffee. That really isn't
plastic that those surgeons are using. You KNOW where they are
getting those replacement parts, don't you?

The next time you suspect someone has had a face "lifted", look again.
Was it lifted from you?

I think I finally found my thighs... and I hope Cindy Crawford paid a
really good price for them!

This is not a hoax. This is happening to women in every town every night.
WARN YOUR FRIENDS!

P.S. I must say that last year I thought someone had stolen my breasts.
I was lying in bed and they were gone! As I jumped out of bed I was relieved
to see that they had just been hiding in my armpits as I slept.
Now I keep them hidden in my waistband.

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Movie Reccomendation for the week

Great movie - 4 Stars - Excellent cast
Kinsey - The father of the Sexual Revolution

Life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948 Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male". Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, story recounts the scientist's extraordinary journey from obscurity to global fame. Rebelling against the rigid piety of his home life, and drawn to the world of the senses, Kinsey becomes a Harvard-educated zoologist specializing in the study of gall wasps. After being hired to teach biology at Indiana University, Kinsey meets and marries a witty, freethinking female student, Clara McMillen. In the course of his teaching he discovers an astonishing dearth of scientific data on sexual behavior. When students seek him out for advice about sexual concerns and problems, he realizes that no one has done the clinical research that would yield reliable answers to their questions. Inspired to explore the emotionally charged subject of sex from a strictly scientific point of view, Kinsey recruits a team of researchers, including Clyde Martin, Wardell Pomeroy and Paul Gebhard. Over time they refine an interviewing technique, which helps people to break through shame, fear, and guilt and speak freely about their sexual histories. When Kinsey publishes his Male study in 1948, the press compares the impact to that of the atom bomb. But as the country enters the more paranoid Cold War era of the 1950s, Kinsey's follow-up study on women is seen as an attack on basic American values. The ensuing outrage and scorn causes Kinsey's benefactors to abandon him, just as his health begins to deteriorate. At the same time, the jealousies and acrimony caused by Kinsey's attempt to create a private sexual utopia threaten to tear apart the research team and expose them to unwelcome scrutiny.

Stupid Google link of the day

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Women's Health News: BabyTalk Magazine Cover Controversy

Women's Health News: BabyTalk Magazine Cover Controversy

Topfree Equal Rights Association

Topfree Equal Rights Association

I even donated 10 bucks. Don't forget to read the baby talk story. Tlak about stupid women. Whatever happened to make us hate ourselves so much

Bat Signal For Marilyn Monroe

Lydia - Please pass on to MM that she has a customer!
Thanks!

Stupid Stupid Stupid Town I hope they end up paying big time

I have never lived anywhere that had occupancy permits. I would no more think of buying a house and then going to the city council for permission to live in it. Its ludicris. But then I think homeownsers association are also the hight of stupidity. If you own property you ought to be able to live in it, paint it, and do basically whatever you want with it, short of violating health and safety laws and not allowing a family to live in your town after they have bought a house there is just wrong and I am betting the courts will agree so the town, if they were smart, would give in now and pay them off on their own, cause its only going to get more expensive from here on out. iWon News

4 of My favorite Childrens Movies that I still love as an adult and 1 book

The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)

Hailed as one of the greatest films of all time, The Incredible Mr. Limpet is a story about the wonders of imagination and the triumph of the spirit. Live-action and 2-D animation combine to tell the story of a man who longs to be a fish after he is classified by the Navy as an F4 - "too small and too weak to be a soldier." When his dream of being a fish becomes a reality, Henry uses his underwater prowess to become the Navy's strongest secret weapon. Starring Don Knotts - How can you go wrong

The Island at the Top of the World (30th Anniversary Edition) (1974)
Starring Donald Sinden as a British businessman looking for his lost son in the Arctic, and one of my earliest childhood heroes David Hartman as an American archaeology professor looking for his own place in history. Together with a kooky French inventor (Jacques Marin, later the cop/bad guy in Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo), a pre Hindenburg zeppelin and an eskimo (very different role for Mako) they find Sinden's son and quite a bit more.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition) (1971)

During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Full Screen Edition) (1968)

Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) is an inventor way ahead of his time, whose inventions don't always work the way they are intended. If you think his name is weird, the female lead is Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes), the daughter of a rich sweet manufacturer. This unlikely pair, along with his two kids and the wonderful car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, are the star players in a story which starts out being about pirates, and ends up as a rescue mission. With comic support from Caractacus' father, and a toy maker (Benny Hill, in an uncharacteristic G rated performance), they defeat the schemes of spies (kind of like Laurel and Hardy combined with Boris and Natasha), an evil Baron and Baroness,and a wicked childcatcher, to bring the story within a story to a predictable but entertaining end.

The scenery is breathtaking, especially the Vulgarian castle and surroundings, and since this is a 1968 movie, we can forgive the lack of finesse in the special effects, where the characters stick out like sore thumbs from the backgrounds, and wires can be seen attached to Professor Potts during a dance sequence.

Stranger from the Depths Don't be scared off by the price you can get them on Ebay for 10.00 as I just did but the book is rare and there aren't a lot of copies out there which is sad.


Publisher: Scholastic 1970, first Juvenile/young adult reading

"Look!" says Gary, as they climb down the cliff. "In that dark opening over there....something is gleaming."

"It's a tiny statue!" exclaims his brother. "It looks like a lizard man....and i think it's made of diamond."

Where has the statue come from? Who made it? The answers lead Gary and his brother into terrifying adventures in a world of fantastic people - miles beneath the ocean floor!

V For Vendetta - A must see

Great Movie and Everyone should watch it.

A very timely view of what government power and secrecy and the giving up of constitutional rights can do. A while this story may be fiction the amount of medical and other illegal testing that has been done on US citizens certainly makes it a viable scenerio.

At any rate I will be celebrating NOvember 5th with this movie for a long time and reccomend it to all. Make sure the kids watch so they understand.

Underground city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Underground city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blog of the week - A fairly reasonable woman , Great collection of rants and raves about various American Stupidities

The Original Musings

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Stayin' Alive

Stayin' Alive

Patricia Hough Pottery - Yoga Pottery

Patricia Hough Pottery - Individual pottery

Leave it to Dona to Find the answers to those most difficult questions

THE ANSWERS WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR:

Q: WHAT ARE THE SMALL BUMPS AROUND A WOMAN'S NIPPLES FOR?
A: It's Braille for suck here.

Q: WHAT IS AN AUSTRALIAN KISS?
A: It's the same as a French kiss, but only "down under."

Q: WHAT DO YOU DO WITH 365 USED CONDOMS?
A: Melt them down, make a tire, and call it a Goodyear.

Q: WHY ARE HURRICANES NORMALLY NAMED AFTER WOMEN?
A: Because when they come, they're wild and wet. But when they go, they
take your house and car with them.

Q: WHY DO GIRLS RUB THEIR EYES WHEN THEY GET UP IN THE MORNING?
A: Because they don't have any balls to scratch

The first article I have read that makes any sense out of this whole stupid ordeal

Lets face it drunks are stupid and if thats offends drunks I don't really care. Whatever happened to sticks and stones and how shallow do you have to be to be offended by the ramblings of a drunk. Besides the studios have always said there is no such thing as bad publicity. I will still see all Mels movies or at least the ones without subtitles. I hate subtitles

It's wrong to crucify Mad Mel | The Daily Telegraph

In case ou haven't been reading the kidney Transplant Blog here is is again

The Diary of a Transplant, One Kidneys Journal

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