Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Mmmmm... Chicken...
So Ashley Judd thinks that voting for John McCain is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders...This chicken would rather vote for Truett Cathy cause chick-fil-a is awesome! Wait, if women voting for McCain are like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders is she saying that McCain fries women up and eats them??? Because he's pro-life??... um want to use a better analogy?
Monday, September 29, 2008
Who Votes for Him
Do people really vote for this clown?
But of course today we know that was a load of bull...
And what does he have to say today when the bailout didn't pass?:
Is he serious? They only needed a handful of votes to pass it and yet 90-some democrats voted against the bailout. So why is he making such a big deal about the republicans getting their panties in a twist when so many democrats voted against it? Give me a break!
Here are some excerpts from a 2004 hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's long but worth it.
And finally Nancy Pelosi's speech before the vote today:
Really?
By the way if I hear "golden parachute" or "wall street to main street" one more time I think I'm going to lose it!
But of course today we know that was a load of bull...
And what does he have to say today when the bailout didn't pass?:
Is he serious? They only needed a handful of votes to pass it and yet 90-some democrats voted against the bailout. So why is he making such a big deal about the republicans getting their panties in a twist when so many democrats voted against it? Give me a break!
Here are some excerpts from a 2004 hearing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it's long but worth it.
And finally Nancy Pelosi's speech before the vote today:
Really?
By the way if I hear "golden parachute" or "wall street to main street" one more time I think I'm going to lose it!
What I Did Last Weekend
Besides getting over having that wisdom tooth pulled, watching the debate, and doing homework, here's what I did this weekend.
Paul called and informed me that we would be dog sitting. Meet Chewy:
He's the same size as Clifford's chew toy:
LOL and he sounds like a squeeky toy when he barks LOL. But he is so cute and so sweet, I'm going to miss the little dude when he goes home.
They finally got the McCain/Palin yard signs so I got mine:
I put it in one of the flower beds up by my house so the hoodlums that live around me would be less inclined to take it. I think it looks great! LOL
And while I was at the Columbia County GOP Headquarter I saw this shirt and had to get it:
And now I have to take the little chew toy out to potty again.
Paul called and informed me that we would be dog sitting. Meet Chewy:
He's the same size as Clifford's chew toy:
LOL and he sounds like a squeeky toy when he barks LOL. But he is so cute and so sweet, I'm going to miss the little dude when he goes home.
They finally got the McCain/Palin yard signs so I got mine:
I put it in one of the flower beds up by my house so the hoodlums that live around me would be less inclined to take it. I think it looks great! LOL
And while I was at the Columbia County GOP Headquarter I saw this shirt and had to get it:
And now I have to take the little chew toy out to potty again.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Lifting the Fog
I've been in a percocet fog all day. I had a wisdom tooth pulled (I've been having them pulled for almost 5 years now, one at a time lol) and I've spent the rest of the day in the fog. I took a break long enough to watch the debate. Very entertaining however, Obama was stuttering more than my spy ware infected computer LOL.
And for someone who was in Washington instead of holed up in Florida getting ready for the debate all week I thought McCain did a fantastic job. I also think that Obama sounded like a shrill little kid that wasn't getting his way. McCain staid calm and collected through out and Obama kept trying to interrupt him and kept trying to responding (not true not true) while McCain was trying to talk. I love how McCain kept talking without raising his voice or anything.
I think Greg Gutfeld says it right on The Daily Gut: "Sometimes I feel like Obama has just studied for a test, and this is an oral exam. He doesn't believe it, he just knows the right answers."
You should go check out what he has to say about the debate. It's very entertaining, definitely worth the read.
Anyways there is more that I want to say but more than wanting to talk about the debate I want to take more drugs and go back to sleep. I look like a chipmunk and feel like one that got hit by a truck, or at least a bat to the head.
I'll try to get it tomorrow.
And for someone who was in Washington instead of holed up in Florida getting ready for the debate all week I thought McCain did a fantastic job. I also think that Obama sounded like a shrill little kid that wasn't getting his way. McCain staid calm and collected through out and Obama kept trying to interrupt him and kept trying to responding (not true not true) while McCain was trying to talk. I love how McCain kept talking without raising his voice or anything.
I think Greg Gutfeld says it right on The Daily Gut: "Sometimes I feel like Obama has just studied for a test, and this is an oral exam. He doesn't believe it, he just knows the right answers."
You should go check out what he has to say about the debate. It's very entertaining, definitely worth the read.
Anyways there is more that I want to say but more than wanting to talk about the debate I want to take more drugs and go back to sleep. I look like a chipmunk and feel like one that got hit by a truck, or at least a bat to the head.
I'll try to get it tomorrow.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Inevitable
As we get closer to the inevitable (move) I've been asked to think about where I would like to move to next. We really do not have a say but we can put in our 2 cents (however worthless they may be) because he just came off the Drill Sgt. trail. So I've been thinking about where I would like to live next.
For some reason I've wanted to move to the DC area since we were getting ready to leave Germany, that's almost 6 years now (time flies). So 4 of the 5 choices I came up with are in the DC area and then there is Ft. Hamilton in NY. That one deffinately didn't go over well but how cool would that be? I'm sure that got scratched off the list as soon as I turned my back. Yesterday I did my homework and checked out all these posts for things that I think are important, like housing, and the more I checked into it the more I thought should I be doing this?
Mom has always said that things happen for a reason, and I do believe that's true, so I'm thinking what if we do end up moving somewhere I want to go and we don't like it, or what if things would be better somewhere else and I just don't want to give it a chance. Should I try to go to one of these places or should I just go with the flow (which has worked out very well for us so far). My husband says that I just don't want to take responsibility for putting us somewhere we hate and that is partly true, but the other part is that I feel like I'm gambling on where we are going to live.
I know this sounds so wierd. People move everyday. People make up their own minds and decide for themselves where to move everyday. Maybe I'm just so used to being told where I'm going to move that I can't handle that decision on my own. I'm stuck in my own comfort zone here in Georgia and I don't want to screw up our comfortable little life with the unknown. I don't know what it is but I'm sure I sound totally irrational to any normal person. There has just been so much going through my mind in the last few days. I almost wish they would delete his current assignment and put him on assignment to a place that we haven't been thinking about but that sounds cool so we could just be happy with that.
And another thing that has been bothering me is the housing. Housing is not important to my husband, but it's very important to me. That's where we are going to live, everyday. I don't want to live in a dump. When we moved here we bought our house and we plan on renting it out when we leave and not buying again. So I know we are going to live on post where ever we go next. I was looking through housing for these different posts and I kept thinking to myself if I get stuck in one of their dump units I'm going to be so upset.
The army segregates living quarters, officers and enlisted and even then by pay grade and the higher up the better housing is afforded to you. They have also privatized their housing so there is an outside company that you pay your BAH (Basic allowance for housing) to this takes care of rent and utilities. OK so here's my beef, there could possibly be someone living next door to me that pays less rent for the same quarters. Socialist. And if I can afford (because I always work) to pay a little more a month in rent why can't I get a better place? Isn't money, money? Personally, I think that when they went to this privatized deal and made it to where you were handing over the money to a private company to rent these houses they should have made it an open market. Each different type of unit has a value the bigger and nice the more you pay and you pay what you can afford not what the government decides you should pay. I just don't want to end up living in a dump. If we can afford to live in a nice place (and we can surely do that) I don't want to end up in one of their old units that's falling apart (unless it's an old historic unit that's like 100 years old), we've been there, done that, and have moved up. I know before that happens we'll probably just move off post.
For some reason I've wanted to move to the DC area since we were getting ready to leave Germany, that's almost 6 years now (time flies). So 4 of the 5 choices I came up with are in the DC area and then there is Ft. Hamilton in NY. That one deffinately didn't go over well but how cool would that be? I'm sure that got scratched off the list as soon as I turned my back. Yesterday I did my homework and checked out all these posts for things that I think are important, like housing, and the more I checked into it the more I thought should I be doing this?
Mom has always said that things happen for a reason, and I do believe that's true, so I'm thinking what if we do end up moving somewhere I want to go and we don't like it, or what if things would be better somewhere else and I just don't want to give it a chance. Should I try to go to one of these places or should I just go with the flow (which has worked out very well for us so far). My husband says that I just don't want to take responsibility for putting us somewhere we hate and that is partly true, but the other part is that I feel like I'm gambling on where we are going to live.
I know this sounds so wierd. People move everyday. People make up their own minds and decide for themselves where to move everyday. Maybe I'm just so used to being told where I'm going to move that I can't handle that decision on my own. I'm stuck in my own comfort zone here in Georgia and I don't want to screw up our comfortable little life with the unknown. I don't know what it is but I'm sure I sound totally irrational to any normal person. There has just been so much going through my mind in the last few days. I almost wish they would delete his current assignment and put him on assignment to a place that we haven't been thinking about but that sounds cool so we could just be happy with that.
And another thing that has been bothering me is the housing. Housing is not important to my husband, but it's very important to me. That's where we are going to live, everyday. I don't want to live in a dump. When we moved here we bought our house and we plan on renting it out when we leave and not buying again. So I know we are going to live on post where ever we go next. I was looking through housing for these different posts and I kept thinking to myself if I get stuck in one of their dump units I'm going to be so upset.
The army segregates living quarters, officers and enlisted and even then by pay grade and the higher up the better housing is afforded to you. They have also privatized their housing so there is an outside company that you pay your BAH (Basic allowance for housing) to this takes care of rent and utilities. OK so here's my beef, there could possibly be someone living next door to me that pays less rent for the same quarters. Socialist. And if I can afford (because I always work) to pay a little more a month in rent why can't I get a better place? Isn't money, money? Personally, I think that when they went to this privatized deal and made it to where you were handing over the money to a private company to rent these houses they should have made it an open market. Each different type of unit has a value the bigger and nice the more you pay and you pay what you can afford not what the government decides you should pay. I just don't want to end up living in a dump. If we can afford to live in a nice place (and we can surely do that) I don't want to end up in one of their old units that's falling apart (unless it's an old historic unit that's like 100 years old), we've been there, done that, and have moved up. I know before that happens we'll probably just move off post.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
School Yard Politics
I've seen an article before about the Democrats being mad at about Lieberman speaking on behalf of McCain at the RNC. Now the Democrats in Connecticut want him to leave the party. Talk about partisan. This reminds me of being in kindergarten, when you are friends with someone who your other friends don't like and you get the threat: If you are friends with them then we aren't going to be friends with you! Isn't it time to grow up?
And of course John McCain has suspended his campaign to focus on our economic problems and passing some kind of bail out. Putting the people first. I love when Obama said they'd call him if they need him. Alright buddy keep worrying about getting yourself elected until then, the rest of us will worry about our economy tanking.
And of course John McCain has suspended his campaign to focus on our economic problems and passing some kind of bail out. Putting the people first. I love when Obama said they'd call him if they need him. Alright buddy keep worrying about getting yourself elected until then, the rest of us will worry about our economy tanking.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
What's wrong with her?
Yesterday Shep was on Fox and Friends and Gretchen was her normal annoying self and Shep totally played into it:
I thought this was so funny. Gretchen gets on my last nerve and she just kept having to put in her dumb little 2 cents and he just played right into it. She always has to be the center of attention.
I find that I have the same reaction to her just about every morning. What's wrong with Gretchen? LOL I don't think Shep need coffee so much as she needed to be cut off. LOL
I thought this was so funny. Gretchen gets on my last nerve and she just kept having to put in her dumb little 2 cents and he just played right into it. She always has to be the center of attention.
I find that I have the same reaction to her just about every morning. What's wrong with Gretchen? LOL I don't think Shep need coffee so much as she needed to be cut off. LOL
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Rock On
I have spent the whole weekend doing not much of anything. Last night I fell asleep at 7. This morning I migrated from the bed to the couch where I alternated between watching movies and playing Guitar Hero. I did carve out an hour to take my Political Science midterm (and got an A. yay!) but that's the only time I really had to use my brain. I could use a couple more days of mindless tv watching and video games but tomorrow is back to work. Since I've been suckered into having one of my wisdom teeth pulled Friday it looks like next weekend will be like this one, only painful.
Now I think I'm officially going to be addicted to Guitar Hero! It's as much fun as American Idol. I must have been a rock star in a past life or something. LOL
And let me just say that I have not seen anything Political since Friday. hmmm, I feel lost. Actually I did stop by the Columbia County GOP Headquarters yesterday to pick up my yard signs but they are all out of McCain/Palin signs. They should have more this Thursday or Friday so I'll stop in and get it then. I'm starting to think that I'm going to be really bored after the election.
Now I think I'm officially going to be addicted to Guitar Hero! It's as much fun as American Idol. I must have been a rock star in a past life or something. LOL
And let me just say that I have not seen anything Political since Friday. hmmm, I feel lost. Actually I did stop by the Columbia County GOP Headquarters yesterday to pick up my yard signs but they are all out of McCain/Palin signs. They should have more this Thursday or Friday so I'll stop in and get it then. I'm starting to think that I'm going to be really bored after the election.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Just for Laughs
We've all had those times when he can't help but laugh at the most inappropriate time. I can't help but laugh every time I see this video:
Date Night
The show tonight was great! I am so glad we went tonight. One of my friends ended up going with another one of her friends and we all went out to dinner first and then off to the theater. It was so nice to have an adults night and to go see a show again. We haven't been to the theater to see a live performance like that since we lived in Germany and went to the English Theater in Frankfurt, like 6 years ago. Now I was thinking I'd get one of the costumes from tonight's show for Halloween this year but after seeing them I don't think that's what I'm really looking for. Don't get me wrong, the costumes were fantastic but it's not really what I had in mind. I'll go see her next week and see them up close and see what else she has and then decide.
And speaking of Halloween, I'm thinking if my friend's band isn't going to play (which by the way they one first place in the singer/song writer contest at Arts in the Heart tonight! YAY! Language Arts is awesome!) I'm going to see about having a karaoke machine. LOL that would be so much fun! I'm thinking that might be the way we go because my dear old husband is not keen on having a band play at our house. I keep trying to tell him that it's not bad (they played at Nat's house last year for her birthday). He thinks that it's going to be really loud but they really aren't and it's just three people and they wouldn't be playing all night anyway. We'll see I still have a couple more weeks to decide before I print the invites anyway.
So anyhow, I didn't get much of anything accomplished today. I meant to go get a Georgia license (after living here for 5 years) and register to vote here and get my yard signs but none of that happened. I was up until 4am working on my midterm and I couldn't open my eyes until 11 this morning. By the time I finished my midterm I had to get ready to get my make up done. Adam did a fab. job, like always, and then I had to rush home and to finish getting ready.
I was thinking today that I might stay with my Florida license, just use my grandfather's address as my home of record, and I'm seriously thinking of voting through absentee ballot again this year. Polls show that McCain is far ahead in Georgia anyway and things are tight in Florida so I'm thinking of doing my part down there lol. I don't know though, ever since the 2000 election when Gore wanted the absentee ballots thrown out I've been left with a really bad taste in my mouth. I imagine that my vote just gets put to the side when it gets to its destination and forgotten. I'm going to think about that some more over the weekend. But I am going to see if the GOP office is open tomorrow when I'm down that way and get some yard signs. I've noticed more signs up in the last couple of days, all McCain signs, I saw some McCain/Palin signs up for the first time, but not the first Obama sign.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Happy Birthday to ME!
LOL Well it's not like I'm doing anything special later today. Just more homework and studying. I will be glad for Friday evening to get here. We are going to go watch the Augusta Opera's (yes, I'm shocked they have an Opera too lol)performance of Sweeny Todd. I can't wait! Until then it's homework and studying for mid terms. Hubby says that I won't be able to keep up this pace till I finish school because it's too much and I'm going to burn myself out with 4 hours of sleep every night. No way! I just want to finish. So far I have straight A's again this term.
So this year for my birthday I'm going to go to work, go to karate and then do more homework. I'm going to stay busy all day and I must confess I'm partly doing it to try to keep from having to talk to certain people that may call tomorrow.
But Friday I'm taking the day off and I plan on sleeping in just a little bit, then I'm going to finish up my American Lit. work and send it to the instructor and then I'm going to go get my GA license, register to vote here (I want my vote to count. no throwing it out this time!) and I'm going to get my McCain yard signs. Then I'm going to go see my friend at the MAC counter and get my makeup done. I decided I'm going to wear my cute little black dress. So I'll just celebrate a day late.
So I found out today that hubby is planning on volunteering to go to Korea for a year. I don't know what to think. On the one hand I like it here and I'd hate to leave my house and job and friends and family (since I'm finally so close!) to go somewhere I may or may not like. But then I think we've been here so long, everyone we have known has left, and we are NEVER going to leave. His intentions are to go to Korea and then he's been offered a job here at a unit that never deploys when he gets back, and he'll stay here till he retires. Hmmmm, just when we were hoping that our (or my) DC dreams were going to come true. I'm having mixed feelings but at the moment I'm more mad than anything because he said he'd try to go anywhere I wanted to go because I'm the one that's impacted the most from our moves. And I know that one of the reasons he wants to stay is because of my job (which would actually be great because then I could finish school without having to pay a dime) but unlike his job mine is not guaranteed until I retire. I'm just going to have to put it out of my head for now. I've given myself a headache.
OK so how about that Cindy McCain responding to the McCain's terrible treatment on The View? Here is the audio
Take a look at this. Biased?
So this year for my birthday I'm going to go to work, go to karate and then do more homework. I'm going to stay busy all day and I must confess I'm partly doing it to try to keep from having to talk to certain people that may call tomorrow.
But Friday I'm taking the day off and I plan on sleeping in just a little bit, then I'm going to finish up my American Lit. work and send it to the instructor and then I'm going to go get my GA license, register to vote here (I want my vote to count. no throwing it out this time!) and I'm going to get my McCain yard signs. Then I'm going to go see my friend at the MAC counter and get my makeup done. I decided I'm going to wear my cute little black dress. So I'll just celebrate a day late.
So I found out today that hubby is planning on volunteering to go to Korea for a year. I don't know what to think. On the one hand I like it here and I'd hate to leave my house and job and friends and family (since I'm finally so close!) to go somewhere I may or may not like. But then I think we've been here so long, everyone we have known has left, and we are NEVER going to leave. His intentions are to go to Korea and then he's been offered a job here at a unit that never deploys when he gets back, and he'll stay here till he retires. Hmmmm, just when we were hoping that our (or my) DC dreams were going to come true. I'm having mixed feelings but at the moment I'm more mad than anything because he said he'd try to go anywhere I wanted to go because I'm the one that's impacted the most from our moves. And I know that one of the reasons he wants to stay is because of my job (which would actually be great because then I could finish school without having to pay a dime) but unlike his job mine is not guaranteed until I retire. I'm just going to have to put it out of my head for now. I've given myself a headache.
OK so how about that Cindy McCain responding to the McCain's terrible treatment on The View? Here is the audio
Take a look at this. Biased?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
It's Getting Chilly
I know it was just the cloud cover and by the weekend we'll probably be back in the 90's (which I wont complain) but it was pretty cool this afternoon. Actually I was freezing at PW's game this evening. And just to show what a whimp I am, the temperature was about 72 lol.
But we are comming into fall. And the best clue was at Target. They finally have the Halloween stuff out! I was so excited. I had to go back to that corner of the store this afternoon just to see if it was out and there it was in all it's spooky glory! Have I mentioned I love Halloween? I found a new decoration I want, it's a witch's head inside a big crystal ball and it lights up and fogs while she talks, it's fabulous, and will probably scare the pants of my son. But alas, with $5 gas I can't afford to buy it and fill my truck up this week. Actually I think I bought a smaller version of it last year when all the left overs went on sale. I'll have to go up to the attic to check. That's right, I have so many halloween decorations that I don't remember what all I have.
And surprisingly I'm not feeling the Halloween party this year. I love doing it and it's turned into a yearly tradition but this year I'm just not feeling it. Maybe it's the lack of sleep and school and just not having a moment to relax but when I think about it I just get tired. I told my best friend this afternoon and she said when she gets back from Florida she is comming over and we are going to do this lol.
Maybe I just have to get into the mood. And maybe some good scary stories will help get me in the mood, or at least freak me out a little LOL:
I guess I'll start with the house we lived in in Ft. Huachuca. It was a "new" house in the sense that it had been renovated, not really new. But I didn't think anything of the post or the house being creepy when we moved in. I loved it! Well one night, right after New Years I woke up when my husband was getting ready for PT and I heard a baby crying in our spare room. In my daze I didn't think anything there was anything strange going on, I thought maybe one of our neighbors kids got out of the house so after it cried for a couple of minutes I decide to get up and go check it out. As soon as I got up the crying stopped. Again I didn't think anything and then I asked my husband if he had heard it and he said he didn't hear anything. OK well I always say he's hard of hearing anyway.
Well a couple of weeks later I was having a really fitful night, I just could not sleep. At one point I heard the baby crying again and I woke up my husband and asked if he could hear it but he said he couldn't hear anything, meanwhile I'm hearing it loud and clear. So I try to go back to sleep and finally I do. And I dream that this little girl came into our bedroom over to our side of the bed and shook me a little to get my attention. I ask her who she is and what she wants and she says "Mommy, please don't leave me, I want to go with you, I'm ready to go with you I love you, please don't leave me behind." Well we didn't have any kids and I told her as much and that she wasn't my daughter and she kept insisting that I was. So in my dream I got out of bed and I told her that she needed to run along home and I was walking out of the bedroom and she was following me when I was woken up by our then puppy Sarge barking his head off.
Sarge hardly ever barks, he is the quietest dog. The only time he barks is when someone he doesn't know comes near the house. So my husband was startled to hear him in the middle of the night and he got up to see what was going on. He came back in the room and said that my dog was just plain weird. He said Sarge was staring at our bedroom door, hair standing, teeth bared and just barking like mad at the closed door. He said he couldn't even get his attention, he had to push him a little to break his stare and get his attention off of the door. Well that sent chills down my spine and I told him about my dream and he was spooked, he didn't like staying alone in that house after that night.
I heard the baby crying a few more times before we moved a month later and I had a dream about the little girl one more time. This time we were in a car riding through a neighborhood of old houses when I saw her standing on a porch leaning up against a big white column and when she saw me she waved eargerly.
When we left Arizona we went to visit family and while we were at my husband's home town in Alabama we drove by the old part of town where all the old historic houses are and we drove by the exact same house in my dream. I had never been there and I had never seen that house before but there it was the same exact house that I dreamt about just a couple of weeks earlier, only thing missing was the little girl.
But we are comming into fall. And the best clue was at Target. They finally have the Halloween stuff out! I was so excited. I had to go back to that corner of the store this afternoon just to see if it was out and there it was in all it's spooky glory! Have I mentioned I love Halloween? I found a new decoration I want, it's a witch's head inside a big crystal ball and it lights up and fogs while she talks, it's fabulous, and will probably scare the pants of my son. But alas, with $5 gas I can't afford to buy it and fill my truck up this week. Actually I think I bought a smaller version of it last year when all the left overs went on sale. I'll have to go up to the attic to check. That's right, I have so many halloween decorations that I don't remember what all I have.
And surprisingly I'm not feeling the Halloween party this year. I love doing it and it's turned into a yearly tradition but this year I'm just not feeling it. Maybe it's the lack of sleep and school and just not having a moment to relax but when I think about it I just get tired. I told my best friend this afternoon and she said when she gets back from Florida she is comming over and we are going to do this lol.
Maybe I just have to get into the mood. And maybe some good scary stories will help get me in the mood, or at least freak me out a little LOL:
I guess I'll start with the house we lived in in Ft. Huachuca. It was a "new" house in the sense that it had been renovated, not really new. But I didn't think anything of the post or the house being creepy when we moved in. I loved it! Well one night, right after New Years I woke up when my husband was getting ready for PT and I heard a baby crying in our spare room. In my daze I didn't think anything there was anything strange going on, I thought maybe one of our neighbors kids got out of the house so after it cried for a couple of minutes I decide to get up and go check it out. As soon as I got up the crying stopped. Again I didn't think anything and then I asked my husband if he had heard it and he said he didn't hear anything. OK well I always say he's hard of hearing anyway.
Well a couple of weeks later I was having a really fitful night, I just could not sleep. At one point I heard the baby crying again and I woke up my husband and asked if he could hear it but he said he couldn't hear anything, meanwhile I'm hearing it loud and clear. So I try to go back to sleep and finally I do. And I dream that this little girl came into our bedroom over to our side of the bed and shook me a little to get my attention. I ask her who she is and what she wants and she says "Mommy, please don't leave me, I want to go with you, I'm ready to go with you I love you, please don't leave me behind." Well we didn't have any kids and I told her as much and that she wasn't my daughter and she kept insisting that I was. So in my dream I got out of bed and I told her that she needed to run along home and I was walking out of the bedroom and she was following me when I was woken up by our then puppy Sarge barking his head off.
Sarge hardly ever barks, he is the quietest dog. The only time he barks is when someone he doesn't know comes near the house. So my husband was startled to hear him in the middle of the night and he got up to see what was going on. He came back in the room and said that my dog was just plain weird. He said Sarge was staring at our bedroom door, hair standing, teeth bared and just barking like mad at the closed door. He said he couldn't even get his attention, he had to push him a little to break his stare and get his attention off of the door. Well that sent chills down my spine and I told him about my dream and he was spooked, he didn't like staying alone in that house after that night.
I heard the baby crying a few more times before we moved a month later and I had a dream about the little girl one more time. This time we were in a car riding through a neighborhood of old houses when I saw her standing on a porch leaning up against a big white column and when she saw me she waved eargerly.
When we left Arizona we went to visit family and while we were at my husband's home town in Alabama we drove by the old part of town where all the old historic houses are and we drove by the exact same house in my dream. I had never been there and I had never seen that house before but there it was the same exact house that I dreamt about just a couple of weeks earlier, only thing missing was the little girl.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Back to Reality
Well actually when you spend most of the weekend doing homework you can't really lose touch with reality. And because I spent so much time doing homework this weekend the new week has snuck up on me. At least it will be a short week.
This weekend I was reading some postings on a discussion we were having in my Political Science class and this one chick begins by saying that she is voting for Obama for obvious reasons (which would be?) but that she really doesn't agree with all his ideas and that she actually think McCain has a better plan for the economy, and national security. OK so why exactly is she voting for him?
I picked up the latest issue of Time Magazine this evening and was flipping through it when I saw that they are going to have a 10-questions with Alec Baldwin and we can send our questions to them. I am so tempted to send mine: You promised to leave if Bush won reelection. So what are you waiting for? LOL
Which brings me to an idea my friend Sarah and I had. We want to start a website to take up money to buy plane tickets for all the celebs that say they are going to leave the country if McCain wins. Maybe that's what he's waiting for and we can perform a great public service and help them out. I say we should buy them all tickets to Havana. But that could get expensive with having to go through a second country. There are still bugs to be worked out in the plan.
This weekend I was reading some postings on a discussion we were having in my Political Science class and this one chick begins by saying that she is voting for Obama for obvious reasons (which would be?) but that she really doesn't agree with all his ideas and that she actually think McCain has a better plan for the economy, and national security. OK so why exactly is she voting for him?
I picked up the latest issue of Time Magazine this evening and was flipping through it when I saw that they are going to have a 10-questions with Alec Baldwin and we can send our questions to them. I am so tempted to send mine: You promised to leave if Bush won reelection. So what are you waiting for? LOL
Which brings me to an idea my friend Sarah and I had. We want to start a website to take up money to buy plane tickets for all the celebs that say they are going to leave the country if McCain wins. Maybe that's what he's waiting for and we can perform a great public service and help them out. I say we should buy them all tickets to Havana. But that could get expensive with having to go through a second country. There are still bugs to be worked out in the plan.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
More Videos
So who saw the McCain's on the View? I caught it on YouTube since I had to work and I was just at a loss.
First there was Whoopi's idiotic comment about becoming a slave:
Seriously? Maybe she should read the Constitution before she opens her mouth and shows everyone how truly ignorant she is. If she did she would know that the 13th Amendment bans slavery. Whoopi you have nothing to worry about. And what is so bad about having judges on the Supreme Court that follow the Constitution? Isn't that what they are supposed to do?
I tried to find a shorter clip but I couldn't but if you go to about 5:30 into this clip you'll see Cindy McCain's response to Baba Wawa when she asked how many houses they have:
Thank you very much Mrs. McCain!
Rep. Cohen (D-TN) comparing Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pilate:
Seriously?
Obama on the role of a small town mayor:
Trim the trees and making sure the garbage gets hauled away? I guess that makes my husband the mayor! LOL There is more to being a mayor than that.
And anyway why are they making such a big deal about comparing Palin to Obama? Palin is running for VP not President!
And moving right along...
What is up with these gas prices? I paid 4.64 a gallon yesterday! See this is why we need to drill on both sides of the gulf, that way when a hurricane hits one side we still get oil from the other! It is ridiculous for prices to go up over $1 a gallon in just a few hours. And I live in an area that has pretty cheap gas compared to other parts of the country. I want a moped!
First there was Whoopi's idiotic comment about becoming a slave:
Seriously? Maybe she should read the Constitution before she opens her mouth and shows everyone how truly ignorant she is. If she did she would know that the 13th Amendment bans slavery. Whoopi you have nothing to worry about. And what is so bad about having judges on the Supreme Court that follow the Constitution? Isn't that what they are supposed to do?
I tried to find a shorter clip but I couldn't but if you go to about 5:30 into this clip you'll see Cindy McCain's response to Baba Wawa when she asked how many houses they have:
Thank you very much Mrs. McCain!
Rep. Cohen (D-TN) comparing Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pilate:
Seriously?
Obama on the role of a small town mayor:
Trim the trees and making sure the garbage gets hauled away? I guess that makes my husband the mayor! LOL There is more to being a mayor than that.
And anyway why are they making such a big deal about comparing Palin to Obama? Palin is running for VP not President!
And moving right along...
What is up with these gas prices? I paid 4.64 a gallon yesterday! See this is why we need to drill on both sides of the gulf, that way when a hurricane hits one side we still get oil from the other! It is ridiculous for prices to go up over $1 a gallon in just a few hours. And I live in an area that has pretty cheap gas compared to other parts of the country. I want a moped!
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Seven Years Later
I can't believe it's been seven years since 9/11. It feels like it was just yesterday but at the same time it feels like it's been so long ago. Maybe it's 9/10/01 that seems like a different era because it was.
I still remember hearing about it when my mom sent me an email at work. In Germany I was 6 hours ahead and getting ready to leave work in a little while when she sends me an email asking me if I had heard that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought it was a joke and wrote her back and told her that wasn't funny what was the rest of the joke. It was just something so unfathomable at the time. How could something like that happen at home? That's not the kind of thing that happens in America. We couldn't get on the news websites because everyone else in the world was trying to do the same thing at the same time so we heard what was happening from the Director's Secretary who was on the phone with her husband telling her what was going on. A play-by-play if you will. I'll never forget when she said the Twin Towers were no more. I could not put my head around that. I asked her what she meant by that but I did not believe it till I saw it. But right then I just wanted to be home, not my apartment home but American home. I wanted to be with my family. Instead I was in Germany 6 months pregnant with friends. My mom said I was probably safer overseas at the time anyway but I felt so isolated. I counted down the hours until my husband came back from the States where he was at school, and hoped and prayed that ll my family in New York was ok, especially my cousin who worked in the area and her husband, a New York Police. My husband called me at 2:00 am 9/12 to tell me that my mom finally got in touch with our family in New York and everyone was safe. What a relief.
When I got home and saw those horrific images for the first time I just sat on the floor and cried. I couldn't go to work for the next couple of days because the base was closed except for essential personnel so for the next two days I watched AFN News and cried and cried.
One of the things that scared me the most was bringing a child into this new world. I had no idea how things were going to change and if it was going to get worse, how different was life going to be. I felt so guilty bringing a child into such an uncertain time.
And now it's seven years later and I am so grateful that we have not seen anything has horrible as that day.
Today Sarah Palin spoke at her son's deployment ceremony. I caught a few clips of it on the news today and I must say that it made me emotional. You could hear the emotion in her voice and I really connected with her. I thought of the night that we had to meet up at the gym at 2 am to send my husband off and how emotional it is anytime you send a loved one off on a deployment. They are always emotional.
Here is a clip:
I pray that the whole unit comes back home safe.
I still remember hearing about it when my mom sent me an email at work. In Germany I was 6 hours ahead and getting ready to leave work in a little while when she sends me an email asking me if I had heard that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought it was a joke and wrote her back and told her that wasn't funny what was the rest of the joke. It was just something so unfathomable at the time. How could something like that happen at home? That's not the kind of thing that happens in America. We couldn't get on the news websites because everyone else in the world was trying to do the same thing at the same time so we heard what was happening from the Director's Secretary who was on the phone with her husband telling her what was going on. A play-by-play if you will. I'll never forget when she said the Twin Towers were no more. I could not put my head around that. I asked her what she meant by that but I did not believe it till I saw it. But right then I just wanted to be home, not my apartment home but American home. I wanted to be with my family. Instead I was in Germany 6 months pregnant with friends. My mom said I was probably safer overseas at the time anyway but I felt so isolated. I counted down the hours until my husband came back from the States where he was at school, and hoped and prayed that ll my family in New York was ok, especially my cousin who worked in the area and her husband, a New York Police. My husband called me at 2:00 am 9/12 to tell me that my mom finally got in touch with our family in New York and everyone was safe. What a relief.
When I got home and saw those horrific images for the first time I just sat on the floor and cried. I couldn't go to work for the next couple of days because the base was closed except for essential personnel so for the next two days I watched AFN News and cried and cried.
One of the things that scared me the most was bringing a child into this new world. I had no idea how things were going to change and if it was going to get worse, how different was life going to be. I felt so guilty bringing a child into such an uncertain time.
And now it's seven years later and I am so grateful that we have not seen anything has horrible as that day.
Today Sarah Palin spoke at her son's deployment ceremony. I caught a few clips of it on the news today and I must say that it made me emotional. You could hear the emotion in her voice and I really connected with her. I thought of the night that we had to meet up at the gym at 2 am to send my husband off and how emotional it is anytime you send a loved one off on a deployment. They are always emotional.
Here is a clip:
I pray that the whole unit comes back home safe.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Just some quick videos
Here is the first one. This is laughable. Yet another example of a celeb know it all:
Seriously Matt? Does she really think that dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago? Do you think she learned at school that they lived side by side with the Pharaohs?
Second, Obama on joining the military:
Well if it wasn't worth it because there wasn't a war going on at the time then how about during the first Gulf War or after 9/11 or how about now? They've pretty much done away with the age limit I'm sure they'd be happy to have you. Oh yeah, I'm sure that just seemed like the thing to say at the time.
On a civilian military force:
Maybe that's the military he'd join.
And after making all these cuts he'd probably be able to fund this new army:
Seriously Matt? Does she really think that dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago? Do you think she learned at school that they lived side by side with the Pharaohs?
Second, Obama on joining the military:
Well if it wasn't worth it because there wasn't a war going on at the time then how about during the first Gulf War or after 9/11 or how about now? They've pretty much done away with the age limit I'm sure they'd be happy to have you. Oh yeah, I'm sure that just seemed like the thing to say at the time.
On a civilian military force:
Maybe that's the military he'd join.
And after making all these cuts he'd probably be able to fund this new army:
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Pat on the Back
Turns out I was stressed for nothing. I got an email from my professor this morning telling me that the assignment I turned in was great. He said the research was great, the charts were great, the only thing I could have improved on was my conclusion (which admittedly was non existant LOL) he took off only one point for that yay!
I saw my neighbor when I got home tonight. He had been offering to make me whiskey sours all Friday night while I was working on this assignment and I told him I'd take one tonight. Boy! Talk about a light weight! I hardly ever drink so that one drink has me feeling good. It was great!
Yesterday I had to go to the dentist and I was so surprised to see that the regular hygensit no longer works there. I was shocked to see someone new and I really wanted to ask where she was but I felt so bad for this lady cause she was reallly trying to get to know me and I'm sure everyone has asked her where the other lady was. She was so nice! And to top it off she's Billy Currington's sister (OMG!). So now my dentist is retiring and the hygensit is gone now. Oh well.
And the new dentist made me make an appointment to have one of my last two wisdom teeth taken out in a couple of weeks. Yeah I don't know if I'm going to like this change too much LOL.
I'm rambling now, it's time to go to bed.
I saw my neighbor when I got home tonight. He had been offering to make me whiskey sours all Friday night while I was working on this assignment and I told him I'd take one tonight. Boy! Talk about a light weight! I hardly ever drink so that one drink has me feeling good. It was great!
Yesterday I had to go to the dentist and I was so surprised to see that the regular hygensit no longer works there. I was shocked to see someone new and I really wanted to ask where she was but I felt so bad for this lady cause she was reallly trying to get to know me and I'm sure everyone has asked her where the other lady was. She was so nice! And to top it off she's Billy Currington's sister (OMG!). So now my dentist is retiring and the hygensit is gone now. Oh well.
And the new dentist made me make an appointment to have one of my last two wisdom teeth taken out in a couple of weeks. Yeah I don't know if I'm going to like this change too much LOL.
I'm rambling now, it's time to go to bed.
Monday, September 8, 2008
As I Promised
This is the child in me but I swear this clip is so funny.
This is what happens when you report live in front of a bar while people are having a pre-hurricane party:
This is what happens when you report live in front of a bar while people are having a pre-hurricane party:
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Full Moon
LMBO I'm watching The Fox Report and Phil Keating is reporting live from Key West in front of a bar and some random drunk guy behind him moons the camera. LMBO Classic. If I find it on YouTube I'm posting it.
Well last night, 6 pages and 15 slides later, I finally finished one of the assignments I had due this weekend and I spent 4 hours awake, worried, that it's not going to be exactly what the professor was looking for and I'm going to get a bad grade. I hate when I stress so much I keep myself awake. I still have another assignment to do tonight but this one should be easy. I stress because so far I have A averages in both classes and last term I had straight A's so if I get straight A's this term I'll be on the dean's list. I just want to see how long I can keep my A streak going. The last B I got was in Biology two terms before I quit last time I stopped going. So I have my nerd glasses on and it's time to get back to work.
By the way, I've wanted to write about the Convention and the speeches last week but I have been so busy with these assignments that I haven't had time for anything. If I remember, and have time, I'll try to get to it this week. If not then oh well.
Well last night, 6 pages and 15 slides later, I finally finished one of the assignments I had due this weekend and I spent 4 hours awake, worried, that it's not going to be exactly what the professor was looking for and I'm going to get a bad grade. I hate when I stress so much I keep myself awake. I still have another assignment to do tonight but this one should be easy. I stress because so far I have A averages in both classes and last term I had straight A's so if I get straight A's this term I'll be on the dean's list. I just want to see how long I can keep my A streak going. The last B I got was in Biology two terms before I quit last time I stopped going. So I have my nerd glasses on and it's time to get back to work.
By the way, I've wanted to write about the Convention and the speeches last week but I have been so busy with these assignments that I haven't had time for anything. If I remember, and have time, I'll try to get to it this week. If not then oh well.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Certified Non-Moron Part Deux
LOL So I sent Shepard Smith another email during the Strategy Room this evening that he read. He had been complaining that he couldn't hear Fred Thompson speaking so I wrote him and told him he couldn't hear him cause he wouldn't shut up. LOL So he read it and said "Roxy, baby! You can click on any of the streams above and watch it live if you don't want to hear me." LMBO That was hysterical. He totally missed the point of my email I want to listen to him that's why I'm watching the Strategy Room instead of watching it on CSPAN or something. I'm putting off doing homework, and everything else for that matter, to watch cause it's really entertaining. I was just pointing out to him that if he'd shut his trap for a couple of seconds he'd be able to hear what's going on.
It was a great feed tonight. The highlight for me was of course his ragging me out on "the internets" and when they all spontaneously broke out into God Bless America. It was great right up until they got into a heated argument over abortion and Shep got pissed and walked off the set. I joked with Sarah that he probably just went for a smoke break but then he never came back. Hmmmm... He talked about people having their panties in a wad all night but I'm thinking he's the one that had his panties in a wad. Still it was super entertaining and I'm hoping he'll get over whatever it was that made him so moody tonight and be back tomorrow. If not then I guess I'll get more homework done.
It was a great feed tonight. The highlight for me was of course his ragging me out on "the internets" and when they all spontaneously broke out into God Bless America. It was great right up until they got into a heated argument over abortion and Shep got pissed and walked off the set. I joked with Sarah that he probably just went for a smoke break but then he never came back. Hmmmm... He talked about people having their panties in a wad all night but I'm thinking he's the one that had his panties in a wad. Still it was super entertaining and I'm hoping he'll get over whatever it was that made him so moody tonight and be back tomorrow. If not then I guess I'll get more homework done.
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