Current Mood: Amused

My friend sent me this one (it is so true):

The  Wal-Mart Greeter (priceless)

A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting  woman walked into Wal-Mart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at  them all the way through the entrance.

The Wal-Mart greeter said  pleasantly, “Good morning, and welcome to Wal-Mart Nice children you have  there. Are they twins?”

The ugly woman stopped yelling long enough to  say, “Hell no, they ain’t.  The oldest one’s 9, and the other one’s  7. Why the hell would you  think they’re twins? Are you blind, or just  stupid?”

“I’m neither blind nor stupid, Ma’am,” replied the greeter. “I  just couldn’t believe you got laid twice. Have a good day and thank you  for shopping at Wal-Mart.”

Current Mood: Cool

I have no idea where the day went. I know I got some work done, but I doesn’t feel like it. We had to head into city for a few errands and when you do that in the middle of day it kind of throws it off. Luckily we have no place to be tomorrow, so I can actually attack a few goals that I want to get done……..I hope. =)

The disturbing story behind the last great UW team — and how its legacy still casts a shadow on the Huskies

**Torn found this article. This is the team that Purdue lost to in the Rose Bowl. I can’t even expressed how disturbing and disgusting this info is. =(  I will say with all the opposing team fans we have encountered, they were the worst ones.  They had no sportsmanship.  =(

Truman’s only child dies at 83

**I remember seeing her books all over the bookstores. She always sounded like an interesting woman, especially with the history that she has seen.

Giuliani to End White House Bid, Endorse McCain

**Thankfully Giuliani is out! Of all the GOP candidates, I prefer McCain, although I totally disagree with his stand on a woman’s choice. =( But I feel he has more honor then any of the others and quite frankly, the rest of them scare the hell out of me.

FBI Wades Into Subprime Mortgage Mess

**This does not surprise me in the least……..are you?

Maverick McCain gains mainstream support

**I read an article a few days ago that really explained why the rank and file GOPers don’t support McCain even though his voting record is one of the ones that is the closest to be republican. But I haven’t been able to find it.  I did find this one that has some remnants of the 1st article I found. I just wish I could find the 1st one, it really put things out there in black and white.

Started the day off a little off wacked.  Had things waiting for me when I got up and didn’t let me start on things that I was going to.

Then it was off to my errands a little later then planned.  Including getting my nails done…………they were looking rough.

I did do my good deed for the day. I was coming out of the bank when a gentleman asked to use my cell phone because he locked his keys, wallet and cell phone in his car.  He wanted to call AAA, luckily I had my AAA card on me so I was able to get a hold of them and gave him the phone to get it taken care of.   I know that, usually as a female, you shy away from strange men safety wise but it was in the bank parking lot and I like to help when I can……..so I gave it a shot.  =)  It felt nice to be able to do a little good in the world……even if was just the use of a phone.

Watched the State of the Union……..thankfully his last one. Probably write more later on that………but now it is time to head to bed.

Current Mood: Accomplished

We went to our friend’s place last night for his birthday party.  We didn’t really have the motivation to go, but we love him and wanted to be there…….besides we really needed to get out of the house.  =)  It was a good thing we went, we had a blast.  It was very needed.

Hell, we didn’t leave there until just have 2am……..normally we are in bed around midnight when being homebodies.  Last night we got to bed around 3am.  But we still did pretty good on not sleeping in too late, Torn did better then me……I have to admit.  =)

After I did my normal morning surfing of the news, I did a little online work and then it was time to get something done around the house.  When I decide to do the house work that makes you sweat, I like to get done before heading to the shower.  I had some stuff I needed to clean up in our spare room,got rid of a lot and got somethings reorganized.  Then I did the normal litter box attack, then got the upstairs vacuumed, trash & recycling gathering, starting the never ending battle of laundry, then on to the job that I love the results but dislike doing……..the bathrooms.

I think the reason why I don’t care of them is a little different then most.  Mine is because everytime I think I got everything done, I find that I miss something.  And with bathrooms being normally light colored and the attractor of hair it drives me nuts that it seems like I can’t get it all……..gggrrrr  The perfectionist in me…….never satisfied with the toilets…….lol

It felt good to work up a sweat.  I was concentrating so hard on getting everything done that I lost track of time and next thing I know it is 3pm.  So I jumped in the shower finally and my stomach really starts to rumble……..I forgot about lunch, totally.  I couldn’t get out the shower fast enough to get some food.  =)

Then it was on to some lite online work and we watched a few more episodes of BattleStar Galactic from the 1st season.  When it started Torn really enjoyed watching it, I saw bits and pieces of it…….it looked good.  But I saw that it was so involved and with my day job, online work, the shows we were already watching, there was no way that I had time to get into it.  Now I can take the time……..a little benefit working at home.

I’m enjoying them, they are intense, but I’m not sure about that blonde cyclone.  She just really, really annoys me when her character is on. She is just so “inappropriate” (for lack of a better word) on how she acts all the time.  I get that the Dr is ruled by his dick and she holds the strings………..but it is like all she knows is sex…….no matter where that cyclone is.  I guess when I’m watching a drama/sci fi I don’t mind sex part of the story line, as accents………but sometimes I feel as if I’m watching a skin flick on cinemax when she is in a scene, it is annoying to me.  Everything else, I love.

We are annoyed that This Week did not record…and after the results of South Carolina…..gggggrrr  Looks like we’ll be watching the Obama video and the Round Table online.

I’m not surprise that Obama won SC, I am stunned by how much. I expected a much closer race.  I’m extremely disappointed in the tactics that Bill Clinton is engaging in.   We will see if it is causes more problems in the democratic party.  I’m curious to see what is going to happen on Feb 5th Super Tuesday.  On one hand I don’t want it to be decided with that date, because that takes away the voices from voters in states that vote later……which brings up that fact that the primary system sucks and needs to be reworked.  But then I almost wish it will be decided because the tactics are ugly are taking away from the issues.  The dems really need to be united for November.

We’ll see if they finally get their act together.

Current Mood: Accomplished

Yesterday was sunny, very clear and beautiful, of course, I woke up not feeling well. =( My head was just horrible feeling. I think it was because I did a quick run to the store Thursday evening and didn’t wear a hat. It was much chillier and windier, so that wasn’t a smart thing to do. So I didn’t go for my walk. =(

Today I feel much better, but it is rainy. Which really doesn’t make that much of a difference for walking, but when I go walking I like to bring a camera and see what I can catch. I don’t have that good of an eye to catch things when it is grey out.

I do think my break from the walk has helped my shins. Torn’s mom says that her shins hurt when she walks faster then normal, so I think it mine my be caused by that and the concrete of the sidewalks.

I was feeling a little better when I went to check the mail. So I grabbed Torn’s camera to see if I could get better pictures. They came out very well, I just need to remember to grab the zoom next time. =)

Mountains are so big, that the only thing that changes is the stuff in front of them. So it better much ends up being the same picture of it even though you moved a 100 ft to the left. In this set I left the pictures as they were originally taken and then cropped them, so the focus is more on the peak. The picture of the housing is just to show how far we live from where I took the pictures. We are about 500ft from it.

Mt. Hood

Last German WWI veteran dies at 107

**This is just sad how he was not even noticed. Then his death was overshadowed by the story of how Germans treat their history. But it is hard to imagine how to handle a history such as Germany’s. At the same time the majority of Americans ignore or do not wish to be educated about what we as a country did to the Native Americans or African Americans.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

My shins are sore…the front of them. I’ve gone walking for the last 3 days and I don’t know if I changed my walk and that is why. It has been in the mid 30s, but sunny and breezy. So I bundle up and hit the road. Today I made sure I wore my scarf, because Torn has been saying that I look like a raccoon………lol……damn wind burn.

It is nice to change up my walk. The only thing that I don’t care for on this route is more noise from the traffic. My walks before were within the neighborhood, this route is following a main road……but it gives me a chance to see if I can get a better view of the ranges in the background. I did go further today and turned on to lesser used road, just walking for a better view. =)

Off the main road.

Damn tree was in the way…….lol

Just some very colorful landscape.

Been trying to get myself focused today and haven’t been succeeding very well. I need to make my to do list again….sometimes I don’t need it, sometimes my mind just won’t organize………annoying.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day & Sad & Beautiful Day

Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC at Age 28

**This is just sad. We were stunned to hear this. We really liked him, had the potential to become one of the greats. Why does this happen to someone who is so talented?

Crossing Mayor Giuliani often had a price

**If you are thinking of voting for this guy, you have to read this……he sounds WORST then George W, more like a mob boss then a politician. =(

Fred Thompson Drops Presidential Bid
**I bet you didn’t see that coming……….lol

Bhutto’s niece wants end to ‘dynastic’ politics

**At least someone else is speaking the truth about the politics and Bhutto’s roll. Time magazine had a very good article on her true scarred legacy and how she was just as much part of the problem.

CNN readers respond angrily to ‘race or gender’ story

**I love this! Because these voters are refusing to be pigeionholed! It is so insulting to think that just because you are black or a woman that you will vote for a candidate. That is the issue that I had with Bhutto fans, just because she was a woman didn’t mean she helped women………she didn’t.

35 years after Roe: A legacy of law and morality

**This issue is never as simple as so many people make it out to be. The extreme right-to-lifers don’t want to acknowledge what a woman goes through on making a decision such as that. Overall, I don’t have a problem with someone believing in right-to-life, what I have an issue with is them telling everyone else what to do with their lives and their refusal to acknowledge that IF they would get their heads out of the sand and teach truthful sex education and give access to birth control they would really cut down the rate of abortion. Knowledge is power and preventive, when you give access to those who need it most.

I did get out for a walk today. Took me a bit to gear up, it was colder today then yesterday and windy. But it was beautiful out. I know most of the country has enough of their own ice, but here is a little bit of ours.

As you can see, most of our grass is still green.

Later I was in the bedroom looking outside the window and I looking at an awkward angle I was able to see Mt. Hood. Now let me explain something about myself. My sense of direction is horrible. The main road that leads to where we live curves and I easily lose which direction the mountain is. So I really thought that it was more to the left of us, on the other side. Never thought I would be able to see it from that window. Doesn’t help that it is normally covered in clouds…….lol

So when I went to go check the mail, I walked on to the end of that part of the neighborhood to where one of the main roads are and saw this.

I know that the 2 pictures look same, but there is enough of a difference that I don’t know which one I like the best. I was just happy as hell that I finally got to get a picture of it!

Stunning!

http://www.katu.com/home/video/13951822.html?video=pop&t=a

I found this time-lapse video about what I was seeing yesterday! I love that we moved here. =)

**The sad is for the death of Heath Ledger.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

I’m trying not to lose track of the days as I did last week.  =)

I was disappointed that the Packers lost.  I was thinking it was partly due to the fact that the Giants practiced this past week outside, while the Packers practiced inside.  But Torn pointed out that the Packers never really had a running game, which is true.  So we have 2 weeks before the Patriots and the Giants face off…..not sure who I really want to win.  I do know that I just want a good game………I HATE blow out games for the Championship.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day :

Historians Fear MLK’s Legacy Being Lost

**This is true, never everyone remembers the 1st few words of his famous speech but they forget the other causes he took up………poverty and ‘Nam.  I remember class discussions on those in college, but the general public collective memory just glosses over it.

Dungy staying, at least through 2008 

**Thankfully we got him for one more year.  Hopefully it will also help in the transition of Caldwell.

Obama fights back against Bill Clinton 

**This is getting old between Bill Clinton and Obama.  I think Bill Clinton is making it worst for his wife and may leave issues that Hillary & Obama won’t be able to overcome to work together.  Which would be a big disappointment.  =(

Today was a gorgeous day.  We are getting the cold at night…….no where near the cold that Green Bay or Minnesota’s gets, but still pretty cold.  Today got up to the mid 30s and it was clear.  When I was out and about, I got some stunning views of the snow covered Mt. Hood.  It was almost crystal clear. You could faintly see snow being blown from the very top.  It was something else.  I would love to have more days like that…….of course, it makes for much colder nights.  =)

Current Mood: Chilling

Just here watching the 1st of 2 games today.  It is hard to believe that after this all we have left is the Super Bowl.  =(  Even if I’m not watching the games intently, I like having them on in the background, so this sucks.  There really is no one team that I don’t like, but I don’t care of Rivers attitude from the Chargers….no sportsmanship.  That means a lot to me.  I really would love to see Green Bay make the Super Bowl and take the Patriots down.  Partly because the Patriots beat our Colts, the coaching staff has also been tarnished for me with them video taping the calls of other teams………that was low, but mainly because I would love to see Favre get one more ring and this may be one of his last chances. He has a hell of a year after last year.

Baby, it’s cold outside for NFC title game

McCarthy used some frozen balls at practice this week to help simulate likely conditions Sunday.

“Is that what was going on?” veteran wide receiver Donald Driver said with a laugh. “Basically, they never told us that the balls were coming out of the freezer, we just kind just felt it as we caught it: ’Wow, the balls are cold.’ We thought most likely the balls had been outside all day, but they were in the freezer.

**Makes sense to do, but I would’ve thought the players would’ve been informed about the freezer part………lol

So don’t go sleeveless? When told fellow end Justin Tuck was planning the same fashion statement as many of the Packers, the veteran Strahan shivered.

“I told him I’m wearing layers,” Strahan said. “These guys can wear short sleeves. I’m not trying to impress anybody. For what? Oh, I’m strong!

“I guarantee you Justin Tuck’s goose bumps will be bigger than his muscles.”

**I really like it when the players are able to be themselves and show their humor.  The NFL is very good of showing that side of the game.  I know it is just good PR on the NFL part, but without the players being who they are it wouldn’t succeed.

This year sucked for commercials during the football season.  I can’t stand beer, it is disgusting to me, but they usually have some interesting and entertaining commercials.  Coors has been the worst..the use of old NFL press conferences…..I race to hit the mute button………they have sucked big time.  I so hope that they don’t reuse them next year…..that keep ruining the game.

Separated Saudi couple sues to reunite 

**And people have issues with the International Women’s Conference over the issue of abortion……..refusing to see that the majority of the issues that they face are issues such as this……..morons.

I had read the following articles over the last 2 weeks, playing on adding them here.  To me they are issues too big to be ignored.

War Torn, part 1 

War Torn, part 2 

**I firmly believe in personal responsibility, that this country has moved away from, but are so many things that are changed inside a person’s mind due to war.  Between what they see and the need to survive in the most primal way, it is no wonder that some of these veteran’s lose it.  It is so screwed up, because they are passed off into the VA system, which we all know sucked before the increase of current vets, so it is even worst.  I not going to get into that…..since it is a very sore subject with me. Then the victims of these horrible crimes get lost……..

Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans

Edwards On O’Reilly: ‘He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About’

**O’Reilly shows his stupidity again (I can’t use the word ignorance…….way too much of a understatement).  I love (NOT) people who act all patriotic and they know everything but in in their defense of failed policies and beliefs refuse to see the truth….the No Spin Zone??  He is nothing but spin…….huge, huge liar.  I just can’t stand the guy because he reminds me of a big ass lying bully…..Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly anyone?  It really breaks down his bullshit.

Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead

**I’m so tired of them invoking Reagan……..he wasn’t all that great.  And none of the candidates have clue…..ggrrrr

Damn, New England just threw an interception in the end zone…….

Current Mood: Cool

After fixating on the brain numbing projects that I had, I am totally unmotivated today.  Doesn’t help that my neck is sore from yesterday……  I usually have one these type of days once every week or two, so I don’t think that is too bad.  Not like I do it all the time.

We watched Purdue Men’s Basketball win over Illinois.  Been a long time since I actually paid attention to a BB game…..since the Pacers lost it after Reggie retired and the goofy decisions Purdue made with the men’s & women’s BB teams….I actually felt a little lost.

I’m actually trying to get my gumption up to go to the store.  I have a list going and most things can wait, but the milk can’t and if I go out for that I should get everything else and not waste a trip.  I’m also not going anywhere tomorrow…….can’t miss the Packers/Giants & the Patriots/Chargers.  So odds are that I’m getting off my ass in few and heading to the store.

I’m debating on whether I want to chill out and do some reading, I haven’t done that this week, or work on a few things……like emails and messages….when I get back.  I guess I have time to decide that. =)