Okay...ya know...I try to be as sensitive as I can to the politically correct movement in this country. BUT sometimes people, and by people I mean African-Americans, and by African-Americans I mean Black people, take it way too far.
I read the following article on FoxNews.com this afternoon and it just blew me away.
Texas County Official Sees Race in Term "Black Hole"
I mean, seriously?!?! A white person make a comment about a department being a black hole for paperwork and a black person takes offense at that? Please! And to demand an apology for the racist remark? I shake my head....
Then the idiot....yes, I called Mr. John Wiley Price, who's a black man, an idiot....went on television in Dallas and said that he thought other terms were racist.
"So if it's 'angel food cake,' it's white. If it's 'devil's food cake,' it's black. If you're the 'black sheep of the family,' then you gotta be bad, you know. 'White sheep,' you're okay. You know?" Price said.
I mean, seriously....how do you make the leap from someone making a derogatory comment like calling someone the "N" word and someone calling a local government department a black hole. To me this is straight up ignorance...that's what I have a problem with...it's not someone's skin color...it's the fact that they're just ignorant. This sounds like a sad attempt at making someone out to be a bad guy and get attention for yourself.
Oh well...I'm off to make a racist devil's food cake this weekend....
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thursday reflections
Wow...it's pretty amazing how a good night's sleep can help clear your head. Yesterday was just a really hard day and I ended up crying over dinner and then having a good cry when I got home later. It was a chance to purge myself of all the sadness, bitterness and doubt that had plagued me all day. It's gone...the clouds have lifted....your comments were certainly cherished.
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Now....can I just say that I really do have a problem with men who decide to be less than gentlemanly. I was on the bus this morning coming from the outer reaches of Mongolia where Shooter and I decided to buy our little slice of paradise...and since I was one of the last lucky patrons to board, I got to stand. I had men sitting all around me and not one of them got up and offered their seat to me. There were 4 other women standing, besides myself, and no one offered them a seat either. What's up with that? I mean, seriously.
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For the first time in over a month Shooter was home before me last night! It was awesome to have him back on a regular schedule of getting home before primetime TV starts!!!!
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Praise be to the makers of Excedrin Migraine. I got home last night and was barely able to open my left eye. I left my sunglasses on for over 30 min. I was sick to my stomach and bitchy....and then I took two Excedrin Migraine, laid down for 30 min and I was a new woman. Praise be to that miracle little pill. :-)
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I have to say that I'm addicted to Facebook. I love it. Myspace is crap next to Facebook.
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I tried to go today and give blood. I wanted to do my part as a red blood cell producing American so I signed up and hauled myself down there. I finish filling out the form and then am reading the mandatory informational packet and I realize I didn't bring my ID down...so I'm going to have to come back up to my office and get it. And then I also notice that I'm supposed to speak with the registration crew since I've had a tattoo in the last 12 months. So, I mention this to them...the kind lady looks at me and says, "In the State of Georgia?". I answered that yes, it was in Georgia. She said, "Well, Georgia doesn't regulate tattoo parlors (or something like that) so we have to mandate that you wait 12 months after having a tattoo." Well crap that! I tried to do my duty and give a little blood and I get turned away. I didn't need to lose any platelets today anyway....so PHBLTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!
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Peace, love and chicken grease, ya'll!!!
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Now....can I just say that I really do have a problem with men who decide to be less than gentlemanly. I was on the bus this morning coming from the outer reaches of Mongolia where Shooter and I decided to buy our little slice of paradise...and since I was one of the last lucky patrons to board, I got to stand. I had men sitting all around me and not one of them got up and offered their seat to me. There were 4 other women standing, besides myself, and no one offered them a seat either. What's up with that? I mean, seriously.
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For the first time in over a month Shooter was home before me last night! It was awesome to have him back on a regular schedule of getting home before primetime TV starts!!!!
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Praise be to the makers of Excedrin Migraine. I got home last night and was barely able to open my left eye. I left my sunglasses on for over 30 min. I was sick to my stomach and bitchy....and then I took two Excedrin Migraine, laid down for 30 min and I was a new woman. Praise be to that miracle little pill. :-)
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I have to say that I'm addicted to Facebook. I love it. Myspace is crap next to Facebook.
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I tried to go today and give blood. I wanted to do my part as a red blood cell producing American so I signed up and hauled myself down there. I finish filling out the form and then am reading the mandatory informational packet and I realize I didn't bring my ID down...so I'm going to have to come back up to my office and get it. And then I also notice that I'm supposed to speak with the registration crew since I've had a tattoo in the last 12 months. So, I mention this to them...the kind lady looks at me and says, "In the State of Georgia?". I answered that yes, it was in Georgia. She said, "Well, Georgia doesn't regulate tattoo parlors (or something like that) so we have to mandate that you wait 12 months after having a tattoo." Well crap that! I tried to do my duty and give a little blood and I get turned away. I didn't need to lose any platelets today anyway....so PHBLTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!
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Peace, love and chicken grease, ya'll!!!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tears, disappointment, and hope
It's been 6 very long months. 6 very long yet very fast months. Now it's time for some kind of intervention. Not sure just how much intervention is needed or wanted. The ups and downs are hard to deal with sometimes. I tell myself to hang in there....but my self isn't doing so well today. Today is another day of disappointment. But, I have hope....I touch the brass ornament that hangs on my doorknob every morning. I think about what it means....what the future holds....what lies ahead. HOPE......it's about all I have right now.....
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Preschoolers, Burps and a Pastor
Okay...so I've linked to a few video blogs by my Pastor - he's a really awesome guy with a great sense of humor. Well, he's taking a few weeks off from preaching as we go through a series called One Prayer - we're getting messages by video from 4 different pastors around the country. Well, as I'm working with my 4 year olds on Sunday, Pastor Ritchie comes around to visit with us. We're in the middle of snack/story time and so it's a good point to take a break. He pokes his head in and asks how everyone's doing and one of my precious little boys, named Ethan, lets out this rip roaring burp like none I've ever heard before. Ethan smiles, giggles and then when he catches my eye says, "'Scuse me." I laugh, Pastor Ritchie starts laughing hysterically and says, "Well, it certainly sounds like you guys are having a blast in here." I say, "Well, it's always something new from one minute to the next!" Pastor Ritchie then asks how old these guys are and I told him they're all 4 and explain that we just promoted up a bunch of kids who're getting ready to go to kindergarten to Kids Town. Then I played this little game with the kids that I've been doing for a few weeks....I ask them if they'll still come back and see me when they get big and go off to Kids Town. They all start yelling "NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" at the top of their lungs and I pretend I am crying because they'll leave me and never come back. I always have one or two...usually the girls....who'll say, "Miss Laura, we'll come back and see you because we love it here." Well, melt my heart....
Pastor Ritchie leaves and I can hear him laughing as he makes his way down the hall...I think we made his morning!
It's always something with those buggers....I wouldn't trade 'em for anything though!
Pastor Ritchie leaves and I can hear him laughing as he makes his way down the hall...I think we made his morning!
It's always something with those buggers....I wouldn't trade 'em for anything though!
Monday, July 7, 2008
Fireworks, boating and grilling!!
WOW!!!
What a wonderful 4th we had this past weekend. I hope everyone else did.
We started off by sleeping in on Friday morning...it was wonderful...I don't think we finally emerged from the cave that is our bedroom until about 8:30am. Well, I should say that I emerged from our cave of a bedroom and Shooter remained curled up in the covers until around 10:30am. He needed it....that poor guy has been commuting 90 min each way for the last 3.5 weeks. I'm over it....and thankfully his stint ends today! Woot!! We then headed over to my BFF Di's new house for a housewarming/4th celebration. Her house is GAW-GEOUS!!!! I'd so buy it in a heartbeat...it's my kind of crib. ;-) We had fun cooking and celebrating and playing with the kitties and by 7:30pm Shooter and I were crashing. We headed home before the fireworks, but got to enjoy (NOT!!) some around our house. I'd say around 10pm we started having some fireworks pop right over top of our house! I looked out the sliding glass door and saw the flashes going off. The dogs were going bezerk! Shooter, being the responsible citizen that he is, went out to see what was going on. Needless to say, the fireworks went on until right at 11pm and then quieted down....which is a good thing!
Saturday was a lazy day for me...Shooter got up and drove across town to spend the morning/early afternoon with his friend Federovsky. Fed is a former neighbor of ours that we've kept in touch with and he and Shooter like to go to the gun range and such. So they had a great time being guys and burping and whatever guys do when they're together. Me, I stayed at home in my PJs and did laundry...lots of laundry....and ironed....lots of ironing. I had let my ironing pile really get big and needed to tackle it desperately. So....I pulled the ironing board into the bedroom and put the TV on the Food Network and steamed my way through the pile. It's so nice to not have to iron something every morning. I figure I'll get to enjoy this for another 4 days and I'll be back to the pile again. ;-) Saturday evening our friend Dusty from church put on a concert that was really awesome. He could have sang for two hours and we still would have wanted to hear more...he's got such a great voice!
Sunday....oh Sunday....yes, we taught preschool again this week. I have a whole post dedicated to that...oh my friends....it's always interesting! We stopped at the Wally World to pick up a few things and barely made it home before the storms started rolling through. I managed to get a birthday cake baked before the power started flickering. (Which NEVER happens!!) We laid down to take a nap and two hours later we awoke to sunshine and humidity that would melt your face off! Needless to say, we braved it all and went to the house o' Profs (some friends of ours who have this fab lake house) and grilled out and enjoyed a great dinner outside. Just when I was ready to fall asleep on their patio, they shake us awake and take us down for a boat ride. Whew! It was so nice out and we had a great time chatting with Les' parents and playing with their pups. By the time we got home it was close to 10pm...where does the time go, anyway?!?!?!
So today....I'm needing a long weekend to recover from my long weekend!!! ;-)
Oh...and apparently our wireless router started to bite the dust little by little over the last few weeks. Shooter went and bought us a new one on Friday and now I've been enjoying surfing the internet from all corners of the house...life is good again!!
Hope you guys are adjusting to your Monday back at work!
What a wonderful 4th we had this past weekend. I hope everyone else did.
We started off by sleeping in on Friday morning...it was wonderful...I don't think we finally emerged from the cave that is our bedroom until about 8:30am. Well, I should say that I emerged from our cave of a bedroom and Shooter remained curled up in the covers until around 10:30am. He needed it....that poor guy has been commuting 90 min each way for the last 3.5 weeks. I'm over it....and thankfully his stint ends today! Woot!! We then headed over to my BFF Di's new house for a housewarming/4th celebration. Her house is GAW-GEOUS!!!! I'd so buy it in a heartbeat...it's my kind of crib. ;-) We had fun cooking and celebrating and playing with the kitties and by 7:30pm Shooter and I were crashing. We headed home before the fireworks, but got to enjoy (NOT!!) some around our house. I'd say around 10pm we started having some fireworks pop right over top of our house! I looked out the sliding glass door and saw the flashes going off. The dogs were going bezerk! Shooter, being the responsible citizen that he is, went out to see what was going on. Needless to say, the fireworks went on until right at 11pm and then quieted down....which is a good thing!
Saturday was a lazy day for me...Shooter got up and drove across town to spend the morning/early afternoon with his friend Federovsky. Fed is a former neighbor of ours that we've kept in touch with and he and Shooter like to go to the gun range and such. So they had a great time being guys and burping and whatever guys do when they're together. Me, I stayed at home in my PJs and did laundry...lots of laundry....and ironed....lots of ironing. I had let my ironing pile really get big and needed to tackle it desperately. So....I pulled the ironing board into the bedroom and put the TV on the Food Network and steamed my way through the pile. It's so nice to not have to iron something every morning. I figure I'll get to enjoy this for another 4 days and I'll be back to the pile again. ;-) Saturday evening our friend Dusty from church put on a concert that was really awesome. He could have sang for two hours and we still would have wanted to hear more...he's got such a great voice!
Sunday....oh Sunday....yes, we taught preschool again this week. I have a whole post dedicated to that...oh my friends....it's always interesting! We stopped at the Wally World to pick up a few things and barely made it home before the storms started rolling through. I managed to get a birthday cake baked before the power started flickering. (Which NEVER happens!!) We laid down to take a nap and two hours later we awoke to sunshine and humidity that would melt your face off! Needless to say, we braved it all and went to the house o' Profs (some friends of ours who have this fab lake house) and grilled out and enjoyed a great dinner outside. Just when I was ready to fall asleep on their patio, they shake us awake and take us down for a boat ride. Whew! It was so nice out and we had a great time chatting with Les' parents and playing with their pups. By the time we got home it was close to 10pm...where does the time go, anyway?!?!?!
So today....I'm needing a long weekend to recover from my long weekend!!! ;-)
Oh...and apparently our wireless router started to bite the dust little by little over the last few weeks. Shooter went and bought us a new one on Friday and now I've been enjoying surfing the internet from all corners of the house...life is good again!!
Hope you guys are adjusting to your Monday back at work!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Lordy what eye candy....
Okay...can I just say that this past weekend I was treated to some of the best eye candy on TV. Okay...so some of you may not agree, but I KNOW at least one of my readers will.
I had told someone a while back that if I had nothing to do on a Saturday but lay around on the couch and watch TV, and if there was nothing on but a marathon of Dirty Jobs and No Reservations, I'd be in heaven!!!
Well kiddos....this past weekend....there was a marathon of Dirty Jobs on!!!!! The heavens opened and angels sang. *sigh* Mike Rowe....you fill out a pair of jeans so well. I can't help it ya'll...he's manly and dirty and hunky and has fabulous arms and pecs and just is so darn masculine. *sigh*
Contrast that with my other "love", Anthony Bourdain. A skinny, New York chef who lacks any real muscular appeal....but he has this fabulous salt and pepper hair....and he can cook a mean meal. Plus he has that dry, sarcastic wit that just makes me melt. ;-)
Then there's Shooter...my love...my Romeo....he's the best of both of them all rolled into a neat little package.
I had told someone a while back that if I had nothing to do on a Saturday but lay around on the couch and watch TV, and if there was nothing on but a marathon of Dirty Jobs and No Reservations, I'd be in heaven!!!
Well kiddos....this past weekend....there was a marathon of Dirty Jobs on!!!!! The heavens opened and angels sang. *sigh* Mike Rowe....you fill out a pair of jeans so well. I can't help it ya'll...he's manly and dirty and hunky and has fabulous arms and pecs and just is so darn masculine. *sigh*
Contrast that with my other "love", Anthony Bourdain. A skinny, New York chef who lacks any real muscular appeal....but he has this fabulous salt and pepper hair....and he can cook a mean meal. Plus he has that dry, sarcastic wit that just makes me melt. ;-)
Then there's Shooter...my love...my Romeo....he's the best of both of them all rolled into a neat little package.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Total Tuesday Randomness
Okay....so the dogs did it again....actually I should say that their absent-minded Mom just left everything they needed to make a big mess in the kitchen floor. Shooter and I went to the store last night and I forgot to grab a bag of items that I was throwing away from my snack cabinet. Well, Leah and Morey had all the fixin's for a grand feast. They ate an entire graham cracker crust - including gnawing a bit on the aluminum pan, they ate 1/3 of a bag of Trader Joe's Veggie Sticks, and some pistaschios. Somehow they didn't manage to get into the bag of dried apricots or dried apples. Or Cheez Its. Or Granola. Or Lucky Charms. Thank goodness. Leah did however look like she'd swallowed two softballs and has been drinking water like she's been in the desert for two weeks. Go figure.
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I have seen two fabulous movies over the last two weeks. You must go see the Incredible Hulk. I know...you're saying that you wouldn't dare go see it after the fiasco that was the Christian Bale version...but trust me....this one is awesome. It is action from beginning to end. The special effects are amazing. Edward Norton is really, really good as Bruce Banner. I would also make sure you go see Ironman before this movie. I still haven't seen it and have been told that some of the ending will make more sense if I'd have seen Ironman first.
Shooter and I went to see Wanted on Friday night. We haven't seen a movie on opening night in, well, I can't remember how long. It was AWESOME!!! You have to go into it knowing that it's based off of a graphic novel series and that it's really a sci-fi type movie. The stunts aren't supposed to be plausible. Bullets can't be curved...but who cares! James McAvoy plays a character you kinda come to hate...but admire at the same time. You almost start to like the "bad" guys better than the "good" guys. I certainly didn't see the ending coming either! Definitely a must see!
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I went home to Tennessee a couple of weekends ago for the Secret City Festival and the Lavender Festival. Awesome time was had by all. I bought some of the coolest jewelry - especially a bracelet and earrings made from old pennies. They'd been pressed so that they were curved and linked together with decorative silver pieces. The earrings are simply the pennies. I will have to take pictures because they're the most unusual jewelry pieces I own.
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I've been a salsa and gucamole making queen here lately. I made a triple batch of salsa for a co-worker's birthday party and a huge mound of guacamole. All soooooo good! I have to give Shooter the credit for going to the Farmer's Market and getting all my food items. He's such a sweetie! :-)
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Well, July 4th is upon us....time for patriotism and flags and parades and fireworks. We're taking it easy this July 4th. No family commitments...only hanging out with friends. I can't wait! Gonna hang with my fabulous BFF Di on Friday. Hanging out with the small group, and more, at my pal Dusty's concert at Church on Saturday night. It will be an awesome event, can't wait to hear him sing familiar church stuff as well as some rockin' other tunes. Sunday we're teaching the kids in preschool (Lord, please send me some girls this week....you know it's so hard to make boys pay attention and none of them want to color with me, they all want to wrestle with Shooter. Amen.) and then most likely hanging out with the small group at the lake. *sigh* I love that I can type so many references to "hanging out". hehehehe!
What are your plans for the looooooong weekend?
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I have seen two fabulous movies over the last two weeks. You must go see the Incredible Hulk. I know...you're saying that you wouldn't dare go see it after the fiasco that was the Christian Bale version...but trust me....this one is awesome. It is action from beginning to end. The special effects are amazing. Edward Norton is really, really good as Bruce Banner. I would also make sure you go see Ironman before this movie. I still haven't seen it and have been told that some of the ending will make more sense if I'd have seen Ironman first.
Shooter and I went to see Wanted on Friday night. We haven't seen a movie on opening night in, well, I can't remember how long. It was AWESOME!!! You have to go into it knowing that it's based off of a graphic novel series and that it's really a sci-fi type movie. The stunts aren't supposed to be plausible. Bullets can't be curved...but who cares! James McAvoy plays a character you kinda come to hate...but admire at the same time. You almost start to like the "bad" guys better than the "good" guys. I certainly didn't see the ending coming either! Definitely a must see!
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I went home to Tennessee a couple of weekends ago for the Secret City Festival and the Lavender Festival. Awesome time was had by all. I bought some of the coolest jewelry - especially a bracelet and earrings made from old pennies. They'd been pressed so that they were curved and linked together with decorative silver pieces. The earrings are simply the pennies. I will have to take pictures because they're the most unusual jewelry pieces I own.
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I've been a salsa and gucamole making queen here lately. I made a triple batch of salsa for a co-worker's birthday party and a huge mound of guacamole. All soooooo good! I have to give Shooter the credit for going to the Farmer's Market and getting all my food items. He's such a sweetie! :-)
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Well, July 4th is upon us....time for patriotism and flags and parades and fireworks. We're taking it easy this July 4th. No family commitments...only hanging out with friends. I can't wait! Gonna hang with my fabulous BFF Di on Friday. Hanging out with the small group, and more, at my pal Dusty's concert at Church on Saturday night. It will be an awesome event, can't wait to hear him sing familiar church stuff as well as some rockin' other tunes. Sunday we're teaching the kids in preschool (Lord, please send me some girls this week....you know it's so hard to make boys pay attention and none of them want to color with me, they all want to wrestle with Shooter. Amen.) and then most likely hanging out with the small group at the lake. *sigh* I love that I can type so many references to "hanging out". hehehehe!
What are your plans for the looooooong weekend?
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