Fart Jokes

Why is it that fart jokes are just so much fun?  You are so embarrassed when you do fart when you get caught, that is unless you did it on purpose to get a reaction out of people.  Or when you hold out your finger to a child and say pull my finger.  It's just that the sound of a fart is hilarious.  The smell however is the most nasty, disgusting thing so there is a bad side to it lol.

However, there are some people who just detest making light of a fart.  They are such uptight people who think they are better than the rest of the world because they think a fart joke is in bad taste.  Uh, Hello!  Fart jokes are in bad taste, we realize this.  It still makes me laugh when I see someone farting in a movie and they can't control it.

I watch South Park.  OK, did I just hear someone say nuff said?  That guy is right.  South Park is chock full o fart jokes and even though it's so dumb and stupid it's hilarious and I can't stop laughing.

Get over it people.  Oh, one more thing, would you do me a favor?  Can you just pull my finger?  It will make me feel so much better.  Go on, you know you want to.

Ahhhhhhhh thank you so much I feel so much better.  Now you're gonna want to clear the room.  It's for your own safety.

Things that make you go hmmmm...

Things that make you go hmmmm...

I was in the bathroom shaving after I got out of the shower so I can be nice and clean shaven so I don't piss off the dentist who has to have their hand or wrist leaned against my whiskers and I started to wonder, why is it that when you cut your skin it hurts but when you cut off your hair or shave it doesn't hurt at all.

And why is it that it hurts like holy hell if you bend a nail or if someone burns your nail or if you are hung by your nails, but yet you can clip them and nothing.  Why are there such double standards?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Dtfi3VkiU

Rod Blagojevich Voted Out

I forgot to mention this yesterday when I heard about it but Rod Blagojevich was voted out 58-0.  He is no longer the Governor for the state of Illinois.

The 2 things that I liked about him were his hair and his voice, he had that 70's Christmas clay-mation cartoon special voice for Santa CLaus lol.  His hair was more like a helmet.  If he ever got pulled over by a cop while on a motorcycle the cop would say "just keep wearing your helmet and you will be fine".

Drew Peterson's Fiance Moves OUT

I am so happy to hear that the new fiance of Drew Peterson has decided to move out.  She talked to her father and said that he was starting to be too controlling which was the way he was with Stacy Peterson.  He told her that he doesn't want her to work, that he will take care of all of her needs.

This woman's father was probably freaking out thinking that Drew was going to murder his daughter.  But he was at the house helping his daughter leave and Drew was telling him F you F you and the father of the fiance called 911.  6 police cars show up and they let them take her stuff but they said the camera guy had to go.  So the father told him to take a hike so they can get her out of there.  Why was there a camera guy?  Maybe it was for a reality show lol who knows.

I'm relieved that she has seen the light though.  This guy has no business being with anyone.  They showed an interview with Drew Peterson saying that he told her that he was 47 and she said she was 17 and he said he'd look in his law books to make sure it was legal and the legal consenting age was 17 so he said it was ok.  Uh, dude!  I don't think so.  Get a clue.  He needs to just live the single life for awhile especially since it's only been a year since his 4th wife Stacy went missing.  Geez, he wastes no time at all.

Rod Blagojevich Impeachment Trial

Rod Blagojevich knows he did something wrong by trying to sell Barack Obama's senate seat and he is being impeached.  He knows he's up shit creek without a paddle so he's trying to turn this whole trial around and make it look like these judges are asses for trying to impeach him for doing good things.

Such as his argument is that Bush changed the rules in Washington with health care and people in Illinois were without medical coverage so he helped them get their health care again and because of this I'm being impeached.

Elderly and infants needed flu shots and I worked hard to make sure those elderly and infants got their flu shots and because of this I'm being impeached.

LOL are you kidding me?  Uh, your'e not being impeached for that you ass.  You are being impeached for trying to sell a senate seat HELLO!  He just doesn't want to admit that what he did was wrong.  He wants to totally ignore the whole reason he is being impeached and make it look like he's being impeached for everything but that.  ASS!

Bokni Magus

Yay!  I finally defeated this bastard.  And it didn't even take me 2 weeks like someone posted on a message board that it took them.

As I said in my previous post about Untold Legends (Warriors Code) I was just experimenting to see what would happen if I exited the game, then came back but when I loaded my character instead of clicking continue that I'd click restart chapter.  I thought it would take me back to the beginning of that zone that I was in but instead it took me all the way back to the very beginning of the game.  But my advantage was that I was still level 16 and I still had all my weapons and armor and trinkets.

That sorta helped me and in fact as I went along going back to the Bokni Magus I was being upgraded for my level with equipment.  But when I did get back to the Bokni Magus last night he was just as hard to kill as before.  But, this morning I went back to the monastery and bought some upgrades from the merchant along with some new augments and I was able to beat this Bokni Magus once and for all.  Because the new augments were Petrify for 4 seconds and Charm for 4 seconds.  Along with 3 Health Drain.  So those helped me a bit.  Those effects are on my weapon.

So now I'm finally on chapter 2.

Untold Legends Update

I know that people really care about my progress in this game.  Hehe.

I was stuck in the game in this one spot, this guy kept teleporting away from me and when I did get a chance to hit him he would heal really fast right after he teleported away from me.  It was so frustrating.  I could keep myself alive with either running or potions but how long can I keep that up for?

So I decided to save my game then exit the game and reload it but this time instead of continue the story, I'd restart the story.  I thought it would bring me back to the beginning of that zone but instead it brought me all the way back to when I first started playing the game.  What a bummer.  But, not really because I was still level 16 and I still had all my weapons and armor.

So, instead of going back to my original saved game I just went with it and started saving my game over my old game.  This way, I'm gaining level by doing all the things I've already done and I'm getting better gear too instead of getting all the gear I was getting the first time around.  I don't know how I'm getting gear for my level but I am.  I was 16 when I restarted and now I'm level 21.

I do have a feeling though that when I get back to this bad ass guy I'll probably still have trouble because he will be a higher level.  Maybe not, I don't know.  Maybe he will still be the level he was before and I can kill him and get on with the game.  I sure do hope so.

I want to be able to get to level 50 so I can play with other people in multiplayer mode online.  Some people don't want to play with you if you aren't level 50.  Stuck up jerks lol.

Lego Batman Nominated For Award

It's not the kind of award.  This is a "TOADY" which means it's the worst toy of the year.

Lego Batman nominated for award for toys inappropriate for children

Personally, I like this game.  I think that it's a pretty cool game.  But I like all the Lego games because I liked Lego when I was a kid.  I would play for hours building stuff then taking them apart and starting over again making something else.

The claim is that it promotes violence and sexuality to children.  LMAO are you kidding me?  WHAT THE F?  Uh, ok, what about World of Warcraft?  EverQuest?  You have got to be kidding me.  There is no sexuality in Lego Batman.  You can''t play a video game without violence.  Even Pac-Man ate the ghosts and the ghosts would kill him.  Are you going to tell me that Pac-Man promotes violence towards ghosts?

I have the Lego Star Wars, Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Batman games and they are all good games and I would personally let my children play with them.  This is absolutely rediculous that they are doing this.

One of the claims is that when this game was being advertised, McDonald's was selling Happy Meals with a lego batman character as the toy.  So freakin what!  They are saying that this is promoting violence, sexuality and bad health.  Excuse me?  You don't have to get soda in the happy meal, you don't have to get fries but instead they offer apple slices.  Basically, you don't even have to get the meal for your kid, just go to McDonald's, buy the happy meal, eat the burger and fries and drink the little tiny soda then give your kid the toy, believe me, he/she won't even know the difference because all they want is the toy.

McDonald's has teamed up with Disney since the 80's that I know of to sell Disney related toys to children in their happy meals.  I used to work there so I would know first hand.  Every time there was a Disney movie out they would make toys to go in the happy meals.  This is not new and exclusive to Lego Batman.

I say to all the people who are so worried about this... get a freakin life.  Worry about the war, about our economy.  Pick your battles.

Web Host Upgrade?

Ok I got this email today from my web host that they are going to start charging me $3 more per month but the good news is that I'm also getting 3GB more too.  So I guess that's not bad.  If I paid for a year up front I could get a discount so I'd really only have to pay $1 more each month but I really don't have the money to put towards a whole year up front.  That's ok, it's still worth it to pay for my own domain rather than just use a blog site like Xanga, MySpace, Blogger, Yahoo 360° or whatever other blogging sites are out there.

At least with my own website I can give people a website address that they can go to that is short like xanapus.com.  Most of the people who I played EQ with would know exactly where to go because they know that name.  It would be easier to find me on the internet just by looking up my character name.  If you do a google search for the name Xanapus there are 2,860,000 results. I get around lol.

The New Mickey Rourke

What the heck happened to sex symbol Mickey Rourke?  Ok, I know I don't have any room to talk, I used to be skinny and cute but my problem is I quit smoking and gained weight and my hair fell out and I just transformed into this George Kastanza lookin guy.  But Mickey Rourke, he's got money, if something is wrong he can fix it.  In fact, he did try to fix something because he had plastic surgery.  Why?  If it ain't broke why fix it?

Take a look at these before and after shots.  What a transformation from hot to DUDE!  WTF!

Constitutional oath of office gets mangled

I watched this happen but I didn't know that they had to do the oath of office twice.  The day after he swore in he had to swear in again because it wasn't legal.  That is according to Fox News that they had to do it again the next day.  I didn't hear about that.

This is copied and pasted from www.chron.com:

"For a couple of smooth-talking constitutional experts, Chief Justice John Roberts and President Barack Obama had a hard time getting through the constitutional oath of office.

There was a false start by Obama, who started to respond before Roberts had completed the first phrase. Obama ended up saying the first two words — “I, Barack” — twice.

Then there was an awkward pause after Roberts prompted Obama with these words: “That I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully.” The chief justice seemed to say “to” rather than “of,” but that was not the main problem. The main problem was that the word “faithfully” had floated upstream in the constitutional text, which actually says this: “That I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States.”

Obama seemed to realize this, pausing quizzically after saying, “that I will execute.”

Roberts gave it another try, getting closer but still not quite right with this: “Faithfully the office of president of the United States.” He omitted the word “execute.”

Obama now repeated Roberts’ initial error of putting “faithfully” at the end. Starting where he had abruptly paused, he said, “The office of president of the United States faithfully.”

From there, smooth sailing.

Constitutional law experts agree that the flub is insignificant. Yet two previous presidents — Calvin Coolidge and Chester Arthur — repeated the oath privately because of similar issues."

Universal Chat Program

When I stopped using my laptop I installed all the IM programs to the desktop such as AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger and MySpace IM.  Well, all of a sudden I've noticed how slow my computer got from running all those IM programs.

So I went on Google and did a search for IM programs and found Pidgin.  This is a universal chat program that lets you see your buddy list from 16 different IM programs.

AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo! and Zephyr

There is one other that I wish it had which is Facebook.  eBuddy has facebook, I use that IM program when I'm on my PSP.

Well this definately helps and all the IM's are tabbed so if you are in more than 1 conversation it's tabbed for you in 1 window.  It also has chatrooms, the only thing it doesn't have is webcam.  You can either have 1 universal icon for all to see or you can choose an icon for each IM service that you use.  And it uses the smileys that you would normally see only in like AOL or Yahoo or MSN, so you can't use special smileys that you wouldn't see in AOL that you would see in MSN.  I think it's pretty cool.  I like it.  My computer isn't slow any more.

The Bokni Magus

Well, I finally got my character back up in level so he is back to where he was last night.  I'm even back to the mob boss I was at last night who kept killing me which eventually lead me to exit the game and start playing the other one.

I'm back to him and I thought that the only thing that would help me was my ranged weapon but I shot at him over and over and over until all my ammo was gone and had used up almost all my HP potions and I still died.  That guy just won't die.

What I've read other say in message boards is that the only way to kill this guy is to run around the edge of the walls until he stops to recharge his mana or whatever then try to kill him.  I'm not sure if that will do me any good because he heals so fast.  Even if I did wait for him to gain more mana then try to attack he'd probably gain his mana fast enough to heal himself and I'd never kill him.

I read that it took 1 person 2 weeks to finally off this guy.  Someone said try the multi-player mode and get help with it but most of the people chatting in the multi-player chat room are little children from the way they are talking to each other.  You know the way kids talk to each other, 1 insult after the other.  Yeah OK, some adults are like that too so I'm not sure who is who anymore lol.

I'm going to try one of the techniques I've read about tomorrow.  For now my left hand is hurting me from the analog stick thingy.

We Are One

Yesterday, HBO had a concert to commemorate the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president.  It cost 175,000,000, yes that is $175 million dollars if you can't count that high.  Do they realize that our country is in a recession?  This was all paid for by tax payers.  We can't afford that with our economy the way it is.

OK, I realize the "change" that is happening and I'm glad that a, dare I say, black person (or African American person) has finally made it to the white house but why make such a huge deal out of it?  I mean, OK I can understand if our economy was a lot better, if people weren't becoming homeless by the minute but it's not and people are.  First of all it's not fair that it was only on HBO.  Tax payers paid for this, they should've been able to see it on NBC or something.  They are paying for something and can't even see it.  Isn't that like stealing?

For those who were lucky enough to see it, it was a 2 hour concert starring Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Renée Fleming, Herbie Hancock, Shakira, John Legend, Tom Hanks, Garth Brooks and I don't know who else.  There were a lot of people performing and reading and Queen Latifah and Jamie Foxx. Bishop Gene Robinson delivers the invocation.  I have to admit that it was quite spectacular.  Garth Brooks stole the show.

I'm all for celebrating someones achievement but this was way above and beyond and way too expensive.  What pisses me off the most is that my sister has been out of work since July 2008 and she can't find a job.  Why isn't this money being used to be put back into the economy to help struggling businesses so they can rehire the people that they fired?  And the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is denying us the tax rebate that Obama is offering the country.  How is that supposed to help me buy groceries and pay bills?  How is that supposed to help my sister get back on her feet?  All it's going to do is help get California out of debt, it won't get me or my sister out of debt.

Dumb dumb dumb

I am so thick sometimes.  I forgot to save my game yesterday with Untold Legends.  I had gotten to level 16 or 17, I forgot now, and I didn't save my game once lol.  Well that's OK because having to start over made me remember the things I was supposed to learn from the beginning which will help me where I was stuck when I stopped playing it last night.

There is this mob who kept running from me and I couldn't kill him and he was shooting me but I couldn't get anywhere near him.  I have a ranged weapon but I didn't know how to use it.  So now I know.  This could help me get that guy.

Also I found out that you can play online with other people, even if they aren't sitting in the same room or house with you.  But they want a minimum of level 50, they don't want you if you are just learning the game.  I created an account though so when I do get to that level then I can try the multiplayer mode.  This means that I gotta solo my way to level 50 lol.  Then again maybe it's impossible to solo your way to level 50, maybe I need to get into a guild or join a group of people to get to level 50.  I didn't see guilds, I just saw groups of people trying to find more players.  Wow, reminds me of all the times I sat and waited for people to play with.  But I don't know if it's worth it to sit there waiting for people to come then have your battery die and have to play with the plug.

EverQuest for PSP

Untold Legends which I got today at Game Stop is very similar to EverQuest.  So I finally got the PSP's answer to EQ.  I read that Sony wanted to create a version of EQ for the PSP but they couldn't or something like that but they made Untold Legends.  It is very similar to EQ.  There are quests and merchants and you go up to people and talk to them and you got people following you and helping you fight.

Although nothing beats being able to chat with people but there is a multiplayer mode via lan or adhoc.  I don't know how it works with the Lan though.  Maybe you gotta be chatting on the phone lol.  Who knows.  Or maybe you can use the headset with the mic.  With Adhoc you are sitting in the same room as the person you are playing with.

But I don't know anyone with a PSP so it doesn't matter.  I will always have to choose single player lol.

New PSP Games

We went to Game Stop today and I picked out 2 games.  Untold Legends: Warriors Code and Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters.

They were both used so I got a good price, Untold Legends was $12.99 and Ratchet and Clank was $14.99.  Because I had a $25 gift card I only had to pay $5.01 extra.  It's nice to get a new game but these don't scratch very easily so used PSP games aren't a big deal.  I usually keep my games in their cases so they never get scratched.

I can't wait to play these new games.

Robbed!

No, I wasn't robbed but our neighbor whose name is Bob was robbed.  He had this girl living with him who cleaned his house in exchange for free rent and utilities but he wouldn't give her a key.  She had her own room so why not give her a key?  That's called being imprisoned.  Anyway, she would open her bedroom window and she put a chair by her window and she took the screen out and she would climb out the window and then come back in when she came back.

Well, Bob didn't know that and he woke up this morning and she was gone and so were all his DVD movies and audio CD's also some of his electronics were gone too.

I'm sorry this happened to him but you don't just ask someone to move in with you if you don't even know who they are and not give them a key and make them clean your house in exchange for free rent.  Although, how do you really know anyone?  Anybody can come into your life and pretend to be your friend then rob you blind when your guards are down.

We have bars on our windows to keep the burglers out.  This isn't a really good neighborhood.  There was a murder last week a block from our house, a double homicide in fact.  A couple of years ago on July 4th this guy was beat up right in front of our house and he was taken to an alley and shot several times and nobody heard the gunshots because of all the fireworks.

I really want to move.

Too much information?

I bought a half gallon of milk tonight and a bag of marshmallows because I wanted to have some hot cocoa and when I got home I noticed 1 packet left of the hot cocoa mix. So that blew that right out of the water.

I was so thirsty though and we didn't have any tea made and our water isn't very good, it's white when it comes out of the sink so I'd just rather not drink that. I wanted to make coffee but it was so late at night so I didn't. I ended up drinking a glass of milk then another then another and next thing I knew the entire half gallon of milk was all gone lol.

Well, I'm lactose intolerant. Needless to say I can't sleep right now because of all the methane my stomach is producing. With all this methane I could power our home for 2 days lol. Sheesh. And I had cheese in my burritos for lunch and dinner. Not helping. I know I should limit my dairy intake every day, I just don't know what came over me tonight lol.

I finally ended up making some iced tea which I could've just done to begin with lol.

Student Bunk Bed

LOL I have to laugh because I have this fantasy that I have a bunk bed with a desk in my bedroom.  I'm 38 years old going on 12.  I just don't feel 38 for some reason.  I want to have posters of singers on my walls and I want to have a bunk bed and sleep on the top bunk.  This is the first time I've had my own bedroom, and I really mean that.  When I was a kid I either shared a room with my older sister or when we lived in Reseda my bedroom was a walk-in closet and when we were in Sepulveda my bed was in the living room.  I never really had my own bedroom.

When I was living with my sister I had to sleep on the couch in the living room.  I did move back in with my parents when I was 18 and I had my own bedroom but that was short lived, I've had my own room many times but for a short period of time.  I don't count the times I've lived in motels as having my own room cause that's all it was, a bedroom.  When I've been in relationships I don't consider the room being mine because it was shared with the person I was with who always had the design decision.

I didn't have a very good childhood and so I'm reclaiming it and I just don't feel 38.  I feel like a pre-teen with my bike and my video games and stuff.  My bedroom here in Bakersfield is a really small room, I don't have any room to walk around or do anything.  If I had a Nintendo Wii system I wouldn't be able to play games very effectivly because I have no room to move in here.  My desk is so huge too which isn't bad, I actually like my desk.  It's a corner desk and it's right next to my tv so I can watch tv while typing (as I am doing now).

Chip is about to start working (keep your fingers crossed) at Mor furniture for less and they have these bunk beds (in the childrens section lol) and one of them I really like.  It has a desk on the side and it has a top bunk bed then it has a bottom bed that sticks out and it's really neat because it has shelves inside there and a dresser which I don't currently have.  I'm using rubbermaid drawers for my socks and underwear and I have to fold and put my t-shirts in the linen closet.  So this would be perfect for shirts at least.  Here is a picture.  The only problem is it's $800 lol.



Bonanza Student Bunk

$799.99

Your children will have their sights set on the Bonanza Student Bunk Bedroom collection. Functional and fun, this solid pine package features space-saving design with plenty of desk and bookshelf space. This collection includes bunk bed, and desk with hutch. (Chair not included.)

I've never slept on the top bunk before but at the same time my BiPap machine would be perfect on one of those shelves on the bottom bunk.  But I think that at 230lbs, I'd be better off on the bottom bunk don't you think?

Loading...........

Since I'm not using my laptop anymore because I can't afford to renew my warranty, I'm only going to use it for GPS when we go on trips and it's really slow so I'm going to have to reformat it so when we do go on trips the GPS will load much quicker.  Although, I would love it if we could buy a $99 TomTom.

When I was using my laptop, I had it specifically for all the IM programs like MSN Messenger, Yahoo IM, AIM, ICQ, Skype and MySpace IM.  Plus I was using it for Microsoft Money 2004.  It came with the laptop.  But since I'm not longer using the laptop I had to install all of those programs onto my desktop and since I'm not playing EverQuest anymore then I have no reason not to have those run on the desktop.

The only drawback is that when I turn the computer on I have to wait forever for it to load.  The laptop typically took about 10-30 minutes to load.  Yeah, I know.  I've reformatted it but then as soon as I install all that crap back on there it takes forever again to load.

So why do I have all these IM programs installed?  Because some people absolutely will not use some IM programs.  Like for example, my cousin refuses to use anything but ICQ.  Well, he's the only person that I know who uses ICQ.  I have friends who will not use anything but MSN Messenger.  Some friends will only use AOL or AIM.  So in order to accommodate all those people I have to have 6 IM programs running at the same time.

Actually, to be honest I stopped using ICQ because my cousin never gets on it so why keep loading it?  All I get are spam IM's so if he can't get on another IM program then I'm not going to accommodate him.  I mean, he ain't using ICQ so why should I have to load it right?

When Playing Becomes Scaring

I have a 3lb Chihuahua.  She likes to play.  She LOVES to play.  I was holding her and blew on her neck, you know like when you blow on a baby's stomach and it makes a farting sound and it makes them giggle.  Well, I can tell when she's laughing because she starts sneezing and, well, I can tell.  And so I kept doing it and she thought it was funny, she was having fun.  Then I did it on her side and all of a sudden she got real serious and PEED on me.

I don't know what's wrong with her.  Whenever I'm playing with her I kiss her and stuff but whenever my face goes anywhere near her side all of a sudden she gives me this look of horror and starts peeing on me.  It's like she's scared all of a sudden that she thinks I'm gonna just start chowing down on her.  As if, she only weighs 3lbs, she barely has any meat on her at all.

We've had her for a year, don't you think that by now if we were going to eat her we would've eaten her already?  What's up with that?  I mean it's not like we're fattening her up to prepare her for Thanksgiving dinner, I mean, Thanksgiving has already passed.  LOL.  Poor thing.  I really love her, she's so cute and so funny but... I don't want to eat her.

Chatty Kathy

It may appear that I like to talk a lot.  I mean because I have 460 blogs over the last year and half (including this one).  At the beginning of this blog I only blogged once a day, sometimes only a few times per month.  But then when I started using Word Press all of a sudden I'm blogging sometimes 4 or 5 times a day or more.  I just have a lot to say.

But my online personality is so not the way I am in real life.  I mean, if I have a story to tell then I'm chatting and sometimes wont shut up but there are times that I just don't talk at all.  It's not because I have nothing to say but like when I go visit family it seems like my brain freezes, and not the good way like when you drink a Slurpee.  It's like all the information in my head drained during the flight or bus or car trip.  You know when you are on the freeway for a long time and because you have gone to a higher elevation than you are used to your ears are plugged up?  Well, I think that's what happens, my ears plug up to keep all the information in but there is a leak somewhere and all the words just leak out.  Maybe it's when I fall asleep during the trip.  That's when the defenses are down.

I've visited my aunt's Betty, Louise and Joyce's house and it seems every time I go there, I can't talk.  I just have nothing to say.  My brain just clears.  It reboots if you will but windows just doesn't load properly, it goes into safe mode.

But, you give me a keyboard and I can't shut up.  All the information needs to be released and it comes out here.

They like us, they really really like us

Finally, someone stands up for America and it's Canada. I love Canada, they brought us John Candy, Howie Mandel, Martin Short and many more including the guys from the free credit report dot com commercials. Read this...

Be Proud America

Circuit City

It's sad but Circuit City is closing for good because of the wonderful economy of ours.  They are going to be closing their remaining 500 stores.

I bought my first CD walkman from Circuit City in 1989.  It's very sad to see them go.

Broken Rocker

Well it finally happened.  I broke a chair.  Actually it has happened before.  It's an old chair so leave me alone lol.  This chair that was in Chips moms room that she's had for a long time, when she passed away we put it in the living room.  It's not a rocking chair, it's a regular chair that rocks.  A rocking chair would be all wood, this has fabric and springs etc.

What makes the chair rock are these 2 giant springs that are attached to 2 pieces of wood at the bottom of the chair and the springs are also attached to the chair.  Well, a year ago the springs broke where it's welded, 1 spring broke and we asked our neighbor Dan who worked in a shop if he would reweld it for us because that's what he does.  So he did and then the other spring broke in the same way and so he fixed that too.  Well, it didn't take long before one of them broke again but we never had him fix it a 2nd time.  The other spring just broke at the weld again so we're retiring that chair lol.

I'm just too heavy to be able to sit in an old chair and rock it.  If it were a new(ish) chair like a recliner chair then I'm sure it would be a lot better.  This one made so many noises when I would rock in it, like squeeking sounds, you know because the springs needed oil or something.  I've sprayed WD40 on them and they didn't stop squeeking.  But I've sat in recliner chairs at the furniture stores and they never squeeked.

I would love to get a new chair but I just can't afford it, even a used one.  So, I moved the rocking chair and put a regular chair in it's place so now no more rocking hehe.  Oh well.

Bridezillas

I was just watching Bridezillas on WE.  Why?  Don't ask.  But omg these women are either classless or nuts.  This one woman couldn't stop yelling at everyone.  If she could only see herself.  One of the things she said was "this isn't his wedding, it's my wedding".  LOL ok.  If I was the guy getting married to her I would've told her to get married by herself because this isn't just her day, it's his day too.

Frankly I don't see why people are in such a hurry to get married and why it's such a big deal that they have to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars that they don't really have.  You could just have a simple wedding at home or at a relatives house who has a large back yard where you can just buy groceries and cook a buffet meal and bake your own cake.  And why spend thousands of dollars on a wedding dress you are only going to wear once.  Just get a nice wedding dress that is under a hundred that you can actually afford.

A lot of people can't get married you know so I think that they should think about how lucky they are that their wedding is actually acceptable to society before they act so high and mighty about being in such a hurry to get married.  I don't know the numbers but a lot of marriages end in divorce, especially the rushed ones.

Naughty Words on TV

I've been watching TV for a very long time.  At least 36 of my 38 years that I can remember.  I remember when I Love Lucy couldn't say 1 bad word.  It actually wasn't until the 80's when the Golden Girls started saying Bitch.  Then before you know it, cop dramas started saying Shit.  Hey, if they can say it on TV, then I can say it in here.

The cartoon South Park says a lot of bad words like God Damn.  They say it all the time.  That's like the ultimate bad word because it has God in it.  You can't say that on tv.  Well, apparently they can because they do and they've carried it over to every other show on tv.

Now, this word I know isn't a bad word, in fact it's just silly.  Douche Nozzle.  I've been calling people a douche bag for years since I was in junior high school, even though I had no clue what it was until high school.  But you know, people have been saying that as long as douche's have been around I'm sure.

Last night, on Knight Rider, the female lead Sarah called Michael a douche nozzle lol.  I was like OMG I can't believe she just said that.  Yeah I've heard it in the movies but I've never heard it on TV coming from a woman.  And I don't mean that to sound like a double standard so I don't want to get emails or bad comments but you know, I was shocked to hear it from HER.  LOL

Credit Scams

I've been getting these phone calls from credit companies trying to recover a huge amount of money from a person with the same name as mine as well as this persons wife named Amanda McDonald.  Well, I can safely say that I am not married or dating a woman named Amanda or any other woman's name for that matter.

Last year I got a call from one of those places that give you money when you give them a check and they hold the check until your next payday.  I never ever go to those places at all.

Also last year I got a call saying I owed $50,000 which I know I don't owe.  I told them that I don't owe them and it's not me and I was stupid enough to give them the last 4 digits of my social security number.

Yesterday I got a call and they said my name and I said yes and then she said Amanda and I said you know what, there is no Amanda McDonald here, there never was and never will be, you got the wrong person.  The lady said thank you and hung up.

Well, about an hour ago I got a phone call saying that I owe money for a Suzuki car.  Uh, I don't think so.  I never learned how to drive and I definitely don't have a drivers license.  I definitely do not have a Suzuki vehicle and if I did they could come and repossess it, but I don't have one so they are SOL.

Thankfully I am a member of LifeLock and I called them up to tell them what happened and they told me that there are a lot of people out there who are trying to scam you out of your money and because of today's economy they can't make money any other way but to try to steal it from other people.  They send me a credit report from all 3 credit bureau's every year and there was nothing on it the last time and the woman from LifeLock said that I should be getting another one in a month and half so if it's not there (the car) then don't worry about it, it's probably a scam.

Don't listen to phone(y) people because they are most likely lying to you to get your money.  They will try to convince you to give them your social security number to verify their claim but you cannot give that number to them.  The only way you should ever give that information out is if you called them.  What you should do is ask them what company they are calling from then look it up on the internet and then call them.  If they don't respond then hang up.  If there is a phone number listed on the caller ID then call the police and give them that number and they can investigate it.  If it says Unknown Caller or Private Caller that is also a way to know that it's fake.  This call I got today said Unknown.  A credit company will have their name and number on your Caller ID.  Don't be fooled into giving away your good name.

Thank you Pepsi

Last week, the American Family Association launched a boycott of PepsiCo. The AFA boycott is based, in part, on the PepsiCo Foundation's support of PFLAG’s Straight for Equality in the Workplace project.

I got this email today from PFLAG saying to call the Pepsi Company to thank them and tell them that I will only buy Pepsi products from now on because I am a PFLAG member.

I will, but before I do I would just like to rant about something.  Why is it that the AFA hates gay people so much?  I mean, what did we do to them but be gay?  We didn't hurt their chances of having equal rights like they did us.  So why are they boycotting a company for saying hey, we like gay people and we support them in the work place?  All gay people ever wanted was equal rights, to be treated like a human being and not be told that we can't have a piece of paper that says that we are joined together as one.  That we can do our taxes as a couple and not individuals.

I'm just really confused.  Is this not the year 2009?  Have gay people been around throughout time?  Yes they have.  Michelangelo was gay.  I can't think right now of all the gay people throughout history but there is record of gay people all throughout time.  Did you know that gay people were in the concentration camps in WWII?  Yes, where do you think the pink triangle came from?  While the jews wore a star of david to show that they are jewish, the gay people were forced to wear a pink triangle to show they were homosexual.  And did you know that during this time the jews treated the gays the same exact way the germans did?  Oh yes my friend, gay people have been persecuted as long as there has been persecution.

In the 1970's gay people reclaimed the triangle, turned it upside down and used it as a symbol.  So this I tell the AFA.  We're here, we're queer, get used to it cause we're not going away.  Gay people have been around since the dawn of time and we're going to be here until the end of time so get over it.

UFO's

I just watched a History On-Demand show about UFO's in Arizona.  This isn't a new episode, in fact the footage they have of the alleged "UFO's" are from 1995 and 1997.

What I believe is that human beings cannot be so arrogant to think that out of the entire universe, the infinite space, that WE are the only life.  Our planet can't be the only planet that can sustain life.  I mean come on, give me a break.  Even if other planets out there just have animals and no intelligent life, we aren't the only beings in infinite space.

I may be arrogant at certain times of my life but I'm not that arrogant.

I'm sure that there are other intelligent creatures out there who are capable of building a space craft capable of flying through space from galaxy to galaxy, planet to planet.  If they are, they are probably trying to see what's going on.  Although, they can observe from space, they don't have to swoop down and hover above cities that are occupied at 7pm at night and be seen.  They can see our Sattellites and monitor them whether it be cell phone conversations, sattellite tv shows, sattellite radio channels, military radio channels.  They can monitor without being seen.  They may be intelligent but who knows, they might not be that bright lol.

If they didn't want us to know they exist they wouldn't be hovering above a city in Arizona at night with all the lights on.  If they could monitor the people they would know when bedtime is for everyone and come from 1am - 4am.  So since they are hovering above the city at 7pm then wouldn't that mean that they want humans to see them?  They want us to know that they are watching, they want us to be comfortable with the idea before they try to communicate with us.

But then again I could be wrong, it was probably flares.  And this is just another rant and ramblings post lol.

Drew Peterson's Fiance Moves In

Drew Peterson's Fiance Moves In

Remember Drew Peterson who's wife disappeared?  This is the Bolingbrook cop.  Wife number 3 allegedly drowned and wife number 4 is still missing although he still isn't a suspect for that one.  And now he has another one who would be wife number 5.  Isn't she just a little bit nervous dating him?

And speaking of dating... what the f is he dating for?  His wife is still missing.  She might have been kidnapped and wants to come back to him.  Or she might have run away or something.  The point is, there is no body so he is still married to her.  He can't get married to another woman until they know for a fact that she is truly dead.

But whether she is dead or not is totally not the point.  It's too soon to start dating someone else and having her move in.  I mean come on, the body isn't even in the ground and he's already disrespecting his wife by moving in another woman.  If it were me, I'd be looking for her and doing everything in my power to find her even if it means looking for a corpse instead of a living person.  I wouldn't be dating other women and trying to find a replacement.  Does this man have no shame?

According to the link above, if Stacy Peterson doesn't respond in 30 days, his marriage is legally over and he can get married.

Cake Anyone?

I like cake.  I guess you could say I love cake.  I love cake so much that if I died and they did an autopsy on me they would find that I have frosting flowing through my veins.

I was watching this show on Food channel which isn't a channel I normally watch because I find myself drooling after awhile lol. This show was called Ace of Cakes and they really do make some cool looking cakes.  I have to give them props for that.  I went to their website to see how much they charge for a cake.  They say that since all of their cakes are different they can't give you a specific price but they require a minimum of $1000 for all their cakes.

HOLY COW!  $1000?  For a cake?  I like cake but not that much.  Sorry but I can't afford a $50 cake.  The best I can do are the $15 cakes at Albertsons.  If I were ordering cake for a wedding that would be one thing and even then I'd probably be looking at $200 at best.  But for a birthday party, the birthday boy/girl will have to settle for either homemade or grocery store cake lol.

Friendly Spam

Is there such thing as friendly spam?  I don't know, all I know is I much prefer spam fried and on bread with mayo.

I get a lot of emails every day advertising something like porn, penis enlargement, weight loss, and from various companies like Pepsi and Dairy Queen and even news emails from newsmax.com.  I don't care for them, I just immediately delete them, that is if they don't find themselves in my spam folder.

If it wasn't bad enough getting those spam emails, I get tons of other spam from people that I know.  Friends send me spam constantly.  I get either petitions or chain letters and they are all guilting me into sending them to 10 or more people.  The petitions say that I have to sign my name at the end of the email then forward it to 10 people and those 10 people sign it and forward it.  First of all, those petitions don't do any good because they never get to who they are intended to go to and 2nd whoever they are sent to don't take them seriously.

The chain ones say if you don't send it out to 10+ people you will have bad luck.  I don't believe they will give me good or bad luck.  No voodoo priestess enchanted an email to give you good or bad luck OK.  There is no luck with chain letters or chain emails.

The spam I hate, really really hate are religious emails that friends and family send me.  Sometimes that's all they send me and when I email them they don't even respond to my emails at all so I start to wonder why I even have them in my address book at all.  Why don't I just block their emails from coming to me.  I hate religious emails.  It's like they are shoving their god or Jesus down my throat.  I don't send gay emails to everyone shoving homosexuality down their throats so what gives them the right to do that to me?

This one person who I met on the greyhound as I was going to visit my aunt in 2000 or something who I gave my email address to sends me nothing but religious emails and yesterday she spammed me with about 10 emails with all of her YouTube videos.  Yeah, I've seen them and they aren't new, I don't know why she feels the need to share them with me again.  One of them is a video of this guy in his 50's or 60's and he's sleeping with a laptop on his lap and he's sleeping sitting up but hunched over the computer and she's laughing and saying MySpace addict.  I didn't see MySpace up on the screen.  It was just the desktop with icons.  How does that make him a MySpace addict?  It just makes him a laptop addict.  That makes no sense to me so I don't even respond to it.

Frankly, I'm sick of getting emails from anybody because that's the only crap they send me.  I think there are 2 people who send me emails with conversation in them who I correspond with and that's it.  All the rest feel the need to spam me on a daily basis.  I don't mind the jokes or the puppy/kitty/baby pictures, those I love to see and the jokes and comic strips are really funny.  But don't shove god/chain/petitions down my throat unless you are prepared to get a 20 page email about homosexuality.

WTF?

It's not what you think.  WTF stands for Work Time Fun.  I got this game last night because I have been extremely bored.  I can't crochet anymore and all the games I have I've played and even though I'm not finished with them I wanted something new.  I still have that $25 gift card for Game Stop but I don't know when I'll be able to use it so until then I got this.

It was only $9.99 at the PlayStation Store and it has all these mini games inside it like counting chicks for example.  There are 3 types of chicks.  Male, Female and Dead lol.  You push the chicks over with the right arrow button on the left side of the PSP then you decide where it goes.  If it's a female chick you press the X, if it's male you press the O and if it's dead you press the triangle and it goes to heaven.

There is also a game called Pendimonium (I think that's the name) where you work in a pen factory and you have to put the caps on pens.  But some come out upside down so you have to turn it right side up, put the cap on it then go to the next one.

Yeah, it does strain your eyes and it does seem to be strange but oddly addictive.

One of the games is similar to frogger, you have to get this little guy safely to the other side and keep him from getting hit by a car and you gotta eat the mushrooms in the road along the way.  Yeah, you have to be doing mushrooms to play this one lol.

There is a baseball one which I am terrible at and a boxing game where all you do is press the x button many times but I never win that one.

Oh talk about winning, WTF is like a job, you have to "go to work" by doing these mini games and you get a paycheck depending on what tasks you've done.  Since I just got the game I'm not that far into it so I can't explain what you get in this game but one of the things I saw from YouTube is you get this fun little thing that is eyeballs and from what I've seen on YouTube that is really fun especially for parties lol.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LnSXOEaV4

EverQuest

In March 2007 I paid for 2 years of my EverQuest subscription and that 2 years is up in a couple of months.  Before they automatically charge me for another 2 years for $200 I would like to prevent getting shot in the foot by myself of course for not canceling in time lol.

I really had a good time in EQ for the 6 years I played it.  The last year doesn't count for my 7 years because I haven't played it for a year.  But the amount of time I did play it was so much more fun than I could even say.

Every time I got online someone would invite me to a group and if they didn't I would have to just go to a zone where I knew would be populated and start shouting or saying out of character /ooc that I'm available by saying my race, class and level followed by LFG (Looking for group).

I had so much fun playing with friends and strangers would usually become friends unless they were a douche in the game then I'd never see them again.  I can't replace the fun that I've had but just hope that I get something similar to it again in my life.  Maybe perhaps in real life?  Then again I don't know anyone who wants to kill gnolls or giant skeletons.

I still have until mid March to play it so I'm going to be making some appearances here and there to say hi before I can no longer log into the game.

I heard that Sony will store all of your stuff in their systems for 6 months but after that you either have to pay for 1 month then cancel again and do that every 6 months or you just lose everything.  I don't know, maybe things have changed.  We will find out soon enough.  I would like to sell my account since I highly doubt I will ever play the game again.  But then again I'd only consider it if it's someone that I know and know for a fact that he knows how to play a high level wizard.  I don't want to sell it to someone who has no clue what he/she is doing.  That would be a definite insult.  And they must change the name from Xanapus to something else.  I don't want anyone to have that name but me.

Guy eats his eyes?!?!

Texas Inmate Pulls Out Eye, Eats It

GASP!  This guy killed his wife and 2 kids, pulls their hearts out of their chests, puts them in a plastic bag and throws them away then he turns himself in.  Then while in prison he pulls out his eye and eats it!  Then he takes his other eye and eats that too!  WTF!  DUDE!

Where is Nancy Grace when we need her?

Nancy Grace / Casey Anthony

Edit: Before you read this, this post has nothing to do with Casey or Caylee Anthony or the case currently going on so if you are doing research then I feel it's best if you look at the next google result which is probably where you found this.  This was a rant because I was annoyed with seeing the same thing over and over again and I meant no disrespect to Nancy Grace, Caylee Anthony or her family.  Thank you.

God love Nancy Grace.  She is on this Casey Anthony kick where every episode of her show is all about this tragedy with Caylee Anthony.  Isn't anything else happening in the world that she can talk about?

I stopped watching her show because it's all the same stuff, showing the video of her in jail talking to her parents and her brother on the little screens and talking to people about this and that.  I think that if there is a development in the case then fine, come back to it but come on, give is something else.

Sure, she had 1 episode this week about Jett Travolta but at the very end it said "Remembering Caylee Anthony".  UGH!  Why not Remembering Jett Travolta?

I love Nancy Grace, she's brash and honest and isn't afraid to speak her mind and I love that about her.  But I mean come on, talk about something else.

I really feel sorry for this child who was brutally murdered and I'm shocked that a mother would do this, looking up neck breaking and how to make chloraform and actually kill her child like this.  Don't get me wrong.  I just don't want to hear it night after night.

Recession Weight

Will Americans put on "recession pounds"? - Link Broken

According to this article, a study has shown that because of the recession we are in people are going to start buying cheaper foods and not paying the extra amount for fruits and veggies and because cheaper foods are higher in sugar and saturated fat, they will gain weight.

It used to be that the only people who were fat were royalty because they were so rich they could eat all the food they want so being obese was a sign of wealth.  Now, being obese is a sign of poverty.

I've basically been poor for the last 21 years lol.  Since I turned 17 and was homeless until now.  When I was a smoker I was always thin but when I quit smoking I gained weight because food took the place of the cigarettes.  I gained a huge appetite since then.  When I go to the grocery store for food I buy whatever is on sale like the boxes of shells and white cheddar or Fettuccine Alfredo or I'll buy the little mini pizzas that are 10 for $10.  And the banquet TV dinners are almost always 10 for $10.

Since people are so busy working (if they didn't lose their job) they don't have time to exercise and they use that as an excuse not to exercise but there are always ways to overcome that like riding your bike to work or if you don't live that far, walk.  And taking the stairs instead of the elevator and you don't have to pig out on the vending machine food, you can bring some baby carrots with you for a snack or a banana or an apple.  Those aren't expensive to buy.  I have an orange tree so my oranges are free.

Tom Cruise On The View

This morning I wake up (late) and go into the living room and the view is on the tv set.  Now normally I'd go back in my room and get on the computer or something because I don't normally sit and watch this show.  Rosie ruined it for me frankly.  And it's a chick show.

But I sat there and they announced Tom Cruise.  Now normally I would get up and go into the other room if I heard his name but I sat there and watched.  This is the Tom Cruise that I like and have missed for such a long time.  He wasn't outrageous, he didn't jump on a couch or call Barbara Walters Glib.  He did the interview the way he should have by answering questions.

If he keeps this good behavior up he just might get back into the good graces of people and they might start paying to see his movies again.

They asked him about Jett Travolta about medication and seeing a doctor and he said that it simply isn't true, in fact it's the opposite, yes the scientologists take their kids to the doctor and get them medication for whatever illness they have.  His whole thing with Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer was that "he" doesn't believe in psychiatry or something.  But that was probably his belief and not Scientology.  He was basically speechless about Jett's death.

He finished the show and he was just perfect in this interview, just perfect.  Good for him and I hope things work out for him.

Plastic Bag Crochet

Plastic Bag Crochet - CRAFT Video Podcast

Last night I was looking around for recycling ideas and I found a way to recycle those plastic grocery bags you get from the store.  Instead of just throwing them away you can create things with them like you can make a more sturdy grocery bag by crocheting pieces that you cut.  I didn't cut mine in such big pieces but I did more thinner pieces but I was able to crochet a granny square (see below) to see how easy or hard it would be.

I think this is a neat idea if you are obsessed with recycling.  As you can see in this image I didn't finish the square but the amount you see is from exactly 1 plastic bag not including the handles.  But I did what the woman in the YouTube video (in the first paragraph) did by looping the pieces.  Since my pieces were much thinner they were also more fragile and I'm not sure how durable this square would be if I were to actually make something out of it.  I'm not sure if I turned it into a grocery bag that it wouldn't break since the pieces are thinner.  If I wanted a grocery bag out of it then I'd cut the pieces in 1 inch pieces like she did just for the durability.



Check this out.  These women in Kenya gather plastic bags that have been dumped and they clean the bags and dry them then they crochet them into different things.

Plastic Bag Crochet Project

Patterns

Ohio Mom Killed In Home Invasion

Ohio Boy, 4, Found at Rest Stop After Mother Killed During Home Invasion

Man held on $5M bond in slaying of Ohio mom  - Link to news story is broken.

This really gets to me.  This 22 year old guy in Ohio allegedly invades a home, ties the mother up and then shoots her before kidnapping her son.

"Authorities say he shot and killed the 29-year-old mother in her home and drove her son to an Interstate 70 rest area in central Ohio, where travelers found him wandering around."

This is really disgusting.  He apologized and said "my fault".  Pahleez!  I don't want to hear it.

This is what they are saying on Jane Velez Mitchell on HLN that the child was raped while the mother who was tied up was forced to watch.  But the 2 news stories above don't mention that part.

The poor kid is scared to death.  According to ABC he has no physical scars and he jumps at every little noise.

"Nelson said that while William bears no physical scars from the incident, he's having a hard time coping with what he saw.

"He's terrified," Nelson said of his only child. "Loud noises are just really disturbing to him."

When one of William's young cousins knocked a toy truck down the stairs, he "just from the noise from that, he jumped a mile."

This poor child.  I really feel sorry for him.  This 22 year old guy who did this will probably never see the light of day and he will probably be murdered in prison because the other inmates don't like people who harm children.  And if he did indeed rape this little boy they will indeed rape him before killing him.

PS3 Flower

You remember my video for Flow for the PSP?  Well, Sony has done it again but with a different theme.  This isn't about micro-organisms but instead about flowers.  It's the same concept though, you go with the flow but you are a flower pedal instead and you have to glide to other flowers to grow.  Then once you get so big you evolve into a certain flower.  Here is a video from YouTube.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BDG5ax_eTo&watch_response

Don't recycle paper?

Ok, I never heard of this but according to Penn and Teller, you don't need to recycle paper because it wastes resources to recycle paper.  So if you really want to recycle paper read my previous post about Bill Nye.  Otherwise just watch this video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqATKjAe91E

Bill Nye Paper Recycling Factory

Bill Nye and the Elmers company have come out with this product for kids (and older kids like me) that allows you to recycle paper. It's called Bill Nye Paper Recycling Factory and is currently for sale at Target.com for $25

You shred paper like newspaper, paper that you printed and messed up with or like notepaper that you don't need anymore etc.  Any paper.  Then you put it in this little bowl and mix it with water then put the lid on and crank it to mix it all up.

Once it's all mixed up you pour it into this mold and then you press it to squeeze the water out and shape it so you get a nice piece of paper that is the perfect size that you are looking for.

You can make it into card stock for greeting cards, small sheets for note pads and on the cover of the box they have a star shaped plate to make star paper.  I'm sure there are lots of shapes.

I think this is good for kids so you can have them make their own paper from your newspapers so they can color and draw on so you aren't wasting any more paper.  If they make a mistake, they can recycle that sheet too hehe.

I would like to get this to make card stock for making greeting cards.  I'm sure that you would be able to put this paper into your printer to print on if it is solid enough and smooth enough just like regular paper is.  And I'm sure you can add food coloring to it so you can have colored paper instead of just white.

Game Stop

I haven't been able to get to Game Stop yet to use my $25 gift card that I got from e-rewards because we haven't gone to the mall yet.  I don't want to make a special trip just for this.

I went to Game Stops website to check what they have and to see if it's in stock or not but I'm sure by the time I get there those games won't be there anymore.  So... I guess I have to just wait until we get there to see what they have.

I would like Untold Legends (1 of the 2) or Ratchet and Clank.  That game has a Daxter look to it, graphics wise that is.  I do plan on buying used though because it doesn't matter to me if it's new or used, they don't get scratched up like a regular CD or DVD does.

I was hoping that they would have either the GPS or the Camera available by the time I got this but even if it was available I don't have the money to cover the rest of the cost of it.  At least with used games I can get a couple, or a few depending on the cost.  And if it goes over by a couple dollars I can certainly cover that.  I wouldn't ever buy a movie only because I would probably only watch it once, there are only so many movies I'd watch over and over again.

Happy Birthday Elvis

Hey it's Elvis Presley's 74th birthday if he were still alive.

Jett Travolta

My heart goes out to the family of Jett Travolta.  The Travolta family, John, Kelly Preston and their 2 children were in the Bahamas enjoying a family vacation and their son Jett allegedly had a seizure and fell and hit his head and he passed away.  I don't know the exact details though so that's why I say allegedly.

I had seizures when I was an infant all the way up until I was about 15 years old.  I had grandmall and petimall type seizures.  I wasn't epileptic though but I have a feeling that my seizures weren't because of epilepsy but instead because of a medication they were giving me.

When I was born I was really shaky.  I had a mild tremble in both my hands which I still have to this day.  I was given Dilantin for the shaking and I ended up having seizures.  They stopped giving it to me for many years, I believe from age 9 until 14, then started giving it to me again when I was 15 and the seizures started up again but they still didn't contribute it to the Dilantin.  They switched me to Mysolin (sp?) and I had a severe allergic reaction to that medicine and nearly died.  All of a sudden I had a rash from head to toe and that's the bodies way of telling you that it doesn't like the medication you are giving it.

Well, back to the Travolta family.  I personally like John Travolta.  I watched Grease a billion times in the 70's, my sister and I would do the duets together because we both had the entire script memorized lol.  Sad I know.  I especially love that he doesn't shove Scientology down peoples throats like Mr. Cruise did for 1 year.  He just does his thing and I like that.  He and Kirsty Alley who I love too.  I personally wish that people would stop reporting on Jett's tragedy because it was an accidental death.  Nobody is to blame and just leave them alone.

I heard on some news show yesterday, I think it was Nancy Grace, she was talking about the release of the autopsy results to the media, she was actually defending the family saying it was a private matter that there was no wrong doing so it is absolutely none of anybody's business and they absolutely should not release the autopsy results which I totally 100% agree with.  It was a tragedy and the Travoltas deserve their privacy during this tough time in their lives.

Don't Text and Drive

As of January 1st 2009 it is illegal to text while drive.  Ok, who does this?  Seriously.  I have trouble picking up a drink while driving then trying to find the hole to put it back.  I can't even eat an ice cream cone while driving without worrying I'm going to end up in a ditch if ice cream drips and falls on my leg when I'm wearing shorts.

Well, now that you can't text and drive anymore you have much more time to watch tv or play Daxter on your new PSP-3000.  Just make sure you look over the PSP every once in awhile to make sure you see the road but of course pause your game first if you think about it.

Now you have time to shave while driving.  Putting on your eye liner in the mirror.  Don't forget to make sure you have a lot of sloppy food while you eat.  That isn't illegal yet.

Obama Stimulus

FOREX-Dollar boosted by Obama stimulus, ECB rate cut view

"U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, seeking as much as $310 billion in tax cuts, is proposing that about 40 percent of the package worth up to $775 billion be in the form of tax breaks."

Barack Obama is looking to give the American people another stimulus package but not the way Bush did in 2008.  Instead this will be in the form of a tax break.  How does this work exactly?  If you are a regular low/middle class citizen working in fast food, grocery, retail, furniture sales etc. and you already have money taken out of your checks every week to pay taxes, how will this work?  Especially if every year you get money back from your taxes.

I can remember when I turned 18 I had to start filing my taxes and at tax season my sister took me to H&R Block and they did my taxes with my pay stubs and I usually got a few hundred dollars back.  This was in the 80's though.  I can remember when I was 23 and went to H&R Block they said I owed $50.  I was really looking forward to getting some money because I was broke by that point.  I asked why I owed because they took taxes out of EVERY paycheck and they said it had to do with George Bush Sr., whatever he did to taxes in the early 90's.  Although, I seem to recall that Clinton was president when this happened in 1994.

Anyway, if someone is on SSI, do they get a check at tax season or do they just have to deal with getting nothing?  I guess we will all find out in a few months.

Taking Down Christmas Tree

The other day I took all the Christmas ornaments off the tree but left the tree up because I knew it would be a bitch taking it down and I didn't really want to go through all that just yet.  I promised myself yesterday that today I would take it all down and I've gotten the first 3 layers off.  Now I just need to get the bottom all together so I can tie it up and remove it from the base then carry it all to it's box in the shed.

Boy oh boy what a job it is too.  OMG I'm taking a break because my back is just killing me.  Well, I guess I better get back to it.

Edit:  And Christmas is DOWN and DONE!

Game Stop e-Rewards

Last year I started going to e-rewards website and did some surveys hoping to gain some money for it but found out that they don't give you cash or well, a check, they give you rewards in the form of gift cards for certain places.  A lot of those rewards are for like airline stuff or bed bath and beyond or magazines or something.  The one thing that caught my eye was that I could get Game Stop rewards.

If you have $50 in rewards in your account you can get a $25 gift card for Game Stop.  Yeah, I know, what about the other $25?  I guess I lose it.  And you can only get 1 card per quarter.  I think it was in late November when I submitted my $50 in e-rewards for the game stop card but I finally got it today so it takes a little over a month to get it.  Like 6 weeks I would say.

I don't know what I'm going to buy with it though.  I was kinda hoping that the GPS would be available by now because according to the convention from last year in January or February or whenever it was, the GPS add-on for the PSP was supposed to be out by Christmas 2008.  I didn't see it.

I'll probably either hold on to the card for awhile until something good comes out or maybe I'll just buy a game.  I read that there will be a game that uses the camera attachment and they will be sold together some time this year so maybe I'll wait for that.  I can at least take pictures using that on my PSP then email them to people straight from my PSP.  I think...

Real Housewives of Orange County

Ok, like I was sitting in the living room and like Chip turned on Bravo and like the Real housewives of OC was on and like Vicki was like yelling at like Jeana because she was defending Mike and I was like you go Jeana.  And Vicki was like DON'T DEFEND MIKE and I was like hey girlfriend don't be hatin....

Eh hem... sorry, something got over me, all of a sudden I was a woman.

Ok.  First of all.  This is what happened.  Vicki was married to her husband named Mike and they have a child together but Mike is an alcoholic and so Vicki leaves him with their child all the way across the country from Chicago to California leaving Mike high (pun intended) and dry (also intended lol).  They were talking about how he has no right to be in his childs life and how he hasn't paid 1 dime in child support.

I'm sure that fight was edited and it was much longer, I don't know but I'm standing up for Jeana.  She may or may not know first hand but I do.

My mother left my sisters father because he was abusive to her.  She had gotten married to him at an early age and had my sister at the age of 18 years old.  The way my mom told the story she was 16 but she was 20 when she had me and my sister is only 2 years older so I know for a fact that she was 18.  Anyway, she left him and wouldn't let him see his own daughter and he had to resort to stalking his own kid by watching her play in the school yard.  He would write her letters and put them in the mail and my sister never got 1 letter because my mom and stepdad would read them and throw them away.  My sister finally found him last year in 2008.

Me, my mom had a sexual relationship with a guy who was married to another woman then he broke it off with her because he didn't want to hurt his own wife and family so he did the right thing but she never even told him that she was pregnant.  I'm sure she thought she was doing the right thing but at the same time he deserves to know he has a kid.  His mom, my grandmother, was in my life for the first few years of my life until my mom and step father moved to Bakersfield and we never saw my grandmother again.  I have no memories of her at all.

Taking children away from their father not only hurts the father, it hurts the child so don't tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about because I know first hand.

/rant off

Flower Attacking Shanaynay

This morning at like 6am I get woken up by Chip who tells me that the cat got out of the kitchen and she ran under my bed.

We keep her outside in our patio normally because she likes it out there.  It's like being outside without actually being outside.  But it's been so cold that we've been bringing her in and keeping her locked up in the kitchen.  Why?  Because of 2 reasons.  1 It was so hard to get the cat hair out of the carpet because it was literally weaved in there.  And 2 our little chihuahua eats the cats poop in the litter box so we keep her in the kitchen.

Ok, now I have to tell you this first before I continue.  Chip started this thing with Flower where he hits me and Flower goes balistic on him and it's all in fun, she knows that he's playing with her and she plays along.

Well, I was laying in my bed holding Flower on my pillow and in my arms and since she had just come back from being outside she was cold and so it helps her get warm again.  Well, the cat jumped up on the bed and Flower almost bit her face off lol.  Poor kitty.  She ran under the bed right away.  I brought Flower to Chip and got shanaynay out from under the bed and held her in my arms on my pillow and she purred and didn't struggle for at least 20 min.  I was almost asleep when I could feel her starting to struggle so I put her outside on the patio which I knew was where she wanted to be.

211

In this economy a lot of people who are normally on a low income like social security or any other type of public assistance or women who have a few children but no daddy for their children to take responsibility are under a lot of pressure now more than ever.  They just can't afford food anymore.  The price of everything at the store is so high, I can barely buy groceries.

A neighbor told me yesterday that he dialed 211 and they sent him to this place in Kern County where they gave him 2 huge boxes of food as well as a crapload of bread (like english muffins, bagels, bread loafs etc).  One of the boxes had an obsene amount of baby carrots.  The other box had canned foods.  I don't care how hungry I am, I'm not gonna sit there and eat baby carrots all day.  And all that bread was a complete waste because he has no freezer space to shove it all in.

At any rate, if someone is having a real hardship dial 211 and you can get help with whatever like a homeless shelter or maybe perhaps they might help you pay a bill so your electric and gas wont be shut off in this cold weather.  Or you just need some food.  Or maybe if you just cannot find a job because of the economy maybe they might be able to help you where nobody else can.

Christmas Down

Christmas is over but I don't take the tree down until after the new year. I've put it off long enough and so I finally got all the decorations down, in ziplock bags and boxes and when I catch my breath I will take the tree apart.

MOO

Last year I was sent an email from Yahoo about their pictures part of their website closing down and that they would transfer it all to Flickr for me.  Well, I was going through Flickr and found a link in there that went to Moo.com which is a company based in London, England that prints the pictures you select from Flickr onto mini business cards, stickers, note pads and greeting cards.

Well, I thought that was so cool and had to place an order for some business cards.  I chose 8 different pictures, some of our cat and some of my childhood and had 100 mini cards made up.  These aren't traditional business cards because they are more than half the size but instead they are more like little calling cards.  You don't use them in business, you give them to friends and acquaintances.

The cards are really thick too and they look so neat.  They came in this hard plastic box and they even sell card holders that hold anywhere from 8 to 25 cards made out of different materials like plastic, felt, leather and acrylic.

It took about a couple of weeks to get from England to the United States and they actually got here a lot sooner than I thought they would.

Check them out at www.moo.com.

These are the pictures that I chose for my cards:

Torchwood

The last we saw, Qwen, Ianto and Jack were all that survived Torchwood.  The show will be coming back this year possibly in March 2009.  I'm looking forward to seeing who will fill in the 2 slots.  I'm hoping that it will be Martha Jones and Mickey who was Rose Tylers boyfriend in Doctor Who series 1.  He has had a lot of experience with the Cybermen and working for Torchwood in the alternate universe so I'm pretty sure he would be a good choice to work with these guys.

If these 2 aren't going to be on the show I really hope that they pick some good choices.  I also hope that they announce them soon before I explode.

11th Doctor

I've been holding my breath ever since I found out that David Tennant was leaving Doctor Who which has become one of my favourite shows including spin offs like Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures.

There has been rumors and speculation the last few days that Patterson Joseph would be the 11th doctor and some even though that the guy from the Christmas special would be the 11th doctor but he wasn't.  I really think he would've made a good doctor too.

But alas, today aired the Doctor Who Confidential revealing that Matt Smith will be the next doctor.  I had gotten myself all psyched up about Patterson Joseph being the 11th doctor but I'm even more excited about Matt Smith because he's young and he's cute and he just has that Doctor look about him with his hair and he just has a doctor face to me.  I am really looking forward to seeing him in 2010.

Infinite

I've been hearing this word being used lately that sounds weird to me.  People are saying Infinite but pronouncing it like In-fy-nyte but it's pronounced In-fuh-nit.

The definition of this word is unlimited like say for example, space is infinite because it's so big it just never ends.

It confuses me when I hear people saying this word wrong because I think they are saying something else.  I heard it at Christmas time several times by 2 people and now I just heard it on TV.

It sort of reminds me of the word Nuclear.  It is pronounced noo-klee-er but I hear people like George Bush saying nu-cu-ler.

By the way, the links in this blog are from Dictionary.com and they each have a Hear button that you can click which plays a persons voice (man and woman) with the correct pronunciation.

No More Crocheting

Last night I was crocheting a granny square and I could feel the pressure in my left wrist from the carpel tunnel.  I was going to just do a few squares a day to be able to do my crocheting but not over do it but I guess I over did it.

It was fun while it lasted though but unfortunately I have to stop for awhile again.  I'm making a blanket with granny squares with all different colors with a black border.  It will look nice once it's finished but I will have to wait a long time to finish it I guess.

Generic

Normally I don't mind buying generic stuff from the store like q-tips, it's all the same, right?  Or canned veggies like corn or peas.  It's all the same.  We buy the brand called Shoppers Value from Albertson's.  We get the shoppers value milk because it's 2 gallons for $5 and with the cost of groceries going up because of gas prices over the last few years you can use as many savings as you can.

There are however a few products that are generic that I just will not buy like macaroni and cheese.  I'd much prefer the kraft because the generic just doesn't taste right.  The pasta is gross even when you cook it the same as kraft and it just doesn't taste right.  The generic toilet paper is 1 sheet, too thin.  I much prefer Charmin.

Today I bought shoppers value coffee.  I normally like to buy the beans that have those dispensers and you can grind it right there because the quality is so good.  I know it's not as much as a big can of folders coffee but it's really good and I have an espresso maker, you have to grind it special for that.  Well, I bought the shoppers value because regular folders coffee is $13 now.  I think it was hills brothers that was on sale for $10 but the shoppers value was only $7 so I bought it.  As soon as we got home I brewed a pot.  I don't like my coffee to be too strong so I just use 2 scoops of the coffee grounds and it lasts so much longer when I do that.  Well, I put some cream and sweet n low in my coffee and omg yuck it tasted like an ash tray.  I normally only use 1 sweet n low, I had to add 2 more for it to taste decent.

From now on I can just add coffee to my list of things I won't buy in generic.