Riddle me this, Batman? If the government can suddenly afford 3.6 Trillion to save the nations financial institutions that made poor decisions and took advantage of weak government regulations, where was that money when we needed health care for the elderly and under privileged, for the schools that can’t buy new books, and for the other organizations that help the citizens of this country??? Are those organizations getting any of that?? I guess you have to be bigger than AIG if you want to have a hand out for hand outs, and have fewer morals. While we are saving everyone but the organizations that deserve it, lets cut the military back like the last Democrat in office did and see if we can’t bring this war home and fight it here, too. I bet that would really take the focus off our failine economy now wouldn't it?? Maybe our priorities would shift a little in the correct direction.

I'm probably more Republican than Democrat, and I'm not saying the GOP handles things better all the time. But America is based on free enterprise, capitalism if you will. So let the people generate the revenue, fix the tax laws to allow that, stop taking money from the people who work to give it to the people who don't. The people who are able can work for the people who make the money, hello. The government should support government institutions like schools and such, hello. That is what the taxes are for.

When you can't afford to support your own government, isn't THAT the problem? You should pay for what you expect from your government, and once that price is too high, then it's time for change. And I don't think this "change" that was voted for is really the change we need.

It is not the time to let the government have tighter reign on what makes America great. Even as uneducated in politics as I am, I feel like we are on the brink of something far more scary than just a "bailout" to save our finances. I think we are about to allow the government to control more than we ever wanted them to.

Shit rolls downhill, friends. If the goverment controls the institutions that caused this, and it was the government's policies and half assed regulations that allowed this abuse, then eventually, indirectly, this means the goverment now controls my finances, your finances, our banks finances, our employers finances, etc.

This is the same government that just ended a contract for CONDEMS from a US company to buy condems for 1/2 price overseas. This will lay off 300 more workers as of next week. Condems, friends. Of all the things. What will they end for US companies next? Who gets to decide who gets bailed out and who gets laid off? Not us the ones paying for it, that's for sure.

Think about it. Do some research. Don't research CNN and Fox news, research economists, legitimate ones. See what they have to say. They'll scare you far more than any thriller movie.

Hermione the Healer

My kitten is such a goofball.  She has to sleep with her paw on something like she's healing whatever she is touching.  Spot looks SO pleased!!  LOL.......she also plays fetch.  It's hilarious.  Video coming soon!!

A new baby girl!!

This is Isabel Grace, my brand new niece that was born today!! She's a little clone of our grandmonther, Dorothy Edwards, whom we all miss dearly.

Congratulations Cecil and Stephanie!!

Sad

My best friend left yesterday. She'll be gone for a whole year. 60 days in Ft. Sill, OK then about 10 or 11 months in Iraq. It's going to be a long year.

What's the big grin for? I'll tell you...........

The big cheesy grin is because I just checked my little goal tracker on my support website and was very suprised to learn.................drum roll please........................



As of today I am 292 days smoke free!!!! Yes, TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO days I have not even held a cigarette in my little paw.



(insert chubby white girl happy dance here)

GRRRRRRRRRR

Somedays just aren't fun. Kunf Fu Hamster is going to kick some rear for me. He promised.

Work is actually bothering me for once, which is fairly unusual since I stopped traveling. My BFF is headed to Iraq in 3 days and I won't see her for a year. Not that we have ever lived in the same places and have gone longer without seeing each other, but it still sucks. I've been such a wreck lately, a total emotional roller coaster. Luckily, Terry just seems to roll with it. He find me, in tears in the living room. He asks what is wrong? I tearfully inform him that I'm tired of being the only person that cares about everything and that I hate the living room. Not that this makes ANY sense at all, but Terry (bless him) simply gets out a tape measure and starts measuring and comes up with a new living room arrangement. Not even a week later, I start getting upset again, and now the kitchen has been re-arranged. How do you re-arrange a kitchen, you ask? Well, I will tell you. First you have to have a house that is tiny by even Chinese standards. Then you have to have a ginormous refridgerator that just LOOMS wherever it desires because this house was not designed back in 1928 to house a fridge. Then, you have to have a useless 65 gallon fish tank that takes an entire day to move and it's always in my way when I want to make my house more efficient. Then you have to want a breakfast nook, but the fish tank prevents this. Then you have to cry, your fiance then helps move the fridge to another available electrical outlet, then you have to still be upset (but not showing it) that the fish tank is STILL there. Oh, and then add grease all over the floor from when your fiance decided to fry mushrooms like an Iron Chef. There was oil splattering everywhere, he was flipping mushrooms in the air, occasionally there were some impressive flames. The result? Very tasty, tender mushrooms with dinner and oil covering my stove, wall, and half my kitchen floor. And, that my friends, is how you re-arrange a kitchen that was never meant to house a refridgerator and a fish tank. Or an Iron Chef.

Oh yes, and my favorite plant died.

In loving memory of my rosemary tree........a moment of silence..........(insert cheesy music here)

SPRING MUST COME SOON!! FOR MY SANITY!!!

Here is hoping........

So over the weekend, I noticed some serious grumpiness on my part, starting on Saturday. By Sunday I was in the throes of yet another debilitating headache. I've had about 6 so far in the last 2 months. By 4am Monday morning, as I'm huddled on the living room couch, tears falling, Terry took me out to his oxygen tank that the VA gave him for his migraines. About 5 minutes of oxygen really seemed to take the edge off, and I was able to fall asleep until my alarm went off 2 hours later. I called in sick to work, and spent all day Monday hopped up on pain killers and muscle relaxers, which did nothing. I still had a headache all day. Tuesday morning I went to work with a headache. Out of desperation, I called my old chiropractor and they had an immediate opening. After some rather amusing confusion of WHERE my doc is located (he's moved since my last visit) he was able to get lots of pops and cracks out of my neck. By the time I got into my car, the pain in my head had changed from that constant ache to the sort of pain you know is on the downhill slope. By the end of the afternoon I was feeling really good and by this morning I was feeling rather AWESOME.

But the awesomeness is now dampened. Terry FINALLY went to court for his DUI charges. They've pushed the date several times, so it's been over 4 months now. They changed what he was going to be punished with right then and there, so what we were expecting to happen is 6 months suspended license, ACT classes, $1000 fine. What he got is 6 months suspended jail time, 5 days house arrest, 1 day in jail, $600 fine, 12 month suspended license, ACT classes, and to put the cherry on the cake, regular check in's with a parole officer and random UA's. She was kind enough to drop the fine by $400 because he'll have to pay extra for the parole supervision. What a peach. Any breach of anything, being late to a parole appointment, missing any of the $100 payments he'll make to Rimrock Foundation and P&P.......do not pass go, do not collect $200, Go directly to jail for 6 months.

But it's OVER, and so because I always try to find the good in everything, there it is. 4 months of waiting is finally over and we can finally make some plans and just move on. We've been preparing for this, and Terry has been dry since the day he was arrested. So the hard part is over. Thank goodness. Although this ordeal has had it's ups and mostly downs, I think we are stronger as a couple because of it. I think some very hard truths were faced and dealt with when things were at their worst, and we made it. I admit, I had my doubts, but we made it, and we'll make it through this as well.

So, a funny picture to lighten the mood.............