Yep, here ladies and gentlemen!

Well, now that I know I will be well rested for the next week or so, I should really get off of here and clean the house.

But first, this lovely 'how-to' video. Not for the faint of heart, weak of heart or reckless. Not endorsed or recommended by any institution, including the P_W queendom.

Yes, 32 days after I first noticed my ear infection, it is still there after lulling me into complacency for a week or so. I am going to a specialist this time. I have odd ear problems.

I really don't want to go back to work tomorrow, being very nearly on the verge of tears from this ear ache. But I need to go so I can pay my bills and move from this house that I know is making me ill. Have I mentioned I am very sensitive to atmospheric pressures? Ridiculously so? Being higher in the mountains is better for me than living in a valley, like we do now.

Went to a dear friend of the family's funeral yesterday. He was 63 and had been battling diabetes for a long time.

His name was W.T. Hurt and he was someone I admired and respected very much.Even when we had wildly differing political views.  We trusted him to fix our cars and not rip us off. He has worked with both my 15 year old son to help him work towards his Eagle Scout when it looked as if his work would be held back by at least another year. He worked with and reached my 10 year old Aspie, not many people do that.

I am trying to crochet a simple comfort shawl for his widow. I don't know if it is because I have been crocheting for so long that I have forgotten how to read a pattern correctly, or if this dang ear ache is messing me up. But the shawl has been ripped out more times than I care to count. I guess I need to go to some crochet or knitting that is pretty much auto-pilot only. At least until I heal a bit.

Oh, a warning to everyone who reads this. I was planning on paying the electric bill this week. It was the first bill I had seen in nearly two months. Not uncommon with our mail carrier.  When I opened the bill, it was nearly $400. For many reasons, I had been going to a local store to pay our bills back in 2008. Guess who had paid over $300 at one of these local payment centers? Me. Guess who did not get credited for it? Me. Guess who tossed out the receipt from November because, well, it is January? Yep, me.

So, don't throw out receipts for paid bills until you A) have solid proof from the company you are paying to comes through or B) at least six months.

Yep, I should have my head examined. Hopefully by an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist soon. Very soon.

(any variations in spelling are purely coincidental. spelling does not really exsist)

Free Marriage
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

I get that this is a very volatile  campaign, but to hang someone in effigy?


Oh no, no, no. Not funny. Not cute. Not good at all.

Grow up Morisette.

Read the entire first post. Makes you really wonder about life.

I love this line. "The left brain dominant type suffers from limited approaches, narrow-mindedness." The best part of this line is not itself, but the next one. "The right brain dominant type suffers from too many approaches, scatterbrained."

Yeah! Both sides!

Can anyone find a source on this? [Former Gov. Tony Knowles (D)] broke new ground while answering a reporter's question on whether Wasilla forced rape victims to pay for their own forensic tests when Palin was mayor. True, Knowles said.

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Bush says we can't discriminate against those who discriminate against birth control.

It seems birth control was ok for him and his wife, but not for others. I want to know, is he going to take care of all of these extra people personally?

Water ninja!

I am sure most of you remember Sally Kern, the Representative from Oklahoma who did not like the concept of an openly gay person wining a public office. Ms. Kern  spoke at great length on the issue during a meeting while at work one day not long ago. 

Ms. Kern then went on to defend her speech, which blamed gays for everything from declining morals to pimples, on the steps of the Legislature of Oklahoma. The nation reacted and said they greatly disagreed.

How much so? To vote in the first openly gay mayor of one of the 30 largest cities in the US. 

*ps  I did take one small bit of literary license with my statement. See if you can find it.

Once again, the people of Burma are suffering but not from the cyclone that ripped through the area last week.


<I>The monks who spearheaded an uprising last fall against Burma's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims.

But the junta has moved to curb the Buddhist clerics' efforts, even as it fails to deliver adequate aid itself.</I>

A truly distrubing claim says that '<I> the junta is hoarding high-quality foreign aid for itself while people make do with rotten food</I>'.

The courts in California lifted the ban on same-sex marriage today.

There was rejoicing in the streets by many and a great deal of muttering under one's breath as well. Mainly concern for the children. The last time I checked, children did not marry. At least not in California.

But I want to know, if anyone reading this has an opinion,  why would children have anything to do with who marries whom? People can live together, have children and even get home loans together. Marriage is not in the cards.

If someone can please explain this to me, I would appreciate it.