Yes We Did!

I'm so happy to be an American this afternoon.





For a better tommorrow. One Nation. Under God.

Election Day Prayer

Creator of us all:
You are the source of every blessing,the judge of every nation and the hope of earth and heaven:
We pray to you on the eve of this important and historic election.
We call to mind the best that is within us: That we live under God, that we are indivisible, that liberty and justice extend to all.
We acknowledge the sin that runs through our history as a nation: The displacement of native peoples, racial injustice, economic inequity, regional separation.
And yet we profess a deep and abiding gratitude for the goodness of ordinary people who have made sacrifices, who have sought opportunities, who have journeyed to this land as immigrants strengthening its promise in successive generations, who have found freedom on these shores, and defended this freedom at tremendous cost.
Be with us in the days that are near. Remind us that your ways are not our ways, that your power and might transcend the plans of every nation, that you are not mocked.
Let those who follow your Son Jesus Christ be a peaceable people in the midst of division.
Send your Spirit of peace, justice and freedom upon us, break down the walls of political partisanship, and make us one.
Give us wisdom to walk in your ways, courage to speak in your name, and humility to trust in your providence.
Amen.

Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Watch this and take notes!

http://perezhilton.com/2008-10-29-even-more-reasons-to-love-her-2

There is a new sheriff in town!

The indictment and arrest of my sheriff in my small town of Mayberry has created a frenzy. The media is going wild with this story. It's made headlines in NYC!

Allegedly Mr. Presgraves, the uncle to my friend Chris, whom was killed last year at this time in a motorcycle accident, was indicted on Money Laundering, Racketeering, Bribery, and the least shocking of all is the sexual assault charges. If convicted Danny could face up to 304 years.

Mr. Presgraves also allegedly 'stole' money from Page County. In excess of $100,000. He was also accused of being actively involved in a cockfighting ring here in mountains.


I believe that one is innocent until proven guilty and the FBI appearently feels as if they can prove the Sheriff guilty! I have ran into this man on severl different occasions. To call him perverted is an understatement. This man undresses you with his eyes and isn't ashamed to talk to your boobs when in deep converstation. Reading the indictment and the allegations about Mr Presgraves actually sickens me. According to one victim, she performed oral sex on him because he intimidated her to do it. Im wondering if this would constitute rape? However, I find it hard to believe that anyone wants her job so bad that she would suck his dick to keep her position. I doubt that, seriously.

Mr Presgraves has bad hair but isn't an unattractive man. To put it mildly, he abused his power, perhaps. It went to his head! (Pun intended)

http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/People/Athletes/NFL/Michael+Vick/0fgkdoD22U5UZ/1

www.whsv.com

Read up!

PALIN SEX SCANDAL

I can't believe the media is not picking up on this!!!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5onEdxx9zs

Its Britney Bitch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67GX-aiOfA

I haven't been so good to myself lately. I'm always caught up in whats going on with my family and never about myself. This takes me back to what my therapist once told me. He said I didn't love myself. That sentence alone knocks the breath out of me. I guess months of therapy never really fixed the problem either. I honestly don't know where to begin.

I've decided that my family and I have been spending way too much time together. I don't find the time for myself. I'm also a hypohondriac. I live in fear of getting the big C again. So I clean my house relentlessly hoping there is not a deadly molecule anywhere around my humble abode. My fears have caused a lot of 'accidents' on my stairway to death. Olga fell down my staircase yesterday. She didn't have health insurance, I had to pay. (Obama will be making healthcare affordable to all)
She's okay for now. I have to live with my guilt. MY FAULT.

I haven't been sleeping at all. I tried the sleeping pills again, I took them WELL in advance of going to bed (several hours in advance) so when I went to bed after 2, I fell fast asleep and slept all night. Two tampon-pee breaks, otherwise a full night of 8 hours of sleep...with another hour trying for a ninth..no such luck.
However, I slept so soundly that I have a kink in my neck, but truly, ask me if I care. (Hells no.)

My parents are hosting a party this weekend in which Olga was going to be assisting her with. Now since she can't, I must. It's the least I could after pledging my own staircase. I have to spend my weekend at some party with a bunch of old, rich, bitches. It is for a good cause. It will be central roasters coffee. It will be outdoors under a huge white tent. I will be freezing my balls off :)

I'm pmsing and I'm emotional. I'm really blah these days. After the party I've decided to get out of town. Even if it's just for a day. Haven wants to join me, but I want to be alone. To pamper myself. To love me.


Love,

Me

All I want....

This song is so amazing. Makes me cry everytime I hear it.




I'm gonna be here for you baby
And I'll be a man of my own word
Speak the language in a voice that you have never heard
I wanna sleep with you forever
And I wanna die in your arms
In a cabin by a meadow where the wild bees swarm


And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust making memories of us

I wanna honor your mother
And I wanna learn from your paw
I wanna steal your attention like a bad outlaw
And I wanna stand out in a crowd for you
A man among men
I wanna make your world better than it's ever been



We'll follow the rainbow
Wherever the four winds blow
And there'll be a new day
Comin' your way
I'm gonna be here for you from now on
This you know somehow
You've been stretched to the limits but it's alright now

And I'm gonna make you a promise
If there's life after this
I'm gonna be there to meet you with a warm, wet kiss
Mmm hummm

And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll earn your trust makin' memories of us
Ohhh
And I'm gonna love you like nobody loves you
And I'll win your trust makin memories of us
Mmmmm

Excuse Me Sir

*** A friend of mine wrote this***


Viacom:

I am writing to thank you for your coverage of last week's MTV Video Music Awards. I have looked forward to and watched this event for years. This will be my last.

I hope that someone in your organization sees the problem with that broadcast. Inviting a man from the UK to host the VMAs was a very diplomatic move and I commend you for it. However, you lost that support when that host called our sitting President a “retard” and the Royal Family “inbred.” He went on to speak of the masturbation habits of teenage boys and Alex Rodriguez’s use of a baseball bat on Madonna. Uncomfortable yet? Good, so was I.


The show continued with a performance from “Lil Wayne.” This man currently faces drug and weapons charges for which he may spend a lifetime in prison. While I admire your appreciation for his right to a trial by jury; I do take offense to the bandana that was hanging out of his barely covered ass. Did you notice the red? In the event that you were too naïve to see it; that was a salute to the “Bloods”; a gang that is well known for its violent rape, murder and drug dealing activities. I hope that you and your sponsors are happy to have given a worldwide spotlight to such an organization.


I remember the great moments of past VMAs. For the first time ever, I can say that I was genuinely offended by your show. As someone who considers themself a fan of Howard Stern and other “dirty” shows, I am SHOCKED to be writing a letter to a media company to complain of being offended. Your show tonight was not only objectionable but obscene. This is the last time that I will watch any show on your network. I will be sending a copy of this letter to all sponsors of MTV and other Viacom stations and encourage friends and family to boycott their products.



Kiss My Ass.

McCain's health care plan will cost you $7500.00

Yes, you read that right. The average American family will spend an extra $7,500 on health insurance if John McCain's proposed health care reform is passed into law.


Ezra Klein explains it better than I can:

Joe's taking a look at McCain's health insurance place and focusing on the fact that it exposes employer health care benefits to taxation. This is a tremendous tax increase, to the tune of $3.6 trillion over 10 years. But you won't pay most of it. Rather, as it becomes less affordable for employers to pay for health care, they'll stop doing it. Put another way: You're not going to pay higher taxes, you're going to lose your health care coverage. Then you'll be in the individual market where McCain will give you a fixed tax credit -- $5,000 for a family, or about 40 percent the cost of the average plan -- to purchase care.


There's a whole theory behind this approach. McCain wants to cut total health care spending. Along with his advisers, he thinks total health care spending is too high because employers by lavish plans and employees don't realize those plans are coming out of their paychecks. If the employees were buying the plans, they'd buy cheapers ones, and use less health care. All these premises are probably true. And the outcome will be that people have less health care, and can't access needed services, and go bankrupt a lot. The bottom line is that this isn't merely a tax increase. It's a governance philosophy that holds that the problem with health insurance is that you have too much of it, and John McCain aims to change that. He has, in other words, a policy that will pay down the federal debt with money raised through human misery.


For all his anti-tax rhetoric, John McCain only cares about cutting taxes for the ultra-rich (remember, this is a guy who owns so many houses he can't even count them and thinks if you make $4.9 MM a year you're middle-class). If letting the irresponsible Bush tax cuts expire is a "tax increase," removing a $3.6 TRILLION tax credit for businesses certainly an increase.
And while the Bush tax cuts merely put a hurting on the treasury, if McCain's health care proposal becomes law, people will die.


Insurance companies can and will deny individual coverage (for any or no reason whatsoever) to people who would have been covered under their employers' group plans, thus weeding out the people who need health insurance the most. After spending his entire life being the beneficiary of government-provided health care (through the military, in Congress and now via Medicare) McCain's proposal will make health care less accessible and more expensive for the rest of us. And while our current health care system has lots of problems, "health care is too accessible and too affordable" is not one of them.


There is only one way to make real progress towards addressing our healthcare crisis is by electing Barack Obama president.
Help me make this happen - donate to his campaign today.

Mom & Dad

They both got a clean bill of health this week.

At the Beach

I dig his favorite toes into the sand

The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket

I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless

And in this moment I am happy

I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, I wish you were here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy with holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs, I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy

I wish you were here, I wish you were here
I wish you were here, wish you were here

The world's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air saying:

I wish you were here, I wish you were
I wish you were here, I wish you were here

The Summer of Possibilities

Books:

The Dirt on Clean, an Unsanitized History (bathing habits throughout history)

The Omnivore's Dilemma (Not helping my "I don't like not knowing where my food it coming from, all the hormones injected into my food, and how the hell does Salmonella get into tomatoes?" dilemma, but interesting.)

The Miraculous Adventure of Edward Tulane (a kid's book. Read it in one hour. Want to feel like you accomplished something, read a kid's book.)

100 Ways America is Screwing up the World (really, just 100?)

Walking in Circles Before Lying Down (Poorly written, but cute story)

Currently reading:

The Day of Empire, Rise of the Hyperpower
A Splendid Exchange, How Trade Shaped the World
Follies, a collection of short stories.


I've been under the weather with a cold in the middle of July. I'm on another round of antibiotics. I will be better in no time :)

Tommorrow is my 2 year anniversary!

Inner dorkssss

inner dork: Born on the fourth of July

Wow, have I been bad about posting the inner dorks, or what?

Wow, have I been bad about posting in general, or what? (more about why and what's been going on, later.)

Now, I bring you factoids about the Fourth of July. Ta Da! Exciting!

Did you know...

In July 1776 the number of people living in America was 2.5 million.

In July, 2008 the population will be 304 million.

Although the formal adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence was on July 4, 1776, the signing was not completed until August.

The first observed celebration was on July 8, 1776, in PA.

The Fourth of July was not a legal holiday until 1941.

Uncle Sam first became popular during the War of 1812, when the term appeared on supply containers. However, it wasn't until 1961 that the U. S. Congress adopted him as a national symbol.

(And just to get you ready for the BBQ)
There is a one in four chance that the hot dog or sausage that will be consumed today, came from Iowa. (Hopefully it was packaged before the flood.)

You have been dorked.

Summer.

The day started off with an early morning visit to the ER with Daddy after a friday night at the ER with Emily because she was bit by a neighbors dog. Daddy wasn't feeling well but after the visit, he started to feel better.

A distant relative lost her husband last weekend and much to my family's dismay I wasn't able to travel to Salmon Idaho on a whim. So I made up for it by spending time with the Queen Mother by taking her to a local art festival and farmers market. Michelle,Trish, Missy, met up with us and we decided to hit the lake.I jumped off the cliff edge and somewhere between land and lake I knew that summer had begun. The water was perfect and the weather has been beautiful all weekend. Swimming, climbing, beautiful sunsets, balsamic chicken feta pizza, homemade wine, campfires, twenty dollar Walmart rafts, and gouda with pears. Another good weekend down around the Shenandoah.

The beach was packed but that didn't stop us. Michelle and I ended up driving down the shenandoah with her top off--of her car, while listening to Buffett and Morrison and just enjoying the summer breeze. It was quite a day :)

I just got home from church and I feel new again. I've been feeling stuck lately. I'm so crazy about los, but at the same time I'm so scared to give in. He needs all or nothing. I have to or I'll lose him. I won't lose him. He's it. He's the one. T, I guess this will be the one that I marry, you were right. I'll keep ya posted. I love him. So much.

"Summer Lovin Had me a blast"


Vacation anyone? I'm thinking about my summer vacation and I'm not sure where I want to go. Lets go exotic and lets go sooon!!! I have timeshare!!! Possibilities are endless.

I promise that this will be the best summer on record for me :)

The Mountains

My mom read a children’s book to me often when I was young entitled When I was Young in the Mountains. My mom could never finish this book without her voice choking up and small tears landing onto an illustration of two hillbilly children buying butter by the pound at a general store. I used to laugh at her: “Dad….!!!! Mom’s CRYING…hahahahahaha!!!” Then, some months ago, I came across that same book on my book shelve, and I burst into tears on the title page. My little sister, Haven laughed at me. I guess what comes around goes around.

Update

So, I cannot believe that today is my last day of school. How the hell did that happen? Well, let me tell you. It happened after lots of papers, a few tears, many laughs and inside jokes with friends, much growth and insight, and a few fermented beverages!

I haven't been posting much on my blog because school takes up all of my energy. I will no longer have that excuse for neglecting my blog.

My birthday came and went and it was beautiful and low key, just as I prefer it.

Graduation is May 18th. A new beggining for me.

Marilyn Monroe

Because she was a blonde bombshell.
Because she had a brain, but everyone only saw the outside.
Because all she really wanted was to be loved. Loved for who she was on the inside.
Because men wanted her and women wanted to be her.
Because behind her smile there was sadness.
Because sometimes, sometimes I can really identify with her.

Quote of the Day: Marilyn Monroe

"The only thing I had on was the fan."

In regards to her nude photo shot for, Playboy. She was their first centerfold.