Apparently Pat Robertson has developed Alzheimer’s. That’s the only reason I can think of for him going directly against every wedding vow ever written.
Luckily for his wife….she is now free to leave his sorry ass in the dust. Run far, run fast, and don’t look back Mrs. Robertson!
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1. First and foremost I want to see MDH’s picture and write up as the winner of The Horse Magazine’s Amature Chop Off. This is where you build your own motorcycle and ride to the Smoke Out, then the contestants vie for first place. Knowing MDH like I do, he is going to kick natural ass on this one! He is imaginative, innovative, and is chock full of ingenuity. I’ll keep you posted on this one.
2. I want to start walking. Nothing big but it would be nice to be able to go out to the deep freeze and back without huffing like a buffalo with emphysema!
3. I want to smoke less.
4. I want to see my daughter Birdie happy and relaxed for a change. It’s time for her to be able to do that and she deserves it. This doesn’t really count as something for ME to do, but it still applies.
5. Make pottery. I have done this in the past but not for a long time. I want to start back. And weaving. And tanning hides. Yeah, stuff like that.
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WordPress is like the english language…..Always changing, cutting edge, and doing everthing it can every day to make sure that you have just what you need….even when you never knew you needed it until they give it to you! My stats will probably make most of you bloggers out there laugh, but considering that almost all of 2010 I was offline, I don’t really feel bad about them. Thanks, WordPress.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 4 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 125 posts.
The busiest day of the year was August 23rd with 48 views. The most popular post that day was Another Female In Military In North Carolina Missing*UPDATE*.
The top referring sites in 2010 were en.wordpress.com, blogsurfer.us, actingparent.com, google.com, and healthfitnesstherapy.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for i miss the old days, odd things to say, raising other people’s children, thought for food blog, and miss the old days.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Another Female In Military In North Carolina Missing*UPDATE* July 2008
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I Miss The Old Days January 2008
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Odd Things You Say If You Are Raising Kids, Updated, one mo gin March 2007
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Maria Lauterbach, Cesar Laurean, Christina Laurean January 2008
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OPC – Raising Other People’s Children or How to lose your mind in 20 ways March 2007
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Total lunar eclipse and Ursids Meteor Shower on the Winter Solstice! How cool is this????
Last time we had a lunar eclipse on Winter Solstice was in 1639.
Lunar eclipses always give me the ooobla dooblas……the moon is actually in 3D when it’s in eclipse. I get all cave womany when it happens. And I’m chicken little during a meteor shower. So tonite I guess I am chicken little with the ooobla dooblas. Ha
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If you want to stop childhood obesity why not start by putting recess back in to the elementary school day? That’s an hour a day of exercise that children don’t get any longer. Fifteen minutes each in the morning and the afternoon and thirty minutes at lunch. The teachers spend at least that much time in a day fussing at the kids because they can’t sit still. If I were a teacher MY class would have recess! Purely in self-defense. I’m just saying.
While I’m on the subject…….we have about five sidewalks in our town. If a kid wants to walk anywhere here they have to do it on the side of the road or through someone’s yard. I’m talking about in town, no sidewalks! Who wants their child to walk through downtown traffic in order to get to the park or the recreation areas?
If we want to have healthier children in America we need to facilitate their access to healthy environments. We can’t remove every healthy activity from their lives and then wonder why they are obese.
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My first thought is that considering that it’s been so long since I’ve been on here….I should have way more thoughts! Apparently this is not to be.
I did have one thought about the Gitmo prisoner tried in a civilian court…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Just goes to show you that you never know! It had to be one of those “DOH” moments for the military. Now don’t get me wrong..this guy might have richly deserved to be convicted on all counts and hung on the courthouse square at high noon in biker shorts. I have no idea. I just think it’s funny as hell that everyone was so surprised by the outcome. Can you say “OJ” ?
My brother Pony has come to live with us up on the hill. He’s staying at Rocky’s place. It has been soooo long since I have been around him on a regular basis. It ROCKS! It’s like having a twin. We think so much alike it gets scary sometimes. And to top it all off with a bright red cherry, MDH thinks the sun rises when Pony wakes up. It doesn’t get any better than this.
The Buddha is getting his drivers lisence soon…..*sigh* Luckily he’s a very good driver. So far. Not long ago three of his best friends were in a horrible car accident and one of them died, one of them is still in the hospital(since 10/23/10), and the other has memory problems from a head injury. I live in fear every time he leaves the house. So far (knock on wood) he’s shown very good judgement. I’m going to hold on to THAT observation for dear life!
Bella is in middle school. Oh boy! THE single most evil, bully filled, snooty, snotty, horrible place in the world. She’s hanging in there. Being hugely smart, with ADHD and all the cute little quirkes that go along with it, she walks around with a big old bullseye on her chest. So far so good. (knock on wood with a sledgehammer)
Almost Thanksgiving. I like that. OH CRAP! I have to put my turkey in the fridge to thaw! um….anyway, it will be nice and quiet. I used to love to have huge gatherings at parties right here. Now I’m not even a little bit interested. It just takes too much out of me. By the time everything is ready I’m so far off my feed that I don’t enjoy it at all. So now I’m all about going to someone else’s house and letting them do all the work. 🙂 I’m accepting all invitations.
So, that seems to have emptied my head of all thoughts. That was disturbingly easy and quick. *sigh*
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope you have so many things to be thankful for that you can’t count them all. And if not, you know you always have one…..you are here. If you’re reading this, I’M thankful for YOU!
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1. Catch and release fishing. Ummm ok. I think I’ll just go out here and stick a hook in a fish just for the fun of it. But I won’t actually catch the fish for any real reason other than I want to feel like I can fish really well. I’ll let them all go after I catch them so that I can feel like I’m not a greedy bitch. It will make me feel all warm and fuzzy to know that I let a fish lunge for food and BAM, it now has what amounts to a grappling hook gouged through its facial structure. Never fear though little fishie. After I’m done yanking it out of your flesh while you gasp for air, I’ll turn you loose and you’ll be just fine. WTF?
2.Three Minute Long Chantix Commercials. Holy Mother Of God! These things last for EVER! I timed the second one I saw, mainly because after the first one came on I went to the kitchen, got a cup of java, a lil scooby snack, checked the clothes in the dryer, and came back only to find the commercial STILL PLAYING!!??!! What the hell did it cost to put those little devils on there for three solid minutes? The idea of the price for that is staggering. I hope they get their money’s worth. If irritation was money they’d be rich off of me already.
3. Social Kissing. Ew. I just don’t get it. With all the germophobia going around, why would having someone rubbing their lips all over your face be a good idea? I’d prefer someone grab my ass to having acquaintances rubbing their face around my face. Having been a bartender for eleven years, I KNOW where some of those lips have been and I’m telling you I do NOT want them anywhere near my mouth! Just, ick!
4. Michael Jackson’s Two Month Long Wait For Burial. Now, don’t get me wrong. I think that white people (yes I’m one of them) are way too quick to put their dead in the ground. Personally I would prefer to have a little bit of time to get used to the idea that I won’t ever be able to lay eyes on my loved one again. However, two months seems to be pushing it a little. Where on earth was he for all that time? Exactly where does one store the dead if you wait two months to bury them? Do you have pay rent? Are there utilities? Too many questions. And to be honest I don’t really care enough to find out the answers. Just don’t wait two months, okay?
5. Monetary Compensation For Breaking News Tips. That’s just gruesome! Stop it. It’s like getting paid to be one of those people who wave lanterns at runaway trains. It’s getting monetary gain for someone else’s misfortune. Cut it out. Your momma probably didn’t raise you like that.
6. Teenagers. Yeah, you know. Nuff said.
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I have recently become conscious of other people’s back yards. They fascinate me. You ride along the road and sometimes catch a little glimpse of a back yard. My imagination takes over and off I go!
It reminds me of when I was younger and lived in town. I loved to walk. I walked everywhere I could every chance I had. My favorite time to walk was just after dark. People had turned on their lights, the shades were still up and I could see the upper parts of their walls, and their ceiling. Occasionally I could see someones head as they passed by. I always wondered what happened in those houses.
What were they doing right that second? Was the whole family together or were they all doing their own things? You could tell when the television was on because the room flickered. That made it seem that much more magical. I never wanted to see the people in the daylight. I never wanted to be able to see the entire room. I made up stories for each house and the people I imagined in them.
Now, back yards make me feel the same way. I have noticed that often back yards are not at all the same as front yards. They usually have a totally different feel to them. My guess is that back yards reflect the owners personality more clearly than front yards.
Front yards are for show. Back yards are for living in. For instance, my front yard is nice and neat(LOL sometimes!) while my back yard is a total catastrophe! It is just like my brain, disorganized, messy, but with the potential to be really nice if you could just get a clear picture of what you want and the methods of making it right would come to you in the proper order.
Living way out in the country, I have the chance to see quite a few back yards on my way to and from town. My favorites are the back yards of older houses. They usually have old farm buildings back there. Some have smaller houses as well. My guess is that the smaller houses are the original house on that site. Sometimes they are old and empty, sometimes still in use.
Some of the other things I see in back yards are swing sets, kids toys, gardens, rabbit hutches, chicken coops, interesting small buildings, patios, decks, junk cars,ponds, rusty old farm equipment, horses, and llamas. I really like the llamas.
In my own back yard there is the following: a fire-pit with benches around it, a picnic table, my mom’s house, a grape vine, a ton of roses, a swing set, a barn, some jet skis, the dismantled building from MDH’s grandfather’s house, a garden, a clothes line, a target for knife throwing, a chin up bar, various and sundry bicycles, a canoe, a john boat and a burn pile. That burn pile is really getting big! Partly that’s because it contains the chair our dog Ditto gave birth in. (shudder)
That’s what’s in my back yard, what’s in yours?
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Well, we had a wedding here this weekend! Our daughter, Possum, got married on Saturday the 25th of July, 2009. It was a beautiful thing. We got to meet our new family-in-law. They are nice, interesting, and down to earth people that we are going to have a wonderful time getting to know better.
When we get a lot of really good pictures I’ll post them and you can see the stone circle that we made for them to say their vows in, the father of the bride in his bib overalls, the mother of the bride performing the ceremony and the “shotgun picture”. There were flames and tiki torches and a fire pit. It was outdoors at sunset. I can’t wait to show you just how beautiful it all was!
Stay tuned.
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Well here we are in 2009! We managed to make it through another year.
We have a new President who made (long overdue) history. We are in the middle of a recession. *sigh* People have lost their homes left and right. The price of gasoline inexplicably went up and then….wonder of wonders…..went down again when people stopped driving so much. At the end of it, we had the same old realization, that the oil companies made incredible profits by riding on the backs of the consumer. Sad.
This past year seemed to be built on the unfortunate premise that greed at any cost is a good thing. Hmmmm…..greed at any cost? That seems to be an unwise choice of words, but there it is. At the moment I don’t have the mental facility to correct myself.
On a more personal note, the year was pretty good. Sure, we’re being hit by the recession along with everyone else, however I grew up fairly poor so I have a few tricks up my sleeve for dealing with all of this. I’ve also been here before and I know that in the end it all gets better. For those of you going through this for the first time, hang in there. It’s like a kidney stone: It hurts like hell, but it doesn’t do any permanent damage and it will pass.
MDH is doing great. He’s moving right along on all fronts and seems to be, for the most part, happy and healthy. He is committed to the volunteer fire department in our area and takes classes in order to be more useful to them. Being helpful and useful is in his nature. It is one of the things that makes him one of those people that you just want to be around. He is getting back into Tai Chi, and will soon be smoking his pipe again. He’s a Native American Pipe Carrier. He’s been on a Vision Quest and everything. That was an awesome event. I’ll tell you about it sometime.
The Buddha and Princess Bella are doing well too. They were both on the honor rolls last report card time. They both got awards for perfect attendance. Their teachers think the world of both of them. They both love school. The holiday vacation was hard on them. They missed their friends and their teachers! However, they both made out like bandits at Christmas. The Buddha’s comment was, “We have less money than we ever had but this year I got more things I asked for than ever before!” It didn’t hurt that he pared down his list to just three things that he really wanted.
Rocky is doing wonderful. My brother, Porkchop, and his daughter Tiffany came for a surprise visit right after Christmas. She was in Heaven! Her knee bothers her, I think because of the difference in the weather between here and Florida. But she’s a tough cookie and never complains about anything.
Possum is doing fantastic. A little history for you since she doesn’t play a huge roll in this blog: Possum is MDH’s natural daughter. I adopted her when she was very young. Now she’s MY daughter too. We went to court more times than anyone ever should in order to gain custody of her and keep her safe. We accomplished that in a very satisfactory way. Now she is eighteen and has gone to live with her natural mother’s family. It caused a lot of hard feelings at first for some family members. But! she has the right to get to know them. We did our job, we kept her safe and secure while she was growing up. We taught her to think for herself. Now we have to let her do it! Besides, if I were in her position, I would be doing the exact same thing. She seems to be happy and healthy. It makes me smile to think of her that way. I miss her because she is in another town, but I’m happy that she is happy.
Birdie, my natural daughter and Buddha and Bella’s mom, moved here from Texas a year ago. She just told me the other day that she is moving back there now. It makes me sad to think of her being that far away again, but to be honest we have only seen her a few times since she’s been here so for all practical purposes, it won’t be any different. We’ll just know that she’s not nearby anymore when we think of her. It will probably be good for her to go though, because Baby Jimmy, our youngest grand-baby, is buried there. She won’t have to think of him being so far away all by himself anymore. That was very hard on her. I hope she is happy with her decision and that it works for her the way she wants it to.
We have a whole new batch of puppies. *sob* Seventeen this time. I’m taking them to Walmart and pushing them on kids like a drug dealer. (in whispery, underhanded voice) Pssst….Hey kid! Wanna puppy? I’ll dress them up in Valentine’s Day bandanas and name them all sweetheart names. Love, Passion, Chocolate, Candy, etc. Do you think it will work? Lord I sure hope so!
So, a late, Happy Holidays! I hope your New Year is better than you hope, with all kinds of interesting adventures.
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