Kids, Cancer, Chaos

I am so ashamed. I called the cops on a party in my neighborhood last night. They were being loud after 11:00pm on a weeknight and I called the cops. I suppose I could have gone over and asked them to keep it down, but it was cold and I didn't want to go outside. Could I be any more Ebeneezer-like? I have become that which I swore I never would...old! Why do I think I am old, you might ask? Reason #1: I like to go to bed early. By early, I mean before the bars have last call and after Grey's Anatomy is over (post 11:00pm, but not much!). Young people don't like to go to bed early, they like to stay up late. Probably some way of rebelling against the parents for making them go to bed early for 16 years. Reason #2: My joints ache when it is cold. This is clearly something that is exclusive to old people. Reason #3: I injured my back. This one is not as exclusive to "old people", but I hurt mine by lifting a box of papers, not from rescuing some cat from a tree or...

Why does my toenail polish always chip when it's cold? Seriously. I can go weeks and weeks between pedicures in the summer and fall and the polish never rubs or flakes. But it gets to the 40's or below at night and all of a sudden my polish is CHIPPING! Is there some kind of built-in sensor the cosmetic companies put in the polish? Maybe there's a robot in there that malfunctions under 45 degrees. And no, it's not because I wear closed-toe shoes more often. I wear flip-flops every damn day in the Winter too!

Was Higgins from Magnum P.I. really the famed Robin Masters? I think so, and here's why: 1. Magnum never really met Robin Masters. He always "just missed" him 2. Higgins always had an excuse why Mr. Masters wasn't around 3. Higgins was really bossy Anyone else have any reasons why this could be true?

As the "holiday season" gets into full swing, I feel the need to vent about how much I hate this season. Really, it is the day after Turkey to December 25 th . The week between X-mas and New Year's is probably one of my favorite weeks of the year. All the pressure to get the perfect gift has been lifted and I can enjoy the company of friends and family without having to worry about whether the wrapping paper I chose is appropriate. When I was a teenager and my parents had recently divorced, there was a lot of responsibility placed on my 16-year-old-shoulders to transport myself and 2 sisters to all the right places at all the right times. Mom's house for breakfast, Grandma's house for lunch, Dad's house for early dinner, Auntie's house for late dinner and finally (phew!) to another Grandperson's house for dessert. It should be noted that these locations were all over the county. There was at least a 30 minute car ride between all of them. "Everyo...

What a relief! I could feel the shift in my bones on Tuesday night. People across the country are tired of the status quo and want a new direction. I believe the Dems are capable of making this change. The question that remains is "Will they?". This is a real opportunity for "the LEFT" to adjust attitudes towards America and Americans around the world. I only hope they are not caught up in the advancement of the party to the detriment of the people who put them in office. We need to remind them as much as possible of this fact. I don't think it will happen right away...but it took almost a decade for the GOP to start getting caught with their proverbial pants down. On a lighter note, I find it ironic that Republicans are now complaining about the voting machines not working. Maybe they can just pull up some footage of some Kerry or Gore in 2004 or 2000 and replay it. You know, to save time and hot air.

This kid is in real trouble and all his mom does is laugh :-)

Silver Lining: Well, the Yanks didn't win. They didn't even make it past the first round. I pretty much lost interest in the series after that. So depressing. But George always has someting up his sleeve. I read today that Steinbrenner & Co. are looking at Clemens and Pettite for a Yankees reunion. Yippeee!! Clemens is the reason I became such a die hard Yankee lover. His pitching with Boston for 13 years and his domination of the AL during the late '80s and early '90s made it harder for my team to go up against the Sox. It was a sweet day in 1999 when it was announced that he would be a Yankee after 2 years in exile (a.k.a. Toronto). I'm so excited about this I can hardly wait! E-Voting machines: At least there is a paper trail to follow when the machines aren't working . Did we honestly think these things would work? Whoever authorized the purchase of these giant pieces of crap ought to be sent hunting with Dick Cheney. Another socialist nation: It looks ...

I really hate football season. The fantasy leagues, the pools, the armchair quarterbacking, the Monday mornings when people are talking about what a great game so-and-so had yesterday and how many yards he had passing/running. It's not that I don't like the game of football. I actually enjoy it thoroughly. But I cannot stand all the analysts and talking and "human interest" stories the reporters down on the field do. And the celebrity watching by the cameras in the stands. Just because TomKat is on the Redskins sidelines, doesn't make the 'Skins somehow a better team. Can we just watch the game? Do we have to have John Madden or Joe Theisman or some other retired player/coach tell us what is going through the mind of the left tackle right before the ball snaps? The play-by-play is tolerable, but everything else is too much. I want to hear the sounds of the game. I want to hear the crunch of bones; the slap of skin against pads; the thud of bodies on top of bod...

Again, Olbermann is the ruler of the universe .

This article says that jihad is spreading. That America is less safe now than we were 5 years ago. Well no shit. I have done just a little bit of traveling outside this country in the last year and I can tell you that Americans are guilty by default. People in other countries want to know why we went to Iraq in the first place. I told them that we were lied to and told it was the right thing to do. Of course, the baby boomers that went through the "conflict" in Vietnam knew better and called a spade a spade. It was the blindly supportive right that supported it and the spineless left that were trying to appease voters and not seem "soft" who allowed it. Disgraceful. We are guilty of going to a part of the world and imposing (that word seems too lenient) democracy on a country that needs to figure out it's own way there. Forcing elections when the infrastructure of government isn't established is not only overzealous, its just plain poor planning. Piss poor,...

1. Buy diamonds. How many people in the history of the world have been exploited in the name of diamonds? I don't know, but it has to be a lot. For this reason, I cannot in good conscience contribute to the death and/or dismemberment of any human being by purchasing diamonds. However, I don't mind accepting diamonds from one who has not used my money to purchase said stone, for those keeping track. 2. Shop at Wal-Mart. I don't really want to shop at Wal-Mart anyways. In the state of California alone, Wal-Mart employees cost the state $8 million in welfare benefits in 2005. These are employees who are not provided health insurance by their employer. These employees are not paid enough to support themselves or any children they may have. When these employees or their children get sick, they must go to emergency rooms for treatment. The ER's are not allowed to turn them away. Also, Wal-Mart discourages their employees to form unions where they might be able to find protect...

Isn't this the guy who has been proclaiming his innocence in the Abramoff scandal since it all started? I can't help but wonder at this point, how far does this go? Apparently there are photos of Abramoff with the President. Can it be possible that W and Jack were in bed together? I say most definitely. DeLay is still under investigation for his involvement and should be charged as well. I can't wait for all these crooked sons-of-bitches to be on their knees begging their voters and the American public to forgive them. They will take responsibility by blaming their actions on a prescription drug addiction, or an alcohol addiction, or a golfing addiction. They'll serve their time in the Federal prisons with special sections for white-collar criminals and then they will go to their home states and live out the rest of their lives in peace and prosperity living on their Congressional pensions. It is getting really tiresome listening and reading about all these people who ...

I saw this on the web this morning. I used to watch Keith Olberman on ESPN. I have watched his show on TV. I knew he was quick-witted and funny, dry and sarcastic, but I had no idea how passionate he was. I applaud him today. I will watch his show forever, just because he moved me to the point of being pissed off again. I was so sick of hearing about all the 9/11 stuff - the spin, the republicans blaming democrats, democrats blaming republicans, the ridiculous assertions that Iraq was responsible for all of it and that's why we are occupying Iraq still. It's all complete bullshit. Olbermann is right. Five years later, the space formerly occupied by the tallest bulidings in the country, the WTC site is still empty. There is no memorial for the families, there is no place for people to sit and reflect, there has been no lesson learned. Only bureaucratic red-tape and the gaping wound that is still Ground Zero. It all comes down to this: "How dare you, Mr. President, after ta...

Well, Britney Spears had another boy . 2 kids under 1. What an accomplishment. If she wasn't a "pop star" she'd be living in a trailer park in Louisiana somewhere with her he-capri-wearing husband, smoking Cools and drinking Boone's Farm or Mad Dog. What has our society come to? That this story is the headline of today's news is a real big downer. That is all.

I know this happened last week, but I just can't get enough. This clip of John Mattes, a Fox 6 reporter, getting an ass kicking is pretty funny. He talks about "getting his eyes gouged out" and being "smashed in the face" by a woman with a water bottle. I'm sorry, but that is a bit overdramatic. She slaps him across the face with a water bottle. I'm not one to say that doesn't sting a bit, but come on!

On this day, 5 years ago, I was on my days off from DM Fish when I decided to kidnap my sister and drive up Hwy 395 to visit the parents at a "Pack Station" in the Eastern Sierras. We spent the day of the 10th driving and woke up at 6:00am to pack up the mules and horses and ride out into the middle of nowhere for the day. We all rode through the changing leaves and next to the mountain lake that was so clear it looked like glass in blissful ignorance of what was going on on the other side of the country. It was so peaceful. Such a contrary vision to what the rest of the world was experiencing. I remember the shock I felt when I finally saw what everyone else had been watching for days. I felt like I had been in a bubble for 10 years. The names of the people on the planes were spooling across the bottom of the screen, there was no sound, only images of the smoking towers and finally the collapse, over and over and over. I burst into tears at the thought of what those jumpers ...

I am so SICK of Tom Cruise. It seems like every time I turn on the boob tube there is another of his movies on, or E channel is talking about him, or somebody is talking about psychiatry or Scientology or being glib and his name comes up. Ewww. I have a personal boycott going on. I have actually turned the TV off when I see his face. If I happen to have control of the remote and am watching with the BF (boyfriend), I must change the channel. If I don't have control, I leave the room. I hate him...and I don't like to use the word "hate". Last night I was flipping during one of the commercial breaks in "Rescue Me" and I thought I saw "The Last Samurai". I had a mini-seizure and changed the channel immediately. I think maybe he is my Mary Hart - the sound of his voice gives me seizures. Although, it's really a lot more serious than just the sound of his voice. Even the thought of him preaching about how much he knows about psychiatry/psychology m...

I think OJ is a cheap whore too. Classic. It's a good thing New Yorkers can tolerate the tourists . New York City is truly one of my favorite places in the world. I think if I won the lottery, one of my first purchases would be an apartment in NYC. God knows, I wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise! I love the Neverending Story ...such a great movie.

I just love Maureen Dowd. Read her Op-Ed piece in the NYTimes from 8/25/06: The Old King put the Boy King over his knee yesterday and gave him a good thwack with a lobster-shaped paddle. O.K., that didn’t happen, but don’t you wish it had? Junior certainly deserves it, with recent attempts to blame his dad for policies that led to 9/11 and the rise of Osama and Middle East terrorism. As with so many things about this byzantine, Shakespearean relationship between father and son, reunited here at last for a wedding, a christening and a funeral this weekend, it’s an ironic turn of events. The son was furious when the father was painted as a wimp in the 1988 campaign, and now he and his spinners are painting 41 as a weak leader. W.’s pain at what happened to his aristocratic dad with “the wimp factor” led him to overreact in the other direction when he became president, embracing a West Texas-tough, muscle-bound foreign policy that shunned diplomacy, nuance, compromise, multilateral treati...

How beautiful is this? And how lucky am I to live in a place like this? It is sunsets like this one that make me think the world is not such a terrible place to be.

I've been reading about SD's financial mess. The public sentiment around SD is that the city employees are to blame for this and the "high powered unions" who represent them are even more responsible. If the unions hadn't asked for wage increases and pension benefit increases then the City would be just fine! YA RIGHT! The unions are looking out for their own. They are not responsible for granting benefits the City can't afford! If the CITY couldn't afford to give the wage/pension increases, they shouldn't have done it! The union only asked for what they wanted and what the employees deserved. If the benefits increases were agreed to and only later it was discovered that the City couldn't deliver, it is not the employees' fault. They go to work every day, just like the rest of us. They have families to support, just like the rest of us. They have to cover those family members' health care costs. Most City employees make just enough to keep ...

What is it about the "C" word that most women find so offensive? I tried to use it today when I was cut off by some bitch on her cell phone driving her 47 kids around in the Expedition. I could see that she was quite distracted by all the goings-on in her vehicle, but come on!! I had to slam on my brakes and almost get hit by the car behind me. I was so mad that I tried to call her the "C" word, but it wouldn't come out of my mouth. I was left wondering why I couldn't say it. Maybe it's the same as Tony who hates the word "nipple" or Jenna who hates the word "moist", or Megan who hates the word "scaffolding"? Scaffolding? really? Why would you use "hate" to describe your feelings about scaffolding? Hmmm. I just don't know why I hate the "C" word. It brings to mind that scene in "Silence of the Lambs" when Clarice Starling goes to the prison to meet Hannibal and gets Migs' semen thrown a...

I got a new dog yesterday. Well, she's not so much a dog as she is a factory of slimy drool that the boyfriend seems not to notice. I can see already that there is going to be a power struggle between us two bitches over who is the boss and who is NOT. Never having owed a dog as an adult, I am unsure of how to address this new creature. I'm also pretty sure that she wants to eat my cat. The cat will probably put her in her place as soon as he gets over the shock of having his house invaded by a stinky giant.