2009

::sigh:: Well 2009 looks like it won't be as great a year as 2008 was. I just have a feeling about things. Hopefully the economy will pick up and we don't sink deeper into this recession or go into a depression.

Not much to say right now. I turn 30 this year though! :-) I'm actually looking forward to it. :-) woohoo!

Well, more later...just wanted to post. :-)

Life

Well, haven't posted in a while and I'm sure not too many look at this. Online journal that while it's out here it's not widely read.

The election outcome was what I was hoping for. Finally we can start to repair our image to the rest of the world. I have hope for the country again. :)

Well Crossroads with Def Leppard and Taylor Swift premiered Friday. That was awesome to watch. When I first heard about them collaborating I kind of cocked my head to the side and said, huh...I'll have to see that. Man it was so awesome. I love it when country and pop/rock get together and it's done right. I don't know too much Def Leppard because I was rather young when they were out, but who doesn't know Pour Some Sugar on Me?? That's one of the best hair band rock songs of all time in my book. :-D All the versions of Taylor's songs on there were fantastic. It elevated them to another level I think. Particularly them doing Should've Said No and then it leading into Pour Some Sugar on Me! If you can catch it...DO IT! It is absolutely killer!

http://www.cmt.com/videos/shows/cmt-crossroads/316192/cmt-crossroads-def-leppard-and-taylor-swift-6-shouldve-said-no-and-pour-some-sugar-on-me.jhtml?id=1598841

A Letter to the Red States...

Dear Red States,

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware,
that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe
this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the
people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the
Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You
get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of
America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We
get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay
their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be
pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens
back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your
evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to
their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show
pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not
willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners)
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal
Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to
cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected
health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100
percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all
televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the
Universityof Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent
say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was
involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy jerks believe you
are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Peace out,
Blue States

(The secession starts as soon as we win on Nov. 4th, and there is no truth to
the rumor that we need Todd Palin to tell us how to pull it off!)

Politics

John McCain is such a DOOOOOF! And Sarah Palin is quite simply out of her league...completely!

Ok...that's all for now! :-D

Obama in '08!

Oliver

Well, tomorrow our little man Oliver graduates from his puppy school class. I know it's corny, but he's done well and I'm proud of him. hah! I know, he's a dog, but the little guy is like our child. He probably has no idea how good he's got it...yup...we're totally wrapped. He's going Sunday to get his haircut. I'll be so glad for him to have a haircut. I always want to keep him clean and crisp looking...right now he's really shaggy. We played out in the yard this past weekend and I got some updated pics of him:



Well, that's all for now. I actually have to do some work here...yeah I know...boooo :( oh well, I do get paid to do stuff. heh :-)

The republican party is nothing more than a group of hypocrites that want nothing more than fame and power. They have no real desire to "change" this country. I've never really supported the republican party, mostly in part because I was raised in a very democratic household. As I left home and after I got married, I really became more of an independent when it comes to politics. I definitely lean more democratically, but I'm not a die hard democrat. There have been democratic candidates that have irked and upset me just like republican candidates. However this year, it is my firm belief that this country needs change. Many people my entire life have said "our children are our future". Indeed I believe that to be true and the future of this country needs change the way things are fundamentally done. It's very clear by the last 8 years that we have dug ourselves in a hole that we cannot get out of, or if we can, certainly not quickly or easily.

After hearing John McCain's speech last night, it reconfirmed what I've felt all week about the republican party. While McCain didn't take as many slices at Obama as his colleagues did earlier in the week, he did make slices...and I quote:

"I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need."

News flash McCain, in case you haven't noticed, you are BEHIND in the polls and taking backhanded slices at your opponent who has done NOTHING to presume he was entitled to the democratic nomination isn't going to help your case.

However, let me move on to the more infuriating things this week that have really prompted me to post this blog. Let me just start by saying that Governor Palin made a great comparison during her speech Wednesday night. And I quote: "The only difference between a hockey mom and a pitt bull is lipstick". She's certainly right that she's a female pitt bull...and hopefully you'll get what I'm implying here...if not, she certainly has already earned her reputation in my mind as being a bitch. Governor Palin is extremely strong on "Family Values" and abstinence. In my personal opinion, I think teaching only abstinence in schools is foolish. I support teaching abstinence to kids, however if you educate kids on sex, the number of STD's and unwanted pregnancies will reduce. I don't think you are doing your children a service by just telling them not to have sex. This makes me think of the phrase "give a man a fish and he eat for a day. teach a man to fish, he eat for a lifetime". Educating an individual on anything sex or whatever it may be will make them better off in the long run in my opinion. Secondly, the fact that her 17 year old unwed daughter is pregnant does not bother me. As many have said, things happen. I understand this. What has upset me greatly is these right winged conservative higher than mighty people have seemed to embrace, welcome her and her family with open arms. I think we all know that the extreme right wing conservative indivduals would completely rip anyone else to shreds if this were their child. I can say without a doubt had this been one of senator Obama's daughters, they would have completely raked Senator Obama and his entire family over the coals and burnt them beyond all recognition. Yet, instead with Gov. Palin and her family, suddenly "it's ok" and they "understand" that things happen. What a load of BS this is. Roland Martin, contributor to CNN made a great statement:

"She is a teenager who chose to have pre-marital sex, which I thought many of these same evangelicals deplored based on biblical reasons."

"it's clear that abstinence-only didn't work in her own household. So, should she and her supporters re-examine their position."

And lastly going back to Gov. Palin's 'strong family values', seems to me with strong family values that means that you put your family first above all else. That being the case, it seems to me that having FIVE children, one of them being an infant, and on top of that and infant with special needs, you would make them your primary focus. In my opinion accepting the offer for vice presidential candidate is placing your carrer before your family. I'm certainly not an individual that thinks women have no place outside the home. I'm all for women working, but if you choose to have a family, or even if you don't, a person with strong family values I would think would devote as much time as humanly possible to her children, even if that ment sacrificing something in your career. Secondly to this, to knowingly put your daughter through intense media scrutiny, certainly doesn't seem to be putting your family first. Gov. Palin knew she along with her daughter would be completely mauled by the media over this. As an individual not knowing the details of things, just an outsider looking in, it doesn't seem to me she had any regard for her daughter with this decision. Her daughter is now the poster child for unwanted pregnancies.

My friend Chuck summed up my feelings about the republican ticket this election year and their convention...

1. If having served in an executive office counts toward experience to be President of the United States, then Sara Palin has more experience than McCain, Obama, and Biden put together.

2. I have to admit that I am amused by the speeches during the Republican convention about change and reform since their party has been the party in power for most of the past 8 years.

3. Continuing this train of thought I've also heard a lot of talk during the Republican convention about how the Democrats "spend spend spend" yet in the past eight years we have huge deficits where once we had a budget surplus achieved under a Democratic administration (I will add that to achieve this, Clinton and Gingrich were able to work together).

4. In her speech tonight, Palin mentioned how Harry Truman did not have a lot of experience when he ran for Vice-President. True, he was only a Senator, he had never held executive office.

5. I need to hear more about this, but in her speech, Palin stated that she rejected federal money for the "Bridge to Nowhere", when in fact she did accept it. An earmark project due to the Republican Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens.

6. It has been said in several speeches that McCain is his own man, yet he has changed on several positions like offshore drilling. McCain who was once the maverick has embraced the core values of the Republican party, some of the values he used to stand against.

7. I find it hilarious that neither Bush nor Cheney are at the convention. It is funny the same people who cheered for Bush on his satellite speech, are cheering for the reform from the very policies he has initiated (except for the tax breaks, they won't reform that).

Yes, we all know the republicans believe that if they give big businesses that they will so honestly and fairly pass those breaks onto the consumer...BAHH!!! yeah right...that's the biggest load of BS if I ever heard such.

8. Just because Alaska borders Russia, does not give the governor of Alaska "foreign policy experience".

9. Being commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard does not mean that the governor commands the troops in Iraq, once a unit is activated it becomes federal (as in Iraq, not in a state natural disaster situation).

I'll close with this. John McCain's record speaks for itself. If your enjoying the hell hole the economy and overall this country has become, then cast your vote on Nov. 4th for him. He's your man.

The goings on

Well, it's been almost an entire month since I've posted. Eh, I'm not sure there are too many people reading this though...so I wasn't too worried. lol. Though life's been busy this last month. Jer's business is booming and we're gonna actually have a garage soon!! :) It's strange how it came about, but I'm banking that how things occured is a blessing in disguise. :) I won't know what to do with a garage. Maybe store my lawn mower in it and keep it charged all the time, that way when the lawn needs mowing, I don't have to make sure I plan to charge it and whatnot.

Well, Oliver is growing like a weed!!



He's still small, relatively speaking, but much bigger since we got him. He's pushing 6lbs now. He still thinks that midnight is a great time to want to play with mom and dad. ::sigh:: he's a little fella and doesn't know what night time is. I never imagined I'd love this little guy this much, but he really is like my child. I know, it's silly, but he is. Petsmart is one of my new favorite places. lol!!

Well, I went to a new hair dresser and went in just thinking I'd get the split ends trimmed, but I took a plunge and let her do what she thought would look best on my hair and I got it cut shorter. She didn't do a bad job on it, I just now know for sure I like long hair. :) It actually takes me longer to get ready now cause there's more layers to fix and whatnot. It was probably good for my hair to loose some of the length so it can grow back healthy, but I do miss the length. Here's what it looks like most of the time:



Well, that's about the extent of what's been going on in the Clos house lately. :-)