Summer Issues

Where has the time gone. I thought with two grown children my summer would be a little less hectic. I have been wrong. Between work, dealing with my son who is still so messed up from fighting in Iraq and my daughter who is getting ready to go back to school and moving her into a new apartment - well I am about to pull my hair out. I was able to take one week off but had so much to do around the house that we didn't really go anywhere other than to see my mother and grandmother who live in the country and to go to the beach and watch the surfers on the waves coming in from Emily. Big Whoop. Sometimes going on vacation is not worth it when you come back to work and the bosses didn't give anything to the person covering you - but instead hold all for you. Plus they are trying to go vacations - so there is like triple the work. Thank goodness they will be gone off and on the next three weeks so I can catch up here. My son is still not working, still suffering from bad dreams and rage from fighting in this dumb Iraq war. He does not want to do what he needs to do to get help (VA is such a red tape mess - you could grow old and die before you finally get to the right people there) - and he still doesn't think he is ready to go to work. I understand but he has real world shit to deal with - i.e. bills. Car note, insurance, credit card, cell phone. I can't pick up the slack on him so therein lies my conflict with him. I worry about him and worry if he will be all right, try and figure out where we can get the money to help him, the list goes on and on. My daughter who has been home all summer being a bum - is just now finding out that she may not be able to do what she wants at school this year - live off campus. Plus we have financial problems there as well. Getting the money for her to go to school and pay her apartment is going to be a big pain in the ass. I will be so happy when they both grow up and can take of themselves financially and then take care of us when we are old and grey. I guess I should have entitled this entry Summer Whining instead of issues. I know I am whining but hey it's my space to do just that!!! Thanks for reading!!!!

Karl Rove has got to go

For those of you who believe Karl Rove has got to go there is a website you can go to and sign a petition. Being entitled to opinion if you think Karl Rove is doing a great job, well then good for you. Being that we are entitled to our opinions, mine is and always has been that we need to get Bush out of office. My opinions became stronger as my son went to Iraq twice and the things he saw and did and heard made me more mad. Seeing the documentary on Bush (Bush's Brain) also added fuel to my fire. Our soldiers die everyday in war and I know it is what they signed up to do (protect and serve their country) but they did not sign up to fight a war in a country that really doesn't want us there. And the ones who do come home are forever changed, my son is living proof of that. I support my soldiers and I even support parts of my government, but I do not support my president and his advisors. While this petition probably won't do anything, it still felt good to sign it and to know that there are others out there who share my opinions.

I hope you will join me right now in signing an open letter to the President urging him to thoroughly reject Karl Rove's purposeful attack on the patriotism of those who dare ask the tough questions that best protect American troops.

http://www.johnkerry.com/petition/rove.php

Thank you.

Interview Me

Thanks to Nancy at http://wifebear.blogspot.com/ for this fun question/answer session. Here is how it works:

1. If you want to participate, leave a comment below saying "interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions -- each person's will be different.
3. You will update your journal/blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Below are my questions/answers!

1. If your mother-in-law baked you something every holiday, that you didn't like, would you tell her? And would you eat it in front of her? I don't like it when she cooks with bell peppers (they don't agree with me), she puts them in her stuffing every year. No I would not eat it in front of her, I pick them out in front of her. She knows that I don't like them.
2. What is your favorite kind weather and why? Early/Late Spring and Fall. Because it is not too hot and not too cold yet.
3. Where was your favorite vacation and why? New Orleans. We had such a great time not only at night at the bars but during the day seeing the old homes.
4. What is your biggest pet peeve?Drivers who cut you off because they are in such a hurry - even when you are in the slow lane. Pain in the ass.
5. If you could do anything you wanted tomorrow, no holds barred, what would you do? Sleep! - boring I know but when you only get about 4 hours a night - sleep is something you never get enough of.

Thank you

I need to say thank you to my good friend and computer goddess Joni, for setting me up with this great background on my blog. It looks so good. You can visit her at: http://www.babygotblog.com/

She rocks!!!! Now if I can just figure out how to do links because I am computer dummy!!

Thanks for all your help Joni!!

Famous

Ever notice how famous people get free crap? Take this Live8 Concert that just took place, all kinds of companies were there giving away free crap to the stars! These are people who can afford to buy all this shit to begin with. Doesn't it make sense that instead of giving this stuff to them to make a donation to the cause. I don't understand the famous. They don't hesitate to stand up for a cause and say donate your hard earned money, but give me my free crap. Hell now they even get companies to sponsor their birthday parties and weddings. The only ones who deserve to be called truly famous are those who put their wallets where their mouths are. You make 350 million a year - spare a million for the cause you are asking me to support. Donate the money generated from one of your concerts or a percentage from the money you will make on your latest movie. Of course, there are those that are the exception. They freely give their money and time, no strings attached. I support what Live8 was trying to get across (awareness) - I signed the petition. I believe in what is trying to be done. What I don't think is right is to show us and talk to us about children dying in proverty every three seconds while you are backstage picking up your A-list goodie bag worth $1,000's when that money could have been put to the cause. I don't get it!!!