UPDATES

*Due to an incoming snow & freezing rain storm we rescheduled mom's PETscan and doctor's appointment for Friday so all prayers are appreciated for a clean report and safe trip.

*Got back the police report from Friday night's excitement and the kid blew a .025 blood alcohol level. Kentucky is a zero tolerance state for anyone under the age of 21, so any alcohol is considered an offense. This kid could have been killed, but wasn't. This could be a turning point in his young life. I really hope that someone can get through to him and make a difference.
I will probably see about contacting the Commonwealth's Attorney to see what, if anything can be done.

*Any of you that are struggling with trying to quit smoking, mom wanted me to tell you that Feb. 9th is the second day of Sagittarius the best day to give up something up and not crave it according to Farmer's Almanac.

I CAN NOT MAKE THIS CRAP UP!!

So tonight about 9P mother and I were sitting here at the asylum watching The Medium.
The boys were in the bedroom watching something.
It has rained all day long and just so you know there has been NO WORK done on the double wide in about two weeks. We were sitting here in the falling-down-around-our-heads-100-year -old-house.
We hear this noise out side, like a grinding then a crash. When the crash happened the power went off.
So I jumped up (or foisted my pregnant self up as best I could) and ran(waddled) to the door to see what was happening.
At first thought the power pole on the main road had been hit. Looking a little bit longer it was obvious that the pole hadn't come down. What did happen was a drunk 16 year old driver had skidded through our yard and hit the guide wire from the pole with such force that it pulled the electric wires from our electric meter.
The KU people were here in a timely fashion but they are not legally allowed to reconnect them.
So we will have to wait until a certified electrician* can come and hook the wires back up, then it has to be inspected before KU can reconnect the power. So our electrician has to work his day job tomorrow but will be here about 3:30 or so. I pray this predicted snow will pass us by.
I simply do not know how much more I can cope with.
Fortunately, when we built our garage last year, we had it hooked up with a different electric meter and it didn't get pulled out. My husband has run some cords to from the garage to the house to so that we could get the net and the TV and our heat going. Lets pray that everything goes well tomorrow and we can get it all hooked back up.



*It's times like this when I miss my grand-daddy the most. In addition to being a coal-miner he was also a certified electrician. He would be on the roof fixing this right now.

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UPDATE-Our electrician was able to make it out about 1P, so he fixed the weather-head and wiring back to the meter box, the inspector came and at 3:39 PM EST, KU reconnected us! Fortunately everything in the freezers was still nicely frozen! Yay!!

I have to vent. I'm sorry that this blog has just turned into me bitching all the time. I promise I will try to get back to the crazy soon. There is just so much going on that is pissing me off lately and I have no other outlet for my rage. So again I'm sorry.
Last night my husband was talking to his mother on the phone and after he hung up he said
"Did you know what grandma's name was?"
I knew EXACTLY where this bullshit was going because his mother pulled this when I was pregnant with Paddycake.
"Yes", I reply coolly.
"Well mom was just saying how people are using the old fashioned names now." he said.
"Well she needn't worry because I am the one who is suffering with this pregnancy and I will name this child what ever the he&% I want to and NO ONE gets any input. So get it out of your head."

Two days later and I am still fuming over it!

You see if she had ever treated me with an ounce of niceness, I wouldn't be so p.o.'d.

The hubris that she can presume after all these years of snotty comments and general passive-aggressive garbage, to tell me what to name my child enrages me!
Being a Christian I have bent over backwards with these people. I have turned the other cheek so many times that I am out of cheeks to turn. I usually ignore 90% of her crap, but this really galls me. Those links don't even scratch the surface of the garbage I have put up with from the people and usually I just let it go because it's not worth getting upset over.

You know in all actuality the name isn't that bad, I just already have other names picked out. If I was Michelle Dugger and going to have a dozen more the name might even be a contender, but this it, I'm getting my tubes tied because I have just been too sick this time around and I CAN NOT go through this again. God forgive me.

Is it just me?

Is it just, me or does anyone else think that the balloon boy's parents need a good public whipping?
I'm serious-20 lashes each with a buggy whip. They should also have to pay for all of the rescue efforts that were made on behalf of their son.
What is this world coming to when some a-hole decides to call the media and start this kind of ruckus?
There have been media reports that the father is an "adrenaline junkie", well so what meat head, don't involve your kids in your lunacy!
Ok that's my two cents worth. What do you think their punishment should be?

Random Rants

I have some random complaints floating around in the old gray matter that I must get rid of.

EMAIL-
Now I don't mind when I get email from any of you all, no matter how silly. You are my peeps and if you want to send me something I want to hear from you BUT for the love of all that is HOLY I am so dang tired of the DAILY emails from the Disney Store Online. To beat it all I get two of the darn things.
You know I love to buy their products when I can catch them on sale but I seriously don't need to hear from them every single darn day. Other offenders who hit me daily are Bergdorf Goodman, Macy's, Saks Fifth Ave, Amazon, Kitchen Krafts, Chef's, BlueFly, Barnes & Noble, Wayside Gardens, Lillian Vernon and Jackson & Perkins. It does no good to unsubscribe, because the next time you buy something they hit you again!
Then add to that the goofy spam and well you see why it takes me an hour to get through my email. It seems like the email has amped up since the economy went under. Have any of you all noticed the same thing?

House Resolution-875 and Senate Resolution 425
Deanna wrote about it yesterday and today you are going to hear from me.
Some misguided people seem to believe that this does not effect the backyard gardener, but they would be wrong. It does. The wording of the bill is written rather vaguely and can be interpreted any way the government wishes.
It also effects the hunter who would go out and kill a deer to feed his family, consuming that deer would be illegal under this act.
It's called the Food Safety Act, but what you need to know, is that it is being pushed by some of the biggest food conglomerates in the US. I won't name them here, but do your own research people.
I will get down to semantics here, while yes, the bill does not come right out and say "backyard gardening is prohibited" it DOES set up the REGULATION of ALL gardening that is for human consumption. It sets up the state agriculture departments to go out and do the policing. It sets standards that have to be met and pesticides to be used. I ask you if you have to jump through all of these hoops to grow a few tomatoes to share with your friends and family how long are you going to garden?
Exactly, once all of the rules and regulations are in place, the only ones that can afford to farm will be (wait for it)
the food conglomerates!
You know I have something to say about the food conglomerates. Peter Pan peanut butter is owned by corporate giant ConAgra Foods. Being a conglomerate didn't make their peanut butter any safer when it came to a salmonella outbreak.
Pick ANY of the big food conglomerates, and you will find numerous legal skirmishes. I keep thinking of the big popcorn company that makes microwave popcorn and how their workers get sick with lung illnesses from the chemicals that are used in processing.
Food conglomerates aren't the answer. You need to support your local family farmer and farmer's market.

Well that's all for now, I will post later today hopefully with pictures of our local TEA Party!

Things are just about as bad as they can be.
My sociopath alcoholic father in law, is really showing himself.
He doesn't drink anymore so he has taken up bullying everyone around him.
As you may or may not know, if you read my side bar, NO ONE bullies me or mine.
Shortly after Todd and I were married some argument came up with the in-laws, and the old bastard raised his hand to me-I stood toe-to-toe with him and said "Do it, you will find your a$$ in jail so fast it will make your head swim." He backed off and stormed away, he found out then and there I WOULD NOT BE BULLIED.
My mom is VERY SICK, although not sick enough to be in the hospital. She has horrible nausea, diarrhea, and bleeding hemorrhoids. I told my husband earlier this week if she wasn't better, I felt like I should stay here this weekend and take care of her. My father in law told my husband, "if I was any kind of wife and mother, I would come home for the weekend and take care of them."
Plus he said that he and mother in law needed a break from watching my son, because they didn't like getting up at 5:30 every morning when my husband goes to work. We have no one else to watch him. Before my mom got sick, they regularly got up at 5:30 anyway.
Like I don't have enough to worry about, this bastard has to pull this.
I have long felt like Satan had Charles in his grip, I know now, that he does.
The more I try to live in a righteous manner the more Charles acts up. It started last week, and has continued all week long.
If you pray, please pray for this situation to be better and for Satan to release Charles from his grip.

I must rant!

First off, all of you who have been praying for my mom and have been so supportive of me, I want you to know this is NOT about you. I cherish each and every one of you and wish I could see you in person to give you a great big hug and thank you.

When my mom got sick I emailed everyone in my contact list who I knew was a Christian and would pray for her. That list included a distant relative who lives in Tennessee. I now realize that was a GIANT MISTAKE.

Rather than being supportive of our little family, the distant cousin who lives in Tennessee, called another elderly distant cousin(who doesn't have net, therefore didn't get the email) who lives in West Virginia, and told them that my mom was dying with cancer. These two old cows have nothing better to do than to try and stir up trouble.

So this elderly cousin calls our house, and says that TN cousin said that Penny was dying from cancer. She asks how mom is doing and then starts in about our late aunt's estate. Did we get anything? NO. Have we talked to her husband? NO. And other assorted crap that we just don't want to be bothered with. * Did she ask if there was anything she could do? NO. Did she say she would offer prayer? NO. Did she keep her conversation short and sweet so that my mom would not get tired out? NO- she kept mom on the phone for 86 minutes.

OK now for those of you out there keeping score, you know my mother has cancer, but she is not dying yet. Her doctors tell us that they fully believe she will make a full recovery and they are treating her with a curative intent.

I am just LIVID! Anybody with half a brain should have the good sense not to call somebody and just blurt out-Barb said you were dying? You know it really shows me Satan in action. I am working so HARD to improve myself and my relationship with the Lord by being kind and forgiving.
I have always been a Christian but I am human. Simply by being human, we are all sinners, we all have issues. Anger is my biggest one.

Last week Deanna wrote about anger and how it affected her relationship with her sons.
She included James 1:19-20 and it hit me like a hammer. Oh how I needed that verse!
I have a horrible temper, and fly off the handle quite often.
I am horrid when I get behind the wheel, I am not kind to fellow drivers. I call them every name in the book and in general just spread ill-will. I have often joked about buying a tank so that I could just push people out of my way-if that gives you any idea of my road rage.

So I am working on controlling these things in order to be closer to God. The harder I work on myself the more people keep coming at me with pettiness, gossip and just in general trying my patience. The call today really felt like an attack from Satan.

So I have to forgive this person and I will pray for her. That is the right thing to do.










*the 411 about my aunt is not pretty-she died exactly one month after a "fall" on Christmas day 2005. I put "fall" in quotes because some information has come to light about her husband that leads me to look at her fall's in a new suspicious light. The woman was not clumsy. I don't know why I didn't see it at the time. Her husband didn't call us when she died, I only learned about it from an email the day of the visitation when it was too late to get there. We barely made it to the funeral. Her husband didn't speak to us at all. He also didn't file her will, and instead told everyone she didn't have one, so he could keep everything for himself. We could probably sue, but we won't. He is an evil man and when he dies, he will only have my aunt's hard-earned money to bid him farewell. He alienates people for sport. There is so much more that I could write about but I won't. I only want to be a positive light in the world. For me taking him to court, and dredging up the past would not be positive.

Random

Sorry I have been quiet for so long. I have an awful lot to say, but really haven't felt like putting it all down.

• Philly won the World Series and friends I think that sucks!! I don't like them, never have and never will! I grew up as a fan of The Big Red Machine, Johnny Bench and Pete Rose. You will never know how heartbroken I was when Pete was traded from the Reds to the Phillies.
• There was an effigy of Obama found on the University of Kentucky campus today. I want you to go to that link and read about the disgust that is expressed by everyone who saw it. OK so now where is the righteous indignation over the effigy of Sarah Palin? Is it because the Palin effigy was put up by two men who are obviously gay, and they are running around calling it their "Installation Art"? It pisses me off to no end! Free speech my ass!!!!
• I know a couple of people gave me awards for something. Could you hit me in the comments with a link so I know what it was.
• I swear I want to build a bubble to live in. Maybe my freaking sinus' would heal!!
• Please hold a good thought or say a quick prayer for my friends the White family. They had to travel to a city far away to hopefully adopt a baby girl. Please Lord let this one work out. They had already gotten attached to two other babies only to have the birth mother's change their minds and take the children back. This baby is one who was saved from abortion.

Well that's it for now. I will try to post again later.

EDITED-I just want to say that I have NOTHING against gay people. I have an uncle who is gay and my best friend in the world is gay. I just don't want anyone to misconstrue my above statements.

Obama's domestic terrorist BFF's

This is just so disgusting!
Every single day there is a new report of voter fraud with the ACORN group.
ACORN pays people per each person they register. One man in Cleveland was registered 77 times. They are registering convicted felons to vote.
When you are convicted of a felony, you lose the right and privilege of voting!

I fear that this force of evil is determined to steal our country. If you are a christian, if you love freedom, then you need to vote for John McCain.

Hey Matt Damon

Yeah, I'm talking to you.
Why don't you try saying those things to Sarah Palin's face.
She would probably flat out bust your liberal pretty boy A$$, with one hand while braiding Piper's hair with the other!!!
And I would laugh!

PS-Just because everyone in HollyWeird is enraptured every time you open your big yammer, the rest of us* do not care what you think!!!

*us-meaning the bitter masses in the flyover states, who your messiah put down as hicks, who cling to God and guns

Weep for the trees.

My husband's sister T and her husband D live about 20 miles south of us, still in the same town and zip code, but their home is near the lake and near the Daniel Boone National Forest. They are completely the "outdoor type". I am fairly certain if you left them in the woods with nothing but a Swiss-Army knife they would survive, probably thrive!
A few years ago they were able to purchase a lot adjacent to theirs that was covered in old growth trees. I am telling you it was magnificent! Beautiful Birch, ash, maple, poplar and others, so old that you could not put your arms around them. I am telling you it was beautiful, majestic, and peaceful.
Plans were made, they would put a small picnic table out there so they could enjoy summer dinners after a hard day's work, in the peace and majesty that God had created. First they would have to clear away some brush which they would get to before fire season came.
They worked like demons clearing the brush and briar's so that they could have access to the lot, by walking rather than on four-wheeler.
One day they came home from work, passing logging trucks on the road home, which was not unusual. They live near the forest so they really didn't think any thing of them. Until they got home and saw that their beloved old growth trees had been CLEAR CUT.
There would be no relaxing dinners in the woods. The woods were gone.
From what they were able to find out the logging company had contracted to cut the property next to theirs, and just went too far with their chain saws.
The logging company really wasn't sorry and offered only a paltry $100 per tree. D told them to shove it.
Evidently it wasn't an accident that they went too far in cutting. The laws of our state really aren't on the side of the property owner, more like the side of the logging company. After discussing it with an attorney, D & T went home and admitted defeat.
I know T shed a few tears, but I can assure you she didn't carry on like these nutjobs!

Just when I think that humans can not sink any lower...

Some creep comes along and proves me wrong.
FBI: Couple offered sex with girl, 5, for used car

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.

Sickening and heartbreaking for those poor children. What the hell is wrong with a mother that would do that to her kid?
You know, when I read things like this, I really think that a public stoning or lashings with a bull-whip would be appropriate for these two losers! Maybe that would be too good for them.
Pray for those kids. I hope God will have mercy on the mother and her boyfriend, because I sure wouldn't!

Well this is totally depressing...

If you are a regular round heah, you know that I am somewhat Elvis obsessed.

So the following just depresses the hell out of me!

Elvis demoted in new Billboard historic chart

H/T SarahK

Passive-agressive scenes from my life.

I really and truly give up! I am just going to wash my hands of my husband's family and be done with it! Right now I am so P.O.'d with those effing people I could just absolutely bite a steel beam in to.
Our story opens this morning, at approximately 4:00 am with the death of my husband's Uncle B. Uncle B is married to Aunt H who is my father in law's sister. Really nice people. They had been married 50 years and Uncle B has been in really poor health for the past couple of them, and I had been expecting this for a few months because he was in a steady decline.

So apparently my sister-in-law T, calls around to m-i-l and my hubby and decides that she and my husband would ride up to Ohio with their parents.

OK-now notice I have left out myself , Paddycakes and T's husband D.

That's because all of these plans were made before I was even notified of the death of Uncle B.
When my husband called me and told me about the situation, he said, "I don't know what to do, I will only get one day paid leave. "

I told him that "even though he isn't blood he has been your Uncle B for your entire life, remember how he and Aunt H would take you places when you were a kid with their son?"

"Yes" he admitted.

"Well you can take a vacation day to add to it", I replied.

It seemed obvious to me.

Then he tells me that he and T will be riding up with their parents so they can save on gas.

NO its more like they want you to ride with them so that you will pay for everything-dear hubby! I didn't say that but OH HOW I WANTED TOO!!!

I coolly told him that I would be going too, and that on the way home we could stop in Newport and take Paddycakes to the Newport Aquarium.

"Well I don't think a kid should go to a funeral" he said.

"Are you kidding me? When we get there the first thing people will ask is 'Where is Paddycake?' We are southern, I have gone to funerals my entire life. Death is a part of life and he better get used to it now." I was getting angrier and angrier.

"Well, you are right. OK" he finally relented.

Later this evening I heard him on the phone with his mother telling her that Paddycakes and I would be going. Foiled her plans.

You know I have been married to Toddles for 15 years, you would think that we would be beyond all of this petty, stupid crap, with his family, but we aren't. Last year on Paddycakes birthday, they planned out that m-i-l, and f-i-l would take him to T & D's house to celebrate his birthday and give him his presents.

Toddles, my mother and I were not invited.

F%$& it people, I could expect this type of crap if Toddles and I were divorced, but we aren't.

Historic ‘name trees’ bore thousands of carvings

This is particularly poignant in light of the fact that we just passed the 64Th Anniversary of D-Day, and that World War II veterans are dying off everyday.
My grand-daddy( a WWII vet of the Pacific Theatre) always said they would be speaking German if we hadn't saved their sorry butts. This is such a shame. Go read!

From the Timesonline.com
"The names “Thomas and Dorothy” were carved in the bark of one trunk. Another said “Bob and Carma”. Other trees were marked with soldiers’ home states - Iowa, Maine or Alabama - and several bore hearts and the names or initials of a wife or girlfriend.
The beech trees of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest bore a poignant testimony to the D-Day landings for more than six decades.."

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!!!!

I am so P.O.'d right now I could effin scream!!!!
OK, so here is the deal, my MIL (think Marie Barone and the mil from the book Vinegar Hill-very whiny & helpless acting) had surgery for a uterine tumor on Friday, complete hysterectomy. This was done by making a gash in her abdomen of about six or eight inches-like a C-Section for those who have had one.
She was released from the hospital on Sunday. For Sunday dinner they had TV dinners. So yesterday I went to Your Secret Chef and picked up a glazed chicken breast with rice dinner for them. Knowing that this would be healthier for them than a sodium laden TV dinner or whatever crap they usually eat. They don't eat healthy at all, and my MIL is diabetic with heart issues and FIL is also a heart patient. A lot of times for dinner my FIL will eat bologna and crackers(and its not a money issue either). YEAH.
So I had the hubs drop off the chicken and rice dish. Well come to find out that my FIL WON'T eat rice. NOT, THANK YOU for thinking of us, but 'Charles won't eat rice'.
I had ordered several meals for them that I was picking up this afternoon, and you guessed two of them had rice and the other had noodles, another food Charles won't eat.
So you know what, I kept the food that I picked up for them. We will eat it ourselves. I am tired to death of bending over backwards for these damn people to have them be so damn hateful to me for 15 damn years!!! This isn't the first time I have been treated this way.
You know when I had my C-section back when my son was born, I would have been thrilled out of my mind if someone had taken the time to think of me and bring us a meal. It was a hard surgery and a long recovery. I could barely walk, so I know she is in the same kind of shape.
I just don't get these people.
Nothing is ever good enough. Why couldn't they just be gracious and say "Thank you"?

Heaven knows we all need to pop out 18 kids!

OK we just heard on TV that Michelle Duggar is expecting number 18. Now the way she structures her household, is that she makes the older children help the younger children, she calls it the "buddy system". Did any one ever think to ask if the older kids if they wanted to do her job and raise the younger ones? All of her kids still live at home too, the oldest being a 20 year old son, I think there is an 18 year old daughter. Don't these kids get to go to college, or are they being forced to stay at home and help her raise the others?

On the one hand these people feel like they are having all of these kids to honor the Lord, and that's all well and good, more power to them.

But on the other hand I just can't help but think that they are crazy. Could they not honor the Lord, by taking in foster kids and maybe adopting them? I just can't see bringing more people into an already overcrowded, over taxed earth. It would be so much better to take care of kids that are already here, that don't know God. But that is just my opinion!

Bus Crashes

So there was a school bus crash here in KY yesterday, that resulted in the death of a student.
I mentioned in an earlier blog, that I had survived a bus crash in 1988.
It seems like every time there is a bus crash, someone does a study (usually the government)and they will release the finding that buses should have seat belts. It happened after our crash. It has happened after other crashes.
So could someone please tell me why 20 years later they still don't have seat belts on school buses?
I guess our kids don't matter.

Rob Lowe is being sued by yet another employee.
You would have to PAY ME to NOT sexually harass him-JUST SAYIN!


***OK I know that sexual harassment is no joking matter. My mom was sexually harassed, I know it is serious business to humiliate and degrade women. However, I have been in love with Rob Lowe since I was a pre-teen and I know that women regularly throw themselves at him. It is just a little hard to believe.

Just my opinion!

When I was a child I loved Jimmy Carter. What can I say I was six, and sadly ignorant/uninformed/naive/childish take your pick! Fortunately for me I grew up and just considered him pretty much an ineffectual elder statesman, who was trying to do good with his Habitat for Humanity charity but ever since he endorsed and validated that corrupt election of that megalomaniac in Venezuela, I have been wise to his liberal idiot ways.
For him to meet with a terrorist organization leader, is nothing short of treason. I truly wish the State Department would pull his passport and not allow his sorry ass back in the country.
Just my opinion.