And they say that teaching abstinence isn't the answer..
How about being 29 and being a grandmother? This woman had her baby at 14 and her 15 year old just had a baby...well so much for safe sex! You would think that the mother would have had enough common sense to teach her daughter better and talked to her daughter about putting her baby up for adoption!
Okay, my husband bought my machine for me in 2002 for Valentine's Day. I don't sew nearly as much as I used too, but today since I got off early I decided I was going to make a fabric shopping bag from some of my tons of material.
I am almost done when....
Are you ready for this?
Are you sure?
If you are a seamstress, read no further or you will run screaming into the night...
The whole middle assembly (you know, the foot, the needle holder - all of it) fell OUT. Including some little pin that I have no clue where it goes.
SO I am hoping that Santa brings me one of these for Christmas:
Because I will never buy another Brother sewing machine for as long as I LIVE!!!!!!
So the British teacher that who's class named a teddy bear Muhammad will not be whipped or killed (thank God!!), but she is sentenced to like two weeks in jail and deportation (thank God for deportation or someone would murder this poor woman).
So a bunch of Sudanese "protesters" went to some martyr's square and demanded she be executed in front of a firing squad. Wow. That's tolerant. Okay, so let me be tolerant for a moment and say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Round up the folks belonging to this previously unheard of Society for Support of the Prophet Muhammad and shoot them all by firing squad since they named their group using the name Muhammad.
Ya know...here in America - we have "tolerance" (or at least so it is said - that's another soap box I could get on to). Also, the same laws (unless you are oh, insanely rich like Paris Hilton) apply to everyone.
How about trying that? Running the laws straight across the board. I am proud of the student that stood up for his teacher. It was not the teacher that named the bear; sure she allowed it - but is it wrong for children to associate something they love with a god or prophet they love?
It is said that children often view God by looking at their parents...can you imagine how most of those students and children in Sudan view their god? Vengeful, angry, and out to get them for any little thing.
Baby Grace's mother could have easily left her at the hospital, signed over her rights, and walked away. Yet no, we have one more tiny angel in heaven - she left this world with three skull fractures, after being beaten with leather belts, and held under water.
I think she should be sterilized - and her boyfriend, too. What I really want to know is why no one looked harder into this "Ohio" mystery social worker. Had I been that child's grandmother, aunt, etc etc (insert female relative here) - I would be calling every DHS office Ohio has to see if it was true...and then I would have called the police and reported her missing myself. Sadly, you can't leave all parents to be parents...especially ones that shack up with people they meet on the internet at a moment's notice.
Because I would hate for this to be all my daughter would aspire to be...of course me and her daddy and her brothers probably wouldn't even let her date until she was 35..but this? Really? This is a real competition? A beauty pageant - I am not even all that crazy about those...but this.....
So I tried to get in to the ortho today instead of waiting til tomorrow, but the doctor was in surgery. Urgent care told me to go to the ER because of the pain (no sleep for three days - the pain is a LOT worse at night). The nurse asked if I take any medications and I told her that I do take Klonipin, but that I hadn't taken it today. I'm in tears from pain (she'd already asked the on the scale from 1 to 10 how do you rate the pain question). Then she starts going down the psych list. When she asked, "Are you feeling the urge to hurt yourself" I wanted to say, "Yes, actually I'd love to cut my foot off." I figured she would take my sarcasm seriously so I just left it alone. I got back pretty quick and I had my x-rays with me from urgent care.
The male nurse asked me what I wanted them to do about it - oh gee. I don't know. I'm crying. I'm at the hospital. Pain medication prescribed didn't help. No sleep in three days. Gee - Hmm..let me think about it. Oh wait! Light bulb moment! Make it quit hurting!
The doc comes in and says that there is no ortho on call and that he had no intentions of "narcing" me up. See? You tell the truth to people - about why you don't like certain drugs (Loratab - it didn't work anyway) because your father overdosed on them and you get treated like YOU are the addict.
Look - just because my dad was an addict doesn't make me one. I started with Darvocet. I *asked* for Darvocet at urgent care because I know that it is a lot less potent (and I have a pretty high pain tolerance). Sunday comes and I am crying so I call my primary physician's answering service and he tells me to take Loratab that I had left from freaking February from my last dental excursion. THAT doesn't help.
Keep in mind at this point - the doctor looked only at the x-ray but had not taken the splint off to LOOK at my foot. I had to tell him to take the splint off if he didn't believe me. My foot is still black and purple. He said, "I don't see anything on the xray to justify you hurting this much. SO I have a hard time believing that you are having this much pain." He did end up writing a prescription (that I can't take because a. it isn't here yet; Nana Beachy took it three hours ago to get it filled. b. I have class in 30 minutes and c. I have two children that MUST be supervised (they are only 9 and 7 for goodness sake and I am not about to take something that I don't know what kind of effect it will have on me).
Yeah, and yet people call me judgmental..I'm judged the minute people find out that my dead father was an addict and that my mother is an alcoholic and prescription abuser. How's that for justice and legacy? I don't beat my kids - I broke the damn cycle...yet I am judged. I'd rather walk around on a torn up ligament or tendon or whatever and ask for the weakest drug possible so I can take care of my children...yet I am judged.
I am a million times better than my own parents - I could make a list...but at the risk of sounding not only "judgmental" but snotty, I won't. Let's just say I'm sober, I don't beat my children, I am a Holy Ghost filled child of God, and I do my best to take care of my own (and others for that matter). Yet I am judged because of the people that raised me.
So I thought and was told that I had shin splints. It got so bad I could hardly walk so last night my MIL drove me to urgent care. They did a tib/fib x-ray that came back clean. So I dropped her off and picked up 1/3 of my children (Monkey Butt spent the night with Nana, Beachy and my step son was with The Cop Magnet). Going up the ramp to my trailer, my ankle snapped. It swelled up, turned every color of purple and black that you could possibly imagine and even a few more colors you can't imagine. My MIL came to look and said it looks broken or at least a very bad sprain.
Went back to Urgent Care today and the swelling is still so bad they can't really see anything via x-ray. They casted me up and treating it as a broken ankle. It could just be a really bad sprain, but we won't know until the swelling goes down. I have an ortho appointment next week.
So we thought that I just had shin splints.Nana Beachy took me to Urgent Care this evening because I can barely walk.The pain in my shin is just unbelievable.Well, according to the PA my having Lupus throws a whole new loop into things.They x-ray my fibia and tibia and see nothing wrong there…of course x-rays can’t see muscles or ligaments.So they want me on steroids and on anti-inflammatory medication.That was it – we left.Other than the typical, “Stay off your feet, elevate them…etc”.I was thinking, “Lady it is pretty apparent that you have no children – I have three and that just aint gonna happen.”Don’t get me wrong – my kids are very VERY good compared to a lot of kids I’ve met…speaking of…Bry-onicle pulled up the stool, got my cell phone, home phone, cup of water, my crochet, the TV remote and two pillow to put my foot up on.He even went and found my crutches..
When we get home, I tried walking up the ramp and I heard my ankle (and felt it) snap.Now I can’t flex my foot in either direction and that makes me wonder if the problem hasn’t been in my ankle all along.Nana Beachy just came and left (Monkey Butt is spending the night there) and she looked at my ankle and it is swelling right in the middle.She thinks I might have torn a tendon or something.So now I don’t know if I should go back to Urgent Care tomorrow or not.Urgent Care is just way cheaper than ER.$15 versus $50…hmm..let me think about that one, right?
The Cop Magnet’s Z should be fixed tonight.I am waiting on him to get back from the big city.I need to balance the check book and he gets to play Mr. Mom all weekend.I am kinda bummed out because now I might be missing my niece’s birthday party.I would love to see my brother and just rub it in his face that he now has a teenager in his house!!Ha ha ha ha!
It sucks – I’m hungry and I can’t stay on my feet long enough to make me anything to eat.I had fish sticks so Bry-onicle was fed (he loves fish sticks) by his own efforts.He is playing on neoshifters.com right now and I am watching the DVR.I am really wishing I had something to take the pain away.I don’t know what to do about the pain.
Wait, though, until you hear the reason why. This person is on a mom's site googled her nickname (I use practicalchick or practical chick for everything so I am pretty easy to find online LOL). She was upset that her profile, her messages (and thus every thing she said about her hubby negative) would be able to be found by him if he was to try and find it.
My response was pretty simple - something along the lines of don't say anything to anyone about your hubby that you wouldn't want him to say about you to someone else...but that is just my opinion.
The last three words, to me, are the key words. She responded to me that if he found it then screw it, he deserved to know. My thought - that I did NOT post was that if the problem was that bad why not go to him instead of a bunch of people that you know nothing of?
Some other person said I was being "judgmental" because more than 50% of marriages end in divorce...gee - I wonder why. If was was being nagged, harped on, put down, etc etc - I wouldn't hang around either because it is pretty obvious I could never please you in any fashion.
Yeah - me living by the golden rule and loving the First Amendment and following God's rule about not nagging (hey - I understand that everyone needs to vent from time to time)...that makes me "judgmental". What do you think about it?
How sad is it that a school will bypass parental consent to let a child know (and we aren't even talking about sixteen or seventeen years old) that it is okay to have sex as long as it is safe. Is it any wonder are children are seen as sexual objects when they are treated like them in school?
What happened to the days of teaching girls that they are worth the wait? They deserve someone that will love and cherish...not some pimple faced boy that's just out to get get his rocks off.
Don't get me wrong - boys need to be taught responsibility too...it's called "keeping it in your pants until you make enough money to support a mini-me".
But - come on...at 8 and 11 do we really need to be preaching birth control? Yeah, menses has probably started...then we need to teach them to be responsible women and to LOVE themselves by waiting.
So...by Tuesday I will know for sure if I am done with the car shopping fiasco.
We went to a Hyundai dealership to look around and I test 08 Elantra that was right off the truck. It is the same size as a Honda Accord. It was blue. Speaking of Honda, The Cop Magnet's Civic might have a seized engine.... So even if we just bought one car we are back to square one since the Camaro is really not going to do well doing an 8o mile round trip every day.
By the time we left (four hours later) we are getting the Elantra and an Accent (07 - with the sports package of course). We were told to pick the Accent up yesterday. We were up there at 8:30 and we were told that it wouldn't be ready until 10. We drove 50 miles at this point, so we just went to BK and had breakfast and let the kids play in the play place. We go back and we are told that the dealership is just waiting for the bank to open...I knew right there that it was a lie. The bank they are using isn't open on Saturdays. They said they would call us before the OU / TX game. Of course - they don't.
We called every hour and finally told them we wanted to know something by 6. They don't call so The Cop Magnet calls them back. He talks to someone that claimed to be the GM and was told that they never approved the second car and that now we are stuck with just the one. The Cop Magnet told him that our signed contract says and that they will either fulfill it or they can take back the Elantra and we would sue for breach. All of a sudden - they now want us to come back to the city (in the rain) and talk about it.
The sales guy was waiting and said that everything would be straightened out on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday and the bank will be closed. He said that he would drive to Norman to have me sign the papers and then that he would drive to OKC to have The Cop Magnet sign. We made them put that in writing and we made it very clear that if it doesn't happen, I will bring the car back and take my business else where. It is a matter of principle.
It is a nice car, but I will not tolerate being lied to.
Who I am and what this blog is about, you should consider a couple of things.
You should read more than one post. It's kind of like listening to a single song; you can't judge an artist (or in my case a person) (properly) without hearing more than one (and yes, that goes for Simon Cowell).
Before you decide that I am a liar and that I do not represent Jesus well, perhaps you should read the Bible a bit more and see what He did to the money changers in temple and the things He said to the sadducees and the pharisees (you know, the ones everyone listened to back in the day). Like or not - Jesus wasn't a pacifist, you silly little hater (and if you can't post a comment right the first time by including your real name, don't be so disillusioned to think that I will post it on the third try), He was a rebel.
Yesterday was, indeed, a Monday. Where do I start?
Do you want to know about how I had no umbrella and, consequently, was completely soaked to the point that I had to change my shirt when I got to work?
How about when I went to lunch and was stalled in town by traffic because all three news stations were there?
Better yet - how about when I was coming back to work (walking in from the parking areas) and slipped in a mud puddle and got mud up to my knee?
Oh wait - that doesn't compare much to hitting the pothole on the way to the baseball game and screwing up my tire...
Or the fact that the temperature dropped to 52 and the wind was blowing at about 20..
And to top off my Monday when we got in, Pup Dog had chewed a small hole in the hose that runs from the toilet to the floor and my bathroom was a literal misty shower...but at least the water was clean right?
Oh, and The Cop Magnet's power thingie in the computer went out again. We just bought it...it has a 90 day warranty. So you best believe he is getting his money back!
Hopefully today is better...I won't even tell you what I said to another mom at a baseball game that had the gall to run her mouth about the "new kids" on the team that don't know how to play.
Why is Super Nanny needed? Whatever happened to just disciplining your children instead of whining about what hateful little brats they are? They wouldn't be hateful little brats if mama and dad didn't tolerate it from the get go!
I just had an interesting thought walking to the bathroom...
If someone can be arrested for having sex with a person (or with various people) strictly to spread HIV or AIDS...both which will eventually take the life of the recipient....why can't someone be arrested for using abortion as birth control since they have sex and take the life of an innocent party?
Women and younger ladies aren't sexual objects because men can't keep their mouths shut. Apparently people are now starting to realize that the women who dress like sluts don't do it because a man is making them (that would be true oppression). They do it because they look up to such social retards as Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan.
Christian women - I don't care what denomination you are... Get off your duffs, start dressing like a lady (if you don't already - and daisy dukes does not a lady make), and start a mentoring group for young girls in your church or community. We can reverse the cycle. We just have to quit complaining about it and just do it.
Whatever happened to truth? I know that for some truth is a relative principle. Yet at one point it seems to me that truth was much more valued than it is today. There's a good reason why I don't trust the media....and this is just one example.
I live in Noble, OK. Just go to foxnews.com and search on it. You'll read about the tragic thing that happened.
Essentially, we have no animal control.
So this family calls the cops because of a snake in the birdhouse. Now all you'll hear on local news is how the cop shot at the birdhouse and how one shot managed to ricochet (or went through the tree which makes more sense) and hit a little five year old boy in the back of the head who was fishing with his grandfather.
Let me clear up some deceptions for you...
Heck yes it is tragic.
One - the cops tried other avenues of getting the snake out of the tree (and frankly if you are going to live out in the country grow some balls and get used to snakes - don't call the cops that carry nine mms...get you a pellet gun or get some bird shot).
Two - the *homeowners* suggested and agreed that shooting the snake would be a good idea.
Three - the cops did not know the kid was there. The little boy was fishing with his grandfather back past some brush at a pond.
Four - foxnews.com quotes the grandfather as saying he knows it was an accident, but if he would have put his grandbaby in the car without a car seat and drove to town, and was in a wreck in which the boy was killed he would have been arrested for murder. That's not fair or true. They don't always charge for murder; negligent homicide or manslaughter probably but probably not murder. People shake the crap out of their babies and practically walk. Also the scenario is completely different - he would have *knowingly* put the kid in his car without a car seat and he would have *known* the danger. The cops did not *know* the kid was anywhere around. It isn't like the boy was sitting by the tree or climbing the tree and they decided to shoot anyway.
I think it is really sad that the media is trying to make the police look like the bad guys. Yes, I know that a five year old boy was killed. That is so awful. I've cried for two nights now because Monkey Butt might have known that boy from school. Yet people just fail to realize that the police did not know...they were not told that there was someone down on the private pond fishing. This young policeman has to live with this now for the rest of his life....and if anyone finds out who he is he will have a huge stigma to deal with. That's also tragic.
I know, you've had to put up with a lot of GRRRing from me lately.
I tell you what... I hate that Ma Bell is getting all her babies back. Ever since AT&T bought SBC Global, my DSL has really been crappy. I lose my connection at any given time, and sometimes I even have to reboot my router. The Cop Magnet's computer suffers more than my lap top, but it is really crappy.
