Escape the Okie Zone
this a personal creative non-fiction journal about a traveler and his evolving life. He saw the waning warmth of humans through his puppy's eyes and now he see the world through his child's eyes. He thought much of our country's warmth went dormant when Bush held our country hostage! Some of my hostile readers suffering from overinflated egos might actually think that I might be writing about them on this blog! Get a life please ;)Wednesday, March 10, 2010
wow... somebody from sacramento has been visiting my site for december 2004...
what was so intriguing about that time period or what I wrote
for them to visit my site several times per day...
maybe some readers could give me insight on what they might or dislike about my writing??
its 4 am and Ive been watching some good movies before I wanted to have the chance to write to you...
Surrogates and a chinese movie called Red Cliff...
the latter movie showed how to win a war against overwhelming odds with the step by step strategies of chess!
My realization/epiphany again is reiterated about treating life as a chess game..
I had that thought almost 20 years ago after Mom passed away and before Alene passed..
my life is short and I know that I can still have victory...(things can always turn around in a tough game with the knight!)...
I know that if I can do the steps one a time , we can have a succesful happy family...
but the biggest things to look out for are emotional vampires!
An introduction to emotional vampires
Emotional vampires come in various shapes and sizes. Despite the several sub-types, one factor that they all have in common is that you feel emotionally drained after spending time with them. Besides feeling drained, they often take up your time and in some cases money as well. Emotional vampires tend to run in families. If you encounter one, you will want to avoid it and their family members as well.
Some emotional vampires have money. Those with money often use their money as a lure to entice you into their power. Once you are caught in their power they will take the life out of you. In the case of those with money, they will use your desire for money and greed as a way of keeping you in their clutches. They will use not only money, but also drugs, sex, secrets and anything else to have something on you in order to keep you in their control. “You owe me” is a frequently heard phrase coming from these types.
Some people use the term emotinal vampires. Other terms used are 'users' and 'takers'. We often have a sense about these types although there are different names for them depending on our experiences with them.
Emotional vampires are dangerous to your emotional and physical health What are the types of emotional vampires?
The first type is the needy, helpless type. The needy persons often play the helpless role in an effort at getting you to take action. They often interact with a passive way of taking action. They ‘suggest’ or ‘ask’ for what they want from you. Sometimes it is direct, sometimes it is indirect. Whether direct or indirect, they know what they want. For example, if they want a glass of tea. They may make a comment that they are thirsty, or ask you for a glass of tea directly. When I think of this type I often see those large eyed cats that often look so pitiful and helpless.
Another type is the depressed vampire. These are the ones that move slowly. Sometimes they make sounds of struggle as part of their routine. They make every day look like it is a struggle for them. These are easily recognized. They often say very negative things and seem to energize themselves by cutting down and talking about others. They often have a long term frown on their face. When there is laughter it is often forced and almost a cackle rather than genuine belly-jostling laughter. Due to their extreme depressed mood, they often suck the life energy out of you and everything in the room. I have seen these types suck the life out of electric fans and other inanimate objects as well. You can feel these types when they enter a room.
this is probably my biggest drain daily...and I believe that is where we both need counseling but it is so difficult to find the right person to trust in this challenging project..everyday can be a struggle trying to please my wife and deal with the daily worries, when I try to convince that life in this idyllic place can be so easily...why do we have to make life hard??
The worst is the necrophilia type. This type is the depressed vampire on steroids. They take depression to a new low. This type does not enjoy life at all, They often talk about their losses, and surround themselves with somber music or even the lack of music.
amen to that and my condolesces to others that have to deal with this on a daily basis!
Their rooms are often morgue like, with photos and mementos of life that no longer exists. They items they have reminded them of their losses rather than the happy times they had. When they review their lives, they recall the mistakes, deaths and losses. They talk about death and how life itself is a struggle. If you listen to them, there are often themes of ‘revenge’ or talking about how people do not deserve things. It is this morbid aspect that separates them from the depressed type. Goths may look scary, but these types of persons actually do take the life and enjoyment of life out of you.
I guess others might think that I have exhibited this type of behavior myself especially in regards to the house in Oklahoma which appeared to be a museum to my losses...
but this could be a sign in life to move on but its a damn expensive lesson!!
How to deal with them
1, Set boundaries. Know ahead of time how far you will go with people. Do not let them violate your boundaries. When they hook you into a crisis, they often violate your boundaries or force you to compromise so that the guilt from compromising your values can be used as leverage against you.
2. Pay attention to your gut feelings. If you gut tells you to stay away, listen to it. When you sense the draining of energy, do not ignore the sensation. The good Lord gave you those sensations in order to protect you from such types of people.
3. Learn how to turn away from guilt. When you can not be hooked, they do not have any power over you. Remember they only have the power that you give them. The more you give into them, the stronger the hold they have on you. Don’t feel guilty if they have hurt feelings.
4. Surround yourself with life and lively things. Listen to lively music dress lively and so forth. Make it a point to enjoy life. Since emotional vampires avoid life and liveliness like the plague, use it to re-energize yourself and keep them away. Rather than garlic, the thing that keeps away these types of vampires is liveliness.
5, Move a lot. Activities like dancing are invigorating. The despondency that often accompanies emotional vampires tends toward extreme passivity the antidote to that passivity is activity and lots of it.
What are their methods?
It is not unusual for emotional vampires to be in crisis and have ways of ‘hooking’ you into their crisis. Once hooked a kind of bonding takes place. Since you went through a crisis with them, they expect you to stay with them. You may hear themes of how only you could understand them, or how only you can help them. There will be other comments of how you are the exception to miserable world in which they live.
Besides crises, they often use crying episodes as another hook. The crying or threat of crying often creates guilt feelings in their victims. True guilt occurs when you violate a moral principle or law. In dealing with them you have broken no law or principle, they want you to feel like you owe them something. Some family structures used guilt as a motivator in raising their children. Children raised in such homes are often more vulnerable to these emotional vampire types.
•Who Stole My Mother?
My personal account of how I survived an abusive relationship with my mother. Filled with anecdotes and lessons learned from caring for an abusive elderly parent with a history of extreme aggression and hostility.
what was so intriguing about that time period or what I wrote
for them to visit my site several times per day...
maybe some readers could give me insight on what they might or dislike about my writing??
its 4 am and Ive been watching some good movies before I wanted to have the chance to write to you...
Surrogates and a chinese movie called Red Cliff...
the latter movie showed how to win a war against overwhelming odds with the step by step strategies of chess!
My realization/epiphany again is reiterated about treating life as a chess game..
I had that thought almost 20 years ago after Mom passed away and before Alene passed..
my life is short and I know that I can still have victory...(things can always turn around in a tough game with the knight!)...
I know that if I can do the steps one a time , we can have a succesful happy family...
but the biggest things to look out for are emotional vampires!
An introduction to emotional vampires
Emotional vampires come in various shapes and sizes. Despite the several sub-types, one factor that they all have in common is that you feel emotionally drained after spending time with them. Besides feeling drained, they often take up your time and in some cases money as well. Emotional vampires tend to run in families. If you encounter one, you will want to avoid it and their family members as well.
Some emotional vampires have money. Those with money often use their money as a lure to entice you into their power. Once you are caught in their power they will take the life out of you. In the case of those with money, they will use your desire for money and greed as a way of keeping you in their clutches. They will use not only money, but also drugs, sex, secrets and anything else to have something on you in order to keep you in their control. “You owe me” is a frequently heard phrase coming from these types.
Some people use the term emotinal vampires. Other terms used are 'users' and 'takers'. We often have a sense about these types although there are different names for them depending on our experiences with them.
Emotional vampires are dangerous to your emotional and physical health What are the types of emotional vampires?
The first type is the needy, helpless type. The needy persons often play the helpless role in an effort at getting you to take action. They often interact with a passive way of taking action. They ‘suggest’ or ‘ask’ for what they want from you. Sometimes it is direct, sometimes it is indirect. Whether direct or indirect, they know what they want. For example, if they want a glass of tea. They may make a comment that they are thirsty, or ask you for a glass of tea directly. When I think of this type I often see those large eyed cats that often look so pitiful and helpless.
Another type is the depressed vampire. These are the ones that move slowly. Sometimes they make sounds of struggle as part of their routine. They make every day look like it is a struggle for them. These are easily recognized. They often say very negative things and seem to energize themselves by cutting down and talking about others. They often have a long term frown on their face. When there is laughter it is often forced and almost a cackle rather than genuine belly-jostling laughter. Due to their extreme depressed mood, they often suck the life energy out of you and everything in the room. I have seen these types suck the life out of electric fans and other inanimate objects as well. You can feel these types when they enter a room.
this is probably my biggest drain daily...and I believe that is where we both need counseling but it is so difficult to find the right person to trust in this challenging project..everyday can be a struggle trying to please my wife and deal with the daily worries, when I try to convince that life in this idyllic place can be so easily...why do we have to make life hard??
The worst is the necrophilia type. This type is the depressed vampire on steroids. They take depression to a new low. This type does not enjoy life at all, They often talk about their losses, and surround themselves with somber music or even the lack of music.
amen to that and my condolesces to others that have to deal with this on a daily basis!
Their rooms are often morgue like, with photos and mementos of life that no longer exists. They items they have reminded them of their losses rather than the happy times they had. When they review their lives, they recall the mistakes, deaths and losses. They talk about death and how life itself is a struggle. If you listen to them, there are often themes of ‘revenge’ or talking about how people do not deserve things. It is this morbid aspect that separates them from the depressed type. Goths may look scary, but these types of persons actually do take the life and enjoyment of life out of you.
I guess others might think that I have exhibited this type of behavior myself especially in regards to the house in Oklahoma which appeared to be a museum to my losses...
but this could be a sign in life to move on but its a damn expensive lesson!!
How to deal with them
1, Set boundaries. Know ahead of time how far you will go with people. Do not let them violate your boundaries. When they hook you into a crisis, they often violate your boundaries or force you to compromise so that the guilt from compromising your values can be used as leverage against you.
2. Pay attention to your gut feelings. If you gut tells you to stay away, listen to it. When you sense the draining of energy, do not ignore the sensation. The good Lord gave you those sensations in order to protect you from such types of people.
3. Learn how to turn away from guilt. When you can not be hooked, they do not have any power over you. Remember they only have the power that you give them. The more you give into them, the stronger the hold they have on you. Don’t feel guilty if they have hurt feelings.
4. Surround yourself with life and lively things. Listen to lively music dress lively and so forth. Make it a point to enjoy life. Since emotional vampires avoid life and liveliness like the plague, use it to re-energize yourself and keep them away. Rather than garlic, the thing that keeps away these types of vampires is liveliness.
5, Move a lot. Activities like dancing are invigorating. The despondency that often accompanies emotional vampires tends toward extreme passivity the antidote to that passivity is activity and lots of it.
What are their methods?
It is not unusual for emotional vampires to be in crisis and have ways of ‘hooking’ you into their crisis. Once hooked a kind of bonding takes place. Since you went through a crisis with them, they expect you to stay with them. You may hear themes of how only you could understand them, or how only you can help them. There will be other comments of how you are the exception to miserable world in which they live.
Besides crises, they often use crying episodes as another hook. The crying or threat of crying often creates guilt feelings in their victims. True guilt occurs when you violate a moral principle or law. In dealing with them you have broken no law or principle, they want you to feel like you owe them something. Some family structures used guilt as a motivator in raising their children. Children raised in such homes are often more vulnerable to these emotional vampire types.
•Who Stole My Mother?
My personal account of how I survived an abusive relationship with my mother. Filled with anecdotes and lessons learned from caring for an abusive elderly parent with a history of extreme aggression and hostility.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
I was motivated to do a search for this pic and anonymous poem after seeing the pic with my 
son...I am a hopeful agnostic tuning often into my own spirituality, knowing that my brother and I buried the ashes first of Mom and then our Dad many years later in front of our Aussie home....
son...I am a hopeful agnostic tuning often into my own spirituality, knowing that my brother and I buried the ashes first of Mom and then our Dad many years later in front of our Aussie home....
I had put these pics on earlier in the day, but the writing and photos disappeared into cyberspace...
Now I thought again about our beautiful child and the footprints beside him!
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
as I try to discover that self actualized person that can do the best with the attributes (strengths and weaknesses) that he has
I look out at the ocean and wonder about my future...
can I let my dreams become reality without them becoming my master??..
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
as I try to discover that self actualized person that can do the best with the attributes (strengths and weaknesses) that he has
I look out at the ocean and wonder about my future...
can I let my dreams become reality without them becoming my master??..
can I help this
jet take off with it's engine totally tuned to tip top shape
jet take off with it's engine totally tuned to tip top shape
to make it's flight into it's new adventure
where will this flight take us??
where will this flight take us??
I feel others have their dream mixed in with their post avatar depression (after watching the film)
they might wish for a younger healthier body
with the ability to fly to places where they have never been..
looking for experiences that are absolutely wonderful
away from their daily mundanity....
I have been reading this blog about achieving prosperity It used a quote from this book by Joseph Cambell
"
The hero encounters tests and helpers.
The hero is forced to make allies and enemies in the special world, and to pass certain tests and challenges that are part of his training. In STAR WARS, the cantina is the setting for the forging of an important alliance with Han Solo, and the start of an important enmity with Jabba The Hut. Frodo and Sam faced their first test and found some good allies when they met up with Merry and Pippen and then were almost found by the Black Riders. In CASABLANCA, Rick's Cafe is the setting for the "alliances and enmities" phase, and in many westerns it's the saloon where these relationships are established"
currently, I certainly am going through more tests and challenges in my short life than I have ever had...I am learning to find the very few folks that will accept me into their "tribe" as I accept them into my friendship/acquaintance realm .....the surf club has definitely tested me physically, and especially with how much intestinal fortitude and mental perseverance I can have...
just for the chance to be a volunteer lifeguard and compete for my own self esteem and desire for self worth... do I subconciously desire to be a hero when I save a life in the rough seas knowing that I will be there as fast as anyone to help them before they drown...
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
I love this poem of Kipling...about being a hero at least in my own mind...
I keep getting back up after disasters
and don't give up..
it's my William Wallace brave heart mentality...ready to do battle no matter what the steaks...
failing again the preassesment out of my own nerves...putting the mask on wrong while the instructor berated me over where my fingers were to create a seal... I knew that I would never meet this insecure man's standards as if no matter what , he had to prove to impartial observers that I was in some little aspect incompetent...if i did something well, he would find something else.......I don't what his deal was or just jealous that I was a much stronger swimmer than this little man... regardless of my learning disability, he was determined to show everyone that I couldn't do it...
oh well, I worked myself into almost an anxiety worried about pleasing this man that obviously didnt like me...
like a professor that I might have irked him with one of my many questions...
and regardless of how well I strived , I would never meet the midpoint of the curve of the class...
another embarassment in my quest for an escape from the disaster in the Okie Zone....
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools
I love this poem of Kipling...about being a hero at least in my own mind...
I keep getting back up after disasters
and don't give up..
it's my William Wallace brave heart mentality...ready to do battle no matter what the steaks...
failing again the preassesment out of my own nerves...putting the mask on wrong while the instructor berated me over where my fingers were to create a seal... I knew that I would never meet this insecure man's standards as if no matter what , he had to prove to impartial observers that I was in some little aspect incompetent...if i did something well, he would find something else.......I don't what his deal was or just jealous that I was a much stronger swimmer than this little man... regardless of my learning disability, he was determined to show everyone that I couldn't do it...
oh well, I worked myself into almost an anxiety worried about pleasing this man that obviously didnt like me...
like a professor that I might have irked him with one of my many questions...
and regardless of how well I strived , I would never meet the midpoint of the curve of the class...
another embarassment in my quest for an escape from the disaster in the Okie Zone....
Sunday, February 28, 2010
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
I am trying to keep my head above water...
the waves at low tide looked extra powerful
and regardless of how retarded I felt taking this exam so I could volunteer my time
for an Aussie club next to my old Australian home...
never more i have felt at a loss and helpless
while I waited for the tsunami that never came...
maybe a few inches...
what other disasters could befall me
as i try to escape the thoughts of the financial disaster back in the Okie Zone...
with the surf handicap swim race that wont happen...
I want to play again in this race as I would as a boy...
in fun race around the buoys
catching up and passing swimmers with the same goal young and old...d
the race doesnt happen and you have to face this little bald headed man with perhaps ego issues
he condescendingly emails you that his children have auspergers which mirrors ADD..
u have met people like this who feel they want to show their superiority over your ignorance...
so u try one more time knowing that he won't let you finish the race...
well you think there are rips that you take you past the dangerous waves...
where are the rips to the Aussies (national surf/swim)...
or will u just let the waves overpower u back to the haven of the shore
or can you find the rip?, Garvald Murray??
so
u cry to your wife
on one of the loneliest most beautiful full moonlit nights that you have seen
as the tidal waves play in the king tides of the full moon
telling her your parents are both long gone..
u don't have them to ring and tell them how sad ur life is...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
both go out to the full moon and have a heart to heart
chat with your best friend..
and after reading this poem by Rudyard
u both have have new found inspiration to meet the brave new world!
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
I am trying to keep my head above water...
the waves at low tide looked extra powerful
and regardless of how retarded I felt taking this exam so I could volunteer my time
for an Aussie club next to my old Australian home...
never more i have felt at a loss and helpless
while I waited for the tsunami that never came...
maybe a few inches...
what other disasters could befall me
as i try to escape the thoughts of the financial disaster back in the Okie Zone...
with the surf handicap swim race that wont happen...
I want to play again in this race as I would as a boy...
in fun race around the buoys
catching up and passing swimmers with the same goal young and old...d
the race doesnt happen and you have to face this little bald headed man with perhaps ego issues
he condescendingly emails you that his children have auspergers which mirrors ADD..
u have met people like this who feel they want to show their superiority over your ignorance...
so u try one more time knowing that he won't let you finish the race...
well you think there are rips that you take you past the dangerous waves...
where are the rips to the Aussies (national surf/swim)...
or will u just let the waves overpower u back to the haven of the shore
or can you find the rip?, Garvald Murray??
so
u cry to your wife
on one of the loneliest most beautiful full moonlit nights that you have seen
as the tidal waves play in the king tides of the full moon
telling her your parents are both long gone..
u don't have them to ring and tell them how sad ur life is...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise
both go out to the full moon and have a heart to heart
chat with your best friend..
and after reading this poem by Rudyard
u both have have new found inspiration to meet the brave new world!
Tsunami hits Oz....
and the beaches of the Gold Coast were all closed because of it
I guess if you looked really carefully, you might see a surge...
but it was Murphy's law
in regards to my own preassessment for the bronze...
I felt like I was back in college where the professor would fail me regardless of my performance..
I was "sweating profusely " according to the instructor...
I couldn't relax and felt that I would fail the exam before I started...
I was more relaxed that one of the captains was there at least to have a 2nd opinion..
the first showing, my cell phone kept ringing during the assesment
and I screwed up putting the pads from the defibrillation unit in the wrong place
but the captain told me that I was spot on with the initial one person assessment
I was much more relaxed for my 2nd chance
then I did well with everything but the oxygen mask...
according to the instructor , I couldn't get the mask seal tight enough because I didn't have my fingers in the right place...
so regardless, the instructor would always find something wrong...
getting my Bronze medallion to be a volunteer lifeguard,
would not happen this trip...
and there went my chances to compete in the nationals...
and it dawned on me regardless of taking a little adderall, I have difficulty with learning simple lifesaving techniques....
do the threat of a tsunami was only a premonition of my own lack of ability to succeed...
so it appears that unless a miracle happens
I won't be able to take the bronze assesment because the instructor doesn't think I'm ready...
and the beaches of the Gold Coast were all closed because of it
I guess if you looked really carefully, you might see a surge...
but it was Murphy's law
in regards to my own preassessment for the bronze...
I felt like I was back in college where the professor would fail me regardless of my performance..
I was "sweating profusely " according to the instructor...
I couldn't relax and felt that I would fail the exam before I started...
I was more relaxed that one of the captains was there at least to have a 2nd opinion..
the first showing, my cell phone kept ringing during the assesment
and I screwed up putting the pads from the defibrillation unit in the wrong place
but the captain told me that I was spot on with the initial one person assessment
I was much more relaxed for my 2nd chance
then I did well with everything but the oxygen mask...
according to the instructor , I couldn't get the mask seal tight enough because I didn't have my fingers in the right place...
so regardless, the instructor would always find something wrong...
getting my Bronze medallion to be a volunteer lifeguard,
would not happen this trip...
and there went my chances to compete in the nationals...
and it dawned on me regardless of taking a little adderall, I have difficulty with learning simple lifesaving techniques....
do the threat of a tsunami was only a premonition of my own lack of ability to succeed...
so it appears that unless a miracle happens
I won't be able to take the bronze assesment because the instructor doesn't think I'm ready...
Friday, February 26, 2010
I dont know what to say...
happy wife, happy life
unhappy wife, unhappy life...
I wonder what was going through the head of John Edwards when he had an affair
one of the photographers??
his wife couldnt be very happy..
it can be a tremendous burden trying to keep your wife happy...
Colin can be so happy
when he is just running down to the beach...
my house almost burned down but I could be happy if my whole family was happy...
I often think of the Kipling poem about treating both triumph and disaster both the same
or like life is a movie and then it's not so bad... especially when I look at my gorgeous beach!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
while we were in Fiji, we did a kava ceremony...
the chiefs in the islands would drink this during peace ceremonies..
it gives you a very mellow peaceful feeling and I reckon if world leaders and terrorists drank it , there would be a lots less war and terrorism!
You cannot buy it in Oz and it's now difficult to buy in the states but you can bring it the countries as long as you claim it for customs...
I am guessing the greedy pharmaceutical companies would lose business on valium and calming prescriptions..
it's great for my wife's anxiety attacks and for me dealing with the business in the US.. I can stay a lot calmer accepting the reality of my house in OKiehoma...
today, while training with the professional guards and others at 6 am, I went out the rip past the waves and saw a large flipper almost as if it was a dream and there was a mermaid diving down into the water.... or maybe it was just a dolphin ... i had never seen such a large tail before..
was it a sign??
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
who woulda thought our lives would revolve around this beautiful child of ours?~
Monday, February 22, 2010
i just have to say something before the next day
a pic is a worth a thousand words...and so little time to write out your thoughts...
there are so many things that I have to do in order for this family to be happy!
we have all the comforts and I at least feel that we have friends who can help us..
regardless of all the misfortune that has happened to me, all i wish for is a happy family
Sunday, February 21, 2010
gosh....worried a little about the phone call having to face the woes of a home disaster
or dont I prefer just to focus on enjoying our lives while we can??
Living each day as best as our family can....yeh I have a lot of worries as a dad and it can be overwhelming...
and be a kind of melancholy mixed in with living on the beach with a beautiful family!! (thanks Steve)
so why dont I just simplify our lifestyles where we can be comfortable in our day to year existence!
Im enjoying the herbalized epiphanies rolling in and out my concious mind...
the thoughts of where we will be and the worst thought often invade my daily thinking...we wake up to the sun shining into our little abode...
each morning another day goes on our "holiday"
do I sit there and worry about our overwhelming desire to exist safely as a family in our little cave on the beach with a great view.??..How long can I survive this lifestyle with this disaster still haunting me from the OKie Zone??...
but then I find the quote and I am rejuvenated with hope for our life!
'if' by rudyard kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
again all the writing that I had just done was up in flames like the house stuck in the Okie Zone...
I have been writing for the last hour about all the things that have happened to me
and now I know that I won't write it nearly as well as I did...
the words were lost into thin air like the collected junk over the years...
I need to push save after every sentence...almost like insurance for words...a little less costly than insurance for the house that I never ended getting up...my house was like a sick old person trying to get coverage but they are too young for medicare... don't let me go on about the lousy health coverage available to the unemployed in the US!!
Rudyard Kipling had a famous saying about treating both disaster and adversity...treat both impostors the same...
so the family house almost burned down along with the many memories/closet skeletons of the haunted 
house of the Okie Zone...
house of the Okie Zone...a life that was marred by loss and neglect that I just want to forget... a time wasted in a place I didn't enjoy except for the tennis tournaments but it's not the beach!
I don't want to make that phone call to hear the financial options that I have for the place
keeping this disaster as far away from my mind as I can..
and so I easily trotted into fifth place letting the old headmaster sprint by me for 4th ...if I decided to make the physical effort I realize that I could have won that race...but all I cared about for the time being was that race! I was never more into a moment as I ducked under the waves to a flock of swimmers swimming back against the current to the first buoy! We all had been taking by the strong sweep, I knew that I should have gone further down as my instincts had told me...
If i had won the race,
that would have made me momentarily the happiest man over 50...
trying deperately (?) to forget the past and the bullshit of the present...
or just maybe learning how to enjoy the rest of this short life while I still have a body that can swim hard in the surf!
I already swam that race first in the warmup realizing the very strong sweep to the nort
h and I again misjudged where to swim ...there seemed to be about ten swimmers ahead of me so I thought why let my handicap increase??
h and I again misjudged where to swim ...there seemed to be about ten swimmers ahead of me so I thought why let my handicap increase??but I was able to pass many of them...aahh to go back in time to swim that strategical race again with the magical wave taking me into victory!
but without trying I had a strong showing...so 45 seconds will be added to my penalty!
and I could have gone for the glory but was afraid....
in my heart I know now how to win that race...
I have to sprint as hard as I can to the first can and then coast along to the next marker 50 meters down current
all the swimmers ahead of me were not faster than me but all started ahead of me..
I swam the race to the marker twice and now I want to swim the course again as soon as my honey gets back!
from her swim here on Mermaid Beachh!
aah...as I look for Mermaids, I wish that I had a good pair of binoculars!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
July 10: self helpless (from the urban dictionary)
The condition of somebody that is unable to deal with life, usually found sitting around a neglected apartment with bad hair and bad outfit.
"I saw Kenny at our high school reunion, he's still living with his parents and saving up for a camaro ...totally self helpless. "
I suppose this could easily have been the story for me or my wife with both of us dealing with our incapacities disabilities(?)... we could have easily drifted by in life accumulating for stuff or just more emotional baggage...
instead we are jet setters (could that be the right term or more like jet bums(?)
boy I am bummed out!
a bunch of my writing was just wiped out...
and now I will forget the way I eloquently put it together...
I have dealt with children with learned helplessness...
Ive taught children with learning disabilities in many different areas, the last one being a Navaho community in the REZ
the top 3 players on my chess team had learning disabilities of different kinds...
over the years , their confidence in school and life improved tremendously!'
where was I going with this...
I want to feel proud of our family AND I AM!
we are doing Ok and who wouldve thought wed be on a beautiful beach with the sun shining right into our little abode...
the club swim championships are on tomorrow so I better get a few hours shut eye!
I guess I will have to some major editing of this essay one of these days, but in the meantime I wanted to get the gist of this story out...It home so hard the other day especially with all the years of experience that I had how poor my processing was so that the instructor felt that I wasn't ready to pass the bronze assesment...
but I am proud of the way it just made me more determined to pass the course...
that is the brave heart never give up celtic blood that runs deep in my veins and I see that our son Colin has the heart of William Wallace! always keep getting back up and fight !
The condition of somebody that is unable to deal with life, usually found sitting around a neglected apartment with bad hair and bad outfit.
"I saw Kenny at our high school reunion, he's still living with his parents and saving up for a camaro ...totally self helpless. "
I suppose this could easily have been the story for me or my wife with both of us dealing with our incapacities disabilities(?)... we could have easily drifted by in life accumulating for stuff or just more emotional baggage...
instead we are jet setters (could that be the right term or more like jet bums(?)
boy I am bummed out!
a bunch of my writing was just wiped out...
and now I will forget the way I eloquently put it together...
I have dealt with children with learned helplessness...
Ive taught children with learning disabilities in many different areas, the last one being a Navaho community in the REZ
the top 3 players on my chess team had learning disabilities of different kinds...
over the years , their confidence in school and life improved tremendously!'
where was I going with this...
I want to feel proud of our family AND I AM!
we are doing Ok and who wouldve thought wed be on a beautiful beach with the sun shining right into our little abode...
the club swim championships are on tomorrow so I better get a few hours shut eye!
I guess I will have to some major editing of this essay one of these days, but in the meantime I wanted to get the gist of this story out...It home so hard the other day especially with all the years of experience that I had how poor my processing was so that the instructor felt that I wasn't ready to pass the bronze assesment...
but I am proud of the way it just made me more determined to pass the course...
that is the brave heart never give up celtic blood that runs deep in my veins and I see that our son Colin has the heart of William Wallace! always keep getting back up and fight !
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A PIC IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
I am amazed...
my camera is working again so I can show you all the pics..
it totally changes my outlook realizing how everything else is minor
compared to my family!
my camera is working again so I can show you all the pics..
it totally changes my outlook realizing how everything else is minor
compared to my family!
One of my readers sent in a comment about the artist of our family painting from Oz:
"Thank you for your enquiry regarding Arthur Murch. I am happy to give you some information regarding the above artist. Arthur James Murch was born on the 8th July 1902 in Croydon NSW and was apainter and sculptor. He was an official War Artist during World War 11. Studied engineering and became an engineering draughtsman but abandonedengineering in 1924. Attended R A S School under Datillo Rubbo and James R Jackson, 1921-1925Studied under Rainer Hoff, 1923-1925. London, Chelsea Polytechnic; Rome,under Prof. Sciotino,1925-1927 returning to Australia in 1927. He became well known as a sculptor's assistant to George Lambert 1928-1930. He responded to the modernists influences on a later trip to Europe.1936-1940. Awards. NSW Travelling Scholarship 1925. Archibald Prize for portraiture 1949.RAG NSW Rural Prize 1958.His work is represented in State Galleries including, Brisbane, Adelaide,Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemain and the AustralianWar Memorial in Canberra. I hope this has been of help to you. Best regards Marlene Antico"
Thank you, M
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution... (daily OM)
Maybe it's the aura that you give off where some folks do not want to accept you...
when you find the right folks to hang out with and grow as a person, it changes everything...
I want to compete so badly in the state surf lifesaving races...
I'm frustrated to find out that the next bronze assesment won't be until March 14th
and I probably won't be able to have my bronze in time to compete in the nationals...
everyone else passed on Sunday...
that was another slap in my face from life ..it's hard to not take it personally
knowing that if the instructor let me take the test I would have confidently passed
relieved that I would finally be able to compete for the surf lifesaving club,
a tribe that I have want to be part of ...and in many ways, I am already part of it...
instead I joined the surf lifesaving tribe of volunteers for the Sunday morning surf handicap swim race...
Maybe it's the aura that you give off where some folks do not want to accept you...
when you find the right folks to hang out with and grow as a person, it changes everything...
I want to compete so badly in the state surf lifesaving races...
I'm frustrated to find out that the next bronze assesment won't be until March 14th
and I probably won't be able to have my bronze in time to compete in the nationals...
everyone else passed on Sunday...
that was another slap in my face from life ..it's hard to not take it personally
knowing that if the instructor let me take the test I would have confidently passed
relieved that I would finally be able to compete for the surf lifesaving club,
a tribe that I have want to be part of ...and in many ways, I am already part of it...
instead I joined the surf lifesaving tribe of volunteers for the Sunday morning surf handicap swim race...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
I'm the eternal optimist...
the assesors came and watched while I gave CPR to the dummy
and I wasn't pumping him hard enough...
it's the same story
about me being very close..
but I'm not on the list for the assesment
it almost seems like it's not going to happen
the instructor says that he will fit into another assesment but it means that I will have to wait another two weeks to never...
the assesors came and watched while I gave CPR to the dummy
and I wasn't pumping him hard enough...
it's the same story
about me being very close..
but I'm not on the list for the assesment
it almost seems like it's not going to happen
the instructor says that he will fit into another assesment but it means that I will have to wait another two weeks to never...
Friday, February 12, 2010
I could get very frustrated with myself and my life...
I do get very frustrated and thinking that I would fire myself if I was my own boss...
my life has been a series of failures...
but Ive just figured out the way things don't work...
I haven't take care of business the way I should and now I'm paying for it...
but then, I wake up with this new found optimism about in some ways how blessed my life is..
I have a beautiful wife and son on a beautiful beach that I can wake up to each morning and swim fast in those waves...
I take the wave and put my head down, kicking furiously to stay with that wave..
Im still waiting for that magical wave where I stay on it for as long as gloriously possible
feeling all the energy of her behind me...
by going with the rest of the team for training knowing that I will be the only not to pass in this group because of my difficulty processing
and putting several steps together has hindered me...
I have let myself down
but Im determined to wake up tomorrow eager to show them how good a lifesave I am!
I will walk over to the crew with my head held high knowing that I have the knowledge to pass my bronze...I will catch that wave!
This bronze is for me and what Ive been waiting for so long for!
I do get very frustrated and thinking that I would fire myself if I was my own boss...
my life has been a series of failures...
but Ive just figured out the way things don't work...
I haven't take care of business the way I should and now I'm paying for it...
but then, I wake up with this new found optimism about in some ways how blessed my life is..
I have a beautiful wife and son on a beautiful beach that I can wake up to each morning and swim fast in those waves...
I take the wave and put my head down, kicking furiously to stay with that wave..
Im still waiting for that magical wave where I stay on it for as long as gloriously possible
feeling all the energy of her behind me...
by going with the rest of the team for training knowing that I will be the only not to pass in this group because of my difficulty processing
and putting several steps together has hindered me...
I have let myself down
but Im determined to wake up tomorrow eager to show them how good a lifesave I am!
I will walk over to the crew with my head held high knowing that I have the knowledge to pass my bronze...I will catch that wave!
This bronze is for me and what Ive been waiting for so long for!
It's about time Obama got tough with these greedy stubborn Rebpublicons! Way to go , Obama!
The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, Obama warned that he would make recess appointments if the logjam over nominees wasn’t broken before the Senate left for the Presidents’ Day break.
“Mitch, this is unprecedented,” the president said, gesturing forcefully on the Cabinet Room table, according to aides. “If you don’t move any, I’m going to do some [recess] appointments.”
The 27 confirmations mean no recess appointments will be needed during this break, top administration officials said. Recess appointments, which a president can make when Congress is not in session, are temporary and generally last to the end of the year.
In a statement Thursday night, Obama said: "At the beginning of the week, a staggering 63 nominees had been stalled in the Senate because one or more senators placed a hold on their nomination. ... And so on Tuesday, I told Senator McConnell that if Republican senators did not release these holds, I would exercise my authority to fill critically-needed positions in the federal government temporarily through the use of recess appointments. ... Since that meeting, I am gratified that Republican senators have responded by releasing many of these holds and allowing 29 nominees to receive a vote in the Senate. While this is a good first step, there are still dozens of nominees on hold who deserve a similar vote, and I will be looking for action from the Senate when it returns from recess. If they do not act, I reserve the right to use my recess appointment authority in the future."
Democrats say that McConnell blinked. Republicans contend that the list shows they’re not obstructionist.
A senior Senate Republican leadership aide said: "We cleared something like 35 nominees before the last recess, too. That’s what happens before a recess. This isn’t because anyone blinked."
According to an administration account, the president told McConnell that he was holding up an extraordinary number of appointments.
McConnell replied that the Democrats did the same thing when President George W. Bush was in office. Obama disagreed, saying that when Bush made his first recess appointments, a handful of nominees had been waiting for more than a month. Obama had more than 60 waiting.
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The Senate confirmed a huge group of administration nominees on Thursday, following a tense exchange between President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
At a White House meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders on Tuesday, Obama warned that he would make recess appointments if the logjam over nominees wasn’t broken before the Senate left for the Presidents’ Day break.
“Mitch, this is unprecedented,” the president said, gesturing forcefully on the Cabinet Room table, according to aides. “If you don’t move any, I’m going to do some [recess] appointments.”
The 27 confirmations mean no recess appointments will be needed during this break, top administration officials said. Recess appointments, which a president can make when Congress is not in session, are temporary and generally last to the end of the year.
In a statement Thursday night, Obama said: "At the beginning of the week, a staggering 63 nominees had been stalled in the Senate because one or more senators placed a hold on their nomination. ... And so on Tuesday, I told Senator McConnell that if Republican senators did not release these holds, I would exercise my authority to fill critically-needed positions in the federal government temporarily through the use of recess appointments. ... Since that meeting, I am gratified that Republican senators have responded by releasing many of these holds and allowing 29 nominees to receive a vote in the Senate. While this is a good first step, there are still dozens of nominees on hold who deserve a similar vote, and I will be looking for action from the Senate when it returns from recess. If they do not act, I reserve the right to use my recess appointment authority in the future."
Democrats say that McConnell blinked. Republicans contend that the list shows they’re not obstructionist.
A senior Senate Republican leadership aide said: "We cleared something like 35 nominees before the last recess, too. That’s what happens before a recess. This isn’t because anyone blinked."
According to an administration account, the president told McConnell that he was holding up an extraordinary number of appointments.
McConnell replied that the Democrats did the same thing when President George W. Bush was in office. Obama disagreed, saying that when Bush made his first recess appointments, a handful of nominees had been waiting for more than a month. Obama had more than 60 waiting.
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MAYBE EDWARDS WAS READING MY BLOG??
AND DECIDED TO ENJOY! HAVING HIS LOVE CHILD ON HIS BEACHFRONT HOME:
John Edwards Asks Mistress Rielle Hunter To Marry Him!
Nationalenquirer.com: John Edwards has proposed to his mistress Rielle Hunter, and is buying a luxury $3.5 million beachfront home where they can live happily ever after with their love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. The disgraced presidential candidate popped the question at the same time he told Rielle that he'd be issuing a press statement finally confirming he fathered her daughter Frances Quinn, close sources told The ENQUIRER. Edwards, 56, released that statement on Jan. 21, and just six days later a spokesperson for his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth confirmed the couple had legally separated after 32 years of marriage. Sources say they expect to be officially divorced within a year, paving the way for the ex-senator to make Rielle, 45, his wife.
"John dropped the proposal bomb on Rielle shortly before he issued his statement" that he was indeed Frances' father, a close source divulged.
"John knew Rielle had been waiting for a proposal for two long years. Since they've gotten involved, she's followed every order he gave her, going on a cross-country cover-up, hiding away during her pregnancy and after giving birth for the sake of his presidential aspirations.
"Rielle never uttered a peep about their affair publicly, and remained loyal to John. John felt she deserved to know that he wanted to raise their child together, and wanted Rielle in his life as his partner.
"John has said that when his divorce is final, he'll buy her a diamond ring. But in the meantime, he's getting them a house."
Another source told The ENQUIRER: "John has proposed to Rielle, and she said yes."
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John Edwards Asks Mistress Rielle Hunter To Marry Him!
Nationalenquirer.com: John Edwards has proposed to his mistress Rielle Hunter, and is buying a luxury $3.5 million beachfront home where they can live happily ever after with their love child, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. The disgraced presidential candidate popped the question at the same time he told Rielle that he'd be issuing a press statement finally confirming he fathered her daughter Frances Quinn, close sources told The ENQUIRER. Edwards, 56, released that statement on Jan. 21, and just six days later a spokesperson for his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth confirmed the couple had legally separated after 32 years of marriage. Sources say they expect to be officially divorced within a year, paving the way for the ex-senator to make Rielle, 45, his wife.
"John dropped the proposal bomb on Rielle shortly before he issued his statement" that he was indeed Frances' father, a close source divulged.
"John knew Rielle had been waiting for a proposal for two long years. Since they've gotten involved, she's followed every order he gave her, going on a cross-country cover-up, hiding away during her pregnancy and after giving birth for the sake of his presidential aspirations.
"Rielle never uttered a peep about their affair publicly, and remained loyal to John. John felt she deserved to know that he wanted to raise their child together, and wanted Rielle in his life as his partner.
"John has said that when his divorce is final, he'll buy her a diamond ring. But in the meantime, he's getting them a house."
Another source told The ENQUIRER: "John has proposed to Rielle, and she said yes."
Read more: http://www.momlogic.com/2010/02/john_edwards_asks_mistress_rielle_hunter_to_marry_him.php#ixzz0fI0TMkRM
Thursday, February 11, 2010
"A Sydney father attacked by a shark on the northern beaches has spoken about the ordeal that not only endangered his life but that of his son.
Paul Welsh was surfing with his 10-year-old son, close to shore, when the shark attacked.
"I was pushing my son on to waves and it just belted me from behind," Mr Welsh told The Manly Daily minutes after the attack.
"I grabbed on to the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out ... and I won."
Police said the 46-year-old man was bitten on the left leg by a 130cm shark off Mona Vale about 8am (AEDT) on Thursday.
A spokeswoman from NSW Health told AAP the man was recovering well and would be out of Mona Vale Hospital "by the end of the day".
Police said they were still waiting to speak to the man.
Surfwatch Australia director Michael Brown, who witnessed the attack, told AAP the shark hit the man "like a freight train".
"This shark had come in round the coast, drawn in by all the baitfish," he said.
"
Paul Welsh was surfing with his 10-year-old son, close to shore, when the shark attacked.
"I was pushing my son on to waves and it just belted me from behind," Mr Welsh told The Manly Daily minutes after the attack.
"I grabbed on to the pinnacle of a rock and held on as it tried to drag me out ... and I won."
Police said the 46-year-old man was bitten on the left leg by a 130cm shark off Mona Vale about 8am (AEDT) on Thursday.
A spokeswoman from NSW Health told AAP the man was recovering well and would be out of Mona Vale Hospital "by the end of the day".
Police said they were still waiting to speak to the man.
Surfwatch Australia director Michael Brown, who witnessed the attack, told AAP the shark hit the man "like a freight train".
"This shark had come in round the coast, drawn in by all the baitfish," he said.
I could be scared of sharks but a much bigger threat are these large dumping waves. swimming at Burleigh yesterday with a mate and the wave first smacked me hard against the water but then smacked really hard against the sand!
"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Good on ya , Mate!
The clash between banks and credit unions over public fund deposits took an unorthodox twist with community banks and CUs teaming up to pass, 65-0, a milestone bill in the New Mexico House.
The bill enables a possible switch of $2-5 billion of state funds into CUs and small banks.
If enacted, the municipal funds bill, in the works since last year and still subject to a Senate vote, would represent a setback to large national banks, like Bank of America and Wells Fargo, which have had a lock on such funds.
The altered view of New Mexico lawmakers in favoring local control of state funds, officials said, follows national mention of the New Mexico effort in the “Move Your Money” campaign of New York pundit Arianna Huffington in her online Huffington Post columns.
“I think Huffington gave this bill a little traction,” said Juan Fernandez, vice president of government affairs for the Credit Union Association of New Mexico, which has been cooperating with the New Mexico Bankers Association in pushing the bill. Though large banks are members of NMBA, its leadership has been dominated by small community banks, which like CUs seek the funds.
Sources said that despite the support for the bill, it still may face quiet opposition from the large bank lobby which may seek to stall or defeat the measure
I believe that is one of many signs that the common man is far more important than these large corporations such as banks and insurance companies!! Maybe folks will learn how to fight back against the rich and powerful!
The bill enables a possible switch of $2-5 billion of state funds into CUs and small banks.
If enacted, the municipal funds bill, in the works since last year and still subject to a Senate vote, would represent a setback to large national banks, like Bank of America and Wells Fargo, which have had a lock on such funds.
The altered view of New Mexico lawmakers in favoring local control of state funds, officials said, follows national mention of the New Mexico effort in the “Move Your Money” campaign of New York pundit Arianna Huffington in her online Huffington Post columns.
“I think Huffington gave this bill a little traction,” said Juan Fernandez, vice president of government affairs for the Credit Union Association of New Mexico, which has been cooperating with the New Mexico Bankers Association in pushing the bill. Though large banks are members of NMBA, its leadership has been dominated by small community banks, which like CUs seek the funds.
Sources said that despite the support for the bill, it still may face quiet opposition from the large bank lobby which may seek to stall or defeat the measure
I believe that is one of many signs that the common man is far more important than these large corporations such as banks and insurance companies!! Maybe folks will learn how to fight back against the rich and powerful!
Monday, February 08, 2010
I could be upset about yesterday
but it just made me more determined to learn everything I could about surflifesaving
and convince the powers that be to be assessed on Saturday morning!
but it just made me more determined to learn everything I could about surflifesaving
and convince the powers that be to be assessed on Saturday morning!
Sunday, February 07, 2010
The surf swim didn't happen today...the waves were too rough and there was a constant heavy rain coming down on us and I still found that the surf class was going on...
according to the instructor, I'm not ready for the assesment on Saturday, but that was an incentive for me to learn everything I can just in case he let's me get tested with the rest of the class..It's all about saying and knowing the right script ... but because I was asking too many questions, I obviously looked incompetent and it was embarassing..dealing with all the shit that has happened to me recently, it was straw that broke the camel's back..
it's Thursday and I still feel very embarassed and my own attention/listening deficit hit home hard like a hard wave slapping hard against the water and then again against the sand..
the instructor impatiently tells me to hold the patients head with a pistol grip
then he asks me to do several things at once...it was as if I needed subtitles and could slow the movie down...I couldnt process what he was saying and he might as well have been speaking Spanish to me
"weren't you watching the others and listening to what they were saying??"
the whole class watches me for the indoor rainy lesson and I can feel their eyes on me and that just makes me more self concious... It was like I was in a college play in front of hundreds and I forgot the script ...
"yes, I was listening ..."
I didnt know what else to say and felt uncomfortable telling the whole the class that this middle aged man desperately wanting his bronze has ADD or poor listening skills..
after the class the instructor told me that I wasn't ready for the assesment outside in the surf Saturday morning ...I almost begged him that I would be ready and I would pay for the cost of the test, $12.50
I went home and cried as a little boy would...it was the last straw on the old camel's back..
I could handle my house burning down and my wife's issues with the overwhelming worries of motherhood, but this final slap in my face hit home hard on my own emotional state of being
accentuated by the very wet stormy weather as I bicycled home
just wanting to cry in my long deceased mother's arms...
I sat there going over the workbook I had to fill out
sensing the futility
but then I was determined to fight
and talk to the instructor determined to take the test for my Bronze so that I could be a volunteer life guard on Mermaid Beach...
I saw him and told him that I was ADD... he said that I should have told him sooner but that I would let down the team on testing if I didn't know what to do basically...
so still determined and angry (more at my own listening disability), I practiced with the volunteer lifeguards on the Sunday Avo shift...
this made me feel so much better
and then I visited with my favorite veteran lifeguard and he went over the drills with me...
I am still hoping that I will be able to take the pretest on Saturday and the final assesment on Sunday!
(from the daily OM)"
Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
Part of being human is the search for an individual identity. Bound to this strong need to establish a unique persona, however, is an equally intense desire for acceptance. It is when we find our individual tribes that both are satisfied. Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are without reservation and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
Among them, we feel free to be our imperfect selves, to engage unabashedly in the activities we enjoy, and to express our vulnerabilities by relying on our tribe for support. We feel comfortable investing our time and energy in the members of our tribe, and are equally comfortable allowing them to invest their resources in our development.
The individuals who eventually become members of your unique tribe are out there in the wide world waiting for you. You are destined to find them, one by one, as you move through life. Sometimes your own efforts will put you in contact with your future tribe members. At other times, circumstances beyond your control will play a role in helping you connect with your tribe. If you look about you and discover that you are already allied with a wonderful and supportive tribe, remember that there are likely many members of your tribe you have not yet met. On the other hand, if you feel you are still living outside of your tribe, broadening your horizons can help you find your tribe members.
However your life develops after you come together with your tribe, you can be assured that its members will stand at your side. On the surface, your tribe may seem to be nothing more than a loose-knit group of friends and acquaintances to whom you ally yourself. Yet when you look deeper, you will discover that your tribe grounds you and provides you with a sense of community that ultimately fulfills many of your most basic human needs.
These daily oms seem to always hit exactly where I have been feeling...when I search for my utopia I've been hoping to find the friends that I feel comfortable and who will like me and my family for who they are!
according to the instructor, I'm not ready for the assesment on Saturday, but that was an incentive for me to learn everything I can just in case he let's me get tested with the rest of the class..It's all about saying and knowing the right script ... but because I was asking too many questions, I obviously looked incompetent and it was embarassing..dealing with all the shit that has happened to me recently, it was straw that broke the camel's back..
it's Thursday and I still feel very embarassed and my own attention/listening deficit hit home hard like a hard wave slapping hard against the water and then again against the sand..
the instructor impatiently tells me to hold the patients head with a pistol grip
then he asks me to do several things at once...it was as if I needed subtitles and could slow the movie down...I couldnt process what he was saying and he might as well have been speaking Spanish to me
"weren't you watching the others and listening to what they were saying??"
the whole class watches me for the indoor rainy lesson and I can feel their eyes on me and that just makes me more self concious... It was like I was in a college play in front of hundreds and I forgot the script ...
"yes, I was listening ..."
I didnt know what else to say and felt uncomfortable telling the whole the class that this middle aged man desperately wanting his bronze has ADD or poor listening skills..
after the class the instructor told me that I wasn't ready for the assesment outside in the surf Saturday morning ...I almost begged him that I would be ready and I would pay for the cost of the test, $12.50
I went home and cried as a little boy would...it was the last straw on the old camel's back..
I could handle my house burning down and my wife's issues with the overwhelming worries of motherhood, but this final slap in my face hit home hard on my own emotional state of being
accentuated by the very wet stormy weather as I bicycled home
just wanting to cry in my long deceased mother's arms...
I sat there going over the workbook I had to fill out
sensing the futility
but then I was determined to fight
and talk to the instructor determined to take the test for my Bronze so that I could be a volunteer life guard on Mermaid Beach...
I saw him and told him that I was ADD... he said that I should have told him sooner but that I would let down the team on testing if I didn't know what to do basically...
so still determined and angry (more at my own listening disability), I practiced with the volunteer lifeguards on the Sunday Avo shift...
this made me feel so much better
and then I visited with my favorite veteran lifeguard and he went over the drills with me...
I am still hoping that I will be able to take the pretest on Saturday and the final assesment on Sunday!
(from the daily OM)"
Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
Part of being human is the search for an individual identity. Bound to this strong need to establish a unique persona, however, is an equally intense desire for acceptance. It is when we find our individual tribes that both are satisfied. Our tribe members are those people who accept us as we are without reservation and gladly accompany us on our journeys of evolution.
Among them, we feel free to be our imperfect selves, to engage unabashedly in the activities we enjoy, and to express our vulnerabilities by relying on our tribe for support. We feel comfortable investing our time and energy in the members of our tribe, and are equally comfortable allowing them to invest their resources in our development.
The individuals who eventually become members of your unique tribe are out there in the wide world waiting for you. You are destined to find them, one by one, as you move through life. Sometimes your own efforts will put you in contact with your future tribe members. At other times, circumstances beyond your control will play a role in helping you connect with your tribe. If you look about you and discover that you are already allied with a wonderful and supportive tribe, remember that there are likely many members of your tribe you have not yet met. On the other hand, if you feel you are still living outside of your tribe, broadening your horizons can help you find your tribe members.
However your life develops after you come together with your tribe, you can be assured that its members will stand at your side. On the surface, your tribe may seem to be nothing more than a loose-knit group of friends and acquaintances to whom you ally yourself. Yet when you look deeper, you will discover that your tribe grounds you and provides you with a sense of community that ultimately fulfills many of your most basic human needs.
These daily oms seem to always hit exactly where I have been feeling...when I search for my utopia I've been hoping to find the friends that I feel comfortable and who will like me and my family for who they are!
Saturday, February 06, 2010
a picture is worth a thousand words... and u need to get your camera fixed ...or time to upgrade to a waterproof camera where u dont have to worry about moisture...
so you don't need to borrow other great photographs of the surf!
it's hard to believe where we were a month ago...
back in the arky zone worried about your unattended closets of collected garbage
still holding you back from freedom from the Okie zone!
it's funny how somebody from Gallup did a search for what I might have mentioned to them...
and they thought of some facsimile of the title...
a lot has been happening out of the zones and into a new zone
where you still meet assholes no matter how far from the Okie zone you have escaped !!
You take care of as much business as you can...
wire the funds ....
and try to save this sinking ship with left over memories lost in the past...
Now u are paying and will be paying out the gazoo!!
and all because of your own stupidity
and innate hope in the better nature of humanity...
with that thought you are very liable to be screwed up the butt!
you could easily feel overwhelmed...
but then you just go with the flow of the current...
waiting for good moment to slip under those monstrous waves
as they continue to aproach you
you have found the sandbank and can push off
and flow with the undertow in the bottom foot of rough water...
as sand swirls around
u relax and let it take you
and just up finally from the surface
and you are past the last breaks to
find relatively peaceful ocean
on the verge of breaking up on this great continent!
surf swim race tomorrow AM!
can't wait!!
I'll sleep till Colin wakes us
and then I'll swim a few warm up
wondering if they will still have the race!!
so you don't need to borrow other great photographs of the surf!
it's hard to believe where we were a month ago...
back in the arky zone worried about your unattended closets of collected garbage
still holding you back from freedom from the Okie zone!
it's funny how somebody from Gallup did a search for what I might have mentioned to them...
and they thought of some facsimile of the title...
a lot has been happening out of the zones and into a new zone
where you still meet assholes no matter how far from the Okie zone you have escaped !!
You take care of as much business as you can...
wire the funds ....
and try to save this sinking ship with left over memories lost in the past...
Now u are paying and will be paying out the gazoo!!
and all because of your own stupidity
and innate hope in the better nature of humanity...
with that thought you are very liable to be screwed up the butt!
you could easily feel overwhelmed...
but then you just go with the flow of the current...
waiting for good moment to slip under those monstrous waves
as they continue to aproach you
you have found the sandbank and can push off
and flow with the undertow in the bottom foot of rough water...
as sand swirls around
u relax and let it take you
and just up finally from the surface
and you are past the last breaks to
find relatively peaceful ocean
on the verge of breaking up on this great continent!
surf swim race tomorrow AM!
can't wait!!
I'll sleep till Colin wakes us
and then I'll swim a few warm up
wondering if they will still have the race!!
Thursday, February 04, 2010
it is so cool to be in love again...
I love Mermaid Beach, a long lost love that I've been missing for so long in my life...
at first, the excitement of playing as a child...
.....you feel like Ripvanbeachbum.... you have woken up to the old place in the Parthenon...
cept it had not even been built...
You remember your beloved Bidgeboo..
we'd all get up early in the morning, have breakfast and run off to Broadbeach State School
and then walking back with the cooling waters of the Pacific run through your toes
waiting all day to take off your flip flops...
aah memories...
its so hard to believe that was well over 4 decades ago...
loves in your heart hadnt even been born yet..
and fate takes you one day to the curious old boarding house...
you run around the deserted building peaking into the windows...
curious as any child...
aahh some empty coke bottles...
a chance for some toy soldiers and ice cream cone!!
for all those bottles u can probably get at least two shillings!
you sneak in the old building through the little hole in the wall..
and walk around the old place...
then your Dad asks you questions about the old place
and a month later its bought and you are celebrating Xmas of 66
with all your loving extended Aussie family...
This is my home!
a long lost love that has been waiting for me
always in the back of the mind was my beloved Mermaid!
I love Mermaid Beach, a long lost love that I've been missing for so long in my life...
at first, the excitement of playing as a child...
.....you feel like Ripvanbeachbum.... you have woken up to the old place in the Parthenon...
cept it had not even been built...
You remember your beloved Bidgeboo..
we'd all get up early in the morning, have breakfast and run off to Broadbeach State School
and then walking back with the cooling waters of the Pacific run through your toes
waiting all day to take off your flip flops...
aah memories...
its so hard to believe that was well over 4 decades ago...
loves in your heart hadnt even been born yet..
and fate takes you one day to the curious old boarding house...
you run around the deserted building peaking into the windows...
curious as any child...
aahh some empty coke bottles...
a chance for some toy soldiers and ice cream cone!!
for all those bottles u can probably get at least two shillings!
you sneak in the old building through the little hole in the wall..
and walk around the old place...
then your Dad asks you questions about the old place
and a month later its bought and you are celebrating Xmas of 66
with all your loving extended Aussie family...
This is my home!
a long lost love that has been waiting for me
always in the back of the mind was my beloved Mermaid!
another reason to for my son to be Aussie!
AP/Huffington Post) -- SHAHI KOTO, Pakistan — A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and partly destroyed a girls' school in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack that drew attention to a little-publicized American military training mission in the al-Qaida and Taliban heartland.
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was traveling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 100 other people, mostly students at the school, officials said.
Wired's Noah Shachtman suggests that these attacks underline the fact that, whether or not the U.S. government says so, we are fighting a full-blown war in Pakistan, and should start treating it as such:
It's another sign that America's once-small, once-secret war in Pakistan is growing bigger, more conventional, and busting out into the open. The U.S. Air Force now conducts flights over Pakistani soil. U.S. security contractors operate in the country. U.S. strikes are growing larger, more frequent, and more deadly; the latest attack reportedly involved 17 missiles and killed as many as 29 people. Billions of dollars in U.S. aid goes to Islamabad. And now, U.S. forces are dying in Pakistan.
Which begs the question: When are we going to start treating this conflict in Pakistan as a real war -- with real oversight and real disclosure about what the hell our people are really doing there? Maybe at one point, this conflict could've been swept under the rug as some classified CIA op. But that was billions of dollars and hundreds of Pakistani and American lives ago.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were traveling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a bomb close to the Koto Girls High School.
"It was a very huge explosion that shattered my windows, filled my house with smoke and dust and also some human flesh fell in my yard," said Akber Khan, who lives some 50 yards (45 meters) from the blast site.
It is such a shame that a large portion of the taxes that I still owe the IRS go to these s wars whether secret or not... I never approved our country getting involved in these wars for oil!!
Do we not understand the monstrosity that we have created with the military industrial complex,our Frankenstein??
Here in Oz, the taxes are high but at least people including myself get something back for all the money we pay! Aussies at least have free health care and the government has incentives to help the common man!
They were the first known U.S. military fatalities in Pakistan's lawless tribal regions near the Afghan border and a major victory for militants who have been hit hard by a surge of U.S. missile strikes and a major Pakistani army offensive.
The blast also killed three schoolgirls and a Pakistani soldier who was traveling with the Americans. Two more U.S. soldiers were wounded, along with more than 100 other people, mostly students at the school, officials said.
Wired's Noah Shachtman suggests that these attacks underline the fact that, whether or not the U.S. government says so, we are fighting a full-blown war in Pakistan, and should start treating it as such:
It's another sign that America's once-small, once-secret war in Pakistan is growing bigger, more conventional, and busting out into the open. The U.S. Air Force now conducts flights over Pakistani soil. U.S. security contractors operate in the country. U.S. strikes are growing larger, more frequent, and more deadly; the latest attack reportedly involved 17 missiles and killed as many as 29 people. Billions of dollars in U.S. aid goes to Islamabad. And now, U.S. forces are dying in Pakistan.
Which begs the question: When are we going to start treating this conflict in Pakistan as a real war -- with real oversight and real disclosure about what the hell our people are really doing there? Maybe at one point, this conflict could've been swept under the rug as some classified CIA op. But that was billions of dollars and hundreds of Pakistani and American lives ago.
The attack took place in Lower Dir, which like much of the northwest is home to pockets of militants. The Pakistani army launched a major operation in Lower Dir and the nearby Swat Valley last year that succeeded in pushing the insurgents out, but isolated attacks have continued.
The Americans were traveling with Pakistani security officers in a five-car convoy that was hit by a bomb close to the Koto Girls High School.
"It was a very huge explosion that shattered my windows, filled my house with smoke and dust and also some human flesh fell in my yard," said Akber Khan, who lives some 50 yards (45 meters) from the blast site.
It is such a shame that a large portion of the taxes that I still owe the IRS go to these s wars whether secret or not... I never approved our country getting involved in these wars for oil!!
Do we not understand the monstrosity that we have created with the military industrial complex,our Frankenstein??
Here in Oz, the taxes are high but at least people including myself get something back for all the money we pay! Aussies at least have free health care and the government has incentives to help the common man!
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
well Colin is finally asleep after waking up after being asleep for a couple of hours..
Im telling my honey that we have to wean him from always getting attention at night when he wakes up
so tonight she gave in and cuddled him
but this time, he started crying when he was put back in the cot
and I told her to let him cry..
we closed the door and after less than 5 minutes , he was fast asleep cuddling his teddy bear.... He is so adorable..we are blessed..I need to get a new camera! these pics are priceless
now maybe he will sleep past 5 this morning and not wake us as the new dawn arises over the Pacific!
tonight is such a beautiful night as the 3/4 moon danced among the clouds and lightened up the ocean so beautifully....
some just want to have this view all to themselves... but it is it's for everyone to enjoy in Oz...
that is the wonderful thing about Oz...
the beach is not private...its for everyone...
and there is access from every street down the Gold Coast.,,,
some greedy want the view all to themselves...
but that happens in the states alot more often than here...
Im telling my honey that we have to wean him from always getting attention at night when he wakes up
so tonight she gave in and cuddled him
but this time, he started crying when he was put back in the cot
and I told her to let him cry..
we closed the door and after less than 5 minutes , he was fast asleep cuddling his teddy bear.... He is so adorable..we are blessed..I need to get a new camera! these pics are priceless
now maybe he will sleep past 5 this morning and not wake us as the new dawn arises over the Pacific!
tonight is such a beautiful night as the 3/4 moon danced among the clouds and lightened up the ocean so beautifully....
some just want to have this view all to themselves... but it is it's for everyone to enjoy in Oz...
that is the wonderful thing about Oz...
the beach is not private...its for everyone...
and there is access from every street down the Gold Coast.,,,
some greedy want the view all to themselves...
but that happens in the states alot more often than here...
I put a pic from my old archives since my bloody camera is not working...
Monday, February 01, 2010
Finally reform of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!
"The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency"
I probably say too much on my blog
giving out too much info about myself and my life...
all I want is a simple life on the beach...
while working on my bronze so that I can be a volunteer lifeguard on weekend and compete in the surf/swimming events nationally!
everybody is judgemental...
all the crap that has happened to me in my life...
but I'm glad that I have good friends to help me and our little family...
the king tides together with the remnants of cyclone Olga
were lapping up against our backyard...
I wish that my camera worked so I could show you the pictures...
the winds were strong hitting up against our windows....
it's cool experiencing the storm from the vantage of our second story window..
giving out too much info about myself and my life...
all I want is a simple life on the beach...
while working on my bronze so that I can be a volunteer lifeguard on weekend and compete in the surf/swimming events nationally!
everybody is judgemental...
all the crap that has happened to me in my life...
but I'm glad that I have good friends to help me and our little family...
the king tides together with the remnants of cyclone Olga
were lapping up against our backyard...
I wish that my camera worked so I could show you the pictures...
the winds were strong hitting up against our windows....
it's cool experiencing the storm from the vantage of our second story window..
Saturday, January 30, 2010
it's sometimes really hard to have happiness
when the bills keep getting larger...
thinking of all the work that needs to be done on the vestigial remains of what was once a nice house...
and then the bills just to keep up...
hmmm it almost beer 30....
and it's weekend with the surf handicap swim race going on tomorrow morning...
so I have to look on the bright side of things on this rainy day in paradise...
my honey was on the beach and so was Colin
and we all exercised a lot!!
I was wondering who was that pretty girl running on the beach??
oh that's my wife!!
we should all thankful for what we have
and if there is a god, we are blessed...
maybe I'll look at the Huffington Post
and hope that Obama will take care of what appears to be a sinking ship...
I just feel the americans desire to overspend has finally bit a big hole in the ship...
BALTIMORE — In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.
The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other for more than an hour at a Republican gathering in Baltimore. The Republicans agreed to let TV cameras inside, resulting in an extended, point-by-point interchange that was almost unprecedented in U.S. politics, except perhaps during presidential debates.
it's about time, our fearless leader chewed out those Republicons...I'm glad we could see it before Faux news skewed it to favor the right wing...
when the bills keep getting larger...
thinking of all the work that needs to be done on the vestigial remains of what was once a nice house...
and then the bills just to keep up...
hmmm it almost beer 30....
and it's weekend with the surf handicap swim race going on tomorrow morning...
so I have to look on the bright side of things on this rainy day in paradise...
my honey was on the beach and so was Colin
and we all exercised a lot!!
I was wondering who was that pretty girl running on the beach??
oh that's my wife!!
we should all thankful for what we have
and if there is a god, we are blessed...
maybe I'll look at the Huffington Post
and hope that Obama will take care of what appears to be a sinking ship...
I just feel the americans desire to overspend has finally bit a big hole in the ship...
BALTIMORE — In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.
The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other for more than an hour at a Republican gathering in Baltimore. The Republicans agreed to let TV cameras inside, resulting in an extended, point-by-point interchange that was almost unprecedented in U.S. politics, except perhaps during presidential debates.
it's about time, our fearless leader chewed out those Republicons...I'm glad we could see it before Faux news skewed it to favor the right wing...
Friday, January 29, 2010
Inside Obama's Plan To Spend $8 Billion On High-Speed Rail
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January 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer
"WASHINGTON - High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants announced Thursday by the White House -- the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era.
President Barack Obama announced the awards during a town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla. -- a follow-up to Wednesday's State of the Union address that focused on... "
it's great for there to finally be some good news coming from the states initiated by Obama!
I have wondered why we never got started with this during the first big energy crisis back with Jimmy Carter?? Probably the auto companies were much more powerful than they are now and lobbied against any kind of mass transit where we wouldnt be dependent of these monster called autos!
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January 28, 2010 at 04:03 PM
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer
"WASHINGTON - High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants announced Thursday by the White House -- the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era.
President Barack Obama announced the awards during a town hall meeting in Tampa, Fla. -- a follow-up to Wednesday's State of the Union address that focused on... "
it's great for there to finally be some good news coming from the states initiated by Obama!
I have wondered why we never got started with this during the first big energy crisis back with Jimmy Carter?? Probably the auto companies were much more powerful than they are now and lobbied against any kind of mass transit where we wouldnt be dependent of these monster called autos!
EVIL IS LIVE SPELLED BACKWARDS
"Australia 'most sinful' country on earth" !
Australians have come out on top as the world's most envious people in a worldwide tally of the seven deadly sins.
BBC magazine Focus found Australians also scored highly for the other six sins, making Au
stralia the 'most sinful' country on Earth.
"Sin-prone" Australia was followed by the US, Canada, Finland and Spain.
Researchers used a points system to determine which countries committed the seven deadly sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride), the most.
The tally compared national statistics for plastic surgery (pride), theft (envy), violent crime (wrath), number of annual holidays (sloth), annual salary (greed), money spent on fast food (gluttony) and porn (lust).
Australians ranked first for envy and third for lust and gluttony.
Despite a fondness for the occasional sickie, sloth was was identified as the sin Australians were least likely to commit, with eight other countries considered lazier.
Six nationalities were considered more wrathful and three more greedy or proud.
Highest in each of the sin categories were the US (gluttony), Mexico (greed), South Korea (lust), Iceland (sloth and pride), Australia (envy) and South Africa (wrath). "
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/world/6737138/australia-most-sinful-country-o
n-earth/
we americans spend a third of the working year paying for taxes for wars most of us didnt agree with...
how does it make sense to work so hard and then get a heart attack before we can enjoy it??
early this am, we had a cool rain ...it was beautiful when the sun was out early and we could see Burleigh...just wish that those trees weren't in the way!
Australians have come out on top as the world's most envious people in a worldwide tally of the seven deadly sins.
BBC magazine Focus found Australians also scored highly for the other six sins, making Au
stralia the 'most sinful' country on Earth."Sin-prone" Australia was followed by the US, Canada, Finland and Spain.
Researchers used a points system to determine which countries committed the seven deadly sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride), the most.
The tally compared national statistics for plastic surgery (pride), theft (envy), violent crime (wrath), number of annual holidays (sloth), annual salary (greed), money spent on fast food (gluttony) and porn (lust).
Australians ranked first for envy and third for lust and gluttony.
Despite a fondness for the occasional sickie, sloth was was identified as the sin Australians were least likely to commit, with eight other countries considered lazier.
Six nationalities were considered more wrathful and three more greedy or proud.
Highest in each of the sin categories were the US (gluttony), Mexico (greed), South Korea (lust), Iceland (sloth and pride), Australia (envy) and South Africa (wrath). "
http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/world/6737138/australia-most-sinful-country-o
n-earth/we americans spend a third of the working year paying for taxes for wars most of us didnt agree with...
how does it make sense to work so hard and then get a heart attack before we can enjoy it??
early this am, we had a cool rain ...it was beautiful when the sun was out early and we could see Burleigh...just wish that those trees weren't in the way!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Aussies drink a lot of beer and my mates of Ocean St. just love table tennis and the sea...
I want to say so much but the after effects of the beer are making me exhausted..
I want to say so much but the after effects of the beer are making me exhausted..
I was reading this other blog , Prosperityblogspot.com about Post AVATAR DEPRESSION ....
folks get depressed because they cannot live up to this fantasy in the movie... I haven't seen it yet
but my wife is really looking forward to it with the sky high movie prices in Oz!! $21.00!!
the prices in this country could easily depress any family or at least put an American family into an economic depression...
when I was stuck in the Arkie Zone with the in laws, and I was playing musical bedrooms,
the only thing to do was flip the channel for something interesting
or most of the time suffer through what the relatives wanted to watch or go outside
into the below freezing weather for some fresh air and maybe be be brave enough to risk frostbite bicycling rather than suffer more cabin fever in close proximity with folks that seemed to only apreciate our charismatic Colin (unlike his parents who overstayed their welcome long before Thanksgiving)... I would often dream about being here in Oz swimming in the surf and playing with Colin...now the fantasy has become reality, but there's always something to rain on our parade... even when living in paradise, realize that shit still happens...
but it sure is nice dealing with life's crap when you are looking out onto a beautiful ocean!
folks get depressed because they cannot live up to this fantasy in the movie... I haven't seen it yet
but my wife is really looking forward to it with the sky high movie prices in Oz!! $21.00!!
the prices in this country could easily depress any family or at least put an American family into an economic depression...
when I was stuck in the Arkie Zone with the in laws, and I was playing musical bedrooms,
the only thing to do was flip the channel for something interesting
or most of the time suffer through what the relatives wanted to watch or go outside
into the below freezing weather for some fresh air and maybe be be brave enough to risk frostbite bicycling rather than suffer more cabin fever in close proximity with folks that seemed to only apreciate our charismatic Colin (unlike his parents who overstayed their welcome long before Thanksgiving)... I would often dream about being here in Oz swimming in the surf and playing with Colin...now the fantasy has become reality, but there's always something to rain on our parade... even when living in paradise, realize that shit still happens...
but it sure is nice dealing with life's crap when you are looking out onto a beautiful ocean!
It's great to get the internet back again even though it's so costly here but at least I'm not on a contract with telstra/big pond (that is a huge racket just like getting contracts for cable/computer in the states) ...
I bought my Virginmobile device for the laptop that I can hook in anywhere for $89 with only 1 gigabyte. This only lasted a week. So I recharged for $50 for 3 gigabytes...Maybe I can have this last a while...
I just have to be very careful about how often I download..that is the way they determine cost here...not the amount of time!
does that make sense...
it's very muggy now in Oz but at least there is a wonderful ocean breeze to cool us off..
we don't want to resort to using the AC since electricity here is a big ripoff...
I'm glad that I have things being taken care of in the states!!
I bought my Virginmobile device for the laptop that I can hook in anywhere for $89 with only 1 gigabyte. This only lasted a week. So I recharged for $50 for 3 gigabytes...Maybe I can have this last a while...
I just have to be very careful about how often I download..that is the way they determine cost here...not the amount of time!
does that make sense...
it's very muggy now in Oz but at least there is a wonderful ocean breeze to cool us off..
we don't want to resort to using the AC since electricity here is a big ripoff...
I'm glad that I have things being taken care of in the states!!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
What are Mates?
a friend in need is a friend in deed...
I am just so happy that have been lucky to have met good friends such as
LA, Daniel, Charles and Matt..
Matt was the only friend to have kept in touch over the years
sending me xmas cards
always creating a smile on my face
knowing that his friend was in his thoughts...
life is short and it's all bout being with the right friends....
I am exhausted
so maybe on that note before I sweat it off...
I will get a good sleep and wake up refreshed for a good hard swim before Brekkie
Today was another great day...
if only my camera was working Id have some beautiful shots and moments of my beautiful son!
I am just so happy that have been lucky to have met good friends such as
LA, Daniel, Charles and Matt..
Matt was the only friend to have kept in touch over the years
sending me xmas cards
always creating a smile on my face
knowing that his friend was in his thoughts...
life is short and it's all bout being with the right friends....
I am exhausted
so maybe on that note before I sweat it off...
I will get a good sleep and wake up refreshed for a good hard swim before Brekkie
Today was another great day...
if only my camera was working Id have some beautiful shots and moments of my beautiful son!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Happy Oz DAY!
there isnt the cameraderie that is shown with Aussie pride
in the states....
there isnt the kind of brotherhood that is shown on the streets
as partyers revel by
hooting their horns with patriotism...
it almost feels like everyone is invited to the party!
the heat is sweltering right now
even with the sea breeze coming through the windows...
in the states....
there isnt the kind of brotherhood that is shown on the streets
as partyers revel by
hooting their horns with patriotism...
it almost feels like everyone is invited to the party!
the heat is sweltering right now
even with the sea breeze coming through the windows...
I believe that it's crucial that I write shit down before I forget how important a thought it could have been during one of my herbalized epiphanies...
this is such a huge change from arkansas...
but I believe that it is a tad better than living somewhere in the Okie or arkie zone...
I am probably most thankful for loyal friends who are coming through in our family's time of need...
I was telling my mate, (aussie lingo), Dan about how life would be a success if we played it like a chess game!! I want to write and talk more but I have a long day ahead celebrating Australia DaY!
this is such a huge change from arkansas...
but I believe that it is a tad better than living somewhere in the Okie or arkie zone...
I am probably most thankful for loyal friends who are coming through in our family's time of need...
I was telling my mate, (aussie lingo), Dan about how life would be a success if we played it like a chess game!! I want to write and talk more but I have a long day ahead celebrating Australia DaY!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Taking care of business!! yeh...
slowly but surely we will get back
to our dreAM....
i LOVE LIFE...
THE SURF....THE RACE!!
and in the meantime...
it's 420 in Oz with our international 420 table tennis and chess club!!
slowly but surely we will get back
to our dreAM....
i LOVE LIFE...
THE SURF....THE RACE!!
and in the meantime...
it's 420 in Oz with our international 420 table tennis and chess club!!
Come on! Let's Dance!
Colin plays his Ernie Doll as he sucks on his calming bottle of Aussie milk...
while my honey and I suck on some Carlton beers to celebrate the eve of Auz day!!
Thank you, LA!!
I'll have to get your number..
I of course lost the cell phone number on the flight to Fiji...
me and my ADD...
I never have enough pocket to put the important things...
I'm looking out at the surf on this hot day
with the invite of the refreshing surf looking longingly back at me...
it's good to connect with my favorite readers
to show them regardless of what happens,
I am endeavoring to be happy....
of course Misory loves company
and don't miserable people resent it when others are happy??
I'm glad that I insisted on bringing Ernie along...
I remembered but lost the cell phone
somewhere along the journey...
when Colin pushes the buttton for Ernie to sing LA Bamba, our spirits are lifted!!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Disaster or just another Fuck up??
the sun is about to rise and my son will wake up
I could be angry and bitter about all the things that have happened to me in my life
but then u look into the red/orange glow from the sun that will be soon coming up over the horizon
so lucky to have this fantastic view of the beach before the fishermen arrive...
and you count your blessings for a beautiful baby....
and a beautiful gold beach
with golden sun shining on your family every morning!
you think what weird circumstance have happened to you in the Okie zone
and you get very upset
there are two animals that you feed
one of hate and anger
and the other of love
I think I would rather feed my animal of love....
You could really ponder and think about whether it was a squirrel that chewed the wires of the car that night or something else that makes the fire marshall suspicious...
your mind is afraid to go there
but then wasn't it the anger and desire of revenge
that caused the fatefull 9/11 disaster or the the OKC bombing??
ur mind could be consumed with these thoughts
or you could look at your beautiful son as he sleeps like an angel in his cot
and you are so happy that he can have all this view
that you inherited from your father
and you can be thankful for the few friends that you have made in your life
and the few the wonderful people that you feel safe to share your life with...
last night you held him in your arms and on your chest
until he fell asleep
and you nodded off also on the couch
watching the Aussie Open
happy that you are finally in Oz
despite all the forces that are drawing you back
to take care of business...
that's when prograsstination sets in
and you escape the negative thoughts that take posession of your mind!
look out at the beautiful ocean
with you baby as the sun rises...
I could be angry and bitter about all the things that have happened to me in my life
but then u look into the red/orange glow from the sun that will be soon coming up over the horizon
so lucky to have this fantastic view of the beach before the fishermen arrive...
and you count your blessings for a beautiful baby....
and a beautiful gold beach
with golden sun shining on your family every morning!
you think what weird circumstance have happened to you in the Okie zone
and you get very upset
there are two animals that you feed
one of hate and anger
and the other of love
I think I would rather feed my animal of love....
You could really ponder and think about whether it was a squirrel that chewed the wires of the car that night or something else that makes the fire marshall suspicious...
your mind is afraid to go there
but then wasn't it the anger and desire of revenge
that caused the fatefull 9/11 disaster or the the OKC bombing??
ur mind could be consumed with these thoughts
or you could look at your beautiful son as he sleeps like an angel in his cot
and you are so happy that he can have all this view
that you inherited from your father
and you can be thankful for the few friends that you have made in your life
and the few the wonderful people that you feel safe to share your life with...
last night you held him in your arms and on your chest
until he fell asleep
and you nodded off also on the couch
watching the Aussie Open
happy that you are finally in Oz
despite all the forces that are drawing you back
to take care of business...
that's when prograsstination sets in
and you escape the negative thoughts that take posession of your mind!
look out at the beautiful ocean
with you baby as the sun rises...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The witch's curse continues!
I wondered how more bizarre this could be
if it was not planned...
about an hour after I chatted with Charles on my cell phone
the garage of the haunted not for profit charity house burns down
practically totalling the last vestige of mine from the Okie Zone
truth is better than fiction about the very macabre things that happened in my life...
u almost wonder if some hit planned it
and just happened to leave a dead squirrel behind...
thankfully no one was hurt
I dont want to talk about it anymore for now...
the whole thing is getting me depressed
about my own stupidity....
with life we have to look on the bright side of things..
if life is out to get u then
just enjoy what you can make out of it...
I have to avoid going back to this place that has caused me headaches..
it wont cause my family anymore after this...
it just helps me to realize not to to trust the better nature of people
and how the more you do for them, the less they often apreciate it..
if it was not planned...
about an hour after I chatted with Charles on my cell phone
the garage of the haunted not for profit charity house burns down
practically totalling the last vestige of mine from the Okie Zone
truth is better than fiction about the very macabre things that happened in my life...
u almost wonder if some hit planned it
and just happened to leave a dead squirrel behind...
thankfully no one was hurt
I dont want to talk about it anymore for now...
the whole thing is getting me depressed
about my own stupidity....
with life we have to look on the bright side of things..
if life is out to get u then
just enjoy what you can make out of it...
I have to avoid going back to this place that has caused me headaches..
it wont cause my family anymore after this...
it just helps me to realize not to to trust the better nature of people
and how the more you do for them, the less they often apreciate it..
Sunday, January 17, 2010
THE NAIL IS FINALLY OUT OF THE FOOT!
It's great to talk to you guys again
and let you all know we are safe and sound
unlike some readers who might hope otherwise...
u never know...
I wrote some unsavory things that could easily be misconstrued...
I still wish that I could say that I left all my worries behind me
but
shit will happen
when I'm gone
but I won't worry
if I expect the worst...
like getting one month
of rent over the past year
I guess it's my own fault for attempting to run a non profit
charity house
with only grief and no gratitude...
It's my own fault
for not going through a rental agency...
then they could deal with the irate calls...
and now being out of the country,
I will be greatful for getting any rental income again...
why do I always want to trust the better part of human nature??
when it only bites me in the foot??
and let you all know we are safe and sound
unlike some readers who might hope otherwise...
u never know...
I wrote some unsavory things that could easily be misconstrued...
I still wish that I could say that I left all my worries behind me
but
shit will happen
when I'm gone
but I won't worry
if I expect the worst...
like getting one month
of rent over the past year
I guess it's my own fault for attempting to run a non profit
charity house
with only grief and no gratitude...
It's my own fault
for not going through a rental agency...
then they could deal with the irate calls...
and now being out of the country,
I will be greatful for getting any rental income again...
why do I always want to trust the better part of human nature??
when it only bites me in the foot??
but I was constantly reassured that I would get the rent
Do I have gullible stamped on my forehead??
well on a fantastic note
I was able to swim in the surf swim handicap race
and came in 18th swiming with a 6 minute handicap...
and it was nice to know I could keep up with most of them finishing 18th!
Maybe they will take 15 seconds off my handicap!!
It's hard to believe I'm finally here
in my beloved home...
where I played as a child
well on a fantastic note
I was able to swim in the surf swim handicap race
and came in 18th swiming with a 6 minute handicap...
and it was nice to know I could keep up with most of them finishing 18th!
Maybe they will take 15 seconds off my handicap!!
It's hard to believe I'm finally here
in my beloved home...
where I played as a child
now we can live vicariously
through our beautiful son, Colin!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
wow!!don't u sometimes feel no good deed goes unpunished??
heck, I think the ghosts of xmas past and present have already visited (ad infinitum
and it's time for us to soar with the eagles...
the engines are reving up and
they are waiting for take off to
place where our little family
has never gone before...
I could easily get frustrated,
but as I was working out
running like there was no tomorrow
in the single digit weather
by the partly frozen river
and the school fields
I had another epipheny
to grab for the gusto...
Now is the time to take the bull by the horns
and dance with him....
as Theseus (the Greek bloke who invented wrestling a few thousand years ago) danced with the Minoan Minotaur...
it's almost 420 in Oz time
and we've finally packed
having been here in the Arkie Zone well past the welcome time (I think that waswhen I arrived before I even recovered from jet lag and cultural shock!..)
and tied up most of the loose ends
while my honey recovers from having a baby
and getting used to the reality of motherhood with a healthier perspective...
ummm....lets see...
there's still worry
about the ole haunted house still erect in the Okie Zone...
no tornado has blown it down...I've socked tons of money into that place
and never been able to find stable renters
I guess I run a non profit charity house
with all the grief and none of the gratitude...
without even the remotest feelings of the intrinsic rewards that someone like Mother Teresa would apreciate
from all the souls she has helped...
oh well...che serah, serah...
heck, I think the ghosts of xmas past and present have already visited (ad infinitum
and it's time for us to soar with the eagles...
the engines are reving up and
they are waiting for take off to
place where our little family
has never gone before...
I could easily get frustrated,
but as I was working out
running like there was no tomorrow
in the single digit weather
by the partly frozen river
and the school fields
I had another epipheny
to grab for the gusto...
Now is the time to take the bull by the horns
and dance with him....
as Theseus (the Greek bloke who invented wrestling a few thousand years ago) danced with the Minoan Minotaur...
it's almost 420 in Oz time
and we've finally packed
having been here in the Arkie Zone well past the welcome time (I think that waswhen I arrived before I even recovered from jet lag and cultural shock!..)
and tied up most of the loose ends
while my honey recovers from having a baby
and getting used to the reality of motherhood with a healthier perspective...
ummm....lets see...
there's still worry
about the ole haunted house still erect in the Okie Zone...
no tornado has blown it down...I've socked tons of money into that place
and never been able to find stable renters
I guess I run a non profit charity house
with all the grief and none of the gratitude...
without even the remotest feelings of the intrinsic rewards that someone like Mother Teresa would apreciate
from all the souls she has helped...
oh well...che serah, serah...
Friday, January 08, 2010
when u have a nail in your foot, isn't it wonderful when it's finally out??!!..
it won't be long...maybe we can finally figure out a way out of this cold zone....
cabin fever sets in and all you want to do is get out...
I don't feel very poetic tonight especially when I talk about my plans..
...
I want to thank LA and her family again for taking care of Buffy...
I need to give her another thankyou buzz....
Maybe soon I will be preparing to be in the best shape that this old body can get into! I look at how my lengthening beard and tuffs of hair are all starting to turn white/grey...the stress of being the father of the family can wear me down...but I know we are finally on an upward turn....
I know things will get better and I just love to see my son grow and learn from him!
it won't be long...maybe we can finally figure out a way out of this cold zone....
cabin fever sets in and all you want to do is get out...
I don't feel very poetic tonight especially when I talk about my plans..
...
I want to thank LA and her family again for taking care of Buffy...
I need to give her another thankyou buzz....
Maybe soon I will be preparing to be in the best shape that this old body can get into! I look at how my lengthening beard and tuffs of hair are all starting to turn white/grey...the stress of being the father of the family can wear me down...but I know we are finally on an upward turn....
I know things will get better and I just love to see my son grow and learn from him!
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Brit Hume's recently had a very bigoted endorsement of how J
esus could help Tiger better than Buddha ..
I am sure this right wing anchor of Fox is concerned about Tiger Wood's eternal salvation about as much as Republican Christians are concerned about health care for poor children who don't have any..
this is still is very much under my skin
this news channel started by the Aussie, Rupert Murdoch, has wreaked much havoc on our government...
it is very scary now when a news channel proselytizes Christ on American and viewers worldwide!
I couldn't resist doing a cyber search for Bin Laden and Jesus:
This sounds sacreligious if I were a "Christian" according to some sects...
I was baptized Anglican (Church of England- Henry the 8th's new protest against the pope, religion, so he could get a divorce while still getting God's blessing..doesn't that sound a bit like what the good catholic Tony Soprano would do if he could have a meeting to negotiate the pope's blessing?? don't get me started) when I was about 1 or 2 by Canon Neal in Brisbane...
of course I cannot remember and didn't have any choice about the baptism..no big whoop for me...
don't Baptists chose to be "saved" as and adult ?(albeit perhaps brainwashed just a tiny bit)
my parents let me choose my own belief/spirituality and I wasn't indoctrinated in some right wing redneck Palin esque Sunday bible school! so I digress but I am vehemently opposed to my child becoming brainwashed by right wing fundamentalist bigots
who have been easily hoodwinked by Bush and will be by Sarah Palin because they say that they have this very warped belief system that the earth was created about 5000 years ago along with the dinosaurs, cavemen and of course of the oil (that is really the reason for this stupid war in Iraq!!)
These bigots that Fox New's anchor represent feel their religion is better about "forgiveness" than others...
So I am curious and want my site to help my reader to wonder how many in this world are brainwashed into rationalizing their violence???
so up comes this site about this Aussie who morphed the face of Jesus into Bin Laden...here it is:
esus could help Tiger better than Buddha ..I am sure this right wing anchor of Fox is concerned about Tiger Wood's eternal salvation about as much as Republican Christians are concerned about health care for poor children who don't have any..
this is still is very much under my skin
this news channel started by the Aussie, Rupert Murdoch, has wreaked much havoc on our government...
it is very scary now when a news channel proselytizes Christ on American and viewers worldwide!
I couldn't resist doing a cyber search for Bin Laden and Jesus:
This sounds sacreligious if I were a "Christian" according to some sects...
I was baptized Anglican (Church of England- Henry the 8th's new protest against the pope, religion, so he could get a divorce while still getting God's blessing..doesn't that sound a bit like what the good catholic Tony Soprano would do if he could have a meeting to negotiate the pope's blessing?? don't get me started) when I was about 1 or 2 by Canon Neal in Brisbane...
of course I cannot remember and didn't have any choice about the baptism..no big whoop for me...
don't Baptists chose to be "saved" as and adult ?(albeit perhaps brainwashed just a tiny bit)
my parents let me choose my own belief/spirituality and I wasn't indoctrinated in some right wing redneck Palin esque Sunday bible school! so I digress but I am vehemently opposed to my child becoming brainwashed by right wing fundamentalist bigots
who have been easily hoodwinked by Bush and will be by Sarah Palin because they say that they have this very warped belief system that the earth was created about 5000 years ago along with the dinosaurs, cavemen and of course of the oil (that is really the reason for this stupid war in Iraq!!)
These bigots that Fox New's anchor represent feel their religion is better about "forgiveness" than others...
So I am curious and want my site to help my reader to wonder how many in this world are brainwashed into rationalizing their violence???
so up comes this site about this Aussie who morphed the face of Jesus into Bin Laden...here it is:
This " Artist has the disturbing gift to upset the beliefs and convictions of many people.
Queensland (Australia) artist Priscilla Bracks denies offence with bin Laden work:…”THE artist behind a controversial work depicting terrorism mastermind Osama bin Laden morphing into Jesus today invited those considering her work to look a little more deeply than the obvious comparison of good and evil.”…(see here).
….”When you observe these two people, Osama Bin Ladin and Jesus, their ethics could not be more different. But they were both pursued by two of the world’s most powerful armies – the US and the Roman armies. Jesus is clearly defined by history, but I am interested in ho
w history will treat the image of Osama.”…(see here)
…”The Prime Minister Johns Howard (Australia) has branded the work “gratuitously offensive” to Christians”, see here.
(..Ms Bracks’ work and a statue of the Virgin Mary wearing an Islamic burqa by Sydney artist Luke Sullivan have been entered into Australia’s top religious art competition, the Blake Prize.(see here).. ) "
http://kafee.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/morphing-jesus-into-osama-bin-laden/
What is my point?? I just wonder why so many so called peaceful religions 
are the most violent
Who are the most brainwashed v ictims of this green eyed monster (that we call religion) and mindlessly or delusionally die for their god
I'm sure Jesus wouldn't agree with all the violence that has happened under his name??ie... Constantine , first emperor of the eastern Roman empire, had a dream and stated:
"In this sign, I shall conquer"
(in hoc signo vinces) Latin
It is a very scary time when religious nuts believe that God or Jesus is behind their violence (warfare)...
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
This site is backfiring...
I do a lot of writing and then find out that I have to get connected to cyberspace...
I was telling you how pissed I am at Brit Hume
this is one of the senior anchors from FOX News!
I am pissed that today's America allows for this pigheaded proselatyzing!
I do a lot of writing and then find out that I have to get connected to cyberspace...
I was telling you how pissed I am at Brit Hume
this is one of the senior anchors from FOX News!
I am pissed that today's America allows for this pigheaded proselatyzing!
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Happy Birthday in the Arky Zone, Honey!
well if we were already in Oz we wouldnt still be celebrating the birth of my young wife!
When she lets her hair down and has a tan, she could be an Ocean Pacific
babe instead of just an Arky girl!!
I am lucky to have such a hot wife with a big heart!
Maybe we could be sleeping overnight on the beach in a little cabin in Fiji this time next week!
well if we were already in Oz we wouldnt still be celebrating the birth of my young wife!
When she lets her hair down and has a tan, she could be an Ocean Pacific
babe instead of just an Arky girl!!I am lucky to have such a hot wife with a big heart!
Maybe we could be sleeping overnight on the beach in a little cabin in Fiji this time next week!
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