Category Archives: News & Politics

Just my rants, raves & reflections on things that happen around the world.

Catching Everyone Up

This weekend was payroll, so I was tied up with that.  I know that it is a pain in the ass to have payroll during the week, but I’ve gotten into the habit of avoiding work as much as possible on the weekends.

If  I spend time online on the weekend, I want it to be surfing for my own interests or working on our personal stuff, not “job” related.  So I am looking forward to this weekend on avoiding “work”.  What I’m not looking forward to is finalizing our taxes and what we owe the government….icks  But I’ll feel better once it is over, then on to other personal projects…like digging back into health insurance and getting off my ass and seeing an accountant.  =(

We had to take the jeep in for regular maintenance and have them look at a few things.  Of course, they don’t keep us informed as to where is stands.  We had to call today when they told use that they would call us last night….annoying.  We were going to pick it up this evening, but really didn’t feel like dealing with rush hour traffic, so going to pick it up tomorrow probably after the gym.

Suppose to be nice tomorrow, so debating on going for some small hikes…we’ll see.

I’ve been doing ok at the gym.  Been very slowly improving on the treadmill.  I’m up to 3.27mile within 30min and finish off at 3.34mile at 31min.  We had a lot of useless posers at the gym today.  I love it when people just stand around the machine that I want and just talk…annoying jerks.  But I’m going to have to work on cutting my sugar.  I have increased it over the last few months even though I’ve been maintaining my calories.  I’m stuck at this plateau and it is annoying me.

I’m not feeling too well.  We tried this new brand of lasagna and I like it, but I think I ate too much.  I had some mint chocolate chip ice cream to settle my tummy.

For once, we are pretty happy with our setup furniture wise.  We got a five shelf and a three shelf bookcase for the bedroom that actually matches our bed set.  I really like how it came together, we have the space to put stuff without it being too crowded.  We got nice matching furniture in the dining and living room, even though the kittens have scratched up our leather sofa and chair while chasing each other….the little shits.  =)

I’ve been playing around with Twitter & Facebook.  I got the widget that Twitter had to add to my Facebook.  So now all I have to do it update my twitter and it updates my facebook, and my blog has them both in the sidebar and updated nightly.  I also have my feed from my blog going into my facebook.  =) That makes it so much easier.  Now if I could figure out how to edit myspace to add twitter to that.

I’ve been having fun sending pictures of our cats to my twitter from my cell phone…….lol The pictures have turned out much better then I expected them to.

The Culture Warriors Get Laid Off

**The one positive about the country being in a mess is that culture “warriors” have their power removed.  People are more concerned with more important things….like jobs, housing and food to let them force those issues down their throat and into their lives.

Ingraham to Meghan McCain: You’re a ‘useful idiot’

**Ingraham is a hack job.  She can’t even debate the points, she has to make it personal.  How dare she call her “plus-size”!?  For one, she is only a size 10…not even close, for two what the frakk does that have to do with jack crap?!

Sources: U.S. to sign U.N. gay rights declaration

**About damn time.  =)

Bush says Obama ‘deserves my silence’

**For once I agree with him.  I just wish Cheney would learn that.

Ugh…That is about it…

This week is not starting out very well in general.  It is just blah.  I wasn’t feeling very well at all yesterday,which really got in the way of work and motivation.

Then when I was finally able to get to work, I spent most of last night going back and fixing the last 3 months of bank reconciliations in my quickbooks for my job.  Those are a pain, because those bank statements are 17pgs long.

Well, now that I got those done the spreadsheet that I correspond with to keep my bosses update on the accounts is off by $150!  What the heck did I do?  When I made the corrections in my quickbooks, I made it in the spreadsheets….so how the hell is now off?  I bet is something simple, it is usually is…..but it is a pain to find.  I can’t wait for the March’s bank statement….ggggrrr

It doesn’t help that this is my irritable week.  People are just annoying the hell out of me, doesn’t help that we keep running into moron drivers the last 2 days.

It has been chilly and even got some snow that didn’t stay the last few days.  We are suppose to warm up for Wed & Thurs.  We were hoping to visit some of the falls on the Colombia Historic Highway, but tonight’s weather report said it is going to be windy with high gusts.  =(  That bites.  Well, the weather forecast is always changing…..I’m so hoping that it does, I would love to go out and do some small hikes.

I really need to get focused on work and some personal business the next few days but

Officials: Obama to create White House Women’s Council

**About time that we have someone in the WH that takes women’s issues seriously.

More Americans say they have no religion (General Article)

More Americans say they have no religion (Jack Cafferty)

**I really enjoy these articles.  I’m sick and tired of someone else’s religion trying to rule my life by forcing their beliefs into our legal & legislative system.  I’m tired of us “non-religious” people being demeaned and treated as if what we believe doesn’t matter.

I really enjoyed some of the comments on Caffety’s question :

Marie from South Carolina writes:
It means that Americans now know the difference between ‘religion’ and ’spirituality’. They equate ‘religion’ to the manmade set of bureaucratic rules that are set up by a church. Spirituality speaks to people’s relationship with their God.

Steve from Florida writes:
I think the conservatives have actually given “religion” a bad name in a lot of ways, made it over-bearing, divisive, seemingly narrow-minded, way too political and pretty much a caricature of itself. If what we’ve seen in the last 8 years is the definition of a “religion”, I certainly wouldn’t want to be put in that particular box.

Lords of Discipline Further Wounding GIs

**If this true, this is sad and messed up.  =(

‘The Infamous Exploding Whale”

Bill Maher and T Boone Pickens – I think this is a must see.

Jon Stewart kicks ass…

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220252&title=cnbc-gives-financial-advice