I should update right now and immediately, but I am super tired.
I went to my parentpeeps today in Annapolis MD and had a fun time.
My mom forced me to wash her kitchen floor LOL just kidding. she begged me.
I washed her floors and cleaned her kitchen, haha

We went for a walk and blabbed about a lot of fun stuff.
I will try to blog about it tomorrow or this week-end… right now, hoo boy I have to do a zillion things and then jump in bed.
tomorrow I have a long list of things to do.  shop shop and shop.
I am going to buy a new kitchen faucet at Homie Depot b/c ours is old and cruddy and looks really dopey too.

Love always, Rosemary

quickie entry here. I have lots to do yet and then I have to jump in bed and sleep a lot. I am skating tomorrow.
I do not have a busy week, except for skating shopping and cleaning and sewing. I will probably go out to my parents on Thursday and hang around there for a while. They are very funny.

I re-upholstered my parents chairs, 4 of them, and last month I went out there and put them together with my staple gun and stuff. They keep their house so warm, man I was sweating.

Anyway, one thing we joke about is if we have a crisis everyone in the family will move to our house (this is just one of our silly ideas we always imagine) since our house is so huge. Hubby already joked that if that were to come about, he would sound proof his office here on the main level (where he works every day) and hide in there. haha
Dad and I would go out and barter for things by offering our expert services of recovering chairs, and other “handy things” (my dad and I are not handy but we try. He and I worked together to do their chairs and it was nothing short of a “mutt and jeff” operation.

Anyway, I said I was going to be quick here, so I thought I would share with you some kitty pics.
Pierro loves climbing in bed with Prin. She is not crazy about this but if he is still and not wiggly she will let him stay in the cuppiebed with her.

Pierro is a goofy adorable lovetigerpuff.

Princess: almost 18 years old

What kind of weather do you have?
Here it is cold and very windy. Hubby and I went for our daily walk. It was not as bad as a few other times we went out it felt like Siberia. We had snow this morning, then sun and wind.

hey, here is another cool thing. I have not been to the oncologist/hematologist in over a year… maybe a year and a half. So anyway, I had some routine bloodwork done at my regular medical doc. My tests came out perfect. The globulin and globulin/albumin levels were normal !?!? yeah really. Still, I found a new doc and I might just go out to her for a consultation.
Anyway, I have to take calcium. My calcium is low! rats. I have to take 500mg 3xaday. Those tablets (Os-Cal +D) taste nasty but the Viactive chocolates taste kind of okay, sort of. not really yummy. I am not good about taking “pills” so I am trying really hard to take these dopey calcium supplements every day so I do not crumble in to a heap of bone dust haha

So yeah. do you have a busy week?
What did you have for dinner huh?
We had soup

I am gonna try to blog more. Really

okay bye now.

Hey xanga people. I apologise for not being around much.

I have been busy.

I hope everything is going well with you.
Here, things are wonderful. Hubby and I are living here in this huge house just the two of us.
We could not sell this place if we wanted to. we have so many houses on the market here, mostly people just moving, job transfers, the usual in the DC area. We are content here in our neighborhood. We live in a lovely community in a park with lots of woods and paths to frolic in every day, so no worries. It is just getting to be a huge chore cleaning this place.

How are you?
I have been baking, skating (a lot), playing the piano, sewing, walking every day, cooking different stuff,
working on silly little projects, and in general, just – trying to stay out of trouble.

Life is hilarious. Our “POTUS” is a joke. As I suggested in the past, please get your personal investments and finances… in order
and prepare for the future, we are in for a nasty ride. Well, forget your finances… Soon your house may be worth nothing, funny huh? Perhaps in 4 years our $$ will be worth zero. weeeeeeee
Wouldn’t it be nice to purchase a two million $ home right now and perhaps a few new expensive cars? Maybe a vacation home in the mountains LOLOL Would you like to pay my mortgage?
We could get our daughters to co-sign on the loans, even though one just got out of college and has obligations of her own (and what? she can’t help up with the mortgage??)… and Blizzie, well, she is busily slaving at kollig
Everyone is responsible to bail out  the people who made bad decisions and bought stuff they could never pay for.
I can tell you here in our neighborhood we have many foreclosures, folks bought and living in a huge house, no furniture for four years then boom there goes their mortgage. Thank you Barney and Chris. Things were going wonderful until the dems took over congress.
And where is mr. hope n’ change? Oh now he is mr. gloom n’ doom. greeeeeat. 50% of the folks You are bailing out with your tax $$ will default again…. so then what? will you give them more of your money? we are on the 6 lane expressway to the most ginormous dept for your children. we are sacrificing our children.

So what is making you happy these days?

In other news, we are having video chat as usual with my parents Thursdays at 2pm. These chats last about an hour and a half and they are very fun and enjoyable.  This is from yesterday’s chat. I almost forgot about it, then at the last minute I remembered … so I look like I have been cleaning bathrooms… yeah, I had been.

I have to end here for now.
Princess is demanding my presence.
Pierro is stinking up the house.
Perhaps I can blog again later.
Maybe a few lame pictures too.
You are loved. really!

Another Tuesday.
I am cleaning today.
Why am I sitting here at the computer typing? Well…
I found a special exclusive rear view photo of Mt. Rushmore.
I had to share it with you.

Have you seen the cover of Mad magazine?
lol empty suit boy cannot handle it
 
I hope you are having a marvy day.
I am going to get a zillion things done today… and even go for a walk.
The sun is out and it is windy but what the heck.

more later.
lots going on here. I have been mighty busy.
I hope all of you are well.
what is going on?
Have you hidden your money yet?

must see youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbqrJyJmdYo&feature=related

I loooove Pastor Manning.

Well, I just got home from the denteeest.
I had a check up, got my teeth scraped to death and then they discovered a hole in my crown.
Dang. It is not bothering me but oh gosh. I am not in the mood to get a crown ripped out and a new crown.
Maybe I will get it done this summer when life is dull and boring. Right now it is not bothering me.

It is snowing here but it is a wet snow we have about two inches and it is not so bad out there.
Here in Virginia we have a lot of bad drivers…
I married mr. car and I have fantastic tires.

I am going to do some stuff now. Maybe bundle up and go out and play with the shovel or something.
Hubby is home (he works at home) and he is having all of his meetings on the phone.

If you have money to invest, do it now.

600 private jets flown by rich Democrats flew into Dulles airport (the airport had to shut down a large portion of the airport to accommodate for these planes)  for the Inauguration one week ago today. That’s fine but the auto execs using theirs was a crime?

I hope all of you are doing well.

Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.

Communist guru

Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”

 By Judi McLeod  Tuesday, September 2, 2008

In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky.  But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.

Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.

No one can blame Alinsky for the pretentiousness of the Ancient Greek Temple from which Obama addressed plebes, or for the tacky neon colours on display at the Pepsi Centre, but it was Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals, the bible of the far left.

Says Alinsky’s son L. David Alinsky of his father’s influence at the Dem Convention: “ALL the elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situation and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.”

“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style, the Communist guru’s son wrote in a letter published yesterday in the Boston Globe.

The Artful Dodger may be less than pleased that he has been pegged as a Saul Alinsky Poster Boy by the guru’s own son.

“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness,” Alinsky Jr. wrote to the Globe.  “It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board.  When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen.  Obama learned his lesson well.

“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008.  It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”

Alinsky should be reminded that the West has stared down communism everywhere it has raised its hideous head.

Influencing a Democratic convention from the grave pales in comparison to the results that followed President Ronald Reagan’s famous words, “Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall.”

The commonsense and freedom-loving Gipper would have chuckled at the audacity of Obama’s Ancient Greek Temple stage setting and would have told Obama what he told the world:  “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”

Reagan also said: “I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for 50 years haunted the dreams of children everywhere.  During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism.  As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows.  What will you do on your journey?”

“Alinsky considered himself a realist above all, the ultimate pragmatist.” (American Thinker, Aug. 30, 2008).  “As a confirmed atheist, Alinsky believed that the here and now is all there is, and therefore had no qualms about assorted versions of morality in the pursuit of worldly power.  He didn’t coddle his radical acolytes or encourage their bourgeois distinctions between good and evil when it came to transferring power from the Haves to the Have Nots.  Alinsky saw the already formed church communities as being the perfect springboards for agitation and creating bonds for demanding goods and services.”

Obama followed the same path.

It is a fact that activist-cum senator Barack Hussein Obama started off his career as an activist with a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned, in Alinsky’s own words, how to “rub raw the sores of discontent”.

Meanwhile L. David Alinsky, perhaps unwittingly put Obama into the proper perspective by stating without reservation: “Obama learned his lesson well.”



Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

“I won”

~Barack Obama

audacity indeed….

Today is Saturday and I am have not blogged in ages.
I hope all of you are well.
I have been busy. Stuff is happening every day…. no time for innernets
I will put up some photos soon and show you some stuff.
right now, I am grooovin’ and I hope you are too
okay here is a pic of the kitties.
Pierro, helping me with reupholstering my parents olde chairs (4 of them)
  
Princess really likes to sit in the sun
 
More later
Be well

xanga is warning me that I will be forced to use the “newer version” on 1-20. That just stinks!
I don’t wanna change my setting!!! *stamps feets*

Why are they dumping this version. I do not like the photo album thing.
I like being able to put photos on my blog and click on them to biggify.
How can you do that with the newer version?

Xanga is slowly but surely turning me away from blogging. This might be the last straw, but I will fiddle with some things,
perhaps write my blog in ‘Pages’ first then paste it here.

So, what is new?
Yes, it is cold here too (20 degrees). Hubby and I have been going for a long walk almost everyday
(I have very chapped lips to show for it. note to self: put chappiestick on the shopping list for tomorrow)

Oh goodness are you prepared and excited for the anointing of the messiah?

I am already feeling all hopey and changitude
A blizzard on Tuesday would be cool too

Speaking of blizzards, Blizzie is back at college. She is quite happy. She will have a very heavy schedule this semester
(5 classes, 2 are dreaded, tedious economics classes).
This past semester she received straight A’s for her 5th consecutive semester (no “dresses for C’s” earned).
Yes, she is brilliant and every time she comes home I feel
more and more stupid. We did have a fantastic month with her home though. She and I have such a good time together, we are so much alike.
We are both quite prissy, and… everything is hilarious. That is about it. Every way else I guess we are different.
She does not skate, she plays much much much better piano than I.
I am hyper, she is calm.

I have been really busy doing all sorts of stuff. One of which, presently I am working on a nutty project for my parents.
They want to recover their bar stools.
I think they should toss them and buy some new ones (they have plenty of $$)
They love their old crusty bar stools so I am *sigh* looking for fabric to recover them.
Last week, I went to the JoAnn fabric store and got some swatches of fabric that I thought would look okay and be fairly simple to sew with.
I brought the swatches over to my parents house and … no, the fabrics did not look good with the rest of the room.
So, this morning I bundled up and went back out, this time with camera in hand and that old bar stool seat. I think I have found something better.
I sent the photos to mom and dad….
Quite honestly, choosing the fabric is pretty easy for me. The sewing is going to be innnnnteresting.
I am not sure… luckily there are only three stools. They look so shabby. The bottom part will require only the use of a staple gun (which I have)
the top part will need some custom fitting, which might require some thinking, brainwork… alertness…. coffee and chocolate.

I have been skating twice a week. The schedule has been irregular and this next week, I am not sure I will venture out onto the Washington beltway.
It could be a zoo out there. i just hope my parents do not have an emergency this week. I do not know how I would get out to their place from here!

Here are a few pics.
the ratty barstool seat with some pretty fabric I know my mom will not approve:

Oh I think she would like that but it would not go with the huge rug from India in the family room

I like this… I think the parental peeps will too

mom, Bliz and me on her 86th birthday last week-end.

We got her these snaz flowers

last pics: the kitties
Pierro. He is so wonderful. Oh my.

he is a very sweet kitty. quite afraid of strangers but seems to know family.
As seldom as Christabelle comes over, he is not afraid of her at all.

Princess: doing so wonderful. Tuesday will be one year since her sweet brother Caesar died
she is in good health and very content.
Every day is a blessing with her. She will be 18 in April.

They even enjoy each other’s warmth, well, Pierro loves to snuggle with her
sometimes he tries to sit right ON her.

hanging out together in Prinnie’s paradise room upstairs

Be well, sweet and wonderful friends.
you are loved by me

WHO AM I??
I was raised in one country but my father was born in another.
I was not his only child. He fathered several children with a number of women.
I became very close to my mother because my father showed little interest in me.
Then my mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a reliable birth certificate.
I grow up practicing one faith, but converted to Christianity because this was widely accepted in my country.
But I practice d non-traditional beliefs and did not follow mainstream Christianity.

I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.

I wrote a book about my struggles growing up.
It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.

I became active in local politics when I was in my 30s and then burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office when I was in my 40s.
I had a virtually non-existent resume, very little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization.
Yet I was a powerful “charismatic” speaker who managed to draw incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.

At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy.. I was critical of my country in the last war.
But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy.
I had a plan on how we could do better. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.

Mine was a peoples campaign.
I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support.
I offered the people the hope that together we could change our country and the world.

I spoke on behalf of the downtrodden including persecuted minorities such as Jews,
but my actual views were not widely known until after I became my nations leader.
However, anyone could have easily learned what I really believed if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.
But they did not.

Then I became the most powerful man in the world And the world learned the truth.

Who am I?

Happy New Year everyone.

Oh boy this is going to be one heck of a year too….
This just in…
The popular liberal website, “The Daily Kos” has tapped former
Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta, age 70, to be the new the director of
the Central Intelligence Agency.

In a statement, Kos founder Markos Moulitsas said, “We are pleased
that the president elect has entrusted us with this important choice
before we were forced to make good on our threat to disable his
transition website with an avalanche of negative comments and angry
emoticons. We can assure our constituents — college professors, actors,
illegal immigrants, college students, and greasy-haired slackers alike
— that we have thoroughly vetted Mr. Panetta and determined that he has
absolutely no political, ideological, philosophical, social or familial
connection to anyone with the first or last name of Bush. Of course, if
such a connection is ever discovered in the future we reserve the right
to fire Mr. Panetta and promote deputy director Bill Maher to the
director position. Mr. Panetta has also, in the past, displayed
occasional intelligence which undoubtedly qualifies him for this
important position.”

Asked for a comment, blogger Andrew Sullivan said, “once again the
president-elect has displayed his intelligence, wisdom, and political
skill, underscoring the importance of legalizing same-sex marriage and
the unquestioned illegality of water-boarding and other interrogation
techniques.’ Another, lesser-known member of the incoming administration, vice
president elect Joe Biden, added, “not many people know this but
Panetta invented those delicious Panetones as well as the Pan-tone
color system. It’s true, look it up.”

When asked if the job of intelligence chief requires intelligence experience, Panetta replied simply, “no comment.”

>>Don’t forget that Panetta Bread Company pioneered free wi-fi in their locations, without which most Kos readers would have to spend all day in Mom’s basement. That’s worth a cabinet appointment in my book.

moving on, help me to understand this… a resealable bag of socks?
(yes that is Pierro’s feets there beside the bag, my little helper always)

What did they have in mind? that hubby store his socks in the bag?
Why a resealable bag?

I have been simply terrible, and complicatingly terrible too, about blogging. I am sorry. Life is busy.
I hope all of you are well.
Here it is pouring rain. I just returned from the rink.
We have been busy.
I have been VERY busy.

Everything is going really well for us.
A lot of stuff happened over that last few weeks. Christmas was wonderful. I have the annual photos I am too lazy to put them up.
New Years Eve was great fun. We had Andrei over for a few days.

He is such a great little boy and will soon be 11 years old. Wow.
We went to the Udvar Hazy center in Chantilly. It is 20 mins from my house and quite cool if you go early.

I have more photos of many adventures with Andrei. We had such a good time with him.
He is a really a wonderful boy. I adore him.

Blizzie is still home, she goes back to college in a week and a half. She is working at the hotel a few nights a week
(piano/3 hours a night in the lobby/what a cushie job)
Christabelle is doing so well on her own having her own place about 20 mins away.
We are going to Annapolis on Saturday to celebrate my mom’s 84th birthday

Pierro is good as gold. Prinnie is adorable very vocal (as usual) eating well and hobbling around the house.

She will be 18 in April,
so every day is a blessing with her. She is spoiled every day and treated like the princess she is!

All of you would be well served to obtain some sound financial advice in the next few months. Things are going to get very bad.
Also, any flying or traveling overseas, get that done now. Things are going to get ugly and dangerous with Panetta in charge of the CIA.

I will try to update soon, but I have been in a mood and when I have not been in that mood, I have been in another mood.
Presently, I am going to clean up Christmas in this house.

Then, make some dinner foods, rearrange Blizzie’s bedroom while she is at her gig, then I have a zillion other things to think about.
Blizzie and I are going shopping tomorrow. We are also going to JoAnn fabrics because Blizz wants some different buttons
for this jacket she bought (she is addicted to clothes shopping and it does not help that everything she puts on, even a burlap sack looks adorable on her!) and I am going to buy some fabric to recover some bar stools of my parents. I love shopping…. I do need some new pants, hmmmm

Oh yeah, and then we have to be all perky and happy for Thursday video-chat at 2:00.
WE forgot last week!!! Oh gosh, the three of us were lazing around here doing Nothing of importance,
feeling very drowsy, recovering from weeks of junk food and parties. The phone rings, I choose to answer it, no one at the other end, hello
hello?? so I hang up. The phone rings again I say hello a couple of times…. and I hear my moms voice, saying something in the background
so, I YELL hello?????/ and my mom says “hey, what is the matter with you people? What’s going on?” I say “huh? what do you mean?”
and she says “what about video-chat?? you are not on-line!”
“Oh, uh, mom, we are just setting up right now!” LOL

sorry the screen shot is so crummy. I think their camera is just bad…
I need them to take a screen shot so I can see if we look this fuzzy at their house.

I must end here.
Be well and happy.

~Author Unknown