Last year there was an address “To Any Service Member” to send Christmas cards to our brave military at Walter Reed, however, that address is not a good one.
Do not send Christmas cards to Walter Reed. They will not get delivered. You can google it and see that the address is not good.

anyway, this one is GOOD
Send as many cards as you can!
You can click to biggify:

Hit this webpage and read the specifics ~~ http://www.redcross.org/email/saf/

hey, I am being busy, doing stuff.
It is freeeeezing here
be well

Governments collect more in gas taxes than the largest US oil companies earn in profits.
Did you know this?
Our US and State governments tax us and profit almost 3-1 to oil companies!
Guess who is going to raise those taxes even more on EVERYBODY?

That picture I put here yesterday, of my skates…..
What an awful photograph! I hated that photo so much I threw it out of iPhoto. Yes, I just tossed it in the trash!

Presently I am full of Chinese food.
We got delivery. sichuan beef and moo goo gai pan.
hubby and I got each others fortunes though….
mine: You take an optimistic view of life.
hubby: You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.
He is more optimistic than me
and
he has never ever ever been described/associated with/or compared to a bundle of anything.
he does have a bundle of brains though…. hmm

Most of the businesses in my neighborhood are talking seriously about shutting down after BHO becomes president…
more taxes mean higher prices, mean less customers.
We have three shopping centers with several small businesses, locally owned shops.
I would say 4 are seriously frightened about their future here in the B-lands.
One business just backed out. Empty building.

Well, Obama is off to a promising start indeed:
1) creates international incident with the leader of Poland
2) calls Nancy Reagan to apolgise for an embarrassing “gaffe” (false accusation)
3) Installed Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff, a gesture that will foster bipartisanship and unity in America. LOL

Gosh, I have not accomplished much this week-end.
Let’s see, I cleaned half of the garage in the pouring rain – my half. yes, I will do hubby’s half next week. It just got really ugly outside and we had to quit.
I need to put the yard tools in the basement and get the leaf rake from the basement. We have a few leaves… like maybe 100
now that we have a fence I need to get those leaves out of the corners so we can mow them
and I did some mindless cleaning up. around the domicile.

I need to trim Pierro’s claws. They are getting sharp, but he is not a scratchy guy.
Still I need to trim them.

I am typing with a kitten on my lap.
He is a very cuddly boy.

These are taken with Photobooth on my MacBook Pro.
so they are not the greatest…
Oh, well, it is also evening here.
I took this one yesterday morning when it was lighter in the house:

yesyes, I just rolled out of bed. I took this and sent it off to Blizzie at college. She sends me lots of pics.
so, this is the leeeeast I can do.
Princess is 17 and a half now. she is so adorable.

here is another one, gosh he is sooo adorable and cute

I hope you are having a wunnerful wunnerful week-end.
Well, it is over pretty much here.
Hubby has meetings tomorrow in town.
Pierro will guard the house… haha no not really. He is a fraidycat.
What are your plans for the week?
Do you have a busy one?

It is hot here. 65
I have shorts on and a shirt with no sleeves!
I am feeling peppy and I am not going out for retail therapy today.
Yesterday I got my blades sharpened and the sharpener guy (my old buddy Tim) said my blades were very very dull.
He sharpened them for $14 not bad. I just have to remember when I skate on Monday… I might forget that I had them sharpened
Well, one thing I will notice, maneuverability on the ice will be slow, and I better watch my edges.
crummy photo but ohwell

right now I am doing some slave duties.
I think I will clean out the garage after lunch.
Pierro has been going nutty with the ladybugs in the house…. and he ate one! that made him barf.
I better go now
Maybe some pics later
have a fun week-end.
ps: send an email to your congressman, and senator.
say NO to the bailouts!
Rewarding the Big Three for misusing their own funds will not help anything.

All of those business execs that made a couple of billion$$ should be bailing out their companies
and former S&L companies like BHO’s  good pal Franklin Raines
… …the problem is that Obama is beholden to the unions which helped him in office.

So, I need a new roof on my house.
Maybe I can take out a loan and then request a bailout to pay it.
riiiight

I did not do much today.
Just a bunch of cleaning up. Hubby and I went for a walk.
I slept 9 hours last night, and I am ready to climb back in bed again.
I am leaving tomorrow at 10 for the rink.
I thought I would share with you a photo that “Christabelle” took of me and my parents.
This was taken at a rest stop in Virginia.
Virginia has the best rest stops!! no fast foods, but lots of room to run and frolic

They had a very good time. I am pretty sure they do NOT know I drove 95mph for a small portion of the trip home… well, on I-81
The Garmin nuvi apparently records everything the car does… even speeding… by the uh.. driver. – Certainly not the passengers
Yeah, I did. We rented a Ford Edge 4wd and wowie that car was sooo fun to drive. ooopsie
of course hubby confronted me about this discovery
okay, I am going to shower now and jump in bed.
more pictures later
maybe
you are loved

First of all, I am back from my trippie.
It was …. wow
I did all of the driving. I drove 1400 miles in 5 days. Saturday being the only day that we did local driving around Nashville… man that wedding was everywhere.
Thank you Jesus for Garmin nuvi.

now I am really tired. I slept pretty crummy last night.
I will tell you all about it later.
right now, I just want to sleep. a lot.

Oh first of all.
What the heck is this?
The office of the PRESIDENT ELECT??

omg
what a glaring pomposity
Someone should tell Obama that the President is a public SERVANT, not the ANOINTED KING

[edit]: No other president elect has acted as if they’re emperor of the world.

From the Greek Olympus Temple at the convention, to the “columnated”
victory party (what’s his obsession with Greek/Roman architecture),
he’s proven that he has delusions of grandeur, including this stupid
plaque.

Humility is a beautiful thing. Maybe he should learn a little.

gah, I need sleep

GOD BLESS AMERICA

I won’t have to worry about buying gas or paying my mortgage ever again, right?

Dang I am happy about that!

you are loved always by moi
next postie will be next week when I am back from the roadtrippie

I hope you are having a grooovy day.
Beware: Well this is the longest postie ever.
I got up early with the Fall time change.

I had a fun day yesterday… drove to the rink on gasoline fumes! I did not realize my gas tank was near empty until I was driving over the American Legion Bridge (part of the Beltway) You see, I am a princess. Hubby loves to buy all of my gas now that he works at home. he spends a lot of time playing with the cars.
I picked up a few gallons in Maryland for the drive home. I noticed I had a new gas cap, as this one is not connected by a plastic tether so I had to put it somewhere while I was pumping gas.
At the rink:
Doreen brought all of her left over Halloween candy and forced us to eat it all.
Man oh man I was flying high on chocolate… then I started feeling kind of icky.

When I got home, I carbo-loaded with quality food (figure skating makes you really hungry)…. then
hubby and I went for our usual walk.

We live in a nice community with loads of trees

 and it is pretty much like a park.
we have about 5 miles of trails in the woods as well as the usual sidewalks everywhere.

I frequently feel like I would like to sell our house and move somewhere else…
different, smaller property, but we will stay here in this house for a few more years.
I do not know where I want to move. Hubby wants to move somewhere out in nowhere.
I do not want to do that. I am really a city girl… suburbs is okay with me.

Our house is way too big, 3700 sq ft, not including the basement… maybe I should open a B+B. haha just kidding
I do not think they allow that here. Oh well.
With the economy the way it is… and the way it is predicted to go…. we will stay here.
I like this house … besides I have my big fat piano here and I do not want to live in a squishy little house and
give hubby a headache with all of that loud bad playing of the piano and also having our mountains of clutter all piled around our heads in a smaller house. We would be tripping over all of our clutter. We have lots of it despite that I give a lot of it away every month… it just grows like moss.

Okay… I am very busy the next few days, Thursday around 11 am or when ever everyone shows up, we are leaving for our roadtrippie.
My parents will get here after the sprinkler system guy comes over to their house in Annapolis and winterizes their sprinkler.
Dad says they are first on the list.
you can click to biggify.

Christabelle is coming along too.
I have not packed yet, I am going to do that today.
we are staying the first night in Abingdon.
I picked the best rated hotel in the area by checking ratings online.
Abingdon is in Virginia about 44 miles from the Tennessee border (Kingsport)
Hmmmmm So I will drive 6 hours, sort of, the first day
5 and a half hours on Friday.
Send good vibes. I am bringing my own puffy flattish pillow that I love, to sleep on at night.
I am doing all of the driving. we are renting a Ford Edge from Budget rent a car (Dulles Airport)
I hope my parents behave.

Here is a photo of me when I was 17 years old. I lived at home, we were living in the US here and I was a hospital volunteer.
I was excessively nerdy and dorky.

My dad talked me into getting my registered nurses degree. I really wanted to go to art school but my middle sister did that
 and she ended up having loads of “problems” with alcohol and drugs.
My dad did not want me to get involved in that, even though I was the obedient child!!!!!
I was a bit naive though… a little bit, so I can understand his hesitation.
While I went to college, I worked at a goofy steak house restaurant with a bunch of lazy apathetic co-workers. I did all of the work there…
I also worked on week-ends at a toy store (that was not a fun job, lots of crabby parents threatening me if I did not go in the back of the store and miraculously find the scarce cabbage patch doll they wanted)
So, those jobs got me through nursing school.
My parents did not live here in the US anymore. They had moved to Brussels.
My dad was clueless about college costs in the US, so I really struggled and I did not ask my dad for any money.
Man I was dirt poor. I did not own a car, I got a ride to school everyday with this woman in my classes (also nursing).
She was a very mean grumpy lady, always complaining about something. She smoked like a train too.
Finally after our first clinical, she got thrown out of school because she totally flunked her first clinical.
They told her she was lousy, so guess what? no more ride.
I had to get to school and sometimes I walked and hitch hiked. I know that is very bad but this was back in dino days and there were not too many creeps in the world yet.
Wow I was really poor back then, any money I made had to pay rent and food and stuff. I was living with my sister.
She was in bad shape drinking a lot and just doing a lot of BAD things
Finally I called my parents long distance and told them to come and get my sister. Gosh she was in bad shape and it was really compromising my education!
So, she packed her stuff and went to Belgium (lucky).
I had to move out of the apartment… I moved into a house of a friend of mine. A GUY!
I rented a room in a house with two men!! oh gosh these two guys were “interesting”. they were always eating my food! One was a successful plumber and the other was… I don’t remember.
By that time, my boozer sister’s car was out of the auto shop (too many crashes) and I bought it for $800 from my dad.
So I drove that car until it started having some bad engine problems and sold it “as is” about 5 years later for $2000 hahahahahahaaaaa
end of story.

I think we will find a lot of surprises in the next few months.
If BHO wins this thing, you will hear a very loud crash. 3/4 of the US military will also prepare for “retirement”
So, he might have to institute the draft, which will be really popular and make many folks happy, right? hope and change, people.
Get ready for a sharp left turn with BHO and his friends.
Remember to continue to live on your own good moral principles.

I will end here, as I must do a zillionmillion things
I hope you have a great day.
I am planning on it. Life goes on folks. I have lots to do.

AND, I need a vacation! I am going on a road trip with MY PARENTS
Thank you God I am so glad that Christina is coming along too. No really my parents are hilarious and we get along just wonderful.
My mom is very cute. My parents have been though so much.

I have to shop and pack today
Tomorrow I will probably skate early, then we have video~chat with my parents.
I am pumped for driving for a zillion hours and then being at my nephews wedding. I know that my oldest sister Dolley (not the boozer) will be there in spirit.
Oh my, I miss her so much. It is hard to believe it has been 8 years.

This is the longest blog I have written in years.
just wow
love always

An astounding number of
“Americans”
seem to be prepared
to vote for their own extinction


“Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y.
Candidate X agrees with you on everything,
but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all.
 
Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues,
but he can deliver. For whom will you vote?”
~Bill Clinton

If you are voting, or thinking about voting.
This is an interesting video by The honorable Dr. James Manning
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ATLAHWorldwide/videos/27/
oops sorry I put the wrong video up first

It is 22 minutes long, so make a cuppa, grab a cookie (or in my case, a couple of cookies) and sit and listen.
He is adorable to listen to. He is on fire!
Take a look at the elders and assistant pastors on the stage with him while he speaks.
Powerful words.
He is from the ATLAH worldwide ministries, so if you google that you can find his church.
send them some money, I did.

So, for a country that is in recession and so desperate… how did BHO get $600M?
oh never mind, that is none of my business

Anyway, this video was sent to me by a friend of mine from the NBRA.
Someone I have known since college days. She lives in Florida
Tell me what you think.

Remember Obama’s poor Aunt living in Boston?
read this
interesting huh?

What do you think of these two logos?

Does this cause you any concern?
It will be great to have him as Our Dear Leader huh?
I know he is going to win.
many think he will not, but I have already made a sizable “bet” with many friends.
We will learn more about him after his is elected… just wait.

I hope you had a delightful Halloween
We had lots and lots of kids, and then the whole show stopped abruptly at 9:15
I still have some candy left.

Welcome November!
Do you turn your clocks back tonight? We do.
I am planning on doing many things today.
next blog i will show you some pics of my black licorice from Holland
and my silly picture from when I was 17…
Get peppy people
Love always