JabberWocky!

Hi All!

I’ve wanted to be wealthy all of my life and I have finally been given the “SECRET” to how to become “RICH”! And the good part is… I am going to “Share” the “Secret” with You!

The “Secret” was reveled by a reporter from the Detroit News, and I quote:

Nathaniel Abraham was convicted of murder in 1998 and incarcerated, but only until he turned 21, which was in January, at which time he was moved into a rent-free apartment in Bay City, Mich., and enrolled tuition-free in Delta College, in a program sponsored by Michigan Rehabilitation Services. Though some criticized such lavish treatment of a murderer, Abraham seemed ready to start his new life, arriving in Oakland Circuit Court for his formal release wearing “a black fur coat, ivory fedora hat, and a ivory and hot-pink pinstriped suit with matching pink tie and shoes”

Am I missing something here????

Do you mean to tell me that all I have to do is MURDER someone and sit 9 years in a Juvenile Facility and then I am given Free rent and my tuition paid? And, I still have my entire life ahead of me? What kind of Justice is that, I ask!!??

This is one of those stories that I really have a very hard time believing! Ok, you were put away for 9 years, that’s a hard thing for almost anyone, BUT YOU ARE CONVICTED OF MURDERING SOMEONE for goodness sake, not accidentally killing someone, No, MURDERING someone, at the ripe old age of 12 years old!!!

When you get out, you have already finished the years that you would have had to go to school, (a type of prison in itself, some might think)! Since you are in the “Juvenile Facility” for Murder, most of the others “inside” probably didn’t bother you too much, unless they were either completely insane or had a death wish, so you probably were one of the “Leaders”! And you get out, don’t have to pay rent, like the rest of us “law abiding” citizens and you get to enroll in college and finish your education without paying for it, like us “law abiding” citizens!

And to make matters worse, (if they can be!), we not only have to pay for our own tuition, but, WE HAVE TO PAY FOR HIS TOO!!! (tjonge, jongen, jongen, as we say in Holland, loosely translated means unbelievable )! I also noticed, which wouldn’t have made much difference, that they did not say he was an exceptional student and earned a scholarship, maybe for fashion designing or decision making, which I doubt given the clothing he choose to wear to Court in Front of a Judge! No, he just seems to be another normal Murdering kid, nothing special!

Given the clothes that he is choosing to wear now, I must admit, does not seem as though he is planing on living a very ahhh…Productive life! I know, I was just preaching last week about pre-judging people and judging a book by it’s cover and so on, but there are many people that will jump to conclusions when they see this young man walk down the street with his flashy clothes, and after all, we always hear about “attracting” people, well, what type of people do you think that this young man is going to “attract”? My guess is, people that can be trouble and lets face it, once you get into trouble, it’s very hard to get out of it sometimes!

I am done with this for the day, only because I am so flabbergasted that I can not think of anything else to say on the subject! I just wanted to inform you of this and You be the “Judge and Jury” on this subject!

Any comments out there, I’m happy to read them!

Have a good one and hope to see you again soon!

Hi There!

I hope everyone had a great week-end and that you are all rested and raring to get started with a new week!

Well, while I am writing this, a lot of you will be watching the Oscars, have you predicted who is going to win? I’ve already gone to bed and gotten up again!

I guess you could say, I am in the future! I know what is going to happen tomorrow because I am already there!! It’s kind of like I can foretell the future!! Like I am a Psychic!

Do any of you believe in Psychic Powers or Abilities as some call it? You all may think me kooky, but then again anyone that knows me, knows I’m kooky, but I do believe in Psychic Powers!

Now I am not talking about these kooks, there’s that word again, must be my word for the day! I am not talking about these kooks out there that claim to know you are going to marry a tall, dark and handsome stranger with lots of money, live in a big house and live happily ever after! I am talking about Real, Psychic Powers/Abilities.

I mean, think about it! How many times have you heard that there was a crime that no one could solve and then someone came up with the brilliant idea that since nothing else brought any results why not consult a Psychic and low and behold, they put together what happened and the crime was solved!

I am not talking about the generic stuff, I could be a Psychic or Profiler for that matter, that way. Profile of a Serial killer; White male between the ages of 25-40, loner, problem with relationships…

No, I am talking about the real stuff that no one except the criminal, victim, if there is one, and the Psychic knows. I’ve watched the Discovery Channel on Crime Night too you know! Some of these people are amazing!

Perpetrator: 6′2″, 36 years, 27 days old at the time of the crime, blond, earlobe length hair, single arrow shaped stud earring in left ear, has a tattoo of “Puff the Magic Dragon” on his right big toe, one blue eye, the left and one green eye, the right, name of Sam Pumpernickel, lives in Mochatown, Mississippi on Rockwell Road with 2 #’s as address, the first one being a 1, drives a orange 1964 VW Bus, with the license plate 123987 and lives with his 97 year old legally blind mother!

And then it turns out the Psychic is RIGHT!!!! Now how in the World would anyone know that unless; One; they were there at the crime, and the chances of the police department finding this particular Psychic that was with the Perp at the scene of the crime must be a Psychic Ability in itself! Or two; the person Really is a Psychic!

So, how about it? Are there Real Psychics out there or is it all a hoax, given all of the evidence I’ve just given you?! Or… Are you a Psychic? Can you predict the future?

*WIKIPEDIA DESCRIPTION OF “PSYCHIC”*

The term psychic comes from the Greek psychikos, meaning “of the soul, mental,” which is in turn derived from the Greek word psyche (soul/mind). It was first used by French astronomer Camille Flammarion, who was also a noted spiritualist and psychical researcher. As an adjective, the term psychic describes the arguably paranormal aspect of certain mental phenomena. As a noun, psychic describes people who profess to be sensitive to psychic influence. The term is often used interchangeably with medium, although psychics attribute abilities they may have to ESP or clairvoyance rather than to contact with spirits.

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I PREDICT THAT: You will…have a great week!

Hi All!

Everyone getting ready for a great week-end? I don’t know about you but I thought that this week just dragged by, I’m ready for some R & R this S & S! (Saturday & Sunday, I wrote it down in case someone doesn’t know and asks me & I forget!!! Memory problems these days, Remember?)!!

Before I get into todays post, I would like to mention to my Web Designing friends that I have added a new blog to my Blogroll that I think will be of special interest all of you. It is called Thoughts on Design and it is by Douglas T. For those of you that have not heard of him, he writes a very interesting blog on Web Design, CSS, Graphic Design, Photography, Photo Shop, WordPress and many other subjects that we can all learn from. There is also, under his category; “Web Design” a special entry entitled “Church Communications Pro”, which may be of special interest to you RLS! So all of you, check it out, believe me when I say, this guy is Good, with a capital G! He can really help all of us “Wanna Be’s” Web Designers! I would like to say a Very Special Thank You to Douglas T for allowing me to put his Thoughts on Design on my Blogroll! Thanks, Douglas T! I appreciate it very much!

Now, for todays post!

I was thinking about what I am going to do this week-end and I was thinking how I should spend some quality time with my pets. I don’t know about any of you but I know that I absolutely adore animals, to me animals make the world go round! All animals, not just pets.

Have you ever noticed, that animals never hurt anyone or anything for no reason? It’s to bad that we can’t say the same for humans! Personally, I think that we humans should take a lesson out of their book!!

Seriously, how many times have you heard of an animal just walking up and shooting someone for no good reason? O.K., that’s being a little silly, but seriously, how many times have you heard of an animal just out of the blue attacking someone? Or biting someone? I can tell you, I can’t remember the last time I heard that.

When I’ve heard of an animal attacking someone it has been because they were provoked. I don’t mean provoked like we humans, We consider being provoked when someone accidentally hits their car horn, we are so provoked, that we have to get out of the car and go “Postal”!! And who’s calling who “Animals”!!

But I am talking about provoking animals by harming them, kicking them, beating on them, kids have a tendency to pull their tails, you know the type of things I’m talking about, the, “pulling the wings off of flies”, type of things!

Then they get angry and attack, and we? What do we do? Well, those are horrible animals, dangerous even! Not fit to be around humans! So, we put them down! We put them down for doing the exact same things that we do, but the only difference is, We have a very good reason. I mean, think of it, Joe Smoe behind us had the nerve to accidentally hit the car horn while he was trying to change the radio channel, Sounds like a real attack on my person to me, so what do I do? Well, I’m going to protect myself and my property! After all, it states in The Constitution that I have the Right to protect my person and/or property. Why this is such a horrible attack on me that I am going to get out of the car right now and go “Postal” on that “good for nothing”!! What kind of logic is this?? To me, we are the ones that need to be put down! We humans should be ashamed of ourselves. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, “My gosh, I am ashamed to be a human being”!! Personally, I am thrilled to death that animals seem to like to hang around me, after all of the bad press we humans get, if I was an animal, I wouldn’t want to hang around humans!!!

Well, that said, back to why I really started this post today! I think that animals, if you watch them for just a few minutes, can be the funniest creatures on this earth. They are just like humans in the respect that they have such strong and different personalities, each and every one of them. It’s not like, you’ve seen one dog you’ve seen them all, or monkey, or cat, or any other animal. And they do the goofiest things! I know, we humans do, but for some reason animals never fail to make me laugh with the things that they do and their habits!

I have had animals all of my life, much to many to mention! But when thinking this morning about spending some quality time with the one’s that I have now it got me thinking about some of the ones I’ve had in the past. My animals have ALWAYS been some real loo loo’s! So many of my friends have commented on how I Never Fail to attract the weiderest animals in the world! I wonder if that should tell me something?

The first one that I vividly remember was “Taffy”, my taffy colored cocker spaniel! I was so little when I got her as a birthday present and “Taffy” was just as little as I was! I was never much for playing with dolls, no, I liked to do more… boy things, and trust me when I tell you, it was not because I was a tom-boy! Oh no, there has never been a doubt in Anyone’s mind that I was anything but All Female! It has carried on throughout my entire life that way, today I am still the same way! But when “Taffy” came along she brought out the “mother” in me! I use to put a pink baby bonnet on her and put her in my baby buggy and stroll her down the street!! Well, “Taffy” really wanted nothing to do with this, oh no!!! But “Taffy” had something else that was Her Favorite thing to do! We would get a few steps down the sidewalk, “Taffy” would invariably jump out, run behind me, and pull down my cute little underpants!!!!!! I would scream at her that she was a bad girl and with one hand trying pull up my underpants and the other one grabbing her and putting her back in the buggy here we would take off again. After a couple of steps, “Taffy” would jump out, run around behind me and pull down my underpants again, over and over the same thing! Never changing! Me being to stubborn to stop strolling her and her being to stubborn to stop pulling down my underpants!! What a site to behold the two of us were!! Did I mention by the way, we lived on a very kid friendly street, there were always tons of kids out playing when “Taffy” and I would take our “little strolls”!

A few of my other more memorable animals that I vividly remember are;

Amos Moses, he was a parakeet, he use to sit on his perch and for no reason at all, just fall off!!! The first few times I thought he was dead!! And then he would scare the life out of me when he would get up, dust himself off, get back on the perch and fall off again! Personally, I think he was much safer on the ground, but you couldn’t tell him that!!

Then there was “Trouble”, he was a pretty, grey, cat, He seemed to have problems staying conscious! Where I lived there was a glass bedroom door that I would keep it closed during the day so that I wouldn’t have to go animal chasing all of the time under the bed. Trouble would always run across the house as fast as he could and run into the glass door, trying, I assume to get under the bed!!! He would invariably hit the glass door and knock himself out!! He knew the door was there, goodness knows he ran into it enough! I eventually had to give up leaving the door closed, I was afraid he would get more brain damaged than he already was!!

“Whimpy”, was my tea cup poodle that full grown would fit into the palm of my hand, he would walk, but he couldn’t walk normally, he had to whimper when he walked! I thought at first he was in pain, I took him to the vet several times, the doctor always told me he was fine, nothing wrong, he just liked to whimper, thus the name “Whimpy”! “Whimpy” I suppose was just fine, he lived to be a ripe old age, which is extremely rare for that particular breed of dog! So, I guess the Vet. was right!

Penelope, my cute little rat! She didn’t need a “wheel” to run around in, she would be on the floor or table and just run constantly around in circles! The only time she would stop is when she was held or asleep in her cage!! No wonder she was so dizzy!!

Then there was “Dropje” or “Dropie”, (the Dutch word for licorice, she was jet black, just like licorice)! She did to many things to mention but the one’s that stick out in my mind so much is she loved to go washer and dryer riding!!! She would get on the washer when it spun, front legs hanging down with this “Cheshire Cat” smile and ride it out “baby”! When that would stop, and the clothes were in the dryer, up she would go to have her “dryer ride”!!

There are many more stories I could tell, too many to mention! Today I have “Teddy” a knee high Heinz 57, dog, and “HeeShee”, (D.C., Devil Cat), anything that those 2 do is weird and funny! HeeShee I got when he was 7 weeks old, he was such a sweet, innocent, little “Angel”, that would fall asleep in the palm of my hand all of the time. OH MY GOODNESS, HOW THAT HAS CHANGED!! I swear that cat is the Devil’s Child”! I have Never seen anything get into so much in my life! He keeps me hopping constantly! And Poor “Teddy”, he is old, and “HeeShee”, being the young cat that he is, just runs circles around “Teddy” all of the time! I’ve had “Teddy” for many years and I heard that he did not have the greatest childhood. So, everyone that knows “Teddy”, knows that he is “timid” and a “wimp”! So, even though he is the oldest, “HeeShee” is definitely the boss. Fortunately they like each other and tend to get into mischief together constantly! Where you see one, you see the other!

Well, that’s enough for now about a few of my unusual pets and the strange habits they have/had! I hope you enjoyed some of these stories. If any of you have a story that you would like to share about your loved pet or any other animal, I’d love to hear from you!

I hope that all of you enjoy your week-end; I will be back on Monday, hopefully!!

Hi everybody!

I’m going to try to make this a little lighter reading today, after all, some of my readers are a little on the older side and the last couple of days have been a little taxing on the brain for them, you know who you are, so I’m going to try and make this REAL EASY for you today!

Speaking of getting older, in the recent past, at least I think it was recent, I’m having a little problem with my memory these days, a sure sign you are either getting older or the friends you keep are beginning to effect you, I tend to think it is the latter!!

Anyway, where was I?…Oh yes! In the past, (recent or otherwise), I have been feeling old, I mean REALLY OLD, and I suppose that it is not only my memory loss and short sidedness, thus rendering me almost helpless when it comes to putting my make-up on, but it is the “younger generation” that has started making me feel old.

I Never in my life thought that I would be referring to anyone but me when I said the words “younger generation”, but I have been forced to realize that I am no longer a part of that society!!! I have “moved on” so to speak, and about the only place for me to “move on” to from here is the old folks home or Belview, which ever has the first available space!

Why do I feel old you might ask. Well, recently, (?), I have been finding myself in conversations with various “younger generation” people and much as I do not know what in the world they are talking about they do not know what I am talking about either!!! It is like we are speaking a foreign language to each other!

Now, I know that you may argue, I am speaking a “foreign”, (non-English), language, given where I live, but I am not talking about “foreign” language in the literal sense, I am talking about “foreign” language in the not being on the same wave length sense. Not being on the same wave length is putting it mildly, try not being on the same planet!

I’ll give you an example. Recently, now I do know that this was recent, it was last Saturday, I looked it up on my Big Wall Calendar, much easier to see these days, when I had my un-expected visitors, my grown nephew was here, as part of the visitors, and we share a very special bond, we are always the ones, when we are in a room together with a lot of people, we gravitate to each other, you can always find us in the corner talking about something, well Saturday, he and I, his parents and a couple of others were discussing music. And his parents and I were talking about the “old” days and the recording artists that we loved so much, we had heard about Sting and his upcoming tour and that sparked off the rest of the conversation, when we started naming some of the greats of our time. Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Steppenwolf, (not quite sure of the spelling), Elton John, Eric Clapton and the list goes on, but I think you get the general time frame that I am talking about, IF You are old enough, if not you might as well stop reading this now because I’ve already lost you and I don’t have enough years left to explain it to you!

Where was I? Oh Yes! We were discussing these artists and groups and the “boy” had no idea who half of these people were!!! Never heard of some of them, he thought I had a cat named Stephen, and that somebody named James needed a tailor!! I was floored! Now my nephew, is not a baby or a child by any stretch of the imagination, he is a full grown man of over 7 feet tall!! (you should see us dancing together, my being 5′1 3/4″ tall and he over 7 foot makes us quite the unusual, for lack of a better word, couple, to say the least)! So he is a man, but has no idea who half of these people are, they were before his time, he barely knows who Elton John is!!!! And forget the Beatles!! They didn’t have music back in the dinosaur’s day, don’t you know!!

So obviously, when we started talking about L.P.’s and 45’s he certainly didn’t know what we were talking about, and if any of you don’t know, don’t worry about it, it’s over now!! Well, he had, in the past seen an L.P. because growing up in his parents house they did have a few old ones lying around, but never a 45, and get this, he thought I was making up a story when I mentioned a 78!!!!! But that is probably to old for most of you! In all honesty, I must admit, it is too old for me too, but, I have seen them, when I was a little girl, my parents had 3 or 4 old 78’s down in the basement, my Daddy would get one out, once in a while, of Fats Domino, (I know you young whipper snappers, don’t know who that is either!), and play it a couple of times before lovingly putting it back in it’s box down stairs!

Oh great! You also know you are getting old when you start using phrases like “young whipper snappers”!!!!

As our music history lesson went on Saturday, he didn’t remember the 8 track tape, of course, 8 track tape? he didn’t remember Any tapes, cassette, reel to reel the whole works! Just about the time I got up to the CD’s his memory started becoming clearer!!!

And the more clear his memory became, the less clear mine seemed to be!

So now, I can see, that I have to accept the fact that I am not a part of the “younger generation” any more, I’m not one of those “young whipper snappers” that my grandfather use to speak about, I have instead become part of another “generation”…

The Over the Hill Gang!!

For those of you that don’t remember who they are…Don’t worry about it!!!

Old Sometimers!!

Welcome back!!!

After stirring up such a hornets nest yesterday I will be surprised if I have any readers today! And after today, I might never have any more readers because I probably am going to stir up the hornets nest again!!

This morning I read this headline:

Court to terror suspects:
You have no rights

As it turns out, yesterday, the Federal Appeals Court ruled that the 400 terror suspects detainees that are locked up by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay have no rights to challenge their detention. The reason given for this decision is that The Constitution does not confer rights on non-citizens being held outside the United States.

Being an American myself, I have had it bored into my brain all of my life that you are innocent until proven guilty, and, although I don’t live in the United States any more, I do get news from there, and unless I am mistaken and this has changed while I have been away then this strikes me as being very weird to say the least!

I do know that by being a human being there comes some certainties, and one of those, is prejudgment. All of us prejudge sometimes, before we have all of the facts. It’s not what we are suppose to do but we do it anyway, right or wrong!

I also know, that there has been a large number of detainees that have been released and said to be innocent of the crimes that they have been charged of. And, I personally do not doubt that there will be others released in the future.

My problem with this ruling yesterday is 2 fold.

#1; there are people being held for crimes that they may not have committed, (past experience tells us that), and we as Americans always pride ourselves on our Justice System as being the Greatest in the World! But what type of system is it that allows people to be “kidnapped” and “held against their will” all in the name of Justice, and not be given a fair and impartial trial? We, as American’s have an inherited right to a fair and speedy trial, we have a right to be brought up in a court of law, before a jury of our peers to defend ourselves against charges made against us. We have a right to try to prove ourselves innocent beyond any reasonable doubt. Because we are Americans and because we have the Greatest Justice System in the World!

Now, we are telling the world, that it is alright that we “kidnap” people and “hold them against their will”, and take them to a foreign country of which they are not citizens and because they are not citizens, they do not have any rights to defend themselves!

And the 2nd problem is that they quoted The Constitution about not conferring rights on non-citizens being held OUTSIDE the United States. They are being held at Guantanamo Bay for heaven sakes!

Please, correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t Guantanamo Bay a small piece of land, that is a military base, on the island of Cuba that is Owned by the United States? I have heard many times in my life that it is. I have heard, I don’t know how many times, that the soldiers guard it from foreign invaders and that every day they let Cuban workers pass through their piece of property after showing identification and the proper legal papers, visas or whatever is needed to be on that little piece of the United States’ property. The United States, as long as I have been alive, has been very proud of their piece of property, Guantanamo Bay, (Gitmo), Cuba. If Guitmo is the property of the United States then the argument of not conferring rights on non-citizens being held Outside the United States is not a valid ruling, because clearly if the United States does own Gitmo then the detainees are not Outside of the United States are they?

If Gitmo is Not American property, but in fact, Cuban then why are the American soldiers allowed to be there and occupy the property with a Military Base no less? Why are they allowed to check identification papers and have a say as to who passes through if it is not part of the United States? And if it is not part of the United States, then why hasn’t the Cuban government stepped in and #1 either kicked the Americans out or put them in jail for trespassing and # 2 gone over and released all of the detainees?

Please do not tell me it is because Fidel Castro is such a fan of Americans and loves the President and his cabinet so much that he is not releasing the detainees out of respect! I don’t buy it!

So, according to yesterdays ruling from the Federal Appeals Court we have taught the world what?

1. That it is ok for Americans to “kidnap” foreigners and take them to a country that does not belong to The United States, but that they are squatting on, and imprison them and take away all of their rights because they are not Americans and are imprisoned on foreign soil.
2. It is ok to break the law if you are an American.
3. We have claimed squatters rights and we will steel any piece of property we can get our hands on.
4. That due process of law only pertains to the privileged few.
5. And that Fidel Castro is Really Pro American!

I would say that all in all that was a day well spent, wouldn’t you? We have once again proven to the world how incredibly stupid we are and just how arrogant we can be!

And, I suppose I am really a stupid American because I am still here asking, if it’s not in the United States… then where the hell is Gitmo?

That’s it for me today, I need to rest after taxing my stupid American brain so much! Hope to see you again tomorrow, with some more hornets nest, (NOT)!

Alaaf!

For those of you that do not know what that means, which is probably everybody that isn’t Dutch or everyone that is not living in Holland, it is a word that has been heard so many times in the last couple of days and will be heard often for a few more days, it is the traditional greeting during Carnival.

But here in Holland we do not have the beautiful half naked men and women of Rio nor do we have the famous Mardi Gras beads of New Orleans, here we have fools!!! Yes you read right, whoever is the biggest fool, and they have their own cabinet too, just like any good political party, is named Fool of Carnival and this very prestigious title is theirs to keep for an entire year or until they die of embarrassment whichever comes first. Personally, I wouldn’t have the title long, I would die of embarrassment in no time and my underling would have to take on my duties! But there are some that are REALLY, REALLY into this, that is an entire other story!!!

My story today, and I have a feeling that I am really going to regret this, is about the things that people do, during Carnival/Mardi Gras or whatever else you wish to call it.

For those of you that don’t know, it is basically a Christian celebration, although of course everyone wants to get into the act. This is the time, before Lent, that you are suppose to get the bad all out of your system so that you can go into Lent for the next 6 weeks and sacrifice some of the things that you like. It leads up to Easter and the sacrifice that Jesus made for all humanity. NO RELIGIOUS DISCUSSIONS PLEASE, I DO NOT DISCUSS RELIGION OR POLITICS. I only mention this as a point of reference as to what Mardi Gras/Carnival is for.

It is a well know fact that people go out of their way to do sinful things during this time. Some use it as an excuse to “sin”, you want to do something that is bad blame it on Mardi Gras/Carnival!

Stealing, infidelity, gluttony, hatred, maiming and killing are only the tip of the iceberg. If it is done during Mardi Gras/Carnival time many feel that it is perfectly alright to do it. After all, during Lent you are going to be asking for forgiveness and sacrificing some of the things that you love all in the name of religion. Whom ever your “God” may be, he/she is an all forgiving “God” and he/she will surely forgive us our trespasses!

And that very well may be! I don’t know. I haven’t died and met “God” yet to really know what happens after death. BUT…!!!

Do the things that are done during Mardi Gras/Carnival really get forgiven? Are people really sorry that they have done these things, or are they just going through the motions of “Being good religious people”? Asking for forgiveness from a higher power, asking for forgiveness from their fellow human beings?

If we go out and do something on purpose just because it is Mardi Gras/Carnival, and we premeditate what we are going to do, and then we do it because it is that time of the year that we can do it and not only get away with it and be “forgiven” for what we do, but also have a “perfectly valid” excuse for what we do, then do we really get forgiven?

If I know that on February 20, 2008, at 10:00 that night I am going to begin a 4 hour love fest with my neighbor’s husband, and I look forward to it for this entire year then when I ask for forgiveness, am I truly ashamed and want to be forgiven? Or, am I only going through the ritual of asking for forgiveness, just to be on the safe side, just in case there is “Something” on the other side when I pass on?

I have planned it, which is a sin, I have looked forward to it, which is a sin, I have lusted in my mind and in my heart, which is a sin, and then I do the deed, which is certainly a sin, then I decide to ask for forgiveness but… does it really count?

Hi!

How was your week-end? Hopefully better than mine!

You know how sometimes things just seem to go so well, you have that Midas Touch with everything? Well, Saturday was Not one of those days! Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong! Little things, but just enough to run you crazy! I chased my tail all day and got nothing accomplished!

Light bulbs out, yes, I had to get the ladder out 2 times to change lightbulbs. I have a fear of ladders!!

I broke 4 glasses in a row and cut my hand!

I Burned food, (believe me when I tell you this, I NEVER BURN FOOD!!!), I don’t know what it is to burn food! I have been cooking so long that I can do it in my sleep!

Washing machine acted like a real fool, wouldn’t spin! Finally after resetting it 3 times and taking half a day I got a load of laundry done!

HeeShee, (D.C.), the devils child cat, decides at 3:00 in the afternoon that he no longer likes fish!! I had to get out late Saturday afternoon and go to the VERY BUSY grocery store to get him food for the week-end. For 2 little cans of cat food it cost me 1 hour and 15 minutes!!! Most of Holland is closed up tight after about 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, so if you don’t get it by then, then you don’t get it until Monday!

And the list just goes on and on, I think you get the picture!!

I thought, “I should just go and bury my head in my pillow under the covers”, and just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, company shows up, unannounced!!! (This is something that gets on my last nerve)! To make matters worse, they bring their grown kids!! It’s not that I don’t like these people and their kids, I truly do, in fact I love them, I just don’t love them unannounced!!

It’s like Murphy’s Law, if anything can go wrong it will go wrong, and it never fails, with me, it is 3 fold!!! I have had a way, all of my life, of being a walking disaster! Most people that know, me tend to want to stay away from me to prevent strange things from happening to them!! I really do seem to rub off on them!!

So, after the cat/grocery store disaster, late in the afternoon, I am thinking, maybe I can get just a little bit done before sitting down and indulging on my magnificently burned dinner! Just as I sit down, the doorbell rings and “Oh Goodie”, I’ve got company!!!!

Since it’s been such a horrible day, what else can go wrong? And of course after the day I’ve had, I look like I’ve been hit by the “UGLY TRUCK!!!! Hair pinned up and sticking out all over the place, sweat pants with a tee shirt all hanging out, no shoes, make-up everywhere on my face except where it is suppose to be, lipstick on my eyebrows, blush on my eyelids, mascara all over my face from rubbing my face and almost crying over the situation all day! Oh Yeah, aren’t they glad to see ME??

Let’s not forget, it’s late, so not only do I have unannounced company, I have them at dinner time!! Burned dinner time!!! I have nothing else to offer them, everything is frozen and I did not stop at the bank on the way home and of course I did not overdraw money at the super market!! Why should I, I had everything I needed and everything is closed on Sunday, so I don’t need xtra money!!! I can’t even buy these people a hot dog!!!

As it turns out, they had already eaten, or so they said!! I still have my doubts, I know these people very well and I know what time they generally eat, and it’s not that early!! When they leave I think, “I still have time to salvage part of the day”, ever optimist that I am!!

I walk over to the computer, click on my mail and I see a letter from a friend of mine, I get some very disturbing news about his mother, CAN THIS DAY GET ANY WORSE? A few minutes later, after responding to his letter, I turned off the computer, ate my burned dinner and gave it up for the day!!! And to my friend, I would just like to say; you are in my thoughts and remember to keep busy!!

That’s why I ask… Did you Ever have One of Those Days?

Let’s plan on a better week, shall we?

TGIF!

Well, I don’t mind telling you, this has been a very strange week for us hasn’t it? From love to hate, with Valentine’s Day to abuse, and from life to death, with will it kill us or make us all better if we take a nap, we’ve had it all!

Since I am not here on the week-ends, unless it would be something Really Enormous, I thought maybe I should lead us into the week-end with an unusual facts & oddities day, nothing like a little laughter to get you through that last Grueling day of work before it is fun, fun, fun for a couple of days!

I’ve come across these unusual facts & oddities in my daily routines, they are in no particular order so, lets get started!

1. Henry Smith, was arrested moments after returning home with a stolen stereo. His error was having tattooed on his forehead in large capital letters the words “Henry Smith.” His lawyer told the court: “My client is not a very bright young man.”!
2. A very intelligent would be bomber, rang police to deliver a bomb threat, but became so agitated about the mounting cost of the call that he began screaming “Call me back!” and left his phone number!!
3. This smart gentleman used as his getaway vehicle a van with his name and phone number painted in foot-high letters on the side!!!
4. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Till that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.!!!!
5. A hunter, who was also a poacher, shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock — and was killed instantly when it fell on him!!!!!
6. A 9-year-old boy in Virginia received a one-day suspension under his elementary school’s drug policy last week – for Certs! He allegedly told a classmate that the mints would make him “jump higher.”And a student in West Virginia was suspended for three days for giving a classmate a cough drop. The school principal reiterated the school’s “zero-tolerance” policy…not to be confused with the “zero-intelligence” policy!!!!!!
7. A man in Italy was hospitalized after swallowing 46 teaspoons, 2 cigarette lighters, and a pair of salad tongs!!!!!!!
8. A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job. According to Industrial Machinery News, the film’s depiction of gory industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling off a chair while watching the film!!!!!!!!
9. A man in Johannesburg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans off each other’s head!!!!!!!!!
   And last but certainly not least!!
10. A suffering man mistook a tube of superglue for his hemorrhoid cream and glued his buttocks together!!!!!!!!!!

Well, that’s all for Sage’s Unicorn! this week, hope these unusual facts & oddities have started your week-end off with a bang! Hope you have a really great one! See you next week, I hope!

Hi All!

How was everyone’s Valentine’s Day? I hope that everyone had a very romantic day with their Valentine!

I think that it is so wonderful to have a day, set aside, just to let loved one’s know just how special they really are! When you are with someone, you know you are special to them but to be asked to be someone’s Valentine, even if you have been with that special someone for years, is truly a heart warming moment!

I was reading the blog The Silent K yesterday and I think that she summed it up best when she said;

“…and a hand written valentine from the silent husband formally requesting that I be his valentine. I love that even after almost 4 years of marriage he still doesn’t assume he is my valentine.”

Isn’t that all any of us want, really? To be loved and respected by the people that we love an respect? Doesn’t that give us a sense of fulfillment in our lives? When things aren’t going so well, to know that there is that one, special, someone, that we can fall back on, for a hug, a shoulder to cry on or maybe an ever open ear that we can voice our opinions to and not be judged. Not a person that necessarily agrees with you, but understands you, and what your needs are at the time, and is willing to step up and be there for you just when you need them the most. To have someone that values you and your opinions and doesn’t take you for granted, “he still doesn’t assume he is my valentine”, is truly a warm and wonderful feeling that I hope all of you share.

I get so distressed when I read in the paper and see on the television about abusive relationships. Horrible abuse that is suffered by some at the hands of what is suppose to be their “loved ones”, their “Valentines”. The feeling of inadequacy, inferiority, self loathing and fear that these people must endure every single day is beyond my comprehension. I do not understand how you can profess to “love” someone and treat them with such disrespect such hatefulness. The people that do these horrible acts must, in their own thoughts, be horribly inadequate, inferior and full of self loathing and fear also, they would have to be, they would have to think that they must get the upper hand in the relationship and force someone to love them!

These peoples’ brains don’t work the same as “normal”, whatever that may be, peoples’ do. “Normal” people know that abusing someone does not make them love you, it makes them fear you and fear never brings about love. Abusers know that the only way that their abused partners will stay with them is out of fear. Fear of being hurt or in many cases, fear of someone the abused really does love being hurt. Control is what the abuser must have in order to sustain a “loving” relationship.

If these people only knew the amount of hate that is felt towards them by not only their partners but by all that are around them, wouldn’t you think that they would try to change? Makes you wonder what goes on in these abusers minds. Don’t they see other couples, truly loving couples, and the bond that these loving couples share with each other. I mean, just because there is something mentally wrong with these abusers doesn’t mean that they are blind!

Personally I think that they are afraid to try to change. I think that is what the entire problem is in the first place. FEAR. Fear of being alone, empty, unloved, hated even and they will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening. I think that they are afraid that if they change and give up control, then they give up the only constant in their life. After all, what is the only thing that is worse than FEAR?

THE UNKNOWN!

That’s it for Sage’s Unicorn! today! I’ll see you again tomorrow, I hope! Have a good day, and try to make every day “Valentine’s Day” for your “Special Someone” I think you’ll find you’re both much happier and fulfilled individuals!

SAGE’S UNICORN! WISHES YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! AND REMEMBER THE ONLY 3 RULES YOU NEED !

1.) BE ROMANTIC!

2.) BE ROMANTIC!

3.) BE ROMANTIC!

See you tomorrow, I hope!