A 19 yr old member of P.E.T.A. legally changed his name to Kentuckyfriedcruelty.com to protest KFC.

the original road pirates!

Our Values Under Attack

Lol look what hill sent out today

Dear Friend,

I've made my New Year's resolutions. Next year, I am resolved to work harder than ever to get our country back on the right direction once again.

I am resolved to keep speaking out about my disagreements with this administration and their congressional allies: a budget that cuts back on health care, education, and even child support enforcement to make room for additional tax cuts for the wealthiest among us. Cronyism and incompetence that weaken the social fabric of our nation. A secret program that spies on Americans!

The values that made America in the 20th century not just the economic leader of the world, but the moral leader of the world are under attack today.

The 2006 elections offer the best opportunity we have to change the direction of our country. With a critical December 31st deadline fast approaching, I hope you'll help.

https://contribute.hillaryclinton.com/form.html?sc=1027

I am determined to wage a strong, successful campaign in 2006. I'm going to keep fighting for New York - fighting against budgets that hurt New York's working families - and speaking out for policies that are true to America's values: policies that will make our nation stronger, safer and smarter. Economic policies that strengthen the middle class. National security policies that tell the truth and level with the American people.

We are going to set an example in the Senate race in New York with a positive campaign built on progressive Democratic principles.

Thank you for your friendship and support, and my very best wishes for the New Year.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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RFD...what is it?

Rural free delivery. Thats what rfd stands for!

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. - Buddy Hackett
lol :)

ahh Cap'n Faye...how i miss thee...

Well last night I had another dream bout cap'n faye.

It was the last show and i had gone with my aunt and danielle (from work??) and leslie too. The show was great!! (DAH) Then after it was over, a few people followed the rules and went where they were supposed to go for the m/g. However, a TON of peeps went runnin onstage and thru the back way to line up for the m/g to see faye too. It was a madhouse. We (the road pirates) go back and theres a zillion people in line so we just kinda hang out and wait.

Anyway after all the people leave or dissapper (this is a dream remember lol) faye comes out and says 'how do u like my hair?' she had cut it rreeeeeall short. Like very very short. Anyway i went over to her and rubbed her hair and said 'i like it! I did that once when i was in the sixth grade!' she said 'you did?' i said 'yeah! Remember when parachute pants were super cool and jazz shoes and those checkerboard shirts with no sleeves?' she said 'oh yes i definitely remember then...'

Then i was like 'wheres lindz and everyone??' we couldnt find them so i asked if i could bring my people back and faye said 'of course!' i started to go get them but i had this overwhelming feeling of sadness. I ran over to faye and said 'OMG im gonna miss you sooo much!!!' then i gave her a huge hug and started to cry. She hugged back and said 'i'm gonna miss you so much too!' we hugged and cried for a few minutes then i tried to compose myself and i ran out to get my peeps. I went out where they were but i couldnt find them so i had to search around til i located them and took them back.

When we got back, faye had papers in her hand. Apparently they were all the checks (?) that we had written to her for whatever during our travels. I was like 'whats this??' she said 'you don't think i'm gonna take your money do you?' they were for all of the rp's. It was so sweet of her. I gave her another hug and told her how much i loved her and she said 'well i love u too' She said she adored how dedicated we were. Then i looked around for lindz again and we saw thru a crack in a door that her and two other rp's were in these crazy royal blue can-can dresses/gowns. Then i remembered they were gonna surprise faye with a surprise performance. I said 'OOOH YEAH! I remember lol' faye wondered what i was talkin about and i said 'i cant tell the secret or they'll kill me!' then i woke up lol...

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier errors worldwide.

bonhomie : Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for December 29 is: bonhomie

\bah-nuh-MEE\ noun : good-natured, easy, friendliness

Example sentence: We look forward every year to champagne and eggs benedict, served up with plenty of bonhomie, at our friend's annual New Year's Day brunch.

Did you know? English speakers adapted "bonhomie" from the French "bonhomme," which means "good-natured man" and which is itself a composite of two other French words: "bon," meaning "good," and "homme," meaning "man." That French compound traces to two Latin terms, "bonus" (meaning "good") and "homo" (meaning either "man" or "human being"). English speakers have warmly embraced the French term and its meaning, but we have also anglicized the pronunciation in a way that may make native French speakers cringe. (We hope they will be good-natured about it!) At this festive time of year, "bonhomie" is also sometimes used to mean "an atmosphere of good cheer," so you might say a merry family party has a "holiday bonhomie."

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

Maown Butter = fancy asian butter served at Logans Roadhouse

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.>

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed tobe the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides w/their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ^ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote.

"the best of all gifts around any tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."_Burton Hills

Festivus!

What can you tell me about the holiday of Festivus?

Oh Festivus, oh Festivus, how calming is your aluminum pole. Doesn't have quite the ring of Tannenbaum, but Festivus isn't as commercialized either. That's the idea, at least. Festivus is a fictional holiday created by a sitcom dad to combat the shopping-crazed turn of Christmas. This anti-holiday premiered in a 1997 episode of "Seinfeld." Frank Costanza, father of Seinfeld's pal George, invented Festivus one winter. Costanza became disillusioned with Christmas after fighting to buy a doll for his son as a Christmas gift. Instead of buying lots of presents and hanging "very distracting" tinsel everywhere, Festivus is celebrated around a bare pole with a family meal, featuring the Airing of Grievances and followed by Feats of Strength. The holiday is complete when the head of the household has been wrestled and pinned to the floor. "Seinfeld" writer Daniel O'Keefe added the holiday as a plot device in the TV show, but it was his father who truly created Festivus in 1966. At the original Festivus holidays, the family aired their grievances into a tape recorder and held wrestling matches. The grievance recording may have been inspired by a Samuel Beckett play. O'Keefe Sr. also wrote a sociology book on cults and social pressures, and his research may have influenced Festivus. Now that you know the roots of the traditions, you can relax, pour a glass of Festivus wine, and get ready to rumble.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through. - Author Unknown

The heart goes home at Christmas, across the miles and years. -Alice Leedy Mason

The ground on which we stand is sacred ground... It is the blood of our ancestors... ~Native American Saying

Last Minute Shopping...

Well Im off to do my last minute christmas shopping. i PRAY i can finish it this morning! (Ive gotta get out of bed first lmao) anyway, i think im mostly done, well sorta but not really. we'll see. anyway wish me luck!! i hope because its only thurs that maybe alot of people are still at work today and it wont be as big of a zoo as it will be tomorrow. amazingly my insomnia hasnt been bad since i went to my moms. maybe it did help me relax to go up there :) YAY... magpie has been wearin her tshirt the past few days cuz she gets so chilled. aww...oh last night we went and got a tree. something strange is going on in this area and they have some kind of ban on live trees i think. normally every year EVERYONE has christmas trees for sale (live ones). you know, like in grocery store parking lots, out in random fields, in church yards etc...this year....nothing. the only place ive seen them is at like nursery's where they sell plants all the dang time lmao. anyway, we got a stupid fake one against my better judgement but it was cheap and it will only be up a few days this year because of our schedules... we didnt get many ornaments. im hoping i can find a few more today, les was acting so strange last night. i think she had natural gas poisoning. her job was leaking gas and they kept them locked in the room working instead of letting them out. she was kinda spaced out all night last nite lol. anyway, im gonna get movin...talk to ya soon via my right hand...(lmao my cell phone. i would die without it!)

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

This is SOOO TRUE!!
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoover

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary

"Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)" -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James

From middle age on, everything of interest is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. - Alexander Woollcott

Maggie and me - Christmas pic

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Plato

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

Today is the shortest day of the year, with only 9hours day light- and the first day of winter.

You claim she's an open book, but you don't know which page to turn to, do you?- Cake

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. -George Burns

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Sir Winston Churchill

The inventor of Lincoln Logs, John Lloyd Wright, is the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The original Mr. Potato Head didnt come w/a "potato body" so parents supplied their own potatoes 4 face-changing fun.

Barbie's middle name is Millicent and her last name is Roberts. Barbie's parents names are George and Margaret.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois

A man at a tool-and-die company died today when he was hit by a tool. - George Carlin

Stuck on the tarmac with the magpie. The right engine wouldnt start. So theyre tryin to fix it. *crossin fingers*

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. - Richard Bach

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~ Freya Madeline Stark

Maggie and rhett and laddie just had their christmas pix made.

Me and maggie r wrappin presents and watchin napoleon d

I just had a dream about lmp. She was having this concert and it was somewhere in cali. It was this huge arena that was painted light green. It was really big (3 levels) but it was really narrow. It was weird too cuz up close to the stage there were booths like at a restaraunt. Anyway, me lindz kelly lil lisa and sherri from high school??? Were there waitin for the show at one of the booths by the stage...we had all these weird random books on the table. we were all talkin about how cool lmp was and there were these weird stupid guys at thetable behind us. We were just about to fight with them when lisa came out. The stage was like in the opening to a tunnel. She was singing idiot in one part and all of the 'rp's started jumping like she does. She started cracking up. Then she was upset cuz not everyone got to the front so she went offstage and p came and told us to wait a certain amount of time and then to come back to the stage so we would be in front. So we did. In the interim lindz almost fought those guys agaain. She busted out her pix and started tellin em how stupid they were. Then we went back and lisa came back out. She was singing and the sat down and started talkin to us kinda in the tunnel where people couldnt see her. Later on she said to make sure 'sun progams' were turned off cuz those made us invisible.p made a special group for the 'rp's so we could communicate online. Then we just chilled. Then all of a sudden i went backstage and went to the fridge trying to find hippo food. The scary bodyguard yelled at me and lmp yelled at him. I explained that i was only looking for baby hippo food. Then on the side of the stage was a baby hippo that i had been raising. She looked like a dog but was a hippo. The i went to find food in this other room and the door was closed but this big giant grizzly bear busted in and grabbed me and rolled me over and tried to play. I screamed for help and lmp came in and said why is he out!?!? And saved me. Then i wokeup.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. --James Oppenheim

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. - Unknown

ailurophile: M-W's Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for December 16 is:

ailurophile \eye-LOOR-uh-fyle\ noun
: a cat fancier : a lover of cats

Example sentence:
Bill, the office ailurophile, could often be heard talking about his cats, Smokey, Twinkle, and Lucy, as if they were his children.

Did you know?
Although the word "ailurophile" has only been documented in English since the 1920s, ailurophiles have been around for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians were perhaps history's greatest cat lovers, pampering and adorning felines, honoring them in art, even treating them as gods. But the English word "ailurophile" does not descend from Egyptian; rather, it comes from a combination of the Greek word "ailouros," which means "cat," and the suffix "-phile," meaning "lover." If Egyptian cat-loving sentiments leave you cold and you're more sympathetic to medieval Europeans, who regarded cats as wicked agents of evil, you might prefer the word "ailurophobe" (from "ailouros" plus "-phobe," meaning "fearing or averse to").

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. - Phillip Brooks

Housework can't kill you, but why take the chance? - Phyllis Diller

lexmark printers are slloooooooooow

ok so is it just me or do lexmark printers take freakin forever? my mom's old printer was a lexmark and it took 2 days to print anything and now this is her new printer that i just reinstalled the stuff on and its taking forever too. for example...its taken like 15 minutes to print this one page. its not even a picture. something else thats weird...i cant see what im typing until i stop typing then it shows up lol so please excuse my typos as syd would say.

straaaaaaaaannnngee....

its warmed up alittle bit from this morning...it sure is nice to be "home" so to speak. i miss my mom tons. rhett has arthritis in his rear right leg

:( poor baby. I am glad i finished most of their christmas shopping. i found this really cool coat we're gonna go look at in the morning its regular 75 bucks and its on sale for 25. http://www.anstores.com/anstores/index.jsp <--- thats where its at. i added a pic of a similar jacket, but i dont see it so i dont know if it will show up. anyway im almost thru waiting on my printout of groceries we have to get tomorrow so ill close this post. . talk to ya when i feel like posting again :)

brrr

Its really cold up here in fredericksburg today. it started snowing this morning and snowed for alot of the morning. then it sleeted and now its just raining. :/ im still really sleepy. i went to bed at like 7pm last night cuz i didnt sleep at all the night before lmao. oh well life goes on huh :) we went and did some shopping today. yay i found my moms present too! and a few others too. we went to eat at the yankee mexican place too. (pancho villa's) lol...ok talk to ya later~

sleet and snow in VA

Well my mom and I were out doing stuff in the snow and its changed to sleet....u cant really tell tho it looks like rain lol :)

When the world seems to be on your ass get out of the fast lane. Unknown

He who hesitates is probably driving the car in front of you. - Unknown

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
-Will Rogers

Well i just boarded the plane to see mom. Magpie is doin great. We have our own row. Talk to ya when we get there!

Why is there a "33" on Rolling Rock beer labels?

The following is according to James L. Tito, who at one time was chief executive officer of Latrobe Brewing, the maker of Rolling Rock beer.

Mr. Tito's family owned Latrobe from the end of Prohibition until the company was sold to an outfit in Connecticut in 1985. After some prompting, he told me the sordid truth.

Based on some old notes and discussions with family members now dead, Mr. Tito believes that putting the 33 on the label was nothing more or less than a horrible accident. It happened like this:

When the Titos decided to introduce the Rolling Rock brand around 1939, they couldn't agree on a slogan for the back of the bottle. Some favored a long one, some a short one. At length somebody came up with the 33-word beauty quoted above, and to indicate its modest length, scribbled a big "33" on it.

More argument ensued, until finally somebody said, dadgummit, boys, let's just use this one and be done with it, and sent the 33-word version off to the bottle maker.

Unfortunately, no one realized that the big 33 wasn't supposed to be part of the design until 50 jillion returnable bottles had been made up with the errant label painted permanently on their backsides. (I suppose this bespeaks a certain inattentiveness on the part of the Tito family, but I am telling you this story just as it was told to me.)


This being the Depression and all, the Titos were in no position to throw out a lot of perfectly good bottles. So they decided to make the best of things by concocting a yarn about how the 33 stood for the year Prohibition was repealed.

In retrospect, this was a stroke of marketing genius. Next to cereal boxes, beer labels are probably the most thoroughly scrutinized artifacts in all of civilization, owing to the propensity of beer drinkers to stare morosely at them at three o'clock in the morning.

The Rolling Rock "33" has baffled beer lovers for generations, and accordingly has become the stuff of barroom legend. I have letters claiming that the number has something to do with a satanic ritual, that it was the age of Christ when he died, even that it signifies the number of glass-lined tanks in the Latrobe plant.

How long is a goldfish's memory?

Many, including this BBC Goldfish Quiz, believe goldfish have only a three-second memory. Alas, this is incorrect. Nevertheless, we were interested to learn that if you keep a goldfish in a dark room it eventually turns white, and the correct term for a pregnant goldfish is "twit."

The Mad Scientist notes that if you tap on the tank before feeding your goldfish every day, the goldfish will eventually learn to look for food immediately after the tank-tapping. This kind of "classical conditioning" indicates goldfish have some memory.

Dr. Karl seconds that emotion, citing anecdotes of goldfish responding happily to their owner's faces, while hiding in their tiny castles when confronted with strangers. And while goldfish were domesticated in China roughly a thousand years ago, they still swim in schools, and thus have some learned social behavior.

The MythBusters TV show taught some goldfish to swim through a maze, noting that their time got better on each successive run. And an interesting response to the AnswerBag Forum describes goldfish memory as "selective" -- they have a general idea of what happened on a previous occasion, they're just not sure what. We empathize.

glogg: Word of the Day

glogg \GLUG\ noun
: a hot spiced wine and liquor punch served in Scandinavian countries as a Christmas drink

Example sentence:
"[The] Gallery will host a Christmas Cheer Weekend.... Johnson's latest barn print will be available, framed or unframed, as well as Swedish cookies and glogg." ([Dubuque] _Telegraph Herald_, December 9, 2004)

Did you know?
Glogg is a holiday favorite in many Scandinavian cultures, where it is commonly served on St. Lucia's Day (December 13) and all around Christmas time. Not surprisingly, the word "glogg" itself (sometimes written as glogg) is of Scandinavian origin; it comes from Swedish and derives from the verb "glodga," meaning "to burn" or "to mull." But although "glogg" may look like it should rhyme with that other notable holiday beverage -- "eggnog" -- the two aren't quite a perfect match. The "o" in "glogg" is pronounced like either the "u" in "nut," the "oo" in "foot," or the more foreign-sounding "oe" in "boeuf," the French word for "beef." "Nog," on the other hand, is generally pronounced with the "o" as in "mop" -- and thus it rhymes with "grog."

A 91-year-old British man lost a large bet when he continued living after wagering that he would die by Dec 7th.

testing again

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beautiful sunset @ DFW airport 11-20-05

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one u know u have for sure.-- Oprah Winfrey

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. - William G. McAdoo

These posts are all done with my cell phone lol :)

Just workin. Systems are running slow andtakin forever lol

Watchin harry potter and the chamber of secrets. Just trimmed magpie. Gotta bathe her and pack...

Test test

sleepy doodles

look at my little kiddo...she's so spoiled :) hehehe

aww state fair stuff...

Union station..waitin on the dart

Goin to the fair...on the train wooohoooo

10-14-05

hmm...

ever wonder if u have some kind of fatal disease? lol... for some reason i think about that alot. its kinda creepy...anyway the reason i bring this up is because yesterday was basically wasted cuz i had to stay in bed until like 5pm cuz i had this shitty ass headache that WOULD NOT GO AWAY. have u ever had the kind of headache that makes ur head hurt so bad u cant open ur eyes cuz it hurts to look at stuff and u cant move cuz u feel like ur gonna fall over and u cant eat cuz it makes u nauseous? well more and more frequently i have been getting these and i dont know what the deal is. originally i was thinking maybe i was allergic to alcohol because typically it had always occured after a night of buzzzzzzin but apparently its not completely related to that becuase friday night i didnt drink at all. anyway hopefully its nothing but im slightly paranoid. i really think i should go to the dr but i dont thnk that will happen anytime soon. yesterday i found out there might be a new tour date announced... 9/11 in chicago hob. i hope its true. im gonna ask for the 12th off tomorrow i think. just to be on the safe side. if it gets cancelled or w/e i can always not take the day off. its kinda funny cuz the stuff is already posted but lisas people cant confirm the date for us. crazy huh...anyway i gotta get dressed. today is my grandpas birthday and we're havin food and stuff im sure :) ok later peeps. have a great day !

overtime... :)

its funny how if ur doing something u remotely enjoy, overtime doesnt suck lol. today i worked 6.75 hours of overtime and it wasnt bad at all. if this keeps up i can rack up some extra dough! awesome and its cool too cuz i got to kinda work my own hours. and i didnt have to take calls woop! lol ok anyway later peeps...

woohooo

howdy peeps...

well today i sorta got a promotion at work. I'm now the 2nd QA specialist on staff. monday and tues i still have my same job but wed - fri (if i go in on overtime on fridays) i do QA. So im totally stoked anyway just thought i'd let ya know!

i can STOP now lol

well i officially know how to do brakes on my car woooop! lol me and my dad changed them out. he was the muscle behind the operation lol. it actually was VERY easy. i was all scared all this time to never do my own brakes but hell...i'll be doing it myself from now on. at least on the miskata. i just did the front ones cuz the backs are still ok so far. i would imagine the backs will probably need it in the spring. (as u can see i dont put many miles on my car lol) anyway its pretty kick ass having new brakes for 20 bucks lol. ok anyway thats all i have to say lol later

insomniac...

howdy peeps....

here i sit at 449am trying to go to sleep. i woke at 9 something yesterday morning why am i still awake? i love insomnia. i like the way that my brain wont shut off and keeps thinking about shitty stuff i dont want to think about. for example...tonight...i kept thinking about scarlett (my last dog) and how she left us. if you dont know the story this is what happened. she was diabetic...she was only like 7 which is pretty young for a schnauzer...anyway her diabetes was starting to make her blind and finally she was pretty much completely blind. following the advise of trusted drs they suggested we have a surgery for her eyes which is generally pretty routine and will help her to see again. anyway, this was right about the time my mom had just moved off, and it wasnt that much after i had separated from my ex, generally just a bad time in my life...so i took her in early valentines morning to have her surgery, against my gut feeling. Scarlett was usually pretty cooperative about visiting drs but on this morning, she did NOT want me to leave her. she grabbed my shoulders when i was trying to hand her to the dr. It was very upsetting...needless to say, i had to go to work and was going to leave early to go pick her up after the surgery. I had been at work about 2 hours and i got a phone call. it was the dr and he said ' i have some bad news, scarlett didnt make it. she was under the anesthetic and suddenly her heart just stopped' i almost lost it because those of u who know me know that my dog is like my child. anyway thats the story and for some reason tonight i cant get that out of my head. then i started thinking about maggie. she still needs to be 'fixed' and i am so terrified to take her in to have surgery. i dont know what to do because they say that if you have them fixed they live a longer and healthier life and are less likely to get mammarian (sp) cancer. but im scared shitless to ever let anyone ever put any of my animals under anesthesia ever again. its like something clicked in my brain and now im terrified. ugh... why am i thinking about all this tonite? its weird. anyway i took a xanax about an hour ago and i drank some milk....hopefully i can get a few hours of sleep before i go try to change the brakes in my miskata

today i had fun. jen, leslie and i went to eat at joe t's and then went to garden ridge and got cool candles and pots and i got this awesome canvas of a record. i'll post a pic of it soon. then we went to the dollar tree lmao and then we went to the movies. We went to see "the island" god i loved that movie. it truly kicked ASS!!! and scarlett johanssen is flipping hot in it too lol. maybe thats why i keep thinking of scarlett cuz of her name. hmmm... who understands how my brain works.. anyway after that we snuck into "charlie and the chocolate factory" it was really cute too. i would recommend both of those movies. altho willy wonka reminded me of what i would imagine jacko is like at neverland. lol

ok im off to battle the insomia with my sheeps from serta or whoever they work for lol.


later taterz

wheeeeeeeel of forrrrtuuuuneee...

Hey people...

Somehow wheel of fortune ended up on my tv and it got me thinkin.... Am I the only person who misses the good old days when they used to have to BUY stuff with the money they won...They had to shop in these diff "themed rooms" that had all these retarded gifts mixed in with real stuff...someone always had to buy a ceramic monkey cuz they only had $43 left in the bank. That was so funny...just made me think when i heard pat sajak. and what is vanna there for anyway. she doesnt even turn a letter around anymore she just touches it. ugh. lol

later peeps!!