Hmmm....

Hmmm long time no blog. I can't decide if I should keep this blog or not. I am certainly not a brilliant writer and since no one is reading it, it is essentially a conversation with myself. With bad grammar, spelling issues and all.
Could weigh the pros and cons:
Pro: a conversation with myself that won't get funny looks. Unlike when I talk to myself while walking to my car. I think it is the hand waving during the conversation that really makes them look. Like it is somehow less strange when I am just talking out load, oh no that isn't strange! Somehow the gestures are just REALLY weird. Does make for a handy strange deflection device in Pittsburgh.
Cons: Requires work. I am desperately trying to achieve complete and utter boredom in my personal life. Hmm. BUT, having a conversation with myself online could count as pretty boring.
Pro: I might write better with more practice.
Con: Probably will only work if someone else is pointing out my mistakes. If I missed the Sara, Joe, and I the first time around, it isn't likely I'm going to catch it the second is it?

Embarrassing Moment number 341 and 342

I'm walking back into work after a friend kindly brings me a 20 oz. Iced Mocha. Apparently, I sucked too hard on the straw because when I let go a glob of mocha sprayed out...right onto my nose. How graceful am I. Luckily no witnesses.

I'm eating lunch while driving. BLT wrap from Arby's. Come to find out there is sauce in it, well actually, there was sauce in it. Said sauce is now dribbled from my collar to knees. I almost sideswipe a truck trying to dodge...unsuccessfully.

One nice thing about having a small car, you aren't tall enough the see the guy in the truck flip you off as he swerves to avoid you.

TomPaine.com - Double Standards On Drugs

TomPaine.com - Double Standards On Drugs
In an outraged and disbelieving voice "A DOUBLE STANDARD, NO!?"

GOP seeks suspension of RU-486 - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 18, 2004

Who really cares if women die from pregnancy- that is thier rightful punishment for daring to have sex, right?

GOP seeks suspension of RU-486 - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - November 18, 2004

After only three deaths in an estimated 360,000 uses, the GOP-led Congress plans to reintroduce a bill to "temporarily suspend" sales of RU-486 so it can be more thoroughly investigated. With a maternal death rate in the US of 12 per 100,000, RU-486 is about 13-14 times safer than a full term pregancy. Of course, the solution is simple: suspend all pregnancies for a year so we can more fully evaluate their safety.
posted by u.n. owen at 11:32 AM PST - 83 comments

Note: this was raided from Metafilter

NCRW - MisInformation Clearinghouse

Here is the associated Blog. It should get busier soon
NCRW - MisInformation Clearinghouse

NCRW - MisInformation Clearinghouse

Like the winter depression wasn't bad enough, now Bush won.
How depressing.
Very very depressing, i'm so not looking at the news for the next four years.
Did I mention depressing.
For those who disagree please read the report below. While you still are allowed to get an education, and do anything beside statying at home breeding, especially since Roe vs. Wade will get overturned in the next four years. I'll save the environmental depression for another page.

NCRW - MisInformation Clearinghouse

Operational Significant Event Imagery

Operational Significant Event Imagery
Severely cool website of the day!!

(didn't know I was) unamerican-

(didn't know I was) unamerican. Well worth the watch, and make sure an pass it on.

Via metafilter and Anthrogeek

Here are the lessons learned from above incident;
1) Peanut butter works FANTASTIC at removing bubblegum from the dryer (did I mention there was a wad of gum in the same load as the oilcloth?)
Just put peanut butter on, wait 1-0 mins and wipe clean with a paper towel.

2) Tomiann's tips for removing oil from washing machine- Add extra detergent, throw in a couple of towels you never really liked anyway, set water temp to HOT and repeat three times.

3)Enlist help. If you are starting to crack enlist your husband or S.O. to run to the store and purchase laundry detergent, then convince him to stay up (see step 2) and wash your work clothes, because you REALLY need the sleep. He even hung them up afterwards.:)

Erma Bombeck has nothing on me

O.k. I have to vent... tomorrow i will laugh (I think)
Here was my day- one I might add in a series of days JUST LIKE IT!
I spent my morning organizing the twenty gazillion papers my child had managed to accumulate (out of order).
(This accumulation is particularly impressive given that said child has also managed to avoid doing ANY HOMEWORK for an ENTIRE month in two classes.)
So no breakfast because of organizing.
Go to school with said child (meaning .5 hours of makeup time at work) and search his locker for the missing science notebook. Which has all of the assignments we made him re-do for the second time.
No luck.
Get to work exchange emails with teachers at school to set up appointments. Have to go to 2:15 appointment with math teacher.This means no lunch break and having to go to conference then return to work late.
Car is full of flying bits of alfalfa hayt due to having to haul two hay bales out to my horse's new home in my station wagon (of course the truck was unavailable).
Combine flying bits of hay with a new conditioner that made my hair amazingly greasy and no air conditioning except windows (and the only clean item of work clothes, a very hot, ichy sweater) and I arrive at conference with green bits all over.
Eventually get home after working 1.5 hours late.
Decide to go to restauraunt to celebrate husband's new job, and cause I'm so not cooking.
Good meal, BUT come to find out they changed their policies and no longer take personal checks...like last week. Several moments of frantic cash pooling and there is not enough. Credit card full. Luckyly the server was very nice and accepted a check anyway.
Go home.. have to create streaming media web page,
BUT WAIT.. I have no clothes for work.
Go downstairs to do laundy, discover the (above mentioned) child, while doing laundry (as punishment for homework) washed my husbands favorite OILCLOTH duster with the other laundy. White laundry. Result- one filty washing machine, one filthy, oily load of formerly white clothes. Oh, and a wad of chewing gum.
Luckily, the duster came through pretty good.
"That's ok I can deal with this." I will just run a towel with hot water, clean washing machinewhile doing homework, THEN do work clothes.
ONLY, guess what......THERE IS NO LAUNDRY SOAP.
I give up. It is 8:39, I have a streaming web media assignenment to do, and I have to get up early to go to work as make up for the other conference in the middle of the workday tomorrow. Which, apparently, I will be doing in the nude.