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403 days ago
Okay so it DOES matter. Vote. Clearly it mattered 4 years ago and 8 years prior to that and not enough people took it seriously the last two times (I have to believe that is why Bush had two terms...I really don't want to believe that people ACTUALLY voted for him). Anyways I am living in the country now. There is a Ho-down (spelling here is unknown) where I can meet my local representative (or at least the republican one). What does one wear to a ho-down? LOL! Even more importantly what will happen there? What will be said? Not sure if I can go given the party affiliation. Hmmm...I am curious. Will they be chanting Palin and McCain's name? Ah Palin. Isn't she such a wonderful representation of what it means to be a smart, well-spoken woman in America today? I mean golly-gee what a Maverick. Okay enough of the politics. I apologize for the sacarsm but it is once again UNBELIEVABLE what has happened in America today and politics here. All I keep thinking along with ...
472 days ago
Okay so the first day Matt and I took occupancy of our new house we left the windows open and it poured all over our living room floor and in our basement. We knew that there were some water problems with the house given it has a sump pump but we didn't realize the water problems also included gutters not working properly. The rain water the first time was not so bad and so the next sunny day Matt and his brother reconnected some of the gutterst that were taken down for whatever reason and we thought, okay problem solved. Apparently there were also a lot of leaves in the front gutters and Matt and his brother could not get to them because the bushes are right up against the hosue and they coudln't squeeze the ladder in there. I know this because a week later it rained like crazy and it got so backed up that the rain started pooling in the living room window and poured all over my floors. I was a mess. The kids were screaming and I was soaked. When it calmed down a bit I grabbed a ...
498 days ago
Yeah! Really wishing in some ways that we stayed in Germany but I really missed my family and needed to come back. Oh America, a storm is coming. I am no expert here but I do read and watch the news. On THe News Hour last night Roger Altman, a former Clinton Financial Advisor, stated: (T)he banking sector is in worse shape than at any point since the 1930s. We've never seen such large losses so fast. After all, the credit market collapse began only a year ago right now. We've never seen such levels of capital need on the part of all of the large lenders. And we've never seen such questions about their fundamental stability as we have right now. And today's welcome rally notwithstanding, almost all financial observers would say that the condition of our banking system and our financial sector more broadly is more serious and a greater threat than it's been at any time, as I said, since the 1930s. This is a really perilous moment. So yes I believe we ARE in trouble ...
515 days ago
Okay. SO I just talked to my dad. It is okay if I write about him on my blog because he doesn't care much for computers. But if he does read this, well he will have to forgive me. Anyways my dad seems to think that really bad economic times are coming. He is not alone. There are a lot of people out there who feel that way but he is taking it a step further and believes we need to perpare ourselves for the worst: food shortages, water shortages, sickenss...oh you know utter mayhem. He is a Vietnam Vet and I think he might be going a bit overboard but then again it gets you thinking....OH BOY what if it gets THAT bad? THen i guess we are all screwed. I have some dried fruit and nuts and a bunch of backpacking gear...but really what the heck am I going to do if it is all falling apart around me? That is all I can come to for a conclusion. There are people saying that it is a planned collapse of America so that the dollar will completely fall and we will suffer economic collapse like ...
523 days ago
Two weeks ago we think the first word that Taylor uttered was bottle. Matt was downstairs with Taylor and he was pointing at a bunch of things muttering uh and um and then Matt said what do you want? And Taylor said bot-tal. Matt said you want a bottle? And Taylor answered um and laughed. A few days later I was in the living room and Taylor was doing a similar thing, pointing and grunting. And I said what do you want? And he said ra-moot. I said did you say remote? He picked it up and laughed. Yesterday in the car he picked up a book about Dinosaurs and said Din-a-soor. We said did you say Dinnosaur and he repeated it. But he doesn't say these words again. He seems to only utter them once or twice in passing and then when he has said it that is it, time to move on to the next word. This would not surprise me because that seems to be how he works with most things...he sees things as a challenge like trying to climb up on the couch and he will do it over and over until he gets it and ...
