Today I was listening to KERA, the local public radio station and the subject was ending homelessness in LA and something called Project50. They said that they had developed a list of questions that they went out on the streets with in search of the 50 most vunerable homeless people, the fifty most likely to die on the streets in the following year, and gave them housing. My mind being the completely wacked and warped thing that it is I began thinking of the questions they were asking and translated them to determining the fifty most ready to crack friends I have. Here are some of the questions they asked the homeless people and what I could ask those around me.
Homeless Questions Homemaker Questions:
1. How long have you been on the streets? How long have you been a stay at home mom?
2. When was the last time you injected drugs? When was the last time you took your kids ADHD medication or drank more than one pot of coffee in a day? What is your average bedtime and when do you get up in the morning?
3. Do you have any diseases? How many times have your kids puked in the past 24 hours? How many times were on you? Do your kids automatically assume the held up position when they sneeze?
4. Have you been assulted? When was the last time you were able to physically soak in your tub instead of use it to hold dirty laundry? How many loads behind are you? How many days away from sending your kids naked to school?
AND THE FINAL QUESTION When was the last time someone looked at you and said it must be so nice to be able to just stay at home and relax!?!?!?!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
I got paid!
I have a rule, well not really since I am totally NOT a rule follower, so let me say I have a game I play in my head (hum Counting Flowers on the Wall by the Statler Brothers while you read this) that any money I find in the washer after doing laundry is mine! Today I found a penny. I've got two words for you ...SLAVE LABOR!!
Monday, November 12, 2007
It's been a month
It's been one month since I posted last and I still don't have anything to say. I've been getting some HUGE doses of humility as one of my precious children has been getting into trouble at school on a more regular basis than is healthy for him/her. Dealing with said humility and trips to the principal's (NOT MY PAL) office has made me not quite so chatty. So here's hoping for better behaved kids (HA, fat chance) and more frequent posts on the ol blog. But listen to Toby Mac is changin my mood and the next time I have to go see the lovely principal I think I'll go in singin...
Feelin So Fly
Feelin So Fly
Friday, October 12, 2007
MEMED
I've been memed by my friend at La Vida Dulce who was memed by our friend at Bye Bye Buy so here goes.
Jobs I've Had
1. Bank Teller
2. Resident Advisor (college dorm)
3. Administrative Assistant at the Kryptonite Corporation (no I don't hate Superman)
4. Tech at an Eye Doctor's office (yes I got to administer the puff of air test)
Places I've lived
1. Fredericksburg, Virginia
2. Celle Germany
3. Boston, Massachusetts
4. Southfield, Michigan (for only 3 months)
Food I love
1. Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco or any other great Italian food, especially from La Familia Georgios in the North End of Boston!!!
2. Sopa de chili poblano from Victorias in Neuovo Laredo Mexico
3. Enchiladas Verdes again from Victorias or from My mother-in-law
4. Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce - Papadauxes (sp?)
Websites I visit
1. www.realsimple.com - I love how they make life seem so simple (what the heck are the talking about? LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE - but theirs looks so nice, but I think I must need to go shopping because I only have 2 of the 10 things every kitchen needs, but wait I thought the key to the simple life was less stuff, humm they must mean other stuff)
2. www.abebooks.com - This is the enabler of my addiction BOOKS BOOKS CHEAP BOOKS
3. www.biblegateway.com - for my studies
4. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/landing.jsp?go=DefaultRecipe&recipe_id=1190051818091 or www.cookinglight.com
Places I'd rather be
1. Riverbend Retreat Center with a good book.
2. Mountains in Arkansas in a cabin with a good book.
3. Rocky Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
4. Appalachian Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
5. And Italy in a villa with Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco, a good merlot, and a good book (oh and maybe Andrea Bocolli to sing to me :))
Movies I love
1. Life is Beautiful and The Tiger in the Snow (both by Roberto Benigni
2. The whole extended edition of the Lord of the Rings Triology with ALL the extra features (especially the hidden easter egg with Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Geller which is by the way NOT kid appropriate)
3. Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma (all from Jane Austin books)
4. Oh Brother Where Art Thou (I LOVE George Clooney in this movie)
And since I don't watch TV I'll put my favorite CD's
1. Skip, Hop and Wobble with Jerry Douglas
2. Romanza with Andrea Bocelli click here to watch him on Youtube
3. Storm by Fernando Ortega
4. Shine Remix by Newsboys
Jobs I've Had
1. Bank Teller
2. Resident Advisor (college dorm)
3. Administrative Assistant at the Kryptonite Corporation (no I don't hate Superman)
4. Tech at an Eye Doctor's office (yes I got to administer the puff of air test)
Places I've lived
1. Fredericksburg, Virginia
2. Celle Germany
3. Boston, Massachusetts
4. Southfield, Michigan (for only 3 months)
Food I love
1. Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco or any other great Italian food, especially from La Familia Georgios in the North End of Boston!!!
2. Sopa de chili poblano from Victorias in Neuovo Laredo Mexico
3. Enchiladas Verdes again from Victorias or from My mother-in-law
4. Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce - Papadauxes (sp?)
Websites I visit
1. www.realsimple.com - I love how they make life seem so simple (what the heck are the talking about? LIFE IS NOT SIMPLE - but theirs looks so nice, but I think I must need to go shopping because I only have 2 of the 10 things every kitchen needs, but wait I thought the key to the simple life was less stuff, humm they must mean other stuff)
2. www.abebooks.com - This is the enabler of my addiction BOOKS BOOKS CHEAP BOOKS
3. www.biblegateway.com - for my studies
4. http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/landing.jsp?go=DefaultRecipe&recipe_id=1190051818091 or www.cookinglight.com
Places I'd rather be
1. Riverbend Retreat Center with a good book.
2. Mountains in Arkansas in a cabin with a good book.
3. Rocky Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
4. Appalachian Mountains in a cabin with a good book.
5. And Italy in a villa with Farfalla con pollo al sugo bianco, a good merlot, and a good book (oh and maybe Andrea Bocolli to sing to me :))
Movies I love
1. Life is Beautiful and The Tiger in the Snow (both by Roberto Benigni
2. The whole extended edition of the Lord of the Rings Triology with ALL the extra features (especially the hidden easter egg with Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Geller which is by the way NOT kid appropriate)
3. Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma (all from Jane Austin books)
4. Oh Brother Where Art Thou (I LOVE George Clooney in this movie)
And since I don't watch TV I'll put my favorite CD's
1. Skip, Hop and Wobble with Jerry Douglas
2. Romanza with Andrea Bocelli click here to watch him on Youtube
3. Storm by Fernando Ortega
4. Shine Remix by Newsboys
Monday, October 01, 2007
JuJu gets a haircut
Today we had about 4 or 5 inches cut of Julia's hair. She now has a swingin bob!
Birthday Mani and Pedi
Emma and her friend Haley went to Sweet and Sassy for a Manicure and Pedicure for Emma's Bday!
Emma goes to Super Salad for her 8th Bday
Emma chose to go to Super Salad for her 8th birthday. Julia pretended to be a walrus the whole time.
Beauty and the Beast
We got to see Beauty and the Beast along with 6,000 other people at CCBC this weekend. SOOOOOOOOOOOO Good SOOOOOOOOOO Much fun!!!!
Sunday, September 23, 2007
blog confessions
Ok I admit it! I'm a sucker for vampires! I don't mean a blood sucker, I mean ever since I read a Dracula comic that belonged to my somewhat older cousins and stayed up the whole night watching the tree branches outside my Grandma's window, I've LOVED vampire stories.
Bram Stoker's Dracula scared the pants off of me! But it is the kind of scary I can deal with because its only scary for me within the context of the book. I have complete faith that I will never turn a corner and meet up with the living dead. Nevertheless, I could only read that book during the day in my parents front livingroom which was the brightest sunniest room in the house and when it still got to be too much I'd go find a room where my sibs were doing something else so I'd have someone else in the room with me. It's kind of funny because I'm not really a scary movie kind of person. I've never seen Silence of the Lambs, or any of the Jason Movies. I think the scariest movie I ever saw was called Seven and I walked out of the theater very mad and physically sick, but for me Vampires are different. They're not real and I enjoy the fantasy world vampire writers invent.
Besides Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker's movie I also love Gerard Butler (who made a great Dracula but I'm glad didn't get to play Aragorn in Lord of the Rings) and Jonny Lee Miller who could kill Gerard Butler's Dracula in Dracula 2000 (which in an interesting twist had Dracula be Judas Iscariot), but apparently that wasn't enough to save his marriage to Angelina Jolie who moved on to Brad Pitt who played the vampire Louis in Interview with a Vampire. Yes and I admit I timed my kids naps so I could watch reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (I do have some sense that this subject isn't for everyone and every age).
All this talk of vampires has been brought on because I've picked up a new book series that I really like, well lets say I like the first book of the trilogy and I'm dying to find the second one. The series is by Stephanie Meyer and the first books is called Twilight. I found it at half price books and read it in one night. I just found the third one called Eclipse at Costco and it is killing to let it sit there while I wait to find book two!
I was looking for some of the names of the movies above and I found a list of vampire movies and was surprised to see the first one came out in 1909! I bet that would be funny to watch today. I remember seeing the older German black and white Nosferatu that came out in 1922 it was pretty comical!
Well have a good week and if this post freaks you out you can go buy some garlic, or send me an email and I'll give you the secret location for the holy buckets of water
Bram Stoker's Dracula scared the pants off of me! But it is the kind of scary I can deal with because its only scary for me within the context of the book. I have complete faith that I will never turn a corner and meet up with the living dead. Nevertheless, I could only read that book during the day in my parents front livingroom which was the brightest sunniest room in the house and when it still got to be too much I'd go find a room where my sibs were doing something else so I'd have someone else in the room with me. It's kind of funny because I'm not really a scary movie kind of person. I've never seen Silence of the Lambs, or any of the Jason Movies. I think the scariest movie I ever saw was called Seven and I walked out of the theater very mad and physically sick, but for me Vampires are different. They're not real and I enjoy the fantasy world vampire writers invent.
Besides Gary Oldman as Dracula in Bram Stoker's movie I also love Gerard Butler (who made a great Dracula but I'm glad didn't get to play Aragorn in Lord of the Rings) and Jonny Lee Miller who could kill Gerard Butler's Dracula in Dracula 2000 (which in an interesting twist had Dracula be Judas Iscariot), but apparently that wasn't enough to save his marriage to Angelina Jolie who moved on to Brad Pitt who played the vampire Louis in Interview with a Vampire. Yes and I admit I timed my kids naps so I could watch reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (I do have some sense that this subject isn't for everyone and every age).
All this talk of vampires has been brought on because I've picked up a new book series that I really like, well lets say I like the first book of the trilogy and I'm dying to find the second one. The series is by Stephanie Meyer and the first books is called Twilight. I found it at half price books and read it in one night. I just found the third one called Eclipse at Costco and it is killing to let it sit there while I wait to find book two!
I was looking for some of the names of the movies above and I found a list of vampire movies and was surprised to see the first one came out in 1909! I bet that would be funny to watch today. I remember seeing the older German black and white Nosferatu that came out in 1922 it was pretty comical!
Well have a good week and if this post freaks you out you can go buy some garlic, or send me an email and I'll give you the secret location for the holy buckets of water
Monday, September 17, 2007
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