Gotta Love Texans!!

I was at the hockey rink waiting for the game to start when I read this article. Hysterical to say the least! Apparently, some crazy fun people, I can only imagine the age, decided to hack into computerized road signs and change the message....

But honestly, who would think of changing the message to this though?!?! Zombies In Area! Run ! I mean was this a person or persons who love horror movies? Or were they just intelligent enough to not change the sign to something more insidious in the event that they got caught? And who was the journalist who wrote in the below linked news article that stated there were no actual zombies sighted?!?! Say what?!?!? Are Zombies even real?!?? lmao

As you can see, I have lots of unanswered questions since this story is very deep! However, I would like to thank the journalist who was stuck with this assignment and made this article noteworthy right down to the Department of Transportation interviews. It is very lovely to view news articles that demonstrate the ease at which computers can be hacked and passwords retrieved!!! No one is safe. I mean would you rather have a zombie chase you down or have someone hack your computer and see what nefarious deeds you have committed?!? Oh where was I? Ah yes, about to do a blog on a much deeper subject.....

"Toodles"- Ona

http://news.aol.com/article/zombie-road-signs-attack-austin-texas/322482

Goodness a gracious....

Okay first things first. It has been at least a month that my toilet has not been able to flush the easy way. By the easy way, I mean you just pull the handle and whalla. Apparently, the chain broke and so what did I in my ingeniousness do? I just took the porcelain cover off and reach my hand into the freezing cold water and pull the broken chain myself anytime I need to 'flush'!

Well that would be fine and dandy and as I have proven, we humans learn to adapt until such time as someone comes along to fix my problem...haha. But as luck would have it, now there are other parts leaking inside the toilet and the noise alone is driving me crazy!!! So being the type of person that can do anything I put my mind to, (cant say this is something I want to put my mind to), but due to above said noises, am forced to put my mind to, I asked myself how hard would it be to replace toilet parts.

So I start with the obvious. I peer into my toilet that is most of the time drained of water since Ive been shutting the main water supply off as it is leaking water from somewhere. (My water bill proved that last month.) Being I am not a plumber, I attempt to take note on what types of parts are inside a toilet. I have to be honest with you, I never cared before and hope never to care again! But suffice to say I believe a trip to Wal-Mart is in order since it is right up the street and their prices are reasonable.

So I mosey up to Wal-Mart only to find there are a myriad of toilet parts to be purchased. Help!!! At this time, I spot a man in the same aisle, but I don't want to bother him or have him think I am trying to pick up on him. I mean lets be real, do single people shop at Wal-Mart?!?!? I know I am there, but what are the literal statistics. Maybe I should ask the greeter.

Anyway, so I see something that says universal toilet repair kit. Okay that sounds reasonable and the parts within look like stuff I spotted inside my own porcelain. So I think I am good to go. WRONG. At this time, I spot a flush lever hanging close to the repair kit and I realize that the original problem I had was that the toilet wouldn't flush. So what is the deal? They sell something as a repair kit but leave out one of the parts??! Oh man, please get me back to my day job!!!

Anyway, I am quite pleased with myself that I found all the parts that I need to fix my toilet without having to ask the guy in the aisle :) What happens when I arrive home? Absolutely nothing!! Do you think I really want to fix my toilet? The answer is no!!! lol So the parts sit there for several days and nights and finally I cant take the noise any longer and decide to fix my toilet tonight.

I was so grateful to see there are instructions inside the repair kit! Wow, I think I may just be able to do this. After all, I can repair a broken nail you know. So as I read the instructions, I get lost on where the coupling nut is and where this and that is. But I eventually get it. All I can think of at this point, is why didn't I ask one my guy friends to come over and help me? After all I am a great cook and I totally don't mind doing the dishes. I can purchase beer too since I am legal!!!

Wrapping up this most ridiculous story, I forgot one major major piece to this puzzle. The tools to undo everything!! I must digress and mention that I had been in a LTR for 5 years and it has been 1.5 years that its been over. However, he had purchased extra tools for my house in order to fix things and when we were over and done, he took every little tool back to his small apartment. Well being the resourceful female that I am, I remember that my sons, have a tool kit somewhere in the garage. I am very excited because once I start a project, I want to finish it. Okay so I head downstairs out to the garage, find the tools and find a wrench.

Guess what? It was the wrong size!!! Sigh....I guess I am just not cut out to do man's work. Yes, you heard me man's work!!! Just leave me in the kitchen barefoot and not pregnant...

PS Will let you know when my toilet dilemma is solved. Yes I know you can not wait to hear more on this most fascinating subject.

"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things"-Plato

Final Acts of Clemency

Reading this story this morning was one of the best pieces of news I've read in a while. Having followed this case very heavily via talk radio, I was outraged at the American judicial system for allowing a Mexican drug smuggler to walk back over the border one month later and state he had been shot in the ass by U.S. Border Patrol Agents and give the bullet to authorities.

What did our supposedly great judicial system do? An investigation of course! No matter that this piece of scum had already been arrested in the U.S. before. Oh no, they go after the two border patrol agents with full vengeance and give them over 10 year sentences in prison! Say what?!? What was comical in this whole situation was the agents in question were Mexican-Americans and the dude they shot was Mexican-Mexican. The usual trump card that would've been played was racism!!! But alas, couldn't do that here....hahaha. Just had to add that little piece of information to this story.

All amusement aside, I am very proud of President Bush for pardoning these gentleman. Below is the complete article should you want to read the watered down story. Trust me the majority of facts are missing from the highly controversial case. What I found very interesting and would like to note was these facts that were present in the article:

Clinton issued a total of 457 pardons or commutations in eight years in office. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, issued 77 in four years. Reagan issued 406 in eight years, and President Jimmy Carter issued 563 in four years. Since World War II, the largest number of pardons and commutations — 2,031 — came from President Harry Truman, who served 82 days short of eight years. (http://news.aol.com/article/bush-commutes-border-agents-sentences/286363)

Quite interesting to see that democratic presidents tend to pardon the most criminals....

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level"- Dana Carvey

It's A Cakewalk

For years I've been using the term cakewalk without having a clue as to where it originated from aside from going to my school's Halloween carnivals and hoping that Id land on the winning number when the music stopped. Goodness, I recall using a lot of my tickets and walking around and around in order to attempt to win back my Mom's cake. (Lame!!)

But honestly, I can not say what possessed me upon waking this morning to decide to learn more about cakewalks. I awoke in a giggly, silly mood so perhaps that was the reason or perhaps I have too much time on my hands for the moment. But whatever was the possession, and yes I will do a blog about addictions soon, I found myself on Wikepedia searching for my answer.

I have to say I was very surprised at the answer! And I must add that Wikepedia's answer was too lengthy and this was more concise. "In the 19th century, cakewalk was a popular contest among slaves on the American plantations. It was a strutting dance, developed as a parody of white owners, in which couples with the most stylish steps won a cake as a prize. The dance may or may not have been easy but it was certainly a lot of fun, and eventually the term cakewalk begin to be used to refer to anything easy to do. The idiom "to take the cake" has the same origin." (http://wordsmith.org/words/cakewalk.html)

Imagine my disappointment to learn this information. And here I thought it was all about Halloween, shit... lol I am never ceased to be amazed at how much information one can garner on the Internet. It simply is mind boggling and truly is easier than a 'cakewalk'. So next time you use this term or take your kids to the school carnival and walk around hoping your number comes up like you do in Vegas, think of me. After all, life is a cakewalk!!! (Well some may argue with me that it is a proverbial hamster wheel, but that is a different blog!)

"It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on." - Marilyn Monroe

Dating and Dr. Phil

I was watching TV a few afternoons ago and Dr. Phil was on. Now keep in mind, I rarely watch TV and when I do, it is educational, ie Discovery Channel, Food Network, Forensics, History Channel etc So it was a guilty pleasure to not only be watching TV in the afternoon, but to be watching a shhh, talk show!

Dr. Phil is supposed to be one of America's top relationship experts. And this particular day he did not let me down. The topic was Dating Double Standards. It was a show about how it is okay in our society for older men to date younger women, but it is not okay for older women to date younger men. Well of course that nabbed my attention and right quick.

I was very amused by his guest choices as well. He had a lady who was 58 who was still quite attractive and had dated several thousand men in her lifetime one as young as 17, ouch! Her daughter was seated next to her and wanted Dr. Phil to talk some sense into her. (I honestly think she was too far gone at this point) Behind the guests on a large screen, was a map of all the locations this woman had traveled in order to meet her online men. It was phenomenal to say the least. And of side note she had dated Prince Albert of Monaco for 5 years somewhere in her repertoire of dating. But despite all of this, she still hadn't found her 'man'.

Dr. Phil's advice? You are desperate!!! You need to take a break and re-evaluate what you are doing because it obviously isn't working. Then he parades another relationship expert, the lady from the Millionaire Matchmaker show, who also has her stab at the woman. This expert points and harshly says, "You need a 90 day detox!!!"

Well at this point, the show seemed to be a tad off track as it was supposed to be about dating double standards but who cared as it was amusing none the less. But it got me to thinking, Ive been on an Internet dating site for 5 months and I have met a few cool people. I even met one, though not in person yet, who is an amazing man that truly stands out above the rest. But what has it gotten me? I hate to be cynical though as that isn't my nature. I am a glass is always full kinda girl. But still, what do I have to show for it all? Now keep in mind, I am a very picky soul and would rather be alone than be with someone for the sake of being with someone but still life is more interesting when you have someone crazy fun to share it with.

At this point, I started to wonder if being on the dating site for 5 months put me in Dr. Phil's you must be doing something wrong category. Now granted, 5 months isn't that long of a time frame but still if results aren't forthcoming and I feel worse than when I started, who needs it!!! And as I had those thoughts, it seemed the advice albeit not directed at me about a 90 day detox, seemed like a great idea. So I did what Ive wanted to do for months now, deleted myself from the dating site and shall enjoy the detox...lol Now if a prince charming comes my way, I shall not be ridiculous of course, but then what are those odds?!?

The Closing of Guantanamo

I jumped online to do a blog on an interesting subject when I read this absolutely outrageous article. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_suspected_terrorists

As I read the entire article, my stomach literally tied into a knot. I felt for our American military intelligence and was incensed at the castration Obama has performed on them and just 5 minutes into his Presidency! He seems to be saying, now children play nice in the sandbox because he says so. There is to be not hitting or biting or anything out of line or we will pull out our Army Field Manuel to see how to discipline you 'fairly'. No worries if you bomb, kill, or maim, that isn't the point, the point is "The message that we are sending the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism and we are going to do so vigilantly and we are going to do so effectively and we are going to do so in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals," WTF?!?? Whose values and ideals are we talking about?!?!

I personally loved this action by Obama: Created a task force to recommend policies on handling terror suspects who are detained in the future. Say what?!?! Everyone who has ever sat on a task force knows that it just spins wheels. But we aren't just talking about what color to paint the Oval Office. This is America's freedom at stake here. Another action: Required all U.S. personnel to follow the U.S. Army Field Manual while interrogating detainees. OMG, dude like we have a suspect, lets refresh our memory on what we can and can not do to someone who had a bomb strapped to his body and intended to kill masses. There is a universal language that speaks to all and I am sure it is no where found in that manual.

And this one took home the prize: The order also orders the CIA to close all its existing detention facilities abroad for terror suspects — and prohibits those prisons from being used in the future. So like what is our intelligence supposed to do? Let these people roam loose to come back at us again in a more violent way? And as the article shows a picture of Obama signing, he has this to say, "We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms," as he signed three executive orders and a presidential directive. OMG, win it on our terms?!?! Whose terms are we talking about? The Illuminati?!?!

But above and beyond the posted photo, was the visual I had when I read this: In his first Oval Office signing ceremony, Obama was surrounded by retired senior military leaders. He described them as outstanding Americans who have defended the country — and its ideals. My stomach did a loop to think that men who are way beyond his intelligence factor were subjected to watching their own castration and that of their men....

This is a very sad day in America and to think that only a little over half the American people voted for him. (I was not one of them.) I guess there is just one hope left, prayer.....

~A Time for Healing~

History was made today. America's first black President was inaugurated. And what was the craziest thing, was I didn't watch any of the history in the making. (Unless you count cycling through the TV channels to get to something else to watch then technically my eyes did glimpse a few seconds of it)

Anyone who knows me, knows I am a major history buff and am very into politics. So why was it that I was not front and center at the television to witness such an event? Well first I must admit that this was the first presidential race that I honestly did not follow heavily. Again, why when it was to be a very historical one? I mean our first woman or our first black man could possibly be the next president of the United States of America! Perhaps, it was growing up I once heard that a nation's leader is only as good as its people. And truly a good majority of the American people are slaves to the ever nasty media and can not think for themselves. Almost like sheep ready for slaughter. So whoever was to be voted in, was only to be as good as the people themselves.....

Well I shall answer why I was apathetic to this event in history. I truly was sick and tired of the presidential bashing of George W. Bush. Every time something happened here or even a leaf falling off a tree it was Bushes fault. Being a very patriotic American, I stand by my President. Truly, it isn't just the president that changes the course of this country. He has advisers and a cabinet that help make major decisions and we have a congress and a judicial system that are every bit as involved in major decisions as well. So why is it that suddenly a new democratic, black president is going to ride in and save the country? I am going to laugh four years from now when everyone is Obama bashing and is screaming for change. Get real people, one man can not do it all! To think that, is absolute ridiculousness. If one wants change, than one needs to start with themself and stop being a slave to the media.

Lastly, to finish off why I was not tuned into this most historical day, I being an individual who always sees the glass as full, believe this event is a time for healing. One of America's problems as well as most countries around the globe, is the racial differences that divide a country. Due to our past history of slavery and segregation, nothing not even time seemed to mend these wounds. However, today, with the inauguration of our first black president, these harsh wounds shall hopefully begin to heal. I mean if a man of color can make it to the highest position in the land, then truly those old hurts need to be buried and laid to rest by those that are still carrying them. And perhaps a nation that was subconsciously divided shall be whole once again. I know that is wishful thinking but it is my hope that peace and love will abound and we can all sing kum by ya around a campfire that is until the media comes up with another good divide and conquer tactic. But just speak with me in four years and we can have a cold brew, a hot dog, some apple pie and a good laugh...

The Allure of the Online World

It has been years since Ive been online. I remember the excitement of logging into AOL via dialup. It seemed like forever before the you've got mail would ring through my speakers. You could practically cook a meal in the time it took to log online! And sometimes, I did just that as my computer desk was in the kitchen in those days. Times have changed though and dialup was replaced by high speed internet and AOL chat by Myspace and Facebook. But one thing that hasn't changed, is the allure of the online world.

At the tip of one's fingers, a new friend can come into your world like rain falls in the Amazon jungle. Dating sites abound and there are plentiful faces to choose from like being in a candy store with unlimited choices. And for those doing local online dating, it is like having a See's candy box all to yourself. You can reach in look for the candy of your liking, taste it and toss it back in the box if you don't want a soft center and you'd rather have a nut and chew.

The problem with the ease at which one can find a new 'friend', is that it creates a very disposable mentality. If the person you are with wears the wrong cologne or says something off color, bam time to get a new candy from the box. However, one should not be surprised as this all goes with the American philosophy of everything being disposable. In the old days it was major work to try and find someone of your liking. That meant perhaps a trip to the bar, perhaps a trip to the park with your dog, or perhaps hoping by luck and happen stance you'd meet 'the one' in the grocery store. Not today, merely log online and one can find someone in any country in the world.

I have learned one major thing about this online world and that is we make people out to be who we want them to be. Almost like a favorite pet that we decide to clone. We can turn them on, we can turn them off, we can LOL til the cows come home, we can be risque with conversations and discuss our deepest darkest fantasies and even 'cyber'. But regardless, this world is truly fantasy until one meets and goes through the trials and tribulations of real life ie, work, housework, traffic. Only then does the wit and charm and looks all add up to true compatibility. My friends have always thought me crazy as I am a hopeless romantic and believe that I will meet my prince charming someday and that he just may be online somewhere in this big world. They tell me they will believe it when they see it. Well, I have met someone online who is an amazing man and only time will tell. In the meantime, I shall remain in the allure of this crazy, powerful online world where the mind is king.

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

I'm backkkk......

Okay first things first. I have recently been inspired to blog yet once again. Funny how another influenced me to bring out my dormant inner writer again. ( I just noticed there is spell check!! What more could I ask for?!?!) Since I very much live in my mind, what a fun way to show others that mental people are fun and don't merely need to be locked up!!!



To be technical, it has been since last July that Ive blogged and I merely stopped because as anyone who lives in Southern California can attest to, who sits in front of their computer in the summertime?!? Certainly not me! And I should add, last summer was an absolute blast. But truly life is as fun as you make it and I am one of those people who looks at life with the glass way full. So please enjoy my rants and raves and trust me I have them!!!

Mahalo

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities- Dr. Seuss