so.

happy new year. i know i'm a bit late. but i've just been busy and stuff.

not sure doing what. but i'm certain i've been busy doing something.

and i won't admit that it was watching brittney breakdown coverage. gotta love that showbiz tonight. and i've concluded that the hairstyle of the woman who has been filling in for nancy grace can be referred to as a mullet.

and how bout that new episode of colbert last nite? "which brings us tonight's word!" pause "and that's the word - we'll be right back."

due to a proposal in bars in st. charles - i wikipedia'd profanity today. interesting read. i don't think i've seen a certain four letter f word (not fart) used as an example so many times. i have decided that if the proposal goes through i will no longer be able to go to bars in st. charles as i have a strong tendency to dance on tables while screaming colorful poetry after i've participated in the nightly drinking contest. i'll just have to stick to jeff county where my talents are appreciated.

what? we don't go to bars in jeff county? what? i seldom go to bars anywhere? hmmm. wonder where that drinking contest was then....

anyway - a few countdowns for you.

23 hours until i have another reason to be nervous
4 days till cookies go on sale
5 days till i'm forced to sit through high school musical at the fox
7 days till idol starts and my blog gets funny again
10 days till the next three day weekend

i know this is gonna sound stupid

but i can't seem to figure out why it is when someone famous is murdered - it's called an assassination. but when joe blow down the street is killed because someone doesn't like him - it's just called murder.

i looked on wikipedia - cause if it's on wikipedia it must be true. hence wikiality. but that's not important.

wikipedia says that assassination is "the murder of a public figure. An added distinction, among assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those not part of an organization) also demonstrate insanity; other motivations are money (contract killing), revenge, or a military operation."

i know that defines the word specifically as the murder of a public figure. i kinda wonder about the etymology of the word - but not enough to research it. but i don't get why we need a word to distinguish between the two.

it seems to me that when joe blow down the road was shot and killed for the $50 in his back pocket or because he was getting it on with someone else's woman - that he's just as dead as mr. super joe blow in hollywood, new york, or d.c. i don't think mr. super joe blow's murder is any more special than regular joe blow's murder. they're both dead at the hands of someone else.

to me it would seem that to call some one's murder an "assassination" makes it sound like it is more important, special, notable, and tragic than anyone else's murder. and something about that just doesn't seem right to me.

and now i'm thinking in circles. it's quite dizzying.

i should go back to writing about celebrities and reality tv. lucky for me that idol starts in a couple of weeks!

hmmm

according to this, my presidential match is democratic NM governor bill richardson.

interesting - i so wasn't heading his direction that i don't think i even have a clue who he is....

all i got for christmas is....

• 2 fleece throw blankies
• 1 box of colored pencils that i think were really intended for nina
• 1 helly kitty/hello christmas book + subscription to light and tasty
• 1 additional are you smarter than a fifth grader game (which santa brought nina)
• 1 pair of pj's
• 1 gwen stefani l.a.m.b. perfume gift set
• 1 kelly clarkson cd - my december
• 1 copy of Stephen Colbert's "I am America (and So Can You!)
• 1 $15 starbucks gift card
• 1 card with $50 that i have to share with jeff
• 1 set of spiffy knives like rachel ray and alton brown use.
• 1 grater thingie that has some professional name but we call a grater thingie
• 1 necklace
• 1 calendar - hand made by nina
• 1 large bath sheet towel - jeff got one that matches
• 3 plastic tumbler glasses with cats on them
• 2 beanie baby gingerbread boys - one boy - one girl
• 1 t-shirt from pensicola
• 1 battery operated candle glowy thingie
• 2 ornaments - one gingerbread - one new orleans mask/jester
• 1 chocolate gingerbread boy
• 1 letter from the eastern missouri bankruptcy court notifying me that the sperm donor had filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy and that i was listed as creditor because he still owes me over $16,000 and that i might want to contact a lawyer to make sure my rights were protected
• 1 pair of gingerbread boy socks
• 1 coffee mug with hot cocoa
• 1 losing scratchers ticket
• 2 tickets to see wicked at the fox on january 1

the politically correct christmas story...

i got a kick out of this piece from stltoday...

bad idea...

reports are saying that nick is considering doing a special on teenage pregnancy in light of the jaime lynn controversy.

i think it's a bad idea.

i am by no means a hypocrit. i had a kid out of wedlock. being a single mom is hard. i've been there.

i sat and watched the jaime lynn enhanced episode of showbiz tonight on cnn last nite and they were flying from all angles.

"she should be commended for not getting an abortion and stepping up to the plate."

yeah yeah yeah. she doesn't deserve a medal because she said she's keeping the baby. she should get one if she actually sticks to her word and tries to give the kid a normal life. not the hollywood kid life. but a normal life. without nannies or personal assistants or a pr agency to smooth things over.

"being a single mom is so hard - especially for a teenager!"

sure. talk to you me when you don't have a trust fund, hit tv show, cd, or deal with ok mag to sell your photos after the baby's born for several million dollars. try it with a savings account with $300 and no job or insurance. have to deal with the system. medicaid. child support. talk to me then.

"her career is over" "why can't she be a teenage mom and have a career too?"

she can have a career. i just don't think it should be this one. nina can no longer watch zoey 101. when i told her why - all she said was "she's too young to have a baby." she's a horrible example for little girls. "do as i say - not as i do."

i think that if nick goes ahead with this special to try and smooth over the crisis at hand - it's going to glamorize the whole concept of teenage pregnancy. ok has a deal for the first pictures of jaime and baby. jaime lynn isn't going to have a tough go of it. not at all. little girls have been looking up to her and now they're going to see what she did as being cool. having a baby is going to be a fun adventure for her. not the struggle that it really is for the single young mom. no matter how the publicists try to spin it.

nick can't fire her for being pregnant unless her contract has something in it about morals - which i doubt. but they can pull they show for bad ratings. and i have a feeling that they will be going down.

maybe i'm wrong. it's possible. i just can't see it as anything but a bad thing. the ok deal. the possible nick special. using jaime lynn as an example. all it will show is how much fun she's having - not the dirty nitty gritty of it all.

use a real situation as an example. not a piece of pr being spun by the master manipulators of truth in hollywood...

i am so depressed.

as of 4:10 pm central time today - nina will be 10....

oh - and how bout that jaime lynn spears?

ya'll remember...

ya'll remember (goin all britney spears on ya with my ya'lls now) back in the summer i gave ya'll a link to youtube for my intern who was trying to become an youtube star with their youtube series "chris n chair"?

well - the first full episode is finally available. doug tells me it's about 18 minutes long - so only watch when you have time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYs4yT6fDxk

here's the link to part 2 of the first episode....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrGW9v3JBQ

csi

nicki was buried alive.
brass was shot and almost died.
katherine had her daughter abducted and father shot to death in front of her eyes.
greg got the crap kicked out of him.
sara was abducted, trapped under a car, almost drowned in a desert rain storm and flash flood, and nearly died from dehydration and exaustion while trying to walk to safety.

now warrick is being accused of murdering a stripper and leaving her in his own car (now how dumb would he have to be to do THAT anyway - get real) while on a massive trip from combining perscription pharmacuticals.

is no one on the cast safe?

we've decided that grissom is the only one left - and we suspect that when they finally getting around to him - the ending won't be happy....

my take on this whole megan meier thing...

ya'll knew it would only be a matter of time before i chimed in on this with my thoughts. since it's all over the news - pretty much daily now - and the back lash on both sides is about insane - this is what i think.

Two wrongs NEVER make a right. Never.

The Drews created the account to gain her trust and teach her a lesson. It was wrong. No matter why they thought she deserved it - whatever they thought she did or was doing to their daughter to deserve to be taught a lesson - it was wrong. Revenge is always wrong.

What the Meier's did with the fooseball table - the distruction of property - while done out of grief and anger and passion of the heat of the moment - was wrong.

Now people are targeting either family for different reasons. The "blog". The lists of the Drew's personal information. The calls for boycotts. The protests. The vandilizations of homes. The harrassment of innocent bystanders and business owners. It's all wrong. Not one bit is justifiable. Not one bit of it makes anything right.

A little girl lost her life. A family lost their daughter. Another family has lost their business and saftey. How is any of the backlash going to fix that? It won't.

The only thing left to do is to treat our children the meaning of the word respect. Teach them that each person in this world is infinately valuable. Teach them to turn the other cheek. Teach them that each person has emotions, beliefs, concerns, feelings. Teach them that everyone is different and it's those differences that make us unique and special. Teach them what a boring world the place would be if everyone looked the same, felt the same, believed the same, had the same opinions. Teach them that it's those differences that make the world wonderful. Teach them that two wrongs NEVER make a right.

Most importantly, teach them that they don't have to like or agree with a person, but they do have to show them respect. Everyone deserves respect - no matter what they may or may not have done.

go tigers!!!

even if i'm not a mizzou alum. i mean - it's not like fontbonne had a football team. so if i'm gonna fit in at the office with all the other college football fans - i have to have someone to root for...

giggle

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9616331857

survey says?

i've added a new feature to my brain - to the right you will see a poll. this first one is lame. but i'm tanked up on cough meds right now - so i can't think of anything better...

so - survey says? what holiday decorations should i put up first?

i like gingerbread boys and girls...

yum.

more fun with neighbors...

so ya'll remember my insane weirdo neighbor who left the landscaping bricks in his front yard for 11 months until i called the city to report it??

well, two weeks ago, he had several panels of privacy fence delivered. they were placed in the back yard, lined up against the fence on one side of the yard like that was where they were going to be installed.

then they blew over and laid on the ground and up against the swing set for a few days. then they were picked up. then blown over again. now they are picked up again.

we're waiting to see how many months before they actually install the fence. we'll be happy when they do - it will block rolen's ability to see the dog he doesn't like...

roley poley update...

we took rolen back to the vet tonite and the dr. was very happy to see that rolen was doing much better. he actually admitted he was surprised to see him getting around so well. it's a night and day difference from where we were a week ago...

he's jumping on the couch better, moving around better, can stand to potty better, and is managing the stairs on the deck better. not better enough that we're moving his kennel back downstairs just yet. but better. he's eating and drinking like a pig which is largely because of the steroids. i took that steroid once for a spider bite and ate everything in sight. we went to the ball game where i out ate jeff by eating a foot long hotdog, hand rolled pretzel, large specialty nachos, ice cream, peanuts - and then looked at him and said i was still hungry.

he still can over do it pretty quickly and easily. but if we can get him to rest it helps. he's not as hyper as he usually is - i think he tires out quickly. but he's slowly returning to being his normal self.

the prognosis - while not officially given - appears to be really good. the vet refilled the antibiotics and steroids for another 10 days but reduced the dosages - antibiotics by half, steroids by 3/4 ths. we're still supposed to keep him still - but the more he heals - the harder that is. he thinks he's super dog. we're supposed to check back in 10 days.

this has changed our thanksgiving plans quite a bit. he's not well enough to go wrestle with his doggie foster brother for four days straight - we'd be right back where we started. so on thursday, jeff and i will drive to the campground to meet up with my parents, siblings, and nina for dinner and then jeff will come back home to take care of rolen while nina and i stay until saturday morning. this way i can keep up the friday morning shopping tradition.

so - that's all that.

gobble gobble!

for those who have been wonderin

i know i've been quiet - but it's been a crazy couple of weeks.

jeff spent last week in NOLA. i should have pictures to post in the next few days.

and once he returned, rolen got really sick. he was doing this strange thing for about two weeks where he would come in from outside and drink a bunch of water and then he would throw it up. dogs do strange things like that so we didn't think much of it. friday i noticed a slight limp in his hind legs. saturday he started stumbling going up the stairs and stuff.

we got the vet to squeeze him in on saturday. the vet said he had a fever and thought he might have been infected by a tick and put him on an antibiotic and steroid. he stopped eating on saturday and by sunday was getting worse. there was no strength in his back legs. he couldn't go up stairs at all and down wasn't easy either. we had to move his kennel into our very small living room - where it still is. he still wasn't eating or drinking.

we took him back to the vet monday - by then he couldn't stand to pee or poo and was walking kinda like a frog. it was step. step. step. sit. they sedated him and did xrays and blood work. (BTW - PRICEY!) the xrays showed no breaks. the blood work was normal. no infections. white and red blood counts normal (which means it may not have been a tick at all). organs all fuctioning normally. they shot him with an anti inflammatory and told us to keep him quiet and still. touch back in a few days to check on his progress. we've been babying him ever since.

we got him to start eating on monday nite - i got some of those packets of food with the meaty chunks and potatos and rice. he thinks those are a treat anyway. he also started drinking again and he can keep it all down now.

the last two days have shown some improvement. if he's still for awhile - he can use his back legs better. but he over does it and tires out very easily. going potty is still an ordeal.

i'll touch base with the vet again tomorrow on his progress. i think i'll ask for an oral anti inflammatory to get us through the weekend - just in case. i think the shot helped quite a bit.

so that's the last week in a nut-shell.

it's hard to be my goofy self with this stuff goin on...

on a high note - my table took 6th place in epiphany's trivia nite saturday. we rock and stuff....

woops!

i wonder if perhaps the performer just wore the wrong outfit. perhaps she reached into her closet for her gorilla suit and accidently grabbed the g string and pasties instead...

sign the colbert petition!

i did...

http://www.colbert2008.org/

halloween pet peeves

i know that halloween has been over for about 12 hours now. but there are a few things that annoy me and i have to get them off of my chest.

1. people who don't follow the rules.

the rules are fairly simple, right? porch light on - you go to the house to trick or treat. no light - no treats. simple. you don't go to the doors without lights on. you don't leave your light on if you aren't home or have no intention of opening the door. it's really not hard. and if you are having a block party and you are all gonna hang out at one house with your bowls of candy - don't leave the lights on at your houses anyway...

2. i don't like propaganda with my candy.

i don't care what good cause you are a part of. i don't want peta stickers. coupons and information for body works at the science center. cereal baseball card prizes that you also gave us the past 3 years in a row. just fork over the kit kats and leave the rest to bumper stickers.

3. kids want junk.

while it's nice to think of the health of the kids and all, but most normal children don't eat sunflower seeds. air popped popcorn isn't usually good either. and don't even get us started on raisins.

4. make my kid work for her treat.

ask her about her joke. at least try to figure out what her costume is or acknowledge it. i spent a lot of time in good will for crying out loud!!!