I'm BaAAAck! (Again)

Wow, it has been so long since i have been here. I have been relying on Facebook to say what I want to say, but since people also know me there by my business, I need to start coming back here for the good stuff. Or bad stuff. Whichever the case may be. Today it is to rant. Hopefully in the next few days or weeks I can get back to the funny stuff. I hope so.

So here I am.

A LOT of things have happened since I was here. My soldier. WOW. Basic Training. She graduated from Basic with a promotion (very rare), out of 172 people in her unit 8 of them were nominated for Soldier of Cycle. She was one of them. She didn't win, but dammit, it IS an honor to be nominated!

So then she goes on to AIT. Out of 325 test questions the entire time she was there, she missed exactly 3. She graduated with honors and ANOTHER promotion. She is now a PFC and she is up for yet another promotion approximately ONE YEAR after going to basic. EXTREMELY unheard of. ALSO, when she got back and was assigned to her permanent unit, she had to re-qualify with her M16A. She shot 40/40 making her and EXPERT marksman, and TOP gun in her unit. In other words, my baby is kicking some Army ass! Seven of those targets were at 300 meters (which if you aren't sure of the conversion, that is longer than THREE, count them, THREE football fields.) They were visible for SEVEN SECONDS. The rest of them were at different lengths but were only visible for 3 seconds. So yeah, I'd say that is DAMN GOOD!

The Princess is doing well too. She got rid of the low life she was living with, moved back in here (the Tomboy moved back out), and she is doing well. Working 2 jobs and planning to start some classes in the fall. She will be doing everything the hard way. But since she isn't one to take advice from her mom and dad, that is simply what she has to do. I am just wanting her to meet a nice guy and settle down. But I don't think there are any nice guys left on this planet, so I think getting grandchildren may never happen.

Ratman is changing jobs. I am going to be a REAL, NORMAL person again! YAY! Health insurance, 401K the works. How great is that? Things are looking up. It's been a while since I saw "NORMAL". Nice to see you again. Gall bladder full of stones, your days are numbered, my friend!

Okay, so now the REAL reason for this post.

I am pissed. (I know, what's new, right?) My life is going well, but there are some things in THIS COUNTRY (besides the huge trillion dollar national debt, the fact that China owns us, we are in a war that has lasted 10 freakin' years, and the price of gas is skyrocketing...), that just ARE NOT.

What am I pissed about you ask? (Or maybe you didn't and don't care, but here it is anyway.) This whole bin Laden thing has me pissed. First of all, I have my doubts about whether they really got the son of a bitch. Secondly, our wonderful president and the CIA are claiming full credit for the fact that he is dead. WHOA, back up a minute there. WHO is responsible? I BELIEVE that would be the SOLDIERS that went in and killed the fucker. You know, those same soldiers that our wonderful government didn't want to even PAY a couple weeks ago. THEY are responsible for killing him. So THEY went in , killed him and THEN, (and I can hardly type this) THEY BURIED HIM AT SEA ACCORDING TO HIS "RELIGION". Okay correct me if I am wrong, but if MY soldier was standing there, and that fucker had a weapon aimed at her head, do you REALLY think HE would ask HER, "So, soldier, according to your religion, what should we do with your body after we blow your fucking brains out?" Um, no.

Sooooo...yeah, I am pissed. He DESERVED to be tortured. Not die a quick death and then thrown in the sea. He DESERVED to be tried and convicted of his crimes and hanged by the neck like Saddam. THAT is what is deserved. However, he was shot and then buried according to his fucking religion.

They have NO consideration for Americans, hell, they don't have consideration for their own people. They tried to kill a bunch of SCHOOL GIRLS by pumping poisonous gas into the heating system. They tried to kill CHILDREN. Would they have cared if those CHILDREN had been buried according to THEIR religion? No.

So yeah, I am pissed off. And I needed a place to rant, so I had to come back here. I am sure I will be back. I miss my blog. I miss THIS. Being able to say whatever I want, whenever I want 'cause I have to play nice because I have kids and customers on my Facebook. So yep, I'm back. I know that I only have you 11 followers and most of you probably don't even read me anymore. But that's okay. I can still come here and rant and feel better.

And now I do.

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It's my baby girl! A US Soldier!

See my precious baby girl!

She would be the one leaning against the tree! I can just hear her now! "I call the tree!!!!"

Yeah.


The girl just in front of her has become a dear friend to her and she is sad that they won't be going on together. But she will be reunited with another friend from our state when she gets to school, so hopefully she won't miss her too badly.

I am so proud of them all!

I'm soooooo disappointed....

So are my 20-year-old and I the ONLY people on the planet that remember "Rocko's Modern Life" and "KaBlam!" from Nickelodeon? Two of THE BEST shows EVER to be on TV?!?!?!?

I am so disappointed. I mean who can forget the episode where Rocko loses his gas cap and has to go the DMV for a new driver's test and during the eye exam the examiner pulls on his eyes and says "Turn your head and cough." Or who can forget the superheroes on "Kablam!"? With lines like, "He's super strong, and super naked!" Oh come on! Have you been living under a rock?

Well if YOU are one of the ones that DON'T remember, those links above are where you can refresh your memory, and if you are a DIE HARD Rocko fan, then NOW is the time to sign up to Netflix, because they have now added them to their line up of FREEBIES you can watch online (as long as you have a subscription to their movies by mail service, which I do, and I LOVE! You just don't get customer service these days the way you do with Netflix! They are amazing and I can't say enough good things about them!) You can watch several seasons, and you can stream them to your TV with a Wii now! Yipee! I can't wait to tell The Tomboy (who graduates from Basic on the 25th, by the way! WOO HOO!), she will be soooo excited, she will spend the first week she is home streaming Rocko! I hope they don't pull them before she is able to get home and re-watch them all!

Now if they will just add "KaBlam!", I will be in classic Nickelodeon twisted cartoon heaven! I may have to write them and BEG them to add it!

And NO this is not an ad for Netflix and I know you are probably thinking "I can't believe I just read this entire post."

He leaves me speechless.....then I blog it....

I know, I have said it a MILLION times, but if it were not for my wonderfully funny hubby, I wouldn't have a blog. He has SUCH a quick wit, and he keeps me laughing all the time. I think that is what makes me love him the most. Well, SOMETIMES...at other times I just shake my head and think, "I married an idiot." Yeah, that one more often. And then I fight the urge to ask myself who is the bigger idiot. I mean, I married him.

Anyway, tonight we were standing in the kitchen, and we were talking about my cousin's husband. He is THE BIGGEST procastinator I have ever seen in my life. Really. I mean, Rat Man procrastinates (don't ALL men), but Scott is just HORRIBLE. And it drives her totally nuts. I have never ever seen anyone that will put stuff off for literally YEARS before they will do something. Something that would take about 15 minutes to do, no less.

She and I had a conversation last night about how bad he was, and I was, of course, bitching about Randy being one too. She would have a story, then I would have a story. You know, girl talk.

So tonight as Rat Man and I were talking about Scott and he being procrastinators and me telling him that Scott was worse that even he is he says "So, you want to make it a competition?"

Me: "Uhhh, NO, you better not! If it is going to be a competition, then it better be YOU being LESS of a procastinator than him, so I can brag about it instead of bitching about it being the other way around. You better not get WORSE about putting things off!"

"Oh okay," says Rat Man with a shrug, "I'll just worry about it later."

I just slapped my forehead and walked away. There just isn't anything you can say to that.

Yep, it has happened again....

Okay, I swear to you, that this shit happens to me ALL THE TIME. I mean I can mention someone that I haven't seen in YEARS and will see them in Walmart. Or driving down the road. It is WEIRD. Freaks me out sometimes. I even dream things sometimes, about funerals and stuff of people that are alive and guess what? Yeah....happened with Randy's uncle and then with my own grandmother. Randy's uncle had cancer at the time, but he wasn't actually sick. I mean, yeah it was coming, and I knew that, and maybe it was just on my mind. But my own Grandmother wasn't. She was still living her life, taking care of others, just gotten a new dog, etc. etc. It was a surprise. And just a few weeks before she died, I dreamed we were at a "wake" at HER HOUSE. And a voice said to me in these EXACT WORDS "The time is growing short; be about your business." And I KNEW. I KNEW. I wanted to think it was someone else, and I tried to just wave it away. But it came.

I have actually had family members hand me ultrasounds and I will KNOW the sex of the baby. Yes, I know I have a 50/50 chance of being right, but when my neice handed me the scan of her 2nd baby and she wanted a boy REALLY BAD, I had to tell her (she and I have always been close; she is like a daughter to me), "Baby," I said as gently as I could,"I'm sorry, but you are having a girl." She said "No way; it is a boy!!!!" I just said "No, Sweetie, it was like someone just screamed into my brain 'GIRL!'" She was disappointed, but was prepared when her little girl was born. We tried it again with her last one. When she handed it to me, and again she wanted a boy, I felt a very quiet "boy"but I just gently said to her. "I can't guess it this time. I want to say boy, but I think I want to say it because you want it so badly and because you want it, I want it for you. So I am not going to say that. So you will just have to wait and see when you have the next scan." It was a boy.

A-N-Y-W-A-Y (I have a point, I promise) THIS shit happens to me ALL THE TIME. I mean CONSTANTLY. Like I said, Rat Man and I can be talking about someone we haven't seen in literally YEARS and I will see them. I will dream about someone I haven't seen in years and see them. I think we all have that little bit of intuition, or maybe it is just a freakin' coincidence and it just happens. But whatever it is, sometimes, it can really make you feel WEIRD, you know? Like I said, we all have a little intuition, and things like this happen to people all the time. Doesn't make the psychic or gifted or special, it just happens.

And with the following I guess you could say it didn't happen to ME this time, but rather Rat Man, really and again, this very thing has happened to us together more times than I can count. (Maybe it is the combination of the 2 of us [???])

We were sitting on the couch the other night and we saw a preview for a movie. I can't even tell you if it was a new movie, an old movie that was coming on TV, can't tell you the name of it; can't tell ya. But they were flashing the scenes and one of the actors was familiar although he was in kinda-sorta heavy makeup. Rat man said "Isn't that umm, ummm...oh you know....Dennis Hopper...????"

"No," I said,"You are thinking of 'Anthony Hopkins'....the guy from Dracula." (And I mentioned Dracula because it is one of our faves; we have seen it over and over and I knew he would know him from that.)

"Oh, yeah...." he replied, "That's who it is!"

So then I asked, "Dennis Hopper was a bad guy on something.....ummmm....what was it? Was it one of the Die Hard movies?"

He answered, "No, it was Speed."

Okay, first let me say that I know this is a boring conversation and you are probably wondering why you are still reading this, and secondly, the name "Dennis Hopper" hadn't been mentioned in this house EVER as far as I can remember. I mean we just never, ever, ever, talked about him that I can EVER recall.

Then today this: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movi...es.ap.org/dennis-hopper-creator-hit-easy-rider-dies-ap

Yep, this kind of thing happens to us ALL THE TIME. It is just TOO WEIRD.........

Ummmmm......

Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus.......

Sorry, had to try....

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Again, if you pray, chant, dance naked around bonfires...

....whatever you do, and whether you like him or not......being a "child of the 80's" I have to say all my best to Mr. Michaels.....http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20363506,00.html

I hope they find out what is causing the problem and hopefully he will survive.....

Really sad....

The Tomboy-A Soldier (And liking it????)

I haven't written about my girl leaving on March 28th, 2010 because it has been too difficult. But it is time.

My "tear away" Army National Guard calendar is still on that day. It will stay on that day until she walks back in this door. I will then tear them off, rip them up and toss them and forget all the agony of missing and worrying. I hope.

She got a 2 minute phone call last night and called us. And you will never believe this part: SHE IS ENJOYING IT! But hey what girl wouldn't enjoy, M-16s, live grenades and tear gas filled rooms you have to find your way out of? I mean really. Sounds like a day at the mall to me. WTF?

And the funny thing? She is NOT gay. Not that I would care if she was, but she isn't. She has always been the Tomboy, but she likes guys (sometimes more than I like *ahem*). She has a gay friend who teases her all the time, but she just tells him "No, James, I am like YOU. I like guys!" Yeah, I think she gets it from her dad. Okay that didn't sound right...she gets her SENSE OF HUMOR from her dad. There.....whew....she gets her love of the opposite sex from....somewhere else....

But here is to my Tomboy Soldier who is actually have FUN at basic training......she never ceases to amaze her mama! Love you, baby girl!

Cats-According to Ratman

This morning the cats were (playfully) fighting for dominance over who was going to get to sit in the front window of the living room.

The female, Wednesday, won. The male, Harley, took his lumps, slinked off the BACK window of the living room where he starting crying like a bitch.

So I said to him "Harley, you let that girl beat you out of the front window and now you are crying? You aren't a Tom, you are a Pussy."

So I then turned to Ratman and said, "Is a male cat STILL a Tom if he has been neutered? If not what do you call him?"

To which he replied "Married."

Let's Talk Movies.....

Okay I know I'm no movie critic, but I don't understand why some movies "tank" at the box office or people find them horrible, so they don't go and see them or won't even rent them on DVD. I have 3 in mind in particular that I actually like and when I watch them (usually over and over) I just don't get what went wrong in the minds of the critics or in the minds of people that have seen them and either didn't "get" it, or just didn't like them.

Now there are some that I cannot stand. The fact that they "tanked" is totally understandable. Some of them did okay at the box office and I am confused. Some of them didn't and they deserved it.

Let's start with Spiderman 3. Okay, the first 2 were good. I liked them. No problem. but the third one? Too many villians, a contrived plot and forced story line. I was exhausted after watching it because there were just way to many things going on all at the same time. It ran too long and was just stressful to watch.

Now let's move on to Red Dawn. I LOVE Patrick Swayze. In my eyes he was a god. He was my hero. But Red Dawn again was a forced, contrived plot, not in any way believable. The acting wasn't even that great. Overall it just didn't do it for me.

Now let's talk about Godzilla. O-M-G. This was the movie that would not end. It was the monster that WOULD NOT DIE. I could go on and on about how long and boring and contrived this one was, but for those of you that suffered through it, I will spare you anymore stress.

And now on to the newest one 2012. Okay, how can one family be THAT lucky? I mean come on! And predictable? It didn't take a genious to figure out who was gonna die, who was gonna be the hero in the end, etc. etc. etc. The special effects were passable, but WOW. SNOOZE.

Now, there are three movies that I want to talk about that I like. And the funny thing is, they didn't go over well with critics and/or with audiences, and I have never been able to understand why.

The first one is Overboard. Okay, so what is so bad about this movie? I mean I can't see going the theater to watch it, but I actually own in on DVD and watch it often. Why? Because it is freakin' funny. I just don't get it. The acting is pretty good, the plot moves along in the right directions. I mean you have to have certain elements that run together in a straight line that make a movie work. You have character intro, character development, plot development, conflict, and then resolution. It all runs in that line, doesn't feel forced, it develops and it wraps up. I mean, whatever....

The second one I want to talk about is Groundhog Day. I don't think people "GET" this movie. It is about growth. You can see a lot of things in this movie. First of all, you can see the steps of grief. When someone dies, we go through steps: Denial, Selfishness, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, Acceptance. It is the same thing if you suffer from any type of trauma. This movie is about that. It is about having a problem, going through the steps, surviving the problem and coming out the other side a better person. Who can't see that? I think it is genious personally. Some people see a guy "doing the same things over and over for 10 years". I see a guy who is growing, changing, adapting, and accepting. It is an eye opener and for anyone going through any crap in their lives it can be uplifting and even helpful. I have heard counselors say they have recommended this movie to their patients to help them go through whatever it is they are going through. So yeah, someone sees the point besides me.

And last, but not least is i Robot. What in the world is so bad about this movie? Even though it is Sci-Fi Fantasy, it has believability. And that is what all Sci-Fi/Fantasy has to have. You have to believe it COULD happen. I think it has to have the "What if" factor. The special effects are good, the acting is good, the plot is good, so what is the problem? I just don't see the bad parts, but apparently I am missing something somewhere. Remember those development parts I mentioned in Overboard? They happen in this movie too. I just don't get what is so bad about it.

I know I am just one person, never been to film school, know nothing about movie reviewing, but I can tell you if a movie is "flowing" or not, just on instinct. If it doesn't wear me out trying to find the plot line, doesn't have 3 or 4 plots running simultaniously, possesses "believability", makes you laugh, or makes you think, and doesn't totally put you to sleep, then how is that bad?

I mean there are people that actually LIKED Idiocracy!!! What IS this world coming to?

Okay, I will shut up now. This was just something on my mind, because I read today that they are thinking of "remaking" the movie Overboard and are thinking of putting in Jennifer Lopez. GAG. So it made me think about some of these movies and how some of them didn't deserve the bad reviews they got; and how some of them DID. There are others, but I will spare you any more opinions.....

You're welcome.

I FINALLY Made Him Speechless

So the conversation goes something like this:


Me: "I took this test online and it said that I am a "Fantasy Escapist". Which yeah, I can see that I like to get lost in stuff like Harry Potter, Stephen King, and any good book...I'm there! I think that is why I can even tolerate Twilight. The whole 'fantasy aspect'. I loves me some fantasy..."

Ratman: "Fantasy Escapist, huh? Well I could have told you that." Pause. "Especially during sex."

Me: "Yeah well, how am I supposed to have sex with you when I can't pretend you are someone else?....Ahhh Patrick Swayze.." (Me with a dreamy smile.)

Ratman: "You are GROSS! You want to have sex with a DEAD MAN?!?!?! Ewwww..."

Me: "No, Dear," stated matter-of-factly, "That is why I fantasize in the first place."


He didn't have a reply.

Ummm, H-E-L-L-O We KNEW That!

Why is this such news? We already knew.....

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/132331/ricky-martin-i-am-a-fortunate-homosexual-man/

Here is a list of the other gay people that just need to "out" with it already. Good grief. Like we care!

Whoopi Goldberg (Is she "out" already? Can't remember.)
Robert Pattinson
Ryan Seacrest
Anderson Cooper (CNN)
Zac Efron
Johnny Depp (Sorry, I think he is totally Y-U-M-M-Y, but I also think he is totally I-N D-E-N-I-A-L, but that is just me......)

and if you know of more, please put them in the comments:o)

Gee, even I can think of better headlines than Ricky Martin coming out!

Slow news day, I guess.

And what did we learn?

Twenty year old RIDES tricycle.


Twenty year old FALLS OFF tricycle.



Twenty year olds SHOULD NOT ride tricycles.




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I Kissed a Frog and I Liked It!

You gotta laugh....you know?

http://www.aolhealth.com/2010/03/01/frog-salmonella

Oh, SNAP!

I showed Ratman this photo of the oh-so-slutty-er-lovely Miley Cyrus, and I said to him:

"Can't this girl ever stand up straight?"

To which he replied in all his Ratman-esque glory, "You would be stooped over too if you had to carry your father for all these years."

Yeah, that's what I thought you said.

E-Diets?

Ratman says he wants to try E-Diets.com . He figures you can lose a LOT of weight when your meals are all e-mailed or you print them off online.

He wants to know if they have a "text" version so he can get the meals directly sent to his phone.

Yeah, he is smart like that.

RIP Andrew Koenig

I want to put the link to this story, but I also want to put the link to this page that has a wealth of suicide prevention hotlines and help.

First the story about Andrew (I am a HUGE Trekkie and he is the son of the guy that played Chekov) http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=484341&gt1=28103

And now the link to the hotlines. If you know of anyone and suspect they are hurting this badly, please, please do whatever you can to see they get the help they need. My cousin killed himself and it is beyond awful.

http://suicidehotlines.com/


RIP Andrew Koenig, you have no pain now.

So who DOESN'T like the new "We Are the World"?

Okay, could've done without Kanye and ...choke...gag....Miley, but hey they got Pink.....and VINCE VAUGHN! lol

Actually I really like it. Very nice in my opinion....great update with the hip hop and African language.....

Then again I watched Ghost today and I have been in "boo hoo" mode ever since.

Yeah......

Can anyone say "Eww"?

Ummmmm.....yeah that is all I can say to this one.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34976869/ns/travel-destinations/?GT1=43001

Random Thought-I Have Those Sometimes

So if they have that KY lube stuff for him and the KY lube stuff for her, what if the couple is kinky and likes to invite others to join them. Do they make a KY lube for "THEM"? I could just see the ad now:

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Now introducing a whole NEW KY Jelly Lubricant! Not only do we make it for HIM, and for HER so that when you and your partner come together (insert the "Tah Dah!" here ) but we also make it for anyone you want to have join you in the bedroom. Introducing BRAND NEW KY for THEM!

And then you hear that whole Opera aria thing "Ahhhhhhhh" and you see THREE people laying there in the bed, (two women and one man, or two men and one woman, whichever you see in YOUR own random thought) all spent, hair a mess, smoking cigarettes......

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Yeah, I think about some pretty weird things sometimes......

I was just wondering....

And now I have proven my point about dogs.....

They are the best animals in the world. Dontcha think?

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/pets/2010/01/04/2010-01-04_canadian_familys_golden_retriever_angel_saves_11yearold_owner_from_cougar_attack.html