It's true!  All the assumptions that have been made about me by certain fictional characters are true. I am a housewife. I stay home and take care of my home and my family. I am the queen of the kitchen, the mistress of the mop, the CEO of the toilet bowl. I am a nurse, a doctor, a pharmacist, a chef, a maid, a teacher, a landscaper, a chaueffer, a veterinarian, an interior decorator, an accountant, a seamstress, a nutritionist, a mechanic, a maintenance person.... I...

I ran a series of these this past spring.  I feel like reviving it.... I'm going to try and grow my hair out to about shoulder length.  After the bad haircut experience a couple of months ago I'm wary of letting anyone get the scissors near my barnet. I used to play the trumpet when i was in HS. I have had 8 sugeries so far.  I'm running out of spare parts....the only thing I have left that I can comfortably live without is my spleen.  The rest of it has gone bad...

I've deleted my blacklisted.  Everyone that was on there has been removed, and my blog is open to all.  Why?  Because I want to see what happens.  I'm curious......

" leader in the moronic movement fled England many years ago as a refugee English housewife, to escape intelligence and manners, to be with like minded idiots in America. Good riddance is what I say, the less moaning morons Britain has the better. She is a traitor to England and St George, and shames her English forbears ." Why was this necessary?  Why was Anthony R's piece about LW necessary?  I have deliberately stayed away from his blog, his articles, and his web site. I...

This will be the only time I will ever do this. I'm asking you for tangible help. As you may already know, we have among us a blogger who's facing the prospect of becoming homeless.  Gideon MacLeish has a wife and 5 children (the youngest being only a couple of months old).  Gideon lost his job a little over a month ago, hasn't qualified for unemployment, probably hasn't qualified for TANF, can't make his rent this month, has no vehicle, has sold or pawned just about everything h...

People who can't stay in one lane when they're driving.  They meander from lane to lane, riding the center line...and making me very nervous. People who have never been to the US, and who's only knowledge comes from what they see on TV or read in the paper...but who think it's ok to slam pretty much everything this country does and says, all the while declaring their country to be morally, intellectually, socially and democratically superior.  It's ok to hate the US.  Everyone ...

Well, I'm glad to see that you haven't all killed each other...       What’s up, JU-ers?   Long time no talk, huh?   Well, we’re all moved in here at Scott AFB in the Great State of Illinois.   We landed on our feet and moved into a 4 bedroom, 2-bath house less than a week after we got here.   Our new home is really not bad…older, yes, but that works with my rustic decorating style.   It’s also one level, so there ar...

I was supposed to have left here by now. I was supposed to be long gone, with not even a second glance.... ....and as you all can tell, I'm still here. I feel like a fraud.  I feel like I wound you all up for nothing, that I made empty and idle threats. I didn't.  I had every intention of splitting.  I emailed all the right people and asked them to do all the things I had requested....and they asked me if them taking care of a little business would change my mind. I...

Despite my ability to mentally compartmentalize, I used to find myself taking things that happen here with me when I got up and walked away from the computer. Good things, and bad things.  Things that made me laugh and smile, and things that made my heart pound and my stomch knot itself up in ire and angst.  I used to wake in the middle of the night sometimes with my pulse racing, the event that had caused me such sorrow in the forefront of my mind. I've had to stop doing that.&n...

This was going to be an article about how JU has seemingly become a haven for hormonally charged teens, name slinging conservatives and small business owners who use it as free advertising and how those three things have made it not-so-much-fun for me to write here anymore. But, I decided that pointing fingers is not the way to go, and that I am in no position to judge anyone, so I deleted all the bitchiness I had written and decided to just state very simply and plainly that for me, blogging...

I've been blogging for almost a year now, and during that time I've seen some questionable stories told in order to demonstrate the writers point.  Stories that are passed off as being factual, but have such big holes and discrepancies in them that it becomes obvious to most readers that it can only be fiction.  Wild accusations are made against all kinds of people and agencies...accusations that, with a little research, are proven to be untrue, yet the writer still claims that the...

This has been coming for a few days now....and I simply can't keep it in any longer. SPELLING CORRECTLY IS IMPORTANT. I'm not talking about the odd slip here and there, we all do that.  I'm talking about a lack of basic spelling skills we all learned when we first started writing.  I'm talking about teenagers, highschoolers not being able to string a sentence together without making a mistake.  I'm also talking about finding it funny and insignificant that you can't spel...

As an act of goodwill, I have decided to rescind my decision to allow only registered users to respond on my blog.  It's open for all....anyone who wishes to comment may do so. I have made my peace with those I formerly described as trolls, and they are welcome here.  I stand by my 'zero tolerance' policy....any troll-esque remarks will still be deleted, but I honestly don't expect too many now.  May 2005 usher in a new era of understanding and mutual respect.  Let...