I've seen some comments made about my friend Sabrina recently that have really bothered me.  Certain people seem to think that she's responsible for all the ills of the world....that she's broken up marriages, screwed people over, hurt people's kids and kicked people's puppies.  None of those things is true. My friend Sabrina is a wonderful, loving human being.  The pain she suffers on a daily basis would be enough to make some people curl up and die, but she presses on and tri...

Today's mental health condition of the day is narcissism. NARCISSISM (n. sing.) A pattern of traits and behaviours which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. Narcissism is named after the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus who was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo. In punishment of his cruelty, he was doomed to fa...

Link   Your birth on the 16th day of the month gives a sense of loneliness and generally the desire to work alone. You are relatively inflexible, and insist on your being independent. You need a good deal of time to rest and to meditate. You are introspective and a little stubborn. Because of this, it may not be easy for you to maintain permanent relationships, but you probably will as you are very much into home and family. This birth day inclines to interests in the...

Truday sent me some pictures of her and her new knee this morning, and asked that I post them for her....so, here they are! This is Trudy in the nursing home after the surgery: And this is her knee the day after she went bionic!   Isn't she a cutie?!

I've decided to start a regular feature on my blog. I've been reading '100 people who are screwing up America' and it's inspired me.  I'm going to write an article a day about public figures who piss me off.  They might be politicians, actors, actresses, evangelists, comedians, authors.....anyone who is in the public eye is fair game.  The articles will be much like the one I wrote earlier this week about Al Sharpton. So, starting tomorrow, look for the first installment of ...

Tell me about yourself... Name: Karen Birthday: June 16th Birthplace: Oxford, England Current Location: Illinois Eye Color: Blue Hair Color: Red...oh, you mean naturally?  Reddish-brown. Height: 5'2' (and fixing to get shorter) Right Handed or Left Handed: Right Your Heritage: I have no idea.  I was adopted as an infant and have no biological family history.  I'm British by birth, though.  The Shoes You Wore Today: Flip flops Your Weakness: ...

Link The above link will take you to the MIT blogger survey page. If you request to participate, they'll send you a login key to your email address, and then you simply follow the link they provide and answer a few simple questions about your blog and your blogging habits. Become a statistic!  Take part today!

I'm interested in knowing what people's personal beliefs are. I don't want what your book of faith tells you you should believe, so please don't trot out the party line...tell me what YOU think, what YOU hold to be true. I believe in Karma, I believe that what you do comes back to you. I believe that compassion, tolerance and love will get you far, and that spite and anger are destructive properties.   I believe that we have souls, and that when we die our souls are released and are e...

Every time I click on an article in the forums to read, I get an error message that says 'object refernce not set to the instance of an object' (or something like that). Am I the only person having this issue?   

I know that you read my blog.  Yeah you....you know who you are.  I know that you read because your reading what I write here is what kicked this all off. You say that your feelings are hurt because I wrote about you. Did you ever stop to think that your actions hurt MY feelings, and that was why I wrote about them?  Do you not see that this blog is like my journal; that I vent here?   Do you not understand that I don't say anything here that I wouldn't say to yo...

Yes, I'm doing it again. I'm interrupting the flow of oh so important articles about politics and current events to talk about an appliance.  If you don't like reading about such things, I suggest you not read any further... I got me a new toy today. I got a Dirt Devil Floor Keeper.  I saw it at the BX, and it was marked down a whole bunch......it usually retails for $99.99, but I got it for $35. It's worth the $100, believe me.  This thing is fantastic. ...

My friend Paris got this chain email from his dad....and he got irritated enough to respond to it.  It's a kick ass response too, I've made it bold so you can see where the email ends and his words begin... DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to thebuilding which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view  ... it is Moses a...

My blog is like a personal journal to me.  It's a place for me to vent, to write about how I'm feeling and why.  It's semi-theraputic; I find that writing about things helps me think them through better and be less emotional about them.  So, if people get upset at what I've written about how I'm feeling, should I apologize?  Should I remove what offends them and say I'm sorry for feeling that way?  Should I have to censor myself and my emotions? I don't think ...

I'm reading 'Eats, Soots and Leaves', the book about punctuation misuse and abuse ( I got it at the thrift store for a dime which makes me incredibly happy, but that's a whole other blog). The book mentions an 'Apostrophe Protection Society'.  At first I thought it was a joke, but I went and Googled it...and it's a real organization!   Link The above link is to the 'examples' page.....it's full of pictures of signs that people have put on display that are full of pun...