I've been asked if I can give the legal office 5 days of work a week. Apparently they like me....so I've agreed. I've also decided to becomes comissioned as a Notary. It will make me more useful to the folks at legal; I'll be able to notarize Powers Of Attorney and Wills etc etc - right now, I can create and witness the documents, but not notarize them. Things are going well. Instead of waking up in the morning with a sinking feeling and being sad all day, I'm...
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 is my favorite poem. The last stanza of this is what's going to be inscribed on my memorial plaque. For no particular reason (other then I felt like it) I give you: INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd. ...
My big brother came to visit this afternoon. He only stayed for a couple of hours, but it was fan-freakin'tastic to see him again. He bought me loads of English chocolates, played with my kids...it was just wonderful. we both got teary eyed at seeing each other again...stood in the middle of a Metro tram platform in the freezing cold and biting wind, blubbing at seeing each other again. I'm still crying as I write this. I'm promising myself that it won't be another 10 ...
Our plans of a quiet evening together have been rudely interrupted. D has been called in to in-process a prisoner...I knew it was coming; the prosecuting attorney I work for made me aware of it earlier in the week. The incoming prisoner is a piece of work...and that's really all I can say about it. Once it's gone to trial and has been adjudicated I can say more, but until then I'm not allowed to speak about it. I'll just say that he deserves every second of jail time he gets, and ...
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...
..that show me just how much he loves me. Like this morning, when he came home from PT, all sweaty and breathless, clutching a bunch of flowers he had bought for me. Like this lunchtime, when he came to my office to escort me to lunch instead of having me meet him somewhere. Like over lunch when he took my hand (he was in uniform; Public Displays of Affection are a no-no) in the middle of a crowded eatery and said that although things have changed since we first met and got marri...
I filed our taxes yesterday. We used H&R Block's efile service last year and were pretty happy with it, so we used it again this year. It really came in handy.....I was done in under 20 mins. We e-filed, and got confirmation that the IRS had recieved it this morning. Last year we got a refund in about a week...this year I think it might take 2 (due to the day and time that we filed on. Disbursements are usually made on Fridays, and I'm not sure that we m...
...D and I got married. (Jan 21st, 1994) It was a slightly unconventional wedding. I wore green crushed velvet, he wore jeans and cowboy boots. We rejected the idea of a church wedding and chose a simple justice of the peace ceremony instead. Our friends were there, but no family...his couldn't make it, and my father was too ill to travel at the time, so we had two of our friends stand up for us instead. 11 years of marriage....it hasn't been easy. It hasn't ...
The first episode of the new series of American Idol is giving me a headache. It's very hard to watch....veery, very hard to watch. I sit here, cringing. Wincing visibly, I'm told, at the attempts some people are making to 'sing'. I am constantly amazed at people's ability to sweeten the truth, to make it a little easier on themselves. People manage to talk themselves into believing anything....and then are devastated when they are told what the rest of us can see - that the...
Witnessing other people's wills and POA's over the past week or so has spurred me into making one of my own. I don't have much to distribute after I'm gone, but there's a section on the will worksheet that allows me to detail what kind of burial I want (if any). I like it. I have some somewhat radical ideas about burial, and I've checked the legitimacy and legality of what I want...so far, all systems are go. I want a 'green' burial. I want to be put in the earth, eith...
In my last article, I outlined my D and my plans to get a VW vanagon or Westfalia camper and take off around the good ol' US of A every summer (this is after our kids have split, of course). Dr Guy responded and mentioned that I might just be a 'hippie'. This got me thinking.....what makes a person a 'hippie'? When you say hippie to me, I think of a tye-dye and birkenstock wearing, stinky, dreadlocked, hairy legged chick who smokes a lot of pot, doesn't eat meat, and who loves the Gr...
D and I have been checking out VW Vanagon's and Westfalia's on the 'net. There's a distinct possibility that we will be the proud owners of such a vehicle in the not too distant future. We have a dream you see. One that sort of supercedes the homestead dream, one that's going to be much easier to achieve. We want to buy a vintage vanagon, one with a sink and stove and fridge. One that has a canvas pop-up on the top so you can stand up in the back of it. One that has th...
Charles Graner's been sentenced to 10 years in prison for what he did at Abu Ghraib. Because of the length of his sentence, he's going to be transferred to Ft Leavenworth to the military brig there to serve his time. Leavenworth's not a nice place to be. It's the largest military prison...it's where the worst of the worst get sent. There's a pecking order in prisons, as anyone who's either done time or worked in a facility can tell you, and Leavenworth is no different. Usual...