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And The Winner Is…

  • Posted on January 30, 2010 at 8:22 pm

… FACEBOOK!

Facebook has officially beat out Myspace and Twitter, and won the social networking race. how do i know this, you ask?

i have been able to reconnect with nearly all my high school classmates, and keep in touch with all the friends i left behind when i moved to my current location. i’ve even made some of the best friends a girl could ask for by meeting people on message boards, then turning around and chatting more on FB.

but that’s not why FB wins. Myspace was able to do the same thing for me.

my brother and sister are on there. as is my husband- who swore he’d never fall into the social networking trap. my mother, father, MIL, aunt(s), uncle, 4 cousins, and various 2nd cousins twice removed 3 spaces down and to the left are also on there.

but you don’t really think that’s why FB wins, do you? no. sure, my MIL is computer retarded, and my parents are over 50… but my dad has a Myspace too, so that cancels out the point.

FB wins the race because my 86 year old grandmother is officially on Facebook, and is adding friends as i type this. i think it’s kinda cool… she’s always tried to keep up with the times technologically as best she could… but she’s getting just a bit dotty in her old age, so it kinda came out of the blue. guess i should have expected it as the next step in the process after she sent me a webcam last year so we could live chat. (i was unable to use it with the lag on my satellite internet)

yep… my elderly grandmother has joined FB. that, my friends, is why Facebook wins the race.

SO, that brings me to you. you know my story… what’s yours? who is the most unexpected, unlikely person you have seen lurking around the pages of Facebook? oh, and if you don’t have a facebook account… what’s wrong with you??? my 86 year old grandmother has a FB account!!!

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Are They Trying To Scare Me To Death???

  • Posted on January 29, 2010 at 11:59 pm

i would like to know what kind of grudge the media has against me.

okay, i know that they don’t particularly give two shits about me personally, but their news stories are driving me nuts.

i don’t watch the news on television because it’s never filled with anything but death and mayhem. it’s like they’re always trying to trump each other and themselves with what kind of horrifying story they can come up with next.

i understand that there are terrible things that happen every day, and we deserve to be informed of them to help keep us safe, but is that ALL they have to report on? can they at least balance out the murders and rape with sweet adoption stories, cancer survival, or good deeds going rewarded???

i’ll be honest with you, these stories really freak me out. i don’t need to hear about people’s homes being broken into while they’re sleeping, women being repeatedly sodomized by intruders in their own homes, or the sentencing of a serial murderer. i get all my news through my Google and Yahoo homepages. i figure, if there was something really important going on, they’d headline it… even if there isn’t a death involved. Yahoo gives me subject categories to chose from… i keep it on Entertainment, because celebrity train-wrecks are much easier to deal with than the tragedies they keep on my Local page.

sometimes, however, i choose take a peek at the Local news. it’s always a mistake.

today’s headlines are:

  • houses broken into while residents sleep
  • man sentenced in rape of a child
  • Roeder’s Ex wife reacts to verdict
  • Student suspended after gun found
  • Authorities file charges in shooting
  • self defense experts advise caution

now doesn’t that just make you want to sleep all cozy tonight???

i would love to know where it says in the rule book that news stations can only report on stuff that’s going to scare people into self medicating. if i actually made an effort to check on the news on a regular basis, i’m pretty sure i’d eventually resort to suicide so i could escape this cruel, cruel world. according to the news, nothing good ever happens. i’m so sick of looking at the news, only to have them stab me in the heart yet again with fear. i’m so tired of being afraid.

it makes me think of the book The Host, by Stephanie Meyer. it makes me wish that the Souls would come and make it all better, even if it does mean losing ourselves. it makes me sad that we live in a world that seems to think that violence is the only thing worth talking about.

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Fiction Friday: NO I DIDN’T

  • Posted on at 11:11 am

today is friday. a fact which seems odd to me, because i could have sworn it was actually friday five days ago, while at the same time i’m pretty sure that just yesterday was monday. it’s been a rough week in the house of Nobody. the bone-aching cold is back, only this time we don’t have the benefit of snow days to keep us inside. my husband was home longer than usual, but even with a Yoga class and some delicious soul-cleansing chocolate chip cookies on the menu, we keep snapping at each other like rabid dogs.

this week, i did absolutely NOT

- consume 12 homemade chocolate chip cookies in a row in a wave of self pity.

- read books two and three in the “Olympians” series in one day because i didn’t want to do my housework.

- leave the dishes in the sink all day yesterday and all night.

- forget to buy meat while out grocery shopping. i also did not neglect to cook anything for lunch or dinner, prompting a fight about my lack of work around the house.

- have to go grocery shopping again today to pick up all those meat products that seem to have slipped my mind last time i was in the grocery store.

- forget to pay the gas bill and the mattress payment, prompting late charges and more fuel for arguments.

- separate my nail from my cuticle while peeling a grapefruit. have you ever gotten grapefruit juice in a cut? IT HURTS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.

- change a poopy diaper and soaking wet clothing on my sweet baby girl at four o’clock in the morning.

- have to change a diaper between the hours of 2 and 4  EVERY NIGHT because for some reason my daughter holds ALL her pee until after she goes to bed. if by some miracle she sleeps through the night, she always wakes up in a puddle of her own urine bigger than SHE is. no, that absolutely doesn’t happen to me.

in conclusion, i would like to state that i am absolutely NOT in a terrible, grouchy mood. i do NOT need a bucket sized latte to keep me moving, and i do NOT want to get Old Man Winter and Jack Frost in a deserted parking lot and beat them to a bloody pulp with a crow bar. nope, not me.

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Helping Haiti

  • Posted on January 27, 2010 at 9:39 pm

there are some people out there who are beginning to resent all the help that Americans are sending to Haiti… they are even going to far as to compare it to the Katrina disaster, and wonder why we didn’t help the Katrina victims as much as we are helping Haiti. they resent the commercials, and the publicity that celebrities are getting from it. they resent the money that we are throwing over there… maybe they have visions of Haitians re-building multi-million dollar mansions out of all the money and living better than “us poor middle class Americans” are? how do they think these people were living to begin with? ultimately, i think that resentment is borne of ignorance… thankfully, ignorance isn’t a permanent thing. people just need to open their eyes and realize several things.

- Haiti doesn’t have anyone to help them. they have no insurance or helpful health programs. they don’t have “help the poor programs” or soup kitchens in nearby states they can resort to in times of extreme need. they don’t have relatives or generous neighbors a few hours down the road that they can house with until they get back on their feet… they quite literally have nothing to help them… other than the generosity of richer countries.

- we are helping other human beings. i understand that there are poor and starving people in the US too, but how can you deny someone else help in that situation? would you pull everybody back home and tell them fix it themselves? wow, selfish much? just because they aren’t on “home soil” doesn’t mean they don’t deserve our help. yes, the Katrina disaster was awful, but i’d like to think that we as a country learned a lot from that situation… and we are using all those lessons to help other human beings in need. this isn’t about Americans or Haitians, this is about people. believe it or not, we all bleed red.

- i strongly believe that everything we do will come back ten fold. if we do our best to help people in need, then i believe people will be there when we are in need. it’s called Karma, and i wish everybody lived by it’s laws. it would make things so much easier.

but that’s just my opinion. i’m not paying attention to any of the news stories or the telethons. in fact, i’ve never even seen any of the commercials that people are comparing to the PETA or starving children commercials. i’ve read a few blogs commenting on it, seen a couple news stories that i failed to click on on the web, and seen a couple status updates regarding it. i even grabbed a $1 donation coupon at the grocery store…but that’s it.

the commercialization of the disaster isn’t bothering me, and i can’t help but feel that the people who are begining to resent it are just a tad bit selfish. they haven’t begun garnishing my wages, or forcing me to donate at gunpoint, so what reason is there to get upset? at least we’re finally doing some good somewhere.

but then again i’m just a regular old girl who thinks that it’s nice her country is doing something to help people in need. i don’t know about politics, or financial details. quite frankly, i think it’s better that way. i can be happy we’re helping someone, and go about my life with a smile on my face while all the stingy people scowl and moan about the nasty politicians, and how they aren’t helping us, so why should we help them.

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Webster’s Wednesday: Bolide

  • Posted on at 9:34 am

“She was angry enough to spit fire and shit Bolides.” there’s my original example sentence. it’s all i got.

bolide • \BOH-lyde\ • noun

: a large meteor : fireball; especially : one that explodes

Example Sentence:

Though probably no more than a foot in diameter, the bolide offered a brief and spectacular light show as it streaked across the sky.

Did you know?

“Bolide,” like “fireball,” is a name applied to very bright meteors that often trail sparks. A clue to the origins of “bolide” can be found in the missile-like appearance of these meteors. The Greek “bolis,” which comes from “bolē” (“throw” or “stroke”), literally means “missile” or “javelin.” “Bolis” is the source of the Latin name given to these spectacular meteors, which is also “bolis.” The word became “bolide” in French, from which it was borrowed by the English language in the mid-19th century.

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