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[04 Mar 2009|06:29pm] |
1.WHERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?Nope
2.WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? Watching Milk on Saturday
3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Sure, why not
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Turkey
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? I do not.
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yes. I'm awesome.
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM? Yeah.
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? I do, but I'm not supposed to, they forgot to take them out when I had the surgery. For serious.
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Fuck. No.
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Oh's or Honey Bunches of Oats
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Nope
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Creme Brulee or straight up vanilla
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? Intelligence
15. RED OR PINK? Red
16. WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOU? I don't want to talk about that right now...
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Ry
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO COMPLETE THIS LIST? No? wait. yes. yes I do.
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Jeans, Grey Hoodie
(Where's #20??)
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Grizzly Bear Pandora
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Sea Foam Green
23. FAVORITE SMELLS? Miller Park, Vanilla, Fire
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Adam?
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Baseball.
27. HAIR COLOR? Brown
28. EYE COLOR? Hazel outside, Blue middle, Green inside.
29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? No ma'am
30. FAVORITE FOOD? Baked Feta
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Movies that MATTER.
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Same as before
34. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer
35. HUGS OR KISSES? Sure
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? You :)
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? You :(
39. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW? Rereading Kavalier and Clay for funzies....I also haven't had time to pick something new up
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Nothing, because I don't have one.
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT? I didn't.
42. FAVORITE SOUND(S)? Laughter and Rain
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? The Beatles, that's a silly question.
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? London
45. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I'm accident prone? I can read well
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Ann Arbor, MI
47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? Yours
48. HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR SPOUSE/SIGNIFICANT OTHER? Haven't.
49. ARE YOU A MORNING PERSON OR A NIGHT OWL? Night. I hate the mornings.
50. ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, HOW MUCH DOES THE CURRENT RECESSION WORRY YOU? Worries me enough that I'm not putting it on a point scale.
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| Drunk people suck. |
[25 Feb 2009|05:02pm] |
Ashur- Why did Pirates kill Jesus?
Me- Uh, they didn't Ash, why do you think that?
Ashur - Because Pontius Pirate is the man who killed him.
In other news some drunken asshole hit my car last night while I was sleeping. No please Eau Claire, give me more reasons to want to stay.
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[10 Feb 2009|12:25pm] |
I have presidential scrabble in my car at all times - You never know when a game could arise. In the past few weeks, one of the kids I nanny has been really into the presidents cards. Once a day, Ashur picks one card and proceeded to grill me about that president. This is especially problematic with the 19th century presidents, but they are not the real issue. Yesterday he picked JFK, and instead of asking for 30 minutes or so, this last for hours. The whole day he carried JFK around looking at him and asking me about every last detail. I figured, since he's 4, he wouldn't have anything to say about him today. Boy was I wrong. I'm currently on hour 4 of JFK-fest 2009.
His latest topic is "who was his dad?"
His current theories:
Harry Potter
Batman
Uncle Jared
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| To Jason or Linda |
[03 Nov 2008|07:39pm] |
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Jason should keep a blog about his week with the B.O.S.S. Including pictures...Just a thought, I think the internet needs to see the slow death of Jason
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[07 Oct 2008|01:01pm] |
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Linda i am waiting for those pictures....my brewers wall is sad without the boss
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| Don't hang your heads about anything. You have everything to be proud of. |
[05 Oct 2008|08:59pm] |
Well my Brewers are out of it. It's been an incredible season and those of you who know me well or even those who don't probably know I'm a different person when the game isn't going on. So welcome back to the world off-season grace, you aren't as happy as season grace, but you'll do.
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[04 Sep 2008|06:31pm] |
www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-steinem4-2008sep04,0,7915118.story
Here's the good news: Women have become so politically powerful that even the anti-feminist right wing -- the folks with a headlock on the Republican Party -- are trying to appease the gender gap with a first-ever female vice president. We owe this to women -- and to many men too -- who have picketed, gone on hunger strikes or confronted violence at the polls so women can vote. We owe it to Shirley Chisholm, who first took the "white-male-only" sign off the White House, and to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who hung in there through ridicule and misogyny to win 18 million votes.
But here is even better news: It won't work. This isn't the first time a boss has picked an unqualified woman just because she agrees with him and opposes everything most other women want and need. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Selecting Sarah Palin, who was touted all summer by Rush Limbaugh, is no way to attract most women, including die-hard Clinton supporters. Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton. Her down-home, divisive and deceptive speech did nothing to cosmeticize a Republican convention that has more than twice as many male delegates as female, a presidential candidate who is owned and operated by the right wing and a platform that opposes pretty much everything Clinton's candidacy stood for -- and that Barack Obama's still does. To vote in protest for McCain/Palin would be like saying, "Somebody stole my shoes, so I'll amputate my legs."
This is not to beat up on Palin. I defend her right to be wrong, even on issues that matter most to me. I regret that people say she can't do the job because she has children in need of care, especially if they wouldn't say the same about a father. I get no pleasure from imagining her in the spotlight on national and foreign policy issues about which she has zero background, with one month to learn to compete with Sen. Joe Biden's 37 years' experience.
Palin has been honest about what she doesn't know. When asked last month about the vice presidency, she said, "I still can't answer that question until someone answers for me: What is it exactly that the VP does every day?" When asked about Iraq, she said, "I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
She was elected governor largely because the incumbent was unpopular, and she's won over Alaskans mostly by using unprecedented oil wealth to give a $1,200 rebate to every resident. Now she is being praised by McCain's campaign as a tax cutter, despite the fact that Alaska has no state income or sales tax. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. Or perhaps McCain is following the Bush administration habit, as in the Justice Department, of putting a job candidate's views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of competence. The difference is that McCain is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency.
So let's be clear: The culprit is John McCain. He may have chosen Palin out of change-envy, or a belief that women can't tell the difference between form and content, but the main motive was to please right-wing ideologues; the same ones who nixed anyone who is now or ever has been a supporter of reproductive freedom. If that were not the case, McCain could have chosen a woman who knows what a vice president does and who has thought about Iraq; someone like Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison or Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. McCain could have taken a baby step away from right-wing patriarchs who determine his actions, right down to opposing the Violence Against Women Act.
Palin's value to those patriarchs is clear: She opposes just about every issue that women support by a majority or plurality. She believes that creationism should be taught in public schools but disbelieves global warming; she opposes gun control but supports government control of women's wombs; she opposes stem cell research but approves "abstinence-only" programs, which increase unwanted births, sexually transmitted diseases and abortions; she tried to use taxpayers' millions for a state program to shoot wolves from the air but didn't spend enough money to fix a state school system with the lowest high-school graduation rate in the nation; she runs with a candidate who opposes the Fair Pay Act but supports $500 million in subsidies for a natural gas pipeline across Alaska; she supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, though even McCain has opted for the lesser evil of offshore drilling. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
I don't doubt her sincerity. As a lifetime member of the National Rifle Assn., she doesn't just support killing animals from helicopters, she does it herself. She doesn't just talk about increasing the use of fossil fuels but puts a coal-burning power plant in her own small town. She doesn't just echo McCain's pledge to criminalize abortion by overturning Roe vs. Wade, she says that if one of her daughters were impregnated by rape or incest, she should bear the child. She not only opposes reproductive freedom as a human right but implies that it dictates abortion, without saying that it also protects the right to have a child.
So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband.
Being a hope-a-holic, however, I can see two long-term bipartisan gains from this contest.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.
And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.
This could be huge.
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[18 Jun 2008|11:29pm] |
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I dropped my phone into a blender full of shake. It mostly works, but I don't think the speaker part is doing too well. Right now it's working about 50% of the time.
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[16 May 2008|03:38pm] |
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see ya later junior year.
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[17 Apr 2008|10:09pm] |
Your Slogan Should Be
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Gracedubya. Uncommonly Made, Uncommonly Good.
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| Linjin |
[29 Mar 2008|11:23am] |
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I had a dream with you in it last night. We were in this crazy future room where you basically had to float too, Harry Potter was there. This room was basically a video game system, but it was all actually there, we were picking characters for some game but you had to leave to go to Demoines, Iowa.
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[06 Feb 2008|08:01am] |
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I had a dream my sister got super drunk with the characters from Dexter. I was there as well. Anyways, Elizabeth got so drunk she passed out and some girl there thought it would be funny to bury her alive. I spent the rest of the dream thinking Lizz had suffocated under a pile of dirt. She turned out to be ok, but in case you ever get the idea in your head, please don't bury my sister alive.
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[31 Jan 2008|03:56pm] |
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So I have Bacteria Pneumonia...I blame Wisconsin.
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[29 Jan 2008|04:12pm] |
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Eau Claire hit blizzard status at 2 this afternoon. It's unreal outside and walking home in an inch of ice covered in a foot of snow with a -30 wind chill and winds blowing at 20 mph was one of the most unpleasant experiences ever.
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| 2008 firsts |
[01 Jan 2008|06:30pm] |
1.Who was the first person you talked to in 08?
Neil
2. The first person you hugged?
No one?
3. The first person you called?
Mom in the morning?
4. The first person you texted?
Nicholas
5. The first drink you drank?
Korbel?
6. The first person that called you?
Kevin
7. The first person that texted you?
Ari
8-9 were MySpace Questions
10. Who was the 1st person to hang up on you?
No One?
11. What was the first thing you watched on TV?
Uh To Catch I predator.....
12.Who was the first person you thought of?
Tila Tequila
13. What was the first thing you ate!
Pistachios
14. What exactly were you wearing at midnight?
Sweater and Khakis.
15. first person to say 'I love you':
Chris Hansen
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[04 Dec 2007|03:01pm] |
Oh hey Eau Claire,
It's me mother nature. I'm just gonna hang out and dump tons of snow on you....3 inches in 2 and a half hours sound good? Greeeeattt.
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