Friday, July 28, 2006

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MY BIRTHDAY IS MONDAY, JULY 31...SO I THOUGHT I WOULD POST A FEW THINGS I WOULD LIKE..

OK HERE GOES...
THIS CAN BE FOUND AT.
http://www.cafepress.com






OK well my birthday is over but I still want this shirt..LOL...I'm a slacker...We've been B.U.S.Y. Ya know making Steven get up with the kids, sitting on my slacker butt...that kind of thing.

So lets update you with my birthday..some will find this hil-ar-e-us..

Got up (around 11ish..I'm T.D.Y. this week...meaning I ain't doing nuttin...nuttin I say...) and my friend wanted to take me to lunch..well I had some errands I had to do anyways so we decided to go to a Mexican place off base, by the way Germans and Mexican food=NO GO...we went to lunch, did a few errands and got back home around 3:30-4:00 ish...to CHAOS...the kids had decided to have a BUTTER fight while we were gone...

BUTTER...somehow they got it into their little brains that it would be smart and fun to throw butter onto one another and all over my floor, couches, etc..(by the way..the neighbors kids were here too.)...before I go into it to much let me preface by saying the ages in the house were 12, 11, 10, 4, and 2...While giving a little lecture about acting 3 and throwing butter we get the hitting doors with brooms (10 yo), poking eyes (4 yo), hitting (10 yo) and just general discord around here...Lordy have mercy what went on with these kids...so I just shook my head and went and made a big ole drink...BIG OLE DRINK ...HUGE...

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Foot in Mouth Disease..

Yep that's what I have people. Foot in Mouth Disease..I open mouth insert foot...constantly..nothing new here.

It started on a message board...Hubz is in the AF and someone asked about career fields and if one "partied harder" than the rest...well she piped in how they (her and her hubz) were well xxxx and they partied hard...I took offense to that as she isn't in the AF and she is CONSTANTLY throwing around the fact her hubz is an O...jeez louise..who cares...

Anywho..I bitched to a few of my friends..so the other night one of them gets drunk..anyone see where this is going...yep you're right..and tells said person what I said..her feelings are hurt..wahhh she said it..so did I ...

My response..you aren't in the AF..you didn't sign any damn papers, you don't wear a uniform, if your hubby does something wrong the commander doesn't call you on the carpet to explain him....and last time I checked..you didn't do his job so you can in no way call yourself a xxxxx...

Stupid women...so was I wrong???? Would you call yourself a computer genius if that's what your hubz did??? a Dr. if your hubz was one??? etc??? I didn't think so...

But still probably an open mouth insert foot moment...you know play nice...I have to deal with her for the next year as we sit on the same board for the OCSC (officer civilian spouses club)....clean off your keyboard and stop laughing Toni...seriously your going to hurt yourself...

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Proud SISSY

I'm just as proud as a peacock here. My sister is now a published writer..well published as in she wrote a letter to the editor and it got published but hey..tomato...tomahhhto...you get it...

Shoot I couldn't be any happier if Steven brought me home a BIG OLE HONKING 12,000 BTU AC...Just Sayin...

Anywho..here is a link to the article and then her response...

An article from Charleston.net has been sent to you from Jen. The link to this article is: http://www.charleston.net/stories/default.aspx?newsID=98604&section=letters.

Not responsible

After reading the article about payback for slavery, I was incensed. I believe that slavery was wrong but do not see the good that would come from giving monetary retribution to descendents of slaves. We (the people of the United States), as a whole, cannot be held responsible for the actions of our ancestors.

My husband is a second generation American. Why should he and his family be held accountable for something that happened many years before his grandparents came over from Italy? And what about the people who had little or nothing and whose families didn't own slaves because they couldn't afford it? These people would be wronged if the United States started a retribution program for descendents of slaves. If a private corporation wants to do this, then fine, but do not hold those who are innocent accountable.

Jennifer


YOU GO GIRL...Now my five fans are calling me..

Friday, July 21, 2006

I'm Melting.

I'm MELTING...and NO not because I'm the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz and someone just doused me with water...(although about now..that sounds GREAT), but because I'm in Germany and it's 90 flippin 5 degree's outside. Now, if I had an Air Conditioner it would be wonderful, but does the Air Force feel us Pee ons in Germany need an Air Conditioner......

NO

It doesn't get hot enough apparently...that's why it's 90 flippin 5 degree's outside...we are sitting here in the house...Naked...well almost..the kids are running around in just undies, Connor is naked..(I know shocking LOL) and me well don't let the neighbors know but I'm in my bra and undies....

QUIT LAUGHING I DID PUT THE DAMN ROLLING BLINDS DOWN....sheesh I wouldn't want to scare the neighborhood boys off s.e.x for life now would I???

Now if you don't mind...me and my 5 fans need to have some one on one time because to be honest they have become more important to me than well Steven or BOB...(hey you clicked don't blame me for that one...)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

AHHH It's the Life for me...

Connor has decided that he no longer--you know now he's 2 and all--needs to take a nap..

I'd be a little more umm insistent but the little shit BROKE his crib---yes I said BROKE...tore apart broke...I tried to fix it like the little redneck my daddy taught me to be (with duct tape) but he got that off too, so I had to put him in his pack and play until Steven gets home..(Sunday, but I'm not counting the day's)

So, anyways, since he's decided he's too old to take a nap and he also wants to party late into the evening I've had to come up with a way to make him TIRED OUT so he goes to SLEEP easier at night..hence the hours and hours of outside play we've been doing.

I have my set up (chair, footstool, TV tray, book, glass of water, both phones--German and Stateside) and they have the pool, slip and slide, etc etc etc...play play play...by the time we get in they are TIRED and ready for sleep...only problem is he wants to fall asleep when he eats which requires a quick out of the high chair--let him play some more until he is almost out on the floor then put him too bed...

Maybe I'll post pics tommorrow...ya know if the digital camera decides it's one of those day's it can work...

Friday, July 14, 2006

Porn Star

My neighbors boy told her today he knew what a Porn star was...she was afraid to ask but she did...

apparently a porn star is a person who are you ready.....

sings naked....

I'm a PORN STAR....

are you???

This just makes me ILL

Ok now bear with me..I'm SO NOT a political person. I don't play the politics game. I sit back and watch so my sister Jennifer calls tonight and tells me to go to my hometown paper and read an article

this is taken from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier's website Charleston.net

Slavery: Paybacks coming?
Reparations activists gaining momentum
By ERIN TEXEIRA
Associated Press



Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum.

Fueled by the work of scholars and lawyers, their campaign has morphed in recent years from a fringe-group rallying cry into a sophisticated, mainstream movement. Most recently, a pair of churches apologized for their part in the slave trade, and one is studying ways to repay black church members.

The overall issue is hardly settled, even among black Americans. Some say that focusing on slavery shouldn't be a top priority or that it doesn't make sense to compensate people generations after a historical wrong.

Yet reparations efforts have led a number of cities and states to approve measures that force businesses to publicize their historical ties to slavery. Several reparations court cases are in progress, and international human rights officials are increasingly spotlighting the issue.

"This matter is growing in significance rather than declining," said Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and a leading reparations activist. "It has more vigor and vitality in the 21st century than it's had in the history of the reparations movement."

The most recent victories for reparations advocates came in June, when the Moravian Church and the Episcopal Church apologized for owning slaves, and promised to battle current racism.

The Episcopalians also launched a national, yearslong investigation into church slavery links and into whether the church should compensate black members. A white church member, Katrina Browne, also screened, at the denomination's national assembly, a documentary focusing on white culpability.

The Episcopalians debated slavery and reparations for years before reaching an agreement, said Jayne Oasin, social justice officer for the denomination, who will oversee its work on the issue.

Historically, slavery was an uncomfortable topic for the church. Some Episcopal bishops owned slaves, and the Bible was used to justify the practice, Oasin said.

"Why not (take these steps) 100 years ago?" she said. "Let's talk about the complicity of the Episcopal Church as one of the institutions of this country who, of course, benefited from slavery."

Also in June, a North Carolina commission urged the state government to repay the descendants of victims of a violent 1898 campaign by white supremacists to strip blacks of power in Wilmington, N.C. As many as 60 blacks died, and thousands were driven from the city.

The commission also recommended state-funded programs to support local black businesses and home ownership.

The report came weeks after the Organization of American States requested information from the U.S. government about a 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Okla., in which 1,200 homes were burned and as many as 300 blacks were killed. An OAS official said the group might pursue the issue as a violation of international human rights.

The modern reparations movement revived an idea that's been around since emancipation, when black leaders argued that newly freed slaves deserved compensation.

About six years ago the issue started gaining momentum again. Randall Robinson's "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks," was a best seller; reparations became a central issue at the World Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa; and California legislators passed the nation's first law forcing insurance companies that do business with the state to disclose their slavery ties. Illinois passed a similar insurance law in 2003, and the next year Iowa legislators began requesting, but not forcing, the same disclosures.

Several cities, including Chicago, Detroit and Oakland, Calif., have laws requiring that all businesses make such disclosures.

Reparations opponents insist that no living American should have to pay for a practice that ended more than 140 years ago. Plus, programs such as affirmative action and welfare already have compensated for past injustices, said John McWhorter, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute.

"The reparations movement is based on a fallacy that cripples the thinking on race, the fallacy that what ails black America is a cash problem," said McWhorter, who is black. "Giving people money will not solve the problems that we have."

Even so, support is reaching beyond blacks and the South.

Katrina Browne, the white Episcopalian filmmaker, is finishing a documentary about her ancestors, the DeWolfs of Bristol, R.I., the biggest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She screened it for Episcopal Church officials at the June convention.

"Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North" details how the economies of the Northeast and the nation as a whole depended on slaves.

"A lot of white people think they know everything there is to know about slavery. We all agree it was wrong and that's enough," Browne said. "But this was the foundation of our country, not some Southern anomaly. We all inherit responsibility."

She says neither whites nor blacks will heal from slavery until formal hearings expose the full history of slavery and its effects.

A look at slavery reparations efforts

Some key recent developments in the push for slavery reparations:

--Every year since 1989, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has pushed unsuccessfully for a federal law ordering a study of reparations.

--Disclosure laws have prompted companies including health provider Aetna Inc. and financiers Lehman Brothers and Wachovia Corp. to apologize for slavery ties. After JPMorgan Chase reported that two of its predecessor banks owned more than 1,200 Louisiana slaves taken as collateral in the 1800s, the bank established a $5 million scholarship fund for Louisiana blacks.

--Several lawsuits against 19 insurance, textile, railroad, financial services and tobacco companies with similar ties are making their way through federal courts.

--Advocates are calling for boycotts until such companies make reparations, said Kibibi Tyehimba, national co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, or N'COBRA.

--Academics are researching the issue and publicizing their work at conferences, including one in February at the University of California, Berkeley, and two in March at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Another is scheduled this month in Ghana.


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Ok now here's my lil ole rant..and I'll just put on my flame suit afterword. First of all..Why in the HELL am I paying for something my so called ancestors did...(and I know my ancestors didn't even do it cuz we were the poor damn white southern people..hell we were probably with the slaves too).

Second, how did it exactly hurt the one's alive today that their ANCESTORS were slaves and they need reparations and "black only" housing and business loans. I could understand if we were giving reparation to people who were slaves but come on..people whose ancestors were slaves..give me a break. Why don't we just say that my ancestors were poor white immigrants so I need reparations because I feel they were discriminated against by the rich white immigrants.

Why are we apologizing to people that we haven't hurt?? Why don't I just go over to the neighbors and apologize because she got a paper cut from licking an envelope??

I just think Black, White, Green, Red, Yellow, or Purple we are all human and we need to get over this shit. It's stupid and idiotic. We need to move forward and become one with each other. How can we expect our children to not look at color, outside looks,etc and to see the beauty within each other when we can't even get over something that happened to our ANCESTORS over 140 years ago. I personally teach my children that everyone brings something to the table and no matter what they look like or act like that there is something about everyone that is unique and beautiful, sometimes we have look to look hard but it is there.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Proud Mommy

So, my friends Katherine went to get her hair cut the other day..

Here is a before picture:



and an after picture:



She donated 11 inches to Locks of Love


I'm so proud of her...extra kudos go out to her for that..

Now someone explain to me why exactly I paid $95.00 for this haircut/color for a hormonal 11 year old???

Monday, July 10, 2006

Mr. Fabulous's Fun Lil Meme...

MEME-OLOGY

GRUB-OLOGY
What is your salad dressing of choice? Ranch, but now I'm here in Europe the Germans have this great salad dressing I've fallen in LOVE with..if only I could find out what it is...
What is your favorite fast food restaurant? geez we should say..what can you get over here....ummm Taco Bell...but I sooo miss Wendy's...
What is your favorite sit down restaurant? There are some GREAT restaurants here, my personal fave is one called Roma's ...authentic Italian..yum yum.
On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant? 20%.
What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? hmm probably Ramen..you can do ANYTHING to Ramen
Name three foods you detest above all others. Fish, LIVER, I honestly can't think of another one...
What is your favorite dish to order in a Chinese restaurant? Chicken Fried Rice.
What are your pizza toppings of choice? Supreme..yummy
What do you like to put on your toast? Just butter 95% of the time
What is your favorite type of gum? spearmint

TECH-OLOGY
Number of contacts in your cell phone? None...I can't even remember I have one to take it with me half the time..
Number of contacts in your email address book? 60, but some of them were auto-added.
What is your wallpaper on your computer? umm I think windows OS. might change it though hmm
What is your screensaver on your computer? no clue..should I pay attention to these things??
Are there naked pictures saved on your computer? Probably of the kids in the bath. they're my kids you know how it is...
How many land line phones do you have in your house? 3
How many televisions are in your house? 2
What kitchen appliance do you use the least? I guess the toaster honestly
What is the format of the radio station you listen to the most? I listen to my Musicmatch on my Dell and in my car AFN radio
How many sex toys do you own that require batteries?1 and one on the way :D

BI-OLOGY
What do you consider to be your best physical attribute? my hubby says it's my bottom
Are you right handed or left handed? Right handed.
Do you like your smile? not really.
Have you ever had anything removed from your body? wisdom teeth and appendix
Would you like to? what ele do you want. seriously??
Do you prefer to read when you go to the bathroom? I prefer to go alone but I have kids, which leaves out reading or doing anything but having dumb conversations.
Which of your five senses do you think is keenest? My woman's intution..LOL..figure that one out...;)
When was the last time you had a cavity? I have some now, but I have to wait till the hubs gets home for them to do work because I'm a big baby and they have to put me to sleep to do work.
What is the heaviest item you lift regularly? let's see Lizzie is about 35 lbs I think
Have you ever been knocked unconscious? not that I remember no

MISC-OLOGY
If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Nah, what's the point??
If you could change your first name, what would you change it to? hmm I think I want to change it to Amber.
How do you express your artistic side? my blog and scrapbooking
What color do you think you look best in? pink or maybe blue??
How long do you think you could last in a medium security prison? Probably be OK...I have lived with my family.
Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake? yep.
If we weren’t bound by society’s conventions, do you have a relative you would make a pass at? hmm No.
How often do you go to church? Not often enough.
Have you ever saved someone’s life? No, I can't say that I have.
Has someone ever saved yours? Well, maybe unintentionally they did yes.

DARE-OLOGY
For this last section, if you would do it for less or more money, indicate how much
Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000? How drunk am I??? Because the drunker I get the lower the price would be.
Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100? I've done it for a bar tab.
Would you have sex with a member of the same sex for $10,000? ALOT more.
Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000? could I have some drugs first???
Would you never blog again for $50,000? I don't think so. I think this is good and theraputic for me and my family.
Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000? More and then we would have to pay the people who's eyes would see it...
Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? After Mr. FAb does it and I see what happens to him I'll let you know.
Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000? No couldn't do it...well some people I probably would do it for free to be perfectly honest.
Would you shave your head and get your entire body waxed for $5,000? number one OUCH..number two give me more..much more..
Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000? sure...have you seen the choices I get over here?? no prob.

Tag some people you love, or offer it up to your peeps. Or send me(Mr. Fabulous) an email with naked pictures of yourself.

Those are your only three options.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Only me people, Only me

So the other day I went to clean a DVD disc for Lizzie to watch "quiet time" in my room and didn't have any alcohol in my house ( I had the kind you drink, loads of that actually, but I didn't have the kind I use to clean the DVD's)..anywho I had adult toy cleaner (For my family who reads this blog PUHLEASE people I know your dirty little secrets too so just close your durn mouths before the rest of the internet finds out.), which is basically alcohol and proceeded to wipe the DISNEY disc BAMBI down. I left it out on the bathroom counter.

Well, Katherine got up the next morning to do her hair and I guess found it sitting there and made SURE she left it sitting there with the "ADULT TOY CLEANER" sitting out on my counter towards me so I can see...

Any ideas when I can expect that one to come back and bite me in the butt???

OH and ED...I googled "Adult toy and Bambi" and nothing came up so sorry.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Happy Birthday Baby Boy!!!

CONNOR IS 2 TODAY!!!!!

he went from this..



to this



Now, my family and the other 2 of you who read this..it's time for the obligatory birth story..YAY...says the crowd...

Here goes:
well
I'm one of those massively lucky women who don't feel contractions until well the VERY END...(no booing me people..I'm sorry get over it..)so, I got to pick Connor's birthday. Steven was at OTS (officer training school for you civilians out there) so I picked it because that was when the cutest doctor was going to be delivering...(hey a girl has to have her priorities straight)Umm Honey Love You/Mean It. Anywho back to the story..they tell me to be at said hospital at 6 too flippin early in the morning for induction and to EAT before. I said ok...so me, my sister Jennifer and Katherine ate at Waffle House and showed up and waited a short while before we were shown upstairs..

I got upstairs and waited 3 hours or so until 9 until the doc got there..seriously if he got to sleep in..why couldn't I??? so not fair.. They came in..said we're going to start you on some potossin and break your water. I said be ready with a lunch tray. I don't think the nurses believed me. Little did they know. So I sat and watched TV with Jen and Trisha and Katherine for a while and got a little uncomfortable and started peeing ALOT. I was getting up approximately every 4.5 seconds to go, until I couldn't get up anymore, then my darling sister and friend were changing the towels on the bed..Apparently contractions..as the nurses would come in and say.."feel that one???" I'd say "nope" ...they'd say "hmmm" and leave..

Meanwhile the poor woman in the next room was in PAIN..screaming, hollaring, well you get the picture. I even asked if there was anything they could do for her.

Going back to me. A little after 11. I was feeling a little pressure and the nurses came in and said I had to lay on my side as the baby's heartbeat was going down..well duh lady wouldn't yours go down too if your head was squished...I kept trying but it was UNCOMFORTABLE. So, they checked me said "wow, you're ready to push"..2 or 3 pushes he was out. And the nurses said "you were'nt lying when you said to bring you a lunch tray were you???" Nope not me woman...bring on the food....

By the way..Katherine was there THE WHOLE TIME and did extremly well and stayed until the cord was still in the body and THEN she decided she'd had enough and went in the hall and waited.

That's Connor's Birth Story...

And not only is he one gorgeous kid..he's good too..

BUT...here's my only but..he looks just like my sister Jennifer..now if I didn't see him come out of my own body and I wasn't there the night he was concieved...I was there right steven?? (just kidding jeshhh)...I would wonder...

One of these days I'll get a picture of her and post it with Connor and you will see..

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Summertime...

Well, for it being summertime, and Germany it sure is HOT...and our air conditioner is only a fan (well a couple)...

Here's Today's Temp:

Wind from the WSW (240 degrees) at 8 MPH (7 KT)
Visibility greater than 7 mile(s)
Sky conditions partly cloudy
Temperature 82 F (28 C) ..ONLY 82..It feels like 95..PLBBBBBBBB...
Dew Point 64 F (18 C)
Relative Humidity 54%
Pressure (altimeter) 30.03 in. Hg (1016 hPa)

OK...anyhow...so, how was everyone's July 4th...our's was well considering...

We REALLY missed Steven...while he was partying away we sat at home cleaned, watched Oprah ( I think I have a Girl Crush on her), then went to an AWESOME fireworks show here. Only problem was it started at 10:40...so by about 11:00 ish the kids were TIRED and Lizzie wanted to GO HOME...we got home somewhere around 11:30 and they WENT TO BED...we slept our REQUIRED 12 hours...and are having a very quiet afternoon ...well kinda quiet...I have made the kids clean some and did some laundry...tommorrow...who knows...

Any good stories from July 4th???