Yeah, I know ... my front bumper was messed up, but it's fixed now. This photo was taken back in November of '07 when I used to sell Avon (the 2nd time around). I only started selling it again because I couldn't find anyone to buy it from around here! I now have an Avon Lady (at the moment), but I still have those door magnets & can start selling again if I need to. I'd buy it online, but I'm not willing to pay more for shipping than a single lipstick costs & I love going through the catalogs. Yesterday was a nice quiet day. I drove Kyle to work & in exchange he bought me lunch. Will drive for food. :) I've got 1 panel to go on my blanket & then it's done! I'll finish it either today, this weekend, or Monday at the latest. Weekends are hard to predict because everyone's home. Well, almost everyone. Kyle is either at a debate thing with the school or at one of his jobs. Isn't it nice? I have no idea where my teen son is, but he's either at school or work. I'm so proud! With all the crime going on it's nice to know that my family isn't contributing to it. Which brings up an important issue. What exactly do you do with offenders? You put them in jail. What do they lose? The freedom to go to the mall. I know someone from way back in my past who did a lot of time in jail. Why? Because they wanted to! When they were out here, they had to work hard for little pay (they didn't have a college degree or a skill), so they only made minimum wage. They had to struggle to pay rent, pay utilities, buy food & fuel, & on their minimal salary they couldn't afford extravagances like DirecTV, high speed Internet, & satellite radio ... life was hard. They would go out & do something stupid & be sure to get caught. Then they were suddenly in jail, enjoying cable TV, a weight room, outdoor basketball courts, 3 square meals a day, & more. They actually preferred it in jail! We're doing it wrong. It shouldn't be nicer in jail than it is out here & for some people, for the people who are struggling to get by, it is. So they can't get in their car & go to the mall. Chances are, they couldn't afford a car OR anything at the mall even if they did go there. There's got to be an alternative. I'd say take away all the nice hotel-like amenities they have in some jails, but then all the inmates would scream & yell about it & knowing how things usually turn out around here, they'd end up with all of it back & THEN some along with an apology from the state. Makes me sick. What kind of "punishment" is it when they have more in jail than out here & we, the taxpayers are paying for it! Maybe 1 solution is to hold both youth & adult offenders accountable for their behavior & make them
work to restore a sense of safety to the community through monetary
restitution, community service, repair of damaged property, letters of
apology, research papers, special projects, & other restorative
activities. Make offenders work to repair the damage they've done, don't stick them in a building with free cable TV & weight rooms, better than they had out here! If the jails are bound & determined to give them free stuff, how about free therapy & job skills. Even that shouldn't be free. They should have to work inside the jail doing SOMETHING, & the money they earn from working goes toward their education while they're on the inside. No more sitting around watching TV & lifting weights all day. You get up, you go to work, then you go to class. Make better people. They're doing time ... use it wisely. Anyway, on to happier subjects. The other pic is a screenshot from my Sims game last night. That's one of the houses I built in the game called Mark XII. Pictured is Misty, a 2nd generation Sim who is currently doing her homework. She's a straight A student who already has a lifetime wish to be an author & has already authored 2 books & collects royalties on them. Her painting & writing skills are already levels 5 & 6 out of 10 (both requirements of fulfilling her lifetime wish as an author. She's already met her future husband, a classmate named Dedric Roberts. Their child will be named Hazel or Ivan. LCFD training Tuesday. Ugh. A salesman just came buy the house AGAIN. Same guy. a roofer. I told him the 1st time he came by that we have a personal friend who is a professional roofer. He has already come by & checked our roof after the last storm that produced rather large hail. He said our roof was fine. Now this guy was saying that our friend is an idiot & our house can't be fine after that storm. We have damage & our friend probably just missed it or doesn't know what to look for. Well, the guy came back yesterday (a month later) & tried again. I said to come back when my husband is home, come by on Saturday. he did. Pete dealt with him. I absolutely loathe pushy salesmen.
A full-size ironing board can take up a lot of space in a cramped laundry room. Consider downsizing your ironing board to a table top version (that's what we have). You can place it on the floor, a table, or the top of the dryer to iron clothes as needed.
Be alert when on a bicycle! Hybrid cars can be so quiet that you can't always hear them coming behind you.
This bountiful collection of flowers will add abundance and joy to your
style! It is accented with gold for a hint of spontaneity! Embrace you
playful nature with this effortless band!
Edulcorate:
To free from harshness (as of attitude) : soften.
To edulcorate the princess, her suitor sent her a tiara encrusted with jewels.
An old saying advises giving sweets to the sweet, but pragmatic types may feel it's better to use them to edulcorate the sour. "Edulcorate" has the ideal history for a "sweet" word, as it derives from the Latin root dulcis, which means "sweet." Dulcis is also the source of several terms related to soft, sweet music (such as "dulcet" & "dolce") & of a word for an instrument that produces such music ("dulcimer").
To raise money for a family member in need, four high school friends
plan what they think is the perfect bank robbery. But can they actually
pull it off, or will they spend their graduation in the slammer? One
thing's for sure: It's a learning experience they'll never forget.
Shannon Lucio, Riley Smith, Chris Lowell, Chris Marquette, Adam Arkin
and Huey Lewis co-star in this high-stakes crime caper from director
Michael Mayer.
How did Chang and Eng Bunker, the first recorded Siamese twins, come by their first names?
To tell the twins apart their relatives used the Siamese (Thai) words for their body positions as their names—chang means left; eng means right.
Knowing how to handle money is a life skill, & parents should teach kids about finances & the importance of handling money properly at an early age. Turning kids loose in the world with no skill other than playing video games is not a good plan. It's child abuse!
Maybe instead of __________ lessons, you should have taken
( ) a how-to-be __________ class.
( ) remedial __________.
( ) __________ for dummies.
On this day in 2009, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and a U.S. senator from Massachusetts
from 1962 to 2009, dies of brain cancer at age 77 at his home in
Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Kennedy, one of the longest-serving
senators in American history, was a leader of the Democratic Party and a
spokesman for liberal causes who also was known for his ability to work
with those on both sides of the political aisle.
Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Boston on February 22, 1932, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a wealthy financier who served as the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later as ambassador to Great Britain, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of a Boston politician. After serving in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1956 and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1959. While still a student, he managed his brother John’s successful 1958 re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Also in 1958, Ted Kennedy married Joan Bennett, with whom he later had three children. The couple divorced in 1982, and in 1992, Kennedy married Victoria Reggie, a Washington attorney with two children.
In November 1960, John Kennedy was elected America’s 35th president. The following month, a Kennedy family friend was appointed to fill the president-elect’s vacated Senate seat until a special election was held. In November 1962, Ted Kennedy, who earlier that year had turned 30, the minimum age requirement for a U.S. senator, won the special election in Massachusetts to serve out the remainder of his brother’s Senate term, ending in January 1965. Massachusetts voters re-elected Kennedy to the seat eight more times, in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.
Kennedy came from privileged background, but his family was no stranger to tragedy. His oldest brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a Navy pilot, died in World War II, while his second-eldest sister, Kathleen, was killed in a 1948 plane crash. President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The following year, Ted Kennedy was seriously injured in a plane crash that left him hospitalized for six months. In 1968, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy was also assassinated. With Robert’s death, Ted Kennedy became the family patriarch and a substitute father to his two slain brothers’ 13 children.
On July 18, 1969, Kennedy was involved in a controversial event that would mar the rest of his career, when he accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick Island, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities for nearly 10 hours, claiming the delay was due to the fact that he had suffered a concussion and was exhausted from attempting to rescue Kopechne. He later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence. However, Kennedy was plagued by questions about his behavior, as well as his relationship with Kopechne, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. He later referred to his actions as "inexcusable," and said Kopechne’s death "haunts me every day of my life."
In 1980, Kennedy made a failed bid against President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination. He never again ran for the White House, instead focusing on his work on Capitol Hill, where he was dubbed the “liberal lion of the Senate.” During his nearly 47-year-career in Washington, D.C., Kennedy successfully fought for legislation concerning education, immigration reform, health care, increases to the federal minimum wage, voting rights, various consumer protections and equal rights for minorities, the disabled, women and gay Americans. In foreign policy matters, he was an opponent of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a champion of human rights in such places as Africa and South America.
In May 2008, Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. That August, despite his poor health, he made a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in support of Barack Obama, who he had endorsed for president.
After his death in August 2009, Kennedy was buried at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of his brothers John and Robert.
Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Boston on February 22, 1932, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a wealthy financier who served as the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later as ambassador to Great Britain, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of a Boston politician. After serving in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in 1956 and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1959. While still a student, he managed his brother John’s successful 1958 re-election campaign to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Also in 1958, Ted Kennedy married Joan Bennett, with whom he later had three children. The couple divorced in 1982, and in 1992, Kennedy married Victoria Reggie, a Washington attorney with two children.
In November 1960, John Kennedy was elected America’s 35th president. The following month, a Kennedy family friend was appointed to fill the president-elect’s vacated Senate seat until a special election was held. In November 1962, Ted Kennedy, who earlier that year had turned 30, the minimum age requirement for a U.S. senator, won the special election in Massachusetts to serve out the remainder of his brother’s Senate term, ending in January 1965. Massachusetts voters re-elected Kennedy to the seat eight more times, in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.
Kennedy came from privileged background, but his family was no stranger to tragedy. His oldest brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr., a Navy pilot, died in World War II, while his second-eldest sister, Kathleen, was killed in a 1948 plane crash. President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The following year, Ted Kennedy was seriously injured in a plane crash that left him hospitalized for six months. In 1968, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy was also assassinated. With Robert’s death, Ted Kennedy became the family patriarch and a substitute father to his two slain brothers’ 13 children.
On July 18, 1969, Kennedy was involved in a controversial event that would mar the rest of his career, when he accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick Island, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned. Kennedy failed to report the incident to the authorities for nearly 10 hours, claiming the delay was due to the fact that he had suffered a concussion and was exhausted from attempting to rescue Kopechne. He later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence. However, Kennedy was plagued by questions about his behavior, as well as his relationship with Kopechne, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. He later referred to his actions as "inexcusable," and said Kopechne’s death "haunts me every day of my life."
In 1980, Kennedy made a failed bid against President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination. He never again ran for the White House, instead focusing on his work on Capitol Hill, where he was dubbed the “liberal lion of the Senate.” During his nearly 47-year-career in Washington, D.C., Kennedy successfully fought for legislation concerning education, immigration reform, health care, increases to the federal minimum wage, voting rights, various consumer protections and equal rights for minorities, the disabled, women and gay Americans. In foreign policy matters, he was an opponent of the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a champion of human rights in such places as Africa and South America.
In May 2008, Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. That August, despite his poor health, he made a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in support of Barack Obama, who he had endorsed for president.
After his death in August 2009, Kennedy was buried at Virginia’s Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of his brothers John and Robert.
What wild game was vice president Dick Cheney hunting when he accidentally shot and wounded a friend in 2006?
Which hit the screen 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?
A. Bram Stoker's Dracula
B. Love at 1st Bite
C. Blade
BAC. Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula won 3 Academy Awards in 1992.
Who does not dislike a 'boneless' hand extended as though it were a spray of seaweed, or a miniature boiled pudding? It is equally annoying to have one's hand clutched aloft in grotesque affectation & shaken violently sideways, as though it were being used to clean a spot out of the atmosphere. What woman does not wince at the vice like grasp that cuts her rings into her flesh & temporarily paralyzes every finger?
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