■ March 4, 2013 ■

Good afternoon! Yes, afternoon. I gave up trying to get up early every day. After 2 weeks it became clear that no matter what time Pete gets up in the morning, he goes to bed very late at night, only to make up all the lost sleep on the weekend. I tried to do it, but I just can't. I'm not built the way he is. 2 weeks of that was really taking a toll on me. Had I gotten up when he did this morning, I would have only gotten 3½ hours sleep & I decided that even with cutting my sleep that short every day, I still couldn't get everything done in a single day that I needed & wanted to do, even after carefully scheduling everything. There are too many outside factors. I would have to delete most of what I enjoy & just schedule in 8 hours a day of "outside factors" to make it work. Oh well. It's really sad when I think about it. So many things I enjoy doing that I'm never going to get to do before I die. Most people have a bucket list of climbing a mountain, going skydiving, visiting China ... mine are so simple ... work on my latch hook rug, collect images in my AOL mail, knit ... & I can't do them. There's no time. When I DO get to them, I only have an hour twice a month. Playing Sims averages about 2 hours a month. It feels like life is passing me by & all my time is spent cleaning up behind everyone who is enjoying that life. I'm the maid. Maybe in my next life I can be something different. Maybe if I'm lucky, if there IS a next life, I can spend all my days in a southern mansion just crafting all day while the staff takes care of the house. That would be nice karma. Too bad I have to wait that long for it. I hope I even ENJOY crafting in my next life! Or ... there is no next life & I'm just screwed. I at least made it to lunch yesterday. The FD got toned out twice early in the morning & when I woke up I took the dogs out, made Kyle scrambled eggs for breakfast, dusted the dining room wall decor, cleaned the kitchen counters, changed the afghan on my living room chair, cleaned out the lower left side of my desk, fed the pets, & then cataloged & sorted a book from my inbox. I went through the Sunday paper, checked facebook & took my game turns, took the dogs out & then Pete, Kyle, & I went out to Wendy's for lunch (it was 6:30p). After Wendy's Pete wanted to go to WalMart to pick up some acid reflux meds & we ended up spending $270. We FINALLY bought a Swiffer Wet Vac, all the required stuff to go with it, a new broom & dustpan, a dog bed for the Joselyn, Kyle needed clothes, etc. It was a very expensive trip to WalMart for ONE item. We got a lot of stuff we really needed though ... & some stuff we didn't, such as Twilight breaking Dawn part 2 which also came with a code to download it onto my iPad Mini. I'm glad there were no spoilers anywhere since the movie was released. Of all the people I know on facebook & all the pages I like, not a single one of them produced a spoiler. THANK YOU! I have awesome friends & pages. :) When we got back I went through my main e-mail for the week, cleaned out my truck & need to only take it through a car wash now when I get a chance, & then Pete & I watched Twilight & then finished out the nighttime routine. he got up super early this morning & I slept my normal 8 hours. As I said, no point in cutting my sleep short when I can't get through 16 hours of scheduled stuff anyway. I also learned last night that DirecTV is discontinuing their Game Lounge on Wednesday. Now I no longer need to stay with DirecTV. Game Lounge was the ONLY reason I was with them. They say "play your favorite games online" now ... not MY favorite games. I looked, 5 Card Slingo isn't available online OR on their iPad app. Today is my last day of relaxing in my massage chair & playing Game Lounge. I guess from now on I'll watch a 30 minute show while relaxing in my massage chair & playing Game Lounge for 15 minutes a week gets removed from the schedule. It's not really a huge deal to remove something from the schedule, with all the "outside factors" that interject every day, it's not like I really had the time anyway. When I blog about what I did the previous day, those are scheduled items. The hours of interjected outside factors are rarely included unless it's something noteworthy like the Walmart shopping spree. Business calls, personal calls, picking up the children from here & driving them to there, sales, shipping, research, none of that is usually included. SO ... before you read my blog & say something like "but you've got LOTS of time!", remember that many things aren't included & that my "lunch" yesterday was at 6:30p, not noon as it was supposed to be. Also remember what I said about things like crafting ... they're doubled up with business, whether it be calls, or my iPad Mini on the end table next to me pulling up prices, maps, scheduling repairs, etc. My blog makes my life look easy ... I wish it really was. I'm just trying to be nice by not including all the 500 little things that pop up throughout the day. :) Logan's 7th birthday today!

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As we look around us & within us & recognize the problems created as we live & interact within the Personality Ethic, we begin to realize that these are deep, fundamental problems that cannot be solved on the superficial level on which they were created.

Drivers who won a Formula 1 championship race while still under the age of 30 top 10:

1. Sebastian Vattel, 23
2. Lewis Hamilton, 23
3. Fernando Alonso, 24
4. Emerson Fittipaldi, 25
5. Michael Schumacer, 25
6. Nikki Lauda, 26
7. Jacques Villeneuve, 26
8. Jim Clark, 27
9. Kim Raikkonen, 28
10. Jochen Rindt, 28

Here's some good news for you. Some statistics came out today. The life expectancy in the U.S. is now at an all-time high. Did you know that? Yeah, medical science has advanced to such a point that actually you're going to live to be 74 whether you want to or not. Do you know what the life expectancy is now in this country? 74.2 years, which is great news - unless you're 73. -Johnny Carson 1984

Keep a running list of things that family & friends mention they'd like to have, things they'd like to do, & activities that they enjoy. For the next gift-giving occasion, you'll have a good starting point for thoughtful gift giving.

Martha Stewart is released from prison (2005):

On this day in 2005, billionaire mogul Martha Stewart is released from a federal prison near Alderson, West Virginia, after serving five months for lying about her sale of ImClone stock in 2001. After her televised exit from the facility, Stewart flew on a chartered jet from nearby Greenbrier International Airport to New York, where she would serve out her remaining five-month home confinement on her 153-acre Bedford, New York, estate.

On December 21, 2001, Stewart sold about 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems, a company run by her friend Sam Waksal that develops cancer-therapy drugs. The next day, the company s stock tanked after news broke that ImClone s newest cancer drug, Erbitux, had been rejected by the FDA. Waksal, who also sold stock before the drug s rejection was made public, was arrested on charges of insider trading and later sentenced to more than seven years in prison. When questioned about her sale of the stock in June 2002, Stewart denied any insider knowledge and said that the stock was sold based on a previously made agreement with her stock broker, Peter Bacanovic of Merrill Lynch. The next month, Bacanovic was suspended by Merrill Lynch when investigators were unable to confirm that such an agreement actually existed. In September 2002, the Department of Justice began to investigate Stewart s stock sale and alleged insider trading. Less than a year later, she was indicted on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice and subsequently resigned as chairman and CEO of the company she founded, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, though she remained on the company s board. Stewart s trial began in February 2003.

Days into the trial, Bacanovic s former assistant, Douglas Faneuil, testified that he had been ordered by Bacanovic to inform Stewart that she should sell her ImClone stock. Soon after, a friend of Stewart s testified that Stewart told her she knew Sam Waksal had been trying to sell the stock before dumping her own shares. Though the judge dropped the securities fraud charge against Stewart in February for lack of evidence, she was convicted on all remaining counts?conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and making false statements?on March 5, 2004. Public opinion polls at the time showed that many Americans believed Stewart should serve prison time; others thought Stewart had been unfairly targeted by overaggressive prosecutors.

On July 16, 2004, Stewart was sentenced to five months in prison and five months of home confinement, in addition to being fined $30,000 and given two years probation. She could have received up to 16 years in prison. Stewart requested to serve her time immediately and was sent to the minimum-security facility in West Virginia?known as "Camp Cupcake"--on October 8, 2004.

Despite fears that Stewart s legal battle might devastate her financial empire, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia s stock price climbed dramatically during her incarceration, with values quadrupling by the time of her March 2005 release. During her subsequent home confinement, Stewart was forced to wear an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her movement and was able to leave home for only 48 hours each week and only to go to work. Immediately upon completion of her sentence, she began work on two new NBC television shows: a primetime spin-off of the successful reality series The Apprentice and a daytime variety show, Martha.

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Octopus has 2 hearts: 2 to pump blood through each of its 2 gills, & another 1 to pump blood through its body.

Super-luxurious Maybach Zeppelin goes on sale (2009):

On this day in 2009, the uber-luxurious Maybach Zeppelin sedan goes on sale, with a starting price of $523,870 for the Maybach 57 Zeppelin and $610,580 for the Maybach 62 Zeppelin. Daimler-Benz, owner of the Maybach brand, announced that only 100 Zeppelins would be built, with each vehicle hand-crafted to its individual buyer's specifications. Among the Zeppelin's many optional amenities was the world's first perfume-atomizing system, for which customers could even have their own personal fragrance designed.

The 2009 Maybach Zeppelin was a reincarnation of the Zeppelin auto built in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The original Zeppelin was made by a company founded by German auto industry pioneer Wilhelm Maybach. In 1885, Maybach and the German engineer Gottlieb Daimler developed a new, high-speed, four-stroke internal combustion engine, which they later affixed to a bicycle to create what people call the first-ever motorcycle. The two men later attached their engine to a carriage, producing a motorized vehicle. In 1890, Daimler and several partners established Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (Daimler Motor Company) to build engines and automobiles. In 1900, Maybach, who served as the company's chief designer, developed the first Mercedes automobile. Commissioned by auto dealer and racer Emil Jellinek, who wanted a new car to sell to his rich clients in the French Riviera, the Mercedes was named after Jellinek's daughter.

Gottlieb Daimler died in March 1900 and Maybach left the Daimler company in 1907. Maybach later went into business with his engineer son Karl (1879-1960) and in 1921 at a Berlin auto show they debuted their first car, the Maybach Type W3. During the 1920s and 1930s, the company became known for developing powerful, technologically sophisticated, custom-built vehicles for the wealthy, including the top-of-the-line Zeppelin model. Wilhelm Maybach died on December 29, 1929, at the age of 83.

During World War II, the company stopped making cars and built engines for German military vehicles instead. Auto production never resumed after the war, although Maybach continued to build engines for a variety of vehicles and eventually became part of Daimler-Benz. In the early 2000s, DaimlerChrysler (as it was then called; since 2007 its name has been Daimler AG) resurrected the Maybach nameplate, launching the Maybach 57 and the Maybach 62 (the numbers represent each vehicle's length: 5.7 meters and 6.2 meters). Today, Maybachs are known for their power and luxury accoutrements--the 2009 Zeppelin featured a twin turbocharged 6.0-liter V12 engine as well a high-quality leather interior and silver champagne flutes engraved with the word Zeppelin.

Tell whomever made the brownies that they really weren't very good.