We are all Green this Weekend!

God be with those in the streets. Every man, woman, and child in this world deserves to be able to make their own free choices. Give me Liberty or give me death! Know that there are a lot of American's who wish you well.

.........."There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.

"All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

"Democratic reformers facing repression, prison or exile can know: America sees you for who you are -- the future leaders of your free country.

"The rulers of outlaw regimes can know that we still believe as Abraham Lincoln did: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."

George W. Bush Jan 2005.........

This is Hilarious and Unfortunately too True

I just can't stop laughing because you just know if the government touches it it will happen like this!

Where is Spring?

Thought I should drop in and post. I seem to let too much time go between them. I kind of laugh about how excited new bloggers get about their blogs when I think back to 2004 when this place was new. Oh well....

Here it is April 1 already. YIKES where has 2009 gone? I spent the first 8 weeks of this year stuck here in the house. I do not recommend breaking anything you need to walk on! I think having one arm non usable was much easier than giving up being able to walk. Though I also don't recommed carpal tunnel surgery either unless you really need it! Better to just avoid injury in the first place.

We are having some really strange weather. It was 72ºf about 4 days ago then it was in the high 20's overnight last night. I fully expect sNOw anytime. Seriously this is like the never ending winter. With Mt Redoubt erupting for the past 2 weeks it is hard to tell if we will even get much summer this year. In 1980 when Mt St. Helens erupted the next summer rained and was very cool all season. I hope not but that is what happens when volcanoes erupt. Should calm down the global warming fanatics though because when volcanoes erupt they do cool the planet a lot!

So take care my friends, I miss you all. Am working on some things right now that should end up with me having my own website sometime soon. Already have the domain names etc just no content yet. I'll let you know when. :)

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day. Hoping everyone has someone special to spend it with or at least think of if you can't be in the same place.

I am doing much better. Am walking around he house with no crutches and only using them when I'm out as a just incase. I'd rather have them and not need them than to fall and rehurt myself. I see the otho in the middle of next week so hopefully then the boot and crutches will be a thing of the past.Hubby is getting very tired of doing the laundry and grocery shopping. He was very happy when I took over the kitty box duties last week.

:) SOOO HAPPY!

On Friday I decided to give it a try and see how my foot reacted to walking on it . I am happy to report that I can walk on it again. I'm still using the crutches so that I don't over stress it but I have been going into the kitchen where I have a counter in front of me to hold onto just incase and walking back and forth when I am in there. It was 5 weeks last Friday that I fell down the steps and did this to myself.

Now for the vain part. My broken foot looks bigger than my non broken foot and it drives me crazy. I am hoping I get my matched set back eventually. People have always made remarks about how dainty my feet look so the vain in me doesn't want one Flintstone's foot and a dainty one to go with it. :( I know it's silly but it really has been bugging me. Hubby assures me that by summer when anyone else would see it it will be ok.

I made dinner last night all by myself and it was wonderful! :)

My First Le Crueset

Isn't it beuatiful? This is a Le Creuset 7.5 quart Bouillabaisse/soup Pot. I can't wait to use it. Unfortunately I'm not able to stand without crutches yet so most of my cooking is being done as a coop effort which doesn't always work out too well. Hubby has a tendancy to want it to be done before it's time. :( HELP! LOL

Ice Storm of '09

It seems that few people worldwide or even nationwide are paying much attention to what is happening here in the midwest. So far 42 people have froze to death over the past 8 days and so far zero help from the federal government. Yesterday the Govenor of Kentucky was sent all of the Ohio National Guard's Humvees to try to start getting to the out of the way places where there is zero heat and power in sub zero temps. We would've sent them sooner except we had out own outages and people stuck in the out of the way places in SE and SW Ohio. Two of our local schools set up shelters for those who were without power. One night over the weekend it got down to -10ºf.

I'm really really angry right now. After listening to the media and what they did with Katrina and Fema when they were on site within 3 days and here we are OVER a week out and still not a finger lifted from the federal governement? Not a peep from Obama? Yeah, he threw a Superbowl party instead, ate wagyu-steak, and turned the temp up in the oval office to 72ºf while 42 people in the midwest froze to death because they were stuck where they were because no one sent plows in to help dig them out. Might I point out that it was 80ºf when Katrina happened, not -10ºf! There is growing fear that the 42 will grow as soon as the NG can get house to house. I'd imagine we will find whole families dead trying to stay warm.

WHERE IS FEMA?

News Footage From 1981

As you all know I have had too much time online with my foot still in a cast. So I found this little ditty which just made me laugh. Now some of you are young enough that you might not appreciate it and others will not even have been born yet, but I assure you that in 1981 this was cutting edge. Now look closely at the video, see the rotary dial phone? Yep back then many homes still had them because Ma Bell charged you more for a push button. I still remember when we got our first push button phone. It was real cutting edge for a 12 yo to use and my friends had never used one before! LOL Can you imagine? Oh yeah, most of you probably won't remember Ma Bell either? *sigh* Perhaps I should write a little more about generation Jones and what we remember?

Seriously Bored!

Ok so let's go back a few weeks. On Jan 2nd, I was going down the basement steps to unload the washing machine. I've done this probably who knows how many times, we have owned this house since 1986 soooooo. I have handful of hangers and am trying to get this done as fast as possible so as soon as Dh is home we can take off. It is about 2pm and I still need to get a few things done.

You know that feeling when you know something is about to happen and life goes into slow motion? Well that is what happened. I slipped off of the next to last step and went face first down onto the concrete. I really did it good this time. My right palm was bleeding, my left elbow ripped up, scratches on my back from hitting the doorway on the way down. I just kind of tried to shake it off until I noticed that my ankle was in much worse shape than the rest of me. My foot had slammed the last step and I had twisted my ankle badly. By the time I got back upstairs it was already swelling pretty bad and hurt like h*ll!

If I'd have been thinking clearly I'd have thought to put ice on it right then, but I didn't. Dh got home a little after 3pm and suggested it and also told me that I wasn't going anywhere. He went and did the errands instead. Then spent the rest of the night trying to talk me into going to the ER.

I don't know about you but unless I am dying there is no way I am going to the ER on a Friday night. To say it is not my crowd would be an understatement. Sorry I do not want to find myself in the middle of a disfunctional drunken family fued so I promised him that if it didn't feel better by Saturday monring I'd go.

Saturday morning I had a lovely shade of purple and green going on my ankle and it was about 3x bigger than the right one. Of course Dh started in about when we were going to the ER? After lunch I said I was ready just to get him to stop whining about it, I was sure I had just sprained my ankle badly.

Only took about 45 minutes to see a Dr which completely shocked me. I was sure I'd be there hours. We left here at 1pm and was home by 4:30pm which IMHO isn't too bad. Had a Dr who obiviously had been on duty way too long when he asked me if I "could feel his toes"....then quickly corrected himself and asked if mine were ok. LOL Sent me for an ankle and foot Xray and came back a little later and said he had good news my ankle was just sprained badly but that I had broke a bone in the top of my foot. :(

So was able to see the Ortho on that Tuesday and he gave me a lovely big shoe that has to be worn until the foot heals. My cats are scared to death of it and aren't too keen on the crutches either. I don't think I have ever sat so much in my life. I am so bored and ready for this to be over. I swear once this is done I will be standing for a month! I am not so good with the crutches, they make me feel like I am out of control so have been using my office chair alot to whiz around the house. The worst part is that I feel like a prisioner here. Our front porch has 6 steps to the ground and with the ice and snow this time of year aren't so good for manevering crutches. Whine whine :(

***Day 20 of captivity*** Life sucks and the TV is worse.

Happy 2009!

I truely hope for all of you that 2009 is a wonderful year. :D