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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Queen for a day

That's right!! DD is the 2014 Homecoming Queen!! So proud!!


Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Everything's Bigger in Texas....

In Texas, everything's bigger... Football, Cheerleaders, the stars at night....
And in our small town, being nominated for the Homecoming Court is a huge deal. The senior class votes and the top five girls are the nominees (no other class is allowed.) And this year, they've added five senior boys, so tomorrow the entire school votes from these five girls and five boys for Homecoming Queen and King, and it will be announced at the football game Friday night. They even made the front page of the local paper today!
And yes, I am proud to say that my daughter, DD, is one of the five nominees.  She is honored, of course, to be one of the five senior girls, and I am so happy for her.  She really gives 110% in everything she does, and makes it her goal to be a role model.
As a matter of fact, along the way, I have gotten involved in all of the social media to sort of watch what their generation does and to stay current in my field of communications. I do Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, You Tube, Pinterest, Vine,  and Snapchat and I can tell you that most of my "followers" are DD's friends, since I mostly post about her. She's my only child still living at home, and my older two aren't that into social media. You have to know who your audience is, and the point of me telling you this is that there are tons of junior high and younger girls in our town that follow ME to see what DD does. She is high profile here since she is a varsity cheerleader and lieutenant on the danceteam, along with band color guard and most other clubs at school.
So I thought it was funny that one of the other nominee's mom told me tonight that her husband was discussing this subject with his buddies at the local bar last night, and they all decided that it's between DD and his daughter. How funny that even the men are laying bets -- small town living!!
Of course I'd love for my daughter to win, but just to be nominated is truly such a treat.
It's sort of our version of the Academy Awards.....


Tuesday, September 16, 2014

"All's fair in love and war?"

Just got off the phone with my business partner. Her father was murdered when she was young and she has been raised as an only child by a mother who never really recovered after that event. Money is tight and has always been a struggle for her. She married a man who was raised in the foster home system since his mother was/still is a crack mom living in Austin. He's a good man but has never had many opportunities.
Anyway.
Her daughter is a freshman at the public school in her neighboring town, and is super athletic so plays volleyball. We were just discussing what a RACQUET it is in my town and hers. These volleyball coaches (and yes, it is also true in baseball, tennis and golf) run these "clubs" called "Select" in off-season, and they charge between $1,000 and $2,000 per kid for those kids to be in these "clubs." And the only way to make the team each year is if you play on these club teams. It's how they pad their incomes, and no school will stop it or stand up to them.
So my business partner's husband just had scary, life-threatening surgery, and currently his mouth is wired shut (it's a long, depressing story, but I'll spare you.) He has not been able to work for the last 4 weeks, and money is beyond tight. My partner tried to scrape up the $1,000 for her daughter to play on the select team, but they only chose the kids that could pay the $2,000. I think she should go to the superintendent and put a stop to this clear breach of sanity that borders on illegality.
I expect this from private schools, as the ones around here, the parents pay for their kids to do whatever they want, but I DON'T expect it from public schools where it's supposed to be equitable and fair. I think the schools look the other way to keep the coaches, and everybody knows what's going on but they don't choose to fight those battles.
It's like when my daughter DD (who is a senior) started this school. The first week several of her teachers just put in movies for them to watch instead of teaching and I called the principal. He was a good-old boy who kind of laughed, and said (about her Spanish class) "Well, at least it was in Spanish!" Ugh... She took two years of Spanish and learned NOTHING yet made A's. Having grown up in San Antonio, I will say simple words in Spanish, yet she has no idea what I'm saying. But I digress.
The public school system is so completely corrupt there is no hope. And the private schools are worse, as they only depend on whoever is subsidizing them...
Is NOTHING fair any more???


Thursday, September 11, 2014

#wewillnotforget

Hmmm, where to begin.... I guess with my finger that I BROKE today....
Ughhhhhhhh
I was trying to get our bloodhound puppy (who is MY size) out the back door, but he was being stubborn and digging in like a mule (or ASS.)
Anyway.
At 6:00 am this morning, I was trying to push him with all of my might, when he did a little sidestep, and I went careening headlong down four concrete stairs face first. I landed on my NOSE, which started bleeding and I thought I had broke (it's swollen.) But I could barely get up, and got back inside really hurting, and noticed that my pinky finger was completely perpendicular at the joint.
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh.
Anyway.
I had really planned on taking a prayer day - I need that - and just going to God with my heart-felt thoughts and requests. Instead, I went to the doctor, and they took forever, and gave me a tetanus shot, and said to go by hospital for an x-ray in our small town. So I opted not to, since the treatment would be the same.
Sigh.
Our cool town, and surrounding area, had flags flying at half mass at all businesses, and tons more were all up and down Main Street. I got the feeling that this ISIS news with it's beheadings, rapings, and mayhem,  has made everyone keenly aware that the radical jihadists have reloaded and grown, and might make a move at any time. And that our current administration is not prepared, and admitted two weeks ago that they have no strategy. THAT got LOTS of bad press, so the prez got his best speech writers to deliver an empty speech last night (I refuse to watch ANY of his  speeches or press conferences) so they could pretend like they are going to do something about this huge rise in a population hell-bent on killing all infidels (that's us.)
But they're not.
Their idealogy is that Tea Party-ers are the #1 enemy, not Islamists. The prez even had the GALL to say that ISIS is not Islam. What? This from the guy who chose a man from the Muslim Brotherhood to be in Homeland Security. Well that's letting the wolves guard the chicken coop.... But it's not just that. I could list tons of people that the prez has chosen to surround himself with, and then all of this becomes crystal clear. Conservatives were screaming at Republicans to vet this guy in his first election, but no one did. He was black and that's all that mattered. He didn't have to abide by the same rules and he still doesn't. Everyone else had to show their birth certificate, and school information but he never did. And if he was asked, he just acted cool like that was the stupidest question ever, and he would not dignify it with an answer. No, this country got mesmerized by a polished speech giver, and won't hold him accountable for ANYTHING.
Well, this country will suffer for it's stupidity and naivete.
We already are....


Tuesday, September 9, 2014

For God has not given us......

Today our one high school in our small town that my youngest daughter attends, had a bomb threat. I was in a neighboring town, as my friend and I have decided to start a magazine here in the Texas hill country, so it took me by surprise. DD texted me this morning and said they were all outside like a fire drill, so I made plans to drive back. But shortly thereafter, they said the local police had done a "sweep" and they were given the all clear to go back to class (after missing two class periods.) Evidently they then got a second bomb threat, so they were then told to go to the football field to be picked up if they didn't have a vehicle. DD had left so fast, she forgot her purse (and thus car keys.) 

It was the talk of the town, and with social media, the news traveled fast. DD was happy because she and her friend group went swimming in one of her friend's tanks (that's what we call them here in central Texas.) So all afternoon, we got texts from the school that a bomb-sniffing dog from Austin was checking it all out. By this evening, we got word on Facebook that someone had been arrested, although we don't know who yet. 
That person will be in HUGE trouble, because these days pranks are usually considered felonies, and first strike, and you're out. Usually to juvenile detention on something like this. I thought all along that it was probably a troubled kid not wanting to take a test, but quien sabe? (That means, "Who knows" in Spanish, since in most Texas towns, we are half Hispanic, and half white.)
Meanwhile I'm trying to help my older daughter, Alex, who just had a baby, and has her hands full with a toddler and an infant. While I'm trying to start a business. Because, at my age, Baby Boomers don't usually get hired for sales jobs....
Sigh.
I don't know. The week of September 11th is always an apprehensive time. My pastor says that some are saying that we are now in the End Times Tribulation period of 7 years, and are about 4 months into it. Billy Graham's son, Franklin, is convinced we are in the final hours of living before God's church is raptured. The Bible says to toil until He comes, so that's all we can really do. We're not supposed to head up the mountain, and wait for Him up there. No, we do His work until He arrives. 
All I'm saying is that even the non-Christians can feel it. I'm seeing prophecies come out that are saying to be strong when upcoming "storms" arrive. It all gets a bit scary, and it's easy to be fearful, although we're not supposed to. I keep saying, "For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love and a sound mind," and trying to let it sink in. 
I don't know if anything will happen this year on 9-11. I saw a Facebook post today by a man who said if his children were young, he wouldn't send them to school, or fly in a jet, or go to crowded places. But as someone else replied, if we do that, the terrorists win. 
True.......

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

The Buck Stops Here...

I'm speechless... Today I read that Islamists have stolen 11 airliners from Libya and intel is afraid that they will use them for a 9-11 type attack.
Duh.
What they are not saying is that they must know a heck of a lot more. Because, like the MH370 missing airliner, there are satellites all over the planet that can pinpoint what ROOM people are in. You don't think they can see huge airliners being "stolen??"
It's all so infuriating. And then the president... of what USED to be the biggest superpower in the world until HE became president, never claims to know a thing. No, he learned it on the freaking news, or so he usually says. Or he blames it on the fact that he was too busy fundraising or playing golf, and that he delegates it all.
Right.
Well, guess what? Whoever is in charge gets the blame. Period. Because that's what leadership is. The Buck stops here. I don't care if he DOES say he didn't know. Well, even if that were true, then he SHOULD know!! Why don't most people hold him accountable??? Why is it only conservatives??? Are the others embarressed they voted for him?? Are they accountable too if they voted for him?? Even my own son who voted for him, is too proud to admit that this prez has been a debacle but says he's never voting again in any future elections.
I don't know.
Is this whole country hypnotized?? All of the other countries are now laughing at us.  It's like my daughter's high school - when you see the popular people suffer - they all laugh at the bringing down of someone (something) that they are jealous of. We've become a laughing stock to China and Russia. And evil has infiltrated Europe to the extent that it looks too far gone to go back. The cat is out of the bag. The jeanie is out of the bottle. The cows are out of the barn. (Ok, I'll stop, but you get the point.)
They're screwed and we might be too.
I guess it all depends on how many enemies have crossed the southern border. It's not all poor Guatemalans that we are supposed to feel sorry for, and give free everything to, and enroll their children in our schools just because they made the terrible trip here. (Just read today that the cost of the USA schooling these new illegals is $761 Billion. Yes, with a B.)
Sigh.
I guess we are screwed....


Monday, September 1, 2014

Happy? Labor Day

This Labor Day is bittersweet, in that I've always had to work Labor Days in my previous newspaper jobs, but since I am looking for a job, the time off isn't quite a vacation. I don't have the money to go out and do anything, so....
Anyway.
I am ready for Fall to begin, and loved, loved, loved the beginning of high school football on Friday night and college football yesterday!! "Fun football games cover a multitude of sins" (from the book of Pearl)  and something about this time of year gives me hope. Of course the media squashes that with threats of terrorism in the next two weeks, as we are knocking on the door of September 11th and Jewish holidays so...

Just thought I'd make some comments on some of my twitter feed:

-- Judge declares polygamy a legal right - The article goes on to say that the redefintion of marriage other than one man and one woman was the basis of the judges' decision. Um Hmmmm....

-- Surge in babies born without brains in Washington State - Disturbing. They say no one knows why this has been happening but it's an agricultural area...

-- Federal judge overturns Kauai County's GMO and pesticide regulations - I've been seeing this sort of thing a lot lately, even more than usual. A state will vote and rule one way, and the feds overrule it. Just more loss of freedoms to "Big Brother"...

-- China ends the development of GMO corn and rice - Other countries, and even China, are protecting their citizens while the U.S. caves to the mighty dollar, while research has proven that GMO's cause cancer and permanent damage...

-- Harry Reid's Alma Mater dumps his name from building - It's nice to read good news every now and then...

-- Two veterans in critical condition after mob attacked in revenge for Michael Brown - May the record show that these two veterans were white and the mob was black, and that they did not know them. But you'll never hear anything on mainstream media because it doesn't fit their template. Infuriating...

-- Top Marine General now risking his career to take down Obama - This military man is proposing a coup....

-- Outrageous: Obama Admin dangles missile shipment in front of Israel - How scary that our government does not back our strong ally Israel. In the Bible God is very clear what happens to those who side against it....

-- Saudi Arabia's King: ISIS will reach America in two months - Yes, and the day before that the UK prime minister had a press conference saying that he was increasing the terrorist  alert in the UK to severe. And THAT was the day after the Obama said he had no strategy for ISIS...

-- Muslims raping nuns - Need I say more???


Saturday, August 30, 2014

Are You Ready For Some Football!?

Thursday, August 28, 2014

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke



I'm not sure if I've EVER felt as helpless as I do now. My heart is BREAKING for the Christians in Iraq and this current administration will not do a thing. Well, let me correct myself. They are doing "targeted missile drops" and I can only guess that this is to keep the world at bay in the planet outcry over the genocide of Christians in that country.
As you know, I am a devout Christian. Not just In Name Only,  "CINO." I am a real follower of Jesus, reading His Word, and doing my best to obey His commandments. And those people are MY brothers and sisters in Christ. There are no borders with His children. There is complete genocide being committed and our Judeo-Christian country does NOTHING???
I am trying to figure out what to do. Ordinarily there is an outcry about things like this, and we pressure our government to respond with force. Well, this was B.O. (Before Obama.) There have been situations before that the U.S. has responded to. And with good Christians and Jews in charge with beliefs from the Bible/Torah, we have been the watchdogs of the planet, so to speak.
When bad things happen in Africa like Apartheid, all the Hollywood types get behind it. But for me, as an average person, I have no bully pulpit. I think that's why blogs and social media are awesome, because they became avenues for average people like me to say what I think, even if it's to my small audience. Celebrities have a huge forum with thousands and thousands of viewers of which to make their case.
And it is infuriating that the mainstream media is sugar-coating this and not putting high importance on this issue. They think it's uncool to be a Christian and of all the labels to be considered, Christians are the LAST group they want to cover. (Again, see my blog 2 days ago - they don't want their behavior judged by Christians, yet the irony is that jihadists will KILL them no matter HOW tolerant they are to Muslims since they are Americans/Westerners. Just read British media for a few days, and see what we have to look forward to if we stay on this path to hell.)
We, as Americans, have allowed millions of our own citizens to be murdered by abortion. We collectively (not me) have been tolerant of feminists who claimed that it's THEIR choice and THEIR body, and we have allowed them to MURDER (see Ten Commandments) babies. And today I read that Planned Parenthood is lobbying for POST-birth abortion. WHY????? If the child is already born, why not snatch it up and let someone who really wants a child to raise it. At that point, they have gone through the nine months and the inconvenient excuse doesn't even fly.
So are we now going to stand by and do NOTHING while children are being crucified or beheaded (along with adults) and women raped, and/or sold as sex slaves. Have we become THAT SELFISH that we cannot try to help these people who are being slaughtered???
I follow lots of Christians on Facebook, and there are tons of missionaries who are begging for prayer on this issue. People that are over there. People who have seen this happen. People on the run from these monsters. This is REAL. Are we so desensitized by television and movies, that we cannot get this through our skulls that good people are dying. Tons of them. GENOCIDE used to mean something!! Everyone is too wrapped up in what Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus are doing. Americans have lost their way, and I blame the mainstream media for setting the stage for what's important and what's not. Not too long ago, even the liberal journalists would cover these stories and it would move people to action. Now, it's pretty much just Fox News that will, and they are mocked for it. Sean Hannity was awesome to go to Israel and get the truth out there about what was really happening, but this administration is pro-Hamas and anti-Israel, which is dangerous for us because God says, "I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you" regarding His people (Jews and Christians are adopted in, as it says in the New Testament.) I read today that Jimmy Carter will attend a Hamas fundraiser. Man, it just keeps getting better and better...
Oh God help me know what to do!!!!!!!!!

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/isis-savages-now-crucifying-kids

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Fire and Ice

Just came across something on my Facebook newsfeed that I'm going to share. I don't usually do that but I want you to see what was written.
It's about the current fad/fundraiser, "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge." Have I been challenged? Yes. Have I done it? No. Why not? Eh. I'm kind of a non-conformist, so if everybody's doing it, I'm not terribly interested. And by now, it's gotten annoying since that is ALL that is on Facebook and Instagram. And then I read that part of their research is going to things I don't want to support, so I became less interested. But then I have a friend who's mom has ALS, so I thought, hmmm, ok, if it's a good cause. Then I came across this today from WorldTruth.TV.....
(copy and pasted.)

I recently found out about the Ice Bucket Challenge and I really didn’t pay attention to it until a good friend mentioned that an ex-satanist friend said that this is the very same ritual he did when he was a satanist and was like a covenant contract with the devil. Because I had not done any research on it yet, I really couldn’t say if it was good or bad to participate in.




The Illuminati Fire & Ice Challenges ‘Purifying America’ Before The ‘Great Human Sacrifice’


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I recently found out about the Ice Bucket Challenge and I really didn’t pay attention to it until a good friend mentioned that an ex-satanist friend said that this is the very same ritual he did when he was a satanist and was like a covenant contract with the devil. Because I had not done any research on it yet, I really couldn’t say if it was good or bad to participate in. My initial thought was that it was just another passing social media frenzie. I wasn’t going to do it anyway because it didn’t interest me. HOWEVER, I began to spend some time in prayer about this because just saying that it was demonic was not a good enough explanation to tell people why it is not beneficial to participate in, if in fact there was something wrong with it. I have precious friends and family that have participated in the challenge and I want to make it clear that I am not wanting to offend anybody or condemn anybody who has done the challenge.


If you did it in innocence, then I don’t believe God holds it against you but I do believe that if a Christian participates in it, they should ask God to forgive them and break off any resulting curses. Let me tell you why. After spending time in prayer and doing much research today, I was really bothered by the fact that this Ice Bucket Challenge was bothering me and I didn’t know why. It was on my mind a lot and I kept asking God why. After much prayer and research, I found that the founder, Corey Griffin, of the movement seemed like a good guy. I didn’t find anything wrong with this kid except that he died last week and was unfortunate. Is his death related to the challenge or is it just a misfortune? Yes and no. On the surface of things, the whole challenge seems like a good cause. It basically is creating awareness to raise funds for Lou Gehrig’s disease, which is a disease of the nerve cells of the brain. The Ice Bucket Challenge is to throw a bucket of ice water on yourself or give a donation towards ALS which does research for finding a cure for the disease.
This is what I found out and what God showed me in my research. ALS uses some of their funds towards Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchWhen I saw that, I finally knew why I was bothered by this challenge in my spirit, but yet still seemed harmless. But I can’t support human embryos being used and destroyed for such a thing. I can’t support killing a baby for this cause. What also bothers me is that the devil himself has come in through the back door to lure the unsuspecting to participate in a ritual that basically signs a contact with the devil to participate in a kind of abortion. The phenomena of the craze on social media is fueled by a deceiving spirit that brings death. Is it possible that Corey Griffin caused his own death? I hate to say it and it sounds hard and he seemed like a nice guy but this is the perfect picture of the innocent dabbling in something that has originated from hell itself. A life was taken. An innocent life.
This depicts the fact and is a prophetic message that innocent life is taken to try and find a cure for this disease. God definitely wants there to be a cure, but not this way. This whole Embryonic Stem Cell Research is man’s idea, not God’s. It is man’s way of acting out to “be God” in deciding who lives and who dies. This just should not be. I get sick to my stomach thinking about it. So now that I think about what what my friend said that their ex-satanist friend said about the ice bucket ritual, I see very clearly what God is saying through all this.

The enemy has come into America through the back door with what seems like a good work and a good cause but it is only on the surface. As you dig a little deeper and take the time to research, you will see that what I am saying is true. This is a type of sacrifice. It is a type of satanic sacrifice. All these human embryos are being sacrificed. A type of cannibalism is occurring because this craze and this phenomena is causing people to give into this one fund and neglecting other good and noble foundations that have have better causes and more moral ones. There is definitely a spirit behind this cause and it is not the Holy Spirit. God would never endorse such a fundraiser that supports using human embryos for research. It is abortion, plain and simple. To all those who have already participated, there is no condemnation, but there is a plea from the heart of God to pray, seek his face and ask forgiveness. I really didn’t want to post anything for or against this challenge.
I didn’t want to get involved. But The Lord challenged me to speak the truth and I have done so. Though this post is lengthy, it is very important to pay attention to what God is saying here. Let there be a lesson learned. WE MUST KNOW WHAT WE ARE GIVING INTO! We should only give into good soil. I have concluded that the Ice Bucket Challenge is not good soil to sow into. I also pray for those who have the Lou Gehrig’s disease that they will be healed by The Lord Jesus Christ and a more noble and moral research breakthrough for this disease will be found. I’m so sorry for offending anyone because of this post. That is not my heart to hurt anyone. Please hear me on this. I felt it was important to speak the truth and speak what The Lord wanted me to say. I truly love you all. Let me leave you with this final, but powerful thought. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free!” ~ Reeni Mederos
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You say you don't believe in this kind of stuff? Well, that's your perogative. But with all the evil in the world right now, you might want to think twice...

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." (feminism quote)

Last night I TRIED to watch the Emmy's but, after 30 minutes,  I switched to something else. If you have read my blog for years, you know that my older daughter Alex and I have traded our quips on red carpet fashion, but Alex had her second baby last week, and just got home from the hospital over the weekend. So even that fun wasn't there to share.
And, since there was so much about the VMA's yesterday after Sunday night's MTV award show, I had taped the oncore showing to see what everyone was talking about. So I switched over to it, and well, YUCK. Each year, these "celebs" try to one-up each other from the previous year, and since Miley Cyrus had set the bar (rock-bottom) in last year's VMA's with Robin Thicke and the foam finger, they all seemed to have something to prove. So I guess when shows air on MTV, celebs think they get a pass from decorum, and they sink to the lowest common denominator. I only watched about 30 minutes of this one too, fast-forwarding through the filth, which was most of the time. As the show came on, the stage seemed like it was in the middle of Sodom and Gomorrah with swarms of people writhing around them like snakes. As a matter of fact, a story had been released earlier in the week, that one of Nicki Minaj's dancers was bitten by one of the snakes in the rehearsal.... um hmmmm. Consequently they removed the snakes for the live performance, and the backup dancers appeared to not have any clothes on at all, but body paint in designs. I could see every crack on them, and guess they had on extremely thin underwear that was painted as well??
All the talk had been about Nicki Minaj and then Beyonce, and after I watched, I thought that Beyonce's performance was embarressing. Here she is, the mother of a toddler, who was there, and she was doing the nastiest television show I have ever seen.  Bar none. It seemed pathetic as she aimed it at her cheating rapper husband. So it was ironic that she had the word "feminism" on a screen behind her  in a revealing jeweled leotard in her stripper dance simulating sexual intercourse with a lounge chair. So many conservatives are asking, WTH?? How can these women say they are feminists, and think that being a glorified stripper isn't being a huge hypocrite??
Well, if you think about it, it's actually not surprising at all.
This is the type of women that say they can have sex when they want, with whoever they want, however they want and no one should stop them. And should they get pregnant, it's their body and their choice  to do whatever they want. Somehow in their warped minds, this makes them like men. They can have unlimited sex with no consequences. Oh, and as an aside, they also want the rest of us to pay for their birth control because it's a God-given right (even though they don't really talk about God other wise. Except the other day, I read a liberal woman said that it's her God-given right to abort, but I digress.)
You see the old norm of good girls saving themselves for the right man and marrying him is completely old school to these types. These days it's all about the sex, and the attention, and the freedom to dress however they want and do whatever they want with no consequences. These types also don't want to be judged by Christians (or the God they don't believe in) so Christians are the enemy. I've often wondered why they are so pro-Muslim, when that religion is so abusive to women, and don't let them wear what they want, or do what they want and treat them like dogs. But I get the feeling, that once they have shut the Christians up, then they will start to oppose Muslim's treatment of females & homosexuals.
Yes, these Hollywood types sold their souls to the devil a long time ago, and I don't see many get off that reservation. You see, the devil pursued pop culture, Hollywood, and the education system to have a grip on the youth, and he has won that battle. But that is going to start changing and the youth will start to see that they were lied to by the biggest liar on the planet.
And there will be an awakening with the youth.
It starts now...


Monday, August 25, 2014

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things." - Maya Angelou

School started today here in Texas, so here we go. It's my youngest child's senior year, so everything we are going to do will be the "last" for her school years at home. Like today was her last first day at school, so we snapped our traditional first day photo and off she drove to meet up early with her boyfriend at school. DD is so busy with activities, that she isn't home much. She's doing varsity cheer, danceteam and band this year, so halftime will be crazy busy. Our first game is this Friday (and, of course, it will be the "last" first game.)
Sigh.
Senior years are completely different these days than when I was in high school - or even her older brother and sister's high school experience. It's like the kids just give up and "phone it in" now days. They come to school sloppier than in year's past, and act like it's such a pain to be at school. Many drop out of activities and kind of give up. And, if they are college-bound wannabes, then whatever class rank at the end of your junior year is what counts. It's a catch 22 (I guess THAT dates me) because colleges only want the top 10% of each class, yet with tons of leadership activities. As a matter of fact, DD has already applied to four colleges, since most open it up on August 1st each year. She had to write two essays for the University of Texas, and Texas A&M requires three. I think it's kind of ridiculous, since they don't really know if the student wrote it, or if someone else did. Of course, there is an essay now on the SAT, so they do write that one on the spot.
I'm trying to teach DD to live in the present because we really don't know what tomorrow holds. Yes we plan for the future, but we don't want to live there (or the past either.) That was an epiphany in my adult years, since Americans are always planning for the future until they die. This country is always in a rush, and it's stressful. I've talked to people from other countries, and they seem to live in the present better than us Americans, but I doubt that will change any time soon. We are a 'shop til you drop' mentality nation, and I'm as guilty as anyone. And yes, I'm competitive so there's not much I can do about it but jump on the merry-go-round and ride.
That was the main reason I left the job I was at for the last six years. As a small company, my boss did not even let me take any vacation for two years, and after that I had to fight for two days a year. And as the sole salesperson, it was constant pressure to produce - produce - produce. People get tired. They need to rest. They need to do something else, at least temporarily to recharge. They need to have a life outside of those four walls.
So now I'm looking. I am trying to remain positive, as I know that it is a miracle any time anyone gets a job. And honestly, it's scary to be looking for a job as a Baby Boomer, especially in the sales area. Most companies would prefer a blonde twenty-something. But God promises to take care of my needs, so I'm taking Him at His word.  Am I sending out resumes/cover letters? Yes. I'm doing my part, and He will do His.
So, I need to practice what I preach. Live in the present. Be thankful for all I have today.
It's all we've really got...

Saturday, July 5, 2014

"Take this job and..."

I want to give up but I can't... My new boss of 2 weeks called me in on Friday and said that she gets there at 5:30 am and leaves around 7:30 pm, has a 10 minute lunch, no breaks, and works weekends, and basically expects me to do the same.... She said "gone are the days" of down time and every moment needs to be filled at all times. She is OCD and even admits she needs an intervention. It's an 8 page step to order an ad in, and if there's a copy change, an 8 step kill process, and a reorder 8 step process. I've never seen anything so screwed up, and I've been a lot of places. When I interviewed I told her I'm a single mom, and that flexibility is crucial to me, and that I get the job done and surpass expectations... but not hers. Her entire sales staff has no children under 18 (or even 21) and she has no children. I've been is display/outside sales most of my career, and do the best that way. She says there is no time to make visits, and wants it all by email (or phone calls as last resort.) She said she has never met many of her accounts and it's a small town!! When I interviewed she said,"Do what you want" but is singing a much different tune two weeks later. It's a daily paper of a small town of 20,000, and in this company of around 20 employees, everyone is eerily silent and awkward. No one talks. And when the ad staff makes a sales call, they rush back.... I've never seen this before. And clearly I'm not a fit at all.
Which depresses me completely... Where are the good jobs?? Where they treat you humanely?? My boss actually said she wanted me to be a "machine." I wish she would have been completely honest in the interview and I would not have accepted the job...

Saturday, May 10, 2014

"When in Rome..."

Here it is Saturday morning, and my mind is racing with thoughts... As I sit here and ponder on how the USA is "going to hell in a handbasket"(as my grandmother used to say) I find it ironic.
Ironic because when Obama was elected in 2008, I think most Americans thought we were no longer a racist nation because we had just elected our first black president. Never mind that he had a white mother, an absent father, a questionable birth certificate, a questionable number of Social Security numbers, questionable-acting relatives, questionable time in universities where no one remembers an odd-named, unusual-looking black guy, questionable drug usage, questionable ties to terrorists like Bill Ayers, questionable "church" attendance, and questionable sexuality -- shall I go on??
Nope. All of those that voted for him overlooked all of the Red Flag Warning Bells, and patted themselves on the back that they were not racist and voted for the black man who promised Hope and Change. And NOW look at us!! In these past 6 years, this country is heading to socialism at break-neck speed and the majority of Americans are just sticking their heads in the sand. They watch the mainstream media tell us that whatever going wrong is the Republicans fault (oh, and don't forget Bush) and they figure this is all grand-standing politics. Meanwhile the militant gay agenda and the pro-abortion groups have been laying groundwork that threaten our existence as a country. The door's foothold has been turned into an open door for all of this, and as this nation's morality nosedives, so does everything else. In 6 short years the military is being ruined, the public school system is being ruined, and our freedoms are being removed daily. Well, I mean the freedoms of GOOD people, and not the freeloaders. Job loss and unemployment are in scary numbers. Good parents are losing children to hospitals and bad judges. Drug usage is up. Autism and children diseases are up. Our food supply is threatened. Our ammunition supply is threatened. Owning land is threatened. Driving a vehicle is threatened. Small farms are threatened. Drones are a threat. Good men/women in military are leaving (some by choice and some not.)
Yes, this group of radical liberals are much like the radicals of the Muslims - they have hijacked their groups. Until a few years ago, Muslims were a religion of peace and left infidels alone. Not anymore. Radicals have hijacked the religion and want to take over the world.
And Democrats are certainly not the party of John F. Kennedy. No, those radical liberals have hijacked the Democrats and they want to take over this country. They cheat on elections and everything else they can. They push the Climate Change lies so that they can send billions to "green" companies like Solyndra, who are just fake shell companies that close quickly and can donate legally back to Democrats. They withold the Keystone project, knowing that it would open up thousands upon thousands of jobs, but the contempt they have towards oil and because many oil companies are run by conservatives, there is no way they will ever let that happen. They take over an immense part of Nevada's land, saying it's to save some damn tortoise, when in actuality, it was really about Senator Harry Reid wanting to use that land for his own gain. The BLM even has SQUAT teams. Why?? What in God's name would they need SQUAT teams for???
And all of this was because Americans wanted to be politically correct? Issues be damned?? Unfortunately this country is getting what it deserves. There are still decent people who are working endlessly to turn this around - who didn't vote for this fake - who don't deserve this, but as a country, since few are not complacent, we are being destroyed from within.
Just like the Roman empire...


Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Truth or Consequences

Here is my Facebook comment on link below:

Ok, I've TRIED to not comment on this but I just have to. I really do try to be positive on Facebook, but this is one of the most heinous things I've seen. This young woman, age 25, says she didn't want to take the birth control pill because it would make her gain weight. So she got pregnant and admits she was really happy to know she could "make a life" but wasn't ready for children. She decided to film her abortion to show other women that it can be "cool" and also writes a story about it for Cosmopolitan Magazine. How can our society have gotten this sick?? I've never understood how we legislated murder of the pre-born in this country. I have several friends who had abortions and every single one of them regrets it terribly and have suffered depression over it. I can assure you that this girl will be horrified at her actions some day. In the mean time, she killed her own child for convenience for the whole world to see. I don't have hate for this woman. I know she will suffer for this because there are consequences for our actions. Heaven help us....
http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/43744-abortion-activist-videos-death-mill-doctors-taking-her-pre-born-baby

Here is another blog about this - he says it way better than I ever could....

http://themattwalshblog.com/2014/05/07/this-is-my-positive-abortion-story/

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

"Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never hurt me"

Wow. Much has happened since I posted two weeks ago about Cliven Bundy...
During that time, the New York Times was able to get a story that they edited so much that they were able to discredit him as a racist. Notice that NO mainstream media were on that BLM story until they sent out their goons, and then it was All racist All the time...
Yeah.
Now they've moved on to the Clippers owner, who evidently really IS a racist. And they are loving every minute of it. But I WILL add that MOST people are NOT racists, so most are agreeing that Donald Sterling is an ass.
And if you're wondering what I think? Yes, of course, I too think the guy is an ass.
But what I wanted to post about is this:  The NBA ruling sets a VERY dangerous precedent. What Sterling said is awful - we all get that. But they WERE just words and he didn't physically hurt anyone. The guy is in his eighties. He paid the players since they were his "employees." They work for the money, and he pays. No one is disputing that.
And I haven't read every single story out there about this but wasn't the guy telling his "girlfriend" (who some are saying was one of his prostitutes) not to be seen with 'those black players or putting it out there on The Instagram.' (Can you believe he even knows what that is?!) So, I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe, he was a little jealous. Maybe he was thinking he's in his freaking eighties and the only women he can get are the ones he pays, and even then this one is out galavanting around and taking photos with Magic Johnson (who is ALSO rich but younger and better looking.) Maybe he actually liked this girl and was jealous that she's hanging with rich, buff, athletes (who are also black) so he tells her (in his own stupid way) that he isn't liking this. From what I read, he never threatened this girl. No, he talked to her in almost an employer kind of way, like look, I know I can't tell you not to do this, but I'd rather you not. At least that's how it seemed to me.
I am not siding with this jerk in any way.
I'm trying to show that he said WORDS, and they weren't threatening. And the guy is entitled to his opinion, even though the majority (including me) don't agree with his racist way of thinking. But don't we have a first amendment that says he has freedom of speech?? I guess that amendment is gone now?? I thought we all have the freedom to say whatever we want?? And everyone else had the freedom to not like the guy and the freedom to SAY we don't like the guy. And the players have the freedom to leave the team. And the fans have the freedom to not go to the games.
But to fine the guy $2.5 million dollars?? And ban him from all NBA games and practices? Why not just let the "freedoms" all work themselves out? Sterling would have stopped going to games because everyone would make it clear they didn't want him there. And, even now, he WILL end up selling the Clippers because he will never, ever be able to live this down, even if he apologized every day of his life. So, now he will be fined a ton of money and never go to a game AND have to sell the Clippers out of necessity.
So here's my point. The liberals have won again. They manipulated everyone to do what they want. And that is, if someone says something that goes against the Liberal Creed, then it is "hate" speech, and that person has to be banned from society. It's already happening with homosexuals, as evidenced by the Mozilla CEO "resigning" (under duress)  and in the schools, workplace, ad nauseum. And if you're a Jesus follower, and thus a Bible follower, then if we even QUOTE the Bible and what God says about homosexuals, then it's hate speech. It's already happening in Canada. A pastor was arrested IN CHURCH, for quoting what God says in the Bible about gays.
Yes, the First Amendment is dead. What are you going to do about it???


Monday, April 14, 2014

Cliven's Last Stand

Yes, the events over the weekend with Cliven Bundy have given me some HOPE that there will be some CHANGE. Hope that things might change back to what they were before. Hope that the last five years of serious change (damage) to this country will have been at least slowed down....
Let me say upfront that in NO WAY do I think that this is over with the feds and the Bundy Ranch. They will now do it as they have for years and years, through the back door. It will be a Friday afternoon news dump where the prez gets his phone and his pen and signs yet another executive order to run this his way. He won't let this "embarressment" keep him from winning. No, they were way too quick to back down and I'm sure have a backup plan to get the same results. So I'm not naive about it.
But it does give me hope that fellow patriots are at their tipping point. We've been pushed too far. And it takes issues like these to say we're mad as hell and we aren't going to take it any more. The liberals usually turn up the heat so slowly that most don't realize that it's finally to a boiling point. But in this instance, things were at a boiling point and Cliven Bundy was ready to make his stand, alone or not. He was ready to die, if that's what it took. Here is this crackly voiced 67 year old rancher/cowboy who had his Custard's Last Stand. The feds knew they couldn't shoot him. That would've been like shooting John Wayne. A little too Wild, Wild West. And then when patriots from all over starting supporting him, well the feds probably realized they would have to accomplish their goal in a different manner. Heck, on Friday, even I thought about getting in the car and driving west from Texas to just stand there in support. I am not alone. Americans have three more years of this regime and we all know how much more damage can be wrought on our beloved country. The prez has made no bones about wanting to fundamentally change this country (that's code for help himself and his cronies) with Valerie Jarrett (another America hater.) If we can stop them or at least mitigate the damage, then that's what has to be done. It's a war, albeit, an internal war and we can win it.
One battle at a time...


Friday, April 11, 2014

"He who keeps his cool best, wins." - Norman Cousins

Here are all of the thoughts running around in my head... Ummmm, thank God it's Friday? The weeks are really long at my new job. I've been there two months now but am making much less than my last job (I am on straight commission again - so if I don't sell, I don't make money) The difference this time is my boss doesn't pay me until SHE gets paid.... It looks like it will break open at some point and things will get much better, but...
Yes, I still have a fascination with the missing 777. It just is everything that's wrong with the world these days. All of the governments lying. The mainstream media pushing what they want, and of course for ratings. No wreckage found. Some pings at the end of the clock for the black box recorder, allegedly at the bottom of a very deep part of the Indian Ocean, 15,000 feet. Alleged contact from the American with IBM. No one is allowed to go to Diego Garcia. So yes, conspiracy theories abound but the fact remains. There was a humongous jet with 238 souls on board and it was not a military jet. It's been over a month now and the world still doesn't really know what happened to it??? Yesterday I read that Britain is colluding with the United States about hiding the truth, but who really knows?? Evidently the Malaysian government knows more than they're saying so why are they hiding it?? What about the Chinese?? I mean we can all relate to flying and getting on a jumbo jet and trusting that we will probably get there. Most of us would think it's relatively safe to fly overseas, especially in that big of a jet. And most of us would trust that, at least with non-military people, that the truth would be told but alas... no such luck.
Finally, as I listen to all of the American politics for the week, it occurs to me that conservatives will only win elections if they do this: make conservatism cool. THIS is how the liberals have won elections. They get all of the "cool" people, like Hollywood and sports figures and rock stars, and they tell you if you are cool too, you will vote for Democrats. They insinuate that you're a fuddy duddy if you vote for the Republicans and extremely uncool. They even say you're racist if you vote for conservatives, so in the last two presidential elections,  easily influenced white people thought they were really cool and forward thinking to vote for the half-black, Harvard educated man who parties with Jay Z and Beyonce and goes on late night talk shows and picks basketball winners. All the while Democrats did all of their voting fraud and cheating behind the scenes and even spying on Americans and media, but the face they marketed was to be a part of the cool crowd, and be "popular" by voting for the man with the unusual name. Never mind that his birth certificate seemed fake and that no one remembered him at the prestigious colleges he went to. Never mind that he did drugs, and not just weed. Never mind that there were lots of weird things being said about the guy. He could give a good speech (albeit from the teleprompter) and Bush had embarressed them in his terrible delivery. No, the man with the funny name looks African-American, and this country likes savvy marketing. This country falls for it every time. Here was a black man who parties with the big shots and golfs with the big shots and is condescending. Here was a man who could eliminate 'white guilt for past slavery' (even though none of us have slaves or are for slavery or know someone that had a slave.) No, we got suckered into savvy marketing which Americans are famous for.
Well, guess what?? I'm in marketing and the next elections are win-able with the perfect marketing strategy. And they had better figure it out right now or we will go on down the drain that we are currently spinning around.
And, oh yeah, I'm available....