my daughter has varsity volleyball...the problem is her getting home after practice...it is the rainy season here now, so it is difficult to get transpo to her school...if it rains a lot of the transporters stay home[jeeps,taxis, etc.]...I told my daughter to catch a ride with a team mate to her house which is only about 5 blocks away from our ( Read more... )

I have been "cut off" from white choco--by my wife but I eat some when I walk the dogs. :) ; where she can't see me. :)....anyway what I wanted to mention was this tree that grows here--mulungay--it is mentioned in the Bible somewhere--is a miracle tree--you break a branch off the tree--put it in the ground and it grows--I don't know of any tree ( Read more... )

I have this hobby of re-arranging things--I don't like things the same way more than a month--my wife is the polar opposite--she wants things to remain in the same place --forever--and I mean Forever[LOL]...so you can imagine the fights we get into--finally after 2 years she [let], the key word is "let" me move my pc to the other room...it was like ( Read more... )

My wife's son thinks he should get an X-Box because his mother[me and her] got a new TV...We both have worked hard and got a tv to relax with together---now her 23 year old son...yes 23 thinks he deserves an X-BOX for doing absolutely nothing to help with any house chores...he is the type that thinks the world owes him a living...he now has a job.. ( Read more... )

No matter what I do or whatever happens here I do have this calm inside me...sometimes a little edgy but it is still there....I want to document that I am very happy for a Live journal friend that she is doing well and is in tune with herself and Nature...she has come a long way in her life and I am proud and grateful that we met through her cousin ( Read more... )

I got another boil on my skin[right index finger] this time....during the flood I had 6 or 7 of them..I never got them in Minnesota, maybe it is the climate here-who knows--but they are very painful and slow to heal ( Read more... )

ok before we get carried away I just want to say this is my observation........................sometimes I can place my mind back in history or to a specific place, where I can just view, what seems to me, to be a "real event" happening. It is weird but fun..when I close my eyes, not all the time, instead of sleeping and dreaming[I can tell the ( Read more... )

well the RP<<[republic of the Philippines]has elected s new prez, but are working on the VP as I type. Here they vote on the VP seperately---meaning the Prez's running mate does not automatically win if that prez candidate wins...Here is what they have a senator that did nothing while he was in the senate for 8 years--didn't pass one bill running ( Read more... )

Goldman Sacks executives were grueled by congress on wed about their dealings. They all protect each other--the blue-bloods and congress. You scratch my back--I will scratch yours mentality. American democracy and citizens are being financially raped every day ( Read more... )

in the last 8 years [the Bush era] democracy has been touted[sp] as being the "cure" for all the world's woes. I beg to disagree...democracy [in the beginning] Romans invented it--it was pure and good....but it has now become so diluted in politics that it barely resembles the Roman example. California is the only state that, to me, is close to a ( Read more... )