Today made me proud to be an American and gave me a feeling of hope! I pray that we can be the next "greatest generation". I hope people understand the required sacrafice and work that falls on everyone's shoulders, not just the government's.

God bless America, Land that I love!

Something in one of Colleen's show touched of a section of Hey ya in my head... fortunately, I was able to put the song to it before I lost it and looked it up on youtube.com. I've always liked that video and song and was amused to see this:

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There was another song that was pretty much the same, though I'm not sure which was first, but it's makes use ( Read more... )

Below is an excerpt from an article from Men's Health called "Heroes of Health". It underscores something I've always felt as a former boy scout and something I've discussed with a few people recently: That there's something that you gain from being in Boy Scout that sticks with you for your entire life. It's something tenuous, I don't know what to ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling sentimental after a strange dream. I dreamt that I went back to... well it started out as Camp Chickagami, but at the end it wasn't. I was there for an Order of the Arrow tap out ceremony with the members of my newly old Rangers outpost hoping to be retapped out. It was strange, the rite was at a totally different, ( Read more... )

take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.

Fortunately, I'm not a sheep... though I play one on TV. No wait, I just don't current;y have a webcam hooked up.

I JUST rolled in the door from camping and I'm waiting ( Read more... )

Lisa took Noah and Theodore to practice last night and forgot her book. Since I was in need of a Pepsi and the older boys wanted snacks, I volunteered to help her out. As we turned right into the driveway of the quickie mart just before where we would normally turn left onto the school's street, there was a deputy blocking the left turn lane with ( Read more... )

I hadn't thought of bjork in a long time, but one of the segues on Family Guy brought her up. Peter was on a games show and had to guess whether a voice was Bjork or Bobcat Goldthwaite. It was obviously Seth Green imitating Bobcat, but Peter got it wrong when they said it was Bjork. Of course the kids didn't get the reference, so I looked up Human ( Read more... )

This reminded me of my friends Crankygirl and Kevin:


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So, I'm sitting in my new living room, surfing on my new $299, cyrix CPUed, gOS (ubuntu) running internet appliance and thought I should do an update ( Read more... )