You can never have a dreary day if you learn to laugh with the rain ( Read more... )

Walking out of Walmart today I passed by a cluster of wooden construction sawhorses, wrapped with yellow caution tape, graced with a sign whicc read ( Read more... )

Tonight I watched the season premire of Grey's Anatomy. I'm not often impressed by TV shows, but I think this one shows promise. In one hour they introduced quite a lot of character potential. Bleh. I'm done.

( Hurray for quizzes )

The Senate has attached a rider to the budget to allow oil drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge. I could rant on and on about environmental impacts, and how incredably important this piece of land is for caribu and other species. Instead, I'll use the more current info to share why it's crazy. From this article "Drilling supporters also ( Read more... )

I just couldn't help myself.

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This must be my weekend for watching movies and having them make me think. I caught the movie "Enough" on TV tonight. It's about a woman whose rich husband starts beating her when she confronts him about his many affairs. She leaves him, taking their daughter with her. I don't want to give the whole story away, but again it's the ending that has ( Read more... )

It seems like no one ever tells you that dreams really do come true anymore. Oh, as a society we immerse ourselves in fiction and fantasy, but we always add a disclaimer at the end, "Characters are fictional. Please do not attempt." But, I have to ask. What if it is possible? What if people can really live a life that would make a decent movie, if ( Read more... )

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If someone thinks to ask me a question and has a genuine interest in my respone, I tend to answer them as honestly as possible. However, I am a very private person in the fact that I dislike people being able to read about my thoughts and life as if it's nothing but a badly written soap opera. I don't mind sharing as long as people care, but I ( Read more... )