busy busy busy

i've been cutting checks left and right. so much money so many invoices to pay. and i pay them all. i cut the check i stuff the check and it all happens at the very end or very beginning of the month. oh well, it's a job. it could be worse. however, when people see that's it's check cutting time someone will always say "hey why don't you cut me one" and i reply "stand in line" or "i've heard that one before" but if you really think about it i couldn't cut someone a check without someone finding out quickly. we have a lot of checks and balances in place to avoid this. and i have a controller who is a micro-manager and looks at EVERYTHING. but anyhoo, i'm done with cutting most of the checks, i have several to do today and then stuff them and then blah blah blah. but don't think i haven't thought about how to cut myself a check and be out of the country before anyone found out.

monday is labor day, and the sweat shop that i work at they let us take that day of with pay. so i've decided to take friday off in order to have a long weekend. maybe i might have more to say tomorrow. especially if my new pink RAZR phone shows up today.

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x rated mermaids

so what is it with the offensiveness of breast? don't we all have them? even though women's happen to be bigger than men's and can also be used for nurishment for babys. why then is there so much uproar over this body part? i wonder who had the final say in this exposing no-no? the symbol and city crest of warsaw,shown here had to be changed because it was judged as too erotic for the "miss universe" pagent. too erotic...too erotic??? come on people, are you telling me that women parading around in a very skimpy bathing suit and being judged on their body in the skimpy bathing suit with their breast taped up show more cleavage isn't exposing their body and can by some (men) be considered erotic? ex: Sports Illustrated. doesn't any pagent promote confidence in women's bodies? at least this mermaid has her lower regions covered up. the contestants of the "miss universe" pagent are showing a whole bunch more skin than the warrior mermaid is. we so need to get over ourselves.


poor poor katherine harris-. it's a little too late to back peddle from your comments about- "the separation of church and state being "a lie" and God and the nation's founding fathers did not intend the country be "a nation of secular laws." The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate also said that if Christians are not elected, politicians will "legislate sin," including abortion and gay marriage." her back peddle was that she was "speaking to a Christian audience, addressing a common misperception that people of faith should not be actively involved in government."

and what does that have to do with the price of eggs in china? does this mean that if you are not of the christian faith you shouldn't even entertain the idea of running for office because your religion promotes immoral behavior? that the christian religion is the only true religion and all will follow or perish? isn't there enough deaths and war happening right now based on this ideology? hind sight isn't working for ms harris.

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you are the light of the world

todays sermon is..."the beatitudes"
taken from the king james version of the bible.

Jesus said-
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the Children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake."

i have no comments about what is written. it's all quite clear to me.
if you can justify hatred, murder, war, greed and prejudice in all of
Jesus' teachings then that's between you and your God. But don't
expect others to keep their mouths shut because we are hungry and
thirsty for righteousness and we shall be filled.

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200 channels and nothing on

for real! seriously, 200 channels and nothing on. as a "non-single home alone on the weekend" woman i find itvery depressing to not be able to find anything on tv and ON DEMAND
worth watching. yes there are lots of movies available but none that i want to see that's under 90 minutes. which brings me to an observation. is it just me or are the movie studios making longer
movies. i mean it seems like all the "new" movies are like over 2 hours. do they think that the longer the movies are the more artful they may be? hmmmmm...well there not.

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well i spent a nice but humid day at my best friend lori's and her husband david's house with my other best friend david and his wife heather dying silk. we had a dye day. too bad i don't have a digital camera cause we made some really cool pieces. i made a really nice piece by clamping large washers onto folded fabric. and since the fun part of dying fabric is the surprise outcome i was wonderfully happy
about that clamping piece. it ended up looking like flowers.

dying fabric is not for those with type A personalities. but would be good practice for them. there isn't a lot of control in dying fabric. the dyes run, if the just dyed vibrant purple fabric touches another
part of the fabric that you don't want vibrant purple it turns vibrant purple anyway and there isn't anything you can do about it. you could not have enough resist in the fabric and everything you wanted white isn't white anymore but one solid color of yellow. but i like it. however, since i can sometimes fall into the type A demographic i still try to control but the the chaotic side just try's to let go and let goddess.

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hey it looks like "license to grill" with hottie host rob rainford is on with all of his jamaican canadian goodness. could this mean that things are looking up on the tv front?

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oh what a tangled web we weave

a good friend of mine (let's call him john) called me yesterday to tell me that his partner of 12 years broke up with him. wow that's longer that some straight marriages. but that's neither here nor there.

obviously john's heart is broken. the reasons for the break up are numerous and wont be mentioned here but i will say that i thought my friend john was deceived for many years. and now john blames himself for the betrayal and loss of trust. it's not john's fault. it is the lovers fault for lying. john's fault was that he sensed something was up and didn't say anything about it. john was afraid of the truth. learning the truth, hearing the truth, living with the truth. sometimes the thought of those 3 simple "truths" make me physically ill. all of our lives would be better off if we weren't afraid of the truth.

so now john has to start on the road to recovery. all we really want in this life is to be loved by another. to have love given freely to us. to feel that we are special in someone else's life. and that we trust that feeling. but to be deceived for years by someone we thought loved us is hard to endure. if i could take his pain away i would do it gladly. but unfortunately i had to leave my magic wand in my last life because THEY wouldn't let me take it with me. all i can do it listen and pray.

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those founding fathers of ours didn't know what they were taking about and the christians wonder why they are getting such a bad rap all of the time. your getting a bad rap cause people like katherine harris is one crazy b*t*h for christ

survivor has balls

i would like to state now that i am a HUGE "Survivor" fan. the new season starts on 9/14/06 and i will be there ready and waiting to watch it. but on this season a new a maybe hard to take aspect will be shown. read about it here the players will be split up into teams based on race. i don't know what to think about it yet. do we need more racial tension? in the past the teams have been split up between men and women and different age groups. why didn't we consider those offensive? are we so used to being split up that way in our day to day life that we are conditioned for it? whichever, i'll be there.

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another day at work

ah thursday. i really like thursdays. tomorrow is friday, i get to hang out with the boyfriend tonight, and my work load pics up a little on thurdays. yes my work load. i like being busy, it makes the time go by faster.

as i was writing this at work i got stopped by an issue with our expense reporting system and another employee. it seems this other employee wasn't able to add in the expenses. she blamed the system i implied that it might be her, but i did tell her that i would look into it and call her back. so after hanging up the phone i went in search of an answer to her problem just on the off chance that it might be the expense system. as i was searching out the answer i keep hearing her ask for other people to help her. prime example of people who don't listen and cause more trouble than they are worth. i have a few more choice words to say about this employee and more but i'm not quite sure about the cussing rule. so for now i'll just say 'CFP".

i've added new links. rob brezsny's horoscopes are quite fun to read. also i've added a link for animal totems. have you found that everytime you walk outside you keep seeing the same animal, bug, bird or creature? well maybe the universe is trying to tell you something and this site has cool but brief info on hundreds of creatures.

later tater

hello and welcome!

hello and welcome to my very first blog. actually if i can keep up
this blog for more than a month it will be my very first journal of any
kind. i've never been one to write down my feelings or thoughts in a
diary much less for anyone else to read but i thought i would give it a
try.

if you have found that you have reach this page in error (because you
were searching for some freaky perverted pics of chicks on pogo sticks)
sorry and try again. cause on this site you wont see any pictures of
chicks on pogo sticks....well not any time soon. give me a while and
there will be no telling what you might find.

why "hicks, chicks & pogo sticks"? well i could be considered a hick.
i came from a very small southern town without a red light. however, i
don't consider myself backwoods, closed minded or unsophisticated as
some people from metropolitan areas might think of when they use or
hear the word "hick". i could be considered a chick. i am a woman who
isn't always offended by the term of chick unless a man says it to me
on a heavy pms day and the right tone wasn't used. and pogo
sticks??? well i used to pogo with the best of them and i have the
ability to pogo without the use of my hands. a very easy trick that
came easy to me and what else was i going to spend my time on in a
small town without a red light. and i grew up in the 70's when we used
our imagination to play. that and it was either stay outside and play
or go inside and be the channel changer for my dad.

i would tell you a little about myself but i haven't decided how much i
want to give up. i will tell you that i don't write in capital letters
as you have already noticed. the rest will probably be bled out of me
slowly.

until next time

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