I have seen the life on this planet, Scully,

Transformers and stuff

2007-07-08T20:23:04Z

So we took the kids to see Transformers on the 4th. They've been wanting to see it so badly, and we decided to go late when everyone would be in bed for work Thursday.

All I can say is it's a really good....commercial. That's basically all it is. One giant commercial. And Bumblebee as a stupid Camaro? If they were going to change him from a bug they could have at least made him something cool, like a TA. But, since it was mainly a GM commercial(and they forked out a lot for it), I guess they couldn't go using Pontiacs. The plot isn't even original, it's got about the dumbest story line I've ever seen, and I swear the all-spark thing was totally stolen from Star Trek- as anyone who has ever seen the Borg will immediately know upon seeing Transformers. It's like they put together as crappy a storyline as they could get away with, just counting on the effects to carry the movie- which, they ARE doing, and doing well.

The effects were fantastic though, and I'd see it again just for those.

An old friend got in touch with me the other day, one of my best friends ever, who moved to AZ after getting out of the Navy. His mom hates me and has always said he never wanted to hear from me, but that's not true. I'm really happy to have gotten back in touch with him.

In other news, it's hot like hell here, and I think I'm going to go swimming.

Please don't leave a message telling me how wrong I am about the movie, I don't care what you think about it, and you aren't going to change my mind. I didn't leave ranty messages in anyone's LJ who loved the movie, so have the same respect, or I'll delete your message, thanks. I'm using all my tolerance on the kid I've been babysitting, and I have none left for anything else.

gwyndolyn @ 2008-05-13T13:27:00

2007-05-13T17:30:16Z

Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers! Hope you have a great day!

Gurg

2007-04-18T04:30:15Z

I spent 10 minutes today trying to get a white spot off one of my contacts before I realized that it was a reflection of sunlight coming in through the window.

My allergies have been KILLING me. I don't know wtf it is, but my throat and eyes have been itching like crazy.

It's been one of those days.

At least I accomplished cleaning up my groups list on LJ- ditched a bunch of never-used or redundant groups on here that were taking up space.

Now, I must be watching of the Xena with the kids, hah.

Pretty cool

2007-03-31T15:42:16Z

Quickie

2007-01-04T00:34:13Z

Xmas was good, got to see vicsilver and her hubby. They had to leave too soon, though. Got lots of goodies, new computer and 19 inch flat monitor from Joe, along with a new ring:

He also got me season 8 of the X-Files. He said he had to guess high (I only had 1-3) because he wasn't sure what I had. Then my brother told me Sunday that Best Buy had the X-Files seasons for $19.99 each, so I went over and finished off my collection. Now I can give the_smoking_man back the three of his seasons I have, and I don't have to steal his any more.

I'm a slacker and still have to mail out the little package Lowen put together for pallid_regina. Hopefully she'll get it sometime in 2007.

Joe had his last day at 3M yesterday, and starts work at the new place on the 15th. He swears he's going to get the bathroom done during this time. It certainly would be nice!

And now back to the X-Files, since I have a little more than a week's worth of watching if I add up all the seasons. If I was doing it continuously. Which I'm not.

Syrupy things

2006-12-26T22:46:09Z

Guess what I got in the mail today!?!?

Syrup. Syrup that duobis has been promising to send me for about 5 or 6 years now LOL. Talk about a surprise, I started laughing when I opened it because it was so unexpected.

Thanks so much, Chris. Hope you and your family had a good holiday!!

*loves and hugs and kisses*

Halloween!

2006-11-01T08:19:33Z

Woo! Marie is here. We got all dressed up and went trick-or-treating with the kids, but washed off all our makeup and stuff before going out to eat. Fortunately, we got a picture of the kids before any of them got out of their stuff:

Many thanks and hugs and love to everyone who wished me a happy birthday!!

Speaking of birthdays, happy birthday, mynthe!!!!

I've been saying it for years.

2006-09-11T08:02:39Z

There's just too much pressure being put on tiny little kids, who hardly even get the chance to BE kids anymore- and no, this isn't isolated. The majority of schools are like this atm, and more are going this route every day. Scary, and it's the kids who suffer.

I'm so glad we homeschool!

My uncle's on here!

2006-09-09T08:26:32Z

Create your own! Originally Written By ga_woo, Hosted and ReWritten by darkman424

We just got done watching "alien PLanet'. If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. It's pretty cool. I liked the Grovebacks.

Because they don't do enough damage already:

2006-08-25T19:49:51Z

Pastor leaves after church turns away biracial boy

SALTILLO - Twelve-year-old Joe recently asked Jesus to live in his heart.

Yet the church where Joe accepted his Savior not even two weeks before will no longer allow the biracial boy to enter.

On Aug. 6, during its scheduled Sunday night business meeting, Fellowship Baptist Church in Saltillo voted not to accept blacks within the church. More specifically, the congregation also voted Joe out and said he could not return.

That evening Fellowship Baptist did not just say goodbye to Joe and an entire race of humans. With that decision the church's pastor, the Rev. John Stevens, resigned, and at least one other family decided not to return to the Baptist Missionary Alliance congregation that averages 30 people.

The church was "afraid Joe might come with his people and have blacks in the church," Stevens said. "I could not go along with that. There would always be a wall between us, so I resigned that night."

Cliff Hardy, an officer with the Tupelo Police Department, left the church, too. He and his family had been going to Fellowship Baptist for about a year and had been praying about becoming members there.

"I was asking the Lord to lead us," Hardy said.

The police officer says there are good people at Fellowship Baptist, and the Bible was preached there.

However, "You see, my best friend is a black man," he said. "I wouldn't be comfortable going to a place where I couldn't ask my best friend to go to church with me."

Hardy says he knows there are still a lot of folks who are not comfortable with people from other races, there is still a lot of holdover from the past, there is still a lot of fear.

"But that's not what Christ died for," he said. Jesus' death and resurrection "is supposed to be a uniting force, not a separating thing."

We're all God's children

In July Joe moved in with his uncle and aunt, Saltillo residents Jason and Melinda Kirk. The Kirks, who had been attending Fellowship Baptist for almost five months, were Joe's temporary guardians until recently, when his stepmother moved here from Ohio.

During the week of July 23-26, Fellowship Baptist held revival services, and on July 26, Joe became a Christian.

The following Sunday, people at the church asked the Kirks if they would become members, and the family started praying about it.

The next Sunday morning, Aug. 6, the Kirks went to church. When company arrived at their house that afternoon, they decided not to go to the 143-year-old church that night.

Later that evening, the Kirks received a phone call from their pastor, Stevens, who said Joe had been voted out of the church and could not come back. The minister, 72, who has now retired, said he had resigned from the church over the decision.

Joe overheard the telephone conversation.

"We explained to him that everybody didn't feel like that," Melinda Kirk said. "But it really bothered him. He felt like our pastor had to quit his job because of him."

The Kirks reassured their nephew that Stevens was just standing up for what is right.

"People have got to realize we're all God's children," Jason Kirk said. "It's not God so loved the white people; it's God so loved the world."

Since Stevens' resignation, one church member who was not at the Aug. 6 meeting has called the former pastor and told him he was in favor of what he did. Stevens estimates 80 percent of the church is against having blacks in the congregation.

"It's between them and God," police officer Hardy said. "I love those folks, but I can't agree with them."

Fellowship Baptist Church members were contacted for this article but declined to comment.

Check out this video!

2006-07-18T20:28:54Z

Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis!

I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes. This guy is my new hero. Plus, I can't get this song out of my head.

yow!

2006-07-11T17:48:18Z

These people are insane! http://www.stopcolumbuskilling.net/How%20do%20I%20get%20my%20photo%20off%20this%20site.html

Reposted from a group:

2006-06-09T19:59:11Z

My Little Golden Book About Zogg

and this is from one of my oh-so-funny friends:

Baby Cages!

Federal Marriage Protection Act

2006-05-22T23:01:28Z

http://www.hrc.org/voteno/voteno/video.htm

Ugh. Sign up so they can add a postcard in your name to the postcards of other sane people around the US who name this what it is: discrimination, and trash.

I ended up seeing TDVC this weekend after all. My brother Matt cornered me when I went to my Grandma's house and told me (basically) that I was going to see the movie with him. He bought my ticket and I drove him home. I did try to give him momey for the ticket, but he wouldn't take it. Stubborn ass.

We both really liked the movie- not as well as the book, but movies really never are as good. The ticket girl told us that the religiousites had been there earlier again, but they were gone by the time we got there. She also said that they had actually BROUGHT IN business to the movie instead of driving it away. Haha. Matt and I thought that was just great. Any moron who thought about it would have known that would happen.

I know I've said it before, but we were talking about it after the movie, how those people must be really insecure in their own faith and in their religion. If they are that worried about people making up their OWN MINDS, it doesn't seem they have much faith in their own religion. It's not like I'm saying they should, but still. Someplace, deep down, they know it just doesn't hold up under scrutiny. I can't even say intense scrutiny, because it doesn't have to be intense to see all the holes.

Is it bad of us that we cracked up when we saw Doc Oc as the what's-his-name? We couldn't help ourselves. I spent a good portion of the first 10 minutes irritating him with gems like 'I will smite you with my extra arms of faith!'

I should probably be muzzled at movies.

Very scary stuff

2006-05-17T20:58:56Z

Battle Cry For Theocracy

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060511_battle_cry_theocracy/ - Article

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060513_battlecry_philadelphia/ - Article 2

X-posted all over

If this is accurate...

2006-03-02T22:07:52Z

http://broadband.zoomtown.com/news/read.php?id=13904167&ps=1011&lang=en&_LT=HOME_USNWC01L1_UNEWS

...that's just fucked up.

I hate people. I don't know if I've said that today or not.

Holy shit!

2005-11-11T20:07:15Z

Reasons not to send your kid to work at a fast-food joint

That just boggles my mind. How could the manager be so STUPID?? I hope that kid gets millions from McD's

Woo

2005-09-29T07:54:24Z

Tomorrow!

I don't know where I got this...

2005-06-15T20:28:23Z

You Are Creepy

Serial killers would run away from you in a flash.

How scary are you?

I guess I'm creepy hehe.

In other news....my sis-in-law told me today that Joe's older brother Chris had told her parents some new and exciting news about their loony mom. (background- Joe and Chris have the same mom and dad, Sarah has the same dad, different mom. Joe and Chris' mom is whacked, and Sarah's mom kicks ass)

Apparently, Dagmar (Joe and Chris' mom) is moving out of Cheviot and into Clifton because- this is great- her equally-crazy-but-in-different-ways boyfriend doused her in gasoline and tried to set her on fire.

I'll stop here before I say some things people will tell me I'm a horrible person for, just because I don't feel like wading through nasty comments. But...yeah. You know

Sports question

2005-04-09T17:19:06Z

Any of you sports people out there, can you answer this question?

Who is Cleveland's all time basketball leader in assists?

A. John Bagley
B. Foots Walker
C. Terrell Brandon
D. Mark Price

TIA for any help!

Blah..

2004-12-03T06:56:17Z

I finally got my computer back from Joe, who has to use it to do some project for school. I got it back just in time to see dartfaerie sign off. Damn it, you!

I'm cold, and bored, and I have a headache. I had to go to the eye dr today and he dliated my eyes. That always makes me dizzy and nauseated. Found out Owen needs glasses for nearsightedness (who didn't see that one coming?), so while Joe and Lauren were back with the dr so we picked out a tiny little pair for him. All the girls came out from behind the counter to watch him try them on, and they kept talking about how cute he was. He was mad that we couldn't take the glasses home today. Lauren is farsighted so far, and she's mad because she doesn't need glasses. No matter what I tell her, she doesn't believe me when I say that's something to be HAPPY about. I wish I didn't need glasses. I think she'll need them sooner or later, though. Mine and Joe's eyes are both like -10+ and -11+. Those of you who have bad eyes will know how bad that makes our eyes.

Lauren lost one of her top two front teeth the other night. I keep calling her 'o toothless one'. She didn't give the tooth faerie much notice, though. She was in bed working on yanking that thing out for like 3 hours., so right before I went to bed she came out with this tooth.

Found a cool LJ community called antiparent. Seems like my kinds of people :P

I still feel like shit. I think I'm going to drug myself with a Nyquil equivalent and go to bed.

Fun stuffs

2004-11-25T03:48:21Z

Stolen from dartfaerie!

Step One
Make a post (public, friends, locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two
Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf (or fairy) -- to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

1. I wish someone who knew something about cars would come over this weekend and help Joe fix the seal on the Saturn so it will stop burning oil like crazy.

2. I wish someone who knew something about cars would come help Joe switch the Metro engines so I could have my Saturn back!

3. I wish Joe's mom would fall off the face of the earth.

4. I wish we'd get another 18 inches of snow like we did when I was pregnant with Lauren. That was pretty cool. It'd be even cooler if it was snowy from now until at least January 5th or so.

5. I wish I knew a way to seal up the jalousie windows tightly so the house would heat better and cold air wouldn't come in and freeze us all winter.

6. I wish I had the last two books in the Dark Tower series.

7. I wish I had the Firefly series on DVD.

8. I wish Vicky and Dan could be here for Thanksgiving and Christmas both.

9. I wish I could find someone to help Joe tear out the bathroom crap. I can't help tearing it down because we need to fix the mold problem and I'm allergic to it. So until it's all down and gone I can't do much to help.

10. I wish I could get the kids all the cool kiddie stuff on my Amazon list without screwing myself out of the money I need for the two weddings coming up.

Cool. If nothing else, I have the things I want, and want to get done, in a list so I don't forget them!

BTW, dartfaerie, do you happen to have Holly, Jolly Xmas on an mp3 or anything? I had it but it got deleted when my other computer self-destructed :) Does anyone have this song?

Yay!

2004-11-20T07:52:54Z

I always know the xmas season is here by the beautiful sight of candy cane pens with peppermint scented ink.

Yeah, I'm a big baby.

Too funny!! (and mostly true)

2004-11-16T08:10:43Z

You Know You're From Cincinnati When...

Your idea of a three-way is chilli over spaghetti topped with cheddar

You know what goetta is - and you've eaten it

You hate Cleveland, but you don't know why, and you've never been there

You think Pete Rose and Marge Schott were railroaded

You say "Please?" instead of "Excuse me?"

You think Northern Kentucky is part of Ohio

You've been to California, Wyoming, Coney Island, and Over-the-Rhine in one day

There are less than 100 murders a year, and you still think you're in Detroit

You think Dayton is a Third World country

What groundhog? It's the St. Patrick's Day parade leprechaun that forecasts how much longer winter will last.

Losing football teams draw more fans than winning baseball teams.

Indiana is about 20 miles away, but it takes about four hours to get there.

It's too cold in the winter, and too hot and humid in the summer, to ever stay outside for very long.

You drive to Columbus or Louisville to avoid the prices at the Cincinnati airport.

City council members hold debates on whether or not they should debate in the first place.

Tourists still flock downtown to catch a glimpse of cast members from "WKRP," even though the show hasn't aired on network television since 1984, and the show was filmed in LA anyway.

You ask lifetime residents where the President Taft house is, but they don't know either.

If you do something -- anything -- in public long enough, sooner or later it will be banned.

Your low-fat diet is never low enough to exclude Graeter's ice cream.

You get through winter listening to Marty and Joe's broadcasts from the grapefruit leagues.

Big Red Smokies are a ballpark treat, not cause to dial 9-1-1.

If necessary, the city could easily be sliced into two new cities: East and West, and it would take 20 years for anyone to notice something happened.

Chocolate and cinnamon, not peppers and beans, are in your chili.

You can drive 30 minutes in any direction to hear a different accent than your own.

You can accurately judge people's social status by which Kroger's store they frequent.

You can go to any church festival in any neighborhood on any weekend and see at least five people you either work with, went to school with, or dated.

Even the slightest mention of former baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti makes your blood boil and your ears steam.

If the temperature hits 45 degrees, and the sun comes out in any month between November and April, people walk around downtown wearing shades and no jackets.

The top stories on the local 6 o'clock evening news look suspiciously like the articles you read in the newspaper that very morning -- and even use the same quotes.

Any carbonated beverage is a "coke."

Your favorite convenient store sounds like a labor union.

You can't hear the words "Mike Brown" without getting angry.

You honestly believe that Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall Fame.

You have more stadiums, coliseums, and arenas than you know what to do with.

It doesn't seem weird to you that everyone has an Uncle Al.

Your favorite Coney Island isn't in New York.

You like Nick Clooney better than George Clooney.

You know how Jerry Springer got his start.

You know what a pony keg is.

You have friends and neighbors with names like Machenheimer, Guckenberger, Schlottman, Schoenling, and Schweitering.

You know that cars (like eggs) are cheaper in the country.

An all-boys or all-girls school doesn't seem that odd to you

You think a mixed marriage is when an East Sider marries a West Sider.

You know the difference between Hudy and "Who Dey."

You know what cream ale is, and you think that cream soda should be bright
red.

You think Kentucky is only slightly more civilized than Afghanistan.

You know in which state the Greater Cincinnati Airport is located.

You actually understand the word, "CRAVE" and white castle burgers.

You can almost name the seven "hills" minus one or two.

When people ask where you live, you tell them the Parish

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Cincinnati.

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Halo 2 question

2004-11-11T23:26:32Z

Joe is playing Halo 2, since I can't, and he is having a hard time finding that Covenant bomb. He can't go any further until he does, and he's really frustrated. Anyone know where it's at so I can tell him and he'll stop bitching??

BTW, the kids named the xmas tree, her name is Gillian.