Archive for the ‘Truthiness’ Category

I really believe that everyone who has the right to vote should exercise that right.  I believe that one should not complain about something one did nothing to prevent or participate in.  So, when the country goes to shit, if you didn’t vote, shut the heck up.
So, here are two websites that could help you decided which candidate to vote for if you are still on the fence.  You pick which issues are important to you and how important they are, then the site matches you up with the candidate that best suits your views.  I am not trying to persuade you to any particular candidate or party, just to get your buns to the polls.  The vote won’t be fair unless everyone has their say so.  Americans have fought for centuries for you to have the FREEDOM to participate in a Democracy. Don’t make all their sacrifices be in vain.
PLEASE VOTE!!!!!

http://glassbooth.org/
http://www.votehelp.org



I wanted to list a few resources I use here at home with my kids.

I really feel the kids understanding how to read or hear news and
critically think is important,as important as my kids having a world map
on the wall so we know where places are we hear about on the news.

So here’s a list of places I visit with the kids to help them.
ABC Kids
Channel One news
Kids Newsroom
Kid’s Post
New York Times Students
PBS Students
Scholastic News
Time for Kids
Yahooligans News
National Geographic Kids
Ask for Kids<p



If one more person asks about my resolutions I’m going to bark at the moon!

There is no way in this entire reality I would be dumb enough to set myself up for failure, there are days I can’t even struggle through the laundry let alone incorporate some work out schedule, or think for one second I could quit smoking with ease. Why on earth would I promise myself and the world I could, only to feel like a miserable failure?

I make resolutions every darn day, not to be online too long, make sure I get in extra book or quiet time with the kids, cut down the TV, no cookies before lunch, you get the drift. I promise myself I’ll craft more, and worry less, only to worry about getting the time to craft.

I’m way too over the top type A for this nonsense. Seriously.

All I do know is that we’re gonna really work hard to sock away money this year. One year we did, we lived in Arizona, had about 10 months to move cross country and put down a hefty down on a house, and somehow in that time we paid not only for our own wedding, had a Christmas a flood, a move before the move and still socked away a little over 15 grand. I know we can do it again.

We do want out of here, we do want to move as soon as the housing market let’s us sell and not lose every dime we put in, our area is hit really hard right now, and the city itself is peddling backwards and losing people who even want to live here.

In the meantime we save, save, save. Sock it away in our Schwab  account, and pretend it doesn’t exist, maybe that will at least cover the taxes we’ll owe in Feb. I ache for the days of money back, even with 2 kids we’re paying in thousands a year. Being a grown up can really be very un fun!

There’s alot I want to do in the next few years, with my teenage daughter back in the mix, there will be some help towards driving expenses, and a trip or two in the future. This house still needs alot of work done. I’d like to have a family vacation in the next few years, nothing wild or over the top, just a nice resort or something. But we’ll see.

My wish for the New Year, is that we catch up and can breathe some, instead of running in our rat wheel, staying ion one place. Being middle class is hard, it kinda sticks you there unless you break out of the box, and leap in income. Sure, you have what you need, and sure sometimes you even get what you want, but the trade off is a constant feeling of one thing could ruin it all, one missed life insurance payment, or health insurance payment, one financial nightmare away from nothing.

This year, I just want to see the light at the end of the tunnel.



Best. Post. I. Found. Today.

I am still catching up on my writing and reading after the Dog Bite.
I found this a few minutes ago, and just have to link it.
Not only is it brilliantly written, it’s true.
And if you say it isn’t, well look, if you’re wound that tight, you’re likely not reading this blog.

Unless of course you’re insane, and truly believe you’ve never thought this about your own kids, in any way, perhaps even not the exact phrase…Asshole. In that case, we may have to kick you out of the Realistic Mom’s Club and send you back to basic training.

Suburban Housewive’s “To Put it Bluntly,Kids Are Assholes”

I mean asshole, is a behavior folks, stupid is an insult.
I’d think my children assholes before I ever thought them stupid.
But anyways, enough go read.
Don’t piss me off.

Asshole Girl