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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Greed
Overwhelming Greed.
The source of our woes? Greed. Those banks giving out bad loans? Greed. Those politicians having their pockets stuffed by lobbyists? Greed. The willingness of half of America to vote for a blatantly obvious Socialist? Greed. Those people who bought expensive houses they couldn't afford? Greed. It's all greed and it's destroying this country. Point fingers? First, check your own greed.
I'm disgusted. I may not be a scholar, or economist, or even highly educated, but I sure can spot what's going on here. We're in for it one way or another.
My greed? Stupidly putting 20% of my income in my 401k. I no longer have faith in that system. Luckily I was only in it for 2 years. I can recover, and will recover. Now I will only put the minimum necessary to get the full company match. Besides, if things go the way they are looking, the supermajority will make sure they get their fingers all nice and sticky in our investments anyway.
I used to think Oh Bam Uh was a good person although I disagreed with his world view. I don't feel that way any more. He is attempting to deny that his views, ideas, or plans are Socialist when it's as plain as day that his intention is to spread the wealth, other people's money mind you, which is deceptive and insidious. This is apparently all right with at least half of the country, and I don't understand why people can't see that is wrong.
Oh Bam Uh spends millions on his own personal infomercial, and Sarah Palin is maligned for wearing expensive clothing, which cost nothing near what was paid for his 30 minute prime time t.v. ads. The hypocrisy is astounding. Astounding!
I just want this election to be over. Just hurry up and get it over with.
The source of our woes? Greed. Those banks giving out bad loans? Greed. Those politicians having their pockets stuffed by lobbyists? Greed. The willingness of half of America to vote for a blatantly obvious Socialist? Greed. Those people who bought expensive houses they couldn't afford? Greed. It's all greed and it's destroying this country. Point fingers? First, check your own greed.
I'm disgusted. I may not be a scholar, or economist, or even highly educated, but I sure can spot what's going on here. We're in for it one way or another.
My greed? Stupidly putting 20% of my income in my 401k. I no longer have faith in that system. Luckily I was only in it for 2 years. I can recover, and will recover. Now I will only put the minimum necessary to get the full company match. Besides, if things go the way they are looking, the supermajority will make sure they get their fingers all nice and sticky in our investments anyway.
I used to think Oh Bam Uh was a good person although I disagreed with his world view. I don't feel that way any more. He is attempting to deny that his views, ideas, or plans are Socialist when it's as plain as day that his intention is to spread the wealth, other people's money mind you, which is deceptive and insidious. This is apparently all right with at least half of the country, and I don't understand why people can't see that is wrong.
Oh Bam Uh spends millions on his own personal infomercial, and Sarah Palin is maligned for wearing expensive clothing, which cost nothing near what was paid for his 30 minute prime time t.v. ads. The hypocrisy is astounding. Astounding!
I just want this election to be over. Just hurry up and get it over with.
Monday, October 27, 2008
You Know I've Got Nothing To Talk About
My Exciting Life.
I live my life in one week increments. The only thing that matters in my life really, when you boil it all down, are the people in it. One week my husband is home, and we spend time together as a family. We don't usually do anything particularly special most of the time, we just exist together here in our little house. The next week my husband is gone, off to work he goes, and I spend most of my time watching shows he doesn't particularly like, and going shopping, another activity he doesn't enjoy nearly as much as I do.
We want to do some projects around the house, but at the moment are apprehensive to dedicate money to such things. The reality is, we're stuck in this house for who knows how much longer. We most likely can't sell it, and renting it out for the mortgage might be a stretch, besides with renting a whole new set of problems arises.
So, we are just here. We have our little routines which aren't nearly exciting enough to bother writing about, and that's just where we are. We are very thankful and grateful for what we have, and know what it's like to have a lot less. Things aren't perfect by any stretch. Our daughter faces struggles that he and I can't take away, or make better. Her health has been an issue for her, and we're looking at one, possibly two surgeries in the near future with her. This weighs on my husband and I, we know she needs it, but we are not looking forward to it.
We would like to move, but that decision will be made later when we have more information available to us. I don't look forward to another winter of my husband heading off to work in dangerous driving conditions. We need to move closer to his job, but right now things are in transition so we must wait until the path is more clear.
It will all come together for the best one way or another.
I live my life in one week increments. The only thing that matters in my life really, when you boil it all down, are the people in it. One week my husband is home, and we spend time together as a family. We don't usually do anything particularly special most of the time, we just exist together here in our little house. The next week my husband is gone, off to work he goes, and I spend most of my time watching shows he doesn't particularly like, and going shopping, another activity he doesn't enjoy nearly as much as I do.
We want to do some projects around the house, but at the moment are apprehensive to dedicate money to such things. The reality is, we're stuck in this house for who knows how much longer. We most likely can't sell it, and renting it out for the mortgage might be a stretch, besides with renting a whole new set of problems arises.
So, we are just here. We have our little routines which aren't nearly exciting enough to bother writing about, and that's just where we are. We are very thankful and grateful for what we have, and know what it's like to have a lot less. Things aren't perfect by any stretch. Our daughter faces struggles that he and I can't take away, or make better. Her health has been an issue for her, and we're looking at one, possibly two surgeries in the near future with her. This weighs on my husband and I, we know she needs it, but we are not looking forward to it.
We would like to move, but that decision will be made later when we have more information available to us. I don't look forward to another winter of my husband heading off to work in dangerous driving conditions. We need to move closer to his job, but right now things are in transition so we must wait until the path is more clear.
It will all come together for the best one way or another.
The Toothless Cat
A Love Story.
I love that darn cat, and I'm so happy we got him the oral surgery. He truly seems so much happier, and the really neat thing? His breath doesn't stink anymore. Oh he still has some teeth, more than half of his teeth, the vet said he can go right on eating dry cat food still too. He seems fine with it, although it was so sad to see him after the surgery stumbling around, and basically freaking out all over the place.
He was so hungry, and went straight to the food bowl, but I don't think he could get used to the stitches, and the new feeling of his mouth with missing teeth, and of course there is the pain of just have a bunch of teeth pulled, but he managed within a day or two to get back to pretty much normal eating.
All better now. He's back to being cool breeze, sitting on my shoulder and following me around.
I love that darn cat, and I'm so happy we got him the oral surgery. He truly seems so much happier, and the really neat thing? His breath doesn't stink anymore. Oh he still has some teeth, more than half of his teeth, the vet said he can go right on eating dry cat food still too. He seems fine with it, although it was so sad to see him after the surgery stumbling around, and basically freaking out all over the place.
He was so hungry, and went straight to the food bowl, but I don't think he could get used to the stitches, and the new feeling of his mouth with missing teeth, and of course there is the pain of just have a bunch of teeth pulled, but he managed within a day or two to get back to pretty much normal eating.
All better now. He's back to being cool breeze, sitting on my shoulder and following me around.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
A Word of Advice
Avoid Hungry Cats.
I got sketchy sleep last night at best, and it's all the cat's fault you see. He kept me up all night because he was hungry. I'm not starving the poor boy, it's just that he is having oral surgery today, and couldn't eat or drink after 6:00pm last night. Of course being a cat, night is the time of day that he likes to eat, so he missed his meal last night and was definitely going to let me know it, and he did about 25 times throughout the night if my fuzzy brain cell remembers it correctly.
Poor thing has bad teeth. He's only 8 years old which is relatively young for a cat to have rotten teeth. I asked the vet what I did wrong, was it the wrong food, or what? She told me that just like some people have bad teeth, so does my cat. And because I know people love details, I will proceed to gross you out. Sunday he came up to me and his breath was more stinky than usual, I looked in his mouth and saw a horribly infected canine, the whole roof of his mouth around the tooth was bright red and swollen. I noticed there was actually puss draining off the tooth.
Well first thing yesterday morning I got him to the vet, and she started him on antibiotics and scheduled him for oral surgery this morning. Yippee! I don't even want to mention what this is costing, and I'm ashamed to admit I've never spent that much on my own teeth, of course I have opposable thumbs and own a tooth brush so that helps, but still as the economy falls out from beneath us, I hate to spend $500.00 on my cat's not so pearly whites.
Of course my husband had one question for me when I told him how much it would cost, "Is he really worth that?" What? Umm, yes, of course he is! What else am I going to do? He's not to happy about the cost as we're going into winter and with all the financial stuff happening in the world my work has declined dramatically, which in short means, less money.
The vet just called and informed me that they are going to have to remove 7 of his teeth. That he has some problem with his teeth that causes them to be really bad, and painful, she told me what it was called, but it was such a mouthful I'm at a loss to repeat it. Poor thing.
We've had real bad luck with our animals lately. I hope this is the last of troubles for a while.
I got sketchy sleep last night at best, and it's all the cat's fault you see. He kept me up all night because he was hungry. I'm not starving the poor boy, it's just that he is having oral surgery today, and couldn't eat or drink after 6:00pm last night. Of course being a cat, night is the time of day that he likes to eat, so he missed his meal last night and was definitely going to let me know it, and he did about 25 times throughout the night if my fuzzy brain cell remembers it correctly.
Poor thing has bad teeth. He's only 8 years old which is relatively young for a cat to have rotten teeth. I asked the vet what I did wrong, was it the wrong food, or what? She told me that just like some people have bad teeth, so does my cat. And because I know people love details, I will proceed to gross you out. Sunday he came up to me and his breath was more stinky than usual, I looked in his mouth and saw a horribly infected canine, the whole roof of his mouth around the tooth was bright red and swollen. I noticed there was actually puss draining off the tooth.
Well first thing yesterday morning I got him to the vet, and she started him on antibiotics and scheduled him for oral surgery this morning. Yippee! I don't even want to mention what this is costing, and I'm ashamed to admit I've never spent that much on my own teeth, of course I have opposable thumbs and own a tooth brush so that helps, but still as the economy falls out from beneath us, I hate to spend $500.00 on my cat's not so pearly whites.
Of course my husband had one question for me when I told him how much it would cost, "Is he really worth that?" What? Umm, yes, of course he is! What else am I going to do? He's not to happy about the cost as we're going into winter and with all the financial stuff happening in the world my work has declined dramatically, which in short means, less money.
The vet just called and informed me that they are going to have to remove 7 of his teeth. That he has some problem with his teeth that causes them to be really bad, and painful, she told me what it was called, but it was such a mouthful I'm at a loss to repeat it. Poor thing.
We've had real bad luck with our animals lately. I hope this is the last of troubles for a while.
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Let me be perfectly honest here when I say the thought of an Obama presidency really makes me think we're doomed. Whenever I think of his commie/socialist ideals, the fact that the Democrats seem to view him as their own personal messiah, it makes me cringe. That's nothing though, the thing that is the most disturbing is that half of the country is already in the tank for this guy.
I mean seriously, half of the population sees taxing other people's success and giving it to those who are less successful as no big deal. Not everyone with more than 2 pennies to rub together woke up that way, some have worked very hard, and made huge sacrifices to achieve financial success. Success that Obama wants to tax and give away. Why should anyone work so hard? Oh he says NOW that he only wants to take from those making over 250K a year, but we know it won't stop at that. It just won't. There is no accounting for greed, it never ceases it never has and never will.
I think about the several men who when offered a better paying job working in the oil fields my husband works in, literally turned their noses up at that idea. They didn't want to work outside, do physical labor, or in some cases couldn't sober up long enough to pass a drug test. I guess they don't have to, Obama is going to see to it that they will still benefit from the labors of other men, those who like my husband leave their families every other week, and head out to work in the fields. Really, it's all right that not everyone is willing to do the work my husband and men like him do, that's fine and dandy, but don't expect to reach into my husband's pockets every time he gets paid and pull out a little something for yourself. Why any self respecting man would support a candidate like that is beyond me.
I'll cast my vote for John McCain, who although I haven't always agreed with his politics is a good and honorable man without question.
Let me be perfectly honest here when I say the thought of an Obama presidency really makes me think we're doomed. Whenever I think of his commie/socialist ideals, the fact that the Democrats seem to view him as their own personal messiah, it makes me cringe. That's nothing though, the thing that is the most disturbing is that half of the country is already in the tank for this guy.
I mean seriously, half of the population sees taxing other people's success and giving it to those who are less successful as no big deal. Not everyone with more than 2 pennies to rub together woke up that way, some have worked very hard, and made huge sacrifices to achieve financial success. Success that Obama wants to tax and give away. Why should anyone work so hard? Oh he says NOW that he only wants to take from those making over 250K a year, but we know it won't stop at that. It just won't. There is no accounting for greed, it never ceases it never has and never will.
I think about the several men who when offered a better paying job working in the oil fields my husband works in, literally turned their noses up at that idea. They didn't want to work outside, do physical labor, or in some cases couldn't sober up long enough to pass a drug test. I guess they don't have to, Obama is going to see to it that they will still benefit from the labors of other men, those who like my husband leave their families every other week, and head out to work in the fields. Really, it's all right that not everyone is willing to do the work my husband and men like him do, that's fine and dandy, but don't expect to reach into my husband's pockets every time he gets paid and pull out a little something for yourself. Why any self respecting man would support a candidate like that is beyond me.
I'll cast my vote for John McCain, who although I haven't always agreed with his politics is a good and honorable man without question.
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