Jerry and I appraoching the top of Diamond Head

DSC_0015, originally uploaded by Spazyone.

Here we are! We are so grateful for our two families who each gave us a week's free lodging in Hawaii. My mom and dad and our son and his wife.

We had a great time. On our hike up Diamond Head, we went early in the morning to avoid the heat of the day. There were many friendly people we met along the way. Jerry, as a MAJOR, war and history buff, loved seeing the tunnels and bunkers carved into the mountain by hand.

The view of Honolulu was spectacular!!

You can see more photos of our trip on my Flickr account. The link is on the left side of the page. Go to the Hawaii collection and look ant the different sets of photos.

The trekking poles really helped on the hike. As most of you know, I am not supposed to walk very far without a cane. However, since the problem is both hips, I chose trekking poles. That way I get the support but can walk in an anatomically correct manner. Those poles came in handy the whole trip.

I will post more little mini-journals of our trip.

Mercy

Mercy Ministries . . .  Valuing every young woman's future

 

A great organization whose mission is to help young women to deal with emotional and physical problems. 

If you or a loved one suffer from any of these difficulties and you want to talk to someone locally, call or e-mail me. 

There are people near you who have been there, understand and want to help.

From the Mercy Ministries web site:

Mercy Ministries is a non-profit organization for young women who face life-controlling issues. We provide residential programs free of charge designed to address the whole person: spiritual, physical and emotional. Our non-conventional approach to the underlying issues changes more than behavior; the Mercy Ministries program changes hearts and stops destructive cycles.

Our program includes life-skills training and educational opportunities that help ensure the success of our graduates. Our goal is to have each young woman not only complete the program but also discover the purpose for her life and bring value to her community as a productive citizen.

We have three facilities in the United States: Nashville, TN has 40 beds, Monroe, LA has 20 beds and St. Louis, Missouri has 30 beds. Plans are underway for a 40 bed home in Sacramento, California.

 

Since 1983, we have served thousands of young women from all over the world with varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Young women who come to Mercy Ministries are often facing a combination of difficult circumstances such as:   Abuse Self-Harm Depression Addictions Unplanned Pregnancy Eating Disorders Many of these girls have sought treatment before with unsuccessful long-term results. Residents are in the program an average of six months and our services reflect their diverse needs. Our residents are young women who want to change and move beyond their difficult circumstances, yet have never found a source for help before Mercy Ministries. Young women who have graduated from the Mercy Ministries program are truly transformed. They are found in universities, corporations, ministries, the mission field, and raising families. At Mercy Ministries, they learn to believe in themselves and in God's love for them and gain life-skills that equip them for successful reintegration into society.   For our pregnant residents, we provide a Basic Decision Making Program that assists the young woman in deciding about parenting or placing her baby for adoption. We provide parenting classes for those who decide to parent and grief counseling for those who chose to place their child.   Since 1987, we have had the joy of assisting hundreds of birth mothers with the placement of their babies into loving faithful families. We have also had the joy of over 150 babies being born to girls who have decided to parent their child. Due to the generosity of many individuals, businesses and foundations, Mercy Ministries operates debt free and only expands after raising the funds for operating a new home. We do not receive any state or federal funding. We are audited by an independent accounting firm each year, and our 2005 audit shows we spent 76% of our operating expenses on program costs.

 

EPS Excellent Packaging and Supply

We are a wholesale distribution company providing nature based packaging for foodservice and other applications. We specialize in environmentally sustainable packaging, offering compostable, biodegradable and recyclable product lines as well as traditional packaging. Our exclusive BioMass™ Foodservice Packaging Program is the most comprehensive sustainable packaging program available in North America. A LIST OF SOME OF THEIR PRODUCTS SpudWare™ Biodegradable Cutlery made from 80% starch (potato or corn) and 20% soy or other vegetable oil. Able to withstand High-Heat! BagasseWare™ Paper plates, cups, trays, bowls, and boxes made from plant fibers, either grown or recovered as crop residue. May be sugar cane, wheat bamboo or rice based pulps. Microwavable, ovenable and freezable, biodegradable, compostable and sustainable. EATware™ Made from bamboo, rice, or sugar cane and corn starches. Sturdy disposable food containers are microwave, oven and steamer safe. 100% biodegradable All natural, no bleach, chemicals or lamination. Oil and hot water resistant. NatureWorks™ PLA Made from corn grown in the USA, PLA is used to make clear plastic cups, bowls, boxes, straws and can liners. Biodegradable, compostable and sustainable BioBag™ Bags and can liners made from Mater-Bi, derived from cornstarch. Used for T-shirts bags and can liners. Biodegradable, compostable, recyclable and burnable. Natureflex™ Food films made from renewable wood-pulp. Suitable for wrapping and bagging food. Ovenable, heat sealable, biodegradable, compostable and sustainable. ecotainer™ Paper hot cups and soup containers made with a PLA lining, making them fully compostable, biodegradable and sustainable. Unbleached Paper products Other NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT THE PRODUCTS Californians Against Waste Recycling News cawrecycles.org - Friday, September 21, 2007 So Sweet You Can Eat The Plate By Susan Buchanan online.barrons.com - Monday, September 17, 2007 New Generation of Plastic Products ABC 7 News KGO-TV - Tuesday, March 27, 2007 SpudWare a Hot Potato Changing food-service industry, one spoon at a time Packaging Digest - Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Petroleum-Free Compostable Packaging EPS Announces Appointment of Local Distributors for BioMass Sustainable Food Packaging Co-op America - Monday, February 26, 2007 You can make a difference: Composting By Patricia Goodin, News Editor Novato Advance - Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5 Spuds Steal the Plastics Market Business 2.0 Magazine CNNMoney.com - Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Ridding World of Plastic Forks Richmond company uses lates technology to produce biodegradable and compostable containers and utensils whose acceptance is growing San Francisco Chronicle -Sunday, January 7, 2007 Forks and spoons made out of potatoes. Cups made of Corn. The Green 50, The Recyclers Inc. - November 2006 Starch Utensils at ESPN X Games Excellent Packaging & Supply introduces Spudware Food & Beverage News - Sunday, July 31, 2005

This is all non-plastic. It's made from corn, potatoes, and sugar cane among
other things. The disposable silverwware is edible. It totally biodegrades in 90
to 180 days and is compostable.



 Check it out here!

endless possibility

Here are the words to a song I wrote recently.

endless possibility

I’ll never be the same again
Never feel the way I felt
Never be just who I want
And maybe that’s not so bad

Rely on Me is what You say
Live in My strength,
Trust and obey
All the rest is meaningless
Will waste away, return to dust
Help me see what You see in me
And know that with You that’s
Endless possibility

I just can’t do the things I want
Stop doing things I want to stop
Quit messing up and falling down
And maybe that’s not so bad

Rely on Me is what You say
Live in My strength,
Trust and obey
All the rest is meaningless
Will waste away, return to dust
Help me see what You see in me
And know that with You that’s
Endless possibility

All my thoughts You knew before
Yet You loved me still somehow
I loved You back, you took me in
And now it’s not so bad

Rely on Me is what You say
Live in My strength,
Trust and obey
All the rest is meaningless
Will waste away, return to dust
Help me see what You see in me
And know that with You that’s
Endless possibility

What I know, what I believe, are different now, hard to conceive
What You see, what You show, what You’ve planned for me, I know
I’m dreaming now, Your thoughts in mine, I wait for You, our hearts entwined
There’s nothing left but
endless possibility

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under Heaven.

Gabriel and the Vagabond

I just love this song by Foy Vance. Here is the vid and the lyrics are below. When was the last time you got down beside someone and whispered hope in the name of the Lord? I need to do it more often, I know.


Gabriel and the Vagabond


There's a man in on corner and his clothes are worn
And he's holding out his hand
You could see in his eyes as the people walk by
He knows they don't understand

Ya see they just think he's gonna take their money
And go and spend it all on dope
Then a man stopped by and I saw a smile inside
As he gently whispered "hope"

Well the tramp started to cry, just kept saying,
"Why? why? why?
Could you see I'm a dying tonight
Well I'm 32 and I've got this one pair of shoes
And a bad taste in my mouth
I think it's clear to see that even God don't love me
Or else why would He leave me this way."

Then Gabriel just smiled and said be peaced my child
Salvation is here today

He got up to his feet and he sang Hallelujah
People were turning around in the street
He looked them in the eyes and he sang,
"Hallelujah, there's someone here that you gotta meet
Someone you just gotta meet."

When the vagabond turned around well without a sign
Gabriel just smiled and disappeared
Then he looked to the crowd and they were laughing out loud
But he could not see them fore tears
When his vision came round
There was a young girl on the ground
I knew she was fine and hard to cope (I think he sings she was finding it hard to cope)
She never was a fighter until he laid beside her
And gently whispered "hope"

They got up to their feet and they sang Hallelujah
People in the street were turning around
They looked them in the eyes and they sang,
"Hallelujah, there's someone here we have found"
They sang,
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah
We are the voices crying in the wilderness
Hallelujah, Hallelujah."
The people in the street started their sins to confess
And a chorus of,
"Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Every knee will bow and every tongue confess
and the voice of one crying in the wilderness crying
Hallelujah, Hallelujah"


Foy Vance website
Foy Vance on Myspace

MIT Students Create Car That Drives Itself

Nice! Now if I only had the $400,000 to buy me one. Does it come with a fridge and hot tub? TV and DVD player? WII with Guitar Hero, yeah that's the ticket . . . hmmm would you get a ticket? I recently heard (hat tip to mk) about a woman who put her RV on cruise control and then walked back into the kitchen to make a sandwich. This would have eliminated the wreck and subsequent lawsuit that she won because she thought it was already installed!? I guess with the millions she won, she should buy this system for her RV, or just make her wraps pre-trip like the rest of us. She's definitely trippin' in more ways than one.

"What Does God Care What We Call Him?"

"What Does God Care What We Call Him? According to a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands, we should all just use Allah so Muslims will like us better. I am not easily shocked, but I have to tell you, this one blew me away! I think that's an heretical view. Read Albert Mohler's take on it here"

Blackle - Energy Saving Search

Google in an eco friendly form

Save energy using Blackle instead of Google. Here is an explanation
from the site:

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open
application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, x_bu2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

As of now, it is estimated that 147,552.808 Watt hours have already been saved by this new black version of Google. Black is beautiful even in the virtual world!

If you keep a couple of tabs open, go back to the Blackle tab when you are not using the computer to save energy.

Check it out here: Blackle

UPDATE:  The previous post is not true for LCD monitors.  See the link below for more info

http://businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc20070814_994723.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives

Green Speed Demons and Other Alternative Autos

This is Eco-friendly I like!

Click here to read about some of the newer, absolutely hot green cars.

Woman In Britain Forced To Pay For Her Own Hip Replacement

Britain is refusing to give hip replacements based on BMI, a ridiculously inaccurate measurement. If your BMI is over 35, no surgery for you. This means no bodybuilders or professional athletes need apply. Imagine the US DMV, IRS, and postal service teaming up to run our health care. AAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Read the article here.

A new online experience for the entire family

FREE download1!!Click here to get Glubble - A new online experience for the entire family | Glubble:

"Family Fun Browsing
Glubble puts the web in the hands of families.

* Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow.
* Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of the world wide web.
* Child friendly look and feel with interfaces for pre-reading and reading age young children."

Woman on Memri TV on Muslim Culture Clash

Not Invulnerable

Trust flows between us, a ribbon of years collecting and growing until the tragic break. A thoughtless word, a look, a laugh, a glance at another who shares your displeasure. My inadequacy becomes your superiority, and I fall. Words fail. Knowing you are right, I laugh with you. If I let you know the pain you have caused, you will know where it is. The chink in my armor, my Achilles’ heel, the vulnerability I extended to you becomes your weapon of choice. I wrap my pain about me as a shield. I have heard you speak of others and know it must be so of me when I am not there. What fatality did you see in me that you must share with others in my absence? Just what did you expect? Have I not told you all along that I am a joke, a veil of coverings over the real me that I too despise? Why then should your betrayal surprise me? I know the balance of the scale or lack thereof. The tipping to the side. At times the weight of my faults bears down so hard the light goodness in me is catapulted off the other side.

Resolve. I steel myself and beg God to guard my lips and eyes that I might not cause such pain. Still, I know my guilt. Forgive me for the pain I have caused.

Do not pay attention to every word people say,
or you may hear your servant cursing you-
for you know in your heart
that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 (New International Version)

Paste Magazine :: News :: Over the Rhine to make 21 cities swoon

Over the Rhine to make 21 cities swoon

Writer: Kasia Galazka

News, Published online on 19 Jul 2007

The folk cabaret duo responsible for inciting a little-documented movement of
evening gown-adorned women draping themselves across pianos is setting out for a fall tour.

Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, who made our
100 Best Living Songwriters list, will release their 11th studio effort,
The Trumpet Child, on August 21.

The tour will kick off with a hometown bash in Cincinnati.

Bring out the cocktails:

August:
31 - Cincinnati, OH @ Coney Island Moonlite Gardens



September:

1 - Lexington, Ky. @ The Dame

2 - Nashville, Tenn. @ 3rd and Lindsley

13 - Seattle, Wash. @ Triple Door

14 - Seattle, Wash. @ Triple Door

15 - Portland, Ore. @ Doug Fir Lounge

16 - Bandon, Ore. @ Sprague Theater

18 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Cafe Du Nord

19 - San Francisco, Calif. @ Cafe Du Nord

21 - Hollywood, Calif. @ Knitting Factory

22 - San Diego, Calif. @ Anthology Lounge

23 - San Juan Capistrano, Calif. @ Couch House

25 - Phoenix, Ariz. @ Rhythm Room

29 - Denver, Colo. @ Soiled Dove



October:

2 - Kansas City, Mo. @ Grand Emporium

3 - St. Louis, Mo. @ Blueberry Hill

5 - Bloomington, Ind. @ Buskirk-Chumley Theater

6 - Columbus, Ohio @ Wexner Center for the Arts

17 - Asheville, N.C. @ Grey Eagle Tavern

18 - Athens, Ga. @ Melting Point

19 - Greenville, S.C. @ Handlebar

20 - Charlotte, N.C. @ Visulite Theater

22 - Decatur, Ga. @ Eddie's Attic

23 - Decatur, Ga. @ Eddie's Attic

26 - New York, N.Y. @ Highline Ballroom

27 - Annapolis, Md. @ Ram's Head

28 - Alexandria, Va. @ Birchmere Music Hall

30 - Boston, Mass. @ Sculler's Jazz Club



November:

1 - Philadelphia, Pa. @ World Cafe Live

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/4535/news/music/over_the_rhine_to_make_21_cities_swoon



Related links:

OverTheRhine.com

Over the Rhine on MySpace

Over the Rhine to Trumpet New, Pre-Rock Influences

A teacher with faith and reason - The Boston Globe

Could a professor who believes in Biblical creationism teach physics at a major university?  Yes, and he did a good job.  He
"notwithstanding his religious fervor and intense interest in Biblical interpretation -- went on to become the most renowned scientist of his age, and arguably the most influential in history."

Click here to read more

Main Page - MediaMythBusters

"In order to make even the most mundane of everyday decisions it is necessary to have good information. The public depends on television, radio and print media to deliver reliable and accurate information. For the most part, reporters and editors do their jobs and the result is an informed public. In some instances, however, the information relayed to the public is neither reliable nor accurate. Far too often, inaccurate information is reported and repeated until it achieves a certain myth status. The goal of this site is to debunk myths that take hold as a result of inaccurate or irresponsible media reports.

Truth Through Scrutiny -- When inaccurate information is reported in the news media, especially when it is reported on the wire services and gets repeated worldwide, it is difficult to "take back" the initial report and correct the record. With the rise of new media such as talk radio and blogs, traditional media has come under increased scrutiny and some stories that in past generations might have been left to stand, have been exposed as false. Those instances, which are often relegated to small print at the back of the newspaper, will be collected here."


Clikch here to go to MediaMythBusters

Military support for the republican candidates » The Truth @ The Spin Factor

Who do military employees support for the republican nomination? Click here to find out. Oh, no! Poor Fred is at the end. We'll check back after he announces.

Biking Across America For Widows and Children In Need!

Click here to learn more!

Melissa painted me

Melissa painted me, originally uploaded by Spazyone.

I took the above close up photo of myself and put it on MySpace. I hate pictures of myself, and I have been trying to make myself less camera shy and figure out how to face the camera. I am so used to being behind it, I look like a dork when it's pointed at me. My friend Melissa painted me from the photo and surprised me with the painting above yesterday!! She really knows how to torture me! I love the painting and want to say it's beautiful, but it's of me!!! What's a girl to do? At least she left the wrinkles off. Thanks mk, I love it!

Father of the Iranian revolution

A Jerusalem Post article on the cause of the Iranian
Revolution.

Read it here!

Closed minds at the museum

It is amazing how some people are so set in their ideas and beliefs that they won't look at the ideas of others.


Click here to read the article.

LA Weekly - News - Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted

"He says the culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, in which the government uses television screens to indoctrinate citizens, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as “walls” and its actors as “family,” a truth evident to anyone who has heard a recap of network shows in which a fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends."

God Debate: Sam Harris vs. Rick Warren - Newsweek Beliefs - MSNBC.com

"On a cloudy California day, the atheist Sam Harris sat down with the Christian pastor Rick Warren to hash out Life's Biggest Question—Is God real?"

globeandmail.com: Exclusive: Putin threatens to target Europe with missiles

Read more here.

Pajamas Media: Hugo Chavez Versus YouTube:

Click here to read it.

Michelle Malkin: A Democrat's challenge on partial-birth abortion

Michelle Malkin: A Democrat's challenge on partial-birth abortion

U.S. and World Population Clocks - POPClocks

View population stats here.

Dept. of Homelad Security OIG Report on suspicious passengers on Northwest Flight 327

Read it for yourself, well most of it.

Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir#a004144#a004144#a004144

Some good news from someone who was embedded in Mosul.

Breaching America: War refugees or threats?

A four part series on a serious border problem.
MySA.com: Metro | State

LiveScience.com - Study: Religion is Good for Kids

"Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development."

Click link below to read more:


Religion is Good for Kids:

Baptist Press - Students remembered as solid Christians

Baptist Press - Students remembered as solid Christians

I guess it is a good thing that a significant percentage of those murdered were known for their faith. I am glad they are in a better place, and I pray their families and friends will find comfort in that and God.

Hot Air on The Party of Hate in 2008

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The Party of Hate in 2008

What is the political love affair with Al Sharpton about? See some of what this man is really about.

Tolkien novel published 34 years after his death | Entertainment | Reuters

Tolkien's Last Manuscript has been edited and published 34 years after his death.

I bought three copies on Amazon today. Why three? Because we got free shipping! So I bought for three of us.

I definitely want this guy for my next surgery

For those of us looking forward to robotic surgery and its promised precision . . . here is a look at the next gen surgeon.

Zude tool remixes the Web - News - ZDNet

Zude tool remixes the Web - News - ZDNet

Newscast
Fifth Generation Systems positions its app as the "Switzerland of the social Web"

With its cross-domain (and desktop-to-domain) capability, is the drag-and-drop Zude app the "Switzerland of the social Web"? Fifth Generation Systems heads that way with a tool for building personal Web presences, authoring multimedia Web pages, and integrating Web-based content.

The Troops in Fallujah Speak

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The Troops in Fallujah Speak


From Michelle Malkin April 12, 2007 11:45 AM

"INDC Journal blogger Bill Ardolino brought his video camera with him to Fallujah during his recent embed.

He let the troops speak for themselves."

Bill

Bill, originally uploaded by Spazyone.

This is my brother Bill enjoying the surf as it runs over his head at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. We were in a clear tunnel that the tide overfalls. it is a wonderful and beautiful thing to see.

Michelle Malkin: Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart(language warning)

Michelle Malkin: Imus vs. the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart
(language warning)

Very interesting!

How Do They Do It?

How do they do it?
Current mood: enthralled
Category: Music

Mute Math "Typical" Music Video World premiere


I read that they actually had to perform the song backwards in order to do this video. That seems pretty wild!

I am planning to see them in concert next month with my friend. I hear they put on a great show.

How do you think they made this vid?

Currently listening :
Twilight
By Future of Forestry
Release date: By 23 January, 2007

Mute Math on Jimmy Kimmel

"Bomb" Scares and the War of the Worlds

When Orson Wells broadcast "War of the Worlds" in 1939, people listened, heard the aliens were on their block and killed themselves without ever looking out their windows to see if it was true. Yep. It never occurred to them that they might have heard noises or that if the electricity were actually out they couldn't be listening to their radios. It has been a while since I studied this, so I am just stating my opinion based on recollections from a paper I wrote in the 80s. (Wonder where that paper is?)

Anyway, the point is that some cities are full of silly people. We have witnessed a recent event, by way of an ad campaign by the Cartoon Network, that most cities got through unscathed, but one city found overwhelming. AND, now we know they will get a couple mill out of it. Here is Jimmy Kimmel's take on it. I especially like the Homeland Security PSA (Public Service Announcement) at the end. Enjoy!

Currently listening :
Nothing Left to Lose
By Mat Kearney
Release date: By 18 April, 2006

Unhappy Week Formula

Unhappy Week Formula
Current mood: giddy

Lucky Day

So, by now we all know that this is the most unhappy week of the year based on the formula by Cliff Arnall, a health psychologist at the University of Cardiff in Wales. The formula goes something like this:

W + (D-d) x TQ

———————————

M x NA

The variables are (W)eather, (D)ebt, (d) monthly salary, (T)ime since Christmas, time since failure to (Q)uit a bad habit, low (M)otivational levels and (NA), the need to take action.

It's the January Blues, which is, coincidentally, the title track off my debut CD (coming soon). Okay, I call it that as a song promo, but it's catchy, ya gotta admit that.

Anyway, I, like the rest of the residents of the USA and Britain to whom this formula applies (it is science after all), have been doing my level best to not give in to the inevitable. Unfortunately, I had not been as successful as I had hoped. That is until this morning.

Remember you heard this here first!

I WON SECOND PRIZE IN A BEAUTY CONTEST!!! WOOHOO!!!

Oh yeah, it feels good. Especially since I know, KNOW! I say, that I would have taken first place had Melissa had a chance to cut my hair before the contest. Once that woman goes after my head with a razor, it's gonna be all over, for the competition, that is.

Yep, so there I was in the um library sitting on the er um seat, yeah, the seat, so there I was and working on, among other things, my acquisition and entrepreneurial skills on my PDA, when I get the message.

"You have won second prize in a beauty contest." $10 prize.

Not only am I the most beautiful, but I get ten small, er mini, to boot! And you know if I had had had had (sorry) the haircut, I would have been awarded first place.

TOTALLY WICKED!!!

So, forget about psychological formulas.

Forget about the whole "I am one of those people who just don't like to be held back."

Forget it all, baby, because I am a WINNER!

Plus, I had three monopolies!

So, go out there and make it a good week. Don't give in to the morose pundits and psycho-the-rapists who want to tell you you can't be happy this week or any week.

Remember, good things can be found in bad places even when you least expect it.

Okay, and don't let the "Oh, she's listening to Amy Grant" thing convince you of anything regarding my musical tastes. Lead Me On is simply one of the best albums ever made. And, be assured, I haven't switched over to listening to hard core MOR (middle-of-the-road) I am still in my

Psycho, rockabilly, symphonic metal, punk, grunge, emo, classic folk southern hard rock, bluegrass, alternative, jazz fusion stage musically.

Currently listening : Lead Me On By Amy Grant Releas