Portraits of the kids

13th bday trip to SF

Ben Folds, Autographs from Ben and the band, Time with Stacy and Michael, Snuggling with Dexter and Pillow, Sightseeing around SF, Being woke up by the street construction crew, Weird Science, Shopping, Lunch, Haight-Ashbury at night by Muni Train and matching concert tees! A great time with just me and my daughter for her 13th bday!

Ben Folds and my daughter at The Warfield in SF

My honey is an artiste

Personalized converse with an H to remember Aunt Heather. My honey drew these on my daughter's new shoes for her bday

You put your kids where????

As I was getting gas today I heard a commotion. I could see through my tinted windows the car next to me and the man pumping his gas. He was sort of "yelling" at his five kids. There were two inside the cab of the pick up and five in the back of the truck. As I watched I noticed that there was a metal bed cover raised up and I thought to myself, "Surely he isn't letting those kids who are like 7 ride in the back of that truck underneath the bedcover". I'll be a sonovabitch if he wasn't. He finished pumping his gas and then proceeded to tell them to lay down. Closed the lid and turned the lock on it. I thought I was going to die. Hell, I thought they were going to die. As he drove off I noticed a magnetic business card on his door. I wrote down the phone number so I could call and complain. He drove off so fast that I didn't have time to get a license plate number but I thought that the business number and make of the vehicle would suffice. I decided to call the number from the sign. He answered.
me: Are you driving a silver pickup?
Him: yes, I am.
me: I saw you put those kids in the back of the truck and close the bedcover.
Him: uh, uh, well.....I, um had to get them home. I didn't have room inside the truck for all of them.
me: Well, I hope you know that that's really very dangerous and if you were in an accident that they could be killed.
him: Yes ma'am. I know. Thank you. thank you. thank you.
me: I hope you never ever ever do that again because it's totally illegal and dangerous.
him: yes ma'am. Thank you.

I thought what a polite idiot. I can't believe he did that. Geez, make two trips if your kids don't fit. Who does that? I've never in my life saw that happen. Of course, I'm sure it has but nonetheless....what a tool. I think I'll call the police tomorrow and make a report.

I keep seeing all kinds of moronic behavior. Last month I called the police on a woman who was beating the crap out of her daughter in the Wal-Mart parking lot. She was screaming in her face how she hated her and had her elbow upto her throat. It was mortifying. Stupid people should not be able to breed.

My Response

I love stupid people. They are so entertaining. This is a response I left for an idiot on a comment board.

"Unlike you, I actually HAVE a life so I don't spend all day online spewing vitriolic negativity all over the internet. My intelligent remark didn't take me more than 20 seconds to think of because unlike you, I have an education. You may live in Chico but I'd bet you have not attended college. I can tell by your lack of intelligent answers. You, instead choose insults because you lack the insight to actually have something intelligent to say. If you were knew what you were actually talking about then your opinion would count. Lucky for me, it doesn't. Oh and by the way, "At least" sounds very second grade. Yeah, "at least".....boy, you TOLD me didn't you?"

Dine and Ditch

Dinner tonight was sans the children. We went to a local coffee shop that is a fruit of plenty. I always get the same thing which is the potato skins with ranch dressing (it's my comfort food) and my honey ordered a french dip with french fries. The coffee shop recently started serving beer as well so my honey had himself two Sierra Nevada Pale Ale's. When our dinner came my skins were covered in green onions (which it never has had before) and the french dip was without french fries. It was brought to the attention of the waitress as she was getting ready to leave from the table. She was in a semi-comatose state of what to do.....I could see it on her face: "Should I get the fries? Should I ask him if he wants them? What should I do? Should I not stand here looking stupid?" So, she walked off on a mission to get the fries. 15 minutes later she came back and said that the fries would be out shortly. The french dip was damn near gone. I was on my last bite and Eugie was two pale ale's fiesty. He told her to forget it. She said she'd take it off our ticket. Two minutes later she returned with a huge plate of fries and she said "Are you SURE you don't WANT them?" as she wafts the smell of french fries in his face. I could see the disdain in his eyes. "No. He replies. I'm done eating now." She takes the plate and dumps them with an attitude in the busboy bin. As she leaves to recalculate our check (she had taken it 10 minutes earlier) we got our cash out and calculated how much it would be with a minimal tip. I am sick of giving servers tips for poor service. How do you forget someone's fries when they come with the meal? She didn't refill drinks in a timely manner and I had to ask her for everything. It was not busy. She had maybe five tables altogether. I was watching her.

We leave our money on the table with our plates and everything neatly tidied up cause we are just that conscientious as we have both worked in the world of food. As we get in the car to drive off I start to negotiate a U-Turn to go home. My husband is yelling at me, go the other way, don't turn around!!! I see the waitress running outside with a check and writing something down. Next thing I know, Eugie is rolling down his window and yells "THE MONEY IS ON THE TABLE!!! FUCKER!" I was dying. She totally saw us leaving and since she hadn't brought us back the check she ASSUMED that we left without paying. I am sure she was less than thrilled with ONE: being called a fucker. TWO: fucking up our order and THREE: getting a 50 cent tip for a shiteous job.

We can now laugh at our "Dine and Ditch" incident that we didn't commit but she was being super waitress and trying to get our license plate to call the cops on us. That is hilarious. She was probably like "Duh".

Now, I want a cigarette.

Burney Falls

Spontaneity

My honey and I decided to be spontaneous and drive upto Burney Falls to stay the night. We reserved a little cabin and did the short hike to the falls and the surrounding trail. We then went into Burney and had Pizza, bought snacks at the local Safeway and I got myself somethin' purdy at the local Ben Franklin. We had a great night. It was much needed. It seems like forever ago that we were all spur of the moment like!

Because I just don't know

Joe Biden on the Issues

I just don't know who to trust anymore. I don't understand why it's ok for Sarah Palin to have "no experience" but it's not ok for Obama to no experience. Why it's ok for Sarah Palin's daughter to be pregnant. If she can't run her family, how can she run the country? How can she possibly balance 5 kids and a career in Washington? Did McCain pick her just to pander to the females who felt disillusioned with losing Hilary? I'm so sick of this political bullshit that I can't stand it anymore.

Upon searching for info on both candidates and their VP picks, I came across the above website. I figured if I was confused then maybe so were some of you. This may help......but then again, it may not.

Apparently my grandmother thinks I need to lighten up.

Now let's discuss how that amount can NEVER add upto how much money Bush has spent and how much money these candidates have to pay for their campaigns. Welfare probably spends out more than that. Political spending of any kind is totally retarded. If I rule the world that shit would not be happening. But I am not and our votes really don't count because some fat white dude is our electorate. They make us THINK that our vote counts. When it doesn't really. They just let us think it counts....but it doesn't, really.
I am sick of both candidates. Neither of them have the priorities I believe in. One you will spend more money on a ridiculous war that has gone on way too long and then you have one who really doesn't say what he plans on doing because let's face it, nobody knows what to do with us? We want to have world domination and maybe, just maybe we should spend more money on our own people. We are killing off polar bears, plankton, crill. The ocean temperature has gone up 2 degrees in the last few years alone which means that people are not going to be able to keep mass fishing and raping the ocean because of desire to eat fancy crap. Birds are dying from starvation or you can find them with plastic in their bellies because of our desire to be LAZY and not take a usable tupperware container....let's throw it away. We can't put anything in glass anymore because plastic is cheaper yet glass breaks down and doesn't harm you whereas plastic, doesn't eVER go away. We are creating a gyre in the Pacific Ocean that is the size of Greenland. American's think everything is expendable. the more you want, just buy it, use it for a few years and throw it away. There will be no antiques anymore because people buy shit and just toss it. I see plastic Little Tikes toys all the time on the sides of the road waiting for the dump truck to pick them up. How wasteful. I hate that. I think there should be a requirement to recycle everything we produce. Unless it's shit or urine or blood, why can't people really package things differently and demand it.
Now, that I am on a rant I might as well discuss animal testing or poaching, or hunting for that matter. I can respect being humane and killing an animal but.......Oh whatever....I can go on for days. My point is this....America sucks. We are a fucked up country with fucked up values. This is because we are a democracy and lunatics are allowed to believe what they want. People, for the most part, and in general I don't think are free thinkers who actually think about the status quo. I really hate people. It's sad, but true. They are idiots. There are many villages and many village idiots. I think we are personally over run by them.
Personally I think McCain is too old. I don't like his values nor his ideas. And Barrack, well I don't know enough about him to really form and opinion. I have read some stuff and if he actually did what he said he would do, I'd like him. I don't think about the experience level because frankly, I know that sometimes a younger, more in touch person is the better candidate. I think fresh, wide-eyed naivete is refreshing. I think McCain would be no better than Bush. At least if Obama were President, at least we can say we witnessed the first black President. that is huge. I'd love to see the skinheads freak out. OMG> could you imagine all the KKK groups and neonazis? I would love that.

anyway, done politically ranting. WE are retarded. EVeryone of us.