PRACTiCAL CHiCK

Guess what?

2007-12-04T15:35:00.000-06:00

I am moving again!! Why am I using something that only allows me 8 Megs of pics when I have my own server and domain and can do what I want to do? The template I have up is temporary, but from now on visit me here:

http://atomik-kitten.sisterrobin.com

And they say that teaching abstinence isn't the answer..

2007-12-04T14:51:00.001-06:00

How about being 29 and being a grandmother? This woman had her baby at 14 and her 15 year old just had a baby...well so much for safe sex! You would think that the mother would have had enough common sense to teach her daughter better and talked to her daughter about putting her baby up for adoption!

Way of the Master Radio

2007-12-04T08:28:00.001-06:00

Okay, so I am listening to a very old Way of the Master Radio dated 1/23/06 hour 2. Todd is talking to a ~~Muslim~~ man that says the Koran states that Muslims are to kill infidels (AKA non-muslims) because they are the hands of allah and are used to punish Jews, Christians, and anyone that isn't Muslim.

David cried out to God in the Bible when people were searching for him. When Elijah challenged the prophets of false gods up in the mountains to determine the real god, he did not look to kill or to be the hands of God to kill. He let God prove Himself. Matter of fact, does anyone remember what happened to Jonah when he thought that God should destroy Ninevah anyway? The tree that God grew to shade from the heat shriveled up and died.

Does this not scare you? That people think that they are the hands of a god and that it is there job to kill everyone that does not worship him?

I am learning so much from this podcast. The man that Todd is interviewing is now a Christian. This man has stated that Muslims have no real assurance of paradise and if they anger allah even when they go to "heaven" that he can cast them into hell. He also stated that if a Muslim is not out trying to slaughter we infidels, that they are not considered true Muslims because they are not following the Koran.

Man, I am so glad my Bible says to love my neighbor as I love myself.

As for me and my house, we will SERVE the ONE TRUE GOD.

My Idea of Heaven

2007-12-03T20:15:00.000-06:00

Stupid sewing machine

2007-12-03T17:00:00.000-06:00

Okay, my husband bought my machine for me in 2002 for Valentine's Day. I don't sew nearly as much as I used too, but today since I got off early I decided I was going to make a fabric shopping bag from some of my tons of material.

I am almost done when....

Are you ready for this?

Are you sure?

If you are a seamstress, read no further or you will run screaming into the night...

The whole middle assembly (you know, the foot, the needle holder - all of it) fell OUT. Including some little pin that I have no clue where it goes.

SO I am hoping that Santa brings me one of these for Christmas:

Because I will never buy another Brother sewing machine for as long as I LIVE!!!!!!

An open letter to a friend

2007-12-02T19:16:00.000-06:00

I would say it to your face, but you won't take my calls. I do know that you read my blog....for those that are wondering why I didn't email - you blocked me.

Look, you have to give up the drugs. You already know what they did to my father. Do you really think your children will be better off without you? This is no role model for your daughter. She starts junior high next year, and do you want her thinking this is okay?

YOU NEED HELP. Now is the time to get it. I am here to help you in any way I can, but I will not just sit by and watch the kids be neglected and I hope your husband doesn't either.

What's good for the goose...

2007-11-30T07:45:00.000-06:00

Should be good for the gander.

So the British teacher that who's class named a teddy bear Muhammad will not be whipped or killed (thank God!!), but she is sentenced to like two weeks in jail and deportation (thank God for deportation or someone would murder this poor woman).

So a bunch of Sudanese "protesters" went to some martyr's square and demanded she be executed in front of a firing squad. Wow. That's tolerant. Okay, so let me be tolerant for a moment and say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Round up the folks belonging to this previously unheard of Society for Support of the Prophet Muhammad and shoot them all by firing squad since they named their group using the name Muhammad.

Ya know...here in America - we have "tolerance" (or at least so it is said - that's another soap box I could get on to). Also, the same laws (unless you are oh, insanely rich like Paris Hilton) apply to everyone.

How about trying that? Running the laws straight across the board. I am proud of the student that stood up for his teacher. It was not the teacher that named the bear; sure she allowed it - but is it wrong for children to associate something they love with a god or prophet they love?

It is said that children often view God by looking at their parents...can you imagine how most of those students and children in Sudan view their god? Vengeful, angry, and out to get them for any little thing.

Rant out.

First Christmas Card

2007-11-29T11:19:00.001-06:00

Your First Christmas Card!

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"That's all I have to say about that"
~ Forrest Gump ~

Just a little update on yours truly

2007-11-29T09:02:00.000-06:00

They took my cast off yesterday. I had two options:

1. Wear it for another month

2. Remove it and be put in a walking book for a month

Since I so missed shaving my leg and showering, I opted for the boot. It is way more comfortable than the one from the summer. It absorbs a lot of the shock when I walk, but I am hurting badly today (which he said was normal and that it might hurt for the next week rebuilding the muscle). I can only take it off when I shower or when I am sleeping. I could have braided my leg hair...

I don't remember if I told yall about the MRI report - ruptured achilles tendon from my ankle up to my knee on the back side of my leg. I even broke down this morning and took a Darvocet.

The Ubergeek Translation

2007-11-28T10:12:00.000-06:00

Who Am I by Casting Crowns

2007-11-28T09:59:00.000-06:00

Does anyone else panic?

2007-11-28T09:57:00.000-06:00

What ails you?

2007-11-28T09:36:00.000-06:00

I thought that today I would post some Scriptures that pertain to something I struggle with - anxiety. I don't mean just a little stress. I mean I have the kind of stress that requires daily medication so I can function as a normal person and not freak out.

Genesis 21:17 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Hagar had anxiety and fear, too. Of course her fear was for her son. Yet God took care of everything.

Exodus 14:13-14 - 13And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.

14The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

The Lord will fight for us. We must bring our things to Him and stay within His peace.

Psalm 13:2-5 - 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

This is something I have struggled with. Sometimes it is so hard to give everything over to Him when it feels like the pressure is just never going to end. It is so good to know that I serve a God that hears me and that will take care of me. I need only trust in Him.

1 Peter 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

What is wrong with people?

2007-11-27T09:21:00.001-06:00

Baby Grace's mother could have easily left her at the hospital, signed over her rights, and walked away. Yet no, we have one more tiny angel in heaven - she left this world with three skull fractures, after being beaten with leather belts, and held under water.

I think she should be sterilized - and her boyfriend, too. What I really want to know is why no one looked harder into this "Ohio" mystery social worker. Had I been that child's grandmother, aunt, etc etc (insert female relative here) - I would be calling every DHS office Ohio has to see if it was true...and then I would have called the police and reported her missing myself. Sadly, you can't leave all parents to be parents...especially ones that shack up with people they meet on the internet at a moment's notice.

Logan's Calf Story

2007-11-26T14:01:00.001-06:00

What does the Bible say about...

2007-11-26T13:15:00.000-06:00

Addiction?

2 Peter 2:19 - While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

I think that everyone should own a copy of Where To Find it In the Bible. It's a great book.

If you are enslaved by anything - drugs, alcohol, depression, cigarettes, or anything - Jesus can set you free!

This is about right!!

2007-11-25T20:27:00.000-06:00

Your 1996 Theme Song Is: 1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet

What's Your 1996 Theme Song?

Because I have all the CDs up to when Ava Adore came out. I even have a Smashing Pumpking bumper sticker up in the closet somewhere...

Good to know I have some ethics..

2007-11-25T20:17:00.000-06:00

You Are 72% Good

You are a good person. You do the best you can to be ethical, fair, and moral.
And as you know, being a good person means making hard decisions... and following them through.
If you're confronted with an ethical dilemma, you will usually do the right thing.
Of course you do slip up. No one's perfect. But you do your best to correct your missteps.

You are also probably: incredibly honest, especially with yourself

Right now you are on track to being: A respected leader

To be a better person: Be kind to someone who is not very kind to you

How Good Are You?

The 8 Deadly Distractions

2007-11-25T19:36:00.000-06:00

Did you know...

2007-11-25T19:25:00.000-06:00

That GodTube.com was developed by an Oklahoman?

By the way, I guess you've probably noticed a couple of changes to my blog in the way of posts. The Lord is really convicting me about some things...

For a while I was really aiming to be a caustic, witty blog (and to some point - that won't change because that is just who I am); however I am feeling the move of the Lord in my life and it is time to reflect the change here.

What does the Bible say about...

2007-11-25T19:05:00.000-06:00

Drunkenness?

Let's find out together. I am using a book called Where to Find It in The Bible. I got it at my local Dollar General for about $5.

The kings in 1 Kings 20:16 had a royal drinking party:

And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

Esther 1:8 -

And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

Esther 3:15 -

The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

Proverbs 20:1 -

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 23:29-31 -

29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright

Romans 13:13 -

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Isaiah 28:1-8 -

1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

2Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

3The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

5In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

6And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

8For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Jeremiah 25:27 (kinda scary!) -

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

Jeremiah 51:57 -

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Hosea 7:5 -

In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Habakkuk 2:15 -

Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

I know, some of you are wondering about the time that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. I don't know if grape juice then was equivalent as to what we would consider wine in our day - I just don't know. I am just posting this to show that being a habitual drinker is not a good thing.

How was your Thanksgiving

2007-11-25T16:58:00.000-06:00

Ours was fairly food fight free...except the Coconut creme pie. Bry-onicle, Nana Beachy, and The Cop Magnet all got some of that.

We didn't deep fry the turkey this year (which I kind of missed)...

Tomorrow I will be featured on Etsy (at least my crochet stuff will be). I can't wait for that. Maybe I will sell something and it will pay for the featured fee. LOL

Wednesday I go back to the ortho and maybe get my cast off. The MRI came back and I ruptured my Achilles Tendon. Since the rupture wasn't terribly bad, the cast is the treatment. It doesn't hurt any more so I am thanking the Lord for that.

Well everyone - I have a Sunday Paper calling my name... I didn't get to go to church today because it is kind of slick out. The boys did go, though. Tomorrow I might have to check them out early and take them to work with me for a couple of hours. Nana Beachy has to take her dad to the doc and might not be home in time to pick them up. I need to save my time for Wednesday.

Oh yeah and if you like sales, my black Friday sale runs through until tomorrow on Usborne Books. If you look in the clearance section, you might even find some as low as .89 cents! Can't beat that for a Christmas present. They ship via UPS.

I am Pentecostal

2007-11-21T13:36:00.001-06:00

After you watch this, you might be ready to leave your dead church and come to a Pentecostal church for an experience and a relationship with the Lord!

The Christian Matrix

2007-11-21T12:58:00.000-06:00

Jesus IS God

2007-11-21T09:31:00.000-06:00

This was sent to me via email from Pastor Carl Davis. It just makes me want to shout!

~Jesus Is God~

Jesus Christ is God Almighty. Psalms 100:3 says, "know ye the Lord He is God." And in John 20:28, Thomas answered Jesus and said, "My Lord and my God." There are not three distinct persons in the Godhead as it has been taught for many hundred years. There is one and that one is Jesus. Lets see what the bible says, and what it says is what we all must accept, if we are to obtain that one and only plan of salvation.

Genesis 1:1; Colossians 1:14-17 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, who created the heavens and the earth, Jesus or God?

Genesis 49:10; Hebrews 7:14 If Jesus is not God Almighty, when will the Lord sprang out of the Tribe of Juda?

I Kings 22:19; Revelations 4:2 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, how many is setting on the throne? Psalms 45:6; Philippians 2:11.

Isaiah 7:14; St. Matthew 1:23 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, then who is Immanuel?

Isaiah 45:23; Philippians 2:11 If Jesus Christ is not God almighty, who, then shall we bow to? Jesus or God.

Isaiah 45:15-21; Titus 2:13 If Jesus Christ is not God almighty, then who is our savior?

Isaiah 9:6 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, when will Isaiah's prophecy come to pass?

Numbers 24:16-17 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, when will Balaam's prophecy come to pass?

St. Matthew 4:7 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, why, when the devil was tempting Jesus, "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God"?

Luke 1:68 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, when will the Lord God of Israel visit his people to redeem them?

Acts 7:59 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, why did Steven call God by His name and Said,"Lord Jesus"?

I John 5:20 If Jesus Christ is not God Almighty, who is the True God?

St Mark 10:18, St John 10:14 If Jesus is not God, then we must say that He is not good.

Acts 9:5 Did God lie when he told Saul that he is Jesus?

Deuteronomy 32:4, I Corinthians 10:4 If Jesus is not God, who is the Rock? Jesus Christ or God

St. John 20:28 Did Thomas lie when he said to Jesus, "My Lord and My God?

I Timothy 3:16 If Jesus is not God, when did God come in the Flesh?

I John 3:16; St. John 3:16; I Peter 3:18 If Jesus Christ is not God, when did God lay down His life?

St John 14:9 There is only one Father, Malachi 2:10, and if Jesus Christ is not God Almighty. why did he say to Philip, "When you see Me you see the Father"?

I have used only a small number of bible scripture to proclaim the fact that Jesus Christ is god Almighty and besides He, there is no other God or God like person. All bible scripture beyond Genesis 3:15 including the old and new testaments supports only one fact, and that is, God Almighty was to come and did come (manifest) in the flesh, I Tim. 3:16, to offer that perfect sacrifice. which enabled the human family, through remission and redemption, to once again have God's Law rewritten in their hearts.

For those of Us, who have been given the knowledge to understand the mystery of the Godhead, regardless of where we go in the scripture we see only one God and that one God's salvation name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

To further make this thing understandable let me give you some more scripture to support the Oneness of God's Throne:

Isaiah 43:10 "That ye may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He, before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me".

Deuteronomy 32;29 "See now that I, even I, am He and there is no god with me".

Ecclesiastes 4:8 "There is One (God) alone and there's not a second.

Isaiah 42:8 "I am the Lord: That is my name and my glory will I not give to another".

Isaiah 44:8 "Is there a God beside me? Yea, There is no God; I know not any".

Isaiah 46:9 "I am God and there is none like me".

I Corinthians 8:4 "There is none other God but One".

No, there is not two, not three, not four, there is only one and Jesus said, "If you don't believe that I am He, ye shalt die in your sins". Our Lord Jesus told the devil "For it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve. Dear reader if you will just consider the Apostle's Doctrine, then God will give thee understanding in all things.

There were three manifestations of this ONE GOD, but many preachers do not understand them. "Howbeit, there is not in every man that knowledge". That one God was manifested as Father when he made everything. Some say that this is the first person of the Godhead, bur it is not so. When this same one god was manifested in the flesh as the Son of God, many say that this is the second person in the Godhead, but this also is not so. When he was manifested in the church as the Holy Ghost, others say that this is the third person in the Godhead, this is not so and is absolutely unscriptural, as there is no bible to support three person Godhead teachings.

If the human family could only understand the very first commandment given to Israel, they would also understand that there is only one person in the Godhead and that the Lord our God is ONE LORD. But, this wisdom and understanding is missing among the people, who have not been sent of God to preach the Gospel. Jesus said "I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things, from the wise and prudent, and hath revealed them unto babes". Matthew 11:25.

Psalms 90:2; Revelations 1:18 If Jesus Christ is not God, then who is He that liveth, and was dead; and is alive evermore (everlasting) ?

Revelation 1:8 "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty".
To God Be The glory, honor, and Praise Forever!

I am SO glad...

2007-11-20T11:40:00.000-06:00

That the Good Lord chose to bless me with boys...

Because I would hate for this to be all my daughter would aspire to be...of course me and her daddy and her brothers probably wouldn't even let her date until she was 35..but this? Really? This is a real competition? A beauty pageant - I am not even all that crazy about those...but this.....

ha ha ha

2007-11-20T09:07:00.000-06:00

Okay, I stole this from Dallas Meow (sorry, girl - you know I spell fun-et-ick-lee).

I find this funny because I am rated PG-13...

Cash Advance Loans

And away I go....

2007-11-19T06:56:00.000-06:00

I have an MRI this morning to find out about the tendons and ligaments or whatever they are in your foot. This should tell me how long I have to wear the cast. The boys only have two days of school this week and I have three days of work.

I am ready for a nap already. Don't know where I'll park at work - the parking lot I usually park in will no doubt be full. It will be a LONG walk to the building with crutches. Parking is the only thing I don't like about my job.

Wow I'm bored...

2007-11-18T19:44:00.000-06:00

259 WATTS

I could power one x-box 360 but it would take like 4 of little old me to run a refrigerator.

Yup...guidance is still suggested

2007-11-18T19:35:00.001-06:00

Are you really surprised?

Lord help us all..

2007-11-18T19:30:00.000-06:00

The Cop Magnet is taking psychology...we celebrated (if you want to call it that) seven years of marriage...

Yeah I know - I took it last semester, but they are trying to cram all of that in his head in one month as opposed to a semester (10 weeks for me)...and I am being dragged into it (kicking and screaming I might add).

UoP stinks because of group projects - that's why I never went. Whomever is the group leader this time is trying to make crap ten times harder than it needs to be.

Nana Beachy's Usborne Books at Home Party

2007-11-17T10:04:00.000-06:00

My MIL's Usborne Books at Home Party

Was a flop...out of everyone she invited (and I invited a few) only 1 person showed (the one being my co-worker - so the rule is true...only 1/10th of the people you invite will show up).

SO if you are feeling like doing some Christmas shopping (and I have a list of books made by someone with a Masters degree in Education for autistic, gifted, and delayed children) please visit my site and click on her name (Patsy Christian) to help her reach her $85 dollar goal so she can earn some free books. Even if you don't have kids, nieces, or nephews you could always donate your book to Toys for Tots or some other deserving charity for the holidays.

Me? Twisted??

2007-11-16T22:36:00.000-06:00

Surely you jest!! Nana Beachy held her Usborne Books at Home party tonight. So I thought a little science experiment was in order... I have the 100 Science Experiments book. So I decided to do the foaming monster - which is essentially the volcano trick but you use a water bottle and make a monster...except you know me - I had to take it a step farther.

I gave my monster a green tail and arms...googly eyes (because what is a monster without googly eyes?) I used Print Shop and found pictures of scared Japanese people, a scared rat, a Tokyo style building (with the word Tokyo underneath), and I put it all on a cookie sheet with Godzilla in the middle. I added red and yellow food coloring to the vinegar.

Of course, what's a good experiment if you don't add background music? Mr. Frosty had a copy of Blue Oyster Cult's Go! Go! Godzilla. So of course I had to play that during the entire experiment.

It went over really well - even if Nana Beachy thought I was twisted...

57% Zombie Proof!

2007-11-16T17:38:00.001-06:00

57%

Look what I'm worth dead!

2007-11-16T17:34:00.000-06:00

$4665.00

Good thing I am worth more through my life insurance policy!

And I'm judgmental?

2007-11-13T18:18:00.000-06:00

So I tried to get in to the ortho today instead of waiting til tomorrow, but the doctor was in surgery. Urgent care told me to go to the ER because of the pain (no sleep for three days - the pain is a LOT worse at night). The nurse asked if I take any medications and I told her that I do take Klonipin, but that I hadn't taken it today. I'm in tears from pain (she'd already asked the on the scale from 1 to 10 how do you rate the pain question). Then she starts going down the psych list. When she asked, "Are you feeling the urge to hurt yourself" I wanted to say, "Yes, actually I'd love to cut my foot off." I figured she would take my sarcasm seriously so I just left it alone. I got back pretty quick and I had my x-rays with me from urgent care.

The male nurse asked me what I wanted them to do about it - oh gee. I don't know. I'm crying. I'm at the hospital. Pain medication prescribed didn't help. No sleep in three days. Gee - Hmm..let me think about it. Oh wait! Light bulb moment! Make it quit hurting!

The doc comes in and says that there is no ortho on call and that he had no intentions of "narcing" me up. See? You tell the truth to people - about why you don't like certain drugs (Loratab - it didn't work anyway) because your father overdosed on them and you get treated like YOU are the addict.

Look - just because my dad was an addict doesn't make me one. I started with Darvocet. I *asked* for Darvocet at urgent care because I know that it is a lot less potent (and I have a pretty high pain tolerance). Sunday comes and I am crying so I call my primary physician's answering service and he tells me to take Loratab that I had left from freaking February from my last dental excursion. THAT doesn't help.

Keep in mind at this point - the doctor looked only at the x-ray but had not taken the splint off to LOOK at my foot. I had to tell him to take the splint off if he didn't believe me. My foot is still black and purple. He said, "I don't see anything on the xray to justify you hurting this much. SO I have a hard time believing that you are having this much pain." He did end up writing a prescription (that I can't take because a. it isn't here yet; Nana Beachy took it three hours ago to get it filled. b. I have class in 30 minutes and c. I have two children that MUST be supervised (they are only 9 and 7 for goodness sake and I am not about to take something that I don't know what kind of effect it will have on me).

Yeah, and yet people call me judgmental..I'm judged the minute people find out that my dead father was an addict and that my mother is an alcoholic and prescription abuser. How's that for justice and legacy? I don't beat my kids - I broke the damn cycle...yet I am judged. I'd rather walk around on a torn up ligament or tendon or whatever and ask for the weakest drug possible so I can take care of my children...yet I am judged.

I am a million times better than my own parents - I could make a list...but at the risk of sounding not only "judgmental" but snotty, I won't. Let's just say I'm sober, I don't beat my children, I am a Holy Ghost filled child of God, and I do my best to take care of my own (and others for that matter). Yet I am judged because of the people that raised me.

Just shoot me now and get it over with

2007-11-11T10:09:00.001-06:00

Okay, so apparently I don’t have shin splints, like I said earlier, but the way it hurt all freaking night long (to the point that the pain nauseated me), this thing has to be broken.

We had a great time at Jim’s and Terra’s house. The kids had a great time. The only thing I hated was that they were already showing “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. It isn’t even Thanksgiving yet for heaven’s sake!! So now I am catching up on my DVR again…watching Cops from last night. I was up all night on the couch and finally went and got in bed about five this morning to no avail. I started with a $700 pay check, but as of right now I am down to $19 after paying bills. I am pretty sure I have enough gas in my car to make it until The Cop Magnet gets paid next week, but I am not sure about The Cop Magnet’s car or groceries or anything else.

All I have to do is ask and I know that my in laws will help us out with groceries. They are so great. I love them so much. I love them more than my own parents, but you have to understand – I am the product of two drug addicts (one of which was an alcoholic).

Here is another Sunday that I will be missing church. My foot just hurts too much. I really do think that the devil is out to get me. I am not the type of Pentecostal that says or thinks that the devil is hiding behind every bush or tree either. Yet since I published my short book on how to witness to a Wiccan, things have just gone to crap. I’ve been in a car wreck, the power cord to my lap top burnt up, and now on top of it all I have a broken ankle. We can’t even figure out exactly how I managed to break it.

I didn’t even get to go to my niece’s birthday party yesterday because it hurts so bad. Coming back from Jim’s I puked twice and puked three more times once we got home. The Darvocet just isn’t helping so I broke down and took a loratab and that still didn’t help. I just don’t know how much more pain I can take.

I only have a four day week (yeah!) but I have to walk (well hop since it’s crutches) from the parking lot to the OMU. Now that is going to stink. Can’t they just cut my foot off? I can’t afford to park in the garage (that’s like $14 a day).

Guess I am going to go check my email.

Fun times...

2007-11-10T12:37:00.001-06:00

So I thought and was told that I had shin splints. It got so bad I could hardly walk so last night my MIL drove me to urgent care. They did a tib/fib x-ray that came back clean. So I dropped her off and picked up 1/3 of my children (Monkey Butt spent the night with Nana, Beachy and my step son was with The Cop Magnet). Going up the ramp to my trailer, my ankle snapped. It swelled up, turned every color of purple and black that you could possibly imagine and even a few more colors you can't imagine. My MIL came to look and said it looks broken or at least a very bad sprain.

Went back to Urgent Care today and the swelling is still so bad they can't really see anything via x-ray. They casted me up and treating it as a broken ankle. It could just be a really bad sprain, but we won't know until the swelling goes down. I have an ortho appointment next week.

DOH!

2007-11-09T21:00:00.000-06:00

So we thought that I just had shin splints. Nana Beachy took me to Urgent Care this evening because I can barely walk. The pain in my shin is just unbelievable. Well, according to the PA my having Lupus throws a whole new loop into things. They x-ray my fibia and tibia and see nothing wrong there…of course x-rays can’t see muscles or ligaments. So they want me on steroids and on anti-inflammatory medication. That was it – we left. Other than the typical, “Stay off your feet, elevate them…etc”. I was thinking, “Lady it is pretty apparent that you have no children – I have three and that just aint gonna happen.” Don’t get me wrong – my kids are very VERY good compared to a lot of kids I’ve met…speaking of…Bry-onicle pulled up the stool, got my cell phone, home phone, cup of water, my crochet, the TV remote and two pillow to put my foot up on. He even went and found my crutches..

When we get home, I tried walking up the ramp and I heard my ankle (and felt it) snap. Now I can’t flex my foot in either direction and that makes me wonder if the problem hasn’t been in my ankle all along. Nana Beachy just came and left (Monkey Butt is spending the night there) and she looked at my ankle and it is swelling right in the middle. She thinks I might have torn a tendon or something. So now I don’t know if I should go back to Urgent Care tomorrow or not. Urgent Care is just way cheaper than ER. $15 versus $50…hmm..let me think about that one, right?

The Cop Magnet’s Z should be fixed tonight. I am waiting on him to get back from the big city. I need to balance the check book and he gets to play Mr. Mom all weekend. I am kinda bummed out because now I might be missing my niece’s birthday party. I would love to see my brother and just rub it in his face that he now has a teenager in his house!! Ha ha ha ha!

It sucks – I’m hungry and I can’t stay on my feet long enough to make me anything to eat. I had fish sticks so Bry-onicle was fed (he loves fish sticks) by his own efforts. He is playing on neoshifters.com right now and I am watching the DVR. I am really wishing I had something to take the pain away. I don’t know what to do about the pain.

My favorite posts

2007-11-08T13:42:00.000-06:00

Time to toot my own horn! Toot! Toot!

I am re-reading my blog - and here are my favorite posts from September 2006:

True Joys of Motherhood

13 Things I Like About Blogging

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Got To Love Those Double Standards

My Kid is So Funny

Bear Joke

2007-11-08T09:52:00.001-06:00

A bear walks into a bar in Billings, Montana and sits down. He bangs on the bar with his paw and demands a beer.

The bartender approaches and says, 'We don't serve beer to bears in bars in Billings.'

The bear, becoming angry, demands again that he be served a beer.

The bartender tells him again, more forcefully, 'We don't serve beer to belligerent bears in bars in Billings.'

The bear, very angry now, says, 'If you don't serve me a beer, I'm going to eat that lady sitting at the end of the bar.'

The bartender says, 'Sorry, we don't serve beer to belligerent, bully bears in bars in Billings.'

The bear goes to the end of the bar, and as promised, eats the woman. He comes back to his seat and again demands a beer.

The bartender states, 'Sorry, we don't serve beer to belligerent, bully bears in bars in Billings who are on drugs.'

The bear says, 'I'm NOT on drugs.

The bartender says, 'You are now. That was a barbitchyouate.

Apparently I can't count...

2007-11-08T09:26:00.001-06:00

T minus 8 days....

White Trash Headlines

2007-11-07T09:31:00.000-06:00

Good Morning and Welcome….

To this special late-breaking edition of white trash news. I am your special reporter, the Hi-Empress of White Trash AKA PRACTiCAL CHiCK.

This morning’s first story is not white trash, but rather a tiding of good cheer. Lakshmi, the four armed and four legged little girl in India came through the 24 hour surgery to remove a parasitic twin and is recovering and considered to be in stable condition. She is expected to be able to live a relatively normal life. (Source: Foxnews.com)

Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs tried to hang himself in his jail cell back in January (source: Foxnews.com). Sadly, this was unsuccessful. Although one has to wonder why he didn’t try to hang himself for taking on too many wives (one is typically more than enough for any man). He could be sentenced to life in prison later this month and he may become the wife of a harder and more forceful criminal named Bubba who misses his kissing cousin and his sister terribly and will need lots of consolation from his new cell mate.

In other news, feuding spouses James and Lia Boldt are in court arguing over whether or not their 12 year old son should be circumcised. The father argued that he should be allowed to have the boy circumcised since he converted to Judaism back in 2004. The mother is against the procedure. This brings a whole new meaning to the hurt divorce brings to a child.

DC Children’s Museum Executive Director was arrested on charges of child porn. Wow – what a great place for a pedophile to work. The Hi-Empress will now avoid any and all children's museums at all costs…I’m just going to lock the young princes in their room until they turn of age. On the plus side, the museum cooperated fully with police (the dirt bag used his work computer for sending out child porn) and barred the director from the property. While you’re at it, I say chemically castrate him…but hey – what else would a mother say about a sex offender who obviously took the job just to get his rocks off by watching little children?

A burglar was charged with breaking into a church and using the phone to call sex lines. The church treasurer found him both times he was caught. You know, even if you aren’t a church going Christian, you have to draw some line of respect for someone’s place of worship. Ever heard of a Christian go into a Hindu temple simply to call the Beef Producers of America on what to cook for dinner? No? Well that’s because cows are sacred to Hindu followers. Find a payphone, pervert, or better yet go to sprawl mart and buy a $20 cell phone and feed it full of minutes.

Pregnant woman killed in what was described as a 30 women pre-planned brawl in Los Angeles. It started when Unique Bishop, 21 jumped into her car and rammed it into the victims. The woman that was killed was eight months pregnant. Dozens gathered to watch, but no one had the cajones to step up and do anything about it. Imagine that.

Thank you for watching and good day…and now you know the rest of the white trash story. This has been late breaking news of the Hi Empress. Over and out.

T-10

2007-11-07T06:56:00.001-06:00

And counting of course...I am so looking forward to the 16th.

I have to take off early again to pick up the kids. I don't mind (since they are my kids), but it would really help if I had more than, oh, 2 hours notice. So today I get no lunch so I can take off at 3:30 and take 30 minutes personal time.

When we get home, we are behind on laundry, dishes, dusting, and vacuuming...and I have class.

I know, I know...gripe gripe gripe. It's early - what can I say?

Bry-onicle is going on a field trip today to the capital and tomorrow going on the VIP lunch with the 4th grade teachers to Taco Mayo. I have to remember to get some money for that.

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

2007-11-06T07:51:00.000-06:00

Anyone else interested in what our Nobel Prize winning Al Gore will have to say? (crickets chirping in the background) Yeah, I didn’t think so either…

This is one of those weird holidays that I wish didn't exist.

And in other news... T-11 days until my complete and total day off!

Wow I might need a new moniker

2007-11-05T21:04:00.000-06:00

Sometimes I go by the Hi Empress of White Trash, but after meeting some of my husband's old school mates at his 10th reunion last weekend...I think I've been dethroned.

When the most memorable moment is the time you put a decaying cat under someone's hood, you are white trash...no two ways (or kissing cousins) about it.

Off Season Baseball is OFFICIALLY OVER!!

2007-11-05T13:10:00.000-06:00

Off-Season Baseball is Officially Over

Frankly, I don’t know who is happier – the young princes or myself. It’s kind of a long story, but I’m behind on my word count and even though I said I wouldn’t pad….

So, Bry-onicle has always possessed this infatuation with baseball (he gets that from me – I love baseball). Sadly, the young prince has lousy fine motor skills. While he is smart as a whip, branded gifted and talented, and can write a story like nobody’s business – it takes a lot of hard work for him to catch on to a sport. So I figure off season ball is the best kind of baseball for him. He can learn the game, it isn’t as competitive, and he gets a cool uniform.

Alas! Monkey Butt feels left out because he missed soccer sign up (he is a speed demon on that field, I tell you what). So, I pay an extra $25 so he can play off season baseball too.

So – to try and keep up with the math…that’s now $50 and it is right around the first week of school, mmmkay? I’m cool with that. Bry-onicle is excited and Monkey Butt just loves any sport he gets involved in.

Bry-onicle is on a kid pitch team (meaning the kids pitch the ball) and Monkey Butt is on the coach pitch team (which is the step above tee ball). Good news! They have the same coach! Bad news – we were practically living out at the fields.

Okay, so I have to pay for a bat so now that is $28 dollars. They already have gloves and a ball. So now, keeping up with the math we are now up to $78. I’m still cool with it. You can use the bat for other forms of entertainment like bashing in knee caps of would be home invaders. It’s a family investment, right?

Next I have to buy pants and socks (so that is $10 per pair of pants and $5 per pair of socks so that is a total of $30). Keeping up with the math, we are now up to $108. Oh, and Bry-onicle has no cleats at all (Monkey Butt was allowed to wear his soccer cleats). So those cost me around $20 on sale. Keeping up with the math - $128.

Good news! Since both teams have the same coach they get the same name…The Yankees! For two shirts and two caps it was $75. So keeping up with the math we are now up to $203.

I have to pay a gate fee for every game - $2 per person for regular games and $3 per person for tournament games. Plus, you know – if you get hungry (which can happen) you go broke at the concession stand.

So games for the young princes are held on Monday night back to back. The stupid thing was since Monkey Butt’s team played first, they wanted to charge me not only the $2 gate fee for me (which I didn’t know about until like the first game) and $2 for Bry-onicle even though he is a player. I had to argue that one. Wasn’t like he was wearing his uniform for fun though I threatened them both with being ball players for Halloween. First game – Bry-onicle freezes his tail off and the coach’s wife gets mad at me because it is 9:30 PM, windy, the game isn’t over, and I say sorry but I am taking him home.

The kind of fun thing is that Bry-onicle was number 11 (his favorite number) and his best friend (also on his team) was number 7 so every time they would get together they would sing the 7-11 theme song. Back to the story though…

Games are Mondays, Tuesdays were set aside for practice for Monkey Butt, Wednesdays was set aside for practice for Bry-onicle, Thursdays back to Monkey Butt, and Fridays (until football started) back to Bry-onicle. I told you – we practically lived on that field. When my new semester started, I told them we wouldn’t be able to live on the field. I had class on Tuesdays and Wednedays. Apparently other parents were complaining besides me because practice was cut back to Tuesdays and Wednesdays and then the Tuesday was moved to Thursday (which we have church on Thursday).

So for several weeks, I am either finding someone to pick them up for practice or what have you….and then I got sick with a sinus infection and Bry-onicle’s best friend’s mama came and picked him up to play on Monkey Butt’s team because they were short. The coach’s wife again got angry when I said that Bry-onicle could not stay through his game (because for the most part is for him to learn better coordination and because he just wanted to try it out). By this point in time, Monkey Butt cries because it is time to go to practice and I can tell that Bry-onicle is wearing thin.

Monkey Butt did finish his tournament (and in soccer, that means the end of the season but apparently not for baseball). Bry-onicle gets bronchitis and pretty much if we had waited any longer he would have ended up with pneumonia. I am sure the cold night air did not favors, but I didn’t let him play any games or go to practice when he started coughing all the time. I thought it was probably allergies, but it just kept getting worse and worse. Poor kid was sick over the entire fall break.

I found out last night through Bry-onicle’s best friend’s mother that the season is officially over. He breathed a huge sigh of relief. He said it was really stressful on him to have to come home and rush around every day to get ready for practice and that he doesn’t want to play next year. I told him that was just fine…now on to the fun stuff: the other parents.

My young princes played a total of about 10 games (so there’s $20 + $3 for the tournament so keeping up with the math we are now up to $226….not counting Monkey Butt’s tournament) and I’ve come up with a few things about those parents:

If you are so big that Omar the Tentmaker would have to fashion your baseball britches, you have no business yelling at a kid who ran for the base instead of sliding (he was still safe either way). I know I've told yall that before...

If you have four children (two of which have lingering defects), you need to quit trying for that girl. You lament and lament (yes I am talking about the coach’s wife) about how sick your kids are / was (one is partially deaf, one is a little person, the baby may be hard of hearing, and your oldest is the only one that is physiologically normal), it is time to quit. Who cares that your husband’s favorite slogan is “I’ve still got two more seats in the Suburban!” Get a hobby besides baby making. Might I suggest crochet? Look, if your kids came out okay and did not have defects (or you didn’t whine and complain about the defects and just loved them for them) have as many as you can afford to support. Don’t have them because you want a girl. I think I read a statistic some time ago that said every time you have more than one child (in a row) of the same sex, you more than double your chances for the next one being the same sex.

Don’t go out and party because your National Guard husband is deployed. Look, you seemed like a nice mom and a good mom. You kept your girls under control, they were polite, and well behaved. They seemed like model young ladies – so why on earth are you out partying? What I really want to know is who you have baby sitting them and instilling morals into them (maybe while dad is home he rubs off on them)?

Don’t be so quick to judge someone based upon the fact they want their kids in church or won’t live on the baseball field. My kids have other interests…both are fantastic readers (and love reading), involved in church, and have numerous friends and a nana with a swimming pool and swing set. Baseball is a fun hobby – it isn’t life.

The kids on the team, though, were all very good and sweet kids as far as I could tell. One was truly gifted at the game and he took up for Bry-onicle (from players on other teams) several times because it was his first season and because he would often strike out (he could catch a mean pop fly though). He would pat him and tell him what a great job he did and he would even help correct his stance or just anything he could do for help. That boy may go far in baseball, but I sure hope he goes to college too.

So $226 later, we are so glad the season is over.

The count down continues

2007-11-05T08:33:00.001-06:00

T-12 days in counting until my complete and total day off....

Blech

2007-11-04T13:07:00.001-06:00

I'm about to take some Nyquil and hit the couch. Just wanted to let you know that NaNoWriMo hasn't completely consumed me - I'm sick on top of that.

NaNoWriMo

2007-11-01T12:32:00.000-05:00

If anyone else is participating in NaNoWriMo, look me up and add me as your friend.

13 Things on my desk at work

2007-11-01T08:17:00.001-05:00

1. My cell phone
2. A Raytheon blue squishy chair cell phone holder
3. My water bottle
4. My camera
5. My work phone
6. My Franklin Covey planner
7. Two yellow notebooks
8. Brownielocks weird holidays calendar
9. File folder holder
10. OCI worksheet that I am about to take care of
11. Purell hand sanitizer
12. Stapler
13. Waffles the cat from Cat Scratch

I know, exciting - right?

On a brighter note...T minus 15 days!!

T Minus 16 days in counting

2007-10-31T10:28:00.000-05:00

And it makes it Halloween (gimme gimme gimme) to boot!

38 things I know that you want to know...

2007-10-31T09:46:00.001-05:00

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night? Spongebob

2. What were you doing at 0800? "Working"

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago? That's the problem - there really isn't much to do.

4. What happened to you in 2006? I started college.

5. What was the last thing you said out loud? Coochie! Coochie! Like Charo.

6. How many beverages did you have today? So far just one cup of water.

7. What color is your hairbrush? Pink - but are you really surprised?

8. What was the last thing you paid for? Dog food

9. Where were you last night? At home

10. What color is your front door? White

11. Where do you keep your change? In my change purse

12. What’s the weather like today? Windy and 68.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavor? Mint chocolate chip!

14. What excites you? It sounds stupid - but getting something in the mail.

15. Do you want to cut your hair? NO!

16. Are you over the age of 25? Yep

17. Do you talk a lot? Depends

18. Do you watch the O.C.? Nope

19. Do you know anyone named Steven? Nope, I don’t think so.

20. Do you make up your own words? No, I try to stick with those listed in Webster's dictionary.

21. Are you a jealous person? Not really

22. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’. Ashlie

23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’. Kim

24. Who’s the first person on your received call list? My husband

25. What does the last text message you received say? Don't remember and I don't feel like checking it.

26. Do you chew on your straw? No

27. Do you have curly hair? No

28. Where’s the next place you’re going to? Trick or treating

29. Who’s the rudest person in your life? That's a toss up...

30. What was the last thing you ate? A cookie

31. Will you get married in the future? Already married

32. What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks? I don't watch a lot of movies

33. Is there anyone you like right now? Define like

34. When was the last time you did the dishes? Last night

35. Are you currently depressed? No, just plain crazy

36. Did you cry today? Nope

37. Why did you answer and post this? Because I am bored

38. Tag 5 people who would do this survey. No.

Someone actually called me judgmental...

2007-10-31T06:52:00.001-05:00

Wait, though, until you hear the reason why. This person is on a mom's site googled her nickname (I use practicalchick or practical chick for everything so I am pretty easy to find online LOL). She was upset that her profile, her messages (and thus every thing she said about her hubby negative) would be able to be found by him if he was to try and find it.

My response was pretty simple - something along the lines of don't say anything to anyone about your hubby that you wouldn't want him to say about you to someone else...but that is just my opinion.

The last three words, to me, are the key words. She responded to me that if he found it then screw it, he deserved to know. My thought - that I did NOT post was that if the problem was that bad why not go to him instead of a bunch of people that you know nothing of?

Some other person said I was being "judgmental" because more than 50% of marriages end in divorce...gee - I wonder why. If was was being nagged, harped on, put down, etc etc - I wouldn't hang around either because it is pretty obvious I could never please you in any fashion.

Yeah - me living by the golden rule and loving the First Amendment and following God's rule about not nagging (hey - I understand that everyone needs to vent from time to time)...that makes me "judgmental". What do you think about it?

T Minus 17 days in counting

2007-10-30T10:42:00.001-05:00

Until my day off....my complete and total day off (not counting weekends of course - because those are days off but then the husband and boys are there). They have school and he has to work. I am SO looking forward to it!!

The countdown begins

2007-10-29T10:17:00.000-05:00

I cannot wait until November 16. Why, you ask? Because that is Statehood Day and I, as a public servant, get the day OFF. To double the fun - The Cop Magnet has to work and the kids have school! So my plan is as follows:

1. Take the kids to school.

2. Go back to sleep.

3. What ever I want!

If you love me...

2007-10-29T06:58:00.000-05:00

The Bible says, "If you love me - you will keep my commandments." What is the greatest commandment? Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, and soul...and to love your neighbor (that's a toughie for me for some of my neighbors) as yourself. If you are a Christian - have you shared your faith (The Great Commission) with them?

So check out http://www.wotmradio.com

Because who doesn't love them some Kirk Cameron everyday?

What a weekend.

2007-10-29T06:44:00.001-05:00

I finally got a car Friday night, the lap top's cord went out (that's going to cost me $60 this weekend to replace), I have a huge paper due, and Monkey Butt turned 7.

I had this philosophical post all ready to go for this blog...but, screw it. It's Monday and I'm tired. On the plus side - I got a black Grand AM GT with ram air.

Oh and I had my first home show and only ONE person showed up. It would have been two, but my neighbor (the one that I like) was re-diagnosed with cancer and now it is in her back. She did place an order of almost $40. So now you can order for my party online. Just click here and then Enter Book Store and then click on my name on the right.

My new book

2007-10-25T14:56:00.000-05:00

http://www.lulu.com/sisterrobin

Random quizzes

2007-10-24T18:55:00.000-05:00

You Are 2: The Helper

You always put on a happy face and try to help those around you.
You're incredibly empathetic and care about everyone you know.

Able to see the good in others, you're thoughtful, warm, and sincere.
You connect with people who are charming and charismatic.

At Your Best: You are deeply giving, altruistic, and humble. You devote your life to others while caring for yourself too.

At Your Worst: You are manipulative and enjoy making other people guilty.

Your Fixation: Rejection

Your Primary Fear: Being unworthy of love

Your Primary Desire: To be loved unconditionally

Other Number 2's: Mother Teresa, John Travolta, Princess Diana, Dr. Phil, and Mr. Rogers.

What Number Are You?

You Are 56% Manic

You are definitely super charged, and your energy is infectious!
Your mania is something to be proud of. You wouldn't be you without it.
Just make sure not to give into that self destructive streak of yours.

Are You Manic?

You and Your Mom Are Completely Different

At times, it seems like you and your mom aren't even related.
You often wonder how two people from the same family can be so different.
As the saying goes... you can pick your friends, but not your relatives.

Are You Like Your Mom?

Oh can I? Oh Can I?

2007-10-24T18:50:00.000-05:00

I want to be a talk show host!!

You Should Be a Politician

Confident, assertive, and dedicated - you know what you want in life and how to get it.
Stubborn and opinionated, you can stand your ground... even if it's unpopular.
And while you have strong views, you never overwhelm people with your opinions.
A true charmer, you subtly influence people into seeing things your way.

You do best when you:

- Work according to your own rules
- Can change the world with what you do

You would also be a good lawyer or talk show host.

What Should You Be When You Grow Up?

Tonight

2007-10-24T18:44:00.000-05:00

~~Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time...I feel ali i i ive...and the world...~~

Oh, sorry - I had a Queen moment. It was either that or I would have busted into a Smashing Pumpkins moment.

I need to finish class

Make dinner

Start putting my house back together

Work on Monkey Butt's dragon

Fold clothes

Go through back packs

Finish reading the chapter on wills

Training chat for UBAH

Anyone want to volunteer a helping hand?

Update: I got everything done except working on Monkey Butt's dragon and finishing my reading.

Isn't this funny?

2007-10-24T10:20:00.000-05:00

The Bible says that one day every knee shall bow and ever tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord...

That includes Osama Bin Laden, you know...does that tickle you as much as it tickles me?

We are so twinkie-licious

2007-10-24T08:13:00.001-05:00

Today is the Professional and Graduate School Career Fair...therefore, we are all dressed in our Khaki OUCS shirts and black pants / skirts. I'll try and snag a pic later for yall if I can.

Oh and did you know that jerkwater is a real word? It means trivial!

Kind of a bust

2007-10-23T20:32:00.000-05:00

One person for the whole e-show...kind of makes the scavenger hunt a little easy. We plan on doing it again next week, though.

All in all - the week has been rough. Bry-onicle is recovering from bronchitis. I used ALL of my leave to take care of him last week...oh and I lost control of the Z and now I have to buy a car for sure.

TONIGHT

2007-10-23T10:19:00.000-05:00

Tonight at 7:00 PM CST I am having a chat about Usborne Books at Home. You can come by using the Enter my Chatroom link here on the right of this blog. The hostess is Sis. Janine Lee and when you visit my site, please click on her name to help her earn FREE books!

Kids are strange

2007-10-19T20:56:00.000-05:00

Monkey Butt said, "When I have kids, I am going to name one Sheen and the other one Happy Gilmore."

Mom: I don't think your wife will go for that.

MB: Then I won't get married. I'll adopt.

Mom: Fine - then I, the future grandmother, will say no because those children will have to go to school one day.

We all know what happens when you have a strange name...the only reason Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple will get out of being picked on is because mama is insanely rich.

Meme

2007-10-19T11:26:00.000-05:00

I stole'd this from the Snow Trapped Southern Girl - the link is over on the right side of my blog.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet, current car) Susie Camaro

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (favorite ice cream, favorite cookie) Cookie Dough Oatmeal

3. YOUR FLY “GUY/GIRL” NAME:(first initial first name, first 3 letters last name) R CHR...yeah that makes NO SENSE

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal) Red Fluffy Cat

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, city where you were born) Lynn Oklahoma

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters last name, first 2 letters first name) ChrRo - you try pronouncing it without thinking Coochie! Coochie! like Charro.

7. SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink and add” the”) The Red Tea

8. NASCAR NAME:(first names of your grandfathers) Glen Bill

9. STRIPPER NAME:(favorite perfume, favorite candy) Curve Heath

10. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s and father’s middle names) Sue Lynn yeah I can really hide in Oklahoma with that WT name, huh?

Birth control for little girls

2007-10-18T19:23:00.000-05:00

How sad is it that a school will bypass parental consent to let a child know (and we aren't even talking about sixteen or seventeen years old) that it is okay to have sex as long as it is safe. Is it any wonder are children are seen as sexual objects when they are treated like them in school?

What happened to the days of teaching girls that they are worth the wait? They deserve someone that will love and cherish...not some pimple faced boy that's just out to get get his rocks off.

Don't get me wrong - boys need to be taught responsibility too...it's called "keeping it in your pants until you make enough money to support a mini-me".

But - come on...at 8 and 11 do we really need to be preaching birth control? Yeah, menses has probably started...then we need to teach them to be responsible women and to LOVE themselves by waiting.

It's official...

2007-10-18T18:51:00.000-05:00

Bry-onicle has bronchitis.

Slight problem...

2007-10-16T20:57:00.001-05:00

If you can name ten alcoholic beverages but not the Ten Commandments - you might want to get right with God.

SMRT - I mean SMART

2007-10-15T19:17:00.001-05:00

He is so smart...SMRT I mean SMART.

So Bry-onicle was hanging out with me and The Cop Magnet while TCM was doing his homework. It was all about hypothetical syllogisms. So you know - you have to mark them valid and invalid.

Even with a fever of 103 - Bry-onicle's brain was not scrambled.

Here was the syllogism:

If we voted more conservatives in, taxes would be less. Taxes are higher because we do not have enough conservatives in.

This is false (as Bry-onicle pointed out) because things like this must be voted on and we all know how politicians LOVE to change their minds once they get into office....

Go Bry-onicle!

Zero time

2007-10-15T07:22:00.001-05:00

I've had no time to post between on campus interviews, a car with a blown engine, and a very sick kid. It seems that Bry-onicle has now decided that he likes to run a fever of 103. It's been like this since Friday. So off to the doc he goes today. Actually, it started Thursday so I let him stay home (he was throwing up). Now he's just coughing.

The Parable of the Wedding

2007-10-07T18:06:00.000-05:00

I am going to use the Amplified Bible for what I have to say. First the parable which can be found in Matthew 22:

AND AGAIN Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying,

2The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son

3And sent his servants to summon those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they refused to come.

Liken this to going to church since the church is the bride of Jesus. We invite, invite, and invite...but sometimes people refuse to come.

4Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my banquet; my bullocks and my fat calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast.

5But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away--one to his farm, another to his business,

The world seems to busy, unconcerned, or downright angry at the fact that we think they should go to church....or rather that God is calling them to church.

6While the others seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death.

Death can take place in many forms - death of a friendship, spiritual death, persecution...things that make us, as the laborers, feel like what we are doing is just something that isn't worth it.

7[Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soldiers and put those murderers to death and burned their city.

God knows how we are being treated - so take heart...because He will mete judgment as necessary,

8Then he said to his servants, The wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy.

When the world denies God - they are not worthy to be in His presence (even though He will gladly take them back if they repent.

9So go to the thoroughfares where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.

Get out of your comfort zone and invite other people - as many as you can find. What's the worst they can do? Tell you no, right? Just because they tell you no doesn't mean that you have failed and that they are going to hell because of you. You did your part to lay the seed.

10And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good, so [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests.

You just never know who will end up coming to the church...some will be ready and hungry and others won't be. You can have a full church, but it won't mean that everyone there is spiritual. So don't be there as a "guest" to worry about the other guests. Be there to prepare for the wedding!

11But when the king came in to view the guests, he looked intently at a man there who had on no wedding garment.

Don't worry about who is there...God knows and He will take care of it. Be there and be ready with your wedding attire on (your holiness, your righteousness, and your sincere want to be with God.

12And he said, Friend, how did you come in here without putting on the [appropriate] wedding garment? And he was speechless (^[a]muzzled, gagged).

13Then the king said to the attendants, Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness outside; there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.

14For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen.

What is it for YOU? Were you only invited or called to church? Or did God choose you to hang around and become prepared?

If he called you to hang around and become prepared - get busy. What are somethings you can do?

Daisypath Annivers

The devil masquarades as a car salesman

2007-10-07T12:32:00.000-05:00

So...by Tuesday I will know for sure if I am done with the car shopping fiasco.

We went to a Hyundai dealership to look around and I test 08 Elantra that was right off the truck. It is the same size as a Honda Accord. It was blue. Speaking of Honda, The Cop Magnet's Civic might have a seized engine.... So even if we just bought one car we are back to square one since the Camaro is really not going to do well doing an 8o mile round trip every day.

By the time we left (four hours later) we are getting the Elantra and an Accent (07 - with the sports package of course). We were told to pick the Accent up yesterday. We were up there at 8:30 and we were told that it wouldn't be ready until 10. We drove 50 miles at this point, so we just went to BK and had breakfast and let the kids play in the play place. We go back and we are told that the dealership is just waiting for the bank to open...I knew right there that it was a lie. The bank they are using isn't open on Saturdays. They said they would call us before the OU / TX game. Of course - they don't.

We called every hour and finally told them we wanted to know something by 6. They don't call so The Cop Magnet calls them back. He talks to someone that claimed to be the GM and was told that they never approved the second car and that now we are stuck with just the one. The Cop Magnet told him that our signed contract says and that they will either fulfill it or they can take back the Elantra and we would sue for breach. All of a sudden - they now want us to come back to the city (in the rain) and talk about it.

The sales guy was waiting and said that everything would be straightened out on Tuesday since Monday is a holiday and the bank will be closed. He said that he would drive to Norman to have me sign the papers and then that he would drive to OKC to have The Cop Magnet sign. We made them put that in writing and we made it very clear that if it doesn't happen, I will bring the car back and take my business else where. It is a matter of principle.

It is a nice car, but I will not tolerate being lied to.

Off to church!

This video cracked me up...

2007-10-05T06:50:00.001-05:00

Happy Oktoberfest!!

..

So here's what I found out at the doctor yesterday

2007-10-04T06:57:00.000-05:00

~~Well crap - I gotta run. I'll be back to update this later today.~~

Long story short I have a bacterial sinus infection that requires very strong antibiotics that make me very dizzy.

I have to visit technorati more often

2007-10-02T22:51:00.000-05:00

Yeah I'm on there, too... It is amazing the kind of sites that linked to one of my posts. This one for instance I found funny...because I am a WOW Widow. LOL

Samson and Delilah - the moral of the story

2007-10-02T20:47:00.000-05:00

Okay, so we are in Judged 16:4-31 tonight. Essentially, Delilah was a nag...surprise surprise - Samson eventually gave in. We all know what happened to him. Moral one: women can be trouble. Not all women - look at the Proverbs 31 woman...she was a good one.

Moral two: sometimes we have to live with the consequences of our actions. He fessed up to Delilah that he'd never had his head shaved, and that if it happened he would lose all his power. Not only that - they poked his eyes out and pretty much gave him the job as an oxen in the grind stone.

Moral three: God is always with us and as long as you ask for things in His will, you will get a yes. They took Samson to be made fun of and attached him to pillars. He asked God for one last act of strength and God granted it. Samson knew he wouldn't get out of that mess alive, but he killed more Philistines that day than during his entire life.

Love Yourself Week

2007-10-02T18:22:00.001-05:00

I don't think I've been tagged so much in my entire online existence...it's all good though.

I tag anyone reading this and to participate you just post three nice things about yourself daily this week. I am posting six because I'm behind... Amy - next time let a sister know. LOL

1. I love to do nice things for other people.
2. When the mood strikes - I can really get things done.
3. I am a good listener.
4. I am funny (at least I think I am).
5. I am a child of the most high God.
6. I haven't killed my landlord because I don't have water.

I have an award

2007-10-02T18:19:00.003-05:00

How about that? Someone actually reads my drivel (or at least pretends to!). Thanks, Becki! I'd vote for you with or without the award!

This award is hosted by A Nice Place in the Sun and Totally Fabulous.

Ya know...

2007-10-02T18:13:00.001-05:00

Sometimes working at my job is just as good as going to the state fair. Why? Because of all the free stuff you get... Today I received two bags, a t-shirt, and a watch. Yesterday I got a hat. Sometimes the recruiters even bring us food. I love it when they do that.

Pup Dog's quest for the all mighty baked tater part 2

2007-10-01T06:18:00.001-05:00

Pup Dog's quest for the all mighty baked tater part 1

2007-10-01T06:17:00.001-05:00

Nana Beachy's birthday present

2007-09-30T19:42:00.000-05:00

It took me about two hours to make. It should have been bigger, but I ran out of that specific eye lash yarn. I never had the chance to get back to Dollar Tree to see if they had any more. It's okay, though. It is long enough to do what it is made to do. And yes, that's me.

I've got wood!

2007-09-30T18:28:00.000-05:00

By tomorrow I might even have laminate AND a toilet!

Forms of inhumane torture

2007-09-29T22:01:00.000-05:00

My list:

Bamboo shoots under the fingernails...
Chinese water torture...
There was a custom in early English history about putting a man, a cat, a chicken, and a dog all into the same bag.
To top them all - six hour baseball tournaments.

The Cop Magnet's List

Barbie Girl by Aqua
Watching Fairly Odd Parents while nursing a hang over
Not seeing Practical Chick naked in over 24 hours (oh stop blushing)
Replacing WTC's bathroom floors (new pictures tomorrow so check back!)

The NEW San Francisco Treat

2007-09-28T09:50:00.001-05:00

Feds bust a mary-jane laced snack factory.. I can already see how this went down.

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude, I'm starvin'. I want some munchies..."

"Good thing we got the ganja laced brownies! ha ha ha ha ha ha..." laughing so hard his pimples shake.

"Freeze! You're under arrest!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

"Dude!"

Guideline 96

2007-09-27T09:39:00.000-05:00

96. Don't tape a pacifier to the mouth of a newborn.

Disclaimer: I never claimed to be a perfect parent; I just claimed to have at least a small amount of common sense.

Look, for whatever reason...not all babies like pacifiers. Neither of mine would take one - I even tried again with Monkey Butt when he was several months old and had a severe problem with colic. When we think about newborns - they come into this world knowing just a few things: crying, Moro reflex, and how to suck. The problem is - newborns aren't always voracious suckers. Therefore, they will not always be able to hold on to a pacifier.

I get that it was a nursery and the workers can't always give individual attention (which is sad for those little babies)...but don't tape the pacifier to the baby's mouth. What happens if the baby spits up or throws up and then chokes? Can you say negligence?

You know you have problems when...

2007-09-25T20:07:00.001-05:00

You used to hold your dog like this (at three months old):

And he was a little more than mere handful eight months ago (two months old):

Now, at ten months old it takes two people to play tug of war with a 10 month old puppy...and then you lose.

Post # 501

2007-09-25T12:17:00.001-05:00

Written on roughly an hour of sleep. You know, insomnia is one thing when it just comes about because you just can't sleep. It is something else entirely when it is because of your neighbor. Ended up calling the cops and signing a citation. We've talked to this neighbor several times. She has kids; if we can hear the music in our trailer, I can't help but wonder how her children manage to sleep. They weren't at the bus stop this morning...so maybe they didn't sleep and ended up sleeping in.

I kind of felt bad about signing the ticket - that's $150 she has to pay...but then again, she was doing it on purpose. We would go outside to ask her to turn it down and so she would see us (or the look out from across the street that also likes to party because none of them work) and tattle...then she would turn it down until we go back in.

Why is that some people just seem to need to live out the whole trailer trash persona?

Remember that I told you...

2007-09-23T18:12:00.001-05:00

Pup Dog pulled up the laminate in the bathroom. Well it turns out that was a blessing in disguise. If he wouldn't have done that, we wouldn't have known the floor under it was rotten...not only that, but whoever remodeled this place laid plywood over the original floor. I mean, they did not even bother to clean it. The Cop Magnet found make up under there...not to mention enough mold and mildew to choke a horse.

I guess the good news is that at least no one was sitting on the toilet when the floor caved in, right?

So this picture above is what Pup Dog did to the floor - essentially just pulling up the laminate, but that is when we noticed that the board underneath was rotting.

You can see the original floor in this picture...it is actually a good half an inch lower than the area where you see Poppy's legs. That's The Cop Magnet's butt over there in the corner..

Good thing no one was on the toilet when it gave way, huh? Yeah, The Cop Magnet pulled most of it up, but some of it just started caving in. The other good news (if we can look at the bright side) is that the wood under the tub seems to be fine. Good thing that Poppy was a professional carpenter (and now does it just strictly as a hobby). He might have Parkinson's, but he still works his butt off (even if it is just supervising!).That brown spot on the wall? Oh, that's where the previous owners decided not to move the toilet to paint the wall...good thing it isn't winter - and good thing there are no creepy crawlies under White Trash Central...also a good thing we have two bathrooms.

I'll try and keep you updated via photos.

Restless

2007-09-23T11:26:00.000-05:00

I am so restless today. I started working on several projects that I want to do (a wall organizer made from old jeans, a bag). I just can't seem to stay focused. Part of it is that with the organizer I don't have enough material for backing. I guess I could work on Monkey Butt's hat.

The Cop Magnet will be working on the bathroom later. You know, since his dog ate my floor and all...

Welcome to Saturday at White Trash Central

2007-09-22T10:32:00.000-05:00

Ever seen a dog eat a bathroom floor?

And then there was clacking...

2007-09-20T20:58:00.001-05:00

Today was busier than expected. After getting a "revised" schedule from an employer coming, it took me the entire day to finish it. It wasn't because the schedule was that difficult or time consuming...we were just busier than expected. We had a steady stream of students before we left for the career fair. Some of which looked like they played dress up in mommy's or daddy's closets; bless their hearts at least they tried. I was glad when my two favorite student workers came in this afternoon (all of them are my favorites - I just tell them each they are my favorite). I could finally get stuff finished up and help Crabcakes try and catch up.

And then there was clacking...my fingers on the keyboard with Mr. Crabs blabbing something to Spongebob in the background. One time I took a typing test and the guy administering it said to me that he sure wished I was around during 'nam. My fingers can hit the keys so quickly it sounds like machine gun fire on certain keyboards. I thinks I would have given heart attacks to many of the "enemy"; not from my stunning good looks, mind you!

Now that was a random story for you, huh?

Off to bed - the Lunesta is kicking in.

And I guess that's just the way it goes...

2007-09-20T06:51:00.000-05:00

The last two weeks have seemed to be never ending.

Bry-onicle just got over a very slight case of a stomach bug; no puking...just felt like crap and had a headache for two days. He still went to school, but when he would come home he would go right to sleep for two full hours.

Monkey Butt woke up this morning feeling bad. The Cop Magnet feels bad; so the deal is that if the school calls, I call him and he'll go get him.

I kind of feel ripped off cause I am mucho tired, too. It's amazing, really. I spent so long with insomnia that I didn't realize how tired I was. Now that I take Lunesta, if I miss some sleep I do realize how tired I was.

Today is one of our university's largest career fair. Over 200 employers are coming and over 2000 students will attend. My guess is more will come because yesterday alone we saw over 100 students just during walk-in. That isn't counting the 1000 or so we saw last week.

So I will be there from like 11:30ish to 2:00 (or 1:30). The good news is that we get free lunch out of it and get out of the office...on top of that - it should be really quiet and we should get some crap done around there since all the students (the smart ones that plan ahead when it comes to employment) should be at the career fair.

BTW - have you ever read Hammurabi's code? Have you even ever heard of him? Death was punishment for a lot of crimes....and let's just say that Draco was no better (perhaps a little more violent in his methods of execution; hence the term draconian punishment).

I'm just saying...

2007-09-18T19:09:00.001-05:00

I'm just saying that parents shouldn't live vicariously through their children. It is fine to feel incredibly proud of your child's academic or sports accomplishments. It's fine to maybe even brag (a little).

I'm just saying that if you cannot fit into a pair of baseball pants , you have absolutely no business yelling at a kid because he ran to third base instead of sliding into third base. Does it make a difference in a non-competitive off season league especially considering that the kid made it and was safe?

Yeah I know that even non-competitive leagues can still be a little competitive (kind of like how non-caffeinated coffee still has a little caffeine). Still, tell the kid what a great job he did because he made it and was safe. Tell him later if you think he could improve (or better yet - let the coach do his job...if you want to coach, then volunteer).

Nope, wasn't my kid involved. Bry-onicle was moved from the outfield to center field. Both his team and Monkey Butt's team won last night.

Decision made

2007-09-18T18:05:00.000-05:00

This week being the most hectic and busy of the entire academic year, you might not hear much from me.

I talked with numerous people (and read all the comments) and with my academic advisor. I am going to finish the degree I am on; otherwise it sets me back by a year. When I am finished, I can still go for my Master's in Psychology. I just don't like the thought of me going through all the classes I've done and not getting credit for them. I really don't want to waste my money.

Wow

2007-09-15T21:07:00.000-05:00

I shouldn't even say this...but someone actually found me by dog pile searching on ibuprofen's effect on sperm...

Time to start making a big decision

2007-09-15T20:45:00.001-05:00

To change my major or not to change my major that is the question...

I turned 29 last week. Right now I am literally sitting at the half way mark of finishing up a BS degree in Paralegal Studies. I've been at it for just under two years. I should finish at just over three years. The thing is...I will never use the degree (read as: I do not want to be a paralegal). I had a taste of law office life and I hated it. I didn't mind the work (of course here, paralegal is pretty much paramount to typing and answering the phone in the private firm realm). I just can't deal with the people. I was in insurance defense and while I agree that everyone should have representation I could not reconcile within myself that someone had use an affirmative defense saying, "Yeah he was drunk when he hit that two year old with his car, but he shouldn't be held responsible because the bar kept serving him." I have a problem with people that can't accept personal responsibility.

If I change my major to psychology, I could lose almost half of my credits. That would set me back almost an entire year. On top of that, I'd have to take statistics. I got a C in college algebra and my GPA is just now recovering (now I have a 3.84). So that would also mean that I would have twice (potentially) the size of a student loan. I took ethics and I am taking history this term, but will they transfer since they are both related to law (legal ethics and the history of criminal justice)? Needless to say I am still waiting to hear back from my Academic Advisor.

My psych prof from this last term offered me a letter of recommendation because he is convinced that I will eventually go for a Master's degree. I was the only one that made an A on the final paper. I have "strong writing skills".

My mother and The Cop Magnet both think I should change majors to "be happy" and to "do what (I) like". Nana Beachy doesn't think it is such a hot idea since I am so close to being finished. I can't get a hold of my pastor for an opinion. I would probably, providing that I change majors, put an emphasis on behavioral analysis.

Another problem is that neither major teaches one how to act tactfully; so either way in a private practice setting I can just see myself (self fulfilling prophecy) saying, "You are in this situation because you are a moron that should not be in the gene pool." But, like we say at my job - tact is for those not witty enough to use sarcasm.

The eventual goal (aside from a Master's) is to write. Write what I don't know....just to write.

I really feel like I am at a cross road in my life. If I do change my major, it isn't like I'll be old when I finish (roughly 31). I will just feel that I've done all this crap for naught.

PRACTiCAL CHiCK

Guess what?

And they say that teaching abstinence isn't the answer..

Way of the Master Radio

My Idea of Heaven

Stupid sewing machine

An open letter to a friend

What's good for the goose...

First Christmas Card

Just a little update on yours truly

The Ubergeek Translation

Who Am I by Casting Crowns

Does anyone else panic?

What ails you?

What is wrong with people?

Logan's Calf Story

What does the Bible say about...

This is about right!!

Good to know I have some ethics..

The 8 Deadly Distractions

Did you know...

What does the Bible say about...

How was your Thanksgiving

I am Pentecostal

The Christian Matrix

Jesus IS God

I am SO glad...

ha ha ha

And away I go....

Wow I'm bored...

Yup...guidance is still suggested

Lord help us all..

Nana Beachy's Usborne Books at Home Party

Me? Twisted??

57% Zombie Proof!

Look what I'm worth dead!

And *I'm* judgmental?

Just shoot me now and get it over with

Fun times...

DOH!

My favorite posts

Bear Joke

Apparently I can't count...

White Trash Headlines

T-10

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

Wow I might need a new moniker

Off Season Baseball is OFFICIALLY OVER!!

The count down continues

Blech

NaNoWriMo

13 Things on my desk at work

T Minus 16 days in counting

38 things I know that you want to know...

Someone actually called me judgmental...

T Minus 17 days in counting

The countdown begins

If you love me...

What a weekend.

My new book

Random quizzes

Oh can I? Oh Can I?

Tonight

Isn't this funny?

We are so twinkie-licious

Kind of a bust

TONIGHT

Kids are strange

Meme

Birth control for little girls

It's official...

Slight problem...

SMRT - I mean SMART

Zero time

The Parable of the Wedding

The devil masquarades as a car salesman

This video cracked me up...

So here's what I found out at the doctor yesterday

I have to visit technorati more often

Samson and Delilah - the moral of the story

And I'm judgmental?