I'm not one to get real political and basically because I can't keep up with all the lies and propaganda that goes on. I'm a simple minded person and like to keep things simple. There has been a lot of chatter about cutting lots of Army positions across all states and the latest Furlough for civilian government employees.
Obviously cutting jobs in the military makes me a little on edge. First, many of these men and women wanted the military (regardless of the branch) to be their life career. Taking those away in a time where finding jobs has been difficult for those coming out of college and even more difficult for those coming out of the military and you will have yourself a big 'ole helping of a mess. You mark my word, the moment they cut military jobs we will need to ramp up our armed forces to go fight yet another war. Again, I'm a simple minded girl, but this really does not make a lot of sense to me.
I also have close friends and family that work in civilian government jobs and to have this Furlough implemented could have a huge impact on their livelihood. I don't want to see that happen in this already struggling economy. So many families are just now beginning to feel a little relief and for those that will fall into this bracket their nightmare could begin again.
So here is my simple minded thoughts... I get the feeling they are making these cuts so they can keep free programs going. Some free programs are very worth while and there are others that aren't so much. So with all those big salaries in Washington and all the extra "benefits" they receive (some for a lifetime) you are telling us that these two cuts are necessary for our Country's deficit to improve? I'm not buying what they are trying to sell.
First of all, these young men and women serving our country in the military make a very modest salary and in comparison to what they sacrfice and risk they are in the poverty level in my opinion. Also, the civilian government workers that would be affected by this Furlough are (for the most part) lower paying jobs. Really? Cutting approximately 8 hours a week for the remainder of the fiscal year is going to make that big a difference. I have a problem with that.
I don't know what the answers are. I guess if I am going to complain I should at least have a solution. Well, I'm pretty sure our government officials wouldn't like my solution (it might hit a little too clsoe to home for most of them) anyway. I just know there has to be a better way than these two options and other places/things/research that could be handled in a different/better way than having these two proposals on the table.
Let your voice be heard. If there is anything "WE THE PEOPLE" can do then lets do it. Please and thank you.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Valentine's Day 2013
What a potentially stressful day for some. If you stop and think about it, there can be a lot of pressure on a person on Valentine's Day. Lucky for me and Tebo we don't get caught up in the "romantic" part of this day each year. Maybe that's because of maturity or feeling completely comfortable in our relationship or what, but I personally feel like we do a great job every day of letting each other know we love each other and we don't feel the need to just do something outlandish on Feb. 14th each year. However, there are new relationships out there that I am sure are packed with pressure (especially on him) to know what to do and how much to do. It's like a balancing act. I'm sure they don't want to go overboard with stuff or fall short. I know I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. On the other hand you have the recipient of said "stuff" and how does she react if she feels like it was either too much or not enough without either hurting his feelings or pushing him away? Then you have the spouses that have lost their better half (for whatever reason). How do they celebrate without feeling completely overwhelmed with sadness or even guilt. That can't be easy and I know personally it's hard for those who love that person left here to know how to approach that day for them. Tebo and I find ourselves in that situation X's two these days. His sister who is just the salt of the earth lost her husband Feb. 7, 2008 and he always got her something special for Valentine's Day. Last year Tebo had the thought that we should pick up that tradition for her so we employ our friend Ally at Daisy & Elm to create her one of a kind treasure for her each year and we send it to her. It's our little way of letting her know that we are thinking of her on this hard day each year. Then we have Katie. Katie became our daughter Sept. 18, 2009 when she married Chad. Most of you know that we lost Chad in the war in Afghanistan Dec. 1, 2010. She had only had the chance to have 1 face to face Valentine's Day with him before he was taken away. I was fortunate enough (with Trevor) to celebrate the first Valentine's Day with her while he was in Iraq. I can't imagine how hard it must be for her to celebrate this day each year since he passed away and that makes my heart ache for her. I try to make sure I send her a text or communicate in some way with her on that day so she knows I'm thinking of her, but it never really feels like enough.
Then you have those that aren't in a relationship (by choice) and you wonder, do they feel completely left out on Feb. 14th or do they have a tradition each year that helps them get through this "day of love" without feeling lonely or sad.
I know these are silly comments and thoughts, but every situation I've listed are situations I have experienced over the last few years and sometimes it gets me to thinking.
How do you and your significant other celebrate Valentine's Day? If you don't have a significant other do you celebrate or just treat it like any other day? Inquiring minds want to know.
Then you have those that aren't in a relationship (by choice) and you wonder, do they feel completely left out on Feb. 14th or do they have a tradition each year that helps them get through this "day of love" without feeling lonely or sad.
I know these are silly comments and thoughts, but every situation I've listed are situations I have experienced over the last few years and sometimes it gets me to thinking.
How do you and your significant other celebrate Valentine's Day? If you don't have a significant other do you celebrate or just treat it like any other day? Inquiring minds want to know.
Friday, February 8, 2013
No more pity party this week
Well, I'm even tired of my pity party so today I decided I would give you a chuckle or two even if it is at my own expense. I'm okay with that (for now anyway). Also, I felt a little challenge from my youngest sister when I told her she almost made me cry when I read her blog that I felt I needed a Friday funny. I like to have the last laugh when I can.
So, those who know me somewhat well, have this crazy thought that I am OCD. Well, I watched a 20/20 special one night years ago and according to the research they presented during their one hour show, I did not qualify as OCD. Besides, I personally like CDO as it is alphebetically correct and the OCD stuff just wears me out.
So what if I like to make sure everything is in its own place before I leave the house. It doesn't have to be in place just when I leave for vacation or an extended trip away from the house, but every morning things just need to be in their place. Stop and think for a moment, if you have things in their place when you leave the house, when you return, you know right where they are and you don't mind if something unexpected comes up, because you have nothing to put away! See how that works? It's fabulous! Now in my perfect world everything would also be in its place before I lay down at night, but since many times (okay, every night) I'm in bed before anyone else in the house, I don't necessarily have control of all that. Hence my morning routine every morning before leaving the house.
Does your closet say, welcome home, I'm right where you left me or does your closet say, what in the **bleep** did you do when you were in here? Mine typically says welcome home, if it ever says what in the **bleep** did you do when you were in here then you better check on me, because something has gone terribly wrong.
So lately I've not been sleeping the best. Okay, as a norm, I don't sleep well, but there are times when it's worse than other times and apparently this week has been a bit worse (well for my husband anyway). He was gone to the Super Bowl (yes he is just that lucky) last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and returned home Monday evening. I slept like a rock Monday night. He tried to say I snored, but we ALL know that isn't true (but I let him believe what he wanted since I was just glad to have him home). I did however sleep completely through the night or so I thought. Apparently at some point during the night I decided to carry on a conversation and then started laughing just to roll over and return to my slumber. I have no recollection of such happenings, but according to him, that's what happened. Things that make you go Hmmmmm...
So because we can laugh at this now I feel like I can share it and not get into too much trouble. The last couple of weeks me and my sister, Stacy, have just been off. We didn't have our Mojo on. She was crabby for a whole week which I am convinced is what caused my crabbiness the following week although mine only lasted a day or two, but never the less, I'm blaming her for it. So the funniest part of those two crazy weird Mojo lacking weeks was one morning she called and asked if I talked to daddy that day. I said yes, but it was early, why? She said was he crabby? I said no, I guess it was early enough that no one had had a chance to tick him off yet. I said, well, I was pissy yesterday and she said why, because I didn't answer my phone? Uh, duh! If you can call it then you knew... Ugh, little sisters sometimes. They can make you crazy and happy at the same time. Okay, maybe not at the same time, but you know what I mean. We are good now (for the record) and I think we have gotten our Mojo back, but it was a bit sketchy there for a few days. LOL! Love you Stacy.
So this weekend it was first thought that we would go to Tulsa and get my car serviced and do a little furniture shopping. Tia was in Vernon seeing her TX family and it was just the two of us so why not. Well, I will tell you why not, because I chose this weekend to get a stinking head cold. Geez! We have the house to ourselves and my head feels like it wants to explode. I also have a back up plan (because again if you know me, you know I'm a planner). So should we not go to Tulsa (this was before the cold) I had a list of "honey do's" that needed to be done so guess who gets to check at least one thing off my list... Yeah for Tebo!
Most people in general don't like change. Some accept change better than others and anyone can accept change better than I can. Well, this week has been a week of changes for sure. At work they restructured all our cubicals and I got a new spot. We all had to downsize (which isn't a real issue for me as I enjoy cleaning out and de-cluttering), but honestly, I didn't think it was possible to downsize much more than I already had. Well, I was wrong. Not only is it possible, but a necessity when you get basically a carpet square for a cubical. I never watched the show "The Office", but the stories I've heard others talk about, I'm pretty sure this week we have lived at least one episode of the show. You will be happy to know that I am adjusting. I can't say I am adjusting well, but I'm adjusting and for me within the current week of such a change is huge so I'm going to ride this high as long as I can.
Other changes came when we had a tornado warning at work and had to go to the stairway until the all clear was given. Okay, that might not seem like a "change", but for me it was huge. Normally I am terrified of storms and especially tornadoes. I've never technically been in a tornado, however one has come close enough that I sometimes claim it (it did cause me to scratch a scar on the top of my hand). Anyway, when we got the warning I was more irritated that it was interferring with my work at the moment and I actually spouted off to someone that if it was going to hit let it blow me where it will. I suddenly realized I was no longer paralyzed with fear of the weather. WOW! I never thought that would happen. I'm not sure if that was a one time experience or if I will soon become a storm chaser. I guess we will all see.
For my last major observation of the week I will close with probably the biggest one. It is no secret that we are trying to sell our house and purchase another one. At first I was terrified to make a contingency offer on the new one. Don't ask me why, it took me several days to get it through my head that we are not at any risk by doing this and we have first right of refusal should the builder receive another offer on the new house before our house sells. Well, it caused me some anxiety for a few days and finally once I had my head around the reality of it all I knew it was no big deal. I finally relaxed about it and we placed the offer and so far we are sitting exactly where we were before we made the offer. I don't know why I do those things to myself, but I do (every time).
So now my new plan for this weekend is to nurse this stupid head cold and hope it doesn't get any worse and make sure my husband gets his list done and I will get my list done and hopefully not feeling like crap-o-la while doing so.
I'm pretty sure this one won't make you cry Stacy... :) If it does, your smile button is broken and we need to get it fixed and in a hurry!
Happy Friday all and have a wonderful weekend.
So, those who know me somewhat well, have this crazy thought that I am OCD. Well, I watched a 20/20 special one night years ago and according to the research they presented during their one hour show, I did not qualify as OCD. Besides, I personally like CDO as it is alphebetically correct and the OCD stuff just wears me out.
So what if I like to make sure everything is in its own place before I leave the house. It doesn't have to be in place just when I leave for vacation or an extended trip away from the house, but every morning things just need to be in their place. Stop and think for a moment, if you have things in their place when you leave the house, when you return, you know right where they are and you don't mind if something unexpected comes up, because you have nothing to put away! See how that works? It's fabulous! Now in my perfect world everything would also be in its place before I lay down at night, but since many times (okay, every night) I'm in bed before anyone else in the house, I don't necessarily have control of all that. Hence my morning routine every morning before leaving the house.
Does your closet say, welcome home, I'm right where you left me or does your closet say, what in the **bleep** did you do when you were in here? Mine typically says welcome home, if it ever says what in the **bleep** did you do when you were in here then you better check on me, because something has gone terribly wrong.
So lately I've not been sleeping the best. Okay, as a norm, I don't sleep well, but there are times when it's worse than other times and apparently this week has been a bit worse (well for my husband anyway). He was gone to the Super Bowl (yes he is just that lucky) last Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and returned home Monday evening. I slept like a rock Monday night. He tried to say I snored, but we ALL know that isn't true (but I let him believe what he wanted since I was just glad to have him home). I did however sleep completely through the night or so I thought. Apparently at some point during the night I decided to carry on a conversation and then started laughing just to roll over and return to my slumber. I have no recollection of such happenings, but according to him, that's what happened. Things that make you go Hmmmmm...
So because we can laugh at this now I feel like I can share it and not get into too much trouble. The last couple of weeks me and my sister, Stacy, have just been off. We didn't have our Mojo on. She was crabby for a whole week which I am convinced is what caused my crabbiness the following week although mine only lasted a day or two, but never the less, I'm blaming her for it. So the funniest part of those two crazy weird Mojo lacking weeks was one morning she called and asked if I talked to daddy that day. I said yes, but it was early, why? She said was he crabby? I said no, I guess it was early enough that no one had had a chance to tick him off yet. I said, well, I was pissy yesterday and she said why, because I didn't answer my phone? Uh, duh! If you can call it then you knew... Ugh, little sisters sometimes. They can make you crazy and happy at the same time. Okay, maybe not at the same time, but you know what I mean. We are good now (for the record) and I think we have gotten our Mojo back, but it was a bit sketchy there for a few days. LOL! Love you Stacy.
So this weekend it was first thought that we would go to Tulsa and get my car serviced and do a little furniture shopping. Tia was in Vernon seeing her TX family and it was just the two of us so why not. Well, I will tell you why not, because I chose this weekend to get a stinking head cold. Geez! We have the house to ourselves and my head feels like it wants to explode. I also have a back up plan (because again if you know me, you know I'm a planner). So should we not go to Tulsa (this was before the cold) I had a list of "honey do's" that needed to be done so guess who gets to check at least one thing off my list... Yeah for Tebo!
Most people in general don't like change. Some accept change better than others and anyone can accept change better than I can. Well, this week has been a week of changes for sure. At work they restructured all our cubicals and I got a new spot. We all had to downsize (which isn't a real issue for me as I enjoy cleaning out and de-cluttering), but honestly, I didn't think it was possible to downsize much more than I already had. Well, I was wrong. Not only is it possible, but a necessity when you get basically a carpet square for a cubical. I never watched the show "The Office", but the stories I've heard others talk about, I'm pretty sure this week we have lived at least one episode of the show. You will be happy to know that I am adjusting. I can't say I am adjusting well, but I'm adjusting and for me within the current week of such a change is huge so I'm going to ride this high as long as I can.
Other changes came when we had a tornado warning at work and had to go to the stairway until the all clear was given. Okay, that might not seem like a "change", but for me it was huge. Normally I am terrified of storms and especially tornadoes. I've never technically been in a tornado, however one has come close enough that I sometimes claim it (it did cause me to scratch a scar on the top of my hand). Anyway, when we got the warning I was more irritated that it was interferring with my work at the moment and I actually spouted off to someone that if it was going to hit let it blow me where it will. I suddenly realized I was no longer paralyzed with fear of the weather. WOW! I never thought that would happen. I'm not sure if that was a one time experience or if I will soon become a storm chaser. I guess we will all see.
For my last major observation of the week I will close with probably the biggest one. It is no secret that we are trying to sell our house and purchase another one. At first I was terrified to make a contingency offer on the new one. Don't ask me why, it took me several days to get it through my head that we are not at any risk by doing this and we have first right of refusal should the builder receive another offer on the new house before our house sells. Well, it caused me some anxiety for a few days and finally once I had my head around the reality of it all I knew it was no big deal. I finally relaxed about it and we placed the offer and so far we are sitting exactly where we were before we made the offer. I don't know why I do those things to myself, but I do (every time).
So now my new plan for this weekend is to nurse this stupid head cold and hope it doesn't get any worse and make sure my husband gets his list done and I will get my list done and hopefully not feeling like crap-o-la while doing so.
I'm pretty sure this one won't make you cry Stacy... :) If it does, your smile button is broken and we need to get it fixed and in a hurry!
Happy Friday all and have a wonderful weekend.
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