…I’m just wrapped up in life! Wow….it’s been awhile.  I need to catch up.  Hope everyone out there in xangaland is well – I will be back sooner or later with a decent post!

Hugs to all -

Ah, I died. Turns out, I was wrong! There is indeed an afterlife – everyone is here, too!!  Even the jerks.  Oddly, everyone is fit and healthy - not like they are young or old, just “youthful”.  Haven’t figured that one out yet.  No heaven or hell stuff….just another dimension where we try to use what we learned in the LAST life to make this one better.  As soon as I got here, every dog I’ve owned -Miles, Butkus, Luke and Corky (who I haven’t seen since I was 16!) rushed up to me and slobbered me with kisses.  How awesome to have them here all at the same time!!!  Unfortunately, my ex is here too, but he’s too busy trying not be to the asshole he was in the previous life/world so hopefully he’ll not notice I’ve arrived.

The bummer is we have no contact with the “other” before- life.  Just have to wait until my son gets here.  Hopefully tho, it won’t be for awhile – I want him to live a full long wonderful life first.  I haven’t found my parents yet - apparantly, they are very youthful and have been vacationing in some beach resort in this dimension.  Haven’t determined if this is a permenant state now….where we all exist in infiinity, but it’s really quite pleasant so far.

Not sure where I’m supposed to go now….I guess I’ll follow my dogs, they will show me what to do.  Even in the before-this life, I found putting my trust in them was always infallable.  They kept me safe and loved.

Hmmm.   DOG spelled backwards is indeed GOD.  Something to think about.

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“You can have the best personality in the world, you can have the greatest character in the world,” Mr. Biden said, “but if you’re not going to give me a fighting chance to be able to keep my job, I love you but I don’t want you as my president”.  Amen, Mr. Biden.

Please, people. PLEASE!!  Get out and vote, but get INFORMED before you do.  The republican’s have said this election is “not about issues.”  Seriously? SERIOUSLY????  It’s about character and biography??? REALLY???  That’s going to do a lot to help my pay my bills, allow me the right to choose what I do to my own body, keep church separated from state and stop them from drafting my young son into the armed forces some day, when he’s forced into a war that should never have happened in the first place, isn’t it????

I almost can’t take this election anymore.  After two previous elections that proved Americans are IDIOTS and don’t learn their lesson….I just can’t fathom how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin are being cheered for their “plans” for this country.  It makes me sick to my stomach.

Sorry for the blatant political opinoin, but I couldn’t keep it in anymore.  I had to place my purge somewhere, and today, xanga won.

EDIT:

Apparantly my rant is not over yet.  I just read one of the featured blogs asking if this election actually comes down to the abortion issue and I about lost my mind.

No one, NO ONE has the right to tell me what to do with my own body.  People need to WAKE UP and realize that pro-choice is NOT pro-abortion.  RELIGION has NO PLACE in government.  We fought a WAR over this – it is what America is ROOTED in.  It is why so many people scattered from England in hopes of freedom of belief here.

Not only should this NOT be what this election comes down to, it shouldn’t even be PART of politics in the first place.  Christians should start acting like Christians and “loving thy neighbor” regardless of what their own personal beliefs may be.  It is so hypocritical.  For the record, I grew up Catholic – 16 years of Catholic school in fact, including my college.  And I would never NEVER force anyone to believe what I believe (which, by the way, means I am against abortion.  FOR ME.  For what I will teach my children.   For what I will argue is a better choice.  But it should remain A CHOICE.)

You can think I’m ignorant or stupid for thinking people have the right to a choice, but you see, that is the beauty of America.  RIGHTS TO OPINION AND CHOICE.  Just as you can think that of me, I’m entitled to think anyone who buys into the current McCain/Palin BS has clearly lost their mind or spent their years on the short bus.

Apologies to the many people I’m sure I offended for having my own opinion and believing you’re entitled to yours – and that this country is great by ALLOWING us to not only believe but PRACTICE those beliefs.  I’m a bit worked up over the RNC last night and all the lies that were spewed about the opposing party.

*sigh* ok, I’m going to go take a chill pill now…..

Compassion.  You can’t teach compassion.

   

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Sorry, still no substance to my post….but i couldn’t resist this one!

It’s that adoreable kid from Jerry Macguire!!  Jonathon Lipnicki!!

THEN:

NOW:

He’s still a cutie!  Yay!!

Long Overdue…I know I’ve been M.I.A…..but so much going on…and it’s can’t be a bad thing when your life actually gets you AWAY from the computer right?

I have two then and now’s for you today….

First….

It’s the original Karate Kid!  Ralph Macchio

Then:

NOW:

And just to be fair….

I give you….ME:

THEN (circa 1988):

NOW:

25 Years Difference in the first set….
20 Years Difference in the second set….

*sigh*

Alright, seriously, I will try to get my butt in gear here and start posting like a true xanagan again…..not just these lazy before and after posts…I swear…I triple dog dare swear.

I would have stopped “lending” me money every time I asked or found myself in a jam.  Perhaps I would have learned to stop spending if I had to suffer the REAL consequences much earlier in life…
   

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Please jump right in with your own.

I have gotten fat.

Too many Oreos near me.

Who made up these rules?

Rain Thunder Boom Boom

Garage Sale Tomorrow: POOF!

I needed money. 

Happy Sad Happy

Bipolar relationships ache

Where’s my Oreos?

A recent study shows that sex actually gets better with age.  Good to know!  But as I read through this article, it jumped out at me right away:

“Beckman and colleagues interviewed four groups of 70-year-olds in Sweden about their sex lives between 1971 and 2001. They found that 68 percent of married men said they were having sex in 2001, up from 52 percent in the early ’70s.

The number of married women having sex rose to 54 percent in the group interviewed in 2000-2001, up from 30 percent in the early 70s.

And 12 percent of unmarried women interviewed in 2000-2001 said they were having sex, up from less than 1 percent in the early ’70s. The number of women reporting high sexual satisfaction also increased, with more women reporting an orgasm during sex and fewer reporting never having had one.”

Well, SUPER yay! for that last part, but, um….68% married men and 54% married women?  Who exactly are the other 14% of geezer married men having nookie time with??  The 12% of geriatric unmarried women???

This article turned from “YAY!” to “Screw it, why do I even try to believe in fidelity anymore” in an instant.  It never changes, does it? 

Why can’t men be faithful???  I know, I know, there are the chosen few out there who can be.  But most of them? NO.  Clearly not!  It’s right there in print.  It’s there in everyday life.  It’s there in relationships I’ve had first or second or third had knowledge of….it’s all there…no denying it.

It makes me not ever want to fall in love again.  I am 110% built for long term faithfulness and it appears I’m going to live a long and lonely if not constantly crushed and forlorned life…..

Yay for me.

I simply love them. They are NORMAL.  REGULAR. ORDINARY. These people are like me.  I want them at the forefront of my country.  And yes, I am the original Obama Girl…..

Anyhoo, nothing to report on the front other than INSANE busy-ness.  Vacation is desperately needed.  Have I mentioned before that my son is allergic to peanuts?  That seriously sucks.  Not only can he never enjoy the heavenliness of Reeces, but coming anywhere in contact with peanut-anything could be literally leathal to him.  What is scary is that apparrantly in the last 10 years, peanut allergies have DOUBLED in schools.  Fortunately, most schools are well aware and prepared for these kids, but it still is frightening.  I worry about the one time I am not there and no one knows where his epi-pen is.  Terrifying.

But on a (very much) less seriously note….death by peanut butter cup?  I suppose there are worse ways….