Hope everyone had a great day! Our turkey turned out perfect, so Jim did all that worrying for nothing~ (He'd never cooked a whole turkey before!) Spent the day watching Pink Floyd stuff on VH-1 Classics (cool!) or scrapping... finished the mini book I'm doing for someone's mom.
I also took the obligatory short nap after dinner...
Cheers ~
About damn time someone did something like this!!!
http://www.freep.com/article/20081125/COL10/81125018
I would like to start a new club... It will be called the "Deaf Husbands in Denial Wives Club"
It is for all women whose husbands absolutely deny that there is anything wrong with their hearing, but who never-the-less must have the TV/radio/stereo/ headphones cranked up to max...
I'm going to ask for a hefty registration and annual fee for this club, as that money will be used to bail said wives out of jail after they throttle their husbands.
If you are not sure you belong in this club, let me present an example...
Husband (H) flew in very loud planes for a living for 20 years. Upon his retirement, his employer told him he had a 10% hearing loss. This determination was made in 1991.
Since 1991, H has incrementally needed louder and louder outputs from TV's, stereos, radios, conversations. Thankfully, he has been amenable to wearing headphones while watching TV at night (an activity his wife (W) does not care to share in. )
However, in the past several years, W has noticed that even if she is in the same room with H, he frequently can not hear her unless he is looking right at her. (can you say unconscious lip-reading???) Also, W has noticed that now she can hear what's on the TV thru H's (sound canceling) headphones, even during normal dialogue (let alone the loud action sequences!)
And let's not EVEN talk about how loud H's voice is!!! He seems to feel that since he cannot hear others, he must speak ever more loudly. This makes the W positively CRINGE at the prospect of going out in public with H.
Needless to say, W has encouraged H to return for a new hearing evaluation on more than one occasion... Also needless to say is that H has steadfastly denied the need for any such re-eval.
"10%" is his mantra. "My hearing is fine!"
"BULLSHIT' is hers. "It's been 17 flippen' years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
While this disability does have some advantage for W (
), she is reaching the end of her rope. It is feared that soon W is going to visit some bodily harm upon H due to this unfortunate situation.
And so, ladies ~ there you have it. If there are any others of you out there, please join me in this club... we can offer each other solace (quietly!), and be there for each other when we stand trial. (Although I'm sure that any female judge, and any female jurors, would acquit us immediately!!)
Yours truly ~
Sick of Shouting
I've been feeling icky since last weekend... dry hacky cough, sore ears, heavy chest and that "I've been run over" feeling... Bleah. No temp or white spots in the throat, so I'm sure I'll live... but I haven't even felt like scrapping!!
So the auto exec's have been flying to DC in their private jets... snerk! No bailout till they have completely restructured. And the unions are going to have to suck it up, too. No favorites.
Yes, I know ~ it has taken me a while! But it WAS a bit overwhelming.
A bit of history ~ the husband and I usually cancel each other out; he voting red, me blue. But this time round was different ~ McCain had voted against some vets benefits (which was weird in and of itself!!), and so Jim was going with Obama.
Election night ~ both Jim and I had said that we WEREN'T going to watch any TV - at all. He was going to pop a movie in; I was going to scrap all night.
Ahem.
We turned the TV on at 1500, and were glued to it for most of the night. No movies were watched, and no scrapping was done. And as all those formerly 'red' states were called for Obama, and as those borderline states began to turn blue... my hopes began to soar. I'd always thought he had a better than average chance, and now the dream was coming true.
At 2000, when CNN called it for Obama, I burst into tears. The tears were for all the hopes, and all the dreams, and all the possibilities... They were for the IMMENSE historical significance of the moment ... They were for all those who had struggled so long to be treated as humans; struggled to be treated as people of equal worth.
But even more than that ~ the tears were for the promise of a new way of looking at things, a new way of doing things, and, most important, a new direction for the United States. One DESPERATELY needed after 8 years under the spell of the Evil Emperor (and megalomaniac) Shrub Jr., and his evil henchman Cheney the Despicable. May they rot in whatever they envision hell to be.
More later...
So here is the prediction I was talking about the other day; it was made exactly six months ago today...
"Enjoy running the MB in the fashion that fits your personality and needs. I am saddened by the fact that because of YOU ScrapGoods will probably close down within the next 6 months."
SO sorry ~ that just doesn't seem to be happening.
But thank you for thinking I was powerful enough to influence a solidly entrenched business!
PS ~ if you would like the full transcript of this diatribe, LMK ~
...since I posted. You'd think I had a life or something!!!
My SG friend Betsie came to visit me last weekend, all the way from the 'burbs of Phoenix. We had a wonderful time ~ checked out all 3 of my LSS's, went wine tasting, scrapped in the evenings, and visited a VERY special garden!!!
We had some great discussions about politics, philosophy, religion and (of course) sex... She reminds me SOOOOOOO much of myself at a younger age! Hmmmmmmm ~ don't know whether that's good or bad for her!!!
And then there was Halloween. I swear that next year, I'm going to turn off all the lights and not answer the door. Though I love decorating for it, I'm sick to death of scenes like this one ... Mom & Dad (in full costume) come to my door, pushing a baby (in a cutesy outfit) in a stroller. Plastic pumpkin treat bag is in baby's lap. You know damn well the kid ain't getting the goodies (I doubt it was off the bottle), and that Mom & Dad are going to scarf it all. Botards.
And then there are the impatient ones... They knock, and before I can even get out of my chair, they ring the doorbell, and before I can even get the door opened, they've knocked again. The brat that did that (I could see them, while they couldn't see me) didn't get nuttin', while his friends did. His eyes got big as saucers as I shut the door in his face.
And then there are the elections... I will be SOOOO flipping glad when it's finally Nov. 5 and all the BS is over! (Of course, then I'll be bitching about all the campaign signs that are still up :-) ) The sheer amount of mis-information that has been put out as 'fact' is mind-boggling, and does absolutely nothing to restore my faith in the American way. And after 8 years of the evil Bush Empire, that faith may be broken beyond repair! (78 days, 3 hours, 9 min!!!)
While I have been trying to avoid any & every thing political on the 'net, I did happen across this today... Look at the small print below her image...
I loathe, hate, despise and abominate the CNA, and I don't give a damn about who bought whom's campaign dress!!!
And finally, I am looking forward to Nov. 4th for a completely different reason. That is the day I will see an ignorant person's prediction put to the test, and ultimately fail. But then again ~ ya just can't cure stupid...
