Happy 4th
Just a note to say happy 4th all. I am taking a trip down memory lane today remembering how excited the 4th was when I was a little girl and when my kids were small.
I come from a family of six so therefore we did not travel much except to go to Kentucky for the holidays where my folks were from. July the 4th was extra special because there was always a fair in the little town where my grandmother lived. My sisters and brother and I always saved everything we could so that we could go to the fair and see the fireworks.
I always loved the fireworks when my kids were small they would get so wide eyed over and excited over them. After Gayla’s twins came along it was just as exciting.
Now that I live in Canada I miss the celebrations so would you all have a great time tonight and let me know what you did as a family.
Love Grammy
Love through a child eyes
How do you prepare your child for heartache? Is there really a way to do that? I’m not talking about the heartache that your teenager gets from a high school sweetheart, I’m talking about the heartache that my four year old is going to feel when her best friend has to leave to go back to her moms, thousands of miles away.
My little girl Tay has a huge heart and she never meets a stranger and just this last week when she met Jacie she found a little girl that she will have a very hard time living without. Sense the two of them have been together they share everything, they go to bed and wake up at the same time, they eat the same meals and play the same games. I love that the two of them are so close but it breaks my heart to think about the pain that they are both going to feel when they have to be separated from one another.
How can you make it easier for them?
Tay has many friends and cousins that she plays with all the time but with her and Jacie it is different these two little girls love each other so much that it hurts me to just think about what the two of them will have to go through.
How can you ease the pain that they feel and teach them that they will see each other again in the future even though it hurts right now?
Woman Sues Victoria’s Secret Over Thong Mishap
Macrida Patterson, 52, a traffic cop for the Los Angeles DOT, is suing the lingerie giant “Victoria’s Secret” over a thong incident.
According to the latest reports, Patterson has filed a lawsuit against Victoria’s Secret, after a thong fastener snapped and injured her eye.
The thong, a Victoria’s Secret Sexy Little Thing low-rise v-string, had a heart-shaped pendant attached to the fabric with a metal fastener, according to the lawsuit, when one of the metal pieces snapped off the thong and struck Macrida Patterson in the eye.
“I was putting on my underwear from Victoria’s Secret, and the metal popped into my eye. It happened really quickly. I was in excruciating pain. I screamed. That’s what happened,” she told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira during an interview.
According to her lawyer, Patterson suffered a scratched cornea and had to miss two weeks of work. The unfortunate woman is now suing the lingerie company for compensation for lost wages.
Price Of Gas
I received our gas bill yesterday and called to lock us in for the year, only to find out that our bill will be 50% higher this year.
With the price of gas for our cars higher then ever, and the cost of food going up each day I wonder where it will end.
We have a garden to supplement our grocery bill but everything else seems to cost more which means that whatever you save has to be, used somewhere else.
With all of these worries we now have to worry about our tainted food supplies, and medicines and everything else being shipped into our country.
With all these worries and natural disasters just, “WHERE IS OUR Government.”
WE send aid to China and the rich oil countries, well where is the aid to the U.S.
I heard a politician this morning stating that it is expected of the U.S. because we are a world power. Guess what we are broke. The U.S. doesn’t bother to help the people that pay all the taxes that they give out so readily to other countries.
China & Mexico
I am so angry with our government for giving our country away, along with our jobs. As if all of that isn’t enough they are letting these people poison our food supplies, medicine, and even our children’s toys.
My father who was a World War 11 veteran once told me countries like China would take our country without firing a shoot some day.
My father who was a World War 11 veteran once told me countries like China would take our country without firing a shoot some day.
Bush and everyone that we elected have sold us out to China, and Mexico. If we do not start standing up for ourselves and saying enough we are going to wake up slaves to the foreign countries.
You can say I am just one person what can I do, but let me remind you that Hitler was one man and look what he did, even though he was pure evil he was just one man. We can stand for the good in our country even if it is just one at a time until we are heard. If we all stand together they have to hear our voices.
YO China - Lil’ Help?!?!
Since our government is sending so much money and supplies to your country to help with YOUR disaster - ya think you might be able to send a lil’ sumpin’ sumpin to Indiana.
Forget Texas - Don’t Mess With Indiana
I did forget to mention one little detail in my rant earlier - while speaking with my insurance agent, I did stress to him that I’d been in touch with Turner Broadcasting and that my “NOT Flood” pictures had been on CNN. (this is where they keep the ireport images they air)
He chuckled with a really bad impersonation of Jim Carrey with an “ohhh Rha-eeealy?”
I just don’t think people around here realize that when I get pissed, I do damage and once I have my very generous $5000 maximum insurance payout check in my hot little hands, I’ll be giving my insurance agency a little publicity with a nice boot up the rear and out the door.
Insurance Agents vs. Flood Victims
Boy what a couple of week this has been. It was one week ago today that we woke to 3 feet of water in our basement that increased in depth throughout the day.
Those close to me have kept my spirits high by allowing me to joke about the possibility of hidden cameras and the fact that I must be getting Punk’d. There’s no way this much crap could happen to one person or one family and there’s really no way a person could make this stuff up.
Knowing the situation a bit further south of my area, I took it upon myself to get as much done as possible to save my agent a great deal of legwork. We took pictures and immediately kicked into preventative mode to keep from having the situation get any worse.
After enduring some of the most stupid excuses I’ve ever spewed from one mouth, I can’t urge people enough to check your policies. I explained to my agent that there was water everywhere. The flooding was terrible and we were experiencing structural damage. He informed me that I had a special clause in my policy that would pay out for sump pump backup and that was it.
I asked him to please explain why he hadn’t made it perfectly clear to me that “flood coverage” as such didn’t really mean flood - because in my book all that water we had looked a lot like a flood. He went on to say that it didn’t qualify as one.
WTF qualifies as a flood?
I further explained to him that I find it hard to believe anyone could be proud of their job as an insurance agent when they had to be as deceptive as they are. He told me the government restricts them on what they can say and how they sell their coverage - again, can I get a Dubya - Tee - Eff? And if that wasn’t enough - this MoRon was dumb enough to respond to my wish of drying up, cleaning up and selling with a little story of his own where he had battled termites several times. He said he got rid of them that last time and put the house on the market.
I have to wonder if the new buyers were informed about the tendency?
Then, with my blood already boiling - I went on to explain to him that I’d been in contact with my local FEMA Office and they were coming out to assess my personal situation and see what they could do. He laughed! Yes, HE Laughed.
He told me FEMA told them what they were restricted to and what they could cover so they sure as heck weren’t going to see my situation as a qualifying disaster.
I thanked him very much for his time and told him “You’re doing a heck of a job Brownie.” Albeit in my case, it’s not FEMA that seems so ill prepared, it’s the local agents who seem to be a bunch of lazy asses who are trying to cushion their bonus for minimal payout during a time when state of emergencies have been listed in 41 counties.
I’m sure there are plenty more people in and around the Indiana flooding who are having similar tales - I’d love to hear them. Do you have stories and pictures to share? I’d be happy to share them here with my readers.
Indiana Flash Flood Photo Diary
I’m listing the images here for the flood that has taken place at my home so it will be easy to share with friends, family, proper authorities for assistance and contractors for repair.
This is a view looking into the basement when I was afraid to go any further for fear of shock or electrocution.
The basement was very cool. All the kids loved it - Very “That 70’s Show” ish…
This is what Mother Nature Left behind:
The cleanup efforts begin:
The structural damage that remains:
The cracks are beginning to appear on the ceilings of the main floor now.
If you have words of wisdom - experience with emergency disaster funding, construction and repair, flooding basements, etc. Please feel free to leave comments. We’re looking for the hope and wisdom anyone can provide.
CNN and FOX News
I have watched CNN, and FOX News for years and have found them to be small minded at times, but this time they hit a new low. With the exception of Lou Dobbs I doubt if any one of them has an original thought of their own. They have crucified Hillary.
I think that they are actually afraid of a woman in the White House. If the news media had been as bias toward race, or religion people would have lost their jobs. I know now that bigotry is still alive in the U.S. when it comes to women.
Chris Matthews’ on MSNBC got in his digs about how her husband had messed around.
John McCain was no angel either he started going with Cindy in 1979, while married to Carol Shepp. John and Carol were married in July 1965. John divorced Carol in April of 1980, and married Cindy May 17, 1980.
Millions of people watched Hillary as she gave her concession speech and thought she did a wonderful job, her speech will go down in history.
Barack Obama will make a great president I am sure. I also think Hillary will be a great assist to him in where ever they both decide she is best suited.
In ending I would like to remind everyone of how much better off the U.S. was when Bill Clinton was in office.
The McCain, Bush ticket will see the end of the middle class in The U.S.
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