it's 2010 already and i'm wondering what happened to 2009. this year i moved from germany to georgia, witnessed a black man step into the oval office, watched a hero from my childhood pass away and become appreciated again, got an infected wisdom tooth pulled out of my mouth that nearly put me in the hospital, went to disney five times, saw my kid ( Read more... )

whilst reading online, these tickled my fancy:

until lion's have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. --an african proverb

if you believe everything you read, better not read. --a japanese proverb

the world came first and the gods came later. --an ancient indian proverb

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to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.  --e.e. cummings

so october is over with.  it's a bit scary that the chrismas season apparently starts about the time you begin looking forward to halloween.  i was looking for a halloween costume for my rat terrier (yeah, i'm one of those people) while christmas music played softly but insidiously overhead.  don't get me wrong, i like christmas--love it in fact-- ( Read more... )

last night i went with mom and stella to see 'this is it.'  the movie was amazing.  i can only imagine what the actual show would have been like had he lived to perform it in london.  i never got the chance to see him in concert.  when he was touring during the thriller era i was still in nursery school.  i was well under ten while the touring was ( Read more... )

i have to post pictures of my lovely dogs.  they are so very cute.  here is zoey, the english mastiff:


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i know, two in one day and neither one about mj. i'm on a roll. i haven't updated in a long while, so i thought i'd do that the only way i know how: by list! here are the new developments. they are not in order of importance ( Read more... )

why is there such an uproar over the president's planned speech to school children? i'm not understanding it. past presidents have directed speeches at school aged children and no one has had any problem with it. i hate to pull the race card, but i'm going to. is that it? i'd like to think it can't be, but why else would people have a problem ( Read more... )