You ever feel like the life you lead is not yours? That you should be someone else, somewhere else, with something else. That is how I felt today. I got up today and looked at my husband, then I thought is this who I am suppoesd to be with? (Now i have never had thoughts like this and I have never been happier. Needless to say this was an unusual day for me) SO I get up and walk down that hall and peer into my son's room. I think to myself. Is this my child? Now I am freaking myself out as I look around my house, which I absolutly love. I walked out to get the newspaper and take the trash out. I look at my car and my hubbys car. Both of which I love to. I look up and down my street. I love the neighborehood I live in. So why and I feeling the urge to drop the coffee cup, throw down the paper, get into my car and flee.. SO I go through my day, my mom takes my son, which for once I was thankful when he was gone. (Not like me at all) I went to the grocery store in makeup, heels, and looking smokin hot. (Something I never ever do< Tshirt and sweats for me with a baseball cap>) I got hit on by 3 or 4 single men. I got phone numbers to (They went in the garbage out side the store door) Came home put things away took a shower and laid down for a nap. Got up an hour later. In my sweats, tshirt. Surrounded by baskets of clean laundry and childrens toys. Back to MY life. I think I just had the closest thing to an out of body experiance I will ever have.

I love my son with all my heart, but the things that come out of his mouth from time to time. I dont know where he gets them.
He passed gas a couple days ago and he looked straight at me with the most serious look and said " mommy my ass blew you a kiss" I was in total shock.This also rewarded a time out. Mind you this is the same child that has baptized the cat more than once. We now have a lock on the toilet that matches the lock on our fridge. He has now gone to baptize the cat in the dog's water bowl. Then again this is the same dog that the kid colored pink with kool-aid. Who knew the dog was thirsty while it was sleeping. All also rewarded with a time out. Mind you though he is 5, but I dont want him to think that all this is ok. Then today he wanted to make me a picture for the fridge. No problem I have scrapbooking stuff, extra buttons, and craft things. Little odds and ends in the hall closet. So I let him have at it. Moments later he comes to me with a picture of a guy with a parachut. Cute right.. Yeah everyhing except the guy was a made out of a tampon, unused of course, and the parachute was made out of a maxi pad, also unused. I wasnt sure weather to laugh or die right there. So not to be mean I put it on the fridge no one will see it right. No that would be to easy, so his great-grandmother comes over. She takes one look at the picture and says to my son "You know at my age (she is 80) if I had those in my house I would have done the same thing" Two thumbs up on encouragement Guess it isnt just kids that say the darndest things.
Rachy

Ok so I am doing what I normally do on a weekday, drive myself to work. On my way to work this morning. Someone in an old Berretta, chevy, comes hauling ass down the road. So I get out of his way. Then he wants to switch lanes inches from my bumper. HELLO!! THAT IS WHY THERE ARE TURN SIGNALS!! But no this man's way of letting someone know that he is going to change lanes is to tap his brake pedel a bazillion times and then jot over into the lane in front of you, only to stand on the brakes. GREAT THING TO DO IN TRAFFIC!! So we come to a stop light and I roll down my window to ask him what on god's green earth was he thinking. Only to be met with him cussing me out in a language that I dont speak. SAY WHAT!!
Then he sped off.

Ok now I am for people of every race, creed, and color coming to this country, but I do have a few things to say.
1) If you are going to come to this country BECOME A CITIZAN!! No tax breaks and what not. Americans dont get that privilage nither should you.
2) SPEAK ENGLISH!! You are in America Speak Americian (Bette Midler, Big Buisness)
3) Learn how to f'in drive. I am scared to go out on the street even the side walk for that matter because I might be run over.
4) Work your ass off to make a honest living just like every other blue colar worker in this country. I have never seen so many lazy people as I have with illegal aliens.
5) Just becuase you are in a new country does not mean you can go on not understanding things and just sit on welfare. There are enough lazy drug attics on welfare as is. My tax dollars do not need to pay for you.

I am sure there is other stuff that I have forgotten.

Now for my next issue

Rich People

1) Because we dont drive the expensive fast cars like you does not give you the right to almost run us off the road.
2) Do not look down your nose at me just because I am not wearing Dolce and Gabana.
3) Just because you have a cushy job and a lot of pay does not mean that I am your slave. If that is what I wanted to be I would have been born in the early 1800's thank you.
4) Enough with the tax fraud and embeziling money. You have enough why the hell do you need more.

I am just getting so tired and impatiant with everyone thinking they are better than everyone else and that they can get away with murder and blame it on me cause i looked at them wrong. Why cant we as a society go back to the way things where. We are so Egotistical. STOP IT!!

A friend of mine recently posted on his website about the upcoming elections and how as a society we have changed so much and really dont pay any attention to the world around us anymore. So for you I would like to post his message as well as my replies to his message. I think he makes an excellent point and his message should be passed along.
Enjoy!!
If you would like to read more of his posts I direct you to his website.

Http://blog.myspace.com/tweakpotter

Protest! By Tweak

In these days of political turmoil and a senseless war, I asked myself a question... What happened to the protest days of the Vietnam War? Yeah, most of the country is against the needless death of thousands, but nobody can act out against it anymore? Have we become that damn lazy or what? So, in the first step of bringing back some balls to the American people, I have here three great protest songs from the sixties. Please check these songs out and if you feel the need for an end to the War in Iraq, please repost or direct people here. Thanx and pray for our soldiers!

Zor and Zam
The king of Zor, he called for war
And the king of Zam, he answered.
They fashioned their weapons one upon one
Ton upon ton, they called for war at the rise of the sun.

Out went the call to one and to all
That echoed and rolled like the thunder.
Trumpets and drums, roar upon roar
More upon more.
Rolling the call of "Come now to war."

Throughout the night they fashioned their might
With right on the side of the mighty.
They puzzled their minds plan upon plan
Man upon man
And at dying of dawn the great war began.

They met on the battlefield banner in hand.
They looked out across the vacant land.
And they counted the missing, one upon one,
None upon none.
The war it was over before it begun.

Two little kings playing a game.
They gave a war and nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
And nobody came.
[repeat and fade]

Here is my first reply to his message:

Reply: Posted by Rae~Rae

Here is food for thought josh. I totally agree with you and the protesting thing and there are so many things that i would protest ( i.e. the war, animal crulity, half the idiots that they let out of jail that are convicted murders or sex offenders) I believe there are a few reasons that people dont do the things that the used to.
1) We as a society have become so fast paced and "got to go right now" mentality based that they have made it impossiable for themselves to have time to do something like a protest.
2) They dont pay enough attention to the news, newspapers, or magazines to really give a damn.
3) They hear it and read it but are to lazy to spend time doing something about it.
4) Lazyness again. If there is no way to solve it via phone, or internet. They wont do it.
Just some food for thought. By the way the music rocks.
:)

Reply: Posted by Rae~Rae

You know it is actaually really funny that you should post this rant. I was in line at the grocery store about 3 days ago and there was this woman behind me. She had to be in her 40's I would say. Well I had under 20 items and the line for 20 items or less was so long it wasnt even funny. Well it is sunday and I am in no hurry so I go to one of the lines where you can have a bazillion items. I dont care if I have to wait. There was one person in front of me with like 60 items. I mean thier cart was full. No biggy. From 4 isles over this woman starts screaming and cussing at the top of her lungs. She has 18 items and she wants to check out now. There are like 400 hundred people in this store and all possiable check outs are already open. You have to wait. This lady is going on and on and on. So this woman turns to me and says " oh my god why are people in such a hurry" I in return said. "Because we have become such a lazy face paced society that we wanted everything and we want it now." She looked at me and said you must have been raised by a hippy. I kind of laughed because she did have that free spirited still stuck in the 60's 70's look. I said well yeah kinda. She said that is the only way you would be like that is to be raised with someone who has not been mentally programed to go go go. She then started talking about how she was so feed up woth politics she wished she could burn her bra again and picket, but she would probably get arrested for littering, poluting, and obscene public behavior. Which mind you this woman 4 isles over was doing a great job of.
But there are people that still believe in the old ways. They are just few and far between.

As I was sitting in bed this morning reading Time Magazine as my son watched his ever beloved cartoons. I started to laugh almost uncontrolably. I guess I havent had a good laugh in a while. Humm..

Well as I was reading I came across a section called Punch Lines.
These where so cute and funny I couldnt pass up sharing them with everyone.

" The French have launched their own version of Google called Quaero. You just type in the subject your interested in and Quaero refuses to look it up for you."

" A new study has found that 3 million Irish men can trace thier ancestry back to just one man. In his defense, the man said he had been drinking." ( We Irish seem to have this drinking problem. Time for IAA- Irish Alcoholics Anonymous)

RX, DRUG PLAN: WARNING: May cause confusion, frustration, anxiety, anger, hypertension, stomach upset, and or uncontrollable weeping.

I also wanted to share with you something they call Rover to the Rescue. It is ordinary animals doing extraordinary things. Enjoy!

"Tommy the cat's elderly owner tried to teach him to speed dial 911. He didnt know if it had worked until a month later when he had a fall, the cat rang 911 for help."

" According to the London papers, Chris Taylor learned the name of his girlfriend's secret lover when his parrot chirpped " I love you Gary" He got rid of both the girlfriend and the bird" (I would have just gotten ride of the girlfriend but kept the bird. I hear they taste like chicken)

"Scientist at a small California clinic said last week that they had trained dogs to confirm a lung and brest cancer diagnosis by sniffing patiants breath samples. Skeptical but intrigued experts say it is not time to awap lab tests for labradors." ( I for one want to know how can they tell you have cancer by smelling your breath and who in thier right mind would want to do that on purpouse?)

"Fisherman in Indonesia reported that just before the 2004 tsunami hit a school of dolpgins pushed thier boat to deeper and safer water" (Did it ever occure to you that your boat was in thier way and they where only saving thier own asses?? )

Hope that you have all enjoyed and gotten a laugh or two out of this

Rachy