DON'T SEND THE RANSOM! I ESCAPED!!!
I know that you were concerned that I had been missing but I am back. Between school work and trying to get permanently settled in my house, life has been hectic for us all. I will tell you what, it is a PITA having residences in two different places. Sure as shit when iI think that I have everything that I need at my house, I discover that I have once again left something over at Mom's. It ranges from socks, to diapers to milk for CA. This however gives Mom an excuse to come over to get a Pun'kin fix. She is addicted to the baby but we are slowly weaning her off her habit. She actually went the entire day Wednesday with only a phone call so we are making progress.After getting my portfolio turned in on Wednesday, Thursday was spent running a few errands and picking up some food at Wal-Mart, coming home aand taking Pun'kin's cottage apart to get it cleaned and taken into the house for reassembly. That goodness I had a some mother's helpers or it would never have happened. Bridgette's step-daughter Angela (12) and her oldest daughter Hannah (11) pitched in and the task was accomplished in a little under three hours. We also had Bridgette's twins, Zach and Kaitlin (6) but it was such a nice day that I told them to come up too. It doesn't take much to watch them play up here with all the space outside. Angela is like a little mother and does a really good job watching CA and Hannah did 3/4 of the washing of the cottage after my back finally gave out. We all came in and they ate, along with Ang feeding CA and when Bridgette and Daniel came to get the kids, they carried all the pieces inside and reassembled it in under 10 mintues. Since it has been so cold and it had been sitting on the porch, she didn't understand what it was because, I just didn't take her out there to play in it. Her reaction to it was just as I expected . . . overwhelming joy (check out the photo at my photo sight linked under my profile). She played in it the whole night, opening and closing the shutters and door and carrying her toys into it while Mr. Nu-No settled right in and made himself at home by climbing on the sink I and in and out of the windows. She was so happy that she couldn't even go to sleep last night and it was the first thing she went to when I took her out of her crib this morning. It is going to be worth every penny of the 60-odd dollars that I spend purchasing it from eBay and big THANKS again going out my cues Sue and her hubby Ron for picking it up in Akron and bringing it down to us here in West Virginia. I had to wait for the ladybug infestation to pass, all 4 times we were infested and then it was so cold and nasty that it was impossible to get out there to clean it up. What the hell am I talking about. . . Everything is impossible to get done with her highness here. . . I had the girls up here the day before that to help watch her while I swept up ladybugs, picked up stuff, did dishes and finally got the kitchen swept and M. Nu-No's litter box cleaned out again. Anyhow, I am still sweeping up stray ladybugs a couple of times a day and am still scared to go in the basement after seeing the 10,000 dead ones down there on the first day of the infestation. It is a PITA to carry both of the sweepers that I use for this purpose through her gate. The only reason that I am sitting here at my house now typing this is that I told Joey that I was going to mow, found the mower empty and decided to alieve the fears that I know you all were having in regards to my whereabouts. So if you can picture everyday of my life being just about like the previous two, you kind of have an idea about why I haven't had time to blog. I have also quit carrying the laptop back and forth and so when we are at Mom's and have time, I don't have a computer readily handy. I do get a break when I go to work on Friday and Saturday night and Mom keeps CA with her pretty much from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon when I get up. Did I mention it is also a PITA to tote CA back and forth???
I have so many things to tell you all about my recent adventures but it will have to come in installments since I have to get ready to go to work shortly. I am still investigating the recent spike in skunk kills on RT 21 the past two days (5 of them stinking up most of RT 21) and have wonderful stories about all the deer that I count daily (the are usually new ones too, the State has been diligent about cleaning up "their" roadkill on a daily basis, since the deer are really property of the State) but while I was doing my portfolio, I came across some puzzling information.
I don't mean to bore you with all the details of my school work, but you have to understand how I stumbled across the information that caused such an uproar inside me. I have many different things that I have to do for each chapter but specifically it entails answering the ten review questions in great detail (it usually ends up being 10 pages typed and spaced at 1.5), do some exercises called "Nothing But Net" where we go to specific websites and answer the questions that are posed in the book and the professor asks that we type a one page summary of what we found useful or interesting on the site and finally, we have to find a Fortune Magazine article that contains one of the key terms in the chapter and write a page summary containing the 6 main points, something that we found useful and interesting and finally how it may impact me and my fellow students in the future. This is required for each chapter, each week. It is not the hard, just time-consuming but when I was doing my net exercises for the chapter on Human Resource Management, Motivation, and Labor-Management Relations (which included union and non-union mgmt relations). Well, one exercise asked us to research jobs online for specific companies and the other asked to go to the AFL-CIO website and follow the link to "How and Why People Join Unions".
I am not a union supporter by any means although I do have friends' with hubbies who are in unions and don't look look at them any differently because they don't spout the "union line" as some union members do. I was having an extremely hard time finding "something useful or interesting on the sight as it just seemed each link was filled with venomous union rhetoric in the text that WAS the link. I didn't click on the links, I was just reading the link names. So here I am grasping at straws to find something interesting and that was when I looked up in the upper right hand corner of the sight and under their website search engine, I saw it . . . I saw it in 48pt font above their section labeled ISSUES . . . EN ESPANOL . . .
All I could think of was that these people really ARE off their rockers. I mean, didn't the AFL-CIO fight the passage of NAFTA tooth and nail for years?? And after its passage, didn't they say they would all lose their jobs to people in MEXICO?!?!? Yet, here they are embracing the very evil of the third world South of us that 10 years ago were going to cause them loose their homes, their health insurance, hurt their families and plunge them into poverty???
I guess that they could explain it away by saying that it was to avoid discrimination charges but then again, maybe they are looking to line their pockets with those people who have made their way into our country with donations and union dues that the workers will probably never see. Since I don't read or speak Spanish, I don't know what it said but I can tell you this . . . 10 years ago these people would have spit on a Mexican immigrant if one happened to step in front of them and my philosoply is that hatred like the kind that was spread through the unions by placing the union workers in fear for their entire livelihood doesn't just go away . . . and they would still spit on them today.
Anyhow, thanks for letting me get that off my chest. It wasn't the only thing I have found while doing my work that made me sit up and say "WHAT THE SHIT IS THAT ALL ABOUT?" but this time I was truly shocked and stunned for well over 20 minutes and that is what I spent most of my article summarizing that I found interesting. It is probably the only time that I have ever felt the desire to protest a group . . . I mean I could have gone to their headquarters and actually PROTESTED while calling them on it in front of Shepard Smith.
At least I was finally inspired to write something about the site . . . LMAO Anyhow, here is the link the AFL-CIO site and go and see for yourself. . .
posted by Unknown @ 11/10/2006 12:35:00 PM
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If you put a 1 behind gallery in my gallery link, that will take you to the new working gallery for me.
As for unions, it's nice to have people stand up for the workers and there is a part of me that really likes what they should do. Unfortunately, they don't always do it. Anything that can drive that much fear into the evil bosses can't be all bad (let's be honest, i'm about lining my pockets).
Seems that after all my Al Qaeda comments, Al Qaeda is mouthing off about coward Bush and bringing the war to the White House and Israel and only then will it be stopped. If Bush is the worst pres to AQ, then I'm gonna get a Bush / Cheney sticker for my truck.
Mencia put it best about Espanol. You can take the citizenship test in any language you want. It used to be that you had to know the language and history, but alas, that's not true anymore. For example, I know 1 Asian gal whose parents flat out refused the language. It probably explains why when dad was laid off, he never got rehired.
Interesting enough... with all the traffic the 3 porn sites that were linked to me (black, trannie, random porn - don't ask - it's not like I frequent them) drummed up, I went from 300 hits on THursday (best day in 6 months - I was around 150 and it's not like a site was specifically linking into them - it was all random porn garbage - you probably have a lot of random garbage with a blog search drumming for you too) to 20 yesterday.
Yes, I'm feeling a desire to blog and hate Al Qaeda, but I'm being productive with the pictures. Almost got all of them out of their wholes in my blog... Life will be good when I refinish the blog and load up the other 2 (Thanksgiving with the stack of papers that is set to come in tomorrow and Monday - 11 hours at Barnes and Nobles helping people).
Have a good 1.
And watch out for random animals on the highways!!
I'm not a huge union person either. I've been in two and it doesn't do much for the person who does a good job, respectful and a good worker but the union does seem to protect the lazy and give the complainers a vehicle to complain in.
Hi Tracey--Just trying to catch up while I can stand sitting.
Your little girl is gorgeous.
Unions are wonderful things but they have a way getting wrapped up in the wrong causes.
It's nice to see your still around :-),
Jamie Summers
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