UnbelieavbleWal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death on Black Friday
I do everything within my power, successfully I might add, to avoid going shopping on Black Friday. I just cannot believe that there’s any deal that was worth this man’s life and I find it a sad commentary that people would do this, then step over his body to run into the store to get their goodies. And then to be angry when they closed the store because he died? Crazy, just crazy.
I’m utterly broken!!! Broken, I tell you!!!OK so I’m not… but my comments sure are!
I’ll have to ask Super Yoshi to have a looksie… sorry to the 1.25 of you out there who still stop by to see if I’m alive…
1) Yes, I’m alive.
2) More importantly, I’ve reconnected with Ashlyn…and that’s going well. I sure missed her!
3) I’ve been playing too much WoW again…but it’s fun… and the expansion comes out next week.
4) Despite all the above… I promise to write more… I’ve actually had some funny stuff to say, but I refer you to #3, as to why I haven’t been saying it.
:O
EDIT: OK I’m fixed!!! And so is my website! /snicker And… *beams* I think I did it without the assistance of Super Yoshi! (But, probably not, he likely ninjaed in here and did something.)
Please Do Not Tap on the Glass or the Animals Get Pissed OffThis is my office, note the extensive amount of glass that is one of my walls (clicky the picture to biggify):
Now, I fully understand why there are signs where fish/critters are kept in glass enclosures that say “DO NOT TAP ON THE GLASS!”…
It’s f**king annoying!
That is all…
Sometimes No Matter How Hard You Try…You still fail miserably.I never get too serious here at my scratching post because it’s usually more entertaining to write about the good or the funny. Today is not one of those days.
I never write about my childhood much. Mostly because it sucked. I had a mom with a severe mental illness that prevented her from being a nurturing mother, but instead an abusive monster. I feared her. I was shamed by her. The experience left me adamant that I wouldn’t ever have children, just on the off chance that I would be cursed with her illness and mostly, because I had no confidence that I would be any good at being a mother.
As with a lot of plans, things don’t always go as you intend. So I did have a child, and I have never known anything that resembles the love a parent has for a child. I hoped and prayed that I wouldn’t be the mother I had. I haven’t been.
Yet I find myself in a place I don’t understand. Ashlyn ran away tonight. Because I hold her accountable for her actions, or inactions and I refuse to bend to her will. To me, a good mother, will protect her child from harm, even if that means protecting them from themselves.
She has found herself safe harbor from me and my requirement that she be responsible and accountable for her actions in the home of her boyfriend’s mother. I suppose at least, I should be thankful she’s not out roaming the streets. I’m not finding myself able to be thankful that this woman I’ve never met thinks she knows more about what’s best for my daughter than I do. I think she’s got some balls to interfere in my family like this. But, Ashlyn’s 18, so there’s nothing I can do about it except give Ashlyn what she wants, to let her fly on her own without the interference of mom, but also without the safety net of mom.
Every action, has a reaction. I know Ashlyn hasn’t thought this through, but what she did today cannot be undone. I will never see her the way I did before nor will she see me the same. It is changed, irreversibly. I am changed. I have had two failed marriages. I have been fired from a job I loved. I failed to complete college. I have never felt as defeated as I do right now.
I’ve always been big on having a plan. I have no plan now and I feel like my path is so unclear. I fear for Ashlyn, because I know what she doesn’t know about life and how you can’t just do whatever. This is not my plan. Instead of looking forward to her graduation in 4 weeks, I now dread it. I do not know if she will get there and as of now, I have no plan to be there if she does. I cannot condone or support her actions.
Despite my good intentions, I have failed.
OK so they redeemed themselves to me…Being the dutiful Def Leppard fanatic that I am, I rushed right out to get their new CD. I have to say that I love it. I haven’t always loved their more recent CDs as much as I did the ones from the 80s-90s. I absolutely love “Nine Lives”. I have to admit, that when I saw that Tim McGraw was featured in that song I thought they went the way of Bon Jovi and decided to put a Country vibe. I was pleasantly surprised to find that quite the opposite, it was Mr. McGraw who is getting his rock on. (I am hoping that last sentence doesn’t sound naughty.)
Joe Elliott’s voice sounds just as sexy as it did when I was younger. ::purrs::
I honestly feel that several of these songs could easily find a place on Hysteria or Euphoria. I wouldn’t go so far as to say Pyromania, that album was near perfection.
I can forgive them the debacle that was Dancing with the Stars, they delivered music I’m happily listening to over and over again.
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