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I hope everyone had a good Memorial Day. But looking at the news of all the tornadoes in the Midwest, it may not of been. And that is not even all the men and women of uniform who are serving and not spending it with their families.

Our day just flew right by us.

We got up and did our gym thing, some how I lost a little more weight over the weekend..which is cool. I think my body is no longer in the starvation mode that the reduction of calories will do when you 1st start it.

We then went to Home Depot, just to get a nozzle and another rose bush……lol…..well it didn’t happen that way. Left with a couple of plants for a flower box I decided I wanted, dirty, the rose bush, a few planters, a cactus, a fan for downstairs and a few other gardening things….blew that budget……..grin Then a quick stop at the store since we were out of meat, not a good thing in this house.

Of course, when we got home we had to take care of some of our gardening. By the time we got done with that it was 1400 and we had left the gym just after 1100….lol No shower, hadn’t started work (good thing it has been slow due to the holiday)…..and we were wiped out. So we laid down for about an hour, didn’t even really sleep, but it felt good to snuggle into our blankets.

So other then a shower and dinner, I’ve just being tying up some work. We are currently watching the classic In Harm’s Way, one of the few WWII movies that I really enjoy. It gives a stripped down unglorified version of the war that so many of movies of that era did. There is divorce, adultery, estranged father-son, rape….. all the taboos that were avoided in the 60s…………….. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Harm’s_Way Definitely one that I will adding to my Ipod.

It won’t be Memorial Day without some articles about the true reason of today, not the bbqs….of course, most of the stories bring me to tears.

Group Salutes Vets by Helping Them Get Benefits

The University of Detroit Mercy Law School has started an organization called Project Salute in which law students and professors give veterans free legal help in navigating the complex federal bureaucracy to get the disability benefits they deserve.
Bush Pays Tribute to Troops on Memorial Day

**He may honestly feel grateful to our military, but everytime he speaks I feel he is a hypocrite…….both him and Cheney did everything they could to avoid serving……there is so much I could vent about, but I don’t feel that it would be right in this posting.

‘I Want to Go Home … Especially on Memorial Day’

On this day, just like any other day, these twenty-somethings who fight for the U.S. Army in Baghdad remembered their friends, their colleagues, the men who they fight, eat and sleep next to.

But it is not a holiday for the more than 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq. Today was just another work day — a day during which the Raider Brigade of the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Infantry Regiment, which is based at 881, did what it does every day: went on a foot patrol.

A family remembers their Medal of Honor recipient

**This tears the heart.

Casino mogul hosts wounded soldiers in Vegas

**This was really neat.

Last known WWI vet gets Memorial Day honors

**I use to work at a Veteran’s Home during college, I remember we had about 20-30 WWI vets left, it has been 12 years and yet the US is down to 1. Kind of hard to believe.

I started that day being woken at 5am because Reggie was begging my husband to feed him……..lol  Now there is no way this cat is starving, they probably just emptied the bowl a few hours before and probably wasn’t even hungry.  But he can’t handle an empty bowl.  Took us a bit to fall back to sleep and then it wasn’t very good.  Surprisingly I felt better then I should when we got to the gym.

For the gym, it started out good….by making my goal of losing a pound.  We are going to try to do 2 pounds a week, which is the safe amount.  I can’t wait until I get to where I want, then I can go back to the normal 1800-2000 calories a day instead of the 1500 area that I’m doing now…. Anyway, got a hard work out, left dripping in sweat and feeling icky because of that.

But as I leaving the locker room a woman stopped me to tell me that her and one of the other trainers can see the difference since I started.  I’m like wow and thank you.  She knows how if you look at yourself everyday you don’t see it and it doesn’t help that the scales never really reflect it, so she just wanted me to know that it was noticed.  That was so cool!  It is true, I can’t see it, I just see my jiggly butt and thighs, but I do know that my husband notices and so does my trainer.  So I know I’m getting somewhere, just can’t see it.

Today I got my work email pretty caught up….which took forever.  I have some work related things that I want/need to do tomorrow.  Then any other work will be for us.

By the time we stopped for dinner, we spent the rest of the evening with having a “movie” night, which is watching whatever we have dvr’ed, most of the time.    Now I’m just doing up this post and then heading to bed.

Mom Allegedly Harasses Daughter’s Friend

An Indiana mother is facing criminal charges after allegedly helping her 15-year-old daughter scatter baby diapers scrawled with vulgar slogans on a classmate’s lawn.

Julie Phillips, 50, allegedly helped purchase the diapers at a local CVS pharmacy for her daughter, 15, and her daughter’s friend, according to a Bloomington, Ind., police report obtained by ABCNEWS.com.

**How screwed up is these?  You are 50yrs old?!?  What the hell are you doing and what the hell are you teaching your kids?  Some people should never have kids…..and she is a prime example of why.

Anchor Spun From Job for O’Reilly Protest

Nolan said his protest began when he heard that the New England chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was going to present its Governor’s Award to O’Reilly, a graduate of Boston University who spent part of his early career in Boston. He has since gone on to national prominence with his show “The O’Reilly Factor,” which draws millions of viewers nightly as the highest rated cable news shows — on top of O’Reilly’s radio and book success.

“I just thought it was appalling,” Nolan told ABC News. “It had nothing to do with his political beliefs. He’s entitled to his opinions. But to give the highest honor that this organization that I belong to can bestow strikes me as something that shocks the conscience.”

Nolan said he objects to the commentator’s bullying style, claiming that O’Reilly frequently bends the facts in order to get across what he described as venomous opinions. It’s not the type of journalism that should be recognized in the profession for excellence, he said.

…….”I’m interested in telling everyone in the country to stand up and say something is wrong when something is wrong,” he said. “We’ve been through an awful dark time in our history where there are a lot of people telling you to sit down and shut up. From Dick Cheney to Bill O’Reilly, I’m done with bullies.”

**Now this is someone I wouldn’t mind watching.  He actually stands up for what journalism is suppose to be.  O’Reilly isn’t a journalist…he is a political, bullying, pundit hack job….he is a thug.  I even sent a note to CNN to hire him and get rid of that shit they call shows, Nancy Grace and Glenn Beck….nothing but hack jobs and spinners.  Just read Grace’s wikipedia  : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace      It is not exactly something to be proud of…Allegations of prosecutorial misconduct   And they gave this woman a show?!?wtf?!

Tillamook dairy farmer claims ‘good ‘ol boy’s club’ is forcing him out of business 

**This is has me upset.  We like that fact that this is local cheese and it is good.  But now we will no longer buying their products due to their treatment of women and the folks that stand up for them.  I planned on leaving a message on their site, but Harold tried it and it went to an error page.  I’m going to have to research it, maybe even do it by snail mail.