Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Just an area for what I’m doing on an everyday basis.

Unfocused

My shins are sore…the front of them. I’ve gone walking for the last 3 days and I don’t know if I changed my walk and that is why. It has been in the mid 30s, but sunny and breezy. So I bundle up and hit the road. Today I made sure I wore my scarf, because Harold has been saying that I look like a raccoon………lol……damn wind burn.

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It is nice to change up my walk. The only thing that I don’t care for on this route is more noise from the traffic. My walks before were within the neighborhood, this route is following a main road……but it gives me a chance to see if I can get a better view of the ranges in the background. I did go further today and turned on to lesser used road, just walking for a better view. =)

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Off the main road.
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Damn tree was in the way…….lol
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Just some very colorful landscape.

Been trying to get myself focused today and haven’t been succeeding very well. I need to make my to do list again….sometimes I don’t need it, sometimes my mind just won’t organize………annoying.

This is too fucking sad

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=4173318

Heath Ledger was found dead the Australian-born actor was 28.

I just got home and Pauline told me this and she said something so true. Media whores like Paris, Lindsay and anything Spears live forever, the talented and worthy die young.

This just plain sucks, I was a big fan of his and I am dying to see him as the Joker, my all time favorite comic villain. From what I’ve seen on the trailers Jack cannot hold a candle to this Joker… Heath acted exactly as the Joker was meant to be.

RIP… you died far too young.

How Do I Feel?: crushed

News Flash & Other Observations

Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC at Age 28

**This is just sad. We were stunned to hear this. We really liked him, had the potential to become one of the greats. Why does this happen to someone who is so talented?

Crossing Mayor Giuliani often had a price

**If you are thinking of voting for this guy, you have to read this……he sounds WORST then George W, more like a mob boss then a politician. =(

Fred Thompson Drops Presidential Bid
**I bet you didn’t see that coming……….lol

Bhutto’s niece wants end to ‘dynastic’ politics

**At least someone else is speaking the truth about the politics and Bhutto’s roll. Time magazine had a very good article on her true scarred legacy and how she was just as much part of the problem.

CNN readers respond angrily to ‘race or gender’ story

**I love this! Because these voters are refusing to be pigeionholed! It is so insulting to think that just because you are black or a woman that you will vote for a candidate. That is the issue that I had with Bhutto fans, just because she was a woman didn’t mean she helped women………she didn’t.

35 years after Roe: A legacy of law and morality

**This issue is never as simple as so many people make it out to be. The extreme right-to-lifers don’t want to acknowledge what a woman goes through on making a decision such as that. Overall, I don’t have a problem with someone believing in right-to-life, what I have an issue with is them telling everyone else what to do with their lives and their refusal to acknowledge that IF they would get their heads out of the sand and teach truthful sex education and give access to birth control they would really cut down the rate of abortion. Knowledge is power and preventive, when you give access to those who need it most.

I did get out for a walk today. Took me a bit to gear up, it was colder today then yesterday and windy. But it was beautiful out. I know most of the country has enough of their own ice, but here is a little bit of ours.

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As you can see, most of our grass is still green.

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Later I was in the bedroom looking outside the window and I looking at an awkward angle I was able to see Mt. Hood. Now let me explain something about myself.  My sense of direction is horrible.  The main road that leads to where we live curves and I easily lose which direction the mountain is.  So I really thought that it was more to the left of us, on the other side.  Never thought I would be able to see it from that window.  Doesn’t help that it is normally covered in clouds…….lol

So when I went to go check the mail, I walked on to the end of that part of the neighborhood to where one of the main roads are and saw this.

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I know that the 2 pictures look same, but there is enough of a difference that I don’t know which one I like the best.  I was just happy as hell that I finally got to get a picture of it!
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http://www.katu.com/home/video/13951822.html?video=pop&t=a

I found this time-lapse video about what I was seeing yesterday! I love that we moved here. =)

**The sad is for the death of Heath Ledger.

Stunning Day

I’m trying not to lose track of the days as I did last week.  =)

I was disappointed that the Packers lost.  I was thinking it was partly due to the fact that the Giants practiced this past week outside, while the Packers practiced inside.  But Torn pointed out that the Packers never really had a running game, which is true.  So we have 2 weeks before the Patriots and the Giants face off…..not sure who I really want to win.  I do know that I just want a good game………I HATE blow out games for the Championship.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day :

Historians Fear MLK’s Legacy Being Lost

**This is true, never everyone remembers the 1st few words of his famous speech but they forget the other causes he took up………poverty and ‘Nam.  I remember class discussions on those in college, but the general public collective memory just glosses over it.

Dungy staying, at least through 2008 

**Thankfully we got him for one more year.  Hopefully it will also help in the transition of Caldwell.

Obama fights back against Bill Clinton 

**This is getting old between Bill Clinton and Obama.  I think Bill Clinton is making it worst for his wife and may leave issues that Hillary & Obama won’t be able to overcome to work together.  Which would be a big disappointment.  =(

Today was a gorgeous day.  We are getting the cold at night…….no where near the cold that Green Bay or Minnesota’s gets, but still pretty cold.  Today got up to the mid 30s and it was clear.  When I was out and about, I got some stunning views of the snow covered Mt. Hood.  It was almost crystal clear. You could faintly see snow being blown from the very top.  It was something else.  I would love to have more days like that…….of course, it makes for much colder nights.  =)

PnH Falls

Game Day

Just here watching the 1st of 2 games today.  It is hard to believe that after this all we have left is the Super Bowl.  =(  Even if I’m not watching the games intently, I like having them on in the background, so this sucks.  There really is no one team that I don’t like, but I don’t care of Rivers attitude from the Chargers….no sportsmanship.  That means a lot to me.  I really would love to see Green Bay make the Super Bowl and take the Patriots down.  Partly because the Patriots beat our Colts, the coaching staff has also been tarnished for me with them video taping the calls of other teams………that was low, but mainly because I would love to see Favre get one more ring and this may be one of his last chances. He has a hell of a year after last year.

Baby, it’s cold outside for NFC title game

McCarthy used some frozen balls at practice this week to help simulate likely conditions Sunday.

“Is that what was going on?” veteran wide receiver Donald Driver said with a laugh. “Basically, they never told us that the balls were coming out of the freezer, we just kind just felt it as we caught it: ’Wow, the balls are cold.’ We thought most likely the balls had been outside all day, but they were in the freezer.

**Makes sense to do, but I would’ve thought the players would’ve been informed about the freezer part………lol

So don’t go sleeveless? When told fellow end Justin Tuck was planning the same fashion statement as many of the Packers, the veteran Strahan shivered.

“I told him I’m wearing layers,” Strahan said. “These guys can wear short sleeves. I’m not trying to impress anybody. For what? Oh, I’m strong!

“I guarantee you Justin Tuck’s goose bumps will be bigger than his muscles.”

**I really like it when the players are able to be themselves and show their humor.  The NFL is very good of showing that side of the game.  I know it is just good PR on the NFL part, but without the players being who they are it wouldn’t succeed.

This year sucked for commercials during the football season.  I can’t stand beer, it is disgusting to me, but they usually have some interesting and entertaining commercials.  Coors has been the worst..the use of old NFL press conferences…..I race to hit the mute button………they have sucked big time.  I so hope that they don’t reuse them next year…..that keep ruining the game.

Separated Saudi couple sues to reunite 

**And people have issues with the International Women’s Conference over the issue of abortion……..refusing to see that the majority of the issues that they face are issues such as this……..morons.

I had read the following articles over the last 2 weeks, playing on adding them here.  To me they are issues too big to be ignored.

War Torn, part 1 

War Torn, part 2 

**I firmly believe in personal responsibility, that this country has moved away from, but are so many things that are changed inside a person’s mind due to war.  Between what they see and the need to survive in the most primal way, it is no wonder that some of these veteran’s lose it.  It is so screwed up, because they are passed off into the VA system, which we all know sucked before the increase of current vets, so it is even worst.  I not going to get into that…..since it is a very sore subject with me. Then the victims of these horrible crimes get lost……..

Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans

Edwards On O’Reilly: ‘He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About’

**O’Reilly shows his stupidity again (I can’t use the word ignorance…….way too much of a understatement).  I love (NOT) people who act all patriotic and they know everything but in in their defense of failed policies and beliefs refuse to see the truth….the No Spin Zone??  He is nothing but spin…….huge, huge liar.  I just can’t stand the guy because he reminds me of a big ass lying bully…..Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly anyone?  It really breaks down his bullshit.

Ronald Reagan Is Still Dead

**I’m so tired of them invoking Reagan……..he wasn’t all that great.  And none of the candidates have clue…..ggrrrr

Damn, New England just threw an interception in the end zone…….

Champs Bowl '06