I'm approaching a Bloggerversary here at this url... 2 years on June 26th. I might as well celebrate it now, chances are I'll forget by then.

However, my long time followers will remember I had a blog at a different location before the big move.

New Year; New Beginnings was the first blog I started here on Blogspot in May 2005. That's right, 4 years ago. It doesn't even feel like four years ago. Four years ago I wasn't even pregnant with kid #3 yet, and now she's a walking talking do-it-herself dynamo who loves to crack eggs, boiled or not.

But I digress. It seems the older I get, and the more children I have that time seems to fly by. One day flows into the next like water. Milestones for the kids come and go like blinks of an eye and seasons seem change imperceptibly. Maybe it's me, and this life I've put together for myself. Maybe I do too much or do too little. Or maybe it's a really clever optical illusion.

What ever it is, I'll still be here to blog about the mundane musings in my life, the boisterous children that God let me claim as gifts and what ever other words I can think up to put down digitally.

Thanks Bloggerverse for being so kind and letting me hang with ya.

Mikey and I recently celebrated 6 years of marriage. I think I heard once that the first 5 years of marriage is the hardest, but once you get past those, you have a solid foundation for a long marriage. I might have read that about small businesses...

Either way.

Mikey and I are pretty happy. Maybe it helps that we lead separate lives with him still being on the road, but I also think that this situation wouldn't work if there was something amiss in our relationship. Last year when he lost his job and was home for two months, we rarely fought even though it was stressful time for us.

I don't know that I have a secret for keeping our marriage happy, or particular advice for others on keeping their marriages happy. All I know is that we trust each other, we act like a brand new couple when ever we can, don't let the little things get in the way, and try to to leave the past in the past.

Oh, I suppose loving the guy comes in handy, but I have to say that the word love doesn't cover it anymore. I'm not going to be cheesy and say what we have is so much more than love, because I'm not sure that it is. It's just different. Like having an apple and an orange, except there's not really one succinct word in the English language for it. But for this occasion, love will do.

I've got a long held tradition for you...

School performances.


Last night I went to my kindergartner's school performance. I'm sure you remember these, getting all dressed up to sing a couple songs that you really didn't know inducing your first experience at anxiety and possibly stage fright. It didn't matter that mom and dad were poised in the audience with a video camera that captured your every twitch, every blank stare, nose pick and the one time you smacked the head of the kid in front of you because he stole your crayon once.

As a parent... I hate these. I'm usually the only one who ever goes while others have mom, dad, Aunt Rae and Grandpa Fred who looks like he's about to keel over. There's never enough room to park around the school, the gym reaches sun surface temperatures in record time, and let's face it... not everyone showers.
The the music teacher students sang 6 different songs in two groups of students. The whole thing lasts about 35 minutes. Which happens to be the amount of time we spent waiting for the time that my kindergartner was to be in her classroom. And you know, it would have been nice to know that my daughter had to sit on the floor of stage in a skirt, so I could have showed her how to sit properly. Yes, that was my daughter flashing her panties.

But I can't complain too much. She enjoyed the songs, had fun getting dressed up, and got to do something with just mommy which hardly ever happens. I did learn one thing: she definitely didn't inherit her mother's attention whore tendencies.


Thank goodness.

I think the day has finally come...

Today... I become sad and pathetic.

When regular high speed cable isn't fast enough and my 250G portable hard drive isn't big enough.

WHO in their right mind needs to be more connected than that? WHO in their right mind needs more than 250G of portable memory!!

I think I've finally crossed over into that grey area between terrorist and tech nerd.


So when my cable company offered to upgrade to super high speed internet (as opposed to just high speed internet) for just $10 more a month, I said "Sign me up!"

And now... instead of thinking... I really don't need all that... I'm thinking:

I'm totally super excited to be sad and pathetic!

I love Myspace. Sometimes.

I get to catch up with old friends, connect with new ones, and ignore my family in yet another medium. It's FANTASTIC!

However. There are times when I just don't care what people's opinions are. Unfortunately, people end up throwing their opinions out there like hand grenades ready to explode on whatever unsuspecting soul happens to read their posts.

So, because of this, I am subjected to the opinions of one such republican who has a family much like mine, except he's active in the marines or the air force... or some branch of the armed forces... gets his paychecks from the government, lives on government land... Probably gets government cheese *drools*... But I digress. I wanted to post one of his such "opinion" pieces because I wanted to see how real level headed folks (people like me) reacted to his very conservative rants.

This may become a regular thing, since he has LOTS of opinions and loves to force them upon let people know about them.


Topic Subject: Socialism Anyone?

Raise your hand if you would like the government to give you everything you need to live a basic existance from the beginning to the end of your life...because you are incapable of providing for yourself. Did your hand drop at the end?
Raise your hand if you would love for people who are in need to get everything they need to live a basic existance...as long as the government is in control of it, and it's paid for by your tax dollars. Did I get you that time too?
Ok, for real this time...raise your hand if you think every American citizen should assume basically the same lifestyle, no matter how hard they work, or how much their occupation does for the advancement of society...of course except for those who work directly for the federal government. I'd be willing to bet that none of you whole-heartedly agreed with any of those perposterous statements. That's why the current, super-liberal controlled administration would never put it to you in those words, though I assure you, this is what they want. They'd rather say it to you in a way that the governemnt is seen as the great provider, and hope you never realize what's really going on. The truth is, the more you rely on the federal government for your day to day existance, the more control they have over you. You're a lot less likely to revolt against the government if they are "providing" your only means of health care, they are "providing" your mortgage, they are "providing" your food through vouchers, they are "providing" your children's education. Get the point?
The fact is, America was founded on the principle of self-reliance. You get as much out of life as you can with what you've got...and if it's not enough, you work your ass off and get more. If you don't (or won't) put fourth the effort, you get left behind. Free enterprise rewards those who will outsmart, outwork, and just plain outwill the competition, and our current government would like to take that away. They think it's better that the wealthy citizens who work hard every day of their lives fork over as much of their money as neccessary to pay for those who don't. All drive and determination to get ahead will be removed... and replaced by just enough motivation to get by. Economic growth will stagnate, and reliance on government handouts will increase even more...perpetuating the very cycle that dropped Russia right off the bottom of the list of countries that matter.
I could go on for paragraphs, or even pages about the things American citizens are guilty of, that allows this kind of thing to happen...but that's another blog. This blog serves only as a warning to not take everything you hear from a politician at face value. Don't just look at it as relieving yourself of a lot of responsibility. Realize that you're costing yourself a lot of freedom in the process.
It's up to us to ensure that the government never gets that kind of power. It's up to us to assume control (and yes, responsibity) over our own lives. We can not let OUR democracy, paid for by the blood of revolutionaries and patriots, be turned against us by liberal eletists who don't trust us with our own constitutional rights. Only we the people can allow this to happen. If we turn over our daily lives to the government, out of pure laziness and greed, then we will be left to suffer the consequences.

I honestly wanted to write something here that was worth reading, but I've got nothing.

It's a beautiful sunny day outside and I couldn't collect my thoughts together even if I had a metal detector.

I'm thinking about all the different flowers I want to get started, how much fun the lake is going to be this year now that my baby is going on 3 years old.

So, yeah. This is a complete waste of space, and you all should enjoy some sunshine if you got it!