Sunday, 2 November 2008

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Obama Right Over

Aside from not sleeping an entire night through, the vacation is going pretty well. We have been a little under the weather, so yesterday we headed down to the doctor. Appointments were not available. Bleh. So we walked in and hoped. But we ended up leaving for what may be the last time. I’m just fed up with the wait times there. Yesterday there was a girl there who was diabetic and had been fasting for a blood draw. She had an appointment and guess what? An hour later, she had not been broug

The SASSY Lady and Poverty |Blog Action Day Post|

a.k.a. poverty sucks so let’s do something about.  Today is blog action day and thousands of blogs are joining together and posting on poverty to bring awareness to this issue. (you can get this dope shirt here) For weeks I’ve been struggling with a topic - aside from poverty of course - because it’s so large.  It just affects everything, from quality of life, to health to education.  And it’s just everywhere.  And the closest I’ve come to living in poverty was my year of service through Am

My wife and I Entered the 1953 Packard in a Local Show and Was Swamped with Questions

I took a church-sponsored car cruise here in Chautauqua, Kansas. It was run by the local Chief of Police by the name of Elias Breitkreuz. The Chief of Police is a film freak from way back, having a small part in the film "P.O.V". A love of cars was developed over the years. I entered my 1953 Packard in the show 'n shine with the intention of getting a trophy. I spent two days getting the Packard. I had done my car history search on the Packard by going over to vin number checker for a check

I wanna be more than ok...

The dishwasher is broken. Wow! Good thing about it is that while washing dishes by hand, I think about life, I think about my childhood, speacially at that time when my mom fell very ill and I had to do the house cleaning. I started at young age, 9 - 10 years old. I was never spoiled. After school I had not only the homework to do, but house duties. Sometimes my dad could pay a lady to help, but sometimes not. They often used to steal things from our kitchen. My mom had a beautiful porcelain