I am thankful…
November 26, 2008 
“that suffering produces perserverance; perserverance, character; and character, hope.” Rom.5:4
for the love of a visionary
for the trust and dependance of 3 beautiful babies
for people who love me for who I am
to be American
for the Holy Spirit, who helps me
that Yahweh chose to rescue me and make me a daughter
that our past does not have to define us
for the opportunity to move across the country and fulfill a dream
for forgiveness, given and received
for Christopher, Emma, Luke, Lydia, Shanna, Crissy, Jonathan, John David, Mom, Dad, Apostle, the Hardys, the Browns, the Lamonicas………
have you ever…
November 21, 2008 
cried yourself to sleep on your lovers shoulder
thought that by losing everything, you could somehow gain the only thing you ever really wanted
been kissed by a beautiful baby right on the lips
tangled yourself up playing “tickle monster” with your children
realized that some people are just never going to be dependable
jumped into a freezing pool on a dare
eaten a beignet
ridden a bike made for a 3 year old
gone to Wal-Mart on a Saturday (this one i do not recommend)
been completely healed of a long term condition
loved someone so much it makes your chest hurt
tried doing it yourself before you ask for help
made a turkey with a cut out of your hand and a pinecone
packed up your whole life and moved across the country
heard a song that seemed written just for you, just for this moment:
To Christopher on the occasion of our 10th wedding anniversary:
November 15, 2008 
10 YEARS! and it seems like yesterday and a million years ago at the same time. I didn’t have to be with any other guys to know when the right one had come along, and although I was only 17 when we fell in love, no one could tell me it was “puppy love” or “just a crush”. The last ten years have proven what I have known since I was a skinny, clumsy, big-haired highschooler: what we have is unmoveable, unshakeable, and eternal. I love you always always always…
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Thursday thinkings…
I think …
my husband is a great man, and I am blessed to be with him (10 years on the 15th!)
my kids are my pride and joy, they make me so happy and I tell them everyday
we’re gonna make it, and be better for it
it’s a shame my tax money will be used to pay for teenage girls to have abortions without their parents consent
I’m gonna like it in Colorado
we’re gonna have fun celebrating our 10th anniversary on the beach
some people will show up at the Open House on Sunday
someone is going to be very happy living here
I’ll go now…
Disappointed…
Senator McCain’s remarks from last night:
“Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening. My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.”
“A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him. To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving. This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.”
“I’ve always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too. But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation’s reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.”
“A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters. America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.”
“Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth. Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer him my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day. Though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.”
“Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain. These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face. I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.”
“Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that. It’s natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again. We fought – we fought as hard as we could. And though we feel short, the failure is mine, not yours.”
“I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends. The road was a difficult one from the outset, but your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.”
“I’m especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother and all my family, and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign. I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me. You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate’s family than on the candidate, and that’s been true in this campaign. All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.”
“I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength… her husband Todd and their five beautiful children… for their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.”
“To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly, month after month, in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.”
“I don’t know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I’ll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I’m sure I made my share of them. But I won’t spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.”
“This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.”
“I would not be an American worthy of the name should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century. Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone, and I thank the people of Arizona for it.”
“Tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama – I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.”
“Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.”
Why I hate halloween…
… this may come across as overly dramatic to all you trick or treaters out there, but I HATE HALLOWEEN!! We never celebrated halloween growing up and I am familiar with some of the stories of the origins of halloween. But it’s not about that for me. To me halloween is a celebration of fear and death, and I don’t really see anything to celebrate here. I try to imagine if I had a loved one who had died, or if one of my children was too afraid to fall asleep in their own bed at night, or if some demented psychopath took control of our home….YIPPEE!! Since none of this has happened, let’s pretend just for one night; come on, it’ll be fun!! Did you know that tomorrow night all registered sex offenders are being told to turn out there porch lights and post signs that read “No candy here”. You know those pedophiles are loving them some halloween. So, my poor children will not be parading around town in cute costumes and knocking on strangers doors for goodies! Bless their hearts…do you think they will resent me when they’re grown?
What an idiot…
If this is an example of someone making decisions for our country, we really do need change…
Steve Cohen (Tennessee (D))
They don’t make ‘em like they used to…
I was sad to hear a few days ago that Paul Newman had passed away. He was 83 years old and had been married to his wife, Joanne Woodward, for 50 years. This is admirable in any marriage, but is unheard of in Hollywood. It was Newman who coined the phrase “Why go out for hambuger when you have steak at home”. On top of being an award winning actor, Newman was the founder of Newman’s Own, a food company whose profits after taxes have raised over 250 million dollars for charities all over the world. (I highly recommend the salad dressing, spaghetti sauces, and cookies!)
The Polar Bears are just fine…
Come to find out the global climate crisis may be just a little exaggerated. What’s a tree hugging, nature loving, conservation-minded girl supposed to do? I mean, Al Gore just won the Noble Prize for goodness sake, and now I’m finding out he pretty much made the whole thing up and completely ignored what the scientist have to say about all of this, which is:
Implementation of the cap-and-trade carbon dioxide policies presently before Congress on greenhouse gas reductions would lead to a substantial slowdown in the world’s economic development and, at the same time, have no significant impact on the globe’s future temperature.
The renewable energy sources of wind, solar, hydro, etc. are too expensive and will never be able to adequately replace fossil fuels in the coming decades. The global climate is not in crisis as Al Gore and so many others of his like-minded associates have repeatedly stressed. The evidence presented by the global warming advocates has many flaws. There has not yet been an open and fair scientific dialogue on this topic. The much-trumped “scientific consensus” on global warming is bogus. There are thousands of scientists who disagree with the greenhouse gas warming scenario being a serious threat to humankind. But their voices have been largely ignored and/or their motives often denigrated. Many younger warming skeptics concerned about their future careers refuse to confront the issue.
It’s always hard to fight an entrenched lobby with its wealthy and powerful governmental and international global warming proponents. A form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree that human-induced global warming is a great threat to humankind. The normal scientific process of objectively studying both sides of a question has not occurred. If our government were really interested in getting an accurate evaluation of the warming threat, it would have called for and made research funds available to skeptics and would have encouraged open dialogue between the warming skeptics and the warming believers. Such dialogue has been purposely suppressed.
The human-induced global warming scenarios that have been so much in the headlines since the hot summer of 1988 have repeatedly been exaggerated by a broad spectrum of scientists and environmentalists who have a vested interest in having and maintaining such a global warming scare. Most of these global warming advocates do not have sufficient backgrounds in meteorology and climatology to be able to realistically evaluate CO2’s potential influences on global temperature.
The many Global Circulation Model simulations of 2 to 5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperature by the end of the 21st century, for which the warming scenarios are based, have basic flaws. These global models do not correctly model the globe’s small-scale precipitation processes. They have incorrectly programmed the rain processes so as to cause large artificial and unrealistic global warming in their models. These GCMs also do not yet accurately model the globe’s deep ocean circulations that appear to be the primary driving mechanism for most global temperature change.
The summary conclusions of the five-yearly Intra-governmental Panel on Climate Change reports that have been issued in the last 15 years grossly exaggerate the warming threat. Many experienced atmospheric scientists with contrary views have been purposely ignored, or if consulted, their contrary views put aside.
The globe has many serious environmental problems. Most of these problems are regional or local in nature, not global. These environmental problems will require a wide variety of regional and local actions to be taken for their amelioration. Universal reduction of human global greenhouse gases will not offer much benefit to these really pressing and serious regional and local environmental problems.
In the next few years the globe is going to enter a modest cooling period similar to what was experienced in the 30 years between the mid-1940s and the mid-1970s.
I am convinced that in 15 to 20 years we will look back on this period of global warming hysteria as we now look back on other popular and trendy scientific ideas that have not stood the test of time.
We will later regret having so severely brainwashed our school children to this false warming threat, as is currently occurring.
William Gray is a professor emeritus of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, where he has worked since 1961. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in geophysical science and has issued Atlantic basin seasonal hurricane forecasts since 1984.
What would happen if we did what Professor Gray suggests and focus our attention locally. Where would we find ourselves years from now if we taught our children to recycle and care for their lands? What did Yahweh really have in mind when he commissioned us in the beginning to “rule, and reign, and have dominion”?
reign: dominating power or influence.
What kind of influence are you having on the environment? Any ideas on how we make a positive influence on our own small patches of earth?
Thursday
Just finished another great workout at the gym with Christopher. This is my second week going and I am feeling really good! He did make me weigh myself the other day which was really depressing, but I won’t know my progress if I don’t have a starting point. Here are a few things I am doing to look and feel better, what about you?
drinking lots of water
working out with weights and 20 minutes of cardio 5x’s a week
eating breakfast early every morning
taking vitamins
eating several small meals a day: lots of eggs, nuts, turkey, salad, and chicken.
