Sad Birthday

Today was my birthday. Not a bad day excapt that this afternoon our pet goat (yes, you read rightly)Jasper Billygoat Gruff was hit by a truck and died. What the idiot goat was doing across the street and in front of the neighbors today when he invariably has confined his ramblings to the yard and our abundant and tasty weeds in the past I'll never know.

Rest peacefully Jas. May your goat heaven have people and dogs and cats willing to play chase with you and scratch that itchy place behind your ear. May it be a place with all the newspaper and important mail you can eat, as well as a house for you to realize your ambition of being a house goat in.

As my almost 6 year old said "He was a good goat".

Been Neglectful

I've been tagged for the Meme:

'The Meme':
1.) What were you doing 10 years ago?
Working.Being a Mommy with a husband and a wife.
2.) What were you doing 5 years ago?
Working. Being a new Mommy again.
3.) What were you doing one year ago?
Gee, uh, working, being new mommy to an almost 1, and seeing the older one's 1st year in Kindergarten.
4.) What were you doing yesterday?
Hee
Working, then Blogging, then playing on forums.
5.) Five snacks you enjoy
Popcorn
Brownies(they do a heckova job as a snack)
leftover steak
leftover pizza
pepperoni

6.) Five songs I know all the words to.
"There was an Old Lady that Swallowed a Fly"
"On top of Spaghetti"
"Hush little Baby"
"Elenor Rigby"
"It's all for the Best"from Godspell
7.) Five things you would do if you had a million dollars
Fix house, add 3 rooms.
Pay off EVERYONE
Buy a lawn tractor
Donate large sum to defeat anti-gay right politicians
Fence our property and add a second house/garage combo.
8.) Five things you like doing
Computer stuff
Reading
Playing with kids
Building stuff
Cooking
9.) Five bad habits
Smoking
Sleeping
Procrastinating
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....I have to think now.
10.) Five things I would never wear again
Never say never
11.) Five favorite toys
3 balls on a string that you play with kinda like a yo-yo-I don't know the name.
My computer
My Cell Phone Camera
My sword collection
The stuffed Halloween cat in a witch's hat that when you push the button has it's head spin and it yowls. I got it for $.25 at the thrift shop.

Advice to a Failed Man

My advice to the President....

Go before the American people in a spirit of humility and APOLOGIZE. Then, if your faith is truly the faith of a Christian, not the mouthings of a cynical politician, get on your knees and truly pray-don't look for voices in your head, look within and decide how the gentle Christ would set up a government infrastructure to truly reflect "Christian Values". He said that how one treats the least among us will be counted as how they treat Him. Mr. President, if you permit children to live in poverty when a tiny % of the wealthiest's income would feed them, if you permit the poor and underpriveleged to go without basic health care, if you spend millions on campaigns instead of spending that money on quality pre-school and childcare, then you are showing God that you do not value His Son, that you would starve Him, leave Him prey to illness, leave Him ignorant, then blame Him for not succeeding as an adult.

Mr. Bush, apologize to the people you have lied to-the lies being that you would unite the country, the lies being that you are a compassionate conservative, the lies being that you walk with Christ. Other lies are less important-they would not have happened if you had told the truth on these three things. Next, to make your apology truly have any meaning, reinvent yourself into a man who can truly be said to be compassionate, to be a uniter, to walk with Christ.

Begin with cleaning your own house-remove those who are corrupt, those who lie and twist the truth, those who steal, those whose advice has led you to this point. The hypocrits who claim to be pro-life, yet favor war and executions. The hypocrites who claim to revere family and marrige, yet cast out their children, divorce their spouses, fight to keep their own same sex relationships unrecognized and unsanctioned. Cast out these from your administration, from your circle of advisors, from your supporters. Look for advisors from all sources. Look for men and women whose driving goal is to raise the least of Americans up, to return the US to it's place as a beacon of hope and freedom. Look for those that abhor destruction without over riding purpose- be that destruction that of war, or the taking of a life, or the destruction of a person's self respect and livelihood.

Or resign and let someone who can fix the mess you've made.