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Dear President Obama in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Dear President Obama: I am a Demoncrat. I voted for you. I believed that you were sincere in your message of 'change we can believe in' and felt you offered a needed and welcome change from the politics as usual that Washington seems so fond of. And after the economy became the primary issue, I especially supported your message of personal responsibility. I am writing to tell you that I am bitterly disappointed in what you are doing.

Reply to On Blogging in Life Journals Stardock Forums

It may sound silly, but I actually want 'strangers' reading the blog--sometimes the feedback from people who are totally uninvolved and unbiased can be amazingly helpful. So I don't want to just rant at myself in a vacuum.

Reply to A Waste of Perfectly Good Caramel Taste in Life Journals Stardock Forums

Banana is one of the first foods we give babies. Maybe it's become a comfort food, which would explain why they think things will sell better if they have banana in them?

On Blogging in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

My original blog was completely anonymous in the sense that most people in my life didn't know it existed, and those who did were not invited to read it. Unfortunately, this created some friction, so when that blog site began to self-destruct, I decided to make this blog public. But I'm finding that this defeats the whole purpose. I don't really want to be writing a superficial little chit-chat of a blog, but it's also not that I want to get into the heavy issues of the da

Happy Birthday KT! in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Today our big girl turns 32. She is really happy as to her, that's the perfect age--old enough to have some life experience and be taken seriously, young enough to still be hip and hot and energetic. I never really thought about any particular age that way--neither looking forward to one nor dreading one, for that matter. But my life was a bit different than hers--by the time I was 32 I had a 6 and a 4 year old, which means KT was in kindergarten and JLO was home with me unt

Reply to Making Connections in Life Journals Stardock Forums

[quote]the gayest old song (by The Lovin' Spoonful) was playing over the PA system..."You didn't have to be so nice, I would have liked you anyway...." [/quote] OMG! When I was 12 or 13, I went some lame teen show and one of the musical interludes was John Sebastian and The Lovin' Spoonful. There were like 15 of us in the room and we were thisclose to them, and guess what song they played? (The other group was The Young Rascals, later to drop the 'young'. As you

Discouraged in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

When we lived in India, I spent a lot of my time and effort in fund raising. If you're living somewhere like that, where the need is endless and everywhere, it's hard not to want to do something. Turns out, for a variety of reasons, I was pretty good at raising money for the groups I was working with. And even better, after setting the bar much higher than it had been before, those who came after me were encouraged to do as well, if not better. When we moved back to

Reply to Making Connections in Life Journals Stardock Forums

[quote]Yanno how he spelled CANADA? C eh N eh D eh.[/quote] [e digicons]:thumbsup:[/e] And I suppose he played hockey, eh?

Reply to Making Connections in Life Journals Stardock Forums

[quote]I'm not from India but my Husband is from England and the English LOVE Indian food, so much so that their most common take-out restaurants are (of course) fish and chips followed by curry.[/quote] So now we have to figure out who owns his favorite restaurant, where they're from in India, and who I might have met while we lived there who might know them or anyone they've ever met. [quote]he was from Saskatchewan[/quote] Good thing he wasn't from Vancouver or we'd ha

Making Connections in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I met 2 other Canadian women at the gym. I'm kind of easy to spot since I wear my nearly free Roots Canada tees when I work out--the ones I got because they were out of one I ordered so they gave me a $100 gift certificate to apologize, which meant I got 4 tees for the cost of shipping which was something like $5. At any rate, I now know of 3 of us and I can't help but wonder what we're all doing so far south? The guy I work with at the gym is Mexican, so we've decided that

What's With May? in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

For such a short month, February has lots of birthdays. And what's the deal with all this May hankey pankey? It really must be the lusty month of May! It starts on the 2nd with my former brother-in-law's birthday, my aunt on the 3rd, moi on the 4th, my dear, dear friend on the 5th, my professor/mentor from university on the 6th, a good friend on the 9th. Today, the 10th, would have been my father's 89th birthday. As my sister said this morning, where did

Sunday in Suburbia in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Sorry for the silence. Either nothing of import to impart, or inertia reigns supreme... My birthday was quiet but nice. My in-laws sent me an Amazon gift certificate--very unexpected but the best gift they could have given me. Normally I just order what I want, but knowing I have a certain amount to spend, I find I am being very selective in my choices. Funny how that works. The husband actually made me a birthday card on the computer. He spends muc

Reply to What killed the economy? in Current Events Stardock Forums

I think it started during the Clinton administration when things were deregulated. That's what allowed financial institutions to start playing their games. And where was the SEC during all this??? So it's been coming for a long time now. And once values (of stocks, of homes, of products) become overvalued, the only way to correct is some kind of crash. Unfortunately, both things happening at once led to this current mess.

About the Newbie in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

1. I was born on 5th Avenue in NYC. 2. I have been to every continent except Antarctica. 3. I graduated from high school at 16, but took 6 years to get through university, so I caught up with myself. 4. My Xanth talent, according to my family, is my ability to load dishwashers. 5. I met my husband when he was a student in the university course I was teaching. (He got an A; his brother got a C, and I still hear about it. No, we didn't start dating un

Charity Begins at Home in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

During the Christmas mayhem, my mother-in-law and I were talking about the current economic mess and she related a bit of history from her mother-in-law. She recalled being told that when the unemployed who rode the rails came through the small town Gramma lived in, they would mark the homes of those who would feed them (the symbols that 'tramps and hobos' developed for just this purpose) so that later travelers would know where to go to ask for a meal. And I asked, did Gramma fee

Reply to 25 random facts about me. in Blogging Stardock Forums

In love reading fantasy! Keep me posted on your books please. And I love playing computer games. Any you want to recommend or take credit for??? But the one that resonates most for me is #24, especially having lived in a culture where so many have so little...

Reply to What to Do? in US Domestic Stardock Forums

Oh, look at that: it highlights them automatically! Clever!

Reply to What to Do? in US Domestic Stardock Forums

I don't know how to insert your quotes so they're highlighted, so forgive me. [quote]Many here have told me and others that we should not be attacking Obama before he even make msitakes. [/quote] I don't think I'm attacking Obama. I do want him to succeed, but I think this stimulus plan is a cobbled together mess of things that aren't going to help much. And they expect more to be added to it in the Senate. Didn't he mention cutting out pork barreling when he w

What to Do? in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Okay, so I voted for Obama. I definitely agreed with him on some issues, and I definitely disagreed with him on others. But I truly thought he would at least come through on his whole thing about change, and I felt that was a good thing. And here we are some 10 days into it and I can't believe how angry I feel--about what's going on economically (an ongoing anger) and now about how Obama is going about dealing with it. I could see the rationale in some seem

Once More, With Feeling in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I am feeling kind of lousy. The first round of antibiotics did nothing for me--I've been coughing as much as ever and still feel sick and run down. Called the doctor first thing this morning and when I still hadn't heard back by 3pm, called again. So starting tomorrow I'm on a new antibiotic and finally, cough medicine. And now that the kitchen is tidied up from dinner, I feel like all I will be able to do shortly is drag myself to be

Reply to So Many Jobs Being Lost in Current Events Stardock Forums

While I agree that the sense of hope that Obama engenders is needed right now, the reality is that economic cycles exist. Having gotten ourselves into this mess, this economic crisis would run its course and we would emerge as we have before--different, definitely, but healthy once again--even if we did little about it. The tricky part is whether the government will make things worse through its actions. The best thing Obama has done so far has been to remind people that we

The Shipping News in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

So while I'm sitting here trying to feel better (less coughing today but more chest discomfort--does that make any sense?), I'm trying to get some things done--mostly phone calls and paperwork. But once again it is proving only how naive I am about things. We have a small shipment of stuff that we want to send to the girls, who are in 2 cities in Canada. We have this stuff because when we left Canada, both girls were in school and had no place to store things, whereas we w

Rx for coughs and souls in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I have lost track of how long I have been coughing, but it's been a while now. This morning I woke up feeling like a truck was sitting on my face (translation: sinus pain and pressure) and it's reached the point where my chest hurts whether I'm coughing or not. All I wanted to do was roll over and go back to sleep, but I was committed to a gym session so I got up and went. Went very slowly but steeply on the treadmill but that was about it. After being told by the nth

The Games That People Play in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Growing up, I made up my own games. There were lots of kids in my neighborhood and endless games of tag, statues, stoop ball, stick ball, hide and seek. But when told to go and play I had certain standbys that, at least in retrospect, entertained me endlessly. We had a collection of marbles. There were 3 very large ones (dark blue, light blue, and I think a yellow one), a slightly smaller one, a ton of regular sized ones, and a couple of very small ones. The da

Funny How Time Slips Away in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I had this killer headache on Wednesday. Doesn't happen very often anymore, but there still are times when I wake up in the middle of the night and it's there, and if I don't get up and take some Advil, it carries over to the whole day. It was just too cold and my bed was too cozy, so I chose not to get up, despite knowing the consequences. This time it's still sitting there, a vague reminder in the back of my head. And I'm finding that my balance is off, so I think it