Friday, May 22, 2009

early morning

Clearly the word does not mean what you think it means

From dictionary.com - for my siblings and one of their spouses: con?cern??/k?n?s?rn/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuhn-surn]  –verb (used with object) 1. to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.  2. to interest or engage (used reflexively or in the passive, often fol. by with or in): She concerns herself with every aspect of the business.  3. to trouble, worry, or disquiet: I am concerned about his health.  –noun 4. something that relates or pertains to a person; business; affair: Law is the concern of lawyers.  5. a matter that engages a person’s attention, interest, or care, or that affects a person’s welfare or happiness: The party was no concern of his.  6. worry, solicitude, or anxiety: to show concern for someone in trouble.  7. important relation or bearing: This news is of concern to all of us.  8. a commercial or manufacturing company or establishment: the headquarters of an insurance concern.  9. Informal. any material object or contrivance.

the wee hours

Apparently Certain “Concerned” People Can’t Seem To Leave Me Alone

I keep getting spied on by people who say they are “concerned” about me, yet not once have they shown that concern.  Concern would be, I don’t know, maybe asking how I’m feeling, if I need help with anything, or really anything BESIDES harassing me and lying about me.  It’s funny how the people who keep saying they’re “concerned” about me haven’t done even the smallest thing to prove it, unlike my friends (and my parents), who prove it every single day.

Because these “concerned” harassers are accessing my blog by using proxies (Yeah, HideMyAss.com doesn’t really hide your ass, does it?  Your ass is just out there flapping in the wind), I’ve started to write my personal posts on my Vox blog, which is completely private, except to those I’ve given access.  If you’d like access, send me an email and I’ll approve you as a friend over there.  I’ll still continue to write my political, foodie, Fibro, herniated disk, or whatever posts here because I know that some of those posts have helped some of you who are experiencing the same things.  I’m not going to stop posting because certain family members are creepily spying on me.  I could set up private accounts on this blog, but I don’t want to block the search engines.  Some of my best pals have been strangers who have found my posts via a search.  Besides, it’s my blog and I like writing here, and I’m not going to let anyone chase me away because they can’t get a grip on their own obsessions.

Oh, poo, I’ve spoiled your fun, huh?  Well, I guess you’ll have to get your complete jollies spying on Leigh-Ann now.  She writes just for certain audiences sometimes, so enjoy.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

the wee hours

Idiots of the Day - Our Politicians & Military

This is a copy of my (poorly worded, written late at night, but I just read about this and I’m spittin’ mad!) letter to Sen. Harry Reid and copied to President Obama.

Sen. Reid: It’s absolutely reprehensible that the military would kick Lt. Col. Fehrenbach out (2 years before his full retirement - how convenient…use him for 18 years, then toss him away) because of his sexual orientation.  I cannot believe how backwards this stupid law makes us look. Have you compared the other countries who also kick out their gay servicemembers?  We’re just like Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.  Doesn’t that embarrass you, personally?  It should.  We’ve wasted millions of dollars with these witchhunts and we’re WEAKENING our military by kicking out Arabic translators and decorated combat veterans because oooooh, they might have a same-sex boyfriend or girlfriend.  Ewww, cooties.  It’s so stupid.  I’m embarrassed for our country, for our president, for our senate and congress.  We’re no better than those we fight against.  We’re facing trillions in debt, yet we’re wasting money investigating honorable members of the military because of what they do in their private lives.  It’s disgusting.  Every single senator and congressman should hang their heads in shame.  President Obama, although he wasn’t responsible for this law, owes it to those who voted him into office, those who didn’t discriminate based on his color, to stop the military from discriminating based on orientation.  While he didn’t “promise” to end DADT, he said that he “thought” he could end it.  He hasn’t even seemed to try.  He should be ashamed as well.  The whole lot of you, letting the military act like children who are afraid of cooties.  How embarrassing for a modern military - afraid that their members might be gay.  It’s fine and dandy to torture prisoners, but the fear of gay men and women is just too much to handle, huh? Nancy XXXX “Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the longest combat mission in his squadron’s history. On that infamous September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties above the nation’s capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho, where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with what anyone would agree was great distinction. He comes from a military family. His father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, his mother an Air Force nurse and captain. Lt. Col. Fehrenbach has honored that tradition.” - Aubrey Sarvis, Executive Director Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

Sunday, May 17, 2009

terribly early in the morning

Another Trader Joe’s Favorite

I’ve already professed my love for Trader Joe’s chocolate croissants and spicy spinach flatbread pizzas.  I could live on those two things alone, but now I’ve found another new love - Asian Style Spicy Peanut Vinaigrette w/ Jalapeno & Fresh Cilantro.  I love Chinese chicken salads and all sorts of noodly things, but I have a major hatred for ginger.  I can’t even count the number of soy sauces or asian dressings I’ve tried, only to hate them because they were overpowered by the evil ginger.  But the Spicy Peanut Vinaigrette doesn’t have any ginger and it’s just perfection.  Leigh-Ann made a cucumber salad from it a few weeks ago, and for the last couple of days I’ve been eating a bag o’ lettuce with the dressing on it.  I’m not even ashamed to admit that I ran my finger along the bottom of the bowl to eat up the extra vinaigrette.  It’s just that good.  My regular ol’ daily use camera died on me for some reason (I charge it and it seems fine, but then the lens remains popped out and won’t go back in after it’s used once), so I can’t post a picture of the dressing yet.  Also, my pro account expired at Flickr a couple of days ago, so if you notice any blog entries with missing pictures, that’s the reason.  It only lets you see the most recent 200 pictures…and I have thousands in my account.  So, hey, please buy the massage chair from us, so my blog works right again, okay?  Win, win - you get a great chair and I pay some bills and “splurge” on a Flickr account, so I can see my pictures again.  Or, get some cat food coupons and treat your kitties to the awesomeness of Merrick cat food.  For awhile, many moons ago, our little dogs ate the Merrick dog food (even when we made really good money from teh internets, it was still too expensive to feed to the big dogs - it would’ve been giving them each a $15 meal every single day, ten times what it costs for the little dogs), and they loooooved it.  I loved it, too, because it smelled yummy and looked all healthy ‘n’ stuff w/ visible whole blueberries and other such goodies.

I digress.  If you like Asian dressings, you should try the Trader Joe’s Asian Style Spicy Peanut Vinaigrette.  It’s unbelievably delicious.  Oh, and if you like fruit rolls (the 100% fruit ones) and aren’t particular about what flavor you get, TJ’s Fruit Ends & Pieces are terrific.  They hand cut each fruit bar, so they have uneven bits left that they sell in a bag.  The bag is assorted flavors/shapes and they mostly all taste the same to me, but the non-specific flavor is fine with me because whatever flavor it is, I like it.  The best part is how much you save by buying the bag versus the bars.  The bars are 50 or 60 cents each, and the bagful is only $2.99.  By weight, the cost is a fourth or fifth of what it would cost to buy the bars separately.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

early evening

Cat food and cat litter: coupons for sale (and a massage chair for sale, too)

Yeah, it’s come to that point, selling off some of our freebies.  Anyway, if you have cats and would like to help us and your cats by getting a discount on some good cat litter (Dr. Elsey’s litter is the litter we prefer, although we don’t use the silica crystal kind) and good cat food (Merrick pet food is really great stuff).  Leigh-Ann has posted the info on her blog - The Blog Pound

We also have a brand new (direct from the manufacturer) massage chair for sale.  Even more than the coupons, we would LOVE to sell the chair and have the proceeds from that.  The company donated it to Wee Paws in exchange for a domain name.  I wish they would’ve given us the money instead, as it isn’t so easy to sell a massage chair these days.  People aren’t tossing around a few thousand bucks, even though the chair is really great.  We got one many years ago, at cost, from a chiropractic conference and it’s still running and still gives a terrific massage.  This one is also a zero gravity chair, which ours isn’t.  So, if you or someone you know is looking for a massage chair, send them our way.  Here’s Leigh-Ann’s write-up on the chair, with a link to the chair.