Saturday, January 14, 2012

American Pride

Every year thousands of our U.S. citizens sign up to defend our Country. Thousands go off to fight in war. They leave behind so many family, friends, and loved ones. Those of us that are left here at home go through a wide range of emotions.

We are certainly proud of our service members. We also have those days when it is very difficult to get through. We worry daily about how they are. We hope that they are staying safe, we hope that they are doing well. We miss them like we have never missed anything or anyone.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Jennifer Petkov -- Monster from Hell

This story is rather old. However it is still a horrible shock to hear about.

This woman; Jennifer Petkov age 33 at the time; taunted a poor helpless dying seven year old little girl on Facebook. Jennifer had been taunting the child's grandmother as well. The child lost her mother to Huntington's Disease when she was only six years old. At the time that the child was being taunted by a neighbor woman the child was just seven years old and was Stage 3 in her disease.

This woman Jennifer who was neighbors with the child and her grandmother, was asked by a local news agency why she would do something like this to a dying child. Her response? Because it "rubs her ass raw".

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Another So-Called-Mother

Stephanie Rochester from Colorado, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to a psychiatrist that testified for over an hour, Stephanie saw her son as "alien, toxic, contaminated being."
Supposedly Stephanie believed that her son was showing signs of autism. Her son, was only 6 months old at the time of his murder.

The psychiatrist also told the judge that Stephanie suffered from major depression with psychotic symptoms. Stephanie told police she attempted to suffocate her son with a plastic bag before she put blankets over his head the night before he died.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Casey Anthony --Web of Lies

During the Opening arguments of Casey's trial her attorney, said that Casey had been a victim of incest by her father. He also said that Caylee had drowned in the family pool. No evidence was ever presented at trial to support those claims and George denied the allegations of incest.

Some court documents were unsealed on Tuesday which were from depositions. One of the things that were said in one of the depositions was that Casey revealed to Psychiatrist Dr. Jeffrey Danziger. According to Danziger Casey said that Caylee may have been conceived against Casey's will. "Had two beers, maybe drugged. Woke up unclothed lower half, says she didn't remember anything from the party." According to Casey that is how she got pregnant.

As for the part of Caylee "drowning" well Casey played that off as someone elses fault just like she does with everything. She said to the Psychiatrist that she had been asleep and after waking up couldn't find Caylee. She says she went outside only to find George holding a dripping wet Caylee.

Thanks goes to CNN for this updated story.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

TSA and the Case of the Not-So-Cupcake

What is a cupcake? A miniature cake in a wrapper right? According to some TSA officials, it might just be our next "cupcake bomb". As according to the TSA; terrorists are using every day items to conceal their bombs.

Recently a woman and her husband along with a jar of cupcake made it through one screening by the TSA. Apparently Boston's Logan Airport thought the jarred cupcake looked delicious. While her Red Velvet cupcake was stopped in the Las Vegas Airport and the "offending" cupcake was confiscated. Both cupcakes had been packaged in glass mason jars for easier passage through airport security by the bakery themselves.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother

you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.

Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The only way to describe him was scrawny, neat, and very clean for a boy his age. They were talking about finding a game for the younger one, and he was absolutely insisting it be one with a female character. I don’t know how many of y’all play games, but that isn’t exactly easy. Eventually, I helped the brothers pick a game called Mirror’s Edge. The youngest was pretty excited about the game, and then he specifically asked me.. “Do you have any girl color controllers?” I directed him to the only colored controllers we have which includes pink and purple ones. He grabbed the purple one, and informed me purple was his FAVORITE.


The boys had been taking awhile, so their father eventually comes in. He see’s the game, and the controller, and starts in on the youngest about how he needs to pick something different. Something more manly. Something with guns and fighting, and certainly not a purple controller. He tries to convince him to get the new Zombie game “Dead Island.” and the little boy just stands there repeating “Dad, this is what I want, ok?” Eventually it turns into a full blown argument complete with Dad threatening to whoop his son if he doesn’t choose different items.

That’s when big brother stepped in. He said to his Dad “It’s my money, it’s my gift to him, if it’s what he wants I’m getting it for him, and if your going to hit anyone for it, it’s going to be me.” Dad just gives his oldest son a strong stern stare down, and then leaves the store. Little brother is crying quietly, I walk over and ruffle his hair (yes this happened all in front of me.) I say “I’m a girl, and I like the color blue, and I like shooting games. There’s nothing wrong with what you like. Even if it’s different than what people think you should.” I smile, he smiles back (my heart melts!) Big brother then leans down, kisses little brother on the head, and says “Don’t worry dude.” They check out and leave, and all I can think is how awesome big brother is, how sweet little brother is, and how Dad ought to be ashamed for trying to make his son any other way.

This story is credited to the original author; Kristen Wolfe. Her blog about this story was also posted on the Huffington Post.  


I am always in awe of a child that sticks up for another child. The sad part is that the older boy had to do so against his father. I couldn't be more proud than to hear that the young man stood against his father so willingly. That is what we need more of in this Country, young people not afraid to take a stand against anyone. Bravo to this young man!

As for the youngest boy; sweetheart there is nothing wrong whatsoever with a young man liking purple or non-violent video games. You should be proud of yourself for not following what society says is "normal".  You showed just what kind of man you will be, strong and independent. I love that about this story, two brothers both strong and independent.

Good luck in life to both of these young men. 

Viruses Sailing Around

Over the years I have seen quite a few "bad" viruses being sent over the internet. I haven't had issues with most of those, but know people that have. I haven't had a virus on my computer since 1995. Until two weeks ago that is. Two weeks ago I was sitting on a news website (not CNN) when my computer starting acting very strangely.

We tried letting our AV software take care of it, to no avail. We tried so many ways to get rid of it. No luck, so as the computer geeks that we are we knew the last option we had was to go back to manufacture state. Yep, we wiped everything on this computer off. It took hours to get this awful virus gone, but we managed it.


Sunday, January 8, 2012

Well, I did IT!

I was blonde for about 18 hours. I didn't like it very much. It doesn't go with my complexion very well. I went blonde so that I could get the shade of red that I was after. After 6 years of trying to get a shade like Reba's I gave up because I just can't get my dark brown/black hair to go that red.

This time I tried a new brand of hair coloring that I have wanted to try for some time. My hair now has a pink/red tint to it. I am LOVIN' it! It looks awesome. My town is so DULL everyone looks at me like I am a martian or something. I don't care what they think, I did it because it was something I wanted to do. And as long as I love it, who cares what anyone else thinks.

Jon hasn't had a chance to see the red yet. He was able to see the pictures of me as a blonde for  those few hours though. He agreed, blonde and I are not meant to be. That's perfectly fine with me, as I love my red hair! I should have been born with red.

Here's a picture of me with my new color!


I love the shade it turned out! I used a brand called Splat, this is their Raspberry color. It is awesome! I am thinking about keeping it this way for the next year or two, maybe longer. It'll depend on what Jon thinks of course, but I am so happy with this color!

Todays post is late.

I apologize once again. I woke up this morning and left the house an hour later. I didn't expect to be gone all day. First we had a girls day out shopping. Then Mom, Faith and I got home and picked up the rest of the family. We all headed out to spend the afternoon having lunch and shopping some more. I got a killer pair of 5 1/2 inch heels. They are to die for!

After we got home we spent the next three hours turning my almost black natural hair color, from a dyed red to BLONDE! Yes, it's official I am now a strawberry blonde! I don't really know how I feel about it yet. It's still too new for me to know if I will like it. The girls like it even though they aren't used to seeing mom being blonde. Will I keep it blonde? No. It's okay for a short time, but not too long. I already miss my red.

Well, I'm tired tonight since it is after midnight here. Sleep well everyone.