Quit Facebook today.

Bede and I tried , mostly due to the fact that family seems to pass along info that way, and pictures. Bede never really was interested and rarely checked it out. I lurked occasionally, but never really participated. We began to realize that there was very little actual family info and just a few pics.

Can't stand all the little games and does anyone really care what food you are or if you were a tree would you be an oak or willow....I think Barbara Walters asked some movie star that many years ago...
John says" I'm making toast"... Susie says " really liked laying in the sun today"

AAAAGGGGHHHHH...Make toast, lay in the sun, do whatever you like, but why do people feel the need to tell the world about every mundane aspect of their lives...

(She says as she blogs about hating facebook) Just a little irony here, I'll admit!

All those applications are really just ploys to get your information and use it for their own profit...SPAM.
We got tired of Facebook "suggesting" we be friends with people just because they knew someone we knew. I don't know these people, I'll make my own friends, thank you very much.
If Facebook was so smart it would know that I don't really want to be friends with very many people. I like my semi isolation, always have. Even if I do really like you, I don't need to know what planet you would be, and I don't want to see your cartoon alter ego.
I know, I'm old and crabby...but it all seems just a little stupid and a too much like High School. So we're out. From what I understand we will never be actually deleted from Facebook, as they keep the info forever...

Woke up this morning to the local news station reporting that cars have been vandalized at a social service agency. Get to work and find that 11 of our cars have been vandalized. All the drivers side windows have been broken out. We have 5-6 agency vans that we use for work and the rest were cars donated to us that we give to needy families. In fact all of the cars have been donated to us. Most of the vans we use for work are old, have over 100,000 miles on them. None of them have anything in them.
The police were called by a passing motorist about 1am last night and when the police arrived, the perp was sitting in one of the vans. He is now getting his own social services via the county jail. Don't know what he was looking for, but he got nothing except time in jail. Catholic Social Services will take a huge financial hit on this as our insurance is liability only for most of the vehicles. My boss is spending his day vacuuming glass out of the cars.

The local tv news station is here now doing a story.

Not sure how I feel about this now. I'm angry, sad, and disappointed. But also sorry for this guy. Don't know if he needed drugs or what the reason for the damage, but whatever it is, he's got serious problems.
It's hard to want to keep helping people when this kind of thing happens. Every day we come to work and deal with people who are needy. Some of them thru no fault of their own, but so many due to a series of poor choices. Some of these folks get angry if we cannot help them. Some feel very entitled to any and all assistance. This guy probably has nothing to do with any of our clients. It just life.

BFF

Why am I suddenly receiving emails from David Axelrod and the Whitehouse?
If the whitehouse is not keeping email addresses of those who oppose the president's healthcare plan, why all of a sudden is Dave my new best friend?

It's not paranoia, just a question.

You're Still the One

31 years ago today, I married my sweetheart. Still together, still in love.


You're still the one that makes me laugh
Still the one that's my better half
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one that makes me strong
Still the one I want to take along
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

Changing, our love is going gold
Even though we grow old, it grows new

You're still the one that I love to touch
Still the one and I can't get enough
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one who can scratch my itch
Still the one and I wouldn't switch
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You are still the one that makes me shout
Still the one that I dream about
We're still having fun, and you're still the one... lyrics from:

"You're still the one:
Orleans

Pelosi/Hoyer op-ed in Monday USATODAY calls townhall protesters 'un-American'... Developing...

Stay tuned for the rath of Jeanne if this turns out to be true.

How is it UNAmerican to want the best for your country?
How is it UNAmerican to exersice our freedom of speech?
How is it UNAmerican to do the same thing Liberals have been doing for years?
How dare they call me UNAmerican!!!
We have spent our lives in service to this country.
We love the USA.


I feel the heat...and it's not a hot flash !!!

Angels 911

Did you know we can dispatch our guardian angels to aid another?
If we know someone who is in great need or distress, or in danger of making a huge moral error, we can ask our guardian angel to go to that person and help his/her guardian angel.

Rock on ANGRY MOB !!!

Dick Durbin, the # 2 ranking Democrat in the Senate said today that he would be willing to modify the health care legislation. He would be okay with removing the "gov't. run public option".

So I guess the "angry mob" of retired and middle aged Americans actually does have a voice.