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Top Ten Dying Jobs.

And that's not helped by this... Bush Plan Would Allow Illegal Workers.

Shouldn't we worry about American workers who are out of work first? Checked that unemployment rate lately Georgie-boy? Instead of making people follow the procedures to enter the country legally, and punishing those who are here illegally, working for lower wages and not having to pay taxes, let's just make them legal. So where's the logic in that? Well, they're here anyway. We can't control them. Might as well make them legal. Well, there's hookers everywhere, might as well legalize prostitution.

This quote from another article: "The proposal seemed calculated to win Bush Hispanic support ahead of the November presidential election while pleasing employers looking for workers to fill mainly manual, agricultural or low-paid service jobs."

OK, enough of that.

"Closing time... every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end..."

Radio Ga-Ga

Oh man, all the way home there were some killer 80's songs on the radio. That just really made my whole day (doesn't take much). Here they were, in order:

"Take On Me" - Aha
"Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
"My Life" - Billy Joel
"The Look" - Roxette

Then I flipped back to the top 40 station, and "Bright Lights" was on. Wow, I didn't even have to put a CD in. Am I too excited about this? I don't care. What's really probably funny is if you passed me on the highway, and I'm singing along, playing air guitar with my right hand, driving with my left, and all the while doing that head-bobbing, white-guy-who-can't-dance-dancing-while-driving dance. To top it off, I don't know many of the words to "The Look", so I'm like "Dah-bum.. mmm hmm.. Mmm hmm, mmm hmmm like a hammer... she's a juvenile hummm.. never was a quitter.. she's got the look..." lol But my favorite part is when they just start doing the na na na's... lol "Na na na na nah. Na na na na na na. Nah na na na na na nah. Nah na na na nah. Na na na na nah.. she's got the look." OK. Roxette rulz. You all know that.

Dropped by Wal-Mart on my way home. Saw Kim's friend, Angie, up there. That's about it. Oh, one of the Married...With Children's was on where Al and the guys have the No Ma'am shirts on. ROFL WOOOOOO! Now, CSS is showing some sort of wrestling. It looks like it's in a high school gym. There's a basketball goal in the background, and it sounds like there are only about 40 people in the crowd. lol Weird.

"And it's a hard winter's day. I dream away. It must have been love, but it's over now. It must have been good, but I lost it somehow. It must have been love, but it's over now. From the moment we touched till the time had run out..."

Well Ollie, I suppose I should blog...

It was cooooold this mornin'. 14 degrees. 14 is how old you are when you get braces. It isn't supposed to be a temperature. lol That reminds me of the bit from the video, "110 degrees." "Is that Fahrenheit, Celcius, or Kelvin?" ROFL

Got in bed around 11:30 last night, so I'm on somewhere around 5 hours sleep, again. Work has been pretty calm so far this year. I guess January is slow most everywhere. I can use a little break, esp. since we have no holidays off till July 4th! Speaking of July 4, I priced a few flights to NY for later this year, too. Shooting for March or April right now. May try to arrange something with Bunny to fly up to Richmond, then drive on to NY. That would be mucho cheaper, I'm sure.

Speaking of, I gave Bunny a talking picture frame for Christmas about 3 or 4 years ago. You know, one of those where you can record a short message. Well, my message was imitating the Seinfeld episode (surprise!) where Jerry pretends his girlfriend's bellybutton is talking in this loud, jovial voice. So I'm like, "La laa laaaaaaa!! Merry Christmas!!" Well, apparently, she has it at work, and it is now just randomly playing as people walk by. ROFL I can imagine that's pretty funny stuff. Just thought I'd share.

Not much else going on today. Need to run by Wal-Mart on my way in for a few things. Then tonight is another super-busy Wednesday evening.

"What's the matter girl, well don't you think I'm good enough. This old heart's had a whole lot of breakin' down. She's got all these reasons in her head..."

An oldie but a goodie!

Remember this?

Takes maybe a couple of minutes to load (might have to hit "refresh" too), but it's worth it! Prepare for hours of at-work fun! I hadn't played in months and months, but got 43 my first time this morning. I'm down to 38 after game 3. lol Enjoy...

"I alone am the one you don't know you need. Take heed. Feed your ego. Make me blind when your eyes close. Sink when you get close. Tie me to the bedpost..."

Quickie

Eating a late dinner from Subway. I haven't really been hungry much lately, so that kinda sounded good, and light. And at least it's somewhat healthy. Pretty busy day around the house. Today is laundry day. Shot pool for just a few minutes. Stopped by to see my sister for a few. She is making out a list of people to send invitations to. Girls get so worked up over weddings. lol It's not until July, and she's all like "I've got so much to do." Meanwhile, I'm doing real good to plan a few days ahead. Oh well.

Watchin' Seinfeld... "The Pool Guy" episode... this is the one where George's worlds collide. LOL "Why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you've selected." WOOOOOOOOO!!!!

K, I've got one last load of laundry to get out of the dryer, fold, and put up. Have a good night and stay warm, my friends. It's cooooold here.

"I thought about you for a long time. Can't seem to get you off my mind. I can't understand why we're living life this way. I found your picture today. I swear I'll change my ways. I just called to say I want you to come back home..."

Various Musings and Sundry Ramblings...

Finally, the cold weather is here. And it snowed today! We had about a ten minute snow shower earlier. And just a few minutes ago, it started again. Yay! I love the snow! (You know how I love the weathermen...) Well, the forecast today was for cloudy skies in the morning, mostly sunny by afternoon. No mention of rain. No mention of snow. That's just about always when it happens around here. When they forecast, people get hysterical and it doesn't do anything. Meanwhile, the temps have gone from the lower 70's Sunday afternoon, to expecting a low in the teens tonight. Gotta love that good ol' Alabama weather.

Got a phone call from a good friend today. She had apparently read my "Conflict" entry earlier, and was calling just to make sure everything was OK. How sweet! I am so thankful and blessed to have a few really good friends.

Went to the store today and bought a Mt. Dew and Twix, because "The Dealership" episode of Seinfeld was on last night, where George tries to buy a Twix out of the vending machine, and it gets hung. lol That ep has some of the best one-liners and dialogue in it.

George: You must think I'm pretty stupid. That was no 5th Avenue bar. I can see the crumb right there in the corner of your lip! Now, that is a cookie. And we all know Twix is the only candy bar with the cookie crunch.

Mechanic: It's just a little nougat.

George: Nougat? Please. I think I've reached the point in my life where I can tell between nougat and cookie. So, let's not just say things that we both know are obvious fabrications. lol

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George: All I want is my seventy-five cents back, an apology, and for him to be fired! ROFL

Oh, I love it. There was also a commercial for Zoloft during the 10:00 PM Sein last night, which reminded me of Kyle. lol He is always talking about that stuff, but that was the first time I've ever seen it advertised.

"I'm sorry but I'm just thinkin' of the right words to say. I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be. But if you wait around awhile, I'll make you fall for me. I promise you. I promise you, I will..."

Just had to post this...

NRA Blacklists Hallmark, Methodist Church, & Britney Spears.

Wow, that's a bit bizarre. As most of you know, I don't get too political. But I'm all for common-sense politics, like background checks for gun owners. Closer to home, two local police officers here were shot last week by a schizophrenic man with an assault rifle. So yeah, background check, psychological profile... I'm all for it.

"She'd come home, 3 AM, tell me she'd been out with friends. And I let her lie. I let her lie. And in the glare of the morning sun, she swore I was her only one. And I let her lie..."

Conflict

Seems like there's been a lot of conflict in my life this past week, and just a general feeling of "something's not right", though I can't put my finger on any one thing. Ever feel like that? To top it off, I'm a very non-confrontational person. I avoid it at all costs, thanks in past to my compassionate-logical personality. I dunno, just had a lot of small things, little tiffs and things in several relationships. And where any one alone would be nothing, all together there's just a general feeling of everything is not in harmony. I'm sure it'll iron itself out (or I'll iron it out) in the next few days.

Been having weird dreams lately, too. I had another dream about my ex-fiance last night, which is like the second time in the past two or three weeks that has happened. I've also had a couple of dreams where I'm at church and there are a lot of different people there, people I don't recognize. I need to log these more faithfully and work on analyzing them more. Kyle really blew my mind by trying to analyze one of my dreams when he, Bunny, and I went out to eat before Christmas. Bunny was like, "Whoa! Where did that come from?" And he was like, "Well, he always does such a good job of analyzing mine." I enjoy stuff like that though. Oh well.

Watched most of "Billy Madison" last night. lol That giant penguin cracks me up! lol When he goes to Veronica's house and sees it on the stairs, he's like, "Ooooh! I see what's going on here! You again! Well, proceed!" That cracks me up! ROFL Seems like they could've given Norm MacDonald a bigger part though. He's funny. I had forgotten that Farley is the bus driver in that, too. That psycho guy cracks me up too. lol Keeping a list of names of people who made fun of him in school. lol That was definitely some good comic relief.

Letterman had some gems on the top ten list: "Top Ten Things We Learned From The Mars Rover"

Some I remember:

- Contrary to earlier findings, Mars only about a mile from Earth
- NASA Mars' footage looks oddly similar to Atari's Asteroids
- We could've taken pictures of Death Valley and saved $400 million

"She's so high, high above me. She's so lovely. She's so high. Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite...She's so high, high above me..."