"C'mon Everybody"

It just didn't feel right to be so excited about tonight's "Lost" season premiere without saying something about the demise of my favorite character Charlie. It will be good to see his friends on the island tonight but it will not be the same without him. I still hold out a tiny bit of hope that he didn't really die. We will see tonight.

So long Charlie!

"This is so going on the Myspace"- V

As we entered "Steve and Barry's" we were greeted with this.

Of course we had to whip out the cameras. SO FUNNY!

Happy Birthday Rodger!

Happy 23rd Birthday Rodger! I love you lots!

Storm Watch 2008

I know I am no Paul Moyer and like him and other news anchors I won't stir anyone into a panic over the stormy weather but this weather is crazy!

Last night it poured and then around 5 am it hailed really hard. Outside this morning there is ice on roofs, hail on the ground, and what I am willing to be bet was snow at my favorite local gas station. I have a picture on my camera phone but can't figure out how to upload it to my computer. Being that we never have actual snow on the ground here I can't say for sure whether it was snow or hail.

When I talked to Rodger at lunch he said that the Eyewitness news what at MY gas station. I can't believe I missed it. I would have loved to have been there to get a soda and talk with my friends who worked there about being on tv.

This is fun weather to be having especially given the fact that we had almost no rain last year but I wish this could have been last week because Rodger and I were planning on going to Disneyland this weekend for his birthday and according to the forecast it will be raining and I don't want to stand around like a drowned rat there. Oh well, we will come up with something else fun to do and go to Disneyland another time.

Also, they added the clip at my gas station to their website so here it is if you want to check it out- http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=weather&id=5912431

Words of a Great Man

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of
our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting
to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method
which rejects revenge,aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a
method is love.

Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 1964.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

The Measures of Man, 1959.

I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate. I've seen too much hate on the faces of sheriffs in the South. I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality.

Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1967-08-16)

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Beach

Yesterday Rodger and I celebrated our anniversary by going to the beach. It was beautiful and perfect weather.

Mt. Katius

After the beach we went to The Cheesecake Factory for lunch. The waiter gave me two "You go girls" when I ordered a Coke. And then when we ordered our food he said that we made "fabulous choices". He was fun.

It was a perfect day.

3rd Anniversary

Friday is the 3rd Anniversary of when Rodger and I became a couple. I made a little slide show to commemorate the event. This is my first slide show so please don't judge too harshly.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Sing Me a Song

Eliza recommended the website Etsy.com where I found this print. I ordered it before Christmas and just got it the other day. The girl who painted it is from Mexico so the envelope has cool Mexico stamps on it.

Anyways, that is the latest addition to what Rodger refers to as my "museum". What can I say, I love art. Most of my framed prints are packed up in my parent's garage along with more than half of my stuff. I really hate packing so I decided to leave most of it boxed up so it is ready to go when I move out again. Back at my old place my walls were covered with prints and such. Now I have the bare necessities such as this, the paintings Rodger made for me, my Matisse from Austria, and my Story People print. When I do move again it will be fun to unpack them all and see what I have.

I am always on the look out at garage sales, online, etc for fun art.

Also, here is the other item I bought on Etsy.com as a Christmas present for Rodger. No explanation needed.

What I learned from watching the debates....

-that I am getting old if I can spend two hours of my Saturday night genuinely interested in watching the presidential debates. (Granted Rodger and I were flipping stations but we watched the majority of it)

-that Mitt Romney gets picked on the most by the other Republican candidates, probably because he has the most new ideas.

-that no matter what question McCain is asked the word "terrorism" will be in the answer.

-that I want Fred Thompson to come back to "Law and Order". He will never be elected anyways.

-I think Ron Paul meant to run as a Democrat.

-it bothers me (still) a great deal to listen to a room of older men discuss being pro-life. How has this choice ever personally affected them?

-that just because you co-write an Amnesty Bill and the bill is named after you doesn't mean that you support amnesty.

-you are not allowed to change your opinion or position on any issue.

-Hillary Clinton does have a sense of humor.

-Edwards can answer a question without his wife interjecting.

-Obama loves the word "change".

-it's definitely not cool to like George Bush.

-you probably can't trust politicians but if I have to choose one to trust it would be Obama.

If You Have an Extra 5 Minutes

then watch this, it's pretty funny-

Christmas Pictures (in no particular order)

*Christmas at Grandma's House*

*Christmas Eve Morning*

*Christmas Morning*

The traditional Christmas picture

*Christmas Eve at my grandparents*

Grandpa, Uncle Vince, and my dad

Matt, my mom, and Aunt Peggy

Paul, Vickie, Justin