The Wall Street Journal on the "Stimulus Package"

Or as M likes to call it, "Obama's Orgasm project"

Which, in truth, icks me out.

But here it is. Honestly, I have no words for this. I'm just...speechless over the complete and utter stupidity shown here by our new CiC. Write to your Congress people, let them know you don't want your kids and kids kids kids paying for Obama's stupidity!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123310466514522309.html

Opinions on Oprah

You know, back in...was it 1986...Mom, K-sis and I started watching Oprah. She was fabulous, someone you'd like to get to know, someone real. A definite difference in daytime television.

She was a familiar friend, someone you could trust and know that they were going to steer you in the right direction for the most part. I learned quite a bit about myself from watching Oprah. From learning about hirsutism and PCOS to getting up the nerve to tell Mom and Dad about being molested. I thought her book club was a wonderful idea...badly executed because she ONLY chose books with horrible sad endings or where everything was a struggle...blah blah blah...but a great idea anyway. Anytime she mentioned a book, we'd have calls about it at both the book store I worked for briefly (Sorry C&L!) and the Library. She was becoming an icon, someone people looked up to, someone people could feel comfortable inviting into their living rooms everyday knowing that the chats were going to be fun and informative.

Then things started to change. She started going "Hollywood" and peppering her informative shows with the same old same old that other talk shows thrived on. It seemed like she was begining to believe her own press.

And now things have just gone too far. Oprah has been quoted as saying that Christians are wrong for their belief that Jesus is the only way to salvation and her obvious fawning over the "other O" is just sickening.

I understand that she's allowed to have her own opinions and to run her shows the way she wants to run them. I mean, the woman IS a great philanthropist. But one gets the feeling that, if Prez O wasn't married that Stedman would have some competition.

But the other thing that pissed me off was, she refused to have Palin on her show and, to me, it just smacked of "Oh I'm too important and so many people follow everything I say so there's no way I could ever have HER on here 'cause then people might actually vote for them."

Get over yourself, woman. Don't be so damn paranoid and so stuffed full of yourself. Give your viewers the chance to see both sides of each story...the way you do for MANY of your programs.

I'm so over Oprah. She needs to just go away now.

Never remember

There's so much I remember in this life. I remember the obscure places M puts his keys/glasses/wallet/tax information. I remember little weird bits of trivia that no one could ever REALLY want to know.

What I seem to NEVER remember is that I have a blog. And that I should be posting on it. Like, regularly. *G*

Anyway, life has been life and things have been pretty good for the most part 'round here. My diabetes was getting MUCH MUCH MUCH better with the help of Byetta but now the stupid Insurance company is farting around with trying to decide if I NEED it or not. (short answer? YES DAMMIT!) Actually, I REALLY want them to get off their buns and give me the higher dose.

All in all, though, I've lost about 40 lbs. I feel better, for the most part, and I find it easier to walk around...not huffing and puffing and all that. I feel better when ON the Byetta...of course...because I seem to sleep better and wake up with actual ENERGY instead of sleeping like crap and waking up still exhausted.


I'm still in the thrall of the indie perfume scene. Everyone has their Valentine's Day scents up but I'm being pretty good. I haven't ordered any of them...yet. I'm desperate for a few from both Happy Housewife and Blooddrop. I DO want to order from Blooddrop SOON because one of my favorite scents is going away (Garden Hoe) and I only have an imp of it. It's a very green, tomato plant, summery type smell. It's really delicious. Here's what Astrid (the beautiful "nose" behind the delicious preciouses) has to say about Garden Hoe:

With dirty knees and finger nails, sun burnt shoulders and nose you’re just happy to be outside in your garden! Tomato leaf, green bean vines, lettuce and a bit of earthiness for nourishment. No pesticides included.

It's sort of like getting your veggies in...only in sniffy-licious versions!

Even though I've pretty much limited my sniffy acquiring to "I SO know I'm going to LOVE this", I've run out of space in both of my Mini Lane Cedar Chests. (no, I don't buy from there. I look on Ebay. Actually, Mom gave me my first one and I got my second from Ebay. I have a bid on another.)

Maybe that's something I could do. Make Perfume Chests for people who collect Indie Perfumes. Hmmm....I'll have to look into that.

In other news, we have about 18" of snow right now. Might not be much to those of you who live in the North Western states but it has pretty much shut down Cincinnati for the day. M is home and curled up in bed with his laptop, occasionally logging into work and seeing what all's going on. Mostly I think he's just spaced out in front of NetHack. He's so addicted but won't admit it. Grrr.

100 things...

An on-going process, I hope, I'll be listing 100 things that make me happy.

1. A new book
2. An old book, well loved
3. My best friend's love and support
4. Being able to cross items off my "to do" list each day
5. Sleeping in
6. Listening to my Nieces and Nephew's playing
7. The smell of an old book
8. That "crack" you hear when you open a new hardback
9. Hearing my Husband tell me he loves me
10. Having my Husband SHOW me he loves me