Despair

"Gloom, despair and agony on me.
If it wasn't for my bad luck,
I'd have no luck at all..."
- Hee Haw

I want to thank Brian for directing me towards this site:

www.despair.com

Thanks

Just want to give thanks to those who made a comment and gave encouragement on the last entry. I guess I'll keep on posting.
This past weekend was interesting to say the least. John got sick Friday with what quickly became an all day in bed, headache, nausea, fun fest. I can't remember the last time I actually had to stay in bed that long. Jillian was a great nurse when she came home from day care. It's actually indescribable the manner in which she will quietly and gently act like she's taking care of you.
Saturday was a better day but the queasy stomach still hasn't gone away even today. Jillian, Julie and Grandma went to Baby Loves Disco (A kid friendly dance) where Jillian had an altercation with a folding chair. She may never sit in a folding chair again. Afterwards Jillian went to Grandma's for the night and Julie and I were able to go to dinner and a movie.
Sunday Julie and I got to sleep til 10 am!!!!! To all of you single folks... that's huge for parents. The rest of the day was spent shopping, eating lunch with friends and getting Jillian back.
Next weekend we get ready for a mini vacation to the coast of Oregon for a week.

Hello????

I don't really have anything to say, but it's been a while since I posted. I think my life has taken the boring turn. So boring, in fact, that I wonder if anyone is reading this blog. Besides a few comments from 2 people, no one has anything to say about my boring life. In fact, just to see if anyone really is reading this or if it is waste of time, please leave a comment just so I can take a "head count."

More Spin

Mary Poppins was such a friendly woman... or was she?

Spin

SPIN: (Verb) Slang. to cause to have a particular bias; influence in a certain direction.

We hear about spin in politics quite a bit now. People taking quotes out of context and claiming information has a creditable source when it doesn't seems to be just normal routine. At one time I believe this was called slander and you could get sued for such things. But TV ratings and peoples cravings for dirt have changed all that. If you live under a rock and don't believe it happens just check out the spin used to make the above movie trailer. For those of you who have been living under a rock, Shining was a Stephen King horror movie from the 80's; not the happy family drama movie you see above.

Strategy

The whole Iraq war subject troubles me. I'm usually against any military action whatsoever. I don't believe we should have ever gone into Iraq and we now know we had no business going there. Unfortunately that's an after-thought and we've dug a pretty deep hole. I don't believe that getting out now is the answer. I mean, would you want someone to come in and TRASH your house and then leave you with no money and no help to clean it up? Hopefully we can get a plan to do more rebuilding and less fighting soon. Jillian may have figured out the military strategy here on our window. Now if we can just figure out what it means.

We're back!

Jillian and I got back from Texas last night. We spent 7 days down there and had a great time. Jillian was the center of attention the whole time (when is she not). She went to the San Antonio Zoo and got to see the lion roar (ask her about it), road the train in Breckenridge Park, learned how to blow bubbles on her own, swam in the kiddie pool, saw deer in the backyard, and on an on and on. She also got to see her relatives in Texas. This was a little overwhelming at first, but she adapted well and had fun. We even got a family picture. The weather was nice, Jillian had very few fits (always for Mama), and we're glad to be back.