Charity ornaments I made for a family of 9 or 10 foster children. Three of the children were on the Make A Child Smile website. My stitching group Cross Stitch Addict came up with making ornaments instead of three quilts so the entire family could enjoy decorating their tree. I believe we’ll be sending at least 50 ornaments for this special family.

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I really am never ‘lost in self-pity’. That would run me right into the ground. If a situation is bad, I try to make it better.

….ask not who you voted for, ask if your vote was counted.
(source Greg Palast, contributing editor to Harper’s magazine) Plast believes it’s a chad problem(again) and that minorities who voted did not count (again). I did a push ballot and you can be damn sure I made sure my chad was popped out! Why do we still use this mediocre way of voting anyway?
The more I read about this election the more I feel it is a repeat of 4 yrs ago. And I can’t stand the people who are ‘walking on air’ because Bush is still the president. He didn’t win by a landslide, only 3% if all the votes were correct. Bush was smug and invited the press up to his personal quarters before the election was called. Did he know something? I think he wanted the popular vote, but who got the second most popular vote ever? John Kerry!! (thanks to Al Franken for this one). On this one blog the woman was naming all the celebrities who can eat their words. Well, at least they tried. I didn’t see too many celebs except for Arnold, Bruce Willis and Curt Schilling (he use to live near me!) push for Bush. I won’t even get into the whole weird Arnold connection. Is this why the British press called 50 million Americans stupid? I wonder what the rest of the world is thinking and it’s probably not good.
This is my blog and my place to vent. Heck, I remember hating Nixon when I was 8 yrs old and wondered what people saw in him! And then look at what happened. Seems a lot of people can cough up stuff about Clinton and all, but what about Watergate and that mess?
I am hoping our PA Governor thinks about running in 2008. Ed Rendell is a good guy and went from Philly mayor to Governor. His wife Midge is a judge! My mom knows Ed from his wife’s mom and brother-in-law. I just think he has the power and smarts.
Talk about a country divided. It’s far worse than 4 yrs ago. It really is a mess.

We just rented this movie and watched it today. Of course Hugh Jackman made it all worthwhile. The special effects were pretty good too. I thought it was like an old-fashioned horror movie from the 1940s with a modern twist. The bloopers were funny.  

My son is having trouble understanding females. Here’s what happened. He was suppose to meet a girl at a place for teens (local bands play) up in the next town. Sean’s friend introduced them through the web and then the young lady started calling here once in a while. Well Sean either was getting wet feet or something, but he told the girl on the phone today ‘not to follow him around’ at the teen place. I sure didn’t like that tone! Ouch. Of course the young lady just said ‘hi’ to Sean and that was it for the night. What did he expect? I heard the way he spoke to her a few times on the phone. He was very short with her. Now if I was him (and his dad echoes these sentiments) I would have tried to be nicer and maybe if Sean didn’t like the young lady right away, there may have been a friend of hers that he likes. I don’t get him at all. I think he relies too much on the internet to make friends. When he got on here, he was typing away to girls out of state complaining about the young lady he met tonight. He told me she was just to pushy for him. Maybe he wanted to play the dominant role and do the chasing. It’s a confusing time for a young man, but all I ask of him is to be nice.

Hey this is pretty cool!
I am ‘the moderator’ to ‘Sweet Baby James Taylor’, ‘Domestic Goddesses’, ‘Cross Stitching Circle’ and ‘The Learning Channel fanatics’. I am always looking for new members! Check out the other tribes I am joined to. My favorites are the ones having to do with The Apprentice, Survivor, the questions games and cats. Tribe is pretty neat and can go from nice to raunchy, but it’s mostly fun and a entertaining and also educational way to spend time online and make some friends in the process.

What’s worse than cold rain and wet leaves? As you get older, you feel all achy and creaky. I’m not ancient, but my joints are feeling the dampness.
I’ve been a bit depressed, not only because Sean is bummed about the election, but then there are other things. I haven’t felt really great lately. I seem to always hurt someplace. That’s me and I’ll deal with it. Other things that I am sad about are about a little boy who turned 10 on Halloween and passed away the next day. He was a featured child on the Make A Child Smile website at one time. The webmistress Alex asked us to send a card to a child that had been on the site and I saw it was going to be Connor’s birthday, so I sent him a card. I read in my cross stitching group that he is going to be buried in the same town where Brian’s close friend Kathy lives in.
Sean just told me about Elizabeth Edwards having breast cancer. AOL has it on their opening screen. She seems like a sweet lady and especially so after having children in her 40s and losing a teen son in a car accident. I’ll say some prayers for her. My mammogram was ok, thank goodness. I was waiting on my uterine ultrasound and haven’t heard yet. I hate waiting on test results, but who doesn’t?

My son got to vote today for the first time and thank goodness there were no long lines. We actually were in and out of his old elementary school in 5 minutes. He was so funny though. He went into the ‘voting station’ and called out-“how does this card go in?” He figured it out and took his time there very seriously. I just voted straight party. He went through all the different candidates. So my son and I voted for the same candidate and his dad was undecided but went for his usual party. It would have been neat for all three of us to be cheering on the same man.
It took them a while to call Kerry the winner for Penna. He should thank the blacks and young voters like my son for this win. I am really impressed with Mr. Kerry. I really didn’t know that much about him even a year ago and he came this far. He was a tireless campaigner. I liked him a lot in a clip I saw from an old Dick Cavett show when he was home from Vietnam and opposing the war. His Boston accent was there and as a young man, he was so articulate. I am not really optimistic right now as my husband keeps looking at Florida and Ohio and they are leaning towards Bush.
I hope it’s not a repeat of 4 yrs ago. We’ll see.

Tori was ‘tired of the flashes’, so I am lucky to have gotten this final shot of her. 

My niece and nephew-Tori as Tinkerbell and Kenny as a robot with a cool computer motherboard in his belly. They were both hits in their school.