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You raised me good Momma! :D
Seriously. I rock.
Derringer Meryl [where is my shirt dress and pearls] Out
2008-06-07 - 9:20 a.m.
Im geek powers activate
Jack Thompson BS
Yep, Provo is going to give him an award. Yes, it's freaking ridiculous. Not only is Jack Thompson a Liar and a fanaticism, he's been disbarred for his wild claims and reckless lawsuits. They say he's been true to his morals. When really he has abandoned all morals and standards on a warpath against video games, even going so far as to verbally attack game designer's mothers. Really.
So please, write a letter, give a call, raise some hell (tastefully) to let Provo know that this man DOES NOT deserve the award and it's not appropriate to award this to this man...
America's Freedom Festival at Provo
4636 N 300 W Suite 300
Provo, UT 84604-7713
Phone: 801-818-1776
Call, write, blog. Do anything. Help us stop this from Happening.
Derringer Meryl [Help!] Out
2008-06-05 - 5:17 p.m.
its ok im taking it back
Randal Graves: Since when did porch monkey become a racial slur?
Dante Hicks: When ignorant racists started saying it a hundred years ago!
Randal Graves: Oh, bullshit! My grandmother used to call me a porch monkey all the time when I was a kid because I'd sit on the porch and stare at my neighbors!
Dante Hicks: Despite the fact that your grandmother used it as a term of endearment for you, it's still a racial slur!
I never knew that as a Kid. Thanks a lot for Ruining Porch Monkey for me, Kevin Smith.
I'm having a piss poor day. I really am having a hard time at work. I'm somehow ending up biting everyones head off, and doing a great job of pissing off nearly everyone I come in contact with. Days like today I'd like to tell the world to shove it and hide in my house. !>
And for that matter, I get thrown under the bus, to turn a phrase, because I mention that a lot (NOT ALL) of people in Utah County are closed minded. Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut, maybe I should get my lips and fingers graphted together, but last I checked, I was pretty cool with whatever anyone else had to say about anything. I have some pretty basic no no zones. Don't talk about my family. It's fairly Simple, I can say stuff about them, because I grew up with them, and deal with them, you don't, keep your mouth shut. (Especially my mom, Someone tried to say a "Your mom" joke to me once, and I got really mad with them, I was pretty cool with their jokes other than that) Don't recklessly talk crap about my religion. I figure everyone has their choice to do whatever, and I'm usually pretty cool about it, but don't go talking smack about it pointlessly like "Man, everyone in your religion does each other in the bum" It's pretty simple, don't go there, Or I'll smack you.... Ok probably not smack you, but I'll shy away and not want to talk to you or hang out. Other than that, I'm pretty cool on politics, abortion, video games, whatevs. I"m cool. I'm easy like sunday morning.
I guess I'm kinda touchy about close minded people too. I have, on so many occasions, encountered people who are SO Close minded, the vacuum of space that was their mind nearly sucked me in. Once I was told that Jesus didn't die for me. Which kinda knocked me off my feet, I was also told (by the same person) that I wasn't really part of my religion because I didn't grow up in Utah my whole life. I was told wearing flip flops was a sin, that my long time depression, was because i had sinned and that I had turned away from God. I have been told that we couldn't participate in ordaining/blessings unless we had been authorized to attend the temple. I was once told that We could skip all the middle portions to a book of scripture, because there wasn't anything important in there, all the same stuff again and again, I guess repeating it makes it less important instead of more important.
As much as I disagree wtih the above listed crap, I still respect their right to believe/say it. If they want to believe it WHATEVER, just don't try and make me be like you.
Yeah, maybe I got a little self hatred going on over here. Really over all -- I think that I know and love God. if someone else knows and loves God and wants to say "You don't know/love him enough" they can. I can't make them do something I they dont' want to. I can only choose to react to what they say, or act of my own volition. I choose to keep doing my own thing, and not worry about the anger and hate other people try to pour on me. I don't have a long enough life to spend any more of it hating anyone. I tried it, didn't like it. I"m ok moving on.
I haven't been feeling so well lately. As I told The specialist last night, I felt like 2 million tiny ninjas are attacking me from within. he produced a "Help the ninja's" Penny Arcade cartoon. I told him not that kind of tiny ninja. I told him it was a bunch of microscopic men trying to kill me from within. That's what happens when you drink 96 oz of water in a day. yeah. It was a long day.
Feeling kinda whatever. Have been increasingly agitated lately. hope whatever funk I'm in blows over soon.
Derringer Meryl [Judgment] Out
2008-06-04 - 10:40 a.m.
Two in two days
What a Beautiful Rainy Day. Well I'd enjoy it more if it weren't raining so much. I didn't get a jacket, which means by default I won't be going on my walk today :S Maybe I"ll make my evening walk. ahahah. Nice. Scott bought me breakfast this morning, and I looked up what I ate online as far as Nutritional value.... and I ate at least 800 calories at breakfast. SHEESH! That required a re-arranging of my day. My lunch stayed the same (pretty much) of a Ham and Cheese sandwich (no condiments) and I melt it and it's good. :) However my dinner which was to be chili (my big splurge of the day) is now two egg rolls. Yep. That's all I get. :) But that's what you get when you eat a calorie laden breakfast.
Scott told me to find something healthier for him to pick up and he'd get it. I'll have to scour the internet later. I got some nice Linen pants this weekend, it looks as though they need the tinest little hem job, they touch the ground by 1/8th of an inch (which is enough to turn tan pants black of course) so I'll have to whip out my sewing machine, or at the very least I'll have to get out a needle and thread. I'm no magical seamstress, but maybe I can fix my own pants.
I like my view from my window... I'll have to take a picture with my phone when Carebear brings it back (she went to show Frik my fancy new phone) Some days the mist comes down the mountain just right so I can pretend I'm working in an office building in Ireland or Scotland or somewhere pretty and foreign. No one has seen my desk at all, so I'll have to take a picture or two. For a moment I was hesitant about taking a picture but then I thought "Oh wait, Jen has done it, so I'll probably be ok"
So enough said, this is the view from my cubi.... :D
and just because I can (thanks to my new phone... Lol)
me in South Park form! LOL My friend (co-worker :D) Jeremy made it for me. I'm wearing a Derringer Meryl T-Shirt, isn't that FREAKIN' awesome!? I think so :D
It's pretty dark today, so i'll wait for a brighter day to take a picture of all my desk toys (It's too dark for you to see them now :))
I'm off to take a break. :)
Derringer Meryl [Whatever!] Out
2008-06-03 - 12:04 p.m.
not crazy just proud
Happy June! :D Happy Birthday to Wudan! (a few days late, to my credit I did call him on his 'Special Day')
Today, I'd like to discuss this Comic
Scott was right pissed about the comic. Being a couple that has experienced a miscarriage we can testify how trying it can be (and to experience it within the first year of marriage, well it certainly made things extra interesting) he said that these were comic characters and things like that shouldn't happen to them.
I thought it was refreshing that the writer approached it. Not many people know that 2/10 pregnancies end in miscarriage. I didn't know until it happened to me. It's not uncommon. It's sad, it's horrible, but it happens. I was blind sighted by it, when it happened to me. Everything was supposed to be OK! Like every other woman I knew. I was supposed to get pregnant, get fat, and have a baby. That's how things went. Despite my own sister in law having a late term loss, I still... just didn't even think about it. It was very much a "that would never happen to me" case. I just never considered the thought.
The author of this strip explains that he has experienced a miscarriage (his girlfriend had one, and while it was good for them, as they were in a bad relationship, it was hard.) he explains that it is hard for men, but much harder for women. I would like to emphasize that point. Loosing a baby isn't just much harder for women it is much MUCH MUCH harder for women. The one thing that many women feel is what they are meant to do (give birth, have children) were unable to do. This results in feeling broken. Someone should just throw you out with the trash, all the other broken things that don't work right. Many women experience miscarriages and go on to have successful pregnancies. I did.
There are a large group of women, who unfortunately experience loss after loss. Some women who can't even get pregnant at all. My heart breaks for them. If they felt even a fraction of how I did after my loss. I can't imagine.
I just thought I'd express my feelings on the comic. It's sad. But true. I guess I like a little realism in my comics.
In other news... work has been a little slice of hell this week. (and last week) I am looking forward to my anniversary as a nice little break from the hectic day to day. Only 6 days from now! yay!
I was discussing with Scott "Doesn't it seem like it's been longer than 4 years?" and he says no, that it feels just like four years. :S I say "Well a lot has happened in 4 years, don't you think?" and he agrees. When you consider just the first two years, it's crazy. We Had Katie in our Third year, I want to do something really spectacular for our fifth, cause some people may say "OH it's five years, that's not much" I say every day is a blessing, and five years is amazing. I look at this way, Chances are, Scott and I (even at the young age we got married) are not going to make it to 50 years. And I mean that in a "one-of-us-will-be-dead" way and not in a "we're-going-to-get-divorced" way. Realistically, I have old lady hips, and arthritis, and POOR BALANCE now, I can't imagine how I"ll make it to 69, and Scott would be 72, which Is really far away when you consider he has diabetes.
So every anniversary should be special. IMO anyway. LOL.
Scott got me a Cellphone for our anniversary. Some of you are going "Oooh Romantic" but it's a fun new toy, and I'm enjoying it. If you have a ringtone preference, let me know. Some of you get what I have assigned no matter what lol :D
Derringer Meryl [Code Monkey] Out