Checks @ MindSay 
So today is supposed to be payday,
but our checks never showed up.
I called the company and all they told us
was that they were sent on their normal day
and that FEDEX probably lost the checks.
great. FEDEX has already been to the mall
today too. My car is on freaking E and I don't think I
have enough gas to get home. I will probably go to
the Red River Federal Credit Union and get some out
of my dads account (thats the only benifit of having the
same name as my dad). I hope to god he actually
has money in there and it is not all on hand.
FUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.
A fast update of a bit of everything.
1. I have started getting my mail on an every other day biases! My moms is sooo proud of me! I started because I was waiting for checks to come in for the kids and various First Communion presents from all the family and "pagany" friends that sent to them. Now I am waiting on my checks to come in. So now that I have gotten in the habit we can start actually "writting". Craftywench dear, I need you to email us full addy and your mini me's name and your name again. DeLaney said she won't promise any decent letters (they just got done with proper letter writing at school so she is burnt out) but she will write!
2. I was very upset with my TKD Academy instructor Monday and ran into Aj's wife yesterday and told her why. It looks like my cousin's wife has been talking and the owner/instructor is beleiving every word she has to say about me. Which is funny as hell cause the stuck up bitch doesn't KNOW me, doesn't talk to me outside of saying hi, and thinks I am "white trash" cause I don't dress in brand name clothes. Carrie is upset over this cause she had to deal with my cousin's wife talking shit about her last year. AJ is going to talk to me Friday cause he is worried that after we get our black belt at the end of this year beginning of next year instead of stickign around that we will leave the Academy. AJ knows that I don't put up with this type of shit but I am also not going to play highschool bull shit games, I'll call the instructor and cousin's wife out and be dayumed any family fall out.
3. After 7 years (i though it was 5 until my moms counted back) I actually took myself to my hair stylist and got my hair colored. The kdis and I got our hair cut Wensday or Thrusday last week and I splurged on hair color yesterday. I think I look kick ass hot with my new do. The bottom half of my hair is a purply reddish brown and the upper layers are reddish brown. So when I put my sides up you can see the purple and when I actually blow dry curl my bangs you can see it also! My hair stylist instead of charging me for my length which at the moment is short and thickness of my hair (usually takes a lot of dye for my hair even when short) she charged me just for shortness for two different dyes even though the bottom dye she used a full bottle of it she said! I was very happy over not paying close to 100 for my dye like normal! It was closer to 50!
4. I don't know if I told you all about the plan I had in plotting progress but I started it. At the end of May when my kdis get out of school, instead of taking them on their first camping trip, they will be staying with Pappo and Mammo (Unless daddy is home those two days) while Mommy is bettering herself. I registered for 1 of 6 classes to start my certificate/licensing process to become a Certified and eventually Licensed Drug/Alchohal (sp? can't ever spell that word) Counselor! The total amoutn of classes is $1300.00 but you only pay for the class your taking. And if the class that is scheduled doesn't fit in your schedule you just wait for the next one to be listed, it doesn't hurt you! It is through the Lincoln Medical Center and a program called TAP out of Lincoln. The series of classes are held every 6 months. Sometimes on the Western/Central parts of the state and the other times on the Eastern/Central part of the state. Right now they are in the Western/Central parts of the state but I am going down to a weekend class in Lincoln the day my kdis get out of school for the first class. I have NOT told Randy yet, because Randy told NOW would come up with a way to sabatoge my plans and he wouldn't even realize it. Once it comes closer I will inform him and he will get over it. My parents and my sister (and one friend) are stepping to the plate to help with the kids especially when it comes to the week long classes coming up. After I do the classes I have to intern at 1 of 4 places near me or try to get on at the IHS out paitent clinic. Once I get that over with I can get licensed and work anyplace in NE as a counselor. I am going to hold out for the IHS Drug/Booze Dependency Unit to be up and operational to get on with the Tribe/Gov't. They are in the process of building it now right next to the new IHS hospital my moms works at!
5. My garden is tilled and my onions planted. I have to find my other seed to get the other cold weather seeds in, my herb garden needs one more tillign and then I can plant that, and Coltin's room is about done with the fixing of cracks so I can paint!
6. Randy has been an ass lately so when he is home this week we will hash that out.
Over all life has been good. I even wrote gwydionjim a letter while he is at boot camp. He might even get another one here when I mail out the last of the kids' thank you cards for all their First Communion Presents! Yes I make my kids do snail mail thank yous!
When we got to campus, sis and I met up with Maria to help get things together for the French Club's booth at Winter Cruise, a campus tradition in which many clubs/organizations set up booths, follow a theme, and give out freebies and info about their group. This year's theme was James Bond in Candyland, whatever the hell that's supposed to be.
Anyway, Maria brought us all coffee, which was super nice of her in spite of the fact that I'm not a big coffee fan and hadn't had a cup of coffee for at least six years. I say this now, because I'm giving you a heads up to the fact that after drinking my big cup o' joe I was on a crazy ass caffeine high for the rest of the day and was pretty much bouncing off the walls. The downer to my energy rush was that my stomach ached for as long as my energy lasted...so that's no good.
But anyway, so I spent the majority of my day at the booth, helping keep little miss pulled-an-all-nighter (aka Maria) awake, giving away french kisses (i.e Hershey kisses), various other types of candy, bubbles, pencils, paper hearts, and information about the French club. Also, I designed a fortune teller that allowed people to learn what famous dead french person they were in a past life. As it turns out, quite a few people were Napoleon Bonapart and Marie Curie. Who'd have thought? (the options all together were the two previously listed, as well as Jean D'Arc, Gustave Eiffel, Marcel Marceau, Simone de Bouvoir, Claude Monet, and Josephine Baker--yes, I realize not all of them were french but they found fame in France so same difference :P ).
Anyway, as a whole it was super fun. I saw a few of my friends and/or people I knew from past classes and had fun gushing to Maria about the loveliness of Ryan's voice (I let her hear a msg from him, she quite agrees). Other pass times included teasing Maria about her love of bearded men, talked about people we saw walking around, watching the Bond man dance around, fending off a crazy straw-hat wearing man who was after Maria's heart (poor girl, not only did he not have a beard but he was also a good ol' boy. Accent and lack of sophistication included. Plus he was down right creepy), and eating candy.
While at Winter Cruise I managed to get all kinds of freebies. Said freebies include but are not limited to:
A 2007 Homecoming Tshirt from the SGA [Student Government Association] (I was asked to fill out a comment card and tell them how they're doing. I said they're doing well and begged them to get Weezer to come for one the spring/fall concert lol), two plastic cups (one from the SGA, and another that Maria took from the SGA and wrote "Fraincais is cool" on), a "This is what a feminist looks like" sticker from FMLA [Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance] (where I saw Veronica who was quite rude to me. It's not my fault she sucks as a president and never gets anything done), two tote bags from the SPDA [Student Painting & Drawing Association] (I had to pay for these, however, I got to choose a free V.day card which was rad. Some of them were stupidly retarded, though....like "You're my ass rainbow!" wtf?), oogles of candy, a mini toothbrush, a plastic martini glass, and a "sand garden" aka a wooden tray that I filled with all kinds of beach-related things (mini flip flops, drink umbrella, starfish, sand dollar, foam flamingo and palm tree, rubber alligator, etc) minus the sand. One of my favorite things that I got was a giant button with my face super imposed over a nun's on it (I look like my eyes are going to fall out. It's funny. Sis got one with her face super imposed over Vince Vaughn's and she's standing next to Owen Wilson. The button makes me drool. *siiigh* lol).
I also got to shoot a glock at a paper wedding couple (the glock was rigged to shoot air) for $1. I did nicely ;). Oh, and sis, Maria, and I got our pic made. Voici:
(Left to right/top to bottom: Me, sis, Maria) I look like a snob. I love it. lol
After W.C. ended (at 4pm) I took Maria out to a super late lunch at Zaxby's. This one guy that worked there kept coming out and looking at me it a weird way. Gave me the hibejibes.
Later we met back up with sis (who had abandoned us around 12 for classes and paper writing) and hung out in the art building. While there, I saw Ira as well as learned that I can hold a tube of lipstick with my boobs and apply it evenly to my lips (No, Ira was not in the room when I discovered this talent). Impressive, right? Blame this new found knowledge on Maria. It's her fault for watching The Breakfast Club.
Thursday was pretty mellow. Painting was okay'ish and Litho was the usual (i.e. lots of joking, dirty double entendres--apparently I'm into waxing cucumbers, and down time with friends). I got my first etch processed on my stone...so...yay. Also, John (prof.) ran after sis like a little girl saying "Whyyyyyyy, Laken, whyyyy?" It was ridiculously funny.
Something interesting? Saw Cory. I had my back to the door while I was "massaging my stone" (i.e. rubbing gum arabic all over the surface) and I heard someone behind me go "Mea B...[Last name protected for obvious reasons]" So I was like *who on earth would call me by my full name?* and turned around. It was Cory. idk why. He stopped by before his drawing class with Donna, though. Then he came back on his brake and hung out. Ugh...I swear, he's liked some kind of a drug that gets into my system and makes it hard not to think about the possibility of things happening there. Greg was saying to me that he [Cory] has been having problems with Jessica. He also told Greg that he's ready to have sex and is going crazy. So, I don't know, he's retarded. And I need to stop seeing him. He keeps giving me bad thoughts and ideas that I would never want to follow through on. Especially for Jessica's sake.
Anyway, after classes sis, Maria, Greg, and I (we invited Cory but he declined so I ran through the parking lot saying "Cory P. sucks!") went to Olive Garden where we laughed insanely, I was uneasy over the presence of a giant child who slept very rigidly and who's mother later picked it's nose for it (I'm thinking "it" was a he but who knows?), and probably made our waiter [Scott] feel very uncomfortable. Plus I think he thought we were all flirting with him. How sad for him...
Yesterday I basically did nooothing of relevance. I worked on a History paper which was due at Midnight that I managed to send to my prof. at 11:57:44pm. Whew. Other than that not a whole lot happened. Little got done today, too. I finally cashed the two Subway checks I'd been carrying around for close to a month and I donated a $1 for the March of Dimes and received a almond and chocolate bar that I am now eating.
Workload for next week includes:
Hist: Take quiz 2x and prepare for the exam
Marriage & Fam: get 1 more woman and 3 more men to take my survey so I'll be able to give Betsy the results on Wednesday
Painting: Finish figuring out proportions / under painting by Tues and begin adding color
Lithography: Complete my 2nd etch and produce at least 1 "good" print (though I really need to do my whole edition) by Thursday.
Has anyone seen any of the episodes of Gossip Girl on The CW? Just curious. I've seen some previews and am kind of interesting but I could just be being swayed by the music they've been playing with the show clips. lol
This is such a bullshitted ruling! I am not saying the guy doesn't need to pay but dayum! What happened to no debter prision in the US? And I am sorry the family is right! This pure racism at work.......again! All us folks struggling to pay our bills could be next in line for 15-20 years in prision because we dont' check our accounts very often!
Civil rights unit probes black man’s sentence
Man convicted for first offense of writing bad checks gets 30 years in prison
BALTIMORE - The state attorney general’s civil rights unit is investigating a 30-year sentence given to a black man convicted of writing bad checks who had no prior convictions.
Carl O. Snowden, the attorney general’s director for civil rights, said Wednesday he is investigating the sentencing of Andrew M. Fisher in response to a complaint filed by the Baltimore County branch of the NAACP.
Fisher, 24, was convicted in August of two counts of writing $23,500 in bad checks for an electronic security system for the apartment he shared with his mother.
Baltimore County Circuit Judge Patrick Cavanaugh sentenced Fisher to two consecutive 15-year prison terms and ordered him to repay A-1 Security Systems, in a case first reported in The (Baltimore) Examiner.
Pat Ferguson, president of the local NAACP chapter, called the sentence “blatant discrimination.” She also compared the situation to that of the "Jena 6" case in Louisiana in which six black teens were arrested after an attack on a white student. Critics accused officials of prosecuting blacks more harshly than whites.
An assistant said it is the judge’s policy not to comment on his cases.
Cavanaugh, who is white, offered to release Fisher if he paid $23,000 in restitution, according to a motion filed by Fisher’s attorney Alvin Alston. Alston asked the judge to correct the “illegal sentence” against Fisher, saying that Maryland’s highest court has held that “imprisonment for a lack of financial resources is illegal.”
Nancy Fish, the owner of A-1 Security Systems, said she did not object to the sentence.
“Murderers don’t get that,” Fish said. “But the judge saw the type of personality that this guy was. It’s not like he was sick or on drugs. He knew exactly what he was doing.”
Fisher does have an arrest record, including several assault charges, but no convictions.
© 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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