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Back home in Tecumseh, Michigan; in Lenawee County I am know for being "different" and, therefore, dangerous.

 

I have been evicted from McDonald's, WalMart, Meijers, my alma martre Siena Heights University, from my polling place during the 2004 vote for attaching a small "American flag" to my sweatshirt that stated "Voting Is For Brave People". For the offense of pursuing my happiness these things happened to me.

 

Ya wanna see the videos.  I got 'em.  No falsification here.  I have them back in AUSPONA.

 

I have been openly surveiled by the Adrian Police Department for the offence of carrying a Kerry For President sign while walking my dog down Main street.

 

Further, two Lenawee County Sheriff patrol cruisers, yes two cruisers with lights flashing [no sirens, though] once pulled me over [got the video] and detained me to ask me why I staged a one-person picket line on public property to protest in front of a business because that business was proud to advertise on WABJ Radio where Rush Limbaugh was at the top of its' programing.

 

When I was allowed to resume my ligitimate right to pursue my happiness and freedom of speech and expression it was done with the assurance, from Deputy McCrate, that I had every right to do what I was doing.

 

I told him of my knowledge that I had that right and, if I did not say it I was surely thinking: What ta fuck are you stopping me for, why impede my pursuit of happiness being conducted in a lawful manner to tell me I had the right to do what I was doing? Why?

 

Back home, in my beloved Michigan in AUSPONA, I will most certainly be openly and aggressively called an ignorant and unpatriotic creep. So, my MINDSAY friends, I am looking to and counting on you to help me face the gauntlet I must and am willing to run.  The crucible of retrograde imbecilic Republicanism, of fascism in southern Michigan is really quite daunting and not, in fact, of just Republican political stripe.

 

Some of the hardest political fights I will face will be from the old-line Democrat leadership both local and statewide. I include both the Michigan senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow as, in the least, Republican fascists enablers.   

 

You have been and will continue to be some salve for some of my emotional wounds. The prime reason for my return to AUSPONA is to work actively and aggressively to see to the ligitimate inauguration of The Brave Sen. Barack Obama as its' next duly elected president.

 

Sincerely in pursuit of happiness and freedom from insane fudking retrograde tyranny of whatever political stripe,

 

Mr. David Tecumseh Schmidt, MSW '82 University of Michigan Tecumseh High School '59

After that week two weeks ago, I was ready to freaking snap on anyone and everyone!  I even called Randy this past week and said your turn to plan date night and it is going to be after Father's Day!

 

We called our instructor at TKD and I gave him the low down on why I have been so stressed and he said no problem, we set up a couple private instruction times for this next week on top of our normal class times just so we can get caught up.  I am okay with that.

 

DeLaney had a play date last week.  Her lil friend's mom and I don't totally agree on a lot of things but we agree not to hold that against the girls.  Randy and I have to sit down every time that DeLaney is with that lil girl and explain some things to her that they do and why we don't.  But I had to have some words with her friend's mom about men and kids and how she will NOT be poisning MY Daughter's head against her dad or any other man because she is having issues with her current hubby and is going through a divorce.  The girls have one major thing in common concerning their dads.  They both work on the road.  And that is where the similarity ends.  Randy is very logical and is a non practicing Lutheran that is slowly starting to go through my various religious and spiritual books and is questioning both my moms and myself on things.  Laney's lil friend's dad is a fluff ball wiccan wonder.  Randy makes a point in calling his kids and myself EVERY NIGHT he is on the road, even if it is for only one night he is gone.  Laney's lil friend's dad doesn't even bother calling his daughter when he is gone and he is gone for 6 months to a year at a time for a job!  Might only come home for the weekend once a month!  When he is home he buys Laney's lil friend off and makes it a competition between him and his soon to be ex wife.  Randy doesn't buy his kids' affection.  He spends time with them even when he is tired!

 

Anyway the reason why I am so ReEnergized, we got invited down to the RiverFront Day's Dance Friday night by some of our friends!  My parents took the kids for the night and over night so Randy and I could go out.  Well Randy and my friend's ol man had to work the next day so they maintained.  My friend and I said screw it!  Her in laws had her kids over night, my parents had our kids over night, other friends that showed up managed to talk their parents into keeping their kids over night and we had a blast!  We left our friend's house about 9:30 pm and went to go get gas.  Where we laughed our assess off!  Some chicy babe at the gas station was already ripped by quarter till 10!  She ended up leaning out of a duel diesel big ass truck to blow chunks in front of the county cop no less!  My girl then got hit on by that same county cop while paying for the gas!:P  We went over to the Bottle Shop and got beer and ice for the cooler and toook a cruse down by the dance to see if anyone was there, NOPE!  So then we headed down to the marina so we could see who was there.

 

We decieded to walk in and have a beer down at the Marina Bar.  Nothing but out of staters, ppl from Omaha and the Bluffs, and ol ppl coming in from the river.  The guys each had one beer.  My girl and I don't like beer and knew that is what we were pretty much stuck drinking Friday night so we guzzled two down at the marina to get that nasty ass taste out of our mouth.  Then we drove back up to the main street and hit the bar!  The bar was jumping!  We didn't get very far from the door it was so packed.  But that is okay we had a grand blast (us girls) talking to everyone coming and going from the bar.  Saw one of our friends' from higschool brothers there!  That was a trip!  He is older then my cousin who is older then my sister!  And here he is trying to hang with the young bucks!  Then we turned around to help out a friend of my friend who was being hit on by some drunk young buck straight out of highschool and saw "The Smurf and Torpedo Tits" from highschool!  Two girls that are 4 years older then us and thought their shit didn't stink.  Smurf is married to a guy from my brother's class who stands 6'3 and that bitch only stands 5'2!  Talk about your odd couples!  They weren't to happy seeing us there laughing at them!  Especially knowing the fact we know they are two elementry school teachers and ten to one some of their school kids' parents were at the bar drinking up also!  They stopped to talk to us because they knew we know more ppl than they did down there and Smurf's hubby was drunk off his ass really trying to talk to me about my brother!  Our hubby's were just sitting at the bar trying not to go to sleep on us and chatting with various guys they knew or worked with off and on.  I got Randy to do a Jager Bomb with me.  We decieded it was time to hit the dance and the beer garden when one of our other friends FINALLY showed up!

 

So we get to the dance, and of course it is one of the local bands that ruines every fucking song they attempt to sing or play, so we went on out to the beer garden where we promptly ran back into our friend's brother.  Laughed our asses off at our friends' ex sister in law who was getting rubbed up on by ol men and nasty looking men showing off her fake titties that she got in an attempt to keep his brother from divorcing her!  Nobody would do a shot with me so I talked my friend's brother into doing one.  Then I had some dude buy me another shot thinking I would go down with back to back shots with all that beer in me already, suprise.  That fucker took two steps from the beer garden and went down hard!  I laughed and went back to our group.  My girls were laughign and said when are ppl going to realize that when you drink you drink!  Randy was suprised at hell because he was trying to keep track of how much I was haivng because he has NEVER seen me drunk until Friday night! 

 

All we did was talk, a couple of dances with our men, go to the bathroom,a nd drink!  It was a blast!  We walked out of the dance about 1 and straight into a line of county cops and town cops waiting for the drunks to stagger out.  We lost my girl back in the dance cause she got to talking!  Her ol man went back into get her and Randy and I sat outside and talked to the cops!  I promptly took my shoes, my earings, and my necklace off.  Oh by the way you should have seen me!  I was looking HOT!  I had short black figure hugging capries on, a pair of heeled black slip on sandles, a brand new yellow, orange, and balck halter type top that showed off the tat tats (which I promptly made sure to say loud enough to my girls ex sister in law were REAL and NOT fake when my girl said loud enough boy you sure have big tat tats to be holding that top up!-were bad and catty I know!)  and I bought matching yellow big hooped earings and a black and yellow necklace to go with the outfit!  We finally got going back to our friends' house when he found his wife and he chitted up the cops a lil bit.  Thank GODS that the men were stone sober and just maintained their drinking while us girls got ripped! 

 

We took back country roads home and that is where I fully admit to saying I lost my cookies!  Mixing all thsoe shots with beer and then hitting back country roads so the guys could have a couple of beers on the way home.  Up and down, curves up and down on bluff roads with two very drunk ppl in the car is not a mix to make!  My girl was laughing her ass off at me and laughed even harder when I mangaded to say  "Hell at least I am not blowing chunks! It is straight up booze and beer!"  They guys were laughing just as hard because Randy still can't believe I was that drunk and I was still very coherant to remember everything!  Well I got the last laugh Saturday at 8 am when my girl woke me up!  She admitted to loosing her cookies after she went to bed at 2!  I was flopped down on my bed at 1:30!

 

We felt bad and fully admit we own our men big time!  They worked 12 hours Friday, came home and took us out to the dance and turned around and got up at 5am after going to bed at 2 am!  My girl had to pick up her youngest at her inlaws by 9:30 and I had to go pick up my kids sometime in the morning from my parents.  Well we did that and low and behold my parents took off with my kids!  So we went to my house with her lil girl and while I was picking up they sat back and relaxed!  I called my folks to find out when they were going to be home and after they got home, we grabbed my kids and headed back down to River Front Days!

 

We watched the parade and laughed our assess off at her brother in law's ex wife (the one with the fake tat tats!) because she thinks she is soooooooo cute and she cant' even wear decent clothes and her ass crack was showing all day.  Me and my girl are big girls but we have some class and know how to show our curves off properally!  And again we did.  We kept getting hit on all day long!  plus ppl were trying to steal my cowboy hat!  Yes I was wearing a cowboy hat!  A black straw one with a skull and cross bones on it!  Our four kids know how to work parades, they all had huge bags of candy which we promptly put away after the parade in the van.  Then we bought all 4 of them wrist bands to hit the street carnavale and let the 3 oldest go off by themselves while my girl took her lil girl around and I hit the store for bottles of water and motrin to work off our booze headaches! 

 

It was great.  Once I talked to a few ppl making my way back to my girla nd her lil girl, we found out the bar we were at last night was giving free BBQ Beef Sandwiches away from one of my girl's aunties.  So we went in and loaded up for us and the kdis.  Then her hubby showed up and let me know my ol man was home napping!:D  We loaded her man up on a plate and made our way back through the carnaval!  My kids and I finally made it home about 3:30, where Randy was sleeping on the couch!  I set the kids up outside in their lil pool and the phone.  Told them if they needed anything to come up to my room and wake me up and I promptly laid down on the bed for a tw hour nap!

 

Amazing what a weekend out will do for a person!  Today after my Moms gets back with the rug rats from Mass, the kids and I are treating Pappo and Daddy out to a nice Brunch for Daddy's day. 

 

Hope all the Dad's have a great Daddy's Day!  Same with the single Mom's out there!  Have a great Daddy's Day if you are also Daddy!:D

My neighbor (one of them) down the road to the west was out grading his lane and mowing the side of his lane.  Nothing unusual about that right?  Wrong!  He was wearing his County Sheriff's badge on the outside of his workshirt and had a red light (those flashing kind that vol. folks use in rural areas for their pick up trucks and cars) down by his feet!

 

I burst out laughing my ass off and about sideswipped the guard rail right before I got to the top of his lane where he was waiting for me to go by so he could turn around!  What made this so funny was the fact the tractor he was using to grade his lane and mow the side of his lane is such an antique thing that there was NO WAY in this wide universe he was going to catch me or anyone else with his tractor if he was going to try it!  But he just had to have that red light ready to put on top of the tractor engine cover! 

 

What was he going to do, slap that red light up top, slap that tractor in high (maybe 10 mph) and go after Thumpers brother for munching on his grass clippings!

 

My Gods we have a true blue Redneck for our County Sheriff and he is one of my neighbor's to boot!  Goddess help me!