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Who needs kids, I have a dog!

Captive Irish Moon by Sandi Layne (aka sandyquill ) is sitting on my side table waiting for me to pick it up and continue reading. I read a few pages earlier, but had to put it down when the dog, Miah , wanted to go outside and go potty. Understand, our yard is totally fenced, she has a doggy door and is able to go in and out by herself, but for some reason she recently decided she can't "go" without me there. No one else will do, it has to be me. So, rain or shine, I stand in the front yard and wait until she sniffs out the right spot, does what she needs to, then runs in through her doggy door leaving me standing in the yard alone. When I get inside the house she is waiting for her treat for being such a good girl. Where's my treat, I want to know, but she looks at me as if to say, "You didn't go potty!"

Sometimes, when I'm standing vigil over my little white diva, the neighbor across the street brings her dog, Lucky, out on his leash for a walk. One look and both dogs start a conversation that has all the dogs within a square mile talking at once. Neighbor Lady and I sometimes try to talk over all the noise, but we soon give up because we can't compete with all that dog speak. Eventually nature gets the best of one or both dogs, they do what they came out to do, we all go inside and peace once again reigns in the neighborhood.

Now that the weather has begun to cool off somewhat in the evening I can go out to the back yard and read or take my MacBook Pro and surf the web over my wireless network while doggy diva digs a hole big enough to plant a tree in. When she has sufficiently sniffed and rolled in whatever she happens to pull out of the hole she gets a running start and does a flying leap into my lap on top of whatever happens to be there. Before I can react she's down and across the yard laughing at me from by the fence while I dust off the sand and clean up whatever mess she made and get settled again. Then she gets a running start....

Who needs kids, I have a dog!

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Yearbook Photo Fun

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I stole this idea from Sandi, whose husband introduced her to this site. I never graduated, or never walked in high school because I homeschooled across the waves, so I had fun (took ages) finding a photo that suited my face. Give it a try and post it here and on your blogs, so I can see it as well!

The site is www.yearbookyourself.com

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Stolen from Sandyquill who gleeped it from nomad.

On this day, March 20, 2005 I wrote:

In Defense of the South

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close-minded people

Ignorant, backwards, stupid, behind the times, Bible-Belt, closed-minded, hicks, bumpkins,etc. These are all negative words used to describe Southerners and people from the South. While I admit that we Southerners have a unique style and culture, I am sick to death of having to hear the negative stereotypes about us by people who have never been anywhere south of the Mason Dixon line. My rant is to some of these so-called progressive Yankees who profess to being open-minded while smugly thinking that anyone with a Southern drawl probably has an IQ of 50.

If your sophisticated, progressive asses ever have the misfortune of getting cancer, you'd might want to make your way south to Houston, Texas. The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the top cancer research facility in the nation and one of the finest in the world.
Remember those Egyptian twins that were conjoined at the head? The operation was successfully performed in Dallas, Texas.
Rock & Roll would never exist if it weren't for the mixture of gospel, blues and country music forms created in the South.
The Johnson Space Center is in Houston, Texas and The Kennedy Space Center is in Cape Canaveral, Florida. That's right, our space program is located in the South.
Southern cooks actually know that more spices exist than, salt, pepper and paprika. (Ok, so this was a little mean.)
New Orleans is the birthplace of Jazz. Countless Yankees also find themselves drawn to this city each year during Mardi Gras where some of them flash people for plastic beads and drink themselves blind.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Richmond, Virginia.
Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi.
JAMIE FOXX was born in Terrell, TX.
The Center of Disease Control is located in Atlanta, Georgia.
There are 415 black mayors of southern cities according to the National Conference of Black Mayors, inc.
All of the previous winners from American Idol are from the South.
Rice University is located in Houston, Texas.
Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee.

I'm a proud Southerner. I'm not going to apologize for being polite or believing in God. I don't think reading the Bible is stupid or backwards. I know the name of the Texas state song ("Texas, Our Texas" . I know the words to the Texas state song. I like grits. I have a serious Texas drawl. I pronouce the words "damn" and "fan" with two syllables -- "dayum" and "fayun". I know what a divan is. On some days depending on the humidity, I have big hair. Okay, I live in Houston, so I have big hair a lot. I like drinking a cold glass of lemonade on my Big Mama's porch. I don't like the negative stereotypes of the South.

On this day in 2006, I wrote:

Back to the Salt Mines

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juan valdez should be next husband

Well it was back to work today and I am already looking forward to Easter break! LOL! Honestly when the year starts to wind down, the children start to wind up!

I was EXHAUSTED at work! I actually drank two Cokes today. I don't usually drink soda at all and when I do, it's rarely a Coke! I had these Cokes in addition to my usual two cups of coffee. I didn't even get a buzz! I think i'm going to have to start getting my coffee from an IV drip. The kids were giggling because I kept nodding off while checking their papers. I told them I was praying over them.

I feel much better today, I'm not in a rage or depressed, just melancholy. Believe me I will take that over the former two anyday. I have to stay positive because I have a big transition ahead of me. I am purging the negative emotions and the causes of them so it hurts, but I feel more and more cleansed each day. Soon, I'll feel minty fresh. Smiley .

On this day in 2007 I wrote:

Just five more minutes mom!

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I am so sleepy right now, I could cry! I'm just not a morning person.

P.S. The coffee isn't working right now. I'd probably would be more awake if I'd been scalded with it.

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MIKE HUCKABEE ON REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT

Here's what Mike Huckabee said about Rev. Wright: "Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say 'Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that.... As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ...I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack—and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you—We've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names; being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie; you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant; you can't sit out there with everyone else, there's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office; here's where you sit on the bus... And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder, and resentment, and you have to just say, 'I probably would, too. I probably would, too. And in fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.'"