I know I don't know everything...

I don't usually say anything political...I know how heated we get with Politics...but I'd just like to say...

This whole Economic thing going on with Fannie Mae and...crap what's the other one?  Anyways...with them wanting a buy out...yadda yadda...it's scary.  I watched a few programs yesterday and read a few articles...I kinda like to be up on current events.  And, I have always said that not everything is the current presidents fault.  Case and point...Fannie mae and Freddi mac...(I remembered)...about this time in the year 1999...just before Bill Clinton left office...he went to these two companies and basically forced them to make home loans available for people they knew couldn't afford a home loan.  There were annalysts who said if these companies and those who got these home loans weren't watched carefully, it would come back to bite us in the butt.

So, thanks Bill Clinton, for you shenanigans in your presidency...and especially for the economic problems of today.  People that get all hot and heavy and make it out like EVERYTHING is George W. Bush's fault don't have all the facts.  I'm not saying he isn't responsible for some things, so don't get all pissed off...those of you who hate him.    You're allowed to hate him, I won't say you aren't...but I'm equally allowed to hate Bill Clinton...so don't give me your "Oh, Bill did so much for our country" schpeal...I don't want to hear it... hehehe

Side note: I'm also not saying the American People are also to blame...those people who went and spent and spent and spent...it have come back to bite them in the butt too.   MOney money Money...we all just need to live within our means, and this sort of thing wouldn't be as big of a deal...

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I did nothing today...it's 11pm PST

I am one of those people that run around like a chicken with it's head cut off during the week, and then decompress on the weekend.  This weekend I did a whole lotta nothing!  Doesn't usually work out that way, but this weekend I'm glad it did.   I found a few things out...

 

#1 - Paramore (one of my favorite bands) is releasing a new song on the soundtrack for the "Twilight" movie coming out in November.  For those of you who don't know...I LOVE TWILIGHT!  I'm a twilight freak! 

---I really only found the one thing out...whatever...

 

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And, for your viewing pleasure...this is what I did to my car this week...no it's not a possesed shelf on the wall...but it's still comical. 

 

You kinda have to tilt your head to the side to see it...I broke the bracket on the underside of my driver's side seat.

This is my brilliant friend welding the bracket back together all nice for me...he even reinforced it!

This is one side of the final product...the other side was the reinforced side.

Gotta love talented friends!!

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Twilight....Breaking Dawn.

Has anyone here read this series?   A friend of mine told me I had to read them because the 4th book was coming out...so, I remebered that my mom had told me something about these books, and so I stole them from her.

I love most things Vampire...even if it's a little hokey.  Which Twilight can be sometimes.  But, I loved these books...I'm really what you'd call a fast reader...but I ZOOMED through these books.

So, the 4th book called "Breaking Dawn" has a character from Ireland named, Siobhan, which is the spelling of my name, Chivaun, in Gaelic.  The author, Stephenie Meyer, got some major brownie points from me on that one.    It's not every day that I hear or read my name, and so I thought it was cool!

 

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Nutsoid week

So...the hilskie saga continues...but first

My sister isn't the most musical person...she loves to sing and has taken piano lessons, but didn't really go very far...tonight a friend and I were messin' around learning some Weezer stuff...and she came out and asked if she could play something. I love weezer, and their bass lines are usually farely simple...so I taught her the bass line to "Island in the Sun"...and we Jammmed! It was fun...and I love that she wanted to play with us. Sisters are great...well...mine is anyways...

 

Ealier this week one of my absolute best friends, and some of you might have played with him...his gamertag is "Cathon"...I digress...He was in a really awful accident. Here's a picture...

He got sent to Harborview Hosptal in Seattle, which is a Level 1 trauma center. I have to tell you that it's is a miracle that he's not dead. He's gone from unconscious with a tube down his throat and bruises and neckbraces in just a few short days, he's awake, and up and eating, and his funny self. It really is a miracle. My mind has been racing a hundred miles an hour this week, it's finally kind of coming to a close. Crazy stuff like this makes you sit up and remember what's really important. Friends and Family are important...

To my friends in this amazing place...thank you! You constantly make my day... & I hope that you'll forgive my absence lately...

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My new bed sucks!

So...you've no doubt read about my head injury when I got my new bed...if you haven't...scroll down. 


Bought a new bed about a month ago...it is already falling apart.  The bed is so poorly put together that the spring system on the inside is trying to get out.


So what would you do?  I went to the damn furniture store.  Told them what's going on, and the lady said, "Oh, that's not good!"  Well, no shit shirlock!  So, she takes my name and number and says that she's have the repair guy for the store call and come take a look at it.  That was Tuesday...it is officially Saturday!  It's only gotten worse as the week progressed.  I paid approx. $650 for a TWIN bed.  I did it because I had a bed by the same company that I absolutely LOVE!  So, I figured it'd be the same quality.  Boy was I wrong. 

So, now I have to go fight with them and make them take back their bed, and let me pick out a new one.  I don't want another one that's just gonna do the same damn thing, would you?





On a side note...my little black Dauchsund, Finley, is a mean bug killer!  She eats flies like they're a yummy candy.  Who needs a fly swatter?

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