Friday, May 18, 2007

Why Is It?

Why is it that people try to save addicts who don't want to be saved? Over and over again they put them in rehabs and treatment centers and either the addict walks out or waits until they are discharged and then they go back to their addiction, and then the cycle starts over again. How often does the addict do this before people finally realize no one can help the addict until the addict wants help.

Why is it that some people, and I use the word people very loosely, actually enjoy hurting people, both physically and emotionally? I mean, to actually get some sort of high when they know they are hurting someone? I have seen an elderly grandmother stir up crap between two people to watch them go at it, I have watched people pretend to be other people in emails and blogs to intentionally hurt people emotionally. Why?

Why is it that our government does not require a church to file any forms to become a charitable organization yet if we want to be recognized as one to help multiples and abuse survivors we have to file a zillion pages of forms, answer ridiculous questions and jump through hoop after hoop?

Why is it that roses are $9.99 a dozen until a week before Valentine's Day and then they are $35 and the same price gouging on any other holiday? Likewise how can a grocery store sell t-bone steaks for $9.99 a pound and then for $4.99 a pound, that's a $5 diff on the price or Pepsi is #3.50 a twelve pack or the same as $7 a case of 24 and then, voila, it's on sale for 5 12 packs for $10 or $4 a case? Which then brings us back to gas stations, the price jumps at 10 or 20 cent increments but drops in penny increments, why is that?

Why is it that there is more news coverage and more outrage over the pet food contamination than over the plight of children who are abused day in and day out in every imaginable way? or for that matter over spousal abuse?

Why is it the news has less news than ever before, a good portion of it being self promotion and show promotion and sadly terrible news after terrible news?

Why is cable and dish touted as so wonderful? Remember when people were so fed up with commercials on "regular" tv so they welcomed cable and dish, and yet they too have a ton of commercials on their stations many seemingly more than "regular" or "commercial" stations!
Why are the same movies on over and over and over and over?

Why is it that Anna Nicole has been dead for months and she is still being talked about on "news" shows?

Why is it that someone who is considered an excellent baseball player, one of the best to come along in many a year can decline so much in one year? Say for his first 5 seasons he averages 38 HRs and 125 rbis and this year, out of the blue, he is on a pace for 22 HRs and 75 rbis?

Why is it that I write these Why is it blogs? Do these things just bother me and a few others or more than that?

til next time

JM

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Mucho Good Mexican Food

Poor grammar I know but boy was the food excellent! We went to this restaurant the night before keepers testified against their former therapist, in our state capital. The food there was so good and so inexpensive, what a welcome thing that was! When we left they said they had another restaurant near St Louis but we did not know where. Well on one drive back from meeting with Pastor Brown we saw a billboard for their new location, it is about 50 miles from our house.

Today we took a drive out there, around 5 this afternoon, it was my way of telling Keepers happy Mother' Day, just a day early. They had mentioned going there a couple of times since we had seen the billboard but I don't think they ever expected us to go there. We got there before the supper rush so there was no waiting to be seated. We ordered 2 number one combinations and an order of beef nachos to share and 2 Pepsis. They bring the usual salsa and chips for an appetizer and the salsa is okay but on the table they have habanero sauce, both red and green, so we added some green to the salsa, that perked things up real quick!

The nachos are simply chips on a platter, covered with seasoned ground beef and that is covered by melted cheese and I do mean covered! With a lot of both. The combo plates we chose had 2 beef and cheese enchiladas, a beef taco with cheese and lettuce and spanish rice. We add salsa to the taco and to the rice and I spread it on my enchiladas also. At one point keepers ran out of soda, had a few bite with the green habanero sauce and it burnedddddddddddd. Just about then our waiter came by picked up their empty glass and put his hand on their shoulder, "Are you okay?" he asked

They nodded "yes"

He looked her empty glass, her face, then the habanero bottle, "Did you put the green sauce on your enchilada?" he asked

They smiled and said "Yes"

He shook his head as if to say "crazy gringo lady" and went to refill her soda. He was funny.

So we left there with three to go boxes, they had one and a half enchiladas left and some rice, I had two enchiladas and a little rice and about 1/3 of the nachos and it cost us a whopping total of $22.62 tax included. And we will get a late evening snack out of it or lunch tomorrow, either way it will be delicious.

So there you have it, our night out...oh yeah, I forgot we went to Wally world after that a we got them a small Mothers Day cake. Terrence got into that as soon as we got home!!! That's okay, that is what it is for, to each of them I say Happy Mother's Day, I know how much you love your children, I know how you did the absolute best that was possible, I know you will always love them no matter what. You were and are a wonderful Mom.

Love

JM

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

More Ramblings

May 01, 2007 so what is new? Cardinals suck big time, even before they lost a team mate. Now it is even worse. Look for big changes after this season from management to players.

Mucho rain here today, lots of thunder and lightening, wind for a while had rain blowing in windows and we weren't paying attention so had three wet places in the house! OOOOps!
All of the noise today has no effect on Owen and Max, sleep right through it like it is nothing.

Why was traffic a pain in the keester today? On the way to work and the way home, traffic, traffic, traffic!!! Long lines on the highways and interstates for no apparent reason. Just one of those days you wanted to stay off of the roadways.

Bill paying day, everybodys favorite day, right? Well, maybe not...pay this credit card this much and that one that much and oooh look that one is almost paid off!!! Yay!!! Hey, what happened here? I thought this one was lower....oh yeah, had to buy that thigamajig last month, forgot about that!

Wore one of my new shirts for only the second time today, nice comfortable one, and we go to I-Hop for supper, good old Rootie Tootie Fruitie meal and guess who gets strawberry juice on his new shirt? Yeah, it was me! Wiped it with the stain stick when we got home, hope that takes care of it.

Over on Keepers blog the rude and crude comments have eased off for a few days, maybe it will end now and the idiots will find someone else to bother, really hope they just dry up and blow away and not bother anyone, but then along comes another one....do these people leave comments like this, "you are so full of yourself, big deal you have a site about multiplicity, so do a lot of other people" because they think it makes them look smart? or observant? or philosophical? or like a mental genius? or eloquent speakers of the absurd or what?

Bet that last one gets a comment! That's what moderation is for, right?

Misunderstandings are multiplying like bunny rabbits in heat, every blog i read here lately has comments or innuendos of someone taking exception to this or that or why did you say that and then oh you weren't talking about me? Sensitivity is high!!!!!! Seems most of it is misunderstandings. too bad too because these people normally support each other, not get upset with each other and tear each other apart. What it is, or so it seems is that many of the players are each having their own issues and turmoils going on, which is making each of them apprehensive and leery of words from others. Abreactions are common right now, many are writing about it on their blogs and that creates nothing but havoc with multiples.

Keepers have some time to do art now but no motivation, so i told them maybe they should let the artwork flow, in other words it doesn't have to be a pretty picture that fits in the Healing Gallery, maybe it will be a picture reflective of the goings on from the last several weeks and fit better in the Trauma Gallery.

That's it for now, see you soon!

JM