I need people to donate to Janet’s new Charity…”Janet needs a Morgan”!! It’s for a good cause…I really really really find the car sexy! Plus, it is very cheap at $185,000.
A Sexy 2010 Morgan Aero Super Sports Targa Convertible
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Aug 2010
17
Jul 2010
Never been a fan of murphy beds, but I think these line would change my mind.
07
May 2010
Happiness was watching this show! I miss it. I have season 1 on disk, guess I have to get the other seasons soon!
06
May 2010
Never realized I died during a freak Tae Bo accident! lol…
28
Apr 2010
While listening to wbhm 90.3 this morning, I heard a brief Frank Deford talking about Role Models and how athletes are always called role models. He goes on for about 3.5 minutes with his “rant” , but the one paragraph that caught me attention was this
“Why, pray, of all people, are athletes, pretty much alone in our society, expected to be sweeter than the average angel? It is politicians and clergy and those maestros of finance on Wall Street who ought to be held to a higher standard. Why aren’t they ever called “role models?” Why can’t some tearful little impressionable tyke sob, “Say it ain’t so, Goldman Sachs, say it ain’t so” — and thus change the pecking order in our cultural mythology? ”
And that got to me thinking, why do we allow athletes and celebrities be the only “role models” for our children. Rarely do you ever hear how an accountant, veterinarian, or even a local farmer is a role model…unless it is context of sports or by their own kids. But the minute somebody is a celebrity or an athlete, we push us and our children to “watch” and “copy” them because they are automatically gods and goddess and can do wrong. Why? Why is that we automatically think that when people reach a certain level of fame that they turn into this perfect beings that we should strive to become like? And then watch out if one of them falls from their pedestals that we have place them on. We, the low undeserving people who place them up so high, bare our shiny claws and rip them to shred for not living up to OUR expectations, much less their own.
It seems that we have done a great in justice to the generations behind us. Instead of becoming role models ourselves for our children, we have stepped aside and let fame and fortune decide who will be their role models, for good or for bad. Daniel J. Boorstin said it well:
“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Some great quotes to think about:
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent
to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children
as individual property and think of them as the next generation,
then we can realize we all have a role to play.
-Charlotte Davis-Kasl
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents.
Parents are handing life’s scripts to their children,
scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out
for the rest of the children’s lives.
-Stephen R. Covey
(Quotes found onLiving Life Fully)
07
Apr 2010
Sorry for the delay in posting, but this past week has been busy. Between it being Easter, and having Lauren’s Baby shower on Saturday morning, Brannon and I have been on the go almost everyday. But hopefully things will settle down a bit before May hits and the whirlwind convention tour starts. 
30
Mar 2010
Wow…haven spent the last few hours updating my book list, and only adding 3-4 authors, I realize that I read WAY to much, and WAY to quick.
After looking at my books choices, I guess I need to explain what I read and why I read it. My main goal/focus for reading is to read for enjoyment. Reading is a stress release for me. And reading books/authors that are very tedious, dark, depressing, will not cross these hands…ever. Out of all the types out there, I prefer murder mysteries and sci-fi/Fantasy (think R.A. Salvatore), with a bit of British humor/mystery thrown in for added spice..
Currently, I tend to stick with the more “cozy” type murder mysteries, with a strong lead woman as the main detective . Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, Diane Mott Davidson, and Laura Levine are a few of the authors that I particular enjoy. Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who series and Rita Mae Brown’s Sneaky Pie Brown series can also be found on my reading list.
R. A. Salvatore’s characters Jaraxel and Artemis top my list for scifi/fantasy. I have read most of the Drizzt Do’Urden books, all of The Cleric Quintet, and his the Sellswords Series. I also loved reading Elaine Cunningham’s Forgotten Realm’s books/series, and thoroughly enjoyed Weiss and Hickman’s Dragons of series. And while I do enjoy the fantasy side, I haven’t really been reading it recently. During my off times, and when I am away from the computer I have been picking up the Dragon’s of trilogy, so there is a small chance I will return to this world full fledged.
As for my dips into British writings, Agatha Christie was at the top of my list (especially those books with Hercule Poirot ). And of, course I had to read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I did enjoy the books, but I do recommend NOT reading them while dispatching…it took me forever to read all 6 books, because I was constantly having to stop, answer the radio, and then rereading what I just read because I had forgotten it. But I finally made it through, towel and all.
But currently, I am reading P. G. Wodehouse. I love Jeeves and Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, so I figured I would give his books a chance. Since my local library doesn’t carry many of his books, I went online and was very happy to discover that Project Gutenberg contains many of his books online (for FREE!). Looking at his list, I decided to start at the beginning and work my through his many books. I read The Pothunters, and am currently reading The Prefect’s Uncle. So far, I have really enjoyed them. While they are lacking at the verbal sparring that Jeeves and Wooster seem to perfect, they do hint of the future humor that P.G. Wodehouse will soon hone.
As for classics – for most of them..yuck. During school, I was forced to read so many crappy “Classics” (such as Where the Red Fern Grows, the Yearling, Red Badge of Courage, etc), that I started hating the “classics”. I ended up telling my teachers this – if I have to read 240+ pages and the main character(s) dies at the end and nothing Happy happens, I will throw the book at you (and have). Eventually they listened and the book selections started getting better. So when it comes to “classics”, I throw most of them in the trash.
Okay…now that you know most of what I like and don’t like, tell me more about what you enjoy! Do you have any books or authors that I should read, or that I need to stay away from?