Horror of horrors! We are going to Chicago for the weekend for my grandmother's 90th birthday party. We will be staying at my parents house down in The South of Wisconsin and they have- get this- dial up internet. Oh yeah, its true. The last time I tried to use my moms computer to check email it took over a half hour to load the page. Horrors!!!! To use a cell phone I have to go to the 2nd story of the house and stand where I can see the window and aim towards it, but NOT standing next to it. They barely have electricity at all. It's like Little House on the Prairie, but not in a cool way.
When I got the invitation to this party, it said "Surprise Party for Grandma's 90th Birthday". My first thought was, oh no that is not a great idea. I don't think it is ever a great idea to surprise someone that old. All kinds of things could happen from a small bit of leakage all the way up to a coronary! No good things! Turns out though, that the surprise is some old relatives from out of state are coming. The relatives of someone 90 years old have to be in that age range. People on that side of the family don't drink alcohol which dulls things a bit, but I am bringing a bottle of vodka and one of rum so either things will liven up, or pissed off teetotallers will be interesting. I think I win either way.
This is the side of the family where the women folk are expected to do their householdly duties and the men are expected to lay on their butts watching their cheeks expand. (On the other side, the expectations are basically the same but, we all complain about it voraciously. Here, we are supposed to be quiet about it and just do the so called womanly thing.) (really one of these days my womanly foot will land where the sun don't shine).
So, things will be desperate for a bit. I can pick up my email from my cell phone and so can get comments that way. I was devastated to discover that I could not pick up http://www.tmz.com/ on my phone! How the hell am I supposed to obsessively read every little nuance of Michael Jacksons life after death without the internet? I found out I could get twitter updates, but they are sadly short and unfulfilling. I will get them on my phone anyway since they are all I will have. I am having to sacrifice. *sigh*
Worst of all, at this party I am going to have to talk to people in their faces. Seriously, who does that anymore? I will have to turn my head to look at people and flap my gums to communicate with others. I mean, come ON! Are we going to listen to 8-track tapes of Blondie and drink Tab?
Anyway, I will update with twitter a lot, and got it back up on my sidebar. I will make the effort again to figure out how to respond to people specifically instead of to the whole world. The wonderful part is the girls will stay with my parents a few days while The Husband and I go home and party down. Which is to say, we will stay up until 10, or even 11 and eat stuff we don't want to share. This is strange but honestly it is one of my favorite parts of having the kids gone. I can first of all focus on a book. I can read more than half a page without being interrupted. Then I can set it down, leave it there, and come back to it. It will be where I left it AND still open to my page. Woo hoo! Rock on!!! No sleep 'til Monday!
Showing posts with label Michael Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Jackson. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Ranting on the news this week
Michael Jackson is dead and as I am inundated, of my own accord, with information on his life and death I keep coming across the same series of comments from way too many sources.
And it is pissing me off.
What I keep hearing, and reading, is in regards to the biological heritage of Jackson's 3 children. Of them, there is general agreement that there is an identified biologic mother of the oldest 2. The original source of the full products of conception is in question, in the opinion apparently of journalists, for whom it is none of their damn business. Or anyone else's.
STOP SAYING THOSE 3 KIDS "MAY NOT BE HIS NATURAL CHILDREN"
STOP SAYING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THEIR FATHER IS
STOP SAYING THERE IS A QUESTION AS TO WHERE THE CHILDREN CAME FROM THEY ARE NOT ALIENS
Three little CHILDREN lost their Daddy yesterday.
I can only assume they have been well educated and are therefore able to read. I assume as well that they have access to technology and can see and hear. Their Dad took extreme, necessary and highly successful measures to protect them from the media and the public. It is my opinion that this aspect of life for their little family requires dignity and grace. Now, today, I have heard much less of this thankfully, I hope it continues. He never hurt a child and his deserve the same.
If anyone, ever, tries to strip search my child they can expect the full range of my anger and fury and retribution. My children will be instructed to refuse. A young teenager was strip searched by school staff in Arizona based on a rumor (accurate) that she had prescription strength ibuprofen hidden on herself. It was several years ago and was just ruled in court to be illegal. This is child molestation. Anyone forcing my child to remove her clothing against her will is a pedophile and is committing a crime. If there was concern for this girls health, she should have been attended to by a medical professional. If there was concern for the illegal possession of narcotics, police officers should have been brought in. For all of the above, the parents should have been brought in.
Lastly, you GO ON with yourself Jenny Sanford! I am sick to death of politicians in this country committing adultery and their dedicated, brilliant wives standing up next to them. What happens in your family is your business and what you tolerate and forgive behind closed doors is up to you. But have some respect for yourself. The adulterer has to explain himself when in a life of public service. However, the show of wifely public loving support is a pantload, as is the garbage about everyone being human and making mistakes. There are mistakes and there are choices. Decisions and responsibility. So you just roll on by, Jenny Sanford, and don't stand in the manure pit with anyone!
And it is pissing me off.
What I keep hearing, and reading, is in regards to the biological heritage of Jackson's 3 children. Of them, there is general agreement that there is an identified biologic mother of the oldest 2. The original source of the full products of conception is in question, in the opinion apparently of journalists, for whom it is none of their damn business. Or anyone else's.
STOP SAYING THOSE 3 KIDS "MAY NOT BE HIS NATURAL CHILDREN"
STOP SAYING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THEIR FATHER IS
STOP SAYING THERE IS A QUESTION AS TO WHERE THE CHILDREN CAME FROM THEY ARE NOT ALIENS
Three little CHILDREN lost their Daddy yesterday.
I can only assume they have been well educated and are therefore able to read. I assume as well that they have access to technology and can see and hear. Their Dad took extreme, necessary and highly successful measures to protect them from the media and the public. It is my opinion that this aspect of life for their little family requires dignity and grace. Now, today, I have heard much less of this thankfully, I hope it continues. He never hurt a child and his deserve the same.
If anyone, ever, tries to strip search my child they can expect the full range of my anger and fury and retribution. My children will be instructed to refuse. A young teenager was strip searched by school staff in Arizona based on a rumor (accurate) that she had prescription strength ibuprofen hidden on herself. It was several years ago and was just ruled in court to be illegal. This is child molestation. Anyone forcing my child to remove her clothing against her will is a pedophile and is committing a crime. If there was concern for this girls health, she should have been attended to by a medical professional. If there was concern for the illegal possession of narcotics, police officers should have been brought in. For all of the above, the parents should have been brought in.
Lastly, you GO ON with yourself Jenny Sanford! I am sick to death of politicians in this country committing adultery and their dedicated, brilliant wives standing up next to them. What happens in your family is your business and what you tolerate and forgive behind closed doors is up to you. But have some respect for yourself. The adulterer has to explain himself when in a life of public service. However, the show of wifely public loving support is a pantload, as is the garbage about everyone being human and making mistakes. There are mistakes and there are choices. Decisions and responsibility. So you just roll on by, Jenny Sanford, and don't stand in the manure pit with anyone!
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