Sniff.

I started to feel bad for McCain as far as signage goes, but today I saw a McCain sign.

Now I don't feel so bad.

Signs every which way.

I saw a homemade sign that said,

Obama for President, Biden for VP

I guess that was ambitious... or couldn't get a manufactured Obama sign.

I also once saw a state senator use old large signs for the side of his barn. I often wonder if it was to cover the wood until he could paint or side it, or if it was used as insulation. It was just humorous to me to see these enormous large signs pasted every which way going up 20 feet in the air and 20 feet across, signs that were coveted during election season, now used as barn fodder.

No one can use the words 'barn fodder' in a sentence like I can.

Vote for more signs, more bumper stickers.

I've started counting the voting signs for presidental canidates. I don't count a sign twice, so here is the running tally as of yesterday.

I have one for Obama
One for McCain


And one for..... Nobama!

I thought, maybe I'll just classify this under McCain. Then I thought of all those independants and green partiers... and realized, no I'm just going to have to give this one a group of it's own... The not for obama-ers.

I'm okay with that. We need a third party anyways.

On the watch for Leno

So Jay Leno has a section of his show called Headlines, where people send in funny things that show up in newspapers. Ever since I watch the police blotters or ads just to make me laugh. Todays was...

At Homer St, it was reported that the restaurant was broken into and coins from various gumball machines taken.

My question was did the cash registers not have enough in them that they had to raid the gumball machines? I think one of the pans would have cost more than what they got out of the gumball machines.

Voice of a vegetable

I just found one labeled...

Squash gutz.

The voice of meat

We buy meat in those huge family packs, divide it into 1 or 2 pound packages and put them in our freezer. It's cheaper, basically it's taking the labor and time of packaging it into smaller packs out of the total cost of the meat.

So I was helping him put away the meat, and being he put the sharpie in my hand, I thought it would be funny to start labeling the packages with something besides...

Beef 6/16/08

And instead put things like...

Ethel RIP 6/16/08

or

Moo. 6/16/08

or

Beef... it's what's for dinner. 6/16/08

Josh got such a kick out of this, at first, that he refused to pack the meat by himself anymore and insisted that I label them. That was until he started getting his own ideas...

One of his chicken labels was...

MAD CHICKEN DISEASE
(Don't say I didn't warn you!)
Bwahk-ha-ha-ha-brawk

or...

Private: Unfeathered

and my personal favorite...

Wings ≠ Fly - What kind of crap is that?!


The Voice of Meat series continues after this...

Tornados

I used to love storms when I was a kid. I'd linger by our sliding glass door just to see if I could get a glimpse of a tornado usually by candlelight. Just the thrill of danger lurking or some kind of a natural chaotic evil about to happen seemed to interest me to no end.

That was until I had three little girls.

I decided that tornado whistles in the city are NOT a warning for adolescent thrill seeking funnel watchers anymore, but for mothering instincts to kick in and huddle downstairs in the bathroom with no windows straining to hear the tornado whistle to finally turn off while calling the electric company by cell phone and trying to keep the girls interested in playing Memory (Dora style) by candlelight.

Not as thrilling as it used to be, folks.

Michigan and Florida

I like to keep up on the news. Personally my two favorite states, although Kentucky runs a close third. All those mountains...

So I read last night that the democratic party decided to split the delegates votes up between the two candidates. I think it's to basically ensure a candidate for the democratic party before they've officially split the party into two separate parties.

The party for change, and the party for not so much change...

I completely roll my eyes at the stupidity of this "lost" Michigan and Florida vote. If the law was set up this way, they should stand by it. Why vote to have the primaries moved up at the expense of losing votes knowing full well they would turn around and fight that it wasn't fairly counted? That's ludicrious.

That's politics.

I guess why this upsets me so much isn't because I would have chosen either of these candidates, but the possibility that I could have... and would have lost my right to make my vote count towards my candidate. I did stand in line at my primary and I voted. But I know there are people who didn't come to the polls because they felt they weren't going to be represented and rightly so.

My proposal? If the democratic party is going to make it count, I suggest a re-vote for the entire population of Michigan and Florida. For those independents who showed up to vote, for those democrats who wanted a voice that wasn't Hillary's, and Republicans who have the right to vote to screw the democratic party.

Hurrah for Democracy.

Mud is her passion in life.

When I was a little kid, my grandparents didn't believe that I ever got dirty. I liked to stay clean and after all those christmas cards with darling clean photos of me in a dress, I guess I created the illusion that dirt was an evil beast. So after an all day in the sandbox free for all, my mom snapped a photo of me dirt and all.

When Dar walked into my bedroom exactly like this all I could think was...

Yes, Grandparents. This is your angelic granddaughter...

...and she does like dirt.

cparadise2, you bring small business' to shame.

I bought, well actually Josh bought some transformers on ebay. I waited a month before emailing the seller that we haven't received the merchandise. No response. Since I paid through paypal, I had to put in a dispute through them. No response. Another 2 weeks go by. Then I had to escalate it to a claim. Still no response, but one day, paypal decides to 'investigate' and gets a shipping number by magic. So I ended up getting the transformers and now I have to leave feedback. You are able to check a box whether your feedback is positive or negative, I of course choose negative. This is what I wrote (and had to shorten it being there is only so many characters)...

Items fine once recv'd, only shipped when escalated to claim - no email replies

I actually got an email from another ebay user that hadn't received his merchandise from the same seller and he thanked me for leaving feedback. He told me that the seller actually emailed him that he was sick, for more than two months now, and he was really upset that he still hadn't received it. Josh and I found another transformers set we wanted to buy but we found it was from the same seller. He had just listed more items in the time period of his 'sickness.'

The seller decides after all he knows how to reach his computer and emails me this gem.

Reply left by cparadise2 (the seller): I was sick and not feeling well, so I sent order late.Your SILLY another ROOKIE. Your very a SILLY PERSON !

As if 'silly' is an insult. Is this person for real?

So out of the kindness of my heart I thought I could explain some sense into this poor soul. I decided concise and blunt would be the way to go.

This was the first email I have received from you, to withdrawal a negative response which you rightly deserved. Will not buy nor recommend you any ebay user, and will NOT withdraw negative feedback as it was honest and accurate.

This is what he wrote today.

So I guess when your sick it doesn't slow you down.

This is what I sent back.

I guess when your sick you can still use your fingers and type an email.

one email to tell me you were sick, BEFORE I had to escalate it to a claim was all I was asking.

How big of a jerk am I on a scale from one to ten?