Time Machine, Please?

I feel like life has passed me by and I am just sitting on the outskirts.
Where did my parents mess up so badly? I know it had to start with them. My cousins are okay... but look at my sisters and I. We're all shades of messed up. At least Ashley has a college degree, and "can" work. It just kills me to know what I want in life and not be able to achieve it. If Brandon does finally join the military, then it will make it easier. At least then we will have the money to get the major problem fixed. There are certain simple and normal things that people take for granted. I wish I could just blurt it all out sometimes.
Sure, I am probably just jealous but I am the one who is sitting here praying it doesn't rain so that our "ghetto" bathroom ceiling and roof doesn't collapse. Especially when I am giving the kids a bath and I have family members who can travel the world and ride Harley's.
I honestly blame it on my Father. He is the one who messed up my citizenship when I was a child and never offered to help with anything. I didn't know the full extent until after I had kids and got married.
So, as soon as news breaks on a Time Machine let me know. I'm setting it back to 1997.

*sniff* Good Bye TV

I don't think there's any hope.
Last fall, we commandeered my father's 32" flat screen television. When our 52" DLP went kaput. Well, this morning I wake up to find Brye hosing the TV down with his water gun, which he knew he wasn't supposed to use in the house. I clean the water up, everything is good. Give him a talking to... everything is okay. Well, I go to the back of the house to do laundry, and what do I come back to? Brye hosing down the TV again. After promtly cleaning the TV again, he got sent to his room. Suddenly the volume shoots up to 100 and the buttons on the TV will not work. The satellite remote won't work either. I managed to find the TV remote, but as soon as I release the button, it goes back up. Let me tell you, The Backyardigans at 100 will drive you nuts.
I was trying out the buttons on the side of the TV and they're all wonky. The volume button made it change input, and now I can't it to work at all.

Getting away with murder?

So, thanks to the magical world of Twitter I learned that George Tiller was shot in Church today. I am pro-life. But I understand there may be circumstances when an abortion is the only option.
One thing that aggravates me about the guy, is that HIS abortion clinic offered funerary services to his "patients".
"Some of these services include photographs, footprinting and handprinting, baptism, cremation, arrangement for burial in or out of state..."

Let me get this right. It's not a "person" but yet you're going to take the baby's foot/hand prints and baptize the baby? Sure, I'm not holing a college degree, but doesn't that mean it's not a "blob of tissue". Maybe there are people who baptize and cremate their tonsils or gallbladers. I seem to remember some religion where the person needs to be whole when the are burried. But surely a "fetus" doesn't count. Anyways...

So, why is it not murder when it's done pre-delivery. I'm not up to date on my abortion techniques, but don't they induce labour? If a girl has a baby and leaves it in a dumpster, won't she go to jail? Why is it so different. Oh wait... the "doctor".
I am sure that there is a small percentage of cased where it's the only option and that the "parents" need the closure.

Rain Rain... Is going away??

Yay! For the first time in... forever days the sun is shining.
The rain is was so bad here. Our yard is on a slope. The rain was puddling up and we had to take a hoe out and dig "trenches" to keep areas of our yard drained... and I thought water flowed down hill. We also had to do the same thing. Our basement flooded. The little drain hose/pipe thing got clogged with mud, so we had to dig more to drain it.
And I think I have figured out what makes it rain. Planting Sunflowers. Seriously. I planted some a few weeks ago, and we got a monsoon. I thought "Well the rain's been away for a while, I'm going to plant some more since my seeds got washed away" and it monsooned again. All I have is one dwarfed sunflower. The rain had begun to erode that flower bed away.
Brandon came home the other day and said he saw a blue-tailed salamander on the porch. I guess everything is water logged.

We need some sun!

Happy 1st Birthday Freedom!

Freedom Reilly Keener

May 27th, 2008 1:15 pm
8 lbs 1 oz
19.5 inches long

Thought this was pretty!

Attraction - Necklace - Oxidized
by Freeforged Jewelry

I honestly don't know how I came across this while surfing the net, but I need it.

I thought I was "Free"

So, I was proud of myself of the fact that I've become less addicted to the internet. Which means I've cut back on the sites I visit, and the amount of time I spend on them. Of course there is Twitter and Plurk. They're tied in with my cell phone, so I play around with them when I get bored.
So, the reason for this post??
I am jittery because I don't have a High Capacity memory card reader. I have tons of pictures from Freedom's birthday that I can't get off the card. I can't do any photography sessions either. I might break down and buy one from Walmart. I can't stomach paying $12 shipping for one from Amazon, which I did last time, but it was free with the purchase of my memory card, which stopped working... while I was taking pictures at a church picnic. Thank goodness for HC MiniSD cards in our phones. LOL