the Spending Bill

I don't think this huge monstrous spending package is right. And I am not alone in thinking this. Seven Hundred Eighty Seven Billion Dollars!! Yikes!! How can the Senate and the House vote on such a huge spending bill they haven't even read? Have they no conscious? What happened to Obama's promise to let all of us...the American people ... see this and all other bills and legislation first? If Obama was half the man he portrayed in his campaign he would send it back and make the Senate and House do it over. And then let all of us Americans see it and have our say if we agree or not. It is, after all, our money that will have to pay for these things. I have always said sometimes bad things have to happen to put us on the right path for the good things to happen. I sure hope this isn't one of those times.

Politics- the Governor and President

1.) I had lunch with Nevada's Governor Jim Gibbons today in Las Vegas. There were also about 40 other people there. That is the closest I have ever been to a high level politician. I have to say I thought he would have been a little more outgoing to greet and shake the hands of us who were there. I am sure he was very busy but still...he couldn't shank hands with us. Perhaps that is politics as usual.

2.) I didn't vote for our new President but I truly wish him well and hope he does a good job for all our sakes. I am sorry to see Georgie go. I know a lot of people hated him ( I never could under stand their level of hate) but I was not one of them. I didn't always agree with him but I always felt he did what he thought was right for the people not for his political party. And just so you know, I will not follow the Democratic way and hate out new President just because I didn't vote for him. Now that Georgie is gone I wonder who those Democrats will hate now. That much hatred will have to go some place. Well, time will tell.

3.) I under stand that the First Grandmother will be living at the White House to take care of the First Children. I think that is really great. With all the new duties thier parents now have, who better to care for them then thier Grandmother. Yes, I know, they can have the best nannies available but that is no substitue for a childs parent. Grandma living at the White House is a good thing!

Plane Crash

Today a US Airways jet crashed in the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey in New York after a flock of birds apparently struck its engines. There were about 155 people on board and all survived. How great was that! I fly about twice a year and can't help but think about what if the plane I am on goes down. So that made me think if I ever had to be on a Plane that crashed this would have been the one to be on. Don't get me wrong...I am not trying to make little of this event. I know it was horrifing and scarry but all survived with just a few injuries. The pilot was a hero and the people who were on that plane now have this great, scarry story to tell thier grandkids. A happy ending to a really bad situation. The story of how "I survived a plane crash in the Hudson river." I just hope that if ever a plane I am on goes down I am so lucky.

Celebrity Twins

It was just announced that late last month Rebecca Romijn gave birth to twins! Is it just me or are all the celebrity women having twins. Is it fertility treatments? Has to be. J-Lo has twins. Julia Roberts has twins. Angelina just had twins. Those are just the ones of the top of my head. I know there are more. What are the odds?

Happy New Year

As the year 2008 leaves us and 2009 begins, we all wonder what it will bring. We hope for the best and pray we can endure the worst. Some lives will be lost to us and others will be born to us. That is life.

I , for one , won't be making any New Year Resolutions this year. It's kind of pointless. Everyone says, for example, they are "GONNA LOSE WEIGHT" but by 2 weeks from now there will be no dieting going on.

I made myself a goal last year (not a resolution) to learn Photoshop Elements 6 by the end of 2008. It didn't happen. So I am gonna shoot for the end of 2009 and I am going to again call it a goal not a resolution. NO RESOLUTIONS!!!!!