Favorite Pictures From a Fast Week

I really can't believe how fast the weeks are going by this school year. I think we have about 30 minutes of actual quiet time with no kids around. Hopefully all the extra practice time the kids are allowed will help them at our contests later in the fall. It just makes the days go soooooo fast.
I haven't been taking many pictures lately, so I'm trying to do better when I see something funny, or odd, or interesting.

When I stopped by the lady's room at TSMS earlier this week I saw this mango sitting in a bowl. I wasn't sure if I could have a bite if I wanted or if it was free for the taking. It was just plain weird to walk into the restroom and see a mango sitting next to the toilet paper.

This is a picture of a glass of beer I had at Manny G's. If any of you reading this live around Keller and haven't checked this place out, then I demand you to go RIGHT NOW. The food is fabulously awesome! Everything I've tried is great! And they have this beer called Black Butte that I actually like! I had two this week.

And when the cat's away.........
Kai and I were on our own Friday. I wish I could say that this picture of him was him in rare form, but I'd say it's pretty much par for the course. He's nuts. And I love it. He was trying to rally the troops in his band before class, so he put on a snare drum and his Cavalier's hat and stood in the hallway announcing Football Friday. He taught some of his class with the hat on, too. Friday afternoon delirium? Perhaps.

I'm Just Sayin'

If you have seven houses and 13 cars, you would probably think that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, too. Click here to read more about John McCain's vehicle collection. I don't really care if the cars were made in America or overseas, just the fact that he needs 13 is disturbing. Clearly, the guy is completely out of touch with reality.

Me, Circa 1990

In 1990 I was in the 6th grade. Too bad I wasn't a senior cause I would have looked like this! Go to www.yearbookyourself.com - it's lots of fun!

If I Had A Nickel.......

For every time I've heard, "thanks, but no thanks" over the past two weeks, I could retire tomorrow. Just to clarify, in case you don't watch the news, she did take that money. She didn't build the bridge to nowhere. Instead, she took the money and built a road to the beach where the bridge to nowhere was supposed to start. So, yes Sarah, you took the money. It was a special interest earmark brought to you by your wackadoodle Senator, Mr. Ted Stevens, who incidentally is known in Congress to ask for more earmarks than anyone else in on Capitol Hill. How much of Mr. Stevens's money have you turned down? The answer, Sarah, is NONE.

Someone Please Explain.......

Why do the republicans find it necessary to make light of the fact that Barack Obama worked as a community organizer in inner city Chicago after college? What is so funny about it? First Rudy Giuliani gets a laugh from the all white, all wealthy, all priveldged audience at the RNC and then Sarah Palin basically said that he did no "actual work" in that position. Then some jerk of a congressman from Georgia has the audacity to call the Obamas "uppidity". Seriously?????? After two major republican figures make fun of his work in which he helped to better the rough communities of his city......A job in which he helped people find hope in the face a desparity.....A job where he helped a struggling community find purpose to encourage their youth to get an education and better themselves and the place where they came from....You call that uppidity? Just saying that you think his work helping others was pointless makes you an uppidity elitist idoit nincompoop pinhead. But Obama is the elitist for helping the less fortunate? Hypocracy at it's finest. I take serious issue with Rudy and Sarah poking fun at his career path. It just goes to show how out of touch they are with what millions of Americans face each day - poverty, no representation, and no hope that it will ever change. I do not understand how on earth Guiliani, the former mayor of the biggest city in the nation, could make light of someone who worked to better a community. So he is telling all of the community organizers in New York that are trying in vain to keep families together, trying to keep kids off of the streets and in school, trying to help struggling citizens find decent jobs, trying to help people find a BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE, that their job is hilariously unimportant. Words cannot express my utter disbelief with these people right now.

Here are some facts:
1. While working in Chicago, Barack Obama lead the biggest movement that city had ever seen to get citizens registered to vote and involved in the democratic process - so that they could have a voice in the path of their future.
2. Barack Obama could have worked ANYWHERE he wanted for ANY amount of money after he graduated from Havard Law School. He was the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review and was wanted by people everywhere. He instead choose to move back to Chicago to continue to work for the people that he knew needed him to be their voice. He made several million dollars less taking this noble path. (Real uppidity, don't you think?)
3. He is only the 3rd African American senator to serve in Congress.

I have other very strong views about education and poverty that I will save for another blog later this week. My point today is: GET REAL, RUDY!!!!!! THANKS FOR COMPLETELY CHEAPENING THE PASSIONATE WORK OF PEOPLE EVERYWHERE THAT ARE TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. PEOPLE LIKE BARACK OBAMA ARE THE REASON THAT PEOPLE LIKE BARACK OBAMA HAVE A CHANCE AT GREATNESS IN THIS NATION!!!!