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Vote for Dexter

2009-08-12T12:01:00.005-06:00

I have a new puppy, and per request of one of my coworkers he has been entered in to a cute dog contest.

Please VOTE!

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Dexter would like to win the cutest dog contest.
Please Vote!
http://www.cutestdogcompetition.com/vote.cfm?h=6C0D5B5BE877D28EE69DA3246964B346

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Holiday Greeting Created at Work

2009-02-13T13:45:00.000-07:00

Random Ebay Items

2009-01-14T13:06:00.004-07:00

So, I was on ebay trying to find a Chia Pet (I want a Chia Turtle), but could not find any. However, I did find an iteresting item for sale... "Answer's to your questions." Yes, someone is selling their answers to questions, such as:

Have you ever wondered about certain things? Has your child ever asked you a question you don’t have an answer to?

1) What is the temperature of flatulence when it leaves your body?

2) What is really under the bed?

3) What lurks around in the dark?

4) What happens when you die?

And many, many, more! I will give you an answer to any question you want to ask!

The answer is a guaranteed minimum of 25 (max of 500 words) words, it will be well thought out, and creative!

Note: I will not release any personal information or anyone else’s personal Information.

Answer will be delivered within 24 hrs. of purchase via email – immediate payment required.

Note: Please provide email at checkout, thanks.

Weird. But just incase you are interested in finding some answers contact this person.

Broken Bra

2009-01-09T13:01:00.002-07:00

Woop! Woop!

I broke another bra. I think in my lifetime I have done this, maybe, fifteen times. I have boobs of steel or something, because I always break the metal piece. And fifteen times might not be a lot, but a it is a lot of money. Because a good bra runs for $30 - $90 bucks. Hmm, I have thrown away over $500 bucks. LAME!!!!

Just thought somebody would like to know.

Laterz!

Extroverted Lifelong Learning Traveler

2009-01-05T08:45:00.002-07:00

That is what I am.

So, Marisa had this up on her blog.

What are you?

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and
found out I'm an

"Extroverted Lifelong
Learning Traveler"

2008-12-30T13:32:00.008-07:00

To the anonymous individual that was to chicken sh*t to identify themselves when they wrote the following, "update your blog stop acting like you don't have something funny to say. " Here is my response:

There is nothing funny to talk about. My life has become a boring routine. This is what I do when I get home after work:
1. Take off my shoes.
2. Drop my crap in the sofa, kitchen table, etc...
3. Turn on the little kitchen TV.
4. Decide what I will be eating that night.
5. Decide there is nothing, so I eat cereal, if there is no milk, I eat some frozen dinner.
6. While the food is cooking, or the cereal is soaking, I watch Jeopardy.
7. Start screaming the wrong answers to every Jeopardy question.
For instance: Hazelnuts are also called these, after a saint...
I say: What the hell are you talking about?
Response: WRONG! Correct answer-What is Filberts?
Who the hell cares, next weird question.
8. I do this for thirty minutes while eating my nutritious dinner. (I have yet to answer final Jeopardy question correctly.)
9. Then comes Wheel of Fortune. I suck at this as well, but not as bad. This takes no smarts.
10. Clean my dish.
11. Change into my pj's.
12. Watch more TV.
13. Then go to sleep. (Unlucky 13, because I have nothing to do.)

But maybe it will all change this weekend.

Wait Lists for Developmental Services.

2008-12-22T11:07:00.003-07:00

Back in November Colorado had an amendment in the ballot in order to end the waitlist for Developmental Services. It did not go through. We were asking Colorado residents to increase their state tax. We were asking for 2 additional cents for every $10. A $5 cup of coffee would have been one more penny. Colorado residents thought it was too much.

Please VOTE through the following link, so that the Obama administration can at least see about a problem that some individuals would like to change. (You will need to register when you click on the VOTE section, 350 more votes are needed in order for it to make it to the second round. Please pass this along.)

Colorado is not the only state with this problem. Read the following, from a parent who has a child with a developmental disability.

VOTE!

"I'm writing to ask you to take one moment to cast a vote on the Obama Transition team web site in favor of something I posted there today to end waiting lists across the US for kids and adults with developmental disabilities. The link is posted on my blog at: http://www.1specialplace.blogspot.com/ It is at the top of the blog on the right side. For those of you who don't know yet what waiting lists are... when children with developmental disabilities become adults- parents would apply for services to help care for them such as community-based services to get jobs, programs to enrich their lives, group/host homes, attendant care, etc. Because most states have decades-long waiting lists, individuals may not get services such as this for MANY years after they reach adulthood. That will mean that parents have to provide 24 hour care, activities, job services, etc. Some parents have died before their children have received services. That is why this is so important. So please help by voting on the issue so the Obama transition team will see how important it is to parents of kids with special needs like me. We have to get over 900 votes to rise to the top of the health care agenda. So PLEASE tell all of your friends, family, and other listservs to vote as well.

Thanks, Renee "

Cool Lil' Penguin

2008-12-09T20:31:00.003-07:00

Super Pinguino! Lil' penguin saves his own booty by jumping on a ...

2008-12-02T12:30:00.000-07:00

Seasons Greetings!

Day after election

2008-11-05T14:06:00.007-07:00

Happy and sad.

Happy that Obama made it to the casa blanca. Although it was a bit anticlimactic. We did not realize he had won. We look up and on the TV screen they announce it, and we were, "What? He won?" Happy but we were expecting more excitement and we were in a restaurant watching the results.

Sad that the Amendment for helping individuals with developmental disabilities did not make it in Colorado. Evil, greedy, penny-pinchers. All it was going to do was tax them an additional 2 pennies for every 10 dollars. Your 5 dollar cup of java would only be one more penny!

Kind of depressed. Now, we have to tell families their child, sibling, parent, will have to remain on the waiting list for another 10 years.

:o(

The following is a letter that was sent out to the Denver Newspapers and that was emailed to us by the individual who wrote it:

Dear Friends,

Today, I sent the following letter to the editor of the Rocky Mountain News and a similar one to the Denver Post. Since I don't know if they will ever publish it, I am sending it to all of you.

Renee
Aurora, Colorado

Colorado: People With Developmental Disabilities Still Need You

On November 4, tens of thousands of people with developmental disabilities and their parents, caregivers and advocates stood figuratively on Colorado's streets with signs that read, "Will Save Lives for 2 cents." We put ourselves out there, needing help to provide life-saving services to people with developmental disabilities.

So many of you saw the need and reached out to us - and we are so very grateful to you. But crushingly, the majority of Colorado voters did not support us. The economy has had an impact on everyone, and I understand that. But people with developmental disabilities are least able to recover - because they are not able to get a first job without community supports, let alone a second job. Some are unable to feed themselves or get out of bed without paying someone to help them. It is not that they don't "want" to be self-sufficient - and they have nowhere else to turn.

This week, a mother I know who was the 24/7 caregiver of her son who has a developmental disability, died unexpectedly at the age of only 49 years old. She was an advocate for her son, and for all of the people like my son who have developmental disabilities. Her most dreaded fear has been realized, like so many other parents I know who are also facing the possibility of dying before they know who will care for their children and how the services they need will ever be funded.

As a citizen of Colorado and the mother of an adult with a developmental disability, I want to thank all of you who voted YES on Amendment 51. As the saying goes, "I've always depended on the kindness of strangers." I also want to thank the Rocky Mountain News for supporting 51 and for the kind words you have written and said about the great need to provide services for our most vulnerable citizens. I hope you will continue to write about this problem, and I hope that all the other newspapers in the state that came out for or against 51 will find an affected family today and write about them.

The defeat of Amendment 51 does not mean this enormous problem is going away. To those of you like Rep. Doug Bruce, Rep. Kevin Lundberg, Jon Caldera, Mark Hillman, and the anonymous anti-tax groups and others who said that Colorado simply needs to "reprioritize" where it spends its money and redirect funds to help these people, I am going to call upon
you now. Because you believe that Colorado has this money somewhere, and because you made a concerted effort to help defeat Amendment 51 through your words, we look to you now to help find that money. Instead of just saying "no," please begin to ask the question "how."

I would also call upon Governor Ritter, Speaker Romanoff and all of our leaders to begin today to help find the funding that is needed to provide these services. This is a priority, and parents and advocates have now done all that was possible to obtain the resources necessary. Parents and advocates worked so hard, with little resources, to try and pass Amendment 51.

President-elect Obama called upon every American to come together and to make some sacrifices in his speech last night. Today is the day to get started. So I am going to ask one more thing of my fellow Coloradans. I ask you to do something wonderful for someone with a developmental disability today and in the coming weeks, months, and years. People's
lives are depending on you, and people like my son are feeling today as though Coloradan's just don't care. I know it is not true, and I ask you to help. Open up a job for a person with a developmental disability today. Offer to help their parents to care for them. Become a mentor, give a hug, or tell a parent you care. But most importantly, please call or write your legislators and tell them to make developmental disability funding a priority.

Peace out people!!

Votes YES on 51

2008-09-09T12:42:00.005-06:00

For those still tuning in to the blog and you live in Colorado remember to Vote YES on 51 this coming November.

For more info please go to End Colorado Waitlist.

VOTE YES ON 51.

The ballot proposal will appear on the November ballot is as follows:

SHALL STATE TAXES BE INCREASED $186.1 MILLION ANNUALLY AFTER FULL IMPLEMENTATION BY AN AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO REVISED STATUTES CONCERNING AN INCREASE IN THE STATE SALES AND USE TAX TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, INCREASING THE RATE OF THE STATE SALES AND USE TAX BEGINNING ON JULY 1, 2009, BY ONE-TENTH OF ONE PERCENT IN EACH OF THE NEXT TWO FISCAL YEARS; PERMITTING THE STATE TO RETAIN AND SPEND ALL REVENUES FROM THE NEW TAX, NOTWITHSTANDING THE STATE SPENDING LIMIT; REQUIRING AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE NET REVENUE FROM THE NEW TAX TO BE DEPOSITED IN THE NEWLY CREATED DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES LONG-TERM SERVICES CASH FUND; REQUIRING THE MONEY IN THE FUND TO BE USED TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; AND PROHIBITING REDUCTIONS IN THE LEVEL OF STATE APPROPRIATIONS IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL EXISTING ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS MEASURE FOR LONG-TERM SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES?

Who has a coke bottle? Part 2

2008-06-26T16:27:00.001-06:00

Read the article.

New yet, not new.

Who has a coke bottle?

2008-05-30T10:14:00.002-06:00

Ok, that is not funny. They probably just ruined their whole existence by showing up with a ‘flying monster’; the tribe is probably now planning for the future in case more of these things show up. Throwing spears at the flying bird, so it doesn't attack them.

What the hell am I talking about? Well, they have found another un-contacted tribe in the Amazon Rainforest. It is a pretty amazing world, where new things are being discovered but at the same time, being destroyed. How long before some missionary tries to go in there and civilize them?

It is sad, something new tarnished.

Read the article.

Tripping on Berries

2008-05-28T11:25:00.003-06:00

"...a large dollop of lemon sorbet into a glass of Guinness, stirred, drank and proclaimed that it tasted like a “chocolate shake.”

Who wants to have a berry tripping party? These berries can cost $2 a berry plus shipping and handling. Want to buys some? Then visit the Miracle Fruit Man.

Read the article from the New York Times, or BBC.

Enjoy!

GRRR!!!!

2008-05-01T09:34:00.004-06:00

It is MAY, the 1st of May and it is snowing a lot. Big fluffly snow bunches are falling.

Oh well.

Nothing new.

One day I got bored and e-mailed NASA and asked them if their boobies and their weewees felt weird and floated funny in zero gravity, this was there response (didn't really get a response to my answer, but who cares):

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From: KSC-Public-Inquiries

Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:49 PM

To: 'Ana Bell'Subject:

RE: What happens to your body in zero gravity?

Thank you for your inquiry into the KSC Public Inquiries System.

There is a place on the Human Spaceflight page where one can go and ask questions of the crews. The closest answer I can find concerning floating body parts is located at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/feedback/expert/answer/crew/sts-93/index.html. If you like, you may ask your specific question directly.

"But zero g has been described in a number of different ways. It's a lot of fun; it takes a little bit of getting used to. I think what your body feels like is a little bit of a combination, between imagining swimming underwater in a pool so that you can float, but it also feels a little bit like hanging upside down. Because you don't have the effect of gravity pulling the fluids in your body as they do when you're on the ground. Fluids tend to rise to your head. You get a little bit of stuffiness. Everybody has kind of a fat face, and it feels like you have a cold. So it's a little bit like floating, but hanging upside down at the same time, if that makes any sense."

Your interest in America's space program is appreciated. For more information on NASA and KSC please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/faq.html.

Sincerely,

Laurel Lichtenberger
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Public Communications Officer
ksc-public-inquiries@mail.nasa.gov

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Laters!

Fiesta!

2008-04-08T13:01:00.004-06:00

Amigos, who is going to be in Denver around end of the month?

I will probably have a fiesta to break in the new casa that I now have. Let me know and you might get to eat some carne asada with some red wine.

We Mexies are high class gente.

Being an adult sucks!

2008-03-12T23:04:00.002-06:00

I am moving in the new house on the 4th of April. The medical bills from my surgery started to trickle in, I have no funiture and really don't have a stable job.

Yup, I am an adult. No money, and mucho stress.

:o)

I am an adult!

2008-03-11T16:30:00.001-06:00

So, if you have read my previous blog, I was told that I was old and had nothing to show for it. Well, not anymore, as of today I am a homeowner. Yes people, I have bought a house, when all the paperwork goes through and every thing is settled I will have my own home. I might be able to move in, the earliest, by April 10th.

Yikes!

I am feeling reality bite me in the derriere.

I am old!

2008-03-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

Well, according to an eleven year old girl I am old and have nothing to show for my life. Okay, she didn't say it in such harsh words, but that is what she meant. It all started innocently, by asking me how old I was, when she heard I was 27 she told me I was old. And also asked me why I didn't have a husband, kids and a house. Then she went on to tell me, in a very pretentious way (because you know how eleven years old are), that her 24 year old aunt already had a husband, house and three kids, and the oldest was eight. So, me in a very nice way told her, "That's not my problem." He he. So, she continued and told me about her 18 year old cousin who has a three year old, and again in my nice caring voice, "Well, I guess she learned her lesson."

I don't think she understood that her little stories were giving me the hives, she then went on to tell me about her future of getting married and having kids, or is it having kids and then getting married? I told her that before she gets working on her plans to first finish school, travel or have fun, and then have the kids and the house...the husband, well if she wants to as well.

She left, she by the way is one of my parent's many godchildren, since my parents don't have grandkids and want them really bad they now collect godchildren. I think they have about five or six, or maybe even more. Well, anyways, I told my parents about the little conversation. They did laugh about it, but then my father said, "Well, we have to start working on it", IT? It being my no kids and husband, hell no, I told them they can work on IT with somebody else.

Hm!

My Sexy Legs

2008-02-21T00:06:00.002-07:00

Here are some very nice photos of my leg. Sexy, huh? I think I counted nine staples.

Staples

2008-02-20T15:11:00.002-07:00

I have staples instead of stitches, I think about ten, but I will count them tonight. I didn't know that until I peeled that tape yesterday, it's like Frankenstein's monster's leg. Eww. I will have to take photos of that.
Well, yesterday went back to work after a week hiatus. I was glad to get back, I was going crazy with nothing to do, day time TV is not that great, plus I wasn’t getting paid for my week off so I needed dinero pronto.
Well, that is all on my end.

After the Surgery

2008-02-09T22:26:00.000-07:00

Well, surgery is done, happened Friday morning, went well and now I have six pins and some metal. Doctor said the pins can come out some time in the future, but that just means more money and pain. However, now I can be like those individuals that says I can feel it in my bones that it's going to snow.

Can say it wasn't painful. It was pretty bad, the morphine didn't help at all they gave me like five doses and the pain was the same. Shed some tears, okay a crap load of them, they just kept on streaming down my face. Pain hasn't really subsided, don't know when it well. Hydrocodone/Vicodin isn't really doing its job, but still taking it. :o)

Hoping to get some cool images of my leg in a couple of weeks, have an appointment soon. Well, that is all.

Laters my peeps.

My Fibula

2008-02-01T01:35:00.001-07:00

So, I was walking down the stairs and I fell.

So, what had happen was, my dad was being nice and was mopping the tile floor and I didn't realize that he had started and I took a step and went all the way down. After wriggling in the ground with pain, shedding some tears, finding my insurance card (thank God I had bought some insurance last month), finding a hospital, I went to the ER after waiting for a while, then doing the X-Rays they told me I had fractured my right leg fibula.

Hell Yeah!

That is all.

Steer

2008-01-15T16:15:00.001-07:00

This mini paradepassed by next to where I work.

So a couple of co-workers and I went down during lunch to watch the animals walk on by. Pretty Cool Animals. Very close very big.

Photo taken from the Denver Post.

White Navidad

2007-12-25T21:17:00.000-07:00

Ate a crap load of tamales and shoveled snow non stop. It snowed six inches in our area, not that much but it sure kept us busy. Jumped straight out of bed and shoveled snow all day.

As you can see still wearing my PJs while shoveling the neighbors house. Mother and brother also wearing the most fashionable attire for snow shoveling.

We also had our traditional viewing of "Santa Claus" or as some know it Santa vs Satan. Still a freaky movie. Poor Lupita she wants her doll and poor Little Rich Boy, still wants his parents.
:o)

Hope everyone had an awesome day!

My Puppy, Luna. Isn't she cute?