Facebook Friends: CONTENT DISCLAIMER

I've been blogging for a LONG time...long enough that I remember Blogger in beta and my old blogger blog was eaten up in some revamp of the system. I've blogged on my own domains, random platforms, Blogger again, etc. I am not new to the game.

All that is to say: I don't give a damn what people think about me when I blog, nor do I care if I seem to copy other bloggers or steal a trendy idea. If I'd trademarked my own blogging styles and ideas a million years ago, there would be a few less cyber-millionaires in the world. What you see here is what I write, what I am, what I think, what I care about. I am far, far past worrying what the trend of the moment is.

I swear...much like a sailer, frankly. I do not condone it in "real life", nor do I speak in such language in front of my children. There is a time and a place for profanity and my personal theory on it is this:

Those who can speak basic English correctly have the go-ahead to illustrate it with profanity, vulgarity, irony, satire and allusions at will. Those who do not understand singular indefinite pronouns or the parts of speech, simply look like idiotic trash when they choose to do so.

There is no skill, whatsoever, in using the f-word as 6 parts of speech in one paragraph...UNLESS, it was intentional attempt to stretch one's command of verbiage...and then? well, then, you don't throw it in a FB update or pissy conversation in the hall at school. There IS a difference.

I won't link my blog to my FB, but I will  mention it, am sure, merely because I have friends from both worlds. I used to have several blogs, and I will again, soon. Blogs are good for the soul, whereas FB not always so much.

If you are reading here, then you are reading in MY space, not FB or the public school system's,my other employer's or any that is approved by my Mom and Dad. Just keep that in mind, please.

A Few Things

1. My neice gave birth at 21 weeks this morning. Needless to say, the baby did not survive. While a baby was positively the LAST thing this child needed (she's 20 and already has a 5-year-old with mega special needs), I am so sad that a beautiful baby girl is an angel now.

2. Tomorrow my mini-me turns nine. NINE. I just do not see HOW this is possible; I mean, come on, there is no way that I am anywhere near old enough to have a nine-year-old as one of my 'little' boys. If he's nine, that means Sam is seven, which means I am..........shit. Old, that's what I am. Here are Jay and I in a self-portrait at the state fair back in September on some ride that nearly shook our livers out. BTW, that's not my finger in front of me, even though it looks like it is. I'm just doing the Myspace duck lip look...he's got the gangsta fingers flyin'.

3. My school collects aluminum pull tabs. Sorry, Estee. It's not a legend.

4. I like wine. A lot. I wish I had more money for it.

5. The people who make policy in education in Tennessee, as well as at a national level, are buffoons. As long as education is a political issue, it will continue to be mired in b.s. Our state is now going to require FOUR years of math and science. Okay. I can almost, sort of, live with that. But the fourth math? Must be higher than Algebra II. Um, okay. That leaves trig, calculus, pre-calculus or statistics. That also means that everyone has to take Algebra II. Quick, think back to high school--do ya think everyone in your class could have/would have passed Algebra II? Uh, not just no, but fuck no. Yet the PTB seem to think that kids have magically gotten smarter over the generations and will just embrace higher-order math skills because they have to. Yeah, right. Their asses will be dropping like flies...hello, NCLB target list. WOOT!

6. I need someone to create a viable protein pill so that I can live off of popcorn and Lorna Doones. Get to work on that, mmmkay smart peeps?

7. I actually had a reason to come post, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.

8. Did I mention that I love wine? That probably explains number 7.

9. W. made me chocolate chip cookies. He's ridiculously good to me.

10. I did not get my living room clean per the previous post. I did get the bathroom cabinet and counter and drawers cleaned up and the kitchen sort of straightened. It was cloudy and cold and gloomy and I ended up succombing to the pull of the aforementioned domestic epicenter.

11. For some reason I am leaning back as I type this. Turning my head to the right, too. I'm almost cross-eyed and in a backbend while I sit here. I do believe that it is due to numbers 7 and 4 and thus, I must go to bed.

random

1. i have one of THOSE zits that hurts like a mofo and is just sitting there, taunting me as it causes most of the left side of my face to throb. i'm 38. i should not be having zits still. it's not fair, dammit.

2. i've started running on the treadmill at the Y. i am so NOT graceful that it is ridiculous. these wee, lithe women sprint effortlessly and silently along on their treadmills while i give the impression that a herd of small african animals are charging toward the watering hole. maybe i need new shoes??? yes, that must be it.

3. my kids have a puking virus. sam started it and passed it to jay and then five. and of the three kids--sam is the super puker. he woke from a dead sleep and went straight to the bathroom, puked, got a drink, and went back to sleep. no huge drama, no vomit onthe floor. just did his thing. he's 6. jay? puked all over the sunroom carpet, which required us to rent a carpet cleaner. he's 8. five? he threw up in a bucket and then proceeded to bring the bucket outside to show me and w. while we were at the neighbors. and then, later, after he'd thrown up again and made such a ruckus i was sure an internal organ had been regurgitated, begged me to take him to the doctor because he 'obviously' had a life-threatening illness. yeah, whatever buddy. he's 14.

4. if i get the puke virus, i'm going to be pissed off if for no other reason because i ate a protein bar today (EAS Advant Edge carb control chocolate creme) which was 1.79 and i'll be pissed off if i throw it up without getting the 21g of protein.

5. today is five's birthday. i am simply not old enough to have a 14-year-old child. i have acne, for god's sake. where did the time go?

6. i wanted some sugar-free ice cream last night and my kroger didn't have any. wtf? i can get edy's sf butter pecan at walgreen's--everyone's source for ice cream products-- but KROGER doesn't carry it? so now i get to pay walgreen's prices if i want to eat it.

7. my classroom is the biggest wreck you can imagine. it is going to take days to straighten thanks to blind, illiterate prisoners who put our stuff back in our rooms after the floors were cleaned.

8. where are all of my socks? where, where, where.

9. i have yet another skort with hidden, mystery shorts. it's very comfy--goodwill, thank you, a liz claiborne. this one has a much more complicated entry, but it looks like a cute wrap around skirt when on. i need a tan t-shirt. i've been wearing white, but tan would look better.

10. jay is the whiniest child in the western hemisphere--8-year-olds annoy me.

Smart, Cool, Hip, Fun People

What do they have in common? They all have blogs. If you don't have one, you must get one. Seriously. All the cool kids are doing it.

Oh, and then go get a myspace so I can have more friends.