Sunday, April 30, 2006


Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says "I love New York" in Arabic.

I got this in an email today...


You gotta love Robin Williams...... Even if he's nuts! Leave it to Robin
Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN
Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message. Robin Williams's plan...(Hard to
argue with this logic!) "I see a lot of people yelling for peace, but I have not
heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their
affairs, past & present. You know: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo,
Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good ole boys;' we will
never 'interfere' again.

2) "We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
Germany, South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us
there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through
holes in the fence.

3) "All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and
leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days, the remainder will be
gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.
They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) "All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days
unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed
in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum
would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11
cashiers.

5) "No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If
they don't attend classes, they get a D, and it's back home, baby.

6) "The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy-wise.
This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy, but will require
temporary drilling for oil in the Alaska wilderness. The caribou will have to
cope for a while.

7) "Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries $10 a barrel for
their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere
else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage
sites would be enough.)

8) "If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will
not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah, or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement,
or whatever they need. Besides, most of what we give them is stolen or given to
the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) "Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need
the spies and fair-weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good
homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) "All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can
call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The language we speak is ENGLISH...learn
it...or LEAVE."

"Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?" "The Statue of Liberty is no longer
saying, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a
baseball bat, and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?' "

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Friday, April 21, 2006

5 years




Our oldest son Jason turned 5 last week. It's so strange how suddenly he seems and looks so much older! I'm doing much better now but have to say I was experiencing a mild depression over the whole thing. The last 5 years have gone so quickly and in the Fall he'll be going off to kindergarten... all day... 5 days a week. I'm sure I will get over it, but in the mean time have felt a sense of urgency to soak in every moment possible.

The party we had for him was super fun. We did a military theme and had a special appearance by our friend, Captain Clay Humphreys (Thanks Clay!). He was definitly the highlight, especially when the rain thwarted our plans for an obstacle course in the back yard. The rain broke just in time for the good Captain to run drills with the boys & Lily until they were worn out in time for cake and ice cream.

The night of Jason's birthday, we stayed up late watching Star Wars: A New Hope. Until his birthday, Star Wars was Jason's favorite movie he'd never seen. Finally after much anticipation, a promise was fulfilled and Jason was allowed to watch it on his fifth birthday. Through out the past week, he's been taking in the trilogy in stages and has been able to validate that Darth Vader is indeed, his favorite bad guy.

Cottage Businesses

Both of us have always had a desire to own a business some day. Because that's not a reality for us right now, I sort of live vicariously through others that do so. If we have a friend starting up a business, we like to do what we can to support their endeavor. If you look at our links to "fun stuff" you can see some of our friends that have stepped out to do this. Another way I live vicariously through people is with those who have the gift of creating beautiful, unusual, one of a kind items that they start small businesses. I came across this website Mommies with Style last night that has a collection of products offered by moms who are trying to start small businesses at home. You should check it out and see if you can find those Mother's Day gifts I know you have already begun shopping for!