Archive for April, 2009


>I meant to post this yesterday morning, well I will be quick, he has started coming downstairs in the morning to make sure I am up. Thursday morning was cold so he comes down, I am in the bathroom doing morning bathroom stuff, to ask me when I wanted him to start the car to warm up. {SIGH} Not really his fault since I have been getting a little scattered lately and not leaving at my regular time. So I tell him ‘5 minutes’, later when I am in my bedroom getting my clothes out I hear him outside, then he comes to the door and he says something, ‘What?’ I shout, he’s gone, so I grab my phone and call him, he doesn’t pick up it goes straight to voice mail because he doesn’t have his phone on of course because he NEVER HAS HIS **deleted** PHONE ON! So I run upstairs to see what he said, cause something could be wrong with the car for all I know, and he says, ‘The car’s warming up.’ {DUH} So I say, ‘I hate it when you do this!’ He says sorry, I go finish getting ready and we leave for the train station late and I miss my train.

Now, I know he has no idea what I was talking about and will most likely continue to do it even if I tell him he doesn’t need to tell me the car is warming up, I know if he says he is going to do it in 5 minutes he will do it in 5 minutes, not 4 minutes 55 seconds or 5 minutes 5 seconds. Sometimes I hate dealing with Aspie-Bipolar people! It was not his fault I missed my train, I got up late, so you see why I title this post the way I did, cause this was both.

Oh, and no one has to post a comment telling me I am a bitch. I know that. I am working on it.

>On April 16, 1947, America’s worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.

~ ON THIS DAY ~

>~ QUOTATION OF THE DAY ~
“If you wanted to create a system that is basically legal but designed to facilitate gun trafficking, you couldn’t have a better system than you have here.”
~ TOM DIAZ, a researcher with the Violence Project in Washington, on the flow of guns from the United States to Mexican drug cartels.

I didn’t know this!

~ ON THIS DAY ~
On April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died.

>Bed soon

>But I just had to check in here once. These You-tube video is pretty cool I think.

I got the rest of my free books.

No reading got done, the cable and satellite were out so the kids wanted me upstairs to play games with them. I consoled myself by buying a dress from Overstock.com. Who I have never purchased anything from before, I just wanted one more dress and the one I wanted from Chadwicks wasn’t in my size. I got the pink and black one.

Since I was upstairs it also meant I got no blogging done, that is why I am still up, I notified all my award winners that they have an award to pick up at my book blog, Bella is reading.

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>Still cold

>in the 40’s F today, that would make it about 10° Celsius I believe. So not as cold as yesterday, but still too cold for April! In my humble opinion. Stitch is so cute, after I complained when I asked him how cold it was and his answer was ‘sort of coldish’. He now comes downstairs in the morning to give me a temperature report. This morning it was 44° F. So in his words, not very cold. I think I am going to have to dig out my velvet pants and ivory sweater for Phantom, I don’t think it will be warm enough to wear a dress next Wednesday.

This morning, leaving the subway I had to take the other stairs, the stairs I normally take are closed for repair. The stairs I am now taking bring me out on the side of the street where my office is, unfortunately that is also the side with no sidewalk. So I have to cross the Pulaski Bridge, (6 lanes) with no crosswalk. Not a problem you say? Well normally not, but this morning there was a gazillion traffic cops on the street. OK, maybe only 20 or so, but that meant instead of crossing the bridge, I crossed Jackson Street to where I could cross the bridge with a crosswalk and then crossed back Jackson to go to my office. All so I would not upset the nice (grr) people with the bright yellow safety vests and white kid gloves. And guns. I think they had guns, I try not to stare at them. This afternoon when I walked back to get lunch there was only two there. Maybe the rest were at lunch?

>On April 9, 2009, the Government chose not to seek rehearing on an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in National Cotton Council v. EPA. The Government instead filed a motion to stay issuance of the Court’s mandate for two years to provide EPA time to develop, propose and issue a final NPDES general permit for pesticide applications, for states to develop permits, and to provide outreach and education to the regulated community.

Reversing EPA’s November 2006 Aquatics Pesticides rule, the 6th Circuit held that Clean Water Act permits are required for all biological pesticide applications and chemical pesticide applications that leave a residue in water when such applications are made in or over, including near, waters of the United States. EPA estimates that the ruling will affect approximately 365,000 pesticide applicators that perform 5.6 million pesticide applications annually.

EPA plans to work closely with states and the environmental and regulated communities in developing a general permit that is protective of the environment and public health.

>Giveaway

>LI Kids Giveaway: Win One of Three Copies of Snoopy’s Reunion on DVD

>GSO: Kay

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I wanted to let you know I am not ignoring your request for a picture of my hair, there are three reasons I haven’t posted one.

(1) I didn’t get a new hairstyle, I just got the gray roots dyed red and the rest of my hair color refreshed (red is the worst for fading according to the stylist), so my hair looks pretty much the same as in my profile pic.

(2) My face is still broken out from the rosacea and I will be dipped in hot oil before I post a pic of me with red bumps on my face.

(3) I have no one to take the picture so I have to set up the camera with the timer and for the above two reasons I haven’t felt like doing it.

I will be posting a pic for the spring, I like to change my pic with the seasons, but it is still cold here!

>Formerly Joyous, Black Voters Waver on Support for Paterson
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, whose ascension last
year set off joy in black communities, now faces growing
doubts from black leaders and voters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/nyregion/13paterson.html?th&emc=th

Could it be because he is a freaking idiot?