Nursery Rhymes Are Evil!

I like to read into things a little bit too much sometimes. Ask Redneckgirl...she knows ;)

I've sat listening to her read nursery rhymes to her children on the phone, and I have devised that these things are just plain evil!

Here are some examples, followed of course by my very colorless commentary.

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away did run!
The pig was eat,
And Tom was beat,
And Tom went crying
Down the street.

Ok, this here advocated shoplifting and child abuse. Wouldn't there have been a more suitable way for Tom to be punished? Perhaps the Scared Straight program? I know it worked for me!


Three blind mice,
See how they run!
They all ran after a farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Did you ever see such a sight in your life,
As three blind mice?

Does anyone else see the senselessness of this one? The mice are blind for crying out loud! They have to eat too! And what's with this farmers wife and her dual personality. First they are running after her, which, to me, would indicate she was scared and perhaps running. Then suddenly she gets her hands on a knife and becomes Freddy Krueger?!? And just how were the mice targeting their attack at the farmers wife? They are blind, so they can't see her. This one is just plain wrong on so many levels. I believe it could be an assassination attempt against the mice by the government because maybe they found out some things they shouldn't have known. I believe the "farmers wife" to be an assassin and working a covert operation to hush the mice up....permanently!


There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth,
Without any bread,
Whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed.


Ok, so the woman has problems. She lives in a shoe and has many children. I can also tell they are very poor by the food they consumed. I understand all this, but there is no need to take that out on all those children! What could those children have done to be whipped after dinner and sent to bed? Nothing! The old woman is taking her disdain for the life she lives out on those poor kids. Child abuse galore!!!



Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her, very well.



This one is disturbing. Peter here couldn't keep his wife from fooling around, so he decided to take her hostage and keep her locked up. Was the wife a little more than promiscuous, or was Peter just a bad man? I happen to think Peter was a bad man. I mean, come on, who keeps their spouse in a pumpkin shell? The last line is disturbing because it makes me think that the wife was never found, and never got free. How did Peter explain her absence to others? She went to the store and never returned? I guess we'll never know.


Hush-a-bye, baby,
in the tree top.
When the wind blows,
the cradle will rock.
When the bough breaks,
the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby,
cradle and all.



OK, this is one of the most messed up ones I've ever seen. First off, who in their right mind would put a baby in a treetop? Second, the baby is probably scared out of its little mind being that high up and in an unfamiliar place, so hell yeah its gonna cry. Then, the baby falls out of the tree, possibly killing it instantly! Poor baby!



I suppose that's all for now, although I've seen a lot that could be classified as strange or just completely psychotic.

Moral of the story is that even though they sound all cutesy and stuff, nursery rhymes advocate evil, and should not be spoken to children for fear that the children may become those people in the rhymes.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some mice to carve up ;)

Mother Lovin' Truck

Before I start, I want you all to know that I love my truck. I really do, but sometimes I just wanna send it to the junkpile.

Now, I really have no right to feel that way because everything that has happened except one thing was all my fault, but it was frustrating as hell, and I know someone out there wants a good story, so here goes...

I'm driving home from work on Wednesday night, and I pull into my subdivision, and I start hearing a "pssshhhht! pssshhhht!" sound. I didn't really think anything of it, so I go into the house and go to bed.

I get ready early Thursday morning to go run some errands, and I go outside and lo and behold, my truck tire is flat....very flat.

I call the Love of My Life and she makes arrangements to take me to and pick me up from work. She is definitely a lifesaver, and I don't know what I would ever do without her.

So we do that, and Friday and Saturday I do nothing but let the truck sit. Then Sunday comes along.

We decide the best course of action is for me to remove the tire, then we can take it to get it patched up. Well, things happened to make us run later than usual, so it's almost 8 PM by the time I start, so we figure that I'll use the spare, then patch up the bad tire on Monday. Boy were we wrong!

One thing to keep in mind is that all, and I do mean all of my tools are locked in storage right now, and I can't get to them because I owe them money, so my stuff is in lockdown!

I end up borrowing a jack and a tire iron from my parents, and I get back and get the tire loosened up with no problems. Then I go for the spare.

The spare on my truck is located in the back, underneath the truck, and has a special tool for the line that holds it up to the truck. Naturally, I don't have that either. So I try to be creative.

I look for anything to try to stick in the tire iron to make it big enough to be able to turn the crank to let the tire down, but nothing works. Finally, around 9PM I decide I'm going to have to get a tool of some sort. I decide to walk to Autozone, which is quite a distance from the house I'm in now.

I poke my head into the door to let my roommate know I'm going, and then I start my walk. I arrive at Autozone at about 9:50, and my legs hurt, and I have rocks in my shoes as well.....and they are closed!

Not only that, but the Love of My Life had gotten wind of this most recent of dumb exploits, and she had me on the phone, wondering aloud why I was walking here in an unsafe part of town this late at night, and probably thinking about how dumb I am for doing it.

She ends up picking me up at a gas station and we go to Wal-Mart. At Wal-Mart I pick up my newest friend...a pair of vise grip channel locks. She then drops me off back at home and goes to tend to her children.

I start working on the truck again, and sure enough, I am finally able to get the spare dislodged from the truck. I jack the truck up as high as I can get it only to find out the jack doesn't go high enough.

A few months earlier, I had some tire issues, and we changed the tire size on the front tires to a smaller size. I know you can guess that the spare wasn't the same size as the damaged tire.

After about 20 minutes of some profane language, I come up with another plan. Walk up to the gas station and pick up a can or two of Fix-a-Flat.

It's now 1:00 AM and I'm walking and suddenly the picture of the tire comes clearly into my head. I have to turn back before I make this trip for nothing. I was about halfway to the gas station, and I just turn, and start walking back toward home. I get there and get the flashlight and look to see if what I thought I saw on the tire was true. It was...there was no way in hell this tire was gonna be fixed by anything but a new tire, because it had a huge gash in the side.

Finally I resign and go to bed after a cool shower, and decide to tackle the tire again tomorrow.

Monday comes and the Love of My life picks me up after work again
, and we go to try to get a used tire. I load the tire up into her van, and we go to 2 places who not only have no tires in my size used, but they want almost $90 for one new one.

We go to a place by my parents house and they find a used one, which we promptly rush back to the truck for replacement.

After having to reposition the jack twice, and bending my running boards, I get the truck high enough to actually put the tire on.

I get the tire on and tighten the lugs as much as I can while it's in the air. The I try to let it down slowly, but the jack has other ideas. It comes down fast and hard, and slams the running board into my shoulder in the process. After sitting and making sure that I was ok and didn't have any broken bones, I proceeded to tighten the lugs the rest of the way, and then test the truck out to make sure the tire is ok.

Finally, after all this time, it was back to a drivable state. I have a very sore body, and a bit of a bruised ego to match, but overall I'm ok.

The last thing I did was to stomp the crap out of the bent running board in order to be able to get my driver side door open, then I went inside and showered and started getting ready for the big move.

And that, ladies and gents, is the debacle of the flat tire. I hope you enjoyed the story much more than I enjoyed playing the lead role in this little dramatization :)

All Packed Up!

Time at the old residence is coming to a standstill and I couldn't be happier. I only have a very few posessions left at the old place, and plan on moving more tomorrow, but the biggest part is going to be the last 2 pieces of furniture I have left. A big entertainment center and a computer desk.

When I blogged the other night, I had nothing packed. I stopped at Wal-Mart and got about 10 big boxes that they ship cereal in, and I was well over halfway packed up before I went to bed that evening.

I let everything sit over the weekend and I surprised the Love of My Life with a night out on the town...I even took off from work to do it :)

Then yesterday, I took a huge load of stuff over to my temporary storage place, and also another today.

The only thing I have left is the bare essentials....minimal clothes, food, my TV, entertainment center, and a vaccuum cleaner. I think I'll try to get more boxes tonight and pack up the rest for a load tomorrow. Maybe the only thing I'll have left after that is my entertainment center. After that, the move will be complete. I can move back to civilization.

I'll once again keep you all updated and let you know how it goes.

On the Road Again

Here I am, 5 months after leaving the trailer, and I'm moving again.

I'm not really sure where I'm going, but I know I have to be gone. Things have gotten a bit too stressful in the house I'm in lately, and I don't want to do it any longer.

I won't get into any mudslinging by going into details about what is happening in the house. I'll only say that both of us are much different than the other had originally thought, and leave it at that.

So now I'm in a dilemna on where to go. I have a few options, and at least one "not an option" according to the Love of My Life and my mother.

I will start packing tonight, and maybe be lucky enough to be gone by the week before August starts. I kind of feel like I'm going on an adventure of sorts, as it is unlike me to just up and go.

I find it imperative to leave though. It has to be done, and I say the sooner the better. This way, I'll be able to save the rent money for August for things I really need to have done, and to work on getting ahead. I have great advise and care from the Love of My Life, as well as my family.

If you are my roommate and are reading this, please don't be insulted, as this isn't personal about you. However, I want you to know I'm doing what I think is right, and the best thing for us to continue being friends, or at least friendly towards one another.

I know you don't think it, but I do genuinely care about you, even though I "know" you don't believe I do. That's fine as well. I hope you do what is best for you and be able to finally get to a comfortable place yourself.

To everyone else, please try not to worry too much about me, as I'm able to handle my own, and I'll be keeping you up to date as we go along.

Thanks to all who still read my blog. I've noticed attendance has went down quite a bit, and that's fine. I know that I am an acquired taste.

To those that still comment, thanks even more. You should know I value your opinions and try to comment as much as I can with the time I have.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Piracy is Necessary

That's right. I said it. I think piracy is absolutaly critical to the world of consumerism.

I know what people say. Piracy is wrong, and bad, and also illegal. Think about this scenario.

You go into a record stor, or a movie store, or a game store and you give your hard earned dollars for a product you think is going to be worth it, only to be let down by a mediocre movie, a subpar video game, or a CD with only one good song on it.

Now how many of you got mad because that's happened? I know I have countless times. Until I either figured out who could find me what I wanted for free, or where I could find it myself, I was in that hopeless trap.

Now, I get to test almost anything before I buy it.

No longer do I have to pay hard earned money for a CD (which only costs about 10 cents to make), with only one good song on it. No longer do I have to buy a mediocre DVD that I wouldn't have paid to even see in the theaters, and no longer will subpar video games be among my list of things that anger me.

I think piracy is a way for the smart consumer to make smart choices about what to buy, without having to read biased or paid off editorials and reviews. It also helps stick it a little to those in power over prices of said items, and sends them a message: "We are tired of inflated prices on crappy products and we won't stand for it any longer"

Yeah, maybe it is illegal, but price gouging should be as well.

I know that the artists lose a little money, so the recording industry says, but musicians make most of the money they get from proceeds of their concerts. Movies make a great deal of their money from box office sales, although the sales from DVD's are catching up, and video games are a poorly designed model as far as consumers are concerned anyway.

Think about it like this. I can't stand the greed from these 3 industries. The one I hate the most is the RIAA. They have sunk so low with prosecuting children and dead people that I don't think that they have any redeeming value anymore. One thing I did like about the whole music thing was the kiosks set up in store that you could actually listen to the music on. Those were a great idea. Movies are either on or off, the only samples you get to see is in the trailers, and everyone knows you only get to see the best parts in the trailers, which leaves the rest of the movie kind of dry in most cases. Video games are the worst. All you get is a short video showing you the game in action and in some cases you get a demo to play, which should come with all games.

Basically, they have made it all but accessible as far as sampling goes and being able to try it before you buy it.

Perhaps I would think piracy wasn't needed if they would work "with" the consumer base instead of fighting us all. Until then, I raise my middle finger to them in spite and do whatever I have to do to ensure I get a great deal and you should too :)

Dumbass of the Day: Paris Hilton

Socialite Paris Hilton has launched a veiled attack on her The Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie by calling skinny celebrities "gross." The daughter of soul star Lionel Richie has worried friends and relatives with her dramatic weight loss after she and former best friend Hilton mysteriously fell out last year. And the hotel heiress insists she has no time for those who take their physique to the extreme. She says, "A lot of women are too thin. I think the ones who are getting really skinny look gross."


Ummm...Pot.Kettle.Black!

How stupid can you be? A skinny, nasty, cheeseburger needing woman bashing others like herself, and not seeing the irony of it?

The Dumbass of the Day tag goes to Paris Hilton. Congratulations, although I'm sure you won't know what to do with it!

A New Plan!

As many of you know, I have trouble with finances. For awhile, I thought I had them under control, but I realize now that I don't any longer.

I have been down about this all night, and in my funk of funks, I have devised a plan that will help me tremendously with regaining control of my money.

Before I describe what that is, you'll need to know a few things. Many times I'll end up with no money, and cannot remember where or when I spent the cash. This led me to think that maybe I should have all of my transactions documented.

I thought of checks, but I can't get a bank account (don't ask....long story), so I'll have to go with money orders.

Which leads to the plan. And the plan is simply this:

Anywhere I go, and for everything I use money for, I'm going to get a receipt. I'm not going to pay cash at all for anything but groceries, gas, and fast food. I can get documentation right away for all of that.

Everything else is going to be paid by money order. Any and all bills except phone since they give me an in store receipt, rent, car payments, etc...

I know the money orders cost a bit of money, but they will help immensely in tracking my spending habits, and will achieve what it is I need to achieve, and that's to find out where it's going.

Basically, if I spend it, it will be documented, with the exception of my laptop. I only have 2 more payments on that, and I'm not going to make the guy start giving me documentation now.

So, let me know what you think of it, pros and cons, and if you think it will be effective or if it's a waste of effort and thought.

Have a great day!

Moral Lessons from Big oil?

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell, the world's top marketer of biofuels, considers using food crops to make biofuels "morally inappropriate" as long as there are people in the world who are starving, an executive said on Thursday.

Ok, this just bothers me. An oil company saying something is morally inappropriate. This is ironic seeing as how they charge everyone so much for gasoline. This is what I like to call the beginning of the new era. Their greed has reached new lows, and people are finally starting to make fuel alternatives. Hooray for changes like this.

G Holthusen, Fuels Technology Manager Asia/Pacific, said the company's research unit, Shell Global Solutions, has developed alternative fuels from renewable resources that use wood chips and plant waste rather than food crops that are typically used to make the fuels.

Holthusen said his company's participation in marketing biofuels extracted from food was driven by economics or legislation.

"If we have the choice today, then we will not use this route," Malaysia-based Holthusen said at a seminar in Singapore.

"We think morally it is inappropriate because what we are doing here is using food and turning it into fuel. If you look at Africa, there are still countries that have a lack of food, people are starving, and because we are more wealthy we use food and turn it into fuel. This is not what we would like to see. But sometimes economics force you to do it."

If the oil companies were so worried, and I mean really worried about starving people, perhaps they could use some of the billions of dollars they get each year to help feed these starving people in Africa and elsewhere. I, for one, am not buying into the guilt trip they are trying to impose on those who are looking for cheaper fuel alternatives. My advice to Big Oil is to use some of your dollars, feed the starving if you are so worried about them. Hell, you could even probably use it as a tax write off. Don't try to dissuade others from looking for alternatives just because you don't want to lose a dollar here or there.

This is exactly what the whole PR thing with this is. The oil companies are starting to become concerned that people are looking for other ways to make fuel, so they will try to shed some bad light on them, hoping to use a sympathetic angle to upset people and bring flack down to the others.

I hope this doesn't work, as you all know I think their greed has finally outdone them.

The world's top commercially produced biofuels are ethanol and biodiesel.

Ethanol, mostly used in the United States and Brazil, is produced from sugar cane and beets and can also be derived from grains such as corn and wheat. Biodiesel, used in Europe, is extracted from the continent's predominant oil crop, rapeseed, and can also be produced from palm and coconut.

Holthusen said Shell has been working on biofuels that can be extracted from plant waste and wood chips, but he did not say when the alternative biofuel might be commercially available.

Of course nobody has said when these alternatives that big oil is working on will be available. They are going to try to gouge the general population for as long as they can by charging higher prices so they can make even more money before introducing what I can only imagine will be an overpriced fuel alternative in the future.

"We are not resting. We are doing what everybody needs to do. We have worked over time on an alternative to get away from food, and this is what we call the second generation of biofuels," he said.

He said Shell, in partnership with Canadian biotech firm Iogen Corp., has developed "cellulose ethanol," which is made from the wood chips and non-food portion of renewable feedstocks such as cereal straws and corn stover, and can be blended with gasoline. Ethanol is typically extracted from sugarcane or grain.

Bottom line is that I don't believe the hype about morals that Big Oil is trying to feed the public with this story. Let them use their own cash if they are concerned...otherwise, shut up! Let other researchers do what they are trying to do best by findind a better alternative to what we have now, and hopefully much cheaper. To Big Oil, I hope you crash and burn, because your greed has become too much for myself and many of the other people I know to deal with, and we are officially fed up with your gouging prices.

Life is Getting Better

I'm starting to love life a little more every day. It is starting to feel good to wake up in the morning. It really feels good to mean something to someone, and to be cared about. I haven't felt these feelings in a long time.

The Love of My Life and I are getting along better than ever...a major plus, seeing as how she's the Love of My Life :)

Me and the roomie are actually getting along this week...or at least I think we are. We haven't had words with one another, so that's a step in the right direction. Thing with her and I isn't that we don't like one another...it's just that we're too different, but people are, so I bear no ill will towards her.

My financial situation is still very sticky, but I'm working on it. Maybe by September I can be caught up on bills and just pay current things instead of back everything. I'm going to keep on trudging through that and I will be victorious!

Things actually feel as though they are finally starting to fall into place, and it's a great feeling. I don't know how many read this anymore, but I'm not stopping. If you used to comment before and don't now, sorry you don't feel like you have anything to say. If you read this and do have something to say, please comment, as I would love to hear opinions on my opinions.

Thanks very, very much to the Love of My Life. I think you are the only one who still comments on a regular basis anymore. Perhaps I need to network and stuff....lol.

Hope you all have a wonderful day, and as always, thanks for reading :)

Sorry Mr. Congressman

I know you called me looking for help to get back online. I'm sorry I couldn't help you. It appears that you are having troubles with the web, and I will send somoene out tomorrow, but not any sooner.

I wish you hadn't tried to pull your weight with me by telling me you were a congressman. Do you think it made a bit of difference in my eyes. If you thought that, you were wrong. Did you really think that I was stupid enough to believe that if you couldn't get your internet to work this night, that congress would not function properly?

Once again, if you thought that, you were wrong, and now I'm insulted.

Point is, congress will not decline or fall apart because of your internet service being on or off. Sorry pal, it just ain't gonna happen. To think I would even begin to believe that is part of the reason this country is in shambles to begin with. You think you can throw your power around and get things done just because of who you are.

Thing is, you might be a great congressman....you might love to do the right thing for the people. I'd have to say no, because of the level of intelligence you assumed I had, and the credit you gave me for being as such.

Bottom line....you called, complained, tried to deceive, and was overbearing. Did it get you what you want? Absolutely not!

Let me be the first in a long line of people to tell you no. Start treating us all with the decency we deserve and you'll go a lot farther in life.

Thanks for reading.

A "Super" Weekend!!!

Well, it really was a super weekend. Saturday wasn't so good in the daytime...actually, it was kinda boring. Then Saturday night happened. The Love of My Life came and picked me up and we went to Applebees for dinner. We both had steak and it was a very romantic dinner. We haven't had one like that in quite awhile :)

After dinner, we went to the theater and saw Superman Returns. Throughout most of the movie I had my arm around her and she was snuggled in close to me. The movie was awesome!!! The guy who plays Superman nails the part head on. The Love of My Life and I looked at each other in awe as he spoke for the first time, and we were both thinking how eerie it was that he sounded like Christopher Reeve.

I must say that the movie, as awesome as it was, would not have been half as much fun, or half as great as it was without her there. It was her presence, that closeness we shared, that made it the best movie experience ever!

Then, after the movie, we drove home, discussing the movie in detail, and laughing and still enjoying the company of each other.

She came in after we got back to my house and we talked some more before she had to go home. I have to say, it truly was the best date I have ever been on, and I hope I get to do it again very soon :)

Sunday was also wonderful as well. The Love of My Life woke me with a phone call, and we talked for awhile. Then, she asked me if I wanted to come over and help her do yardwork. I said yes, but I have a feeling she thought I wouldn't show. The look of surprise on both her face, and her mothers face showed me that.

I helped her mow the lawn and do the trimming. Then we got something to eat and just hung out for awhile again, this time with her mom and her sister. I enjoy spending time with her family as well. Everyone is such a different character, but each one is fun to be around.

Her and I went grocery shopping, then we parted ways again, and I drove around town for awhile just enjoying the rest of the sunlight.

After the sun set, I went home and talked with the roomie for awhile about her weekend, saw her crooked sunburn (LOL!!!), ate dinner, then went to bed.

It was a very active, romantic, and just plain fun weekend. I need to have more of those :)