Obama’s Fly Swatting Skills Pisses Off PETA

President Obama recently showed us his Mr.  Miyagi skills during an interview with CNBC.  While answering a question a pesky fly was buzzing around and the President patiently waited for the fly to land, then WHACK. “Got the sucker.”

So apparently PETA is upset because there was no compassion shown for this innocent fly.  They are sending him a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher so he can catch the fly, then release it outside.

Excuse me while I go kill a fly.  PETA give me a break.  If this isn’t the biggest waist of time I don’t know what is.  What a joke.

I hope President Obama uses his same fly swatting tactics with Osama. WHACK…Got the sucker!

David Letterman Screws Up

Sarah Palin attended the Yankee game with her 14 year old daughter and Letterman thought it was worthy of a joke.  Only problem was the joke talked about her 14 year old daughter having sex with Alex Rodriguez.  Damn. Is nothing sacred? Seriously, poor judgment and is somebody going to get fired over this over at Letterman? Is an apology enough?

John and Kate Plus 8

I have seen only one episode of this show and thought it was INSANE.  From the first impression I got of Kate, she bossed her husband around as if he were one of the kids.  Maybe the show was edited to make her come across like a control freak. IDK.  I never watched it again.

Now every time I turn around someone is talking about it. He cheated or was photographed with another woman? I don’t know all the details, but apparently they had the highest viewership in the show’s history as a result, so now I suppose they will have to decide if they want to continue to capitalize financially on this unfortunate situation.  Will staying married get them more ratings or divorcing? Is there something in the contract that dictates what will happen if they divorce? Who gets the show? Will it be John Minus Kate Plus 8? If it were me and my husband cheated, I would gladly turn over custody of all 8 kids to him and his new thing. Let them do all the hard work and let me be the one to show up on weekends and take them to the movies and Disneyland.  Why should he get to go off and start a new life and leave Kate with 8 kids alone. Seriously.

Just my opinion of course. Luckily I have never had to deal with that.

Prop 8

I am so sad to hear that the state of California continues to deny same sex couples the right to marry.

I have two dear friends that were fortunate enough to wed before November 4th and are luckily still married, as are about 18,000 other couples.  I just feel that this is a new day a new time and while I may be very conservative on every other topic, this is one where my heart bleeds a little.

The end result will be the same. Why make people fight so hard and cry so many tears when we all know within a few years they will win. Very deservingly so.

Why Are There Two Handicap Spots Here?

Barbara Walters Mentions Twitter on The View

First off. Yes I watch the View.  Sorry, but I love the sometimes senseless and sometimes valuable drivel that the ladies bring to the table each day.  But today, low and behold, Barbara Walters explained Twitter to the ladies of the View and to millions of viewers in America.  It’s no secret that Twitter is becoming more and more mainstream, but for Ms. Walters to mention it on her show, it’s likely to become a topic of conservation on many playgrounds and after school play dates with the moms across America.

The way Barbara Walters explained it was very simple.  She said it was like sending an email to thousands of people with the push of a button. Yes that’s true, it is like that and so much more if you know how to use it.  Funny coincidence that right after she mentioned it Twitter went down.  Some people on the web are saying that all the ‘view’ers crashed the site, but according to Twitter it was due to a power failure in one of their data centers.  The moms that got the infamous Twitter fail whale where probably like WTF Barbara?

Based on the reaction from the ladies, it looks like Sherri Sheppard tweets and Whoopi and Elisabeth don’t (yet).  Hard to say if Joy does, but she knew some of the Twitter lingo, so maybe she does.

Allergic Reaction to Codeine

Learn from my mistake. Don’t take prescription drugs that aren’t prescribed to you.

I threw my back out last week and it has been hurting for about 6 days straight, getting a little worse it seems each day. At any rate, on Sunday I was in some serious pain and wanted to have some friends over to watch the Oscars, so I decided I would look in the medicine drawer and see what would help me relieve some of the pain I was experiencing quickly.

The first thing I saw was some codeine that was prescribed to my son last April whe he broke his leg.  I figured it helped him with his pain, he’s a kid, so the dosage must not be too high. I really needed something stronge.  It seemed like a win win.  Well, as far as the pain went, it worked.

Fast forward two hours.  I was a little itchy, then went to the bathroom and noticed my eyes looked swollen.  Figured what had happened was an allergic reaction, so I took a Claritin, then went to bed.  When I woke up on Monday my eyes were “really” swollen. If I wasn’t so vain I would post a picture.  Ialso had a rash all over my upper body that itched a little, and was bumpy.  I went to the doctor yesterday and he gave me a steroid shot and some antihistamines that have yet to do the job.  I am a little less puffy today, still have the rash and feeling a little itchy.

I imagine that I will have to go back to the doctor by tomorrow if I’m not better, but I wanted to share this incase it might help someone avoid something similar or if you’ve experienced this in the past, you know you aren’t alone.

Two Questions

I got this in an email…too good to not share.

Life really boils down to 2 questions…

1. Should I get a dog?

OR

2. Should I have children?

Black Widows Living in My Yard

My son caught this enormous black widow last night in our backyard.

We have a huge skateramp in the back and he’s working on replacing some parts.  When he took the tarp out to cover the work about a thousand spiders came out.  He caught the biggest one. Think I need to call the exterminator on Monday.

Cheap Gas in SoCal

Santa Clarita - Corner of Bouquet Cyn and Soledad Cyn

There was a line about 3 cars deep on every island at the gas station yesterday and for a very good reason. Gas was under $2.00 for the first time in years.  This was the cash or credit price, they were both the same. There are three gas stations all on this corner.  The other two were in the low $2.00s, but this is the first sighting of gas this cheap in this area. I really hope it stays.  I paid $42.00 to fill up my tank. Yes!