The general election is still over six months away.  A long primary season does not mean that the eventual candidate will not have time to focus on the national election against John McCain. 

The voters from nine different states and Puerto Rico have not had their say yet. 

The prolonged primary race will make the eventual nominee stronger in the general election.  The rhetoric might work for the first few states but at some point people want to know mo...

I need more money.  I'm considering various ideas of the best way to make money.  I am creative and would like to do something creative to make some extra money.  Here are my various ideas.  My main issue is the money for supplies, the amount of time it will take to create, and how I can get the most return for the two. 

Face painting - I started face painting in the fall.  I am not an expert but the kids all seem to like it.  So far I have only done a few ...

 Okay what am I doing wrong with the dang images?!?  Can someone please give me the adding a JU blog image for dummy directions.  I go to photo bucket.  I click on the html link.  I have tried adding it by clicking on the little tree icon to add an image and I get this lovely red x.  Then I tried just plugging the image code into the body of the blog.  Still no go, just a link but no image.  Then I tried copying the code from photobucket that is just the I...

Well here we go, I'll do it this Friday.  Started by Miguna, taken over by Little Whip a series of five questions for Fridays.  I've decided that Obama is right and we should all dialog on race.  There's a loaded topic for everyone.  So here's to racial trancendence...enlighten the JU community with your wisdom. 

1.  I first became aware of race when...

2.  Do you believe your race is superior or inferior to other races, feel free to elaborate.

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I don't want to make it sound like I regret being able to spend time with my boys when they were little.  I am so glad that I had that time with them.  I just never thought I would be in the situation I'm in now.  I thought my marriage would last forever.  I also thought that when I was ready to go back to work, it would not be difficult for me to find a job.  It seems I have been wrong on both accounts.

I am not divorced yet but my marriage has been rocky for years a...

The musical toothbrush was such a great idea.  I wish I had thought of it.  It's not very expensive.  It encourages kids to brush longer.  Even better is the fact that I can hear my son brushing his teeth.  He was the king of telling me he brushed when he in fact, didn't.  I would have to threaten to check if his toothbrush was wet which is when he got the brilliant idea to just run his toothbrush under the water.  Well, we've had a few cavities and a few large...

Okay, I will make it perfectly clear from the beginning that I am absolutely 100% a Hillary supporter.  I think she is the best candidate.  I think Obama does not have enough experience and would be more likely to be beaten in the general election.  There you go my bias is out, continue reading if you like.

Comparisons of Wright and Clinton marriage - I have noticed several sites where the Obama faithful are trying to draw a correlation between the Obama/Wright loyalty and Hill...

I have been having problems sleeping for probably over a year now.  I did get a prescription for Ambien and it does really help.  Actually, it completely knocks me out which is a good thing when you need to sleep.  When I started taking it, I didn't take it every night.  If I had a night or two where I felt like I got no sleep then I would take it.  Well eventually I started taking it every night.  I wasn't thinking last week and took after I had been drinking and i...

Democrats need to stop eating their own

I expect the Republicans to tear into Hillary.  I'm just tired of the Obama supporters doing it.  Democrats need to start thinking about November and the general election.  I will admit that I have been critical of Obama in my support of Hillary Clinton.  I think that I have been able to at least avoid the pointless character assasination and look at the issues. 

Obama himself said that Hillary was untrustworthy.  One o...

More things that make me happy

bird nests

fat toads

treehouses

flower hair wreaths

fairy wings

face painting

Spongebob Squarepants

seeing teenagers on prom night

little kids walking in mommy's high heels

Frida

swinging

western style pearl snap shirts

pomegranite candles

kids artwork

super heroes

spring break

neatorama

spider solitaire

old pictures

fresh strawberries

vespa scooters

mini coopers

little girls in their first commun...

I understand that the best of intentions went into the plans for No Child Left Behind.  What it seems to be leaving behind is the importance of any subject that is not tested.  I know this from personal experience when we were encouraged to teach our kids handwriting but that they would not be using classroom time to teach this.  The consensus was that kids don't need to learn handwriting "because of computers" but the teacher told me that it was because classroom time had to...

It is so frustrating to me to see the lack of leadership in the Democratic Party.  They have painted themselves into a corner with their ruling on Michigan and Florida's electoral votes not counting.  Michigan and Florida moved their primary date up on the calendar because they wanted more importance in choosing the Democratic nominee.  The funny thing is that this year, it wasn't decided early.  It's actually the later states that are going to have more sway on who the nomin...

My son turned 12 years old today.  That doesn't really seem possible.  I keep telling them that they have to stop growing because I'm not old enough to have kids that old.  His number one gift request is a chainmail to wear to the Scarborough Faire.  I don't know why he wants something that he can only wear for dress up but I guess if that's what he wants that's what he wants.  I found an online tutorial to make chainmail from the tabs from pop cans and he looked horrifi...

Last night I had the strangest dream, I sailed away to China ... oops no that wasn't it.  That's just some song from when I was a kid.  Dreams are wild because they just seem so real and things that make absolutely no sense make perfect sense in dreams.  In this dream, I was back in high school and talking to my older sister.  I had just realized that she and my best friend (current bf not high school) already had dates to prom and I didn't.  So I started to freak o...

This is just the yuck and eww post of the day.  A poor woman was on a flight and made the huge and collosal mistake of trying to take a little nap on the plane.  Well when she woke up there was a man who changed seats and was masturbating INTO her HAIR.  How totally gross and disgusting would that feel?  This just skeeves me out beyond words.   Dude!  What were you thinking?  Keep it in your pants, you perv.  I think I would have to do a Britney and j...