Birth Day

It's been a long time since I've posted anything here. A lot has happened... A LOT. I've never gone for 5 months without a post. It's been a rough patch, which has left me without words quite often- but it has not been without its bright spots!

I got married in June to a wonderful man. Keith loves me the way all people want to be loved, but few ever get the chance. I thank God for him every day.
While on our honeymoon, Thomas's baseball team won the league tournament.
Thomas also started Junior High. He's growing up. *sigh*
Kevin turned 9 in July, and Thomas turned 12 in August. I look at them now, with little sprouts of man hair, and the bathroom filled with Axe, and think... where did my babies go? And then Kevin will come over and sit in my lap, or Thomas will ask me to scratch his back, and they're my babies again.
Oh, and Obama has yet to completely destroy the America I love. He keeps trying, but the Loyal Opposition keeps fighting back, preventing us from becoming a socialist state.

At 42, I see the world as a troubled place to be most of the time. I see the rotting porch board out back as a symbol of that trouble: from a distance, it looks ok. Weathered, and in need of a good power wash and paint job... but when you step on it, it crunches underneath your feet, making you wonder how long you have until your weight finally makes you crash down through the rotten wood.

I just hope that by 43 I get the plank fixed and no longer feel like I'm about to crash.

WARNING: ZOMBIES AHEAD.... take 2

Actor Woody Harrelson attacked a TMZ photographer at La Guardia airport Wednesday, saying that he mistook the man for a "zombie".

"I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character," Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.

"With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie," he said.

"Quite understandably mistook (him) for a zombie".

UH YEAH. I just *HATE* it when I mistake people for zombies while in the airport. Perhaps La Guardia should invest in some of those traffic signs like they had in Texas.

Or maybe... just MAYBE.... Woody should lay off the hemp for a while.

Just call me "Chief" for short....

Your result for Which Supreme Court Justice Are You Test...

You are Chief Justice John Roberts

You agreed with Roberts 73% of the time.

John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush. He is generally considered to be of the judicial conservative wing of the Supreme Court. Before his appointment to the Supreme Court, he was a judge on the D.C. Circuit for two years. He previously spent fourteen years in private law practice and served in the Department of Justice and Office of the White House Counsel during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Since joining the court, Justice Antonin Scalia has said that Roberts "pretty much run[s] the show the same way" as Rehnquist, albeit "let[ting] people go on a little longer at conference ... but [he'll] get over that."Although Roberts has often sided with Scalia and Thomas, Roberts provided a crucial vote against their position in Jones v. Flowers. In Jones, Roberts sided with the liberal bloc of the court in ruling that, before a home is seized and sold in a tax-forfeiture sale, due diligence must be demonstrated and proper notification needs to be sent to the owners. Dissenting were Anthony Kennedy along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Samuel Alito did not participate, while Roberts's ruling was joined by David Souter, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.On the Supreme Court, Roberts has indicated he supports some abortion restrictions. In Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the only significant abortion case the court has decided since Roberts joined, he voted with the majority to uphold the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

Roberts opposes the use of race in assigning students to particular schools, including for purposes such as maintaining integrated schools. He sees such plans as discrimination in violation of the constitution's equal protection clause and Brown v. Board of Education. In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, Roberts, in writing for the majority Parents, concluded that the school districts had "failed to show that they considered methods other than explicit racial classifications to achieve their stated goals." In a section of the opinion joined by four other Justices, Roberts added that "[t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

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My Cousin, the Brewmaster

Sweet.

My cousin, Hank Standridge, is the brewmaster at Columbus, Georgia's "The Cannon". Considering his strict Baptist upbringing, I can't tell you how much I admire his drive to follow his heart and his dream- and my Aunt and Grandmother's fully support of his career of choice.

He recently graduated from a very prestigeous brewmaster program, offered through the World Brewing Academy- the only international brewmaster program. I am so proud of my baby cousin!!

So, for all of you Fort Benning guys (and gals) out there, please stop by The Cannon and tell Hank that his Ohio cousin, Dbie, sent you!

Welcome Baby(s)!!

Wow.
Keith's now Papa Cubed- thanks to Katie, who gave birth to baby Olyvia last week. She's beautiful, I am sure, just like her older sisters. Hopefully he posts pictures of the girls soon.

Not to be outdone, John and Beth joined the "Proud Grandparents Club" on the same day, with the birth of baby Miles.

Life moves so quickly. Enjoy those babies!

Dum-Dum-Dum Dum-Da-Dum Dum-Da-Dum....

Sounds about right..


(h/t to Lex, who got it from a reader)

LOLCats

.. and this one reminds me of my Claire, who LOVES to drink out of my wine glass.


Don't you just LOVE Cheezburger?