285: movie stuff

tonight we watched "Who Killed the Electric Car".

i watched it last week while i was home alone but fell asleep about 2/3 through. it wasn't boring. i was just tired.

the movie made me angry. very angry.

sad too.

why are humans so... human? it sounds funny but in some cases it's horrendous.

i can understand that we might want to hit back when hit or hurt back when hurt. but why are we greedy? and mean for no reason? why do we get so ugly when we don't have to be? and on such a large scale?

i was reminded of why for sooooo many years i said i never wanted to have children.

284: still among the 'live and kicking

hey y'all!

Happy New Year to all my blog sistas and brothas.

i can't believe it's been so long since i posted. i almost couldn't remember how to log into my blog. :-(

i've been super busy on my end. what have y'all been doing? i guess i have to make the rounds, to catch up on all i've missed. :-)

right before Christmas, time seemed to go hyper-speed and i just didn't have enough hours in the day to do all i wanted or needed.

then before i knew it, mr. bliss was leaving to go visit his mom back home and baby bliss was heading off with her dad to her stepmom's parents' home.

and for the first time in a looooooooooooong time, i was home alone!

i really did intend to use some of that time for blogging. but i was sleepy. so i slept. i also got some reading done and a little crocheting too.

i also think i spent a lot of time playing Bejeweled 2. but my memory on that is a little foggy. which might be a sign of my budding addiction because it's full-blown now.

last night i started playing on king.com around midnight. i logged off around 6 a.m. no joke.

i just started playing again and i said i'd be off before the ball drops but i'm not so sure.

baby bliss and i are supposed to dress up for our midnight toast. i said i'd get dressed at 11:30. and we're supposed to wake mr. bliss at 11:45. (he passed out on us on the couch around 9:30.)

our party menu: nachos with black beans and cheese, and sparkling grape juice to toast with.

283: in-the-meantime post

while i wait to re-gain my farsightedness, here's some earth-friendly info to go for y'all.

i'm reading Mother Earth News as i'm typing and i see some things to share.



Water on the Web - help protect our planet's water

Find Local Food - where does your food come from?

Search for a Great Cause - donate to your fave charity by using this search engine

How clean is your electricity? - find out here

Demand cleaner air - sock it to the EPA

A Novel Idea - book exchange for avid readers

282: something i was 'sposed to blog about...

hey y'all.

there was something i was supposed to blog about but now i've forgotten it. not that there's not other stuff i want to blog about. but this was something i really wanted to blog about.

now it's a faded memory. it's right in the outer limits of my periphery but i can't see that far without my SuperDuperWonderWomanBadMamaBliss glasses. and i loaned those out to a friend who never gave them back so i'm stuck with seeing as plain ole Bliss, for the duration...

any way, if it comes back into view, i'll post it.

later y'all.

281: ALERT - identity theft

hey y'all.

i got two disturbing e-mails today about identity theft.

i'm gonna share them with y'all cuz it would be a sin and a shame not to.

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Subject: FW: Identity theft...watch this video


Identity theft

This is exactly why I lock my doors when pumping gas.
This video is well worth your time to watch. This is
a 3 1/2 minute video produced by the Broward County,
FL Sheriff's Office. Identity thieves are at it
again, this time targeting people at gas stations.
This sort of crime never occurred to me, especially
since many of us never leave the side of our car when
pumping gas anymore.That has apparently not improved
our safety, especially for women who carry purses.
The footage of the actual crime being committed is
shocking in how easy it is to pull off. Please take
heed and pass it along to friends, families and
coworkers.


Click on the link below...


http://video.sheriff.org/psa_cartheft.shtml

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Jury Duty Scam

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below). Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call. Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty, that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced.

The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant. Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen.

The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma, Illinois, and Colorado . This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Check it out here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

280: just chillin'

hey y'all!

what's been shaking 'round these parts?

i feel like i've been gone for ages. i miss y'all when i'm not here.

Aly, what's going on in your neck of the woods? we saw that some parts of your state had floods. baby bliss and i were worried girl. i gotta get over to your place to see what's happening with ya.

there are a bunch of others i need to drop in on too. but it probably won't be today. you see, i've been taking a much-needed chill.

the holiday bazaar weekend was busy busy busy at church. i went on friday night to help set up and write up the silent auction items. baby bliss and i were there for a few hours.

saturday we were there bright and early too. baby bliss helped work the kids' tables and i mostly wo-manned the silent auction items. i placed several items in the silent auction and two of them were snapped up (one of my crocheted doggy leashes and a fun yarn-and-wire, free-form, body-wear thingy i made.)

sunday the silent auction and kids' sale continued, before and after service. by the time it was all over, i was exhausted.

we missed church this sunday cuz i was just too tired to go. so we slept late. i'm sure God didn't mind.

and our ministers (along with some church members and members of a few other churches) are cruising. i really wanted to go too but for a number of reasons, i don't do the Big Boat Ride.

i am in need of a vacation tho. i'd love to take baby bliss to bermuda but there's the matter of the passports. getting them has been on my to-do list for about 2 years now. i have all the pertinent documents and know i need to just get the ball rolling but i haven't.

i'm content with going to florida for our next holiday (somewhere on the gulf coast) as long as the sun is shine-shine-shiney, the sand is sugary sweet, and the water is any shade of turquoise/azure/sapphire/teal/aqua.

cuz i'm a beach snob.

and i'll drive down. cuz i don't wanna fly any more. but i still want our passports. just in case we need to fly.

but in the meantime, i'm relaxing. i feel a little bad cuz i haven't done any personal writing at all. i've been to busy crocheting, work-writing, and indulging in my new guilty pleasure--playing ElfBalls and Santa Balls.

They are both games that require great skill and good vision. and they're fun too. I got ElfBalls from Tucows.com, a website that has lots of great resources and lots of them are free or free to demo.

go check out Santa Balls (along with a slew of other fun games) at Kewlbox.com

if nothing else, you'll get a good laugh out of it.