Ashli

CA

2008-11-23T17:44:04Z

I'm here. In Paso. Put my feet in the Pacific and breathed in the ocean air and loved the 80+ degree weather. OMG.

I am thinking my time here is going to be very structured with family but I might be able to come up for a DAY tomorrow? Drive up early and stay till late? Anyone free tomorrow? I'll see if I can get a car.

Ashli
678-428-9444

Outlet

2008-11-17T21:04:00Z

Tar

We tried to speak
But our tongues got so twisted
We knew our thoughts were worse
So we never insisted
When the words came out
Only screams and shouts
We wanted them back
They had not been rehearsed
I felt your stare
Tried my best not to care
I wouldn't dare
To let you see
All of the pain it caused me
We needed to let go of something
We just couldn't decide
Was it our grasp on the heart
Or what was locked up inside
All of the reasons made up in our heads
Were to make "me" feel strong
And make "you" feel wrong
I didn't know how to fix this
I didn't know how to complete us
I supposed I wasn't meant to
I didn't have the practice
Our hearts want each other
We need so much more
Or that's what we say
Until we're both sore
with smoke in our eyes
and salt in our mouths
As strong as we are
We are breaking inside
It's all too much
The young ones who need us
To be so strong
To be the foundation
I know I can't do this all on my own
But all that I know is how to be alone
I refuse to be needed
I refuse to need
But I wish we could stop this
I wish we could bleed out the tar
And look at eachother
Feel strength in the gaze
But we only see failure
and instead fall apart

a.g. 11/08

AAAAAHHHH!

2008-11-13T17:54:42Z

I am so thankful for Bella's teacher! Ms. Davis ROCKS!!!

2008-11-11T14:10:29Z

"Jody joined the groups Repeal the CA Ban on Marriage Equality - 2010 and Let's break a Guinness Record! 2009 Approved by guinnessworldrecords.com. 8:25am"

She is so amazing, not only as an awesome out of the box teacher and free thinker, but a beautiful woman who has diabetes and still smiles EVERY DAY!!

She is the reason my daughter LOVES GOING TO SCHOOL! I am happy to have had her teach both my kids (Sage's 6th grade Lit and Bella's 3rd Grade).

I am proud and honored to be her class mama!!!

Bjork is so cute

2008-11-04T00:19:16Z

So wrong!

2008-11-02T17:47:25Z

red vs blue

2008-10-20T17:09:28Z

Dear Red States:

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and
we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware,
that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe
this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the
people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave
states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the
Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You
get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of
America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We
get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay
their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the
Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a
bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be
pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens
back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your
evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to
their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show
pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you
success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not
willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent
of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple
and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of
America's quality wines,
90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most
of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and
condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal
Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to
cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected
health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100
percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent
of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all
televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the
University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was
actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred
unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent
say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was
involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you
are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed
they grow in Mexico

Peace out,

Blue States

Jesse Conn

Please remind me what century this is???

2008-09-10T00:19:42Z

Below is a paragraph from this week's Time magazine article on Sarah Palin:

"[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving "full support" to the mayor."

Mary Ellen Baker resigned from her library director job in 1999.
Here is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will notice it is a hit parade for book burners.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

I don't feel so well...

2008-07-01T18:25:40Z

I just discovered an unopened box of Thin Mints in my freezer. I probably put them there several months ago. I may have eaten 1 or 2 or 9.

There is nothing thin about Thin Mints. Fuck you Girlscout Sirens...FUCK YOU!

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!

2008-04-01T00:14:08Z

I'm leaving next Sunday for Viva! I'll be working with Erin at her booth for a week! Yes, I'm pretty excited. YAY...

Guess who joined the sicky club? or "We're Off to see the Wizard"

2008-03-15T05:27:11Z

It's the wee hours of the morning..I just began what is to be several loads of laundry since I only have a stackable tiny washer and dryer and of course it's quilts, blankets, pillows etc that can only be done pretty much one at a time. Bella puked all over my bed. She is in my bed because of the tornado, YES, TORNADO that just reared it's lovely little head not 5 miles away from us. LONG NIGHT INDEED.. Mother Mary.

quick update....or....Chicken Lady loves life

2007-05-10T18:31:26Z

I love my place
I love derek and I know he loves our children
My car is paid off
I hate my job which i may or may not go back to tomorrow
I have a new friend who was an old friend who is very far away but makes me smile
Sage is graduating 8th grade
Bella is being paid to be my memory
I'm devastated about never seeing the ghoulies perform again, but I know they have their reasons, I am thankful they were such a huge part of our lives.
I miss my friends as always
I had been in a very dark place and have emerged a butterfly and faced a few of my demons and banished them and am still making progress (oh and they were ugly)
I've learned alot about myself being on my own and realized a few things that I needed to change about my "needs" and "wants" and i'm learning the difference. That's always fun!

Life is painfully beautiful

I love Willamaes posts, so young, yet so wise!

2006-09-12T15:15:14Z

Monday, September 11, 2006

september 11
Current mood: tired

yeah, you knew it was coming. Admit it... you did!
ok, all of you know what september 11th was, and is, in our society. I'm sure that there are three year olds that can give you deatils about what happened in the towers. I know you can. You've seen the footage, you've heard the calls, you've seen pictures, you heard survivors tales.
... woah... back up... does this sound like a comercial to you? Maybe, just maybe it sounds like an add for United 93 or one of the other movies about the tragedy. Why? Beacuse September 11th has become an icon in our society. We use it as an excuse for our pointless wars, we use it as a reason to take away our own freedom, or to give more freedom to others. We've been losing the fight against terrorisim ever since the towers fell, yes, but this is a battle against ourselves, a battle against those who say they are freeing others whie really only exploiting them.
Why do we tolerate this? We know what is happening, why are we just sitting back and enjoying the ride to hell. But remember the laws of inertia, what is in motion will stay in motion... we need more friction, we need more opposition. We need a fight.
But first, we need to reclaim our nations greates tragedy and give it respect, not brand names. Give the people left without familes peace, not more deaths. Do you think that the widdows who lost their families on september 11th want to see the wemon of Iraq lose their husbands and children? I doubt it. Would they not want peace as much as, if not more than the rest of us?
I do not know about you, but I know that I am tired of death, I am tired of seeing the national debt grow ever higher, I am tired of this war.
Maybe we should take the fifth aniversary of 9/11 and turn it into a real icon, an icon that works for human profit, not buisness growth. We should turn it into an icon for peace.

that's all floks. thanks for reading. and I know the ending's not great. but I'm damned tired.

(You don't mind, do you, Weed?)

For the love of lunch making

2006-09-06T12:58:45Z

I don't know if we can take much more!

Sage spends almost every evening from the time he gets home till bedtime
doing "make up" homwork, and he hasn't missed a day of school! I've been
getting phone calls and emails from teachers regarding work he HASN'T
done.....

Family life is going down the toilet (the small fleeting peices we have left) and we've got Bella already dreading middle school and she's in 1st grade!

I don't know that i've ever screamed so much in my life...I don't even know
myself anymore....Hello, my name is TYRANT!! I swear....drugs sound
sweeter and sweeter by the day....I wouldn't mind some more myself either...

Subject Poetry by Sage

2006-08-25T02:09:37Z

2 poems Sage wrote for Science and Algebra projects. Luckily for Sage, Poetry is an option for credit in his core classes...

Algebra By Sage Gray (He had to pick a profession that uses Algebra and explain how)

Aerospace engineers
Need to know basic math
They need to know algebra
and they make lots of cash

Aerospace engineers
Design and test
Defenses and aircrafts
Their creations are the best

These people need to know
The pythagorean therom
For parts of ships are triangles
And therefore they need'em

He must know about the area
The volume counts as well
To know the space a part takes up
And the space around will tell

Advanced probability
Must be known for work
It must be known for her to guess
And he will not be mirk

One last thing that they must know
before the very end
Is they must know how to program computers
And how to draw and mend(metal).

The Scientific Method by Sage Gray (Here, he had to explain the scientific Method)

The scientific Method
Is a method for us to use
To get A's in Ms. Nunnink's class
And she won't blow a fuse

First you make a question
It can be anything
From how cheese is made
To "Do Birds Really Sing?"

Then make a hypo-thesis
If then's the way to go
And when you're done doing that
You'll be in the flow

Then you must test it
The hypothesis, I mean
Test it using knowledge
And basically anything

Then we come to the conclusion
And the end of this Rhyme
Whether you are right or wrong
You'll be sure to find

an old friend of old friends sent this to me

2006-08-22T14:59:16Z

RHI, you are rad!!

2006-08-12T14:35:08Z

I didnt get to call or write yesterday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG GIRL!!

ASHLI LOVES YOU!!

ugh

2006-08-06T04:35:39Z

i'm drunk and car sick from 2 margaritas and a mason jar of red wine. Yes, it was a southern summer porch party...eeeeeeeeehhaaaaaaw

puke, i'm just not as young as I used to be. I would have been ok if I walked home instead of accepting a ride home....

ok computer screen too bright...gong ta bed

Tom Waits

2006-08-02T17:08:37Z

Fucking amazing!

Excited!

2006-07-31T23:38:07Z

I start belly dance classes tonight! I hope I dont look like a complete idiot! Luckily my friend Kelli is joining me, if it all goes wrong, she is the one i want to be with, she makes everything fun and enjoyable. We can just be wacky together and not give a shit!

Bella's dream birthday....

2006-07-30T22:13:04Z

We are seriously considering this, it's a 6 hour drive tho.....

www.magiquestmb.com/index.cfm

she'd be thrilled with a rollergirls bday too

spontaneity

2006-07-30T02:59:50Z

I decided to take Sage and Bella to go with some friends to the Chattahoochee River. We ended up hiking then tubing. SO MUCH FUN!!! We went about 2 hours north of ATL to a town called Helen. What a freaky little town. It's a faux german villiage built to attract tourists. There are freaky little attractions everywhere and anyone who wants to build there must keep to the strick german villiage facade rules. It's an "amusement town". Not like Boomtown, it's an actual town. Anyway, the river was beautiful and we hiked up to anna ruby falls which was awesome, so luch and beautiful. And me without my camera DOH!!

I had such a great day with my kids! It makes such a difference when things are spontaneous.....

love my job

2006-07-24T18:12:55Z

I am loving my job that i've been with since Feb. Today my boss told me i'm doing a phenomenal job and thanked me for whipping her office into shape. It's so nice to be appreciated.

wndswept @ 2006-08-22T14:11:00

2006-07-22T19:29:28Z

wndswept @ 2006-08-20T14:17:00

2006-07-20T19:34:58Z