Random bits of rant causing and non-rant causing goodness...

1. Yes, I've been gone awhile, but in case you were not aware, a new baby takes a lot of work...so much work in fact, that I am unable to even do NaNoWriMo..sadly.

2. I might still be hormonal, or just stressed, I'm not sure-but politics sure does depress me anymore, and I don't care what "side" it is.  It's either the right trying to tell me that I'm a murderer for being pro-choice, or the left telling me I'm a murderer for being pro private gun ownership.  Either way they both suck.

3. speaking of sucky politics-why are the people of New Orleans so frigging upset over the former recovery czar saying that the big obstacle to the recovery is the racism of the people here?  Or that if white people were to be in power again they would step on the necks of the blacks and cause a race war?  He wasn't far off.  I've been down here for almost six years, and let me tell you people-you pretty much are all racists-and you all have race issues that no one is brave enough to deal with.  Need proof???  How about the Chocolate City the mayor promised?  Or the people who called local radio today to say that the judge who resigned for refusing to marry an interracial couple was totally correct in what he did because the races shouldn't mix (I really wish I was just talking about the plot of some movie instead of real people living in America today.)  Yeah, racism is a problem here, it's a problem all over America-why don't we try to work together anyway, since all colored people were hurt and lost property and loved ones during Katrina...just a thought for you.  Ps-I'm so glad I'm leaving here.

4....if I leave.  We've had a lot of people look at the house, but no offers.  Most people seem off put by the fast food place behind our property.  I think they are failing to see the big picture.  After all, the only thing that separates you from a frosty here is a fence-and that's not a lot!

5.  further, I am not replacing the stove either, we already dropped the price of the house, that on top of the eight thousand new home buyer credit should get you a hell of a nice stove.  We put new carpet and paint, ceramic tile, and a covered porch and koi pond with waterfall.  This is a nice house.  I wish I could find something this nice in TN-but I can't.

6. I went to TN with MR for a week.  I looked at about 30 houses with a realtor and narrowed it down to three for him to see...he hated all three, even the one with the jacuzzi and the screened in porch...what is wrong with him?

7. MR has been traveling like crazy.  He's in Virginia this week.  I'm starting to find that it's much easier to take care of the house when he's not here...I wonder why?

8. Little Ron turns 6 tomorrow...when the hell did he have time to turn 6???

9. I recently celebrated my 30th birthday.  MR got his mom to watch the kids while we went out for beers and German fusion food.  30 was a great birthday.  Also-I'd so much rather be 30 than 20-I know a lot of celebs say that and it always seems like the only reason they mean it is because they are rich and stuff, but I mean it because at 30 I have a lovely home and family, and am more in love with my husband than I can even explain and even have the baby sleeping for six hours a night!  Life is pretty good....mostly! 

Dear Members of the New Orleans City Council Who Voted Themselves a Payraise,

Did you all feel that you deserved it because of all the attention Chicago is getting for their children murdering each other, you know, taking the pressure off of you guys?  Well then, congratulations, I'm sure you all deserved that nearly 100% raise you voted yourselves.  Oh, I know, technically it's for the NEXT council.  Isn't it convenient that only one of you isn't running for re-election???

Meanwhile children are still killing each other on your streets-children are selling drugs and running guns because they see no other hope for their future.  Their schools are a joke, they have no playgrounds, no pools, and their city is still full of blight and the memories of a storm that happened four years ago.  Four years and it's still a mess.

But yeah, you all earned it.  I really, really hope you enjoy it.

Pissed off,

Odetocorny

The baby is sleeping right now, so I have a few minutes to myself.  I've been working on a blog in my head about Little Ron's Tai Kwan Do class.  There are so many kids in there I could blog about, but there are two in particular who really get my attention every time I'm there.

Speaking of getting attention...what the heck is up with the moms in there who laugh at the kids who are misbehaving?  There is one little boy in particular who always ALWAYS runs away from the instructor and around the studio screaming his head off.  Whenever anyone laughs he just smiles and does it louder.  I want to punch those moms in the throat sometimes, because that little butthead is taking time away from my son's instruction, time I am paying for!  I don't really blame his mom, because he started it as a ploy to get mom's attention, and Master Slaughter told mom to wait outside the studio during class to see if it helps.  It hasn't, mostly because of the a**holes who laugh at him.  Just...sigh.

That's all I have time for now, the baby is waking up.

Robert with the blanket my mom made him, doing what he does best.