Ok I don’t often get upset about politics… that much. But when it threatens our livelihood then I am sunk in anger that burns so red hot  that people need to just back off. We are going to get cut 1000 dollars out of our monthly salary starting tomorrow if a deal is not made. We live pay check to pay check so you can imagine how it is going to hurt us bad. I will not be going to my family reunion and we we will have to live off a food bank I believe. Thanks to my immigration troubles and a child with serious medical problems, this is going to hurt us badly.

This WHOLE budget cuts thing is gong to be a disaster! Across the board 20% cuts to all the D.O.D plus others but today I learned then they are sending 60 million dollars off to Syria? I guess Americans do not know who is protecting things.  Yeah Big surprise there. Lets FUND other countries in rebuilding but not our own? Shooting ourselves in the foot is Not helping our economy!

They are forcing people to take furlough at one day at a time per week increments so they can’t receive unemployment too. They plan to cut jobs and de-fund contractors who are honestly helping our military. It’s like they think, “No we can’t cut out the unimportant stuff, so lets cut everyone’s pay.” It really shows a lack of leadership on the Republican side. They do not know who is keeping our nation safe.

Example: Cyber war is handled by the civilian hired DOD so we do not get attacked. What does that mean? These people are going to be cut in help and money. REALLY???? When we are getting attacked EVERY SINGLE DAY by North Korea, Russia and China. (FYI this is real!) No the enemies don’t seem real to most people but the warnings have come that we need a better cyber system.I wish I could explain more and if I only could tell you the rest you would be APPALLLED. But they decided to cut that program down to 20%! No thought to Americans and soldiers safety.

Sorry but most Republican and tea party politicians have NO F***ing CLUE!

There is going to be lay offs by the thousands if not more and that is going to flood the system with unemployment. The thing is, these programs actually save the tax payer money. Now we don’t want to use some of these services?  It seems to me  like a back room deal by republican leaders to export more jobs! Yes I said it! This is how they operate. WAKE UP AMERICA! You have listened to lies too long.

Remember back in 2006? They were telling Republicans the economy is in trouble? No one wanted to hear that on the Republican side back then. Well if you keep closing your ears to truth you ‘re going to get hurt.

YES this cut is going to effect every citizen and soldier. De-funding our own people to save a fiscal buck? Does that sound like a winner? NOT at all!

In the end we will be paying more to pay a corporation to come in a run our own government. Yep it already is a problem. And who is running these deals? You tell me.

I don’t know what to blog about so I will share my cat who is my constant companion.

Memow has brought so much happiness to all our lives.

Look how little he is, aw.

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We got him a pack of play mice at Christmas that all have since disappeared somewhere in the house, I believe.  I have looked and looked for them because I like to throw them to play fetch with him but I think hid them somewhere deep into our storage corner. I hope he didn’t eat them~!

Here is when I would try and video record Memow playing fetch instead he would try and attack my camera cord. LOL

I need a new batch of pictures he is so much bigger now.

Anyway that is all I got for today.

I am excited for spring but not the allergies so we shall see how it all goes since we have the first of the daffodils pushing their way up in my flower bed out front.

Have a good day!

I totally love this video. I cried when i watched it. Something about growing up that was so painful to me. I suffer from Peter Pan syndrome.

The Song and the video are amazing.

Do you like?

My Aaron has been home all week from school with a cold. Just sending him to school today. I have been so lazy with him and got almost nothing extra done in the house. He then so very unwillingly gave me his cold back to me. I say back because I just got over it the following week. Poop! at this rate the dust bunnies are going to take over. 

Been busy doing a whole lot of nothing important but I guess getting over a week of a bad cold is work.

I feel really lazy but I have been back on track to the whole diet and exercise routine again. I like my results. I am gaining more energy.

I made a big pot of vegetable beef soup last night to eat all week for lunch. It really warmed my soul to eat it since it reminded me of my parents. They always made huge pots of soup to eat all week. I think it is a really smart thing to do and want to see if I can make it a routine for Sunday nights. Eating soup is so healthy.

Saturday my husband took me out to celebrate Valentines day. We drove into Philadelphia to go to the Reading terminal market. They have a special honey I can only get there that I like. It is called Butter bean. It is from a local source which is good for allergies and I love the flavor too. The market was jam packed so we decided to eat elsewhere. Oh that is before we trekked into Chinatown to get some Asian candy for our boys. Leif loves all things Asian. We went into a small side street Chinese run grocery store and I was impressed I have never seen many of the products they had in store before and we have gone to Chinatown NYC markets before so it was amazing to see. I like to see new things and we got a few candies. But also I got a big bag of brown rice at a good price. My husband thinks its funny in those kind of places I don’t get stared at but he does. What can I say? I am a brown lady so I blend.

We went to South street to see if there was anything to tempt our appetites. We settled on a fancy BBQ place to eat but I was really unimpressed. I hate when they try and change the formula for a dish to make it uniquely their own but market it as a regular BBQ place. YUCKY clovey tasting sauce and expensive prices I knew I should just stick to a simpler place to eat. Even Hubby was disappointed. We had better BBQ at famous Daves. LOL

We then decided to do redbox movies with tour boys and take home some supper. HA! It was a quiet evening compared to our day but I like that unwinding at home in the evening plus it’s cost efficient. HA! Oh Before all that we picked up some groceries and I got my half priced valentines candy. Oh yes, a whole box of assorted chocolates. Cannot beat those prices! I shared of course and we all ate chocolates and Chinese candy while watching a movie.

Today I am just realizing my limits on sweets. YIKES. Back to the diet routine.

Have a good week!

It is crazy but I had a huge post made up yeasterday and it disappered. Hmm

Anyway Happy Valentines day!

We are not celebrating too much since both hubby and I have colds. I am getting over it but he is coming down with one. I share so nicely.

Making some of his favorite cookies and cooking a nice spagetti dinner for the boys and us. We are going out this weekend instead of tonight.  

Do you have any plans?                   

I am tired of fake posts by celebrities. Have you seen the latest about Bill Cosby? I wish people would check their info before forwarding a message along they think to be a quote from anyone. 

We have a house on the end of our street we called the Lord Of the Flies house. The neglect that went on for those teen boys was horrific to many tales to tell but no state or local authority seemed to care for years.  The family had taken in at least 4 other teen boy cousins to get money from the state. Yes even I reported them in but yesterday was a different kind of day. Apparently the oldest son was a drug dealer and was involved in a sting operation. They arrested not only the boy but the mother as well. The Police raided the home, sheds and woods outside their house. I don’t know what happened but my friend who lived beside them said that they told the mother she is guilty just because she did nothing to help those kids.

I really felt sad to see that. I don’t know why but I prayed for her and her son. The boy teen was a kid I have known since he was 7. He played at our house with his cousins and we had them over quite a few times for birthday parties and fun stuff. Hubby played street hockey with them and tried to be a good example. I knew they had been getting beatings at home when they let things slip and it hurt me to know. I tried to talk to them about it when I had a chance but they just shrugged it off. The younger cousin I comforted a lot but he wouldn’t talk to me about it. He just would cry. They came over to play until they started to steal from us. It got pretty bad with them too because they saw it as rejection from a mother figure and acted angry with me for not letting them in anymore. I confronted them on their stealing but they just denied. I was told by them how they wished I was their mom so many times it grieved me not to let them in but I had to protect my own children. I told them if they ever need help I am here for them. They just stopped coming over.

A few years ago I complained about kids harassing our house at night to deal drugs in the alley, it was them. My Husband tried to talk to the parents but they just said “kids will be kids.”  Eventually we had to call police since they stood outside my house and threatened me. I had told them to leave off my yard when they had started a fight. We stopped talking to them at that point. A very defensive wall came up between our family and theirs as they stopped even saying hello on the street when we saw them. They knew we had called the police. I think it was the start of worse things to come.

I am praying for them because I know those boys were good kids at one time. They cared about animals and liked innocent fun but we really saw a change in them over the years and I could not tell you why other than the Parents didn’t care what they did. OH and they were abused so badly. I don’t think anyone cared in the state agency since it seemed they had social workers visit. People learn to lie and cover up easily. That is why abuse is so hard to deal with in families. If no outside help comes in nothing can be done unless they change. I am hoping this might be a change for the better for those kids but I wonder.

 Pray for them. I know change is really a hard thing for people who are abused who become Abusive. Yes there is no excuse but I have such pity for them. Why I don’t know call it a mothers heart. It looks like life is only going to get worse for the oldest son. It breaks my heart. I so had hoped and prayed he was doing Ok. I hope he would get good help and possibly change his ways. It just seemed like he never had a chance to start with.

The Weekly Question: my answer; Sims 3.

I am undoubtedly addicted to this game.

Here is a wedding picture I took. HA I love setting them up.

I am not the most obsessed person to this game by any means. I love watching how to build homes on youtube like this one. 

You would think watching this video building houses for the game is easy. NOPE! It is defiantly a video that has been fast forwarded but a pro. He also uses cheats to play that do not work for me. It takes me hours to build a house to my liking and they are hard to get perfect like his in the video.

I want more expansion packs but they cost so much and I do not expect to get them anytime soon. I cannot imagine the cost to that to buy all of them since many are 20 dollars a pop. I got the original game Sims 3 in Christmas 2010 (I think) that is how long the game has been out. Husband got me 2 expansion packs this past Christmas  I am at least 10 expansion packs behind or more.  Sims 3 never gets old to me. I can play goddess and control people lives as far as Artificial life simulation goes. But I love my simming and I am happy having a silly hobby top play house to my hearts content. HE HE!

Here is the website The Sims 3 Community  and you can download a ton of things but unless you have the right mega gaming computer I do not suggest it. The Game has so many bugs. It will not run on a laptop. I am lucky my husband is such a Geek. He has to fix my game ever so often since I tried to once and erased my whole files. Nothing like cleaning out hours of game time to make a person feel sick. <—- Unless you are a gamer you will not understand this.

I often do laundry while I game or do some hand sewing while it runs in the background. SO it works into my schedule. I only have a few hours a day to waste so I have to make them count before i get kicked off the computer by a preteen and teenager who have much more important things to do that I do playing games. LOL YEAH RIGHT!

Anywho… I am showing you the Lazy Slacker Gamer side to me. This is a definite gamer house hold.

Do you like any video games? 

My first born baby is 16 today. I am so proud to be Leif’s momma.

Long hair and all, this boys has always been an unique individual. I could not tell him what to think, wear, do, or anything like that since he was 2. He is smart and savvy but really doesn’t care what others think. I accept him with all his likes and dislikes. He is my son and I never wanted to raise a mainstream kid anyway.

He loves this show called My Little Pony. I have talked about this in the past, they call guys who like this show Bronys. He really doesn’t care if I tease him about it. He loves his MLP so I caved for his birthday and made him a Plush pony Named Derpy Hooves.

It took me a week of sewing and much had to be sewn by hand. I think He is going to love it.

We plan to take him out to a Korean resturant this evening since that is his request. Leif wants some Kailbi (a beef dish) and Gochu Pajon ( onion rice pancake.)

I am baking him a marble cake today so I need to get off this computer.

I hope he has a great birthday.