My take

My take on the tasteless "joke" by David Letterman -

I am a huge Sarah Palin fan/supporter. I am proud of the woman standing up for her morals and values. All she can do is instill those into her children. Children can and will make mistakes, but I'm a firm believer that you'll come back to the foundation given to you by your parents, it make take a long time, but your foundation IS your foundation.

Sarah's children do not deserve to be joked about just because their mom made a choice to run for V.P. of the USA. Letterman's choice of material is just a grown up old man bullying some teenagers. It was a pot-shot. It does not matter if the intended subject was Bristol, it was still a pot-shot. I think David and his writers forgot that a large portion of America does support Palin and Christian values. I think they've been reminded. America is still a Christian nation.

Is Letterman guilty of poor taste with that particular piece? Yes, definitely.

Has Letterman made me laugh at times over the years with things I found funny that other people did not? Yes, I'm sure he has.

Does one misstep mean he should lose his career? I don't think so. We're human, we make mistakes, we forgive. Hopefully, we grow and learn from those missteps. I watched the 2nd "apology" and I think it was as sincere as Letterman gets, I just don't know that he knows how to deliver the kind of sincerity we seem to expect, doesn't mean he's not sincere in his own way. Take it at face value, accept, forgive and move on - that is what we as Christians do.

Sarah Palin 2012.

Happy Birthday Liz

Wishing my friend Liz, AKA the girl who gets more excited about her birthday than any other person I know, a very happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Eron

Wishing my friend Eron a happy birthday - hope maybe you'll have some Internet service where you are and can see this. Thinking about you.

Happy 40th Jenn!

Wishing my good friend Jenn a very happy 40th birthday!

Time off

I have been enjoying 5 days straight off of work Thur - Mon -- 3 more to go before it is back to work. Thursday, I just took care of things like returning movies (but first I watched Personal Effects which I hadn't had a chance to watch since I'd rented it and it was due back), going to the post office to mail off a couple of packages, did some random cleaning. Chris and I went to dinner at Red Lobster.

Yesterday, I worked in the garage all day long - from 6 am - 5 pm, and managed to catch up on all of the laundry also. I also took all of the trash to the dump. I know it's not the way most people want to spend their time off, but I'm feeling good about getting this stuff done. I am trying to minimize.

I got up at 7 am this morning, and sat on the sofa and promptly fell alseep again until I had to wake Chris up at 9 am because he had to go into work today. He just left a little while ago, and now I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do today... guess it's back out into the garage. I'm making a second run through boxes and trashing some of the things that survived the first cut. But I think I must pause for breakfast first.

Happy Birthday Kelly

Happy Birthday sis!

Fajitas

Tomatoes, peppers and onions....

Homemade chips... the best

Fajitas, with refried beans and what we call "almost pico".