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| Tires? |
[10 Nov 2009|03:24pm] |
It's time for some new shoes for my car. I'm looking for a good deal on 4 quality tires for my 96 accord.
I'm probably also in need of an alignment.... so 4 tires + alignment, where should I go?
Oh, and DONT say midtown tire on ponce. I don't trust them to wash my windows after the poor service and inexperienced techs they had working on my car......
Other options? Preferably ITP but I don't mind driving a bit for a really good deal. Should I buy tires online and get them mounted somewhere local?
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| An insulting list - My brothers - A friend |
[10 Nov 2009|01:24pm] |
Some jerk made a ranking list of the ugliest men in America, and he picked El Paso, Texas as having the ugliest men. What an insult, and boy was he wrong, because we have many great looking guy's in El Paso!
Ugliest Guys Rankings:
1. El Paso, Texas
2. Hagerstown, Md.
3. Miami, Fla.
4. Greensboro, N.C.
5. Mobile, Ala. and Huntington, W.Va. (tie)
6. Detroit, Mich.
7. Philadelphia, Pa.
8. Houston, Texas
None of my brothers live in El Paso anymore, but they were born and raised here. Below you will find pictures of 3 of my 4 brothers. I didn't add a picture of the 4th, because he's married, and is still in the Army. I have also added a pic of an El Pasoan friend who also doesn't live here anymore. Eventually, I'll be adding pics of my female friends and aquaintences.
Of all my brothers, this one is my most favorite of all.
This is what he really looks like. Can you see now why he's my favorite?
 
This brother is almost as silly as the one on top.
This brother is the toughie of the family.
The one with the cap is a friend.
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| Hush, little bird, going to take to the sky. |
[10 Nov 2009|01:54pm] |
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Rain and incense are preferable smells to the sick that is threatening, so I've opened the windows and lighted something. The sticks were in an unlabelled bag. Everyone in the house is verging on plague-ridden in some way. Except for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lord_of_smoking. I think he has pretty much made himself uninhabitable to disease.
My sister has graduated to super-ghetto. While living with my mom, the water bill was her responsibility, but she's moved out recently due to disagreements between them. She told my mom when asked directly about it, that it was dealt with, only to have my mom find a shutoff notice on the door a day or so later. It hadn't been paid since April. My mom also has to get the locks changed because she's been sneaking in while mom's at work and stealing food. Not leftovers, but entire bags of frozen chicken.
We're not making it up north for Thanksgiving, unfortunately. It's surprised us again, and now there's no time to plan for it. And money situations seem to be imploding rapidly and without surcease.
Speaking of, I'm open for commissions, and I'm also looking to get my stuff up and sold at wolven's work. If there's anything you've wanted to buy or have me make, now's a good time to let me know. Though, fair warning, if it's a non-digital commission, I may need an advance to pay for something for it to be drawn/painted on.
I don't feel up to any of the cleaning that needs to be done before Friday, still, so today's probably for more dicking about in Painter.
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[10 Nov 2009|01:41pm] |
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~ Nelson Mandela
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| Wait for it...wait for it... |
[10 Nov 2009|01:29pm] |
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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: unedited
From: "Brooke Partlan" <emailaddress@emailaddress.com>
Date: Tue, November 10, 2009 12:49 pm
To: Sunny@sunnycrittenden.com
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I will have more respect for your "take" on this horrible situation if
you post this in your journal unedited.
My terrible mother-in law worked her ass off for many years in order
to be able to do these things for Blake, Sunny and the kids:
--gave $9000. and a wedding reception as a wedding present.
--loaned $5000. to help make ends meet while Sunny was pregnant and
Blake couldn't legally work in Canada. It was never repaid.
--provided her townhouse for Blake & Sunny & Madison to stay in when
they came to Michigan for her wedding. Had it cleaned before & after
the visit.
--bought Blake a $1000. camera so he could do professional photo jobs
on the side to support his family. Never earned a dollar doing it.
--always came with presents for the kids and Sunny's special treats,
cereal, CVS mixed nuts, cash etc.
--always paid for meals when visiting
--paid airfare and housing for Blake & Sunny for a family trip to
Grand Cayman. Provided a $400. Visa gift card for spending money
--slept on a mattress, still wrapped in plastic, on the floor when
coming to visit.... the mattress was taken from Sunny's grandmother's
furniture store storage room and put back after.
--bought Blake a "work" wardrobe
--sent clothes, shoes for Sunny and the kids too.
--wanted the kids to get Canadian or US social security numbers in
order to set up 529 college funds for them
--finally realized that soc sec numbers would never happen and simply
handed over $10,000 last Fall to be spent on the kids college, it
won't be. It's gone.
Part went to pay off some of Sunny's student loans, buy a window
etc. That's why I wanted to put the money in a 529 account, so it
would be there for college.
--offered to pay for the kids' passports so they could come to the
States for a visit sometime. The kids haven't been here in years.
It's okay for in-laws to come visit Canada and bring bikes, beds, etc.
just never ask for the visit to be returned. Had already sent money
for Blake & Sunny's passports when they were going to Cayman. Money
was spent for other things, not passports.
--volunteered to help on any repair projects when there for a
visit... (we can always find other things to do and see, we just
offered to be useful)
--sent a Wii last Christmas and bought Wii games for everyone's
birthday this year
--have never been thanked for any of the above by Sunny, I'm Blake's
mom so it's his job to thank me, I guess.
I have apologized for every real or imagined transgression multiple
times.
--yes, I did call a few times for kids' sizes and yes, it would have
been nice to talk to Sunny to see if they needed the items I was
looking at in the store. Getting an answer the next day or week
doesn't help much because I'm no longer at that store and the
opportunity has passed. Also, kids do grow and sizes do change.
Oh, I did ask Blake if there was any chance that Sunny would ever be
able to get a part-time job now that her meds are straightened out and
the kids are in school full-time. I didn't say she should, I just
wondered what her prognosis was.
Sunny, we have both made mistakes and hurt each other. Once again,
I'm sorry if I hurt you.
If this is the only arena in which you can communicate with me, then
I'll try it this one time and see if you are able to present my side
fairly.
It's time to stop, put all this to rest and try to move forward.
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| Oh Snap! |
[10 Nov 2009|12:34pm] |
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Blake’s got the plague, as do the children, so everyone’s home sick today (but me). Blake had to go to work to “change the tapes”, whatever that means, so he came home around 11:30am and one of the first things he said to me when he walked in the door was, “So it appears as though she defriended me too.” And then we laughed.
So, I guess this means that there probably won’t be a call or an e-mail to Blake about the situation as obviously we’re both cut off from her life for god only knows how long this time. Because do keep in mind, this isn’t the first time she’s done this. Oh no, she’s a seasoned pro at having too much truth thrown at her and then holding her breath ’til she turns blue in response. So I guess now we just have to wait it out and in the meantime, enjoy the silence.
Interestingly enough, Charlie hasn’t defriended us, which leads Blake and I to believe that he probably doesn’t know anything about what’s going on.
What I’m very curious about though, is whether or not Brooke is petty enough to not send the children Xmas gifts over this. Blake says that’s beyond his scope of imagination and I flat out don’t know, so I guess we’re both just going to wait and see.
Speaking of Xmas, since people have asked me already, Wes & Madison’s Amazon wishlist is here. Something that’s funny to me about Brooke and Xmas is that she complains that Canadian Amazon is only books (which it’s not, it’s video games and CDs too) and every time she says it, it floors me because PARDON ME FOR RAISING TWO CHILDREN WHO LOVE READING. My kids aren’t really into toys except Webkins, they’re just clutter really and they’d much prefer a video game, CD or books.
As you’ll see from the wishlist, the majority of Madison’s wants are books on sewing, knitting and crocheting. I’m not sure if I mentioned this before or not, but Judy taught Madison to sew at the end of the summer and Madison soon began making stuffed animals for her brother (Googles, to be precise, which is kind of like a platypus – Wes’ totem animal). Then my mom gave Madison some sewing stuff and then finally Blake scored her an old sewing machine at a charity auction at work and she’s been making stuffed animals and purses for her friends and just a few days ago she made herself a shirt.
Her workmanship is a little rough around the edges, things aren’t hemmed at all let alone correctly so everything frays, but she loves it and spends all her money at the fabric store in town and when she runs out of new fabric, she just pulls stuff out of our Goodwill garbage bag and upcycles it into something new.
Depending on which books get bought for her for Xmas, I’m going to get her some yarn, knitting needles (um someone’s gonna have to tell me what size/kind to get because I have no fucking clue) and crochet hooks, which I also know nothing about. If we can afford it, I was thinking we might also get her a gift certificate to Fabricland in Barrie or something.
Wes on the other hand, since learning how to read (he’s already way past what they’ll be learning in grade 1 this year, according to his teacher) he’s been all about books just like his sister was. Other than that, his big thing is video games, he’s like a video game savant, so that’s why there are many of both on the wishlist.
Anyway, it’s time to go make my eggs because Blake’s done cooking garbage in my frying pan, so I’m going to go do that. Chances are I’ll be making another post today because I’ve been very posty lately. ;o)
Mirrored from [SunnyCrittenden.com].
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[10 Nov 2009|09:13am] |
Last night, I dreamed that, if I were able to cure the falling out between annamaryse and mayjojo (n.b. neither know, or even know of, each other), a rift that was due to a person named "Parker," I would be granted complete dominion over the Elemental Power of Fire.
This has got to be a metaphor for something.
Other highlights include the Big House at the Farm, which is often a setting in my dreams, repaired and with my room having now a secret door to it. (A somewhat obvious secret door, but a secret door all the same). I was in the process of directing a web-based film, clearly based off of Firefly. Most of the the cast of said show was there, and had a number of cameos or other sorts of involvement. Of specific note was Summer Glau, who kept grabbing at me to shake my flesh and call me fat whenever there was a break, and Nathan Fillion, who was just too damn nice a guy, and whether he was joking around with the crew or quite patiently dealing with the fact that, oh, everyone I know was there and wanted to talk to him, it was somewhat obstructive to my project. There was also a dream within the dream about football.
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| Posting on my LJ like, Yeah |
[10 Nov 2009|09:18am] |
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That's when the taxi man turned on the radio
and the Jay-Z song was on
and the Jay-Z song was on
and the Jay-Z song was on
Yes, I'm coming out of the closet.
I love "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus. Its a really fun song. I like her style of singing a lot.
The one shocker for me was when I heard "The climb" on the radio but I didn't know who sang the song. I downloaded the song and to my surprise Miley also sings "The Climb". WTF. The Climb is a really good song. Girl is awesome.
So...I'm out. Miley Cyrus rocks.
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| OOH RAH!!! |
[10 Nov 2009|09:05am] |
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234 Years ago a bunch of drunks got together in a bar and decided it would be a hoot to go out on boats and shoot Redcoats.
Thus my beloved Corps was born.
Happy birthday to all my fellow Leathernecks, Devil Dogs, and, Jarheads. Semper Fi brothers!
(and Sisters!)
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[11 Nov 2009|12:09am] |
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| I probably should have seen this coming. |
[10 Nov 2009|01:17am] |
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Let Your Backbone Slide - Maestro Fresh Wes |
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Moments ago, around midnight, Blake’s mother defriended me on Facebook. But that’s okay, I mean as it turned out this “friendship” we had was pretty one-sided and as I tried to imply in last night’s post that’s not really a friendship at all, is it? Oh well, I’m not going to write another gigantic post trying to figure out what this action means as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure Blake will receive an e-mail or phone call about it eventually, unless she’s decided not to be friends with him too which is entirely possible. He was just going to bed when the defriending happened and he told me to check his Facebook account but I’m not entering his password correctly or something and can’t get in so oh well, I guess he’ll just check for himself tomorrow.
I could go on any number of tangents from here but it’s hard to pick just one. I guess I’ll go with Blake and I’ll warn you right now, this could get messy.
I always go to bed long after Blake does but sometimes when I’m sitting here by myself and everyone’s sleeping, I think about how lucky I am to be able to crawl into bed and sleep beside him every night. I mean, he’s my man, he’s my partner in crime, I get to be with him for the rest of our lives and constantly I think about it and think how awesome that is. It’s so lame, I know, but sometimes I sit here and fantasize about having a party for our 10th wedding anniversary so we can share our love with everyone we love and who love us back. We never really did the wedding thing and while I don’t regret that, when I think about how much we love each other and when people tell us that our marriage is one that they look up to, I just want to have a party to celebrate love. Our 10th anniversary is probably not very realistic financially for what I fantasize about but I can wait until our 20th.
People talk about marriage like it’s this huge sacrifice where ultimately you’re both going to end up miserable until you finally divorce and I just don’t get that. The way people at Blake’s work talk about their significant others just baffles both of us, how people we know talk about their marriages sometimes, I mean, we just don’t understand. I think these people maybe got married for the wrong reasons or something, I dunno. We know people who had a wedding just to have a wedding. We know people who married for financial security. We know people who married because of an accidental pregnancy and we know people who were in love when they got married but with the way things played out afterward, I’m not sure some of these people really understood what a marriage was. Blake and I? We definitely entered into this whole marriage deal with our eyes wide open and 7 years later we’re more in love than we were the day we said “I do”. It’s us against the world and guess what? We’re making it. Slowly but surely we are. And one day we’re going to have everything we want together, everything we’ve talked about, of that I’m certain because – and this is probably really cliche but fuck you I’m saying it anyway – together we can do anything and we can survive anything.
I’m unsure of a lot of things in this world, I have a lot of fears, but one thing I absolutely know for sure is that my kids are going to grow up to be amazing people and that Blake and I are never going to stop loving each other, fiercely, for as long as we live. We are the foundation, the seed, of a new family tree. We’re just waiting to put our roots in the ground which will come one day, we’re sure as hell trying.
Okay that’s enough lameness out of me. I’m not really a romantical type person and everything I just wrote kinda makes me want to throw up a little bit but I can’t help it though, I just love the shit out of him. I hope you understand.
And with that, I guess I’m out.
Mirrored from [SunnyCrittenden.com].
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