J & C's of Late

Jeers....once again to me for not posting more often. Note to self: Here's a New Years Resolution you could try.

Cheers to my friend Holly Hecker...Holly Checker for being my friend, my co-worker, my champion since I met her in September of 1986 (I believe) She was my sounding board, my personal voice of reason. We were both born on the 5th of the month so I found that a sign that we were to be buddies. I will always remember the fact that she had such faith in me...in my ability to write well.

Jeers to the passing of my friend Holly. May she be at peace.

Jeers and Cheers for August 27th, 2017

Jeers to me for letting this blog slide. Something just keeps me busy. I sometimes I find things to do so I don't have to write. Yeah, I'm a writer alright. It's embarrassing.

Cheers to the weather in OK. I am so loving the clouds and the cooler (for August in OK) temps.

Jeers to the weather in TX. I can't even imagine what it's like to have to go to your roof so you can get rescued. I try to imagine that much water around my house and it just doesn't seem possible. I'm happy that our house is kind of on an incline so the water on all sides stays away. It's really the perfect house.

Cheers to our house in Buffalo, NY getting sold. We are no longer homeowners in Buffalo and there is no way we would move there. I mean, if we had to move back, we'd have to live in that house...it would be silly to not. But now it's all moot as it's no longer ours.

Jeers to feeling so bad about not having kids. I see my friends on FB talking about their kids moving out and how hard it is to see them go and I want to say "Sounds like a nice problem to have." But, of course, I don't' say that. I cringe every time I hear or read about how special a woman feels while carrying her child..." it's like a feeling you have to experience to know how special it is." Aw...extra jeers to me for wanting to throw up.

Jeers Mostly...Sorry

Jeers to my cousin who truly believes being gay is abnormal behavior. He says he doesn't care what people do with their personal life as long as it doesn't hurt people. You know, like when gays try to turn straight people gay or when they pass on an STD. He insists he loves the sinner but hates the sin. The irony is...his son is gay. I see a lot of psychotherapy in the son's future. 

Jeers to 45 for not just quietly firing the head of the FBI. No, he called him a Show Boat...like who's calling the kettle black?

Cheers to the OWFI writing contest for 2017 as I took an Honorable Mention in the Memoir category. Yes, I can write.

Cheers to clouds that keep the friggin sun at bay. Hate being so photophobic. Love those cloudy days. 

J & C of Late

Cheers on 45's poll numbers...finally seeing some hope. I hate to wish someone to fail and I wouldn't if he just went away. He can be successful until the cows come home back at Trump Tower. 

Jeers for my spirit being so dimmed by the likes of 45.

Jeers to lawmakers who are okay with our water having lead in it and allowing ISPs sell our Net info. What's the point?  Why are they okay with that? What's in it for them? 

Jeers to people who say one thing...publically, and when the issue is their problem they walk back what they said. Gawd...I hate people.

Jeers to me for allowing myself to hate. Sad.

C & Js for March 10th

Cheers to my cousin Kristine for being such a good penpal. She is constantly feeding my snail mail box.

Cheers to snail mail...good snail mail...not bills.

Jeers to 45 for apparently accepting the inferior health plan Ryan is toting.

Jeers to Ryan for wanting to replace Obamacare for the sake of replacing Obamacare and not with something better. 

Jeers to Repub senators constantly saying that Obamacare "is a disaster." Okay...your fellow senator already said that...move on.

Cheers to good things in this world...babies and puppies and little jumpy goats, flowers, and trees that don't make you sneeze; to warm breezes and sunshine. 

J&C for March 1st

Jeers to me for not writing sooner.

Jeers to 45 for claiming immigration enforcement makes us safer. It says up crime. See http://www.nbcnews.com/card/fact-check-trump-claims-immigration-enforcement-makes-us-safer-does-n727216

Cheers to 45 for doing some draining of the swamp.

Jeers to 45 for taking credit for saving us money on fighter jets...he really did not. 

Cheers to 45 for staying on track in his first speech to congress and actually sounding like a President. Finally.

Jeers to 45 for allowing the pipelines to flow despite so much evidence that pollution will happen. It's "if" it's "when."  Not to mention (okay I will) that the jobs created are minimal. 

Jeers to 45 for blaming foreigners for being terrorists. Not true.

C & J's for February 13th

Cheers to my friend Pat who has kidney surgery today. She's going to rock this! Mostly because it's a rock the surgeon is removing from her kidney.

Cheers to my friends who have no idea how awful life could have been if they were not born into a white middle-class loving family. I cheer you for having had that privilege.

Jeers to my friends who don't understand how life would have been for them if they were born and raised in a life where you didn't know where your next meal was, where you are feared by people because of the color of your skin. 

Jeers to people who post day after day after day a meme or story about their illness. You may think you're informing people about something but they get it after the first month: you have an illness; it hurts; life sucks. Stop please!  Get a blog and belly ache to no one because no one ever reads your words but that's okay. It's emotionally freeing. 

Cheers to my good buddy Lisa who is on the road to recovery as she fights the evils of the big C. Yesterday she made it through a difficult surgery. She's kicking the snot out of cancer. 

Cheers to Lisa's doctors and the wonderful staff at OK Heart Hospital. They all rock.

Cheers to the Dems trying whatever it takes to invalidate DeVos' confirmation. She has no clue. 

C & J's For Friday February 3rd

First of all...Jeers to me for not recording my thoughts here.  

Jeers to YOU KNOW WHO for saying " I’ve gotten a real glimpse—during the campaign, I’d go around with Ben to a lot of different places I wasn’t so familiar with. They’re incredible people." For singling out blacks by calling the "incredible people" like it was something we didn't already know.

More Jeers to our Commander for allowing companies to pollute our rivers by lifting a rule of Obama that kept mining companies from  putting waste in our rivers. Shame on us for wanting clean water to drink. 

Jeers to congress for thinking Betsy DeVos is a sharp tool in the shed. 

Jeers to YKW for giving the PM of Australia a hard time. It's like any other job, you get the tasks that the former employee was working on. 

Jeers to YKW for reeking havoc last Friday with your Muslim Ban. Sorry, his backtalk doesn't change the fact that even his buddy Rudy said it was a Muslim Ban but needed some tweaking to give the illusion it wasn't. 

J&C's for January 26th

Cheers to having a lot of things to do. It's like an "Activity Smorgasbord"  I can do a little writing; a little eBaying; a little cleaning; a little creating. 

Jeers to you know who for insisting he got word from a high-ranking intelligence professional who says torture works. No high-ranking or even low-ranking member of the CIA would say torture works. He is hearing voices or something. He has to be.

Jeers to some friends who just can't see that Trump is the engineer on the Crazy Train. Ugh!

J & C's for Jan. 25th part II

Cheers to Mary Tyler Moore who turned the world on with her smile for so many years. RIP Miss Mary. You were an inspiration to me.

Cheers to FOX News for agreeing with the truth...that Trump's Inauguration did not have as many physical people there as Obamas in 2009 did and that there is no proof that 2-5 million people voted illegally. Finally the truth. Feels good, huh?

Jeers to Senators and Congressman who don't want to go against Trump because of fear. Yes, he likes to hold a grudge but where's your integrity? 

J & C's for January 25th

Cheers to my brother Jim who has a birthday today!

Cheers to Trump for keeping his campaign promises. I'm cheering it because this means he won't cut Social Security like he promised. 

Jeers to You know who. Here's a breakdown of what he'd done so far....

1) Rejected the idea that the least qualified Dept of Education nominee in the history of the country should have another hearing so we can verify just how much she doesn't know (spoiler alert...she doesn't know anything about running the agency and can’t even put a sentence together without grammatical errors).

2) Put a gag order on the EPA so that they can no longer communicate with the press in any way or issue any new contracts...at all. Not even tweeting...and that seems a bit hypocritical. I thought this administration was all for tweeting.

3) Ordered the resumption of drilling on the Keystone XL pipeline which happens to be threatening the health and well being of our native American brothers and sisters. Just close your eyes and forget that he has a financial interest in the company per his 2016 disclosure form. No conflict of interest there. Nope, just the safety of the drinking water for millions of Native Americans, but they don’t count, right?

4) Reinstated the global gag order denying funding to any program that even utters the word abortion even if they don't provide them, which essentially will mean less access to healthcare for millions of women around the world.

5) Removed all Spanish language from the White House website. Yeah…I just can’t with this one. Seriously?

6) CBS has now also confirmed that the President brought his own posse to the CIA to laugh and clap at his ridiculously inappropriate speech so that all of his believers could argue that “sure the intelligence community doesn’t hate him for calling them Nazis because see they laugh at the jokes he tells in front of their fallen hero stars.”

7) The Health and Human Services Nominee says that under his new system if you are eligible for Medicaid, you may not actually get Medicaid. Nope. It will just depend on where you live and how they set it up. Comforting I’m sure to the millions who will lose health care and such a good idea because we all know it’s so easy for people on Medicaid (who have no means to buy their own insurance) to just pick up and move.

8) The House passed the Reins Act which makes it virtually impossible for the FDA or the EPA or any of those other pesky agencies protecting our health to pass any major regulation without it getting it approved by Congress, and we all know just how efficient they are. I’m sure big businesses won’t develop any new chemicals to poison us with in the next four years.

9) Talked about canceling the funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities, which will save a whopping .075% of our multi-trillion dollar budget and I’m sure not cost ANY jobs in the arts or humanities at all. But don’t worry, the 57% we spend on the military is safe and sound.

10) AND as a bonus, in GA we have a spectacularly disgusting display of misogyny by Republican Representative Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs who wants to protect rapists on college campuses by requiring that the police always be involved in any investigation. While that may not sound bad on the surface, there is that little thing about victim’s rights. With this bill, women will be subjected to a whole world of other injustices like having the event made part of the public record even if they choose not to. I’m sure that won’t stop women from coming forward and leave more rapists in our classrooms.

C & J for 1/23 part II

Cheers...cause it's true...

C & J's for January 23rd

Cheers to Trump for having a meeting with some manufacturing leaders to try to get them to move back or not leave the country and set up business elsewhere. He gets an E for effort.

Cheers to Trump for keeping his cool as he spoke to these leaders.

J&C's for Sunday, January 22nd

Jeers to KellyAnne Conway and her explanation on Meet the Press as to why Sean Spicer came out and lectured the press for making it sound like there were fewer people at Trump's inauguration than at Obama's. This woman has to be in a difficult spot, I admit. She has to defend the President and his administration when there's so much they are fucking up. Holy Meep. Sorry, KellyAnne but "alternative facts" are what I like to refer to as "opinions."  That is so funny; no wonder Chuck Todd chuckled. I know, it sucks being on the defensive...I was there for 8 years and I'm glad I'm not there although it would be better for everyone if I were. (I'd do it for the country...that's how I roll. LOL)  Here's the conversation... Alternative Facts..LOL

Cheers to no longer being on the defensive.

Aghhhh!!!! 1/21 Part III

Jeers to Donald Trump who send his Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, out to scold the media for misrepresenting the size of the crowd at the inauguration yesterday. Poor Sean...he has to do this to keep Donald happy but he's what I like to refer as "Wrong!"  See his conference HERE.

Furthermore, doesn't Trump have a country to run?  We never heard Obama complain about such a trivial concern. Holy Meep!  What is wrong with this man. Who hurt him so much that he's so insecure?  I'm almost feeling sorry for him. Almost.

Jeers for 1/21 Part II

Jeers to our new POTUS who is so insecure.

• At the CIA, his speech included arguing with the media about how many people were at his inauguration compared to Obama. 

     A...he's wrong.
     B...there's proof.  See the difference

• He said that he's been on the cover of Time more than anyone else...and that's wrong. It was Richard Nixon.

He thinks the media is making up stuff on him. WTF...he's the friggin' President...why is he so insecure? Aghhhh!

J&C for January 21st

Cheers to some PenPals who DO respond in a timely manner.

Cheers to bags of crafting supplies bought at the T-store for .99 cents.

Cheers to my husband's doctor for easing Phil's mind on some issues he was concerned with.

Jeers to me. I have this feeling that for the next four years, I'm going to have more Jeers than Cheers.

Jeers to President Trump for using his inauguration address as a way to inflate his achievements he hopes he will make over the next four years by painting a dismal picture of the USA, complete with inaccurate or boldfaced misinterpretations of the state of the Union. My guess is he is doing this so that when we look back at his feeble contributions, he will appear to have achieved something. Albeit, not accurate.

Jeers to President Trump for rehashing his win as if he still doesn't believe it. Those on the right are telling non-supporters to accept the win and stop our bellying achy over it but it doesn't appear that the POTUS can accept it either.

J&C's for January 16th, 2017

Jeers to me for not writing here every day. This has got to stop. I have so much to say. I need to say it here so I don't get in trouble.

Cheers to a New Year! Let's celebrate that feat. And hope for the best.

Cheers to my latest paper craft... pocket letters! So fun to make and share.

Jeers to penpals who never write back or keep you hanging for weeks.

Jeers to the weatherman who don't get it right, shut down the city, schools and just cause a lot of mayhem for no good reason.

Jeers to parents who say their Christianity won't allow them to accept their child's homosexuality but still love their kid. Just loving them is not enough. If you can't get pass your beliefs that what they do is wrong then you are indirectly telling your child you are embarrassed by them...by who they are. That's not acceptable.

Jeers to Donald Trump for not stepping down after it was proven that Russian was trying to help him get elected.