No Halloween would be complete without this song. I think I saw the movie with the giant spiders once when I was little. We hid the spiders with pillows to keep Meg from getting scared she was so young - either that or took her in the kitchen for a piece of candy.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Don't know why this bothers me but...
Perhaps my fellow Star Trek geek friends can relate/help with this one. I was sick all weekend, so yesterday I saw bits and pieces of a variety of movies including The Birds, Elizabeth The Golden Age, and came upon Star Trek II and saw the beginning of it.
Besides being my favorite Star Trek movie, I love the beginning - the music, the cool "In the 23rd century", "Botany Bay, Oh No, Keptin' we have to get out of here, Damn", etc. So I decided to watch the beginning of it and I think one of the big questions I have is why the Klingons are already in the neutral zone during the Kobyashi Maru when it is the 'neutral zone' and to enter it is an act of war? Should't it be an act of war if they are there already or is this just a galactic double standard? Should there still be double standards duing the 23rd century?
I know these questions are of galactic importance right now given all that is going on, but you know it just kind of bothered me yesterday. I guess that's what happens when you are sick and watch tv all day and your husband plays computer games ad nauseum.
Besides being my favorite Star Trek movie, I love the beginning - the music, the cool "In the 23rd century", "Botany Bay, Oh No, Keptin' we have to get out of here, Damn", etc. So I decided to watch the beginning of it and I think one of the big questions I have is why the Klingons are already in the neutral zone during the Kobyashi Maru when it is the 'neutral zone' and to enter it is an act of war? Should't it be an act of war if they are there already or is this just a galactic double standard? Should there still be double standards duing the 23rd century?
I know these questions are of galactic importance right now given all that is going on, but you know it just kind of bothered me yesterday. I guess that's what happens when you are sick and watch tv all day and your husband plays computer games ad nauseum.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Quotation
"When in the future you look back upon your life, will you most regret the times you tried and failed or the times you found excuses and did not try at all?"
I don't remember who said this, but I remember the quote and it is very true for me. There is one thing I need to quit finding excuses for. I will post more later, but the time for excuses is nearing the end!! Happy Thursday to all!
I don't remember who said this, but I remember the quote and it is very true for me. There is one thing I need to quit finding excuses for. I will post more later, but the time for excuses is nearing the end!! Happy Thursday to all!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
I'm responsible for dinner
So Tuesday afternoon Jim emails me because he's had a very hectic day and will have to stay late for a staff meeting. He emails me and asks me if I can be responsible for dinner - I email him back to see what he has in mind.
Now, for those of you who don't know I don't do the cooking at my house. That is a husband task because, I don't cook much, Jim likes to, and I just don't. So I wasn't really sure what Jim was expecting when he asked me to be "responsible" for dinner. Turns out, he wanted me to get a pizza from Papa John's ordered - that I can do for sure.
So I called them on the way home, and went by there to pick it up so that it would be home when he got home. It felt kind of nice too, having dinner ready when Jim came home. The last time I cooked dinner was Valentines Day 2006. Sad that I remember this and sad that is the last time I cooked a dinner for Jim. However, Jim knew all of my culinary skills and lack/will thereof waaaayyyy before we got married. When we were dating, I cooked breakfast for him. I was telling my best friend about it and she said "You cooked something? This must be serious." My friends know me well!!!!
Now, for those of you who don't know I don't do the cooking at my house. That is a husband task because, I don't cook much, Jim likes to, and I just don't. So I wasn't really sure what Jim was expecting when he asked me to be "responsible" for dinner. Turns out, he wanted me to get a pizza from Papa John's ordered - that I can do for sure.
So I called them on the way home, and went by there to pick it up so that it would be home when he got home. It felt kind of nice too, having dinner ready when Jim came home. The last time I cooked dinner was Valentines Day 2006. Sad that I remember this and sad that is the last time I cooked a dinner for Jim. However, Jim knew all of my culinary skills and lack/will thereof waaaayyyy before we got married. When we were dating, I cooked breakfast for him. I was telling my best friend about it and she said "You cooked something? This must be serious." My friends know me well!!!!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Yesterday was a BAD DAY
I don't usually get political on my blog, however, the failure of the House yesterday to pass the financial legislation was idiocy at its height. Philosophically, I agree that this is socialist type of legislation and the market (in theory) should be allowed to fail at certain points and punish those who took on too much risk. My skin crawls though when this legislation is misunderstood as "bailing out" Wall Street because the effects of not providing liquidity and getting the toxic assets off of bank's books is not something I want to witness and experience.
My stomach was churning yesterday with the failure of the vote and the subsequent 777 point dive to close the exchange yesterday. If that was not bad enough, I had to listen to that drivel that Pelosi spewed just before the vote (save the opining until after you get the damn thing passed) and people reciting their philosophical arguments all of which is akin to fiddling while Rome burns.
What people don't often realize about the Depression is that it was made WORSE by the tightening of credit. Even though the market crashed in October of 1929, the worst year for bank failures was 1932 followed by 1933. This is because of a tightening of credit and liquidity that caused the dominos to fall and a downward spiral to snowball.
I read in the paper the other day that legislators offices were being flooded with opposition to this bailout - until they realized that their loans were being called and their credit lines no longer available. I'm trying to figure out if it is going to take people not getting their paychecks or being able to get a much needed car or home loan for John Q. Public to wake up and smell the coffee. And I will not get started on how poorly this situation has been communicated or not-communicated by Bush, Paulson, Bernanke, etc. as that is another soapbox entirely.
Yesterday when I realized that Wachovia was gone, over, done, etc., and then the vote failed, I couldn't help but think that if congress had acted a few weeks ago on this that Wachovia could have been saved. And they were worth saving if the bad assets could have been removed and the liquidity and credit been available. Overnight borrowings in the markets and short term debt is FROZEN right now. These are key elements of the banking system and the borrowings that occur each day between banks.
Legislators and others are talking about protection for the taxpayer (yes, I agree these should be there), but they are also talking about helping main street. Hello, McFly, if they don't get this thing done main street IS going to be badly affected and you have to have a job if you are going to pay taxes!!
Here is a quote from the Observer today about the loss of Wachovia from Hugh McColl, Jr. that I agree with wholehartedly:
Hugh McColl Jr.
Dismay was the initial reaction for Hugh McColl Jr., who built Bank of America into a coast-to-coast powerhouse before his retirement in 2001.
“I'm deeply disappointed for the city and for the many hard-working people they have,” he said. While calling the situation “very, very bad,” he cautioned against concluding the worst. “I expect we'll keep a lot of people here, so we shouldn't decide we're having a funeral.”
He touted the ease of doing business in Charlotte, including airline service. “It's a very serious and disappointing day for Charlotte, but we'll rally from it,” he said. “That's the nature of this city. It ain't going to be fun, but we'll make it work.”
He said he became concerned about 10 days ago that Wachovia might be in serious trouble, as other institutions toppled and merger speculation swirled. The industry has suffered multiple losses that would have been unthinkable even a few months ago.
“Nothing like this has happened in my lifetime,” McColl said. “I was born in the Depression.” He criticized congressional delays in addressing the historic credit crisis. “For them to be posturing in Washington is just a joke,” he said. “It means they don't understand. That's really frightening.
“The cost to the American public would be staggering if we don't stop the bloodshed.”
Well said. How about Hugh McColl for Secretary of the Treasury, or maybe Jim Cramer, or Buffet? We need someone who can knock some heads together and do what's best for the financial sector that makes the $$ available for the rest of the economy to function.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming....
My stomach was churning yesterday with the failure of the vote and the subsequent 777 point dive to close the exchange yesterday. If that was not bad enough, I had to listen to that drivel that Pelosi spewed just before the vote (save the opining until after you get the damn thing passed) and people reciting their philosophical arguments all of which is akin to fiddling while Rome burns.
What people don't often realize about the Depression is that it was made WORSE by the tightening of credit. Even though the market crashed in October of 1929, the worst year for bank failures was 1932 followed by 1933. This is because of a tightening of credit and liquidity that caused the dominos to fall and a downward spiral to snowball.
I read in the paper the other day that legislators offices were being flooded with opposition to this bailout - until they realized that their loans were being called and their credit lines no longer available. I'm trying to figure out if it is going to take people not getting their paychecks or being able to get a much needed car or home loan for John Q. Public to wake up and smell the coffee. And I will not get started on how poorly this situation has been communicated or not-communicated by Bush, Paulson, Bernanke, etc. as that is another soapbox entirely.
Yesterday when I realized that Wachovia was gone, over, done, etc., and then the vote failed, I couldn't help but think that if congress had acted a few weeks ago on this that Wachovia could have been saved. And they were worth saving if the bad assets could have been removed and the liquidity and credit been available. Overnight borrowings in the markets and short term debt is FROZEN right now. These are key elements of the banking system and the borrowings that occur each day between banks.
Legislators and others are talking about protection for the taxpayer (yes, I agree these should be there), but they are also talking about helping main street. Hello, McFly, if they don't get this thing done main street IS going to be badly affected and you have to have a job if you are going to pay taxes!!
Here is a quote from the Observer today about the loss of Wachovia from Hugh McColl, Jr. that I agree with wholehartedly:
Hugh McColl Jr.
Dismay was the initial reaction for Hugh McColl Jr., who built Bank of America into a coast-to-coast powerhouse before his retirement in 2001.
“I'm deeply disappointed for the city and for the many hard-working people they have,” he said. While calling the situation “very, very bad,” he cautioned against concluding the worst. “I expect we'll keep a lot of people here, so we shouldn't decide we're having a funeral.”
He touted the ease of doing business in Charlotte, including airline service. “It's a very serious and disappointing day for Charlotte, but we'll rally from it,” he said. “That's the nature of this city. It ain't going to be fun, but we'll make it work.”
He said he became concerned about 10 days ago that Wachovia might be in serious trouble, as other institutions toppled and merger speculation swirled. The industry has suffered multiple losses that would have been unthinkable even a few months ago.
“Nothing like this has happened in my lifetime,” McColl said. “I was born in the Depression.” He criticized congressional delays in addressing the historic credit crisis. “For them to be posturing in Washington is just a joke,” he said. “It means they don't understand. That's really frightening.
“The cost to the American public would be staggering if we don't stop the bloodshed.”
Well said. How about Hugh McColl for Secretary of the Treasury, or maybe Jim Cramer, or Buffet? We need someone who can knock some heads together and do what's best for the financial sector that makes the $$ available for the rest of the economy to function.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming....
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Down Memory Lane
Yesterday, mom and I drove from my house in Lake Wylie to Boone, NC and Appalachian State to see one of her friends be inducted into the ASU Athletic Hall of Fame. We couldn't get my dad and Jim interested in going and staying for their football game last night, so mom and I went. I had emailed Charlie a month or so ago to let him know and I was originally looking for football tickets in trying to plan a fun weekend (this is Charlie's third year as the Athletic Director there). However, Daddy and Jim pooped out so mom and I went for the day. I only had a few minutes to catch up with Charlie as he had to go to a funeral unexpectedly and could not stay for the banquet and ceremony. But it was great to see him as the last time I saw Charlie it was at an Airport football game in the fall of 1995. I was living in Charlotte at the time, but had come to Columbia for some reason and ended up at the game and ran into Charlie and his wife Lindsay.
I didn't realize Boone was so close as it was right at 97 miles one way from my house. It was an easy trip too. It had been almost 20 years since I went to Boone, and I had never been to the ASU campus. It was really beautiful up there! I hope I can get Jim to go with me sometime to a game as it would be fun to go and visit again.
I pulled out my senior annual last night and started flipping through it. I have the original black and white glossy that Jay Kirk took of me and blew up for that page in the annual. I have all of the prom books and invitations, I have the senior wills, I have this prom picture book with all of the little small black and white pics of the couples (I found Steve and the Pelion monster), and Jim had seen my prom pic with Alan before and so he began to make derogatory comments and called him "chicken chest" and Delta Oops I joined the wrong fraternity (DU was Alan's fraternity and Jim made fun of DU even before he knew that's what Alan was!). I read all of your signatures to me and they were so funny. Russell's was hilarious and he signed it Uncle Willie and wrote that he sure did like my yellow pants! I cracked up as I had not read them in years. I remembered what Charlie's had said even before I read it but I read it again for old times sake.
I read through George's will, Jay's will, Steve's will, Chuck I think you had one in there too. I will check again and post as a comment to let you know who alls is in there. It was fun to read all of that stuff again. I look at those pictures now, and it's funny reading things people wrote. Steve wrote that I was one of the nicest and prettiest girls he know and so did Eric Beckner. Funny, I never thought of myself as pretty and I did not have much confidence in myself at the time. But it was nice to see the pictures again of all of us and be glad that I have caught up with you all again after all of this time.
I didn't realize Boone was so close as it was right at 97 miles one way from my house. It was an easy trip too. It had been almost 20 years since I went to Boone, and I had never been to the ASU campus. It was really beautiful up there! I hope I can get Jim to go with me sometime to a game as it would be fun to go and visit again.
I pulled out my senior annual last night and started flipping through it. I have the original black and white glossy that Jay Kirk took of me and blew up for that page in the annual. I have all of the prom books and invitations, I have the senior wills, I have this prom picture book with all of the little small black and white pics of the couples (I found Steve and the Pelion monster), and Jim had seen my prom pic with Alan before and so he began to make derogatory comments and called him "chicken chest" and Delta Oops I joined the wrong fraternity (DU was Alan's fraternity and Jim made fun of DU even before he knew that's what Alan was!). I read all of your signatures to me and they were so funny. Russell's was hilarious and he signed it Uncle Willie and wrote that he sure did like my yellow pants! I cracked up as I had not read them in years. I remembered what Charlie's had said even before I read it but I read it again for old times sake.
I read through George's will, Jay's will, Steve's will, Chuck I think you had one in there too. I will check again and post as a comment to let you know who alls is in there. It was fun to read all of that stuff again. I look at those pictures now, and it's funny reading things people wrote. Steve wrote that I was one of the nicest and prettiest girls he know and so did Eric Beckner. Funny, I never thought of myself as pretty and I did not have much confidence in myself at the time. But it was nice to see the pictures again of all of us and be glad that I have caught up with you all again after all of this time.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Unusual early fall means...hot tub time!
I came home the other day, and Jim had surprised me by filling the hot tub and heating it up. When I got home, it was at 85 degrees and by 9 pm it was ready at a nice 105! It has been unusually cool this week, so he got the hot tub going so we could go ahead and enjoy it.
Now that football season has started and the Gamecocks are off to a dubious start, I'm very happy that we spend $$ on fixing the hot tub instead of on football tickets. Now I can enjoy the hot tub on the weekends in addition to football!
Now that football season has started and the Gamecocks are off to a dubious start, I'm very happy that we spend $$ on fixing the hot tub instead of on football tickets. Now I can enjoy the hot tub on the weekends in addition to football!
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