Now I am not a fan of that silly Katie Curic Paalease who the heck is that old woman sleeping with that she got that job?? Recently she has been airing these questions of all runners in Iowa . Earth shaking ones like “When was the last time you lost your temper? ” Then she sits back and makes these serious faces as if she is listening instead of thinking about what she is going to have for dinner what she is probably doing. One of these questions was ” What is the most dangerous country in the world right now? ” 7 out of the 10 said Iran 2 said Pakistan one being Mrs C and 1 John Edwards said China. China?? Right now? Really well you stood alone on that one. Why? Because right now means who is our imediate threat not 20 years from now now. China isn’t going to make any moves against us untill it has it’s allies in place. Pakistan? Iran? woops there it is . Yes China is a hugh threat always has been but they can’t work without friends closer to us. They can’t leave thier country in droves float ships to our shores with out us stopping them just outside thier own ports what they can do it put missles in countries where we can be reached. Even South America is kissing chinese style these days. Ok there is my 2 cents on those politicians that are running on face ( looks ) value and news people who do the same. Love and peace…Kathryn
CHRISTMAS
Why is it I get so depressed right before Christmas? After Thanksgiving I put up trees and lights and decorate and then just before Christmas I am sad. It has been going on for several years now and getting very old, yet I cant shake it off. I spend Christmas with my daughter her husband and my 5 precious grandkids, everyone is healthy and happy and doing well and I am in love with my grandkids they are the best kids in the world, yet I am just in the dumps. I thought this year would be different Darrel and I are doing ok and we are together all the time and happy. We have freinds and fun but there I am sad. Darrel makes fun of me to try to snap me out of it but it dosn’t work. I am turning into Scrooge I guess maybe I need some spiked eggnog and a kiss from Santa : ) Anyway Merry Christmas to everyone!! Love and peace…Kathryn
IS IT COLD OR WHAT?
This is why this state is less populated than alot of states…THE WEATHER HERE SUCKS!… It is hot and humid in the summer yes humid and I come from Florida I know humud. And then there is is winter weather. When I first came to Nebraska I thought snow was beautiful, it does make the world a pretty place but I have lived through too many bad blizzards here. When I lived in Lincoln the hospital had to come and pick me up for work so I could get there more than a dozen times. Once we lived through 5 days with no electricty in the winter from a storm, lucky for us we had a fireplace and candles. Last Sat. we decided to go out to the farm and check everything and we got done at 4:30 and headed back 35 miles to the house in town and it was scarry. The roads were ice the windshield wouldn’t stay clear. I wish I would have had the camera to take pictures, it was beautiful and terrifying to look out over the fields and see the ice haze over the snow covered fields. And because of the snow we saw many deer out at 4:30 because of the dark. Tomorrow we are suppose to get an inch of ice here so I am gathering candles and firewood again. The bad part about ice is the world has to keep going even covered with ice so poeple have to get out in it. I am lucky I work at home I don’t have to get out anymore. Another bad thing is that ice is a tree killer. Very sad to see old old trees decimated by ice and snow. Around here alot of trees are still recovering from the tornado from a few years ago. And ofcorse the worst thing is how it affects people. People die every year because they go out in bad winter weather. Last year a couple traveling in a blizzrd 20 miles from here died when thier car slid of the road and they got out and started walking. I am only complaing because I’m cold ofcorse I like Nebraska it is green and pretty in the summer and we have been lucky the last couple of years in the winter weather department and there is low crime if you don’t count the mass murder from last week. All and all though I would rather be back home and get up every morning and look out at the ocean and be warm ( hot ) : ). Drink Mohitos in the evening instead of cocoa and here the sea birds instead of the cardinals. But that’s just me. Love and peace…Kathryn
MASS MURDER AT THE MALL PART 2
What a terrible thing to happen, 8 killed, 2 in critical condition and the shooter a 19 year old killed himself, taking his reasons with him. We all know that when you are 19 you don’t see the world as it really is, that takes maturity and some wisdom from living, which is going to be a point here. Where the hell were this kid’s parents!???? He was a problem so they made him a ward of the state to wash thier hands of him. Well here he is we made him a mess now society can care for him. Bless the family that took him in and atleast tried to save him. Saying that …rejection when you are not old enough emotionally to deal with it probably scared him forever or atleast untill the other day when he chose to become a killer. Poeple are pointing the finger at guns, video games, music well how about parents who rejected him and how hurt he was by that. I was a kid like that I was a hell raiser at 15 and my mother and step dad didn’t want to deal with it so out I went for the ” good “ of thier relationship. My stepdad told me he hated me and was going to get rid of me and molested me at the same time starting at age 14. I had no one, my dad died when I was 11 and my brothers and sisters were all older and gone at school. People screw up thier kids. Period… everyday, some realize it like my mom and stepdad and some don’t but please don’t throw away your kids please please please. Do I think he murdered those people because of that, yes, it contributed but a murderer is a murderer. I never once thought about murdering anyone I don’t believe most people would, being hurt makes you act out and alot of kids in his same postion do stupid things but they don’t murder. He had problems someone should have caught! Warehouseing troubled kids and not helping them cope is wrong. The lady that took him in said he was lost, lost isn’t messed up, mad, acting out, lost is scarry. Lost at 19 , now add the heavy m music and violent video games and lastly GUNS and look what happens. My dad used to say , ” People with no direction and no moral compass have a hard time finding thier way ” I believe that and someone should have helped this kid find his way not just provide him a roof and meals like the nice people who took him in beacuse his parents threw him away, but therapy to help him cope you know that expensive stuff that most people can’t afford to get for the people in thier lives that need it. I pray for that childs soul and hope God can help him forgive himself for what he did. I pray for those good people who took him in and I pray for the people and families that lost thier loved ones.I pray for his family that now has to live with what they did to thier precious baby boy who became the second biggest murderer in this states history, the other being Starkweather another thrown away kid. As for guns come on how many people would be dead if he had taken in a knife? Would he be dead also, NO! GUNS KILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and in this state kids run around all fall and winter in camo with rifles because people hunt here so they all know how to shoot. They are taught to go out and stalk and kill defenceless animals and then we are surprised they kill people? We need to start healing these broken kids and taking the weapons out of thier hands untill we can!! Love and peace to you…Kathryn
MASS MURDER AT THE MALL
Wow here is a lesson for everyone. I live in Nebraska, today at 2 pm a 19 yearold walked into a big mall in Omaha and killed 8 people, left 2 in critical condition, and then killed himself. Now I have been in that mall 100 times and in that store 20 or 30 and you really do think that can’t happen here. This is Nebraska for gosh sakes! I feel such sympathy for the people affected by this, but it is strange that you hear about this stuff all over then when it happens in a place you have been in it affects you in a more profound way. Or maybe I need to work on myself and it is a defect in me. I cried at Columbine, 911, Katrina but yet I wonder now how deep I felt it. My daughter and her husband and my grandkids lived in Bellvue where the shooter was from and I have taken the girls into that mall and that store to shop. I pray no kids were harmed but it sounds like maybe there were mothers with children shot at so it is likely. The rumors say he was fired from a resturant that afternoon and left a suicide note. I understand wanting to kill yourself when you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. But why take others with you? Why? I will pray for those killed and thier families and all affected even the gunman’s soul. But be warned if it can happen at a mall in little ole Omaha Nebraska you aren’t safe any where in this country. Love and peace to you…Kathryn
OMG IMUS BE HEARING THINGS!
Are you kidding me? Back on the air how soon we forget. I am all for free speech but after what he said I don’t think that man should be on the airwaves again. Yes I know he has been on since on another station but that is wrong wrong wrong. What he said about those girls on public radio was racist and ignorant in my opinion and he should have to pay for it with more than a slap. It didn’t just hurt them it hurt all people who give a fig. Imagine how they felt, imagine your a 10 year old black girl hearing that on a public station. These are times when we should be learning to love and care about all people not be pushed back 2 steps because someone was in love with the sound of thier own voice and thought he was clever. It wasn’t funny it was sad. Sad if he is a racist and feels that way sad if he thought he was being funny at someone’s expense without thinking who he would hurt. Either way he is not responsible enough to have a national show. I don’t think you would say something like that if you were not a racist but I know other people feel differently. The young ladies on that team showed what class was after hearing his comments, they also showed that the difference in people is the way you conduct yourself not what color you are. Congratulations to them and shame on you know who. Love and peace to you…Kathryn
SPEAKING OF CATS
I have three and unless the one that goes out is out it is a three ring circus! I have always had cats my last cat I had for 22 years and she was a pure angel living on earth. She died gracefully of cancer on her own terms and I still cry over her to this day. Now picture 7 years ago, after she died I wasn’t sure if I wanted a cat again, but a freind of mine gave me a kitten from her farm and I fell in love again. My grandaughter named him Baby Boy and we all call him Baby. He is a precious animal , lovey dovey he is one of those shorthaired tuxedo cats and he rules the kingdom with an iron paw. He tolerates the second cat Missy a wayward hymalayan that showed up as a stray and lived outside for a year and a half till she decided to move in four years ago. And he has less than cordial feelings toward cat number three a coon cat named Peanut who came from my boyfreind’s farm to escape the cat hating german shepard someone ( low life ) dumped on his property. He fell in love with that dog and Peanut came here. She devides her time between inside and out and remains some what aloof. She also has what I think is epilepsy and neither of my other cats care for her. Missy hisses and hides the other one chases her around. It is lots of fun when they are all in the same space. Anyway I love cats everyone I have lived with has been a joy. I am adding pictures of all four the gray one with the crabby face is Wanya Winon ( spirit woman in Lakota ) she was 21 in people years when I took this picture. Love and peace to you…Kathryn
FUZZY BUGS
That’s what my dad, who came from Ireland, always called cats. He was a man of many sayings, he was a true Irish poet in the skin of a american educated lawyer. Yikes…imagine my childhood : ) ” Cots are notin bot foozzy bugs” he would say and ” If de wern’t foozzy uu’ld run fram em. ” I can still recall the image that evoked even to this day!. I grew up in Sarasota and being the youngest of five kids, lived at the beach, in the tow of my older siblings. I rememeber once my oldest brother Charles was surfing and surfed by a shark that had risen beside him and then dropped back down as fast as it came up. It shook him up a lot, but my oldest sister told him not to worry” He stunk too bad for the shark to want to eat. “ For two days he sat on the beach and watched everyone else and I sat beside him. We were both scared and got some teasing, the worst from my brothers and sisters who hadn’t seen the shark and were acting as if nothing had happened. I didn’t see it either but he was scared and that was enough for me! Others saw the shark but they didn’t close the beach because well there are usually sharks in warm water, it’s a famous beach and it didn’t really do anything but what sharks do so…That evening when my dad got home someone told him we were chickens who were on the beach instead of in a chicken coop somewhere where we belonged and he called Charles and I for a talk. “ uuu con set on da beeech and lock at the oocean for da rest of your life if dats what uuu want, plenty dooo ” ” Bot I knuw sometin about sharks ” ” They ave der own agenda and it is NOT ta eat uuu !( imagine an irish accent here ) ” We went back the next day and the whole shark incident was gone. That actually reminds me of another bit of wisdom from my dad. Since my parents both had carreers my Grandma Ruby came to live with us when my Granpa died to help take care of us and so we couild take care of her. She had a very thick Irish accent which I know now was charming but back then I made fun of her all the time. Once she was going to take us somewhere and my dad was home working. She called out ” Kathryn ” Ar uuu ray ta gu ” Grandma… even the cuban people who just got here yesterday can speak better English than that ” I heard my dad say ” Kathryn “ before I was hardly done saying it in that way we hated to hear ” com her please. “ I did… reluctantly. We talked about predjudice and how I may have insulted Irish people, Cuban people, anyone with an accent, Ireland in general and my grandmother for sure. Although I was pretty sure she was used to it, I did feel bad. And then he said something that has stuck with me forever. ” Never mek fun of a pierson with an accent, coz de probley spake one mur lanquage than UUU doo ” My dad was fluent in english, latin and the gaelic that was spoken by some in his state in Ireland. My grandma too. They are both gone now but the lessons they taught me stuck. Fuzzy bugs is a good example of how they looked at things, simple, sensible but with humor. My dad was a card and he and grandma cracked us up all the time I was lucky to have been raised around such inteligent, gentle, goodnatured, lovely people even if they were hard to understand : ) Gra’dh & sit’h…Kathryn
Love and other annoying things
Here is my second blog, it is so much fun to sit infront of a blank page knowing you can go any where you want and maybe someone out there will go with you! This is the story I read that made me think about relationships and want to comment. The two princes in England, William and Harry are now back with thier first loves ( aw ) and the news person wondered if they were actually that rare species known as… one women men. Oviously these two boys have thier pick of beautiful girls and still they go back to thier first loves. It reminded me of thier parents and I sure hope the state in England approves of these two girls and dosn’t put them through what it put Charles and Dianna through. Prince Charles fell in love with Camilla long before Dianna and had to endure a loveless marraige to “the perfect women ” ( what a joke ) and so he cheated on her with his true albi unworthy ( according to the state ) love. Not right but understandable. Dianna in turn cheated with aparently anyone who told her she was beautiful because she too was trapped in a loveless marraige. Very very sad for everyone. Maybe that one true love trait is inborn in the men in that family. That is a wonderful quality in a man, and for the women they love. I wish them every happiness . Now… As you can tell from the post I do not share the same adoration of Dianna others have. She was a Pincess who should have kept her legs together and as for her looking good well beauty is in the eye of the beholder and in my case I don’t see it. If we spent one sixtenth as much time in the gym and one sixtenth as much time having others primping our hair and makeup and dressings us in the finest clothes we would look good too! And if we had the money and didn’t have to work or had other people to do our job and raise our kids for us we would probably all travel all over the world and do the same good work for the causes of our choice. Ok sorry to you Dianna lovers out there I don’t mean to offend you just stating my thoughts, everyone has reasons for what they do and I am no saint so I probably shouldn’t throw stones at others. Love and peace…Kathryn
Hello world!
Hello… first post how exciting! My boyfreind says I need therapy Ha! I figure this is the best way to get it all out and deal with it. I love to read other people’s blogs and not just those crazy political people but everyday everyway plain ole folks. I have lived in a small town in the midwest for seven years now, and the only exciting thing that’s every happened to me here was, I looked in my purse and found I had 20.00 more dollars than I thought I had! My boyfreind lives on a farm and is your typical bear in a cave type, you know the kind that swipes at anything that gets too close but he is cuter than heck and very intertaining so I am trying to domesticate him a little. I have had varied success and many failures at this time but the work is pleasurable so I perservere. I am pretty sure I will be writing more about him in future posts! Love is such a strange thing , it makes us crazy and happy at the same time. I heard something to day that made me think I wanted to blog and be able to comment on it, so…here I am Love and peace to you…Kathryn
