BJ Woods

I’m completely amazed at this woman. Her confidence and “Can-do” attitude PLUS all she does as a mother, homemaker, sportswoman, and governor of her state make her the ultimate “package” and proof that anyone can do anything they put their mind to.
As for her level of experience? Can’t say that I think she lacks any. She has executive experience, as far as I know, being a mayor of a city and being governor are important jobs and are on par with being a CEO of a corporation-a major qualification for such a job as vice president, even president.

Her experience as governor, while brief so far, *is* considered executive experience, part of it being commander in chief for the national guard of her state, which is military commanding experience according to the government, and last time I checked, the presidential candidate for the other party has none of this type of experience. People have been criticizing Palin as having limited or no experience. On one hand, while that is simply not true, its practically irrelevant, since the Constitution assigns no executive powers to the vice president, only acting as an agent of the president. On the other hand, her experience as governor and having knowledge and practice in government will certainly help in her role of vice president which includes being the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate.

Here’s why I like her…

• She runs a successful home alongside her husband (who by the way, is a great dad who pulls his own weight in the family-so that should squelch all this chatter about having children to raise makes her a bad choice for such a big job).
• She has cut through the bureaucracy in her state and held her own in matters where she had to made decisions for the benefit of the people in her state, over playing favorites or doing what’s popular.
• She killed unnecessary spending in her state’s government, cutting out the expenses typically lavished on governors and VIPs, starting with selling the governor’s jet on eBay!
• She drives herself to work, pumps her own gas, and grocery shops for her family, herself. Most state officials I know about, have a car & driver and/or limo, and staff to handle all these tasks. She doesn’t need them, and in fact refuses them.
• She runs marathons, and when not running in one, she’s training for one.
• She’s not afraid of guns. She fishes, hunts. She can field dress a moose! She is more man than most men I know.
• She’s also very feminine, and beautiful. She looks great whether she’s in a designer suit, t-shirt & jeans, camo gear, a dress, or a sweatshirt & track pants.
• She is pro-military, and cares about what the troops are doing, how they are feeling, and has worked closely with her state’s national guard.

These are things I have not even seen in a MALE candidate running in a major political race.

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I’m supremely in awe of Sarah Palin and I think having her alongside John McCain, she will bring our country much success and prosperity.

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

That’s right. You heard it here first, folks! I have been using SimonDelivers.com since March of this year, ever since I moved 3 blocks out of St. Paul and into the suburban utopia that is Maplewood. I ordered about once per month up until June, when finances got pretty tight…

Using the service to have my groceries […]

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

OK–now I love Chipotle as much as the next average Joe. 
I have eaten at various Chipotle locations in the Twin City metro: West St. Paul was the first one I ever saw, back in 2002 (or 2003?), and I ate there twice, then there was one in South Minneapolis that I found nearby a place I was […]

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

In a few days, I’m moving out of the ghetto-ass building and neighborhood I currently live in and into a swanky, sparkly, new place, which is practically going to be a lifestyle upgrade, not to mention a breeze to live in.  More on that later, though. 
Tonight I decided not to cook because a) I’m working on a deadline for a client […]

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

I had been to the Keys Cafe in Woodury before and enjoyed meat loaf with mashed potatoes & gravy with family, and thought it was OK.  I had been to the one on Larpenteur/Lex area and it was alright.  At least the food was decent, a bit more than I’d like to pay for what […]

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I live in a tiny, cramped 2nd floor apartment on Rice street above some offices. I have all my 9 windows on one side and guess what, it’s the West side! So in the summer it’s scorching and in the winter it’s scorching. I almost never have to turn the radiators on in the winter […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I’m going to get one of these shirts!  Heck yeah!

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

That’s right. You heard it here first, folks! I have been using SimonDelivers.com since March of this year, ever since I moved 3 blocks out of St. Paul and into the suburban utopia that is Maplewood. I ordered about once per month up until June, when finances got pretty tight…

Using the service to have my groceries […]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I think this cartooonist knows me.  Or it’s a scary coincidence… Take a type A personality, combine it with some sarcasm and “know-it-all-ism” and you have these… *click to enlarge

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

I’m not a conservative, more of libertarian, who happens to have a few conservative viewpoints.  And get this.  I used to be much further to the left than most liberals!  In recent years I began to see things differently and realize that having more liberal/democrat ideals, wasn’t for me.
Anyway, here is my whole take on […]

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

I have been visiting www.youtube.com for some time now, and I know the original intent was to allow individuals to upload their own videos and allow “the people” to have freedom of expression in the form of online video.
However, as most of the people who visit this site are aware, YouTube has also been a […]

I live in a tiny, cramped 2nd floor apartment on Rice street above some offices. I have all my 9 windows on one side and guess what, it’s the West side! So in the summer it’s scorching and in the winter it’s scorching. I almost never have to turn the radiators on in the winter during the day, at least not if it’s sunny. If it’s cloudy, then maybe. Once the sun goes down, between October and March, it’s #*$)(@# frreeeezing in here. Thank God I have a decent digital a/c for summer. Else I’d go berzerk.

My neighborhood is scary. The SuperAmerica has been closed since December. Everyone I’ve talked to (business owners and residents) all say it is because of too much theft. When it was open, they had permanent red plates screwed to all the gas pumps that it was pre-pay for gas purchase. The store had 2 cm-thick, clear plexiglass guard all around the counter between you and the cashier. You had to talk through a little hole in the clear window, and hold up your bread or whatever you were buying to the glass so they could scan it. There was a cop in the store after 6 at night. When there wasn’t one (which was often), the plexi-guard would go down around the counter.

I once got my purse and notebook ripped off of me while walking down the street just after it got dark out, last October.

The building I live in is for sh**.

Until the owners of the building put a lock on the outside door leading to the lobby where the mailboxes and door buzzers were, there was constantly graffiti and trash (we’re not talking the occasional paper or candy wrapper here–try chicken bones, marijuana refuse, someone chucking their half empty can of Colt 45 on the floor) all over the common areas, and someone or something was always peeing in a corner of the elevator.

People would walk in off the street, and buzz all the apartments, feigning the ‘I left my keys upstairs’ excuse. When, for the most part, they turned out to be just coming upstairs to bother tenants and/or just get in from the cold so they could smoke weed or have sex in the laundry room and basically trash the building.

Some of the people in the building are loud and obnoxious. One of my neighbors used to have loud parties at all hours, even during the week, and she was 19 and had 40 and 50 year old men hanging around. It had to be drugs or booze. 50 and 19 year olds dont have that much in common! She had a 3 year old kid out of wedlock, the product of her being raped by a man who was then her mother’s boyfriend. In the summer she would hang out her window and yell at strange men outside to come see her. She finally got evicted but there are still some characters in the building.

Once there was no washers or dryers working for 2 weeks because some dolt decided to try to crowbar-open the money receptacles of the machines to get the quarters out, thus making the machines inoperable.

I don’t know if the neighborhood is getting better, but I will move soon in any case. I just hate moving. I don’t drive and that keeps me from being as flexible as I would like. I’m considering moving back to South St. Paul because it was quiet and about $100 cheaper rent. I have terrible credit after spending years trying to get my business off the ground, so my options are limited.

This is no home. I wouldn’t put my worst enemy up in this joint. But it’s where I hang my hat for now. Until things get better for me.

Same day, different year..

Other posts on this day:

• A day without a bunch of Mexicans – 2006

I’m so not careful and very clumsy. Heidi’s post yesterday reminded me of this.

I’ve ruined my legs, and sprained my ankles and wrists (yes, as an ADULT!) enough times to know better. But then as you may or may not recall, I went and took an even more fabulous fall than she did!

I’m lucky to be alive!  Yes, indeedy.

I bought a new phone!

My phone system is buggin’ out, and slowly but surely practically dying. This set is an AT&T one with 2 cordless handsets, one goes into the base which has a digital answering machine, time/date, etc. and the other goes into a mini base/dock which only requires an A/C plug.

Anyhew, either the batteries in both handsets have worn down and need replacing, or the entire system does. I found folks telling me a few weeks back that I sounded far away and muffled on the phone. I forgot I had dropped one of the handsets on the hard stone tile flooring in my house one day, but that wouldn’t explain why the display on both handsets was choppy and why the buttons were hard to use.

The deal with the display is that it has missing characters, and I can barely read the caller ID, not to mention the number I was dialing. With the buttons, I found myself having to push a button 3-4 times and really deliberately, pressing down HARD, because the buttons became ornery and I had problems getting them to “take” when dialing a number.

Well, I did some math and found that if I just replaced the batteries, it would cost me about $8-11 EACH, plus the cost of shipping, to get them cheap on eBay or one of the many online stores devoted to selling batteries/electronic accessories, so for a few bucks more, I figured I could just get a new phone system altogether.

I was reading up on the latest phones on the web and found out about this new DECT technology which has been used in phone systems in Europe for about a decade now and there are phones which now are being sold in the US that have this technology. It’s basically better than your standard cordless phone technology because it has far less chance of interfering with other electronics (microwaves, home Internet networks, CB radio, stereos) and allows for ultra clarity from an even farther range than you would get without static/signal loss from an ordinary cordless system.

I saw these Panasonic DECT phone systems on Amazon.com selling for about $70 with free shipping.

Anyway, I found the same system being sold on eBay for about half, and snatched one up in a hurry! It’s yet to ship, as I paid for it yesterday and the store that sold it on eBay is not open until Monday.  But I can’t wait to get it! Also, this new system has nice easy touch buttons so I won’t have to pound on them like I was on my current system.

This all reminds me… I have to buy a new microwave. *Sigh*. Yes. Mine shorted out a week or two ago. So cooking in this heat has become a challenge since I can only use the stovetop range/oven, if I want to eat something other than sandwiches/salads!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

I bought a new phone! My phone system is buggin’ out, and slowly but surely practically dying. This set is an AT&T one with 2 cordless handsets, one goes into the base which has a digital answering machine, time/date, etc. and the other goes into a mini base/dock which only requires an A/C plug.

Anyhew, either […]

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Our family always did something special with or for Mom every year on Mother’s day weekend. And of course, cards and special long distance chats were sent from us, up north, to Reach Out and Touch dear Grandma as well.
Now that Grandma and Dad are both gone, Mother’s day seems an especially important and simple excuse to get together […]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

So.  Guess what?  I’m diabetic.  Yep.  Got the results in last week from the doc. Yippee. More later!                

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I’ve been trying to eat healthier lately, not only because I’m borderline diabetic (at least I think I am, the blood glucose test I take next week will say so for certain), but also because, let’s face it… healthy food tastes better!
Here is one recipe I will share with you which I concocted on my […]

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

You know what I meant.  So I’m a little backwards.  Deal.  Just a little update on the home front…

After my last post about my living situation, I was able to get my mom to help…after much yelling and swearing from her end, about how I’m “a grownup and this is not my problem, and look how many times I’ve […]

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I think this cartooonist knows me.  Or it’s a scary coincidence… Take a type A personality, combine it with some sarcasm and “know-it-all-ism” and you have these… *click to enlarge

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Completely stole this from Renn… thought hers was intriguing and decided to take my own.Results below:

Your Five Factor Personality Profile

Extroversion: You have high extroversion. You are outgoing and engaging, with both strangers and friends. You truly enjoy being with people and bring energy into any situation. Enthusiastic and fun, you’re the first to say “let’s go!” Conscientiousness:

You have high […]

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

In a few days, I’m moving out of the ghetto-ass building and neighborhood I currently live in and into a swanky, sparkly, new place, which is practically going to be a lifestyle upgrade, not to mention a breeze to live in.  More on that later, though. 
Tonight I decided not to cook because a) I’m working on a deadline for a client […]

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Yesterday I went to SuperTarget and they had Ben & Jerry’s pints for 2 for $4 (normally almost $4/each).  So I picked up a couple.  Or six.  Yeah, so I’m post-menstrual.  I need ice cream now and then.  Deal.
I was a bit upset that they didn’t have one of my faves–Chunky Monkey.  Something about banana […]

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Sean Connery… raising brows for years 

One of my classmates, Shane K. could do this all the time.  He would do it when someone said something stupid.  When something someone said was supposed to funny but he didn’t get it (which I thought was sooo clever instead of just saying, “I don’t get it”).  The eyebrow that […]

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Weird Al Yankovic does the 60’s-70’s

“Hot Rocks Polka”

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) has a neat little ‘Ask PETA’ section on their website, of things you could ask them.  Potfry decided to come up with some clever ones… Check it out: http://potfry.blogspot.com/2006/05/ask-peta.html

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

…here’s how to take a shower. Ladies: Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks. Walk to bathroom wearing long dressing gown. If you see husband/boyfriend along the way, cover up any exposed areas. Look at your womanly physique in the mirror – make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc.

Get in […]

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I know this is sooo late of me…. but I couldn’t resist chiming in on it.
“Fed up with being endlessly told ‘the American people’ have turned against the war in Iraq, Republicans asked the Democrats to show what they had in their hand and vote on a resolution to withdraw the troops. By a vote […]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Okay, so some of these a bit old (but I never read about some of the older ones until today) and some are more recent. But they’re all true funny stories about people calling the police/911 for stupid reasons. Woman jailed after calling 911 about pizza man A ‘Fowl’ case? You only cut the one you love…

Leave a […]

Thursday, November 11th, 2004 Thursday, October 11th, 2001

My Aussie friend Kath sent this to me…enjoy
1.) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill […]

Thursday, September 6th, 2001

Doctor Dave had slept with one of his patients and had felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he couldn’t. The guilt and sense of betrayal was overwhelming. But every once in a while he’d hear a soothing voice within himself, trying to reassure him:

“Dave, don’t worry about it. […]

Saturday, May 13th, 2000

The Y2K scare is only a distant memory now. The future never looked brighter. But wait… If you have not yet taken the proper precautions you may still find yourself waking up one morning to a computer disaster of apocalyptic proportions.  Evil Conspiracy Theory

Did you ever consider that the same people who made all that money […]

Monday, April 17th, 2000

I have just been through the annual pilgrimage of torture and humiliation known as buying a bathing suit. Back in the 1940s, the bathing suit for a woman with a mature figure was designed for a woman with a mature figure: boned, trussed, and reinforced, not so much sewn, as engineered. They were built to […]

Friday, January 21st, 2000

20) The cucumber has left the salad. 19) I can see the gun of Navarone. 18) Someone tore down the wall, and your Pink Floyd is hanging out. 17) You’ve got Windows on your laptop. 16) Sailor Ned’s trying to take a little shore leave. 15) Your soldier ain’t so unknown now.

14) Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower […]