LuzyC

Yes, MissV for sure and I do not think JODO will return, and if she does it will be a suprise to me.

I still don't know yet......Im so undecided.

I miss them.. I hope they come and show once and awhile.

As for me I am '' now you see now you don't'' here as always....hehehe ..especially if I convince my dear hubby to let me go to work..I might get busy too.

fingers and toes crossed..

Made To Make Your Mags Water.

Oh my!

:lol:

O had a few reasons, She left.

MissV, JODO,.....gone , too.

They left ? :cry:

I hope you stay here Nag ..

thanks troll. I don't really care. It's the internet and that's what I just said to them.

You rock girl!! wooooot!!!

Sorry to hear what happened with your petition. I wish you both all the best.

Hang in there!

:lol:

Don't Leave Home Without Bj.

Have You Had Your Bj Today?

Kids Will Do Anything For Bj.

:lol:

Naughty, but Amy

Have you forgotten how good Amy tastes?

To a very sweet woman named Jackie

May all your wishes and hearts desires comes true esp. Mr Right.

Have a happy one!!

Fast Fueler

The Fast Fueler Personality

Convenience is everything - and it's a problem. You tend to be on the go a lot and have a no-nonsense but inconsistent approach to health and fitness. The rational side knows about good nutrition and how it helps you get more done. But eating right all the time is a real hassle, especially when you just want to know what tastes good! Moreover, you prefer to eat when hungry but your busy schedule makes it difficult. Relatively speaking, it is also likely you have less weight to lose compared to most.

Fast Fuelers as a general rule tend to get caught up in what they're doing and sometimes forget to eat. A skipped breakfast or lunch is a recipe for trouble, usually ending up in an evening or late night calorie load-up. Fast Fuelers do not necessarily eat a lot of fast food, but your hectic day can lead to unhealthy food because a trip home or the grocery store just isn't convenient.

Don't feel too bad Luz. I used to feel that I have to eat everything on my plate. It's the Filipino in us . But since moving here and "suffering" through the huge plates that they serve in restaurants, I have decided that it's better for food to go to waste rather than to waist.

:thumbs:

The Portion Distortioner Personality

This person is a lifetime member of the Clean Plate Club. In fact, you may often continue to eat beyond the point where you're not even hungry anymore. A study by the American Institute for Cancer Research found that 67% of Americans eat everything on their plates regardless of size. You tend to feel deprived when eating smaller portions and, ironically, you sometimes overeat on "healthy" foods.

There is also a good chance you tend to eat out pretty often, and have noticed how restaurants and fast food joints have been up-sizing and biggie sizing your servings. Yet, even though you know portions have grown, you feel like you haven't eaten unless you are stuffed to the gills. Many of this type also use food as their sole source of weekend entertainment. It's what we call "Eat-for-tainment." Eating with friends and having fun is great, but if you are using food much more than other forms of entertainment (i.e. events that involve not sitting) it is something to be concerned about.

So true...

http://www.sparkpeople.com/myspark/personality_profile2.asp

8 out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Charles.

Meow

David: The Other White Meat.

Borrowed from a sweet friend..thank you!!! (you know who you are... )

What's your slogan?

Go to this site & enter your name in the box & hit the Sloganize button. DON'T CHEAT, KEEP THE FIRST ONE THEY GIVE YOU.

http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=

Luz - ''The Best Part Of Waking Up Is Luz In Your Cup'' ..Lolz!!!! I hear that before from my Hubby..

Gary - ''There's No Wrong Way To Eat A Gary.

HAVE FUN PEEPS!! :dance:

I give up. I will go and get Luz her own computer next week. This is Gary again.

Don’t screw up, Democrats, Barack Obama is your man

Andrew Sullivan

There comes a point in all primary campaigns when the ideological furore dies down a little, when the personality clashes recede, when the warring factions pause and the voters in each party ask themselves a simple question: who on earth can win this thing in November?

Republicans are usually better at this. In the past, a defining mark of a conservative was a certain willingness to swallow a minor disagreement for the surpassing point of politics: the wielding of power. But recently, as Republicanism morphed into an ideology and then a personality cult and then a series of increasingly strained far-right litmus tests, conservatives seemed to be verging on the purism of the old left.

Then, all of a sudden, in the wake of South Carolina, they took a look at the field, saw the enormous enthusiasm building behind Barack Obama and went for their strongest electable candidate: John McCain. Mitt Romney isn’t toast yet. And the talk radio circuit – long a fervent foe of McCain – is still spluttering revolt. Some leading far righters – Michelle Malkin, the mega-blogger, and the columnist Ann Coulter, the Paris Hilton of right wingery – have even said that they would rather back Hillary Clinton than McCain.

The cascade of establishment endorsements that McCain has received in the past week will be hard to counter. The Republican governors of the big states, Florida, California and Texas, all endorsed the crusty Arizonan senator. Buoyed by soft early polls that show McCain beating both the Clintons and Obama in hypothetical match-ups, the right did what the right knows best. It closed ranks behind McCain and prayed for the Clintons to pave over the deep divisions within what’s left of the Republican party. Even now, such solidarity comes naturally to most of them.

Obama gains ground on Clinton

But what of the Democrats? The two candidates can each make a case that he or she is the most electable. Senator Clinton has the advantage of having been on the national stage and seared into global consciousness for almost two decades. This familiarity lends an aura of authority, especially as she has had the imagery of the White House and the presidency behind her for eight years. It calms nerves among jittery Democrats worried about another narrow loss to a Republican. She is a creature of the past generation, which means to say she grew up developing scar tissue under conservative assault. In battle, you tend to respect the warrior with the most battered physique.

She has endurance rather than experience. Nobody doubts her competence or eagerness for hard work. She also has the contacts and network of the most powerful brand in Democratic politics: the Clintons. If you are an insecure or not too clued-in Democrat, she reassures. If you are a working-class Democrat, you think she knows what she’s doing and you fondly recall the years when Bill was running the country. Her facility with policy helps to cement the idea of her as a competent representative.

However, outside her core base of support, all this electability has a dark side with Clinton. She has extraordinary negatives. She galvanises the conservative movement in ways no other Democrat can. Against McCain, she and she alone enables the Republicans to forget their deep internal divisions and unite. Nothing – nothing – unites them as she does. The money she will raise for the Republicans is close to the amount they can raise for themselves. If you’re a hard-nosed Democrat, especially in a state that leans Republican or that voted for Bush, she is potentially toxic to your chances. No Democrat in Nebraska wants to counter an advertisement morphing his face with Hillary’s.

Hence the endorsements Obama has secured: Janet Napolitano, Democratic governor of Arizona; Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic governor of Kansas; Claire McCaskill, Democratic senator from Missouri; Tim Kaine, Democratic governor of Virginia, and Ben Nelson, Democratic senator from Nebraska.

What do all these states have in common? They are all states that George W Bush won twice. If you’re the next generation of Democrat, trying to appeal to the centre of the country, Obama is your candidate. Clinton takes the party and national politics back to the polarised red-blue ideological past. The danger of this is that if you are someone in the middle – on the purple edge of the red-blue divide – then the polarising nature of Clinton might mean that if she were the candidate you might vote Republican. Obama is the salve for this syndrome.

The polling data are clear on this as well. Obama’s margins of victory over most Republican candidates are greater than Clinton’s. He is more liberal in some respects but he tends to be more liberal in those areas where the Democrats are strongest, primarily Iraq where his antiwar stance has resonance. On healthcare his plan is less coercive than Clinton’s. In the debate last Thursday in Hollywood, he subtly made the case that he could also be more credible in withdrawing troops from Iraq – since Republicans could not accuse him of having changed his position on the war, as they can with Clinton. He made his liberalism a positive in the electability wars, which is the first time that has happened in American politics since 1976.

The winnowing of the field to two has oddly helped his electability. You could see it at the Clinton-Obama debate last week. Clinton did not do poorly. All her strengths were on show: the policy mastery, the gaffe-free talking points, the Clinton record in the 1990s. But that made his ease all the more impressive. Most crucial, Obama seemed like a president. In his body language he carefully upstaged her without looking as if he were trying. By the end of the debate he was pulling her chair back for her. If Obama’s main drawback in the electability game has until now been gravitas, he erased that gap in two short hours.

Can it work? Can Obama win? I don’t know. Clinton is still a formidable candidate and her massive institutional advantage may eventually give her the nomination. Any objective observer would have to say she is still the favourite at this juncture. But she has not won this primary argument or this primary battle. If she becomes the nominee, it will be because she survived the primaries. Obama won them.

The national polling keeps getting tighter. In every state where Obama has had a chance to be exposed to voters in real time, he has won. But the states up for grabs on Tuesday are big ones where retail salesmanship and organisation are not as powerful as name recognition. Obama has the money – in fact, he raised a staggering $32m in January alone, mostly in small sums from individual donations. He has the momentum: Gallup’s national poll shows Clinton’s lead evaporating in the past two weeks.

Will Democratic voters realise that he is now their best bet against McCain or will inertia and fear keep Clinton alive? One thing I’ve learnt in American politics: never underestimate the capacity of the Democratic party to screw it up.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/c...icle3294433.ece

Oh well, I give up. This is Gary talking here.

Guys, we are having THUNDER SNOW!!!! It's snowing so hard I can't see the road from our front window!!! Lightning in a snow storm is so weird. The last time I saw this was Jan '81 in St Louis. Then we got 16 inches.

:dance:

Hoping for your speed recovery Stina!

Welcome to the world Kavi Seth!!

She is pulling a "Filipina" on me. She is all mopy so when I ask her what is wrong she says 'Nothing'

Awww..you know what she wants...take her to shopping mall.. ( nothing means ''meron '' Jim' )

Have a sweet celebration with your asawa . Claudeth

Claudeth!

Hope you have very happy one!

Where's the pics of the birthday celebrant Jim?

Oppss.. Sorry

Good Morning!

Luz, 3 stitches?? That had to have been fairly deep! Glad you are now on the mend. Use extra caution in the future. Im glad you didnt have to eat the chicken. I do not think Gary could eat it anyway, considering what happened.

Good morning Nag! How are you?

Yes 3 stitches..Gary is right I really cut myself deep. I still have a major headache.

I forgot the coffee ..

here..-- everyone!!

For you Nag..

Good morning everyone!!!

Still have a thick snow and cold!!! oh well...

Yesterday , upon learning that Robin school is can cancelled I went back to bed and sleep till 12:00.. I have a very good sleep.

We woke up and I start fixing our lunch..thaw the chicken and cut/slice them..then..the knife slide to my point finger and I make myself a big cut..it bleed profusely and get dizzy when I saw all the blood ..I have to held tight on the sink so I don't fall..call my hubby and he too panicked with all the blood he see on the sink..I didn't know that as strong and no fear as he is he is afraid with blood ..he get some band aid but I still bleed. He has to begged to take me to the doctor nearby so I get a proper treatment with it ..when I cut myself in the Philippines this is not a big deal to me..he told/explain that its the chicken that he is afraid of..the infection I might get with it..as coward as I am with needles and all I wont go... he negotiate with a shopping in exchange of me to go to the doctor.. ..in short we are in the emergency room and I have myself 3 stitches. .

But I have my shopping spree yesterday..yay!! I have my new anklet and toe ring and a Chinese dinner treat !!

hey close that door you wanna let all the heat out?

Hehehe..

Took a quick shot to show to my family how thick snow today , back home we Filipinos loved seeing snow even in the pictures.

Later, if Gary see this I expect a long sweet sermon.

Our front and back door this morning.

Thick snow I've seen since I arrive here.

I hope hubby don't work today ..makes me worried if he go out with his car he got.

TV news usually has a running ticker. You can also go to the website for one of your local TV stations and it should have a closings list.

Here ya go....

http://centralillinoisproud.com/content/schoolclosings

Thank you very much for this link.. I find the answer .

East Peoria High #309 Closed.

I'll bookmark this link for future refence. Thank you very much!

Marilyn thank you for the suggestion.

Now , I'm off to bed and sleep! yay!

Well, as Mags and I predicted..... about 3 inches of snow.

They DID close school, though.

We have 5 - 8 inches of snow right now and its still snowing.

How do you know if school closed? Gary went to bed this morning at 2:30 and I don't have the heart to wake him up just to ask about school.

I try to google but I don't find answer there.