Okay. Thanks everyone for your responses to my butt bug post. I see that I’m not the only one with an opinion and that’s great since I appreciate each and everyone of you and how you think. I totally agree with my friend Holly, that if all of my friends were clones of me, life just wouldn’t be any fun… Who would laugh at me when I do stupid things? Oh wait I have a sister for that.

One thing I didn’t state in my post, that was pointed out by my friend Brian, and I have said it before but it bares repeating. I love living in America and I wouldn’t want to live any where else. I think that we are a society like no other and I truly appreciate it and the people who protect it. In fact the reason I can let the Bug out once in awhile is because I live here.  Just thought I’d better restate that for any of my new friends and to let people who have served and are serving our country, know how much I appreciate them and what they re doing and have done.

One more thing, My post that was ten pages long, sorry about that, started out about stupid laws. My brother in law posted an article that let me know why we had to have them… I can’t understand why some people are so stupid. I think that when these people die we should do to them what they did and publish the photos on the internet actually…why wait until their dead, do it now and then they can fully appreciate their stupidity.

Also I am so proud of where I live, TC schools have started instituting measures for more fuel efficient and cleaner producing buses. Yea us!

I just wanted to show you all my Art-O-Mat pieces. My brother inlaw sammysdad has his posted too…ooo fun.  

When did we start thinking that we need someone to make laws to tell us how to behave? When did we stop taking responsibility for ourselves?

A while ago when we were having a rash of school shootings, again. Around the time where the wacko killed the Amish girls, I made a comment about gun control…I had people randomly cruising by my site for a week after that one. I’m sure they’ll all search GUN CONTROL and be back now but oh well.  Alright back on the subject. the comment I made was something to the effect of I thought we need a uniform gun control law on the sale of fire arms with a mandatory waiting period in all fifty states…

Alright here’s where I, the fence sitter, actually picks a side. I WAS WRONG… I was speaking from emotion and not careful consideration. I think that each state should regulate their gun control and sales. Smaller government is better and I’m thinking fewer laws are better too. In the same post I said I think helmet laws and seat belt laws are stupid…

I did not! I repeat DID NOT say I thought wearing a helmet or a seat belt is stupid…I don’t…I think the fact that people need laws to tell them to do it is STUPID… I mean if you want to smear your brains on the pavement that is your business.When we were in Kansas I was informed that they had just passed a law saying that every child in a car under the age of eight has to have a booster seat. SAY WHAT! You try fitting three kids in an automobile, under the age of eight, into a car capable of only transporting five people. Why isn’t a seat belt enough? Because someone came out with a study saying the belts fit differently on children and could I repeat COULD hurt them in an accident.

Here’s  another thing, Why have we allowed ourselves to become a society that lives in fear? That is motivated by FEAR?

We are trying to compensate by passing laws and thinking that they will keep us safe instead of raising our children with values and spending time with our families…eating dinner at the table, all at the same time, without a television blaring or a media item on. Spending time with each other. Teaching things instead of just saying it’s the law DO IT.

We’re afraid of guns. But Guns don’t kill people…it’s the person pulling the trigger that kills someone. Why not teach healthy respect and understanding of firearms. Telling your child to not touch something or to be scared of it is not going to keep them from touching it or being curious and possibly hurting themselves or others with it. They need to know what things are and how to handle them or not to and that an adult should be present…Because I don’t care what anyone says. I have children and they will pick up a stick and pretend it’s a gun or a sword.  I don’t ever want them to hide the fact that they might have found a gun and they think Mommy would freak if they told her so they’ll just play with it without telling her. I know I hope that nothing like that ever happens but ugh…Now I’m just babbling.

Alright, really this isn’t all about guns although that is an obvious issue that is in constant media and on most peoples minds.  It’s about STUPID LAWS and why we think we need them. People use common sense. I know there are a few people who don’t have the benefit of common sense but I don’t want to think about them.

Michigan has a law about not swearing in front of woman and children. For heavens sake people…why would you swear in front of a child…why would you swear in public?

Here’s a fun site on what I think are called Bathtub laws they just call them stupid laws… In Traverse City we have a law on the books that no one can take a bath on Sunday. This law stems from the fact that the fire department didn’t work on Sundays back in the day and so if you bumped your head or fell…no one would be there to fix you. Go figure.

Alright. So where does all this righteous (or so I like to think) indignation stem from. Why am I all worked up over laws and peoples stupidity and lack of responsibility?

So I watched An Inconvenient Truth. NO I AM NOT A DEMOCRATE…I vote people not parties…I am a tree hugger though. And why not they smell good and look pretty. The point isn’t that this is an AL Gore thing. This is a global issue. At first I was like oh yeah one more thing to try and make me feel afraid, to motivate me by fear… And yup it’s in there.All of it is, but at the same time there is also the message that what we have done is not      un-fixable…not un-reversable. That there is technology today that exists to help eliminate the problem or at least not contribute to it. We can all be doing things to help and why aren’t we? Why do we need a clean air act to tell us to clean our air? Why do we need emission standards to tell us that our cars should run more fuel efficiently. Why are these things not made available to us because they are there?

This wasn’t mentioned in the video but I was listening to NPR…Yes, NPR, the other day about Texas building power plants or rather making plans to build, and the technology is available to make them almost completely clean…but because of the cost they aren’t going to use the technology. Why isn’t the Government (YES I know that means us) funding the difference? Why should anyone tell the people building the plants that they should be built efficiently. OKAY blah blah blah…

I’m even confusing myself now. I don’t know why I’m addressing these things I’ve been thinking about today, when I’ve just come from dealing with Brownies, not the chocolate kind, and I’m battling hormone surges… I just have a bug up my butt lately and I needed to let it out. For crying out loud I get annoyed when I go to the Boy Scout meeting lately and their using styrofoam cups…what are they stupid?! See maybe I’m just a bit sensitive.

Okay, I didn’t want to offend anyone, but I know you all, and if I did, I know you’ll tell me. Really feel free I won’t have my feelings hurt if you disagree. Let me have it people…If I cry, tears are only salt water.. lol

Oh one thing that did bug me about the video is that it didn’t address any of the fixes… but if you have questions about what you can do here’s the Global Warming forum. 

I know…I’m a tree hugger. I never used to be, but hey, the trees need someone too.

  I finally got to visit the Art-O-Mat!!! I bought three pieces and I can’t wait to go back for more. I know I’m a sick woman…but if Art is bad I don’t want to be right…

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. -Duke Ellington.

Right now I’m trying to channel this. Ang

Home again, home again, jiggidy jog.

Yup. all done with the festivities and back at home. It will be nice to sleep in my own bed. I’ll miss the Detroit activities for tomorrow though which were supposed to be the parade company, where they show all the floats and some geocaching. That’s okay we’re going to do something fun here. I don’t know what but I’ll come up with something…

Oh my Aunt made the best meal…turkey and ham… with all of the holiday trimmings so I got the best of both worlds… Yum.

Any of you with kids learning to read will know who this is. I can not claim the brilliance of this camera angle…that was all my brother inlaw. Did I marry into the right family or what. Ang

Today was fun. My sister made me drag my butt out of bed at 6:30 to get ready to go to the parade in downtown Detroit. I have to say it was fun even though I was a bit tired. Those giant balloons are a lot more fun to see in person then on TV and there’s nothing like the whole crowd experience, the shoving and the squeezing shoulder to shoulder,to make you really appreciate your fellow man. I have to applaud the people of StarBucks and their crowd handling capabilities. They had people directing traffic to the bathroom line and to the coffee line…very efficient since the lines where both about 60 people long.

I caved a bit early on the parade thing and took the monster and my mom back to the car while the others finished watching the parade and then it was off to the inlaws for lots of food, but sadly no turkey. I really missed having a turkey for Thanksgiving. We had curry and chicken and dumplings and manicotti and organic stuffing and three different kinds of squash and some kind of Hawaiian spicy chicken dish  and corn bread and veggies galore, crackers and hummus…but no turkey, and no ham…I think I’ll have to make a turkey when I get home.  I missed it that much.

Tomorrow it’s off to  my Aunt’s in Lansing for more festivities. Maybe she’ll make a turkey, ham would be nice too…Boy do I sound whiny  or what.

Tonight I am missing my honey. He’s staying at his parent’s house so that he can get up and go shopping at 2:30 a.m. with his Dad. Yes,  they are going to actually stand in line with probably hundreds of other people, so they can cram themselves through the doors at 5 a.m. and get another computer. Ben found an Apple on sale that he’s been eyeballing for awhile and he couldn’t pass it up,so it’s off to join the insanity he goes. I however will be snug  as a bug in bed in my sisters basement/ guest room. I’ll do my shopping in the afternoon like any sane person. There is a giant glass store in Lansing I’m going to go drop some money at. Of course I haven’t told him that yet but somehow I don’t think he’s going to argue…

I hope all of you had a Happy Thanksgiving and were able to enjoy your families as much as I enjoyed mine. Even though I didn’t get turkey, the company was wonderful.

How do you tell if someone is schizophrenic? Never mind. It’s not important, I don’t really need to know.

My daughter is driving me batty and I think it would be easier to chalk it up to a mental disorder then the fact that she’s six? Nah it’s definitely a six year old thing. I hope…

She has always said things like ‘Me want popsicle.’ or ‘Me brushed hair.’ At first I chalked it up to baby talk but when she hit  four I started saying your not a baby anymore you need to say ‘I would like…’ and ‘I did … ‘

You get the point. For a while it worked but recently she has started again only this time it’s worse. Now she says ‘Isabelle wants a drink.’ and ‘Isabelle put her clothes away.’  I feel like I’m living in that movie with the basket ball player Kelly Robinson. You know where he constantly refers to himself in third person…

I feel like hitting my head against a wall here. I keep rephrasing and trying to be patient, but guess what I am not a patient person.
Angi wants it to stop. Angi wants it to stop right now! Angi is pulling out her hair. Angi can’t handle a simple six year old oddity. Angi may have a mental disorder herself. Angi’s going to look up multiple personality disorders just to be sure.

Angi is going to Detroit for Thanksgiving and she’s really looking forward to it. Angi wants you all to have a really nice holiday. Happy Thanksgiving.

SEE ANNOYING ISN’T IT!!!

If you could be someone of the opposite sex who would it be? Real or imaginary, either.

I was thinking today that I would be Stone Barrington. He’s a character in Stuart Woods novels. There are many things I admire about him. One of which is his slightly bendable morals. He does have a very strong ethical code but it’s not exactly conventional.If any of you have read the books you know what I mean.

I find him appealing mostly I think because he’s so far away from who I am and anything I will ever be.

That’s the really nice thing about books, for awhile we can become something we’re not.

I’d better clarify here that I have no desire to be a man. I really, really like being a woman. (insert large grin here)

But you know sometimes it’s just fun to imagine. Ang