"Have a great summer!!!"
27 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Randomness..., Uncategorized Tags: 2010, adventure, Advice..., bored, crazy, dream, fun, Have A great summer, stir-crazy, Summer, summer fun, sweet, thing, time, trouble, Watching the clouds go by, what to say?, Year book type
“Have a great summer!” starts to sound so cliche after the 500th time you write it, doesn’t it?
I mean with thousands upon thousands upon thousands (you get the idea) of all the word combinations that are possible in the English language for some reason we all seem to gravitate towards the same old, same old annoying catch-all.
How about this?
I hope you have an amazing summer. (Wait, there’s more, so don’t roll your eyes!) I hope you dream dreams, and watch as the clouds go by. I hope you get yourself into trouble (but not the bad kind!); I pray that you will be at peace, and not be at war.
I hope you succeed in what you strive for. I pray that you will heed wise counsel, and not follow your crazy heart down dangerous roads…
And I pray that this summer will be one that you can hold in your heart, and reflect on when you are 98 years old!
Beat that, “have a great summer!”…….
Old souls have to grow up too…
26 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Deeper Things, Men, Uncategorized Tags: Bible, bitterness, Broken, broken hearts, CHOOSE, Christ, Christianity, forgiveness, Forgiving, Free Will, freedom, God, God's Love, hatred, Jesus, letting the past go, loss, Love, Luke, Luke 17:4, Men, practice, The Bible, time
I have always had an old soul. When I was young, I would write poems – and people swore up and down that I had stolen them from some famous author or another. Which wasn’t true – I have just always been that way, infamously old for my age.
But the first time I realized that I was a true grown-up was when I had my heart utterly shattered for the first time – and realized that I could hate that person forever, and it would never make a difference in his life, it would only make me a bitter, hateful, untrusting woman.
Love and kindness can not grow out of hatred or bitterness, or mourning for what could never be. But before you can love you must first CHOOSE to forgive. Because forgiveness isn’t something that happens on its own – rather it’s something we have to practice…
“Even if he wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, forgive him.” – Luke 17:4
Three overplayed songs I love anyway
25 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
These are some songs I never get tired of listening to… <3
Jerks. (via the Hyacinth Girl)
24 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Politics, Uncategorized Tags: Annoying, bad liberals!, can you say "state controlled everything?", children, Clowns, crazy, crying, democratic party, democrats, FREE SPEECH, freedom, FREEDOM OF CHOICE, Here we go again...., JUST SAY NO, mutter, Parental rights, people, Politics, SCARY, STUPID much?
Seriously??? The Liberals are going after McDonald’s??? Why do they want to make the happy clown and millions of children CRY?!
Don’t make the clown cry!!!
Another symptom of the bigger, badder, disease that is consuming our great country! And it’s a lot deadlier than the fat in McDonald’s food!
Liberals say that they want more freedom for EVERYONE, does that not include clowns with red shoes, and kids who just want to have a toy with their happy meal? And whatever happened to the PARENTS’ ability to say ‘NO’ to their children???!!! How hard is it?
Happy Meals... A thing of the soon-to-be past?
“Kid: Can we go to McDonald’s?
Parent: No, not today, honey.
Kid: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!
Parent: Because I said so.”
What’s so ‘difficult’ about that? I remember having almost this EXACT conversation many times with my mother, and as far as I can tell – I turned out just fine thank you very much!
“Did You Know?” Wednesday
23 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in "Did you know...?" Wednesdays Tags: "Did you Know?", bored, crazy, facts, history, Interesting, mafia, mob, people, place, ramblings, Random, randomness, time, time in history, today in history, trivia, wednesdays
Did you know…
That today in history “Teflon Don” was sentenced to life in jail in 1992…?
Here is the article from the “This Day in History” portion of the History Channel’s website.
“Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the “Teflon Don” after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti’s supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements.
Gotti, born and educated on the mean streets of New York City, became head of the powerful Gambino family after boss Paul Castellano was murdered outside a steakhouse in Manhattan in December 1985. The gang assassination, the first in three decades in New York, was organized by Gotti and his colleague Sammy “the Bull” Gravano. The Gambino family was known for its illegal narcotics operations, gambling activities, and car theft. During the next five years, Gotti rapidly expanded his criminal empire, and his family grew into the nation’s most powerful Mafia family. Despite wide publicity of his criminal activities, Gotti managed to avoid conviction several times, usually through witness intimidation. In 1990, however, he was indicted for conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Paul Castellano, and Gravano agreed to testify against him in a federal district court in exchange for a reduced prison sentence.
On April 2, 1992, John Gotti was found guilty on all counts and on June 23 was sentenced to multiple life terms without the possibility of parole.
While still imprisoned, Gotti died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002.”
Interesting, no? Personally, I love random facts about history, and things in general… (And for copyright purposes, once again, I do not own the above article. Consider it a loan from the History Channel’s website).
Addicted… Is it possible?
22 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Randomness... Tags: addicted, addicting..., awesome, bored, brilliant, crazy, exciting, Koi, kudos to the kiddo, Love it!!!, new, Random, SCARY, sweet, Techie Woes, Themes, Wordpress
Is it possible to be addicted to editing your blogs theme? Yes… I think it is. It’s quite scary, actually how many times I have changed the look of this blog – my blog baby to use a term that was coined over at Bouched, (one of my most favorite blogs to read!).
According to another blog I was reading, it is better if you stick with ONE theme – not go changing up everything every other week.
Honestly, I am pretty much in love with this new theme. It just came out, and it’s called: “Koi”. I <3 it! Too awesome! 
Major kudos to the creator! In short, welcome to the new look of “Just a California Girl Living In A Rainy World”!
Scary…
18 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Disturbing YouTube Tags: Disturbing, horror, horrorify, Jihad, Jihad is 'fun', Jihad is 'sweet', No humor, SCARY, Scary YouTube, Terror, Terrorists, What the heck
Watch it before YouTube takes it down!!!
This was posted on a blog I follow – and after watching it, I decided to further spread it around… Pretty disturbing, isn’t it?
Bad Squirrels, Bad Squirrels…
14 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
in Things I find Hilarious Tags: Charred, craziness!, cute, cute and furry, dead, Flying Squirrels, FUNNY, furry animals, Geico Squirrels..., Hilarious articles, laugh, laugh so hard you pee your pants..., LAUGHING, Mr. Squirrel, newspaper, RIP, RIP Mr. Squirrel, SimpleTown USA, small town papers, Small Towns, weird
It is amazing the things local papers write about… And how much those articles can make us laugh…and laugh…and laugh so hard we almost pee our pants…
This article is from a local paper in a town not too distant from where I live, and I just had to share it with all of you lovely people!
Due to the fact that I would rather not disclose where I live, I have taken the liberty of editing out the names and places involved. But I am not stealing it, just sharing the hilarity of small towns, and the articles they publish!!!
Enjoy!
“Squirrel Blamed For Outage, Found DEAD After Explosion”
Electricity was knocked out for about 65 SimpleTown City Light customers Sunday morning after a Squirrel apparently tripped a fuse gate while running on power lines at the intersection of Cherry and Plum streets, according to the local fire authorities.
The Squirrel was found charred and deceased with pieces of the power apparatus still in its (me editing here:) not so furry paws shortly after a loud boom was heard over a span of several blocks, said SimpleTown City Light General Foreman So-and-So.
Capt. Columbus said firefighters responded to a potential transformer explosion, but instead found the dead Squirrel and destroyed fuse gate…
“The poor guy was just tromping along,” Columbus said. “The skin was burned completely off one of its back legs…”
S0-and-So said power was restored after about an hour and a half. The Squirrel was LAUNCHED across the street following the explosion, he said.
It’s a problem SimpleTown City Light officials are familiar with, So-and-So said, with Sunday’s outage attributed to squirrel traffic this year.
“There’s not a whole lot we can do,” So-and-So said. “We can put squirrel guards up, but that can be pretty costly and time consuming. … There’s nothing really feasible right now.”
So-and-So said the repair was relatively inexpensive.
Ok, I did some creative editing in some areas, but that is pretty much what was published.
I hope some of you laughed really hard, ’cause I know I did. (Not that I take sadistic pleasure out of cute, furry animals being launched across streets after being blown up…) But this reminded me too much of a scene from a movie – and sometimes you just need a good old LAUGH!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Oh, and R.I.P Mr. Squirrel! You will not be forgotten!!!
Alex
