Journal update

Hrm... not much going on in my life lately. I've been posting quite a bit to my journal. I just don't know what to write about here. I guess I'm going through a phase.

One Year

Hrm. I've been posting to the blog for almost a year. Wow. Time flies.

Do you hate the insta-patriots as much as I do? Why are people making a buck off of other people's misery?

Today I was talking with my mom and she and I agreed: we're both insurance-poor (meaning we'd be rich if we didn't have to pay for insurance!).

Sometimes it sucks being a grownup.

Journal update

Check out my latest journal entry. It is titled "Avid Reader Seeks (Good) Journals to Read." I mourn the decision of Judy to discontinue her blog.

Bloghop rating

Wow! 68% rating on Bloghop! Thank you for rating me!

Journal update

I just posted a new journal entry. Its title is "Summer Camp," and it's about my recollections of summer when I was growing up.

Reading OLJs

I'm addicted to online journals. My name is Cassanndra and I'm an addict. Too bad that really good ones are hard to find. I wish there was some kind of index to journals, but with one new blog or journal or diary being created every minute, that would be a superhuman task to keep up with. (I should know: I have to keep a little notebook with my passwords for my myriad email addresses and also for my journal sites.) :)

Journal update

Hello! I just posted a new journal entry. Go read it!

Stupid News Story

WTF??? The lawyers are just looking for their next big payoff. This is so ridiculous that I don't have words. (BTW, I thought suing the tobacco industry was stupid, too.)

Magical Style Quiz

Your magical style is Druidic.

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Stupid News Stories

It's apparently ok to sexually molest children.

I cannot believe that people are researching a smoking vaccine. That is just plain dumb.

Diary Bitching

If anyone wants to bitch about other people's diaries, check out this message board: Bitchfest

Annoying Blogger Problems

I'm glad that I can actually get into my blog tonight to post something. For quite awhile now, whenever I've thought about posting, the site takes forever to come up (especially since I have a dial-up connection). A few weeks ago, when i was posting the last entry, it took like an hour to post and publish—which was basically because the pages loaded soooooooo slow. Yay Blogger for fixing the problem!

Finding Forrester

Last Sunday, I watched the movie "Finding Forrester." It's about a high school student from the ghetto who discovers that a world-famous novelist lives down the street from where he plays basketball. Guess what the title of Forrester's book was? —"Avalon Landing" Can you believe it? I hadn't seen the movie before I created this blog. I have no idea if I saw a preview where the scene of the cover of the book was shown, and the title stayed in the back of my mind, or if I made the title up myself. I'd like to think that I made the title up. Anyway, I couldn't believe the title. It was strange; I felt like I had copied from the movie, but I didn't.

Dog Update/Drug Mule/Porn Star Dies

UPDATE: THE DOG HAS BEEN RESCUED!!!!!!!!! My faith in humanity has been restored.

Maybe I spoke too soon: here's a story about a 5-year-old drug mule.

Linda Lovelace, the famous "Deep Throat" porn star, is dead at the age of 53.

Dog Rescue

To attempt to rescue this dog, it cost $50,000, and the ship had sunk by the time they went to get the dog. Why didn't the rescuers allow the owner of the dog to take the dog with him when the humans were rescued?! It would have saved the dog's life---and the $50,000. It makes me sick to think of that poor dog waiting to be rescued, only no rescue ever came. Our animals depend on us for their survival. I'm so sad now. I wish I hadn't read the article.

Faery Quiz

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Nothing Doing

What have I been doing lately? Well, everything but posting to my blog! I've been trying to keep a journal entry a day going. I've been working overtime at work—now that the season has started again, I've been too busy to blog, the way I did when I first started my blog. I've been thinking a lot about creativity, and how I've been copying a lot of what other people post, and adding my own spin. I want to be more original. The only problem is that I feel I have nothing to say! The thing is that when I began to write for this "audience," I feel more pressure to write something "fantastic." I don't even know if anyone is reading. I guess all writers feel that way sometimes. I like the interaction with readers. I guess I just want a huge audience or something, but my writing is sssssssoooooooo boring. Time to put ye olde thinking cap on and get more creative!

Cheating

Cheaters never prosper—eventually. It sickens me to think that all these "historians" have prospered off the works of other people, who aren't as famous. Why do the "name" people get all the breaks?

Body Bags

And so the body bags start coming home.

National Craft Month

It's National Craft Month. Now I have an incentive to get my cross-stitch project done.

Site updates

I updated the BlogSnob code, my journal link, and my email address.

Spamlink deleted

Ok, I think I was getting spam from this address so I changed the email link. You can no longer just click on the email link to email me. If you want to send me an email, please remove the "remove this" part of the email address, over on the "Tell me" link. Sorry for any inconvenience but I hate spam!

News Stories

Here's an update on Winona Ryder. Looks like she's facing hard time.

More weird tales from the scientific community: this time, a monkey embryo has been cloned without sperm. Does this mean that someday men will become obsolete?

Interesting Sites

This site for V-Day is not what you might think. (I thought it was some kind of Valentine's Day link.)

Check this out: The Miniature Earth. It may take a a little while to load but it's worth it.

Greek Goddess Quiz

See which Greek Goddess you are.

"You are Hestia. Hestia was the sweet Goddess of the Hearth. She never married, but only because too many people liked her and she didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. She was the most gentle of the Greek pantheon, and she was way cool. Like her you make the people around you feel content and loved. Go you!"

Hestia, huh? I should have known...since I am a homebody and Hestia is the Goddess of the hearth.

Pen Pal

I have had a snail-mail pen pal for 14 years. She finally got Internet access. Now we can email! No more going six months between letters. Yay!

If anyone wants to read about companies that have closed down, check out this site.

Today is a gorgeous day! The sun was out. It must have been 60 degrees. Quite an unusual temperature for this time of year. Oh well. I'm not complaining a bit. After the funk I was in last week, this gorgeous day has definitely improved my mood. And the days are getting longer, too. Spring is just around the corner.

I used to watch "Entertainment Tonight" and read "Star" magazine. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed by stars. I gave that up when I went to college and didn't have a tv for awhile. That broke my habit, and I never followed Hollywood as much as I did back then. Now, especially, I have a different perspective. After Sept. 11, the posturing of those video gangstas and divas seemed childish and stupid. When there's so much grief in every living day, why do we look to them for guidance? We should look inward--to our families, or to our friends--and most of all, we need to look inward on ourselves.

Another article about the jihad.

What people don't get is that as long as there is famine and poverty, there will be war. It doesn't matter if it's in the name of God or not. The jihad clothes, feeds, and takes care of these people---even their families. Somehow, and I don't know how, they need jobs and the chance to live out their own dreams, free from persecution and from debilitating poverty.

I got my hair cut today after work. It's much shorter. I usually get my hair cut twice a year. I wait until I can't stand it anymore, and then I get it cut. I had a good 2 inches cut off. There's nothing like a new haircut to make me feel like a new person!

I love our dogs, but why can't they bark when they need to go outside?

One of the dogs just peed in the kitchen. I am NOT cleaning it up. DH can do it. He was the one who wanted the dogs. I always have to clean up their messes.

Killer pretzels attack the prez! Apparently, he got so excited while watching an NFL playoff game that he choked on a pretzel and passed out for a few moments. Too bad he can't get that excited over the whole India-Pakistan situation.

The tangled web of maternity/paternity and the brave new world of conception technology is getting even more tangled.

No one is perfect, not even Prince Harry.

Trying a new commenting system. Seems to work pretty well.

Someone's in biiiiigggg trouble.

Whoopi's back to host the Oscars! Yay!

A whole week has went by without me blogging! EEP!!!

WHO CARES!?! "Survivor" sucks. If I wanted to play a game for a million dollars, I would play something other than "How to be a Concentration Camp Victim for Fun and Profit."

This is just sad.

Nevada is not only Sin City, it's also Dump City.

First it was a sucky forecast for holiday sales, but now that the data is in, it's not so bad after all. I wish they'd make up their minds.

Work was so freakin' dull today. At least I finished my project, although I'll probably have corrections tomorrow.

I got the invitations for the kid's b-day party mailed today. I also received a late notice for the car payment, and a copy of my alma mater's alumni magazine. A friend of mine was featured in an article. I had no idea she was so involved in alumni affairs.

Ugh, I'm in such a writing funk.

For all you women who blog or keep an online journal or diary, and want to join a new webring, join mine: JournalGoddesses. Thanks!

Waylon Jennings has had his foot amputated due to diabetes.

I have no idea why this kid thought he needed to commit suicide in this way. Thank the gods no one else was hurt. And flight schools can't prevent these kinds of things from happening.

Apparently, shock value is popular in museums these days. I'll never understand art.

I love dogs, but was the death of Buddy really newsworthy???

Why can't the media let McVeigh rest in peace? Why is he still considered newsworthy? I'll answer that question: because he sells papers or books or whatever. I think that giving more publicity to people like him will make more copycats like the first item above. That kid mentioned in item #1 had sympathy for bin Laden. Hello!?! Individuals will continue to copycat until the media stops glorifying their actions.

Everyone needs to check out this site: Quackwatch.

Japan might get a female ruler—someday.

Zoos are supposed to help preserve endangered species, not kill them.