Have I got a contest for you!
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Who knows, maybe you'll win. And if you do, since you'll have saved gazillions on fuel for your vehicle(s), think of all the money you'll have to spend calling me (smile)!!!!
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Sunday, May 04, 2008
A couple of monthes ago (blog entries for February 20th and 22nd) I was telling you about this couple I know, Bob and Sheilah. If you'll recall, Sheilah had kicked Bob to the curb and he was devastated.
There have been some new developments. No, Sheilah hasn't taken Bob back.
About a month ago Sheilah, in the wee early hours, did a hit and run with her van in the city of Detroit. She kept running until she got to Bob's mother's house (where he lives now that Sheilah has put him put out of their house). Bob hid her. The police found her there and took her to jail.
Oh yeah, she also had two unregistered pistols on her. So they booked her with the hit and run and possession of two guns.
From jail, Sheilah tells Bob and her fiance that even though they don't like each other they're going to have to work together to get her bail money up. And the two men do.
Shelah, whose 9 children were being cared for by her sister and brother-in-law, picked up her kids and went home to await trial, cozy in the arms of her fiance.
Bob, who did a good long stretch of time in prison for robbery and assorted other crimes prior to meeting Sheilah, is still love sick and heart sick and wants her back.
Sheilah, ever the devil possessed woman that she is, is telling everybody that Bob shoved the two pistols in her hands right before the police kicked in his mother's front door.
Bob, who was diagnosed with cancer while in prison, and who survived it despite all odds, is now cancer ridden again. Surviving cancer in prison is not an easy thing to do. Medical attention is not all that and a bag of chips, medicines are generally not the newest ones being used in the free world, and diet and stress levels are never right.
Having cancer in prison, the carrot that dangled in front of Bob's eyes, the thing that kept him going and working to over come it, was the knowledge that eventually he would one day make parole and be a freeman. Now, even though he has the opportunity to receive far better medical care, he has no will to live.
Not only doesn't the woman he loves love him anymore, but she's telling the world that he gave her a gun case (a two year felony on top of whatever you get for a hit and run) and besmirching his reputation.
Without the will to live, Bob isn't going to make it.
May we all be saved from a love like Sheilah and Bob's.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
There have been some new developments. No, Sheilah hasn't taken Bob back.
About a month ago Sheilah, in the wee early hours, did a hit and run with her van in the city of Detroit. She kept running until she got to Bob's mother's house (where he lives now that Sheilah has put him put out of their house). Bob hid her. The police found her there and took her to jail.
Oh yeah, she also had two unregistered pistols on her. So they booked her with the hit and run and possession of two guns.
From jail, Sheilah tells Bob and her fiance that even though they don't like each other they're going to have to work together to get her bail money up. And the two men do.
Shelah, whose 9 children were being cared for by her sister and brother-in-law, picked up her kids and went home to await trial, cozy in the arms of her fiance.
Bob, who did a good long stretch of time in prison for robbery and assorted other crimes prior to meeting Sheilah, is still love sick and heart sick and wants her back.
Sheilah, ever the devil possessed woman that she is, is telling everybody that Bob shoved the two pistols in her hands right before the police kicked in his mother's front door.
Bob, who was diagnosed with cancer while in prison, and who survived it despite all odds, is now cancer ridden again. Surviving cancer in prison is not an easy thing to do. Medical attention is not all that and a bag of chips, medicines are generally not the newest ones being used in the free world, and diet and stress levels are never right.
Having cancer in prison, the carrot that dangled in front of Bob's eyes, the thing that kept him going and working to over come it, was the knowledge that eventually he would one day make parole and be a freeman. Now, even though he has the opportunity to receive far better medical care, he has no will to live.
Not only doesn't the woman he loves love him anymore, but she's telling the world that he gave her a gun case (a two year felony on top of whatever you get for a hit and run) and besmirching his reputation.
Without the will to live, Bob isn't going to make it.
May we all be saved from a love like Sheilah and Bob's.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Friday, May 02, 2008
Well, it's been awhile since I've written too much of anything about my family. I always worry that you'll be overwhelmed by their doings and antics. Me, I'm overwhelmed by them lots of the time, but since you're not related to them, well, I figure your tolerance must be less than mine and I don't want you pulling your hair out because you just can'tunderstand how anyone in their right mind could do----fill in the blank.
Heating costs are outrageous this year, right? Me, I set the thermostat on my gas furnace to 58 degrees when winter began and I've left it there no matter how cold it's gotten. Okay, I agree, that's chilly. But it's doable, obviously, because I'm doing it.
Sure, you have to dress properly in the house for it to work. Socks, slippers, long sleeved shirt, sweater and slacks.
I choose to dial down to 58 because I don't want $500 a month gas bills throughout the winter. Yes, I could afford to pay $500 a month, I'm working, but I'd rather put a sweater and slippers on and use that money for something else.
Now I have some cousins who disagree with that. And it's their priority,and yours too for that matter, to disagree with me. Isn't that what makes this country such a great one? We all have different ideas and convictions.
My cousins who disagree with my choice of thermosat setting are ones who keep their thermostats set at 78 degrees. They and their childen walk around their house barefoot, wearing sleeveless tank tops and shorts all winter long.
These cousins, for the most part, don't work. Those of them that do, work low paying jobs on a very, very part-time basis.
When their heating bill comes each month they pay a very tiny amount on it. Maybe $50 on a $500 bill. They know that the utility company will not and cannot turn their gas off during the winter months. Come spring/summer, when my cousins have made no attempt to catch up on their outstanding and delinquent gas bills, they get shut off.
Big deal, they have electric stoves. And air conditoners for when it gets hot.
Come winter time, when they have no gas service because they're still delinquent, they're calling everybody and their brother, trying to tug at heart strings to get someone to 'loan' them x-thousand of dollars so the gas company will come back out and reconnect them.
Yes, everyone lives different. I know that. But wouldn't you think if you knew you couldn't afford to pay a $500 a month heating bill you'd turn the thermostat down and put on some clothes?
They always make fun of me because my house is chilly. But you don't see the gas company shutting my gas service off. I must be doing something right.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Heating costs are outrageous this year, right? Me, I set the thermostat on my gas furnace to 58 degrees when winter began and I've left it there no matter how cold it's gotten. Okay, I agree, that's chilly. But it's doable, obviously, because I'm doing it.
Sure, you have to dress properly in the house for it to work. Socks, slippers, long sleeved shirt, sweater and slacks.
I choose to dial down to 58 because I don't want $500 a month gas bills throughout the winter. Yes, I could afford to pay $500 a month, I'm working, but I'd rather put a sweater and slippers on and use that money for something else.
Now I have some cousins who disagree with that. And it's their priority,and yours too for that matter, to disagree with me. Isn't that what makes this country such a great one? We all have different ideas and convictions.
My cousins who disagree with my choice of thermosat setting are ones who keep their thermostats set at 78 degrees. They and their childen walk around their house barefoot, wearing sleeveless tank tops and shorts all winter long.
These cousins, for the most part, don't work. Those of them that do, work low paying jobs on a very, very part-time basis.
When their heating bill comes each month they pay a very tiny amount on it. Maybe $50 on a $500 bill. They know that the utility company will not and cannot turn their gas off during the winter months. Come spring/summer, when my cousins have made no attempt to catch up on their outstanding and delinquent gas bills, they get shut off.
Big deal, they have electric stoves. And air conditoners for when it gets hot.
Come winter time, when they have no gas service because they're still delinquent, they're calling everybody and their brother, trying to tug at heart strings to get someone to 'loan' them x-thousand of dollars so the gas company will come back out and reconnect them.
Yes, everyone lives different. I know that. But wouldn't you think if you knew you couldn't afford to pay a $500 a month heating bill you'd turn the thermostat down and put on some clothes?
They always make fun of me because my house is chilly. But you don't see the gas company shutting my gas service off. I must be doing something right.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Look, I don't know about you, but I'm worn down from all this garbage on tv about McCain, Clinton and Obama.
All the millions of dollars, maybe even billions of dollars by now, that have been raised to pay for their campaigns makes me sad. Why? Because. Because so many people are going to bed hungry each night, or sleeping on the street or in shelters, or worrying if they can make their house payment so they don't end up in foreclosure, or struggling to get medical assistance because they either can't afford health insurance or the policy they have is so piss-poor that it doesn't cover hardly any of the costs---and yet, apparently, there's all this money floating around to spend on tv ads, bumperstickers, campaign buttons, dinners, etc.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody has a right to spend their money where theysee fit, blah blah blah. But it makes me sad and it makes me mad that all of these dollars aren't being used to better society. And no, I don't think financing these high priced campaigns is bettering society.
Is it really going to make any difference which one of these people gets in the White House? I don't think so. Whichever one gets the job, it's business as usual. We'll just have a different face to look at.
Let's say that McCain makes president. He wants to keep US troops in Iraq for the next hundred years. Not like we have them on a base in, let's say, Japan, but as an occupying force. And he wants to give us a 5 grand tax cut to pay for our health insurance. Wow, big help.
If Clinton gets in, what? Is she going to be able to pull the troops outof Iraq and Afghanistan the day after she takes the oath of office? Or for that matter, any time real soon? Please.
If Obama gets in, then what? He's not going to be able to end the war right away either. I'll betcha the troops will stay on in Iraq and Afghanistan just as long as they would have if McCain or Bush or ? was president.
These three are all the same. Only difference is one's an elderly white man, one's a woman, one's a black man. But they're all politicians and since when are politicians trustworthy people?
What should we do instead? I don't know. I just know that I don't like the way things are now. I think it's a crying shame, a sin, to piss-waste money when there is so much need. It hurts my heart.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
All the millions of dollars, maybe even billions of dollars by now, that have been raised to pay for their campaigns makes me sad. Why? Because. Because so many people are going to bed hungry each night, or sleeping on the street or in shelters, or worrying if they can make their house payment so they don't end up in foreclosure, or struggling to get medical assistance because they either can't afford health insurance or the policy they have is so piss-poor that it doesn't cover hardly any of the costs---and yet, apparently, there's all this money floating around to spend on tv ads, bumperstickers, campaign buttons, dinners, etc.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody has a right to spend their money where theysee fit, blah blah blah. But it makes me sad and it makes me mad that all of these dollars aren't being used to better society. And no, I don't think financing these high priced campaigns is bettering society.
Is it really going to make any difference which one of these people gets in the White House? I don't think so. Whichever one gets the job, it's business as usual. We'll just have a different face to look at.
Let's say that McCain makes president. He wants to keep US troops in Iraq for the next hundred years. Not like we have them on a base in, let's say, Japan, but as an occupying force. And he wants to give us a 5 grand tax cut to pay for our health insurance. Wow, big help.
If Clinton gets in, what? Is she going to be able to pull the troops outof Iraq and Afghanistan the day after she takes the oath of office? Or for that matter, any time real soon? Please.
If Obama gets in, then what? He's not going to be able to end the war right away either. I'll betcha the troops will stay on in Iraq and Afghanistan just as long as they would have if McCain or Bush or ? was president.
These three are all the same. Only difference is one's an elderly white man, one's a woman, one's a black man. But they're all politicians and since when are politicians trustworthy people?
What should we do instead? I don't know. I just know that I don't like the way things are now. I think it's a crying shame, a sin, to piss-waste money when there is so much need. It hurts my heart.
Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.
hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
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