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Real Reform Now…Or Not
The other day, Nancy left a comment on my post “Bailout Plans Chap My Ass” as follows: Hey Suzanne, you’re right on. Here’s a clip from Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur that speaks to t...
Bailout Plans Chap My Ass
Yeah, I said it. Here’s why. Seven years ago, I had a retirement account valued at over $250K…that’s a quarter of a MILLION smackers, folks. I was sittin’ pretty. It was all i...
I’ve Had Just About Enough
For the first time in my adult life, I’m paying attention to the election process with more than a yada-yada-yada attitude. Here are three things I’ve had just about enough of in this elec...
Thursday Thirteen #13
Thirteen Reasons I Write This Blog It’s WAY less expensive than therapy To connect and keep up-to-date those I love who are far away To know myself better To be heard To laugh on a regular basi...
Never Let Mom Do the Invitations!
(Have you visited my site lately? I've redecorated - come see!)...
Thursday Thirteen #11
Thirteen Places I Don’t Care If I See Again or Ever Las Vegas, Nevada (ever) Graceland (again) Detroit, Michigan (again) Niagara Falls, New York (again) I-40 from Memphis, Tennessee to Ashevill...
Monday, the Remix
Since I fought the Monday but the Monday won, I figured today would have no choice but to be better. Right? Kamikaze Caller Today started off with a revealing conversation with New Man who crawled ba...
I Fought the Monday but the Monday Won
Ya know - there are days we should just follow the advice of that little voice we hear and throw the covers back over our heads and stay in bed - and today feels like one of them! Oy! Even as I sit he...
Pancaked Ta-Tas for Breakfast
I had my annual mammogram bright and early this morning and oh what an experience it was. Knowing that misery loves company I want to promote annual breast cancer screenings, I planned ahead and took...
Economic Stimulus, My Ass
I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems to me that those Economic Stimulus checks Georgie is passing out need to be saved for use at the gas pumps here directly if we want to go anywher...
Friday Night Bites
A. Because there’s nothing worth watching on TV (even with cable!) B. I’m too tired from a very long week to focus my eyeballs on a book C. A three-hour click fest on a particular blogroll...
Good Thing I Don’t Own a Gun
I’d have blown the left side of my head off around 3am this morning, if I owned one. Yes, I realize firearms are not typically the preferred tools for dentistry, but you couldn’t have conv...
Life Imitates Art, or the Other Way Around?
Wednesday night, after all the dog and website drama here, Baby Sister came over to hang the curtains she’d made for my room and Second Son’s room, only to find we had the wrong length of ...
Jealous of Our Dog
Tuesday, I got to school expecting to be teaching 8th grade and instead was asked to cover 6th grade math/reading classes. Aside from the fact that the 6th graders act like their parents feed them aci...
Jealous of Our Dog
Tuesday, I got to school expecting to be teaching 8th grade and instead was asked to cover 6th grade math/reading classes. Aside from the fact that the 6th graders act like their parents feed them aci...
And We All Lived to Tell About It
Yes, we all survived Spring Break, hallelujah! It was touch and go a couple of times, but we made it. No stretch of days seems to pass here lately without some serious life lessons involved. Life les...
Spring Break May Just Break Me
Ok, I'm not sure if it'll be my sanity or my grocery budget first, but Spring Break is gonna break something, I can tell you that, for sure.We're just finishing up Day 4 with 5 more to go. So far, I h...
Spring Break May Just Break Me
Ok, I’m not sure if it’ll be my sanity or my grocery budget first, but Spring Break is gonna break something, I can tell you that, for sure. We’re just finishing up Day 4 with 5 more...
So Much for Blogging Every Single Day
I was doing good, even in the face of being divinely inspired/distracted, until I caught this damned bug that's been going around.Friday night, I felt like reconstituted dog shit. I had a fever, a hea...
Counting to 1000 Because 10 Doesn't Cut It
Ok, first let me warn you - this is not going to be a warm, fuzzy post. Any of you who have young children, and by young I mean kids who still openly love you and have yet to realize how uncool you r...
Fed Up Friday: A Day Late
Ok, so it finally happened: I missed a day. Damn. However, since this year is Leap Year, and Blog365 should really have been named Blog366 - I'm still going to make it! Woo-hoo! (Love my logic, don'c...
Fed Up Friday: Settling
This week I can sum up all that I am fed up with in one word: settling.I'm fed up with playing small, even though I didn't think I was.I'm fed up with stinkin' thinking that is so pervasive and sneaky...
Fed Up Friday Innaugural Address
Look out world - Suzanne's shit-bucket is full and it's time to dump it out and start over.I now declare Fridays on SuzanneSays... to be "Fed Up Friday" wherein I shall vent, whinge, bitch, moan and o...
AT&T: My World. NOT Delivered.
Ironically, we are celebrating Oklahoma's Centennial this year. To wind up a year of celebration with a bang, Mother Nature delivers the worst ice storm on record for our state. A cool 45% of the stat...
That Dark, Smelly Place He Keeps It
Ok, maybe I won't ever "get it". I just don't get how a certain someone could consider it any kind of evil-doing on my part to send his daughter to stay the weekend with him. I just don't get how I e...
Don't Start None - Won't Be None
If Oldest Son (fyi: 20 yrs old) doesn't start showing some true initiative about getting a job, I'm going to come un-F*CKING-done. He's got such a negative self-concept and world view, and it's makin...
Let Me Whinge Because My Rack Is Too Big
And whinge I will!Maybe you are asking, "What's whinge?"Well. let me tell you a little story before we get to why my rack is too big...and for what.While catching up with ImBeingHeldHostage this eveni...
If I Hear That Song One More Time...
...I may explode. It truly is a great song, one which I, had today not occurred, might have played over and over again, myself.Now I know what my mother was complaining about when I was a teenager. I ...
And the Wind Comes Sweepin' Down the Plain
Aside from being culturally advanced, Oklahoma also has another unique characteristic: it's volatile weather.For example, we had a high of 80 degrees yesterday afternoon, and the temperature has done ...
Pucker Up and Square Y'Off An Acre
...which is a colloquial way of saying, "Kiss my ass." (Intimating that the ass you're invited to kiss is either very large, or you're welcome to kiss as much of it as you like.)Yes, I actually had s...