Are they serious????

My apologies to anyone that was looking for my post yesterday on crime, etc and the weekly roundup that I am hoping to start every Friday. I wasn’t able to sit down to blog until around 4AM and by then my eyes were not wanting to stay open. I finally went to sleep and only slept a few hours and was up again.

After literally falling asleep while eating my breakfast somewhere between 20 and 25 literally! My husband had to wake me up while I was eating and it took me about an hour to finally finish and then I took a nap that was absolutely wonderful. I slept SO hard that apparently our heavier cat used me as a jumping board to the back of the couch and I didn’t even flinch! Now that is some good sleepin’ *grin*

Before I fell asleep I was watching CNN because it was the only thing on TV other than infomercials and there was a re-broadcast of an earlier Town Hall Meeting on Trayvon’s shooting.  As we all know opinions are like a**holes and everyone has one; mine is what most who really know me would not only expect it of me, but they would feel the same way.

Something smells very wrong with this thing. I believe that the shooter should be put before a Grand Jury as soon as possible. Like I told my hubby, if the shooter was black and the victim white, he would have been in jail and probably beat up by cops on the way there! I can NOT believe that there are still some people in this country that are so bigoted and racist! I really can’t and it infuriates me that people choose to be that way. The only solace I found in this disturbing thing is that IF (and it looks like it may happen as some witnesses have come forward) the shooter is charged and on trial, he WILL have to prove that there was reason for him to be in fear of his life enough to use deadly force. Also, it is against the law for him to carry a gun during his Crime Watch rounds, and honestly at this point I would suspend him from that program until this thing gets figured out.

I think I will be posting 3 different posts because in some ways they are all SO different, even though there is a common thread running through which is Criminal Justice and it should not be a surprise because I have a BA in Criminal Justice and have worked in the system with some of the worst offenders at a halfway house for convicted felons. This place was for the murderers and sex offenders many times to finish their sentence and attempt to help them adjust to being on what they called “on the outs” after many times being in prison for up to thirty years! I saw men that had never seen a computer or pager and it was incredible. Unfortunately most would go back to prison, sometimes several times before either adjusting or having a judge put them away for two or more years. I will talk about what working with that population taught me about life, love, family, respect, and so much more. It was like having 40 children with most being older than me and some being as much as double my age!

If you are interested and willing, tell me what you think about this Trayvon thing? I just checked the news on the computer to make sure that I had spelling of his name right when I was further angered by seeing this “we found out that in the past several months, Martin was suspended from school three times, once for the possession of drug paraphernalia.” in an opinion piece by William Bennet called Rush to judgment in Trayvon Martin case posted on CNN.com. I found it when I checked Yahoo® for the correct spelling of Trayvon’s name.

I was just fuming after seeing that!! I don’t understand WHY drug paraphernalia OR being suspended from school has ANYTHING to do with being killed when holding a bag of candy and a bottle of pop?

We had something kind of similar here in Minnesota when there was a hit and run accident involving the vehicle of a well-known former Viking’s wife. She didn’t turn herself in for 2 days and it was all over the news that she had been driving the car. There again I ask, why does she get special treatment? If it was an average person they would have been picked up and put in jail immediately!!!!

Our justice system is so screwed up that it needs to be called something other than “justice” because from what I am seeing, there really isn’t any justice. I guess I kind of knew that when OJ was acquitted of what I FEEL he was guilty of the murder of his ex-wife and a friend. That was one of those moments when I will always remember where I was when I saw and heard the verdict unfortunately!

So, if you feel like commenting please do. All I ask is that it be your opinion and that you be respectful. I WILL delete any abusive comments. I am asking for OPINIONS only. Thanks!

~Jazzi~

 

I am off to bed soon it is….

2:42am CST and I like to be asleep by the time my hubby gets up at the very least anyway. He arises at 5:30am to our dog who sees him as HER savior and no one including me can have him……more about that in another post.

I currently have our youngest fur child Giselle loving me up and reminding me it is sleep time because she sleeps with me and believes that it keeps her protected from the dog. She is sincerely annoyed that I am on the computer and in a place where she can no longer walk on my keyboard to get my attention and that I had the nerve to spray all the wires in the corner she liked to pounce from with “No Bite” spray because she had started to gnaw on the wiring.

Right before this post I had left a comment of a fellow blogger who last post that landed in my inbox spoke volumes to me and everything that I complain about all the time to the one person in the world that I knows that agrees with everything I say (mostly) or tells me that I am “preaching to the choir” when he is not in the mood or has heard the story for the magical number of times that he can’t take it anymore. They seem to vary dependent on subject, how old they are and if they caused me a lot of pain. He is my hero for sure.

For all of the bullying that I endured in High School and even Junior High and basically starting when we moved from one predominantly religious community to another that was the opposite religion so to speak at the time. (early 70’s) Since I don’t consider myself either of these two of the three or four major religions I won’t state them so it doesn’t start on religion.

It is after 3am and the kitty is driving me crazy and into everything she shouldn’t be and getting ready to leap on to my lap top. Note to readers and self: Posts are due on my bullying vs today’s bullying and a weekly update of what I’ve been up to this past week which I hope to make a regular Friday feature of this blog.

A question for you if you are reading this while I sleep or are otherwise engaged in the day: Being that this is a blog, is thoughtful well written posts not enough anymore for readers? While I DO hope to spiffy it up being an artist and all; music will probably never be added and video is a big ? until I learn to use our camera from the holidays better. Would you come back if all I did was add some color and art or some of my own pics?

Wow, even those questions just started my mind off on more tangents that go hand in hand (sort of) with bullying. Are well written and thoughtful posts no longer good enough for an average blog?

Not even a week? Seriously?

I find it quite amazing that I have not had by blog even a week yet. In addition I really wonder why this step (starting a blog) was so daunting to me. I am very comfortable with computers and was a Facebook addict for over a year. I really think I DID eat, sleep and breathe Facebook and the games I played. I think if I had not decided to stop or at least slow it down that my marriage would have been at risk. Seriously, he was so relieved when I finally quit all together.

My fear of blogging and starting a blog can only be compared to my complete and utter fear of the computer itself while in College. I was TERRIFIED to use the computer lab at school. I was shamed into it eventually by my Comp teacher who asked me in front of the class why my paper had grammar and spelling errors and I told her that it was because my typewriter didn’t have spell check.

At this time I was still of the belief that pushing the wrong button could equal a meltdown or complete crash of the computer. As time went by I not only became comfortable with computers, but became a software guru of sorts especially after a 27 hour, 8 tech specialists phone call with a well-known computer company’s support.

I am now at the point that I repair my parent’s computer remotely from my house and help them with any computer type purchases they need to make. My husband is very adept at the inside and guts of computers which is an area that I am not comfortable with. Therefore he does any of the inside stuff needed and I am the software wiz. This wasn’t how I thought my life would be, but who can ever really predict their lives?

I will have to write more on this another time because my husband has decided to switch the living room around and the cat is close to death as he chews on my Monster High girls hair! How a cat that can be around me 24/7 and ignore me completely become Mr. Lovable the minute either of us gets on a computer is beyond me. I will have to address this on my Zoo blog when I have it and see what people think and if it is a common feline thing or if I just have a PITA?

Hugs,

~Jazzi~

Oh no………………….new MH characters

While checking out completed listings on eBay® to see what all is selling of Monster High® stuff right now so that I can be prepared to set my auctions up next week to go; I received a message from a wholesaler that wanted me to put money down on a set of “Entirely NEW Monster High® Dolls”! OMG!

I am absolutely floored! I figured that with Friday the 13th being in April that something big was coming, however entirely new dolls?

I had to just take deep breaths and continue doing what I was doing and let the chips fall where they may. I am working on making mock ups of furniture so that R can cut the wood for them and also designing awesome Halloween Ball Gowns and Costumes. Our caskets will be made out of real wood and have a mattress and pillow inside them. There will also be regular beds, bunk beds, and bedroom, dining room and living room furniture. All will be made of wood and upholstered by hand. There will be different patterns available for the covers and bedding and also an additional sleeping bag.

I am also very busy working on some jewelry for them, framed pictures and mirrors and even hand bound scrapbooks with the fun pictures of the gang.

I am REALLY excited for all these things things that we have in the works. I have a lot of fun Monster High® sketch journals and velvet posters that I will be listing on eBay® along with a few new dolls and other extras I have found around the house. I am hoping to earn some money to help pay for decorations and more materials for the furniture and jewelry.

I will try to check in a few times a week until we have our website construction classes or our domain is switched back to our former provider. At that time this blog will be moved to our own domain that will allow it to be commercial free and I will be starting additional blogs.

One to keep an eye out for is the life and times of being a mom to our “zoo” of fur children while hubby is at work. The antics are wild and funny and I have been keeping notes of their shenanigans for a while now. Even earlier this evening there was an unintended “trauma” to our youngest kitty when I had not cleared all the Monster House® stuff from the table where she eats. I think she is still a bit shocked by the whole thing. Stay tuned for “the.zoo” two people outnumbered by fur children and how we cope.

Have a great day and/or night wherever you are!

Hugs,
~Jazzi~

Wowzers!

I totally amazed myself today with all that I was able to accomplish. Holy wow, when I listed all that I had done today to my DH when he came home; I even impressed myself. lol Between the phone calls, organizing and other things I was feeling pretty good and proud.

Someone was in a bad mood and it felt to me like I was being baited into an argument. However knowing this and having decided that NOTHING was going to wreck my wonderful day, I did not take the bait and thus no argument ensued. *giggle*

It was great to finally have a day when I feel that I really accomplished a lot more than planned.

Hugs,

~Jazzi~

Water Lillies

As I am learning to blog………..*sigh*

My First Post

Welcome to the first of my many blogs. My name is Jazzi and the common joke among many PSP folks etc is that we may sit down to “check something” and find that we have been on the computer for many hours and are shocked! We call it “chasing shiny things”; here is a toast to my first post on my first blog.