Domestic Divapalooza

Let’s see..

I have not really posted anything since around Father’s Day. 

I’ve been busy for sure!!

For starters, my brother and his family came up to Omaha to visit us. They stayed for about a week and we had a blast catching up. 

The kids are beautiful and so much bigger since the last time that we saw them. We  had a wonderful time and a great visit together.

After that..

We celebrated Grandpa’s 90th birthday.

It’s hard to believe that it’s possible for us to live to be that old.

Family members came from all over the Midwest to be there on Grandpa’s special day.

I wonder how old I will live to be.

After that..

I went to my 20 year high school reunion. 

That was a blast for sure once I figured out who everybody was.

Some people were recognizable and others I had to look at the name tag in order to connect the dots.

It’s understandable because 20 years is a long time.

One gal I was talking to was relieved when I finally told her who I was.

I found that the 20  year reunion was much more enjoyable than the 10  year. I think it’s because everybody is pretty much over the whole pretense of what we have done with our lives.

We were just all excited to be together for a fun filled weekend.

Our next reunion will be a 25 year one. Nobody wants to wait 10 more years to get together. I have a feeling many of us will stay in touch much better over the years and will wind up visiting one another when we happen to be in the same town.

Some of us go all the way back to middle school. That’s almost 30 years of knowing somebody. That’s a long time.

After that..

The darn storm hit Omaha. They said the winds were around 90 mph but then later on somebody else had said they were clocked at around 115 mph.

The sirens went off not because there was a tornado reported but because of how fast and strong the winds were moving.

They said they were hurricane-like winds which we all know can be much worse than a tornado.

I should have taken a photo of the BP station by my house. After looking at that I find it hard to believe that we didn’t have some sort of tornado going on mixed in with those hard winds.

Our neighborhood sustains tons of damage but at least we were only without power for about a day-and-a-half. Last I  heard on the radio South Omaha was still without power  yesterday afternoon.

This week..

We are celebrating the fourth of July and our Independence.

Don is on vacation and we aren’t going anywhere because gas is just WAY too high.

The other reason we aren’t going anywhere is because with the power going out — our sump pump overfilled and flooded our basement. All the bailing water in the world couldn’t prevent THAT from happening so we are waiting to see how much THAT damage will cost us.

First it was the furnace..

$4,000.00 later it was the air conditioner..

And now gas is up to almost $4.00 per gallon. Ugh!!

Sunday we had Christmas in July with our friends.

Yesterday I got the girls hair cut. (It’s so cute!)

I’m also back at the gym and sometimes it’s twice daily because of swimming lessons.

Anyway..

That’s what I’ve been up to!!

Here’s a direct link just in case

I haven’t been around much because I’ve been having a nice time visiting with my brother Christopher and his family. They drove all the way up from Texas and spent about a week with us. It was a nice visit.

We also celebrated Don’s Grandpa’s 90th Birthday. Can you even imagine living to be 90 years old? How Awesome is THAT!?

I won’t be around next week. I have my 20th high school reunion to go to and that will be down in Texas. It’s going to be HOT FUN in the HOT Texas sun for sure!

I get to fly in and spend time with my best friend since I was 12 years old on Wednesday. We’ll be hanging out.. ringing in our week together. It will be a nice time.

This is an interesting video with excellent points that have been made about  Barack Hussein Obama. The points that have been made are not based on "feelings" but on facts. 

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

I have a problem with all the hatred going on in this election; I would like to ask you all a question.

What is the difference in a minister spewing hatred of the whites from the pulpit, or the KKK in front of a burning cross? It is all evil and those teaching such hatred should not be applauded especially in our churches where our children are being brainwashed.

Slavery was well over 100 years ago; lets make our world a better place.

Some of my grandparents came from Ireland, and other were Cherokee they also suffered hardships but I never heard them talking with such hatred.

How can our country ever heal if we do not learn to forgive our past?

Hat Tip! Not Before Coffee

I agree with Gayla on this one.

I’m shocked that people going to church to worship God would subscribe to any preacher teaching to hate OR mock in the way that some churches do.

As somebody who’s blog was watched by a white supremacist group here in Omaha it was just a tad bit frustrating to think that they expected me to hate right along-side with them just because I was white.

I don’t know why people do not forgive more these days.

Even if you can’t have a personal relationship with the people that hate you OR your ideas, you can still pray for them and forgive them.

The other thing is maybe large quantities of groups can’t forgive the past because they were brought up OR brain washed to hate. That is certainly something else we can pray about and I guess no matter how hard it is to do sometimes.. we can set the example.

I know there are times when I feel as though I have done all I can do short of washing the feet of my enemies. Most people know that what they are doing is wrong and they may not ever come out of that type of sickness.

All we can do is continue acknowledge that hate, recognize it and admit to it instead of sweeping it under the rug, and pray over it.

I know if it had been my pastor that had spoke like the ones at Obama’s church for so many years.. I would have never let it get to 20-something years of knowing these people hate the way that they do.

I would get up and take my family out of there and find a church that is truly bible-based.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton has told congressional colleagues she would be open to becoming Barack Obama’s vice presidential nominee, saying she would consider it if it would help Democrats win the White House.

Clinton, a New York senator, made the comment on a conference call with other New York lawmakers Tuesday, according a participant on the call.

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs

If that’s the case then you can certainly bet that I will be voting for John McCain.

I will be voting for John McCain even if it’s just Obama with a no-name for the VP spot.

The only person that had an inkling of a chance to be John McCain is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It will be interesting to see if she concede’s the Democratic Nomination since mathematically Obama is ahead.

Will she do it before OR during Democratic Convention?

To suggest that God or karma wiped out innocent people, because He is unhappy with their government’s international political position is, in my never to be humble opinion, blasphemous, and phenomenally insensitive and disgusting.

Christian Dior has dropped spokeswoman Stone from their advertisements in China, and has also apologized to its customers there. But, I imagine, because she is a popular, liberal, Hollywood type, with great facial bone structure, she will not be feeling the negative impact of her own “karma” for very long.

Hat Tip: Dr. Laura

Obama threw his church  under the bus and it vanished into thin air. I can’t find it any more. Well, maybe that’s what Obama wants us to think but I’m not buying it.

The only reason he and his family have left the church is because the relationship has helped the American people to connect the dots as to the company Obama keeps.

If Obama continue to attend church OR to admit that is his church home then all of a sudden he gets to be held accountable for the company that he keeps. Come on, we’re not THAT stupid.

You mean to tell me that after 20 years and a couple of baptisms later he now knows what horrible things the pastors of that church have been teaching?

If it really didn’t matter in the first place then why would he throw the church under the bus? If it was a non-issue then he would have never had to leave the church in the first place. The thing is, it really does matter what has been spewed from the pulpit. So much so that he knows if he doesn’t leave OR do something drastic to denounce what’s been preached - he could lose the Democratic nomination OR worse, nobody will vote for him when he wins the party nomination.

I hope Hillary Clinton pulls it off and no I do NOT see her working side-by-side with Obama.

Jodette L. "Jody" Schott

SCHOTT-Jodette "Jody" L., age 41. She is survived by her children, Nathaniel (Dezzarea) Schott, Destiny Schott, Amanda Schott and Cassidy Conley; grandchildren, Caleb and Alyssa; parents, Sid and Brenda Dunn, Shelby, NE; grandmother, Wynelle Mask, Owasso, OK; brother, Russell Dunn, Omaha; sister, Becky (John) Pettigrew, Valentine, NE; as well as many nieces, nephews and good friends.
Funeral Services Wed., 10:30 AM at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church with Interment at 2:30PM in the Osceola Cemetery, Osceola, NE. Visitation with the family Tues., 5-8 PM at the Pacific Street Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to the charity of the donor’s choice. JOHN A. GENTLEMAN MORTUARIES
PACIFIC STREET CHAPEL
14151 Pacific St., 391-1664
Published in the Omaha World-Herald from 2/24/2008 - 2/26/2008.

This was a shock to me for so many reasons. It’s taken me some time to really absorb the information. The above is what I found on the Omaha World-Herald web site.

Omaha Loses Another Fine Realtor

The other day I heard that Jody Schott of CBSHome Real Estate died. Jody had been in the business a long time and was one of Omaha’s top agents.  She was always friendly to work with and very professional. From what I heard she died of a brain embolism. She was just 41 years old. This is the second Realtor in Omaha to go before her time in the last few months (Tragic Shooting in Omaha takes Nine Lives including one Realtor).

I was having a hard time trying to figure out how Jody died. So acouple of weeks ago I started searching on Google an the above blog entry is what I discovered. After finding that I left my comments and just did the best that I could with what I wrote:

Dear Trumm Team,

Thank you for putting together a little blurb about what happened to Jody. I am deeply saddened after finding out that she is no longer with us and was anxious to know why.

I only knew Jody for a short time but in that time I felt like I had known her for years. It was always apparent how much she loved her family and respected her profession.

I will not do her justice trying to describe her so let me just say that she was an Awesome human being and I feel lucky to have been able to know her.

05/12/2008 08:48 AM
by Angela Stevens

She was a superb real estate professional and everywhere you went in Omaha it showed! We actually hired Jody after our previous residence had been on the market for almost 6 months. She had our property sold in just under 2 months even with all the negative real estate issues going on.

The last time we saw Jody was at Sam’s club over the Christmas Holiday Season. We had planned on getting our girls together to play. You know how sometimes when you first meet somebody you get a sort-of vibe about them? Well, I liked Jody right from the get go and could see myself being fast friends with her. Looking back I wish I would have acted on that friendship and scheduled that play-date quicker because I’m almost positive my life would have been blessed even more!

As I said in my comment on the Trumm Team blog.. trying to describe her does no justice for everything good that she stood for. She was a terrific lady and a wonderful human being.

Normally I don’t copy and paste somebody’s entire post to my blog but in this case I felt it necessary to repeat this information because many Obama supporters do NOT understand OR see what they need to know about this disturbing relationship that Obama has had with his mentor! Full and complete credit goes to Little Green Footballs and the Hat Tip goes directly to the original post! If you  have a problem with it then you leave your comment over there because you won’t be able to convince me over here. Lastly, I don’t believe that Martin Luther King would approve of Obama if he were alive today!

Here’s where you start reading:

To this day, Barack Obama continues to insist he was shocked and surprised to discover that Reverend Jeremiah Wright had bizarre racist views.

Now Tom Blumer has discovered images of Wright’s radical newsmagazine Trumpet—and look who was featured on the cover of that magazine at least three times: BizzyBlog - Attention Stanley Kurtz, Re Obama, Wright, Trumpet: I’ve Got You Covered.

Here’s one of the images, featuring pictures of Barack Obama, Rev. Wright — and Louis Farrakhan. Isn’t that cozy?

And if you think Barack Obama didn’t know he was featured on this cover, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.

For more about the deranged, hateful content of Trumpet, see: Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet’.

UPDATE at 5/13/08 5:42:49 pm:

LGF readers have identified several of the other people on this cover:

Adam Clayton Powell — 1st row, 1st from left
Dick Gregory — 1st row, 2nd from left
Shirley Chisholm — 1st row, 4th from left
O. J. Simpson attorney Johnny Cochran — 1st row, 5th from left
Rosa Parks — 1st row, 6th from left
Rapper “Common” — 2nd row, 1st from left
Is that Robert Mugabe? 2nd row, 2nd from left
Luther Vandross — 4th row, 1st from left
Ozzie Davis — 4th row, 2nd from left
Lou Rawls — 4th row, 3rd from left
Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad — 4th row, 5th from left

Notice who’s missing? Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is the end of the post!