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Chocolate Bar

Crush-Monkey
11 hours ago
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Tomorrow on Saturday 12/5 I am headed into the Langham Hotel in Boston with my friends Deb and Jenn to go to a chocolate brunch!!!

I will have my camera and iPhone so you know there will be photos of all they YUMMY treats!!!! : )

Chocolate bar

Langham chocolate

Crush on You

As much as I try to make the Crush the Anti Crush it just isn't working. I should just add 'and dreaming of Crush Monkey' back to my Vox tag line now.

One of my friends had this obscure Bruce song on her Facebook today ~

Crush on You

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you tonight

Sometimes I spot a little stranger standing 'cross the room

My brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room

For one kiss, darling I swear everything I would give

Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you

Ooh, ooh, I gotta crush on you tonight

QotD: Reminiscing about the Internet

Crush-Monkey
12 hours ago
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Do you remember the things you did when you first started using the Web and how it has changed your life?
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I wouldn't say the internet changed my life, but it has helped me to know some great people! HEY! Vox even helped with that!! : )

It's old news now that the Ugandan Parliament is considering a bill (called the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill) that would impose prison time for people found to be homosexuals, prison time for anyone who knows a homosexual and doesn't report them, and death for repeat offenders and homosexuals who are HIV-positive. The Parliamentarian who introduced it, David Bahati, has been associated by some with The Family, the semi-secret (recently not so secret) fundamentalist Christian group that interferes in politics in the U.S. and abroad.

See a copy of the actual bill here.

This doesn't exactly come as a shock. Uganda is a backward, third-world country by almost any standard. It should also be noted that this is a bill, not yet law.

Also less than shocking, though worth mentioning, is the complete silence on the issue from U.S. evangelical religions. Pastor Rick Warren, of the Saddleback Church in California and the pastor chosen to give the invocation President Obama's inauguration, has refused to give an opinion on the Bill, saying that it is not his place "as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations." This seems an odd position for a religious leader who has no problem interfering in his own nation's political process and runs an international religious organization known as the PEACE Plan, a pro-Christian movement associated with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who may or may not have had a role in the massacre of millions of civilians in his country in 1994. Warren was specifically asked what he thought of the bill because he has previously been associated with the Ugandan minister most vocally supporting the bill, Martin Ssempa.

The Anglican Church of Uganda is still "studying the bill" and has not taken a position, but took the opportunity to reiterate their opposition to homosexuality in general.

A search for the term "anti-homosexuality bill" at Focus on the Family's website comes up with 0 results. Same for the Assemblies of God. Same for the Southern Baptist Convention. Same for the Catholic Church, including the Vatican's website. Though each of these religious organizations officially believe the homosexuals can be "cured," they are surprisingly silent about a bill that would make executing gays the norm.

It's true that a number of churches have condemned the bill. Unfortunately, it may not be enough.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

- Pastor Martin Niemöller

Bono needs a holiday

Bono Red

Bono is looking a little tired. I hope he goes home to relax with the family for the holidays!

This photo is from a press conference announcing that Nike has joined the Product Red Line.

The other guy in the photo? Didier Drogba. He plays for Chelsea. My brothers were not happy to see him as one is a Man United supporter and the other one supports Liverpool.

Baking brothers

It's funny that this week my brothers have cooked/baked more than me.

On Sunday during football my brother Joe baked up some yummy cupcakes. He wanted evidence to show his friends on FB so I took a photo! : )

Joe cupcakes

Tonight, my brother Billy who I refer to as PITA (pain in the arse) baked chocolate chip cookies, yes they were frozen but still !!!! They came out yummy!

Discovering needlefelting and other things

Scooter Kitty
4 days ago

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Before I begin..what is going on with Vox? It's been acting weird..first I inserted a photo and it ended up on some weird part of my screen. Now there's a weird vertical orange line in the content box...I don't understand?!?!

I have a new addiction...and it is called needle felting. Have you tried it? It's so fun. I also started wet felting. I've made this funny looking macaroon cookie thing. I need to buy thos weird googley eyeball things and stick it on it. I've made a pin. I wet felted some soap. And now I'm working on a weird cuff/corsage. I can't stop! I need an intervention where someone stops me from going to the Home Ec Shop.

You can take a class with Jenny Ryan, who is really nice and sweet and super supportive. I'm so glad I could take a class this time. I always miss out because they really sell out pretty fast.

Thanksgiving was super fun. We actually had an early celebration the week before and then the day of I hung out with Ambookgeek and Melle. So fun! We watched "The September Issue" and then ate at the French Market/Quarter in WeHo. I'm so glad I could spend it with 2 fantastic friends.

Also, there's only "14 teaching days" (someone corrected me this morning after I blurted out - "We have 3 weeks left til break!!!" - nope only 14 days.

I think I will bake my cookies for the staff & faculty next week. I have some new recipes and I invested in a Kitchenaid stand-up mixer. I already made this awesome chocolate pecan pie with it. Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

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Also, it's Worlds AIDS day today.

QotD: NFL Check-in

It's Week 12 of the NFL season. How's your team faring?
Ohhh no! The Patriots are getting clobbered tonight! UGH!!!!!

Tom Brady does not look happy.

Skipped high school reunion

My high school reunion was last night. Don't make me say how many years.

I haven't gone to any of my high school reunions. I had a few close friends during those years and we have pretty much drifted apart.

With the magic of Facebook a few (2) people from HS have found me and I accepted their friendship. Since then about 10 have found me and attempted to friend me, but I have left their requests pending. I want to just ignore, but feel that would be too mean? Hmmmm.

I did get notes from the 2 that found me asking if I was going to the reunion. One girl was even flying in from Florida to attend! I live a mile from where the reunion was held and I could NOT do it.

So, photos were uploaded and shared on FB today. Curiosity of course made me look through about 100 of them. Luckily they were tagged with who the people were because I only recognized about FIVE people.

As I looked through the pictures I kept thinking two things:

1) Who are all these old people??

2) Where would I have been in that room if I had gone? For the life of me I couldn't envision myself going back. So many people say that High School was the happiest and best time of their life. It was just miserable and full of sadness for me, so why would I ever want to revisit or celebrate that??!

OK, letting it go...NOW~