One of my bestest friends in the whole world recently went to Greece, and is one of the most incredible artists in the entire world. I love her to death. She is going to Simmons College in Boston and is doing fabulous. She sent me the link to her website recently. She is into directing and making films. I admire her so much, and I love her work. She made this site on her own.
Check it out, I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s fabulous.
So, I’m really in to art and all that. I love to write as well. However, my husband actually published his first book in the last couple of books.
It’s called Cryptic Advice. It’s available on www.amazon.com. Search for Jared Anderson under books.
Buy it. Read it. You’ll love it!
I have a really good friend that has two blogs. He’s one of those witty, smart, funny people. If you like to write about random things (and who doesn’t) he has a contest that make you eligible to win one dollar each month. Check it out
http://onedollaressay.blogspot.com
Additonally, if you like to argue about the virtues of pumpkin pie over pecan or cocount cream, or you’d like to discuss the vlaue of French Canadians, try this one
http://newsofmyviews.blogspot.com
Happy blogging 
Hello,
I am taking a college class doing political science. I wrote the following paper. It only took me a little while, but I figured you might at least be a little curious what my writing looks like.
Have fun.
Once you become a working member of the society, you can’t help but start to look at the world around you and see how it works. One of the most influential things that has happened to me recently was the presidential election. This has really been the first time that I have been able to look at the candidates and the issues, make a rational decision and vote on what I felt was best.
In elections there are usually two big, influential things that the candidates use to grab the attention of the American public. One is usually a domestic issue and one is usually a foreign issue.
It’s pretty obvious at this time that the biggest foreign issue was the war on terror, specifically, the war in Iraq. There have been at least 250,000 soldiers over there fighting for this cause. One of those was my sister, and two others have been very close to both her and I. This issue was one that piqued my interest, and it was the issue that was the most widely talked about by the candidates. The public hears about the issue from both sides. One candidate wanted to leave the troops there (Bush), the other candidate wanted to bring them home (Kerry). Many mothers asked to have their kids come home, while many soldiers actually voiced that they wanted to stay there and get the job done. There were other issues, like the upset in North Korea, however the war on Iraq was the biggest (according to the candidates, the news, the polls and the people) issue before the election.
I did some research on www.cnn.com, and I found that the war in Iraq was the only foreign issue on the list of important issues.
The second influential area is the most important issue domestically in America. I have read several different sources that have said different things, but it appears that before the election, people had their attention mostly on terrorism. That was actually the second biggest area. This does in fact tie into the foreign issue that I was talking about, however terrorism is a very close to home thing, and it can’t be considered something that is “out there.” According to www.foxnews.com, 25% of the public had terrorism as the # 1 most important issue.
However, I looked at the data from the exit polls on the most important foreign policy issue (at www.cnn.com), and I found that many people that were polled were most concerned about moral values. It held 22% of the public as the most important domestic issue.
On the foreign issue, the polls were dead on, but they were totally off on the domestic issue. I have thought this over, and there could be several reasons that it is that way.
Firstly, it is possible that the people that were surveyed prior to the election didn’t all vote, and people may not have been surveyed that did vote. That could be one cause of the reason, but I think that the more important issue is that people change their minds. On Election Day it really is down to business with no more “talk” about how great everything can be. The voter actually has to stand aside and make his opinion known to the rest of the country. At that point it time, his perspectives may change. There is also a lot of last minute campaigning about the issues before the ballots open, and that has a very big impact on the voters.
So, although the polls were correct about the foreign issue, they were quite far off about what the issue here at home was.
I must not be a big a Kenny Chesney fan as I thought I was. I found out today that there are MANY Kenny Chesney albums that I don’t own. What the heck is that.
Kenny Chesney Greatest Hits
No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem
I will Stand
Me & You
In my Wildest Dreams
All I Need to Know
When the Sun Goes Down
Now I know what I want to get for Christmas. I just hope I can wait that long. That’s unreal for me.
Kenny RULES!
Also, you cam see any of his music videos at www.launch.com
Check him out. I’m sure you’ll love him.
As all my friends know, my second favorite famous person is definitely Kenny Chesney.
I went to his Guitars, Tiki Bars and a Whole Lot of Love tour here in Portland, and I had a total blast. I just got news that he is coming out with a new album.
Of course, now I have an item to tell people when they ask me what I want for Christmas. I really enjoy his music, and I’ve been waiting for this day for some time.
I’m so glad he’s so successful.
Check out his websites. He’s great!
One of my favorite people on the planet is having a baby. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s my sister. I am already an aunt once over, but now I really am going to have an nephew. Check out the album on the side of my sister. These are pictures of her pregnant with the baby and also a sonogram of the baby.
I’m excited!
I guess I’m twice blessed because my brother is going to be having a baby with his wife the month after my sister is due. Wow…I sure hope people don’t expect me to be next. My goat has been sucessful in keeping my hands full.
Recently, my goat was attacked by a wild dog.
I came home from breakfast out with my husband one day, and he had blood on his neck. I jumped out of the car and cleaned him up. He wouldn’t have made it, but my fantastic mother-in-law came up with the idea to put him inside our house in our spare bathtub. Of course it sounds odd, but what normal person has a goat, much less one that lives in a bathtub,
After many days of spoiling, he started to get a lot better. We actually successfully house trained him to the point that he would go outside anytime he needed to “use the facilities.”
He has now been dubbed the bathtub goat. He’s successfully tricked us into spoiling him and allowing him to sleep in the bathtub at night. Of course he gets hand fed grain, fresh picked grass and a nice assortment of prickly blackberry bushes.
So, it is possible to cure a goat of severe wild dog attacks. All you need is a bathtub.
Greg is now doing a lot better. We like him all the more for the time he’s spent in our house. Check out his picture in the album and you’ll understand why I went to such great lengths to help him make it.
Check out my album for photos of my goat and donkey. They are totally adorable.