Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in celynen's LiveJournal:

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Monday, March 30th, 2009
10:57 am	Happy Birthday to me For my birthday, the boys gave me a cold.  I hope there's no return policy.  We're all sick of being sick. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
10:20 pm	omg The month is half over.  In 15 days I will be 40.  Excuse me while I go freak out. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
10:11 pm	Getting older sucks I just pulled a rogue eyebrow hair that was close to an inch long. Yes, I measured. Is this what I have to look forward to? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 9th, 2009
1:37 pm	The hypocrisy of people is amazing. "Yesterday, the leadership of Yes on Prop 8 filed a lawsuit in federal court to void a voter-passed proposition that requires the disclosure of information for people who donate more than $100 to a campaign. They claim their donors have been victimized for bankrolling the ban on marriage for LGBT couples...This is the same "leadership" that sent menacing letters to Equality California donors and corporate sponsors, threatening to "expose" them if they did not make a similar donation to the Yes on 8 campaign." (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
11:20 am	I'm dreaming of a white... Boxing Day? I couldn't have a white Christmas, since we wanted to stay at home and have a low-key day, but I did talk Bob into loading up the kids and his mom and headed down to Yosemite on the day after. They had a huge dump of snow Christmas day, so we were greeted by the most spectacular winter wonderland that I've ever experienced. Ryan had a great time sledding and his first experience on ice skates (which he was begging to do, but of course after one turn around the rink, he was done :) The view from our room at Tenaya Lodge: (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
6:57 pm	on-line shanaghans It's amazing how the internet and the cover of anonymity makes perfectly sane, sober adults think they can act like 12-year old school children without repercussions? That's a rhetorical question -- the answer being that there are seeming sane, sober adults who really are no more mature than a 12-year old, and the anonymity lets them express their true nature. I really treasure some of the message boards on which I've gotten great parenting advice or made a few genuine friends. But, man, it only takes one ass the ruin the whole thing -- for a day or two anyway, because message board memories are short (funny since the internet stores them indefinitely...) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
12:36 pm	Joining the Impact We were moving too slow Saturday morning to get the larger rallies in the Bay Area. So we opted to go to the one in the next town over -- a very red, very CA Central Valley, kind of place where Yes got almost 70% of the vote. We knew it'd be small, but were happy to add our little collective of 4 to the crowd (and no Marriage Ban folks turned up to beat the crap out of us, which is a bonus). (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
8:15 pm	1. My uncle once: I can't think of anything interesting to share about my uncle. But I have a family friend, whom I have called Bob my entire life. When I was in my early 30s, he asked me to start calling him Uncle Bob. That was just really, really creepy. 2. Never in my life: Did I think I'd have one boy, let alone two. Of course, now I can't really imagine having a girl. 3. When I was five: Tom Gallagher puked on my crayons -- for which I will never forgive him. Man, that image has been burned on my retinas for almost 35 years now... 4. High school was: A long, long time ago. 5. I will never forget: I've a crap memory. Chances are I'll forget my own name at some point. 6. Once I met (and befriended): A kid who was tossed out on the streets when he was 12. I wish I could say I'd made a difference in his life, but he turned out pretty much how you'd expect a preteen how learned to forage through garbage and got hooked on speed at that age would. 7. There’s this girl I know: Who is trying to figure out how she ended up in an almost 40-yr old body. 8. Once, at a bar: I met a guy who'd lost a bet and as a result was dressed by his friend in neon board shorts, over sweats, and a red bandana tied around his ankle, with a black leather trench coat and a beret. 9. By noon, I’m usually: Trying to figure out how to con Ryan into eating something other than bread with cream cheese. 10. Last night: My snoring woke me up twice. Yay for colds. 11. If only I had: More money than sense. 12. Next time I go to church: Might be when we christen Aaron, assuming I can convince an unsuspecting AoD to come be a godmother ;) 13. What worries me most: The kids. 14. When I turn my head left I see: Aaron's sleeping face. So cute. 15. When I turn my head right I see: The horror show that is my office. 16. You know I’m lying when: I tell you. 17. What I miss most about the Eighties is: Going clubbing every weekend. I really, really miss dancing. 18. If I were a character in Shakespeare I’d be: According to "Which 12th Night Character are you?" I'm "Viola. You are cheerful yet strong; you are honest, yet able to keep a secret. You inspire love in those around you, even when it complicates things." 19. I have a hard time understanding: How "Yes on 8 = Free Speech and Less Government" 20. If I ever go back to school: Shoot me (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
9:12 pm	oh man... Sooo... those people that I was feeling bad for, the ones who'd paid double what we did 2 years ago and have lost half their home value, were interviewed on Nightline. They have a different facade than we do, and a much larger backyard, but my model made the news. Heh. http://abcnews.go.com/nightline (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
3:13 pm	So... My grandfather has been diagnosed with an inoperable, aggressive, malignant brain tumor. Please think good thoughts. With chemo et al, they're giving him a year. (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
7:07 am	Halloween 08 Aaron as the gnome: And in Ryan's bee costume from last year: Ryan as the pirate: Who says "Aaarrrr! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
11:26 am	We took to the cornerside yesterday with kids in tow for an impromptu rally (a less than stellar photo of me): (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
2:23 pm	Sad but true The only use for my BA in Art History is to get prefect scores on internet quizzes. Your result for The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz... Art History Major 100% Artiste! Art History Major: You scored 100% Artiste! You've studied art for years, and therefore you recognized almost if not all the works represented here. Way to go! Take The Famous (and Not So Famous) Art Quiz at HelloQuizzy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 17th, 2008
9:14 pm	Errr I'm supposed to post a Black Adder quote in my LJ. You should too. So many to choose from, I'll pick two. "I'm absolutely top-hole, sir, with an ying and yang and yippiedeedoo." (George) and Nursie: You almost were a boy, my little cherry pip. Queenie: What? Nursie: Yeah, out you popped out of you mummy's tumkin and everyone shouted, 'It's a boy! It's a boy!', then somebody said, 'but he doesn't have a winkle.' Then, I said, 'A boy without a winkle? God be praised it's a miracle: a boy without a winkle!' And then, Sir Thomas Moore pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
1:22 pm	Oh Proponents of Prop 8, how I despise you... Don't even get me started on Prop 8. Every time I see one of those signs, I get pissed off. The bigots couldn't get their way with Prop 22, which tried to change the Civil Code and got overturned as unconstitutional, for those who don't follow CA politics...And now gay people are allowed to marry in this state because restricting that right was deemed unconstitutional. So, of course what the conservative right wants to do is change to our freaking constitution. A change that takes away a right that gays currently have. It's truly unbelievable. It introduces hate and bigotry into our constitution, and in my mind is no different than, say, trying to change the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" or trying to rescind the 19th amendment. I wonder, if they win, if their next step will be to change the constitution to make divorce verboten. You know, because marriage is so sacred that the government should be sent to protect it. I'll remember that next time one of the big Christian Right leaders is exposed as an adulterer. I really just don't think this is what our constitution is for. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 10th, 2008
3:55 pm	I've not been a big fan of Palin, I should say that upfront in case anyone has missed the obvious. But, her new stump speech claiming the Obama "pals around with terrorists", which incidentally has incited people to yell "kill him" (without any repercussions from Palin -- I can't believe she didn't stop in her tracks and tell those yellers that such talk is unwelcome and inappropriate)... anyway, this new stump speech is flat out dangerously deceitful. It may be true that Obama was an acquaintance or a friend of Ayers, but his subversive activity is in the very distant past and really irrelevant, and I would argue more irrelevant than say giving the opening address at the convention of a bunch of secessionists in 2008... His acquaintance does not make Obama a terrorist, and it doesn't take too many brain cells to see that they're pandering to the people who want to believe that Obama is a closet Jihadist. Painting Obama this way, imo, is akin to wearing a t-shirt with his head on a bull's eye. If she's trying to get him assassinated, she's going about it just right. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
10:00 pm	Now that the rumor mill is starting to put the idea out there that a VP debate could be off the table relatively easily, I'm really wondering how Palin supporters will view such a move. Will the right-leaning public decide that, since she's not actually running for POTUS herself, that a debate is unnecessary? I'm pretty sure the left-leaning public will be foaming at the mouth. That Couric interview just left me feeling really sorry for this woman, she's so flustered and probably drowning in information that she can't even put a coherent sentence together. Without the pressure of the media trying to get responses to questions that she clearly doesn't know the answer to, she'd probably never equate governing over the air space through which Putin might fly as foreign policy experience. Hell, when I was supposed to know about everything there is to know about early medieval Europe, at least I had a year to bone up on the subject. I can't imagine trying to take my qualifying exams with only a few weeks preparation, let alone doing it in front of the whole world. What boggles my mind though is that the VP candidate is someone who's having to pull all-nighters to try and pass the most basic exam. How did this happen? I mean seriously, how is this person get in this position? She should be pulling all-nighters to learn the fine points, she shouldn't need a basic education in national politics! I imagine that the people who vote for her solely because she's pro-life, or because she's a woman, or because she has a son in Iraq, or because she opposes gay marriage, or because she's a MILF, I wonder if those people will still care about those issues or be happy with their selection criteria when our economy has completely collapsed and they're trying to figure out how to subsistence farm in their backyard because the grocery stores are empty, or recycle fabric to keep clothes on their kids because all the box stores have gone bankrupt and the Mom and Pops are long gone, or get to their job 20 miles away on foot because they can't afford the gas, if the station has any at all. It seems to far fetched to imagine that happening here, in the great USA, but seriously we might actually find out what could happen when we elect someone completely unqualified for the job, someone who makes major life decisions without blinking, and I have to admit that kinda scares the crap out of me. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
8:03 am	PSA - Help stop the power plant adjacent to Mtn. House If you know anyone in Mtn. House or Tracy, please let them know about this situation. Calpine wants to build the largest power plant in CA (1100 MW) within a mile, and directly upwind, of our schools and homes. The allowances they've gotten for various pollutants reach truly absurd numbers for a plant in a residential area, primarily because they're ignoring that Mtn. House exists. We do exist, we have voices, and we plan to fight the construction of this plant. You can read about it and sign an on-line petition at: http://stop-mh-powerplant.org/wordpress/ Spread the word! Thanks! Teri Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Friday, September 12th, 2008
1:47 pm	Hmmm I know none of my friends need this info (left-leaning or right, because all my friends are thinking people), but just in case someone comes surfing along who doesn't know that the Bush Doctrine is a defined, published governmental thingie-a-bop and wants to claim that there's no reason why Sarah Palin, an ordinary person, who just happens to be running for VP, should know about it. It was set out in the "National Security Strategy of the United States" by the National Security Council on September 20, 2002, and any serious candidate for Chief Button Pusher really and truly should know about this fundamental change to our foreign policy and should know it inside and out and be prepared to talk on that issue, for God's sake and everyone else's too. Oh man, now I'm all POed again. I don't know why, but I just feel compelled to choose a candidate who knows more about politics than I do. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
2:56 pm	I'm just sayin'... If you spend 3 years as a community organizer growing your organization from a staff of 1 to 13 and your budget from $70,000 to $400,000, then become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new African Amerian voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, then spend nearly 8 more years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, becoming chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, then spend nearly 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of nearly 13 million people, sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you are woefully inexperienced. If you spend 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, then spend 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000 people, then you've got the most executive experience of anyone on either ticket, are the Commander in Chief of the Alaska military and are well qualified to lead the nation should you be called upon to do so because your state is the closest state to Russia. If you are a Democratic male candidate who is popular with millions of people you are an "arrogant celebrity". If you are a popular Republican female candidate you are "energizing the base". If you are a younger male candidate who thinks for himself and makes his own decisions you are "presumptuous". If you are an older male candidate who makes last minute decisions you refuse to explain, you are a "shoot from the hip" maverick. If you manage a multi-million dollar nationwide campaign, you are an "empty suit". If you are a part time mayor of a town of 7000 people, you are an "experienced executive". If you go to a south side Chicago church, your beliefs are "extremist". If you believe in creationism and don't believe global warming is man made, you are "strongly principled". If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a still a good, safe Christian. If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years and are raising 2 daughters while attending a church on the south side of Chicago, you're "risky". By the way, my proceeds on Obama stuff in the zazzle shopwill go to his campaign. (2 Comments |Comment on this)