Play therapy. A whole lot of money per hour for “play therapy”. Okay, up the up side, staple boy thought it was awesome (his words) and maybe it will help with some of the struggles we have been having – school, home, etc. On the down side, I am paying a whole lot of money for him to play video games and stuff to talk to someone most likely about how I screwed him up. Don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of therapy, I’m no Tom Cruise. LOL! But geeesh.
Play therapy . . . lawdhamercy.
Why am I sitting here laughing uncontollaby at Jeff Conoway and his girlfriend fighting on Celebrity Rehab? Her yelling, “So, you’re wheeling away from me . . .” and him turning that chair manually and going away slower than she can walk past him while she repeats it is killing me! LOL! Ohmigawd, this is liek the crack head version of, “RUN FORREST!” ROTFLMAO!
Am I the only one who this makes a little nervous. Especially lump sum payouts that increase the deficit like the one described below.
“Under the deal, nearly everyone who earned a paycheck in 2007 would receive at least $300 from the Internal Revenue Service — $103 billion in total. Most people would receive rebates of $600 each, or $1,200 per couple. Families with children would receive an additional payment of $300 per child. Workers who earned at least $3,000 last year — but not enough to pay income taxes — would be eligible for $300. “
Overall, 117 million families would receive rebate checks, including 35 million with earnings too low to have qualified under an earlier Bush proposal that limited checks to income tax payers. Rebates would be limited, however, to single taxpayers with adjusted gross income up to $75,000 — up to $150,000 for couples. Above that, the benefit would phase out until hitting zero for individuals with adjusted income of about $87,000, $174,000 for couples.
The money would be borrowed and would increase the federal deficit. ” – Washingtonpost.com
Ok, so people get a little check and spend it on who knows what. So a bunch of stores have a sale and people go and blow them there, a couple of folks delay having their gas cut off by an extra couple of weeks. How much stimulation will the economy REALLY get at the expense of the overall budget especially while we are in the midst of a long, costly war.
I am still mulling over this one. What do you think?
Angie and Jessie are back on All My Children?!!
Angie, ok I get it. She never died or anything, she just kind of randomly shows up every 10 or 15 years. But Jessie, didn’t we see him die twice! Didn’t they bury his azz?!
Ok, all that said . . . You know I am gonna watch it and I had pretty much given up on AMC. I always have a relative idea of what’s going on, but its not on my must list. I just kinda feel obligated to keep up because I was “boan and raized” on it. I remember being like 5 or 6 and watching all of them just sitting around at the table drinking coffee. That is pretty much all that happened. They drank coffee, ate, someone slept with someone, Erica would do a photo shoot, someone would hate on her, the end.
My son just won’t stop it with the lying about well, pretty much anything. I mean for the entire first semester he had his teacher convinced he was born in Germany. Why? No reason, just cuz. When asked about his staples by his teacher, he told er aniron fell on it, and when she asked him how it happened, he said, “It happens all the time.” WTH?! I am surprised the authorities didn’t come to my house. He wasn’t even at home when it happened. A year or so ago when discussing careers in his class, he told them I worked at Giant. And the list goes on.
Now one issue that I am sure contributed to it early on is that he and his dad basically have had this us against her thing since before he can remember. So, things like letting him sneak out of bed, going to fast food restuarants before dinner, and one of the toppers – getting dressed for church, not going and coming home and lying about it right down to my 5 year old telling me who he saw there. And the list goes on . . . Mentioning time and time again that this teaches him that lying is ok because among other things if you lie to your momma all the time who can’t you lie to, daddy does it and is often your co-conspiratior, and kids don’t have the discerment to distinguish between “little white lies” and the “big ones”; falls on deaf ears and I am just “over reacting”.
I am struggling getting little Mr. Creative through grammar school, meanwhile he is earning a PH.D. in Linguistic Duplicity.
What the heck? Eddie and Tracey sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g. First comes love, then come marriage, then comes . . . a statement from your publicist?!
We will remain friends . . . huh? I mean they had a full blown, daddy walks you down the aisle, big fluffy dress (and I mean fluffy – ruffles UGH!), bridesmaids, Bora Bora, the whole nine. They were in a relationship for a year. clearly they planned it all. Then before you can say “I married a man who picks up other men in the middle of the night”, they decide not to make the marriage “legal in the US.” Sources are citing bickering on the wedding day and all the way home. Was Eddie Murphy a BrideGroomzilla? Hmmmmmm.
On a more serious note, how little value was placed on marriage in this situation. He is 46 with 5 children and she is 40 with two children. They were together for a year, certainly long enough given their age (and supposed maturity) to make an informed, reasonable, rational decision to get married. The did it big (even designed by my favorite famed event planner Colin Cowie, who created a gazebo on the speach decorated with 6,00 shells! ), they did it publicly, and from what I saw of the pictures, appeared to involve their loved ones. What does this teach their children about relationships, commitment? Oh hell, what am I saying, its Hollywood. Flakiness rules.
The official cause of death for Ike Turner was just released. He died of a cocaine overdose.
Ike was still getting high? He could afford cocaine? Damn.
Helloooo, can we say Celebrity Rehab is off the hook! Ok, first of all, the definition of celebrity on this show is pretty loose, but I already covered that previously. Jeff Conoway had to be wheeled in the place. He was so messed up, it was absolutely shocking and yet riveting. Mary Carey . . . why bother. The dude from CrazyTown was staright up smoking crack!!! They showed it. Lawdhamercy! Chyna looks frightening as usual. I feel for her but I don’t think anything is going to change for her because she truly doesn’t think she has a problem. The girl from “Family Matters” smokes weed every hour and has done so for years. Her whole situation has been a mess for quite sometime though. I saw an updated jacked up child stars episode of 20/20 about a year or two agao where she talked about how she did porn. I think Brigette Neilson is the most sincere about getting help. The part about her children was very compelling and she isn’t a good enough actress to pull off anything that real. I laughed out loud when she said she was basically high for the past several years inclusing the whole “Sureal Life” and for some time thereafter. Although she didn’t come out and say it, I think that was her subtle way of saying she clearly had to be messed up to be “in love” with Flavor Flav aka Fuffy Fuffy. And Daniel Baldwin, well bless his heart, he just wanted to make sure he wasn’t the only one not on TV right now. Alec has “30 Rock”, Steven is on “Celebrity Apprentice”, and Billy is doing fab on “Dirty Sexy Money”. And Jessica Sierra, well we all know how much good rehab did for her. The show hadn’t even aired yet and Dr. Drew had to testify for her in Court last Monday. Writer’s strike or no, this is definitly on my must see list. Instead of a “Just say no,” just show Jeff Conoway starting the first phases of his withdrawal and having to be wheeled out to an ambulance. If that doesn’t make you think twice about getting high, nothing will.
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I was waiting for him to toss up a black gloved fist . . . January 22, 2008
Talk about an entertaining debate. I just loved it when John Edwards treated both Obama and Clinton like sparring children and reminding the moderator that there was actually a question on the floor about the economy and that the race was not about the “personalities” but the country. Loved it “dad”. LOL! He followed that up with a very interesting stance regarding the lending crisis and African Americans.
Courtesy of a quick pen and TIVO:
Moderator: Senator Edwards, lets dig a little deeper on the economic mess we’re in currently. Uh, in 2006, a study from the Center for responsible Lending (I swear there is a center for everything) found that African Americans are something like 30% more likely to be sold a sub-prime home loan than white borrowers with similar credit histories and income. The South carolina NAACP said last month that the “Amercian Dream” for too many Americans, too many African Americans is a national nightmare. The National NAACP has even filed a class action lawsuit against 12 nationwide lenders. So the bottom line question is, do you believe that lenders have specifically targeted African americans. is this sub-prime mess really also an issue of race.
Sen. Edwards: Yes is the answer. (Awww snap! Eyes popping out of my head, the man didn’t even flinch or hesitate!) I think they have targeted . . . if they haven’t been racially motivated I don’t know, I can’t there is no way for me to know what’s inside their head. (OK, stumbled a little there, but he brings it home folks. LOL!) But what they have done is they have targeted the lowest income, most vulnerable families. And anybody who’s paying any attention to what’s going on in America today understands that if you are African American in this country today, you are likely to have a net worth of about 10% of what white families have. This is NOT an accident. (Ok, now before ya’ll start trippin, he said Likely, not everyone.) We can put our heads against the wall and pretend that the past never happened, pretend that we didn’t live through decades of slavery (ok, so it was more like scores, alright centures, but I still like where he is going), followed by decades of segragation, followed by decades of discrimination, which is still going on today. That history and that legacy has consequences. and the consequence has been that african American familes are more vulnerable, they’re more vulnerable to payday lender, more vulnerable to predatory lenders, which is why we desperately need a national law, which I propose, which would crack down on these pay day lenders . . .
He went on from there regarding his proposal.
I was literally sitting on the floor trippin. Go ahead John Edwards, I ain’t mad at you. You are in your home state, you lost it the last time, and this time you are giving it everything you got. Watch out for Bubba an ‘nem though, cause they made sure my cousin’s high school still had a segregated prom as recently as 1989.
So, what do you think about last night?