OK... I'm not sure this is any better....


Power Rangers Movie!


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OK... didn't expect this AT ALL:


Moulin Rouge!


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Well... What a GREAT weekend... *rolls eyes*

For starters, I get a ticket on my car for expired tabs. Now... I bought 'Jazz' in September/October but transferred the personalized plates over from 'Loki.' Well... I never updated the tabs... I'm sure I got them in the mail from the dealership, but must have never replaced them... I'm SUCH a dufus...

Then I get home and my neurotic roomie (henceforth NR) is standing at the back door about ready to blow an artery because Akima had an accident upstairs. (Now, I wanted the girls kept in the kennels during the day because of such instances AND they know it's their space and will not poop/pee in their kennels.) I went upstairs and he had cleaned up a bit of the poo, but the floor was still WET from Akima... he made NO attempt the actually have it soaked up by the time I got home.

He said he let them out 3 times and each time the both did both duties (rare of ANY type of dog). However, when I let them out, poor Yuna peed for about 2 minutes straight... She'd been holding it for far longer than NR would ever lead on.

I finished cleaning up the mess and let the girls out and laid down with them... Poor things...

I just think it's funny that I can stay home with them (as I did on Sunday), let them drink a couple dishes of water, and they'll be fine sitting around the house and playing for at least 5 hours without any sign of needing to go out... grrrrr...

So... New rule #1 has been established: Don't let the girls out of the kennels and just throw them in my room...

Another NR Tale:

Last night, I was letting the pups out after their dinner and he said 'I'm going to run over to Bill's place and pick up the rest of my stuff!' I was like 'That's cool...' So, hours go by and it's about 9pm and he yells up the stairs to me: 'I'm going to Bill's now... Do you need anything? Should I fill the car with gas?'

I just about turned inside out!! I said: I suppose this means that you want to use my car? he said 'Is that ok?' I said NEVER assume that you can just take anything of mine... I like to hear you ask for permission...

I don't think this is going to last very long...

Anyone know of someone in MPLS that's looking for a place to stay? I have an EXTRA room and wouldn't mind lining something up just in case the landlord doesn't resign a lease with NR.

Wow... It's been a long time, huh???

I'm finally moved into my new abode in S. MPLS and my roommate is driving me crazy. He's a good guy, but I just don't need to hear about ALL of the boys he's got lined up and when they bail on him how HEARTBROKEN he is about it...

*SIGH*

My other two roomies are as good as ever. Akima was a bit sick this past week, but bounced right back to give Yuna a good ass-kicking all day Monday!

Yuna has a new obsession: My shoes! I normally don't wear my shoes up to my room, but for some reason I did last night. She snuck over took one and started to chew on it... Good thing is I always look when I hear them munching on something... She didn't do any damage, but when she gets going... WATCH OUT!

Our Birthday's are coming up. Mine is April 25th and theirs is May 5th. I'm think we might just have to have a party for all of us. However, I'm thinking spending all day out at the doggie park wouldn't be the best party for me. Maybe I'll just have 2 parties. One for me (and the drunks I call my friends) and one for the girls (and invite all my friends with pups too). I think that'll work nicely.

Aiight... chat at y'all later... I've got a system to crash!! :-)

Wow... look at me getting all activitsy and stuff...

If anyone visiting the site can help us out and contact one of the people listed below... that'd be AWESOME!!

OUTFRONT Minnesota Action Alert!

This just in! TAKE ACTION!



3:47 p.m., Thursday, March 04, 2004

Saint Paul, MN



This just in: Representative Mary Liz Holberg (R-Lakeville), House Speaker Steve Sviggum (R-Kenyon) and 26 other Representatives just introduced a constitutional amendment to bar the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Minnesota. For the first time ever, the proposed legislation to amend the Minnesota's Constitution would require overt discrimination in the form of a ban against the legal recognition of same-sex relationships.



Minnesota’s Anti-Marriage Amendment (MAMA) (HF2798) will be heard in the House’s Civil Law Committee on Tuesday, March 9 at 2:30pm in Room 10 of the State Office Building. OutFront Minnesota is encouraging supporters of GLBT rights to do three things in the next week:



1. Contact the members of the Civil Law Committee with either a phone call or an email. Keep your message succinct: “I oppose any efforts to write discrimination into our state’s constitution. Please vote against the proposed constitutional amendment to bar the legal recognition of same-sex relationships.”

2. Attend the Civil Law Committee Hearing. People who support fairness and equality for GLBT people need to have a strong showing at the hearing to demonstrate to our elected officials that Minnesotans to do not support writing discrimination against GLBT families into our state’s founding document. Remember:

· Show up early to get a seat in the hearing room. There will be an overflow room with the hearing on closed circuit TV, but people arriving early will be able to see the proceedings close-up and in-person.

· Please abide by all of the rules of committee hearings or Capitol Security will ask you to leave. Please do not bring any signs or banners; however stickers and buttons are fine. The most difficult rule to obey is that the audience is not allowed to sigh, laugh, groan or make any verbal sounds. If you do not follow this rule, security will most likely ask you to leave, or if the audience is too loud, security may ask everyone to leave. So please, wear your poker face and bring a notepad to record your thoughts, frustrations and funnies.

3. Plan now for OutFront Minnesota’s GLBT Lobby Day, Thursday, March 25. Literally thousands of people are needed demanding that Minnesota’s Anti-Marriage Amendment be stopped. Pre-registration will greatly facilitate your effectiveness that day.





(The exact language of the bill will be posted on the OutFront Minnesota website within the hour)


Civil Law Committee Contacts

Rep. Joe Atkins (DFL-Inver Grove Heights)

39B

651.296.4192

rep.joe.atkins@house.mn



Rep. Len Biernat (DFL-Minneapolis)

59A

651.296.4219

rep.len.biernat@house.mn



Rep. Dick Borrell (R-Delano)

19B

651.296.4336

rep.dick.borrell@house.mn



Rep. Chris DeLAForest (R-Andover)

49A

651.296.4231

rep.chris.delaforest@house.mn



Rep. Mary Liz Holberg (R-Lakeville)

36A

651.296.6926

rep.maryliz.holberg@house.mn



Rep. Paul Kohls (R-Victoria)

34A

651.296.4282

rep.paul.kohls@house.mn


Rep. Ron Latz (DFL-St. Louis Park)

44B

651.296.7026

rep.ron.latz@house.mn



Rep. Eric Lipman (R-Lake Elmo)

56A

651.296.4244

rep.eric.lipman@house.mn



Rep. Thomas Pugh (DFL-South St. Paul)

39A

651.296.6828

rep.tom.pugh@house.mn



Rep. Steve Smith (R-Mound)

33A

651.296.9188

rep.steve.smith@house.mn



Rep. Howard Swenson (R-Nicollet)

23A

651.296.8634

rep.howard.swenson@house.mn



Rep. Lynn Wardlow (R-Eagan)

38B

651.296.4333

rep.dale.walz@house.mn

Washington Post’s Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and apply a new definition.
Here are the 2003 winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
And the pick of the literature:
Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

I got this from a friend at work... WOW!


An Open Letter to President Bush
February 24, 2004

Dear Mr. President,
This morning you felt compelled to introduce an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States
defining marriage as existing only between one man and
one woman.

You say that this will create “clarity.” I would like
you to share this clarity with my first grade daughter
on her school playground, when the children, imitating
their role models as they always do, will take up the
issue. Because I dread those conversations with every
fiber of my being.

Challenged by another child, my daughter will declare
forthrightly that of course her two moms are married.
After all, we have wedding photos in our home, as any
couple does. They show her two moms, fifteen years
ago, in front of our Unitarian Universalist
Congregation. Smiling, with many of our friends and
family members around us.

You see, we have not yet discussed with this seven
year old, precocious as she is, the distinction
between civil and religious marriage. She knows
only that we are her parents, the only ones she’s
known. She knows that we got married in our church,
as her aunts and uncles did, and that our
neighborhood and church, her school and social circle,
involves a significant number of kids with two moms
and a few with two dads. She knows that we provide
the only stability, the only bedrock, that she has
ever
known.

Of course she knows that there are people who say that
two men or two women cannot be married. She knows
that, not very long ago, some people said that no one
could marry someone of a different race, but now of
course we no longer believe that. But I haven’t yet
been able to break it to her that some people want to
change our Constitution to say that our family isn’t
part of “We the people.” I just haven’t found a way
to fit it in between soccer and karate and church.

Tonight I will sit her down, after we’ve done her
homework, and have the conversation that I hoped I
could avoid. I will tell her that you, the President
of the United States, have decided that only a man and
a woman can be married, and that you want to make that
part of our Constitution. Yes, the document she
adores from watching Liberty’s Kids and reading Magic
Treehouse books. I will tell her that I don’t believe
this change in the Constitution will happen, not
enough people will vote for it. But it does mean that
people may say very mean things to her at school about
our family. She will be afraid. I will project
confidence and good humor, but I will be afraid, too.

I do not want to teach my daughter that the President
of the United States does not include our family in
the people he serves and protects. I do not want to
say to her that the very flag she loves will be waved
by people who believe that it does not belong to our
family.
Please, Mr. Bush, tell me how I should conduct myself
“without bitterness or anger” at this time, as you
instructed me today. Come over to my house
tonight: you look at my daughter’s eyes as they absorb
the fact that you, the first President she has ever
known, thinks she can no longer be included in the
very Constitution of this land. You tell me how to
“conduct this difficult debate in a matter worthy of
our country.” Because I am at a loss.

Sincerely,

The Rev. Meg A. Riley
Unitarian Universalist Association
Washington, DC