Say something random about you (Part 4)

Is it bad of me that I'm trying not to see the videos or pictures from Japan? My heart breaks when I think about those poor people, and I just don't think I can bear seeing anymore suffering.



Random:


My vacation is half over, and I still haven't painted any of the promised pictures (the drawing doesn't really count ), or bought new kitchen chairs. Maybe tomorrow.

sami_stardust wrote:

emily: les mis is my alltime favorite book. loved your quote!

Thanks, Sami!!! I've never read the book myself, but I'm in love with the musical. I think my favorite part is the finale when Jean Valjean and most of the other main characters sing a different version (than the one sung earlier in the show) of "Bring Him Home" that contains the quote I mentioned, and then ends with some of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" again to close out the show. It's one of the most moving things I've heard/seen because it proclaims God's compassionate love, as well as human kindness and the power of the human spirit and its quest for liberty.

Sharabella wrote:

Is it bad of me that I'm trying not to see the videos or pictures from Japan? My heart breaks when I think about those poor people, and I just don't think I can bear seeing anymore suffering.

It's not bad of you at all, Bella! I think that's normal. I'm the same way. I've limited what I watch about it on the news because when I do, I start crying. It's just too much to take in.

I totally get what everyone's been saying: Nay mentioning the cars that could contain entire families. Julie mentioning the “1,000 bodies washed ashore.” And PJ mentioning whole trains disappearing. It’s just too much unimaginable horror to take it all in all the time.

There are good stories too. I’ve seen news reports. I can’t remember the details exactly, but some things like a 4 month old baby and at least one family member with her being safe. I remember seeing relatives being reunited. It might have been a mother and daughter. There was also a woman who was visiting Japan who was trapped there without any way to call home, and the news reporters got her in touch with her sister to let her know she was okay.

If anyone is interested in ways to help the victims, I know an easy way to do it. You can text the word REDCROSS to 90999. They will tack on $10 (USD) to your monthly phone bill, and the money will go to the American Red Cross. I’m not sure if it’s just the people in the U.S. that have access to do this or not though. You can text them more than once if you want to donate more than $10. You can also go to their website: http://www.redcross.org/

You can also do this to donate $10 to the International Medical Corps by texting the word MED to 80888.

Both of these things I mentioned above, as well as how to contribute to quite a few other organizations, are listed here (as advertised on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams here in the States):
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/11/6247271-japan-earthquake-how-to-help

Donna and Nay, if you think my suggestions above might be appropriate in another section, I’d be happy to post them there too to get the word out.

And Donna, regarding Nay mentioning you not being around, I hope everything is okay with you.

Nay wrote:

We called ourselves the Three Musketeers (and occasionally the Three Stooges) because we had an almost instant bond when we met. We'd catch up most weekends for a long Chat. Oggs was laid-back, Dallas was fiery and I was ..... uhmm .... a stirrer

That's so cool. Thanks for that.


And, again, Happy St. Patrick's Day to all.

Meet the newest member of my household:

I hope the cats don't think he's for THEM. He's sweet.

I will make sure and put him where they can't get to him when I'm not around. They've been in the house with a bird before. In fact, the bird was there before they were, and he was OFF LIMITS!! lol

Cute birdie.

Swimsuits are out in the stores. Nuff said.

oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have a 'keet! i have a 'keet! what's his/her name???

He/she doesn't have a name yet. I used to have a keet named Beaker, he was my baby who got on my shoulder and preened me. I had him almost 8 years before he died.

It isn't my first bird, we've had plenty, but it's been a few years. The cats don't seem to really pay attention to it like they did Beaker. And Beaker was not afraid of the cats, which made me have to really watch them around him (and vice versa).

He/she is so pretty and white and fluffy looking just like all the stuff we had all winter. In honor of that, maybe you name him/her----- Dammit.

OK, how about Scraper, Flurries or Flaky?

I did think of Snowball.

There's also Whitey, Cracker, or Dandruff.

He/she is pale Moonglow colored, so how about Loony/Lunar/Luna? Or maybe Mist/Misty.

Cat Chow.

you saved a frog? i'm so proud.

and? the waifs are cool. loved that song!

Nay is maturing!

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!

mandy rules.

GIVE ME THAT SHIRT!!!!!!

Me wants.




My name is.........

Truly one of the best movies ever.


Mawrige..............wuv, twue wuv........