..and the week gets worse

Earlier this week someone stole some money out of Whitno's purse at school. Then her best friend turned on her. All this after her she injured her feet and was ripped a new one by one of her teachers. I hope nothing bad happens today because yesterday was a really, really bad day for her...apparently there is a little thief at the school and they stole money out of everyone's purses in the training room _and_ Whitno's IPOD!!!! That ipod is like a body part to her so needless to say, she's devastated. I feel sooooo bad for her and I'm being as supportive of her as I can. Poor girl has just had a rotten week :-(

Whitno's a licensed driver but...

The good news is Whitno is now a texas licensed driver via her permit license. Which means she can drive as long as an adult 21 or older is next to her. That's the good news. The bad news is she bought new shoes and wore them without socks and ripped her feet apart and can barely walk now. Very painful. ouch. Other than that, she is doing really good in school and we're both glad she's back to normal life with a schedule.

Big Brother All Stars

Everyone is calling Big Brother All Stars- Big Brother All Bores because how boring this season is. I agree completely.

 

First... season 6 alliance. America's favorite player Kaysar was never in the game mentally and to this day I have no idea why he bothered to accept the job. The only thing I can think of is he thought his alliance would be the star of the show. Unfortunately he's smart enough to have realized immediately that "Chill Town" would be the stars, not his alliance I think he just quit the show mentally speaking. He was voted out before the jury. I really feel sorry for Howie. This is a 30 some-odd year old guy who has the mental capacity of a 13yo boy. He's pathetic. He says he's meant to be on reality tv. News flash Howie.. you're meant to be in a cubicle with no windows and no contact with the outside world.

James.. same egotistical jerk today he was the first time we saw him. Janelle... Marilyn Monroe - Anna Nicole Smith - wannabe if there ever is one living today. People think she's hot? gag me. This girl is destined to gain 100lbs and be the spokeswoman for the goodyear tire.

 

Chilltown

Mike Boogie is without question the star of this show. He's everything the show is about. Ruthless, cunning.. you name it. Enjoy your 14 1/2 mins of fame because you go back to your pathetic life when the show's over. Doc? duh.. he's a successful doctor and happy in real life. He's there to have fun and nothing but. He, unlike every other person on the show, is losing money being there. He makes more money as a doctor than they are paid on the show.

 

Danielle & Erika are great people and I wish them the best in their lives. They are normal everyday folk.

 

Chicken George is every older man's hero. 40 something guy stickin it to the young punks in the house. George is a great family man and deserves the million bucks.

 

Thankfully the show ends Sept 12th. Not a day too soon.

Treasure Hunters Summary

I enjoyed the show Treasure Hunters a million times more than I did the finale. The live finale, in which the 3 genius's won 3 million dollars-a mil for each, was the worst finale of any show I think I've ever seen. The host, live!, was rude and actually "mean" to the guys who won - he literally grabbed one by the arm and yanked him away from people- because they were too busy hugging the other contestants instead of getting to their place on stage. They were supposed to get in a certain place so the host could ask them the stupidest question "you've just won the treasure, how do you feel?" duh!  This guy did a good job for the filming of the show but in the live finale, he came across a total idiot and jerk. Also in the finale was about 10 minutes where viewers who won 10,000 got a chance to win 100,000. What a waste. They barely gave each contestant 5 seconds to speak because of how unorganized the live show was. In the end, Treasure Hunters was nothing more than a total copy cat of The Amazing Race and a horrible one at that. The Amazing Race is the best reality show on tv today, hands down. The host's name is Phil Koegen and that man has talent. What's the guys name on Treasure Hunters? Who knows, who cares? Exactly.

 

The Amazing Race starts in a couple weeks. I can't wait!

Quick recap of favorite shows

Big Brother All Stars

  Thursday left us with Marcellas heading to the sequester house. No big surprise there. George having to nominate in a matter of seconds is the only reason I can come up with for *not* putting up the bimbo Janelle. Within 24hours, Howie-who never won a single thing in the house- was blindsided by chilltown and sent to the sequester house but not before he finally showed some testosterone on the way out the door. James and Janelle (final reminants of season 6) we nominated by boogie and Janelle won pov _again_. James is upset his title of veto king is gone thanks to Janelle. George wil most likely be nominated today and I believe will go to sequester thursday.

 

Kyle XY

  This is the one show that Whitney and I sit and watch together. I'm here to tell you that if there were 10 other shows like this on t.v, we'd watch a lot more together. It is the very best family show on t.v. today.

 

 

11yo Bianca Ryan wins America's Got Talent Contest

I'd love to know what company I can buy stock in for this singer because she's going to be as big Celine Dion... Mariah Carey... and I hate to even bring up this dispicable person's name but from a talent standpoint, Barbara Streisand. Bianca may not have been discovered on the mickey mouse club(britney/christina/timberlake) or american idol (clarkson/underwood) .. but this girl is going to sell millions and millions of cd's. The reality show proved one thing.. America really does have talent. The 8yo girl who yodels ... who literally taught herself how to do it by uh.. reading a book?! wow.. that's talent. The two guys who are the new pen and teller.. the couple who does the quick-change act and has done it for almost 20 years and have done it in like 30 countries and in front of the last three presidents of the united states.. yeah.. america definitely has talent! Oh and if you didn't see David Hassellhoff sing on the show a couple weeks ago missed the fact that he really can sing. Who knew?

Kemah may claim world's shortest ferry ride

http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=21afe45b7e388b88

Heather wins Hells Kitchen

I don't know what it is about this show but I've been hooked from the first episode. I'm glad Heather won and hope she makes it as the executive chef at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas. For someone to from being a soue chef in New York City to being an executive chef at a multi-million dollar restaurant in Las Vegas is, well like winning the lottery. But Heather now has to work and be successful. It's not like she won the prize and can go there and sit on her rear. She has to prove to everyone she deserved it and is capable of doing the job. Victoria clearly has a "pallet" but it was also clear she has no leadership skills and is incapable of running that multi-million dollar restaurant. As far as Sara, she's just plain spiteful and evil. She cleans up nice outside of the kitchen but it doesn't make up for who she is inside. Keith is a young punk who's a wanna be gangsta rapper who also has skill in the kitchen. The rest of the "contestants" were there simply to be on t.v. and have no skills in the kitchen. Can't wait for next years show..

Catching up on politics

Since I've been known for my strong political beliefs and the fact there are still blog entries here about the '04 elections, I figured I'd update ya'all on my current political beliefs.

First and foremost I am torn about how I feel about President Bush. On one hand I am glad he's our President today and not that whack job Kerry. It's been a rough 3+ years now and Bush has done plenty that I do not agree with but the London plot, which would have been as big or bigger than 9-11, would have happened if not for the M5 (The british equivilent of the CIA) having the abilities to do their job while here in the U.S, the New York Times and every other liberal outlet and liberal congressmen and senators want to diminish our abilities to track terrorists' efforts to kill us. If this plot were to have been started and worked on here in the US then the terrorists would have succeeded because the liberals are too worried about their civil liberties being taken away. So they would rather have their civil liberties vs allowing agencies to spy and track terrorists activities. Now don't get me wrong... I'm all for civil liberties. But you know what? I prefer to LIVE first, then worry about my civil liberties!

Okay, so that's the positive about Bush. The negative... well as a life-long republican, I am ashamed of my party. I am ashamed of Bush and quite frankly, I am seriously considering changing my party affiliation to independant. I will never vote for a democrat as long as I breathe oxygen but I am just sick of the republicans... and democrats. I am sick of republicans' holier than thou arrogant attitude, right to life, anti-abortion no matter the circumstance and complete failure to stand up and do the right thing about ILLEGAL immigration. I am equally sick of democrats for their pansy ass defeatism-stick your head in the sand and hope problems go away themselves and heaven forbide the US do something about our energy crisis such as drill for more oil along the east coast and gulf of mexico. I'm all for every other kind of energy use that we could use, but right now I'm sick and tired of paying $3 a gallon of gas with the potential for it to be 4 or 5. It's pathetic. The one thing I get to laugh about today is all the whack jobs out there that said, and for that matter still say, that we invaded Iraq for the oil. Really? We invaded Iraq to get their oil? ummm HELLO ... we're paying 200% more for gas today than we did in 2001. Iraq is pumping as much oil today as they did before Bush was elected. Clearly we're not getting any more oil from Iraq today than we did 5 years ago.

Howard Dean btw.. the man belongs in a straight jacket in a room with 4 white walls and a cot. He is by far the biggest idiot to ever get into politics.

If anyone actually knows what the democrats are actually going to do when they get in power, other than censure bush, let me know. A democrat was on a talk show the other day and the host asked what they'd do about terrorism. He replied they'd go after the terrorist whereever they are, unlike Bush. The host said so we'd invade lebonon and go after hezzbolah? and invade Pakistan to get Bin Laden and Invade Iran to get those nuts? The dems reply was to repeat what he said. Why is it that whenever someone asks a democrat for an answer, they spew talking points and bash Bush but never answer the question? Why is that? Oh that's right.. they don't have any answers.

Good for them neither do republicans. Let's all just ramp up the fear factor and talk about change so a different party has control of the government but not actually get anything done.

Where's Ross Perot? Ross... hello... where are you?

Now aren't you glad you asked how I really feel?

Catching up on things

To be honest, I forgot I even had this blog and then when I found it, I was even more surprised they hadn't deleted it since I hadn't posted anything in a year. Thanks blogger.com :)

Well I really don't remember much before February of this year to be quite honest. I guess I was just living life the way I used to. Same issues with weight, same issues with stress... spending more than I made. Other than everything Whitney related, I guess about the only real positive thing was going to Gateway-Community Church every Sunday.

That all changed when one Sunday they talked about a new class starting called Financial Peace University. I had heard the name from two different people I know so I paid $96 and joined the class. The rest as they say is history. Taking the course and learning everything Dave Ramsey has changed my life along with Whitney's. We have paid off thousands of dollars of debt and hope to be debt free, except for the house, in less than 2 years. One of the things you have to do as soon as you start is to create a budget. That evolved in me creating a budget program I have named Personal Budget Organizer. It's not perfect but it has already helped a friend of mine and I hope it helps many other people.

I guess I'll continue posting here again.. so more later..

No such thing as liberal bias media?

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Personal Budget Organizer 2.1 Now Available!

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