I haven’t really been good about blogging about this. I see a lot of red from before. Here’s the final for 2010:
- See Aunt Ruth & Aunt Janet more (not good at seeing AJ, but she’s so hard to get a hold of sometimes)
- Eat less meat and find more things to eat that are vegetarian (found more pasta stuff, pizza, breads, shrimp, seafood)
- Get Candi off the cone (we take the cone off at night and she’s doing fine without it, so long as we’re home)
- Settle Dad’s estate (not under my control)
- Fix the Camaro and paint it (done)
- *you know*
- Ride the scooter to work (since I switched jobs I don’t get to do this, it’s winter as well, in spring I’ll break Tobey out again)
- Host at least three parties (I think we had 1, mini parties, sure)
- Snowboarding, master the bunny slope and be able to get off the lift without falling (this season)
- Donate money to charity (I did and then my family needed a loan, sigh)
- Go on vacation and take more weekend breaks (Atlantic City for NYE)
- Get better at debating (totally)
- Make more friends (probably a goal next year as well)
- I may delete my facebook page (eh, I’ll keep it)
- I’ll be setting up my own wiki of my life (done, I just need to put more stuff in it)
- Take more pictures… maybe… of parties I attend and stuff (new digital camera, droid helpful)
Productive year!
John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, has been crying a lot lately. However, judging by Boehner’s votes, he doesn’t seem to be all too sincere about the things he “cares” and “cries” about such as children having the same opportunity as him for the “American Dream”. Here’s some of his recent votes:
- Voted against SCHIP (the program that provides health care to poor children)
- Voted against the stimulus (which gave people/saved jobs, among other things)
- Voted against the 9/11 first responders bill (which gave health care to those who helped clean up 9/11)
- For free trade and trade agreements that made it easier to ship jobs overseas
- Wants to cut everything except defense in discretionary spending (such as education, infrastructure, agriculture which only accounts for 43% of discretionary spending)
- Opposes hiring more women and minorities
- Opposes federal funding for health care
- Voted against the DREAM Act (which would give children who were brought here at a young age a path to citizenship)
- Opposes amnesty and a path for undocumented workers becoming citizens
- Voted against modifying bankruptcy laws (which would have avoided foreclosures)
- For cutting education (also voted against grants for minority colleges and green public schools)
- Voted against HCR (which had laws against children and people being denied health care due to preexisting conditions, among many other things)
- Voted for spending that ran up the national debt during Bush (which leaves the debt to our children)
- Voted against middle class tax cuts
A very good actor, that tan man is.
Just a mini rant here, why don’t people wave anymore? I let people in all the time and none recently have given me a little wave. I feel so dissatisfied. Here I am slowing down to let a guy in and he can’t even take his stupid hand off the wheel for a second to give me any thanks.
Sometimes I really have to go out of my way and slow down a lot and force the people behind me to slow down. And they can’t even wave “thanks”. People suck sometimes.
I would probably add some rant about politics too, but I have the tumblr for notes to alleviate some political rage. Debunking and other rants will still remain on this blog.