Sponsorship :)

so, today i started sponsoring a five-year-old girl from Honduras, her name is Paola Alejandra Pasadas Olivera. I'm really excited to be sponsoring her, and really excited to get to know this little girl! I feel so good about what I am doing, and even though I can't really afford this, I felt like this was the time for me to start my sponsorship, and it's something I've wanted to do ever since I could remember. In order to be able to sponsor this little girl, I am giving up chocolate milk and Tim Horton's. I'm looking forward to having a relationship with Paola and hearing from her as she grows up, and maybe someday getting a chance to meet her.

FML

Too much stuff has been going on lately. I'm just tired of it all.
First off, Hayden dying drained my energy for a few days, and then my dad had to have surgery this week, yesterday actually, and i'm just so drained from that, with the stress of the surgery first of all, and then people coming at me from all directions wanting me to pass on their well wishes and love and prayers and all that and i just cant keep up with it! and i'm so busy right now anyways, with school, and volunteering for the Salvation Army, and it looks like i'm going to be getting a job next week or the week after, and Christmas is coming up, and I'm trying to get everyone bought for for that, and I'm just so tired. all i want to do is go home. I NEED to go home, but I'm going in (hopefully) two weeks for a Christmas vacation. I'm so tired. so very tired and sleep doesn't seem to help, and i don't get enough to begin with, and the kid next door yelling all night sure don't help me to get more.
Life right now is not working in my favour. Besides all that, my best friend here has swine flu, although he is getting better, i drove home with him on friday, and he had it then, so i've been exposed so that makes matters worse too because if i get it, well, i'm just fucked because i can't go home and infect my father right after he has heart surgery.
fml.

My Christmas Wish

Dear Santa,
Here is what I would like to have this Christmas. The idea partially comes from a couple songs I've been listening to lately, but mostly from my own wishes. This year you can not 'make' what I wish for because it is not material items.
I wish for peace on earth, where each child can play in the park with their friends, and not need to worry about pedophiles, stalkers, or kidnappers.
I wish for the next generation to not know what drugs are, and to know how to drink in moderation, if they drink at all.
No more drunk drivers, no more deaths caused by them.
No more war. No more gangs.
I wish racism would disappear, and the disgraceful names that come with racism, to disappear with it.

RIP Hayden

So, tonight my dad called me and told me a dear friend and former neighbour of ours passed away today. THAT was a shocker. I can't believe he's gone, but I'm glad he isn't sufferring any longer. He has suffered for so many years, he's earned his peace now.
It was hard to adjust to him not living up the road from us when he and his wife moved over town, but this is harder. No longer can I just hop over town to say hi, or greet him along with our other friends over coffee in the morning. He's just not there anymore and that hurts me deeply. I loved him almost as the grandfathers i never had and barely remember. now i truely have no grampy, or grampy like figure left in this world.
I Love you Hayden, RIP!
xoxox lisa

The Rules of Rural New Brunswick

THE RULES OF RURAL NEW BRUNSWICK ARE AS FOLLOWS...

(Listen up City Slickers & out of province Tourists)

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.

3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road.' I drive a
pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're
going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.

4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny
to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it.

5. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 tractors.

6. So every person in Rural NB waves. It's called being friendly. Try
to understand the concept.

7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are
coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you
don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah we eat beans & brown bread. You really want sushi & caviar?
It's available at the corner bait shop.

9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a
religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak. Or
you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham &
turkey.

12. When we set a table, there are three main dishes: meats,
vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and
ketchup.

13. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how
to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

15. NHL and Minor Hockey is as important here as the Leafs and Habs,
and more fun to watch.

16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards -- it
spooks the fish.

17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have Universities and
Community Colleges. They come outta there with an education plus a
love for country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for
the holidays.

18. We have a whole ton of folks in the Canadian Forces. So don't mess
with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.

19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap ain't
music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see
your boxers. Refer back to #1.

20. 2 inches of snow isn't a blizzard - it's a vacation. Drive like
you got some sense in it, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, from the
grocery stores. This ain't Alaska, worst case you may have to live a
whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow blades and
Tractors with Snow Blowers will have you out the next day.

The Poppy Story

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
between the snow white crosses;
we here at home a poppy wear
in memory of those losses.
We've set aside one special day
Eleventh of November -
When grateful people of this land
can show that “We Remember,”
In churches and at cenotaphs
we gather on that day;
observe the silence, lay our wreaths
and thus our homage pay.
That little Poppy that you see
so bright in each lapel,
must serve another purpose yet -
of this I'd like to tell
We Legionnaires have made a pledge
a worthwhile one indeed -
assisting veterans, wives and heirs
in times of strife or need.
Ou rpoppy campaign is the means
by which out work is done;
to be successful it must have
support from everyone.
Let's grumble not about the cost,
instead just think of him -
the man who made that flower or wreath
may lack sight – or a limb.
The torch from flailing hands they threw
to comrades – you and I -
that those ideals for which they fought
might never dim and die.
We should recal that legaion prayer
well known to every vet;
“Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet
Lest we – Lest we forget.”
Author: “Wet Vet” from Andover, N.B.

insanity?

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom.
Don't Disguise Your Voice !

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

5. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write 'For Marijuana'

6. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.'

7. Skip down the hall Rather Than Walk and see how many looks you get.

8. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

9 . Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'

10. Sing Along At The Opera.

11. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area and Play tropical Sounds All Day.

12. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You have a headache.

13. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!'

14 . When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!'

15. Tell Your Children Over Dinner,'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'

16. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity:
Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.

It's Called . THERAPY

i got this from a friend of mine on devianart :) thanks krista :)

A Man on a Rampage by LISA KEOUGH

It took just 10 minutes to kill 13 people and wound 30 after a shooting in Fort Hood, Texas on
Thursday.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at aproximately 1:30 p.m. on the worlds largest military base, killing 12 military personnel and 1 civilian, and wounding 30 others.
Major Hasan was a psychiatrist with the American Army who was due to be deployed to Afghanistan later in the month where he would be working with soldiers coming off the battlefield.
“He was taking care of soldiers with behavorial problems,” said U.S. Army Chief, General George W. Casey Jr. in a speech Friday at Fort Hood.
General Casey said he heard about medics who were sitting in a graduation in the building next door to where the shooting took place, who, upon hearing the gunfire, ran towards it in their caps and gowns.
“Because they knew there would be wounded.”
Soldiers who were at the scene have reported hearing Major Hasan shout “Allahu Akbar” or “God is great” before opening fire, said General Casey, but officials have not been able to confirm this yet.
The brother of slain soldier, 21-year-old Private First Class Michael Pearson, Kristopher Craig, says he doesn't understand why something like this would happen.
“It's unfathomable.”
Craig said he told his mom there was no way somebody could have got on base and shot people.
“Unless it was one of our own. Not a half hour after I said that, it was on the news that it was one of our own soldiers.”
Every parent thinks their child is perfect, said Craig, but Pearson, who never drank or smoke, was.
“It's the same old song and dance. But he was... everybody loved him.”
His green eyes filling up with tears, Craig praised his little brother's work ethic.
“Guitar and work. Best work ethic of anybody I knew.”
For Craig, the fact that his brother was shot and killed by one of his comrades is hard to accept.
“I don't understand it.”
U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh praised Fort Hood soldiers for their quick thinking during a speech on Friday, and said the soldiers and the victims are in the thoughts of the entire army family.
“These were soldiers who were preparing to do what they loved for the country that they loved.”

Afghanistan veteran says remembrance is important By: LISA KEOUGH

An Afghanistan war veteran says Remembrance Day is the most important day of the year to anyone in uniform. Master Warrant Officer Doug MacDonald, a 26-year veteran of the Canadian Forces recently spent six months in Afghanistan and knows first hand how important remembrance is.Being in Afghanistan, you get to see stuff first-hand, says MacDonald.“It just hits home that much more.”MacDonald says people should talk to the veterans and learn what they had to go through during the war.“Go up to them (veterans) and shake their hand, and say thanks to them, I'm sure it must mean a lot to them.”Since the war in Afghanistan began on Oct. 7, 2001, 133 Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. MacDonald says it's hard to imagine living during the First and Second World Wars where there were nearly 100,000 people were killed.“You just can't comprehend that now. We're looking at a little over 100 have died in the Afghan conflict in the last nine years.”Working in a headquarters while in Afghanistan, MacDonald never suffered any hardships like those who fought in other wars, and says that the more miserable the day on Remembrance Day, the better.“I think that is excellent, because, you know, the more miserable you are on parade, and you're sitting there listening, listening to the Last Post, and you're hearing the guns go off on the 21-gun salute, and you're cold and miserable, I think that puts it a lot more in perspective than a nice warm, sunny day.”MacDonald says he's embarrassed when he meets a veteran on the street, and doesn't have a poppy on.“When you see a veteran walking on the sidewalk, if you've switched jackets, and you don't have a poppy on, I'm almost embarrassed, I'm like 'oh no, I've switched jackets.'”Veterans are no longer just the aging men we see, says MacDonald, they can be 20-years-old.“People are coming back now, 20, 21-years-old with their first tour down, and they're veterans, and they're getting ready to go back.”For most Remembrance Day ceremonies, you won't find MacDonald in the parade, he is usually in the background firing the Howitzers for the gun salute.“You almost have to take it upon yourself to do your own Remembrance ceremony because I really miss them. I'm usually in the background.”To MacDonald, and most Canadians, the poppy symbolizes remembrance for the soldiers who have died. He says another soldier from the Regiment keeps a poppy in his vehicle year round, and when asked if he just doesn't clean his truck, he said it's there for a reason.“He answered, 'No I keep it all year round, to remember, rather than just one season of the year.'”As a citizen, MacDonald says it's great how much public support there is for veterans.“It must do the veterans good, you know every year there's so many fewer of them obviously for World War Two, theres very few left.”History is doomed to be repeated if we don't know our past, said MacDonald.“If people don't remember the past sacrifices, and if you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it, so a lot of people think twice before doing something that would further cause a conflict if they remember, or if they were involved in the past ones. And people don't have to do a lot to remember. Just remember the sacrifices people made, its a big 'thank you' to the people who went over.”It is important for young people to remember too, MacDonald says. “If somebody is willing to go and to put down their life for freedom, for a cause they believe in, then its a very small sacrifice that someone can make at home, is to remember them. And not just on Remembrance Day.”