5 Guys Whom You Find Attractive

1) Of course my husband! That would go for #2, 3, 4 & 5.

That was easy.

TTYL

Your family.

The family right now consists of my mother, maternal aunts and cousins, paternal aunts, uncles and cousins, hubby and all the in-laws. My father has been deceased for almost 14 years. I am an only child so of course no blood siblings however I have acquired many virtual brothers and sisters in the past few years.

Put Your Music Player On Shuffle and Write Down the First 10 songs That Play.

Before we get started I gotta share this with y’all. Here is my high tech music player.

You can stop laughing…yeah I know it’s like the first cell phone, where the phone was as big as a size 12 shoe! lol For you youngsters, Google the first cell phone and you’ll see exactly what I mean. But, it actually has a shuffle feature and a program that you can download to create a mp3 playlist on a CD. The program condenses the MP3 so that you can get a whole lot more songs on a CD than you would normally be able to. Just like on an I-Pod. I have 201 songs on it. The drawback is this playlist CD can only be played on this CD player. It plays regular CD’s as well. It was pretty sophisticated back in the day as I bought it back in 2003. Now that you’ve gotten to see an archaic piece of technology, I’ll put my “player” in shuffle mode. 😉 Here’s what’s playing:

1). “Elis” by Alex Bugnon
2) “Dis Is Da Drum” by Herbie Hancock
3) “Like Butter” by Richard Elliot
4) “So What” by Ronny Jordan
5) “Now ‘Til Forever” by Kirk Whalum
6) “Where The Night Begins” by Steve Cole
7)”Greenstreet” by Bob Mamet
8)”Raise the Roof” by Bob James
9)”Too Cool’ by Gerald Albright
10)”17 Mile Drive” by Down To The Bone

And I’m still jammin!! Right at this moment, I’m listening to “Sweet Home Chicago” by Urban Knights. “Cool & Funky” by Ronny Jordan was on just before. 😉

TTYL

How Important You Think Education Is

The entire challenge list is here.

Education is very important however to me there is a distinct difference in education vs knowledge. Now I’m sure you ask what do I mean by that and aren’t they one in the same? Maybe 70-80 years ago (though I’m beginning to doubt this as well) but definitely not now.

Education currently and in the recent few decades teaches one to be a drone. Just another worker who does as he is told and does not think too much. Education has also become another product in the economy, where one has to saddle himself with thousands of dollars of debt or take a long time to finish taking a few classes at a time. In many cases one graduates not being able to find a job in his area of study. Not so good if he/she has thousands of dollars in student loan debt to repay, starting adult life seriously behind the eight ball. Not to mention credit card debt which many college grads have on top of massive student loan debt.

Knowledge on the other hand is a by product of experience, observation, action and critical thinking. Basically using that grey matter between the ears, to process what the eyes are seeing, what the ears are hearing and what the inner voice is saying. Once knowledge is obtained it can never be made obsolete, it’s just the opposite. Knowledge can be built upon indefinitely. There is always something to learn.

So knowledge is what’s important to me.

What you ate today.

1)A peanut butter and Jelly sandwich with real peanut butter and low sugar jelly.
2) Smoothie with peaches and blueberries made with a nut milk made from the same real peanut butter and almond butter.
3) Salmon cake, red potatoes w/ginger, red onions & dill seed and yellow squash w/fresh basil, ginger and red onions.

5 Pet Peeves

The challenge list is here.

1) Using up the last of something and not replacing it.

2) Hearing a male say of the mother of his child/children “she got pregnant”. As if she was impregnated by invetro or something. My reply of “Oh some other guy is the father?” gets the wrinkled brow look.

3) Treating the earth like it’s a disposable diaper. Where else are you gonna live?

4) Stupidity. No problem if you don’t know but doing the same thing that’s not working or got you in trouble the first time and then doing it again, over and over? Nah, uh uh.

5) Talking to the older generation about the unsustainable system they bought into, and what needs to change so that we (the ones that are behind you) can have a world to live in. Then they say “I hope I’m dead and gone soon”. WTH kind of answer is that!!! You are supposed to be the elders the wise ones, that teach and help the generations behind you progress so they can help the generations behind them and on down the line. The attitude of I got mine is childish. I expect that from a 5 year old not a 65 year old.

Your views on Mainstream Music

I’m not a fan of any kind of music that degrades women…period. At the first indication of it whether from a male or female artist I shut it down ASAP. I mostly listen to jazz and old school music so it’s hard for me to say much about the stuff that’s out today.

Things You Want To Say To An Ex

The challenge list is here.

You don’t know what you got till it’s gone, Son of a Gun!

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Bullet your whole day

* Water the small garden
* Freeze the plums sitting on the counter
* Clip some sage and prepare for drying
* Write this post of course
* Make and drink at least one smoothie
* Edit together the video I did on my herbal oil infusion
* Decide what to have with the remaining cabbage for dinner
* Catchup on reading yall’s blog posts and study while…
* Spending as much time as possible directly under the ceiling fan…it’s smokin here lol

TTYL

Yep, extremely exciting day but that’s alright with me.

A book I love…

Wow, this is hard because I love books and love to read but to comply with the challenge I’ll choose one.
It’s called ‘Rancho Costa Nada” by Phil Garlington. The book is mostly about how Phil thought outside of the box to live when he was fired from his job. His solution to his dilemma is very extreme for most. However the real gold of the book I think, is his perspective on what’s really going on in the US and his conversations with the “Demented Vet”, a neighbor in the desert where Phil chose to live. Just these alone made the book worth the purchase. It was written back in 2003. I think I purchased it in 2004 and have read it many times. Here’s a little taste:

“…because most people really are serfs. They’ve been bred and trained from the cradle, by their parents and teachers, to take orders. They need to be told what to do. Oh we are all infected by this culture. We’ve been neutralized by the Borg, Incessant propaganda from the Borg Channel from day One, telling us what to do. That’s what the plutocrats want, Phil. A compliant, docile work force that will piss away it’s disposable income to buck up the economy. The Borg says buy. You don’t need it, but buy anyway…”

The Demented Vet tells it like it is.