Life is good

I'm sitting in the office and I'm eating a delicious toasted roast beef sandwhich from Brunos and I'm drinking a Dr. Pepper. It's nothing major but it makes me happy just the same. My life is really good you know that? I am getting a great education with the opportunity for an even better one when I graduate next year. I have an awesome friend in God (he is my everything). I have a great group of friends that I hang out with all the time. My family is pretty stinkin awesome too!

I LOVE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!

I'm super duper excited because we leave for Washington DC in 2 weeks and 2 days!!!! I can't wait!!!!!

It's going to be so much fun.

Again I must say

I LOVE MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!

No matter what they take from me . . .

THEY CAN'T TAKE AWAY MY DIGNITY (in my best Whitney impression)


So I walked into the middle of a speech at an alumni dinner last night. I walked in at the right time because Reverend Shay Gillespie was passionately quoting the words to a Whitney Houston song. I felt the urge to bust out in song but I refrained.

I've always liked the Greatest Love of All but it now has a comical aspect to it because just a few days ago I hosted an open mic karaoke night and someone (a male) got up and sang that song and well it was hilarious.

So imagine with me walking in the the university center and hearing someone shout at the top of their lungs the following words.

I decided long ago,
never to walk in any ones shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They cant take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

It was suppose to be an alumni dinner for Black History month but I think he ended up preaching a sermon. And apparently quoting Whitney Houston was the best way to end it.

I just wish I could have heard the rest of his speech.

Anyway there is as usual absolutely NO point to this blog other than to say for some odd reason I have Whitney songs stuck in my head today!

I just want you to know . . .

That having the flu sucks dirt worse than a broken hoover. I started feeling sick last night during church and now I have the full blown flu. I was hoping it was just a cold until I started running a fever

I went to one class this morning and I've been sleeping all day long.
I have a paper on George Mason due tomorrow and I haven't finished it. I guess I'll get to work on it. At least it's not due until 4:30.

Pray for me please!
(and to whoever the idiot was that left a comment on my blog last time I asked for prayer if you've ever read the Bible and if you believed the Bible you would know prayer works.)

I probably shouldn't have called that person an idiot but I'm sick so don't pay any attention to me.

Free Bread and a Barnyard (the story of capitalism with a democratic twist)

I snagged this from a friends facebook page. I'm posting it because it's pretty funny and perhaps it will make you see that while I may say that I come from the liberalism tradition I haven't gone and joined the Democratic party. I will continue to bake my own bread and not share it, Thank You very much. HA


You've heard this story before, now read the rest of the story.If this doesn't make you at least smile you're probably not awake yet. Like it or not there are a few more critters mucking in the barnyard.

The Little Red Hen, she called all of her neighbors together and said, '
If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?''

Not I,' said the cow.
'Not I,' said the duck.
'Not I,' said the pig.
'Not I,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.
The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.
'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck..
'Out of my classification,' said the pig.
'I'd lose my seniority,' said the cow.
'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.
At last it came time to bake the bread.'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.

'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.
'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.
'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.
'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.
She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see.
They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.

''Excess profits!' cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)
'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)
'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)
The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, 'You must not be so greedy.''
But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.

'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.

'And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked,
'I am grateful, for now I truly understand.
'But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established. Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

EPILOGUE
Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.
Hillary got $8 million for hers.
That's $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years,repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

It's a bad word . . .

Ok so I realize that my last blog made absolutely NO sense but that's ok because my name is Yvonne and I'm random like that.

My next bit of randomness:

I have a new goal. Last semester I had a friend that decided she wanted to quit cussing. Don't worry I haven't gone and picked up the habit of cussing people out or anything. However it was really funny to watch or listen as she tried to come up with new ways to express her anger instead of cussing.

What does that have to do with my new goal? Well nothing really except that I also want to stop saying a certain word. I myself consider it a bad word. What is that word you ask? Well I'll tell you: It's "fixing" as in, I'm fixing to go to the store, or I'm fixing to slap you.

It makes NO sense AT ALL! However I find myself saying it allllll the time. So my goal is to stop saying that dreadful word. It would be much better to say I'm about to go shopping or I'm about to dropkick you in the face don't you think? Or just even I'm going to do my homework now (that's just an example you don't really think I'm going to do homeowork do you?).

So anyway if you have any ideas on how I can stop saying "fixing" then I would love to hear them.

Yvonne

Hello again my blogging friends!

I haven't been blogging regularly. That's bad! I like to blog I just don't have as much time as I use to :(



I had a birthday yesterday! I'm 23 years old now. I'm glad that I'm still young enough to be excited about birthdays.



I've had several things that I've wanted to blog about but I haven't taken the time to do it. Sadly I don't write these thigns down so I can't actually remember what they were!!



Did I tell you that I went to Denton TX to look at the UNT campus? Well I did! My sister and I went up there a couple of weekends ago. I LOVED it!!!!! I think that may be where I want to go for grad school.

I was suppose to take the GRE next weekend but I'm not going to be able to. I'll have to take it in a couple of weeks.

I'm currently working with our schools student government to re-write our constitution. It's been a lot of fun but it's also been some hard work. It takes a lot of work to reform government at a student level. I feel sorry for our national leaders! I've discovered something about myself that will shock the pants off of most of you. I'm taking a class called contemporary political ideologies (it's very interesting so stop rolling your eyes) and guess what. . . . I'm . . . . a LIBERAL *gasp* No it can't be so! Me the hardcore republican that thought liberal was a bad word am classifying myself as a liberal.

And guess what . . . most of you republicans out there are liberals too and I think that's fuuuunnnny!!!

Liberal doesn't mean we like killing babies and taking guns away. It doesn't mean that we want to take the rich peoples money away from them and give it to the poor people.

Let me ask you this: how many of you agree with the famous line "all men are created equal" or that we have certain unalienable rights and that among this are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

I thought you all would agree! Guess what . . . those come from a liberal!

Wow I have no idea why I'm blogging about this.

Liberals fought against two things when the ideology of liberalism first came about.

First of all they were fighting against religious conformity
Second they were fighting against something called ascribed status.

Religious conformity is exactly what you think it is . . . the state forcing people to adhere to a specific religion.

Ascribed status is basically the theory that whatever you're born into is the status you must remain for your whole life. There is no room for improvement or betterment. All men are not created equal under the theory of ascribed status.

Liberalsim means I want individual freedom as long as my freedom doesn't infringe upon your freedom. Guess what (I keep saying that) I can be a republican and still be a liberal at the same time. I think that is so awesome!

Now if you don't like calling me a liberal I guess you could call me an individualist conservative like Reagan or Margaret Thatcher and I'm totally cool with that because I like both of those people.

Now I have absolutely no idea why I wrote this except for the fact that I take great pleasure in shocking my family. (as if they actually read my blog)

I must reassure them though that I am still loyal to the republican party (sorry grandma) lol.

Yeah you guys can just ignore this rather odd little blog. I think it comes from not getting enough sleep or something. What do you think?