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Saturday, June 10, 2006About MoviesI realized a short while ago, that I like Sandra Bullock in movies. Just a wierd thing for me, I'm not used to liking individual actors/actresses.I'm watching Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One For the Road, for the third time. Not totally intentional, and I've only seen it all the way through while paying attention about once. But I'm fairly impressed. Bill Engvall's the best one this time around. And surprisingly, Ron White was the second best (I really don't like his humor style) even dispite his standard crass stuff. "God. I know you're testing me here. You need to know, I'm only a C student." - Bill Engvall (0) comments | Post a Comment
Friday, June 09, 2006ErIs it bad to be getting cold, and twice chills now, for no apparent reason?That rash-like reaction to these bug bites can't be a good sign either.... Thursday, June 08, 2006Quote of the Day"Explore the way we blow things up" - Nova (the TV show)Sunday, June 04, 2006Quote of the Day"It's not being racist, it's profiling." - Ron WhiteCharities?It's high time I stop dealing with all the phone solicitors that get annoying. I already stopped dealing with the mail soliciting a few months go. But I do still want to donate to good worthy charities. Especially since I'm not really volunteering for anything currently. I need to be helping other people somehow. I guess I figure since I'm not doing it personally anymore, I should at least be doing it financially. Hopefully that will help make my life feel a little more fulfilling. At least I'd feel a bit more responsible about and thankful for the life I have.I already give $10 monthly to Amnesty International. Mostly because they asked and made it super easy and I was so impressed by the idea, only some because they do work to help people in "wrong" situations. But I want my donations to help those in need locally too. So I've chosen the American Red Cross as one charity to regularly donate to, if they can set up charging me monthly as Amnesty does. I also want my donations to help Earth. This is where I keep getting stumped. Finding a good, reputable charity that works for the environment is hard. The Sierra Club has a bad rep amongst animal rights activists from what I hear. Even the World Wildlife Foundation has some sketchy rumors around it. Anyone have any recommendations for me? I also think I'm going to try to set up regular donations to the American Diabetes Association. I realized today I have and have had too many friends with diabetes to not at least consider this charity as an option. If any of the above can't bill my credit card regularly, then possibly UNICEF will be my next choice. Helping children - you know me. But again, it's not one of those charities that tend to work here. Originally I was only looking for one new charity to donate to, maybe two. One must be Earth/environment centric. Any others get preferences for helping children and for helping locally. But my decisions aren't set in stone. Is there any charity you want to recommend to me? In ReviewSo now I understand why people *go away* on vacations. Oye.I did manage to "take back" my vacation, so to speak, after my last post and a couple hours of sleep that had me feeling better. That is, I salvaged some useful time and some self time. Except for whatever bug has continued to eat me, things haven't been so bad three of the last four days. Here's what I managed to get done during my vacation, of what I wanted to do: - Compared paycheck stubs - Scheduled car's oil change for Monday, and found maintenance isn't needed until next oil change - Got Jessie and checked out Bicycles, didn't buy one though :( - Got info on ny TIAA-CREF funds & monthly deductions, moved some %s around, filled out form (still have to get to bank to get an approved signature on it, oh and open a savings account while there for my Furnace Fund.) - NERO DT website thumbnails on the images pages, and updates - Bought music I wanted - Played Kareoke Revolution - Saw Spiderman II (it was okay) - Wrote Melody's History - RPed at Jim's - Chose charities I'm planning to go pick up my bedroom and clean well my bathroom today too, as it really is getting to bother me. |
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