Odd Still Life

The title of this post is a quote from one of my favorite plays/movies, “1776″. I think it is very appropriate for this day and age. Many of the people who are in government at this time are tyrants and if we keep letting them rule then they will rule forever. I think it might be time for a new “Declaration of Independence” ( the thing that the above quote refers to ). All the Democrats and all the Republicans who can’t stand this regime anymore ( and there are plenty of those at this point ) should get together, find a middle ground that they all can take a stand on and let all these tyrants know that they will not be allowed to lead us anymore. These people should start an investigation and not stop. For the next three years every tyrant in government should have a well-founded fear that they could be ousted — politically and legally — at any moment. As many people as need to should go directly to jail ( not passing go, not collecting their usual checks ) and everybody else should be kicked out of politics and humiliated with as much truth as possible.

So, those in power, those who are abusing their powers, should take these words of Thomas Jefferson to heart:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

They should know that “the People” remember these words and know exactly what they mean. We are American’s after all and that is supposed to mean freedom (Liberty). We will not let tyrant’s rule!

(Ehem! Pardon me. But I get a little outraged when my Liberty is threatened.)

Late yesterday my kid fell and got a big scratch on her knee. This tragedy was not discovered until I went to change a diaper and there was blood on her ARM. I thought, ‘Oh, when she fell she must’ve scraped her elbow and now it’s bleeding.’ I looked, no scrape and no scratch. The kid herself was not complaining and not crying, nothing. I looked down at her knee and there was a long, bloody scratch. I freaked. The kid looked at me and freaked. So, both of us freaked and then we calmed down and had some milk and hot chocolate and went to bed. [Badly edited on account of . . .]

This morning things were alright, but the kid wanted to cuddle and be held. (I love this. I just wish my kid didn’t have to be — even slightly – hurt for it to happen.) I walked around all morning with her attached to my neck, pointing to the owwie and generally acting sick. She even took an hour and a half nap this afternoon. She never does that.

Anyway, I said all that to say this. I do not have time to redo all those old entries. I just want to get on with new stuff. So, I’ll just go on from here. Thank you. That’s all.

I have been having the worst two days trying to rework this site. First, I couldn’t figure out how to resize the fonts. I pulled my hair out and finally wound up doing a few strange things with the HTML editor. (I copied my WordPad stuff into the HTML editor, instead of directly to the Post editor. I couldn’t figure out how to make the fonts work right otherwise.) Then my sidebar wouldn’t show up and I couldn’t figure out why (something to do with too many font tags or something).

Finally I got everything figured out and even got some work done on the stylesheet. (I don’t like tiny print on my site.) All of the sudden I got it into my head to log out of my WordPress account. Big mistake. After I logged out, I couldn’t log back in. I could not find my account information anywhere. I would’ve been fine if I’d have had my username. Unfortunately, I’d used an obscure spelling of my first name as my username and couldn’t remember it. I tried everything. Finally, I was sure I would find my username attached to an e-mail welcoming me to WordPress. No such e-mail exists. I was completely lost. Finally, at about 7:30 this evening I decided to chuck everything, copy and paste my posts to a WordPad document and uninstall WordPress.

Needless to say I’m deeply depressed. I had so much work done and now I have to do it all over again.(Guess what I found five minutes after I did that. Of course, you’re right. I found my username on a form when I went to re-sign up at WordPress. I hadn’t even thought to look there. Jeesh.) Anyway, I’m going to start copy/pasting all of my old posts (all 6 or 7 of them) to this new blog and re-re-editing the fonts and stylesheet as I go. I might be done by Valentine’s day. Maybe.