Wow. So much response to the last post, it's overwhelming!

So I checked for comments and saw that I had a few. I was so excited thinking someone actually read the last post and replied. NOPE! Now, don't get me wrong, I did have two responses in email (Thank you!) but the comments today were, um, less that exciting.

One was "Cool post" with a link to a place selling bread machines signed by Anonymous. Obviously this was spam with two words to try to throw me. You did not succeed! Even if I was totally cool with random links to merchandise, I would not post yours. I can't even eat bread! Why would I want a bread machine?

The next was a comment that was pure spam. "Buy this medicine... blablabla"... I was like, really? DELETE! They didn't even try to woo me with "nice post", they just dumped their crap on my blog. Bastards.

The next one was about Viagra. I don't think I need to announce this as it should be obvious to all my readers BUT, I don't have a dangling man part. And to the other comment, no, it doesn't need to be enlarged and I don't think my woman really cares about my "size". Just saying...

OH COME ON! Seriously? Dang! I guess that is what I get for turning off the word verification. I mean, really people, if you are going to spam me, at least try to woo me over like Anonymous. I'm actually thinking of buying a bread machine as a thanks... (not really)

It's getting closer!

Today my friend and I are going to Spokane to pick up my husband while the kiddos stay and play with friends and have an impromptu hang out session. He'll be here for 10 days for the holiday season.

It got me to thinking about the holidays and I have noticed that a lot of people are wishing "Merry Christmas" before it even hits now. I was just curious as to why. That would be like wishing everyone a Happy Birthday weeks before their actual birthday. Now, someone told me it's because it's "the season" for wishing "Merry Christmas". I don't think so! Christmas happens on an actual day. It's not a month long celebration like Ramadan or something like that. It's a DAY. 


So, I wish Happy Holidays instead... but I get called the Grinch for not saying "Merry Christmas". You know what, people, not everyone celebrates Christmas. On Christmas day I wish people a "Merry Christmas". 

Just because people have their pagan tree up (and what does that have to do with Jesus' birth?) the day after Thanksgiving doesn't make the month of December Christmas. It's December 25th. Yet, I get called all sorts of names because I say Happy Holidays. They say I am taking the "Christ" out of Christmas. So let me clear a few things up:

1. I'm not a Christian. The only reason we celebrate Christmas is because my husband is a Christian.
2. I am not taking "Christ" out of Christmas. The media did that for you. So stop blaming me.
3. What the hell does a tree, stockings, elves and a fat man have to do with your prophet being born?
4. Christmas is on December 25th, not the entire month of December. So when I say Happy Holidays, I am including all my friends that have holidays this month, Christian included. How is that being Grinchy?
5. Saying Merry Christmas excludes all my Jewish, Muslim, Pagan and Wiccan friends. Wouldn't it be nice to wish everyone joy instead of one small group?

I am so sick and tired of being called names just because I say Happy Holidays. I am about to tell everyone to go stuff it up their chimney, pour a stiff glass of eggnog and lock myself away until New Year.

Bah Humbug!
Dotchi Latham

Transformers- sneak preview!

Got your attention? It had mine too. We showed up over an hour early, had to park 2 blocks away and walk to the theater and then stood in line for 30 minutes to find out that all the seats were full. I was so pissed. But I decided to take the California attitude of "no worries" and took the boys to the Pizza Parlor. Pizza in California sucks, but not as bad as standing in the sun for 30 minutes to find out that you couldn't get into a sneak preview.

We played air hockey and pool and pinball. Air hockey is oodles of fun, until your finger gets between the puck and the hitting thingy. What do they call that anyway? That HURTS! I can still feel it. I mean, poor Mendel... yea. Miles and I played pool our way. He got the 8 ball in so technically he lost. But since that was such a short game, we agreed to play until someone had all their balls in the pockets and had hit the cue ball in too. It was fun. Miles kept hitting the ball off the table Bahaha! Then we walked back to the car and went to Starbucks for coffee.

So I noticed that on the side of my Starbucks cup is the following quote:

The Way I See It #258

Because true conservatives are pessimists, they are happier than liberals, for three reasons. First, pessimists are rarely surprised. Second, when they are wrong they are delighted to be so. Third, pessimists do not put their faith in princes - in government. They understand that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. Happiness is an activity; it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
George F. Will - Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist.

And apparently this man has not run into the conservatives I know. Although they are great people to borrow money from because they expect you will never pay them back... they are NOT the happiest people I know. In fact, they delight in telling you that you will burn in hell for being "wrong"... come to think of it, I can't think of many conservatives who would even admit they are wrong. They tend to be happy because they are making everyone miserable. But hell, we are all human, right? Well, except for my mom, I think she fell off of Mars or something.

Conservatives, hell and crazy people aside, why is this on the side of my cup of coffee? I just wanted to drink my venti terrazzo filled to the syrup square, watered down to the shots square, whitened to the decaf square, sweetened with sugar and iced. I'm not too picky about it all. I mean, I just wanted to drink the damned cup of coffee without having to disagree or agree with the quote on the side of cup and then have to hunt down the HTML code so I could post it on this blog. So I read that it is a conversation starter. It's meant to get people talking to each other. Are we so anti-social now that we have to have quotes plastered everywhere so we can start a conversation? Probably so.

Take the bus ride the other day. I was asking the bus driver how to get to the 923 route and he pointed to a sign. I thought it was going to be something like "get off at 3rd and Broadway" but it only had a hamburger and a drink in a circle with a slash through it and under it was "Food and Drink Prohibited" in English and Spanish. Couldn't he just say "You can't have your drink out, Ma'am, please put it up."? No, he had to have a quote from the California department of transportation to help him.

I am not trying to be all social and start conversations. If I wanted to do that, I'd go on an internet chat room and start chatting with a bunch of abbreviations and misspelling words to make it faster and easier.

On Monday I am sailing from the ASW base to the south bay area where we will dock at The Cove for the next 13 days or so. If I don't blog after that, then I probably sunk the boat Bahaha! I'll send pictures.

Tomorrow we will be going to the theater to watch Shrek the 3rd. I've heard mixed reviews. I'll let you know what I think when we get back. Probably in the evening though.

Tomorrow is also the FIRST DAY of JulNoWriMo! I am so darned excited!