Childs. Julia Childs

Seems that Chef Julia Childs wasn't just poaching fish all those years on the TV. Recent release of new documents confirm an early career in the OSS, (Office of Strategic Services), a department of the government that later evolved into the CIA. The initial article at CNN did not mention that this information was available earlier, so after reading a couple of comments about her OSS career being before her TV Chef fame, I checked out other sources on the web to find out that she was hired on as a research assistant for the OSS and played a part in top secret communications during WWII. Neat.

Does this mean that Rachel Ray is CIA?

Blog List Bonanza

I went on a blog reading spree before I decided to start another blog and found some wonderful bloggers. So take a look at my sidebar and go on a bit of spree of your own. Maybe my taste in blogs will give you a look into my brain. I will say that the list is a tad eclectic. There's everything there from food and art to parenting and being green. (Not green like Kermit. Although that's great too.)

You might consider doing something I used to do on my last blog. Blog Tripping. To do that, I would pick one of the blogs on my blog list, and click over to them. Spend a little big of time there perusing what that blogger has been up to recently, maybe post a comment..then pick a blog from their blog list. And so on, and so on. You can pick a time limit, a number of click-throughs, or some other perameter to decide how long you want to trip.

In the end, Blog tripping can be a wonderful adventure into the blogosphere where you can "..explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." Okay. So more than likely someone's seen the blogs you'll surf to, but it's still a great adventure. It also makes a wonderful blog post.

A'Parent

Gorilla Politics

First let me preface that I will rarely post about politics. I'm a private politics kinda girl, meaning that I'm happy to go back and forth on individual issues, but don't want to go over and over which candidate promised what.

All that being said...

Good lord people! There are better ways to make a difference in today's politics than shooting people. It's called VOOOOO-TING. Try it sometime.

One person was shot Wednesday at the Little Rock headquarters of the
Arkansas Democratic Party, police said.

The shooter, described as a white male, came into the headquarters
before noon and asked for Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before firing three shots, CNN affiliate KATV reported.

Little Rock police would not confirm or deny whether Gwatney was shot.
CNN affiliate KTHV reported that a witness working in a nearby shop said
Gwatney's assistant ran into the shop and asked her to call 911 because the
chairman had been shot.

Little Rock police Lt. Terry Hastings said that the victim was in critical condition at a hospital.

I just gotta say...KARMA!

KATV reported that a blue Dodge pickup believed to be the suspect's had been
wrecked and smashed against a tree.

Original story is at CNN.com.

Introduction

I was reading something just yesterday about how too many bloggers blog, (say that five times fast), what's a seemingly "perfect" life, with kids that are darn well close to perfect, husbands that are "perfect" and lives that are, well...perfect. I don't quite know what to say about that. I know that I've read a lot of blogs where the houses seems to be like June Cleaver just whirled through on a housecleaning binge, kids are a little less rumpled than those I see on the street, (or in my house), husbands I'd like to talk to about their unmarried brothers and lives that seem to have way too much time spent on the good things rather than the practical things in life.

Kinda like fiction. Right. Or maybe I'm just jealous. Because my life is far from perfect. My kid is rumpled, my house is a mess, there's no husband in sight and I rarely seem to have time for the good things in life (even if I could afford them.). A couple years ago I had a blog, but circumstances required that I close it. Now I'm back under a new pseudonym, in a new blog, thinking about a slightly different focus.

I don't really know what it was about the past two years that has moved my self-definition from my glory days, to where I actually am today. I can definitely say that the last two years has been a reality check. Still is. When reality imposes itself upon your psyche, the psyche usually gives way. Which has brought me from my former early life glory to my current life reality.

I am an end-of-my-30s parent. Specifically a single parent of one girl child currently on the brink of teenhood. (God help me.) I also have a dog that's like a second child. We also have a cat, a hamster and a fish; but I'm not so attached to them. I just feed them. I'm working now at a temp job at a community college, where I'm trying to get a permanent job. I need to get my butt in gear and get back to school. I moved to my current location for the sole reason of going to school. So why am I not in school now? Long story.

I intend to blog as a parent. I want to do a bit of life and news commentary. I'm also starting to explore my spiritual side again, so you might find a bit of that here and there. Blogging helps me to explore thoughts I have that are right now a bit free range. It helps to focus and narrow it all down. Amazing what black and white can do.

Hmm. What else to tell you? Only other thing I can think of that might flavor all of this is that I am former military. That is a big part of where I come from, so I might not sound like the typical mom sometimes when I'm thinking from that. I think that's it though.

I hope you stick around to catch the ride. It's sure to be interesting. At least, that's the hope.

A'Parent