Thanks Dad

So I got an early birthday gift today; my dad sent me orchids, and they are beautiful. They are a beautiful lavender color, and I'm glad to have them since my white ones are not in bloom right now. Hopefully the new ones will also last a couple of months.

I love my dad.

Number 33 is not so bad

Well, I got curious to find out how a search of my name would come up.... I tried google and got as far as 180 results with no mention of me, I gave up on google. Then I tried yahoo and my name came up as result number 33. I find the contrast in results very interesting. At least I know if someone's looking for me and happens to be using yahoo, they'll be able to find me.

y a h o o o o o ! ! !

Disappointed yet again

With the long hours I have to spend at work, I wasn't aware of the enormity of the damage in New Orleans after the huricane. I got a chance last night to get cought up with what's going on and was appalled at what I saw. What strikes me most is, how can our government not react immediately. How can they let days go and expose thousands of people to such horrible conditions?

I read a transcript of a radio interview with Mayor Nagin and wondered again, what is Bush doing to this country? Why is our government letting us down yet again? When I asked Joseph yesterday why did it take so long for the national guard to get there, his answer was "she didn't ask for it. And don't say it's Bush's fault. It's the law, he can't do anything until the governor asks for it". Well, it seems to me that there are times when we need to assess a situation and take action. Like Mayor Nagin said in his interview "Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a formal process to request? You know, did the Iraqi people request that we go in there? Did they ask us to go in there? What is more important?"

Apparently not American lives.