Comments

Here's the policy on comments in Briarland:

I am ALLLL about Freedom of Speech and not a huge fan of censorship but I have comments set to moderate. I can take differing opinions on politics and such. I can take differing opinions on religion. I WILL NOT allow disrespect for my religious beliefs or anyone else's. I can also take insults but I'm not publishing a comment filled with vulgarity ESPECIALLY for some gutless idiot posting under "Anonymous". Not only does it reinforce my understanding of your position in the stupid people brigade but it shows a complete lack of class.

I understand your frustration because I have little patience for stupid people. I recognized immediately that you were no match for me intellectually, weeks ago. I don't mean to come off as an elitist but let's face facts, you didn't even spell your profanity correctly. I'm sorry. I recognize how embarrassed you must be to fail to understand my superior repartee. I suggested that you run along, but perhaps you should stay. You have much to learn. I suggest you keep a dictionary on hand. Clearly your vocabulary is stunted.

Happy Easter to you, as well :)

IDOL

I'm so bad at picking favorites... Pia was the obvious Idol from the first moment she stepped onstage. But now she's gone :(

Scotty. I love the little Mad Magazine boy. More George Strait, some Garth Brooks and maybe a Forever and Ever, Amen!!! I'm not a hillbilly fan but I like him. Ahh the memories he invokes, right?

Jacob.. It hurts to even watch his face. Go HOME!

Haley. Hated her from day one but loved her tonight. Judges didn't. What do I know?

Paul. I love Paul. In spite of the corneal damage I suffer from his teeth I really love this weird boy. The spastic dance, the crazy clothes and the voice.. It's all so odd but in a good way.

Casey. OH EM GEE!! GO HOME, YOU SUSAN BOYLE ON THE BUTT OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY IN THIS WORLD!!!

Lauren. I like her but I forget her in five...Ooo!! Squirrel!!!!

Stephano. The boy is responsible for the demise of Pia. He's one canolli away from cement shoes. What does that even mean? I said it and I have no idea what it means.

I don't even know if I've got them all but can I just finish up with this: I love a boy who begs America to bring back the Heavy Metal as he tells Iovine and Will.i.am to respectfully mind their own beezwax as he out-ozzies OZZY!! YES!!! This boy is the love child of Sammy Hagar and lots of other scary hairy dudes from the 70s-80s!! GO DURBIN!!! I'd be banging my head if it didn't hurt so much!! I didn't even head bang when it DIDN'T hurt!!

Would it be weird to scan pics of my ex-boyfriend who is my Facebook friend and suggest he make one of them his profile pic because he's SOOOO much cuter than the one he has up? Oh random huh?

You know I write some good stuff. I crack myself up. It's really sad no one reads these unless the fam has their panties in a twist!

The silver lining.

Being so much younger and only HALF sibling to my mom's older kids has often proven to be painful at times in my younger life. NOT TODAY!!! I tell you what, it's becoming a more and more beautiful thing to know that my genetics are only partly shared. Even though I decided I'd had enough and disowned myself.

Yeah! Sucks to be them!!!

What do I do with my sad little life?

Everyone knows I am a BeckPalinLimbaughTeabagger hater, liberal, opinionated, elitist. I also just signed up again for Obama/Biden 2012 **YAYYYYYYY**

BUT! I love to redecorate my house. I just redesigned my bathroom and thought I'd post pics :)

Atomic Bath

181st Semi-Annual General Conference

Starting tomorrow at 10 a.m. mst you will find many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints either listing to or watching General Conference. Twice a year our church leaders speak to us on issues facing us in our world. Should you have an interest in watching or listening to it, you can find it here: 181st Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I'm always hoping that this will be the time they tell Glenn Beck to shut up!!!

Open letter to my family

So my really drama loving family has gotten on this big whiny trip about some stuff I wrote that, again, was anonymous, true, and no secret. I've cut them out of my life and look forward to the time I can cut ties more permanently. So here's the thing:

You have treated me like shit for most of my life. I've been punished for something I had no part in. I tried for so long to fit in until I realized I don't really need or want to. When I got married, my husband was appalled at the way I was treated. He had a hard time keeping his mouth shut let alone accepting it. When you all realized that he was a huge asset, I was a bit more accepted but it never escaped my notice that it wasn't me that you had accepted, it was him. So let's get this straight right now. He's done a lot of things for most of you. He's done that for love of me but when I decided I wasn't taking this anymore, he had my back from that moment on. One sister actually had the audacity to STILL call him up for help. HE'S MY HUSBAND!!! Why would he help you? YOU TREAT ME LIKE SHIT AND YOU ALWAYS HAVE!!! So, STILL, he's being asked for things by people who weren't a part of this insane temper tantrum yet felt the need to take sides. He's not going to help you. You are nothing to him. How do you not get that he's my husband and he loves ME and my children and if you hurt one of us you hurt us all. I recognize that none of you understand me. Even less now than you ever have. I don't understand why because if ever I needed family it's now more than ever. Yet you haven't stopped to think of that and what it's like for me. He sees the pain I go through everyday. He sees the hurt that is caused by people who should love me unconditionally. He's always seen that. Never would I have asked him or my girls to take sides but you think they don't see it? You think I've gotten more difficult for you? Imagine what it's like for them, yet they love me even more because of it. My girls are thrilled at the prospect of never having to deal with some of you ever again. I've encouraged them to keep in touch with the ones they love so much and they do. But you hurt us all when you hurt me. Save yourself the embarrassment of looking like an idiot by asking my husband for anything. He and I meant it when we said "for better or worse" and though we've had our ups and downs we still love each other and we work things out. He didn't promise that to any of you.

The GOP Mo's: Ro, Jo, and The complete idiot...

I stole this from Joanna Brooks. She's pretty awesome =)

Edit: I posted that on the fly and didn't check it. Sorry O_o

OMG!!! STUPID PEOPLE SHUT UP!!!!

I am so sick of the constant complaints about Obama. When did we become so anti humanitarian? Our country is in debt and has huge problems but does a crazy dictator send people out to slaughter people?? NO! The fact that we can complain about all of this means we are 1000x better off than these people. When Petraeus and other military experts who are IN Afganistan say it's over THEN it's over (and it's not like he doesn't have a personal stake in it, his son served there too). In the meantime, count your blessings that you are American! We're in debt due to the warmongering Bush Admin and Republicans. Remember the crap Obama took for trying to settle things through peace talks?? Yeah we don't talk, we just bomb people, REMEMBER???



Among the criticism is that he should have acted sooner? Umm yeah he should have, but he can't just do that. He has to do things with the approval of other countries and the loons that are in opposition to every single thing he does!! I just keep thinking about the little world news thing that interrupted my Saturday morning cartoons and listening to Walter Cronkite talk about this insane man named Gadhafi. He was an evil man during the Reagan administration, now he's a completely insane, evil man.



I've also seen some criticism that some of the Libyan rebels dislike America. And?? So if you dislike us (likely because they have been fed negative information about us their entire lives) you deserve to be slaughtered by a mad man?? We can't save the world but if we can help out in some of the biggest atrocities, why would we hesitate? There's a lot of lip service paid to the importance of Christianity in our government as it was founded by men that held God and freedom as very important parts of the foundation of the country. So now do we pick and choose what is the "Christian" thing to do (I speak of Christianity as it was the major beliefs of our founding fathers though John Adams DID condemn the prejudice of Muslims etc.)?



I think that one of the things that's become clear during the time that Obama has been president is that there should be term limits on members of the House of Representatives AND Gadhafi.. Too much time and power obviously is a really bad mix. And as these members of Congress call for impeachment, do they have a better idea how to handle the financial crisis and war in Iraq that was handed over to this administration from the last (which was, the oil spill (yeah remember THAT?? It's still there) Haiti, Japan, Chile. And he's being accused of going into Libya over oil? Umm no, that was Bush and Iraq. Remember that war that we went into under false intelligence? Bush admits that one and who benefitted from that? Big oil and who was tied to big oil? Bush. Meanwhile Bin Ladin was able to hole up in Afganistan. THAT is where the war on terror SHOULD have taken place but it didn't and now war weary, we are finally fighting the people responsible for 9/11. And Obama fighting for oil?? Whose tagline was "drill baby drill?" Who has consistantly insisted that we work toward alternate fuel?? Who was against offshore drilling? And how soon we forget that the cost of gas was INSANE at the end of the Bush administration. Also remember that the Bush administration isn't completely safe from being tried for the things they did to fool our country and many others into a false war.

No, we can't help everyone who is experiencing slaughter by their dictatorial governments, but when they so blatantly shove it in our faces do we hide with our tail between our legs? We never have before why would we start now? And Fox News made up reports on "Human Shields"?? What? Fox News LIES?? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!

I'm sure I'll be venting more on all of this BS soon.

To forgive or not to forgive...

So about 2 and a half months ago I wrote a blog that got some of my family members' panties in a twist. Nothing that I said was untrue or a secret. I deleted most of my fam from Facebook, even those NOT involved (I figured it would be best to not make it a 'take sides' scenario). It's been a peaceful two and a half months. My girls have asked if this means we don't have to go to the family get-togethers (some are long standing traditions). I don't know what to say. I will always try to do what is best for my girls and husband but honestly the easy answer would be "No. We don't have to do it anymore.) especially since THEY all seem to dread it too. There are family members that I love and can't imagine life without them. My girls have some cousins that they love to spend time with and they need MORE time with them and not less. I guess it's a matter of making those events happen more often.

In the last couple of days I've heard some stuff that the ones I can live without have said or done. Not about me, but it never ceases to amaze me how cruel these people can be. Especially to the people they supposedly love. There's no excuse for it. I don't want my girls to grow up thinking that hurtful things should just be brushed off. Not to mention the irony of those who say these things.

I know I've become unbearably opinionated. I know that I am sometimes too sensitive. I know that the way my life is now has made me short on patience and ofttimes angry at the world. It hasn't made me insensitive to other people, though. This is unlike me to stay angry, to be so unforgiving. But what if this is what is best for all of us? I don't want to become so cruel. There's no excuse for that and I certainly don't want that for my kids. I may be a bitch, but it turns out that karma is an even bigger one. Food for thought.

Hmm, Really?

You JUST realized you had a problem, Crypt Keeper!!

Orrin Hatch Working To Fix Tea Party Problem


Dude, there's no cure for crazy, Have you SEEN Muammar Gaddafi?? Yeah, that's Libyan tea!!!