Michael Jackson is dead?!  Wow...

Does anyone in my area feel up to trying out a brand new church? Seriously, stop laughing.

You guys know that I wrestle back and forth with religion and that I always have a problem with the concept of "going to church". I remember what it was like to belong to a church; the camaraderie, the friends I made, the FUN we had... and I miss that. But I don't miss being talked "at" and the droning on and on about things I didn't alway agree with and the overall "stuffiness" of the whole thing.

Anyway, I was on Facebook this morning and I clicked on a link for a new church in the area where "Perfect people are not allowed" and I had a look at their website: http://www.greatlakeschurch.com. When I saw the video with the guy that had a shaved head and spacers in his ears (click on "See Our Services") it really perked my interest.

(What really sold me was the "Pastor's Welcome" when the pastor closed the video out with "That's what she said". Now THAT is awesome.)

Anyway, it's a brand new church and I am going to go this Sunday. Take a look at the website and let me know if any of you are interested in coming with.

This is pretty neat. http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html

... Free for me, anyway! It'll be $20 bucks for you unless you have a gift card sitting around like I did. legomymalfoy posted this in her journal this morning and it seriously worked!

1. Go here and choose any TWO of the 2/$44 bras.
2. NEXT, go here and select ONE panty in white, ivory, buff, pink, or black (cotton). ONLY THESE COLORS (in cotton) WILL WORK.
3. NEXT, go to your shopping bag and tick the box for offer codes. You'll go through a few intermediary pages before coming to the page to enter your offer codes. Fill out those pages...
4. FINALLY, enter these three offer codes:
FA814857 for a free bag with a $50 purchase <--(They were out of these bags when I did it - CP63)
FA813789 for $10 off any bra
25PTY for $25 off any two bras, and a free panty

I am not even kidding you guys... you will get two bras and a panty from Victoria's Secret for under $20. I happened to have a gift card that sbaehr gave me for my birthday some three years ago. I've tried to use it a few times, but there was never anything I wanted for under $20 so I still had it sitting in my purse. Therefore, my purchase this morning was completely free. SCORE!

Your Debut Album

1 - Go to http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.


2 - Go to Random quotations: http://www. quotationspage. com/random. php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.


If you want to do this again, you'll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.


3 - Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days" http://www. flickr. com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.


Put it all together, that's your debut album.



My Band's Name: Country Spirit!
My Album: There is Nothing Better
My Album Cover:

You preferred McCain’s statements 22% of the time You preferred Obama’s statements 78% of the time Voting purely on the issues you should vote Obama Who would you vote for if you voted on the issues? Find out now!

Originally published at my WordPress. You can comment here or there.

Happy 13th birthday to my daughter Cailyn! Weird... I feel old now! The day was rather uneventful, except for the pet mice we bought.

That's it for today.

I spent hours and hours on the computer yesterday working on www.ideatreestudio.com. (You guys won't see any changes just yet because none of it is live.) When I finally got to posting a blog entry for the day, my internet wasn't having it. Nothing online really worked; no images, no flash, just text and BOY was it slow! When I got up this morning, everything was back to normal. I'm just going to blame it on the rain (yeah, yeah).

Well, tasha is fine. She braved hurricane Ike with no major damage, just a flooded backyard that she and her neighbors deemed a swimming pool for the day (they had a party - yee haw). She is still without internet, though.

Anyhow... that's it for now. I'll be posting later on for todays entry.

My Internet is sorta down. Will catch up tomorrow.

You know - I've stuck by LJ through every little change in the last five years. When they created the "Plus" journal status (with ads) I supported them. I thought it was a good way for the company to grow some revenue while still being true to Brad's whole vision.

But THIS. THIS is TOO much.

Livejournal is no longer offering the basic account type. No notice, no announcement, even - just the quiet change. Just let the users figure it out for themselves - maybe if we don't tell them, then they can't get mad at us. It's the sneaky, covert bullshit that has me reeling. Here is what Brad has to say: http://brad.livejournal.com/2368071.html

FUCK YOU LIVEJOURNAL.

Every layout I have ever made has been rendered obsolete. Every tutorial I've written was written for basic users in mind. I run a community for BASIC users of Livejournal with over 50,000 members. Obsolete now.

Well - I am done paying for this service. My account expires this very week - what timing! I will still be around to read my friend's list and check up on my obsolete communities. I may update a time or two as well. I will never be a paid user of LJ again.

Feel free to add me on myspace - http://www.myspace.com/carriep63

An old boyfriend of mine died this weekend. His name is Don. I am very sad about the whole thing.

Meme copied from karmapearl

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.



1. You told me you'd wait here patiently but I wonder if he's kidding
2. Where the river cross, crosses the lake ayeita
3. Love ridden, I've looked at you with the focus I gave to my birthday candles
4. Hold onto love - that is what I do now that I've found you.
5. Hey! My little baby brother used to play down on the floor...
6. I didn't hear what you were saying, I live on raw emotion baby ayeita
7. And so it is, just like you said it would be analyzewithin
8. The earth is warm next to my ear, Insects noise is all that I hear
9. You've been thinkin' it's over, What's that chip on your shoulder?
10. So be it I'm your crowbar, that's what I am so far
11. We spent some time together walking, spent some time just talking
12. I wake up with blood-shot eyes, struggle to memorize the way it felt between your thighs alifeinfocus
13. Time to tell me the truth to burden your mouth with what you say
14. Mr. Sunshine in the morning, in the morning light
15. With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
16. I may know the word, but not say it
17. I'm a kid in a candy store, I'm a bull in a china shop
18. You and your museum of lovers the precious collection you've housed in your covers (LOL - this was on my friend's list, too) karmapearl
19. Good job, get 'em up way high gimme gimme that high five
20. Well the hills are pretty and rollin' but the thorn is sharp and swollen
21. Lying beside you, here in the dark alifeinfocus
22. Cheers, Darlin'. Here's to you and your loverboy.
23. I worry I weigh three times my body karmapearl
24. (Will you count me in?) I've been awake for awhile now, you've got me feelin' like a child nowayeita
25. Well if you wanted honesty that's all you had to sayanalyzewithin

This is freaking awesome. I WILL be purchasing those.

Here's a video of Matt if anyone's interested (he shaved his head for a play, hee-hee):



The first song is called "My Own". It brings back very fond memories for me because I was there when Matt first wrote it ten years ago. You guys should really check out the album version here. It's the very last song (#11) on the page. It is NOT Matt singing on the album version - it's Lucas Ade, the lead singer from Matt's old band, The Other Side. You can hear Betsy Ade - the lead singer of his other band, Rainy Day Crush - singing backup on that version.

I don't know much about the second song at all. I'm so out of the loop.

Hey guys - my web design firm is finally off the ground! tasha and I worked on it for the last couple of weeks and we are ready to roll!!

Tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell strangers on the street! Referrals are definitely welcome!

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