Meredith's Moments

H1N1 -- Thanks Paris Hilton and all you other idioits!!!

According to the MSNBC website in an article entitled "Obama: Swine flue may be like ordinary flues" states 'Obama referred to the flu by its scientific name, H1N1. The World Health Organization has stopped using the term "swine flu" to avoid suggesting there's a danger posed by pigs."  On TMZ on Tuesday night, a photog asked Paris Hilton if she was concerned about swine flu, her response was "I don't eat that".  So now change the name to H1N1 so the dumb people will continue to eat pork and Obama will not have to send the pork industry bailout money or take the entire industry under government control!!!!  So with a simple name change the ignorant masses will not be afraid of pigs . . .

My question . . . what kind of education do you receive from the top notch school that Paris Hilton's rich parents sent her too?  And for that matter what about the run of the mill public school that those of us without Hilton money send our kids?  Dumb the electorate down so they can control the masses!!!

When to Sell Your House -- Just after a Murder or Wait till after Trial?

So . . . here is the story!  Wednesday morning my daughter had late start at school.  She needed to be there at 11:30.  So as we head out of the "hood", we see my daughters friend pacing back and forth on the main boulevard into the subdivision talking on the phone.  I slow down thinking she may need a ride to school.  My daughter comments that she should be at school since she is in the 7th grade and they are on normal school schedule.  Thinking all is well -- I continue to drive my daughter to school.  About four miles down the road, a motorcycle cop is flying past us.  Then . . . firetrucks, ambulances, police cars, more firetrucks, and more ambulances.  I live in a city of about 14,000 -- all that personnel running around means a cat stuck in a tree, flooding water, dog off of a leash!!  My daughter and I are joking with each other that there must be a major crime scene somewhere in the city!!!  As you can tell from the title, it apparently was a major crime scene!!!  I arrive home from taking her to school and the street next to mine is full of all the police and fire vehicles.  Still not putting anything together and thinking someone may have had a heart attack, I begin hearing helicopters.  Still not alarmed -- until I looked up!!!  Helicopters!!!!!  About an hour later -- I learn that a 12 year-old girl shot and critically wounded her father.  OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!  The next morning he passes away!

So for the past two days, the neighborhood has been inundated with media and police!  Haven't learned anything credible as to why this child would fatally shoot her father!!

So to the topic -- When do you sell?  As a Realtor, I know that you do not have to disclose that the father was murder because he did not die in the house, but when someone pulls crime statistics for my neighborhood (her current charge), it will indicated possible that there was an aggravated assault (assuming it is not raised to Homicide charges -- since he has pasted).  So when do you sell?  Can you sell?  Tell me what you think?

Reflections on 40 Days & 40 Nights

Started raining during the night last night - by morning Katy is flooded.  Here are my notes on the day-

6:37am Still working on the arc!!! Should be done in a couple of hours -- when I can take the kids to school. Had a little trouble figuring out what a cubit was!!!! SCHOOL DELAYED START TWO HOURS!!!! This rain is killing me!!!!!!

6:50am Bass Boat For Rent!! Need to get to work? Katy City Limit resident with boat will get you to work for a nominal fee!! When will you unincorporaters learn!! We may have guns -- but we all have boats! Can get all you sissy lalas to work on time!! Must supply your own unbrella!!

7:22am Crawfish boil tonight!!! The little boogers are everywhere!! Sending kids out to gather them up for super tonight before they head to school!! Got potatos and corn reading to boil!!! I love the country!!! Dinner is whatever walks in front of the house!! Out of hog, but a little leary to harvest another with swine flu and all!!! But if one runs by . . . it's on!!!! Pork Chops!!!

7:54am For those of you new to the Houston Gulf Coast -- DO NOT WADE IN PUDDLES!!!! There are snakes and fire ants and if we are lucky a few gators!!! Gator etouffe and a pair of shoes -- all in a good days work!!!!!

8:09am First Hurricane Ike and now massive flooding two weeks in a row!!!! What next . . . Oh Yea . . . Swine Flu!!! Gotta love Texas!!!! Six kids home all day with no school . . . what to do . . . what to do . . . HELP!!!

8:51am It one of the plagues of the end times!! MOSQUITOS!!!! Swarms of them!!! Don't go out without bug spray. It's already 70 degrees -- the this afternoon there will be millions of them. Swine Flu and West Nile Virius!!! Is this the third world!!!!

Meredith Herself

What is there to say?  Who am I?  Who cares?  I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas.  I fled to Texas the day after I graduated from high school.  My high school education included “conservative-thought” history, “free-market” economics training and religion, which meant that I was destined to be, frustrated my entire adult life.  The move to Texas was a complete culture change!! YeeHaa Y’all!!  I went to Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, for a year and a half and realized I was not “emotionally equipped” to be at a liberal arts university.  I left college for a stint in ReHab.  It was the “proper” next step for someone who was educated to believe in an economic and political thought that seems to be completely nonexistent to the masses.  After a few years of the ReHab road, I moved permanently to Phoenix, Arizona where I meant my ex-husband.  While in Arizona, I continued to indulge myself in political thought through talk radio, CNN, Fox News, college classes and books.  The books included the normal garbage that you get from the “elite” politicians of today, the Federalist papers, and of course “Uncle Miltie” Milton Friedman.  But, I still was having trouble relating to the rest of the world.  In the midst of all of this, I started having babies.  I eventually gave birth to four children while in Arizona.  In 2001, we moved to Texas.  I had my last son in 2003 and was divorced in 2005.  I have been raising the children alone and working as a Realtor for the last three years.  I have been fairly isolated the last few years and find that when I vent about what is going on with me that many people are clueless.  So I have concluded that it must just be the rants of a crazy woman.  So, in order, to keep my sanity I have turned to blogging.  I can’t be the only crazy woman out there!!!!