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tvordljHoly Hannah... i just turned on the tv and caught the last 20 minutes or so of Oprah. I don't know what the start of the segment was but she'd taken this woman's family to Toys R Us for a shopping spree and gave her all this furniture and... a NEW house to put it all in. This woman (was she a single mom?) was in an apartment with *9* kids so i'm assuming she hasn't had an easy time of it. I don't know how she came to Oprah's attention or how she was selected for the "Wildest Dreams" show but i was sat here in tears right along with that woman when they told her about the house. Ok, i'm hormonal today and that probably added to it lol but that woman really did have her wildest dream come true.
That's one thing about Oprah Winfrey. She's got buckets of money, has a tv show and gets her face on her own magazine every month but she really does do a lot of good with it too and really does seem to get a lot of satisfaction helping and giving to people. You like to see that. Is it publicity whoring? i suppose some might see it that way. There are probably lots of rich people that donate big to charities, i'm sure Bill Gates does, after all it's a tax deduction isn't it. But Oprah doesn't just go for the charities, she helps out real people, people from the kind of circumstances she came from, working folk, and yes, sometimes people from more advantaged circumstances too but when you see the tears of joy running down the face of a woman who's had to cramp a family with 9 kids into an apartment all their lives, that really does mean something. There are a lot of families struggling to survive in our own "civilized" countries as well as third world and poor countries (which she also supports).
Anyway.
Today didn't turn out quite as i expected.
Our Java mentor arrived today and it looks like he is going to be an asset i think. He has a lot of experience in both Java and in project management and business analysis and i think we're going to get a lot out of this man.
By lunchtime, though, i was feeling like crap. Period cramps and aches and i felt like i was going to burst into tears. I thought "hormones and hunger" so i went to get something to eat. Bad. Wrong. Had a sandwich and that only made me feel worse considering my appetite was nil to start with. by 1 i ended up having to come home because if i didn't i really would have been in tears, my mood was swinging from the rafters. That's unusual for me but then again, i imagine that's not that unusual coming into my late 40's either. I came home and took some ibuprophren and crawled into bed and stayed there other than toilet breaks for nearly 3 hours. I'll regret it trying to sleep tonight i guess but i do feel a lot better now, both emotionally and physically.
I do have to thank![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
steer for helping to improve my mood with these little known facts, however :)
Hmm George Bush is stopping in Halifax tomorrow morning for 2 hours partly to thank Halifax for all we did taking in travellers on 911. Three years and three months later. Airspace has been locked down for 12 nautical miles around his presence. For a half hour before he lands to a half hour after he leaves, no planes will be able to land or take off from the airport. Half of the south end of downtown is barricaded though there will be protestors allowed in the parking lot opposite the museum where he's going to be making his speech. I'm underwhelmed. This man is desparate for some good publicity and he's too chicken shit to make his speech in Canada in front of the Parliament in Ottawa where he's been for two days for fear he'll be heckled by the politicians asking hard questions about why the US government has big tariffs on Canadian softwood and has still banned Canadian beef after a brief mad cow scare a few *years* ago which was tentatively traced back to a farm in the US anyway. One of my cellmates thought we should be hospitable. Offer the man a sight seeing tour in one of our 45 year old SeaKing helicopters (the ones that are held together by bubblegum and staples) or maybe one of the new submarines we bought off the UK navy, like the one that caught fire off the shore of Scotland when we took posession of it a month ago). Hmmmmmmmmm.......
Thousands protested up in Ottawa and apparently le Prez said his reception in Ottawa was warm and friendly. All this told to the news watcher while showing footage of the riot police forcing a protestor to the ground and arresting him in front of said thousands behind the police barriers.
That's one thing about Oprah Winfrey. She's got buckets of money, has a tv show and gets her face on her own magazine every month but she really does do a lot of good with it too and really does seem to get a lot of satisfaction helping and giving to people. You like to see that. Is it publicity whoring? i suppose some might see it that way. There are probably lots of rich people that donate big to charities, i'm sure Bill Gates does, after all it's a tax deduction isn't it. But Oprah doesn't just go for the charities, she helps out real people, people from the kind of circumstances she came from, working folk, and yes, sometimes people from more advantaged circumstances too but when you see the tears of joy running down the face of a woman who's had to cramp a family with 9 kids into an apartment all their lives, that really does mean something. There are a lot of families struggling to survive in our own "civilized" countries as well as third world and poor countries (which she also supports).
Anyway.
Today didn't turn out quite as i expected.
Our Java mentor arrived today and it looks like he is going to be an asset i think. He has a lot of experience in both Java and in project management and business analysis and i think we're going to get a lot out of this man.
By lunchtime, though, i was feeling like crap. Period cramps and aches and i felt like i was going to burst into tears. I thought "hormones and hunger" so i went to get something to eat. Bad. Wrong. Had a sandwich and that only made me feel worse considering my appetite was nil to start with. by 1 i ended up having to come home because if i didn't i really would have been in tears, my mood was swinging from the rafters. That's unusual for me but then again, i imagine that's not that unusual coming into my late 40's either. I came home and took some ibuprophren and crawled into bed and stayed there other than toilet breaks for nearly 3 hours. I'll regret it trying to sleep tonight i guess but i do feel a lot better now, both emotionally and physically.
I do have to thank
steer for helping to improve my mood with these little known facts, however :) Hmm George Bush is stopping in Halifax tomorrow morning for 2 hours partly to thank Halifax for all we did taking in travellers on 911. Three years and three months later. Airspace has been locked down for 12 nautical miles around his presence. For a half hour before he lands to a half hour after he leaves, no planes will be able to land or take off from the airport. Half of the south end of downtown is barricaded though there will be protestors allowed in the parking lot opposite the museum where he's going to be making his speech. I'm underwhelmed. This man is desparate for some good publicity and he's too chicken shit to make his speech in Canada in front of the Parliament in Ottawa where he's been for two days for fear he'll be heckled by the politicians asking hard questions about why the US government has big tariffs on Canadian softwood and has still banned Canadian beef after a brief mad cow scare a few *years* ago which was tentatively traced back to a farm in the US anyway. One of my cellmates thought we should be hospitable. Offer the man a sight seeing tour in one of our 45 year old SeaKing helicopters (the ones that are held together by bubblegum and staples) or maybe one of the new submarines we bought off the UK navy, like the one that caught fire off the shore of Scotland when we took posession of it a month ago). Hmmmmmmmmm.......
Thousands protested up in Ottawa and apparently le Prez said his reception in Ottawa was warm and friendly. All this told to the news watcher while showing footage of the riot police forcing a protestor to the ground and arresting him in front of said thousands behind the police barriers.
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Date: 2004-11-30 03:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-30 03:49 pm (UTC)*beam*
that must have been SO much fun for that lady
*sigh*
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Date: 2004-11-30 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-30 07:28 pm (UTC)Pleez give me sum monny i am poor and i want to goe to canadia and i want to by stuff and go on a log and chop trees and be a lumbyjack and stuff
luv
graham
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Date: 2004-11-30 05:35 pm (UTC)Funny how that coincides with talks with Paul Martin about camping missiles in the east coast of Canada.
:S
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
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