I went to a very interesting site: recovery.gov

It tracks the stimulus money.  Here are a few of the projects we (the taxpayers...not non-taxpayers, but taxpayers) are funding:

Recipient Name: HK Contractors, Inc.
Project Location: East Glacier Park, MT
Project Description: Park wide traffic and quality control
Cost: $2,099,993

Almost three million dollars!  Outrageous!

Here's another:

Recipient Name: Cayo LP
Project Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Project Description: Demolition and removal of mooring dolphins and mooring anchors
Cost: $3,180,000

Outrageous!

Here's another one:

Recipient Name: Regent of the University of California
Project Location: Berkeley
Project Description: Collaboration for the development of magnets with fields
Cost: $50,231,000

Over 50 million dollars for the development of magnets!  Amazing!

Here's another:

Recipient Name: CH2M Hill Inc
Project Location: Redding, CA
Project Description: sediment removal at Iron Mountain mine superfund site, Shasta City, CA
Cost: $20,550,000

Sediment removal...over 20 million dollars!  Crazy!

And get this one:

Recipient Name: Farmland Foods, Inc.
Project Location: Wichita, KS
Project Description: Ham, water added, cooked, frozen, sliced, 2-lb
Cost: $4,843,400

A 5 million dollar ham!  That must have been one big hog!

I couldn't read any more after this one, it made me so angry that a ham costs taxpayers...not non-taxpayers, but taxpayers...almost 5 million dollars!

I have a few words to say about all this:

Ridiculous, asinine, stupid, foolish, brainless, senseless, idiotic, moronic!  And every other word I can think of!

Our country is headed down a disastrous path of no return if the health care reform bill is passed.

If we think the economy is bad now, wait until the health care bill gets passed.  Hopefully it won't.

It will put millions more out of work and doctors will be diminished by the thousands.

Health Care Reform is bad for America!

My local Walmart is losing their fabric department when they move to the Super Center.  I'm not happy about it, because I do a lot of sewing.  However, it's good that they've marked down all their fabric to 75% off.

I bought several bolts of fabric and interfacing that I use a lot in making my purses and accessories, so I guess that's one consolation to losing the department.

I sat right down and got busy writing and I was able to meet my goal for Book Month!

By golly, I just might make my goal of 10,000 words for Bonanza World Book Month!  Only two days to go!

I'll try to post more of my story tomorrow.

My husband sent me to the bank this morning.  I hate going to banks.  Normally, he does the banking on Saturdays, but he was too busy and so I got the wonderful task of getting dressed (I don't think the bank tellers would appreciate me showing up in my PJ's); getting out in the cold, damp wind; and driving 20 minutes to the bank.  Naturally I didn't want to go inside, so I pulled up at the drive-through window and gave them my transactions.  I waited for my receipt.  I waited.  I waited.  I waited.  I waited.  I waited about 20 minutes.  Fortunately, no one in that 20 minutes pulled up behind me.  Finally, they handed me my receipt, bid me a good-day and pulled the bank drawer back in.  I felt like they were doing me a favor by making me sit there so long.

We are really into the program "24".  We have the first four or five (however many there are out now) seasons.  Just as soon as the last member of my family gets home, we gather in the family room and eat our dinner while we watch 24.  We also have the first season of MacGyver on DVD.  I used to just love that show, now I'm enjoying it all over again.  In my opinion, the older programming, from the 60's through the 80's, are more worthwhile to watch.  Thank goodness they're starting to bring back some of the old shows on DVD!

I'm waiting and saving for Hawaii Five-O to be released on DVD!

Of course, if you really want to be entertained, you can always tune into the Judge shows on TV.

As soon as I edit the next part I'll post it.

I'm a little over half way to my Book Month goal!

Husband is recovering nicely from shoulder surgery.

I'm recovering from having influenza the last two weeks.  I've spent the last two weeks in bed watching the Olympics and Judge shows on TV.  I don't know which one I rate higher.  The Olympics certainly had its edge-of-the-seat moments...especially when the snowboarders jump, twist and twirl fifty feet in the air.  Of course the Judge shows have their edge-of-the-seat moments too...one I recall was a plaintiff suing a defendant over a dead frog.  Figure that one out.

My husband had shoulder surgery on Thursday, so I've been nursing and 'babying' him back to health.  It's been really hard, because he's the kind who has to stay busy all the time.  It's been difficult to keep him from doing things he's not supposed to do.

(this is me)

I hope I can be more regular now,  I've been gone for so long!