http://oxfoxieroxiexo.mybrute.com

You make your brute and we will duel it out.

Its actually quite fun to watch. :P

Its been ages since I have updated here, even though I frequent here all the time and read other people's lives. I am just too lazy to update my own life. We don't ever really have a whole lot going on, so I don't really see the point in updating boringness. I have been addicted to this game online that I think I would recommend to anyone who just wants to pass the time with a hassle-free good feeling type game. If you want to know more about it let me know, cause if you get into it and decide to play, I get stuff for referring you. I think I just like the fact that there is less drama and more ... play involved. Its not a game that you have to worry about what other people think of you and you can just go in with some friends, do your own thing, kill some stuff and get out. Maybe that's what I needed back when I was playing Firan. Maybe I was just too caught up in the story and I gave too much of myself to something that was just text. This game is something I can come and go on. I don't have to be invested in anything.

Anyway, we got a new cat a few months ago, I am not sure if I updated on that or not really. But she's a sweetie, I made sure to get a female that was already fixed so I didn't have to go through the hassle of having two unfixed cats in heat. We named her Isis. Kim says she's a Bengal mix, I will post pictures later, I'm at work right now. Isis and Kane are in love with each other and Kitten as usual stays to herself. But we did get her fixed yesterday, so maybe that will calm her down a bit. We did get Isis for her to play with and it just seems the two girls can't stand each other.

On other news, Kim's mom will be living in the same town as us and that's nice. We don't have to drive 20 minutes to get to all the family functions and with the weather as unpredictable as it is, and the gas prices going up like they are, its nice. AND CIGARETTES - ugh, they are going up and up and its driving me nuts. Kim and I did try to quit recently, but I was a quitter when it came to quitting and couldn't handle it. I would like quit at some point, just to save that extra money, but at the moment, I am content to not have withdrawls.

Work is the same ol same ol and I suppose I still like doing what I am doing. I am a little burnt out, but I am not as burnt out as I used to be. Kim and I are good. We have been playing this game with my friend Jourdan and watching lots of Netflix movies and reality TV. I still have Thursday night FunDay, though we haven't actually got together for about three weeks. Its been a crazy couple of weeks. One or all of us have just had something going on on Thursday.

At the end of April I am going to be going to my Mom's to see my neice. She will two. I am quite excited about this, I just hope I have the money for the trip. I don't plan on having anything else to pay for, but you know how that goes.  Money is always tight. We got my mom set up on the internet last time we were there and its nice. I get to talk to my mom on MySpace all the time and my sister and I send comments back and forth. Its kind of nice that my younger sister has a MySpace now too, so that she can keep in touch, since I can't really call her like I can Jess. Anyway, everything is going good on the home front with the family and I am glad, considering some of the blows some of my friends have had recently with family.

I am editing my NaNo novel since its kind of crap, but I love the story concept. I've only had one person really read through it and she says that it definitely needs editing, and I am horrible at editing. Kim says I don't like the little details other people need, not just in my writing but in life in general. Well details bore me. I hate them. But eventually I will get the story edited. At least enough to get my proof copy. Hopefully I will get it done before June, I know that's the deadline I have and I just started the editing process last week. I am a little lazy about it, or maybe editing just intimidates me.

Anyway, I have absolutely nothing going on really. Just little bits here and there. I'm still on IM and I am still around here as well. If anyone wants to get in on the fun on my new game obsession, lemme know and I will email you the link. I know when I first looked at it, I thought it was not going to be something I would like, turns out, I LOVE it.

Hope everyone is having a good day.
XOXO
Roxie

Or maybe just something to goof off with - I have the perfect site. I have been reading it for like an hour here at work and it cracks me up.

http://www.foundmagazine.com

Its kind of like postsecret.org - except its "We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes..."  Its quite hilarious actually to read.

Enjoy.

www.mormonsstoleourrights.com/

This post is in response to my friend's post about this link. I started to reply in her comments, but it rolled into a rant and a little more of a discussion. So I am posting it here instead. So here goes.

While I am very sad that the Prop 8 was passed, and it disheartens me to see this in an America that just elected an African American President in the same breath takes away a group of people's rights. While it saddens me that this is mostly a religious agenda, and not just the Mormons, I can't think of signing something that discredits the entire religious organization, because of a few branches of their religion. In the words of this site, they want to "Strip the Mormon church of its status as a religious organization." I don't believe this is the right thing to do. I don't think I could bring myself to sign something like that. Besides that, I don't believe that the sole reason that Prop 8 passed is because of the Mormon church.

I think that this has a lot to do with scared people and people who think that they are in the century when people are not created equal and that they are better than some. They feel that they are educated enough to say that gay couples would not make better parents for adopted children than those parents who leave their kids in dumpsters and they made that baby with a man and a woman. People are not educated enough to understand that gay people are people too and we are not doing anything that would hurt straight people's rights. We just want rights of our own.

And while I think it totally whacked out that there are states that decided there need not be limits on the number of abortions a person can have or can allow doctor assisted suicide in some states, but it is a -bad- thing to allow gay people the same rights and priveleges as straight couples.

These are the things that I just don't understand.

Now, I seriously asked myself these questions:

1. Do I believe in abortion for myself? No.
2. Do I think that others should have the right to do with their body as they wish? Yes.
3. Do I agree with doctor assisted suicides? I suppose it depends on the circumstances, and the person's situation. I don't think i would agree with it for myself, but that doesn't mean that I think it would be a good idea to tell people what they can and cannot do with respect to their life and their death.
4. Do I agree with any of the religious affiliations right now that decide that they should speak for God and judge people with the "telephone game" translated versions of the Bible and their own perceptions and translations of the way things are said in the Bible? No.

However, being in a religious affiliation means that you have beliefs that you agree with the church on and those that you don't. I have an overbearing father who thinks I am going to Hell because I love a woman. Do I agree with him? No. I don't. Sometimes, I let his words get to me, and I get a little frightened and then I remember what I have told myself from day one:

God made me the way I am. I am not going to believe that a God that is supposed to be loving and merciful is going to condemn me to Hell because of someone that I love with all of my heart. I don't believe that He cares who I love, whether it be man or woman. And if I continue to remind myself of these things, I won't go crazy with doubt. And I won't resent those people out there who feel like I am lesser than they are because they are a straight couple.

And now, I will say that I am sorry if I have perhaps ruffled some feathers, but this is what I feel. And I don't really care what other people think. I think it sucks that I can't get married when I want to. And the whole concept of marriage is not that big of a deal, but it is something that is more the principal of the matter. It means that I don't get the same rights as every straight person in the country. That's not fair. Pure and simple.

I cannot believe that I have just witnessed a historic moment last night. To think that we have as a country elected Barack Obama is something I never thought that I would see. But I did. And I am so very happy about it. It just means that this country is taking steps in the right directions. And now, it makes me realize that we are moving out of the generations of hate and moving into the generations of tolerance and equality.

Maybe someday, that means I can get married. All I know is, it doesn't look so far off in the distance of impossibility anymore.

Congratulations Barack Obama. I knew you could do it.

Yes We Can.

Oh my goodness! I was up at 5:45am and I was totally awake and in a long ass line. BUT! I voted! That's right, I got my damn sticker!

And, on the NaNo front, I am up to 22,878, I think. I did that by memory.

Have a fantastic election day!

Update before bed, because I am so freaking excited about this - I am up to 20,020 words. How freaking awesome is that?!

Alright, night friends. *Smooches and lots of them*

Alright, so first of all, I find it quite amusing and its quite entertaining to me when I can make the people that are older than me and are great friends feel old. It just great and fun to do, really. I love it. It means that I am the youngest, and I love being the youngest. The spoiled one. Besides, these people are not old. Never! Just because I was born in 1984, doesn't mean that I am young and they are old. They still deserve lots of hugs and mucho smooches. Seriously! I don't talk to old people. *wink* I know, I am far too adorable for this.

Anyway, on the NaNo front, I am up to 18,106 words, totally getting the story along, and it feels like I might just go past the 50,000 limit, so wish me luck on that! Totally hope to! Anyway, I am seeing alot of my friends are going to be participating in NaNo as well. I would love to be writing buddies with any of you that are participating! Totally add me on the NaNo site. I'm so glad that I am so close to the halfway point.

So cheer me on! I am a writing machine! 18,106 words in two days and I am not done tonight!

Excerpt to my story: www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/215126

Its day 2 of National Novel Writing Month and I have reached 9753 words as of last night. It helps that there was not really anything on the tv. EXCEPT for "Legend of the Seeker" which I promptly stopped writing for and watched the two out premiere. Anyone who likes the Wizard's First Rule series will love the series on the tv. I love it. Its so fantastic.

Anyway, anyone who would like to have excerpts from the book or something can email me at rachael.leann@gmail.com or comment here and I will totally send you a part of it. If you want to be writing buddies on Nano, just look for rachael.leann on the site. I will be there. All month.

To those who want to try NaNo and don't have a word processor type thing on their computer, you don't have to hand write it, sign up for Gmail and use their documents. I was using that as it has a spellchecker and a word counter. The plus to all this is that I can take the novel from work to home and start where ever I left off.

Happy writing.

9,753/50,000 words - 20% done!