just don’t feel like writing…and no time!

been too damn busy to even read a newspaper – not like we really actually have a newspaper worth reading in Delaware.  Still job hunting – I think that makes me feel blah and unable to write.  Oh well, hang in there with me, will you.  I will be back, as always.

FINALLY!!!!!!!

2 weeks later I finally have my car back again. I had to inch it back and forth to turn it ON THE SPOT (you can do that with a Honda Fit, really – you can) and by removing 2 feet of snow from the hood, windshield, and top of the car. FREEDOM…..cabin fever will finally be gone. So far the snow on the driveway was too high for my little fit to make it anyway – but now it makes it and so I was finally able to free it. I AM SO HAPPY!

Haiti – how to help

DONATE,DONATE, DONATE – shipping supplies takes longer and reaches less people then for big organizations to purchase the supplies.

• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
• UNICEF (1-800-4UNICEF)
• Direct Relief
• Yeli Haiti
• Red Cross
• Doctors Without Borders
• Care
• William J. Clinton Foundation

Americans can also donate via text message.  Donations will be added to your cellphone bill.

• text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts
• text “YELE” to 501501 to Donate $5 to Yele Haiti’s Earthquake Relief efforts
• text “GIVE10″ to 20222 to donate $10 to Direct Relief

Sex Offender Registry

When have you last been to the State’s Sex Offender Registry?  It’s an eye opening experience.  For example, there are 70 offenders within a 3 mile radius of my house.  How many do you have?  Looking at their convictions it appears that most of them molested kids between 12 and 15 years of age.  A few also have convictions where the victim is younger than 12 years old.

SCARY STATISTICS¹

• At least 1 out of 4 girls and one out of 6 boys will be sexually abused by age 18
• At least 90 percent of all childhood sexual abuse victims know their abuser
• Only 25 percent of childhood sexual abuse cases are even reported; only 5 percent of those cases will even make it to court and of that, 50 percent of these children will be returned to their alleged abuser
• The average sexual predator will commit 117 assaults before even getting caught
• The re-arrest rate for convicted child predators is 52 percent
• One in 10 homes are involved in some form of childhood sexual abuse; this is a leading cause of teen suicide and child prostitution

1. http://www.franksfoundation.org/know.shtml [↩]