Rules:
A. Post the Rules
B. Answer all the questions about yourself
C. After you are done posting, tag 5 people.

1. What were you doing 10 years ago? I was a junior in high school and dating an RLDS guy of all things! He was a soccer player and a pianist for the choir. What a combination, right? I was interested in Nursing and was gearing up to apply for the Certified Nursing Assistant college program offered through my high school for my senior year. I didn’t really have a job, per se, but I worked in my high school bookstore during my lunch hour and occasionally after school.

2. 5 things on your To Do List today: Take the girls to JC Penney’s for portraits, buy some frames at Hobby Lobby and drop off a painting to get framed, laundry and various house chores, grocery shop at WalMart, prepare for and attend my Primary Presidency meeting tonight.

3. Snacks I enjoy: Sunflower seeds (but only ‘David’ brand), pistachios, red vines, sour straws, popcorn, Cool Ranch Doritos—-blah, nothing really healthy—I might have to change that!

4. What would I do if I were suddenly a billionaire? Start college funds for my girls, put money into savings, buy 2 new cars, buy land and build my dream home, help family pay off debt, and travel.

5. 3 Bad Habits:

1. Only very close friends and family really see this side of me, but I have a potty mouth. No one would ever guess by looking at me but I can cuss with the best of them. It is definitely something I have been working on breaking.
2. I can’t sit still and leave well enough alone. There have been times when I should be sitting down enjoying my family or be doing something else more productive but I have to be cleaning something or working on a project. So basically, I do too much!
3. I buy candy almost every time I go grocery shopping. I tell myself I want to lose weight and I watch what I eat in some areas but I have such a weakness for candy!

6. 5 places I’ve lived: Houston, TX Phoenix, AZ Carrollton, TX Little Elm, TX

7. 5 Jobs I’ve had:High School Bookstore Assistant, Sales Rep. at Mervyn’s, Patient Rep. for CareNow Urgent Care on Medical side for one and a half years then Patient Rep. on Physical Therapy side for 3 years, and finally my most draining, difficult job yet—-a mother!

8. 5 things people don’t know about me:

1. I rarely have bare toenails. I love having my toenails painted no matter what time of the year it is. My 2 favorite colors to wear are red or fuscia. Even when I was 38 weeks pregnant with Sophia I was maneuvering around my big ol’ belly to get them painted because I was too stubborn to pay for a pedicure. Actually, I have never had a pedicure in my life…..
2. I have a biting fetish. I will not say more on this topic other than my dear friend Meganne understands.
3. I love to cook and am always on the lookout for new, yummy recipes.
4. I tend to drive a little on the fast side and have a minor road rage problem. BJ HATES driving with me because of what a grouch I am.
5. I am a bit of a diva at bedtime. I sleep with a white noise sound machine, a fluffy feather pillow, and a satin eye cover on my face to black out any extra light. I always put on my rose lip salve and body butter on my hands before turning out the lights. Hey, I might as well be sleeping AND moisturizing, right?!

District of Columbia v. Heller, No. 07-290, is a case pending before the Supreme Court of the United States. It is an appeal from Parker v. District of Columbia, 478 F.3d 370 (D.C. Cir. 2007), a decision in which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit became the first federal appeals court in the United States to rule that a firearm ban was an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, and the second to expressly interpret the Second Amendment as protecting an individual right to possess firearms for private use.

The stepping stone to the case was a security guard who filed for permission with DC to keep a firearm at home for the purposes of protection. The denial of and subsequent ruling by the DC district court is the impetus to the current Supreme Court review.

On March 18th the Supreme Court heard oral arguments. If you’re at all interested in this case I suggest listening to the audio and/or reading the transcript here.

Here’s where I make an ideological argument, but honestly, I can’t be bothered. It usually just devolves into anecdotes and doctored numbers that purposely ignore all the motivations for violence. In that frame of mind, I’ll just post some anecdotes from some interesting sources, that conveniently support my own view.

Firefox is still hampered a bit by accounting for legacy html but you’re most likely to see most sites on the internet as the creators intended by using Firefox.

Download it. Here’s a big banner to click on and download it from.

(full disclosure, I gain revenue if download it from this link. This isn’t merely me being a whore however as you really really need to not be using IE6)

Otherwise just go to Firefox, Opera, Safari, or even IE7 and download and upgrade to IE6.

Let me know if they’re too obtrusive. I’ll gladly turn them back off, but for now I’m just experimenting again with google-analytics and the ads themselves.