This is so scary. It happened to my good friend and this is not a joke. She has given me permission to put her post on my blog to help warn others out there.
We had a big scare on Thursday night.
We were awakened at midnight by a woman who was at our front door.
She said her name was Tiffiny, a street girl and she was scared. DH said to stay there & he'd call the police. She kept saying to open the door. DH told me to check the kids & make sure they didn't wake up.
When I went to their room, I could hear men talking !
They were in the back of the house.
DH told the police the girl was not alone.
So she is knocking on the front, now there was knocking on the back door too !! We could hear the police helicopter,
Our motion lights started going on. When the police came,
the people were gone. They did catch a girl & some guys on the next street. There wasn't any police reports.
We couldn't give a description.
We found out on Friday that someone was rattling doors on some neighbors houses before they came to our house. Checking to see if any were unlocked.
Thankfully we didn't open the door.
Who knows what they had in mind.
I was so damn scared. When I heard those guys talking
by the kids room, I almost flipped out !!
My kids bunk bed is right against the window.
I grabbed the kids & put them on the floor in my room.
I later told DH that the reason I didn't look out the windows, was because I was scared that they would shoot if they saw anyone look out the windows.
This weekend, DH hooked the cameras up again.
We have 3 cameras that he hooked up when he started traveling
1 shows the front door & garage, the other the back door, the 3rd the driveway.
If this ever happens to you,
DON'T OPEN THE DOOR !!
Not even if you hear a baby cry or a kids voice.
That's how they get you to open your door.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Remember when...?
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning. Uphill... barefoot..
BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda.
I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay
a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox or go to the post office and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen...Forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you Hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning. Uphill... barefoot..
BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda.
I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay
a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox or go to the post office and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Play station video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen...Forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a Little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you Hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Mercury in Everyday Foods- How messed up is this?
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=96029
Mercury in High-Fructose Corn Syrup?
Researchers Say 17 Products Tested Had Some Mercury; Industry Group Says Syrup Is Safe
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Jan. 27, 2009 -- Some foods and drinks rich in high-fructose corn syrup may contain detectable levels of mercury, a new report shows.
The report, published on the web site of the Minneapolis-based nonprofit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), shows detectable levels of mercury in 17 out of 55 tested products rich in high-fructose corn syrup.
But the researchers aren't telling people to avoid those products or other items containing high-fructose corn syrup, and they aren't sure what form of mercury those products contained.
The Corn Refiners Association stands by high-fructose corn syrup, calling it "safe."
Mercury and High-Fructose Corn Syrup
The new report comes from researchers including David Wallinga, MD, director of the IATP's food and health program. They bought 55 products that list high-fructose corn syrup first or second on their list of ingredients, which means high-fructose corn syrup was a leading ingredient in those products.Wallinga's team sent samples of those products to a commercial lab, which checked the levels of total mercury in each sample.
"Overall, we found detectable mercury in 17 of 55 samples, or around 31%," write Wallinga and colleagues.
Here is the list of those products:
- Quaker Oatmeal to Go bars
- Jack Daniel's Barbecue Sauce
- Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
- Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce
- Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars
- Manwich Gold Sloppy Joe
- Market Pantry Grape Jelly
- Smucker's Strawberry Jelly
- Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry
- Hunt's Tomato Ketchup
- Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing
- Coca-Cola Classic: no mercury found on a second test
- Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt
- Minute Maid Berry Punch
- Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink
- Nesquik Chocolate Milk
- Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk
Mercury exposure at high levels can harm the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system. A form of mercury called methylmercury is particularly risky to a baby's developing brain and nervous system, according to background information from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Wallinga points out that the lab only tested for total mercury levels, not methylmercury or other types of mercury. He also notes that the EPA has a "reference dose," or upper limit, for methylmercury intake but not for other forms of mercury.
Where Did the Mercury Come From?
Wallinga's report doesn't prove that the mercury in the tested products came from high-fructose corn syrup, but "I'm hard pressed to say where else it would come from," Wallinga tells WebMD.Wallinga explains that mercury can be used to make caustic soda, which is one of the products used to make high-fructose corn syrup. That's outdated technology; mercury isn't needed to make caustic soda, notes Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, in a statement emailed to WebMD.
Erickson didn't comment specifically on Wallinga's study. Instead, her statement focuses on a new study published online in Environmental Health, which shows mercury in some samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup tested in 2005.
"This study appears to be based on outdated information of dubious significance," Erickson states. "Our industry has used mercury-free versions of the two re-agents mentioned in the study, hydrochloric acid and caustic soda, for several years."
Wallinga agrees about the technological shift away from mercury. "If you just look within the confines of the U.S., yes, about 90% of production now is not using mercury," says Wallinga. "The problem is that we don't actually know where our companies are buying their high-fructose corn syrup from ... it's a global industry."
"For me, the take-home message is really that this is a totally avoidable, unnecessary exposure to mercury," says Wallinga. "We've got a safer, more efficient technology for making these chemicals that are part of the ingredients used to manufacture high-fructose corn syrup."
Mercury's Form Unknown
Like Wallinga's report, the study published in Environmental Health doesn't specify the form of mercury present in the high-fructose corn syrup."I would imagine that a good majority of the mercury that is detected would have been in the form of elemental mercury," not methylmercury, toxicologist Carl Winter, PhD, tells WebMD. Winter, who directs the FoodSafe Program at the University of California, Davis, says that methylmercury is "by far the most toxic form of mercury" because methylmercury is better absorbed by the body than other forms of mercury.
"We have a principle in toxicology, which is the dose makes the poison," says Winter. "It's the amount of a chemical, not its presence or absence, that determines the potential for harm, and frankly, I don't see based on their findings that they've made much of a case that this is something that consumers need to worry about."
Besides his academic work, Winter is a volunteer spokesman for the Institute of Food Technologists, a nonprofit scientific society that includes food science and technology professionals in industry, academia, and government. Winter says his work has never been funded by food or chemical industries.
Companies Respond
WebMD contacted the makers of all 17 products that tested positive for mercury in Wallinga's report.ConAgra Foods, which makes Manwich Bold Sloppy Joe and Hunt's Tomato Ketchup, is "absolutely confident in the safety of our products," ConAgra Foods spokeswoman Stephanie Childs tells WebMD.
Childs notes that "the levels of mercury reported in our ketchup are well below the EPA's safe exposure level. In fact, we estimate that you'd have to eat more than 100 pounds of ketchup per day to even come anywhere near the EPA's safe exposure level in terms of mercury.
A spokeswoman for Kraft Foods, Adrienne Dimopoulos, tells WebMD that Kraft has not had time to review the study's findings. However, "Kraft Foods' highest priority is the safety and quality of our products and the safety of our consumers. All of the ingredients we use are approved and deemed safe for food use by regulatory agencies, including the US FDA."
Amy Reilly, a spokeswoman for Target, which makes Market Pantry Grape Jelly, tells WebMD that Target is carefully evaluating the information and that "Target looks to the Food and Drug Administration to provide guidance on the safety of food additives and ingredients."
An FDA spokesperson wasn't immediately available to comment on Wallinga's report or the study published in Environmental Health.
SOURCES: Dufault, R. Environmental Health, Jan. 26, 2009; online edition. Wallinga, D. "Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup." David Wallinga, MD, director, Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. Statement from Audrae Erickson, president, Corn Refiners Association. Carl Winter, PhD, director, FoodSafe Program and Extension Food Toxicologist, department of food science and technology, University of California, Davis. Adrienne Dimopoulos, spokeswoman, Kraft Foods. Amy Reilly, spokeswoman, Target.
WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY LETTING US FEED OUR KIDS?! THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY!!!
Friday, April 18, 2008
The Story of BugEater
Once long ago there was a girl who had a little cousin and took care of him almost every day because his favorite place to be was at his aunt and uncle's house.
The girls little cousin loved to read books. One of his books was about eating and manners, basically asking, "Do you like to eat _______?" and replying, "Yes/No I do/do not like to eat _____."
Well one day the girl noticed that her cousins hands were dirty and even after making him wash his hands he still had crud under his fingernails. Well when the girl attempted to clean the kids fingernails he wouldn't let her touch them. She told him that he has to let her clean the bugs out from underneath his nails and at that the boy looked up at her w/ a smile on his face and asked, although knowing the answer would be no, "Do you wike to eat bugs?"
And that my readers, is how BugEater came to be. Thank you and good day.
The girls little cousin loved to read books. One of his books was about eating and manners, basically asking, "Do you like to eat _______?" and replying, "Yes/No I do/do not like to eat _____."
Well one day the girl noticed that her cousins hands were dirty and even after making him wash his hands he still had crud under his fingernails. Well when the girl attempted to clean the kids fingernails he wouldn't let her touch them. She told him that he has to let her clean the bugs out from underneath his nails and at that the boy looked up at her w/ a smile on his face and asked, although knowing the answer would be no, "Do you wike to eat bugs?"
And that my readers, is how BugEater came to be. Thank you and good day.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Welcome to my blog!
My name is BugEater and this is my blog. I am the real BugEater and I sell my knitted items online. Check out my store! You won't regret it. http://bugeater.etsy.com
I am an Alaskan native Yupiaq woman. I love to knit and crochet and create things. I have 3 monsters, a monster dog and a husband.
I live near Chicago with my crazy family. I am married to my best friend and we've been together for longer than either of us can remember. He's awesome, lots of fun and very supportive of everything I do and want to do. We have 3 monsters and a dumb dog -- but she's a sweetie!
I am originally from Alaska and I miss my family. I have 2 younger brothers and they're lots of fun. We're always laughing when we're together. Being more than 1/2 way across the country from my family I have to say that family is a precious thing. Don't take it for granted. All material things in life can be replaced, except for the people you love.
I hate the cold, but I love the snow. I love to read, but only for pleasure. I need my peace, but love the music. I can't stand chaos, but live with insanity. What do you expect from someone who has 3 monsters and a monster dog? hahaha.
The laughter from my babies is pure and beautiful music to my ears. I never knew true love until I had my children. Loving another human being, totally, unconditionally, no-limits kind of love, happening before I met them. I will always and forever love my husband, but true love was a mystery I refused to admit to until I carried my child, hidden away, under my heart, protected from the destruction of the world through society, humanity, disease.
I enjoy making things with my hands. I believe there is no such thing as a coincidence. Throw a thought out into the world and some way, some how, it's bound to happen if it's meant to be. I love the flowers my babies pick for me. Waking up and having them crawl into bed with me and falling asleep together, especially if it means that I get to sleep in a little bit longer! Being a mom means that I get to blow bubbles, play hide and seek, color, eat kid food like mac-n-cheese, discover pretty rocks on the sidewalk, look for shapes in the clouds, build a tent with sheets, watch cartoons, play games, hold hands, play at the park, laugh for no other reason than the fact that we have each other to hold and love and make funny faces at each other.
Being a mother means that I have taken on the responsibilities of other human beings besides myself. That itself makes me want to be a better person, take better care of myself. It's forced me to become more aware of everything, every little thing, that goes on. There are a lot of things we as human beings can not control. But as a wise woman once said, ''Everything comes to pass.'' I like the stars, but not the night. I enjoy rain storms, but not cloudy days. I love my husband. He is my home, my inspiration, my best friend and worst critic. I am amazed by his strength, his ambition, his dependability, his unfailing and never ending love. 
As a person I am very open minded and accepting of all people. Unless someone ends up being a stupid, lying, two faced, cavilling cretin then I cut the ties and refuse to have anything to do with them. Why waste my time on something like them when I have much better things to do. I am quiet until I get to know you well enough. I don't care what people think about me, the negative thoughts anyway, because they're usually not true and they're just jealous, resenting minions who need to dig deep down into their hearts and figure out wtf is wrong w/ them for them to take it out on me. LMFAO!
I hate looking at dead fish eyes, dreams of flying are amazing, true friends are very rare, I am the luckiest person and am always grateful for everything and everyone i have. Yes, you may add me now to your life. LOL!!!
I am an Alaskan native Yupiaq woman. I love to knit and crochet and create things. I have 3 monsters, a monster dog and a husband.
I live near Chicago with my crazy family. I am married to my best friend and we've been together for longer than either of us can remember. He's awesome, lots of fun and very supportive of everything I do and want to do. We have 3 monsters and a dumb dog -- but she's a sweetie!
I am originally from Alaska and I miss my family. I have 2 younger brothers and they're lots of fun. We're always laughing when we're together. Being more than 1/2 way across the country from my family I have to say that family is a precious thing. Don't take it for granted. All material things in life can be replaced, except for the people you love.
I hate the cold, but I love the snow. I love to read, but only for pleasure. I need my peace, but love the music. I can't stand chaos, but live with insanity. What do you expect from someone who has 3 monsters and a monster dog? hahaha.
The laughter from my babies is pure and beautiful music to my ears. I never knew true love until I had my children. Loving another human being, totally, unconditionally, no-limits kind of love, happening before I met them. I will always and forever love my husband, but true love was a mystery I refused to admit to until I carried my child, hidden away, under my heart, protected from the destruction of the world through society, humanity, disease.
I enjoy making things with my hands. I believe there is no such thing as a coincidence. Throw a thought out into the world and some way, some how, it's bound to happen if it's meant to be. I love the flowers my babies pick for me. Waking up and having them crawl into bed with me and falling asleep together, especially if it means that I get to sleep in a little bit longer! Being a mom means that I get to blow bubbles, play hide and seek, color, eat kid food like mac-n-cheese, discover pretty rocks on the sidewalk, look for shapes in the clouds, build a tent with sheets, watch cartoons, play games, hold hands, play at the park, laugh for no other reason than the fact that we have each other to hold and love and make funny faces at each other.
Being a mother means that I have taken on the responsibilities of other human beings besides myself. That itself makes me want to be a better person, take better care of myself. It's forced me to become more aware of everything, every little thing, that goes on. There are a lot of things we as human beings can not control. But as a wise woman once said, ''Everything comes to pass.'' I like the stars, but not the night. I enjoy rain storms, but not cloudy days. I love my husband. He is my home, my inspiration, my best friend and worst critic. I am amazed by his strength, his ambition, his dependability, his unfailing and never ending love. As a person I am very open minded and accepting of all people. Unless someone ends up being a stupid, lying, two faced, cavilling cretin then I cut the ties and refuse to have anything to do with them. Why waste my time on something like them when I have much better things to do. I am quiet until I get to know you well enough. I don't care what people think about me, the negative thoughts anyway, because they're usually not true and they're just jealous, resenting minions who need to dig deep down into their hearts and figure out wtf is wrong w/ them for them to take it out on me. LMFAO!
I hate looking at dead fish eyes, dreams of flying are amazing, true friends are very rare, I am the luckiest person and am always grateful for everything and everyone i have. Yes, you may add me now to your life. LOL!!!
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