Melinda Slade

Did you hear that one of the first homes the TV show ‘Extreme Makeover Home Edition’ built is in foreclosure?  When the show goes in a builds a home for these people, the home is free totally.  The show even gave this family in Georgia money for college funds for their three children and put money in an account for maintenance too.  I’m sorry but these idiots got a loan on the home for $450,000 to start a construction company and it went belly up.  Now they’re losing everything.  I don’t understand some people.  They were handed the perfect opportunity to live comfortable if they would have just gotten a normal job and they blew it.  I guess you just can’t help some people.

Some idiots in New Zealand named their daughter who is now 9 years old ‘Talula does the Hula in Hawaii’.  This child was so embarrassed by her name that she never even told her closest friend her real name.  She would just ask to be called ‘K’.  A judge stepped in and legally changed her name.  That has not been released to protect the child’s identity but I’m not sure that a judge should have the right to change a child name just because he doesn’t like it.  Sure that child’s name ranked right up there as one of the strangest names I have ever heard and I can see it being changed if the child wanted it to be but I knew two boys named Mazak and Zorda.  Their sister was Amy.  Where the heck did those two names come from because they were Americans.  I always figured their parents did some pretty strange drugs but quit before they had the girl.

I think there’s just too much hoopla being made of the closing of 600 stores.  The real tragedy is that these people will lose their jobs.  It’s not that there won’t be as many Starbucks coffee shops.  Starbucks is not a necessity.  People can do without Starbucks.  We did before they showed up and will after they’re gone.  I always thought it was stupid to pay $5 for a stinking cup of coffee.  Sure it’s good coffee but $5 will put a little more than gallon of gas in your tank and buy enough food for a day or two.  Coffee is in you and then gone, if you catch my drift.  So get your priorities straight America, Starbucks shouldn’t be one of the top priorities if you ask me but that’s my opinion and I bet I’m not alone in it either.

I don’t understand it.  I didn’t set my alarm clock and still, I woke up at 5 am and just couldn’t go back to sleep.  I just can’t seem to get out of the habit of getting up so early.  Hopefully I will soon.  I know it’s only been a few days since I took some time off but you would think I would pass out and sleep till noon from sheer exhaustion after the last week or two I have had.  It was totally nuts but it always is.  Oh well, such is life!!!  Maybe I’ll sleep later tomorrow.  I sure hope so.