Champions on Ice

Last night was great, of course. It was amazing to see Yevgeny Plushenko, Stephan Lambiel, and all the others we got to watch at the Olympics. It really meant a lot to me...I love me some figure skating. Most of them did their Olympic routines, which I liked, and then of course they did some cast performances where everyone was together. Couple of things: Something went wrong with the music during Stephan's performance, so it ended up cutting his program short. That sucked because he was only skating for a couple of minutes and he's one of my sweet babies. However, he rocked for the time he did perfom. As for Michelle Kwan. ::sigh:: I love me some Kwan. No skating fan can deny her talent and impact on the sport...yadda yadda yadda. She was pretty lame. Michelle was the "closer" of the show last night, prior to the big group finale. She did NO jumps at all. Don't get me wrong. I've been to ice shows before and the skaters never go to the level they would in competition, and I get that. Why would they. Why risk hurting themselves for a show piece. No problem. However, that doesn't include throw away jumps like doubles or even singles for fucks sake. Some might say "Sunshine, maybe she was injured." Well, yeah she could have been but if she is hurt bad enough to not even be able to do a single...she probably shouldn't have been in the show that night at all. Junior skaters can do doubles! Her program was short, boring and she didn't even include her trademark spiral section! WTF? It wasn't good. I still love her and I've seen her a few times before and she's always been great, but she just wasn't there last night. Jake even said to me when she finished "So, she didn't even try. " Exactly my thought. Other than those two moments though, the show was fantastic! Thanks Jake. :D

And the winners are...

There have been some new poll questions added, and a few that have now closed.

No surprise here... The person that most of you are sick of hearing about is Paris Hilton. I couldn't agree more. As for the legalization of marijuana, 83% of you are in favor of it. Rock on! When it comes to superpowers, 67% of you would choose invisibility. Interesting. I personally would go with flying. 67% of you would rather be trapped in a room with 30 clowns for one night over your other options; although a big shout out to the person who said they would rather teabag a porcupine! That's hardcore. :D Last but not least, 80% of you prefer Elvis to The Beatles. Me too.

I left a few of the older polls in there because the race is really too close right now. (Such as your favorite Tim Burton film, favorite Star Wars movie, and the war between the Justice League and the X-Men) So, if you haven't voted yet be sure you do. New polls on the way, including Sunshine's Emmy Awards.

Goodbye my lover...Goodbye my friend...

Just a quick note because I'm getting ready right now for Champions on Ice tonight!!! (SWEET!!!) : D In other news I quit smoking 3 days ago. I know the title is dramatic, but also very accurate. I finally realized that I'm never going to get to a point where I don't like smoking anymore. I really do like it. So, instead I'm going to look at like drugs. I liked those a lot too, but there just comes a time when you realize that you can't do that shit anymore. (I don't want to hear anything about weed. Pot is not a real drug, it's like herbal aspirin.) Anyway, I had to just walk away from drugs once I told myself that you just can't do everything that you want. Now that is what I'm doing with cigarettes. I love them SO much... but I just can't do it anymore. If I can quit meth... I can quit cigarettes. Wish me luck...I'll keep you updated. I have to go now...I've got to get to Jake's...hee hee... he's going to a figure skating show. lol I'll fill you in on that tomorrow. :D

What?!

So we're at Old Chicago celebrating Justin's birthday, and I go outside with Jake to have a cigarette (no longer being allowed to smoke indoors in Colorado anymore.) This drunk, and crazy as it turns out, guy who is also smoking calls us over to him. He tells us that he is an "artist" who travels the country and he wants to get our opinion on something. He then begins to go off about having to smoke outside now, and how smokers are this whole sub-culture now, and on and on. He tells us that he thinks we ('we' being smokers) should have a "Boston tea party" by just going into public places and smoking at the same time. "What are they gonna' do?" (? Great idea dickhead.) There was also a woman with him but she was not a smoker, was not standing by him, and was apparently annoyed with him also. He starts to bring her into the "conversation" and it keeps building until the two of them are just talking over each other. For those of you who watch South Park, think "Oh I'm sorry! I thought this was America!" That is the gist of this guy and his point. So anyway, I try to kind of lighten the mood a little and I say that I'm hoping maybe the inconvenience of having to go outside to smoke will finally be the motivation I need to quit. hee hee ha ha. As his girl/friend is kinda laughing with me and starts to talk to me, "crazy guy" leans over and asks me for my cigarette. Thinking it was strange, I turn and ask him why when he reaches over, takes my cigarette, says "You just quit" and throws my cigarette into the parking lot!!! OH WUH UH!!! So I stand up, tell the guy to fuck off and walk inside. I get another cigarette and go back outside. As soon as I get out there the crazy fuck face starts with "I'm sorry...Come here...I'm sorry...I'll buy you a new pack...Etc." Meanwhile I keep telling him what I think of him (It was my time of the month too, by the way. Yeah... I was REALLY happy.) Then Chris came outside to join me, so the crazy fuck face finally left me alone and went back inside. So, that's the end of the story and all I can say is what the fuck? You know what it reminded me of though? Dane Cook. For those of you who haven't seen or heard his stand-up, then sorry. You're shit out of luck on this one, and you need to go get yourself some Dane Cook. For those of you who have, this was my little boy with the ice cream cone moment. That crazy fuck face wanted to be remembered for something. Dane's right, when I'm 60 I'll bet I'll still remember "that crazy fuck face who tossed my cigarette." I guess it could have been worse... He could have shit on my coat.

Tum...Tum Tum Tum.

First of all yesterday was Justin's birthday to a big Happy Birthday to him! : D The gang will be going out tomorrow night to celebrate it with him, and I found out the other day that I can have a drink or two, so I'm excited. My doctor (the brain doctor... a.k.a. McDreamy) told me that alcohol isn't a problem with the medication I'm taking but that it will make me a cheap drunk. That's cool with me. I saw McDreamy on Wednesday for a follow up visit to see if I'm still crazy, lol. Turns out I'm not...woo hoo! I was hoping that he was going to tell me that I'm all better so I don't have to keep taking the meds and I can drive and that all is well. It didn't go that well though. I am better, but he wants me to stay on the meds at least until the end of September to make sure that I don't have anymore seizures. Still no driving (lame!), and I have to go back at the end of August to have an EEG, then again in the beginning of September to discuss the results of said EEG. Based on the results he'll then decide if I can stop taking the meds or not. The sooner I can quit taking the pills the better. They give me heartburn and make me sleepy, which he said is normal, but it sucks for me. I've got to say though that the fruity flavored chewable Tums are not at all bad. It's kind of like chalk candy. So, I guess it could be worse.

Finally the time has come and POTC 2: Dead Man's Chest is out! My sweet baby Orlando has returned to me! We didn't go to the midnight show last night like we normally would, but it just wasn't meant to be. So, at some point this weekend I'll see it and let you know what I thought. Also on the agenda this weekend is Superman and the last two games of the World Cup. I would say "Go France!" but Italy is going to win I think. We'll see. That's all for now...I'm sleepy... Damn those pills!

The Declaration of Independence

Happy 4th of July

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen ColoniesIn CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The signers of the Declaration represented the new states as follows:


New Hampshire
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

For additional information about the Declaration of Independence, see these sites:
National Archives and Records Administration: Declaration of Independence
Library of Congress: About the Declaration of Independence