JUSTICE

Have you ever wondered about your family pet dying? Have you ever wondered about someone hurting your four legged babies? We don't think about things like this because our minds allows us to believe that they will always be there to jump on your lap, greet you when you come in, or give you those big eyes. You just know that they are there.

How about when you come upon a story that just makes your skin bubble with anger. I came upon a story of a four month old puppy. How he was brutally tortured and burned. On April 4th over 70 percent of his body was burned with lighter fluid. This wasn't hours away from where I live more like minutes. 

When I saw the puppy in the newspaper I expected to see something small but he wasn't and that is what made it worse. He was a growing puppy left on the streets to fend for food no one to love him  and someone made it their business to turn him into a joke to set him on fire. A bystander saw and called the police. When the police came the people amused took off running. The police got closer and saw a puppy burned and hiding behind an air conditioning unit at an apartment complex. They rushed him to Texas A&M Small Animal Hospital to get help but he didn't make it. They named him Justice. Justice was fitting a way to find justice for him.

There was a reward for information leading to an arrest. The reward went from the SPCA 5,000.00 to other donations that led up to 25,000.00. So many people got involved and started to find ways to help.

DFW Rescue Me said a vigil will be held at 7:30pm Friday in front of Dallas City Hall 1500 Marilla St.. A funeral will be at 1pm Saturday at Toothacres 1639 Parker road in Carrollton all were welcome to attend.

The day of the vigil the person responsible came forward.  Finally the guy that claimed to have done it came forward. On April 20 there was an arrest. His mother on the other hand states that he wasn't in town. I just don't understand why he would turn himself in if he didn't do it. I actually thought that the person or people responsible would never get caught especially come forward.

The case now has to be moved to a different county because the judge assigned withdrew himself from the case. He knew about what happened and that was going to affect the verdict. I think that the case might have to go farther than county area. On may 12. 2012 bond was split in half from 100,000.00 to 50,000.00. His mother wanted it to be 1,500.00. WHAT A JOKE. There are threats being made against the 18 year old name Darius Ewing. Darius family members and friends are trying to make fundraisers to come up with the money. WOW.

Darius family doesn't understand how the life of a dog is more important than a human. I say really you want to go there. They even pulled out the race card. Come on you have no other back up than the race card. This has nothing to do with race. A harmless animal couldn't defend himself from a human.

We missed the vigil and the burial. We were out of town. When we got back we took a trip out to Carrolton to visit Justice. The day we went out to see we knew that this was just no ordinary puppy but a puppy that will not be forgotten. He might have not ever found love on the streets but he was loved before he left this cruel world. His casket was donated and people came to say goodbye. Its sad to see a puppy suffer and to know how he suffered makes it just as worse. I hope that Justice does get justice. He didn't get a chance to live a long tail wagging tongue licking life.

I don't know what made me follow this story. Maybe because it's just wrong. The end is still to come. I just knew that we had to follow it begining to end.

    More than a hundred people attended the funeral. He is a special puppy "Justice"

galaxy drive in

Just in case you haven't realized it yet I looooooooove the movies. I love going to see them in theatres. I love buying them. My family and friends get me movie passes all the time and I thank you for that. As the years go by the movie prices go up. The cheapest I remember were $3.50 and that's when I was in high school ages ago now they are almost $10.00 a ticket. I remember taking my sisters to the movies all the time our favorite past time. Heather will probably vouch that when we went on our first date it was to the movies. We went to see thir13en ghosts back in 2001 well I didn't know it was a date so I brought my sisters along. She later told me "why else would I have brought you to a scary movie  if not to comfort you when you got scared on our first date." Ooops I was clueless heck sometimes I still am today.

Yes I also love the dollar movies there is no shame in my game. When the movie is about to finish at theatres they pass it along to the Starplex. This is what I call a cheap date when the food costs more than the movie ticket.

I've always heard of going to the drive in but just never got around to going. I don't even remember if I had ever been there. So it felt all new to me. I was having a hard week at work more than ordinary. When I got home heather said she was taking me for a special treat. Anything surprises me. So the next question is dress code I need to know what I'm getting myself in. She said "just put on whatever, your pajamas if you want." PAJAMAS I said. No I'll wear a t shirt and jeans.  We are getting close to the destination and I start figuring out where it is that we are going and I say "no, really."

I still didn't get as excited but as soon as I saw that big sign (billboard) that tells you what is playing I lost it. I start saying "couldn't these cars move a little more faster in line?" This is getting even better we pay six dollars "SIX DOLLARS" each to watch two movies in a huge screen outside what seems to be the country and we are going to watch the raven/ cabin in the woods. but wait there is more they have a small you can sit inside concession stand that you can get cheap food. The prices are not bad and you can also buy a burger but a pickle for $1.00 at a movie theatre COME ON. They say no outside food is allowed but really unless you take in some fried chicken they wouldn't know.

We get there really early to get good car parking area. We brought our food back to the car and waited. Some people even brought there lawn chairs, some turned there car around popped their back SUV trunk and made it a sitting area. A truck brought a big huge bean bag and put it on the bed of the truck and sat there comfy.

The first movie we saw was the raven and it started to rain. What made it cool was that as it rained it also rained in the movie the mood fit what we were watching. It would thunder and lightning would show on the screen. freaky. Loved the raven sad ending of course. The next one was the cabin in the woods. There is a break between the movies so don't worry you wont miss a thing. By then it had stopped raining and a cool breeze flowed through the car. Loved the cabin in the woods but its really not about a cabin. It was a movie that had me thinking and questioning all the way home.

Loved the experience. If you have gone to the galaxy drive in Ennis TX then I'm glad to say that I now have joined that group that loves the way movies were made back in the day. In the ages where they considered it the make out movies. They are building one in ft worth Texas but I'm going to say that the galaxy will be my outdoor favorite. Will I be going back? That's a big YES. The sooner the better. I can't wait for when it gets to be winter so that I can take a blanket and snuggle out there. Did I mention that you can also listen to the movie on a radio station in your car but if your battery dies they will give you a boost. Doors open at 6:00pm but movie starts at 8:30ish so if you get there early go explore they have a play area.

If you haven't tried it don't wait much longer GO.

thanks babe for making it a new favorite thing to do.

harvey milk day 2012

Who is Harvey Milk?

courtesy of weareca.org

I didn't know who he was either until the biography was released in  October 28, 2008. A preview of the film appeared and we decided to see it at the theatre and that's when we learned of Milk. I like to address him as Milk Harvey but that's just me. It was basically of his later years in life. You think biography and say how boring but it wasn't that at all. It was quite interesting. He was a gay rights activist and politician, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was loved by so many just for being himself. He never gave up believed in equal rights. He was a person that you could not keep quiet was full of life. He had plans for the future but that future was cut too short. He served in the United States Navy and became a teacher before pursuing in politics.

I haven't heard of another human being fighting for equal gay rights as he did. Maybe it's not as important. You have to think about it this way. It's people like him that have shown us that if we really want to accomplish something being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgender should not stop us from moving forward. We as a group have come along way, not as individuals. I might be a disgrace but to myself i am just another human that wants to be equal.

Milk was assassinated November 27, 1978. He was shot five times, twice in the head.  Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk were killed that day. The suspect is Supervisor Dan White. Dan White shot and killed Harvey not for being gay but for being envious of him. White turned himself in. White and Milk were friends. White was even for equal rights. Some say White was antigay and that Milk and Mayor Moscone represented the wrong in this world. Milk was 48 years old. Moscone was 49. Dan White only served a little over seven years for both murders. He is the excuse of the the Twinkie Defense. Milk was cremated half his ashes were scattered in San Francisco Bay by his closets friends. The rest were encapsulated and buried beneath the sidewalk in front of 575 Castro Street. When they went to his apartment to find something for him to wear for the services they realized how the economy took a toll not making enough as a city supervisor. They found clothing he owned coming apart and socks with holes in them.

When I did more research I came to find that he lived in Dallas at least two times. His first stay here was not good. He couldn't find any work. He claimed Dallas wasn't very friendly and social. He came back a second time because work had brought him back to Dallas. Isn't that ironic. His second stay was much better he remembers how Dallas was beginning to change.

We made a bigger change when for the first time in Dallas was to celebrate Harvey Milk Day the year 2012.

GetEQUAL TX will host Big D The event begins at 8:30 p.m. at the Legacy of Love Monument, at Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road it’s first-ever Harvey Milk Day Celebration. When I heard about this I wanted to be there. They were to have a candlelight vigil to remember Harvey Milk and to celebrated his birthday May 22, 2012. He would have been 82 years old. What would it have been for us to see what all this man could have done if  his life would have not been cut short?

There is so much more that I could tell you about Milk but then again the point that I'm trying to make is for you to know who he was. If you ever come along the biography stop to learn of him.

At the end of the celebration we sang Happy Birthday to Harvey Milk and GetEQUAL passed out ballons and let them fly into the sky.

 I ask my gay sisters and brothers to make the commitment to fight. For themselves, for their freedom, for their country ... We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets... We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You must come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives -"Harvey Milk"

jar of thoughts

have you ever been to an estate sale?

i love going to estate sales. why? well you see i grew up with wondering eye parents. an estate sale to me means that someone either has been placed in a home for disability reasons, nursing home, or the worst have passed on gone to hopefully a better place. i don't get to go to many of them. i am always busy. i try to keep my wondering eyes occupied.

i am just thankful that heather has the same interests as me. i couldn't have been luckier.

an estate sale to me tells me a lot of the person who lived there. i take it as a mini tour of someones life. you also find things that can be small treasures.  we do it for many reasons but what saddens me is what they leave behind.

we had gone to the bath house cultural center for their latest exhibit and on our way back saw an estate sale sign on the road. it was past five o'clock and was wondering whether it was to late to go. it took us left right, right left and there we were. people were still going to it so we joined.  i told heather i meet you in the middle. we explore. the first thing i notice is the structure of the house. as we wonder around you notice every room and what is in it for sale. i make my own story and share with heather what we make out of what we see. we get to see how they lived, what they enjoyed, how beautiful there house is.

you find things like books, clothing, and what gets me the most is the pictures in frames that get left behind.

I'm going to make my own conclusion of this persons house and what i learned. her name was Teresa. she ended up lonely. if she was married her husband died long ago. all you could find was lady clothing. if she had a partner she also has passed long ago nothing male was left inside the house. she loved to read and loved to accessorize. she loved to travel. loved the outdoors. her house was by a pond that had a water fountain so she also loved her peace and quiet. she suffered from depression and battled with alcoholism. she strived to make everyday a good one. she worked with the joys in life and worked out the troubles.

right when we were about to leave i noticed a jar on a bottom shelf in the back. i grabbed it and turned to face heather and at that moment she nodded her head to say yes. it was then that she knew what i was thinking. i wanted this jar. it cost $2.00. i knew it was filled with small writings and just thought how sad it is to have this sitting there and no one wanted it. my mind thinks crazy thoughts. how this woman was no longer here and this was left behind.

one day during the week i finally sat down and opened it. read every single piece. took me almost two hours. as i read them i wondered why she would have started a thought jar? was it a way to cope with daily life? was she this lonely? did she think someone would ever read them? how long had she been doing it?

i picked some that tell me a little of her life.......... 

and i picked some of my favorite ones. there were 415 of them.

i am going to keep this jar. i don't plan on throwing it away. it is a little history that i found so it's my treasure to someones trash. me and heather have talked about starting one but i don't know if it were to have the same destiny. i know that i don't have much to leave behind when i leave but i hope that my letters or pictures won't ever get trashed but more like a bye burning. 

wanted to share this jar with you so it wouldn't be forgotten.

we love to feed our wondering eyes hope to get to do them more often like we had in the past.
sometimes you find something of value to you or just to imagine the life that once was there.

when the claw comes out

it was maybe around three in the morning that i woke up to what i find many times, cat butt in my face. no i really mean a butt hole in my eyes vision. i open it and that is what i have to see. well i automatically pushed adie off the bed and went back to sleep.

a couple of hours later i was woken by some real scratchy pain. seems that around eight in the morning adie didn't forget what had happened earlier and decided to get revenge. i actually didn't think cats could have it in them to hold grudges but this one is special. i was woken by a one pawed claws out onto my face.

at first i thought that she scratched my nose but as i began to lay there being upset because i wanted to go back to sleep i couldn't because the scratch on my nose began to feel like my eye was swelling. sure enough i turned to show heather and she had this look on her face like DANG she got you good. well a couple of centimeters more and she would have gotten my eye ball. I'm just glad i had my eye closed.

turns out she wanted to get to the window to look outside and used my nose and eye as a step push off to get to the window. yes i was upset not mad but upset.  she waited a while to cross my path but she did look at me with a look that said payback beeatch.

my eye doesn't hurt just feels like when you have allergies. when i finally noticed blood had dried on my face.  it looks cleaner now than it did all day Saturday. everywhere we went it looked like i had been in a "cat fight" i was being watched like a trouble maker. so i took advantage of the look.

went to work the next day and the first thing that came out was "what happened" "did heather do it" as they laughed while i was telling the story.

NO HEATHER DIDN'T DO IT JUST THE BAD LITTLE GRUDGE REVENGE HOLDER ADIE.

what i learned? nothing.
will i do it again? yes.
why? because i refuse to have cat butt in my face.......