i think i'm moving...

my blog.

come see me over at my new digs.

cranky_c is in the house...

oh somebody is cranky today...i'm going to contribute it to my girlness but i swear it came out of nowhere.  

work is super busy this week, really i'm just having to work hard while i'm working.  which is hard to get used to as a former state worker.  not overtime...yet. 

i continue to be interested in twitter...i've been getting snippets of friends lives that i otherwise wouldn't know.  so those of you non-bloggers or the non-consistent ones...get on twitter so I know what's up. 

the only other topic today is this crappy weather...geez i thought it was spring.

just a big ole hodge podge...

so i've been missing around here lately but fear not...i have lots of random tidbits to pass on. 

my friends in kc have recently joined the twitter club and being the follower i am...i had to join too (so let me know if you get on the twitter train).  i read a blog about twitter and tornadoes recently that i thought it was fascinating...we are living in a new world friends.  unfortunately, me and you would be dead because twittering on my phone is just funny...i can barely text much less access the internet via my crappy phone. 

unless of course my mother gets me that iphone for my birthday.

if i only had hula hoop workouts think of how good of shape i would be in.    

a post from my favorite blogging nun about happiness. i found the comments the most insightful.  as you know, me and happiness go round and round...i tend to think these days that happiness occurs in snippets or glimpses and you just have to take them when you get them.  life is hard and most of it is fleeting and i wonder if we could just embrace that idea, we might enjoy the experience a bit more. 

and because i'm a nerd...i want one of these. 

after having a conversation a few weeks ago with hippie stephanie, i've been thinking about my connection with food a lot.  these ponderings originated with discussion of my love of baking and finding alternative ways of using ingredients.  ie. my love of the vegan cupcake cookbook even though i'm not a vegan.  and i've come to the conclusion that this comes from my grandmothers influence on me as a child and this influence is both good and bad.  this woman cooks like no other and there are some foods that just take me back to my childhood and bring me joy, comfort, contentment.  but i also think these feelings also make the the little piggy i am today...looking for those same emotions.  but anyway, i digress.  so a week or so ago i was at the library and stumbled across the book "starting from scratch," which is basically the authors memoir tied in with recipes of her family.  very interesting...it very much resonates with me as i think about the influence of food on me. 

so that's enough of that...things are good.  the job is good (despite my twittering last night which should have said "working sucks" because it clearly interferes with me time).  i'm really busy and am having to consciously work to not get overwhelmed. i'm trying to get outside and exercise as much as possible these days...i'm not sure the summer clothes are going to slide right on otherwise. i'm thinking about taking a knitting class soon...i feel the itch to learn something soon.  also, trying to figure out how to get out of town...my tax refund is trying to spend itself before it's even arrived.  i took my vitamin today and i've got 29 minutes to get to bed...i think i might just make my goals today. 

a little busy as of late...

things have been a bit hectic lately at the jones house...and here i am posting and it's already 11pm.  i've decided this week to set two goals for myself...one, take my vitamins (will be placing a note on my monitor at work) and two be in bed by 11pm at the absolute latest.   you see i have many more goals, actually hundreds more goals but i tend to get overwhelmed and attempt none of them so these are my two feasible ones...vitamins and 11pm. and guess what i'm failing miserably tonight yet i keep typing...

ok, now i just feel like big doof...rambling on and on about failing my goal and not doing anything to stop my failure.

so i'm stopping...lord willing i will be back tomorrow...i have things to ponder about...so many things. 

happy monday friends. 

wow.

i can't even comprehend how this happens in this country...so many extremes in so many areas.

Only 1 of 2 students graduate high school in US cities: study

Tue Apr 1, 2:45 PM ET

Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday.

In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school graduation rate -- finishing 12 grades of school -- in big cities falls to as low as just 34.6 percent in Baltimore, Maryland, and barely over 40 percent for the troubled Ohio cities of Columbus and Cleveland.

And it said that black and native American student's have effectively a one-in-two chance of getting a high school diploma.

"Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in America's largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss," the study said.

"Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high school with a diploma."

Based on 2003-2004 data, the report said that across the country the graduation average for public school students is 69.9 percent, with the best success rate in suburbs -- 74.9 percent -- and rural districts -- 73.2 percent.

Asian-Americans score the highest graduation rate, at 80 percent, with whites at 76.2 percent and Hispanics at 57.8 percent.

Women graduate at a much higher rate than men, 73.6 percent to 66.0 percent.

In the country's city schools, the study found that in urban areas generally, just 60.4 percent graduate, and in the principal school districts of the top 50 cities, barely half graduate.

Detroit, Michigan's main school district scored a graduation rate of 24.9 percent.

New York, the country's largest city, has a graduation rate for its main school district of 45.2 percent, and Los Angeles, the second largest, of 45.3 percent.

Only five of the principal school districts topped the national average.