The journey between here and there

Things I don’t like to hear:
“Mom’s coming! Quick HIDE!….” or

Even worse:
“Mom’s coming! Quick hide IT!”

That always means trouble or mischief of some sort.

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Mya: “Mommy, I LOVE Lukey! He’s my baby!”
Me: “No, he’s my baby!”
Mya: “NO, He’s not your baby! He’s MY baby!”
She is so possessive over him.
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Mya wanted to go with Laura to do her paper route. I told her she could because she was too small.
Mya (2 years old) : “But I went pee in the toilet! I’m big!”
Me: Yes, but not big enough to go out with Laura.
Mya: “Yes, I am big. I’m a big girl! See?”

Poor kid.
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I scared Mya while she was sitting on the counter.
Mya scowls, “Mommy, You scared me! Don’t do that!”
Me: “Sorry, it was funny.”
“Well, it’s not funny for me!” she says with her eye brows furrowed.

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Ryan: if you cleaned up the basement you get to go to Tim Horton’s after soccer. Boys did you clean up the basement?
Josh(enthusiastically): Yep, it’s all clean!! Very clean!
Brandon: Yep…… (pause for 20 seconds) Are you going to check?
Ryan: Yes
Brandon: “Oh….” he says in a defeated voice.

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Brandon came up to me one day after playing in the backyard and gave me a hug. He looked at me with his big brown soft eyes and said, “Mommy promise me you won’t die.”

I just smiled and said, “I promise I won’t die for a long time, but you know eventually everyone dies honey…. but don’t worry, if I do die, I’ll just hang out around the house and haunt you ok?”

He just said, “Please don’t die. I don’t want you to die.”

I just said, “ok.” He obviously didn’t get my teasing from before. I don’t know what made him say that. I asked him why he would say that but he didn’t say anything.

Sometimes I wonder about him. He says some freaky stuff sometimes that I wonder if he is somehow able to see things or have dreams about what will happen. The only reason why I think so, is cuz I have this ability and I wonder if he has inherited it.

He would tell us things like, “you have to be careful and watch Mya when she is playing by the river or she will fall in and die.”

I know it’s stating the obvious, but then he goes into detail about what the day is like and exactly how she drowns as if he is watching it happen. Hmmm…

So I’m just careful.

I’m sure our neighbors think we are in the running for the worst parents…

May 6, 2007
I was in the basement and I heard my doorbell ring frantically. I ran upstairs and opened the door. 2 kids were standing there all wide eyed, scared and breathless.

“There’s a little boy on your roof!” they blurt out.

“Thanks!” I yelped over my shoulder as I bolted upstairs.

Sure enough as I got to the top of the stairs I could see into my bedroom and I saw Brandon and Mya on the roof.

“BRANDON!” I yelled. He jumped, turned and started to come in through the window. I grabbed his arm and began to pull him in. Mya turned and went to come in too, but she slipped and fell backward. She fell on her back and began to slide down the roof.

Still holding on to Brandon I reached through the window and grabbed Mya by her ankle with my other hand.

I pulled Brandon in and then pulled a crying, scared Mya through the window.

“What were you thinking?!? Why would you go out on the roof!?! If you fall off the roof you could die!” I yelled at them. They just stared at me and blinked. ARG!

I sent them both to their rooms. I was so scared and furious.

*sigh* we need to get a screen on our bedroom window. I had opened the window to air out the house since it was so nice not thinking the kids would hop out onto the roof.

Where did they get the idea? Unfortunately from me… I went out on the roof to put up the Christmas lights and they watched me do it.

Why is there no screen on the window? They had cut it with an exacto knife, then dug their fingers in the screen until it was really wide. I had taken it down so I could take it to Gienow and have a new screen put in…. I just haven’t had the time to go down there. I keep forgetting about it until something like this happens or until mosquitoes start flying through the window.

I found this site called Jack Bauer for President 2008.

I think it would be hilarious, if America… or a good portion of them voted for Jack Bauer as President… Can you imagine! HA… making a farce out of their voting system. I hope a few thousand people do this. It would be a riot! Supposidly it can be done!

The favorite part of my site is the Jack Bauer Jokes.

These are my fav:
Jack doesn’t believe in Murphy’s Law, only Bauer’s Law: Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours.

The city of Los Angeles once named a street after Jack Bauer in gratitude for his saving the city several times. They had to rename it after people kept dying when they tried to cross the street. No one crosses Jack Bauer and lives.

Jack Bauer arm wrestled Superman. The loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his pants.

Superman’s only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.

Tony was once shot in the neck, rushed to the hospital, underwent emergency surgery and was back on the job in just a few hours. Jack Bauer still can’t believe that wuss went to the hospital first.

Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a “knock knock” joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the damned bomb was.

Jack wasn’t addicted to heroin, heroin was addicted to Jack.

Jack Bauer has been to Mars; That is why there is no life on Mars.

On Jack Bauer’s Tax Returns, he has to claim the entire world as his dependents.

Jack Bauer isn’t afraid of the dark, the dark is afraid of Jack Bauer

When Jack Bauer uses “Herbal Essences” the shampoo has an orgasm

On the 7th day, God rested. Then Jack Bauer took over.

Withholding information from Jack Bauer is now classified as a suicide attempt.

If everyone listened to Jack Bauer, the show would be called 12.

Jack Bauer doesn’t need to eat, sleep, or use the bathroom because his organs are afraid of making him angry.

There is the right way, the wrong way, and the Jack Bauer way. It’s basically the right way but faster and more deaths.

From now on the phrase, “Bond ….James Bond” has to be replaced with “Bauer …Jack Bauer”

Jack Bauer doesn’t sleep, he waits.

I love 24. Those just made me giggle. There’s lots more on the site too.

I’ve been lazy with my movie reviews, but I just HAD to say something about this movie.

IT SUCKS!!! It’s not worth paying $11 or $13 to go see. It’s a video rental. It’s waaay to long. I was looking at my watch 3/4 of the way into it thinking, “When is it going to end?!?” It needed to be edited better.

The special effects were good. The end sequence of the big battle was great. Although when Spiderman is fighting with Goblin’s son the background didn’t seem real. But I can forgive that because it’s a movie based on a comic book.

The story starts off really good, then somewhere in the middle it just loses its way. It turns into this stupid soap opera. I was shaking my head during the movie thinking, “Oh they’re not serious?!? Oh NO!” I turned to friends in the theatre to see if it was just me that was thinking this was retarded and our friend Guy had his hands over his eyes shaking his head in disbelief.

So it’s not just me that thought this movie sucked. Our whole row was just shaking its head or staring at the screen with a ‘WTF!?!’ look on their face. It’s sad to see that a great movie franchise would sink this low.

They need to keep that mask on Tobey McGuire. Why they keep on riping it off is beyond me. It’s just retarded. Just keep his stupid mask on. Tobey needs to be behind a mask, he’s not Tom Welling! Tobey Dancing and acting all hip was just too much. I know they were trying to achieve a difference in the way the Venom symbiote made Peter feel, but they went at it all the wrong way. It was terrible. I felt like scooping my eyes out with a spoon and throwing it at the screen. I was embarrassed for Tobey/Peter. It was also too forced when he played that part. The acting just didn’t cut it.

The sappiness just made me want to scream, “I DON’T CARE!!! SHOW ME A GOOD FIGHT, IT’S WHAT I CAME TO SEE!!!”
The whole, “I forgive you, I forgive you” line just made me groan. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

The script writer sucks. He destroyed what could have been an amazing movie. It had potential… it really did, unfortunately they hired the wrong writer and wrong movie editor.

When the movie ended, Guy covered his head in his jacket and said, “I’m embarrassed to be seen here at this movie.”

I totally understood his feelings. I want my money back, I want the 2 hours and 20 minutes of my life back… and I’ll never get it back.

The next weekend, we had free movie coupons from the cereal boxes so we took the kids. I made Ryan sit through it with them while I went shopping. All 4 of them loved the movie and I loved the fact that I didn’t have to sit through that horrible movie again. AND I’m NOT buying it on DVD.

Man… and to think we went through a similar experience last week… thank goodness the neighbors found Brandon before we had to resort to the police, etc….never a dull moment at our house. Not as bad as this story though….

…………..

A boss wondered why one of his most valued
employees had not phoned in sick one day. Having
an urgent problem with one of the main
computers, he dialed the employee’s home phone number and
was greeted with a child’s whisper.

“Hello.”

“Is your daddy home?” he asked.

“Yes,” whispered the small voice.

May I talk with him?”

The child whispered, “No.”

Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the
boss asked, “Is your Mommy there?”

“Yes.”

“May I talk with her?”

Again the small voice whispered, “No.”

Hoping there was somebody with whom he could
leave a message, the boss asked, “Is anybody else
there?”

“Yes,” whispered the child, “a policeman”

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his
employee’s home, the boss asked, “May I speak
with the policeman?”

“No, he’s busy”, whispered the child.

“Busy doing what?”

“Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the Fireman,”
came the whispered answer.

Growing more worried as he heard what sounded
like a helicopter through the ear piece on the
phone, the boss asked, “What is that noise?”

“A helicopter” answered the whispering voice.

“What is going on there?” demanded the boss, now
truly apprehensive.

Again, whispering, the child answered, “The search
team just landed the Helicopter.”

Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the
boss asked, “What are they searching for?”

Still whispering, the young voice replied with a
muffled giggle: “ME.”

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All I have to say is, “Wow! Now THAT is hot!”

Yep, so I was just surfing on the web when I stumbled upon this site:
www.numerologist.com
so on a whim I thought what the heck, I’ll try it… This is what the person sent back. I found it quite interesting and a lot of it is quite true. Freaky! To which I think to myself…. Can I get a new number? So I’m going to go through this and my thoughts will be in italics and in (…) those thingys…

” Hi there Joanne, (hi Mr. Numbers guy)

Thank you for visiting my website at Numerologist.com, and for requesting this sample mini-reading and ongoing numerology tutorial. (I did it cuz it was free… don’t get too excited.)

Over the coming weeks, I’ll be giving you a wealth of information about numerology all completely free of charge! (Yipee!! More FREE stuff! You’re speaking my language! Love the free stuff!) I look forward to taking the journey with you - numerology is a true passion of mine, and it is my hope that you find numerology to be just as fascinating as I do. (Actually I do.)

Let’s jump right in by starting to analyze your numerology chart …

Your life path says a lot about you, so please read the following very carefully …

Joanne, your Life Path of 9 …

You are a deeply spiritual individual who often displays a deep interest in religion or the occult at a very early age. (LOL… the occult! Dang… where’s my Ouija board?!?) In fact many nines grow up to be psychics, healers, priests and nuns. (LMAO! Ya… I would look good in that black dress those nuns wear.) You probably feel responsible for keeping up the morality or spirit of mankind in some way, or even responsible for their very souls. This is why many nines also end up working for the law as policemen or judges or in some aspect of spiritual or psychological counseling. (I always wanted to be a police woman… I’m jealous of Stickem’ up Rausch, but then I figured I can drive like a policeman on crack in my own car so I opted out of the force…although the idea of packing a gun does seem like fun!)

The emphasis of your life path is on finding ways to communicate the divinity of man in a practical context. As many nines are also very artistic, this connection with the higher powers might also be expressed through a talent such as writing, music or painting. (I like those things… maybe I should sign up for the next Canadian Idol.)

At some point in your life you have probably sworn to yourself to make this world a better place. (USED to is the important word… Now I’m jaded and I’ve come to realize the world is going to hell, nothing I can do about it.) You are extremely compassionate and feel above the matters that you feel causes factions of society to be divided. You are very aware of feeling as insignificant as a grain of sand in the Universe and believe that materialism, prejudice and lust just don’t matter in the long run. (That is very true. Don’t others think the same? Obviously not…)

You have a charismatic and very open personality that attracts you a lot of friends. You are very social, sometimes at the expense of your other responsibilities. Sometimes a number nine might take too much time out during the day “to smell the flowers” (LOL… Yes, this is true. Damn computer.) and incur the resentment of those that are left to pick up the slack. (poor Ryan)

Your attitude towards life in general is very selfless and you usually have a good connection with God or a higher power. (Guess I’d better hop back on that horse.) However often the number 9 faces a unique challenge at some point in his or her life that seems to be a test of faith. Usually this incident takes the form of a devastating personal loss, disease or some sort of tragedy. This triggers a period of time that lasts a few years that is often called the “dark night of the soul.” It is usually during this period of your life that you find the extreme courage and strength to become what is called a wounded healer. (I like that phrase, “dark night of the soul” , but still all I have to say is “Great! More CRAP that I get to look forward to! Not impressed! Isn’t this suppose to tell me some lottery numbers to play or something?!?)

Your life may seem too tough to handle at times which makes you vulnerable to finding substitutes for the family unit. As you are naturally very lonely and insecure, you are particularly vulnerable to joining a cult or becoming fanatical in the religious sense. (LOL!!!! Thank goodness for ‘dem Mormons!)

If you are a number nine you may find your life seems more difficult than others. (That is so not fair!) This is because it is common human nature to take advantage of your compassion, empathy and generosity. It may seem unfair to you that others do not appreciate the spiritual gifts that you have to offer, especially when you demand so little materially from the world. (Really? Cuz last night I told Ryan I wanted a 2400 sq. ft. bungalow with a walkout on 5 acres with a horse, dog and cat. That should cost him around 2 mil roughly with our real estate market as it is.) This is part of the problematic path of the number 9 who is often fated to learn that the path of true compassionate does not necessarily result in spiritual rewards for the healer either. (Dang! Lessons I’m not keen on learning!)

Although you may feel quite clear about your divine purpose and goals in life, others may perceive you as weird or spacey. (Actually people call me ‘crazy’ Same thing I guess...) This is why it is often difficult for a number 9 to keep a job for long. (This is so TRUE!!! I always job jump after a year. I get bored.) Relationships might also be very difficult for a 9 to sustain, as this particular path is a rather lonely one. Part of the 9’s spiritual development is usually being presented with situations that force them to let go of emotional situations and connections that might interfere with the higher purpose that the cosmos has in store for them. (Well it would be nice to know who Cosmo is and what the freak it wants me to do!!! Send me an email!)

Your Expression - which describes your potential natural talents and abilities - works out to be a 11.

What a ‘11′ Expression Means About You

Joanne, your Expression of 11 …
Your Potential Natural Talents and Abilities

You are a master number, which means that you are more concerned with ideals and ethics, rather than practical or materialistic issues. Your preoccupation with the divine can sometimes make you appear a bit bizarre or spacey to others. (once again, the word is “CRAZY” that people use.) However as you are usually recognized as a genius from a very young age, (HA!! I knew I was smat! and yes I spelled that wrong on purpose!) your personal quirks are often forgiven. (Cuz if they weren’t I’d just talk them to death.)

Your exceptional intelligence and ability to spend hours by yourself was probably noticed when you were a young child. (Well that is true. I do like to be alone at times.) As an adult your probably still spend a great deal of time alone in the world of your incredible imagination. (Can I just say that my imaginations are kick a**!!! Right now I’m saving the world with Jack.) Your verbal and written skills are excellent and you have a keen analytical mind. Your brilliance often allows you to achieve scholastic excellence. (Well that’s true too! I got the “Most outstanding Student award for high school. Yep, I’m a geek.)You have many of the aspects of the other numbers and could be a great teacher, inventor, scientist or artist. (I was actually going to be a teacher if it wasn’t for my STUPID guidance counsellor! Who said I should do something else!) However many of you choose a more off beat path in life as it is learning about the odd or the exceptional that excites you the most. (Yep, that’s true too. Cuz who wants to learn about normal things?!?)

Perhaps the greatest achievement for your number is in the mastery of some kind of spiritual practice occult science. (Do I have to go to school for that?!? Only if I get to learn how to ride a broom or something…) You are incredibly intuitive and many of you practice some form of divination. You may experience mysterious connections to others as well as prophetic dreams. (You know what’s funny? This is actually true. But I’m not sharing details.) As you are so intelligent (HA. I highlighted that word myself… just can’t get enough of that.), sometimes your curiosity leads you down taboo or forbidden paths. As you were so smart as a child you may have been left out of normal social groups. (LOL… I still can’t get over that I’m so freakn’ smart. ) This makes you more vulnerable than other numbers to joining a cult or being influenced by a religious leader. (Thank bejezebus that I joined those Mormons! or else I’d be in real trouble!)

Sometimes you are also a very defensive person as you bitterly resent those who don’t understand you or can’t keep up with you. (Patience is a virtue I’m developing.) Being left out of things can become a chronic pattern for you if you are not careful.(Story of my life.) Some elevens feel so powerless in social situations that they are tempted to use metaphysical (I need to look this word up… not that smart now am I! I hope it means some sort of Telekenisis or something like that! That would be fun!) means to gain power over others.

Given all of your talents, it is paramount that you use your powers for good. (Resist the dark side!) Your keen perception of others and analytical abilities often give you a natural edge over others when it comes to professional relationships. (Yep, I am observant. I like to people watch and find their weakness. It’s a game I play with myself.) However in personal relationships, elevens often appear emotionally detached to loved ones who feel manipulated by them. (once again… poor Ryan.)

Many elevens are so eccentric that they can’t hold down a job. (This is very true! Longest I’ve held a steady everyday job was a year. Kid you not. My resume has lots of joby jobs on it.) In most of these cases however they seem to find someone to take care of them so they can pursue their mental and creative interests. (LOL!!! I told this to Ryan and he just groaned…. LOL… so funny… ok.. it’s a had to be there moment. Carry on… but that is true tho…)

You have the potential to thrive in the business world but you probably prefer a more unconventional lifestyle that gives you the room to explore your various interests. Travel and history are two subjects that greatly interest you and you feel spiritually recharged when visiting a holy or mystical place in the world. (Well, I do like to travel… doesn’t everyone!?!)

As you are so brilliant (LOL…. this makes me giggle! Brilliant!… haha…) you can also appear as a bit too eccentric to others. (Crazy, people say.) This may express itself in your manner of dress or where you live. (nope, it expresses itself in the way I act and talk) As you think in the long term the future of humanity is always on your mind so you are thrifty with your resources and probably active in some kind of charity or ecological organization. (Guess I’d better stop that leaky hose in the yard and stop taking 1/2 hr. showers.)

You are capable of being a good parent but as you see relationships as a process, as opposed to a goal, you may opt to have several “soul mates” during your life. It is often an eleven who is the parent of several children by different spouses. (Yeah, Tom pay up on child support Damn it!) However you are a good provider and excel at managing an extended family. (LMAO~~~ Well, thank goodness I just have several children with one spouse!)

Now, Let’s Examine Your Soul Urge
(also known as your “Heart’s Desire”)

We have already done all the mathematics necessary to work out this number. It is simply the total of the top row (the vowels) of your full birth name.

In your case Joanne, this totals 6.

Joanne, your Soul Urge of 6 …

What You Desire To Be, To Have, and To Do In Your Life

Your soul urge is to nurture and take care of others. You love people and believe the greatest expression of your inner divinity is through teaching and guidance. (sure) Many of you are very maternal or paternal at an early age and are often regulated, by default to the role of advisor or therapist in your social life. (I actually hate it when people tell me their problems cuz I feel helpless when I can’t help or solve their issue or I feel frustrated when they don’t take my advice and still keep whining to me about their problem.)

Unfortunately your willingness to take on other people’s burdens threatens your romantic relationships. This is because you are often perceived as a friend or a helper rather than as an object of desire. The result is that many sixes end up with broken hearts simply because others simply could not recognize their empathy as being an expression of love and desire. (So noted…therefore, I am less empathetic towards others now.)

Part of your challenge in life is to learn how to make yourself more sexually attractive to others. (Well, I think if I went on that show, “The Swan” or “The Extreme Makeover” it would be a start.) Often this means learning the brutal rules of the game of love, which in courtship often mean practicing a certain kinds of power plays and being mysterious. (Huh?!? Damn it! I missed out on this one too!!! My friend, Nat should write a book on this, she’s really good at it!) The mistake that you often make is letting yourself be too available to the person you are trying to attract. As the object of desire realizes that you are willing to be there for them no matter what, they take it for granted that you will settle for less. It is often a six who will spend a year comforting someone they are attracted to in the hopes the person will recognize their good heart, only to be dismayed when they are thanked for all their kind support and the person moves onto a romance with someone else.

Your candidness and forthright manner is also a drawback romantically as others are turned off by your dogmatic approach. (Dogwha??? Gotta look that one up too…. hmmm… still doesn’t make sense. See… that intelligence thingy.. not so accurate now is it!) As you tend to discuss everything about yourself with a member of the opposite sex, there is little mysterious or sexy about you. (Ya, well, I didn’t tell them of the time I killed the… oops… there I go again. Damn it!) Spilling your guts does not help you professionally either, as it encourages others to steal your ideals. (Ideals? What ideals? I have ideals?) Part of your inner struggle might be fighting your urge to connect so intimately with every single person you meet. (Ya, I don’t do this anymore. I’m jaded.) One way to combat this is to make an effort to be a little more stand offish and play your cards close to your chest, especially when it comes to romance. (Yep, I figure it’s good to be a B*tch every now and again.)

As you are a very sensitive and compassionate person you tend to take things very personally. When others let you down you have a tendency to retreat from society and nurse your wounds. Often when a six decides to play the victim in a relationship he or she is met with very little sympathy or help. This is ironic as sixes are so eager to help others and comfort them when they are down and out. The cosmos presents you with this type of situation so that you are forced to heal yourself with the same type of focus and devotion that you use to heal others. (Well, ya know, that is unfortunately true. Sucks to be me.)

If you feel yourself succumbing to a tendency to isolate yourself or find yourself succumbing to addiction or depression your best course of action is to forget about yourself entirely and go out and make an effort to help someone less fortunate than you. This teaches you to be helpful to people you are not attracted to as sixes have a way of only making themselves useful to individuals that they find attractive or desire. (Very interesting… I should try it.)

The very highest calling of your soul urge number is to renounce sex (ROTFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!! Renounce sex!?!?! WTF! Is this guy on Crack?!? ) and relationships altogether and devote your life to a religious or spiritual practice. ( I don’t care how many times you tell me … I’m NOT going to become a NUN! Even if the color suits me!!!)

I hope you are enjoying this brief glimpse into the world of numerology — the science of numbers, which governs much - if not most - of what happens in your life, your relationships, your health, and your economic future.

Thanks for joining me; I hope you enjoy this fascinating journey of discovery …
(very interesting and amusing… spank you!)

Peace and light ,

Blair Gorman
Master Numerologist
www.Numerologist.com

So there it is… I did one for Ryan too and sent him his. He said it was true. Who knew? Try it out. See if it works or not.

“I don’t know why she can’t go shopping for this for me during the day.. I mean my Gawd, she’s just a stay at home mom! It’s not like she has a job or anything! She can get out and go do stuff!”

LOL!!!! This is my friend who has no kids getting pissed off at her sister who has 2 kids. I laugh because she has no clue!

Now this doesn’t offend me because it’s spoken with pure ignorance. I hope she ends up with 3 kids of her own so she can see how it’s so “not like a job.”

I didn’t say anything, I just smirked and let her be ignorant, unless you live through something like having children to take care of you don’t have a clue what it is like to be “just a stay-at-home-mom” 24 hours a day.

Ya, I have tonnes of time during the day with 5 kids to go shopping…In fact all I do is sit around watch Ellen, Oprah and The Price is Right. Then I rush out jump on my dog sled, go get my nails and hair done cuz why not?!? There’s nothing else to do, right?!?….. Simply ridiculous.

Although I do try not to be addicted to things, I’m addicted to 24. I love this show. We borrow the Season’s from friends and we watch the entire season in 3 days. This is such a fabulous show. Great writing and great acting. I’m really impressed! I’m up to Season 4 now. I really liked all the Season’s although my favorite is the first one because it was new and I didn’t know what to expect. Now when I watch the show I know something is going to happen next and I’m just always waiting for the shoe to drop. When I watched the show I was just enthralled and “NO WAY!” was going to through my head. The show still excites me and puts me on the edge of my seat, but I’m just weary of what’s taking place, cuz I know something else is happening.

The only thing that annoys me is the “MOLE” plot line. It’s got to stop. There’s a mole in every season. That’s just crazy. It’s annoying too. Enough with the mole. Move on to a different story line. They should use the Canadian Coin story line…

I need to take a break from 24 though. I’ve watched 4 season in the past month and it’s wearing on me. The shows are not that enjoyable when I watch so many at a time… now I’m getting cynical with it. I’m snarking at the TV saying, “of course!” or “Whatever” or “Not again!”

I think the one that really annoyed me is how they end the season. The one with Victor Dresin and the battle in the stadium was too fake for me. I was so annoyed. After the build up all season, I felt it was a let down. Victor would have heard the chopper! So for him to be babbling on to Jack then being shot by the peps in the chopper was so fake and a CHEAT! I hate cheats… Too much monologuing on the part of Victor. I think the character would have just popped Jack, not babbled to him for a couple of minutes. It would have been, “Jack, I hate you!” BANG! BANG! BANG! Jack’s dead.

That being said, I am looking forward to watching Season 5 and Season 6 on DVD. I would NEVER watch this show on TV cuz it is too much suspense and it would KILL ME. I wouldn’t be able to handle it. I love being able to watch the entire episode in 3 days. I can’t wait for the movie to come out. I think they’ll grab an even larger audience when they put this movie out in 2009.

I love this button.

Kiefer talking about what happened:

Andy the student working on the film:

How sweet that Kiefer actually stopped. What boggles my mind is that no one else stopped and offered assistance. Crazy!

That’s just as amazing as Tom Welling catching the purse thief.

Nice to know that these guys step up and help those around them.

LMAO!!!! OK… this is the funniest story I’ve read in a long time… The US Security Peps are waaaaay to sensitive… I think this should be turned into a small segment on 24 where CTU thinks terrorists in Canada make a tracking device coin or a coin to smuggle sensitivge information, Jack has to figure it out, CTU makes a big deal about it and it turns out to be nothing, so it sets Jack back and he’s pissed *DAMMIT!!!*…. lol… this is just toooo funny. I’ve seen this poppy coin. I have one. It’s pretty… but not a tracking device.

‘Poppy quarter’ behind spy coin alert By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned.

The harmless “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.

The silver-colored 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy — Canada’s flower of remembrance — inlaid over a maple leaf. The unorthodox quarter is identical to the coins pictured and described as suspicious in the contractors’ accounts.

The supposed nano-technology actually was a conventional protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy’s red color from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada’s 117,000 war dead.

“It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source,” wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. “Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top.”

The confidential accounts led to a sensational warning from the Defense Security Service, an agency of the Defense Department, that mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. “Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket,” the contractor wrote.

But the Defense Department subsequently acknowledged that it could never substantiate the espionage alarm that it had put out and launched the internal review that turned up the true nature of the mysterious coin.

Meanwhile, in Canada, senior intelligence officials expressed annoyance with the American spy-coin warnings as they tried to learn more about the oddball claims.

“That story about Canadians planting coins in the pockets of defense contractors will not go away,” Luc Portelance, now deputy director for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, wrote in a January e-mail to a subordinate. “Could someone tell me more? Where do we stand and what’s the story on this?”

Others in Canada’s spy service also were searching for answers. “We would be very interested in any more detail you may have on the validity of the comment related to the use of Canadian coins in this manner,” another intelligence official wrote in an e-mail. “If it is accurate, are they talking industrial or state espionage? If the latter, who?” The identity of the e-mail’s recipient was censored.

Intelligence and technology experts were flabbergasted over the warning when it was first publicized earlier this year. The warning suggested that such transmitters could be used surreptitiously to track the movements of people carrying the coins.

“I thought the whole thing was preposterous, to think you could tag an individual with a coin and think they wouldn’t give it away or spend it,” said H. Keith Melton, a leading intelligence historian.

But Melton said the Army contractors properly reported their suspicions. “You want contractors or any government personnel to report anything suspicious,” he said. “You can’t have the potential target evaluating whether this was an organized attack or a fluke.”

The Defense Security Service disavowed its warning about spy coins after an international furor, but until now it has never disclosed the details behind the embarrassing episode. The U.S. said it never substantiated the contractors’ claims and performed an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page published report about espionage concerns.

The Defense Security Service never examined the suspicious coins, spokeswoman Cindy McGovern said. “We know where we made the mistake,” she said. “The information wasn’t properly vetted. While these coins aroused suspicion, there ultimately was nothing there.”

A numismatist consulted by the AP, Dennis Pike of Canadian Coin & Currency near Toronto, quickly matched a grainy image and physical descriptions of the suspect coins in the contractors’ confidential accounts to the 25-cent poppy piece.

“It’s not uncommon at all,” Pike said. He added that the coin’s protective coating glows peculiarly under ultraviolet light. “That may have been a little bit suspicious,” he said.

Some of the U.S. documents the AP obtained were classified “Secret/Noforn,” meaning they were never supposed to be viewed by foreigners, even America’s closest allies. The government censored parts of the files, citing national security reasons, before turning over copies under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.

Nothing in the documents — except the reference to nanotechnology — explained how the contractors’ accounts evolved into a full-blown warning about spy coins with radio frequency transmitters. Many passages were censored, including the names of contractors and details about where they worked and their projects.

But there were indications the accounts should have been taken lightly. Next to one blacked-out sentence was this warning: “This has not been confirmed as of yet.”

The Canadian intelligence documents, which also were censored, were turned over to the AP for $5 under that country’s Access to Information Act. Canada cited rules for protecting against subversive or hostile activities to explain why it censored the papers.