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When I was younger, we had a Whiz Wheel, also known as the Krazy Kar - we had gotten it for Christmas one year. It was orange with huge black wheels and we LOVED this thing. It was way better than a big wheel or a stupid bike and you had to seriously have some skills to operate the thing (not to mention some major arm strength), mostly because the brainiacs that designed the thing failed to include any type of rubber on the tires, so when you got it out on the street, it would always skid out, cause there was nothing to grip the asphalt. There was a true method to get going on this thing. You had to start out slow, so the tires would not skid, and slowly build up momentum so that you could really get trucking down the street. Once you got up to maximum speed, you could lock one of your arms, causing one of the wheels to lock up and it would totally spin you out, which was nothing short of AWESOME! My sister, brother and I fought constantly over who’s turn it was to ride it. I don’t remember what happened to our Whiz Wheel.

A couple years ago, my sister and I started reminiscing about it and could not for the life of us remember what is was called and I have been searching ever since - until now! I finally found it and low and behold, you can still get them here or here, although from what I can see, they certainly have not fixed the whole rubber on the tire issue.  I am SO ordering one for my kids!!!

My stack of filing.  I hate filing more than anything else and I let it stack higher and higher, until I finally have to take it to the conference room and sort through it.

Peggy over at Bella Mommy sent me some interview questions to answer, so here are my answers to her VERY important questions.

1. Do you ever [seriously] think of cutting off a huge amount of your hair or perhaps changing the color, adding bangs, or getting a perm? NO. I do not think that I could ever go with a short hairstyle. I do however, sometimes cut long layers into it, or darken it up a bit underneath with a temporary coloring - but never anything permanent. I am a total wuss when it comes to my hair. My best friend Nadine is in Hair/Beauty school right now and she begs me all the time to be her guinea pig. The first time I let her cut my hair she cut WAY to much off and then when I told her she effed up, she gave some lame term they use in school - “Here at the Rudy & Kelly Academy of Hair ( a Paul Mitchell Partner School), we do not make mistakes - we make DISCOVERIES! - to which my reply was that she was about to “discover” my foot up her ass!!! Thank god I love her.
2. What would you buy if you won the lottery and more importantly, what would you buy me? I would pay off the rest of my bills, pay up my kids college tuition, locking in today’s rates through the VA College Savings Program and buy a nice house on the beach. Then I would pay off all my family’s and good friend’s bills and help them with whatever they needed. I would buy you a ticket out of Florida to the destination of your choice and give you enough money to get started there.
3. Your sister recently moved to Florida, ever think of relocating? I miss my sister to pieces!!! But, I DO NOT like Florida. It is nice to visit, but not to live. I was born there and all my dad’s side of the family lives there and are all FSU alumni, so I can visit whenever I want, but it is far to hot and humid for me, the water bugs are DISGUSTING and Hurricane season has not been to nice to Florida. But there are other places I would consider, although I really kind of like it here in Virginia Beach - we are within a couple hours of everything - major historical sites, mountains and skiing, the beach - everything.
4. Have you ever met someone you’ve met on the internet in person? Yes. And there are several people that I talk to on a semi-regular basis on the telephone.
5. Faith really wants a little sister. How about Kaiden? Can I have her? Where do you want me to send her and when?

And I am supposed to be nice and keep the game going.  So if you are interested in playing follow these instructions:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions and it may take me a couple days to get them to you, cause I am busy Yo!
3. You will update your weblog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Pat Brown is a nationally known criminal profiler that likes to frequent Nancy Grace and other news outlets.  She was on Fox News last night to be questioned about the profile of the man that opened fire at Virginia Tech yesterday and instead of answering questions, she used her 5 minutes to very loudly instruct parents to sue VA Tech, completely overshadowing the Fox News correspondent.  It totally pissed me off - enough for me to send her a nasty email.

I happened to be listening to Fox News via XM Radio on my way home from work last night and caught a segment where they had you on as a guest speaker so that they could question you from a criminal profiler’s point of view, unfortunately that point was not conveyed by you.  You were too busy becoming enraged with Virginia Tech and actually begging the parents of the students to sue the institution for neglect.  It was not even eight hours after the horrific event and you were already telling parents to sue – not sending out any type of condolence, just more negative chatter and hate.  Wasn’t there enough of that already in place?

For such a bright, educated woman, you came off sounding pretty inconsiderate and insensitive.  Virginia Tech is a wonderful school, a school that I could only hope that my children attend when the time comes.  Did you stop at any point and put yourself in anyone else’s shoes, like the staff at Tech, or any of the police that were handling the case?  We are ALL just human and I am sure that the people involved did what they felt was the best at the current time.  It is a sad, sad event that took place and my heart bleeds for the families that lost loved ones during the shootings – but instigating more anger and hate is NOT EVER an answer.

Shame on you for adding to what is already a “lawsuit happy” America and for not stopping for five seconds and offering your condolences.