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The pain of losing someone in your life can be unbearable at times and this is no exception. I’m writing this to get some thoughts out of my head and onto something more concrete. We grieve today to remember my sister Dawn who passed away from complications of cancer. She left this world too fast and I feel like someone punched me in the stomach after being knocked down already. I feel incapacitated to do the things I normally do. I don’t really know what to say, but I feel for the children most of all. She left behind 3 beautiful children, Amber(2), Johnathon (6), and Ashley (10). We’ve lost an important member of our family but I know she is with Dad now. Both of them are victims to cancer, but will ALWAYS be remembered. I do regret not spending more time with both of them. Its something where there is no explanation for it and you don’t know what to do, how to act, and what to say.

RIP Dawn (1971 to 2010)…you will always be my sister…your with Dad now…I LOVE YOU ALWAYS

For the record this blog isn’t meant for being emo AT ALL. Its not meant for sympathy or anything of the sort. It is ONLY meant for myself to get some things down.

Thu, Apr 8, 2010, 7:25AM ET – U.S. Markets open in 2 hours and 5 minutes. | There are two kinds of recessions: the one that economists measure, and the one that ordinary people feel. | The official recession is over. That’s because the economy is growing again after a sharp decline, with GDP back to the levels of mid-2008. For people who have kept their jobs, suffered no loss of income and enjoyed a rebound in their investments thanks to the year-long stock market rally, things are pretty good.
(source) How To Tell When The Recession Is Really Over

Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:19 pm EST | By Maggie Hendricks | Scotty Lago, welcome to the age of cell-phone cameras and TMZ. | The snowboarding bronze medalist has voluntarily headed home early from Vancouver after embarrassing pictures of him at a party wearing both his medal and his Team USA gear appeared on the Internet. From the Associated Press: | Lago apologized to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and U.S.
(source) Snowboarder Lago heads home early after party pics surface

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(source) Michael Phelps hits Vancouver, says London will be final Olympics

Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the senate by lamenting a “dysfunctional” political system riddled with “brain-dead partisanship.” It seems you’d be hard-pressed to get Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Washington to agree on anything these days, that if one party publicly stated its intention to add a “puppies are adorable” declaration to its platform, that the
(source) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1137

Could Jay Leno’s takeover of the NBC mainstay “The Tonight Show” be in trouble before it even resumes? After rumors swirled yesterday, NBC has confirmed that band leader Kevin Eubanks will be leaving the show sometime after its March 1 premiere. Eubanks told the network he “wants to try other things” like tour and record.
(source) http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/is-the-new-tonight-show-already-in-trouble–9…