Summer's Shenanigans

I spent a good hour or so looking for some sort of widget that counts Paypal donations in real time and I FINALLY found it (so I'm posting it here, so others that are looking for the same thing can find it too!). The Paypal donation widget that I found is by Chipin.com and it's pretty cool. The widget is super simple to set up and this is what it looks like:

Once the widget is created, it tracks donations and contributors and people that donate can leave comments as well. All in all, this Paypal donation widget is everything I was looking for and more. Cool! :)

I made the widget above for our CA2PR.com blog as a way for our friends and family to contribute to building our house. Check out the scoop here:

Labels: Geeky Stuff, Puerto Rico, Technology

My grandma has been digging through pictures lately and gave me this one of my mom, Rita Robin Quasebarth, circa 1971:

Doesn't my mom look like a "Rita"? Haha...maybe that's why she went by her middle name her whole life. I'm pretty grateful that I didn't get the last name of Quasebarth (no offense grandpa!). Don't you have to be able to spell your name to graduate from kindergarten?! I would have been held back at least 5 years. It took me that long to really figure out the difference between a lowercase "g" and a lowercase "q", let alone to spell Q-U-A-S-E-B-A-R-T-H correctly...

Labels: Family

I've been wanting to get a custom "Vicious Enterprises" sticker for the company car, but I wasn't able to find exactly what I wanted until recently. I found AlwaysSign.com the other day and they offer exactly what I need! They do custom die cut stickers like this one that I just slapped on my car:

Not only are they great quality stickers, they are CHEAP and the turn around time is fast (I received them 2 days after I placed my order). The "Vicious" sticker shown above was $4.69 and there are tons of colors, sizes and fonts to choose from. I actually purchased a big red "Vicious Enterprises" sticker to go on the car, but it ended up being HUGE (maybe I'll slap that one on The Red Baron...haha), so I went with the silver one above.

Labels: Business

Monkey has decided to protest my sentence, by rolling over and playing dead until I'm vindicated!!

(Monkey cracks me up :). She's been sleeping like that for 20 minutes now. She has the funniest sleeping positions I've ever seen, like this and this.)

I've served two days of work service (only 88 to go! Yippee!) and after speaking to the other people it's apparent that I got an extremely harse sentence. The people that got caught drinking and driving received 2 - 8 work service days. The people that have received multiple DUI's are serving 20 - 35 days of work service. And the guy that elbowed a cop in the face received 20 days of work service (and the cop even apologized to him when he was sentenced).

I do believe that I'm being punished for who the judge thinks I am. To people that don't know me, the prosecutor made me look like some lazy, rich, spoiled brat. And, as the people that do know me know, that is a far cry from who I am. Currently, with work, AA meetings and work service I am working over 100 hours a week. I'm exhausted, but I feel okay mentally. I don't mind working hard and I've come to terms with being punished for standing up for my rights and trying to do the right thing. In the end, I will get through this and move on, and Officer Chris Karches will still be a slimy despicable liar with a miserable life.

Labels: Animals, Dogs, The Justice System

Here is a good quote that was sent to me by a friend (Thanks, Uros!):

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run --
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!
Quote by: Rudyard Kipling

Another very good quote:

"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone."
Quote by: Ayn Rand

And one more quote I like:

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
Quote by: Bernard Mannes Baruch

Does anyone else have a favorite quote? Post them here!

- Probation for 3 years. (If I violate any laws, I will be sent to jail for 180 days).

- $1000 fine.

- Must attend anger management classes.

- Must attend Alcoholic Anonymous 3 times a week.

- 90 days of work service.

On a positive note, the judge said that he will review my "progress" in 30 days and that he may reduce my work service. Although, I've become a bit cynical about the justice system making promises that they have no intention of following through with. For example, when I was in jail they said that if I behaved I would get out early. So I sat there and stared at the clock for hour upon hour, waiting for them to release me early. It did not happen, nor was anyone released early. As a matter of fact, I was released at the same time as the drunk santa girl that threw up all over herself and screamed, threw a fit and repeatly told the officers on the duty that they were all, "Fat butch lesbian cunts".

I can't wait to write about what I've learned from this experiance! Unfortunately it's going to have to wait since the prosecutor used edited portions of this blog to paint the picture of what a horrible person I am. Sick. I'll tell you all about it when I've completed my sentance.

Labels: The Justice System

I still have no idea what I'm going to tell the judge tomorrow. I think I'm just going to have to be honest and tell him that I'm completely floored and don't know what he wants me to tell him. According to the jury I'm a liar that goes out and gets wasted, throws tantrems, trespasses and fights police officers for no reason. Anyone that actually knows me is probably falling off their chair laughing at that description. In truth, I'm the most mellow person that rarely goes out, let alone hangs out in bars. I'm often the designated driver when I go out with friends and when I'm not, I'm notorious for sneaking home to go back to work. If I had actually commited a crime, this would be so much easier...

Any how, I've been trying to turn around the way I've been feeling and I've been trying to focus on the positive things I have going for me. I have an amazing family, boyfriend and future. I don't want to become a cynical, negative person just because I've seen the seedy, disgusting dark side of the justice system. Today, I tried out iMovie for the 1st time and put together this video for Stefan and my California 2 Puerto Rico blog:

Labels: Puerto Rico, The Justice System, Videos

I get sentanced tomorrow. This is where I'm supposed to pay my debt to society, even though I never did anything illegal. I have been advised by more then one friend that is a lawyer, that this is where I'm supposed to beg the judge for forgiveness. No matter what. It doesn't matter that I never commited a crime. Now I'm supposed to explain how sorry I am for actions that I never took and how sorry I am for commiting crimes that I never commited. I'm a horrible liar, I hate lieing and I can't do it convincingly. With that in mind, I will probably be sentanced to 3 years in prison. And no, I'm not joking. After what I've gone through in the last 2 weeks, I would not be the least bit surprised to be sentanced to hard time for crimes that were never commited. What an awesome country. I have to say that I'm absolutely disgusted with being an American. I guess I should go get some Macdonalds and then take some Paxil to make everything all better. What a sick fucking world. I can't wait to get the fuck out of here.

Labels: The Justice System

I'm okay. I'm not returning calls at this time, but don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I just want to be alone right now. Thank you for thinking about me and I'll be okay, eventually...

Labels: Health

I spoke with my lawyer a few hours ago and to my utter surprise, I found out that I have been convicted of three misdemeanors. I'm still completely in shock. I can't believe this. I just got convicted of not one, not two, but THREE crimes that I absolutely did not commit. The prosecutor manipulated the jury into thinking I'm a criminal and a liar. Unfortunately, my lawyer is young and green and allowed the prosecutor to get away with this. I didn't even think twice about hiring an inexperianced lawyer because I have always been taught that the truth will prevail and that the justice system is right and good. I can't even explain the way I feel, after experiancing how disgusting and crooked the justice system really is. I can liken it to the way you feel after finding out that the father that you love, adore and is everything to you, is really a slimy child molestor. Everything that I have been taught about morals, justice and right vs. wrong has just crumbled around me into a disgusting sludge pile that is society. I feel sick and disgusted. For the 1st time in my life, to live or to die is indifferent to me. I'm numb.

Labels: The Justice System

After way too long in court (I've spent 40+ hours in court so far), the jury has finally gone into deliberations. Thank god this stupid trial is almost over. Now the waiting game begins...

Labels: The Justice System

An 11 year old boy shot and killed a 9ft long, 1051 pound pig in Alabama:

Well, it turns out that it wasn't actually a "wild pig", it was a domesticated pig named "Fred". Poor Fred :(

Labels: Animals, Videos, Weird

If I end up dead in the near future, I know who killed me. A certain Carlsbad Police Officer that I'm involved in a court case with, did it.

Seriously though, I'm scared. Ever since this incident happened in December 2006, I've been weary and constantly looking over my shoulder. Whenever I run in Carlsbad (which is often), I now bring my knife. I was running in Carlsbad the other night and saw a Carlsbad cop car behind me, as it approached it slowed down significantly and I stopped in my tracks. Luckly, the police cruiser slowed down next to me for a speed bump, but it still made my heart jump and pulse race. Ugh. I can't wait to get out of town for good.

I (and at least 8 other witnesses) know that what happened to me on December 2nd, 2006, was totally wrong. The trial in not over yet, but I know that the police officer that arrested me knows that what he did was not only wrong, but what he did is illegal and I'm sure he knows now that he got caught and will probably lose his career. So at this point, he is packin' heat, trained by the state to kill, has nothing to lose, knows where I live and hates me. How would you feel right about now?

Labels: The Justice System