Friday, March 27, 2009
Circus
I woke up this morning and decided for some reason to look out my window. When I did, there was a circus right behind Whitley Hall. Me and Frances walked out there and took some picture. Well here one, mind you im not done editing.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
a wife, a husband, an ex husband, and 2 daughters
This made me laugh. yes its kind of long but read it I think its funny. I got to give these people props for being able to do this though...
(CNN) -- Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband.
Together, the unlikely threesome of Omaha, Nebraska, is raising two young daughters from the first marriage.
It's the kind of situation that has left cable guys howling.
"They'd never heard anything like this," Thompson-Arce, 28, remembered with a laugh. "And they're in people's homes everyday."
When she and Craig Thompson, 42, were going through a divorce in 2005, this was not a deal either of them could have imagined striking. It was a messy divorce, the kind involving a custody dispute. But once they ironed out that battle, agreeing to joint custody, Thompson-Arce said they were able to move on and forward. iReport: Read Thompson-Arce's post
By the time she married Mathew Arce last July, she said she and her ex were friends. In fact, they were so close that his mother -- meaning Thompson-Arce's ex-mother-in-law -- was in (not just at) the second wedding ceremony.
Soon after the Florida wedding, the new lovebirds flew into a financial mess. She had left a job, and as soon as she found another (a temp position), her 22-year-old husband was fired from his higher-paying gig. iReport.com: Job hunt stories
They fell behind in rent. The bills stacked up. The credit card debt grew. iReport.com: What are you cutting from budget?
A couple months later, Arce, landed a temporary Wal-Mart cashier position, which has since turned into a full-time job. But finances remained shaky and digging themselves out of debt seemed insurmountable. Tell us how you're surviving in this economy
In walked the ex with an offer, just in time for Christmas. Thompson, an 18-year bakery employee at Wal-Mart, lives in a three-bedroom, one-bath home.
"I knew they were having money problems, so I just asked them to move in," he said. "I figured I'd get to see my girls, my daughters, more often. And Nicole said yes right away."
Besides the economic savings, the benefits are many.
No longer do they have to shuttle Victoria, 7, and Caitlyn, 6, between two households. As a team, they can parent and be on the same page. Finding a baby sitter is never a problem. They take turns making meals, which they all share.
Thompson and Arce, who are 20 years apart -- "I had to get the whole spectrum going there," Thompson-Arce joked -- have become the best of friends, and share a similar sense of humor. They have tackled home improvement projects, run around together on days they both have off and often hang out at the kitchen table building plastic models.
"We just clicked," Thompson said. "When I tell people, 'I'm living with my ex-wife and her husband,' I get some really strange looks. ...It's different. It's unusual, but it works."
The transition has been smooth and great for the kids, Thompson-Arce said. And for their benefit, irrespective of finances, she thinks it's a living situation they'll stick with for at least five to 10 years. It has, however, taken a little time for the little ones to get the story straight.
Seven-year-old Victoria went back to school after winter break -- and after the whole team had blended under one roof -- and started telling people this: " 'My mommy has two husbands,'" Thompson-Arce remembered. "I was like, 'No, honey, don't tell them that!'"
What she and both men hope the girls are learning is that divorced parents can work together and be friends.
"There are so many families that go through divorce and can never let it go," she said. "I'm thankful, and hopefully our situation can help people rethink things because if they have kids, it's in their best interest to get along."
One might wonder whether the couple, who've been married for less than a year, get enough time alone together, given where they're living. Thompson-Arce points out that her ex works a shift that sends him to bed at 7 p.m., so the evenings -- after the kids are asleep -- are for her and her husband to share. Watch restaurant holds date night event »
"When they do have a romantic evening, I don't hear them, so we're not going there," Thompson quipped. "There's a bathroom between our two bedrooms."
The ex-husband hasn't dated since the divorce. He said it's because he's been focused on work and taking care of the kids. Thompson-Arce, however, said that she and her husband are forever trying to get Thompson on the dating scene and want him to meet someone special.
Special, and understanding, she would most definitely need to be.
"He'd have to find a very open-minded woman because we don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon," Thompson-Arce said.
(CNN) -- Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband.
Together, the unlikely threesome of Omaha, Nebraska, is raising two young daughters from the first marriage.
It's the kind of situation that has left cable guys howling.
"They'd never heard anything like this," Thompson-Arce, 28, remembered with a laugh. "And they're in people's homes everyday."
When she and Craig Thompson, 42, were going through a divorce in 2005, this was not a deal either of them could have imagined striking. It was a messy divorce, the kind involving a custody dispute. But once they ironed out that battle, agreeing to joint custody, Thompson-Arce said they were able to move on and forward. iReport: Read Thompson-Arce's post
By the time she married Mathew Arce last July, she said she and her ex were friends. In fact, they were so close that his mother -- meaning Thompson-Arce's ex-mother-in-law -- was in (not just at) the second wedding ceremony.
Soon after the Florida wedding, the new lovebirds flew into a financial mess. She had left a job, and as soon as she found another (a temp position), her 22-year-old husband was fired from his higher-paying gig. iReport.com: Job hunt stories
They fell behind in rent. The bills stacked up. The credit card debt grew. iReport.com: What are you cutting from budget?
A couple months later, Arce, landed a temporary Wal-Mart cashier position, which has since turned into a full-time job. But finances remained shaky and digging themselves out of debt seemed insurmountable. Tell us how you're surviving in this economy
In walked the ex with an offer, just in time for Christmas. Thompson, an 18-year bakery employee at Wal-Mart, lives in a three-bedroom, one-bath home.
"I knew they were having money problems, so I just asked them to move in," he said. "I figured I'd get to see my girls, my daughters, more often. And Nicole said yes right away."
Besides the economic savings, the benefits are many.
No longer do they have to shuttle Victoria, 7, and Caitlyn, 6, between two households. As a team, they can parent and be on the same page. Finding a baby sitter is never a problem. They take turns making meals, which they all share.
Thompson and Arce, who are 20 years apart -- "I had to get the whole spectrum going there," Thompson-Arce joked -- have become the best of friends, and share a similar sense of humor. They have tackled home improvement projects, run around together on days they both have off and often hang out at the kitchen table building plastic models.
"We just clicked," Thompson said. "When I tell people, 'I'm living with my ex-wife and her husband,' I get some really strange looks. ...It's different. It's unusual, but it works."
The transition has been smooth and great for the kids, Thompson-Arce said. And for their benefit, irrespective of finances, she thinks it's a living situation they'll stick with for at least five to 10 years. It has, however, taken a little time for the little ones to get the story straight.
Seven-year-old Victoria went back to school after winter break -- and after the whole team had blended under one roof -- and started telling people this: " 'My mommy has two husbands,'" Thompson-Arce remembered. "I was like, 'No, honey, don't tell them that!'"
What she and both men hope the girls are learning is that divorced parents can work together and be friends.
"There are so many families that go through divorce and can never let it go," she said. "I'm thankful, and hopefully our situation can help people rethink things because if they have kids, it's in their best interest to get along."
One might wonder whether the couple, who've been married for less than a year, get enough time alone together, given where they're living. Thompson-Arce points out that her ex works a shift that sends him to bed at 7 p.m., so the evenings -- after the kids are asleep -- are for her and her husband to share. Watch restaurant holds date night event »
"When they do have a romantic evening, I don't hear them, so we're not going there," Thompson quipped. "There's a bathroom between our two bedrooms."
The ex-husband hasn't dated since the divorce. He said it's because he's been focused on work and taking care of the kids. Thompson-Arce, however, said that she and her husband are forever trying to get Thompson on the dating scene and want him to meet someone special.
Special, and understanding, she would most definitely need to be.
"He'd have to find a very open-minded woman because we don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon," Thompson-Arce said.
are facebook groups making a difference?
I thought it was pretty interesting that they are kind of listening and giving more to what the public wants. Even though I think people are making to big of a deal of the new facebook, I mean come on people its just stinking facebook. Well here ya go --
Facebook users haven't exactly been reticent about their dislike for Facebook's recent redesign. And Facebook staff want you to know they're listening.
Facebook is making a handful of changes after being deluged with negative feedback about its new layout.
Facebook has been deluged with feedback on its new layout, much of it negative but constructive, according to a blog posted Tuesday by Product Director Christopher Cox.
Hundreds of thousands of people gave the redesign a thumbs-down in a user poll. And groups like "MEMBERS WANT THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK!" have formed to voice their discontent.
While the social network isn't reverting back to the old page design, they are making a handful of changes to appease some of the outraged masses, according to Cox, who has also worked as director of human resources and software engineer at the company.
Some of the changes already in the works include:
Live updating: Users will have the ability to turn on auto updating so they don't have to refresh the page to see what's new.
Photo tags: Facebook will add photos tagged with a person's friends to her stream.
Applications: Users will have the ability to cut down on the application-related content that's showing up in streams.
Highlights: This section in the right-hand column will update more frequently and show more content so it'll be more like the old News Feed.
Requests: Friend requests and event invites will be moved to the top of the right-hand column so they're more prominent.
Friends lists: Users will be able to create a new list of friends with which to filter their streams.
From the post: "Over time, we'll continue to give you more control over what's in your main stream and how you consume it. We have the eventual goal of building filters that summarize this activity so you can see a more condensed view of what's been going on. We're also thinking about ways of filtering out some of the Wall posts and content directed to specific people to focus more on posts shared with everyone."
No specific timeframe was mentioned for most of the updates, though they did say the photo tag update would happen "in the coming weeks."
To be sure, it can't be easy to redesign a site with 175 million users. For one thing, different people use the site very differently, so one man's feature is another's peeve.
Many of Facebook's users are online and interacting with the site for hours each day and no doubt have a personal connection to what goes on there. And as Cox points out in his post, sometimes change is just hard to take.
Cox, the brave soul that he is, invited yet more feedback from users, directing people to the tour of the redesign where people can leave their comments
Facebook users haven't exactly been reticent about their dislike for Facebook's recent redesign. And Facebook staff want you to know they're listening.
Facebook is making a handful of changes after being deluged with negative feedback about its new layout.
Facebook has been deluged with feedback on its new layout, much of it negative but constructive, according to a blog posted Tuesday by Product Director Christopher Cox.
Hundreds of thousands of people gave the redesign a thumbs-down in a user poll. And groups like "MEMBERS WANT THE OLD FACEBOOK BACK!" have formed to voice their discontent.
While the social network isn't reverting back to the old page design, they are making a handful of changes to appease some of the outraged masses, according to Cox, who has also worked as director of human resources and software engineer at the company.
Some of the changes already in the works include:
Live updating: Users will have the ability to turn on auto updating so they don't have to refresh the page to see what's new.
Photo tags: Facebook will add photos tagged with a person's friends to her stream.
Applications: Users will have the ability to cut down on the application-related content that's showing up in streams.
Highlights: This section in the right-hand column will update more frequently and show more content so it'll be more like the old News Feed.
Requests: Friend requests and event invites will be moved to the top of the right-hand column so they're more prominent.
Friends lists: Users will be able to create a new list of friends with which to filter their streams.
From the post: "Over time, we'll continue to give you more control over what's in your main stream and how you consume it. We have the eventual goal of building filters that summarize this activity so you can see a more condensed view of what's been going on. We're also thinking about ways of filtering out some of the Wall posts and content directed to specific people to focus more on posts shared with everyone."
No specific timeframe was mentioned for most of the updates, though they did say the photo tag update would happen "in the coming weeks."
To be sure, it can't be easy to redesign a site with 175 million users. For one thing, different people use the site very differently, so one man's feature is another's peeve.
Many of Facebook's users are online and interacting with the site for hours each day and no doubt have a personal connection to what goes on there. And as Cox points out in his post, sometimes change is just hard to take.
Cox, the brave soul that he is, invited yet more feedback from users, directing people to the tour of the redesign where people can leave their comments
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
News Article # 9
This is also really close to where I live, people are so messed up these days I swear.
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- An 18-month-old boy walked out uninjured from a garage where a gunman opened fire at three people Tuesday night, killing two of them before he turned the weapon on himself, police said Wednesday.
The toddler was near the people who were shot, but the child did not suffer any gunshot wound during the shooting spree, police said.
The child was in the care of relatives on Wednesday, police said.
The toddler's mother, Tamara Jones, 37, survived the shooting and was in critical condition at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, police said.
The identity of the gunman was not released, but police said he was Jones' estranged boyfriend. A gun was found in the house, police said.
Police identified the people killed as Kristin Jones, 55, who lived at the home where the shooting happened and Tamara Jones' 17-year-old son, Tyler. Kristin Jones, who is Tamara Jones' mother, died at John Peter Smith Hospital about an hour after being shot.
The shooting happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. in the 6500 block of Sunset Road.
Police responded to the home after neighbors reported hearing gunshots in the neighborhood.
When they arrived, officers found a garage open and three people with gunshot wounds, North Richland Hills Det. Keith Bauman said Wednesday.
“It appears that the shooting happened in the garage,” Bauman said. “There were multiple shots fired.”
Tyler Jones was found in the garage and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
“When officers searched the house, they found another man who had been shot,” Bauman said. “We believe he was the suspect.”
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS -- An 18-month-old boy walked out uninjured from a garage where a gunman opened fire at three people Tuesday night, killing two of them before he turned the weapon on himself, police said Wednesday.
The toddler was near the people who were shot, but the child did not suffer any gunshot wound during the shooting spree, police said.
The child was in the care of relatives on Wednesday, police said.
The toddler's mother, Tamara Jones, 37, survived the shooting and was in critical condition at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, police said.
The identity of the gunman was not released, but police said he was Jones' estranged boyfriend. A gun was found in the house, police said.
Police identified the people killed as Kristin Jones, 55, who lived at the home where the shooting happened and Tamara Jones' 17-year-old son, Tyler. Kristin Jones, who is Tamara Jones' mother, died at John Peter Smith Hospital about an hour after being shot.
The shooting happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. in the 6500 block of Sunset Road.
Police responded to the home after neighbors reported hearing gunshots in the neighborhood.
When they arrived, officers found a garage open and three people with gunshot wounds, North Richland Hills Det. Keith Bauman said Wednesday.
“It appears that the shooting happened in the garage,” Bauman said. “There were multiple shots fired.”
Tyler Jones was found in the garage and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
“When officers searched the house, they found another man who had been shot,” Bauman said. “We believe he was the suspect.”
News Article # 8
this is right down the street from where i live. I live at the next exit. wow. thanfully no one was hurt.
HALTOM CITY — Police have reopened the westbound lanes of Loop 820 at Denton Highway after a truck veered off an overpass and crashed onto the highway.
No serious injuries have been reported.
The accident happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday
Firefighters pulled the driver out of the truck, which was blocking the highway.
Police had closed the westbound lanes for more than an hour as authorities investigated and crews worked to remove the truck.
HALTOM CITY — Police have reopened the westbound lanes of Loop 820 at Denton Highway after a truck veered off an overpass and crashed onto the highway.
No serious injuries have been reported.
The accident happened shortly before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday
Firefighters pulled the driver out of the truck, which was blocking the highway.
Police had closed the westbound lanes for more than an hour as authorities investigated and crews worked to remove the truck.
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