Kimbie's LiveJournal

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:54:36 GMT

Was reading in LJ news about how it appears the site was hacked this morning. Things like this drive me NUTS!

Oh well, it got me back here to post. Life is good and hard. Marriage is the same. I'm in EMT classes and am taking training to become a volunteer fire fighter.

I'm extremely sleepy today.

Going down to my parents house tomorrow to celebrate my Dad's 64th birthday.

Hugs to you all!!

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:31:12 GMT

I keep saying I'm going to do better, and start writing in here again, but as of today I've failed to do it.

This is totally stupid too since I went and bought a permanent account. If anything should make me want to use the heck out of LJ once more, that should.

Married life is keeping me pretty busy. I have to say it was a very hard first year. I love David dearly but it's flat out difficult getting use to being a wife. That typed, I wouldn't change marrying him for anything.

We've had some things thrown at us that some couples wed for 25 years haven't had to endure but we've gotten thru them the best we could.

It's also scary at times being a fire fighter's wife. I admit I don't panic as much anymore when he goes out on a run, but when I DO get scared, it's a deeper more intense fear then I believed I would ever feel.

I can't explain it unless you have someone special to you who risks their life on purpose by going to work.

I'm also extremely proud of David.

I don't remember if I'm mentioned or not, but he and I have two "babies" now. We got two dogs and named them Molly and Zoey. They are the best (excluding my beloved late Jace). We have tried in the "having a baby" department but so far no luck.

I really would like to have a child. I never felt that way very strongly until I did get married. I'm honestly not sure what changed in me, but something did, and I never expected it to.

Oh well, whatever happens happens I guess.

It's getting close to 1 AM and I should go on to bed.

Wanda

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:44:54 GMT

It's been exactly one year ago today that my mother-in-law, Wanda, passed away from a massive blood clot. She'd just had hip surgery the day before, and was doing fine, or so we were told.

It's weird the things you remember. I recall Dave, my father-in-law Ed, and me eating at a fish place after we left the hospital room the night just before she died. I looked at my watch and it read, "8:32 PM".

It also hangs in my mind how I was the last one out of her hospital room, and just as I was leaving, she called to me and said, "Now Kimmie, you hold down the fort."

I just looked at her strangely and nodded, "Okay, I promise. I love you."

She smiled brightly, "I love you too honey."

Strange...

Kissies!!!

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:38:08 GMT

I know it's been almost a year since I posted, and for that I apologize DEEPLY. I guess after getting married and my mother-in-law passing away suddenly, time got away from me.

I've missed you all so very much, and saying "I'm sorry" just isn't enough but I hope you can forgive me.

Things are basically the same since I last wrote. David and I will celebrate our first anniversary next month on the 12th, barring any bad luck.

We are the proud parents of TWO babi...puppies. They are Molly and Zoey, and wonderful dogs. Miss Molly is a mix of Collie and Mountain Cure. Munchie (Zoey's nick-name) is a Yorkie Poo.

I'm also making my annual request for snail mail addresses so I may send you a Christmas card. As the majority of you know, I LOVE mailing them, and ALSO receiving them, so if you would like me to send you one, please leave a response in the comments section. As soon as I see it (which will be OFTEN because I'll constantly check) I will remove your name from public view and get you all made up. =)

I also broke down and decided to buy myself a permanent account today for an early December 25th present, so figured I better start writing in LJ again to get my money's worth.

Now to go try to get the dogs in from the cold.

HUGS!

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:34:59 GMT

I love my firefighter husband dearly, and am SO happy we are married, but WHY does he have to call me SO much when he's at the fire station??

I did and did not get the job at the newspaper. They gave the reporter job to someone else, but want to hire me as a "freelance journalist", and the editor said if this hired person does not work out in the 90 day probation period, the job is mine, hands down.

I get paid $10 for every story I submit, and $10 for every picture. He is also going to send me as many press releases as his monthly budget will allow and I write up stories on them.

I asked him how many other freelance people they have, and he kind of chuckled a moment, then said, "We don't have any. You are the first."

I did not know how to take that.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:02:00 GMT

Today I had my second interview for the position of newspaper reporter at the local daily paper. It sounds like I have a good possibility IF they do not hear of a hiring freeze.

I am suppose to know something for sure by next Wednesday. This hurry-up-and-nothing-happens is driving me nuts!

My sister's birthday is today. Angie turns 34. Dave and I are planning on going down to visit my parents this weekend (YEAH!!!!) and so we are all going to celebrate it then. David and I got her a really cute Valentine's Day stuffed puppy.

I'm not sure what my sweet hubby Davey has planned for me tomorrow, but he keeps asking me if I could handle being outdoors sitting by a fire this time of year? He knows I feel rotten because I have a nasty cold and sore throat right now. I told him I am okay as long as I load up on cold meds. David's friend Andy is in this with him because Andy is bringing his girlfriend Emily as well.

It sounds like it could be romantic but who knows?

Tonight Dave is suppose to bring me something to eat from McDonalds. He is meeting Andy and his other friend Nathan in town for a "little boys night out". That is FINE with me because it gives me some "alone time". =>

Aaron Hall

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:27:03 GMT

I am posting the below article because not only was I a classmate of Aaron's at Crothersville High School, but I am also SO angry at all this that I don't know what to do. He would have graduated in our class of 1989 had he not stopped getting his education around 10th grade. Please feel free to copy what is below and put it in your own journals if you so wish to spread the word of STOPPING hate crimes! Thank you.

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Aaron Hall UPDATE:

Courtesy of Advance Indiana

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Judge Accepts Hall Killer's Manslaughter Plea Agreement

Jackson Circuit Court Judge Bill Vance agreed with county prosecutors that an 18-year-old man who brutally beat a 5'4", Aaron "Shorty" Hall and then dumped his nude body along a secluded farm road to die in the cold should be sentenced to just 30 years for voluntary manslaughter and not murder. With good time credit, Hall should be a free man in about 15 years. Coleman King's attorneys didn't even have to offer a single witness or a single piece of evidence to win this incredible plea agreement. Aubrey Woods of the Crothersville Times describes the courtroom scene at King's sentencing hearing:

During his plea hearing, King admitted to beating Hall to death. King said he became extremely irritated and angry when Hall questioned his sexuality and grabbed King’s crotch.

That incident occurred as the two drank beer and whiskey with Gray at Gray’s home, 6420 S. 1025E, Crothersville, according to court documents. King also admitted he kicked Hall in the head more than one time after Hall was taken to a rural Crothersville area and left on the ground near Cinder Road.

King said he knew Hall might die if he kicked him in the head with his cowboy boots. King and Gray later retrieved Hall’s body from a field near where he was left and took it back to Gray’s home.

Police found Hall’s body wrapped in a blue tarp behind cabinets in the garage on April 24. Police found the body after an investigation began when Hall was reported missing by an acquaintance.

Sabrina Baker, the mother of Hall’s 10-year-old daughter, also testified during Tuesday’s sentencing hearing. “You permanently damaged her,” Baker said of her daughter. “All she has left of him now is pictures and memories. Shorty was so much to so many people. Now all we have is to visit his grave.”

King’s attorney, Joseph Payne, called no witnesses or presented any evidence or statements during the hearing, which lasted less than 10 minutes.

Payne declined to comment after the hearing.

After the hearing, Deputy Prosecutor Amy Travis said the family was in agreement with the plea deal and that she always tries to go along with wishes of the family if they fall within the scope of the law.

Wood's story omits the fact that King just didn't kick Hall in the head once with his boot, but more than 70 times he used a boot to strike Hall's body. The beating took place over a several hour period according to the killer's own confessions. It is beyond human understanding that the Hall family would accept this pathetic plea agreement. I'm not even going to begin to understand this place called Jackson County, Indiana. What happened in that courtroom today is an affront to the American criminal justice system. Matthew Shepard's killers tried to use a gay panic defense in Wyoming to escape a more serious murder charge. Wyoming courts wouldn't allow it. In Hall's case, the defense attorneys claim they weren't invoking any gay panic defense, but clearly prosecutors felt that a Jackson County jury would be sympathetic to King's and his co-killer, Garrett Gray's statement that the beating which led to Hall's death happened because of a supposed unwanted sexual advance. There is absolutely nothing in their video-taped confessions which supports a theory of manslaughter. This was a cold-blooded murder and nothing less.

Illustrating the absurdity of today's 30-year sentence for King, today a Marion County judge sentenced Robert Quarles to 30 years in prison for trying to hire another person to kill his wife. Or take the case of 18-year-old Jamie Carson, grandson of the late U.S. Rep. Julia Carson. He received a 120-year prison term after he was found guilty in 1999 of several home invasions and a hate crime attack on two of his victims. The victims were two Hispanic men who were gay. Carson and his accomplices forced the two men to perform sex acts on each other at gunpoint, burned them with a steam iron, tied them together and taunted them with homophobic remarks. One of the men was forced to drink a mixture of urine and bleach. As bad as Quarles' and Carson's crimes were, their victims were not killed. In the case of Carson, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Coleman King and Garrett Gray will be released when they are in their 30s, or about the same age as Aaron Hall was when they brutally ended his life.

Meanwhile, there may be some hope that Indiana will join the civilized world and enact a hate crimes law. For the second consecutive year, the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee has passed hate crimes legislation authored by Rep. Greg Porter, HB 1076, by a vote of 8-3. The bill is co-authored by two Republicans, 7th District congressional candidate Rep. Jon Elrod (R-Indianapolis) and Rep. Ralph Foley (R-Martinsville). Three Republicans on the committee voted against the bill, Rep. Eric Koch (R-Bedford), Rep. Greg Steuerwald (R-Danville) and Rep. John Ulmer (R-Goshen). Elrod was the only Republican on the committee who voted for HB 1076.

The so-called "bias crimes" legislation will allow judges to impose harsher sentences on persons who commit crimes against a person or their property because of their race, disability, national origin, religion, sexual orientation or gender identity. All but five states in the nation have adopted this legislation in some form. The religious right has successfully defeated the legislation in the past by mounting bigoted attacks, which have been focused on the legislation's inclusion of "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" and give gays and cross-dressers "special rights." Ironically, the opponents claim it will infringe upon their "freedom of speech" and "freedom of religion" rights. These, of course, are the same people who are determined to write discrimination into our state's constitution against gays, lesbians and unmarried persons.

End of article

Just two comments:

1) How can someone drive home to get a shotgun and then return to kill someone and that not be premeditated murder?

2) Please, please, please urge your state legislators to support HR 1076 and ignore any pressures from the so-called religious right.

Hum...

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:21:28 GMT

I believe I have a job as an Escrow Operating Manager in a bank. I had my second interview today and the interviewer said she would be calling me next week to let me know my orientation days.

When I got the call yesterday to go in today, I misunderstood, and actually thought I HAD the job already. When I told David I did, later on in the evening he spoke with his Dad, telling him.

Ed (my FIL) told Dave I got it only because I'm good-looking.

Is that a compliment or an insult? I'm not sure.

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:08:37 GMT

Put in bold the things that have happened or are happening in your life at the moment:

Father went to college?

Father finished college

Mother went to college?

Mother finished college

Have any relatives who are attorneys, physicians, or professors?

Were higher social class than your grade and high school teachers?

Had more than 25 books in your childhood home?

Had more than 250 books in your childhood home?

Were read children's books by a parent?

Colored with your parents?

Are taking any sort of schooling now?

Had music lessons of any kind before you turned 18?

Had more than two kinds of any lessons before you turned 18?

Individuals in the media who dress and talk like you are portrayed positively?

Have credit cards at this time?

Are married at this time?

Went to a public grade and high school?

Family vacations involved staying at hotels?

Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them?

Have a cell phone?

Are a parent or future parent-to-be?

Live in a house?

Sleep with someone at night?

Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course as a teenager?

Had own television in your room in high school?

Own a mutual fund or IRA?

Feel you are a better parent than your own parents?

Flown anywhere on a commercial airline?

Own an SUV?

Ever been on a cruise with family or friends?

Ever been to museums and art galleries?

Take your child(ren) on vacations?

Do things with your child(ren) that your parents did with you growing up?

Own two or more vehicles?

Like to do some of the same things now as you did as a child/teenager?

Ever lived in the city?

I'm Now Kimberly Ruble!!

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:11:44 GMT

David and I got married yesterday in a very small private ceremony. I will post more later, but I wanted to go ahead and let everyone know.

January 12, 2008

LONG Time, No Post

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:48:35 GMT

I am SO SO SO sorry I have not been around in a LONG while, but things have been a basic whirlwind since I moved in with David.

We are now engaged, and have been since November 9. I love him very much, and I never DREAMED this would ever happen to me.

I am living proof that if you are single and truly want someone, they will come into your life. I promise they will.

Hugs to you all and I promise to update and comment more often ASAP!!

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:34:50 GMT

It is almost autumn, my most beloved season of the year but I sure hate what comes after... BLAH!!

After play practice tomorrow, I am heading back up north for another week to spend with David at his house. I'll be home next Saturday, no bad luck. =)

And yes I read my friends page EVERY SINGLE DAY even if I do not comment. I love you all too much not to!

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:52:06 GMT

Hi everyone. This is my boyfriend Dave and we've been together sometime now. It's not been real long, but enough time has passed for us to have started talking about becoming engaged.

He is a firefighter and a paramedic and is simply the most wonderful man I have ever met. I cannot describe how great he is or how much I have fallen in love with him.

Hugs to all of you!!

NEW PLAY PRESS RELEASE

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:12:53 GMT

Hi everyone. I wanted to post the latest press release of the newest play I am in. I get to be Amelia Earhart and am really excited.

Carol Altepeter, Kimberly Nease and Brenda Holzworth during a recent performance of "SISTERS"

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Tickets ON SALE NOW

History Dinner Theater slated for August 24th and 25th

Tickets are now available for the Friday, August 24th and Saturday, August 25th "History Dinner Theater" at Hamacher Hall, Historical and Culural Arts Center in Crothersville.

Come and enjoy an evening of dining in an air-conditioned, Historical Building with a relaxed atmosphere and an ambiance of Historical Remembrance. All around you, during your evening, will be fascinating Women of American History.

Dine with Amelia Earhart, Betsy Ross, and Annie Oakley, just to name a few.

The "History Dinner Theater" hosted by Hamacher Hall, will be presented by The Crothersville Town Players. The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. on both days.

The program will include, Dorothy J. Bibb Rice presenting "A Walk Down Memory Lane" and will include subjects of local interest. Mrs. Rice is a Crothersville native.

The program will also include the theatrical piece "SISTERS" recently performed before the Scott County Genealogical Society. The piece selected for the program consists of the interesting letters between two sisters in the Spring of 1857, with one on the Oregon Trail, the other in New York City.

At the conclusion of the Saturday Evening show, the name of one of the Crothersville Town Players will be drawn and the Non-Profit group or organization for which that player has chosen to sponsor will be awarded a cash donation of 100.00.

The Artistic Producer is Marcia Fleetwood.

The Director of Fine Arts is Kimberly Nease

The cast includes:

Virginia Donnell as Betsy Ross

Brenda Holzworth as Juliet Strauss and sister: Mary

Kimberly Nease as Amelia Earhart

Dorothy Rice as Rosie Monroe

Sandra Donnell as Laura Ingles Wilder

Stacie Peters as Annie Oakley

Z. Madge Wilson as Lucille Ball

Carol Altepeter as sister: Elizabeth

Marcia Fleetwood as Pocahontas

The Dinner is being catered by LaMaison Dess'ert. Tickets will be sold for table seating, and the tables, for the evening, will be "set" by area businesses, clubs and groups and each table setting will include free gifts and specialty items for dinner patrons to take home with them at the close of the program.

Area Clubs and Groups that have commited to decorating the tables at Hamacher Hall for the event will be, Crothersville Lion's Club, Crothersville Chapter Phi Beta Psi, Scott County Genealogical Society, The Crothersville Town Players, Crothersville Senior Center, The Food Panty-Crothersville Baptist Church, Turning Point, Souled Out Ministries, and Hamacher Hall.

Businesses that will be sponsoring tables include, Aunt Samantha's, Pets, INC and More Photography, and LaMaison Dessert.

Tickets are available for purchase now, at a cost of $15.00 for the meal, live performance theater, and gifts from your sponsored table. Seats are limited, and we anticipate this to be a premier community event, so get your tickets early. You may reserve or purchase tickets at LaMaison Dess'ert, or from any Town Player.

The Dinner Menu:

Garden Fresh Vegetable Salad

Traditional Ranch Dressing

Veal Parmesian with Marinara

Served on a Bed of Herbed Pasta or White Rice

Dinner Rolls with Herbed Butter

Iced Tea-Lemon Ale-Coffee

A Selection of Desserts

Hamacher Hall, the former 1st Presbyterian Church, is a beautiful historical building, located on Howard Street in Crothersville. It has served the community as a Historical and Cultural Arts Center since its dedication by The Greater Crothersville Heritage Foundation in 2001. Its purpose and mission is: TO ENCOURAGE INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF CROTHERSVILLE AND PROMOTE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS.

Hamacher Hall, Historical and Cultural Arts Center and "The Crothersville Town Players" are non-profit efforts. LaMaison Dess'ert is located inside the Hamacher Hall Annex and is ran by volunteers to support the efforts of Hamacher Hall.

The Dinner Theater is a FUNDRAISER to support the current needs of the Center. The goals for 2007 through 2008 are geared towards the sesqucentennial Anniversary of the Town of Crothersville. The group is raising funds to build a gazebo ampitheater for starlight concerts, summer performances, music festivals and art exhibits.

Donations are gladly accepted. Your donations are tax deductable.

LaMaison Dess'ert is open every Friday and Saturday 10 am to 8 pm.

Mini-Vacation

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:23:33 GMT

Mike and I decided last week we needed to get away and have time alone. We have planned on taking two or three days and going to Vincennes and see all the old places we use to hang when we were in college together 15 years ago.

We're even going to go to the very place we met, the Student Union at their post office where I was buying stamps and he comes up to me with the line, "Don't I know you from somewhere?" I just looked at him with a mean glare and said, "No!" We started dating after that. SNICKER.

We're also going to go to his old apartment, the first place we had sex! LOL!! That should be a total hoot!

We both need this badly.

I am sure looking forward to it and plan on taking lots of pictures. If they turn out decent, I'll put a couple in here after they are developed.

We're leaving early Thursday morning.

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:50:17 GMT

Happy 4th of July!!!!!!

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:52:15 GMT

Chris Benoit

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:39:06 GMT

If this post pisses some people off, too damn bad...

The tribute last night was STUPID.

I was never a Benoit fan. Frankly couldn't stand him but never in a million years would I have thought he would become a killer of his own wife and little boy.

So assuming all these allegations are correct, all I can say about him is Fuck You Benoit.
If it was that bad, go ahead and kill yourself but you could have left your child and wife alone.

FUCK YOU TIMES TWO, YOU BASTARD.

McMahon Mania... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:40:27 GMT

I "appreciate" all the e-mails I have received over the past two weeks, but to be freaking honest here, Vince's "death angle" comes about five years too late for me to care.

I'm not a wrestling fan any longer.

What part of the above sentence is so hard to understand? I have moved past that area of my life and found other interests more fulfilling and interesting. The obsession truly IS dead!!

So please stop writing me asking me about it. Here's my response:

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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And for Pete Sake, how many more morons can I hear from who actually think he is really DEAD?! The limo explosion was a WORK, fucking twits. My god, I did not realize people actually BELIEVED the WWE any longer. I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or bash my head against the wall.

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Changing the subject now, Happy First Day of Summer! This means we're getting closer to the last HP book being released and I am EXCITED!

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And last but certainly NOT least, we had a WONDERFUL time at Holiday World, even better than I expected.
Here is an Internet photograph of the biggest rollercoaster they have there.
It's called "The Voyage" and we rode it twice. To say it is amazing is a complete understatement:

Holiday World!!!!!!!!!!!

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:22:31 GMT

Tomorrow is the day my family and I are going to the amusement park called "Holiday World" in Santa Claus, Indiana.

I am SO SO SO excited. I feel just like a little kid when I go and get to ride the rides.

There are 15 of us going.

Dad
Mom
Me
Michael
Angie
Cory
C.J.
Devon
Brandon
Stephanie
Dylan
Kane
Keeley
Cami
and Quinten

It should be one hell of a great day!

The above screen capture is one of the rides Mike and I are going on first! WOOHOO!!

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:21:54 GMT

Nothing going on except I wanted to show off my newest Glenn Beck icon... And to those of you that asked, yes Mike and I are dating. I don't think we ever "officially" stop, just take a break here and there.

Happy Memorial Day

Mon, 28 May 2007 13:02:29 GMT

There are only two words able to describe Memorial Day:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks To My Dearest Friends About My B-day.

Mon, 28 May 2007 12:56:19 GMT

I want to thank all of you who remembered my birthday. It sure meant alot to me, especially with losing Jace and all that.

I definitely want to say a BIG THANKS to April, Jeanette, Melissa, Randy, and Mike for the wonderful presents you all gave/sent me. You are SO SO SO special to me and even though I know your lives are busy, hectic, crazy, etc..., you made time for me and for that I will never forget.

Believe me, you won't be forgotten at your birthdays you five sweet people.

I didn't realize there was so much Betty Boop stuff out there in the world! LOL!!!!

Our Animal Friends

Thu, 24 May 2007 00:34:11 GMT

If you have a beloved pet, please hold him or her closer tonight. Love them, stroke them, just be thankful they are there.

I knew I loved Jace but I did not realize how much I would miss him. It is still hard to believe he is gone forever but reality starts to sit in and it is almost frightening what you can get use to after it has occurred long enough.

I do and I do not want another dog. I'm not sure what to do about that. I guess just wait until there is NO "I do not want..." in my thinking because I don't feel it would be fair to the new pup.

I looked in the animals section of our local paper today and scanned the ads but part of my heart was just not in it so I know it is not time yet.

I hope my sister and brother-in-law do not get me a puppy for my birthday on Sunday. I don't believe they will since I am back with my parents but you never know for sure.

A portion of me can't believe I will turn 36 this weekend, but then again part of me could not care less, and feels that doesn't mean a thing. I wonder which side is right?

Sat, 12 May 2007 21:12:18 GMT

Jace died today.