The Older Side of My Life

Anyone interested in writing a childrens book with me based on the charecters I created ?

2012-02-12T05:29:00.000-08:00

I feel God has put this on my heart and is leading me this way . I am wondering if there is anyone out there that would be interested in co authoring a childrens book with me , based on the charecters that I created ? Of course everything would be done under contract and strictly legal . If you are interested then please contact me through email or this blog and leave your info and of course I would be more than happy to discuss with you . Thank you and God bless you .

Does anyone else have migraines ?

2012-01-24T04:50:00.000-08:00

I just heard on the am news that people that suffer from migraines should try accupuncture . Oh no thank you , I dont like the idea of needles anyhow but accupuncture , nope not for me . Now dont get me wrong , I have had the pain so bad that I would have tried anything at that point ,but that being said . NO needles !!! ever !!! Okay do I sound like a big chicken now ? yep that is okay I will take the chicken status anyday over a needle LOL !!! Well what say the rest of you ? accupuncture ? I would be interested hearing from anyone who has had the proceedure done and what for and let me know how you felt afterwards . Thanks and have a wonderful day .

Im so glad to report and Im so blessed

2012-01-21T08:45:00.000-08:00

Im so pleased to report that Im off the oxygen during the day and sometime this coming week I hope to do away with it at night as well . I have to have a test on Monday night and then take the machine back tuesday to the hospital and I suppose the nurse at my drs office will let me know when I can call and have everything back to normal . Praise God whatever normal is . I'm so blessed by God and I know it . There has been some low points in all of this and that is the fact that I will never be able to own birds again because anything with feathers is off limits to me . The birds I have talked in previous posts about . It is very sad for me to talk about still , maybe one day I can talk about it without breaking out in tears , but not right now . I do believe I am caught up on all correspondance if I owe you a letter please let me know and I will be sure to write . Now just as I suspected it is now full blown winter and snow is on the ground and I hate getting out in it but hey we all have to deal with it right ? Well all of us that live in snow climates anyways . Well take care all and do something fun today .

We got snow dont like it !!!

2012-01-14T11:02:00.000-08:00

We got snow and I dont like it at all . Im over and this is just the second fall of the winter season . This is only one of the reasons Im headed to south carolina in the spring of 2013 or this spring depending on what uncle sam chooses to give us back on our taxes . Im assuming since we got snow that dear sweet Misty has snow as well .How about it Misty ? do you have snow too ?

wow just read a fabulous book

2012-01-10T13:58:00.000-08:00

Well since I have had alot of down time lately due to my illness I thought I would pick up a book and go to town reading it . Well the name of the book is The Dry grass of august by anna jean mayhew. This is ms mayhews first book and may I say I find it ,just as wonderful as the secret life of bees and the help . You will love it Im sure . I mean I read it in two days cause I could absoloutly not put it down . Let me know what you think when you pick up a copy and read it . Well all off to rest again . take care everyone .

A very sad week for me

2011-12-31T07:16:00.000-08:00

As most or some of you know I have been very sick and an er dr and I narrowed it down to the fact that I caught a virus from the birds and they needed to be re homed and I did so on Thursday and I am grieving so please understand that this was one of the hardest decisions I had ever had to make . Another note : If you are constantly sick and live in a small home please , have yourself checked . Living in small spaces it is apparently very easy to get sick . I was just told from a friend about a family who is living in a small home and they have several animals and they are constantly sick . I wonder if they make the relation to the animals and their being sick all the time . Before i got sick I was never this sick in my life . I got three different opinions and all the drs agreed that the birds were causing my sickness due to the dander that birds have and their droppings can be a problem as well . I must admit since cleaning my whole house top to bottom and using lysol everywhere I have started to feel better . I encourage all of you who have birds to please be careful when cleaning around them please wear a mask and gloves when cleaning a bird cage . Please dont misunderstand me when I say this but please all of my friends and readers who have birds please be careful . Please understand also that I did what was best for the birds and for me . I cannot be sick for the rest of my life and I dont want to be . I hope all of my readers understand .

If you are missing a letter from me

2011-11-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

Hi all and yes I am still sick it has been close to five months of being sick and just exactly what is wrong with me no one seems to know . Well this am went for the cat scan , one amongst many I have had . Ugh dreadful things they are and I always have to cover my eyes when they are taking them in order not to be claustraphobic . Yes my friends I am also claustrophobic . Lovely huh ? I hope this will be the last one i have to have . Next monday we confer with the dr as to what direction we go from here ? Im hoping to be done with the home oxygen soon . Yes I had double pneumonia also for the last two months and I am so hoping it is gone by now , but who knows . Well just say our prayers and hope for the best . take care all and I am mailing out 7 pieces of mail today . I will get caught up I promise .

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and friends

2011-11-23T13:21:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers and friends and I wish you all a wonderful day full of family and friends and wonderful food and footbal (for those of you who watch ) . Have a safe and happy holiday and take care . Be back soon .

The Bird Sisters

2011-11-04T05:08:00.000-07:00

Okay Im putting a call out to all my readers and see if anyone of them has a copy of this book titled "The Bird Sisters " By Rebecca Rasmussen . I would be more than glad to pay you for sending this book to me . It is just a book that I would really love to have and cannot find a copy anywhere in this town or the next one over and other book sites want too much for it and I cannot abide paying full price for anything anymore . I think that just creates more landfill problems , you know recycle reuse . I would be more than happy with used if it is still in readable condition . I want to thank all my readers in advance for any help you can give me .

Since Im feeling better

2011-11-03T08:21:00.000-07:00

This has been quite the expierience having pneumonia that is . I have sat here and instead of letting my mind turn to mush I have come up with a whole new set of ideas of how to deco my envelopes being the avid letter writer that I am . Yes my husband seems to think that I have taken on the job of keeping the postal system in business single handedly LOL !! No not really just throwing that out there . It seems as though I have scared some of my fellow pen pals , now they read my letter first to make sure Im not in the hospital again . Believe me it was not my choice to be in the hospital it was fate that had their hands in that my dear readers . Believe me when I say I will try to avoid the hospital at all costs again or at least a hospital stay . Now back to what I was talking about . I have come up with some charecters that some of you will see from time to time . Im really thinking that I might just get into illustrations from different ideas that come across my brain from time to time .So those of you whom I write will see them from time to time on my letters and I would appreciate feedback from those if you are so inclined to do so . I will not reveal them until I get some feedback on them and will post a picture on this blog sometime in the future . Well that is all for now dear readers . Take care and stay safe .

posting from a friend

2011-10-27T10:31:00.001-07:00

Postcard request
Got this from a friend today:
His school is collecting postcards from around the country and around the world for their diversity/international day in the early spring.
It doesn’t matter if they get multiples from each state, they're just trying to rock the class's world with the amount that Hunter can bring in!
So, if you wouldn’t mind sending a postcard to him, that would be great, I know we have people EVERYWHERE!
Before taking them in to the school Kelly plans to put them all out together and take a picture, she says she’ll be sure to share the picture when they’re done. There is no set deadline, but she's thinking if you can do it between now and the end of November that would be best.
Hunter Johnson8443 Sand Point Drive WestJacksonville, FL 32244
Feel free to share his address with any friends and family you may have in

I just got home from a stay at the hospital

2011-10-22T17:26:00.000-07:00

Well I returned home today at around 5 pm from a three day stay at the hospital . Yes you read that right a three day stay . Now Im home and on in home oxygen therapy and I must make a follow up visit at a local clinic to stay on the oxygen . Im also on another round of anti biotics .I also have to go visit another dr but I must say I will have to call the drs office and let them know that I cannot afford them I doubt they will like that but that is the state of affairs in this country when you must pay outta pocket because you cannot afford health insurance even through your work has it offered but you cannot afford it .Im so tired of being sick and the price you have to pay for the illness . Oh well guess I will step down off my soap box now and tell all to have a great day .

This is a weird virus I have and some strange happenings to report

2011-10-19T05:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I reported that I was ill again and now yet today I feel really well again . I dont understand this thing I have and i will call it a thing for now because Im not a dr . I just play one on tv LOL !!!I also wanted to report on a wildlife reserve here in Zanesville Ohio that I was going to visit a few weeks ago . This wildlife reserves owner was found dead this morning with some wild animals circling him . I have heard in the wild that some animals do this and Im thinking maybe they were trying to protect him . Well the news was stating that some of the animals have gotten loose and they are telling citizens of zanesville ohio to stay in their homes and also to stay out of the woods or if you have woods on your property to stay out of them . On a sad note to this , some of the animals have been shot and killed because of the obvious danger to the citizens that surround this area . On a better note they have actually called in the columbus zoo and they are now taking over capturing the animals . Let us hope that they can help and no more animals will be euthanized .

Im sorry to report that I am not well again as I thought

2011-10-18T12:35:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh will this illness ever end ? I thought I was better and or on the road to recovery but alas I am not . This morning I woke up with a fever and a headache and uber nauseous . I barely have the energy to make it to the mail box . I thought with all these rounds of meds I would surely be on the road to recovery by now but no , not me Im one of those people who have to almost die before we get better . Im just so tired of drs and medicines and coughing that I could just roll over and take a shot in the arse . Im hoping I dont have to go to the hospital , but fearing if it gets bad enough I will go no matter what .If I am behind a letter or two please forgive me and I will catch up providing the grim reaper does not call my name . I hope the rest of my readers are on the road to recovery or already recovered . And if you are the praying sort then I could use a little help in that dept too . Okay well enough for now I m off to the bed again . take care all and have a wonderful rest of your day .

A lovely gift from a lovely lady

2011-10-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

This wonderful little gift arrived in the mail yesterday . It came from the wonderful woman known as The Limner her blog is called Oh Write Me and some of my awesome readers know her as well as she is connected with some of them . This lady is so awesome . I am following her blog and if you all will take a look at my blog followings you will find her . Believe me when I say she is worth the look . I had been looking for one of these little bamboos up here in my neck of the woods for quite a while and wallah would 'nt you know my dear Limner came through , How do people know that I love my plants from my letters i must have mentioned it somewhere I suspect . Oh well enough of playing Sherlock Holmes and whatever else i might have in mind at the time . I just wanted to share the loveliness of this dear lady and this wonderful plant . It arrived at an especially down time since I am down with pneumonia . Well enough my dear readers and I shall let you go for now . Take care and stay well .

I think this is great !!!

2011-09-30T08:38:00.000-07:00

I found something over the last couple of days that I think is wonderful . Actually it is two things . The first one being named operation beautiful .com . I cant really explain this so please go to their website and check it out . Again the website is operationbeautiful.com.
Now onto my second thing of the day . This is on you tube and it is called fat talk . Please go to you tube and check this out . It is awesome and very empowering for women who are dealing with body image issues . I love this video that plays and please watch it till the end . Again that is operationbeautiful.com and fat talk on you tube . Please I implore you to check these out they will make you feel so much better . God bless to all of you .

Mary White

2011-09-25T10:19:00.001-07:00

Mary Whiteby William Allen WhiteEmporia Gazette, May 17, 1921.The Associated Press reports carrying the news of Mary White's death declared that it came as the result of a fall from a horse. How she would have hooted at that! She never fell from a horse in her life. Horses have fallen on her and with her--"I'm always trying to hold 'em in my lap," she used to say. But she was proud of few things, and one of them was that she could ride anything that had four legs and hair. Her death resulted not from a fall but from a blow on the head which fractured her skull, and the blow came from the limb of an overhanging tree on the parking.The last hour of her life was typical of its happiness. She came home from a day's work at school, topped off by a hard grind with the copy on the High School Annual, and felt that a ride would refresh her. She climbed into her khakis, chattering to her mother about the work she was doing, and hurried to get her horse and be out on the dirt roads for the country air and the radiant green fields of spring. As she rode through the town on an easy gallop, she kept waving at passers-by. She knew everyone in town. For a decade the little figure in the long pigtail and the red hair ribbon has been familiar on the streets of Emporia, and she got in the way of speaking to those who nodded at her. She passed the Kerrs, walking the horse in front of the Normal Library, and waved at them; passed another friend a few hundred feet farther on, and waved at her.The horse was walking, and as she turned into North Merchant Street she took off her cowboy hat, and the horse swung into a lope. She passed the Tripletts and waved her cowboy hat at them, still moving gayly north on Merchant Street. A Gazette carrier passed--a High School boy friend--and she waved at him, but with her bridle hand; the horse veered quickly, plunged into the parking where the low-hanging limb faced her and, while she still looked back waving, the blow came. But she did not fall from the horse; she slipped off, dazed a bit, staggered, and fell in a faint. She never quite recovered consciousness.But she did not fall from the horse, neither was she riding fast. A year or so ago she used to go like the wind. But that habit was broken, and she used the horse to get into the open, to get fresh, hard exercise, and to work off a certain surplus energy that welled up in her and needed a physical outlet. The need has been in her heart for years. It was back of the impulse that kept the dauntless little brown-clad figure on the streets and country roads of the community and built into a strong, muscular body what had been a frail and sickly frame during the first years of her life. But the riding gave her more than a body. It released a gay and hardy soul. She was the happiest thing in the world. And she was happy because she was enlarging her horizon. She came to know all sorts and conditions of men; Charley O'Brien, the traffic cop, was one of her best friends. W. L. Holtz, the Latin teacher, was another. Tom O'Connor, farmer-politician, and the Rev. J. H. Rice, preacher and police judge, and Frank Beach, music master, were her special friends; and all the girls, black and white, above the track and below the track, in Pepville and Stringtown, were among her acquaintances. And she brought home riotous stories of her adventures. She loved to rollick; persiflage was her natural expression at home. Her humor was a continual bubble of joy. She seemed to think in hyperbole and metaphor. She was mischievous without malice, as full of faults as an old shoe. No angel was Mary White, but an easy girl to live with for she never nursed a grouch five minutes in her life.With all her eagerness for the out-of-doors, she loved books. On her table when she left her room were a book by Conrad, one by Galsworthy, "Creative Chemistry" by E. E. Slosson, and a Kipling book. She read Mark Twain, Dickens, and Kipling before she was ten--all of their writings. Wells and Arnold Bennett particularly amused and diverted her. She was entered as a student in Wellesley for 1922; was assistant editor of the High School Annual this year, and in line for election to the editorship next year. She was a member of the executive committee of the High School Y.W.C.A.Within the last two years she had begun to be moved by an ambition to draw. She began as most children do by scribbling in her school books, funny pictures. She bought cartoon magazines and took a course--rather casually, naturally, for she was, after all, a child with no strong purposes--and this year she tasted the first fruits of success by having her pictures accepted by the High School Annual. But the thrill of delight she got when Mr. Ecord, of the Normal Annual, asked her to do the cartooning for that book this spring, was too beautiful for words. She fell to her work with all her enthusiastic heart. Her drawings were accepted, and her pride--always repressed by a lively sense of the ridiculous figure she was cutting--was a really gorgeous thing to see. No successful artist every drank a deeper draft of satisfaction than she took from the little fame her work was getting among her schoolfellows. In her glory, she almost forgot her horse--but never her car.For she used the car as a jitney bus. It was her social life. She never had a "party" in all her nearly seventeen years--wouldn't have one; but she never drove a block in her life that she didn't begin to fill the car with pick-ups! Everybody rode with Mary White--white and black, old and young, rich and poor, men and women. She like nothing better than to fill the car with long- legged High School boys and an occasional girl, and parade the town. She never had a "date," nor went to a dance, except once with her brother Bill, and the "boy proposition" didn't interest her--yet. But young people--great spring-breaking, varnish- cracking, fender-bending, door-sagging carloads of "kids"--gave her great pleasure. Her zests were keen. But the most fun she ever had in her life was acting as chairman of the committee that got up the big turkey dinner for the poor folks at the county home; scores of pies, gallons of slaw, jam, cakes, preserves, oranges, and a wilderness of turkey were loaded into the car and taken to the county home. And, being of a practical turn of mind, she risked her own Christmas dinner to see that the poor folks actually got it all. Not that she was a cynic; she just disliked to tempt folks. While there, she found a blind colored uncle, very old, who could do nothing but make rag rugs, and she rustled up from her school friends rags enough to keep him busy for a season. The last engagement she tried to make was to take the guests at the county home out for a car ride. And the last endeavor of her life was to try to get a rest room for colored girls in the High School. She found one girl reading in the toilet, because there was no better place for a colored girl to loaf, and it inflamed her sense of injustice and she became a nagging harpy to those who she thought could remedy the evil. The poor she always had with her and was glad of it. She hungered and thirsted for righteousness; and was the most impious creature in the world. She joined the church without consulting her parents, not particularly for her soul's good. She never had a thrill of piety in her life, and would have hooted at a "testimony." But even as a little child, she felt the church was an agency for helping people to more of life's abundance, and she wanted to help. She never wanted help for herself. Clothes meant little to her. It was a fight to get a new rig on her; but eventually a harder fight to get it off. She never wore a jewel and had no ring but her High School class ring and never asked for anything but a wrist watch. She refused to have her hair up, though she was nearly seventeen. "Mother," she protested," you don't know how much I get by with, in my braided pigtails, that I could not with my hair up." Above every other passion of her life was her passion not to grow up, to be a child. The tomboy in her, which was big, seemed loath to be put away forever in skirts. She was a Peter Pan who refused to grow up.Her funeral yesterday at the Congregational Church was as she would have wished it; no singing, no flowers except the big bunch of red roses from her brother Bill's Harvard classmen--heavens, how proud that would have made her!--and the red roses from the Gazette forces, in vases, at her head and feet. A short prayer: Paul's beautiful essay on "Love" from the Thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians; some remarks about her democratic spirit by her friend, John H. J. Rice, pastor and police judge, which she would have deprecated if she could; a prayer sent down for her by her friend Carl Nau; and, opening the service, the slow, poignant movement from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which she loved; and closing the service a cutting from the joyously melancholy first movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetic Symphony, which she liked to hear, in certain moods, on the phonograph, then the Lord's Prayer by her friends in High School.That was all.For her pallbearers only her friends were chosen: her Latin teacher, W. L. Holtz; her High School principal, Rice Brown; her doctor, Frank Foncannon; her friend, W. W. Finney; her pal at the Gazette office, Walter Hughes; and her brother Bill. It would have made her smile to know that her friend, Charley O'Brien, the traffic cop had been transferred from Sixth and Commercial to the corner near the church to direct her friends who came to bid her good-by.A rift in the clouds in a gray day threw a shaft of sunlight upon her coffin as her nervous, energetic little body sank to its last sleep. But the soul of her, the
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A Movie about Mary White

2011-09-25T10:17:00.000-07:00

Then I found the movie of Mary White
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on the life of her father.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writers: William Allen White (writings), Caryl Ledner
Stars:Ed Flanders, Fionnula Flanagan and Tim Matheson

I remember seeing this movie sometime when I was a teenager (a long time ago LOL !!!) and I remembered I stoped riding for a while and then I got back on and rode again . This movie and this girls life effected me , apparently I was not the only one i saw some reviews of the movie .

In Remembrance

2011-09-03T11:24:00.000-07:00

In a few days our country will have its 10th anniversary of one of the worst attacks on this countrys soil to date . As some of you may know that my cousin was a New York City firefighter and also my brother . It is hard to think that it is now ten yrs later and we must always remember and never forget this horrible tragedy . I remind you my dear readers that we lost 125 People at the Pentagon, The World Trade Center 2,824 people , In a field in southeastern Pensylvania 42 lives lost . How scared all of these people must have been . I can still see those poor people who felt there was no other option but to throw themselves out of the towers . I myself folks was sitting at a desk where I worked and a co worker ran through to us and told us omg !! a plane just flew into the world trade center in New York !! we thought it was fluke or just an accident , then we heard about the Pentagon , and then the field in PA where a group of strangers became heroes and decided to fight back and take the plane down rather than let it kill other people . I for one hope that the relatives of those strangers are so very proud of them as I am my cousin and brother . My Uncle will go this anniversary and see his son's name and his nephews name . I for one am proud that my brothers name and cousins name will be there forever carved into a memorial and rightly so as all the other heroes of that day . This is how I will remember those brave souls . How will you remember ?

Finally found one

2011-08-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

Well I finally found a paris blogger background . It is on my blog now as I am typing this . I so wish that I could make another trip to Paris . I feel like it was ages ago when I went , guess what it has been ages LOL !!! I know corny . Please forgive me as I could not resist being a clown for a little bit . I loved the paris card that my dear charlie brown sent me and I glued it together and made it into a wall hanging . I love when my dear charlie brown sends me little goodies in the ever so popular small envie or the ever so tiny box . I have tried to make my letters a little more brighter lately by drawing and coloring in their little face and such etc ... I hope my dear pen pals will enjoy them so much . One can only hope can we not ? if you enjoy this background then you will be able to find it at shabby blogs .com . I really like most of their backgrounds . Oh well I will stop with the shameless plugs LOL !!! I am so glad I have heard from everyone after the hurricane and earthquake and happy to say that all is well . Take care everyone .

Earthquake on the east coast

2011-08-23T12:25:00.000-07:00

I hope all my friends on the east coast are well and good and please check in and let me know you are okay if you can . I will pray that there are no aftershocks . God bless us all .

Anyone interested in trading some rubber stamps ?

2011-08-16T06:35:00.000-07:00

Hello again any of my fellow readers interested in trading some rubber stamps ? If you are then we will make an even trade for them say 5 for 5 or something like that . These are nice rubber stamps but would like to trade them up for other ones since these no longer interest me . If you would like I could send photos of what I have and then we can go from there . Any of you rubber stamp enthusiatist interested ? if so leave me a comment and I will get back with you and leave your email so I can send photos of what I have . Thanks and have a wonderful day fellow readers and letter writing fans . Oh yeah these are wood mounted and would like the same in return .

I have missed quite a bit of blogging

2011-08-11T11:22:00.000-07:00

Due to an illness I have missed quiet a bit of blogging . As some of you might know or might not know . I have been really down and out with what I thought was bronchitis , If this was bronchitis , I will eat your hat . This illness was not like any I have ever expierienced before . I m just now getting over the cough . I think I must have coughed more in the last 6 weeks than I have ever done before in my entire life . Now the second problem arrises , I have pulled my back out and it is very difficult to sleep and walk . I hoping this does not last 6 wks . I have been behind in my housework and everything else blogging included . I hope to be back to normal soon and will try and get more blogs in while doing so .Take care my wonderful readers and my awesome friends .

Never buy anything Bissell makes !!!!

2011-08-03T05:55:00.000-07:00

I am here telling all my readers and followers to never buy anything Bissell makes because they are liars and have decietful and false business practices and anything they make only will last you 6 months if you are lucky !!! I have been round and round with them and calling and calling anyone who will listen to me . I filed a complaint with the bbb of grand rapids michigan and Bissell's response was to send me 3 12.99 coupons which I will not use because , I my dear readers refuse to put another dime in Bissell's pocket . Years ago a companys name meant everything and now they just dont care !!! I made the response simple , I just want my money back . I dont want your coupons or a refurbished machine , No I want my money back . Take the coupons and shove them where the sun does not shine . I also want a written apology for your company putting out such junk on the market to swindle the consumer . I know that I wont get any of these things . But I am truly considering a class action lawsuit against Bissell . and as you can see my friends this will not be the first class action lawsuit that Bissell has had brought against it. No No , by doing some deep seeded research I have found another case where Bissell was brought to court and proved to be the liars they are . It seems as though a Miss Mandi Green of Southern Alabama took Bissell to court in the U.S. District Court in the great state of Alabama . It seems they claimed that their steam mops produced steam which was found to be false . So if any of my dear readers and followers have something Bissell that does not work or stop working and they never made good on their warranty then please get in touch with me . Team work and the internet are wonderful things and so is some good old fashioned research . Believe me folks when I say Im not stopping here , I will bad mouth bissell every chance I get and I will write scathing reviews . You see Bissell now you have made an enemy of me instead of a friend and that is a really bad thing . I could have been a really good ally but no, you chose to make me an enemy . Well my dear readers I will leave it at that .

I enjoy kick back days every once and a while

2011-07-31T15:51:00.001-07:00

well I was enjoying a kick back day and having fun taking pictures of the feathered kids . These pictures feature Alex , Martin (blue ) and Arnold sitting next to Martin on top of their cage . These guys are a hoot and fill my day with fun . Yes I was just talking the other day about how Alex was biting well I think I have cured that because I have not had a nip in a few days . Which I am begging to last if not then we start the retraining all over again . If my dear Limner is reading , I hope you are feeling much better my dear and as well as Simon and the Husband .

Take care all and stay cool as Im sure most of us are having a heat wave .

Is this the week for being bitten ?

2011-07-27T15:36:00.001-07:00

Well I will tell you this must have been the week for bites because I just read where my good friend the Limner has said that her cat is sick and please pray for him because he just had surgery . He is home but still sick . She said that he had bitten her while she touched him with his wound . Well yesterday while messing with Alex (my new quaker ) he delivered three bites to my left hand and my right hand and my arm . Yesterday they looked nasty today they look better . I would show you pics but Im too lazy to take pics of it . Anyways he was in a foul mood and I must have pushed the issue and he is not happy today either and has been in his cage for most of the day which means Im not happy with you and you are going to be punished in bird language . So I had other things to do today and he got left alone for most of the day . My other two quakers are perfectly fine being left alone by me cause they have each other . I guess whenever Alex gets over his temper tantrum and fit or whatever you call it he will be more receptive to me , we shall see . I have had such a week and now I find out my carpet steam cleaner is dead and they will not give me my money back on that ...I will tell you more in my next blog about that ......

still battleing the bronchitis

2011-07-18T14:49:00.000-07:00

Well as some of you know I have been battle-ing the bronchitis and it is still not any better with a whole round of anti biotics and still no improvement . So wednesday I head back to the doctor because I am assuming that I wont be any better and that I have some kind of super bronchitis that will not give up unless it has another round of anti biotics . So everyone please do everyone else a favor and teach your kids to cover their mouths with tissues when they cough especially if they have bronchitis and yes belive it or not bronchitis is air borne and when the affected person coughs or sneezes the germs are put into the air and all you have to do is breathe to become infected . So let us all wash our hands and stay home when anyone is sick . I have become a mad woman while washing my hands . So everyone , please pray for me if you are the praying sort if not then send out good wishes and here s to hoping that the next round of antibiotics does the trick .

Things usually turn out for the best

2011-07-18T07:47:00.000-07:00

Well as some of you might or might not know I was planning on getting a cockatoo that needed a home . That however did not work out as such his owner turned out to be somewhat of a "off " person shall we say . She took offense to an email I had sent her wanting to know when the bird would be arriving and I was telling her about someone else who had wanted a certain amount of money from me and how I did not think that was fair . Well she proceeded to call me up and demand that I let her finish her rant and she was fairly nasty about it . And it is like my husband said "I wonder if she even had the bird to begin with " . What really tipped me off in the background was that I never heard the bird which she claimed to be really loud and from what others have told me that was a pretty good sign that she did not have the bird . Well this woman proceeded to tell me that I had ulterior motives for wanting the bird . Well I was not going to banty words with this woman so when she finished I ended the call with a wow , okay bye bye and hung up . Well a few mins afterwards I was looking at the website that I fairly go to and some lady was looking for a home for her quaker saying that they are army and they go from place to place alot and not fair to this bird . So she and I talked and I picked him up on saturday from the airport and he talks and he is in my home and which is now his home . so the motto to this story is things really do turn out for the best in many sittuations .

What a wonderful mail day today !!

2011-07-14T13:06:00.000-07:00

wow these things came today from two of my dear sweet pen pals . The first one is a turtle now what to name him is the ? on my mind . This came from the dear sweet LIMNER who is a follower and a reader and quite the awesome pen pal too .Now onto no .2 pic is the envelope from Bev in california and i just loved this enevelope . So much mail art going on in the world my friends and such niceness . This day could not have been any better . Thank you Limner and Bev for brightening my day . You dear ladies have stars waiting in Heaven .

The end of our space shuttle program

2011-07-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

I just watched the space shuttle go up and it will most likely be the last one I will see . I think it is a travesity and an injustice to the memory of our late presiden John F. Kennedy . He was the one that said by 1969 we will have a man on the moon and we did . But alas today marks the last of the space shuttle take offs and for me an end of a dynasty . What a shame it will be for our grandchildren to never see a space shuttle go into space . I think space is a frontier that we have only begun to discover and should do more to explore it . I think our government is giving up on space exploration and that is sad indeed . We used to be one of the richest countrys in the world and look now we are the laughing stock of the world . Now I heard this morning that most schools in Illnois are ending penmanship classes . Well my goodness what will happen to these children when they go to get their drivers license they wont be able to sign their name in cursive . Of course kids want things that are easier , but I think ending cursive writing is stupid to say the least . Your signature is one of ones identifying factors and yet the illnois school system chooses to take that away . Disgraceful if you ask me ... Just my humble opinion of course .

2011-07-03T16:48:00.000-07:00

Sunday Stealing: The Faceless 4th of July Meme
Cheers to all of us thieves!
1. Last movie you saw in a theater?It has been so long dont remember
2. What book are you reading?The whistling season
3. Favorite board game?scrabble
4. Favorite magazine?dont have any idea
5. Favorite smells?bread baking
6. Favorite sounds?birds chirping
7. Worst feeling in the world?being sad
8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?Oh god it is morning already
9. Favorite fast food place?culvers
10. What’s under your bed?nothing
11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?build my own house on some land and have some goats , chickens and horses .
12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?not since I was about 5 unless overfed dogs count LOL !!
13. Storms – cool or scary?both
14. Favorite drink?diet coke and water
15. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?definately read more
16. If you had to dye your hair another color, what would be your choice?platinum blonde
17. Favorite place to relax?at my couch with a good book
18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?Tampa , Lexington , Palm harbor , clearwater , and several foreign lands with dad in the marines
19. Favorite sports to watch? Baseball
20. Would you like to be born as yourself again?Not on your life !!!

I have heard alot of mess when going through airports but really ? Really ?

2011-07-01T05:45:00.000-07:00

When will we as type 1 diabetics be able to go through an airport without a problem ? I have heard alot about t1s having problems at airports lately . I guess in retrospect this makes me awfully glad I dont wear a pump but feel for t1s that do and I cannot understand why the TSA would question a medical device ? I have to carry syringes since I dont use a pump and am constantly asked when traveling why I have syringes . I also have a very bright medical alert bracelet clearly stating that I am an insulin dependant diabetic . So from my understanding the TSA is not training their people correctly in recognizing medical devices , clearly stated medical alert bracelets and drs notes , have I got that down now ? Is that correct that the TSA does not train their people to notice or recognize these things ? I also think that we as T1 diabetics should sit down with some TSA agents and the head of the TSA on the Dr. Phil show and educate these people as to how we want to be treated and how we should be treated at all airports , with respect and dignity that you seem to show everyone else but people with medical devices , syringes and insulin !!! I think the TSA need to learn some respect for people with medical conditions . What say the rest of you ? Shout it out and let me know what you think .

Sad News

2011-06-25T16:54:00.000-07:00

It's sad news . So ,so sad . Please join the crew of the Good Ship Sonshine in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community .
The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly.
He was 71.
Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin.
Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects including Mrs. Butterworth , Hungry Jack , the California raisins , Betty Crocker , The Hostess Twinkies and Captain Crunch.
Other notables included Snap , Crackle , and Pop, the Keebler Elves , Tony the Tiger, Fruity Pebbles , the Trix rabbit along with the street gang of Long John Silver, Ronald McDonald , Wendy, Jack and the gang leader Colonel Sanders .
The gravesite was piled high with flours .
Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described DoughBoy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded .
DoughBoy rose quickly in show business , but his later life was filled with turnovers .
He was not considered a very smart cookie , waisting much of his dough on half baked schemes .
Despite being a little flaky at times , he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions .
DoughBoy is survived by his wife PlayDough , three children , JohnDough , JaneDough and DossyDough ,plus they had one in the oven .
He is also survived by his elderly father , Pop Tart .
The funeral was at 3:50 for 20 minutes . If this made you smile for even the briefest of moments , please rise to the occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone else who may be having a crumby day and kneads a little lift.

Colorful mail

2011-06-16T12:10:00.000-07:00

See this is what is referred to as colorful mail where i come from . One is going to a pen pal in Texas and Another pen pal who is in Arizona and was not re homed because of the really bad fires out there and Thanks be to God that she was safe and sound and doing fine ..So to these recipients I say enjoy the color and the letter and all the little

goodies inside . Take care and have a wonderful day my friends .

A really good read

2011-06-11T04:27:00.000-07:00

I just got through reading this book and for any of you who want a cute and nice read this is it . It is "The Tale of Despereaux" . There is a movie about it but the book is far better . This is totally appropriate for a night time read for kids as well . I myself throughly enjoyed this book . I read it in two days but the illustrations are wonderful as well . I just adored the story and the book . Oh well readers take care and enjoy your day ..

eggplant burgers

2011-06-10T04:21:00.000-07:00

Eggplant Burgers (Makes 8 Burgers)
1 Tbsp Olive Oil, plus more for sautéing
1 Medium Eggplant, peeled and cubed
1 Garlic Clove, minced
1/2 Tsp Salt
1/4 Cup Parsley, chopped
1 Large Egg
1/3 Cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
1 Cup Breadcrumbs (I used matso meal)
Accompaniments:
Buns (I use onion buns),Cheese, Tomato, Lettuce, Ketchup, Pickles, mayo, etc.
1. Heat the olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat and cook the eggplant cubes for 3 minutes.
2. Add the garlic and salt and continue to sauté for another 2 minutes.
3. Add 1 tbsp of water, cover and cook for an additional 3 minutes or until eggplant is fork tender. Allow to cool.
4. Place the eggplant and remaining ingredients in a food processor and puree until smooth.
5. Use about 2 tbsps of the eggplant mixture for mini burgers, 1/4 cup for bigger burgers and form into patties.
6. Heat about 1-2 tsps of oil in a large sauté pan and cook the eggplant patties for 2 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
7. Serve. * To freeze place the cooked patties on a baking sheet, freeze for 1 hour and place in a Ziploc bag, label and freeze up to 3-4 months. When ready to serve, place patties on a baking sheet in a 300 degree oven for 10 minutes until warm.

I thought this would be a great vegetarian burger for an alternative to ground beef or turkey .

wow has anyone else's mail been slow this week ?

2011-06-09T07:26:00.000-07:00

I think my mail has been awfully slow this week , could it be the fires out there in arizona effecting the mail delivery ? maybe cause they were saying on the news this morning about how it could possibly affect things as far away as texas . Boy I sure hope not because I have quite a few friends in Texas and know that it has been having a drought beyond belief . I know we in Ohio almost hit 100 degrees yesterday , now I have been told that is rare . Of course the humidity here in Ohio is nothing compared to what I have lived with in Florida . 98 here I can breathe, in florida I could not . Anyways Im thinking those fires in Arizona are effecting the mail and has anyone else noticed how bad the weather has been all over the country ? I think we are starting to feel the effects of global warming and how we as man have been messing with the eco system . OOPS ! im starting on my conspiracy theory as my husband calls it . LOL !!!
Anyways I will leave my readers with a delish dinner recipe and a quote .
Skillet Beef Enchilada
Ingredients:1 lb. ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
1 can kidney beans, drained
1 (13 oz.) can chicken broth
1 pkg. taco seasoning mix
1 1/2 cup Minute Rice
1/2 cup sour cream
8 flour tortillas,

Directions:Brown beef and onion in large skillet, for about 5 minutes. Add beans, broth, and taco mix. Bring to a full boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in rice. Cover, and remove from heat. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream. Serve with tortillas. 4 servings.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it." — Zora Neale Hurston

Another delish recipe for summer

2011-06-07T09:41:00.000-07:00

Melon Ambrosia
Ingredients
3 cups watermelon balls or cubes
3 cups cantaloupe balls or cubes
3 cups honeydew balls or cubes
1 cup lime juice
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons sugar or splenda
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons honey
3/4 cup flaked coconut, toasted
fresh mint (if desired )
In a small bowl, combine the melon balls. In another bowl, combine the lime juice, sugar and honey; pour over melon and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Sprinkle with coconut. Garnish with mint if desired.
Enjoy and if you need adjustments please do so can also be converted to 1/2 recipes .

Since the hot weather is here

2011-06-07T08:24:00.000-07:00

Cucumber Salad
Since the hot weather is here, this is a cool delicious cucumber salad.
Ingredients:
4 cucumbers, thinly sliced
1 small white onion, thinly sliced
1 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup water
3/4 cup white sugar
1 Tbsp. dried dill, or to taste
Directions:
Toss together the cucumbers and onion in a large bowl. Combine the vinegar, water and sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat, and bring to a boil. Pour over the cucumber and onions. Stir in dill, cover, and refrigerate until cold. This can also be eaten at room temperature, but be sure to allow the cucumbers to marinate for at least 1 hour.

Another one to ponder on , enjoy

2011-06-04T07:01:00.000-07:00

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a w......oman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. ~" — Audrey Hepburn

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it." — Audrey Hepburn

Paris is always a good idea." — Audrey Hepburn

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead." — F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

Here are some things to think on , enjoy

2011-06-01T13:15:00.000-07:00

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity." — Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength , courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face . You must do the thing which you think you cannot do .
Eleanor Roosevelt .

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made." — Marilyn Monroe

This is why I cant ever seem to get things done on time

2011-05-31T08:53:00.001-07:00

This is usually why I cannot get anything done because I usually have a bird or a dog on me , near me or around me or someone is fussing because they dont like the way things are . Or they are throwing their food everywhere and I cannot stand dirt being the clean freak that I am and will get up and clean and I honestly think that sometimes animals have a conspiracy going to make me nuts and or crazy . What do you readers think ? , do our animals know when we are busy trying to think or do something and then they put their two cents in ? what say you readers ?

This is absoloutly lovely

2011-05-30T07:44:00.001-07:00

Paris Rubber Stamp Set in a Tin By Cavallini & Co.
by Cavallini
$25.98
In Stock.Offered by timelessfavors dot com

All of my fellow crafting friends and rubber stamp fiends , I just love this set and found it on amazon . However it is a tad bit costly I just love anything associated with France . Spending some time there many yrs ago I fell in love With Paris . Could that be titled "From Paris with Love " LOL . Well hey Im no writer and some times things or statements just pop in my head and pop out of my mouth :) . Does anyone else find their selves doing that as well ? I sure hope so or I might end up thinking Im just a total head case LOL !!! Adieu my dear readers and have a wonderful day ..

taking the dogs on a stroll

2011-05-29T11:27:00.001-07:00

Took the dogs for a stroll and one as you can see was talking to me and letting me know that she was rather happy about going to take a grass jaunt and then onto pet smart . They love petsmart because they like meeting new ppl and dogs . This morning we met a rather nice lady who worked for blue diamond dog food and was rather shocked when I told her that neither one of my dogs can digest dog food and believe me when I say we have tried every brand available . She asked me if that was because of their breed and I told her I dont know but some chihuahuas are diabetic . My male the brown one has low blood sugar problems so naturally that does not make living with him any easier . However these dogs eat brown rice and boiled chicken which must be rather good for them because you can see they are the picture of health .We also saw a rather friendly cat up for adoption and he was adorable and if I had not had the birds , I would have been tempted . Oh well my readers have a wonderful day and take care .

My creative side has come back

2011-05-21T11:21:00.000-07:00

A while ago I got to thinking since I really adore some of the cards that people send me why not make them pictures by gluing and placing some tiny brads in strategic places and adding some ribbon I could turn these little gems into maybe some wall hangings . I have quite a few of them and I wanted to share my latest creation with my readers . So leave a comment and tell me what you think . Im really interested to hear what others think . So take care all and have a fantabulous day .

Am I doomed to see grey clouds and rain forever ?

2011-05-18T13:02:00.000-07:00

It just seems like it has rained forever here . I have been enjoying thinking of things to do inside while the weather has been so bad and the only thing is how bad this weather makes my joints hurt LOL !!Of course some will say that is because I am getting old I dont think so . I am trying to develop some new ideas for mail art and sometimes that is really hard . So I will be working on mail art the next few days and hope to come up with some new themes . Have a great day all .

Well back to cold weather again UGH !!

2011-05-14T15:17:00.000-07:00

Well now we are going to go from 80 degree weather to 50 degrees for a high in a few days . I know someone who lives in the mtns in tennesee and she said there was still snow on the mtn tops in April . Well I think mother nature is a tease sometimes and she let us see just a pinch of summer and now here she goes messing with us again and giving us 50 degree weather . Yahoo , maybe we should get out the sleds and skis too ? Nah I hope Im kidding . Just about the sleds and the skis cause I know it will be 50 for a high tommorow .

The Other two loves of my life

2011-05-07T07:25:00.000-07:00

These are the other two loves of my life . The green one is Arnold the one Im always talking about and the blue one Is Martin .Arnold is five and Martin is two and they are both so smart that it scares me . It seems they know what Im going to do before I do . This morning and most mornings they get to eat with me , which means scrambled eggs which they love and some times potatoes but not often with the potatoes and maybe a bit or two of toast which they love . as you maybe can tell the second pic martin loves the camera and arnold does not and frequently turns away from it . I also have discovered that they quite like each other despite both birds being male . Im so glad they get along and no fights have broken out .. nothing like having a fellow feathered friend I suppose in the bird world .

I love how their colors come out on film .

Things are back to normal here thank the good lord above

2011-05-04T10:18:00.001-07:00

Thank goodness things are starting to get back to normal . I have things hung up in the new place and finally got my mail box keys and the animals are settling down . Change seems to readily upset them . The moving concept to them is strange I guess . I love it cause now the dogs are starting to know that this is home and they bark when they hear someone or something which is a good thing . I also got my first letter which was a treat for me cause I have missed writing letters and receiving them and got the first one outta the box today and hope to get more in the coming days . Woo hoo Kendra finally got booted off of dancing with the stars yep glad about that one . It truly has been a day where the moon and the stars have co-ordinated in the universe and that is truly great !!! :)

Okay It is official I hate mail box keys and community mailboxes

2011-05-02T11:42:00.000-07:00

I hate mail box keys and community mail boxes . I moved over the wknd and not only do we not have a mail box key yet we dont even know what mail box is ours . I think I may have to wait a wk for a key and it will drive me crazy and then I will be pissed at our mail system because to me that is just lazy to not even have a new tennant a mail box key already made and waiting for them ? But you can believe they did have their hand out for our money for the rent and other fees . I think if it does take a week I will march my butt down to the post office and give them a good piece of my mind . I am also pissed at Uhaul for delaying our move by three hours and giving us the run around about where our moving truck was ? Three places we were sent to looking for our truck and oh by the way my readers a reservation means nothing with Uhaul . Please boycott Uhaul and use penske . I am btw sending a wonderfully mean opinion letter to the president and ceo of Uhaul which Im sure will really tick someone off I sure hope it will anyways !!! Okay this move was a disaster , I wanted a new apt in a nicer complex and I did manage to get it and now I have located a washer and dryer thank god but wont be able to obtain it until the end of may or the end of june which ever comes first . You can see I have had a really stinky wknd and its official I hate moving and I hate not having keys to things I need !!!!

The Voice - Extended Preview of The Voice - Video - NBC.com

2011-04-27T08:02:00.000-07:00

The Voice - Extended Preview of The Voice - Video - NBC.com

Tried something homemade and it turned out just fine

2011-04-25T06:13:00.000-07:00

Well yesterday I had a feel to do something homemade so I decided to try my hand at home made bread , fresh yeast and all and guess what ?, it turned out really well . I served it for supper and it was not really that hard to accomplish so if any of you want the recipe I will be more than happy to send it or give it or email it . It really is easy . Here is a pic of my efforts :

My new quaker Martin

2011-04-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

Well it seems as though Martin is a copy cat . He must have been around some might big parrots at some time in his life because he imitates the sqwak of the bigger parrot known as an african grey and also does the too pretty well . Im glad he is an imitater now maybe he will imitate me laughing or fussing not sure which I prefer yet though LOL !!! "I will find you" ,
"be careful out there among them english " and " negative ghost rider " . I always like to end the post with a few movie quotes . Take care everyone and get out there and make someones day .

what do you do with old cards you get

2011-04-14T14:52:00.000-07:00

I tell you what I do if I like them . I glue them together and put a ribbon on the back and hang them as wall art and guess what I think it is an awesome idea . Why add to the landfills ? Once I get in my new place I will take some pics of them and post them . what a wonderful way to remember who sent them to you as well . Well all the fids and dogs and everyone gets along so well here . I m so thrilled that is the case . Well take care everyone and stay safe . "Be careful out there among them english " , "I will find you " "You had me at hello " can anyone name what movie these last statements are from ? come on people rack your brains . LOL !!!

You know you are a bird nut when , ....

2011-04-13T05:49:00.000-07:00

You know you are a bird nut when you convert dog crates to bird carriers !! Does anyone else do this ? I know that it is so much easier to carry them to the vet this way and get them out . Im certain my vet appreciates it too. I guess it is official Im a certifiable bird nut .

2011-04-12T16:05:00.000-07:00

This is my new baby blue quaker and his name is martin and he is so sweet and he already sits on my shoulder . He is a real doll and he actually plays with his toys .

I have so neglected this blog for so long

2011-04-09T11:25:00.000-07:00

You all will have to excuse me I have neglected this blog for so long . Yuck i just looked at it and eeek . well I dont think old man winter is ever going to go away . It is still cold outside baby and I hate it . Well today I will be receiving my newest addition a baby blue quaker that is right another bird . My arnold is still well and good and probably wont be so tickled at the thought but I am hoping this will work . I was supposed to get an indian ring neck but the lady decided to keep him and im kind of sad about that . But anyway it is what it is . I have decided that eventually we will buy a house sooner or later maybe a mobile home in a nice little park somewhere . At least three bedrooms so I can have a bird room . Boy you know the last three years have been so hard on me and my husband . So many trials and so many tribulations . I just hope there was and is a reason for the trials and tribulations . I guess sometimes God can really make you see what you have instead of what you want . I think so many people fail to see that . Oh well I will post pics later on guys take care .

Im now non insured !!! AGAIN !!!!

2010-12-03T13:07:00.000-08:00

Hi there everyone I just had to come here and raise cane or is it hell ? Anyways I am now no longer insured again through my husbands work policy , they were not aware that I was an insulin dependant diabetic . What ? why would I be buying insulin and you are paying for it then ? LOL !!! The woman I talked to was about as helpful as a piece of paper , seriously . She says she does not understand how the corporate big wigs could see the paperwork and still not know that I was a type 1 . All the endo bills ? I have made several calls these last two days and am still no where. My husband says just give up we will find a way to make it work like we did before . I dont see how but that is my husband the ever present optimist . LoL . My bgs have skyrocketed the last two days due to stress. I also notice that when the weather turns cold the bgs go crazy ? Omg !!! I just realized I sound like a basket case LOL !!! Im done ranting I promise .

It is one of those days !!

2010-11-04T11:36:00.000-07:00

Have you ever had one of those days where you just have no gumption to do anything remotely close to moving out of a certain chair or just ho hum attitude ? Well my friends this is one of those days for me and I just am so far from caring right now it is not even funny . The sky is gray and the weatherman is calling for snow flurries tommorow . Yes thats right I typed snow flurries , I mean seriously snow flurries this early oh great I predict blizzard conditions for christmas folks and my feet and bones are calling me LOL !!!!

What has america become ?

2010-10-22T11:49:00.000-07:00

What has America become ?
Editor ,
Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard ?
Let us see : If we lie to the Congress , it 's a felony and if the congress lies to us its just
politics ; if we dislike a black person , we're racist and if a black dislikes whites its their 1st
amendment right ; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost
nothing for the victims : in public schools you can teach homosexuality is Ok , but you had
better not use the word God in the process , you can kill an unborn child , but it is wrong to
execute a mass murderer, we dont burn books in America , we now re write them ; we got rid
of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives ; we are unable to close
our border with Mexico but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea ; if you protest
against President Obama's policies you are a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or
George Bush in effigy it was your first amendment right . You can have pornography on TV or
the internet , but you better not put a nativity scence in a public park during Christmas ; we have
eliminated all criminals in America , they are now called sick people ; we can use a human fetus
for medical research but it is wrong to use an animal . We take money from those who work hard
for it and give it to those who don't want to work ; we all support the Constitution , but only when
it supports our political ideology ; we still have freedom of speech but only if we are being politically
correct ; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games ; the land of opportunity is now
the land of hand outs ;the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither
president did anything to help .
And how do we handle a major crisis today ? the government appoints a commitee to determine
who's at fault then threatens them , passes a law , raises our taxes ; tells us the problem is solved
so they can get back to their re election campaign .
What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave ?
This was a letter to the editor and it was written by Ken Huber -Tawas City

what subjects do you avoid in letters to friends and family ?

2010-10-21T08:04:00.001-07:00

Me I guess I avoid mentioning religion or politics to people who are my pen pals and I really dont know that well . However people that I do know well I try and write cheerful and uplifting letters and certainly not ones that I am guessing will offend .However the mere mention of religion to some people gets them in an upraoar and why Im not sure other than they seem to think that person writing said letter is trying to stir something in them for a debate . Now as for me I try not to dabble in the debate of most things and would probably say something to the effect of well that is debatable and leave it at that .Im really sorry I will finish this blog later . I m headed to bed because I dont feel well today . Have a great and wonderful wknd and day folks .

wow how do some of us get it so easily and others not so much

2010-10-10T07:30:00.000-07:00

Wow I just have been at this a long time and I still dont have it down pat and honestly I dont think I ever will and maybe we are not supposed to ? is that the deal ? we are supposed to be able to figure the carb ration = insulin thing . I seriously have been at this a long time and it gets harder and harder all the time . I go high at night and then low low low in the morning and traveling is a real b*%tch sometimes . I hate having to check blood sugars 10+ times a trip and frankly folks it really smells to high heaven . why cant we just really get a cure ? oh my goodness that is it the fda does not want us to have a cure because the diabetes business is a big one !!! Oh well my freaking rant for the day . Have a great one ...

Can someone tell me how we find a balance ?

2010-10-02T12:06:00.000-07:00

Can someone tell me how we find a balance in all this madness . I just got reminded that there was a walk here this am but could not make it . Not only was I not feeling good but hubby had to work so we could not make it down for the walk . maybe next year who knows right ? Man I'm bummed that I missed the walk that stinks really bad and I hate hubby has to work on saturday . oh well welcome to my world right ? the weather is chilly and it is starting to rain . great just a lovely all around saturday . Take care all and have a great day .

Well another trip to the grocery store

2010-10-01T14:20:00.001-07:00

You know I really hate the grocery store I really do . I know some of you out there probably hate it as well especially all of the gf people . gf stands for gluten free . At one time when my blood sugar was hitting the roof the drs bright idea and answer to this was oh let us put you
on a gluten free diet . And let me tell you the grocery store becomes a night mare with gf . I find it is also a nightmare when you have diabetes as well . When I was out and about and used to eat out with friends , they would always say hey you cant eat that or this and frankly it used to bug me alot . I often declined invites to dinner , picnics and other family outings because of it . Now mind you the grocery store is something I often think of with dred . Dont get me wrong I love to smell food cooking just have to remember that in the back of my head that I am always a diabetic . Does that mean it defines me ? No not at all . It is just always in the back of my head . Well take care everyone and see ya soon .

Why in this day and age are we still dealing with issues

2010-09-30T10:06:00.000-07:00

Why oh why in this day and age are we still dealing with issues concerning our diabetes , insurance coverage and supplies ? For Gods sake this is the year 2010 going into 2011 and we are still dealing with out of date insurance companies who are definately behind the times where diabetes is concerned . Everytime I talk to someone it is always "well our insurance did not cover this or our insurance company denied us this " why oh why and this national health care coverage let me tell you folks , yeah we are going to have to pay it but some like me might be living in our car to pay it . Some of us just wont be able to do it . And if you are like me my husbands insurance coverage will not cover hardly anything but we will be paying premiums like it covers everything . You all should read about this national health care plan . It will put families who are already financially strapped , into living in their cars , gutters and over crowded shelters . I definately know we need something but we dont need this plan that Obama has crafted . Also alot of companies will say that they cannot afford to carry it and it will put alot of companys out of business , creating more jobless sittuations . It is not a good idea at all . Oh well let me get off my soapbox take care everyone .

wow really rainy and cold here today

2010-09-27T14:50:00.000-07:00

Wow now I am really wondering if this is the start of winter here because the rain started and the high for today was 68 degrees so hopefully maybe the winter is going to finally start coming in boy I sure hope so cause Im tired of the heat . I have been so behind on blogging it is not even funny LOL !!! I just saw everybodys life went on while I was busy making sure things got done in other areas of my life and as a result my blogging life went in the toliet oh well that is how things happen I guess . Oh well I see alot of you went on your walks this last past wk or wknd and that is just awesome and good to know . Oh well I hope to hear from all of you soon .

I honestly have been trying to catch up

2010-09-21T07:28:00.000-07:00

I have had quite a few busy days and am trying to play catch up and also trying to catch up on my book reading too and also with my bible studying . Im trying to find time to meditate and pray for everyone on my prayer list . I m so glad for prayer partners because I would be so lost without them and I need prayer partners , I really do . I have also slacked on church attendance as well and Im sure God is not too happy about that either . I really do try to make time for it . I really really do .well that is all for today folks . I will leave you with that .

Things are better

2010-09-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

Im so at peace now since staying in my bible and reading it everyday and I let God tell me what I should read each day since he is my guide . I get lead by prayer and asking God what he would like for me to read each day . I think that is very important that you let God choose since he knows your heart , your mind and your troubles and what makes your heart heavy with worry . it took me a long time to understand that God answers prayer in his time and not yours . It took me forever to understand that . I have not found a good home church here and so I have a prayer study in my home every sunday and wed night . I stay in my bible and I am comfortable with that . Oh well I will leave you all with that .

September 11,2001

2010-09-10T08:52:00.001-07:00

Just a remembrance for 9/11. Thank you and you will never be forgotten .

fall is upon us

2010-09-08T13:27:00.001-07:00

Well I noticed today the leaves are changing and wow what awesome colors we are going to have in a month or two and then I guess we will be bombared with snow and ice and yes old man winter will be knocking at the door . I love it when I can open the windows and let some fresh air inside and it is so nice and it smells so good . I guess you could say that my favorite time of the year is fall because of the nice cool crisp air and the clean smell . Now I love snow too dont get me wrong but when there is ice up under that snow , that is where I have a problem . As to quote someone else "houston we have a problem " . Yes folks I have slipped on ice more times than I care to remember and it aint funny . Now if we can get through this winter season without ice storms or ice up under the snow then I will be one happy woman . Take care everyone and have a blessed day .

Im in so much better spirits these days

2010-09-06T04:27:00.000-07:00

Im in such better spirits since all the prayers for me . Also I am sad about one thing though , I have lost my bible and Im in such sorrow about that . I think it got left somewhere thems the breaks I guess . I have been so scatter brained lately there is no telling where I left it . Im just sad about it but this too shall pass . I will be alright praise God . I just feel renewed today and hope to stay like this for ever if not forever then for a while .I do thank you all for your prayers . God bless you all .

Oh my gosh I dont know what to say

2010-09-03T05:24:00.000-07:00

Hey there my faithful readers , I was in the target store yesterday and I think my heart almost broke for this elderly woman . She was with her daughter and she was checking out and she was twenty cents short for her purchase and she was digging in her purse and then her grown daughter yells "Well come on mom I dont have all day !!" then the daughter snatches twenty cents out of her own purse and proceeds to tell her mother right there in front of everyone , "You are the brokest woman I know ". I was in shock and the woman behind me says "see that is what happens when you dont spank them "! I was floored by both of these women and my heart went out to the elderly woman .I thought that is terible and I thought that it was some kind of 20/20 thing what would you do ? I kept looking around cause I told my husband that would be my luck someone would tick me off and I would show butt on national tv . LOL !!! Oh well what do you think you would do ? would you say something ? would you pass her a dirty look ? I guess Im conducting my own what would you do expieriment. LOL !!!

My goodness this heat is horrible

2010-08-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

The heat is horrible I have never seen it this bad . I have never seen 90s clear into September here or in Missouri where I was raised . yeah Florida I can understand having bad heat and also texas and most places south but we here in the midwest and the north have been having heat waves like crazy . The weather man was talking about a cool down and their idea of a cool down is in the 80s . Im still praying and working on our family issues that will be solved here soon , I hope anyway of course . But just like I told my husband last night whatever happens , happens and you cannot change it I just know God will find a way . Im handing it all over to him and let him deal with it .

The peace in my heart .

2010-08-29T05:15:00.000-07:00

Well I have a little peace in my heart right now but I fear the big one is getting ready to downfall on us . Dont know why but just feel like the big bad wolf is at the door and hungry you know. Im giving it to God and let him handle it cause I know I cant handle it .

Well still praying and asking for peace

2010-08-27T04:56:00.000-07:00

Well I am still praying and asking for some peace from God . Im just not feeling any better I guess I am just wanting to quit being sad and depressed . I really need some peace but I worry all the time about stuff and husbands job is not helping . They are working him to death and this last place he worked did the same thing and then they let him go so there has been some issues where he works too . Like I always tell him what does not kill us makes us stronger . I am looking forward to fall but not winter . I really like the idea of the leaves changing . Oh well I will look to God every day and pray for his peace over my heart and me and my loved ones . I wish all of you a blessed day and a blessed wknd and a blessed week next week .

Prayer is important

2010-08-24T17:31:00.001-07:00

Im facing a lot of issues these days and if it is not one thing it is another . Im really going through some tough issues none of which I will go into on here but really need prayer cause it seems as though the devil is after me . I got alot of issues like I said that I am dealing with . I really need some heavy duty prayer , I have been praying and bugging the Lord I am sure with alot of needs and needing answers and I know I know I am impatient when it comes to wanting answers . I m so impatient I know . I try really hard I do , I do .Sometimes I just want to scream really loud and pull my hair out LOL !!!

I still need prayers for me and my family

2010-08-22T12:35:00.000-07:00

We are struggling like everyone else these days and my family has been on my mind lately and Im just so heart broken about alot that has been going on . It really stinks that I cannot be closer to help my family and my husband and I are struggling with this and we are trying to come to some sort of decision but I am praying over it and I hope the Lord will show me the way to go and lead me where he wants me . I look at it this way if God wants me in a certain place then that is where he will put me and I need to leave it in Gods hands . Well Im praying for some direction in that category and just lift me up in prayer please . Thanks everyone .

calling all you wonderful d peeps !!!

2010-08-19T08:00:00.000-07:00

Head on over to candyhearts blog and see the wunderful prize pack she has available !!! This girl Wendy is just awesome and she is outta dis world for things and she is just about one of the best people I know and that she is a d mom and still holds it all together !!! she is always there when you need her and I hope you all will head on over and see what she and her family are up to .

Sure could use some prayers these days

2010-08-18T04:51:00.000-07:00

We have been going through some issues here at the house and other places and we need some prayers cause Im tired of worrying about it and god will take care of it . I just have to remember that God answers prayer in his time not ours and this is the hardest thing I have to remember . I just could use some extra help in the prayer department . I have several things I am struggling with and dont really know how to handle them other than hand them to God . Some prayers have already been answered and I am so grateful for that . But there is nothing God cant do . So Im hoping he takes it on because I am tired . Oh well stay well and take care everyone .

okay if everyone comes through

2010-08-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

Okay if everyone comes through we have enough girls clothes . I am now working on the 2 month old clothes . The daddy of the kids is really stressed and he does not know how he is going to keep a roof over their heads much less clothes . So she and I would like to take the stress off of him for a little while . The daddy has been out of work for about a year and he has had to move in with mama but step daddy wants rent from him . Which is whole other matter in my opinion so anyways the grand ma is very stressed and Im trying to help . So now from this point we are working on boys clothes so I will keep working at trying to find some and I hope someone knows of someone who has boys clothes . I m praying to God about everything lately . My stomach has been in knots cause I have the feeling that something really bad is going to happen but I have given it to God so he can take direction and I hope show me a way . Oh well enough for today and take care all .

Im still need help with the baby clothes

2010-08-13T14:24:00.001-07:00

I just thought I would let everyone know that wendy has graciously stepped forward and offered her girls clothes for my collection I am taking up . In case you missed the other post I am collecting up 2t girls clothes and 2 month old boys clothes for a friends grand children that are in desperate need and she (the grandmom ) and i hunted all over good will and nothing . So again I am putting the call out for all of you who might have these clothes just hanging around you can send them to me I will wash , and sort them and send them on their way . I m trying so hard to do this and so is my friend . I feel like I have something to look forward to . If you need an address please just leave a comment and I will get back with you all thanks again .

calling all moms out there

2010-08-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

Hey guys I am in search of infant boys clothes and girls 2t clothes . These will go to a dear friend who is in need of clothes for her grandchildren . She and I both have looked at goodwill and nothing and we have put out feelers everywhere so I thought I would put a shout out on my blog and see if my good ole blogger friends would come through for me . If you know of such items leave a comment and I will come back and email you with the details . Im thinking of just having them all sent here to me and go through them wash them and pack them up and send on to them . also i am collecting diaper coupons for them as well . We have put feelers out all over the place . Thanks so much and I feel like for once I have a purpose now . :0 !!!

Can someone please help me ?

2010-08-06T08:09:00.000-07:00

I must be the most computer illiterate person in america . can someone please tell me how to link ? I dont know how to link my blog to another website or website to website does that make sense ? Oh please can someone help me . Im so goofy . egads I really do feel like the biggest dummy in america sometimes .

i forgot something here it is

2010-08-05T14:52:00.000-07:00

www.laurenshope.com. I hope you can click on this link and it will come through .

Found an awesome site

2010-08-05T14:49:00.000-07:00

There is a site called laurens hope and it sells bracelets especially for medical conditions . You all should take a look . Wendy over at candy hearts let me in on this awesome site . Thanks Wendy .

Hi all yes I am still alive

2010-08-05T05:10:00.000-07:00

Hi all Yes I am still alive and just have not had anything at all to blog about and really have not read any really spectacular books either . The heat is horrible and I heard some states are starting school this week . I cant believe that in this heat that they would want kids out in it .I think that starts to a dangerous path . Children and adults have to be careful especially ones with chronic illnesses . I m sorry but in this case I do believe I would home school and then protest the school board sending our children into this heat and risking their safety and their health . I dont care how much water you drink this heat can kill in minutes according to most doctors I have been listening to on the news . Uh oh sounds like I am on my soap box again LOL !!! Okay enough just meant to let you all know I was still alive and well . Take care all .

Okay back on my soapbox

2010-07-27T05:59:00.000-07:00

Lauras blog really got to me and so did Joannes . I am so tired of all of us having to walk or do bake sales or have garage sales or raise money the old fashioned way when our government seems to find the money to build a new bomb or fund a stupid project somewhere in the world , but yet cannot seem to justify funding research for cures ? why is that ? Just one day I would love to see our government hold a bake sale to buy a bomb , to have a garage sale to fund congress , set up a lemonade stand to fund a stupid project somewhere in the world . It is simple folks our government is more interested in building bombs than finding cures for illnesses. I for one am sick of living with a disease that im sure somewhere in the world there is a cure . I m tired of seeing little 2 and 3 yr olds walking around wearing pumps and giving themselves shots to keep their selves alive . Im so sick of it and yes Laura and Joanne you are so right . We have to use websites to raise money and it is such bs . Okay that is my gripe for today .As usual be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

okay okay I will try

2010-07-25T16:11:00.000-07:00

Well hello everyone and Hope you day has been a good one and we woke up to rain this morning and i was hoping to go feed the ducks and the swans and the geese . This has been a really hard day and lately I have not had much to blog about . Still dont really but I do enjoy reading your blogs and keeping up with you guys . Well Like i said there is not much to blog about and maybe just maybe tommorow I can find something interesting to blog about . Ugh Im so boring LOL !!!
Well as always be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

a really busy day

2010-07-23T16:48:00.000-07:00

I have had such a busy day and we are worn out and dont really have much to blog about other than I am so glad to be home and resting and finishing up what was a really busy day . I also am kind of disheartened because I found out one of my pen pals is traveling the country soon she leaves sunday and I probably wont hear from her again until sept when she returns home after her cross country trip .It is sad to hear that friends are going on an extended trip and then you wont hear from them for awhile . Oh well I guess I will have to deal with it anyways . I hope you all are well and I shall say adieu for now and will be back soon and blog and vent , pi** , bi*ch and moan some more . As always be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider.

Talk about mail art

2010-07-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

Well I had been having a bad day and then I found this wonderful example of mail art in my mail box and I mean man oh man . I love this and I am saving it . Actually I save every letter I get from my pen pals . Yeah I have two boxes full of saved letters . I know my hubby would probably say this is clutter but hey I prefer the term mail art much better . So what say all of you ?

Im bouncing off the walls

2010-07-15T13:51:00.000-07:00

I dont know what the heck is going on with me cause my bgs are bouncing off the walls and Im not sleeping good at all and Im wore out all the time . I think the heat might have something to do with it . And then there is the counting carbs and checking and re checking and stocking and re stocking of supplies and finding out whoa dont have something . Then you have to deal with some ass hole pharmacy clerk who shakes their head a hundred times when you tell them you dont have insurance . Yeah I know and I dont need your attitude guy or girl . Talk to our government who does not want any of us sick people around . Talk to the fda who wants our medications to be so costly that they want to send us into back alleys to buy it . I m really tired of having to pay so much for an illness I did not contribute to or cause in any way . well be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

Okay after reading some blogs I need to blow my top

2010-07-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

Okay after reading certain blogs on here I feel the need to blow my top on some things .
First off we as parents should not be having to fight insurance companys to get our kids covered . It is not as if they asked to have a certain illness which requires supplies and special meds etc ... I did not ask to be dxed at 16 with type 1 diabetes . I am now 49 which means I have lived half my life with diabetes . My parents had insurance and good insurance because my dad worked for pepsi cola whom at the time was an a 1 company to work for and they supplied great insurance mom and dad and I never had to worry about them not paying for anything . So could someone tell me where the hell the insurance companys get off not paying for something that a child needs ? me I could understand cause im an adult and they would prefer im sure for me just to go off and die somewhere and stop being a burden . The state of this countrys health care is a disaster to say the least . I have been denied insurance for the last five yrs since my insurance was dropped by bcbs . I have since had to pay for everything out of my pocket and folks that aint no easy task . I can only imagine what some people who have children are doing when they dont qualify for medical assistance programs which are a joke as well . When is our government going to realize that they need to revamp the insurance companys and start letting them know that dropping indiviuals with certain illnesses will no longer be tolerated ? I think there should be some kind of regulating of the health insurance companys . Okay thanks and I will get off my soap box now .

oh me oh my I have lift off on my tomatoe plants

2010-07-12T07:48:00.000-07:00

Well after all this time my tomatoe plants finally have flowers yeah which means yes , you guessed it in a few wks I will have home grown tomatoes . I am happy to report that the topsy turvy does work and also planting tomatoes in containers works as well . I have been growing tomatoes for years and they need lots and lots of water when growing them in a container . Next yr I will probably try my hand at the strawberry and green pepper topsy turvys .I am also happy to report that all my house plants are happy as clams too . This is my favorite corner of our bedroom . all these plants were grown from tiny little seedlings and I am so proud. Okay Im done bragging now and I will go sit in my time out chair NOT !!! LOL !!! also im feeling much better and thank you all for your well wishes and remember be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

Food poisoning has hit my household

2010-07-11T13:44:00.000-07:00

Well we were supossed to go fishing this am but my hubby and I got hit with food poisoning this morning and I am just now feeling better after a struggle with the porcelin king and the all mighty pink liquid gold called pepto- bismol . we both ate sandwiches yesterday and about 12 hrs later bada bing bada bang it hit us . Hubby has been up all night so he is sleeping all day today and I have just gotten over it about mid day . Thank god Im over it and I hope that the d does not decide to strike up on me as well . Of course my bgs have been all over the place with the food poisoning . So needless to say I have had a strugle all day today .well my friends be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

Rock formations and a blown day trip

2010-07-09T12:41:00.000-07:00

yesterday while my husband had the day off we went riding around and I spotted this awesome rock formation on the side of the road . Of course I think I spoiled the trip yesterday by not wanting to take a 4 hr trip in a car . I cannot stand to be in a car that long and never could . I dont like driving for say two hrs and still not be where we are going. . My husband seems to like that sort of thing I dont . Anyways onto nicer things . I like rock formations like this and I also like mountains . I think mountains are mighty and strong just like God. Well anyways I hope you all have an awesome weekend and take care every one .

Oh The Heat Wave

2010-07-07T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hi all thought you all would enjoy a nice photo of a beautiful sight . I found this sweet little sunflower peeking at me on my patio this morning . Yep grew this litlle thing from a discarded sun flower seed from my birds food . In the other photo is a great book that I am reading and it is titled " A three dog life and so far it is really good . I think anyone who likes dogs will like this book . I will save some more photos for tommorows post . I hope you all enjoy the views .

a Heat wave

2010-07-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

Wow this heat is wrecking havoc with the bgs alot . I woke up at 228 and of course I have been fighting highs all am long . It seems like lately if Im not fighting a high Im fighting a low . I guess it is just one of those roller coaster things again and frankly I hate it and Im done and over it and little big d can go away forever . Yeah we wish right ? Im tired and done and over it . Oh wait I said that already LOL !!! If you dont laugh about it , you cry about it and I dont feel like crying at all so I would rather laugh as Im sure so would the rest of my blogger friends and readers . Last time I blogged I was in a crappy mood and it came out in my blog . Oh well guess some days are better than others .So now all day I will probably be fighting highs and keeping my head above water with that . Man Im so glad I dont have kids living at home that would have to deal with me right now . LOL !!! I dont like having to deal with people when I am fighting highs or lows . Oh well be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

Okay folks no fire works but other pics

2010-07-04T15:46:00.000-07:00

Well wow could my day suck any worse ? I woke up and started to finish off some letter and low and behold the fountain pen broke and ink every where and then we found out there were fireworks on July 3rd here not the 4th so we missed them last night . So after cleaning up the ink and the mess that was the top of my desk I decide that perhaps we should remove ourselves from this house . LOL !! So we went to the ohio caverns where it was a really nice 54 degrees down there and it was cold and damp and dark . At first I kind of got sick to my stomach I really did and then when that subsided , the tour guide says , Oh and for all of those who might wonder about our safety she told us that we were perfectly safe and that when the top of the cavern expierienced an earthquake they did not even feel it when they were in the caverns . She mentioned this safety part sort of toward the end of the tour and I was like dont you think she should have said something toward the begining of the tour about that . LOL !! But hey that is my story a day late and a dollar short . Well any ways I got some awesome pics of the caverns and picked up some awesome post cards too . I just wish ;my pen had not broke !! Im a letter writter darn it did this pen not know that ? Now i have to write with gel pens until I can afford to replace a fountain pen . Oh well that is a whole other post . take care everyone and be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

I cant wait to see the fireworks !!!

2010-07-01T04:38:00.000-07:00

I like , many others will be watching the fireworks on sunday and also it is so great to know that I dont have to leave my house because I am on the 2nd floor , I will be able to see the works from my balcony and I am hoping it will be cool enough and no mosquitoes to sit out on the balcony for the duration of the works .At least I hope so anyway . Im hoping also to get some photos of the event as well . Im hoping my friends are doing well that live in Texas with this storm hitting them .Oh well as usual be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .

Well we heard today that the hubbys company is changing insurance companys yeah !!

2010-06-28T12:11:00.000-07:00

Well all the employees heard today that the company my husband works for is changing insurance companys and we are totally stoked because the last company they had would
not cover me and my husband refused to give them any of our hard earned money because
if they are not going to cover the spouse then we dont want them . Now hopefully this new
company will cover me if they dont then we go again down the road of the un insured and believe
me folks when I say there are plenty of us (the uninsured ) out there . I know please dont come at me with how dangerous that is believe me i know but when you have a choice of keeping a roof over your head or an insurance card in your wallet , that roof comes first .
Anyways as always be careful out there among them english and negative ghost rider .