Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Dusting Off the Cobwebs

2010-12-19T15:13:00.008-06:00

Oh my....where to begin? Yes...it is me! I have not written on this blog in such a long time! I am a bit embarrassed too.Mostly because it seems I just went "POOF" and disappeared. I think I hit several snags and felt like I didn't know what to talk about. Part of the problem was that I had SO MUCH that I wanted to talk about but felt like I didn't know where to start or even if I really

Where did my weekend go?

2008-04-21T03:06:00.006-05:00

It's been a long while since I've blogged on here. Shame on me. I just can't seem to get my butt in gear lately. This weekend went by way too fast. I didn't do anything productive either. I was a hermit all weekend. Just watched some Netflix movies, watched some tv, a little internet surfing, a few odd jobs around the house and that's it. I had planned to visit my parents but ended up not even

Scattergories

2008-03-02T13:01:00.004-06:00

I saw this over at Janet's so I will give it a whirl too.Copy and paste, substitute your name and first letter for the answers. See what you come up with!What is your name……................Cindi4 Letter word…………………………..CrapVehicle……………………………………CorvetteCity…………………………………………ChicagoBoy Name……………………………….CalebGirl Name……………………………… CaitlinAlcoholic Drink……………………… .CognacOccupation………………………………

Thanks, Janet!

2008-02-28T12:15:00.006-06:00

Thank you Janet! Your tip on your last comment for explaining how to put spaces in between my paragraphs here did the trick! When I switched it to the html view it already had several "< div >"'s where I wanted my spaces so I just added the " < p > " like you said and voila! I wonder what the div stood for? Divide?I went back to work last night after having four days off. Worked with Lydia. The

A Wild Ride

2008-02-26T03:37:00.003-06:00

I saw this on somebody's blog and don't remember who's blog it was. It was a blog I had never read before but I think I found them via Mrs. Who's blog. Watching this wild bike ride got my heart pumping! Enjoy!

Band Meme (HT to Hammer)

2008-01-21T22:47:00.000-06:00

Hammer was tagged with this and invited others to do it too. So here is mine. It was fun! Here were his instructions.Here's how it goes. You are about to have your own band's CD cover. Follow these directions Go to......1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RandomThe first article title on the page is the name of your band.2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3The last four words of

Electoral Compass

2008-01-21T14:42:00.000-06:00

A friend sent me the link to this Electoral Compass website. It asks you a series of questions and you answer how you stand on that issue. At the end of the quiz it gives you the candidates that you most closely align with. I found it very interesting. You can also click on each of the candidates and find out where they stand on the issues at hand. Try it out!

Book Game (HT to cmk)

2008-01-13T20:30:00.000-06:00

Okay, cmk has a book game on her blog and has asked others to join in so I will give it a whirl.Here are the rules to the Book Game:1. Grab the nearest book2. Open the book to page 1233. Find the fifth sentence4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog, along with these instructions.5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were

This and That

2008-01-12T20:47:00.000-06:00

Yes, it's me! 'Dusting off this blog and trying to get with the program. So where do I begin? Well, I had a nice Christmas with my family. I only had Christmas Eve off work so that is the day my family all got together to celebrate, eat and exchange gifts. My daughter arrived here that afternoon. She went home a few days after Christmas. I wish I could have spent more time with her. I received

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-24T04:45:00.000-06:00

I finally have all my gifts wrapped. My daughter will arrive here later today and then we will go over to my parent's house to celebrate Christmas with my whole family. Nothing new to blog about but I wanted to wish you all a happy and healthy holiday!

This and That

2007-12-16T01:02:00.000-06:00

When I came home from work Friday night, I found a surprise in my living room. My parents recently bought a new sofa that has two reclining seats on each end. Mom said that she has been using one of the sofa recliners and Dad has switched from his Lazy Boy rocker-recliner to sitting in Mom's which was identical to his. She said that now that they have the sofa recliners they don't need two

Christmas Meme

2007-12-15T22:04:00.000-06:00

I've been wanting to find a Christmas themed meme and cmk had this on her blog so I'm going to do it too. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?For the most part I wrap my Christmas gifts but I do the gift bags on a few things. (Whenever I give someone a birthday gift I always put them in gift bags with colored tissue) I used to go all out and put beautiful ribbons and bows on my gifts but as I have

Yellow Snow Time

2007-12-14T05:02:00.000-06:00

I found this poem on Comedy Central's website back in October and saved it so I could share it when winter time hit us. We are expecting snow tomorrow and it looks like this weekend we can expect even more.I don't mind a little snow but I don't like the icy roads or walking on the icy parking lot at work. (sung to the tune of Walking in a Winter Wonderland)Dogs tags ring, are you listening'?In

My Special Girl

2007-11-23T19:55:00.000-06:00

My daughter left a few hours ago to drive back to her home down south. She should arrive home in a couple hours. After I put up this post, I will log off so I can keep my phone line free (yeah...dial-up...ugh) because she said she will call me when she gets home safe and sound. We stayed up late into the wee hours last night. She ate with me at work earlier while I was at work. While I was

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-22T05:26:00.000-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving! I have to work today. *sighs* My daughter arrived here yesterday. She is going to eat with me at work today. The hospital will have a Thanksgiving meal for all working employees and any guests they have. My mother isn't cooking today. Mom decided that since my oldest brother, his wife and myself are working today, my younger brother and his wife are going to her mother's and

Friday Funny

2007-11-02T13:50:00.001-05:00

My Buddy

2007-10-29T23:46:00.000-05:00

I took Dexter to the vet earlier today. He assured me several times that the hump on his hip is just fatty deposits. He actually has one of these humps on each hip but one looks more pronounced. I told him that my parents were worrying that he had cancer and he explained again that they are fatty pads. He said lots of dogs get them and some get them worse than other dogs do. He also said the lump

Fifty Years

2007-10-26T21:28:00.001-05:00

Fifty years ago today, my parents were married. This is a picture taken not too long before they got married. Dad had brought Mom down south here to meet his parents for the first time. That is my Grandpa in the background. Mom was 16 years old and Dad was 20. So young! They have been through trials and hardships but they have made it together for fifty years. We had a nice family

I wanna win the lottery

2007-10-26T20:39:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I wanna win the lottery! That is what crosses my mind whenever my vacation ends and I have to go back to work. Of course I have to buy lottery tickets to even have a slight chance. I buy a quick pick lottery ticket maybe twice a year, if that. Oh well. I can still dream. It is always hard for me to go back to work after I have been off. I had nine days off and they went by too fast. Mom

Getting old sucks

2007-10-19T13:59:00.000-05:00

I have been on vacation all this week. Back to the grind on Monday. The days have gone by so fast. Much too fast! Tomorrow will be my birthday. I'll be *gulp* 49. The last of my 40's. That is really hard to believe. It seems like yesterday when I was a teenager. Seems like yesterday when my daughter was a baby. She will be 28 years old in February. Where did the time go?We are having a

Congrats and Past Due Thank Yous

2007-10-07T20:06:00.000-05:00

I have been behind on keeping up with the latest news from the bloggers listed in my blogroll. I was so surprised and happy to read about Mrs. Who's important announcement. Congratulations are in order as she and her hubby are expecting a baby! Some past due thank yous are in order because some very kind ladies have honored me with some blogger awards. From Ordinary Life's Janet I've been

Sunday Funnies & a Lisa Update

2007-09-23T16:45:00.000-05:00

Thought for the Day Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that's where you get your shitty ideas from. Okay some of these jokes might be a bit lame but heck, they made me laugh...so there!I Ain't 'Fraid Of No Ghost A very sick man is in the hospital, and on many drugs which give him bowel problems. After many false alarms, he accidentally craps himself.Very

More This and That

2007-09-19T03:42:00.000-05:00

Last weekend I stayed at my parent's house while they went up to northern Indiana. I had to take care of their three dogs so that's why I stayed there. They went up there because my aunt was planning a "get-together/picnic" at her house which then turned into a combination 70th birthday party for my Dad and 50th anniversary celebration for my parents. Their anniversary isn't until October 26th

Quickie Post

2007-09-11T02:11:00.000-05:00

Dexter is feeling a whole lot better today! He's walking around and wagging his tail and not moping. I was going to take him to the vet but he perked up. Maybe he had a doggie flu bug. I'm just glad he isn't acting sick anymore!Jackie and Janet, I read your comments on the last post...you are cracking me up re. "The Adventures of Lisa" and "Mrs. Uglyboo". I found out today she called in sick

Misplaced Muse

2007-08-29T12:23:00.000-05:00

Lordy, I have been a bad bad blogger. I just can't seem to collect my thoughts and organize them into a blog post lately. Nothing really worthy. I think my muse is on vacation.Part of the problem is I just haven't been feeling very good lately. I have been doing a lot of reading lately. I am just about finished with a book and have another one ready to begin.Work has been so-so. On August 21st I

young and pretty

2007-08-19T16:48:00.000-05:00

There is a young gal who works in my department who I'll refer to here as "Lisa". Lisa is about twenty-two years old and has a four year old daughter. She lives with her boyfriend (not the "baby daddy"). Lisa is very cute and I've always thought that she is the spitting image of a young Rachael Ray. I've even told her that and she says lots of people tell her the same.Lisa works on day shift so I

This and That

2007-08-03T19:35:00.000-05:00

I was off work today since I have to work this weekend. I always have Mondays off after I work a weekend too. I haven't done much of anything productive today except some laundry!I've been reading alot lately. Right now I'm reading a wonderful book called A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana. It is a memoir written by Haven Kimmel. I have another book by the same author

The notebook

2007-07-22T23:48:00.000-05:00

I was right in the middle of watching a spooky movie called An American Haunting when my cable reception just went out. I checked several other stations and they were all out. I called the cable company and they said they hadn't received any news of an outage in my area and that it will probably be morning before they can get the problem fixed. That sucks. Just last week we had a cable outage

Feeling better

2007-07-20T02:51:00.000-05:00

My daughter called me at work tonight. She had just left the theatre after seeing the movie Evening starring Meryl Streep. She sounded like she had the sniffles and said she was feeling all emotional after watching the movie. She said it was the kind of movie that left her feeling "overwhelmed". She said it was a very good movie. Now I am all curious and want to go see it myself! She asked me if

How am I today?

2007-07-15T23:29:00.000-05:00

On that last meme I did, Aunt Jackie posed a question to me regarding my number seven random fact about me. Jackie's comment:"Regarding #7, sometimes I "nervously" feel I have to speak to people that I encounter in doorways, elevators, etc... Not that I feel overly sour (which I just usually feel somewhat reclusive and forced to be near these people). But I try to be as nice as I can, usually

Eight

2007-07-12T01:02:00.000-05:00

Dazd has tagged me with a meme. I am putting on my thinking cap and will see what I come up with. So here goes.....1. Post the rules for the meme at the beginning of your post.2. This meme consists of the blogger listing eight random facts/habits about themselves.3. People who are tagged in this post are to write their own post listing their own eight random items and list the rules.4. At the end

Grocery Store Rant

2007-07-12T00:05:00.000-05:00

Dear Grocery Store Owner,Your grocery store is the only store in town that is open 24/7. I get off work at midnight and it is around this time when I do my grocery shopping. About three months ago you hired a new cashier for this night time shift. He is pleasant enough (although a bit confused over doing things like refunds and price checks) but I have discovered to my dismay that he has a lot of

"Remember Me"

2007-06-30T03:26:00.000-05:00

I haven't had any luck in posting this you tube video so I will just post the link to it. It's called "Remember Me". A friend emailed it to me and I wanted to share it with you.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervaMPt4Ha0Jacob was buried on Wednesday. Over 320 people attended the funeral. Fortunately one group of people who threatened to be there to picket at his funeral did not show up. They were

Feeling relieved

2007-06-25T12:32:00.000-05:00

Dexter and I just got back from a visit to the vet. I went to a different vet than the one I have been taking him to. This vet is the same one my parents take their dogs to. I am relieved that the lump on his neck isn't anything to worry about! The doc said it was a sebaceous cyst and since it isn't bothering Dex that we don't need to do anything about it. That was good news for me. I was

Taken too soon

2007-06-23T02:24:00.000-05:00

This is Jacob. He is coming home in the morning. There won't be happy hugs and kisses or parties with family and friends. Instead around 9 in the morning people in my little town will be lining the streets as Jacob is brought home to his final resting place. He died on Monday in Iraq as a result of injuries suffered when he was riding in aHUMVEE on Sunday near Baghdad and itstruck an improvised

Happy Father's Day!

2007-06-17T11:49:00.000-05:00

My younger brother and my Dad went fishing earlier today and should be back home in a few hours. My sister and I plan to take Dad and Mom out to dinner to celebrate Father's Day. We don't know where we will go yet. My sister told Dad it would be his choice. I know he loves a certain Amish restaurant but it's quite a drive from here and he might not want to travel that far after fishing all day.

Ahhh...the weekend

2007-06-16T02:40:00.000-05:00

I was so relieved when quitting time came at work tonight. It has been a long week. Why is it that some weeks just zip by so quickly and others just go at a snail's pace? It was like watching water boil tonight. I didn't think midnight would ever come so I could go home!Last Thursday the youngest son of one of our employees died in a drowning accident. The funeral was on Monday. His mother, "L"

A Bunch of Fives (Meme)

2007-06-08T04:01:00.000-05:00

cmk tagged me with this meme...so here is mine.A BUNCH OF FIVESInstructions: Remove the blog from the top, move all blogs up one, add yourself to the bottom.Blogging ObsessionJersey MumDeeper Shades of RedOut of My MindSomewhere Over the RainbowOkay here comes the tricky part for me! I'm supposed to tag five people.I always worry about tagging people because from reading different blogs over the

Checking in

2007-06-08T01:59:00.000-05:00

This past weekend my daughter came up for a visit! I was so glad to see her. She arrived on Saturday and had to go home on Monday. On Saturday we went to a state park that is about 28 miles away. My parents and sister and her family were already there camping. My parents had left on Wednesday to go to the campsite, so they didn't even know that my daughter was coming for a visit. They were very

Mmmm Mangoes!

2007-05-27T22:31:00.000-05:00

These yummy mangoes arrived a few days ago from ksquest! She took this picture of them before she mailed them out. Thank you so much, k!I had never eaten a mango before. Oh, I have had the Del Monte canned tropical fruit cocktail which has bits of mango in it but I've never had fresh mango fruit. Those bits in the canned fruit don't even taste like this. I had read about how to cut up a mango

Already dreading Monday

2007-05-25T08:41:00.000-05:00

Well, my daughter was planning to be here on Thursday but things came up and she told me on Wednesday morning that she wouldn't be able to come until Saturday. She called me at six o'clock this morning to tell me that she had been up all night and still hadn't been to sleep because of something that happened yesterday. One of her co-workers was found dead in his apartment. She said he had been

Monday, Monday

2007-05-21T12:25:00.000-05:00

I feel so lazy today! My house is screaming at me, "clean me, clean me!"I reply, "Nah!" I did manage to do some laundry and vacuum the living room. That is it. Yesterday I watched a Netflix movie for the second time. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. The first time I watched it, I "accidentally" fell asleep on the sofa before it ended. That doesn't mean it was a boring movie. I was just

Seven days off

2007-05-20T10:26:00.000-05:00

I am on vacation this week. Yippee! I don't have to return to work until Memorial Day. I don't have any major plans. My daughter might be coming for a visit. I will be getting a mammogram done on Tuesday and I have a recheck doctor's appointment on Wednesday. I have been on a diet eating program since April 9th. So far so good. I am determined to stay the course during my vacation. Ever

For all you gardeners out there

2007-05-20T00:38:00.000-05:00

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Movie Madness Update Answers

2007-05-18T04:37:00.000-05:00

Mrs. Who has tagged me with this movie meme. "Pick out ten favorite movies, then look them up at IMDb. In the overview at the top of each movie’s page, there are “Plot Keywords,” usually five of them. (Plus more, if you click the link.) Take the first five, and post them. Then the rest of us get to play movie buff and see if we can guess them."I had a hard time guessing which movies were Mrs.

Happy Mother's Day!

2007-05-13T03:00:00.000-05:00

A long night

2007-05-13T02:56:00.000-05:00

I was so glad to come home from work tonight. It was very busy in the e.r. I don't know how those e.r. nurses do it! God bless 'em. Most of the night the e.r was so full that every bed in there was occupied. Surprisingly by the time I clocked out we hadn't had any in-patient admissions though.******I won't can't go into extreme details but you can "read between the lines." How can a mother be in

7 Things Meme

2007-05-09T03:33:00.000-05:00

Ordinary Life's Janet has tagged me with this meme. I am supposed to come up with seven random facts/habits about me. Here goes....1. I am a nail biter. Almost my whole life I have been a nail biter. About ten years ago I stopped biting my fingernails. It was just out of the blue that I noticed one day that I hadn't been biting them and they were growing out. For some unknown reason I had lost

Farts Are Funny

2007-05-08T02:20:00.000-05:00

This "funny" was sent to me by a good friend. Tonight at work I was beginning to think that Monday must be the day that people are making sure to eat all their beans and cabbage. A sweet elderly couple sat down at my desk to register for labwork. They were both very hard of hearing.The woman must have had something interesting to eat earlier in the day. I will just say it. She farted. Not just

Thank You

2007-05-04T02:13:00.000-05:00

Thank you for the comments on my last post. When I came home from work tonight I noticed my caller i.d. said I had had one new call while I was at work. I checked it and the call came at 3:45 pm and it listed an unknown "wireless" number that I have never seen before. It makes me wonder if M tried to call me. I am glad I wasn't home to answer that call.If it was him I certainly don't want to talk

Peace of Mind

2007-05-01T03:43:00.000-05:00

I've been going through some "crap" lately and I am going to just write about it and get if off my chest. The "crap" has to do with my ex-boyfriend "M". I feel like such a foolish idiot for ever getting involved with him in the first place. I wrote about him several months ago. This will probably be a very long post and I am going to really let it all out. It isn't going to be a positive upbeat

Slow Motion Memories

2007-04-24T02:00:00.000-05:00

This is a picture of my maternal grandmother and me.In February 1964 (eight months before I turned six) I was in a very bad car accident. My maternal grandmother and my mother's step-father had driven down here from northern Indiana (where my mother was raised and where I lived later during 2nd grade) to pick up me, my mother and my little sister to take us back up north for a week-long visit

Take time to smell the flowers

2007-04-21T19:08:00.000-05:00

This is me at age 5.

"runt stories"

2007-04-21T12:42:00.000-05:00

Tink from Pickled Beef put up a post that sent me down my own memory road. She talks about some funny childhood memories and calls them her "runt stories". She asked her readers to give some of our own runt stories. These are some that came to my mind. So here goes.Where's my panties?I was in second grade. This was around 1965? Most mornings I would walk to school. I think the school was about

TGIF

2007-04-13T01:55:00.000-05:00

A friend sent this to me in an email. Too bad we can't post a sign like this in the public restrooms where I work at the hospital! I hate going to the bathroom and finding dribbles all over the toilet seat. Don't people look at the toilet after they are finished with their business? Ugh!I get the day off tomorrow because I will be working this weekend. Maybe it is a good thing that I will spend

Talented Kids

2007-04-01T20:02:00.000-05:00

These are the Tuttle kids. Michael aged 8, Sullivan aged 10 and backed by their sister Molly aged 13. I am going to have to get my Dad over here (since their computer has died)to see this sometime.I googled their names and discovered that their father Jack is a music instructor and performer. There are some additional links on his site of daughter Molly singing and playing the guitar and banjo.

Another Meme

2007-03-31T02:31:00.000-05:00

I have seen this meme on a few blogs including Hammer's. So I decided to give a go at it.List four sentences you’ve never said before:1) Can I squeeze your zit? (I have a relative who has actually said this and enjoys doing this for others. Not for me, thank you!)2) Mmmm, let's eat some hominy! (or beets)3) My boss is a sweetheart.4) I wish I were shorter.List any number of song titles that

Nature's Little Helpers

2007-03-31T01:59:00.000-05:00

I can't remember how I initially found this website but I wanted to share it with you. An Australian artist named Patricia Piccinini created these awesome sculptures. Be sure to check out her other creations listed on the left and click on the "more" pictures in each category. At first I was disturbed by the pictures and then found myself just awestruck. What do you think?

This and That

2007-03-27T02:50:00.000-05:00

I went over to my parent's house on Sunday. My youngest brother and his wife were there too. The weather was so nice and it looks like this whole week we will be having good weather. I always take my dog, Dexter with me over to Mom's. He has fun playing with their dogs. My brother had brought his three dogs so altogether there were seven dogs over there! My brother just got a new yellow lab

cough Checking in cough

2007-03-21T02:28:00.000-05:00

Common ColdBy Ogden NashGo hang yourself, you old M.D.!You shall not sneer at me.Pick up your hat and stethoscope,Go wash your mouth with laundry soap; I contemplate a joy exquisite I'm not paying you for your visit.I did not call you to be told My malady is a common cold.By pounding brow and swollen lip;By fever's hot and scaly grip;By those two red redundant eyesThat weep like woeful April

Sitemeter problems?

2007-03-11T16:42:00.000-05:00

It appears that my sitemeter stopped functioning sometime on Wednesday. I know I had some comments here on Wednesday and Thursday but Sitemeter didn't account for those visitors. I went to technorati.com and did a word search of "sitemeter" and found out that other bloggers are experiencing the same problem. If it doesn't start working soon, I may end up trying another stat counter.I enjoy

Music Jukebox

2007-03-08T01:57:00.000-06:00

This is a fantastic website with the "best of the top 100 from the golden years of popular music". I have been having so much fun listening to all the different years they have on their jukebox! I listened to the year I was born, 1958 and then listened to the year I got married, 1978 and the year my daughter was born, 1980 and several of the years in the 50's and 60's. I really liked the

My Visual DNA

2007-03-06T03:06:00.000-06:00

Read my VisualDNA™ Get your own VisualDNA™H/T to Lisa and Mrs. Who!By the way, I have been wondering for the longest time what H/T means when I see it on other people's blogs. I knew it meant that the person was giving credit to another blogger but just didn't know what it stood for. Duh at me! Hat tip! That's it. I googled my question and found out I was not the only one who had been

Of cavemen and weddings

2007-03-03T13:33:00.000-06:00

I must have esp! A few weeks ago I was telling a friend that I wished that the Geico cavemen would be featured in their own movie or tv show. I just love those commercials. Well, now apparently the Geico cavemen may get their own tv series. I hope the writers do a good job on the pilot and hopefully it will be picked up as a possible new show and then I can get my caveman fix!My 43 year old

Stolen Meme

2007-02-28T04:14:00.000-06:00

Stolen meme from cmk's Out of My Mind.How tall are you barefoot? 5 ft. 5 1/2 in.Have you ever flown first-class? I have never been on a plane and doubt I ever will.One of your favorite books when you were a child? Harriet the Spy.A good restaurant in your city? Joe's Italian.What is your favorite small appliance? The Cuisinart toaster my parents gave me last Christmas.One person who never fails

Who da baby mama?

2007-02-28T03:03:00.000-06:00

Hospital switchboard conversation tonight:Outside call rings in.Me: "Blank Blank Hospital."Older woman caller: "Lemme have da OB!"Me: "Do you need the ob nurse or a patient?" (Invariably the callers want a patient so instead of ringing the call to the busy ob nurse, it is easier to just pass the call on to the ob patient.)Older woman caller: "I just wanna talk to da baby daddy!"Me: "What is the

A good day

2007-02-22T03:02:00.000-06:00

The snow has all melted and now my back yard (where I park my car) has turned into a muddy mess. When I left for work earlier today, I was afraid I was going to get stuck in the muddy mire. As I backed my car out toward the back alley, my tires made deep grooves in the back yard and I almost got stuck. Mud was flying everywhere and by the time I managed to get the car out to the alleyway my white

My Valentine Baby

2007-02-14T03:08:00.000-06:00

Twenty-seven years ago I gave birth to my baby girl. I wish I could be with her on her birthday. I really miss my special girl. That is what I called her during her growing up years and every so often I still call her "special girl".I sent her birthday gift and I hope she will get it on her birthday. It is a framed print of "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt. He is one of her favorite artists. One night

Patchwork Post

2007-02-12T03:17:00.000-06:00

I just checked my email a while ago and I have noticed that email spammers aren't even trying anymore. They just aren't using much creative imagination anymore, are they? Of course I never open up any email from anyone I don't know but what gets me is how the spammer's emails have the goofiest sender names and even goofier subject titles. The subject lines used to tell me how I can grow a bigger

Brrrrr it's cold!

2007-02-08T02:39:00.000-06:00

We really haven't had too much snow here yet but it sure has been cold! Brrrrr! I am always cold anyway because my circulation isn't very good.My hands, feet and nose are always cold. Tonight when I was at work I was so cold that I put on a pair of gloves hoping my hands would warm up. I found out that I can type while wearing gloves but it looks funny!The entrance to the hospital emergency room

Chimpanzee Dreams

2007-02-02T04:08:00.000-06:00

I was looking at these wonderful photos that Velvet Sacks took. Take a look at them. Aren't they cool? Her picture of the baboon behind the cage bars brought back some childhood memories.When I was a kid our family went to the zoo several times. I loved looking at the elephants, giraffes, bears, and hippos but my favorite was the chimpanzees. They were so cute and cuddly looking and I wanted one

What happened the year you were born?

2007-01-27T03:14:00.000-06:00

In 1958 (the year you were born)Dwight Eisenhower is president of the USThe first US earth satellite, Explorer I, goes into orbitRocker Jerry Lee Lewis marries his 13 year old second cousin, Myra BrownThe "Quiz Show Scandals" rock the television industry and the nationVice President Richard Nixon faces hostile anti-American mobs during a visit to South America14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the

Lady of Leisure

2007-01-25T01:41:00.000-06:00

It has been really nice not having to go to work this week. I have been catching up on reading several blogs and have found some new ones. I have yet to leave my house but tomorrow I will go over to my parent's house. I will take a couple Netflix movies over there to watch with them.The movies I got in the mail this week are Elling (a Norwegian film with subtitles), The Station Agent and Little

Blogging for Dummies

2007-01-23T16:24:00.000-06:00

I am very grateful for the comment Lisa left in my last post. Somehow I must have accidentally clicked on the "edit html" button before typing out my last few blog posts and didn't realize it! I thought Blogger had done some changing and I was out of the loop. Duh! As soon as I read her comment I clicked on the create a post button and sure enough there I saw the options at the top of the box. I

Accepting my award

2007-01-23T08:12:00.000-06:00

I just watched the live anouncement of the nominations for the Academy Awards for 2006. That is a nice segue to my own award. Lisa has given me her award for winning the Crazy Letters Challenge! Her challenge was to come up with a sentence using the Captcha letters from a friend's blog. The letters for this challenge were:I admit that I do have a dirty mind when it comes to coming up with

Off work for seven days!

2007-01-22T01:56:00.000-06:00

I was so happy to clock out at work tonight because now I am officially on vacation!I don't have to go back to work until the 29th. What do I plan to do while I am off? Laze around and read and also watch some of my Netflix movies and play with my dog! I will visit my parents and grandmother too but the first few days I just plan to hibernate inside my humble abode. It may sound boring to

How many have your name?

2007-01-21T02:13:00.000-06:00

HowManyOfMe.comThere are:15people with my namein the U.S.A.How many have your name?I got this in an email from a friend. I don't know how reliable it is but it is interesting.

Can't sleep, therefore I blog

2007-01-19T04:30:00.000-06:00

At work last night I found out that one of my co-workers will be moving to day shift. I am really going to miss her. We worked very well as a team and we have had a lot of good laughs together. Another of my co-workers had to quit recently when her husband's health took a nose-dive.A new employee will be starting soon. That means something else that I dread. Training. Ugh. I hate training new

Happy Endings

2007-01-14T16:02:00.000-06:00

I was so astonished and happy to hear about the two kidnapped boys Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby being found and returned to their worried families. There is some interesting reading about the case on Steve Huff's Crime Blog and the comments are just as interesting. Shawn's case reminds me of the Steven Stayner case. You probably saw the tv movie about Steven Stayner who was kidnapped by a

Sunday Funnies

2007-01-14T12:53:00.000-06:00

My favorite comic strips are Maxine and John McPherson's Close To Home series. I like The Far Side too. My favorite comic strip when I was a kid was Nancy and Sluggo. Check out that link and click on the comic boxes to the left and right to see the scanned pages of an entire 1953 Nancy and Sluggo comic book.

Frustrations

2007-01-11T01:35:00.000-06:00

My sister and brother gave me a dvd/cd/vhs player for Christmas. I hooked it up a few nights ago following the directions that came with it. Easy, right? Not! My first three Netflix dvds arrived in the mail on Tuesday and after fiddling around forever with the new dvd player somehow I managed to get the movie to show up on the tv screen. I thought I had figured the machine out but the next day

Movies, Movies, Movies!

2007-01-06T18:34:00.000-06:00

I have signed up with Netflix and have been having fun picking out my movie line-up. Just picking out the movies to place in my "queue" has become addictive! I have already placed 64 movies on my list.I keep seeing movies on their site that I have heard of but never got to see or after reading the descriptions and reviews of others I have to add those too! I chose the "3 at-a-time unlimited"

Happy Two Double-O Seven!

2007-01-01T01:38:00.001-06:00

Happy New Year! I imagine I am going to have trouble remembering to write '07 while at work tomorrow and on my checks and whatnot. I didn't go anywhere for New Year's and that was perfectly fine with me. I enjoyed my one day off (I had to work on Saturday) and just stayed inside and chilled. I didn't really do much. I watched tv, vacuumed the living room and dining room, played with Dexter (

Santa has come and gone!

2006-12-28T04:16:00.000-06:00

That's a Christmas picture of me way back when. I am guessing that I am three or four years old. That was my Thumbelina doll. I loved that doll so much! A few years ago for Christmas my parents gave me an Ashton Drake reproduction Thumbelina doll. They enclosed in the box this picture. I don't have my original Thumbelina doll. A few years after I got the doll in the picture, my family was

Merry Christmas!

2006-12-23T13:48:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas!

Go Elf Yourself!

2006-12-21T05:33:00.000-06:00

I saw this over at Lisa's blog and decided to try to "elf myself" too! Click on this link and you can see me doing an elf dance. You can elf yourself too and email it to your friends and family. I am sure my niece will get a kick out of this!

150 Things Meme

2006-12-21T02:10:00.000-06:00

Okay, Janet I will tag myself with your meme!Rules – copy the list and bold face the items you’ve done. Wait for some comments then answer the questions. Here goes....01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink02. Swam with wild dolphins03. Climbed a mountain04. Driven anything over 100 MPH05. Been inside the Great Pyramid06. Held a tarantula07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone08. Said “I love you”

Switched to Beta

2006-12-19T02:37:00.000-06:00

Well, I made the switch to Beta Blogger. I am not sure yet what is so different about it. Maybe now I won't have difficulty making comments on other Beta Blogger's blogs too.

A Sweet Story

2006-12-15T05:27:00.000-06:00

I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of actor Peter Boyle. I loved him in Everybody Loves Raymond. He was hilarious in Young Frankenstein. I was amazed by his performance in Monster's Ball too.I just read the sweetest story about him over at CP's blog.Go check it out. What a dear man. Thank you CP for sharing your story!Rest in peace, Mr. Boyle.

Stocking Stuffers

2006-12-15T03:58:00.000-06:00

I have been trying to come up with some unique ideas for things to put in my daughter's and parents' Christmas stockings. When we were kids my parents didn't have stockings but after we got a bit older we all decided that Mom and Dad should have stockings too. I have been remembering some of the things that we would put in their stockings over the years.Mom would get a new whisk or a spatula. Her

A Christmas Funny

2006-12-15T03:54:00.000-06:00

Grrr@Blogger

2006-12-12T13:51:00.000-06:00

Is anyone besides me having troubles putting a comment on any other Blogger blogs? I have tried the last few days to post a comment over at cmk's blog Out of My Mind but after I put in the word verification letters and then my username and password it tells me that my password isn't correct. Hmmm. It works just fine here! Could it be because I have not switched over to the beta version on my own

Holiday Snowglobe

2006-12-10T14:10:00.000-06:00

You may have seen this before. Check it out. It's pretty funny. Listen and watch the whole scene before you start shaking it up. Enjoy!Holiday Snowglobe

Just checking in

2006-12-10T14:01:00.000-06:00

Taking a little break from housecleaning. Oh my...I have so much to do around here to get ready for Christmas! I haven't put my tree up yet either. It's just a small little artificial tree that I got last year. I haven't had a real tree in several years but I really miss the scent of a real one.I almost deleted the last two posts because I felt like they were so darn depressing. I have been in a

This and That

2006-12-08T02:47:00.000-06:00

Brrrr! It was so cold outside when I got off work tonight. We had just a light dusting of snow late last night but by the time I went to work it was gone but it sure is cold.Tonight at the hospital where I work, the Grief Relief group in conjunction with the hospital hosted a community memorial service in the hospital lobby next to where I work. The Christmas tree was lighted with lights that

Emotional Mix

2006-11-27T20:18:00.000-06:00

I'm off work tonight. Yesterday at work it was very hectic and busy. A lot of sick people came to e.r. and there was also a horrible car accident with three fatalities. I only knew that there had been a wreck involving a car and a semi-truck. I don't get the daily newspaper so I called my mother this evening. Mom told me who was killed and my heart is breaking.Killed in the accident was the

T'was the Night Before Thanksgiving

2006-11-24T17:01:00.000-06:00

Isn't this funny? I wish I had found it before this Thanksgiving but I didn't want to wait a whole year before putting it up! Poor Tom Turkey!Unfortunately I had to work this Thanksgiving. It was a different kind of holiday for my whole family. My parents discovered that a local grocery store was taking orders to cook a whole Thanksgiving meal and since nobody was going to be at their house and

Some people have no shame

2006-11-17T13:59:00.000-06:00

So O. J. Simpson has written a book entitled "If I Did It" describing how he would have committed the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman "if he were the one responsible".I would suggest he should have titled this piece of trash "If I Killed Your Mother". Does this man feel any shame? Does he not care about the feelings of his children? Obviously not!

Replies re. my Littleville post

2006-11-14T03:23:00.000-06:00

My reply in the comment section of the last post about Littleville was getting a bit too long so I will just put them up here.Lisa, I wish I could have seen Littleville when it was still intact too!K, Thanks...that is a such a sweet thing to say! Although regarding blogging, I get in a rut a lot and just blank out. Also, I enjoy reading other people's blogs and then forget to put aside some time

Littleville

2006-11-12T02:23:00.000-06:00

This is a picture of me, my brother and my sister along with my beloved great-grandpa Murray.I loved Grandpa Murray so much. He was such a sweet gentle soul. The scattered memories I have of him are all good ones. He was a very creative person. His claim to fame within our family was his creation of a tiny village called "Littleville". He built small dollhouse size houses, and other buildings all

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Dusting Off the Cobwebs

Where did my weekend go?

Scattergories

Thanks, Janet!

A Wild Ride

Band Meme (HT to Hammer)

Electoral Compass

Book Game (HT to cmk)

This and That

Merry Christmas!

This and That

Christmas Meme

Yellow Snow Time

My Special Girl

Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday Funny

My Buddy

Fifty Years

I wanna win the lottery

Getting old sucks

Congrats and Past Due Thank Yous

Sunday Funnies & a Lisa Update

More This and That

Quickie Post

Misplaced Muse

young and pretty

This and That

The notebook

Feeling better

How am I today?

Eight

Grocery Store Rant

"Remember Me"

Feeling relieved

Taken too soon

Happy Father's Day!

Ahhh...the weekend

A Bunch of Fives (Meme)

Checking in

Mmmm Mangoes!

Already dreading Monday

Monday, Monday

Seven days off

For all you gardeners out there

Movie Madness *Update Answers*

Happy Mother's Day!

A long night

7 Things Meme

Farts Are Funny

Thank You

Peace of Mind

Slow Motion Memories

Take time to smell the flowers

"runt stories"

TGIF

Talented Kids

Another Meme

Nature's Little Helpers

This and That

*cough* Checking in *cough*

Sitemeter problems?

Music Jukebox

My Visual DNA

Of cavemen and weddings

Stolen Meme

Who da baby mama?

A good day

My Valentine Baby

Patchwork Post

Brrrrr it's cold!

Chimpanzee Dreams

What happened the year you were born?

Lady of Leisure

Blogging for Dummies

Accepting my award

Off work for seven days!

How many have your name?

Can't sleep, therefore I blog

Happy Endings

Movie Madness Update Answers

cough Checking in cough