5 on Friday

1) Do you really make wishes when you blow out the candles on your cake?
Of course!
2) Have any of the wishes ever come true, if yes?
I always wish for vague stuff, like "Let this year be a good one." It always comes out more or less true, so it's a hard test to validate.
3) How do you feel about birthdays? (e.g. love the attention, just another day, don't want anyone to know my real age, etc.)
I'm just getting into the age where I don't look forward to birthdays. 21 is the last birthday that has a milestone worth looking forward to; now they just mean I'm getting older.
However, I still enjoy getting to celebrate. I always have and probably always will.
4) Tell us a favorite gift you've received, or something you'd really like for your next birthday.
Every gift is my favorite because it means you remembered me . . . Yeah, that's lame.
5) What flavor cake?
White cake with white frosting. Preferably store-bought. There's something about the icing and the way it hardens on the top layer . . . And I get the piece with the most icing roses, of course.

Paula Deen

Leave Paula Deen alone. Paula used a racial slur, she has went on TV and gave what I think is a heartfelt apology.This was a long time ago and I don't she should lose everything. Black people can say the n word all of the time but raise hell when white people do. Black Gangter Rappers (?) rap about it and it common for them to make millions of dollars using the "n" word. Is it wrong yes but it is wrong for everyone. Stop the double standards.

5 on Friday

1.Have you ever left the country you live in and where?
Nope. I've traveled a little around the states...but not much...and not near as much as I would like to!
2.What countries would you visit if time and money were not problems?
Time and money not a problem? When did I get a TARDIS?! That would be fantastic!... Australia for sure. Then I would  start in the UK - England Ireland Scotland...And I've been told that Italy is wonderful. So, that's on my list. 
3.Out of all the foreign food you've tried, which is your favorite and why?
I don't really have a favorite...It all depends on the mood & the food. :) 4.Can you name all 7 continents?
North and South America, Africa, Australia, Europe, Asia, and Antarctica. (It's been a day or two since I've been in school!)
5.Which continent are you least likely to ever want to see and why?
That would be  Antarctica....just because BURRRRRRRRR!!!

Celebrate Something

Celebrate something.
I saw that on a sign today. Nothing else, just those two words. It got me to thinking. I need to celebrate everyday. What a difference it could make in my outlook if I did that.
Celebrate something.

Milestones & Moments

“Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments”
Rose F. Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy 
 
I look back over my life and I can see lots of moments that became milestones. Sometimes those moments are moments that we wished had never happened but they cannot be changed now. Life is made up of all of them, good and bad. Death, birth, that peaceful moment right before dawn, the light touch on the hand and the kick in the head, all add up to our moments that make up our life.
I can think of so many moments that are my milestones. The death of my dad, each one shaped my life in different ways. The birth of my boys, their creation only took a moment, their birth another moment. My grand kids are another moment that shaped my life. With the coming of them into my life, life became joyful again. Another moment, a look across a crowded room, a kiss under the stars... Other moments not so pleasant to remember, hands on my throat, a fist, a kick, drugs and drink... Hard to think of them as milestones but they were, they were a part of my life that shaped me and made me who I am today.
 

right or happy

 
When you hold onto the past with bitterness and anger and don't allow yourself to experience the present moment, you are wasting today. If you hold onto old hurts, you punish yourself in the here and now. Often, you sit in a prison of self-righteous resentment. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
Louise Hay

5 on Friday

1. Do you remember your first crush? Did you tell them?
It seems silly to NOT remember, but I don't think I do? I really had my head up my a$$ when it came to boys. I know I freaked out when any of them showed any kind of interest (even if it was the I-tease-you-because-I-like-you kind that I didn't recognize 'til later). I didn't even like my first "boyfriend" (I use the term loosely) but I was pretty sure I was the only girl on the planet who hadn't had one yet at the ripe old age of 16.
 
2. Did you have a crush on a teacher? Which one?
No. I remember my classmates being all a-twitter about our middle school health teacher, and looking back he was pretty cute, but I guess I was still staunchly in my latency phase or something and didn’t really get what all the fuss was about. I don’t remember any of my high school teachers being crush material.

3. Do you still have crushes? Do you ever tell them?
I guess I have some passing crush feelings now and then, but since I am happy with being alone it hasn’t even occurred to me to act on them.
 
4. What is your opinion of someone telling your crush object you have a crush?
If you’re both available and you’re interested in seeing them, I think you should go for it pretty quickly. Waiting around pining for them isn’t likely to increase their chances of liking you back; conversely, it’s more likely to plant you firmly in the Friend or Creepy Stalker zone. Even if they reject you, you’re better off knowing sooner than later so it’s that much sooner you can move on.
 
5. What does "having a crush" mean to you?
I think of a “crush” as the first stage of romantic interest in someone. You’re attracted to them physically and probably know enough about their personality to see (or think you see) potential, but you’re not in love. I think many younger, inexperienced people mistake crushes for love because that’s the most intense form of romantic/physical attraction they’ve ever felt, but crushes are kind of the “empty calories” of love; they’re just that temporary stage of butterflies and giddiness without the real substance of true love. They’re much more superficial.

on Being Green

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f or future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person.
from an email.

Happy Birthday Morgan

Would you look at all that hair.

A brand new Morgan

Mom and Dad were so happy and proud.

Then all the sudden you were one!

We blinked and  you were two!

And now you are a big girl of Three.

More Rules to live by

1.  Be confident in being different. Normal people are boring.
2.  Don’t squat with your spurs on.
3.  Don’t spit into the wind. Don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger and don’t mess around with Jim.
4.  Hang the toilet paper going the right way. you know which way i mean….so the free edge comes over the top nicely and hangs down, just waiting to be grabbed. don’t be an a$$hole and hang it the other way.
5.  Whatever you do, own it. If you screw up, admit it and help fix the problem. If you do something awesome, own that, too. Don’t wave it off with a dismissive “it was nothing.”
6.  Keep your word.
7.  Remember that strength isn’t always a physical thing.
8. Find someone who “gets you and your sense of humor” and enjoy life!!!
9. Respect your elders. And listen to them. They’ve survived because they are smart.

Monday with Morgan Birthday Edition

June 12 Morgan turns 3years old. Wow the time has flown by. Her mommy and daddy had a Curious George Party for her. Here are a few pictures.

Her very colorful cake

She had just stuck her finger in the cake icing.

She walked her dog

She got new wheels.

And a good time was had by all.

5 on Friday

1. What's the song that you'll usually sing when you're in the shower?
I don't usually sing  in the shower

2. What kind of book/magazine do you read in the bathroom?
None. That is a horrible habit.


3. If you found a magic lamp, and you'll be able to get a wish, what would you wish for?
Good health and a never ending supply of money.

4. Do you order a McChicken plain?(as in, without the veggies)
Never I like the veggies on it.

5. What's your favorite type of chili sauce?Sweet chili sauce. love it especially on a pizza. yummy

Operation Overlord

D-Day June 6, 1944

 

It was 69 years ago today that our brave men landed on the beaches of Normandy. Many paid the ultimate sacrifice in our effort to thwart the enemy, and we are eternally grateful. 

Tolerance vs. Acceptance

 

tol·er·ance –noun
1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.
3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; 
ac·cep·tance n.
1. The act or process of accepting.
2. The state of being accepted or acceptable.
3. Favorable reception; approval.
If I say that I tolerate something, I feel like I am implying that I do not like the something.  That it has a negative connotation.  That I am permitting it to continue out of the goodness of my heart.  If I wasn't feeling so generous, I would put a stop to it.  But I preach tolerance.  I wish people could just tolerate one another.  Maybe they could just not kill each other.  That would be good.
I never think of tolerance like that, though.  I say that I am extremely tolerant, but perhaps i should say accepting.  Wouldn't it be nice if i had to preach acceptance?  If everyone tolerated each other, then the next step would be to accept one another.
I thought about this because I was thinking about people who are not tolerant of others.  People who can't accept small differences in opinions, such as whether pit bulls are dangerous or whether people who dislike The Office are retarded or not.  Whether using the word retarded is grounds for lynching.  People have such strong opinions that any one who thinks differently is a complete idiot.  I feel like I am very opinionated, passionate, and right.  But even when I know I'm right, I realize that the other person has had different experiences.  They grew up with a different set of values.  Perhaps they hate pit bulls because they have been bitten.  Maybe they love them because they breed them.
It really boggles my mind as to  why people cannot tolerate each other.

For Joe

Congratulations.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby bed were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitchhiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.Riding in the back of a truck - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! What do you think of this? Any truth in it? You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

This was from an email.