I know you better than you think I do
By admin | August 19, 2008
We are sitting in the living room on Sunday evening and out of the blue this happens:
Poor Scotty, “Well, it’s official.”
My sister & I are like “what?”
Poor Scotty, “Um, geez I can’t remember his name.” Then he proceeds to try and figure out what he is trying to say.
Me, “Ryan Newman is driving for Tony Stewart?”
Poor Scotty, “Yes!”
Poor Scotty, “Lucky you were here.”
Yes you are lucky I’m still here.
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“It’s easier for me if you do it.”
By admin | August 19, 2008
Never have so few words changed my life. My sister brought up the subject of ordering food one evening. I agreed and we decided on the restaurant. Then we had this conversation.
Sister, “Would you call and order.”
Me, “Or you could.”
Sister, “It’s easier for me if you do it.”
It was right then that I realized most of the people in my life live by this motto. They let me do ‘it.’ Since that day I’ve been very conscious about every conversation I have. I no longer offer my help, which was my biggest mistake and entirely my fault.
I’ve also done some people watching and have found that men in general will allow women to do ‘it.’ Which of course is not a news flash. I was watching Big Brother a while back and there was an endurance competition. All were to stand on a small ledge while CBS imitated a storm and earthquake. The men were the first to drop and let two women compete for over two hours. When they finally come down, one of them couldn’t even walk she was so cramped up. Of course half of the guys benefited from the women holding on. This shouted “IT’S EASIER FOR ME IF YOU DO IT.” Lazy effin dudes.
Go ahead ask me for something…I dare ya.
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Bummer of a day
By admin | August 16, 2008
I found out today that one of my uncles committed suicide. Depression has been a part of my family for years, on both my mom’s and dad’s side of the family. This uncle had been suffering for several years and finally couldn’t do it any more. He leaves a wife, three daughters, one son, and several grandchildren. God Bless.
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Henry Poole is Here
By admin | August 12, 2008
I just saw a commercial for this movie and it reminded me of something I find comical. So often you read a story or see something on TV where someone sees the face of Jesus or the Virgin Mary in their toast or better yet, their toilet stain. Come on.
Why are these sightings always Jesus or Mary? Maybe its your old uncle Charles, or more likely its a stain.
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Happy Birthd…What?
By admin | August 7, 2008
Today is my sister’s birthday. She gets a text from one of her sons and she’s excited and expects to read ‘Happy Birthday Mom.’ But instead he asks her ‘What’s it called when you get a boner when you die?’
She responded with the clinical term and told him it wasn’t when you die. My answer would have been ‘too late.’
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Don’t know why it happened, but it works now
By admin | August 5, 2008
I’m finally able to catch my breath…whew! Each morning I download about 60 email messages when I first turn on my computer. It seemed really strange that the weekend delivered nothing, even though they are usually light anyway. So, I’m not too worried about it. Until Monday. Yesterday when I should have had a ton of emails right away in the morning I knew something was wrong. I hate it when I have to deal with messed up technology because I don’t understand as much of it as I should.
Before I go on, I need to tell you that I have made absolutely NO CHANGES at all to my email settings. I’ve been doing just fine this way for years. OK, now because I needed a place to start, I called Comcast (hi again Mark, if that’s your real name). I’ll have to tell you about this guy sometime…sort of creeped me out one day. Any way I talk to some guy at Comcast and he helps me make some changes. Can’t believe it was working the way I had it. After the changes I could download email sent to my Comcast email. Thanks dude, that takes care of a third of my problem.
Next I call GoDaddy and talk to another dude. Actually I end up calling GoDaddy three times and talking to three different guys. They all are helpful in their own ways. And yes you can send me the survey. Between the GoDaddy calls I call Ross at Aaces and ask for his help as well. In the past Ross has been the most helpful person I’ve ever had to deal with. I’m on the East coast and he is on the West coast and I swear he must get out of bed to help his clients, because I’ve emailed him at 7:00 am and he’s on the phone within minutes. What time is that on the West coast??? Ross was his usual calm helpful self again.
My entire morning was making phone calls and changing settings. The entire time knowing that my clients have no idea I’m not receiving their emails. I even told one guy I thought I might have a panic attack soon and he assured me we would get this figured out. And alas, we did. Between all five customer service technicians I made a host of changes. Not one change fixed everything, but the combination fixed it all. Now my question is what the fuck happened to screw it all up? Something happened between the time I shut down on Friday night and turned it on Saturday morning. This is a mystery that will not be solved.
When things were back up I emailed my one client who I knew had sent me things and asked her to resend everything since Friday evening. Within ten minutes I had 53 emails from her and as of right now another 40+. So, my eyes are ready to fall out of my skull they are strained from too much staring at the computer.
One last thing before I give my eyes a break. Kudos to Comcast, Aaces, and GoDaddy for having such knowledgeable, friendly, calm, and most importantly, English speaking technical support guys. Keep it in the US.
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I see dead people
By admin | July 31, 2008
The strangest thing is happening lately. When I think back, it’s probably been going on for a while. My granddaughter has recently started talking about a ‘guy.’ I think back a few months when she first showed me her new room at their new house. One of the first things she did was walk over the a spot in front of the closet and point to the floor and say ‘guy.’ This is when she wasn’t making full sentences yet. Since they’ve moved in she regularly comes to their bed at night. They were thinking she was afraid because the first three nights in the new house were filled with terrible thunderstorms and tornado warnings. But now I have to wonder.
So a few weeks ago my niece goes back home and I clean up the room she was in (Ly’s old room at gma’s) and put all her stuff back in there. The first day she is here she’s acting afraid to go into my room and tells me there is a guy in the hall. Since then she sees him every time she is here. She’s afraid of him, but when I go with her she will point to where she sees him and will go with me to sit there or look under the bed. When I’m there she’s not afraid. It’s as though she is scared when she first catches a glimpse of him. She is even very cautious when walking through the bedroom areas of the house.
Mommy says she always talks about him at home too. It’s very upsetting to us that she is frightened of whatever this is.
We basically live where thousands of soldiers died during the civil war, so ghosts are sort of expected. And we are open to them. But if she sees this ‘guy’ here and at home, its not the same ghost. I’m thinking its her guardian angel, but its scary to her because she doesn’t understand.
When I think back, she’s been talking about this ‘guy’ since she said her first word. When we would talk about what they did over the weekend I would talk about her, mommy, and daddy; but she would always say and ‘guy.’
We don’t know how to calm her fears and it really bothers us.
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No change on the scale
By admin | July 28, 2008
But I feel really good at this weight. It’s not like I’ve never been here, I’ve been less most of my life. The best part of this 8 pounds is that my back boobs are gone. I can actually wear tighter fitting tops and not worry about whether people wonder if I’m coming or going. I’m sick of the core foods, well not sick of them, sick of eating ONLY them.
So I’m expanding my choices (without Weight Watchers) and will see what comes of it. I’m not going back to the super fatty stuff, I will make good choices, but I can’t live that way.
It’s my anniversary today and if Poor Scotty hadn’t called, I wouldn’t have remembered; or even cared.
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He’s struggling to keep his eyes off her boobs
By admin | July 23, 2008
I’ve got Live with Regis & Kelly on in the background. The first guest is Jennifer Hudson and she’s dressed in a pretty summer dress, and it shows off her giant boobs. You can see Regis trying so hard to not look at those giant lady bumps. Poor guy, but he’s a professional and does a great job.
God if it were me I know wouldn’t be able to stop myself from saying ‘holy crap your boobs are huge.’
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Not such a great weigh in today
By admin | July 19, 2008
I knew this wasn’t a week of weight loss, but I didn’t expect to gain 2 pounds. Well, maybe I did. We went to Noodles & Company on Thursday and I did really well there. I ordered a small Pad Thai…mmmmm. It was nice to know I could eat out, and not a salad, and still stay within my points.
Yesterday put me over the edge. I had to drop my Verizon converter boxes off at UPS and unfortunately left the house at 11:00. I left UPS starving and in a moment of craving I went through the drive through at Taco Bell. Boy that tasted good. Then my sister came home and was hungry for Ruby Tuesday, so WTF, I’d already fucked up the diet today, so might as well go all the way. So I ordered the Triple Prime burger and polished it off big time, with fries of course.
So back to the store for better food. I think my problem is I’m trying to stay exclusively on the Core foods and getting pretty bored with it. I’m totally missing crackers and chips as I’ve always needed some crunch with my meals. A perfect lunch for me would be smoked salmon, good crackers and a diet Pepsi.
Oh, and we have dead people. I’ll post later today.
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