Wednesday, February 27, 2008

I got this email from Jen yesterday and I meant to post it here last night, but forgot...until I saw Mel's post.
So, better late than never...


Four things You May or May Not Know About Me

This one is a bit different from the rest. Four things about me
that you may or may not have known, in no particular
order.


A) Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. Cashier
2. Sales Clerk, antique jewelry store
3. Nurse
4. Computer geek

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. Casablanca
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Funny Girl
4. Dreamgirls


Four places I've Lived:

1. Boston, Mass
2. Mobile, Alabama
3. Buffalo, New York
4. Boiling Springs, PA
...I could go on for several more...

D) Four TV shows that I watch:
1. House
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. If Walls Could Talk
4. American Idol

E) Four places I have been:
1. Africa
2. St. Maartin/St. Martin
3. Brazil
4. Lac Cayamont, Quebec

F) People who e-mail me regularly:

1. Mel
2. Chris
3. Don
4. Heather

G) Four of my favorite foods:

1. Chocolate anything
2. Steak on the grill
3. Veggie soup
4. Watermelon

Four places I would rather be right now

1. Drinking coffee in Kona, Hawaii...
2. Surfside Beach with 15 or 20 other people
3. Having fam din at Chris' house with grampie, gram, and the rest of the fam
4. At the coffee shop

I) Four friends I think will respond:

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3.
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Four things I am looking forward to this year

1. meeting Misha
2. Christmas with the fam
3. Warm summer nights on the deck
4. Spending time with Cammie and Kaela

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Sometimes you just have to say when you are MAD

I've settled into the doldrums of winter. It's cold. When I get home from work, I just want a blanket and the couch. I'm reading a good book. I don't have time to blog. American Idol is on. I really don't have time to blog. But today (while watching American Idol) I have been moved to relieve myself of some anger via the blog. By the way, this isn't about politics...exactly.

Yesterday Michelle Obama said “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country" WHAT??? Can I clarify that? She wasn't proud of this country when we...WE .. caused the end of Cold War? When she saw the people tearing down the Berlin Wall one stone at a time? When millions of American flags were hung in yards, taped to office cubes and windows and waved from cars on September 12, 2001? When our government underwent an orderly transition of power in spite of questions of hanging chads and popular vs electoral vote?

Doesn't pride in these things come down to belief in America? And, if she doesn't hold her country dear and believe in America, why would she want to .. and why should she .. be first lady? I don't know either.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

A Few of My Favorite...

...Pictures

There are just some pictures that I have to keep going back to, often and over and over. Some are hanging in my house. Some are on my ipod or iphone so that I can just check them out when I need to. So, I thought I'd share..

And since I started downloading them to this page, I realized that I'll have to add a subtitle here. This is Part 1 (there are way too many to put in just one post):This is my Dad. I think he was quite the handsome dude in his uniform. I think he was quite the handsome dude every day of his life.



This is my Mom. She looks like a movie star.. ok, I have to ask, though..do you notice that she and my sister both have some kind of hair sausage on their heads? It must have been the style though..my mom was always in style.


This is my grandson, Cammie. I really can't stand Anne Geddes. Her photos of baby-in-cabbage are just too much for me. This reminds me of that. But ..this is my grandson. Have you ever seen anything as cute?


Except maybe this. I could eat him up.


Oh yeah. Or this. PUL-EEZE...


And last, because he just assumed this position... Awwwww....