Archive for October, 2008


>THIS SAYS IT ALL:

>Time passes.

Life happens.

Distance separates.

Children grow up.

Jobs come and go.

Love waxes and wanes.

Men don’t do what they’re supposed to do.

Hearts break.

Parents die.

Colleagues forget favors.

Careers end.

BUT………

Sisters are there,no matter how much time and how many miles are between you.

A girl friend is never farther away than needing her can reach.

When you have to walk that lonesome valley and you have to walk it by yourself, the women in your life will be on the valley’s rim, cheering you on,praying for you, pulling for you, intervening on your behalf, and waiting with open arms at the valley’s end.

Sometimes, they will even break the rules and walk beside you…

Or come in and carry you out.

Girlfriends, daughters, granddaughters, daughters-in-law, sisters, sisters-in-law, Mothers, Grandmothers, aunties, nieces, cousins, and extended family, all bless our life!

The world wouldn’t be the same without women, and neither would I. When we began this adventure called womanhood, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other. Every day, we need each other still.

Pass this on to all the women who help make your life meaningful.

I just did.

Short and very sweet:

There are more than twenty angels in this world.
Ten are peacefully sleeping on clouds.
Nine are playing.
And one is reading her email at this moment.

Send this message to ten of your friends including me.

If you get 5 replies, someone you love will surprise you.

Food for today:

Please let us be wise in what we’re saying, and who we’re saying it to, whether it be through email, phone, or in person. Oftentimes we are misunderstood, and more often what we are saying is shared with others.

>I hate having to wait until I get to work to eat. The thing is, I would have to get up at 4:00 am to be able to have breakfast at home. That is something that will never happen. So I am stuck just dealing with it. Real age says to lose weight you need to eat within an hour of rising. Maybe that is why my weight lose averages 0.4 a week and M’s is 2 pounds a week!

There is a raffle at GCT. Two cars, one is a gunmetal gray, Maserati Quattroporte and the other is a cherry red Maserati Gran Turismo. They are selling 400 tickets at $1,000 a ticket for the Quattroporte car. That means the car is $400,000. They are selling 300 tickets at $1,000 a ticket for the Gran Turismo, so it is only $300,000. Click this link to read the article in the New York Times. So someone is going to get a car worth at least $300,000 dollars for $1,000. It won’t be me, I am trying to sell the car I have! I remember another raffle they had, the Maserati was tangerine (really!) and the doors opened up. That was a very cool car.

I had a ‘only in New York’ thought when I was crossing the street coming into work from the 7 train. “Only in New York would you find a bunch of remotes scattered all over the street.”

My boss is still trying to get the address to my blog. He asked for an excerpt from it. I didn’t want to because I thought he meant send him a link to a post from the blog and then he would be able to find it, so he said no do a cut and paste. So I did the one from homecoming, making sure to take out any links to my blog in the document.


Addio

>Just finished lunch

>instead of my usual I got a panini. It was good but I have a feeling I will regret it.

I don’t know why I didn’t say this last night but D forgot to come get me last night. I started walking, then decided walking home cause I was mad was not a good use of my time so I called him. Now he says to send him a text to remind him when he is supposed to come get me. Then later he says something like, if you are still seriously thinking about moving to … Still! I’ve only been thinking about it for three years! He was thinking about using my room for an office, he also offered to make me a futon which would be nice but might be unnecessary. Some of the apartments have murphy beds.

I was right about the nessi pot, she was talking about a ‘neti’ pot.

As expected I now have a stomach ache and I had to use my inhaler. Probably from the mustard, or maybe because the panini I had was next to the tuna panini, might have been some cross contamination going on there.Anyway my legs are shaking and I am having chills from the albuteral.This is what I should think of when I want somthing I shouldn’t have, how icky I feel after, even getting my fingers to work on this keyboard is hard. Ok, gotta go now.

This evening has not improved my mood. I wanted to leave early but I had to do something for the boss and it took me until 4:20. Then when I was at the subway, the subway that came in was packed! I was trying to get in and people kept bumping and pushing me, so I just stepped back, I was a little miffed. My claustrophobia had gotten the better of me. It turned out ok, the next train got in a minute after and not only was it not crowded, there were seats available! So I got to sit to GCT.

On the Metro North train I was also able to find a seat facing forward. This woman came to sit with me and she was ugh, bigger than Em. Then she fell asleep and started leaning toward me, soon she was not really leaning on me, but touching. I did not get any reading done.

I had to go get Gwen so no Allsport tonight. I could have gone if I rushed, but after all that happened today and Em asked me to put the food away so I didn’t just went up to get Gwen. Then she fell getting in the car! Then she started sniffing. She never said anything, but I think she sort of blamed me. Anyway, I just have to take a shower and then this day will be over.

>Weight Watchers Progress

>I keep forgetting to do this. My weight is 136.6 lbs. In the 14 weeks since I recommitted I have lost 5.2 pounds. That is an average of 0.4 per week. I am 4.6 pounds heavier then when I first joined WW. It may not seem like a lot, but since I only have about twenty pounds to lose it is a lot to me and as someone said, I am going in the right direction now.

On another totally unrelated subject, when I was looking up tea at Amazon, and saw that PG Tips was $8 for a box, I decided that I would try to find PG Tips locally and if it wasn’t too expensive buy it. Hannaford’s had it, I wasn’t too surprised by that, and even though it was twice the price of the tea I normally buy, it was actually less then Twinings. It comes in these cute triangle bags, well actually they are a pyramid, no string but the bag came to the top of the water so I could grab it with my fingers. As for the taste, mmm I love tea.

Tonight when I was trying to make a cup with dinner, the pot kept turning off but the water wasn’t boiled, Fred was turning it off, he thought it was turning on by itself! Such a silly boy. Now I have to go get Gwen. I will be back later.


Addio

>Power of four meme

>I was reading Sarah‘s blog and she left this open to whoever wanted to do it so:

Here are the instructions: What you are supposed to do…and please don’t spoil the fun…Copy/paste, type in your answers and tag four people in your lists! Don’t forget to change my answers to the questions with those of your own.

A) Four places I go over and over: to the city (for work), to Manhattan (for shopping), to the gym, to Target.

B) Four people who e-mail me regularly: Michelle, Marie-Louise, Suzie, Marcia

C) Four of my favourite places to eat: Tavern-on-the-Green (new favorite), Outback, Bug-a-boo Creek, Panera

D) Four places you’d rather be: Central Park, Time Square, Grand Central Terminal, Top-of-the-Rock (Rockefeller Center)

E) Four TV shows I could watch over and over: Law & Order (all of them), Forensic Files, Primeval, Torchwood

F) Four people I think will respond: Vickie, Sherri, Bonnie, and Jennifer.

Have fun with this!

>I am sitting here in the cold under my blankets while typing this. I am a silly girl, ’cause if I just stood up I could close my window and I wouldn’t be so cold. However I would rather just sit here and try to warm up with a blanket and warm laptop on my lap! I don’t think that is what the laptop computer was designed for.

Tigger was sending me texts, except they were blank. I answered and asked why, no answer just another blank text. So I finally said, “You’re texts are all blank.” I’m not answering any more, I got another blank text then a “Sry about that”. He must have had it in is pocket instead of the holder and the send button kept getting pushed or something like that.

There is an update for my phone that I need to get installed but I forgot to go to Verizon yesterday and get it done. I will try to remember to do that today. I ordered a book from the library but I don’t think it is in yet. I need to go there too to pay my fine so I will ask them about it.

Right now I need to sweep and mop, except it is almost time to get ready for church. Don’t want to be late again. I will be back later.

I didn’t make it to the library, I did get to Verizon but they couldn’t install the update so I am getting a new phone. I am trying to talk myself into going to Allsport. It should be easy since the alternative is sitting here listening to D yell at the kids while he is building the shed. I guess T never showed up to help. I get really annoyed at people who say they will do something then just don’t show up. Well, it’s not really my business. I really feel like going to Border’s after I work out. I really shouldn’t ’cause I don’t need books and I should be saving my money. Gwen yelled at Tigger this morning for asking me for cinnamon gum. Told him not to ask me for things, I have to save my money for my move.

Pictures from homecoming

I picked these four photos to post. I was trying to post on WW about them and two times I got an error message. Now the page just won’t load. I am going to have some dinner then I will be back.

This first photo is the bleachers in the football field. Of course this field is used for more than just football, there is a track around the field. A few years back the Empire State Games were held here. The kids were able to volunteer for support services for them so that was a good experience for them.

Somebody brought their cute little long haired dachshund to the parade. I don’t know if it is a boy or girl, but the curly hair on the ears make me think its a girl. She looks like she is waiting for someone. She was very well behaved, didn’t jump around or bark or pull on her leash. Another reason I think she is a girl. She was so cute I just had to take her picture.

Here is the marching band, they are having to wait for traffic to clear, this is where Verplanck Ave, Cannon St., and N Cedar St. meet before you get to the football field. It used to be the police would put a car at N. Walnut and Verplanck to block traffic, but the past few years they haven’t done that. This year a big truck parked facing the wrong way on Verplanck so the band and rest of the parade could get into the football field.

And who is this? Could this be who Ms. Dachshund is waiting for? This is definitely a boy and you can tell by his blue shirt that he is a BEACON BULLDOG!

Now if you want to see all the pictures I took, there are not that many of them, look at the sidebar to the right, I put in a slideshow, next week I will move it down below the Manhattan one.

>Fred was in the parade I took some pics and a couple of videos. In one, I keep pointing the camera at the ground. The reason is I wasn’t sure the camera was recording and so I turned it down to look at the back. Now I am going to try to insert the videos. Looks like they worked! To avoid confusion, I am going to post the pictures in a separate post. The one to watch for is the short blond kid with sunglasses playing the clarinet. The voice at the end of the video is Stitch.

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Here is the band starting off, you can’t see Fred, he was on the other side of the street.

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Waiting for Friday ……



Here it comes ………….

Here it comes ………….

Here it comes …………



Yay – It’s Friday!

Have a good weekend!

Thank you Aggie!

>I was tagged! Six weird and Random Things about me!
I was tagged by Jennifer’s Books for the six quirky things about me meme. This is the first time I’ve been tagged for a meme.

The rules are:
* Link to the person who tagged you
* Post the rules on your blog
* Write six random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself
* Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them
* Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog
* Let the tagger know when your entry is posted

Weird things about myself, in no particular order:

1) I can not sleep without a light on and things all over my bed.
2) Even though I was born and raised in America, I have been known to occasionally use British words, like dust bin, knickers and my favorite, knackered.
3) My favorite books are true crime and my favorite TV show is Forensic Files and my favorite Network is TruTV.
4) I would sell my children (if I had any) a kidney and ⅓ of my liver to live in Manhattan.
5) When I am in a bad mood and rude to people, I later tell them I have a twin and she is perpetually grouchy.
6) I talk to other car drivers, my cat, my friend’s bird, my computer and my car like I think they can understand me and then wait for an answer.

Now the question is who to tag next? I only know about 8 bloggers and most of them have been already tagged so I am tagging Viva Law Vegas.