Archive for March, 2009


>No work today

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March 26, 2009

>Today was a day off work for me. I had a doctor’s appointment middle of the afternoon so I took the whole day. In the morning Gwen and I ran errands, oops I forgot, that was after I downloaded about 40 free books from the Sony E-Store. We had lunch then went to Target because I wanted to get a fork and spoon for work. I couldn’t find any in with the dishes, just sets, then I had the crazy idea to look in camping supplies. There was an Eddie Bauer knife, fork and spoon in a little carrying case. Gwen saw a ‘camping’ Swiss Army tool, it has a fork and spoon, a bottle opener and little knife. She thought that would be handy for college, it is a good size, small enough to carry with her and big enough she won’t lose in in her bag. So we (I) got both. Then we went to the bank and to the library, the Star Trek Voyager DVD’s were in. Then we came home and I took a quick bath and remembered I was out of conditioner. So after the doctor’s visit I went back to Target to get conditioner for my hair.

Is anyone awake? Is anyone still reading this?

Well just two more things I wanted to say. Last night when Stitch, Gwen and I were driving home, Gwen was in the front and Stitch was in the back, Gwen started to tell me about when they were watching Anne of Green Gables, the rest of the DVD’s she got from the library, all of a sudden Stitch pipes up from the back seat, “No! Don’t tell her!” Gwen continues, “Stitch cried 3 times.“

Then today, while I was sitting waiting for the Doctor in the examining room, I was thinking, “I went to the bathroom and peed before my bath, then I got dressed and drove to the doctor’s office. When I got to the doctor’s office they wanted a urine sample, so I peed again, so how come with all that peeing and no drinking, why do I now feel like I have to pee?”

That’s that’s all folks.

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>News Alert: M.T.A. Board Votes to Raise Fares and Cut Service Sharply

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March 25, 2009

>Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 — 11:47 AM ET
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Board members called the measures a disaster for commuters in the New York area but said they could no longer wait for lawmakers in Albany to rescue them.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

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>Sunday

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March 24, 2009

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I was so filled up with what I did Saturday and worrying about Fred's broken arm that I completely forgot to tell you what happend on Sunday. I mean besides the usual going to church (it was just Em, Tigger and me, Gwen and Stitch fighting over who got to stay home with Fred) and D going to Regional that normally happens. Em sent the boys to walk the Sierra Trail, she wanted them out of the house so she could clean and Gwen was upstairs in her room. It got real quiet so I went upstairs and Em had left. Gwen was standing in the living room, which meant I was trapped. She immediately starts asking if I want to do something, which I didn't, I wanted to go back downstairs. But I got talked into Wii bowling. We played 3 games and I won two of them, not only that, but I now have more skill points then Gwen. Which annoys her since she has been playing longer then me. But that makes me the Wii Bowling Champion of the house!
 
I also have come up with reasons Wii bowling is better then real bowling. (1) You don't have to rent shoes, you can bowl in your purple crocs with the fuzzy lining, (2) You don't have to leave your house, which means in addition to wearing your purple crocs with the fuzzy lining, you can also bowl in your pajamas, (3) you don't have to walk up and down the bowling ally looking for the right size bowling ball, (4) {but no. 1 for me} you don't have to worry about ruining your manicure that you paid $xx for.
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>Forgot something

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March 22, 2009

>I forgot something that happened at the spa that shows why I get nervous about new experiences. As we (Em and I) were walking to where they do the massages, and I was following her cause I had never been there and the woman who’s doing her massage takes her back and this guy asks are you R___. I was distracted by the fact that Em was disappearing down the hallway and getting a little panicked that she was leaving me and who is R___? I kind of gave him a blank look and he said, “You’re not R___?” It was then I remembered I had made the appointment in my middle name. So I said yes and he said he was Ron, and I totally missed that this was Ron, who Daryl recommends.

When I told Em, she laughed and called me stupid, guess I deserved that!

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My long day and poor Fred

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I am starting this post with some advice, don’t ever break a bone before a holiday or on a Friday (I actually recommend you don’t break a bone at all, but if you’re going to insist on doing it, follow the above advice). The urgent care put a splint on it, he was to go to a orthopedist for a cast today. Well, D couldn’t get one to return his call, so he called the pediatrician who told him to go to the hospital ER to get it done. Well, they put a temporary cast on it and Monday Em has to take him to the orthopedist for another x-ray and cast. Poor kid.

The worst thing though? Em had told him that after spring break he could start riding his bike to school. Well, now he can’t.

On to the massage, when I made the appointment, they asked if I wanted a female, since I never had a massage before I didn’t know what to expect and so I didn’t know it would make a difference whether or not I had a male or female. So I said it didn’t matter. Ron gave me my massage, he said to let him know if he was pressing too hard, since it was my first massage. When he first started he pushed real hard on my lower back and I thought I was going to pass out from not being able to breathe, I was just about to shout, “Stop I can’t breathe!” When he let up, so I guess he knows what he’s doing. He also asked me if I was just there for a massage or if there was anything else, so I told him about my injured shoulder, and I noticed he did things with that shoulder he didn’t do with the other, so it ended up a little sore, but better in the long run. In fact right now, I can almost lift my arm straight up. He didn’t do much of a head massage, probably cause I have all this hair. Note to self: before getting another massage. Shave head.

After we showered and Em went in the steam room. I didn’t because I was getting a headache. We walked across Central Park to Cafe Frida for lunch, where I proceeded to make a total mess of myself with my burrito. I thought I could pick it up and eat it, and in doing so I got sauce all over the place and on my pants. Then we walked up to the Crocs store so I could get the sandals I saw the last time we were there. It was there that I realized I didn’t have my debit card with me. Em gave me the cash for the Crocs and I was then racking my brain trying to figure out what could have happened to it. My only thought was, since the last time I had used it was at the gas station, and I normally put my card in my pocket after I swipe it at the pump and it wasn’t in my pocket now, was I had taken it out of my pocket at home and left it on my bed. I called Gwen and she looked, but couldn’t find it. I wasn’t too worried, since I hadn’t gone anywhere after the gas station so I was pretty sure I hadn’t left it anywhere (I found it on my bed when I got home).

We stopped at several stores on the way back to GCT, Em was looking for a bathing suit for Puerto Rico, but didn’t find one. We also stopped at a Chase bank to see how much was in my Chase account since I did have that card with me. We also looked for a place where we could get Fred an NYPD hat since he can’t wear his shirt right now (can’t get it on over his cast). Em didn’t find a suit and we couldn’t find a hat. So she got him an i-Tunes card so he could get stuff for his i-Touch and she also got chocolate mousse cheese cake from Junior’s.

When we got to the train station at home, since I drove, so D could have Em’s van to take Fred where he needed to be taken, I asked her if she wanted to go home, she said, “No I want to go to Macy’s to get a bathing suit!” She ended up getting one at Penney’s and I found this really adorable sun dress on sale, and the cashier scanned this coupon for an extra 20% off.

At home Em gave Fred his i-Tunes card and as she was apologizing for not finding something authentically NY he said, “Its an authentic NYC i-Tunes card.”

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>~ On This Day ~

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March 21, 2009

>On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

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>~ Quotation of the Day ~

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>”I get my best travel ideas from the State Department’s travel warning list.” – DAVID CHUNG of Manhattan, on visiting Iraq with a tour group.

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>Saturday, also known as massage day

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>Last night I had planned to write more in detail about my new Sony Reader but time kind of got away from me. D and Em had to take Fred to the urgent care, he broke his arm, same arm he broke when he was 5 just higher up.

Yes we are still going for our massages, he has plenty of people to take care of him and he is looking forward to torturing Tigger. He is not looking forward to having to watch Anne of Green Gables with Stitch and Gwen.

My eyes are really bugging me, I don’t know what is wrong with my contacts or maybe its my eye makeup. I will be back later to report on my massage and my day.

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>What’s In A Name

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>I saw this fun meme over at Victoria’s Vintage Tea and thought I’d give it a go!

Rules:

USE THE 1ST LETTER OF YOUR NAME TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. THEY HAVE TO BE REAL PLACES,NAMES,THINGS. NOTHING MADE UP! TRY TO USE DIFFERENT ANSWERS IF THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU HAD THE SAME 1ST INITIAL. YOU CAN’T USE YOUR NAME FOR THE BOY/GIRL NAME QUESTION

1.What is your name? Bella

2. A 4 Letter Word: Bear

3. A Boy’s Name: Brian

4. A Girl’s Name: Bridget

5. An Occupation: Baker

6. A Colour: Blue

7. Something you wear: Bracelet

8. A Beverage: Beer

9. A Food: Biscuits

10. Something found in the bathroom: Bathtub

11. A place: Barcelona

12. Something you shout: Boo!

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>Fwd: Sensible Observations

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March 20, 2009

>Sensible Observations

(1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather–who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
–Author Unknown

(2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: “Take two aspirin” and “Keep away from children.”
–Author Unknown

(3) “The problem with the designated driver program, it’s not a desirable job, but if you ever get pulled into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.”
— Jeff Foxworthy

(4) “If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there is a man on base.”
— Dave Barry

(5) “My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.'”
–Paula Poundstone

(6) “Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God…. I could be eating a slow learner.”
–Lynda Montgomery

(7) “I think that’s how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, ‘Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.'”
–Richard Jeni

(8) “If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
–Johnny Carson

(9) “Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.”
–Paul Rodriguez

(10) “My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.”
–Jerry Seinfeld

(11) “Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?”
–Warren Hutcherson

(12) “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But I repeat myself.”
–Mark Twain

(13) “Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan.”
–A. Whitney Brown

(14) “You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, ‘My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!'”
— Dave Barry

(15) Do you know why they call it “PMS”? Because “Mad Cow Disease” was taken.
–Unknown, presumed deceased

(16) “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”
– W. C. Fields

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