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>~ On This Day ~

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April 7, 2009

>On April 7, 1862, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

On April 7, 1915, Billie Holiday, who is considered to have been one of the great American jazz singers, was born. Following her death on July 17, 1959, her obituary appeared in The Times.

1927 ~ An audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.

1939 ~ Italy invaded Albania.

1947 ~ Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83.

1948 ~ The World Health Organization was founded.

1949 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” opened on Broadway.

1953 ~ The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general.

1957 ~ New York City’s last electric trolley completed its final run from Queens to Manhattan.

1969 ~ The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.

1976 ~ China’s leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping.

1990 ~ Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.)

1990 ~ A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges.

1994 ~ Civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi.

~ ON THIS DAY ~

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>Quick post

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April 6, 2009

>I was not feeling good earlier, that is why I posted what I did about the excuses. I have not used any of those myself just in case you were wondering. The driving ones I can’t use cause I take the train. And my boss would so definitely accept #12, NOT!

So now that it is time to hit the sack and go beddie bye, I am feeling good. But I am also falling asleep, hopefully that will translate into a good nights sleep.

See everyone tomorrow.

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>Twelve amusing excuses for being late to work

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Here are 12 of the most outrageous excuses employers have heard for being late to work:

1. My heat was shut off so I had to stay home to keep my snake warm.

2. My husband thinks it’s funny to hide my car keys before he goes to work.

3. I walked into a spider web on the way out the door and couldn’t find the spider, so I had to go inside and shower again.

4. I got locked in my trunk by my son.

5. My left turn signal was out so I had to make all right turns to get to work.

6. A gurney fell out of an ambulance and delayed traffic.

7. I was attacked by a raccoon and had to stop by the hospital to make sure it wasn’t rabid.

8. I feel like I’m in everyone’s way if I show up on time.

9. My father didn’t wake me up.

10. A groundhog bit my bike tire and made it flat.

11. My driveway washed away in the rain last night.

12. I had to go to bingo.

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>Sunday (don’t read if you’re squeamish)

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April 5, 2009

>After I dragged myself out of bed(after my migraine yesterday), the first thing I see is my little lion, (aka Butterscotch) hacking up a hairball. There are two things guaranteed to make me gag, hack and puke. One is a full blown migraine with no meds, the other is cleaning up a freshly hacked up hairball.

Then after some back and forth with the kids about laundry and this and that, Tigger asked to go driving. We drove around the block a few times, he practiced three point turns, I wanted to go to Ron’s but it was too early. He wanted to go someplace else to drive, lets face it, driving around the development is rather boring. So we went to the train station. Where I showed Tigger how to parallel park. One time. That was all it took.
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However, he cannot pull into a space to save his life. He can back in with no problem, pulling in, over the line every time.

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>~ Quotation of the Day ~ On This Day ~

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April 4, 2009

>~ QUOTATION OF THE DAY ~

“I think the fatal flaw of a lot of people in politics is that they want to be loved.”
– GOV. MARK SANFORD of South Carolina.

~ ON THIS DAY ~

On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tenn.

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>Been one of those weeks

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April 3, 2009

>When one little thing after another just piles up.

  1. Got Amy (the car) inspected Saturday, well Stitch did actually. Now when Amy is in park and you step on the brake pedal, the lights come on. Also if you turn the lights on while Amy is in park, you can shift out of park. Neither of these things is supposed to happen. Also her transmission gets funky at 50 mph but only when her lights are on. That’s fine with me, I love speeding down dark roads with no lights. ~ Kidding! ~ Amy needs to go back to the garage, that leads me to,
  2. Em and D are in Puerto Rico. It is a planned trip for their 25th wedding anniversary, but it means I am driving Amy, Stitch is driving D’s van, so it has been impossible to take Amy in to get her looked at.
  3. The RD sent my request for compressed work week with a start date of Oct. 2009 to Albany.
  4. Idiot co-worker is still touching my stuff and begging for food.
  5. (This one will have Daryl laughing and saying ‘I told you so.’) My Sony Reader froze in the middle of an e-Book, should’ve stuck to a real book! Being the technologically savvy gurrl that I am, I took my earring out and reset it. Started reading again and it was fine, until this morning that is, when it froze again, twice! Same book, so this afternoon on the way home, I read a different book. No problems.
  6. Missed my train three days in a row. Got to get up earlier so I can get my new morning routine with my skin medicine down, and make it on time.
  7. The medicine for my rosacea seems to be helping with the redness, but the bumps are still here. This morning my foundation didn’t seem to be covering it. Since I was already running late, I grabbed the concealer and brush and put them in the ziplock bag with my other make-up and left for work. On the train I took the bag out, I hadn’t grabbed my concealer, I had grabbed my purple eye shadow, but I didn’t have any way to put it on so I couldn’t even wear it.
  8. The elastic on my new underwear is digging into my skin and leaving red lines.

So that is about all. Except for things that that are to humiliating too report here. You know the things that send me to my room crying then I come out and yell at the kids. Hopefully, I will have a better weekend.

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>Comments made in the year 1955! That’s only 54 years ago!

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April 1, 2009

>’I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.00.

‘Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.

‘If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. 25 cents a pack is ridiculous..

‘Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 10 cents just to mail a letter

‘If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

‘When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.

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>Watch the Gap or LOO HEAVEN?

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>What does it mean to you to ‘watch the gap'(WtG)?

For me, a regular commuter by Metro North Train and NYC Subway, WtG means to be careful getting on and off the train because of the space (gap) between the train and the platform. You don’t want to get your foot caught in that gap or fall down through it and wander onto the other track and get killed something that is very possible if your BAC is is .3 or higher. One time on the train a little girl dropped her ‘baby’ into the gap and she screamed . . . but I digress.

Fellow blogger Brit’ Gal Sarah from Brit’ Gal in the USA recently posted about the difference between USA and UK, then she did a separate post for public restrooms, or loos (I hope I got that right), which she says are much nicer in the USA then in the UK. I will have to take her word for it never having been out of the country to use a restroom or loo except for Canada.

To get to my point of this post, if I still remember that is, one thing she mentioned that she didn’t like in USA is the gap in the door, I started thinking it had never bothered me, so then I wondered why, was it because I grew up using public restrooms here and so was just used to it? Did it not bother me because everyone in the restroom is a girl (I hope)? Or was it because I had gym at a public high school and after having to change into those awful blue and white striped gym uniforms in a locker room with 90 other girls, whats a little gap in the door?

That lead me to thinking about gym class and this one particular sadistic gym teacher.

Then, because my mind works in strange and wonderful, OK we’ll leave it at strange. I started thinking about a terrifying experience in the Ladies Room at the Tarrytown train station. The station was ‘closed’ but they usually left one door open so you wait in there or go to the bathroom. So I went in to use the bathroom, since the station was closed there was no one else in the station or bathroom. There was this man walking up the sidewalk whistling. When I was in the restroom, I heard the whistling come up the hallway, now the men’s room is on the other side of the station, which made me wonder what was he doing in that hallway, he comes in the restroom and uses the toilet. That was not the truly scary part. The truly scary part was he didn’t leave, he stood by the door in front of the stall I was in, how do I know that? When I didn’t hear the door open I peeked out through the gap between the door and the support panel. I was trying to decide if I should yell at him to get out or see if my cell phone had a charge and call the police and hope they would come when another guy came in the bathroom and yelled at the first guy for being in there. At least I think that what he yelled. He was speaking Spanish, but they both left.

So any way, if you want to know how truly weird my brain is, when he was standing by the door I was thinking, if he doesn’t leave I’m going to miss my train.

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>Win a home in Hawaii

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March 31, 2009

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>Last day of March started out cold

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>32º per weather bug, 31º per the sign by the school. Then I had to stop for a roadblock on the road down to the train. It is enough to make one swear. But I didn’t, not really. I was just wondering what kind of idiot police department conducts a roadblock at 6:00 in the morning when people are trying to get to work. I guess they were finding what they were looking for since there were a few vehicles pulled over. I have current inspection and current registration so can’t stop me. :p

Then to my doctor’s office for my appointment and as I was waiting I was wondering what was making that buzzing noise? It was my phone, LOL, sometimes I amuse myself. Then when I got on the train at GCT to come to work the train just buzzed by my stop. Seems like whenever I get on the train in the middle of the day to come to work I get an express and end up at Queensboro Plaza.

When I got off the train I went to the Deli and got my lunch sandwich and then came to work, rest of the day was ho-hum normal except for a few little snags that I will have to work out tomorrow and then I will tell you. Right now I have to fly quick to go home.

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