Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Auld Lang Syne

"It turns out that "Auld Lang Syne" is an extremely old Scottish song that was first written down in the 1700s. Robert Burns is the person whose transcription got the most attention, so the song is associated with him.

According to this page, a good translation of the words "auld lang syne" is "times gone by." So (incorporating a couple of other translations) when we sing this song, we are saying, "We'll drink a cup of kindness yet for times gone by."

This above definition is from: How stuff works:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question2791.htm.

I always wondered why that was, THE, song for tonight’s festivities. I know that we all know the words since they are simple and we repeat them over and over; and now that we got that out of the way...

Today I did some good/ bad things.
You know how everything this year has been just plain awful on the news and in your neighborhood if not in your own home-life?
Well, I decided to create a clean slate, and why not? As an adult cleaning up you life’s desires is as comforting as getting other things organized in your life, even a closet.
Something’s that I had been involved with had made my life not as happy as it used to, and so I quit. It was one of my volunteer ventures that in my opinion weren't organized all that well; anytime I needed a question answered there was never a quick answer or even any response. When you delegate jobs, even to volunteers the people that you recruited should have some type of training to do what you expect of them to do it correctly, otherwise you get less than quality work or none at all. That’s what was so frustrating, assignments were given in general without any guidelines or resources, and I have always put my heart and soul into anything I have been asked to do whether salaried or as a volunteer. After repeated requests and specific questions asked I got no where; not good for a person involved with a non-profit that staff is delegating to us volunteers and being paid for their job. Of course, I gave it quite a bit of thought before hand and I weighed the pluses and minuses of the decision, but once done it was freeing!

Now I know it gives me more free time to decide on what exactly does make me happy besides writing this Blog.
I also cleared out my address book online to make it more reliable when I go to use it.
Too many old addresses and ones belonging to; who?
When I didn’t recognize the name it went!
I guess in the ten years we have been with this email carrier we collected too many.
I removed the names of people that I felt were not sincere friends ones that when told of my most horrible times in my life had said nothing and changed the topic back to more mundane things like bills. Of course all bills are important but not more than deaths of family members and I really needed support and feedback from a so-called friend, who I had supported over the years, and so that name is gone too from my email addresses.
Sad but not who I thought they were; someone with a heart and a true friend through thick and thin, literarily.
To me it is very interesting how as we get older we make many decisions to narrow our friends to who are the true and always there ones.
It makes me sad to say that most of mine have died, and there are not that many left.

I know to some I sound bitter, well, to be honest I am.
When you help people when they ask and then they give you the shaft when you need them, yea; I'm bitter you betcha.
But the best thing about getting old is…when your memory goes…and then you forget…so easily! It helps with TV or movie reruns it makes it all new again too!

Happy New Year's to all, and to all let's all hope 2009 will be a very happy, healthy and prosperous year! Anyway, I wish that for all of you.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Blogs I follow so sorry are none

A Blog is a unique interpretation of what you are thinking, doing, or at least a different perspective than anyone else’s.
My concern is that through osmosis or some other ungodly infiltrations I may without realizing it plagiarize someone else’s ideas or thoughts.
Of course if a friend or relative requested for me to give theirs a look, their Blog that is, you betcha I would.
I have no idea how much stimulus of written matter could have an affect on me.
But as a child I was quite easily influenced by what I saw or read. And my growth in the area has not been that great in developing over these many years that you could see, that is.
Frightening how simple minds can do that.
I’m not as complex as many people I do know, so I do suppose I can sometimes appear with my writing concepts to be a bit partial in certain types of inspirations of my thought design.
Well, let’s put it this way Blog’s are not hard journalism, which in contrast should not be at all opinionated, while a Blog is, in my opinion anarchy of the thought process; pure escapism of thought, a training, as if storms, one after another of thinking segments.
I would classify my comment writing somewhat similar to a diary of a personal nature with a commentary on the world around me not unlike the brainchild concept of a letter to the editor without borders; that is not edited or cut to fit a prescribed format.

With all that said… I heard back from one of my cousin’s that I thought that I had given a hard time to when we got together to take our annual boat-ride to see the Christmas lights last Friday night, the night after Christmas. I refused their gifts; details are on my Blog of a few nights ago on the 26th.
Anyway, the call was to let me know that they read my Blog that I had sent by email after that fateful night; apparently they liked it! I felt exonerated.
But unfortunately because of their physical limitations as well as ours we all agreed that our other annual event of spending New Years together has been decided to be a non affair this year.
It is true before all our diminished capacity to stay up past midnight has been in the cards for the last two years.
We all called the festivities shortened around, well actually before eleven P.M. these last couple; legitimacy for our change of plans although sad but true ends an era for us all.
It is just as well since these last few years eating have been the entertainment more so than doing other more interesting things.

Our neighbors from across the canal have arrived home safely last night from going back to their northern home to Montreal for the holiday.
We are happy they are back.

Bristol Palin yesterday had a fine healthy baby boy, 7 pounds 7 ounces; all family members are doing well including the grandparents. Now high school should be on the agenda for completion for both parents in their spare time between daddy trying to become electrician to support his new family and mommy taking care of Trip their new babe.

Good night to all and enjoy this next to the last night of this scary horrid roller coaster year, and with the audacity of hope for a better day after tomorrow to start a trend in the new year.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Driving thru non drive-thru businesses

Another senior drove through a building, a building that he created a new entry in via his vehicle, he was an 86 year old who stated he thought he hit the brake not the gas. Oh no it was the gas!
It seems that being of a certain age has many not remembering, which is the brake and which it the gas.

My Dad tried teaching me to drive when I turned the right age for that sort of thing, but his manner of training was rather unconventional and very wrong since he told me my left foot was for the brake and my right was for the gas.
You see my Dad taught himself at the tender age of 14 and in his day, (circa 1921 for his driving age of 14); licenses only had a surname on the identification and were left in the vehicle by the owner without fear or concern.
But Dad kept forgetting in those days all vehicles were manual, very manual, in reality a crank was used to start the car to drive and you did have three pedals to deal with, and so you did need both feet to drive.
And so he continued to drive his entire life using both feet even on his automatic vehicles. Since he stayed in the same state he never was retested.

I stopped driving on a regular basis this past year; I originally stopped due to the medicine I was taking, but I guess I just lost my self assurance since I no longer take that medicine anymore.
Confidence has a lot to do with how you drive as well as your reflexes too.

We live in an area where we have more senior citizens than younger people on our roads and it seems to me that most should either be retested or have their licenses revoked! Not counting the tourists who consistently seem to get lost; one day one stopped in mid traffic like he was frozen. Don't get me wrong we love you guys but you have to be more careful and check a GPS or a map!
Too many run red lights at intersections, do not look as carefully as they should pulling out of diagonal parking spaces, where there have been a few people run over by this careless practice.

Once when I was doing real well and still driving I was on route forty-one, the Tamiami Trail, our main road to everything, it is six lanes, three in each direction north and south and a car with an elderly driver in it was driving right towards me in my lane; fortunately I switched lanes just in the nick of time!
Another time a person was in the far left passing lane going 25 miles an hour when the speed limit on that same road is 45MPH; he should have been in the far right, right?
It is scary how some drive without much thought at all; I think quite of few forget how lethal a weapon a car could become.

Whenever you hear these things on the news about careless driving it makes me happy that my husband is a good driver and that he is retired and able to drive us where we need to go.

PS these bad drivers had perfect weather … remember it is in the 80’s and clear as a bell here!

Good night to all and to all be careful out there, and know your limitations and take public transit if you can’t drive.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Balance in Life

How are we to do what everyone strives for?
Keep our lives real and yet balanced with what makes us challenged to stretch our minds and bodies in new and different directions in ways to continue to grow and learn and be the best human that we can be at every stage of life.

Everyone knows that we have to at some points in our growth, not unlike with children, we have to make adjustments to accomplish what we so desire to do.
But of course we must decide that we want our physical evolution as we move on has to be fine-tuned to create a lifestyle that welcomes those changes.

We have found that simplicity is what works best for us.
Being together now over 41 years we do have similar interests.
We both enjoy reading, which takes care of widening our views in our brains that on occasion we have claimed to share, but not true.
My hubby enjoys reading material that I do not find interesting like sci-fi, while I on the other hand, I do have a diverse eclectic taste, ranging from mysteries to autobiographies, I love research material too and even some espionage type novels.

We both enjoy movies we split on some types too.
I prefer PG or PG13 movies that don’t upset my sensibilities too much, romantic comedies are great, and he prefers action flicks with car chases.

We both enjoy boating and fishing. I like swimming, and he prefers not so much, although he has his SCUBA certification for wreck diving, since 1985, and he also taught water skiing as a teen and as an adult to our sons when they were growing up.
I enjoy museums, art festivals and the like.
He prefers antique car shows.

We both enjoy gardening, and that is good for you at any age; especially when growing edibles.

As older Americans we are no different with having medical issues that slow you down and I feel that we have gotten a handle on that too; by pacing ourselves and not overdoing anything. The expression: listening to your body, does work.

We have been lately trying hard to be more economical, not unlike everyone else.
So being green and thinking how to do things more inexpensively is a workout.
Projects for those purposes are good for the imagination.
Rethinking how to use or do something could even be a mental game for efficiency.
Since all of us need realistically to be more frugal this could even become a family venture.

Well, here goes that balance thing coming at me now…I’m getting tired so I will say good night to all and to all think clearly and chose your own way to make whatever you need to do to keep yourself healthy and happy, mind, body and spirit.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Hold on to your hats people the down turn is coming back to get you!

While watching a TV commercial my jaw dropped.
They were offering to give you computers or LCD TV's even with your bad credit, no problem! They did not say free computers but that is what most will hear!
Here we go again does this sound familiar?
People in high places, and they must be high on drugs thus my reasoning of them being in or near or by high places or just plain high. The company is called Blue Hippo and they are offering people with bad credit things that they can't afford to buy. Why do these companies do these things to the poor or elderly? We all know why because they are either too trusting or dare I say greedy or dumb?
Anyone, ever hear of layaway? I understand its back. This is how that works you pay money that you earned on a weekly basis for something you need to have and this goes on until it is all paid off, and voila no interest is even charged!

Another squawker on the tube was claiming that for a price they can help you solve your credit problems!
Now being a former credit manager I do know that you can solve your own problems for free.
Are you listening?
Then all you have to do is call the highest interest card holders direct to their toll free number and ask to set up a lower interest rate and stick to the monthly deal that you make, be realistic and figure this out with your other bills before you call.
Then go down all your cards bills that you think that paying off a minimum will get you out of debt…well, you are lying to yourself!
Call each one of those too and make the same arrangements and pay more than the minimum by at least twice what they are asking. In other words if they ask for $25 you pay fifty, etc.
And finally, cut up your credit cards and don’t buy another thing that you can’t pay cash for or with a prepaid debit card! Those are available at the grocery store where you should always pay cash!
And then you will eventually be out of debt, TA DA!
And never get yourself in that situation again.

Credit is an interesting thing, but most misunderstand how it works.
Contrary to some people’s thinking it is not free money, well, in a way it is a thirty day loan and if paid at the end of the cycle it could be considered free money in that respect, but you must pay it all at that time not just a percentage of what you owe.
Interest is compounded into your head and your pocket books or wallets and then you become poor, in BIG DEBT! Got it?

Sorry, I went slightly berserk, but with the country… really the whole world is in such an economic mess I thought we could all use a refresher course on how it really does work.
We are all responsible as much as the big companies and banks, credit cards etc.
Even the middle class has been greedy it's not only the poor and elderly.
I can remember from childhood that my Mom had a saying that no one can make you do anything you don’t really want to do. Truer words were never said.
Sure they sugar coated all those housing deals with mumbo jumbo that you had to have nearly an MBA to understand and no one was really on your side to explain to you would never ever be able to pay it all back; when the interest jumped those 3 or 4 percentage points higher. Keep this thought in your head next time if it sounds too good to be true; it is!
Even when you kept refinancing to get all that extra money so you could buy another toy to add to that collection and make sure that your kids could keep up with the Jones’s.
The deal was too sweet.
Credit cards maxed out to help pay for groceries? What’s that all about?
We all should be held culpable.
All the ones that stood by, you know who you are, and never said a word, the realtors who wanted the sale so bad that the property appraisers had to come in at the right price so their buyers could afford it, and now you can’t sell a thing.
The banks bent their rules too with qualifying people not able to buy their next meal none the less, solvent enough to be a home buyer and business people with no business acumen by giving them more money than they could ever afford to repay.
When we stop blaming just certain people and not the whole of our population then and only then will we, as a people, called human beings learn how to make this all that much better.

Please dear world keep the faith.
Doing stupid things even as bad as all this I truly believe can be fixed so do not lose hope.
After all, our new leader wrote the book on the Audacity of Hope, courageous is something, for all persons to strive for in these hard times, not just for the ones in uniforms.

Good night to all and to all we will come back from the greatest depths since the depression and that is why I do know that we can do it; we did it before!

Friday, December 26, 2008

Happiness is acceptance

Today was an interesting day.
It started out fairly early at five A.M. due to my loving canine pal Skipper who apparently heard a noise or something that jostled him to the point of letting out a deep growl followed by one staccato bark and it woke me out of a sound sleep. I did investigate and it was most likely a cat or possum in our backyard since our motion detector lights went on, but I checked out our boat on the lift anyway, and it was fine. I can never go back to sleep when awoken in that way.
So as I write tonight at a later than usual nine P.M. I am already quite tired.
Not getting a good night’s sleep has been a constant for some time now.
It frays the nerves and makes one rather emotional and I hate not having any control over my emotions.
This awkward situation has reared its ugly head time and time again but unfortunately too often lately with my cousins who have been visiting ever so slightly more frequently since they have been grounded from their vagabond travels due to injuries.
I truly do love them as if they were sibling’s not just cousins.
And lately I have been giving them a workout at testing them of their unconditional love for me.
It seems that I have fallen into my old habit of not taking criticism well… oh who am I kidding I have never gotten over anyone ever telling me anything good or bad about me or how I do things or what I do.
I try so hard to get all my own problems solved in my own way and time.
It may all stem from the loss of my parents way back in my thirties when I no longer was someone’s child and realized I had to grow up, finally.
And for the last twenty or so years I thought I was doing fairly well, although I have screwed up many times, but failure is good for the soul I thought.
Anyway, I claimed it when it’s mine like we all should.
Socially, I have made amazing strides and have been at times able or capable of dealing with all peoples from every walk of life and under most circumstances cautiously and with care, hardly ever losing my patience, hah another lie!
When I was young, in my twenties and a CB radio was all the rage for semi-Red necks in south Jersey my handle (name) was Patience, because I laughingly had none. We lived in the Pine Barrens, what can I say?
Well, getting back to my unconditionally loving cousins, the retired school teachers I have mentioned before.
They must have had the patience of whoever that one patient person is who they always refer to when speaking of the trait of great patient people; oh that's right Jobe! Anyway, they were both concerned about me mainly because I am enormous.
Bigger than I have ever been in my entire life and they felt that they wanted to help me.
I guess you could say over the years I have become the white woman’s answer to Oprah with my yoyo weight gains and losses thing going on.
And so I do believe that like Oprah has always professed that it starts on the inside your relationship with food for many people, and that it’s not what we are eating but what’s eating us that is the cause of this bad behavior.
But I beg to differ with everyone… you see for me it is different and has been the lack of exercise and my inability to do it with my physical problems, bone on bone, and my much slowed metabolism. I am eating much less than ever before. Activity always made me hungrier.
My cousins do love me and did want to help me but it turned into a fiasco, since I refused both gifts that were brought to me for me; one was a notebook that I can’t write in due to my arthritic thumbs for me it is much gentler on this keyboard than holding any other type of writing implement.
And the other gift was a book about planning to do things that I have never done, ideas to get me to think of new and different things to possibly do.
Gosh, I didn’t think I was so one dimensional; I really thought I had more uniqueness and fortitude to be creative and think out my box of surroundings.
I guess because I no longer travel, which in my younger years I did do I am not as adventurous as I should be.
Well, there I go again not accepting others help or criticism.
In reality I don’t know what to say but I am happy with what I do, do, and I am working now on losing my weight; just today I contacted another health agency explaining my situation, the heart association, which I hope to hear from soon.
So I’m not entirely happy with the status quo either and I refuse to stagnate and allow me to not to do anything! So I continue to search for the proper people to help me. The journey is taking much longer than me of little patience can handle but I won an award for perseverance at the tender age of eighteen and I am determined and very motivated. Full length mirrors will do that, as well as scales.
Regularly I do things to help myself and others, really.
I really do believe where there is a will there is a way!

Good night to all and to all when it’s important enough never ever give up and I won’t either, deal? Deal.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Mid 80's Temps skies of Robin's egg blue this must be Christmas Day in Paradise

Comfortable temperatures, strolling around the block with our shorts on and so the beachy is keen for a day like today!
It's Christmas day in Florida; what else could it be?
The rest of the country is in rain or frost or snow up to their knees.
But that is cool they sang of a white Christmas and so they received a dream of their idea of the way this holiday should be, any wishing can make it so and see what they see.
That beautiful white stuff is luscious on film, in stills or moving around all over the ground, but up close and personal it is wet and frigid, and who really likes that, not me not even with a cozy coat, gloves, boots and or even a hat on me.
Barely sandaled or exposed feet for me, a sunbonnet maybe, and no coats for hiding my body the world should see all of me, enjoying the sun’s affection encompassing me in its tender heat.
Warmth and the sun were meant to be happy with sending love to the entire world; cold crystaly stuff is sometimes good when occasionally around, but not really for touching or smelling or whirling around; cold is just that, what more can be said, cold is hard and non-caring and plain artically chilly and lonely in bed.
I just created another dilly with using my head.
So give me the south where warmness takes you into its heart with tenderness kindness and love and good intentions so why wish for the cold?
It will make you old. Cold is sad and unloving and so tell Frosty to be gone!
Warmness will hold you and keep you forever in its joyous heart and entrench the soul with meaning and artful thinking and appreciation of nature abundant at its finest hour on and on.
Remember the arms of someone you love holding you gently and that is what it is no other grounds are needed to explain why warm is better than cold it just stands to reason it will prevent you from growing old before your time, and where else can you pick Key lime almost at anytime?
I have stated my case of hot verses cold, and just the mere fact that nearly nakedness is the dress code, and you stay young instead of growing old makes me know that the influx of new residents will stream into our land of the year-round swimsuits and also ice creams.
We have a bit of room and enjoy meeting those transplants, which most of us are, so come to the land of sun since it’s not really that far.

Good night to all from everywhere and I hope your day’s expectations were met; mine were so sweet dreams to you with warm wishes and care.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

T'was the night before Christmas and all through the house...

Not many a parent was without a spouse. Now that the children are nestled in their beds who knows what possibly could be stirring in their heads. X Box, IPod, guitar hero all with a beat… repeat, repeat they did week after week. Did Santa hear their laments of all the I wanna cries. Did they not learn that this was the year to stop all those I’s?

People are losing homes, jobs and so many without food; why are some youngins not hearing this news?
Mommy and Daddy have been good all year round, but unfortunately life has taken a downward turn towards the ground and does not seem to be on a rebound. Nothing they did just trusting the others to tell them it’s OK to go past the amount that they could afford everyday, whatever you can pay, don’t worry, don’t hurry it will all be okay!

Liars that fooled them to be so sure that the ones who insisted that they knew what to do...just listen to me and life will be fine… don’t stop all your fun you don’t have to, just never mind, there’s plenty of time. Months and years will be far, far away, no trouble, don’t worry you have more time to repay, more that they say, a repeat; don’t they know they sow what they reap?

Bargains are now and ballooning will be way down the road that you will never see.
Hey sign up today and you will hear when to worry from me.

Well, the time has come and the bill is due, and where is my money you owe give it to me or I will sue!

The children don’t understand what has happened, we have been told that all the good are never forgotten, unfortunately these interlopers these strangers were rotten.
They stole the monies from any who would listen to their stories that weren’t even true.
So Mommy and Daddy are crying and flummoxed with not even a clue what to do.

But the bankers who did this are getting to be allowed to get monies from our Feds so they can fix their very own booboos; when we can’t even sleep in our own beds.
We need to know who will be helping the many that innocently heard that the deal was real and no one would let it go if they knew for their own good.
But untruths were believed and naively agreed that it was all right to take the deed for that dream home to become something we would grow to hate when all was said and done, and we were so sure it would be so much fun.
Sadness is not what this season should bring so lets all put all debts on hold, and think about what to do this coming spring.
Hope springs eternal and who do we have; the man that will change things and make it all better and not so bad; we know this because change does come, it comes with the weather and it should be forever.
The man has a plan and I know it will work; he is smart, thoughtful, concerned and never ever a jerk!

So hold on all you good parents and kid’s things are on hold and could be an abracadabra, as sure as I am my sons Momma I think we all should have faith in our new President to be Mr. Barack Obama.

Good night to all and to all sleep with love in your hearts and nearly any peep.
Merry Christmas to all and to all keep the faith, life will go on, this I truly know it has always done that for our human race.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Just For Fun

Imagine that you weren't you, and then give yourself a new name, yes do it right out of thin air, pull one out now.

It doesn't have to be an exotic one a plain Jim or Jane one will do just fine... now Google you’re made up name and voila someone out there in cyber space has that name! If not then you do have quite an inventive ability, most will find it there right online.
Now try and think like a creative writer choosing characters in his or her novel and try and come up with a name that sounds just familiar enough to your public readership for comfort, but still is completely original.
Can it be done?

Well, let’s say I have tried this but for some reason these so-called innovative monikers never are entirely unique.

Interestingly, I did come up with one pseudonym recently that I used just for fun harmlessly to play an online game, and to my horror within a few days I decided to Google the name and the person actually exists, and is quite impressive with a notable background, and even close to the age (also taken out of the air) that I was asked to put in for the site requirement for my alias!
What to do, what to do; I am definitely not an identity theft criminal!
Oh what a horrendous dilemma.
Danger when you least suspect or expect it!
I just wanted to play a game anonymously without any fanfare to be as good or bad at the competition as I felt like without any pressure to be either.
Who would have thunk that just being resourceful would cause such a stressful situation during the most hectic time of the year; anyone with any ideas out there on how to right this awful wrong that is of my own doing?
Before this unpleasant realization that my assumed name had a living breathing body attached to it I had thought that I would have some fun with my new identity fooling a few family members, but oh no not now with this latest insight that goes completely out the window!
Could I be arrested?
Ignorance of the law is no excuse is going through this shrinking brain.
And how do you right this wrong, I haven’t a clue.
I suppose I should just stop myself in my tracks and not use the name ever again.
But then I started to rationalize the name I chose was quite a non-descript nor really at all that original.
Others could easily have the same name with different backgrounds and different birthdays so why not forget the fears and just enjoy my resourcefulness and have a little amusing enjoyment, and relax.
I know I will not try to become the genuine article; it is just a name not a person for that I will add into the character some of my natural ingenuity and artistic resourcefulness.
She will be younger than me, well that is a given; I already chose her birthday and I have no idea if the real one is even close, my new friend's was born 3-18-65.(I must admit the 3-18 is my dog's birthdate, but the year was totally original)
Now background and career choices have to be something I may know a bit about, she’s a wannabe writer, with not too many credits to her good mostly advertising in the local news rag, but lofty hopeful novel publishing dreams in her future.
Physical appearance will be apt but not too perfect we do know no one can relate to a too unmarred a personality.
Height and weight are part of that description and I will say that my imaginary alter ego will be average height for today’s woman…I suppose that’s about 5’ 6”, weight slightly over weight but not too, nah I will make her too thin, around 120.
Hair color is a muddy brown with rusty streaks with a complexion to the sallow side of tan.

Next on the creation list: her inner strengths and she has had to deal with a hard childhood, although loving her parents they hated each other and her greatest hope was for them to get along.
Unfortunately, her mother died before that was going to happen when she was just sixteen, and her father looked to her to be his moral support; making our star become too grown up before her time, and at times carrying the world on her shoulders.

I bet you are wondering what her name is, well if I told you I would have to kill you! Actually, I would be in really hot water, and for now she will remain the mystery woman.

Good night to all and to all, have some harmless fun!
Try for something without any legal ramifications, OK?

Monday, December 22, 2008

Pondering

Tonight I was wondering how many people actually live in denial of who they are and refuse to listen to the news and be better informed, but perhaps, maybe a little upset by what they see and hear? They live in their own world with their own realities, but the rest of the world can go to hell in a hand basket (excuse my language, but it does best describe the way that they think) and they wouldn’t know or even care.
Now don't get me wrong some people truly believe life is a bowl of cherries and the persons around him or her they will never believe whenever anybody speaks negatively, no matter what proof they have that things are not so terrific.

Is this a social or psychological problem or both?
Not mentioning any names but I do know two people that happened to be related to each other that think the way I mentioned above.
Cocooning I call it; denial is what the rest of the world may feel.
But when you cocoon you really do live in you own impenetrable shell/domain with no way out. (I have not seen any turn into butterflies or even moths)

Now think about this… what if we all behaved in this manner.
It makes one stop and take pause to think if anything would ever get done.
OCD as most know is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and I do believe the above mentioned people do both have this issue or better stated, mental illness, but I am not a doctor, and I am only considering it as a possibility.
It consists of doing things over and over again and in my opinion in some but not all cases yet never ever accomplishing what they originally set out to do; therefore not completing any one task. This is a given for creating no time for much else, and that is why most of these people feel they never have any time to accomplish anything!
Also it can be said that they do not have time for anybody or anything other than what affects them in their immediate vicinity or own little world. In the case in my example, not having time to read a newspaper or even turn on the TV news.
Just like hamsters on a wheel is what it reminds me of; running and running but getting no where.
Many of these people have known to be hoarders, full basements where you can’t walk or two car garages where the cars have to stay outside or both at the same time.
You know the type, they save everything, and they are afraid to get rid of any of their items for fear of needing it at a later date or thinking it may have more value than what they paid for it. I was once told that a stack of six month old newspapers could not be thrown away since they had not gone through them yet for articles or coupons!
Interestingly enough, these people are in some families the ones that we go to when we need some obscure thing that was out of manufacturing stock ten years prior to when you realized that you would need it yourself.
Oddly enough they do have it, but due to all their clutter they would be darned if they can find it.
Most recently I have been told that they couldn’t find tickets or car keys, and these are things that create duplications, all time wasters and added expense, strangely enough one of things they think they are saving, money.
What’s wrong with more is less.
Organization can keep you sane!
Toss anything that you haven’t used in six months, or donate, sell at a garage sale.
Minimalistic is a great way to live, too many things get you in trouble.
Move to a smaller location and get rid of things you never really needed anyway.
When we have less room we have to be selective; which in no time at all we will eventually run into an abundance of time to spare.

Believe it or not…if you are a perpetrator of the above behavior you might not believe me so what the heck am I saying and to whom am I speaking?

Anyway, the end of the year is a good time for everyone to re-evaluate what is truly important.

Good night to all and consider thinking of living breathing things like family and friends being the most important to hoard!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Tonight I am writing on something that just had a law passed to prevent it online

A bully is defined below:

Main Entry: 1bul•ly
Function: noun
Pronunciation: 'bu-le, 'b&-
Inflected Form(s): plural bullies
Etymology: probably modification of Dutch boel lover, from Middle High German buole
1 archaic a : SWEETHEART b : a fine chap
2 a : a blustering browbeating person ; especially : one habitually cruel to others who are weaker b : PIMP
3 : a hired ruffian

As one can see by reading the above definition a person who bullies is habitually cruel to others who are weaker.
This is a horrible behavior and usually can be captured while examining the adolescent in groups trying hard to be noticed and or accepted by peers, and feels that conduct whether bad or good if it gets a reaction is hysterical. Most of the ‘bullies’ have no remorse for the victim.
Belittling people of any age is an impolite and tragic act.
While bullying is associated with children there is an undercurrent in the adult world too.
And since an adult is supposed to be that much tougher in life or at least by what most consider by the time they have reached the age that most think of an adult cowering and shame and even suicide has been known to be caused by this horrendous bad behavior portrayed by often so-called other adults.
The frequency and shocking locations of this event would surprise the savviest person.
Surprisingly enough ones that were thought to be decent people and people who have been trained to uphold the law; have been doing bullying for years, even to captured innocent until proven guilty persons, and even people who are their business clients, but also to co-workers and their families too; and since we have found out that this bullying behavior in certain venues is accepted and even encouraged. They must stop!

Let’s put it this way in some industries they are so backwards they still think the little woman should be seen but not heard.

Recently a law was enacted to help prevent cyber bullying. Under the new law an anti-cyber-bullying law, any school that does not proactively amend its anti-bullying policies to reflect the changes within 90 days of the bill’s enactment will automatically have its district policy deemed as addressing electronic, or cyber bullying in New Jersey.

In other parts of the country:
“A 21-year-old woman named Nicole Williams was charged for allegedly sending harassing text messages to a 16-year-old girl and allowing others to use her cell phone to leave vulgar voicemail messages for the victim threatening her with rape, among other things. Williams allegedly targeted the teen over a jealous dispute involving a boy, according to the Post-Dispatch.
• Two St. Louis men were charged separately with sending harassing text messages to their ex-girlfriends.
• A man protesting the development of a proposed resort was charged with sending a threatening e-mail to city hall staff.
• A 28-year-old woman was accused of sending harassing text messages to her ex-husband's girlfriend.
• A 19-year-old man was charged with sending some 17 text messages to his mother's husband.
• A 17-year-old involved with a classmate in a dispute over a girl is accused of sending the classmate death threats via text messages.”

All the above examples have to do with texting or emails, but in-person bullying is not allowed either and most adults unless it’s out right harassment and monitored by keeping a diary it is so hard to prove when especially sides are often taken on behalf of a superior officer/boss. An analogy could be almost similar to a rape victim beginning to blame herself when she might like to dress provocatively on occasion and thinking that that was the cause of the violence, but still no one has the right to do that to anyone.
Bullying can be insidious to say the least and without someone in your corner on the inside it can very likely make it a he said she said, or she said she said or a he said he said as many of these instances sadly are. Good people leave jobs everyday for that very reason and begin to second guess their own abilities because by no uncertain means bullying is psychological rape, self worth can go right out the window by its viciousness.
I personally know of someone who thought he had someone to trust on the inside and documented all negative encounters with his bully and shared the instances with a confident who was his bully’s superior, but when push came to shove the so-called go between pulled a fast one and bolted leaving the victim without any hope of vindication or help what so ever, not fair, foul but no one ever did anything. And today that bully is still there continuing his nasty meanness; sad but true.
In closing everyone must step in when we see these injustices, and try and help.
We all know that mean kids can grow up to be mean adults and that is what has happened in so many areas of the world not only in business, but in government in all aspects of ones life so be aware and don’t just stand there do something!
And I will hope for your sake and my own that we are appreciated for what we do not criticize.
Good night to all and to all be proactive, right the wrongs!

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Where do I begin...

Our day was ordinary by most standards.
And it really was quiet all of today.
Accomplishing our usual normal chores, but deciding to contact a few family members to wish them an additional happy holiday.
We live quite far from most of the family, and when it comes to the holidays it does sadden me that we cannot always get together.
Emails are great for most, but some are still intimidated by the computer concept or the internet itself.

Tonight we are planning our Saturday night movie night.
We have two that are quite long and will be starting as soon as I am done here.
Would you believe one is Narnia, the sequel? Yes, we do enjoy movies that are non violent and make you smile and feel good.
And the other for diversification is the newest X Files one that didn’t do too well at the theaters. I guess you can say we were both big fans of that show.

We had also picked up a few books the other day at our library, and I put in a request for two more.
Oddly enough one of the ones I put in for on Thursday they called me the very next day to let me know it was available, and we will pick that up sometime this week before or after Christmas that is.
It was a Richard Bachman/ Stephen King (I suppose most know that Richard Bachman is an alias for Stephen King when he was trying to see if it was his writing that sold his books and impressed people or if it was his name after his success) novel called Thinner that I seemed to have missed, which was written back in 1984 and the second one that I am still waiting on was our President elects Barack Obama’s, The Audacity of Hope; I really felt the need to read that to be better informed on our new leader.

Speaking of the President elect Obama he has completed his choices for his entire cabinet earlier than any other president before him. And that it just stupendous! He did mean what he said and now with that accomplished he really will be able to hit the road running right after the Inauguration, which makes me feel confident that I did make the right choice with my vote.
Although, the minister that was our president elect’s choice for the Inauguration this time also seems to be quite controversial and I really don’t have enough information to honor you with any intelligent opinion on that; stay tuned.

Corrections: Last night I stated that the government was bailing out Chevy and Chrysler it is actually GM and Chrysler, and I also stated it was a lesser amount but it is actually 17.6B.


I will bid you all good night and to all sleep well.

Friday, December 19, 2008

In figures of speech, can one really do what I did?

Can a person throw out their back?
One doesn't actually throw out ones back; it would be physically impossible to do that unless you were a contortionist!
Anyway, it does always seem to make my legs go numb.
And it has happened many a time.
Has anyone else done this out there?
And what or how do you explain why this happens?
Personally, I think it’s a little like a trick knee which goes out of its socket (I have one of those too); in my opinion the vertebrae go out of alignment, but when you stiffen up then pain will ensue, especially when bone touches bone.
I do have what is called degenerative spinal disease or osteoarthritis of the spine with cervical (neck) stenosis, which is a normal part of aging and if you live long enough you will get it too.
Most don’t know that, but being informed during physical therapy sessions, fourteen in all over as many years was quite eye opening.
Interestingly, I do not or at least at last bone density test I did not yet have Osteoporosis yet added to my repertoire of arthritis conditions, which I do have seven.
I was diagnosed a few years ago with Osteopenia, which is the pre cursor to Osteoporosis, again not that unusual for some one my age.
But that was not responsible for my back issues degeneration or damages mostly all caused by normal wear and tear, but a car accident or two, water park one too, and being a figure ice skater who did a few jumps that landed badly, and yes I was also a cheerleader with all that entails. I am pretty sure my twelve years of ballet did not cause the problem, but acrobatics may have, tap dancing; again not so much. And I am certain voice and piano lessons had no affect what so ever!
Not much different than all children who enjoy being young and fearless!

Anyway, I must admit my hubby was wonderful and took good care of me by bringing me whatever I required.
Finally at about 1 P.M.; I had time to think of the best way to handle the situation; and decided I needed a relaxing warm shower.
It seemed to be just the ticket, and I did feel better.
Now at this hour it is just a dull ache.

President Bush spoke about the rules for the Chevy and Chrysler Companies being bailed out for now the magic number of 16B as the temporary solution with a lot of concessions on their part dealing with salaries and cutbacks also proof of solvency by March 31.2009. To his good our current president stated he felt this gave our president elect a time period in which to make sure that there would be a decent final outcome to this problem.

Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois is still arrogantly saying he has done nothing wrong! What is with this guy?

Good night to all and to all have a good weekend.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Had a very pleasant day

Today was quiet and nice.
What a nondescript non exciting word nice is.
The definition of nice is:

From Merriam Webster:
Main Entry: nice
Function: adjective
Pronunciation: 'nīs
Inflected Form(s): nic•er ; nic•est
Etymology: Middle English, foolish, wanton, from Old French, from Latin nescius ignorant, from nescire not to know -- more at NESCIENCE
1 obsolete a : WANTON , DISSOLUTE b : COY , RETICENT
2 a : showing fastidious or finicky tastes : PARTICULAR too nice a palate to enjoy junk food b : exacting in requirements or standards : PUNCTILIOUS a nice code of honor
3 : possessing, marked by, or demanding great or excessive precision and delicacy nice measurements
4 obsolete : TRIVIAL
5 a : PLEASING , AGREEABLE a nice time a nice person b : well-executed nice shot c : APPROPRIATE , FITTING not a nice word for a formal occasion
6 a : socially acceptable : WELL -bred from a nice family b : VIRTUOUS , RESPECTABLE
7 : POLITE , KIND that's nice of you to say
synonym see CORRECT
- nice adverb
- nice•ly adverb
- nice•ness noun

I was definitely incorrect on my rush to a conclusion on the meaning of the word nice…WOW was I wrong!
Now with this latest info I do believe that I may have judged other also somewhat simplistic words too harshly and without enough investigation into their backgrounds.
From now on I will try harder to be less critical without having all the facts at hand, and then I will allow my judgment to ensue. You can see how we may have all taken too many of these common words for granted, not me ever again!
Colorful language should be something that we all strive for in our everyday lives; it adds excitement to our descriptions of life, objects, occasions and even daily mundane chores.
When we connote images with lively verbiage we express ideas that play movies in ones mind. Don’t we owe the world such gifts of speech?
It’s free and it’s not mean spirited, but please keep in mind that the term colorful language does not refer to expletives of cursing coarseness or to speaking crassly.
When that term is used in my sentences I am hoping to create within all speaking individuals the want and desire to do better to communicate.
Plain speak is something that all politicians should strive for, but us ordinary Joes need to have more!

Tonight we tripped the lights fantastic and floated up and down our aquamarine water ways with an International cast of crew-sers. Our French Canadian friends from across our canal had their lovely teen grand-daughters down for a visit and we all went for a sunset cruise to see the Christmas lights. I do believe they enjoyed themselves.
A nice evening was had by all.

So on that note…Good night to all and to all sweet dreams.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I passed another milestone with this Blog, but apparently wasn't paying attention!

The other night was my 175th Blogger day of doing my Blog! I guess I forgot to mention how truly surprised I am that I stuck with this form of self counseling. If you write it down sometimes it doesn’t seem so bad.
Amazing realization to me and did you also know that I have actually over 220 pages of this drivel?
My bad this is my ‘Soap Box’ for my emotions and heartfelt thoughts.
It has become my outlet for self expression, and helps in dire times to allow me that luxury of blatantly complaining to anyone and everyone who cares to listen without getting any critical feedback!

Again Florida’s weather is the best in the country; no kidding, come on down!
We had mid eighties degrees and low in the 40% humidity.

I have definitely made a connection between my cane usage and my shoulder pain, and so while at home I am trying to hold on to inanimate household objects within reach instead of using one of my fashion statement decorative canes. By doing this I have decreased my pain in my shoulders by extraordinary bounds. If I knew for sure that I wouldn’t fall I would be confident to try it outside, not much too secure out there to hold on to, but alas my balance from the Ataxia is still debilitating to the point when I turn too suddenly even with a cane in hand I have nearly fallen, and with my lousy bones and weight issues that could be possibly devastatingly damaging.

Filed under: Of course we knew that: President elect Barack Obama has been named Time Magazine’s person of the year.

Filed under: Not too surprised: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg at age 51 has decided to join the family business and threw her hat into the ring to become the next Senator from New York. I guess she finally realized those law degrees were something she could use to do more with than just her charity, wifely stuff and mothering with; I say good for her!

Filed under: Shame on you: Bernard Madoff scammer BIG TIME had the chutzpa to steal 50B from his fellow Jews and their charities, what a nice guy! Spielberg is one of the most famous victims on his list of destruction of futures for charities and for retirement funds by a Ponzi scheme!
Charles Ponzi: was one of the biggest swindlers in American history and he arrived in the US in 1903 from Lugo Italy, and begun his pyramid like schemes which he eventually stole millions. He moved to Montreal in 1907 where he continued his schemes.

Filed under: Beyond bizarre and hideous: A three year old child in Pennsylvania is named horrendously, Adolf Hitler! What were those parents thinking? Crazy and just plain bad taste!

Good night to all and to all try and get some rest everyday seems to be another big adventure!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Today, Nosey me again, and Wow the Market goes up, somethings do work, Habitat for Humanity

Hello out there?
Is anybody listening?
What another beautiful day in paradise.
It’s our claim to fame, sunshine and low humidity with mid 80's temperatures most all day.
According to the national weather we again are the nicest anywhere in the good ole US of A!

After a couple of active days we stayed home today.
I fell back into my usual mode of early coffee, then reading the emails and making breakfast.
My hubby and I take turns on feeding our outdoor critters.
When he does it I make the bed and breakfast, he makes the bed when I do.
What’s wrong with this picture?
I have been eating breakfast ever since I heard it might also help with my weight problem; keep me from eating later on in the day.

Did you see how the Stock Market ended the day? It was up over 359 points.
Apparently, it was due to the Fed cutting rates to record lows.
Whatever works I say!

Situation on the news: Opinions wanted: a man goes away for eight days and when he gets back receives a water bill for $1150, but his month’s bill before was only $40, and the month since he’s been home was a logical, $52. What could possibly be the cause of that one extremely high bill?
Nothing in his home has changed or was fixed, and during that high month nothing was leaking or broken.
Well, the Collier County water authorities has agreed to give him a normal bill but still believe that he is at fault and are saying that they will be splitting his bill with everyone! He claims his meter was broken, but only for one month? They claim he had a broken toilet or pipe, but he insists that everything works fine. Crazy!
Personally, I haven’t a clue to how it happened if everyone is telling the truth.

I wrote a couple of emails today to people I thought that I needed to express my concerns to or just my feelings.
You know me…anyway, this time I do feel I went about it diplomatically.

Neighbors: those unique ones across the street from us seem to be multiplying; in other words people appear to be moving in.
The last we were told was that the house was in foreclosure, but the owner has it rented out for months now and the new renters have two different vehicles that moved in over the weekend.
It seems like it must be the times we live in, ‘Grapes of Wrath’, in my own neighborhood.
Only instead of Oakies we have (Florida) Crackers in that ancient sad situation, which we all prayed would not be true.
The home is only a two bedroom, one bath with a carport and it looks like about four to five more people have moved things in. You make do when you need to.
They arrived with an older model small car and a compact pick-up truck full to the brim.
And they appear to be older folks so I hope we will not have any problems.
Previously there had been a lot of drugs and alcohol and loud unruly people visiting, hopefully this will not be the case.
It always amazes me how people in financial straights always seem to have the money for cigarettes, alcohol, and pot.
Now, you ask how I could know that.
Well, when you use your carport as an outdoor living room it’s hard not to see what’s going on when the lights are beaming full force.
But since, just the fact this group of people actually put their vehicles in there tells me that they are a more discreet group.

Enough of that, but not really, in that same vain of thinking... two, maybe three days ago I read an article in our paper about Habitat for Humanity taking over some of the foreclosed homes locally and making them livable with their sweat equity program and refitting them for homeownership.
I think that’s great!
I also wonder if some of those who lost their homes to foreclosure will meet their criteria to get back into a nice living place, ironically it would be wonderful for them to move back into their old homes, in better condition and at better financial terms.

Anyway that’s all I got for tonight and so good night to all and to all have a good one.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Frustrations, confusions, and life goes on...

Hello world today we went up to our local mall and rolled around.
Yes, I rolled since they have those chairs that are powered by batteries.
And my husband took over my cane, which he felt did aid him in his walking with me.
We did eat at the food court, oh no you say way too fattening, and yes probably, but I had Chinese steamed chicken with broccoli and noodles, also unsweet iced tea, while my very skinny hubby had his calzone like stuffed Italian treat.

We again were the proverbial window shoppers and without guilt enjoyed all we saw.
You see the few presents that we had to get were already gotten online or even easier were just a check in a holiday card so no stress here since they were all taken care of last week; even our just empty holiday cards were mailed!

So when we came home and removed the mail from our mailbox we were extremely annoyed that our former insurance agency took it upon themselves to get their chosen flood insurance company to get paid from our account!
Two and one half months ago they were basically fired from being our insurance agency, we had already moved our homeowner’s and auto to a different one a few years ago, and the last insurance to be moved over was our flood.
And so when they informed us by mail that they were changing our company to the one that we had before the hurricane, Charley that is we told them we were done with them and we would go with our current agent.
You see our former pre-Charley insurance company cancelled us after they finally paid out what they owed, and then we had to scurry at that time to find another, which we have been happily with since!
So why on earth would we want to be with a company that not only cancelled us but took nearly three months to pay out our money after the hurricane, and sent a claims person who spent two days at the end of September, (the hurricane hit in August on the 13 of 2004), he used our phone line for his laptop, and waited another month after that to file the claim!
At that time I made six complaints to our state insurance board about that insurance company and my husband did again today but this time to complain about the insurance agency that did this.
Apparently, we now have to sign a form stating we did not want this, and that we have another insurance company for our flood insurance with all their info; our new company has told them this, but the money will be returned hopefully before our 12-31-08 deadline. Thankfully we are now in the dry season, not hurricane so having a flood is highly unlikely.
It wasn’t even due until the end of this month as you can see by the above date, but this is still just plain aggravating.

I know I know at least we have a home and the money to pay our insurance, but the point is that this is just a bad business practice!
No wonder so many are going out of business.

All our annoyances were resolved hopefully; hitting them head on has always been our way not letting them lag on.

So I will bid you good night and to all take care and know that you should always try and resolve anything that crops up before it gets out of hand, hopefully with grace and dignity, which we do too sometimes, but unfortunately not always.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Outing, careful language, and size ten shoes

Today we left our home, and that is what I meant by outing; whatever did you think I meant?
We actually went over to the big next-door city called Punta Gorda, kidding it’s a little village pretending to be a big city! It is our county seat though, and we are unincorporated and it is.
First, we finally arrived at one of our in county ethnic restaurants this one was a Tex/Mex called, ‘Dean’s, South of the Border.’
My husband had eaten there many times when still a working stiff, but I had not been there, and efforts to go there proved to be difficult to say the least; on many previous occasions the parking lot had been full. Which usually means good eats, and this time they definitely were, and yes I would love to go back again.

Anyway, we have a Fisherman’s Village there also, in Punta Gorda that is but on the water of course; which means it has shops, restaurants, and timeshares above those shops.
Don’t all Fishermen’s Villages?
Well, weekly/monthly they have special events and yesterday and today they had an Arts and Crafts Show with 60 venders.
When we were both healthier we used to arrive at the dock there by our boat, but since my hubby’s back is shot and my many ills we now arrive by car, deboarding by boat is now too painful for either of us; it’s only about a five mile drive from home, or as the crow flies probably three miles by boat.
We were lookers only again, but the few hours there were pleasant, and they have plenty of benches to rest on if need be.
The weather was just right in the 70’s so not too hot or too cold, perfection or in other words, Florida.

Just had a light soup and multi grain bread dinner; lunch was large.
Anyway, the news was on and discussed President Bush’s surprise trip to Bagdad and showed the footage of the Iraqi newsman throwing his size ten shoes at our president, fortunately Bush’s reflexes were surprisingly quick and the guy missed.
I must admit I don’t care for the guy (our current president), but that was rather much for anyone to endure.
The secret service stopped the fellow and got to the bottom of it.
It was explained he had personal anguish that involved the war and that is what was attributed to his bad behavior.
The media also explained that was an enormous insult to our president since the foot/shoe is considered the dirtiest part of the body in most Middle Eastern cultures.

Here’s a little aside from me: Yesterday while playing Dominoes online I seemed to have acquired what I consider somewhat of a stalker since he follows me from table to table to play Dominoes with me, but in the past I have just moved from that table and then stopped playing for a considerable amount of time.
Anyway, I had not seen or heard from him in quite a while so when he sat at my table to play yesterday I pretended that I did not know him, and he wrote, familiar?
And thinking I was being funny I wrote, “2 my shoe.” He came back later to let me know he was quite offended, and at that time I thought nothing of it just thinking he was being way too sensitive. It wasn’t until today that I found out how insulting I had been since I think he was from some country in the Middle East, and I just did not know; see some things are NOT funny to everyone.
It’s a good thing that I am basically anonymous while playing, and this also proves that as an international ambassador I would stink.
Protocol is not exactly my cup of tea, so to speak, I guess, as I have said many a time I suffer from foot in mouth disease.

On that note I will say good night to all and maybe internationally we should all take our languages to heart and care; since ones joke can easily be mistaken for another’s insult.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

This was the week that should have been...

The Stock Market hit an all time high of 1500.
But the job market has reached an all time low for unemployment less than .05%, and it's all been attributed to the jobs being created at an incredible rate of 100k a month; I guess we will have to allow some of those illegals back in to fill those extra job openings that we have.

Thanks to our fairly new head of health, education and welfare, welfare will be discontinued since we haven’t heard from anyone needing assistance in more than 3 years now. And speaking of that department with all those jobs waiting for our well educated children getting their free college and university placements, and scoring the highest in any land in the world on English, math and science skill tests we are looking forward to another prosperous New Year!
Now that AIDS and cancer have been wiped off the face of the earth due to the above mentioned children we no longer have a need for hospitals or health care, all chronic diseases have been dealt with by the small troops of live in home health care workers that teach prevention and immediately repair all if any problems before they actually arise!
The housing market takes another leap to try and keep up with the demand of all those children getting into the job market and looking for places to call home sweet home.
Marriage is on the rise; it seems with this new absolutely wonderful future forecasts; it is creating a euphoric ‘love in’, so to speak, and so clergypersons can not seem to keep up with the scores of new couples so they have combined their efforts and have decided to share all buildings of all religious persuasions and wed those people foregoing any counseling. The theory has arisen that since love is the reason most are tying the knot, not greed, and since finances should never become a problem that less arguing should occur.
Just a little insider info now that every industry has jumped on the nursery rooms along with preschool day care programs on the premises all youngsters will be able to see their parents on breaks while at work thus bonding will never be a worry; the family unit is once again tight.

The national budget is speculatively proving to be around the 250catrillion range in the black.

To avoid the confusion with all these extra taxpayers’ monies, any one who so desires to retire from work by age 55 will be entitled to an additional 2M to keep our budget on track and to stimulate more money being spent while aiding our economy.
Guess those newlyweds will have to up the ante on those little ones; perhaps we should grant them a little bonus on having at least two.

Air quality has improved since the Big Three in Detroit created all those $7500 electric hybrids vehicles.
Nuclear and wind energy along with the new rebates on solar panels have made us completely wondering why we ever thought we needed that dirty stuff called oil.
Buying those new homes are a joy to finance for the new world of the America Bank, which tells all its loan officers to give the people whatever they want, since now you only need a five year mortgage to have your home free and clear. Some wunderkinds don’t need any.
All due to the money credits earned during college; for A’s they get big bucks towards living expenses upon graduation.

Crime has taken awhile to get to the point where our criminal specialists are no longer needed, but as we see that the new programs that are run for retraining the oldest groups of not so well adjusted people they are slowly coming around and within the next ten years most jails and prisons will be in use for educational training priority reorganization not for incarceration.

We can dream; can’t we?

Our hope for our future has only ever been a dream so why lose that thought.

Good night to all and to all think big.

Friday, December 12, 2008

14B not a done deal for the big three, moon is a bit closer and life goes on in this household

Well, can you believe that AIG without any questions received their 153B while Ford GM and Chrysler have had to practically beg for a measly 14B?
What Measly 14B?
Who am I Buffet?
My way of thinking must be attributed to the fact that all these monies are said to belong to us taxpayer’s, our monies, so they keep saying, and so I am thinking we have quite a bit more, 700B more they keep saying that we can give away, that is of our taxpayer money, OK?
No, that shouldn’t be OK!
But even though it’s ours they won’t let us throw it on the floor and bathe in it or toss it over our heads or even simply count it, or say goodbye to it, you know, does that sound fair?
I don’t have anything in my home worth anywhere near 700B or even a measly 14B.
So as a taxpayer I don’t see why I can’t have my last requests fulfilled.
Oh well… se la vie!

The moon is so much closer to the earth tonight just look outside, and you should notice the difference by several thousand miles supposedly!

Van Johnson, died today at the age of 92 he was an actor of musicals and dramas, he was in the movies and on the TV for six decades, and he will be sorely missed by all who remember him. I do.

Tonight will be a movie night here too. We have checked and the airways will be dominated by the children’s holiday specials, which have taken over the networks, and so we are very lucky that we have three movies waiting in the wings, and tonight our choice will be Get Smart.

So I will say a quick good night to all and to all have a pleasant one.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

World unrest, holiday scams, foreclosures, dishonest politicians, bailouts oh my!

Too much for me to try to tackle and much too shocking, depressing, and way too complicated!

So tonight I thought I would get back on track and talk about things that have been in my personal thoughts.

Sadly, when my parents found their lovely retirement village way back in 1973 in south Jersey, Lakewood, or the shore as it’s called, they didn't realize it would come with depressing side effects; living in an older community means that some of your neighbors are more than likely going to pass away and that’s more likely sooner than later.
And since they had a few thousand living there it was a monthly occurrence that a few some ones that they had met or knew would be dead before the month was out; heartbreaking and not for the feint hearted.
My parents also had a positive perk they lived less than two miles from us since we had moved down to the southern part of good ole NJ six months before them.
But the overflow of death would ooze over into my heart too.
Not a good thing for a young mother in her twenties to think about; I would often know their friends who also became mine.
Unfortunately, death can come at any age and while living there I had two of my three miss-carriages, but thankfully a healthy birth of my second son also.
He was officially a Piney born at Point Pleasant hospital. His older brother was born at Hackensack hospital up in the northern part of the state, so he was a northerner; odd for such a small state to have all these boundaries.
The Piney son that I mentioned meant he was born of the area best known as the Pine Barrens, which is a forested area in the mid southern realm reaching from the center to the ocean shoreline of the state, and ‘Pineys’ are really more for the lack of a better explanation similar to the concept of hillbillies, this is totally wrong since this part of NJ was as flat as a flatland gets, but you get the idea. And our second born never ever was lacking sophistication in any way.
But, better still most have heard of the Pine Barrens in reference to where the mob dumps their bodies.
Oddly enough and sadly, more unwanted deaths.
The whole time we lived in that area, fourteen years; we had built in 1978 our second home in the same county called Ocean, we never saw any of that, but you would hear on the news another soul had been found; usually one of their own mobsters.

We moved from there to Florida in the summer of 1986 to the east coast there, and then to the west coast in January of 1995.
But I have gone astray from the thing that got me started on this chain of thought, death and how we handle it.
When we moved here that is to Florida on August 19. 1986 I swore I would not get involved with any older people as friends it would be too difficult to lose them; mind you both my parents had passed away in 1982 and 1986, my Dad’s the most recent, May 11th of that same year, Mother’s Day to be exact.
So I was still raw and so I made sure I got involved with our sons and their schools while we decided on what types of work or business we would be in.
You see, we also sold a very successful business with our home before we left NJ.
Anyway, it worked for a few years, but sadly in 1991 our younger son who was now fifteen and he had this best friend, you know the type, the one that we took with us everywhere and that slept over anytime, well he at that tender age of fifteen was killed by a drunk driver while on his bicycle in the morning coming home from his girlfriend's house. And that dear sweet child was hit so hard by that 22 year old that hit him with such force his bike ended up in the power lines on 30 MPH Street, speechless and so horribly sad.
Of course we all got involved with MADD, but our sons knew all about that horror, remember their Dad was a Fire Chief and told them graphically about extricating dead brothers from a drunk driving accident way back when in good ole NJ, dead man’s curve, everyone knows one of those by them.

Anyway, death can haunt you.
So why press your luck and work with anybody who is naturally nearer to it than you?
I have actually been a volunteer on and off since the tender age of twenty when I worked on my day off from work and college with Autistic, Downs and CP children, but they were actually quite alive and at times quite lively!
So as crazy as it may seem to the many my life in my forties and fifties has been with mostly oldies but goodies; perhaps in some small way having many surrogate parents along the way.
With all my medical issues I have been in and out of being very ill to not so ill for many years, mainly the last fourteen and so when I first went into physical therapy it included water exercise which led to Aquacize, which led in a year and a half to me becoming a certified instructor. Then from there it was short leap to a support group which I soon became the Co-President of, which led to me using my back ground in entertainment and fashion causing the first combo fashion entertainment three hour show raising thousands for the Arthritis Foundation, from there producing a golf tournament with smatterings of fashion shows in between. And then became a board member and now I am an ambassador; and proudly in the year 2000 was the volunteer of the year.
Horribly most of these groups of friends were the ones that mean ages were seventy-five, and since my Mom was a week from her 71st birthday when she died and Dad was just four months into his 79th year that number was scary for me, friends wise that is.
I did hang in at a major activity level for about four years, and I am still involved at a lesser capacity still as an Ambassador.
I still don’t handle death well, and get depressed longer than most I suspect, most recently my niece and brother.
Even the loss of five adult pets in a twelve year period threw me badly, 1992-2004.
I bet everyone has a secret coping mechanism, and I do wish that somehow we could share, but most still feel losing someone or some creature is too personal to discuss.
But isn’t death a part of life?
We are often told that.
Why I got on this maudlin topic is beyond me, although many admit this is the season for this type of thinking to occur.
Because we miss those people who have gone from our lives is my explanation… as simple as that.

Sorry to be such a downer tonight, but I wanted to express my thoughts and that is what I was thinking.

Good night to all and to all remember who we miss.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The Governor of Illinois, Leno, and the bailout so far...

Rod Blagojevich, the present Governor of Illinois does not understand that the position of senator in his state is not something you can fill by auctioning it off to the highest bidder for his own gain. Oddly enough he is still in place as governor after that wild scheme, and being arrested and indicted yesterday, he rose from his own bed this morning since he had been bailed out of jail and went to work.
Crazy man!
President elect Obama has asked for his resignation. Governor Blagojevich is not showing any sign of stepping aside. He has also ruined Jessie Jackson Junior chances for the position of senator due to Mr. Jackson not being aware of how he was being approached by the governor.

President elect Barack Obama has already a 67% approval rating higher than either of the last two presidents.

Jay Leno teased us with his retirement saying that Conan O’Brien was taking over the Tonight Show in 2009, actually that part is true; but uh, uh he’s not really retiring he’s just readjusting his hours for his senior years to work the hours between 10 P.M. to 11P.M. Monday through Friday; starting this fall.

The Bailout update: so far… all that first monies that were given out to the banks and AIG and the lot…well… why anyone thought that they would do what they said they would do and actually help recreate loans to help the average homeowners… nope! They are still creating Golden Umbrellas and gift packages for their CEO’s, etc.! I think that’s just plain obscene, and that’s all of our money, us taxpayers! I want them to give us recount ability!

Now what’s new with you?
Here it is mid-week, and my life is so quiet again.
I guess there is something to be said for that, at least it’s better than being sick or having some horrible situation arise, too much of that horror.
I did try and get in touch with a friend that had the flu or some other ill; I suppose she is well now since I got her machine.
Anyway, reading has been on my agenda and I just started another book earlier by the author Jeffery Deaver, and it’s a far cry from the one I just finished, a true novel; entitled The Broken Window.

Well, good night to all and to all think happy thoughts.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Annoying advertising emails that we don't request and other things

Anybody out there really want to get in touch with people that they have nothing in common with anymore?
We have been systematically putting those high school reunion ones in the spam file but for some strange reason they keep coming!
So tonight I gave mine a look and clicked on the unsubscribe again, which I have done many times before but maybe the last time was about a year ago and they did stop for a while but they are back with a vengeance,
I will be unsubscribing my husbands too.
I keep asking him if he wants to hear from anyone, after all this year was our fortieth anniversary of our graduations.
But for him it would mean more than mine since I only went to my high school that I graduated from for my last two years of school.
So I didn’t know those people from kindergarten like he did.
My first several years of school were spent in another town, and we moved there for my junior year.
So I’m not that sentimental with those people although they all were very nice to me.
But knowing people for two years forty years ago somewhat explains my lack of emotional attachment.
Now for what’s important to me; as I complete my reading of Barbara Walters book, Audition I feel somewhat a kinship with the woman and a deep liking and respect for her as a person.
She is so honest and real.
And yes, she has met so many incredible people and has gotten the best out of most in her interviews. She reminds me of my Dad in the fact that she seems to find some good in most people.
They all seem to warm to her and over the years this has allowed her to make many personal friends from quite a few acquaintances.
Her interviews section of her book towards the end of it reads like a version of that section of Reader’s Digest, The Most Interesting People That I’ve Met or something like that, but hers is not ordinary people that have only affected that particular writer’s life; hers just so happen to be famous or notorious people that everyone thinks they know, and after she gets done with their prime time interviews we all have a little better insight into them, and feel we really do know them all slightly better than ever before.

The book is entertaining and interesting in the fact of her giving you front row seats into the process of how people are selected, and why they are not.
Barbara Walters also lets you know the ones that got away, and delves into those reasons too.
It’s a reality check from straightening out the innuendo of rumors from her show The View and what a roller coaster ride it has been of the last few years compared to its calm beginnings. But now it has gotten back to its origins.
All in all it is one of the finest autobiographies I’ve read in a long time, thank you Ms. Walters!

Good night to all and to all pick out something to enjoy.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Oh What A Night

Yes, I had some night last night, and it was fortunately just me not my hubby.
Talk about sick...how can I put this delicately?
Let’s see…My stomach took a turn for the worst, and I had many trips to empty it from where it originated. Meaning where the food went in is that couth or what?
Yes, that will have to do.
Interestingly enough I am counting on it not being food poisoning because we ate the same things and my husband is fine.
It is lingering as I write this at this hour so it might be a shorty tonight.

I did get a chance to go back to reading the book Audition, the Barbara Walters autobiography that I left off reading on page 458 due to my niece and brother’s deaths and not being able to concentrate and the book needing to go back to the library.
I’m sure that anyone who was watching the news this weekend heard about the finality of the famous woman Sunny Von Bulow’s comatose state she had finally passed away after many years; she was the victim and heiress in the Reversal of Fortune movie fame.
The one who’s husband, Claus was accused of plying her with heavy doses of insulin putting her into that coma? At first trial he was found guilty, but on the second he was exonerated.
Well, the reason I’m mentioning this is that when I went back to the book on page 458 is coincidently the page on which Barbara Walters writes about herself interviewing Claus Von Bulow! And that page is where I had left off last month, five weeks ago, weird.

Well, it looks like the Big Three from Detroit will be getting some help after all, fortunate for the AWU, but with only about half the funds requested; 15B worth of bridge loans and a car czar, and a band on golden parachutes; I think all spread out over 7 years with lots of strings attached.

Correction: OJ Simpson will be allowed to be imprisoned for up to 33 years not just fifteen for his armed robbery, and kidnapping charge…and who says there is no such thing as Karma?

Good night to all and my tummy is feeling not too good right now, so have a good one.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

67 Years Ago Today Pearl Harbor Was Bombed

Today as everyone probably knows is the 67th anniversary of the day that lives in infamy, the day that Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, which officially put the United States into World War II.

FDR’s speech was something that all school children should remember, although I was not born at that time on, December 7.1941 that was a Sunday too, that speech was recorded on tape and film for all of us to see and hear over and over again into eternity and to never ever forget.

Today was our big first of many, I hope, harvest of our crops, two tomatoes were ready one was a heat wave and the other one was one of the Roma’s, several peas in their pods were chosen too, a few scrawny carrots but they tasted very sweet and the rest comprised of the Mesclun greens, which are a combination of many different types and flavors.
I used those greens and tomatoes in our salad at dinner tonight.
Just thinking of all those vitamins we must have consumed makes me think health is on its way!
The average veggie takes five to six weeks to reach the grocers’ shelves and we just got rid of the middle man/woman.

Our president elect Barack Obama was on Meet the Press this morning, and he was well interviewed by Tom Brokaw.
I used that term well interviewed because at times Brokaw appeared to be playing the devil's advocate with his line of questioning, but again our president elect reminded me why I was glad I took part in him being chosen for this very difficult job.
He answered with concise specific thoughtful words that were easy to understand how things will be going under his administration.
Every time Tom Brokaw tried to make him not remember his promises to us middle class Americans he always mentioned us and our plight, you gotta love the guy!

Formally Tom Brokaw introduced his predecessor or actually I should say the late Tim Russet’s and he is Washington D.C. Bureau Chief David Gregory.
For people who don’t recall the name he’s the six foot five, prematurely gray haired thirty-eight years old that helps out occasionally by filling in on the Today Show when Matt or Les aren’t there.

That’s about it for tonight but I must admit it was a very quiet day compared to my type of excitement yesterday.
Balance, that’s what I truly love at this age.

Good night to all and to all the above last mentioned concept is free too.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Hello world

It's a quarter to ten at night and I am writing this after what I considered to be a wonderful evening with very nice enjoyable people.
I felt it was little touch and go there for a while.
At one point it was iffy if my cousins would be coming but they did, and all went very well.
Hopefully all our guests had a great time, because we sure did.
Oh in case you forgot tonight was the Christmas Boat Parade and we did enjoy the lights as well as the late dinner of pizza and salad after.
Simplicity is what I aimed for and except for our dinners arriving late I suppose it went well.
Everyone said it did.
They are all polite people by nature so I just am hoping for that to be the case. Unfortunately, our son backed out due to a sinus problem and the too long drive with medication.

Anyway, contrary to my previous concerns of missing a day of writing here I suppose it was for naught, since here I am writing my nonsense.

The day was exhausting in a very good way, I had purpose, and I cleaned my home with effervescence and a desire to try and please people, a feeling that I like.

I have found over the last few years that having anything to look forward to, to be a plus, and thankfully tonight was just that, and I am high on the realization that fun can be had no matter how hard things get in life. It’s that where there’s a will there’s a way thing again.
Making happy or fun occur doesn’t have to cost a fortune; it’s true that combining good people and a pleasant atmosphere simply can make that happen.

So taking into account the late time of the day I bid you fair well and a pleasant rest of your night.
Good night to all and to all do something that you enjoy.

Friday, December 5, 2008

News good better and just plain bad a matter of opinion

The Market has finished the week up, and I suppose that is considered good.
OJ Simpson was sentenced in Nevada to 15 years today without parole for 9 years, and that was good too.
Auto manufacturers are fighting for their life in D.C., and that's a mixed bag since they deserve to be told no for the way they have been presenting their case, but their workers deserve better.
More foreclosures have been happening in historical numbers when there was supposed to be a moratorium for the holidays, over 800 in one day in Lee County Florida alone yesterday!

And right here in River City we had a three county jewelry store robbery chase last night on I 75, and the culprits were caught, one was even shot but not killed the other three were arrested and jailed, good news.
Another not so smart burglar who happened to be beyond drunk fell asleep on the floor of the living room of the home he was robbing, and was still so sloshed when he awoke he thought he was home! He never did take anything, but it was a B and E. File that one under dumb criminal bookings.

The numbers of 533k jobs were lost last month; the highest ever in one month.
We thought it couldn’t get worse and it did.

The only bright light in the news on the current forefront is the fact that gas prices have been steadily going down, here just today I saw a station at $1.79.9, and by next month they are predicting we may see our gas for under one dollar!
No one is thinking why this has happened at the very least it could be the fact that people could not afford gas while losing their homes and jobs that made them use alternate transportation or to think it out thoroughly before using gas is why, a simple case of supply and demand, another very sad mixed blessing.

My own personal good news is that even though I am fat I bought an outfit today to wear on our excursion tomorrow night (Boat Parade) and even though it was two sizes larger than ever it was still not as bad as I thought I actually was; if that makes any sense, other women would understand what I mean. Another mixed blessing for me that is.

Locally, one county over is doing a story on why police officers take home their patrol cars, and believe that is a waste of taxpayers money, but they are taxpayers too.
As a patrol officer the starting out pay was so low that the fact that my husband was able to take his patrol car home was an incentive to be on call too for any emergencies that he could be called in for.
And made us learn how to manage with only one personal vehicle, there were even a few times I had to rent an additional one to be able to get somewhere else so my husband would not be left without any if he had to leave the county.

Many a time over the years they would call back to ask for more assistance.
Using vehicles for personal use was not allowed though, even picking up milk on the way home was a no, no, and they were definitely not allowed to take it out of county without a very good reason, usually police business.
But that vehicle was a blessing in the fact that he could get to work and I could do what I had to do, and we saved money on not needing to buy extra insurances since I was no longer working due to my illness.
Before he was a police officer, at one point when our boys were still home we had four vehicles that we had insured, and that was very high, but I too was working.
The boys were still students and paid for their own gas and clothing expenses. So we know the difference.

So when we moved here and had not sold our other home and had to rent here, and he was making so much less and I was ill and I could not work that patrol car was a big help.

I truly believe things have changed with the young officers getting paid a living wage now for starting I am pretty sure so perhaps they should readjust the patrol car program to the current economic needs of the office.
But as a previous person who knows what having that car meant I really do not know what each patrol officer’s personal situations are, and one less problem for them to worry about could make a better officer.
Being retired and not that keen on driving due to my physical situation one car is just fine now; we go everywhere together anyway!

Like today for errands which included our trip to the library and yes Audition was available again and I have it now in my possession as well as another, and my hubby took out two too.

Good night to all and to all take in the whole picture.
I do know it is difficult to compare your situation to others but sometimes we just have to, to realize how we actually stand in the bigger scheme of things.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Co-ordination of a social event

In two days we will be enjoying a trip on our boat to see the annual Christmas Boat Parade in our harbor.
This is an event that we have not missed in almost all the years living in Florida, even when we lived on the other coast of Florida since it was a yearly event there too.

Over these many years we have had different amounts of guests on our boats.
Of course the actual guest lists in our early years were mostly our sons’ friends, which we did enjoy when they were all youngsters.

Since they have grown and are on their own it is a rarity to have them included.
But this year I invited my cousins, the retired teachers, and our neighbors from across the canal, which are our Canadian Snowbirds, and who have recently become friendly since they have been able to spend more time here now that they too are retired.
And our eldest son too was invited to come along and stay over, but he has not decided yet whether he wants to make the 200 mile round trip, he is in the call back and let you know mode.
That would be a full boat, it’s not all that big a boat only about 20’ that’s all and the capacity is for seven adults. And one dog that’s name just happens to be Skipper!
My husband has his captain’s license since he had been a Marine Patrol Deputy until two years ago when he retired. But we have really been boaters for over 40 years, and he built his first boat 44 years ago at the age of fifteen. At that same age I drove my first boat with my Dad across Lake Mead while on vacation in Nevada.

Water sports like: swimming, scuba diving, fishing, and surfing; water skiing is what our boys grew up with, including my husband. Who also taught water skiing as a teenager in the Poconos.
I personally have had my life saving badge since a fifteen year old and I also became a certified Aquacize instructor, and taught as a volunteer for four years.
So it’s no surprise that we would end up here on this peninsula surrounded by water and water sports.

As far as boats go you name it and we have had it that is even all the way up to a cabin cruiser with a head(bathroom) and dinette, and it also slept four.
But mostly we have had the boats that are for fun that you can water ski off or fish.
This last one, we had bought new in 2003, and it was on the lift when Hurricane Charley hit in 2004; we had so much debris in front of it we couldn’t get to it for five days, and it was right behind our house in the canal.
Fortunately, the damage wasn’t too severe and was repairable and we were insured and still are, you got to be living here or anywhere really.

The best part my husband thought ahead and made sure that we got a four stroke engine, which is more gas friendly, not a guzzler.
The only reason we don’t go out that much is my physical limitations and his torn discs in his back, between the two of us it has to be like glass out there.

So this Saturday night is going to be interesting with my woman cousin who is healing from her breaking her hip and thigh just a little over two months ago, my husband, and me all praying for smooth sailing literally. Wish us luck.
Once out there we will be sitting still in our boat to watch the festivities, we will be moored.
Barring the wild boater showing up, making waves; we should do OK.

That night I suspect I may be writing this Blog late or maybe not at all, we will see.

So tonight I bid you good night, and happy sailing to you all.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The silence became deafening today

Due to the fact that my emails have for some reason stopped and so it has been rather quiet today. That's apparently since most have not read my Blog to know that the vote on the, ye ole grapefruit tree is still going on until next Monday! Oh well, is this what you would call a flash in the pan? All that excitement for just two whole days was fun.

I finally was able to burn a CD of this entire Blog.
It wasn’t too bad with my husband over my shoulder walking me through the step by step directions that were on the screen, and I’m called a backseat driver!
Anyway, now if we crash for any reason whatsoever I have a CD with this all on it, my backup.
But then if this computer crashes I won’t have anything to play it on, huh?

With all the major companies going under one never knows does one if our free Blog provider service will be here in the near future, but I’m sure they will be. But of course they will be; just kidding, wink.

The truth is who knows anymore.
Nothing is for ever, but then again when was anything forever?
I do remember when love was supposed to be forever, and when warranties were said to be for life, but they were never clear on whether they meant the products life or yours.
And we all know how those two promises have gone over the last several years.

Now we are supposed to be conservationists with everything that could end up not decomposing in our land fills. I really thought newspapers decomposed. They are great for keeping the weeds down in your garden, wet them, and they will eventually decompose, but only black and white parts not the multi colored sections that ink is considered toxic.
But plastic is forever we are told.
We must use wisely all items created by man that will be taking things away from us, polluting our worlds and natures.
Clean up the landscape, the oceans, the playgrounds, and the parks, and on and on we go.
I say that’s the ticket for job creations… go with me here… we hire people to recycle for us and they get paid by turning in the recyclabled products to the large corporations that will in turn, turn them into productive building materials to make more homes, and decking material, furniture and the like for the homeless! Ta DA!

That alone could create millions of jobs by the last count of our messiness with our unnecessary items in our homes.
I do know that once a week my recycling container is full.
Just imagine that multiplied by all our United States population.

The news reported tonight that we are flunking on the home front as far as healthiness goes. Our state of Florida was 45th, compared to Vermont being number 1, shocking!
We have the weather year round for no excuse exercise.
All our colleges flunked for affordability of tuition except for California’s community colleges.
So now all that is going through my mind is that terrorists won’t have to use biological warfare on us or frighten us with weapons of mass destruction all they got to do is tell us they are taking over, and then tie us up!
We will be too dumb to not believe them, and too weak to stop them, but this should be hush, hush, and it is way too scary public consumption!

And so whenever this economy gets anywhere near where we should be we better take care of our children’s educations as well as all of our health needs!

On that thoughtful presentation I will say good night to all and to all HELP, each other that is.

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