I don't let my dog make on your property and I also don't throw trash on your property and I would hope you wouldn't do either on mine?

That is the topic for tonight’s discussion, since we do have a leash law and I am an animal lover too. Our public parks provide doodle bags for all walked dogs and for awhile when our neighbors weren’t so aware of the proper protocol for such things, which truly amazes me it is just so logical to do in your own neighborhood too!
Any-who at one time it got so out of hand and all the doggies who decided to use our front lawn as their personal toilet were much larger than our own Skipper who is a svelte fifteen pounds give or take an ounce here or there. And he only goes in our fenced backyard like all who preceded him in our extended pet family members.
And so it is doubly annoying when others seem not to respect your property when simple baggies would make it all much more polite.
It drove me to writing that sign that was only up for about one week since whoever read it got the blatant hint rather quickly and realized it was only common sense and my famous sign did say, “My dog doesn’t make on your lawn so please do not allow yours to make on mine!” One week later all guilty parties conformed and it made me feel better about not having to catch them in the act and personally confront them, whew!
But lately, as I have said we have mostly people renting the foreclosed homes in our neighborhood, which is better than empty in my book and those transitory people and I only say that since they never seem to stay that long. Why next door we have had fourteen neighbors in twelve years, and I am a wee bit jaded by now in the try to get to know your neighbor thingy, ya know? And so I stopped about ten people ago.
Well, the people across the street are new renters too and smokers and they smoke outside which is fine since they have a toddler and I do think that is more than considerate and a healthy choice for their little one, but they throw their cigarette butts in the street and it is our street, theirs and ours and it bugs me! It is so messy and yucky, why don’t they use an ashtray it is not that difficult?
When I was a smoker I used to walk around with an ashtray outside and I had a big seashell on the dock and on the patio for such times of me doing that bad habit that I did quit doing nearly five years ago I am so proud to say.
I suppose they are concerned the baby might pick up the butts?
But I say then more reason to make sure you show the child a neater way to dispose of them, huh?
Believe me I was bad when I smoked with my sons so I do know how serious it is around children, but I think I was not as well informed as we are today.
Pride in our neighborhood is all I would like anyone to feel even if it is just for a short time; after all it is your home too!
We were renters for about six and a half years of our forty years of married life and I do remember, really but we always treated those rental properties as if it was our home for as long as we were there and I don’t get it when others don’t?
Here’s the breakdown, first 23 months we were married we rented a basement apartment, then moved in to our first owned home, our townhouse condo, next when we closed early on that and were in the process of building our five bedroom/ three bath two car garage bi-level, we rented in that town for about five months, so our eldest could go to the school he would be going to when we finished building, our younger son was only two and a half years old then and those homes were all in NJ. Then we moved to Florida on the east coast and bought a 3/2/1 and added a pool and spa to and then rented it out when we bought a 4/2/2 that we added a third bathroom and big addition 28'X24' and carport in addition to those garages. And then Hubby got his job on this coast and he rented here in River City while I tried to sell our home, one son was across the state in college and the other had already graduated and they shared their living quarters for awhile until the other got settled and then bought his own home.
We rented until and for a short time after we sold the other home across the state, which sold a few years later, nearly four, and then we bought this home New Year’s Eve of 1998, we had been here on this coast since 1995!
And so we had been renters and always improved where we lived by landscaping or cleaning up and repairing or whatever. Even our first place was literally built into a livable space in that basement by us!
I guess that is why I get so annoyed by others seemingly not to care when they should.
Sorry for that rant of fussiness, but home is home and should be maintained with love and care, but that is just me…

On that judgmental opinionated me thingy doing it once again… Let me be the first to wish you all to kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

Oscars

Who didn’t watch last night?
And were we not all amazed by the way it all looked, the venue, and the people who could complain… just gorgeous, but…honestly…
People were dressed beautifully, women mostly and one specific young lady Hailee Steinfeld, that is, but for some crazy reason it appeared that we were all watching a dress rehearsal and that James Franco forgot we were all there to be entertained by him, since it was the real thing?

And I do know it was not just me…
The airwaves have been buzzing all day long.
Others are just trying to be oh so polite and not say it was what it was, insisting that he did not commit the biggest faux pas of all in any career of boring us to death with his lack of commitment to the job at hand! And some are even telling it as it is for all its worth!
Although, many felt that Anne Hathaway was trying to over-compensate for his lack luster performance by going over the top with sweetness and light.
I must say though what a song belter that young talented beautiful gal is, but she left us flat wanting more…Too bad Hugh Jackman turned her down and even Billy Crystal seemed like he was subdued too, how odd? These two guys have given us what we wanted and needed from their great show stopping Oscar winning hostings of the past!

Could it at all be that the script they were all told to follow was that drab and sad?
And being professionals they just did what they were told? Nah, not most of those peeps do know better.
Sadly, that’s the only excuse I would accept, but aren’t most of these shows hosts allowed to improvise? Yes, I thought it was like the law of the land, keeping it upbeat and lively till the night’s end!
Those children from PS 22 Staten Island’s, NY school were the best part of the entertainment portion of the program and that’s saying a lot with the caliber of stars in that room!
But they were so upbeat and happy and talented and… well maybe James should have handed the baton over to the kids, huh?
I am sure we would have had a much livelier evening going on, don’t you think so too?
In reality though, I must admit, I do so enjoy James Franco’s 'body of work' and his versatility in all of his artistic endeavors, since he does have so many!
He is also a scholar and going for his PhD. too, an amazing man, perhaps that is why he disappointed me so terribly much with all he has going for him... he rudely let us all down!
His previous statements of only rehearsing on weekends due to school only proves that he should finish one important thing to him at a time, no more multi-tasking young man, you hear? I feel I can talk to him like that since I believe he is two years younger than my youngest son who also is quite brilliant, if I do say so myself!
What can anyone say about Anne?
She looked absolutely stunning in any designer they adorned her with, but to be honest I did enjoy her over exuberance, although somehow due to James blah sleepy man attitude, and I do think it was really due to his exhaustion from his hectic schedule that made her look ridiculously perky in comparison.
But we love you kids and all you do and when your scripts are great so are you!
And so in conclusion perhaps all we had last night was a script malfunction, huh?
That’s the ticket, right!
After all, neither of these lovely talented hosts were trying anything ominous, and let’s face it we never even paid to see them last night, did we?
Oddly enough the expression that comes to mind you get what you pay for, nah that’s just ridiculous and slightly mean and so I won’t go there, oops I already did!
Bad Tobi!
PS Congrats to all those winners I voted for you too!
PSS Melissa please watch your mouth, Ooey cringe factor, but congrats, and dear sweet handsome guy, Kirk Douglas, we all do love you and you are truly one heck of a leading man forever!

Allow me to be the first to wish you all a happy good night and to all kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Malfunction!?

To have the nasty malfunction that many of us experience with these techno-marvelous machines, our computers, we must have a breakdown or something must have gone wrong or fail or act up or play up or be at fault creating an error, blip, even my personal favorite, a glitch. I think that says it all.
Sadly too many of us on Facebook have been having these breakdowns of our compu-systems, could there be something evil in the air, wires, phone lines or airwaves, satellites, or fiber-optics; what-have-you? Or is the glitch more ominous than that?
Could there be an evil doer located on our social networking site creating their own brand of joyous havoc?
Too many coincidences make me wonder and ask too many questions with too many possibilities for my non-computer savvy brain to answer.
Let’s face it folks to me this computer thing is a typewriter, a stamp-less letter carrier, no hassle bill payer, and encyclopedia and dictionary, gaming site, as well as a buddy maker, and in reality I couldn’t tell you how it runs or why.
But I think there is something rotten here with so many people having problems that I too can relate to and have had as well on a weekly or daily basis, how strange is that?
Crashes, things running too much and too long, and apps not disappearing after you removed them or having days get all screwed up and icon pictures too; really my list can go on and on!
A normal person would think they were going crazy, but not me since I already know that I am and it still is happening to me and everyone else too!
Not so crazy after all, huh?
Sly is what I think I am and the old mystery writer in me is still questioning all of the cases of peeps dealing with this menacing in their personal testimonies that I read about right on my own home page of my Facebook page from my friends that make me cringe in horror of any of these unjust cases of identical difficulties that we all lay claim to!
With all the brilliance of my FB friends considered on any given day you would think that some, just by stats alone would have the know-with-all to be able to diagnose the problems that we are all suffering. HELLO, ARE YOU OUT THERE?
Please respond.... AND HELP!
Day after day friends crash, and lose data, and like me with things running way too much and without our okays.
Clear out our histories as often as we can and customizing apps and replacing hard drives, defragging and setting more frequent complete systems spy-ware scans are all things to consider and so I have been told to do and have done. And some I am still not too sure what they are, but I do ask for help and so I do try to do what I am told to do when I believe the person that I have asked knows more than me, most all do, like on our free tech support sites from my computer products that I originally paid money for, got that?
And you too should be also careful when looking for help some freebies are worth what you don’t pay for, yet some others are priceless!
Always make sure you have a reputable site, but when in doubt ask the computer store where you bought your computer from or from a trust worthy relative or friend; who needs more problems when we have so many from these tiny machines, huh?

I really do hope that I helped a bit, but it is doubtful since I don’t know what to do either but if you do please steer me in the right direction… since my only problem these day is when I go on my Facebook page it runs, runs, and runs as if too many programs are open and so I did try that getting rid of apps thingy and oddly enough the one says it is gone but keeps showing up on my home screen, how weird is that? And I still hear that grinding noise like the whole world of apps is coming up at the same time in a roaring crescendo!
Wild and crazy, huh?

On that much ado about something I would like to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to all, to kindly ask you to count those blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Endorphins VS. Adrenaline

“An endorphin is a natural pain reliever produced by the body in response to a number of factors. It binds to the parts of the nervous system that bind to morphine, relieving pain and frequently producing a natural high. In contrast to the effects of narcotics, endorphin activity is not addictive. A runner’s high is one response that is thought to be due to the effects of endorphins.
There are a number of endorphins produced by humans. They are neurotransmitters, meaning they transmit signals throughout the nervous system and are found in the brain — specifically in the pituitary gland. A receptor is a molecule that transmits signals, and an endorphin binds to a receptor that morphine and other opiates gravitate to. It is known as an opiate receptor.”
“Adrenaline is a hormone produced by the adrenal gland in the body of many animals. When it is produced in the body it stimulates the heart-rate, dilates blood vessels and air passages, and has a number of more minor effects. Adrenaline is naturally produced in high-stress or physically exhilarating situations.
The term "fight or flight" is often used to characterize the circumstances under which adrenaline is released into the body. It is an early evolutionary adaptation to allow better coping with dangerous and unexpected situations. With dilated blood vessels and air passages, the body is able to pass more blood to the muscles and get more oxygen into the lungs in a timely manner, increasing physical performance for short bursts of time.”
Thanks to wisegeek.com for the above information.

How many of you have experienced the utilization of either of these normal substances in your body?
Many of us have, but the trick is to call upon them when we need them and that’s what I think would be wonderful and also lower the need for so many medications.
Go with me here… we all know that exercise can combat many painful problems from Fibromyalgia to back injuries with slipped or torn discs. There have also been cases with severe pain from some types of cancer that exercise has helped with that pain as well quite miraculously!
And so we do know that exercise can cause our endorphins to work on our behalf.
Physical therapy that is not that dissimilar to routine gym type exercising has also been quite helpful in the non pain wars, and so that is why I think that I may be on to something. And I do feel that my personal experiences with being in all those times of physical therapies, PT (Physical therapy) OT(occupational therapy) and NMT( Neuro Muscular Massage Therapy) a total of fourteen times and four years also of an hour and half each day five days a week of being a gym rat!
And so even if it all sounds rather far fetched wouldn’t it be just hunky dory if it was all any of us needed to deal with our daily pain that so many of us endure?
I am smiling from ear to ear.
Always speak with your physician before starting any type of exercise plan but I bet 90% of you get the go ahead!
Of course no one can beat bicycling, swimming and good old plain walking at any age for the comfortable form of getting started. Even if you have no pain any of those will help take those LBS off!
Healthy diet with more veggies and fruits and less dairy, but in the low fat or no fat variety is still important for those bones to be strengthened and meat, fish and chicken to fill out that menu all in moderation; everyone agrees that portion control is what we all should do and check online for exact measurements its all there for us to access.

Now adrenaline, which my friends is not as simple to call upon when we just want help moving furniture or any other heavy objects. But put a loved one under any of those heavy things a TV, a dresser or even an automobile and then we would probably find that it will kick in or at least we would like to think so.
Anger besides extreme fear also can help, sort of like the comic book character from the series of ‘The Hulk’! Now I am not saying to get that angry but I bet there have been times when some of you have and moved a dresser to get behind it without realizing that you could! Well friends that’s adrenaline too.
Amazing!

Lack of strength and pain are two of the main problems with the many ills that I suffer from daily and I am sure that we all know many other diseases that cause your personal difficulties and I know that even when we deal from day to day with these things it is somehow more positive to try and come up with other ways to alleviate those two annoying symptoms, huh? It is more productive than just sitting around and doing nothing because of them, right?

I also would be amiss if I didn’t again mention the Lamaze breathing and pinpointing a spot on the wall both also work well in pain control, which as a student of ballet for twelve years we would use too to not get dizzy, the looking at the wall thing not the Lamaze breathing, LOL!

Any-who, on that note of not being a total vegetable on days when I appear to be doing not that much, which is never true, since my brain so far is still crunching away with wild and crazy thoughts to share with all of you!

And so I would love to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And lastly but not least… next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS The secret word that caused the stir was… are you ready?
YEP ‘NIKE’, since ‘Nike 2?’ also created the same ten times over response, wild, huh?
Talk about crazy!

Elaborate

Elaborate is only fair after last night’s ‘Basics’ that we should go the other direction, for our evening’s word analysis, huh?
This particular word ‘Elaborate’ can mean complicated or complex, intricate, detailed, involved, convoluted, sophisticated, highly structured, ornate, decorative, rich, highly wrought, highly crafted, enlarged, expanded, and explain.
I am sure that many of you must recall from school when the need to write a paper in history or English that when the teacher asked for all your answers to be in essay form, which meant she wanted you to elaborate on that information that was is your noggin and needed to be disseminated in an orderly fashion from your storage locker, i.e. your brain, from all that studying you had done for just such an occasion as this, right?
And now you know how I may have answered those requests from my own teachers, how convoluted were mine, answers that is, you may ask?
Yes, I could have well been accused of shooting the bull, since I do know there is a law against such things and I do love all animals, so not literally only figuratively and it would work, but only on topics that I did actually study for, and therefore I could not bluff my way out of not knowing like I do on occasion here, oh no! Did I really say that? LOL! But as I always say no harm no foul, and I do try to research whenever I can and so in reality I do not try to steer you in the wrong direction on purpose.
But may I suggest that what is done here is more of the straight shooter type of informative composition and personal to me and sometimes that will be only for me.
No punches are pulled here in an effort to report and entertain at the same time; it’s sort of a type of juggling act and all done without a net, TA DA!
And yes, some night’s I suppose in my attempt to reach my destiny I can be quite flowery in that production of this blog, but alas not always… and for that I am truly sorry.
Perfection is not in my genes, but the desire to try and be the best ‘Tobi’ that I can be is still on the table and I stray constantly from what that should be or even from what it means; in other words who knows … really?
Back on track… all of this that I do nightly is just that… an elaborate exploration of my life, my ideas and my opinions of what all of it means to me and not necessarily you; got that?
People, how many times have I told you don’t believe everything you see, read or hear?
You must use that thing on top of your shoulders for your own purposeful thinking and not allow anyone else to take that logic away from you?
Gosh today we all have the ability to find out just about anything we really want to know and even know where to get that information, don’t we?
Why some would even say that we are sophisticated and highly structured bodies of highly crafted pieces of complex machinery! Not just in our brains but in our bodies too!
But of course I would most definitely have to agree with all of those people.
Let's not forget all those mundane elaborative details in interior design and the historic details of architecture structures of days of yore, but no tangible details are what I deal in mostly these days, which are easier to move around and have a habit to confound!
Yes and lest us not forget that as the human race we are marvelous creations of…you know who, what or when or where, he/she or whomever did it and that is always up for debate but whoever had the idea to make us initially, you must admit, it was some marvelously wonderful ELABORATE PLAN!

On that happy note of why or maybe huh I would like to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night to all and to ask you to all kindly count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Basics

Basics is things that are essential, fundamental, necessary, indispensable, vital, crucial, critical, central, key, important, principal, major, main, chief, prime, simple, plain and straight forward or could be primitive, rudimentary or even unsophisticated.
I suppose that tells it all; if not most of it.
So when we say “let’s get back to basics,” then the above is what we can mean and most likely do, how about that?
Geez, that doesn’t appear to be that basic to me it seems a little bit complex, huh?
But who am I to judge, not me, never…ha!
When we all talk about making things simpler in life we all feel that it is basically how we wish to live our lives.
Choosing to do what you enjoy for entertainment purpose is one way to have some basic desires fulfilled; I am sure most would agree?
Buying groceries with eggs, milk and bread on your list are considered your basics too.
Nothing fancy in choices of clothing also would be considered basic, as our one son’s high school wardrobe consisted of Levis and T-shirts preferably dark in color and rather plain and very crucial to his way of dressing.
Rudimentary also means undeveloped, which I suppose could be something we may say about a third world country having food, water and a roof over their heads is very basic and that would be considered R-U-D-I-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y, interesting conclusion to what may be needed necessity-wise in all natural disaster hit countries too, including our very own.
Unsophisticated is a much broader sense of what is truly basic but also can mean naïve, as well as artless and natural or unrefined, which if you delve further goes into raw, unprocessed, untouched and would you believe organic?
Gosh what a language this is, huh?
And this is my self-imposed symposium of my word analysis that is not that much different from my surfing through my old fashioned World Book Encyclopedias!
I would head for my white leather bound gold embossed editions that were a wonderful companion to my white and gold trimmed French Provincial furniture in my teen bedroom, and I would choose from A to Z to look up one thing and find myself turning to the next page and then the next and on and on I would go! So simple and so basic and so learning without being told to do or even realizing… hmm…Have you ever done that?
Boy, but we all must have to admit that this is so much easier, really! Or tried that with an online look-up; going on and on I mean?
No more heavy volumes to get off of the shelf and waiting on those updates to come yearly with that new info, here it is changing daily or even sometimes hourly or minute to minute and now we feel that this medium is also essential to our wellbeing for access to all we need to know, huh…what a marvel and I do so gush, sorry!
But I know I mentioned this before... well here I go ahead again, aren’t all of you still amazed by all of this? (My hands are making circles over the elderly PC that is my vehicle for all of this!)
‘The information highways’, such a truly basic all encompassing name hmmm?
Just had to tie that in too, ha!
Points are to be made and so I do try… and some would have to admit that at times I am severely trying, bud ump bum! (Drummer beats!)

Any-who, on that slightly more light hearted ending to... oh I don’t know ... a short tour of what is basic?
Let me please be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Nike 2?

Heck, why not?
Let’s give it another go around, huh?
What ya say folks? Nike IT!
Oddly enough the amount of love that was shown to me on the Nike original night has not been bestowed again upon me or really I should say on this blog and I flagrantly want to complain to whoever will listen, are you there? It must have been one heck of a wonderful fluke!
Now tonight’s blog should be written under the influence of some type of alcoholic substance for some more creative juices to flow… and to be honest I am having one of those, a Cabernet Sauvignon; for medicinal purposes of course and to boost that creativity factor! A mid week pick me up, huh? Who would deny a sixty plus gal and I mean way plus, size that is, ha! Well, that is what the doctor’s approved of, one for the ladies not expecting little ones, that means ‘prego’, with child, for the ones who think I was beating around the bush, at my age that would be a miracle and yes I do have that old ticker its supposed to be good for and two of that same beverage for the gentlemen for the same reason, now does that sound fair?
I believe another case of a double standard!
I’m no Charlie Sheen with all his drinking and drugs, oh no I only take prescribed by doctor medication and an occasional glass or two of wine during the weekends and sometimes mid-week or the other four days perhaps but that’s all; like today! Oh and him sleeping around… not for me…I just try to sleep, but lately not too well; why last night I only got in four and half hours but we won’t go there… not what he really does and friends, (wink, wink!) that’s not sleeping if I recall from when I was feeling well you know what I mean when I was feeling it all, ha! And a real big LOL on that revelation!
Nah… moving on…
It’s a small amount of red wine but I suppose with my lack of sleep last night it is having an effect on me, to my good I did start drinking it with our dinner, which is now over and I am still nursing the same goblet that was only half full. And yes my doctors all approved, since I had the good sense to ask with all the meds I am on, but most of them are taken in the A.M. and only two before bedtime. So they are spaced well apart.
Anyone taking any type of medication should always check with their physicians about drug interaction and if you can have your medicinal wine too, lol.

Oh that’s right I was going to get all pragmatic and ask you all to love thy neighbor like thy self, la, la, la, sorry I meant idealistic!
But we all know that when we don’t stir the pot with anti-social behavior we are considered …. Wait for it SOCIALISTS! Can you believe that me the all American gal that wants us all to play nice so our children will stop being killed was actually told that my attitude meant I was a socialist!
Dear friends I am not a communist but if you are I do respect your desire to be whoever you are, and there’s the rub from those words came the accusation.
Let me put it this way I live in the land of the free and the home of the brave and anyone who was persecuted came here to get away from hatred of who they were or what they believed in and I was lucky enough to have been born in this wonderful country that I love because I say what I know in my heart to be true for me, not necessarily for you… and that is because of the laws of the land that I love that allows me to do that without being persecuted for my feelings and I am being accused of wanting those freedoms to be for everyone who comes here too, hmm… does that sound fishy to you?
I say that this accuser does not know what this land was based on the freedom of speech without causing harm to anyone is fine for me and I will continue.
PS the person who was the accuser unfortunately had the nerve to also tell one of my extended family the same thing and I never owned up to who it was because it was a close to my husband relative and he asked me not to so I respected those wishes… this particular person who I truly believe has too many issues to go into with his only way of thinking about all issues being only one way and that is his way!
And so in my effort to tell him I just want him to respect my feelings and beliefs he called me that above word, socialist! Laughable, but he is one of those macho men who must be the king of his roost and his women should be seen and not heard and that is one of the reasons that you all can well imagine why over the many years we have bucked heads! Since his women listen to him but in our home we live in a democracy! And believe me with two sons and a husband I had to hold my ground and my own and I could with the best of them, no shrinking violets here. He has also given me pause to think about his overwhelming religious beliefs that he wants you to subscribe to and when I would not fall for it he actually asked if I didn’t want him to pray for me?
CRAZY! I do believe in G-d! (PS IF YOU READ MY ‘HATE’ ENTITLED BLOG YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM OF THE BLUE RELIGION AND THIS PERSON IS OF THE PURPLE AND ALSO A CLOSE RELATIVE) But I leave my religious beliefs with a bit of mystery in my profile and I truly believe that it is a very personal thing, not unlike other personal info… but here I have periodically divulged my truisms on that behalf and if I recall correctly communist are atheists? And I am not an atheist not that there is anything wrong with that; I just don’t want anyone to try to convert me to their religion! And so that is why I should have called him what he is, and that is not a very nice person and a little bit off the wall, but who isn’t?
And I respect his ability to have his own opinion its just when he insists that I should only believe what he does and if I don’t then I am such and such, and this case his ridiculous labeling of a SOCIALIST; which is a communist and atheist.
Well, I have done something that I haven’t done in a very long time I unfriended him.
And removed him from our email contact lists and yet he emailed several times after that I did not read and just deleted, who needs that kind of aggravation, huh?

Oh I suppose you are still wondering what the Nike part of all this was, well, it was just the cleaning house part of ridding yourself of people who take away your happiness and think that you should fit their mold not your own! There you go, and so friends just NIKE IT!
But be nicer than me about the how, ok?

On that somewhat disturbing but revealing and letting go of misery type of rant let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to kindly ask you all to count those blessings and to share those overages and we will too! (Now would an atheist say that nightly, I ask you really, LOL?)

And next time please be here or be square, ya here?