Mondays seem Blah so I am hoping this pict. helps some of you out....

I have a meeting every Monday morning... which is tough anyway... but lately all we talk about is how bad it is, economically. I didn't say too much today. Yes, I know it is reality, but really, do we have to start every week with this run down? To top it off, it is a cloudy day. Blah!

So, cute story time: My 12 yo son went to the movies with his friend. His friend has a girlfriend who sat with them with her friend. My son said his friend did the "fake yawn" and then put his arm around his girlfriend... "and it worked!". Thought I was going to die laughing. I love the innocence! His friend has a just a tiny bit more confidence with girls than my son, which isn't much. (That's fine with me!!) He said that after the movie, it was awkward because no one knew what to say. ha!

Awww, great story Diane. I love the innocnece. Hope it lasts many many more years. That is great that he shared it with you too.


Ahhh, the economic crunch... I understand that it is here, it is going on, it will last a while too... but why is it all we hear? Can't we wake up with some Hey Good News America... the price of candy bars went down, as did underwear and shoes... don't forget to go to BobJoes for your free pair of socks when you buy any pair of shoes... .... well not all that sappy, but can't we once hear a good Happy Go Lucky store that makes ones day. That's all I want to hear... they can prepare you that the not so good news is next (after the commercial break) and if you can't stomach it, come back in 10 minutes. Hehehe... wouldn't life be splendid if we all lived like that. LOL!

I love my day juiced up! It's cold but gloriously sunny right now so Disney and I are going to walk down for the mail.

Gosh, no kidding PearFreak!! Just one good story would be nice. Throw us a bone. Let us have some hope!

After the weather girl said there would be a chance of showers today (this was on the 5 AM news), it began raining at 6 AM and is just now showing signs of letting up. Frankly, I'd prefer it rain for the entire night and another day. We really need it.

Got rained on all day in San Diego....came home to high winds and my gazebo blown 15 yards across the yard...in the back of my truck now for the dumpster!

We got snowed on all day. Beautiful and clear at the end of the day. Wasn't too bad in the bottom of the pit, but, when we got up to the powder magazine at the end of the day there was over a foot of snow. That's OK though. It wasn't really cold and there wasn't any wind. Also, snow is much easier to deal with than rain.

Boss screwed up his math again and thought we might have lost two boosters. If the blast caps and booster count don't match up it could mean there is a loose explosive on top of the ground. This has happened before and he got all up in our faces, then, did a recount later and found HIS mistake. Well, the third time it happened I didn't talk to him the entire ride to the magazine except to say, "You know, when you do your final count you'll found out YOU effed up." Then, he found HIS mistake and couldn't look me in the eye for the next two days. Now he stays calm and has me check his math before getting psycho on us. BTW, our crew has yet to ever lose a booster.

I learned math w/o a calculator, so I'm pretty good at it. I wouldn't let my kids take calcs to school until junior high. I even got sideways with one's 4th grade teacher over it. They weren't doing Algebra or anything and I had already had it with kids working as cashiers who couldn't make change right. Agravates the living tar out of me to give someone 5.02 on a 4.37 charge and have to wait 5 min. to get .65 back. You'd think they just got kicked in the guts trying to figure it out.

Well, rant over. Sorry to hear about your friend, Ruthie. I'll be keeping you both in my thoughts.

One difference between Catholics and Baptists....

If you are at Sunday Sermon on an "After Service Pot Luck" day at a Baptist Church you can fully expect the preacher to go into a long winded, two hour, fire and brimstone sermon b/c he has a large congregation locked in.

One time, however, I was at Mass with my parents on Thanksgiving and mentioned to Mom that we would be there forever since there was dinner after. She said, "No way, baby, this is a Catholic service. If the priest goes over, the entire congregation will walk out on him. They simply won't wait that long with food and wine waiting." I almost converted that very day.

Hi Everybody.. we had a good day here today. We ended up getting about an inch of snow last night. Just enough that the dogs could play in it. It did get pretty windy today but we still got up to about 45 degrees. I just know Spring is around the corner....

325 ---- 175 to go.


((())) to all going through tough times with friends, health, weather, bosses, & economy.


Having a hard time believing Bill passed up the 300/200 announcement when he posted at 301!!! Is he trying to sneak up on 500, again?

Gee, I guess Bill musta been Moon Struck.

And it snowed right here in Sunny Northern California. I live in the valley but there are mountains all around us just a couple of miles away. I can look at it but I don't have to shovel it. Once in a while we get snow in the valley. I thought it seemed awfully darn cold today.

I don't miss cold, I don't miss snow. I miss the fall colors, a little. I've lived in Florida long enough, I see fall colors here.

But I do miss mountains, or hills. Florida is flat, flat, flat. The highest point in the peninsula is 240 feet (and at that significantly and visibly higher than the surrounding flatland).

The highest point in the state, 345 feet, in the panhandle, is the lowest highest point in the country.


Cheerfully providing more useless facts.

... 170 to go.

Can't beat "is the lowest highest point in the country." OK...





[Just wondering if I'd feel better knowing that, among a group of friends, I had the highest lowest point of my day?]