It’s almost back to school time so that means new clothes, shoes, and school supplies out the wazoo. The kids are both excited and not really wanting to go back yet but I know better. They can’t wait to get back to school to see their friends and find out what everyone did for the summer. I just can’t wait for them to go back to school so I don’t have to find sitters anymore.
First births and now deaths
For weeks we were hearing about all the babies being born to famous people and now it’s deaths. Two famous men died last week one of which was Bernie Mac who entertained us all with his stand up comedy, his TV show and the movies he made. The other was famous for his deep smooth voice, Isaac Hayes. Neither of them were old by today’s standards either.
What a tremendous loss to the entertainment industry and the world. Our loss is nothing compared to the loss their families and loved ones will feel. God bless them and keep them by his side through their time of loss and grief.
Angelina Jolie
Now that Angelina Jolie has the twins home, she’s complaining that having 6 children is ‘chaos’. Well what did she expect? Having 4 children is hard but throw in two babies and I can see that it would be chaos. The only thing is I bet there are at least one nanny per child in that house. After all, she did get a very large sum of money for the first picture of both Shiloh and the twins so I’m sure she can afford to have a nanny for each child. I wonder if she’ll have anymore? It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if she either adopted or gave birth to even more.
New York street sweepers
Did you hear about the street sweeper in New York that killed a mans dog as he was walking it down the street? How absolutely awful. I’m sorry but you would think the gentleman would have kept the dog back away from the street sweeper to begin with but to watch that thing jerk your dog right out of his collar must have been a horrifying experience. Sometimes people just don’t think and unfortunately this mans dog paid the price.
Motorcycle precession line
The father of my first child was killed on a motorcycle when I was 5 month pregnant. There were about 100 or more mostly Harley Davidson’s that just passed my house in a funeral precession for a woman that was killed on a Harley Davidson a couple days ago. She was riding with her husband who is in critical condition and another woman on her own Harley and is also in critical condition. A drunk driver hit both motorcycles killing the one woman. He should be charged with premeditated murder!!!!!!!!!!
My sons father was trying to get home before it started raining when he was on his Yamaha. He was trying to pass three cars in front of him that were going slow and didn’t realize that the minivan in front was about to make a left hand turn. He ran up under the van and was killed instantly. That still to this day haunts me.
I really need a lap top
I’ve been looking for a new laptop and I have found one that I think will work out perfectly. I ordered it online from Wal-Mart today. It’s an Everex 7 CloudBook. Have you seen them? They’re a very portable laptop that I will be able to tuck in my hand bag and take practically everywhere I go. It only weighs a little over 2 pounds and I can’t wait to get an email telling me that it has arrived at the store and then I can go pick it up! I had it sent to the store instead of being delivered to my home address and saved the $9 shipping I would have had to pay otherwise. I like that policy. I can’t wait to get it. That tax stimulus check has come in handy.
The best day in a long time
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This day couldn’t have been better if I had custom ordered it. A bunch of us got together and went to a local lake on a friend’s pontoon and had a blast. We fished, (I caught the biggest one) we played music, we laughed and we just had a great time. It wasn’t too hot and it wasn’t too cold. I’m telling you it was a perfect day. There’s nothing better than being on the water, sunshine, and good friends and I had it all today. I don’t get to go out without my children very often so it was a real treat but I have to admit. I ended up feeling guilty that I didnt bring them along. Mom let them play on the slip n slide in her back yard so they had a good time too.
Saturday again
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I woke up this morning, looked at the clock, jumped out of bed because I was late for work and realized it was SATURDAY!!! I hate it when I do that. I haven’t done that since I was in middle school. My oldest just did that too.
She came home from school just before the end of school this year and had to read this boring stuff for English class and fell asleep. When she woke up, she looked at the clock and it was about a half hour after she normally got up to get ready for school and the sun was going down so it looked kinda like it would at that time of morning. Anyway, she jumped off the bed and took off to the bathroom to get ready for school and I had just sent her little brother to get her for dinner. He looked at her and said “What are you doing?” She looked at him like he was stupid or something and said “Getting ready for school, why?” Then he started laughing and told her that I had sent him to her room to tell her that dinner was ready. Yeah she felt real stupid about then but we all got a good laugh.
That’s not a bill!!!
My daily mail usually consists of mainly an assorted junk mail and bills. So imagine my delight to find only one single piece of mail, all by it’s lonesome, sitting in my box this afternoon. It was almost like hitting the lottery when I realized this one piece of mail just so happened to be my tax rebate check. Now that I know how much it is, Ineed to do some serious thought on what is the best way to use this. I have to make it go as far as I possibly can and one things for sure, I will do that. School will start again before you know it and my children will all need a lot of things for that so this will help a great deal. It will also pay for a new comptuer too.
Buffet books
I didn’t know Jimmy Buffet wrote books along with some great music but he does. I always enjoyed the tropical type music that he is so well known for producing so when I heard that he has written some books lately, I couldn’t wait to find one. I was thrilled to find one of his books called “A Salty Piece of Land” at my favorite used book stores for only $2. I’ve really enjoyed reading it this past week. I’m glad that inside of the book it tells me the names of his other books that I will need to see if I can find too. I’m especially interesting in finding the one entitled “A Pirate Looks At Fifty”, if I can’t find it locally then I guess I could always look on-line and see if I can find it somewhere out there in cyber-world.