Have you ever wanted to pour a beer on someone’s head? I have and I’ve done it. I also managed to “accidentally” spill a plate of gravy down the front of a biotch who was giving me a hard time while waiting tables, years ago. Oops! treat your wait staff right, people! Tip generously and watch your mouth!
Happy Halloween Y’all
Well it’s about time for those cute little ones to come knocking on your door in their costumes saying “Trick or Treat” when you answer the door, just hoping for a piece or two……..more like a hand full………..of candy. What I love more than that is dressing up too and scaring the pants off of those little darlins when they ring the door bell!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y’ALL!!!!
Perks of reaching my age
Yeah, you thought I was going to tell how old I was but that’s not going to happen. Someone had to remind me, so I’m reminding you too. Don’t laugh…..it is all true…Perks of reaching 50 or being over 60 and heading towards 70!
01. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
02. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.
03. No one expects you to run–anywhere.
04. People call at 9 pm and ask, did I wake you?
05. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
06. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
07. Things you buy now won’t wear out.
08. You can eat supper at 4 pm.
09. You can live without sex but not your glasses.
10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
12. You quit trying to hold your stomach in no matter who walks into the room.
13. You sing along with elevator music.
14. Your eyes won’t get much worse.
15 . Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off.
16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.
17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.
18. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to manageable size..
19. You can’t remember who sent you this list.
And Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
We’re adding a kitchen to my outdoor garden
My house is behind my place of business. There is a breezeway or garden center between my home and the back of the business. I love it out there and have decided to add an outdoor kitchen. I had no idea where to start to find what I wanted until someone told me about fire magic outside kitchens . Well I jumped on my handy-dandy computer and checked on the Internet and found just what I was looking for. I didn’t just want a grill, I wanted a more or less complete outdoor kitchen and that’s what I found.
I have to admit that it really took me a long time of looking to find the one that was perfect for me because they have so many different styles, options, and sizes. You can even get a beer tap if you want. Talk about a great party time, that would make for one don’t you think? Grilled ribs and beer on tap makes for a perfect evening if you ask me. They have some great built in grills, fireplaces and everything you need to make your outdoor kitchen perfect including stainless steel appliances and just about any accessory you could think of. I can’t wait until I get mine and everything put in. It will be party time for sure.
I’m getting a little wide!
As we age, us women for sure, tend to spread out a little here and there if you get what I’m saying. My doctor told me that he was going to have to widen his doors if I kept gaining weight. I didn’t find that very funny at all even though he did. Yes I have put on about 25 pounds over the past couple of years but that’s not terrible. It’s not good but it’s not terrible.
I have now learned about sleep and losing weight, your metabolism, and when you should not eat too.
My sister is opening a restaurant
This may seem like the wrong to open up a new restaurant but in the little Iowa town my sister lives in, there aren’t many family style restaurants. Oh sure there’s all the fast food restaurants but they do need somewhere a family can go and have a good dinner that won’t cost them an arm and a leg. She has already found the perfect location for her restaurant in a place that used to be a restaurant so they are really wanting to rent the building bad or sell it one. I think she’s going to rent it with option to buy if the restaurant takes off.
Those were the days!!!
A friend of mine sent me this email and it’s amazing how much life has changed in just a few years. You may have received this in your email too but just in case you didn’t, I wanted to share it with you. It really shows how far we have progressed if that’s what you want to call it. Sure some of the changes are for the better but most of them aren’t but that’s my opinion and you know what they say about opinions!!!
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!
- First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
- They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
- Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-base paints.
- We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps not helmets on our heads..
- As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.
- Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.
- We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.
- We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.
- We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar. And, we weren’t overweight. WHY? Because we were always outside playing…that’s why!
- We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
- No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were O.K.
- We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times,we learned to solve the problem.
- We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no person al computers, no Internet and no chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
- We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
- We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
- We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
- We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
- Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
- The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
- These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
- We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
If YOU are one of them? CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
Eat according to your blood type?
I was in a health food store the other day and they had books in there about eating according to your blood type. I am type O blood so I sort of glanced through the book. It seems that type O blood needs more meat and green vegetables than grains and even some fruits. It breaks down which foods (by category) are most beneficial, neutral and which ones you should avoid.
According to this book by Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo, if you eat according to your blood type, you will be healthier, feel better and live longer. Well since Joe and I both have a bit of high cholesterol, I bought the small book you can take with you to the grocery store and will probably end up getting the full size book to learn even more about this type of diet.
I’m always on the lookout for something to help be healthier and stay that way and I really don’t think it would hurt to at least give it a try and see if this doctor is a quack or if he’s on to something. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.
Catching wild pigs
Some of you might have gotten this by email just like I did but I thought it was worth putting in my blog for those of you that haven’t ever seen or read it. It really fits in this day in time I believe.? But if you feel I’m looking at the situation totally wrong, I honestly want to hear your opinion.
A chemistry professor in a large college had some exchange students in ?the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Professor noticed ?one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and ?stretching as if his back hurt. ??The professor asked the ?young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet ?lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his ?native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government ?and install a new communist government.
In the midst of ?his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He ?asked, ‘Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’ ??The ?professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young ?man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable ?place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and ?begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to ?coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they ?are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat ?the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used ?to that and start to eat again. You ?continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in ?the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come ?through the gate to eat; you slam the gate on them and catch the whole ?herd. ??Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. ?They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon ?they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they ?have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they ?accept their captivity.
The young man then told the ?professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The ?government keeps pushing us toward socialism and keeps spreading the ?free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax ?credit for unearned income, ?tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), ?welfare, medicine, drugs, etc.. While we continually lose our freedoms ?– just a little at a time. ??One should always remember: ?There is no such thing as a free lunch! Also, a politician will never ?provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have” Thomas Jefferson.
Daycare center in Arkansas
Oh my goodness, when I read this article, I was totally shocked that someone could be that stupid. These are children!!! These people are supposed to be taking care of some one’s precious little ones and then gave them wiper fluid to drink mistaking it for Kool-Aid!! I was totally horrified that someone could be that dumb.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Ten children at an Arkansas day-care center drank windshield wiper fluid after the owner served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, authorities said Friday. The day-care owner voluntarily surrendered her state license Friday.
Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid late Thursday afternoon before realizing it tasted wrong, said Laura James, a pediatric pharmacologist and toxicologist at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock.
Only one child remained hospitalized Friday in good condition, after blood samples showed “measurable levels” of methanol, a highly toxic alcohol that can induce comas and cause blindness, officials said. In moderate cases, it can cause nausea, vomiting, staggering and sleepiness, James said. The day care also provided the fluid for testing.
The owner bought the windshield wiper fluid with several other items on a recent shopping trip, James told The Associated Press. “This product was mistakenly grabbed and thought to be Kool-Aid and put in the refrigerator,” she said.
The day care’s owner, Carolyn Bynum, was interviewed Friday by child welfare investigators and gave up her license, said Julie Munsell, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services. Bynum declined to comment to the AP, but Munsell said she accepted “total responsibility” for the incident.
“She was so upset about what had occurred and she was definitely worried some of the children had been injured,” Munsell said. “It was just a mistake, she says. She says it was just a horrible mistake.”
This was a horrible mistake that could have cost children their lives. When you are left to care for peoples children, you just don’t make mistakes as stupid as this one. I’m sorry but that’s not acceptable to me.