I guess I got my love of watching movies from my mother. She loves the old classics thought. I found out where you can Watch movies online. Isn’t that the neatest thing. No more renting from the local video store or ordering from an online movie club and then waiting for them to come to you only to have to send them back. All you have to do is sit back in your computer chair and Watch movies right there anytime. They have all types of movies from animated for the kids or the kid in you to horror movies. I’m not much on those. Give me a good old fashioned chick flick and I’m happy.
Dance yourself around the world
Today I learned that Matt existed. I never knew Matt before; in fact I still haven’t met him in person. I have, however, learned that he exists and that he has traveled around the world making videos of himself dancing. He actually know he has a website about his trip around the world, showing clips of himself dancing at the different locations where he went. Now I don’t mean tap dancing, or break dancing, or any kind of formal training “gee he’s great” dancing. He does not happen to be a good dancer, but what is remarkable about this is that eventually he got a sponsor to pay for him to travel around the world dancing and videotaping himself. Twice! In real life, he has never cared much for work and is not rich, so the fact that he managed to travel around the world at all is remarkable! If you can watch the video, I encourage you to do so. It is entertaining to see.
Mom’s at it again!
Now she called me and wants me to come over and clean out her gutters Saturday. I don’t want to do that on Saturday, I have better things to do. I told her that she needs to check into getting Gutter Guard for her gutters so that the leaves and stuff like that can’t get in the anymore. She’s wanting to make improvements to the house and that would be a huge improvement if you ask me.
Best of all, Gutter Protection isn’t just that mesh stuff that you used to only be able to get. They even make gutter roofs too now. There’s a company out of Chicago that keeps up on all of the latest ways to protect your gutters. Because of that, they’ll always have the best state of the art products. I suggested she check with them and see if they have a company somewhere around here. One of my friends at work was saying their parents just had them do that to their gutters and they are totally satisfied. This company has been in business for over 15 years so they must be doing something right. Sounds like a heck of a good idea to me for her to check into it. I just hope they have a company around here or can recommend one anyway.
Happy Birthday Lisa
My cousin is having a birthday today. She is 25 today – a quarter of a century! Oops! I resemble that remark!
Lisa and I hardly ever get to see much of each other. Her mom moved to Florida when Lisa was just a kid, but thanks to email and now these blogs we can always stay in touch with each other. It would have been cool to grow up with a cousin close to the same age, but that was not to be.
Lisa didn’t want to go to college – she worked all through high school at a Dunkin Donuts and learned so much about the business world and good customer service, that she was a valuable employee right out of high school. She found a great job right away and has been promoted over the years – and she deserves everything good that comes her way.
Happy Birthday, Cuz!
Wow this is great for New Jersey
New Jersey has a new web site to help people find jobs. New Jersey Jobs helps companies to find employees and help the unemployed to find companies that are hiring. It’s through the Chamber of Commerce too so that just gives people another way to search for a job. I know New Jersey has always had a bit of a bad reputation but how bad can it be when some very famous people are from there. Bruce Springstein is just one of many that grew up there. It’s really a beautiful state if you’ve never been the and also has one of the highest per capita incomes of all 50 states. You just might want to consider checking it out if you’re in need of a job. I sure wouldn’t hesitate if I needed a job.
Well it’s back to rain and dreary weather
I thought it was April showers that brought May flowers. I guess this year it’s going to be May showers bring June flowers. I sprinkled some wildflower seeds on the flower bed beside my front door about 3 weeks ago and only a few have even started to come up. Well I think those are flowers coming up. Right now it’s hard to tell if its flowers or weeds since they’re just starting to come up here and there.
I got seeds for flowers that attract birds and butterflies. I just love nature. I have several humming bird feeders too and it’s time to get them out but I have yet to see any around. Probably because it’s been so darn wet and dreary for the past 2 or 3 weeks. I’d stay where it’s nice and warm too if I was them.
Well looks like another neighbor is moving
There are so many people moving out of our neighborhood that it’s becoming almost a weekly occurrence. I hope I never have to move again but I’m sure I will at some point. One things for sure, when I do, I’ll check out the moving companies very carefully. You can’t be too careful when you decide on a movers because you’re basically trusting just about everything you own to them. You have to make sure they have a good reputation. Personally I think I would rather use Budget Van Lines since I know several people that have used them.
Some people prefer to use one way truck rentals which is great if you don’t mind doing all of the work yourself but one things for sure, you know you will pack your stuff carefully. I’m not sure I would want to do all of that myself. After some of what I have read about Budget Van Lines, I still think that’s who I would get to do my move for me. But to each his own I guess. I just hope everyone has done their homework and checked out who’s moving their stuff!!!
Time for some more humor
My mother told this one at our Mothers Day celebration. Now if you knew my mother, you would realize just how funny this is because my mother never tells jokes in the first place and well, this one is kind of funny was the second surprise to all of us. See what you think?
Little boy wanted $100.00 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100.00.
When the postal authorities received the letter to God , USA , they decided to send it to the President. The president was so amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill. The president thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 bill and sat down to write a thank-you note to God, which read:
Dear God:
Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that for some reason you sent it through Washington D.C. and they took $95.00 in taxes. Next time please send it straight to me so they won’t take out all those taxes.
Now my sister has the bug
I guess since Mom has gotten so into redecorating and I have been doing some too, my sister has now caught the redecorating bug. She was asking me about home address plaques because she had noticed that I have a nice address plaque on my front porch. She said she hadn’t really thought much about it until she saw how nice mine looked and wanted to either find some address plaques she could choose between or maybe an address sign would be better.
She has a rather long driveway and thought that maybe address signs might be better since you would be able to see them better from the street. Well I suggested she not only get one for at the street but she could also choose from the wall address plaques for her porch too. There’s nothing wrong with having one at the end of the driveway and one on the house. She agreed and now it will take her a week to pick each one out.
Let me tell you about Mothers Day
All of us girls met over at Moms for Mothers Day and cooked her a nice lunch. Then it was time to pull out the Mothers Day presents. I made sure mine was the last one that Mom would open too. One of my sisters got Mom a beautiful summer outfit and Mom loved it. It had Capri’s and the cutest top with it. Then my other sister got Mom a beautiful card with a gift card in it to a nail salon to have a manicure and a pedicure too. Mom thought that was wonderful. Now she would look great in her new outfit with her nails and toes painted up all pretty.
Then came time for my gift. I had it in a nice box wrapped up really pretty with a beautiful bow on it. She gently pulled the bow off and carefully took the wrapping paper off just like she had done with the other presents. She likes to save the wrapping paper and bows if she can. When she opened the box, inside of it was a DVD of Casablanca, she was thrilled since that’s her favorite all time movie. I told her to look under the DVD. That’s when she found the bag of microwave popcorn.
As she picked it up with a smile, she saw the ‘grow a boyfriend’ figure under the popcorn. “What in the world is this?” she asked. I then told her that after she got all gussied up with my sisters gifts, she could put her new boyfriend in water and let him grow and then she would have a date for a movie and popcorn. Then I handed her a 2 liter of Coke and told her that date would be complete. Mom started laughing and everyone else was falling out of their chairs. It was great!! Mom loved all of her gifts.