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Posted Wednesday, February 8, at 6:44 PM Continuing on from a blog entry a bit ago, I was waiting for results from the biopsy that I had have. The results came back 'clean'. Whew. My provider called and on her message told me to 'take a breath.' That I did. I took several because it lifted a weight. What the whole experience did for me was show me how others react to the goings on. Now, I am not going to go into details on that but it illustrated to me how I have to approach such matters in the future...
Worthy of A Word or Two Recently, our younger daughter entered into a competition on a regional collegiate level. This was her second year entering into this particular competition. What she had to do was come up with a proposal, budget, marketing plan, and complaint strategy for a 'company' based on a 'product' they were given. These aspects had to be submitted by the competition deadline. The hardcopy of the proposal and accompanying documents plus a visual aid (poster display) had to be at the competition...
What There Is to Blog About. Sometimes a person has difficulty finding things to blog (write) about. Lately it has been a struggle. The holiday season really kicked my fanny. Not certain why but I was a total fail. Oh well, it is over and now on to the next adventure. That adventure is still in progress but I will share what I know today...
Holiday Procrastinator While I haven't been a holiday bah humbug all the time, this year is a struggle not to be one. I am not trying to offend those folks who absolutely, positively live for Christmas by any means. My get-up-and-go for the holidays must be on extended back order. ...
Eye of the Tiger I am a late bloomer into the world of fantasy football leagues. I had heard about these before but this season was my first attempt at a computerized fantasy league. Our team names are supposed to be music related somehow. This was set up by our league commissioner. ...
Jean Shopping We were shopping at the Maurice's store in Kearney last weekend. Have to report I was amazed at the customer service. I don't know if the worker bees get paid on commission or get sales bonuses . However, the service was awesome. For those who know me, they know that I was not shopping for myself but was in the company of my younger daughter, her boyfriend's mom and sister. K-kid was shopping for the perfect pair of jeans...
New Fangled Pop Dispenser Have you seen these new fangled soda pop dispensers? Had the experience over the weekend. We were at a Good Scents sandwich shop and they had one of those new fangled Coca-Cola dispensers. When I did the Google search, the machines had been around since 2009. I figured that this was only late 2011, I most likely wasn't the last person on the planet to use one of these things...
Where is the Car Fairy? In a perfect world, a new-to-me vehicle would magically appear from the car fairy when needed. It would work into the monthly budget for payments, insurance and fuel. However, sadly and realistically there is no magic for purchasing a vehicle. My first car 'magically' appeared. ...
Walden in Malibu I will admit I was one of the viewers of the season premiere of "Two and A Half Men" on CBS on Monday evening. I have watched the show for quite awhile and was more than disappointed when last season was cut short by the train wreck surrounding Charlie Sheen's departure from the show...
3-7-10 Back in the day, in the much younger days, I was a kegler. I did like it. I started in elementary school and bowled until early high school, It was a Saturday afternoon activity. Somewhere back in the very old photos, I even have one of me holding a trophy. In college, I was on an inter-mural league and then continued a bit before ever having my younger daughter...
Who Trained Who? This past weekend, the kids were going to visit the son-in-law's family and with multiple people and limited space, we were called upon to entertain the grand-dog, Jasper. Jasper has a lot of energy and is a strong dog. He has calmed down immensely from his hyperactive puppy stage. We did have to purchase some gates just to provide him boundaries when he comes to visit. That way I don't have to put everything away within his chew-on range...
Don't Upset the Gatekeeper Most of my working life I have had to talk on the phone as some aspect of my employment. Before Facebook and the World Wide Web, the phone was the primary communication tool but it was attached to a wall in a building. (Yes, I am that old). In my current working life, it is part of my job to be the 'filter' for the messages in my office...
2011 Missouri River Flood I am going to post this link to the YouTube video that was produced by Lori Gottula. The photos were by Randy Gottula. They are from Falls City and are local merchants. The pictures tell the story from Southeastern Nebraska and Northeastern Missouri...
Can't Run Any Races Here in the last few weeks, I have been dealing with a bum knee. Now, it is never a convenient time to have a knee decide to have act up. I don't want to be dealing with this right now. Seriously, I have places to go and people to see. (That is me doing wishful thinking.)...
Mannequins I haven't the foggiest why on the latest mall crawl, I noticed the silly, freaky, pink mannequins. These mannequins weren't 'real' mannequins but fake ones. Now, let me explain my definition of fake. Fake are the ones who don't have discernable human facial features. Those hot pink mannequins were in a skinny clothing store. They were lined up with a variety of summer garb meant for a much younger and more hip clientele. I didn't notice the clothes as much as the pinkness of the display...
Remembering Heroes As we all go about our activities this weekend, please let us not forget the heroes who have paid the ultimate price for our freedom. I am going to post this link. If you have a moment remember these brave souls. http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan/...
May 16, 1986 The phone rang. This was back in the day before caller ID, but when I realized it was Hubby on the phone, I thought it was a bit odd for him to be calling before school got out. I was on maternity leave because our older daughter was just barely three weeks old. Don said he just wanted me to know he wasn't going to home right away. He said they were on lock down...
Diana, A Celebration Admittedly I am one of those Yanks that enjoys a spot of news when it involved the British Royal Family. I had stated in the last blog that back in the day that woke up really early to watch the wedding of Charles and Diana live. The past weekend, along with some of my family, I went to "Diana, A Celebration" at Union Station in Kansas City. I am the first to admit I am not a fashionista and my interest was more historical, I suppose...
Ivy and Myrtle Thirty years ago, I was one of those folks who got up in the wee hours of the morning to watch the royal wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. We didn't have a bazillion cable channels to choose from. We had ABC, NBC, and CBS. There wasn't any VCR or such thing in our household so if I wanted to watch it, it had to be live...
Robo-Call and Pizza What do these two things have in common? Apparently the only thing is they happened in my world.The robo-call came at 6:42 a.m. one morning last week and the pizza incident was last week as well. The pizza incident really was first. Hubby wanted pizza. ...
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