MD 2008

And I'm proud to be an American,where at least I know I'm free.And I won't forget the men who died,who gave that right to me.~Lee Greenwood

It's Cold in here

So now the weather drops to the low 40's and there is no heat in this house. I am bundled up. The dogs got their haricuts so now they are freezing. Putter got a new thermostat but hasn't installed it yet. Brrr.... I am freezing... So I am going to bed and get under the covers. Night everyone.

A good Morning to you!

So since I woke up so early.. this is what I did....
It's raining, I have a book I have been reading lately. So I opened the window sat in Putters Big Oversized Chair with my book, my morning drink, My readers of course, a nice little throw and read while listening to the rain... That is my kind of morning. Wish I could of stayed longer... But no, I have to go to work... Phewy!!! Have a nice day everyone!

Rain's on the way

well seems as if the rain will be here in just a bit. It's 5:58 am at the moment and this is what's on the radar... guess I can get down off the ice today and enjoy the rain.. Guess it's a good thing this girl is an Oregonian trasplant. Seems I get bored if things stay the same for to long. We had 5 days of hot.. Enough said and now comes the rain. Besides the lawn needs watered.

Special note: The dogs go to the beauty shop today... Yipee

Home Air conditioning Problems.

Maybe the air conditioning problem is the thermostat. It doesn't seem to make that little click noise now... hmmm could it be that, that is the problem. I will have to test it... hmmm thinking. Back to my other life, I would have had a tester but where would I put the points to test it. My choices

Process of elimination.

Checked all breakers.... good to go
Checked breaker out at unit... good to go
Thermostat... I could be way wrong but I am thinking that is the missing link...
No heat, no air, no fan.... Hmmm.

I will keep ya posted... If ya think of anything let me know... Oh yeah the system... the dreaded heat pump of the early 80's... hmm could it be old... Let's not think that way yet... CRAP!!!!!

Damn It's HOT

Gads!!! It's hot.. 100 degrees today again. The air conditioning pump went out in my old 1997 honda CRV... Gross. I am sure that will cost a pretty penny. Then the air at the house was having a hard time so... I opted for a cold shower.
Went up last night and rescued the Grand Kids they were up at Jessica's and it was hot up there to. So she went to the river with some friends and I watched the babies. They were good kids last night.
We watch on demand cable and watched all the Thomas the train shows we could find. He likes that show and one about a little dog named kipper.

Saturday today.. I went to the pharmacy and costco and home depot and tried to get it all done fast. I was done by 10:00am. Sweated like crazy by the time I got home. I need a swimming pool.

I was gonna go to the races tonight but, putter says gas is expensive and they are taking his dad's ford truck instead of the motor home. Oh well, I really was gonna go. So instead I think his mom and I will go see a movie in the nice air conditioning of the movie theater.

So that is my up to the minute update. Have a nice weekend.

Shannon... your hotter and were hotter than Vegas... Just talked to Aunt Pat a little bit ago.

Well,

World Factors will effect my job.

See I work for a trucking company and the high price of fuel isn't being absorbed by our customers. Yeah, they will give you some relief but not enough to pencil out to where one can pay the overhead, let alone get ahead. So getting ahead is put on hold. Just rolling the dollars around.

Well, seems as if what I have told the boss for the last four years is coming to light. Get the hell out or start working harder. Hmm. I have one of those bosses that when stuff happens it's everyone else problem and not a consequence of his actions. I call bull on that. If he is the top, it's his bus to drive, all I can do is advise and hope he listens. Well, he didn't listen. So my job may becoming to a halt. When probably after summer.

As my job of #1 bean counter is seeing the pot of beans is turning to refrieds. If I have a job after summer it will be a miracle. The laws of economics's says not. But, who is to say. I have no degree but I do have years of living and watching and learning. Yeah, I do pay attention. Hmm Interesting to see what will happen don't ya think.

I will be positive and sharpen up my resume. Maybe go into a new avenue. Wish there was really a way to make real money on the net. But, alas to many scams to make it real. I do love number crunching. It makes my day cruise by at an alarming rate. Maybe I will do bookkeeping from home and hire myself out. But, then I do like to get out everyday. Sometimes I think working from home would make me nutt's. I got to have a reason to get dressed everyday and put on makeup and feel good. Interact with peeps ya know.

Hmmm guess I have time to plan. Was thinking about flipping a house earlier but with the housing market going creepy. I don't think that is a great idea at the time at least not here anyway. There are just to many brand new house's, no one has bought up yet.

So we dredge on an wonder to ourselves what will happen to this country? Who will lead us into the next decade thru all the turmoil?

Enough of that depressing thinking. Maybe the sun will shine in Oregon tomorrow.
Have a happy day!!!

achoo!!!

Yep It's Hay Fever time. The older I get, the worse it seems to get. I feel like a dang hayfever commercial. Itchy, watery eyes, sneezing runny nose.. Wish you could soak your head in a bucket miserable. It's 11:00 pm at night and this is going on. The only medicine I can find is non-drowsy. I wanna knock myself out, not wakeup and sing "She'll be coming around the mountain". Gads I need a swig of something. Remind self to get some alcohol. All there is in this house is kalua and some morgen spiced rum or something like that, that putter bought. I need some tokilla shots. Oh well until tomorrow addios. If ya get bored get out the bridge cam. They are in Alaska, I just looked and it's day light... Virtual Cruise ya know

Jessica and Sarah

My Daughter Jessica (with the red hair) and her best buddy SarBear!!!. These two are a couple of yahoo's..... Wanna go drinkin? They love a good time

Happy Birthday Girl Friend

It's Shann's 45 birthday today... Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Shannon.... Happy Birthday to you.... and many many more!!!

Love ya girlfriend.

Got to shann's blog and wish her a Happy Birthday... Just Me Shann

Beauty products safety

JUST A FYI POST

Skin Deep

On our local news last night I was informed about a link you can go to and check out your makeup or moisturizers or soap... that you use and how safe the ingredients or lack of safety are for you.. So go to the link... type in the product that you use... the scale 1 to 10. One 1 being the least harmful to you... Check it out

The Pink (aka Justin) calls this Articulation. " look mom the articulation is awesome"

I call it weird-whatever-okay then...

An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivoting joint in its construction, allowing the vehicle to turn more sharply. There are many kinds of articulated vehicles, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometimes articulated in that the driving wheels could pivot around turns.

In a broader sense, any vehicle towing a trailer could be described as articulated (the word articulated comes from the Latin articulus : small joint). In the UK, the term "articulated lorry" refers to the combination of a tractor and a semi-trailer, abbreviated to "artic". In the U.S., this is called a semi-trailer truck, "tractor-trailer" or "semi-truck" and would not necessarily be called articulated.

Putt and Senior' Frog Legs

So this is Putter checking out Senior Frog... This is in Puerto Vallarta. Notice the Carl's Jr in the back ground... My god this place is nothing like the trip I took about 12 years ago. Now that was a good Mexico trip. I never once saw a fish taco cart. Oh I miss those. Nope on this trip it was America all over the place. Yucky.

1st Stop San Diego.. I loved that place.

2nd Stop Cabo.. boring just as boring as it was 12 years ago. All though one fun thing happend. We were tendered in to the port and from there we hoofed it into town and walked around for what seemed like forever. So after a few hours of that crap. There was a dude there who was on a ten speed pulling a two person pony cart. I looked at my mom, my mom looked at me.. I said to the guy how much... $7.00 he said. I was all over that. Well, we climbed in. We went down the street to turn around to go the right way on the street. As we did that, Uncle Bob and Aunt Pat saw us.. WE started laughing hysterically.. It was funny. Bob snapped a photo. ha ha ha.. So this guy was skinny and he pumped and pumped and pumped us all the way back to the port. He asked us our names so we spilled then I said "What's your name" he said "Manwell the Driver"... More laughing. We ended up feeling so sorry for all his hard work. We handed him another $7.00. Then he kept waving bye to us, must have done it at least 4 times. Now, I would guess you had to be there, but that was some funny stuff. Other than that don't want to go to Cabo ever, ever again..

3rd Stop Mazatlan. I stayed on the ship.. The rest of the crew went on a wild Ass taxi ride. Scared the crap out of them all I have been told. They had fun, Again Americanized but not as bad as the next stop.

4th Stop Puerto Vallarta... well, there is a Hooter's there and outback and i could go on forever. There were really no deals. Putter did visit Walmart and buy some kalua. Never want to go there again either...

So on the way back home we had 2 days at sea... overcast, windy, lots of rocking back and forth on the ship and cold...

Glad to be home. It was great vacationing with my parents, putter's parents and my aunt and uncle. but......

The food sucked, the beds sucked, the pillows sucked, the princess cruise line sucks. Ain't sailing with them ever ever again. All the food was dry. Didn't know you could make desserts so dry. The meat was tasteless. All the bread was hard. You had to crush it up and then cut it and then hopefully if you managed to eat it you didn't wear crumbs all over yourself.

Oh yeah something else that was good.. The margarita's and the lemon Chello's OH BABY!!!! I loved those.

Neither will my parents their partial to Holland America and My Aunt and Uncle are Carnival fans. The only other one Putter and I have been on is NCL and we liked it.

So next trip I am not sure when. I believe we will be doing Disney World. But, of course I got to keep losing the weight ya know.

On a side note: I was super bummed last night. Why i dont' know. But, Shann called and we laughed forever it was awesome. That Girl always seems to know when to get me back on track.

Love ya Shann.

Hey from the ship

We left San diego.. It was beautiful there. The last time I had ever been there was in 1980 and there were no tall buildings there. There are now.. Wow.. From the ship we watched the airplanes land at the commercial airport... Cool..

We just had our first formal night it was a freaking blast... Pictures the whole shabang.. Swam today had a margarita and it was good...

Tomorrow Cabo san lucas... Shopping they say

Internet is expensive... $55.00 for 100 minutes... So crap I am hurrying writing this.

Until later. Love to all.

Callie