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Sometimes I think that I’m getting old. Other times, I know I am.

Try going from one room to another to get something, but when you get there you can’t remember what it was that you were going to do. Well, I remember that I was going to get something, but I don’t remember what it was that I was going to get. Humph…disgusting.
it is exercise, but it is also very frustrating.

I remember one time that I was looking for my eyeglasses. I can read without them, but if I want to see something across the room in any detail I better have my glasses on. I looked and looked, but couldn’t find them any where. Finally I got so frustrated that i asked my husband if he knew where I had left them. He paused, then he pointed at me starting at my feet. His hand slowly moved up and when he was done, he was pointing at the top of my head. He grinned and then broke out laughing.

Humph…disgusting. he teased me about that incident for a while. At least he teaed me about it until he lost his glasses, too. He almost sat on his. :}

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Is it safe to drive? Well, sometimes I wonder. You hear about road rage, accidents, drunk drivers, drivers who are distracted.

I wonder when driving and doing everything else but driving became all the rage? I was always taught that you should only concentrate on driving when you were behind the wheel. I never even went through driving classes, just a friend that was very (and I mean VERY ) patient. When I first started to drive, the traffic wasn’t all that bad. Of course I learned in a small town where there weren’t any traffic jams. You still had to have car insurance of course. Since then I do not like to drive uninsured for any reason. I have been blessed with no accidents (thank God for that). The town was in a part of the country where we had definite winters with ice and snow on the road. We lived pretty close to a shopping mall that had large parking lots. When there was ice on the road, I used to go to the lot and practice skidding. Who am I kidding, it was fun to let the car slide in circles where there was no chance of being hit. Almost like being on ice skates, except I was already sitting down.

Where we live now, there is too much traffic and not enough ice or snow to go and do that ‘practice’ anymore. Now, too many times I see people in cars that are busy doing everything else except for driving. Putting on makeup, looking at maps, talking on the phone, talking to the other person in the car with them (with their face turned TO the passenger) - why is anyone surprised when they get in an accident? Is it safe to drive……pray first and ask God to keep you safe, THEN maybe it is safe. Of course I didn’t say anything about how you drive did I?

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Patience….as if there was such a thing in this modern world. Phooey is all that I have to say.

Doesn’t sound very patient, does it?

I can’t tell you haw many times I have heard someone say ,”Just be patient, these things take time.” Of course that practically guarantees that any patience that I might have had went by the way side. Of course now, think about this, to be patient…what does that mean? After all the English language has been known to drive some people crazy. The word patient can refer to two different things: 1) is someone who is in the hospital, usually they have no choice but to be patient other wise they wouldn’t be in there to begin with. 2) is someone who knows how to wait for something or someone. That second type of person is really rare these days. It seems like everything is hurry up - hurry up. How many times have you heard of ‘road rage’ on the highway? That person wasn’t patient. Makes me wonder how many times THEY were told that they had to wait. Wait a minute….the word wait is another one of the words that seem to take away any type of patience, too. Hmmm, maybe it’s time that society thought up another word to use for patience, patient, wait…unhh can’t think of any. Oh well, guess I’ll have to wait anyway.

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I have been hearing a lot about the different types of fuel that can be used for vehicles. Words are being popped out all over the place. ‘Green’ fuels, bio-diesel, E82 fuel, gasohol, the list goes on and on.

Just read about Hydrogen fuel , it was an eye opener. so many people are screaming for better pollution results, lower emission, lower costs. What they don’t tell you is the exact way that these fuels are made. Just because your vehicle does not pollute, it does NOT mean that the fuel used was produced without polluting something. Energy comes from somewhere. It does not appear out of the air just for people to grab it. Science proves this fact every day. Even wind energy is created by the energy of the sun working on the atmosphere, and the earth, and any water sources available. Solar energy is created using an exchange of heat with panels that are set up.

Even people use energy, we consume food to provide fuel for our bodies. Getting something from nothing is, I’m afraid, a dream of children. Shouldn’t we start to grow up by now?

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I have always wondered what I would do if I got a lot of money and could go anywhere that I wanted. There are so many places that are available.

My husband and I could go to the beach, wander in the surf (as long as the beach isn’t polluted), go to sleep at night with the waves acting like music. With a lot of money we could even rent a house where we could be alone,St. Barts villa rentals would have a lot of options. We could also find a place here in the USA. Our country has a lot of different types of places that vacationers can go.

I’ve seen pictures of some of the places that can be rented, they are beautiful. Whether in our own country, or on some island get away, it could be fun.

First we have to get the money.

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Fancy words to say that people are having trouble with their money. Trouble paying bills, supporting their families.

The media is very fond of using fancy words to express what they have to say…..sometimes, plain speaking is the best.

People are losing their homes. People are losing their jobs. Any nest eggs that have been put away for the elderly, by the elderly,are vanishing. I hear politicians hollering that the government needs to do something. I don’t hear any clear cut ideas on what the government is supposed to do, though. The media is squawking, the politicians are squawking, most of them are running around like chickens with their heads cut off. GROSS IDEA, and about as useful, too. How did this mess get to where it is today? Greed - It doesn’t do anything, except feed itself over and above anything or anyone else. Credit card companies, banks, investors, speculators all want to make money. The only trouble is that they are pulling the rest of us down with them. Yes, I am squawking, too. I imagine that a lot of us out in the public are squawking, but who is listening?

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Right now there is a teenage girl in Arizona who has had her rights violated. some other student at the school turned a fake tip that ended with her being STRIP searched there at the school in the principal’s office.

I wonder, were her parents notified before this was done, were they even asked if the authorities were allowed to degrade her? Yes, I said degrade. Imagine that you are in school. You are taken to the principal’s office and ordered to disrobe in front of someone. Even your bra and panties are examined. Who else was in the office, who was the person who was with her there to comfort her?

This should never have had to go to court, let alone need to be judged by any court. The fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America says:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants
shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath, or affirmation, and
particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be
seized.
Where was her DUE PROCESS? She was stripped because of rumor, rumor only. There was no due process for her. It has happened, she will probably never forget the humiliation of having this done, all because of a rumor. If a thing has not been established by witnesses and affirmed and proven, it is a RUMOR. What happened to the rumor monger? Is this person to be persecuted in the same degrading manner as the innocent girl?

All of this was because of rumor of IBUPROFEN a drug that can be found in any drug store or grocery store. For this a girl went through something horrible? Imagine how powerless and helpless she felt.

Just because someone is in school, it does NOT mean that they have surrendered their
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Shame on that Arizona school and the authorities that thought they could do what ever they wanted with someone’s child.

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Attention….my husband is a brat. He grins, and catches me unaware, and then he gives me a hug.

The only trouble with this picture is that his hands were wet and cold. I wasn’t quite awake when he did this. After, I was definitely awake. That’s okay, I have my own method of getting back at him. I get up early in the morning when it is cold, walk around barefoot for a while and then go to the bedroom and slip one cold foot under the covers for a nice cool greeting.

This is what happened when we lived on our earlier home. The house leaked air and was hard to keep warm. Where we live now, the apartment is in good condition and it is easy to cool and to heat. It is fun to tease my husband about the cold foot incident. I never saw him move so fast before in my life. It was like he suddenly appeared standing in the center of the bed. The only thing he said was what, what, what. I could only giggle.

Married life is fun, at least for me and my husband. I wish that others could be so blessed.

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My brother-in-law sent me a site. It only takes a few minutes.

It is called ‘ Just One Minute ‘ , it will actually take about 4 minutes.

It plays the song ‘You are the wind beneath my wings”, there are images that will make you think. We live in a land where; we can vote, we can talk, we can protest, we can vote, we can drive down the street and believe that we will NOT be blown up.

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Well, it’s been a while. Not since I’ve written something, but since I got married.

He is a country boy. some of the things that he has been able to do in his life are amazing. He and his parents had lived in an area that didn’t have plumbed water, electrical lines, phone lines, and gas for cooking and heating. The water had to be carried in inside 50 gallon barrels. When it got dark, it was time for bed. Phone service was in town. Their neighbors were not within shouting distance. I used to call that being down in the boondocks.

Me, I was raised a city girl. I was used to traffic sounds all night long. Used to have trouble sleeping when there wasn’t traffic. The street lights would come in the windows in the front of the apartment house, so if I was awake at night, I didn’t have to turn on the lights. We cooked by gas on the stove. The house was heated with natural gas in the winter. During the winter, the snow plows would pass in the night so cars could be on the road for work in the morning. If the neighbors had a fight, we could hear the hollering. I had only seen wood stoves on TV. My husband and his family used to cook on a wood stove, and use one for heat. He knew about chopping wood and making wood piles.

During the holidays the food that my family was used to was different than what his family ate. Turkey and stuffing, green beans, mashed white potatoes or baked sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, mince meat pie, cranberry relish, dripping gravy, the stuffing was made of white bread. During his holidays, he ate turkey and dressing (cornbread dressing that is), sweet tater casserole, brown beans, greens (turnip or poke seasoned with ham), giblet gravy, sweet tater pie, cranberry sauce. sometimes ham and/or brisket were also served.

I never knew there was a difference between dressing (which never sees the inside of the bird), and stuffing (which is cooked inside the bird). Until I sat and talked with his sister and her family one day, I hadn’t thought about the differences in the things cooked. Her nephew-in-law and I remembered the same type of food. When we compared lists, we were told that he and I had been raised Northern. Regional cooking in our one country alone is varied and wondrous.

Soon my husband and I will have been married for 25 years. Country boy & city girl, it is amazing how two so different ways of doing things have merged.

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