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Well, the thunder and lightning in our area had some fun. We didn’t have any fun.

It started out with just some of the apartments inour area losing their electric. Then when the power company showed up, they had to cut all of the power to all of the units in order to safely correct the outage.

Well, evidently the lightning zapped the wires and the transformer box had to be reconnected. It was 5 AM when they were finally able to get things going again. Since I have severe sleep apnea, I CANNOT go to sleep without my breathing machines. 2 of them. So, just as I was thinking about going to bed - NOPE#&*_#@$%_)&.

The next day I was so tired that I slept most of the day to make up the difference. I once fell asleep without the machines. I was in the hospital, they had me hooked up to heart moniters. The next thing that I knew, I hear CODE BLUE with my room number. One of the nurses was talking to me trying to get me to wake up. When I did, she told me that I had scared them and please do not go to sleep without the machines.

That was eye opening. Evidently my heart stopped. So, power out = no sleep. Humph

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Well, as I had mentioned in my previous article, there have been some things going on.

Now, We find out when a policeman comes to the door that the American Legion across the street from us was broken into the other night. I begin to think that we might need some security cameras to watch the neighborhood. Not only was the Legion building broken into, but the water department for our city was also broken into. The officer was trying to find out if anyone had seen anything when this happened. We were one of the first to have him visit since we live so close to where it happened.

The park down the road from us has its own troubles, too. There are hookers and drug dealers, or horny males hanging out there a lot. So much for the kids being able to play without any trouble.

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Everyone has their own stories about their times with acne and all of the different types of acne treatment that can be found.

I am 55 and no longer have those things happening to me. I do not know if it is all connected to your hormones, what you eat, or what your skin type is. All that know is that i no longer have those things happening.

At least now, you have more choices for treating acne than just rubbing alcohol. Believe it or not, people used to use whiskey, vodka, and other alcoholic beverages to treat pimples. Having acne is bad enough without going around smelling like a distillery.

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Well, it has become that time of year again.

We have been cleaning house for the semi-annual inspection. I HATE, yes I mean HATE to clean house. At the present time, we do not have a steam cleaner. Of course, a Ladybug steam cleaner would give me something nice to look at when I have to eventually do this distasteful deed.

One of the things that happened when the cleaning was being done was that I fell right on my rump. All that I could do was to sit there and wonder what happened? The last I knew I was picking something up. I leaned over from the office chair that I was sitting on and then went to lean back and sit BACK down, the chair however had other ideas. It moved on me. Let’s just say that I was very startled. I didn’t go down hard, but I was definitely surprised. One of thewonderful ladies from our church was there and was doing most of the work. She asked me if I was okay, I said yes, and then I purst out laughing. She looked at me as if I had lost it. Maybe i did, but the whole thing was really funny. I went down in slo-mo of all things. No pain was involved, just a severe loss of dignity. After a moment, she joined me in the laughing. It was truly a surprise. Of course getting back up was no simple stunt, but I got it done.

Had a look around while down there, and got some very strange looks from one of our cats. Now that cat did look at me as if I had really lost it which made me laugh harder. Oh well, it was funny.

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While I am mentioning traveling….

Do you realize that there are a lot of crazy people in cars out on the highway? If you can safely look at the car next to you, check out what the driver is doing.

Once I saw someone putting on mascara using the mirror while ‘driving’. Hello, what about watching the road or where you are going? Or maybe that is just something extra and ‘not’ necessary?

Give me a break (hopefully not a bone that is). Talking on the cell phone is another pet peeve of mine. How is that phone call more important that your life or mine for that matter?

Do I sound like I am griping? Of course I am. I always thought that when you were driving, you weren’t supposed to do anything else. How about driving and talking to the other person in the car. Of yeah, you are looking at the other person and not at the road.

If these cars were guided by an ‘intelligent computer and the driver was not necessary, I could see doing all of these things. That is not the case. I do not know about you, but I am not ready to die for someone being a dufus instead of being the driver.

To me that is another taste of someone abusing the power that they have.

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My computer is driving me nuts.

I just typed in an article and all of a sudden I found myself on a new page, and what I had been typing was gone. WHAT WHAT WHAT *(&()^**&(_

It makes me wish that I had an external hard drive, instead of the tower that I have. Crazy things happening while I try to blog do not make me a happy camper.

I wonder if it is the new download of my browser? It better not be, cause so far I have had no reason to want another. I need to study this and try to avoid nuts (except for eating that is).

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I love to read. Science Fiction and Historical Romance books are amond some of my favorites.

Now when I heard about plasma mounts, I thought it was about some sort of futuristic gun mount. Nope, it is about mounting a plasma TV set. Learn something new everyday.

I can almost see it - you drive your car down the freeway, some idiot cuts in front of you and cuts you off, you use your plasma gun to give him a flat tire so he can’t do that to anyone else. Maybe not, that would start a new type of road rage, and that AIN’T nice.

Oh well, I used to wish that I could have an old fashioned arny tank for a vehicle so that no one would crowd me on the road. However with the price of gas these days NO WAY. Dreams can be fun.

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Well, today was an interesting day. Did I ever tell about an old Chinese curse? You point at someone and say, ‘may you live in interesting times.’ ? If you think it is innocent, think about what you will find on the TV news. Earthquakes, floods, fires, tornodos…..get the picture?

Well, today was interesting. Our friend is going through a troublesome time. His wife and her family are causing trouble and it is getting rough for him. One of them decided that she wanted to come to our front door and give her opinion on what was going on. I asked who was pounding on the door (it sounded like she was using Kettlebells to pound), I told her to GO AWAY. That is very plain. I do not believe that it could be misunderstood.

She refused and kept pounding on the door. I called 911. I repeated that I wanted her to GO AWAY. She stood outside and voiced her opinion. We live in an apartment complex that has a fence around it, so it is very obvious that it is private property. She was still there when the police finally arrived. Still loud and walking around in front of our apartment. She does not live here. She does NOT have any relatives that live here. She does not have any friends that live here. The police started to question her, and to question me. I stayed on my porch, she stayed out by the police cars. The police said they would tell her to stay off of the property and leave me alone. I am not related to her or any of her family in any way, so her coming here was nothing but trouble. She ended up getting arrested. The police did a search of her car, found something in the trunk, and caught her in a lie. Both she and her car were removed. Her to jail, her car to the impound lot. All she had to do was leave but, she decided that she wanted to cause a scene.

Frankly, I was embarrassed for her. She did not behave in any type of a classy manner. One of the cops shook his head when he went back and forth to his car. I have no idea what they found, I stayed away from her and her car. I never even signed a complaint.

Sometimes, I do not understand people. They can be confusing.harassment

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have you ever really thought about some of the things that people say, or the words that are used? Some of them have a long history. Here is a list of some things that I have found out about.

1. threshold - this came from the time when people put reeds and rushes on their floors because they did not have rugs or carpets. The reeds and rushes would be walked on and some times would go out the door with people coming and going. So, a piece of wood was put across the bottom of the doorway to keep the plant life from leaving thus the word threshold.

2. chess - this was a game taught to a you man to teach him how to strategize in war. The movement of the pieces was to copy the movement of soldiers on the battlefield. We have turned it into a game for entertainment. If I am remembering correctly, the young man taught this game was Alexander The Great. Guess it worked.

3. salute - where we live, we are near a military base. The television station that we watch the most has given a history on the salute and how it was started in the middle ages when 2 knights met. The younger one would lift the visor on his helmet as a sign of respect to the older and more experiences man. Our troups use this movement today to show respect for those who have a higher rank than they hold. It is also a recognition of respect other military men.

4. ring around the rosy - this started a a way to recognize the Black Plague in the middle ages. The kids would hear about the different signs and repeat them to each other to beware of anyone who could possible be sick. Ring around the rosy - a pimple with a ring around it, pocket full of posy - posies were thought to keep the Plague away from you, ashes ashes all fall down - that was really achews achews all fall down since people would also sneeze repeatedly and the fall down was actually people dying. It was a rather grim type of play that started as a way to avoid plagu ridden people.

There are other words and phrases and customs that originally started with other meanings. Lunacy, carrying the bride over the ‘threshold’ are only some of those.

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We drive a Dodge Caravan.

It is not a new one, it was made in 1989. I always thought that if I needed parts for it I would ask for Dodge parts. Well, I have since learned that Mopar parts would also fit. What is a Mopar? I am not really familiar with all of the auto manufacturers that are out there, so to me the question was not stupid.

All that I can say now is that I am glad that I asked my husband instead of someone in an auto parts store. I have no wish to add to the ‘dumb housewife’ fable that goes around in those quarters. I mean that I replaced the points in a 1971 Dodge Dart Swinger. I even managed to set them perfect the first time. All that I did later was to accidentally drop a screw down the distributor. It only took me half of an hour to set it right, and another one and a half hours to get the (*&^*) screw out of the distributor. Well, I guess that paying someone else to do the tune up on our car was actually worth the money. Our neighbor at the time had fun telling me that our car was hungry as I lay on top of the engine -growling at the screw. Live and learn.

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