Hello everyone.
It is now September 22,2007
Tomorrow is my daughter's birthday.
Her name is Sharon and she will turn 19 tomorrow.
She is doing pretty good right now. Her boyfriend has been able to
get a new car. The car he got is a Grand Prix, don't remember the year, late '90's I know that much.He was able to pay it off completely with the insurance settlement. It is a nice car and has been well cared for.
Sharon and Sean (her boyfriend) are working at the same place I am working at. They work a evening shift, this is good because it gives them 6 hours of work. They start at 5:00 and work to 11:00pm . After 6:00pm they get shift differential of $1.25 an hour.Does not sound like much but it adds up . All day Saturday and Sunday we get the differential too.They are considered full time so they will get full time benefits.
Well ,more later , they just walked in the door and we are going to have cake and ice cream.
Bye
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Saturday, September 01, 2007
About the "Good Old Days"
There is a song out by Bucky Convington, a country signer , it is called "A Different World". Now I like the way he sings , his voice is really nice. But I have a problem with this song , here are the lyrics "We were born to mothers who smoked and drank
Our cribs were covered in lead based paint
No child proof lids no seat belts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets and still here we are, still here we are
We got daddy’s belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside, playin’ outside
ChorusIt was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time It was a different world
School always started the same every day
The pledge of allegiance then someone would pray
Not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed and that was all right, we turned out all right
Chorus Bridge No bottled water, we drank from a garden hose
And every Sunday, all the stores were closed "
and then here is a email I saw on one of my
crochet groups and the reply I sent to the group it was from. My reply to the forwarded letter
was not published, It was moderated, and not put on , this is the only thing I can think that could have happened , because it never appeared on the groups message forum. So , I left the
group, so here is the email .........................
NOT SURE IF JAY LENO REALLY QUOTED THIS BUT LIKED IT AND
PASSING IT ON LINDA
SOME GOOD....SOME SCARY....
Were you born 1930-1979?Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 03:31:31 -0500
Those Born 1930-1979 READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If YOU are one of them.CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.For the rest of us...pass this on. "
Ok , granted a lot of good points are made in this little essay. But there is a lot of crap in this
essay too, here is the response I sent to the group that was not posted. ................This is all well and good. But I have to throw a wet blanket on things.
It is true that things were a lot different in the past.
You think of the thngs that happened no seat belts, etc. but no one thinks of what
having seat belts means.
How many kids went threw windshields and got killed.
True , kids dont get outside as much as they should, we cant trust them to be
out by themselves because of the wierdos out there. But there were wierdos back then too,
has the percentage of disappeared children gone up or down , I would be willing to say it
is about the same
How many kids die from Polio?How many crippled kids do you see at the stores because
they had Polio?
Personaly , I will take some regulations, even if some seem intrusive , to know that
my children will not die from Polio, or go blind or deaf from from german measles
I would perfer not to have to worry if my boys are damaged or not from the mumps.
I can innoculate my pets from disease and not have to worry about how to tell my
kids one of thier cats died from Feline Leukemia, seeing one of our four legged babies die from this horrible disease is enough.
How did our parents feel when one of the children they loved died of a disease that can
be prevented or cured by the advances we enjoy today.
There was a lot to be said for the past , I am not dening that . I enjoyed my childhood for the most part, but it would have been nice if my mother had been tested for gestational
diabetes, if she was maybe my brother would have been born normal , and by c-section,
instead of being born "normally" and suffering from Cerabal Palsy, undeveloped retinas which made him blind, and with hydrocephalis , that made him different from every one
else. He was fortunate to be smart, how smart would he have been if he was 'normal', would
they have found the brain tumor that killed him sooner , if he was not already blind?
I am sorry if I have offended any body, but I get tired of hearing about how great the past was
and how bad off kids are today. I dont remember who said it, but he was around about 2 or 3 thousand years ago or so , like I said I dont remember right now ,. But he also said the
younger generation is going to h***.
When people remember the good about the past , they forget the bad. We have to make sure we remember the bad so we dont repeat it.
And yes I grew up in the 60's .I was born in 1960. It was really crappy that my dad was gone so much in the Air Force .Yeah , we did not have seatbelts. But I thank God for seatbelts,
They are the only things that kept me and my husband form going thru a windshield 18 years ago when a drunk pulled out in front us . Seat belts saved my daughter and her boyfriend on July 3 , 2007 from being severely injured when some little twit decided to run a stop light, saved her life too.
Again I am sorry if I have offeded anyone , I will stop now
Debra Van Dorp
Ok , this is my opinion, but I don't think I was overboard in my response, I think I made some valid points.
I would like to add, that if it were not for testing and the advances made in maternity medicine , my son Jacob might have been damaged during birth , his umbilical cord was too short and would not let him descend correctly , he also was in the wrong position to be born safely. Here may have been born with severe handicaps or even dead. My sister in law's babies were born by C-section. If it was not for obsterical science, only the oldest would have been born. The world would be worse but for the fact that she had two more wonderful kids
I do agree that the government gets its grubby hands into our lives too much, but you know what, ? I will gladly trade some "freedom" to be assured that car makers have to make thier
cars better. Medicines are safer and more pure. Our food is better, I personaly don't know many
people who have died from food poisoning. How many people died from this before the 1970's?
One of the women I work with was born with a severe case of bi-lateral cleft palate, her nasal
and sinus cavitites are deformed , she has a lot of problems with her sinuses. She has problems with infections.
There is a girl at my church that was born with spina bifida. she is 24 now, if it weren't for advances made in the decades before the 80's she would be dead, and that would be a sin.
Any way the bottom line is , the good old days are not something to be that nastalgic about. There were some good things , yes , the nieghborhoods were different, you knew who everyone was. But the downside of it was , there were black nieghborhoods, there were white neighborhoods, little China, little Itally etc, etc,etc,.....................no wonder the majority of people were bigots, and you coulden't marry your sweetheart because you were Catholic and she was a Protestant, or Jewish. That is stupid old fashioned thinking.
So anyway , I will have something more pleasant to talk about next time.
Our cribs were covered in lead based paint
No child proof lids no seat belts in cars
Rode bikes with no helmets and still here we are, still here we are
We got daddy’s belt when we misbehaved
Had three TV channels you got up to change
No video games and no satellite
All we had were friends and they were outside, playin’ outside
ChorusIt was a different life
When we were boys and girls
Not just a different time It was a different world
School always started the same every day
The pledge of allegiance then someone would pray
Not every kid made the team when they tried
We got disappointed and that was all right, we turned out all right
Chorus Bridge No bottled water, we drank from a garden hose
And every Sunday, all the stores were closed "
and then here is a email I saw on one of my
crochet groups and the reply I sent to the group it was from. My reply to the forwarded letter
was not published, It was moderated, and not put on , this is the only thing I can think that could have happened , because it never appeared on the groups message forum. So , I left the
group, so here is the email .........................
NOT SURE IF JAY LENO REALLY QUOTED THIS BUT LIKED IT AND
PASSING IT ON LINDA
SOME GOOD....SOME SCARY....
Were you born 1930-1979?Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 03:31:31 -0500
Those Born 1930-1979 READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! If YOU are one of them.CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were. Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"For those that prefer to think that God is not watching over us...go ahead and delete this.For the rest of us...pass this on. "
Ok , granted a lot of good points are made in this little essay. But there is a lot of crap in this
essay too, here is the response I sent to the group that was not posted. ................This is all well and good. But I have to throw a wet blanket on things.
It is true that things were a lot different in the past.
You think of the thngs that happened no seat belts, etc. but no one thinks of what
having seat belts means.
How many kids went threw windshields and got killed.
True , kids dont get outside as much as they should, we cant trust them to be
out by themselves because of the wierdos out there. But there were wierdos back then too,
has the percentage of disappeared children gone up or down , I would be willing to say it
is about the same
How many kids die from Polio?How many crippled kids do you see at the stores because
they had Polio?
Personaly , I will take some regulations, even if some seem intrusive , to know that
my children will not die from Polio, or go blind or deaf from from german measles
I would perfer not to have to worry if my boys are damaged or not from the mumps.
I can innoculate my pets from disease and not have to worry about how to tell my
kids one of thier cats died from Feline Leukemia, seeing one of our four legged babies die from this horrible disease is enough.
How did our parents feel when one of the children they loved died of a disease that can
be prevented or cured by the advances we enjoy today.
There was a lot to be said for the past , I am not dening that . I enjoyed my childhood for the most part, but it would have been nice if my mother had been tested for gestational
diabetes, if she was maybe my brother would have been born normal , and by c-section,
instead of being born "normally" and suffering from Cerabal Palsy, undeveloped retinas which made him blind, and with hydrocephalis , that made him different from every one
else. He was fortunate to be smart, how smart would he have been if he was 'normal', would
they have found the brain tumor that killed him sooner , if he was not already blind?
I am sorry if I have offended any body, but I get tired of hearing about how great the past was
and how bad off kids are today. I dont remember who said it, but he was around about 2 or 3 thousand years ago or so , like I said I dont remember right now ,. But he also said the
younger generation is going to h***.
When people remember the good about the past , they forget the bad. We have to make sure we remember the bad so we dont repeat it.
And yes I grew up in the 60's .I was born in 1960. It was really crappy that my dad was gone so much in the Air Force .Yeah , we did not have seatbelts. But I thank God for seatbelts,
They are the only things that kept me and my husband form going thru a windshield 18 years ago when a drunk pulled out in front us . Seat belts saved my daughter and her boyfriend on July 3 , 2007 from being severely injured when some little twit decided to run a stop light, saved her life too.
Again I am sorry if I have offeded anyone , I will stop now
Debra Van Dorp
Ok , this is my opinion, but I don't think I was overboard in my response, I think I made some valid points.
I would like to add, that if it were not for testing and the advances made in maternity medicine , my son Jacob might have been damaged during birth , his umbilical cord was too short and would not let him descend correctly , he also was in the wrong position to be born safely. Here may have been born with severe handicaps or even dead. My sister in law's babies were born by C-section. If it was not for obsterical science, only the oldest would have been born. The world would be worse but for the fact that she had two more wonderful kids
I do agree that the government gets its grubby hands into our lives too much, but you know what, ? I will gladly trade some "freedom" to be assured that car makers have to make thier
cars better. Medicines are safer and more pure. Our food is better, I personaly don't know many
people who have died from food poisoning. How many people died from this before the 1970's?
One of the women I work with was born with a severe case of bi-lateral cleft palate, her nasal
and sinus cavitites are deformed , she has a lot of problems with her sinuses. She has problems with infections.
There is a girl at my church that was born with spina bifida. she is 24 now, if it weren't for advances made in the decades before the 80's she would be dead, and that would be a sin.
Any way the bottom line is , the good old days are not something to be that nastalgic about. There were some good things , yes , the nieghborhoods were different, you knew who everyone was. But the downside of it was , there were black nieghborhoods, there were white neighborhoods, little China, little Itally etc, etc,etc,.....................no wonder the majority of people were bigots, and you coulden't marry your sweetheart because you were Catholic and she was a Protestant, or Jewish. That is stupid old fashioned thinking.
So anyway , I will have something more pleasant to talk about next time.
No response from Wal-Mart
I have not got a response from Wal-Mart yet , it is the week end ,so I guess I can wait until next week for one
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