Category Archives: weird stuff

Feb3

Tornado in Florida

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My well wishes go out to the people who suffered through this terrible ordeal early Friday morning in central Florida. The photos and film footage taken show the horrific event that left devastation in it’s path for over 30 miles. Brian read that one woman moved from to Florida after Katrina destroyed her house only to face this tornado and to lose everything a second time.

Mother nature can surely pull some weird tricks out of her hat!

Found this interesting post. The Red Cross is always there when people need them, and if you can help that is a blessing.

Jan24

Weird things about me

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I saw this on the Nature Trail blog in my sidebar and ‘around town’. This is difficult, what is weird to me may be normal to other people! LOL

1. I have a thing about avoiding germs as I got sick so much when I worked in a daycare center. I’m not crazy about shaking hands or using public restrooms-but what’s a girl to do? I swear I got that nurovirus from a bathroom at Value City.

2. Sometimes I get grossed out when handling raw meat. When it’s finished cooking and all-I still think about it in it’s packaging from the store. I got sick a few times when I was expecting Sean when trying to handle raw meat.

3. Not too crazy about seeing other people get injections or seeing them bleed. I can handle getting an injection. Not crazy about having a bad cut. I use to get bad nosebleeds when I was a kid.

4.I have 100s of books but I’ll be darned if I have read them more than once (mostly non-fiction). I have to have them and parting with them is like parting with a friend.

5. We still have lots of Sean’s old toys in the basement-we hoard big time.

6. I can remember lots of details from photos from even 40 odd years ago. I remember things my brothers (mostly) have forgotten about our childhood.

Not too weird, correct?

Sep21

You know you are a lovely lady…

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….your skin is so nice!
Ok, back track. I’m standing in line at the post office like I do every week. A 30- something lady is a head of me in her black jeans covered with tiny white polka dots, causing a bit of a commotion over goodness knows what. I was still waiting my turn and she approached me and said the above. Huh? Oh thanks. (Ok, nice meeting you, be off!!) Hey you with the nice skin, have you heard of Mary Kay? (OMG) I have over 60 contacts and blah, blah and are you interested? I looked at her square in the eyes and said ‘Not really’. Ha. It was as though I had slapped her. Honestly, I just bought Sheer Cover from Leeza Gibbons and Melissa ‘half pint’ Gilbert from an infomercial and I like the stuff-hence the ‘nice skin’. I told her that her little girl was sweet and by then she was peeved and just waved me off as she left the post office. She didn’t know she was dealing with a saleslady with almost 3,000 transactions (so there!). Sean said she probably fed all prospective clients with the ‘nice skin’ line. I said, ‘Well thanks a lot Sean’. I felt all glowing and 30- something for a brief moment. Oh pooh!

Jul26

Men not as fixated on skinny women

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VILLANOVA, Pa. – U.S. men are not as fixated on women being
thin as most women believe, a study found. Charlotte Markey
of Rutgers University-Camden and her husband, Patrick
Markey of Villanova University, study what couples find
attractive. Most U.S. women, even skinny women, think they
should be thinner because they feel they would be more
attractive to men, but that’s not the case, the researchers
reported. They studied 104 couples. All the women were in
their 20s and none were significantly over- or underweight,
reported U.S. News and World Report. In separate rooms, the
couples were asked to choose photos of women in bikinis that
look most like the woman in the partnership. They were also
asked to choose a photo of what body type they or their
partner would most want to look like. Women chose drawings
larger than average to represent themselves, while the men
saw their girlfriends as thinner than average. The body type
the women desired was significantly underweight, while men
chose a body type close to how they saw their partners now,
the New York Daily News said Sunday.

So how do women feel about heavier men? Personally, I don’t care for guys that let themselves go unless they have a physical problem that has caused them to not be able to exercise. Case in point, my Bri. He needs to lose about 50 pounds. His knees are bad. He never complained about his knees until he put the weight on. His tummy looks like he enjoys beer. He rarely drinks it. He eats too fast and sometimes takes seconds. His job has him in the car a lot. All this adds up to causing weight gain.

Jul21

What’s wrong with this passage…

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From Morgan Spurlock’s blog-‘The climax of the season is our Binge Drinking Mom, a parent who so desperately wants her college freshmen, beer guzzling daughter to understand the ramifications of her actions that she (mom) transforms into a party girl overnight to try to teach her show her the errors of her ways. It’s powerful stuff and a great end to the series’.

Well I guess the 19 yr old girl is going to drink if she has the money to do so. Her mom becoming a binge drinker for a month didn’t even phase the girl. She said she may stop drinking if her mom ‘got killed’. How nice. What a spoiled brat. They have a lovely big home with a pool, so obviously this girl has a lot of luxuries. Guess she wants to throw her life away. She said she can hold her booze even though she passes out and doesn’t remember how she ended up where she has her head laying in the morning. I think it’s really sad. If she disfigures her pretty face in a drink related accident, maybe she will change her mind. If she has that option-the other is death.

May13

Utterly shocked

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A great lady who runs a charity website sent us an urgent email today. I couldn’t believe what I read. I won’t name the organization as this is a public blog. Someone took the bio and photo of one of the featured sick children of the month and made a fake website to get people to donate money in this sick eight yr old’s name. They said they are up to to $19,000 or so! This little boy won’t see any of the money at all. The webmistress with the real site has contacted the place that is accepting payments to tell them it’s not a legit operation. I’ve been dealing with this site since August, 1998 and I don’t believe anything like this has happened before. Too bad when you are trying to do good for people someone comes along and jeopardizes a great thing. Please, if you see any websites asking for money, do a search, especially if sick kids are involved.

Apr29

The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies

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The above exhibit is coming to the Franklin Institute in the fall. The reporter for Action news went to Chicago to preview this unusual display of real bodies. They are preserved with a special plastic. Not sure if the squeamish could handle it. I was ok looking at it on the tv, but wonder what it would be like to see a pregnant lady with an 8 month old fetus dissected in half. This is such an 20th century exhibit! They even have a ‘store’ with mousepads, watches, etc. displaying the bodies. Maybe that is kinda overdoing it. All the bodies used were from people who donated their bodies to science. There are over 200 of them in the exhibit. Be sure to check out the ‘body facts’ page.


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Apr7

The invasion of the nocturnal winged creatures…

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This happens every year when the first warm day of the year rolls around which was a few days ago. These flying ant like things come marching up through the vents (or some place) and start walking all over the walls, our heads, the cat’s tail, you name it. It took me two hours to fall asleep that night as I had the feeling like something was crawling all over me.
To put things into prospective this room use to be the attached garage. We had a number of people (family, friends, paid people) who helped turned it into a nice big family room we desperately needed 12 years ago. The driveway use to go all the way up to the house (of course), but Brian knocked a big block of it away-thus the problem with the bugs-he never really sealed the cracks under the broken driveway. I thought he did. I thought at least Bri looked at it. He didn’t really do anything all these years. I went out today and moved a rock and there was a fairly big hole. He’s gonna have to move his butt and get gravel and cement to seal that area up where the garage door use to be.
We even put screens over the vents in here and the bugs are still finding their way in. If something isn’t done, they will invade a few more times and I have to suck up all their little carcasses and they make my vacuum smell like citronella. Gross.

Apr7

One of my most embarassing moments…

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I just submitted this to the Ellen DeGeneres Show:
I decided to become a commuter student during my junior year at college. I had about a 20 minute trip in my rickety old Maverick, but hey, I was driving and could come and go as I pleased.
On the ‘first’ day of the semester I got up around 6 am for my 8 o’clock English class. I got my new notebooks all together with my packed lunch and was off for school. I was anxious to get started and see my friends again. When I got there I was amazed at how many commuter students chose not to have an 8 o’clock class as I had my choice of parking spaces! As I walked along the sidewalks to the building where my English class was, again I was so surprised that I hardly saw any students walking to 8 o’clock classes. It was about 7:45. Either I was really early or they were going to be late.
When I finally arrived at the building and went inside it was rather dimly lit and my classroom was dark too. Geez, what’s the matter? Was school cancelled on the first day? I happened upon a maintenance man and asked him about the first day. He said ‘Young lady, the first day of classes is tomorrow!’ I had no idea until that very moment. Did I get out of there fast and hoped I wouldn’t run into any one I knew. I even had a story in case I did. Luckily, I just went to my car and came home and did it all again the next day.