New Year’s Eve

well in less then thirteen hours we will be heading into the year 2009

hard to believe another year has come and gone.
Where did it go to?

as everyone goes out to bring the new year in despite the frosty temps I hope everyone is making smart choices, healthy choices and uses great care when coming home.

I hope there is a designated driver and no one does something silly like drive while drunk.
not a smart move at all.

Please be safe and careful and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Putting Christ back in there

I just read on the yahoo web page that there is worry that Barack Obama will use the words “Jesus” or “Christ” in his inauguration speech

PLEASE!!!!
If this country worried about more important things like HAVING CHRIST AND PRAYER IN SCHOOLS again, we probably wouldn’t be the messed up country we are!!!!

Why worry about what Obama may or may not say?
Where is his freedom of speech?
He should be able to say whatever he wants because this is his day, his time and if he wants to talk about Jesus or God, I am all for it!!!!
As everyone should be!!!

Ugh!!!
sometimes it all  makes me crazy with all the nit picking they do in the news these days.

officially frozen

okay I was just out side for fifteen minutes laying sand and ice melt down and my hands are officially frozen.
Burr.
I had gloves on, yes I did, but it didn’t keep the bite out of the fingers.
ugh.

I sure hope 2009 brings us a better winter then this last part of 2008 has.
I’m sick of ice and cold cold cold.

And granted I know I am not alone in this sickness but still…..not everyone has to go out and shovel and put ice melt and sand down like I do either.

Do I sound like I’m whining?

the darkness that is the death ghost

for any of you who have read my post in the past you know I have written about the “Death ghost”
I honestly don’t know what else to call it because it is a dark mass that comes to visit me every once and a while as I drift off to sleep at night.

He was there in his usual attire last night seemingly larger then life
Larger then he has ever been before anyway.

I call it death because that is what it feels like to me.
What else can it be?

It is menacing and an evil prescience that I do not wish to have in my room visiting me.
Last night he was right in my face large and swarming around the bed that I honestly wondered if it was me he was coming to get.

As I said he has never been as big as he was last night.

So even though, when he comes visit, it doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is going to die (although it has happened in the past that way)

it makes me wonder what is in store?

It makes me realize that I need to tell all those I love that I love them and make sure they know it so that if I am the one to go, no one doubts my love for them
Or if it is someone I love, they don’t doubt that I love them.

Maybe I seem paranoid, or just plain losing it to some people.
But this is something that is real that happens to me every now and again and I feel better writing about it instead of letting it sit here in my mind.

every time

Did you know that the word “blog” doesn’t work in the dictionary?
every time I write it and then do the spell check it comes up that the word “blog” is misspelled, and then there are no other ways of spelling it.
Isn’t that odd?
one would think, since this is a “Blog” that the word would be recognized in the spelling check system that they provide for those of us who are such bad spellers!!!
Guess not.
So anyway….that is just a little piece of information I thought I would share.

Just like Christmas

Elvis had a song out for Christmas that went something like
“IF every day could be just like Christmas, what a wonderful world this would be”
I honestly don’t know the title of the song but it is stuck in my head for some unknown reason.

I am at work with little or nothing to do today.
Just putting in my eight hours before I head home for my four day weekend.

I like the sounds of that.

Anyway I just came in from outside and it is damn cold out there.
That wind is quite sharp and biting this morning.
I was putting ice melt and sand down on the spots that the sun just hasn’t melted enough to keep from being slippery on Monday morning.
Now granted you may be wondering, why am I worrying about Monday morning on Wednesday morning?
Well because IF the sand and ice melt can work on the icy spots the next five days with the help of the sun of course, then I won’t have to go out there next Monday morning and try to get it all cleared away before the children start coming to school.

It makes perfect sense to me.
I have quite a few more areas to get to but thought I would come in and warm up a bit.
I have all day to do it, but I think I heard it is suppose to cloud up later so I want to take advantage of the sun when I can.

AND the North side of the school gets little or no sun this time of year so…it really needs tended to.

Other then that, I have been writing a bit although it isn’t flowing nearly as nicely as yesterday.

I have a few odds and ends to do here at the school but no way will it fill up the next five and a half hours until I go home.
Maybe I will watch some TV and read too.

I know I know, must be nice to loaf and get paid for it.
But trust me, I give a lot to this school and every now and then they owe me a down day.

Anyway….as I titled this blog, “Just like Christmas”  wouldn’t it be awesome if every day was just like Christmas and people treated each other with acts of kindness and love and appreciation every day of the year?
What a wonderful world this would be, if everyone did.

Safe Haven

I’m not rich and I don’t have a college education but if I had the money I would find a way to have a place for unwanted children to come and live with me.
I would own a lot of land and a big house and I would hire whom ever needed hired to make this work.

I  don’t care if I had twenty children at a time or a hundred, I would make it work because it just saddens me so greatly to see so many children being murdered or just dumped because they are unwanted.

IF I had the money this is what I would do.

I may even talk to my husband and see what he thinks about adopting.
There are children all over this country, numerous children in the same family that have no home of their own
It just breaks my heart and I so wish I was able to help them all.

It also makes me want to hug my children and grand children all that more.
Man do we live in a very sad and sick country.

I want to cry….

this breaks my heart, literally breaks my heart to read this headline.
Why can’t people just do the right thing?

On the yahoo website a headline reads “Newborn’s body found by dog in wooded area in Florida”

it just makes me want to cry.

Why can’t people prevent these pregnancies?
Why can’t the parents of these women/girls who are pregnant be there for their child and help them find a proper home for these unwanted babies?

My God it breaks my heart to see this again…..

and no it doesn’t just happen in Florida, but damn it…why does it have to happen anywhere?
I just don’t understand.

I wish it was possible to get my name out there and let every one know that I will take any unwanted child and raise it as my own.
I would go to wherever I had to go to…to bring an unwanted child into my home and give them the love and attention they need.

it just breaks my heart…..

last day at the second job

December 31st 2008 is my last day on the job at my second job.
I REALLY really wish I didn’t have to work because let’s face it, they don’t really need me.
The boss will be there and another woman who knows a lot of what to do on the register.
She will just need help closing at eleven pm

I said I would work because I thought that would keep me up to see the New Year in.
NOT like it wouldn’t come in if I didn’t work or stay up, but…I usually try and stay up just to say I did.
And then of course sleep late the next morning.

Anyway…I will be glad to be done with the second job.
There are a few people I will miss and even some customers that I will miss talking to, but….it will be nice to stay home and spend more time with the grand daughters too.

My movie list

in the next four days, after tomorrow that is, I want to see a number of movies.
But even if I only get to one or two, that would be okay too

My number one movie I must see is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Secondly I want to see “Seven Pounds”

third would be “Australia”

fourth would be “The Day the Earth stood Still”
fifth would be “Marley and Me”

and sixth would be “Milk”

I could wait and see “Milk” and “Marley and Me” on DVD because I can’t see myself  going to six movies this four day weekend, however I definitely want to see the first two on my list and maybe the first three.

My son and his wife went to “Benjamin Button” and said it was really good.
And my daughter and her boyfriend went to “Seven Pounds” and said it was really good.
So…
I was told that “Marley and Me” was good too but that is one I can see on DVD

Of course my plans to hit a movie last weekend didn’t pan out so hopefully it will this weekend.