Life is good! I love my full time job, enjoying my part time job and finally catching up financially from over a year ago when my renter stopped paying rent or utilities and left me with $1,300 in damages.
I have cut back on travel, purchased a less expensive car with WAY better gas mileage, the bonus is that it is a convertible. I got a new phone with a new billing program that is WAY cheaper then what I was paying and the bonus there is I got a HTC Droid Eris back in Dec 09 for $9.99 on Amazon. I will be renewing and purchasing my phones thru them from now on instead of directly thru Verizon.
I have great friends who helped me repair what I called "The Crime Scene" and get a new renter in there after 6 months of sitting empty. My new renter pays on time and has done some "fixing up" of the place at no charge to me. I now do quarterly walk-thrus were I go inspect the property. Live and Learn.
I have a generous Aunt and Uncle who share thier lake house when I start missing mine, I do love the water.
I have a boy friend who spoils me rotten and seems to like me ok, lol. And 2 Dalmatians-unconditionally!
I have renewed friendships and found new ones recently.
I miss my mom, but as I look around I realize how very fortunate I was to have such a kind, supportive, loving, would-do-anything for me mom. The relationships I see a lot make me sad that a person did not have what I had. Of course I shared my mom a lot, so some did have a taste of what I had and I feel they are better fot that.
I miss my Papa, the Rock in Rock Star! He gave me faith in men, there weren't a lot of good examples around. Again, I was very fortunate to have the kind of man he was in my life. He was my champion.
So I see the I HAVE's out number the I MISS's.
Life is good and I am so very Thankful to everyone one who has helped me be the person I am. I am extremely grateful to the The Big Man Upstairs for all the blessings in my life.
I want peacefulness for each and everyone of my family and friends. I want each of you to live the life you want on the terms you need. I want you to wake up every morning with a grin on your face because you know you are "All THAT and a Bag of Spicy Doritos"!! Open your mind, heart and soul to the Potentials of a Life Well Lived.
It's up to you and only you!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Warning this is a RANT! Target and Buffalo Wild Wings
I try to keep these positive and entertaining as no one wants to read negativity and complaining.
However this HAS to be said:
I had the WORST experience ever in Target yesterday and I go in there a LOT. First of all there were children crying and whining and you could hear it all over the store and throwing fits and parents just ignored it. REALLY? My mom would have jerked my arm out of socket to get me to the bathroom to bust my butt if the stern look didn't work, which normally it did just fine. I got caught ONCE playing in a clothes rack in K-mart when I was little, that did not end well, but it certainly ended.
People were taking up entire isles with thier buggies to look at one item on a shelf, no the world does not center on you, move it over so people can pass by.
Now none of this is Target's fault so far. So here is where Target went wrong all on their own:
6:30-7pm on a Wednesday night and there are 2 Cashiers working and lines backed up to the jewelry department. No one working the photo lab and 1 person working the Customer Service desk, who was tied up with a wedding couple at the Registry machines.
3rd Cashier finally shows up (I have had to stand in line behind a kid throwing a fit in a buggy and next to one crying in momma's arms) asks us to move over to her cash register which we had to beat the people BEHIND us in the original line to do. Guess what, if you are behind me in 1 line, you should be behind me in the next like, it's called COURTESY. So we pull all our stuff out of the buggy and she starts pushing buttons on register and nothing happens so she calls someone else over there and the thing is UNPLUGGED!! So we load our stuff back up, thank goodness we don't have much, but a big bag of dog food is not ideal in loading and unloading over and over. Now we move up and get checked out, in the mean time there are still just 3 cashiers and the lines are getting longer-AM I IN WAL-MART?.
I had an item I wanted to ask customer service about so I took it over there and waited and waited and never go even a "I'll be right with you" from the 1 gal who was working.
At this point I just want to run out of there and go hide-I use to like that store.
So we go to Buffalo Wild Wings just down the road and sit in the bar. We have found a decent waitress in there since our Favorite Alicia has gone to greener pastures. I have no complaints about her service, she remembers our drink order and can almost tell us what we are going to eat. Always friendly. We still miss Alicia!!
So this is where BWW goes bad:
I quit ordering draft beer from BWW well over a year ago because I was always getting sick after eating and drinking there and it was the common denominator. I am a bottle baby now and have not really had any problems. John always gets a draft Ale, well last night he drank some of his ale down and noticed the glass was crusty white at the top. We HOPE is was SOAP. So we show the waitress and she gets him a new one. You would think they would check the next glass before they sent it out and we assumed they did. So John drank down some of this one and the same problem-REALLY? One of my friends who hangs out in there all the time brought it up to the manager and they had a discussion and then brought him out a new glass, like brand new out of the box. Which I told him wasn't clean as it had been sitting in a cardboard box in a wharehouse and had not been washed.
So we eat our food and go home-John was ill most of the night.
SO BUFFALO WILD WINGS, we stuck with you through the shitty service and running out of things from the Kitchen and Bar when you first opened, we stuck with you when I was getting sick after eating there until I figured out it was the draft. We even stuck with you through some pretty lame ass managers, which I think you have one now.
BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH-you have been open in Tyler, TX long enough to have your act together and you are just getting WORSE!
We won't be back for a very long time-take the time to get it together, we really like the concept, trivia and the pulled pork, but we will get our fix elsewhere.
We have spent enough money in that place since they opened that I do believe they will feel the hit of us not going.
Now for Kudos! Thank you to the Tyler Fire Departments and Police Departments for your continued service. We are so very thankful that no one was seriously injured last night at the Hudson Apartment fires.
However this HAS to be said:
I had the WORST experience ever in Target yesterday and I go in there a LOT. First of all there were children crying and whining and you could hear it all over the store and throwing fits and parents just ignored it. REALLY? My mom would have jerked my arm out of socket to get me to the bathroom to bust my butt if the stern look didn't work, which normally it did just fine. I got caught ONCE playing in a clothes rack in K-mart when I was little, that did not end well, but it certainly ended.
People were taking up entire isles with thier buggies to look at one item on a shelf, no the world does not center on you, move it over so people can pass by.
Now none of this is Target's fault so far. So here is where Target went wrong all on their own:
6:30-7pm on a Wednesday night and there are 2 Cashiers working and lines backed up to the jewelry department. No one working the photo lab and 1 person working the Customer Service desk, who was tied up with a wedding couple at the Registry machines.
3rd Cashier finally shows up (I have had to stand in line behind a kid throwing a fit in a buggy and next to one crying in momma's arms) asks us to move over to her cash register which we had to beat the people BEHIND us in the original line to do. Guess what, if you are behind me in 1 line, you should be behind me in the next like, it's called COURTESY. So we pull all our stuff out of the buggy and she starts pushing buttons on register and nothing happens so she calls someone else over there and the thing is UNPLUGGED!! So we load our stuff back up, thank goodness we don't have much, but a big bag of dog food is not ideal in loading and unloading over and over. Now we move up and get checked out, in the mean time there are still just 3 cashiers and the lines are getting longer-AM I IN WAL-MART?.
I had an item I wanted to ask customer service about so I took it over there and waited and waited and never go even a "I'll be right with you" from the 1 gal who was working.
At this point I just want to run out of there and go hide-I use to like that store.
So we go to Buffalo Wild Wings just down the road and sit in the bar. We have found a decent waitress in there since our Favorite Alicia has gone to greener pastures. I have no complaints about her service, she remembers our drink order and can almost tell us what we are going to eat. Always friendly. We still miss Alicia!!
So this is where BWW goes bad:
I quit ordering draft beer from BWW well over a year ago because I was always getting sick after eating and drinking there and it was the common denominator. I am a bottle baby now and have not really had any problems. John always gets a draft Ale, well last night he drank some of his ale down and noticed the glass was crusty white at the top. We HOPE is was SOAP. So we show the waitress and she gets him a new one. You would think they would check the next glass before they sent it out and we assumed they did. So John drank down some of this one and the same problem-REALLY? One of my friends who hangs out in there all the time brought it up to the manager and they had a discussion and then brought him out a new glass, like brand new out of the box. Which I told him wasn't clean as it had been sitting in a cardboard box in a wharehouse and had not been washed.
So we eat our food and go home-John was ill most of the night.
SO BUFFALO WILD WINGS, we stuck with you through the shitty service and running out of things from the Kitchen and Bar when you first opened, we stuck with you when I was getting sick after eating there until I figured out it was the draft. We even stuck with you through some pretty lame ass managers, which I think you have one now.
BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH-you have been open in Tyler, TX long enough to have your act together and you are just getting WORSE!
We won't be back for a very long time-take the time to get it together, we really like the concept, trivia and the pulled pork, but we will get our fix elsewhere.
We have spent enough money in that place since they opened that I do believe they will feel the hit of us not going.
Now for Kudos! Thank you to the Tyler Fire Departments and Police Departments for your continued service. We are so very thankful that no one was seriously injured last night at the Hudson Apartment fires.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Birthday Beach Trip Day 3 ALL ABOUT ME!
I grab a Scooby snack for breakfast and some Cranergy and get all sunscreened and suited up again and off I go to the beach with my towels, book, sunscreen, camera and room key.
I get really close to the water coming in thinking it is going out soon-oops got me! So I move back a bit. There were two ladies most likely in thier late 60's sitting in the short lawn chairs and drinking Miller lite at 9:30AM-I love it!! They were having a time. At this time of the morning there were just a few of us out there lolling about and the occasional runner/walker that came by. Everyone was friendly. I am always amazed at the people lolling about the POOL in front of the beach-REALLY? You have a whole freaking ocean people. I read a little, took a dip, took some photos, read some more, people watched. The later it got the more people started showing up. Still was never crowded at all-LOVE OFF SEASON!
I decided to sit the hottest part of the day out and went in search for Lunch! John had invited me to Heidi's for lunch but I wanted to stay near the beach and have an adventure. One of the Jaycees told me about a place called the Cracked Egg and so I looked it up and it was walking distance from the hotel. Off I went around 12:30ish to the Cracked Egg for Brunch. I looked so like a tourist.
This place is like a 50's style dinner owned by 2 brothers and occasionally thier parents help out. They are only open for Breakfast and Lunch. I was so excited to see fried bologna sandwich on the menu-my MoMo use to make those for me! It had a pepper jack cheese and grilled jalapenos added to it and it was devine! Throw some fried pickles in there and I am in Southern Fried Heaven! The waitstaff was very attentative, the food was great and the atmosphere was family fun. There is a big BLUE chick painted on the door! I saw the twin to the Professor that played in the Frankie and Annette movies eating in there too. So very Beach Blanket Bingo! I was waiting for Von Zipper to crash his motorcycle in!
I walk across to the beach and made my way down to the hotel on the beach side taking photos on the way of course.
I went back to the room until it cools off a bit with the intentions of napping. Bewitched was on and then Legally Blonde, so I just lolled about and watched TV.
Went back out around 3:30ish and set up closer to the hotel wall as they have opened the lanes of vehicle traffic now and I didn't want to be squished. I swear I could sit and stare into the ocean for hours and just listen to the waves and the birds. Very mesmerizing. Someone had a radio playing, a family with kids were building sandcastles and giggling, a couple were frolicking in the water and I observed.
John asked me if I wanted to come to Heidi's and play in the pool and eat dinner-Nah, I am just fine right here in the sand. Just me and Mother Nature. I read some more, sunned, splashed and repeated.
Just before sunset I went across the street to Subway to get a meatball sandwich, it sounded good, and it was close. I wanted to be back before the sun set. Well there was a kid working alone at Subway and one man in front of me in line, I MISSED THE SUNSET! Seriously?! That kid no more wanted to be there than anything and he shouldn't have been. Got my sub went back to the room and ate out on the balcony, all of a sudden there was a firework show!! BONUS! John asked me again if I wanted to join them, I am like I am eating and drinking on the balcony watching a firework show-what you got to offer? LOL!
I took my beverage and camera and went to take pictures of the moon on the water and just chill. My camera has settings i have never used before so I played with a few taking photos of the moon and ocean.
Birthday Beach Trip Day 2
We sleep in, been a long few days gearing up for the trip and to be off work. Get up get all sunscreened and suited up after unpacking open the balcony door and it is pouring down rain;( Not a happy camper...
We call Candace to see if she wants to go to lunch and she and Heidi and Scott are running errands and will meet us at Our Deck Down Under just down the road from the hotel for Lunch. Of course it was sun shiney the whole time we were at lunch. Got to see the dolphins swim by, Pelican landed on the rail near us and a friendly fishing boat waved as they went by. Fried everything seafood!
We head back to the hotel and I am just mesmerized that at one red light you could go straight and end up in the ocean-I am easily amused...
We get all geared up to go back to the beach as it is sunny and I am just on pins and needles to get to the sand. John is even going to join me which is a pleasant surprise. He's not a lie around and loll about kind of guy. We get a spot and get all situated and each one of us takes a dip and then it's chillaxin and sunning. A WHOLE 30 MINUTES OF IT! It started to rain again;(
Naptime and chillin around the room until Supper. I do love to eat! We meet the rest of the Dixie crew at a Steakhouse. The Dixie crew has definitely multiplied since lunch! We have 3 long tables packed. Our waiter did not know how to take a drink order for the bar-that's a bad sign for me. The food was decent and the service was ok, the company was great. We are a fun bunch.
Off to Heidi's we go for some ice breakers to get tomorrow started with a bang. There was some pool time and the mosquitos left full and happy. After a drink or two we headed back to the hotel with Scott.
I went directly to the balcony and met a few of my neighbors, some Jaycees, some not.
The ocean breeze, a cocktail and some XM/Sirius-Life is good to me.
Off to get a good nights sleep as I plan on spending the ENTIRE day on the beach tomorrow rain or shine!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Poem that Touched my Heart
"I'm a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of His and I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still.
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded. I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.
My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary. I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus. I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!"
Amen
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense. My future is secure. I'm done and finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals.
I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, or first, or tops, or recognized, or praised, or rewarded. I live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by Holy Spirit power.
My face is set. My gait is fast. My goal is heaven. My road may be narrow, my way rough, my companions few, but my guide is reliable and my mission is clear.
I will not be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice or hesitate in the presence of the adversary. I will not negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.
I won't give up, shut up, or let up until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ.
I am a disciple of Jesus. I must give until I drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. And when He does come for His own, He'll have no problems recognizing me. My colors will be clear!"
Amen
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