MY LIFE

I could have SWORN I clicked “approve” on that person’s comment, but here is what she wrote:

Hey…funny you mention PFC William Holcombe, as I got an e-mail from Adopt a US Soldier for the same soldier, who’s e-mail did not work…I e-mailed them to find out what the correct e-mail is…but isn’t it interesting that [...]

Yesterday I worked up a healthy sweat by mowing the front GGS and some of the back GGS.  Today, it was time to swap out the stuff in the back bedroom for some of the stuff in the living room.   In particular, I wanted to move the futon back into the bedroom, and bring the [...]

hey lookie here:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
12
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

other cool info:

There are 238,367 people in the U.S. with the first name Ray.
Statistically the 275th most popular first name.
96.84 percent of people with the first name Ray are male.

There are 14,815 people in the U.S. with the last name Whiting.
Statistically the 2565th [...]

I have heard that when life starts to close in it is a good thing to reach out and find something bigger than yourself.
I have been wanting to do something for a long while; something that ISN’T all about yarn and knitting and patterns and “work”.  I put my name in as a volunteer to [...]

Wow, I didn’t realize others would be of the same mind, but look what I found when I Googled “Boycott Hershey“  It seems there are plenty of pissed off people.   And some who don’t get what all the upset is about.   As they saying goes, they are more to be pitied, not scorned.

I just caught wind of this:    Hershey (yeah, the chocolate company) is downsizing and closing plants, with plans to move manufacturing to India, China, Mexico, as well as private contractors in the U.S.    That’s just wrong on SO many levels.   And all to save $170 million a year?   That’s bullshit.  Who gives a fuck about [...]

Whattayaknow!     Here’s another beauty to ponder into some yarns!  Actually, the colors are very similar to what was in the Carina collection.   But I just tried uploading the pictures again, and STILL I have no FTP access into my accounts, and the web host is still having trouble on their servers.  
Consider all the [...]

I’ve been anxiously awaiting my Web sites to get restored and back in place.  The Web hosting service has been down.   I just tried to upload some pictures, and that part isn’t working yet.   Frustrating.   Annoying.  Bothersome.   And extremely difficult to earn any money when nobody can reach the other Website to BUY yarn.   Hmph!
You [...]

oohhhh… sometimes ya just wanna slap the snot outta door-knocking in-your-face type people.
This one was a young woman who came knocking while my sons were visiting this afternoon.  She was all in-my-face about “how energy is made.”
Here in Houston there are several (MANY) competing energy companies.  All the electrical power comes from the same place.  [...]

Or should I say “classical” ??
Today, in the midst of a huge downpour, the mail carrier drove right up to my door, tooted her horn and handed me a couple of packages.  No really, as she leaned out her window, her elbow was resting on my porch!
Inside these two packages was the following:

I went on [...]

It is almost 1:30 in the morning.   I awoke after barely 3 hours of hard sleep (had I not looked at the clock I would have sworn I had just rolled over to go to sleep only moments before).   This is the kind of awakeness that says I’m not returning to sleep immediately anyway, so [...]

I don’t know what happened, but for the last week or so (as I’ve written about), I have been under the weather physically.  This in turn has impacted my emotions.  I’ve been kinda ‘down’ on several levels.
But never mind about that, it’s not important.  About an hour ago I took a walk down to the [...]

Oh
My
GAWD!
The Sun Online - News: Docs fight to save man’s willy
Is this for real?    YEOWCH!!!!!!

While knitting last night, I was watching a new show on TV called “The Real Wedding Crashers”.  The premise is that a couple is getting married and they are in cahoots with a team of ‘crashers’ who make sure that everything that can go wrong does go wrong.  It’s like a giant bigger-than-life set of [...]

Yesterday my daughter brought me some chicken noodle soup.  I’m waiting for the rice cooker to do its thing before popping the soup open to pour over it.   Comfort food:  chunky soup over a bed of rice.
My head is feeling better today, the stuffiness has abated significantly and I can usually breathe, but after a [...]

(actually I thought Earth Day was yesterday, but apparently not).
I feel like shit, but I’m not taking anything so at least my brain isn’t fogged with drugs.  I can’t breathe in a straight line, I can’t talk without choking on my words, I can’t even look at a tissue without the lower part of my [...]

wow…. after 3-4 days of feeling stuffy, trying one thing and another, I decided not to take anything for the sinus runny icky stuff. My head doesn’t feel foggy-druggy, but I’m still stopped up. Oh well. I spent 2 days basically unable to do anything, and I cannot afford to take [...]

Okay, so everyone in the world read my blog this morning and responded to my comments about showing glorifying that Virginia Tech gunman.  The entire world changed because of MY comment.   And today, all over the local and national news everyone is now debating, “Should we have shown this video?”  (as they flash up pictures [...]

After two days of dripping running spewing nose, I switched from pseudoephedrine (key ingredient in SudaFed, AND the non-drowzy ingredient of Claritin, I found out) to diphenhydramine.   So I’m not dribbling quite so bad, but now everything’s all stopped up.  Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
But picture this … one side stopped [...]

Over and over and over again, the video is shown — yes, “that” one, the one prepared by the gunman at Virginia Tech, lambasting everyone and everything.
Stop it, stop it, stop it.
STOP giving the little shit the glory.   Yes, he was mentally ill, and that’s a shame, and I feel sorry that he didn’t [...]