Monthly Archives: November 2008

Purdue 62 Indiana 10

 

Torn_Rose

The Joe Tiller era is now over and I want to say “THANK YOU COACH TILLER”!

I wish they would have a bowl game, but it is what it is, except for the NW game we kept all the games close, and overall we really did have a tough schedule, but 4-8 isn’t anything to brag about and not the way you want to see the all time winningest coach at Purdue go out, but he hopefully started something that Coach Hope will continue.

Now if they can just get some heart on the team again.

How Do I Feel?: contemplative contemplative

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!

I hope you enjoy it.  =)

Love ya!

Life

Well, I’ve kind of been a funk last few days.  I’ve been getting my daily work done, but it has been a struggle to do anything else.  I need to focus, when I don’t focus or get side tracked I don’t get things done and then it stresses me out.  That is something that I’ve learn in my years of management.  If I’m called away from my project, I do what I need to do, then go back to work.  It was and is the only way to get things done in a timely manner.  I was doing good until yesterday….then it became a struggle and it isn’t like I don’t have things to do.

I did clean out of my flash drives, since I have a new travel hard drive. Which is great, now I don’t have to worry about forgetting to put something on the flash drives before traveling.  I got around to getting the xmas cards out…..need to start writing up the holiday letter.  I need to get them started this weekend….especially since I leave on Dec 3 until the 12th visiting family. So I need to get my tree up on Dec 1st with payroll and then get my nails done on the 2nd and get packed….icks

We were suppose to get our new bedroom set this coming Monday, but that got changed until Dec 7th. =(  That sucks.  I won’t be home to help, so I feel horrible.  I do want get the dressers moved to the other room before I go…it will help me feel better about it.

Harold has been sick all week, so I’ve been going to the gym by myself.   It has been weird, but I have been still improving my distance on the treadmill.

A few days ago I posted a link to the story about a WWII vet talking about the slave camps of the Nazi that he was forced in as a POW.  Well, his story let the brother of one the men know what actually happened to him :  After 63 years, vet learns of brother’s death in Nazi slave camp

Just Sharing Thoughts

I got my walk in yesterday.  I did a trail that was suggested by our neighbor.  I had a small climb and then the rest of the trail was behind the houses of a subdivision.  After a very long walk in through the subdivision, I came out 9 blocks from our place.  So it was the furthest I’ve been around here, but I”m still exploring.  I’ve gotten to where I will sometimes go for walk around here at night.  Just seems peaceful and helps to clear my mind.

I worked on trying to get things done around the house yesterday.  I got the dresser cleared off, reworked the bookcase, ordered some steaks from Omaha, got some laundry done and a few other little things.  It felt good to get some things accomplished.  Today I got the downstairs vacuumed, I still need to do upstairs tomorrow and clean out the litters…..the never ending battle……lol

I did very good on the treadmill today, I got 2.98mile in 30min.  =)  It took longer at the gym then normal.

I ended up talking to one of the ladies at the gym.  She had a personal story that I found very interesting.  Her husband was in the military in the 60s & 70s.  They were living in the south when Hurricane Camille hit in ’69 and ended up in a shelter with their 6week old daughter.  While they were there another baby was crying and nothing the mother did was able to calm it.  When she asked this mother if there was anything she could do, she said that the baby was hunger.  Since she was nursing, she offered to breastfeed that mother’s baby…which totally surprised the mother…..because the crying baby was black and the nursing mother was white.  With it being the 60s and the south….that is totally unheard of.  It was common for black women to be used as wet nurses to white babies, but not the other way around.  But the lady insisted on helping the crying baby while the mother could not stop thanking her.  She simply said, “are you a christian?” and when the mother said yes, “then that settles it, I’m a christian”

I love hearing little individual stories like that.  Even through it took marches and protests to get civil rights addressed, a lot of people did things that were not reported that helped in some small way.   Even though I’m agnostic,  I love hearing when people actually practice the meaning of their faith instead of using it for hate and division.

Here are some articles to show that we are still moving forward on progress :

Army gets first female four-star general

**I love this!  Not only the fact that she has broken a HUGE barrier, but the history that there has been a member of her family in every war since the Revolution and other women in her family are making strides for women.  Her page  : Ann E. Dunwoody 

Now this one kind of surprised me, but kind of didn’t.  It helps that a new generation is moving into the military that is more open minded, which makes it easier for some to speak up :  Admirals, generals: Let gays serve openly

I got my Nov 5 Chicago Tribune today, still waiting on my NY Times.  I just want to be able to preserve part of the history of this election.  =)

Saying Hi!

I finally got a moment to write a blog.  I’ve been pretty busy the last few days, just getting work and payroll done.  I did finally got our check books balanced, a never ending battle.  Everytime I thing I’m caught up, there is another pile of receipts to enter…icks  I didn’t even go for my walk today.  I just really wanted to get everything done, so I can spend most of tomorrow out of the office.  In fact, I’m in the living room now writing this…I had to get out of there.

I was bad Thursday and didn’t go to the gym.  But I had a bunch of little errands that I’ve been avoiding that needed to be done, including my beaten up nails.

I did go to the gym Friday and did the best I have ever done on the treadmill.  2.96 miles in 30 min….I’m getting closer to the 3mile mark…not bad, since when I started I use to only get 1.88 mile in 30min.

We still don’t have our new bedroom set.  =(  So I had to change the date for the delivery of the matteress to this coming Tuesday.  Hopefully, we’ll have it by then.  I’m getting better about waking up enough at night to make sure that I’m on my side/belly instead of back.  Because if I don’t, I really hurt in the morning and can’t really move.  =(  It is like it wants to seize up.

I’m thinking of getting my long dresser cleared off of all the pictures and knick-knacks that I have on it.  Just to get it ready when we finally do move it.
I did wake up the other morning, Drew was in front of my face on the pillow and Sakura was behind my head on my pillow.  Then I also had Reggie trapping my feet……..lol  It was cute and loving.

Unfortunately, Harold found a flea on Alexis today.  =(  So all 4 of them ended up with baths.  Alexis and Reggie did much better, they don’t like it at all, but they handled it better then they have in the past. The other two….well Sakura was curious and even on got on the counter to see what was going on with Alexis.  Normally she would be punished for going on the counter, but with us needing to give them baths we didn’t want to get them any more upset they will be.  Because of her noisiness, Sakura got the next bath.  =)  She is really a fighter and was all over the place…squirming all over.  Drew has some really long limbs and got Harold a few times….lol

We didn’t find but 1 other flea on Alexis and none on the others…of course that doesn’t mean anything, since they are so hard to find.  I’m really wondering if we should give them baths every 2 weeks (the most frequent recommended by the flea shampoo), just to make sure.

I have a few news articles that I’ve come across this week that I thought were interesting.  This one was more of “historical” look into how the US have had periods of change, I found it on one of my friends blog :  Obama and the dawn of the Fourth Republic

Now this one I got a kick out of, What Are Rich People Thinking?  Just by the polls, people who actually make more the$250k a year voted for Obama, voted to raises taxes on themselves.  It is the people just below that amount that had an issue.  What does that say about the fact that they realize that it is actually “duty” and, yes, patriotic to pay your taxes.

I normally do a post on Veterans Day, but I failed at that this year.   I guess the part that bothers me, is that yes we need to have a day for vets, but they need to be acknowledged everyday…not just once a year.  Then I read stories about how vets are not getting the treatment from the VA that they need, then I worry about my dad and the stuff he has to go through with them.  It pisses me off, that him and other vets go through that.  I just hope that Harold never needs the VA.

Here are a few stories that I found very interesting :

Oldest WWI survivor remembers forgotten ones

Group finds, buries remains of forgotten vets

WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: ‘Let it be known

And you can’t think of Veterans Day without thinking about our current wars :

On Veterans Day, Don’t Forget About the War

Troutdale Fall

This is what we get to see on our street.  =)