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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** by Kiya WELCOME TO MY BLOG I joined WDC in December 2004 and have struggled with starting a blog. I made a list and it had just as many cons as I did pros. But finally I have decided to go for it. This blog is for me, about me and really when it's all said and done~~If you visit my place and you don't like it here, you don't have to be here! This is for me! To help me! This is my place to vent, rave, rant, cry, laugh and say whatever I need to say! I think we all have personal truths. This blog is to help me find my personal truth, deal with my personal truths, let go of some of my personal truths and build on my personal truths! Personal Truth are those thoughts and actions which lead to a feeling of well-being. I think there has to be accountability in order for truth to be found in a personal way. I think all means of self-discovery are valid. I hope my blog helps me with this. Tammy ![Merit Badge in Inner Strength
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Living Will Joke: Last night, my wife and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV and then threw out my beer. Bitch... The weekend was great. Very exciting (tho long) game! Back to school...yuck..I'm ready for May 5th...I'm taking the summer off!! Then I have 3 more pre-reqs!! |
| has been fun so far. We arrived in Minnesota last night. Most of the kids and parents from my son's travelling baseball team came. We all went out to TGIF to eat. Hell it cost almost more than the room!! lol But we enjoyed ourself and had a few drinks. The kids were good and even though there was more than 30 of us we wasn't the loudest crowd there!! lol The kids have swam and enoyed their time here at the motel. We check out at 12 and are heading to the Mall of America and then to the Twins/Yankees game which starts at 6p. So we have a full day ahead of us. I kind if wish we had made plans to stay two nights I dread the drive home. Hope you all have a great weekend and a Happy Easter. |
| way too fast. I didn't do too much. Saturday I caught up on laundry and watched 2 movies that night. Brokeback Mountain and Constant Gardner I had mixed emotions about Brokeback Mountain...I do not think it was as good as the public had built it up to be..but it was ok. Constant Gardener has been out a while and I had kept passing over it but rented it because I had seen everything else. It was really good, I don't know why I had been passing it over. Today Caitlyn and I spent the day together. We went shopping and had lunch at the park. It looked really nice and warm out but the wind was up and it was really cool so we ended up in the car eating lunch and then we went to the pet shop looking around. I will be glad when Spring is really here, I talked to my sister in Texas and she was bragging about how pretty and nice it was there... It took me all weekend but I finally got my Newbie contest and my Weekly poetry contest finished. I haven't picked up a school book ALL weekend. Hope you all have a great week!! |
| it's the weekend!! I'm so tired of school. And for once, I don't have any homework or lab reports that need to be typed. NoThIng...yeah!! I'm ready for next weekend to get here, we are going to Minnesota to the Yankees/Twins game, we may go to the Mall of America too...I'm pretty sure we will our Hotel is by it! a joke for ya'll Dividing Pecans On the outskirts of town, there was a big old pecan tree by the cemetery fence. One day two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts. "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me," said one boy. Several were dropped and rolled down toward the fence. Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me." He just knew what it was. "Oh my," he shuddered, it's Satan and the Lord dividing the souls at the cemetery. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. "Come here quick," said the boy, "you won't believe what I heard. Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls."The man said, "Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk." When the boy insisted, though, the man hobbled to the cemetery. Standing by the fence they heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me." The old man whispered, "Boy, you've been tellin' the truth. Let's see if we can see the devil himself." Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of Satan. At last they heard, "One for you, one for me. And one last one for you. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence, and we'll be done." They say the old guy made it back to town five minutes before the boy. |
| so far...I think it will get better. I took 2 test today and am glad those are out of the way. Sociology - I think I got a high B or an A and on my Microbiology I hope/pray I got a B on. This class is so stressful to me. Right now we are also trying to identify our unknowns. This is where we are giving a tube with one bacteria in it and a tube with 2 different bacteria in it and we have to identify all three by doing lab tests on them....not fun, I don't really like it. :( So, I have been working on my 1st edition for the Drama Newsletter....thanks to all who have helped...I'm nervous about it. If you guys don't get the Drama newsletter...go sign up for it!! : ) I have a class tonight and a little homework in it that I need to finish...and I hope to have time to finish judging my newbie contest some time tonight. A joke for you....I have to add I can actually picture some of my elderly female patients that I have had in the past...pulling something like this! Three old grandmas were sitting on a bench outside a nursing home. An old man walked by, and one of the old grandmas says, "We bet we can tell how old you are." The old man said, "There ain't no way you can guess it." One of the grandmas said, "Sure we can! Just drop your undershorts and we can tell your exact age." He did. The grandmas stared at him for a while and then they all piped up and said,"You're 84 years old!" The old man was stunned, "Amazing! How did you guess that?" The old grandmas, laughed. Slapping their knees and grinning from ear to ear, all three happily yelled in unison, "You told us yesterday." |
| On Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after one in the morning the date and time will be: 01:02:03:04/05/06 { 1 2 3 4 5 6 } |
| SENIOR ENTERTAINMENT It was entertainment night at the senior center and the Amazing Claude was topping the bill. People came from miles around to see the famed hypnotist do his stuff. As Claude went to the front of the meeting room, he announced, "Unlike most hypnotists who invite two or three people up here to be put into a trance, I intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience." The excitement was almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat. "I want you each to keep your eye on this antique watch. It's a very special watch. It's been in my family for six generation". He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch..." The crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until, suddenly, it slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces. "ShiT!" said the Hypnotist... It took three weeks to clean up the senior center. ANother email from one of my girl-friends in Texas, I look forward to these emails so much. My life is so blah-blah right now with school pressures and emotional lows that I really do enjoy my emails. Hope everyone has a good week. |
| Q: How many animals can you fit into a pair of pantyhose? Now, think about it...... Ready??? ARE YOU SURE??? Answer: 10 little piggies, 2 calves, 1 ass, and an unknown number of hares. |
| THE LONELY BRAIN CELL Once upon a time there was a female brain cell which, by mistake, happened to end up in a man's head. She looked around nervously because it was all empty and quiet. "Hello?" she cried, but no answer. "Is there anyone here?" she cried a little louder, but still no answer. Now the female brain cell started to feel alone and scared and yelled at the top of her voice, "HELLO, IS THERE ANYONE HERE?" Then she heard a faint voice from far, far away.............. "We're down here ..." |
| I blogged....but I have nothing positive to write about...One of those weeks. So here is an email I got form a friend in Texas that I thought was neat and will share with you guys. In George Washington's days, there were no cameras. One's image was either sculpted or painted. Some paintings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back while others showed both legs and both arms. Prices charged by painters were not based on how many people were to be painted, but by how many limbs were to be painted. Arms and legs are "limbs," therefore painting them would cost the buyer more. Hence the __expression, "Okay, but it'll cost you an arm and a leg." ************************************************************** As incredible as it sounds, men and women took baths only twice a year (May and October)! Women kept their hair covered, while men shaved their heads (because of lice and bugs) and wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford good wigs made from wool. They couldn't wash the wigs, so to clean them they would carve out a loaf of bread, put the wig in the shell, and bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would make the wig big and fluffy, hence the term "big wig." Today we often use the term "here comes the Big Wig" because someone appears to be or is powerful and wealthy. ************************************************************** In the late 1700s, many houses consisted of a large room with only one chair. Commonly, a long wide board folded down from the wall, and was used for dining. The "head of the household" always sat in the chair while everyone else ate sitting on the floor Occasionally a guest, who was usually a man, would be invited to sit in this chair during a meal. To sit in the chair meant you were important and in charge. They called the one sitting in the chair the "chair man." Today in business, we use the _expression or title "Chairman" or "Chairman of the Board." ************************************************************** Personal hygiene left much room for improvement. As a result, many women and men had developed acne scars by adulthood. The women would spread bee's wax over their facial skin to smooth out their complexions. When they were speaking to each other, if a woman began to stare at another woman's face she was told, "mind your own bee's wax." Should the woman smile, the wax would crack, hence the term "crack a smile" In addition, when they sat too close to the fire, the wax would melt . . . therefore, the _expression "losing face." ************************************************************** Ladies wore corsets, which would lace up in the front. A proper and dignified woman, as in "straight laced". . . wore a tightly tied lace. ************************************************************** Common entertainment included playing cards. However, there was a tax levied when purchasing playing cards but only applicable to the "Ace of Spades." To avoid paying the tax, people would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, since most games require 52 cards, these people were thought to be stupid or dumb because they weren't "playing with a full deck." **********************************************= **************** Early politicians required feedback from the public to determine what the people considered important. Since there were no telephones, TV's or radios, the politicians sent their assistants to local taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told to "go sip some ale" and listen to people's conversations and political concerns. Many assistants were dispatched at different times. "You go sip here" and "You go sip there." The two words "go sip" were eventually combined when referring to the local opinion and, thus we have the term "gossip." ************************************************************** At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and quart-sized containers. A bar maid's job was to keep an eye on the customers and keep the drinks coming. She had to pay close attention and remember who was drinking in "pints" and who was drinking in "quarts," hence the term "minding your "P's and Q's." ************************************************************** One more: bet you didn't know this! In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons. Those cannons fired round iron cannon balls. It was necessary to keep a good supply near the cannon. However, how to prevent them from rolling about the deck? The best storage method devised was a square-based pyramid with one ball on top, resting on four resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem...how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding or rolling from under the others. The solution was a metal plate called a "Monkey" with 16 round indentations. However, if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make "Brass Monkeys." Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannonballs would come right off the monkey. Thus, it was quite literally, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." (All this time, you thought that was an improper _expression, didn't you.) |
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