A few ramdon (silly) things about ME

My favorite color is blue

I have never worn false eyelashes

My favorite ice cream is butter brickel (they don’t make it anymore)

I view numbers as an ascending ladder

My greatest achievement in life was having two remarkable, but different, children

I have beautiful feet

I am extremely organized

"Meatloaf" is my favorite artist

I love the scent of Gardenias

I love Orchids but hate waiting for them to bloom

I need to lose 20 lb

I have been madly in love with my husband since the day I met him 46 years ago

I have never eaten Sushi – and I never will

I have never played Scrabble

I don't know how to "text" and I don't want to learn

I love the mountains of Western NC

My name was misspelled on my birth certificate & I have been living with the nightmare ever since

(to possibly be continued at a later date)

Weekend

This was not one of my better weekends. We had two or three days of heavy rain last week. On Fri. afternoon when I came home from the store my daughter had stopped by and was parked in the driveway. I pulled up beside her on the grass. After she left I went to put the car in the garage and got stuck in the lawn. How stupid is that? I had to call AAA to get me out. Now I have big ruts in the lawn. I have no idea how to fill them in.

Also on Fri night our TV quit working. It's a 46" flat screen that I paid an enormous amount of money for three and a half years ago. I also bought an expensive extended warranty plan - which ran out 6 months ago. I have a repairman coming tomorrow. Can't imagine what this will cost.

I am not a happy camper.

Hockey

I am not a big hockey fan. My daughter is. On a business trip to Toronto she visited the Hockey Hall of Fame and touched the Stanley Cup. It was the highlight of her trip.

Canada is fanatical about hockey. It is as important to them as their religion and for some more important. Winning a Gold Medal in the Olympics in hockey is the most important thing in the world to them. Their national pride is on the line. I think they would trade all their other medals for just the Gold in hockey.

Canada is our neighbor and our best friend. Last night we beat Canada in hockey. Knowing how important this is to Canada, don’t you think we could have let them have this game and help them in their quest for the Gold? Really – we have more medals than anyone else. Do we have to be so greedy?

I’m just saying – isn’t that what friends do for each other?

I’ll go duck and hide behind my desk now.

I'll have coffee, please.

On the news tonight, a speaker at the "Tea Party Conference" stated that "the majority of Americans are not being heard".

Really?

Just a little over a year ago the majority of Americans elected a Democrat president. Is the Tea Party guy lying or is he just plain stupid?

More Than I Need To Know

A dog just came on TV and announced that his dog food made him an optimal pooper. He said he is not just a "good pooper now, but an optional one".

Really?

There are just some things I don't need to know.

Stop and think

Stop and think for a minute. Do the acts of terror accomplish anything for the group that is blamed for the terror?

Does terror achieve their ends or obtain the results they want? Or isn't it obvious that the acts of terror are actually achieving the objectives of those who claim to be the victims of the terror, to gain them sympathy and political alliances?
Douglas Lay 1/23/10