33 thoughts on “Rants! and Raves! 6-1-13”

  1. 🙂
    Middle GD, Mary, is pregnant. Her first. Oldest GD already has three.

    😦
    Tuesday afternoon, I was trimming bushes with my electric trimmer. I cut through the cord again. This time it blew the circuit breaker. I went to flip the circuit breaker back. It wouldn’t stay. I kept trying, no luck. I knew there was some magic here, but couldn’t figure what. So, eventually, I called an electrician. He said he would come out early Wednesday.
    So, Wednesday morning he came out and I watched him work on the circuit breaker.
    He flipped in all the way over to the left, then back to the right.
    IT WORKED!
    I said, “I didn’t know that!”
    But I lied. 😯
    I was too embarrassed to tell him that I knew that, but forgot.
    I can’t imagine how I didn’t remember how to reset the circuit breaker.
    The $35.00 it costs wasn’t as bad as the chagrin I had to deal with.

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  3. 😦 Bad week, emotionally and at work
    🙂 Got to get out and be with buyer/clients twice this week which made the rest bearable.
    🙂 Two good commission checks and a really good June on the books
    🙂 Hubs sent me a text yesterday asking me to make sure ex-husband could keep the dog this weekend.
    🙂 Surprise weekend trip. It was a surprise. He wasn’t going to tell me where but he couldn’t stand it and gave me the hint “Winner, winner, chicken dinner”. It is to Biloxi staying at one of the casinos and going to hear a blues musician tonight. He said he figured we could each take $50 and gamble. I told him to have fun, I had something else to do with my 50. Still, he thought to do it, planned it, it requires crossing a state line (one of my criteria for getting away). Will let you know how it turns out.

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  4. 🙂 Have fun, Kim.

    🙂 I’m off in a couple hours to pick up my friend from the assisted living facility to go out for breakfast. She wanted to go to Home Town Buffet and a co-worker actually had a couple HTB breakfast coupons she gave us to use.

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  5. Have fun in Biloxi Kim. I used to be stationed at Keesler AFB. Went to radio school there. Mississippi was dry in those days, but Biloxi wasn’t.

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  6. 🙂 I am about one day away from completing #8 or eight consecutive projects I’ve had this spring. (This is the biggest one, and so it has overlapped several of the others.)

    🙂 I got the photo book of tree photos I’ve taken through the years. I thought about that many years ago, that it would be fun to get a book of my tree photos someday, but I figured it would be too expensive. Twenty-five dollars for one hundred pages was do-able. (It isn’t as good a final product as the ones from Shutterfly; the photos are smaller and it wouldn’t let me delete the black line around each photo, but the black frame is a consistent part of the design and overall it looks good. I even wrote a one-page introduction as though it was a published book. I would have put some text on other pages, too, if I had had more time.)

    🙂 Saw a doe and twin fawns this week–in May! (I had my camera with me, but didn’t get a photo.)

    🙂 The girls are doing well with their schedule of each making a meal once a week, and them doing all the dishes. It gives me a bit of a break and gives them some responsibility. The smile part here is that it gives me a bit of a break. Dishes have been my responsibility, or partly my responsibility, since I was younger than ten. (Mom never washed dishes; Dad washed them on Sundays.)

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  7. 🙂 Going to celebrate grandson’s 2nd birthday!

    🙂 Going on a real vacation for the first time in 6 years!

    😦 Found out I am 17 units short on professional development credits to renew my teaching certificate. So I have from now until June 30 to take some crash course that will only get me another five years, and not really improve my teaching one whit. While having teachers “learn” to renew, I’ve found that most of the sessions are a waste of time and money. What it takes a presenter 1 hour to give, Icould read on my own in 15 minutes.

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  9. Chas, growing up in Alabama, (I think we are tied with Oklahoma for the most tornadoes) I have always been taught that a car is one of the worse places you can be. We were always told that if you are in a car and see a tornado coming your way, get out and run for a ditch.

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  10. Growing up in Idaho, not generally tornado land, we were taught to get in the ditch in the event of a tornado. We were taught that the worst place to be was in a car.

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  11. Earthquakes are tricky, I think generally they say being outdoors is safer — but then you have the power line threat. It’s all so unpredictable. If you’re inside, I think they still say to stand in a doorway or under a sturdy part of the house.

    Aren’t you supposed to get into a bathtub with a mattress over you with tornadoes?

    Teachers in LA schools can hugely increase their salaries by taking extra classes like drawing, etc. My teacher friend has taken advantage of that and it’s meant probably $20,000 more a year to her (with an already generous, in my view, base salary — not that public school teachers don’t earn and deserve it … ).

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  12. But, if you live where power lines are few and far between, it is not such a challenge. As long as the earth does not open up and swallow you.

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  13. 🙂 Green, green, green and beautiful blossoms everywhere after a very long winter.

    😦 Bad weather and flooding for so many.

    😦 Tiredness and emotional stuff that is making me not as productive as I would like to be. Also not as kind as I would like to be. I would appreciate prayers for this.

    😦 Daughter and her son start rehearsals together for the play, “Annie”. This should be a great mother and son activity. We will enjoy seeing it.

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  18. 🙂 Beautiful day. Great for a second mowing of the lawn this year.

    🙂 Apple tree in full bloom

    🙂 First day of my vacation

    🙂 Last day of work for hubby before his vacation – I’m going to go pick him up and we’re starting the vacation with supper out.

    😦 We need rain – it’s very dry up here.

    🙂 We have a well that works and supplies us with enough good, clear, clean water!

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  19. The thing that always bothered me about getting out of the car and lying in the ditch is what if the tornado picks the car up and deposits it on top of you? We have only had a few small tornados around where I live, but there are a lot of large drainage culverts going under the roads. I always figured I would crawl into one of the those in the unlikely event I saw a twister headed my direction.

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  20. Rosecuro, I heard one person say, it is not THAT the wind is blowing, It is WHAT the wind is blowing that is so dangerous.

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  21. Mumsee, I had to attend a three-hour training course in foster care training on how to give medicine. Basically they weren’t sure that people doing foster care training would be careful to read the labels (1) to be sure they were giving the medicine to the right person and (2) to be sure they were giving the right dose. But three hours of training for something that any parent should know how to do?!

    I didn’t even have children in my house at the time, let alone children who were taking any sort of medication. I didn’t learn anything I didn’t already know. I could have used that three hours in many better ways.

    To add insult to injury, that particular course was mandated by the state, and was annual. If I had stayed in foster care, I would have had to take three hours every year to learn how to read medicine labels and medicine droppers. If I’d had a diabetic child or a child subject to seizures, by all means train me . . . but don’t make me spend three hours “learning” how to do something I’ve been doing all my life!

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  25. We are not allowed to be foster parents anymore so I don’t need to go to training to learn how to be a parent. I am glad.

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  29. There was a History Channel show called, “You don’t know Dixie”. It was all about Southern culture. i thought it was very good and there is a section on how Southerners have a way with junk. Most Southerners would not throw away a perfectly good bathtub if they could find a good use for it.

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  32. 😦 I have a general rant about Fox news — all the Cialis, Viagra & catheter commercials. Please. I realize the demographics of the station probably warrant such ads. But sheesh.

    🙂 Mute buttons on the remote.

    🙂 Had a good morning at church, we’re still in Romans 5. This morning’s sermon touched on the popularity with the church at large these days of semi-pelagianism. 😦

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  33. Donna–how I wish all those type commercials were banned again. Like the Victoria Secret one’s, too. Yuck, yuck on the Cialis etc. And the twin tubs outside are just plain baffling. Lol. I think fondly back on the days when a woman could not even be shown in a bra and personal products? No way. Yet, we seemed to be able to find out about them and buy them. Sigh… that toothpaste isn’t going to get back into the tube. 😦

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