Memorial Day

Today is Memorial Day. It is a day to remember those who have given all that they had for our country. Most of the people who read my blog know that I am a big fan of our military men and women. I adopt soldiers who will be deployed and I am a member of several military charities as well.

So, on this day of remembrance I am remembering those who have given all they possibly could for me and my freedom. There is supposed to be a National moment of silence today at 3 pm. I will definitely be participating in this. One year I will make it to Arlington for this day. It is a goal.

So, what I am asking is that no matter what you are doing today at 3pm, please take a moment to remember these brave heroes. Enjoy your parties, BBQs and get together, but please remember what this day is about. Thank you.

 

Side Table Trouble

So since we have gotten the new love seat that reclines we both have been loving it. One major problem, well for me anyway. When we had the old couch, I sat a certain way and it was great for using my lap top without a table. Now, because I can not really turn sideways, I have difficulty using my lap top especially when I am writing papers for school.

At one point we had a coffee table in front of the old couch, but then we got a Wii and we moved it totally out of the way and started to use TV tables because it was easier to move them than the coffee table when ever we wanted to play Wii. Now the coffee table does not work because the love seat reclines and there is no room for it. So I moved my TV table on my side of the love seat, so that I have some place to set my lap top when I am not using it ( which is very little!) and it has worked well, but I thought that we had an extra TV table upstairs that I could bring down to use as a desk when I am doing school work, but apparently we don’t.

So, I have an idea but not 100% sure that it will work. I am going to try it out after I finish writing this. The problem is that I have to take all the stuff off of my TV table and the other thing I am going to try and use then move them both in to place. If it works I will take a picture to show you what it looks like. Personally, I want to buy something that will work, but unless this idea doesn’t pan out I am thinking that Doug will not go for that. LOL. Okay, enough of my putting it off.. Be back later. Ciao!

UPDATE: The other thing that I thought might work did not, it was too big… ::sigh:: Now to think of something else. Maybe use Doug’s TV table for now…

Being Southern In the North

Please don’t take me wrong there are many things that I LOVE about Michigan. These are just some of my observations since I have been here and I have never actually talked about this before.

When I moved here almost five years ago ( October will be 5 years) it was severe culture shock to me. I was actually born in Ohio, but had lived in Florida since I was four. Now, I know that some people will say that Florida is not the South, but it is. There are a lot of transplants there, but since I lived there all my life with the exception of six months in Tennessee, I lived there until now. When I first got here, sweet tea was only found in like three places and they all had BBQ.

So many things here that were not there and vice versa. Although in the last couple of years, Mc Donald's and Wendy’s have started to sell sweet tea. Now Mickie D’s sweet tea is really good! Sonic is now up here and there are Cracker Barrels up here. It was hard when I first got here because people ( by people I mean Doug’s sister) called me a hick.

Maybe I was. I am still as Southern as I can be, but it is hard sometimes because here in Michigan there are places that are country, which I love. The city is difficult for me because of the closeness and all the concrete. I have a hard time with where I live because the houses are so close together and it is like people are on top of me.

When I let a ya’ all fly people look at me like I have two heads! It has gotten somewhat easier, but sometimes I feel like I am losing my Southernism sometimes. Like it is slowly slipping away and one day it will be gone. I really hope not! It is who I am and who I have been. Being Southern in the North is not an easy thing. But like I said there are many things I love about Michigan. I have found quite a few places that I love here. Well, I am going to run.. Ciao!

 

Thankful Thursday

Hello and welcome to this week’s Thankful Thursday! I normally do this because it is good to be thankful for what you have. It also helps me stay positive! I hope that you will join me in Thankful Thursday by leaving your thankful in a comment or doing a post as well.

1. I am thankful that sometimes I can be a blessing to others in their lives. Sometimes a nice word or a reach out gives someone the hope to continue on.
2. I am thankful that God is working in my life everyday to help me become a better person.
3. I am thankful for FX putting the show Justified on TV with Timothy Olyphant. He is just hot!!!
4. I am thankful that I am healthy and able to do the things that I want to do.
5. I am thankful for Joyce Meyer, without her I would be one lost Christian. Thanks Joyce!!

Wednesday Wishes

Hello and welcome to another edition of Wednesday Wishes. I started this as a way to be more positive in my life. I hope that you will join in with me and leave your Wednesday Wishes in the comments or even do a whole post about them as well. Here we go…

1. I wish that some people would honestly think about what they say before they actually say it.
2. I wish that sometimes John ( my ex) would be a little less insecure and more understanding.
3. I wish my kids a wonderful summer full of great adventures and fun.
4. I wish that I was not addicted to Facebook so much. LOL
5. I wish that all my friends and readers have a wonderful day and it is full of good things for you.

Difficult Already

I did not sleep much yesterday so as a result of that, I was out like a light before 9pm. In the chair. Again. I am just glad that we picked the comfy reclining love seat. So this morning I get up and I have to fill out a form for school. So I use the desk top because I have to print the form to fill it out then scan it and send it back. The desk top is the only computer connected to the printer until I can get a wireless printer.

Normally this is not a big deal. I also did my project that was due and commented to two people for the discussion question. For my new readers, I go to school online and on the best days it is wonderful and I love it, but those few days that are not best days are a challenge to say the least. The very least.

The computer in there has been giving Doug fits lately and if you read my blog for very long, you will know I am tech support in this house. He yells at the computer like that will help anything. ::sigh:: So this morning I get up and remember that I did not fix the connection last night before I fell asleep. ( it is a long story, but when we got ATT U-Verse the guy set it up for connection to the private network in our house. Somehow it is also connecting to a second public network when the computer is started after shutting down.) So when that happens I have to fix it. No big deal, what I should do is call ATT tech support and have them tell me how to stop that totally, but I am too lazy.

So, I go into the computer room and I open the menu for fixing it and it is fine, but the red X is still there. So I open Mozilla. On that computer I use Mozilla and he uses IE. It is working so he probably just restarted it and did not shut it totally down. I do my project and print the form I need, fill it out scan it back into the computer then I have major issues. Not great for like 3am. I spent about an hour and I finally think that I got them fixed as well as got his Yahoo toolbar back.

On IE, you can have multiple tool bars and when we only had one computer, I had a few different ones on Mozilla, well some of them would download for IE too. No big deal, he just ignored them normally. If you look really close on IE 8 there are X’s by the tool bars, I think he got rid of the Yahoo one on accident by clicking on the X. He swears up and down that he did not do that but it just disappeared. Okay. It disappeared. Whatever.

So, I got that back and now he will have to set up the tool bar later. Oh who am I kidding, I will have to do it later. But for now it is all good. My lap top is running fine thank you very much!! I am not going to dwell on this less than stellar start to my day, it has to get better, right?!?!?! RIGHT?!?!?!? Ciao!

Monday.

Yesterday I suffered a major migraine all day. Ugh. The day started out with so much promise and went down hill from there. This morning I am feeling better I did my discussion question for class this morning. Later I will work on the project.

You know what they say about the best laid plans, right? It seems that happens to me when I make plans. Oh well, not going to really dwell on it much. I should know better. LOL.

This morning I had about 6 emails from my ex yesterday. Ugh. He gets kind of upset if I don’t answer quickly. So this morning I read them all and sent him an email explaining that I was not online a lot yesterday because I had a migraine.

He understands because I have had them while we were together and he has actually seen them come on. Normally he is cool when I tell him I had a headache like that. I was so out of it, I fell asleep in my recliner. Doug woke me up at like 9:30pm. I actually thought that I had gotten up and went to bed, but I had not. Oops. I went to bed and went right back to sleep.

Although I woke up and I thought I might have been living in Alaska in the winter time. Doug turned the AC on the other day because it was humid and like 80. Apparently he turned it on and set it to freakin cold! I do have to remember that it is 10-15 degrees cooler in the basement where I am, but still. I have a t shirt, sweat shirt, sweat pants, and wool socks on right now! I would not be surprised if it snowed in here. Okay maybe that is a bit much but you get what I mean. I need to go because I have some other stuff to do. Ciao!