Has this ever happened to you?

Have you ever laid your head down to sleep and as you drifted off to sleep, your mind wanders to an area that you wish you hadn't wandered to and you get so stinkin' sad that you can't go to sleep? Well that happened tonight. I didn't wander to a perverted place...just to a sad place. A place that's probably only sad to me - that most others cannot relate to - but a very sad place for me. I finally had to get up and leave my tear-soaked pillow behind for a while. (OK, that whole "tear-soaked" thing was a bit overly dramatic.) I'm thankful to have had 2 mindless "Friends" episodes TIVO'd that have helped me refocus from sad to silly. I need to try to get back to sleep. The "Friends" episodes are over. The only thing else TIVO'd are Blake's shows. Tomorrow will be miserable if I don't get some sleep quickly. "Murphy Brown" came on at 2:30. Been a long time since I watched one of those episodes. What ever happened to WKRP anyhow? Remember when "The Waltons" was the best show going? Were times really simpler in the 70's when "The Waltons" was a good show? OK - now it's 2:42 and time to hit the hay for a 2nd try. More stream of consciousness babbling later...

Return to Sender

January was FUN!

OK, so everyone knows how slow I am at updating my blog these days. I don't know what happened to me - I just got behind! Here are a few of my favorite pictures from January.

My boys ridin' the rails. That little Trinity Park train has been around forever. What a treasure!



We had so much fun at the Stock Show this year - especially the petting zoo.



When it came time to ride the rides, guess which ride was the only ride Blake was interested in? You got it....the TRAIN!


Just one question - why do carnies have to be so creepy?

Name a Blog entry you'd rather not read - This one!

I was tagged by Alan McD.

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Bookkeeper for Whitten Medical Supply, no longer in existence on the corner of 8th Avenue and Rosedale.
2. General Dynamics – for a whole 8 months – not even sure what I did there besides learn my way to my desk and go look at real live F-16’s being built during my lunch hour
3. Accountant for the Western Company of North America – for you Fort Worthians, that’s Eddie Chile’s company “I’m Eddie Chiles and I’m mad” and “If you don’t have an oil well, get one!”
4. Lawnboy – assistant to my older brother for a while then took over a few of his yards when he got a “real” job taking out trash at the drugstore

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. You’ve Got Mail
2. Groundhog Day
3. White Christmas
4. Just about anything with Steve Martin

Four places you have lived:
1. Fort Worth, one end of the street
2. Abilene, Gardner, Sikes, Sherrod
3. Fort Worth, same end of the street
4. Fort Worth, other end of the street

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Amazing Race
2. Survivor – these are getting a little worn-out, but I’m hanging in there
3. Friends
4. Andy Griffith

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. England
2. Nova Scotia
3. British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan
4. 43 out of 50 states – still missing Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Delaware, New Jersey

Four websites you visit often:
1. google.com
2. the blog world websites
3. jbfsale.com/fortworth – the greatest semi-annual children’s sales event known to mankind
4. weather.com – I’m a wanna-be-meteorologist

Four of your favorite foods:
1. Mexican
2. Steak – Victoria’s Filet, medium well, please
3. Ice Cream
4. Sesame Chicken from Szechuan’s

Four places you would rather be right now:
Assuming I have my family with me…
1. In Alaska, cruising and sitting on my balcony, watching the mountains/icebergs/orcas float and swim by
2. On Mackinac Island, Michigan, spooning (while Blake naps)
3. In Abilene, picking up a baby for keeps
4. In England, maybe in Chester, having a spot ‘o tea (with cream, of course), a scone with clotted cream, and a bit of jam

I think everyone has already been tagged to do this – but I’ll see if there’s someone still out there who hasn’t.

Up Down Up Back

Something I've never understood.

If you turn the air conditioning "up" - does that mean you've upped the power - you've increased the strength that the unit will run with to cool the air and the room will get cooler?

When you turn the air conditioning "down" - doesn't it mean that you've changed the thermostat setting down to a lower number - turned it down from 74 to 73 and the room will get cooler?

Additionally...

I "view" time on a timeline.

<--long ago--1970--2006--March--June--August-->

If I schedule an event for June 8th and then have to move it back, wouldn't I be moving it to BEFORE June 8th? "Back" in time as opposed to forward in time?

Up Down Up Back - let's go Up to Outback and discuss it.

No Need for Nyquil

I read this online....thought I would share.

Is yawning actually "contagious"?

Yawning has been researched by scientists for years, and is still a mystery to this day as to why exactly humans and animals alike do it. There have been myths over the years that it is a trigger response from the brain due to lack of oxygen, but it was later announced that people given direct oxygen, were just as likely to yawn. It is normally something that is done early am, or pm, due to fatigue, but can also come at times of boredom. Yawning is psychological because you can tell yourself not to do it and you won't. This is the reason why it is not contagious.

The normal feeling human, who can sympathize with anothers feelings, will yawn after another person, out of a person's natural reaction to atmosphere. This has also proven that schizophrenics (sp) and people that suffer from severe cases of mania, are less likely to yawn after another person, due to their lack of sympathizing for another person in feelings, and lack of acknowledgement to reality. This by no means is implying that someone who doesn't yawn after another is a manic...just that it is a psychological act, when in reaction to another's yawn.

In addition to yawning after another person, animal, whatever...research has discovered that a significant percent of people will yawn from simply reading the word yawn. Most of the test subjects also yawned after watching someone/thing yawn on tv or in movies. They also yawned from hearing someone doing it.


For the record, I'm happy to admit that I MAY NOT be as psychologically unstable as previously thought - I yawned about 6 times while reading this article - and another 4 or so times while posting it.

Have you found it?

Sorry - another Blake story - Blake just asked me while finishing his lunch "Mommy, I have a question." "What's your question?" "I lost my problem." "You lost your what?" "My problem." "Oh....OK" "I'm going to have to look for it." When he finished lunch, he got down and ran to his room and came back saying "I still can't find my problem." So....if any of you happen to run across Blake's problem, please let us know ASAP! I got sort of excited, because the biggest problem Blake has is being a terrible 2. I thought to myself - if I knew we just could have misplaced it and lost it, I would have done that ages ago. Alas...that is not the problem he lost...

In the Spirit of the Holidays...

Happy Thanksmas! Gran with her grandchildren.
Here's to BIG TIME family celebrations in a Perry, Oklahoma motel!

Ho Ho Ho


Decorating the bird's Christmas Tree at G and PaPa's on Christmas Eve


Settin' up for Santa Claus before bed

How did he know I wanted trains for Christmas?


Snacking with Gran on Christmas Day.
Reading a new book with Gran.

What? You are saying I'm showing pictures of the wrong holiday? It's April already? Man...am I ever behind.

Jump Back

I read this today - it was just too good to keep to myself. For some reason, I cannot make my text move down by hitting the return/enter key, so the enlightening articles begins here >>>>>> Is it true that if everybody in China jumped at the same time it would knock the Earth out of orbit? If people weighed on average 1000 lbs, a billion people would weigh a trillion pounds. The earth "weighs" about six sextillion tons. That is more than a trillion times the weight of all the people on earth. So, if all the people on the earth jumped the same direction at the same time, the earth would move less than one trillionth as far in the opposite direction. For example, if everybody jumped two feet directly toward the north star, the earth would move less than a millionth of a millionth of a foot away from that star.The real kicker is that as soon as those people jump, they start falling back toward the earth and the earth falls back toward them and the net effect is immeasurably close to zero. The earth running into hydrogen atoms, cosmic dust and the occasional meteor as it moves around the sun has a greater effect on its orbit than the mother of all coordinated jumps ever could.

He Makes Me Laugh

This may only be funny to me. Kelly asked Blake the other day "Are you a goober rounder?" Blake's response "No, I'm just a goober." And last night Blake was hopping around the house. I asked him "Are you a bunny?" His response "No, I'm a marsupial." He just makes me laugh!