I just don't know...

What to do with this blog. I feel as if I made a mess of tbings. I hope to one day have that fixed. I'm thinking of stuff to do with this blog. I may start over. Please be patient while I think of what of to do with this thing. This may take a while.

I'm trying to get a mini calendar on my blog. It's not quite working the way I hoped. I will be playing with between work and my life.

RM is helping with this calendar. I have added him to my list of blogs. He and I willg get this working soon I hope.

Valentines Day

Some people may enjoy Valentine's Day while others do not because they have no one to share it with. It doesn't bother me one way or the other. For me its just another day. I know people who got marreid on Valentines Day. You know, its pretty smart because then they won't forget their anniversary. This way they won't forget to get a gift.

On the outside this may seem very smart. But it really isn't. Its rather cheap on their part. Anybody who didn't get married on Valentine's day gets an anniversary gift and then Valentines Day comes they get a Valentines Day gift. Those who got married on Valentines Day get an anniversary gift and a Valentines Day gift in one. That way the man not only has to get one gift he is also a hero for remembering his anniversary. So those who got married on Valentines DAy only have to remember their spouses birthday and then Christmas.

If you have your anniversary on any other day but Valentines Day the spouse gets more gifts. A married couple has their anniversary, birthday, Christmas, and Valentines Day in which they get gifts. That's four times a year. Now if you combine Valentines Day and your anniversary you get one less gift.

But on the other hand, if you get married on Valentines Day neither husband or wife will forget their anniversary. You have a chance of one or the other forgetting their anniversary if its on any other day. So there's pros and cons to it.

Survivor...

Survivor was EXCELLENT tonight. New twists and turns in this one. I realize they have to keep coming up with new stuff every now and then, but I really think this is going to be really really exciting. They still have 16 peope but they divided them up into four groups. Same gender and age group. Four Older men, four older women, for younger men, 4 younger women. They also have an Exile Island.

They started off with a reward challenge. Three groups won, one group lost. The group that lozt had to select someone to stay on Exile Island. The loner was alone on the island. No shelter, no way to make fire, limited supplies. They also have to find an immunity idol that is hidden somewhere on the island. If one of the players gets their hands on that idol. They can use it. They can do with it what tney wnat. If their team goes to Tribal council, and that person who has the idol is voted off, they can show that they have the immunity idol. Whoever has the next amount of votes goes, leaves the island.

Should be interesting since their are 4 members per group. I wonder if they will ever merge into one big group? What happens if you loose all of your members and you're the only one left in that group and there are other groups? Do you go into another group or do you go to Exile Island and wait for a challnege? So many unanswered questions.

I wonder where I can rip off some Survivor pics to show you what these 16 people look like? I wonder if CBS would mind if I "borrowed some of their pictures?" I better look elsewhere first. Or you could go to http://www.cbs.com/ to see for yourself. Let me know what you decide to do so I know how to proceed.

Remembering what months have 30 days and which months have 31 days..

I have trouble remembering which months have how many days. So yesterday I made a list of months and how many days in each

January.......31
February.....28
March..........31
April.............30
May..............31
June.............30
July...............31
August..........31
September.....30
October.........31
November.....30
December.....31

Believe it or not, I am trying to memorize this.

I did find another way.

Thirty days has September. How many remmeber that rhyme? Raise your hands and say "Me, me! I remember that!" Well I don't. I should memorize that too. I found it on a Nursery Rhyme site. Here it is:

THIRTY DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER

Thirty days has Septmeber,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Saving February alone,
Which has twenty-eight, rain or shine.
And on leap years, twenty-nine!

What to say???

I never know what to say here. This is my personal space online. And I don't know what to put here. Gee whiz. I have wanted my own site but I never knew what I would do. You know what? I still don't know what to do with it. I guess this is my space to play around with. I think I may be getting the hang of this blogging. You've got to press all the buttons and see what they do.

Another thing I always wanted was my very own forum where I'd be in charge. But who would come to visit and post there? I do know a few online people, but is it enough to start a forum with? What would I do if someone gave me a hard time?

I don't have leadership qualities. I don't have a following like some do online. I tell people about my blog and some even come to see it, but don't leave comments.

What is one to do? Any suggestions?

New Chat Box

I have a new chat box. We shall see what kind of comments I get.

Tagged again...

I have been tagged by Rainstorm...

Four Jobs You've Had In Your Life
1 - Bus girl
2 - Factory job
3 - Store clerk
4 - processor

Four Movies You Could Watch Over And Over
1 - Wizard of Oz
2 - Lady and the Tramp
3 - Firestarter
4 - Lady and the Tramp pt 2

Four Places You've Lived
1 - Chicago
2 - Westbury, NY
3 - Massapequa Park, NY
4 - Long Beach, NY

Four TV Shows You Love To Watch
None right now, except for the occasional Survivor and the news.
Other than that, you can find me online most of the time when I'm home.

Four Places You've Been On Vacation
Washington D.C.
Virginia
Maryland
California

Four Blogs You Visit Daily
Rain's
Dyckie's
TG's
JD's
(all of which you can find on my side bar, but JD doesn't update very often, only when I tell him to. He needs to learn to do this on his own.)

Four Of Your Favorite Foods
Chocolate
Salmon
Filet Mignon
Crab

Four Places You'd Rather Be
Home
Church
Sitting down on a chair
Online

Four Albums You Can't Live Without
Basically anything by Patch the Pirate, Ray Boltz, and Bill and Gloria Gaither. I can't live with my gospel music.

Four Vehicles You've Owned
Mercury Tracer
Chryler LHS
Buick Regal
Hyundai Elantra

Four People To Be Tagged
I have 2 people I want to tag but they probably won't do it. So they will just have to ask me.

Snake and Hamster - Best Friends...

I thought this was quite interesting.

Wed Jan 18, 3:58 PM ET

TOKYO - Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a four-foot rat snake. Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name means "meal" in Japanese — to Aochan as a tasty morsel in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

"I've never seen anything like it. Gohan sometimes even climbs onto Aochan to take a nap on his back," Yamamoto said.

Aochan, a 2-year-old male Japanese rat snake, eventually developed an appetite for frozen rodents but has so far shown no signs of gobbling up Gohan — despite her name.

"We named her Gohan as a joke," Yamamoto chuckled. "But I don't think there's any danger. Aochan seems to enjoy Gohan's company very much."

The Tokyo zoo also keeps a range of mostly livestock animals, and promotes "cross-breed interaction," according to Yamamoto.
But Gohan and Aochan's case was "was a complete accident," Yamamoto said.

Computers

Computers run our lives. They get us to buy them and take them home and set them up. And then we want to play with our new toy. We find an Internet Serivice Provider so we can spend lots of time online with our new toy, looking up stuff or playing games online. Or chatting with online friends. Then one day it happens. Nothing works right. We got all used to coming home from a long day at work and going online and one day we can't all of a sudden because something happened to our beloved computer. We spend a lot time fixing it. I haven't had that problem yet with this computer because it is still newish. Computers are nice to have and can be very addictivie.

Animated Lambs...

Someone said, " I just can't think of anything Dyckerson-worthy to write about. And I'm not going to write about anything stupid, like a restaurant waiter who looks like Fabio...or a pussy-whipped 5-year-old kid...or my sleeping habits...or animated lamb avatars.. I ask you, wha tis so stupid about animated lamb avatars? They're rather cute if you ask me.

This smiliey is trying to get to sleep by ccouting little lambs. The smiley's eyes are wide open. That's no way to count lambs. You're supposed to have your eyes closed. I used to count sheep, but my sheep were jumping over a fence but would cheat by going underneath someitimes

One way to count sheep may be to group them all together

And then count, but that would be very hard to do. How would you know if you counted them more than once?

Here is a mother sheep caring for her lamb.

My avatar. I ask you is this avatar orange or light brown?

How did ya'all like this post?

MIning Accident...

I want to comment on that Virginia mining accident that left 12 dead and one in critical condition. I understznd that these things happen. Mining is a dangerous job. But someone should be punished severely for telling those families of the dead ones that they were ok, just to say, "Oooooooooops! Big mistake! 12 of the miners are dead!"

Thinking that loved one is still alive after that explosion perhaps was a temporary relief. The lovdd ones may have been thinking, "I will hear about the explosion after their rescue." And then comes the three hours later, after anticipating their safe return to their lives, "Oooooooops! Someb0dy goofed! 12 are dead." That must have been AWFUL, to say the least. I can't even imagine the grief those poor families must be going through. I don't think the families will get over this too soon.

I blame the reporters for this. They just should have stayed away until someone knew something either way. I think those 12 deaths would have been easier to accept if they weren't given false hope.

Sometimes I think the reporters will do anything to get a story, even talk to grieving people who should be left alone in their grief. Give the grieving people some time to get over their loss and then talk to them. Do they do that? No. They have to get the story and report it because afterwards may be too late and no one will be ineterested. I say hogwash. Let the grieving ones grieve and then let them tell you whatever it is they want to share when they're ready. I will wait until then if I may.

I made a mistake. It was West Virginia and not Virginia.

Happy New Year!!!!

Happy New Year Everybody! I hope everybody and a safe start of the new year! I had a quiet new year, just usual stuff for me. I had a nice Christmas as well, it was quiet and relaxing. How was everybody's Christmas and New Years?

Tagged and Busted the same day!

I have been "Busted" and "Tagged" the same day. Imagine that. First we’ll take the harder of the two. I’m such a goodie two shoes most of the time.

You have been "busted"The rules are simple, now that you have been busted, you must confess to 3 things that you do that others don’t know about.

It’s hard for me to come up with three things I want to reveal.

1 – When I was little and making cookies I used to eat the cookie dough raw. And boy was it good!

2 – When I was a junior in High School, I didn’t show up for English class, and the teacher found out, and sent me to the attendance office to talk to the attendance officer, and I started to go down there, and on the way I met up with some friends and told them what happened. They told me how to get out of it and I got out of seeing the one I was supposed to see.

3 – Sometimes after dinner I lick my plate clean.

I am busting TiremanJD

TAGGED.

I can’t believe Mighty Dyckerson tagged me. I have to answer a series of questions.

You get one wish of anything, what would you ask for?
Happiness in the world. End depression.

Wish for 6 more wishes:

Anything?

1 – My own horse to go horseback riding.
2 – A stable to keep the horse in.
3 – Some to clean the stable.
4 - A mansion.
5 – Someone to clean the mansion.
6 – My Mr. Right.

What animal would you be?
I was going to answer a horse, but my answer is an eagle so I could fly in the sky.

Something you want to do in your life.
Get a sit down job.

One song you could listen to over and over again.
My Very Best Friend – a gospel song.

Coke or Pepsi?
Pepsi

One good deed you've done lately.
Helped a co-worker work.

A funny moment in your life.
Too numerous to mention.

TiremanJD you’ve been tagged.

Maybe you can help...

I'd like to add a calendar to my blog. It does seem complitcated with all the codes you have to give the computer to make it work right. Why can't I have a really simple calendar? It could show you what day it is. Does that seem overly complicated? Maybe it is, I don't know. I really don't know anything about codes at all. If I want to do something fancy I ask Mighty Dyckerson how to do it. He usually can and does help me with what he knows which I believe is a lot. I asked him h0w to add a calendar to my blog and do you know what he told me? To steal somebody else's. Maybe I could do that, but first I wnat to try to make my own. Maybe I'll do just that and see what happens. It's just got to be small enough to fit in the side bar. I'll try experimenting but if I make it myself it won't tell you anything that a regular calendar won't. I'll have to make a new one every month. I'll see what I can do until someone tells me how to do otherwise. If you know how to do a calendar, I would appreciate your help.

My 4 day weekend...

I've been looking forward to this weekend for a while. I normally have Sunday and Monday off. This week I have Friday and Saturday off too! A 4 day weekend. I love it! My doctor has been wanting me to get a colonoscopy done. I did that today (Friday). It really wasn't that bad. The bad part was the previous day when I could only drink liquids and eat jello and drink that awful tasting stuff.

Someone took me to the surgery center, I signed a few papers, talked with the nurse, got changed, got in bed, and they tended to me, wheeled me into the room where they would do the colonoscopy, gave me oxygen turned me over, the iv started to feel cold and burned, the guy who was giving me that stuff said it would be cold and it would hurt a little and I was out. I came to, woke up a little, they asked me what juice I would like, I told them grape juice, and then I got dressed and had some coffee and a banana muffin and went home.

I've been groggy all day. I was told to rest the rest of the day and I did and I even had some food.

The doctor gave me a clean bill of health. That's good. I have a history of cancer in my family. I may not die of cancer, but of something else. Who knows what? I'm not worried about it. I'm going to enjoy life until its time for me to go.

Tomorrow my church is having our Christmas banquet. We will be serving Prime Rib and Stuffed Salmon. I'm looking forward to it.

Politically Correct or no?

I PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS: ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

I was raised saying that pledge in school. Now an atheist wants to change that. He doesn't want his daughter saying the words "Under God" because he believes there is no God. Well, phooey on him. He can raise his daughter any way he sees fit, but he's messing with the pledge I was raised saying. It is wrong to mess with. I have a very strong belief in God. I want the pledge the way I'm used to. He has no right to change it. Further more I do trust God. Our money has on it, "In God we trust." Some people find that offensive. Too bad! Move to a different country. Stop trying to take God away from me! In fact you won't be able to because He lives inside of me! I have received Jesus Christ as my Savior and have God living inside of me. Yes, I have been born-again.

Further more, I really don't care about being politically correct. I will say Merry Christmas even if its not correct to say. I will say Happy Chanukkah to a Jewish perzon. We will have Christmas trees and holiday trees. And if you want to call them holiday trees why don't you have them on otber holidays? What about Mother's and Father's Day? What about Easter? What about Thanksgiving? If its called a holiday tree why is Christmas the only holiday we have one?

God has a way of convicting sinners, which they don't like so they take God out of everything and then when a disaster happens those people wonder where God is. They only want God when they need Him and only then. If you keep pushing Him away, He will go away and not come back and then if you should need him, He won't be there and you'll wonder why.

A Christmas tree with gifts...

I wanted to get gifts for all of my online friends. I went shopping today for all of you and bought a bunch of stuff. I even decoratedt the tree. Boy was I busy! So what did you get me for Christmas?

I wanted something Christmassy on my blog, since Christmas will soon be here. I decorated the tree myself. How do you like it?

Oh, by the way, this is a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree.

So what did you all get me for Christmas this year?

I don't feel good...

I have a sore throat and feel lousy. I have gone to work, but what the heck? I don't feel like spending the day in bed being sick. I don't even like being sick, but who does?

I never know when to call in sick. When I get up I feel lousy. After I'm awake for a while, I feel better but still feel sick. So off to work I go and spread my germs. No one that I work wirh has gotten sick, which is good. Actually I have wanted to go home and just relax, but I don't think that is a good enough reason for going home. I'm so dependable. I'm also devoted to the job. I am by no means a workaholic. Dependable and devoted is as far as I go.

My church is having a Christmas banquet this month on Saturday the 17th of December. I'm taking the 16th off as well. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! A four day weekend. Hopefully I'll get lots of sitdown time.

Boring post, I know, but I don't know what else to write about. Does anybody have any suggestions?