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If everyday is a gift, where do I return Mondays?
Tags: Humor
I can't afford to gain 10 pounds. I can't wear my clothes comfortable now.
If you delete this message, you will gain 10 pounds
I can almost feel myself losing weight . . . by forwarding this to you!
You'll understand at the end.
I've seen two shows lately that went on and on about how mid-life is a great
time for women. Just last week Oprah had a whole show on how great
menopause will be . . . Puhleeeeeeeze! I've had a few thoughts of my own
and would like to share them with you. Whether you are pushing 40, 50, 60
(or maybe even just pushing your luck), you'll probably relate.
Mid-life is when the growth of hair on our legs slows down. This gives us
plenty of time to care for our newly acquired mustache.
In mid-life women no longer have upper arms, we have wing spans. We are no
longer women in sleeveless shirts, we are flying squirrels in drag.
Mid-life is when you can stand naked in front of a mirror and you can see
your rear without turning around.
Mid-life is when you go for a mammogram and you realize that this is the
only time someone will ask you to appear topless.
Mid-life is when you want to grab every firm young lovely in a tube top and
scream, "Listen honey, even the Roman empire fell and those will too."
Mid-life brings wisdom to know that life throws us curves and we're sitting
on our biggest ones.
Mid-life is when you look at your know-it-all, beeper-wearing teenager and
think: "For this I have stretch marks?"
In mid-life your memory starts to go. In fact the only thing we can retain
is water.
Mid-life means that your Body By Jake now includes Legs By Rand McNally --
more red and blue lines than an accurately scaled map of Wisconsin.
Mid-life means that you become more reflective . . . You start pondering the
"big" questions. What is life? Why am I here? How much Healthy Choice ice
cream can I eat before it's no longer a healthy choice?
But mid-life also brings with it an appreciation for what is important. We
realize that breasts sag, hips expand and chins double, but our loved ones
make the journey worthwhile. Would any of you trade the knowledge that you
have now, for the body you had way back when? Maybe our bodies simply have
to expand to hold all the wisdom and love we've acquired. That's my
philosophy and I'm sticking to it!
Send this to four women and you will lose two pounds.
Send this to all the women you know (or ever knew), and you will lose 10
pounds.
If you delete this message, you will gain 10 pounds immediately. (That's
why I had to pass this on - I didn't want to risk deleting this.)
Today I started my soup. I use a small crockpot. *Put the 2 packages beef stew meat in first. *Than a big package frozen mixed vegetables. *A can of no-salt diced tomatoes. *4 small cans of low-sodium vegetable juice *a sprinkle of onions I put it in at 10 this morning, should be done by 5 this afternoon. When the vegetables aren't crunchy, it's done. LOL! I have buttered bread with it.
Tags: Food Soup
Since Wednesday, our gas has jumper to $4.09, here in Dayton, OH. I talked to my daughter the other night in Provo, UT and she fueled her car the other day and it was $3.84. You know you're going to hear about the gas companies making record profits again. I smell a fish here!
Yesterday evening I went to the library. I probably haven't used the library in 30 years, back when the librarian checked your books out and they were still using cards they stamped and put in the pocket at the back of your book telling you when your books were due. Well now it's all automatic. You go online and reserve your books. There's a shelf that holds all the holds, you just go to it and get it. It shows the 1st 4 letters of your last name and the I think the last 4 numbers of your library card. Than you check them out yourself under a scanner. Well my son did it last week, he showed me where the holds were kept and how to scan. So I thought yesterday, 1st time doing it myself, she what goes. So I took the two books in that I had checked out and went and got my holds. So far, so good. Than there were two ladies ahead of me, scanning theirs. So I was waiting. One of the librarians said can I help you. I said I'm just waiting to check out. She said there's one over there. I saw the one standing by itself, just didn't register, being new at this. So I went over held my library card under it, didn't register. Turned it around, didn't register. So they had another option where you could type it in. Did that and than tried to scan the barcode on my book, didn't register. So a librarian was coming pass and I asked her for help. She said you have to lay everything down on the counter for it to scan. Went pretty easy after that :) I told her I was new, hadn't been using the library in 30 years. So she put me on to this Adult reading program and gave me a clip you stick to your refrigerator to put the receipts it prints off telling you when your books are due back!
My daughter put me on to this series, called the Shadow Children, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Let me give you a brief rundown of what it's about:
The Shadow Children sequence is a series of books by Margaret Peterson Haddix about a futuristic, overpopulated, resource-deprived Earth, and the effects of the government's attempts to quell overpopulation. The Population Police enforce the government's Population Law, killing or imprisoning "shadow children," any child born after his or her family's second.
To read more go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Children_sequence
Series in order:
Among the Hidden
Among the Impostors
Among the Betrayed
Among the Barons
Among the Brave
Among the Enemy
Among the Free
The first 3 our short reads, about 156 pages. I get them done in 2 reads, although the 3 one I did in one read. Takes 2 to 3 hours, depending on how fast you read and if you distracted, by having to get up and do something. The last 4 go up to between 182-229 pages, I still consider that a short read.
I also got a movie, The Devil Wears Prada. I've been wanting to see that. Our library doesn't charge anything and you can have it out for 3 weeks. I think on newer movies, it's shorter than that.
So I think I can thank my daughter for getting me turned on to the library again. I really don't want to be paying for books anymore or movies. The money I save needs to go on gas. LOL! GOD bless her heart, she's been persistant, been prodding me for years. Sometimes that's what it takes. I'm the great procrastinator. LOL!
A 18 wheeler that took up one side of the parking lot. 
It was delivering mulch. They are mulching around the trees in our complex. Reminds me though of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Where that guy is gathering everything to build the mountain. There is a dumpster there too. LOL! 
THE YEAR 1908
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1908.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some statistics for the Year 1908 :
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The average life expectancy was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
The average wage in 1908 was 22 cents per hour.
The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year .
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year,
a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,
and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME
Ninety percent of all doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which
Were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard. "
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used
Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars.
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada, was only 30!!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea
Hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." ( Shocking? DUH! )
Eighteen percent of households had at least
One full-time servant or domestic help.
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE ! U.S.A. !
Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing
It myself, and sent it to you and others all over Canada & U.S.A
Possibly the world, in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
IT STAGGERS THE MIND!!!!!!!!!!!
The last couple days I've seen the return of two rabbits. They are nice to see. He was nibbling on either the grass or the clover outside my backdoor. He spooked when I tried to get a better picture of him. Tuesday night starting at 7 we had severe thunderstorms come through and a little after 8 our tornado sirens went off. I flipped it over to a local station that always interrupts local programming to show you the radar and where it is at when tornado warnings sound and it was further south, but that is where my grandaughter is. My son called over there and she said they were in the basement. They got slammed by 3 tornado warnings and than it was just thunder booming all night. She emailed me that she had to hold Shyanne's hand and lay on the floor by her crib till she went to sleep, cause she screamed each time it lightening and thundered. Were out from that mess now. Sunshine and now the humidity and 90 degree weather. Even though summer doesn't officially start till the end of June, our weather guy said it unofficially starts on Memorial Day. My mom who is going on 93 on the 19th of this month I was also informed that Tuesday night at 10:30 by my brother that she was in the hospital. She was bleeding from the rectum and she doesn't go that way anymore, she's had a colostomy bag for years. Yesterday I was told she's not bleeding anymore. Should hear the results of all the tests they took today. So from the storming and worrying about my mom, I didn't sleep well Tuesday night and couldn't motivate to do anything yesterday. I'm motivating today.
My husband was coming home from work and saw this street blocked off and a lot of police officers. He asked me if I heard what was going on, on the news. I said NO. Later around 8 P.M. they said SWAT team surrounds house, news at 11. Police surround home after prank call for help Ohio (AP) -- A prank call for help sent police to a neighborhood Wednesday evening. The dispatch center got a call that a deaf woman was being held at gunpoint inside a home at. Police arrived on the scene, and The SWAT Team was on its way. But, officers quickly learned it was a hoax, and no one was in danger. Someone used the deaf woman's password on her TTY, that's a communications device for the deaf, and sent a fake call for help. Sergeant Karolyi said, "It appears that the boyfriend has a jealous ex-girlfriend who in the past has hacked in the TTY system using the victims information." The Police Department takes prank 9-1-1 calls very seriously. So far, no arrests have been made, but the investigation is ongoing. Police say the person who made the prank call for help will face a felony charge of inducing panic.
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