You Can Find ANYTHING on You Tube!!!

In college, I had this cassette, giggle, yes, cassette and wore it out! I was into alternative music at that time and this had such a wonderful beat to dance around your crappy little apartment while waiting for the mac and cheese to boil.

I thought I was the only one who knew this song...Thank you You Tube for giving me a flash back to when ahem younger.

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Burr, I'm Not Ready!

I turn on the heater this morning. I was hoping to make it a week or two more but when you have an all tile house and it drops to 62 degrees even the beagle wants under the covers. I had to turn on the heat and crawl back in bed before I could move around the house.

When the temperature rose to an acceptable level, I gathered up stinky beagle and gave him a bath. Not the way he envisioned his Saturday starting but was a real trooper. Especially when he got to go to Grandma's and rub his slightly damp coat all over her king sized comforter.

Since my electric blanket also went kaput, I decided to use my Kohl's cash on that. My survival of the winter highly depends on electric blankets and long hot baths. After a leisurely lunch, mom and I ran over to Kohl's to get the blanket. Lovely, they don't carry electric blankets. I then proceed to the shoe department and bought two more pairs of shoes. And yes, I really had to have them!

After the impromptu shopping spree, I dropped mom off at home and ran to Target. I had to have a new electric blanket. I get in there and find some bath salts and bath oils, yes, I had to have them. Then over and got some Coke and Brussels - no question here had to! Then over to the blankets. I found XL Twin blankets on sale and was able to purchase three for our blanket drive at work but ironically no electric blankets! I did however find an electric mattress pad - that'll do!

Winter survival gear - check!

Don't forget to click on an ad as the Brussels will have to be replenished real soon.

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Into the Sea of Red

Last night was a good night but we didn't get that weasel Harry Reed out nor that crappy woman in Alaska. That was the only disappointment. I really don't even care that we didn't get the Senate as long as we have the house to counter the lunacy from the oval office.

We had quite a few state questions that left me scratching my head but I was very glad that English only passed and Voter Id passed. If I have to show an ID to board an airplane, I think that casting a vote is ten times more important and require proof of citizenship. Plus that will keep all the dead democrats from casting votes in our current elections.

Click on an ad, so that I can afford to donate to the GOP in the 2012 Elections.

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I am a Writer for a Reason

Thursday, I head to the Oklahoma School for the Blind to be one of many guest speakers for their annual event, Future Shock. I am totally and completely scared to death - high school kids can smell fear and will eat me alive! Even though I knew I was agreeing to be "fresh meat," I could not refuse.

I love Future Shock. I have covered the event three of the four years I have worked for the agency. I believe in exposing the kids to what they might expect in life outside of high school. So I will pass on my experiences good and bad and hope they don't shred me limb for limb.

Actually, the break out groups are small and I hope to be in a class room as that won't be as intimidating as the auditorium. Even though I went to school to be writer, I will push aside my fears and nerves and have a good time. Gulp.

Click on an ad before you leave as I may need money for the Toast Masters club I may need to join.

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Boomer Sooner!

When you have a bad day, its great to come home to the boys playing dress up. Well actually, I think my father has a little too much time on his hands.

Season tickets are much too expensive to take the boys, be sure to click on an ad and help us get tickets.

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I Love This!

This is the best commercial ever!

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I am famous!

Actually the right word for would be honored beyond belief. Today, I received the Public Personnel Employee Award from the Oklahoma City Mayor's Committee on Disability Concerns. I am totally blown away.

What is that? Well the groovy plaque says: "The Public Personnel Employee of the Year Award recognizes an employee in the public sector who does outstanding work on behalf of Oklahomans with disabilities. The public servant helps person with disabilities live full and productive lives."

It was such a good day, the luncheon was very nice but my two favorite friends at work went with me, which made it even more special. I was so terrified before they gave out the awards that I would be expected to say a few words - I am a writer for a reason! Once they gave out the first award and it was just go up and shake hands with the Mayor and Committee Chair, I was much better.

From what I understand, I was nominated by the head of United Cerebral Palsy of Oklahoma and that made it even more special.

Today was a good day.


From Left: Dana, Mayor Mick Cornett, Pam Henry, committee chair,
Council Member Sam Bowman at the 20th Annual Oklahoma City
Mayor's Committee on Disabilities Concerns Luncheon 

 




















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Shop Till You Drop - Day Two

More pain, more charging, more fun. I think I have a shoe and purse problem.

I also have a black problem, black cape with pockets (so cool it has pockets), black turtle neck, black sweater, black and grey dress shirt and cardigan, black pants, brown poncho and multi-color dress shirt and a purple turtle neck.

Four pairs of shoes and two purses...Garden Ridge tomorrow??? Yes, I am nuts.

This doesn't count the black vest and wind chime I bought at the Affair of the Heart. Wait there's more, I bought mom and Kim's birthday outfit at Affair of the Heart and mom's Christmas at Kirkland's today.

Didn't Obama make it better for us idiots who charge like money grows on trees?

Just in case you'd better click on an ad to make sure I can pay for all of this. Support the Kim's Come to Town fund.

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Shop Till You Drop - Day One

When my sister comes in for the annual Shop-Athon we do it up big but usually don't go to the Affair of the Hearts Mega Event. I don't think I have hurt this bad in a long time. I was shocked that there wasn't more one of kind stuff but hey, I bought Kim's birthday present and Mom's birthday present so that's done.

Tomorrow, Kohl's, Garden Ridge, Burlington, Hobby Lobby, who knows. I hope my feet hold out.

Please I beg you click on the ads to the side as I will be very broke by the time Kim goes home. I must have new winter shoes - click people click!

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William, the Conquerer!

Born October 13, 2010, the same as his Great Grandma.

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Politics, Curse Words and Chinese Food - yep it's Tuesday

I have to admit as political as I can be, I would ban all political ads, if they would let me! Make it where if you want to know who you are voting for - go get the pamphlet. I am slightly "irked" (mom scolded me over using a certan word that's not a curse word but means angry, so I have to get creative with other words that mean angry) over the Democrat Kenneth Corn's ad that accuses Republican Todd Lamb saying he's a crooked and then Lamb's commercials saying he's not. What do you believe? I had to go to Lamb's website to get the following:

“The facts are Todd Lamb has never been a part of any investigation by my office or related to this matter. The advertisement’s implications and innuendo are completely false,” Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater stated.

I almost wish that politicians couldn't talk about their opponents at all in commercials. I wish their commercials could only focus on themselves and what they would do for us, the tax payer. Novel idea huh?

Tangent Tuesday Alert: Has anyone been to the Grand House China Bistro? Oh my, oh my, oh my! It's really good and it's really cheap. I got a meal big enough for two for $6 and there was ambiance to boot. Check it out.

Be sure to click on an ad before you leave as I can't eat Chinese food every day.

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Another One Bites the Dust

Alas another weekend comes and Dana is sick! I am getting really tired of having this weekend disease. This weekend it was that wonderful ringing in the ears and slight dizziness not to mention the everyday headache/allergies.

Why do I push all week long and fall a part on the weekend? The first one of you who says because I am old, I will just slap you upside the head. As I do not feel old, therefore I am not! I refuse to be ... OLD.

If I had not inherited my father's extremely low blood pressure, I would claim to have hyper-tension and that would be responsible for the ear ringing and maybe the dizziness. The odds are better that this crappyness is diabetes as that runs rampant in my mother's family and I fully expect to get it but not right now, please.

Work has been stressful and my teenage years migraines that I totally out grew in my twenties, have come back. When I launched the redesign on the agency website a couple of years ago, it was a migraine a day. Do I now add ear ringing and dizziness to list? Aaarrrggg.

Must think happy thoughts, must think happy thoughts, must think - hmmmpphh!

Okay, I know go to the doctor and find out what it is. I just don't want to! My doctor is great but I always get these things that one, we either monitor for a while and it goes away or the answer is basically "yeah, that happens as 'WE' age." I love it when they talk to us in the we terms.

I already have this weirdo thing where my voice just quits and I strain to talk and sound sick. The doc thought it could be allergies and put on Allegra every day - yeah, that didn't work  as my sinus' were screaming mad over being dried out so much. I don't really want to experiment with meds to find out what this is or isn't.

I just want to feel good and I am a little whiny today!

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Another Spastic Day

I always feel sorry for the three people who read this blog on the days when I got nothing! I am so sick of the crooked or stupid politics, work was mundane and Winston doesn't want to pose for the camera.

So I grab a video clip of Seamus and began editing. I just wish I had a better video camera as I never get high quality if the lighting is not just perfect.

This is another example that you can do anything or say anything to Seamus and he is fine with it. One day, my boys are going retaliate and no more videos until then enjoy!

Click on an ad so that Seamus no longer has to suffer these indignities.
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The Johnny Cash Project - INTENSE

This is so cool. It is set to Johnny Cash's "Aint No Grave" and many frames are artistically recreated from his video be sure to play around on the projects website, http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/ [It takes a minute for the video to load]. The frame above is my favorite - simple but good.



The Man in Black worked for tips, I am just trying to follow suit. Click on an ad before you leave if you liked this post!

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What's in a Name? Liam is good

Army Nephew Patrick and his wife Stacey are expecting their baby any day now. They have chosen to name him William and call him Liam for short. So just for kicks I went to see what his name meant.

• William - English - Resolute protector; will. 
• William - French - Determined protector.  
• William - German - Resolute protector; will.
• William -Teutonic - Strong helmet.

Resolute protector, I like it. Good, strong name for a boy.

• Liam - Gaelic - Helmeted.
• Liam - German - Variant of William: Will-helmet. Famous Bearers: poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) and William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
• Liam - Irish - The Irish diminutive of the name William.
• Liam  - Teutonic - Resolute defender.

Still good!

Then I went looking:

• Dana - Celtic - From Denmark. Dana was the Celtic goddess of fertility.
• Dana - Danish  - From Denmark.
• Dana - English  - A feminine form of the Hebrew Daniel, meaning God has judged, God is judge, or God will judge. Also used as a derivative of the surname Dane, meaning From Denmark.
• Dana - Hebrew - Feminine form of Daniel: God has judged, or God is judge. The Old Testament Daniel was a 6th century BC prophet who miraculously survived the den of lions.
• Dana - Irish - A Dane.

Mom did want a boy named Daniel, so I guess that seems next logical step go for the girl version of the name.

Mom's name:

• Wanda - German Family; Wanderer.
• Wanda - Teutonic - Wander.

Boy is this the truth! My mom would visit every state in the Union if dad would remotely appear interested.

Dad's name:

• Tom - English - Derives from Thomas 'Twin.'.

Hmmm, this one not so much.

Sister's name:

• Kimberly - English - From the wood of the royal forest. From the royal fortress meadow. A surname and place name that can be used for both genders, although it is more commonly used as a girl's name.

Hmmm, this one not so much.

Brother-in-law:

• Rick - English - Abbreviation of Richard 'powerful; strong ruler.' Also a diminutive of Derek, meaning gifted ruler, people ruler, a variant of the Old German Theodoric.
• Rick - German - Diminutive of Richard: Hard ruler.

Umm, I can get in trouble here - not saying a word.

Nephew Patrick:

• Patrick - Irish - Patrician; noble. Romans society was divided into plebeians: (commoners) and patricians: (aristocrats). Saint Patrick - patron saint of Ireland.
• Patrick - Latin - Regal; noble. St. Patrick introduced Christianity to Ireland, and later became Ireland's patron saint.

Yep, this one fits.

Niece Stacey:

• Stacey - English - Diminutive of Anastasia: resurrection; or of Eustace: fruitful.
• Stacey - Greek - Feminine form of Eustace: Fruitful, productive. Diminutive of Anastasia: Resurrection. One who will be reborn.

Since she's currently pregnant fruitful fits.

Nephew Jason

• Jason - Biblical - He that cures
• Jason - Greek - A healing. In Greek mythology, the leader of the group of warrior heroes called the Argonauts.

Depends on what he may be curing, this one scares me. Warrior hero I can see, he who cures not so much.  

This was fun. Do you and your family's names fit? Search your names.

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Green Beans! I need GREEN BEANS!

My little chunky monkey was put on diet a year or so ago and the vet's food was killing my puppy or so he thought. Winston was so hungry that food consumed every waking thought and I wasn't going to be able to do it becasue he would stay in the kitchen and sit by his bowl. When I expressed my distress at seeing Winston so hungry Dr. Hicks said that he could have green beans.

He didn't tell me that greens beans to dogs is the same as black tar heroine - once you give that dog a can of green beans life is measured from one green bean dish to another.  Yes, Seamus too eats green beans and we now buy green beans by the case. Walmart loves mom and me!

Winston knows when it is 7 p.m. and comes to where ever I am and says "feed me now!" as any junkie would. Who knew?

Click on an ad so I can keep enabling Winston's habit!

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My Blue Hippo

Why do we have to grow up and lose the pure joy that a springy hippo can bring? I want to simply throw my head back and squeal like a sissy girl while driving my new Dodge Charger.

But alas that joy will only live in my mind for at least two more years. I want my next car to be bought on my terms with a reasonable down payment.

I am currently paying off the second mortgage I got to buy my new A/C and siding. When I buy my new Charger I want leather heated seats, power windows, power side mirrors and power locks. I want to be spoiled with all luxuries out there? Can you get Roccaro seats with the little knee rest in a Dodge Charger? I had that once and really, really liked them!

I will have tinted windows and a vanity plate that read BLUH1PO. When that day comes, life will be sweet. You know, I hate being a grown up who does the responsible thing! In my 20s I would have bought the car and ate soup for five years.

The whole problem with this dream is that I don't think I can get all my luxuries... Still its a sweet looking car oh, and by the way no more stick shift I want an automatic. Sigh, dreams.

Click on an ad get me closer to my dream car, Dodge Charger!

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Training a dragon has to be easier than a Winston

I cannot wait for this one! "How to Train a Dragon" looks like so much fun. I plan on owning this one just like all my other Disney movies, the majority of which happen to be VHS but I own them none the less.

Now they've come up with Blue Ray, which of course I don't have and probably need to switch over but I was kind of hoping it would go by the way of Beta Max so I didn't have try convert my entire collection over to a new system AGAIN!!!

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The tragic life of a daughter of a donut shop cult member

Did you know that the world will come to an end if my father does not go to the donut shop every single day! Yes, every day! End I SAY!

There is some kind of magic that happens and he must go to Daylight Donuts and get his coffee and cake donuts. Even on the days, that we are going to IHOP to have breakfast, Dad will get back from the donut shop and go to IHOP with us???

Have you ever notice who goes to the donut shop? Who goes and gets the donuts and leaves and who goes gets donuts and sits down? It's only men who eat in the restaurant. I think there's some sort of voodoo that only effects people with testosterone. It causes them to sit and swap WILD tales with each other and forces them to return the next day.

I believe this to be the "Donut Shop Cult" where members will all go out to the desert to commit mass suicide with the poisoned sticky bun when the President's Fat Tsar declares war on donuts with the  "Just Say No to Dough" campaign. Until that happens, a requirement to being in the cult is that you must walk out of the shop with a cup full of coffee and leave the half drank cup in your daughters house.

Every Sunday, when mom and dad drop off Seamus before church, Dad will leave the cult's calling card somewhere in the house - sometimes on the coffee table, in my office, on the kitchen bar half a foot from the trash can and I've even found one in the garage on a shelf with the tools.

You've got to click on an ad as I hear that "Donut Shop Cult" rehab is rather expensive. If you've ever known a cult member click on an ad, let me know I am not alone.  

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I Need a Hero!

Who was the idiot that thought cancelling "Heroes" before finishing the freaking story was a good idea? Even "Lost" got to finish the story (albeit very very badly) before pulling the plug. With "Heroes" you're left wondering what happens.

Can you image if Tolkien cancelled writing the Lord of the Rings? Froedo and Sam stuck in Mordor, Merry and Pipen on their way with Striker and Gandolf still dead!

I don't care if ratings were not what they wanted, you bring it back if nothing else than to finish the story and not vex your viewers! I am very vexed! Especially when that was the only show on your freaking channel that I watch. Stupid TV executives bring back "Heroes"! Now Mondays are crappy again!

Okay, I am going to need you to click on an ad before you exit as I am going to have to buy the dvd of the never ending story!

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