How was your day?

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How was your day?

How's your weather?

Did you have the day off since it was the Friday after Christmas?

Watch anything interesting on tv?

It was a little bit drizzly here today so I decided to walk at the mall instead of outside. Boy, was it packed and I did have a coupon for Penney's. $10 off a $25 purchase and I found a pair of $70 Eastland penny loafers on clearance for $27 so with the coupon they were $17. Awesome find.

Then I tripped on over to Half Price Books where they're have an after Christmas sale of 20% off everything in the store all weekend. Found a whole cart of clearance CD's for $3 ...so really $2.40. Got an early Toby Keith CD I didn't have. An early Paul Brandt, an Eddie Rabbitt from 1990...missed that one entirely too. $10 well spent.

Stopped at Randall's (grocery store) for their Friday $5 sale. I try to buy something different for Sunday lunch and they had Salmon on sale so I got that. A couple extra's for the freezer for some other Sundays.

Hubby and I had one of our favorite suppers.....blueberries and greek yogurt. Yummy.

We've been watching the TV series "Medium" on Netflix so I watched an episode of that this evening. We're on Season 6 now.

How 'bout you? How was your day?

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Let's see...yesterday...hubby and I went out for our usual Saturday lunch. This week it was our favorite Mexican restaurant. Then hubby took his usual Saturday afternoon nap and I went to the dollar store and bought Valentine's day decorations....$3 ...I'm such a big spender. : )

Last night hubby and I watched a movie on Netflix. Son was out with his girl.

Started out in the mid 70's yesterday but by the time I was back home in the afternoon it'd dropped 20 degrees. Colder and wetter seems to be the weather here today.

This morning hubby is at church. I'm doing laundry and cooking. Hoping to read my new Janet Evanovich library book this afternoon. I should get busy and put away the Christmas decorations but lazy me may not get it done. : )

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Great thread Jo!

This ole town in Arkansas has emptied out...everyone is going to Houston for the Texas Bowl today. As gas is lower than 2 dollars a gallon a lot more people are going than otherwise wouldn't. I saw our Razorback coach giving the horns down symbol during a pregame interview...guess they are developing a rivalry.

I reciever a Christmas card this year from an old Navy friend...he is in Prison in Navasota Texas. Haven't heard from the guy in over 30 years...I don't know if I should write back or not.
I mean I should write and support him because he was my friend...but I don't like to associate with any folks much less convicts. I know that he has had it hard with his wife dying 4 years ago But...Last time that we saw them they were the holy rollerist of the holy rollers. They tried every angle to try to get us to convert to Penocostal.

He mentioned that I was crazy in the Navy...and somehow he was above it...a strait shooter.

Problem is the truth here...he is a third time offender and I got a speeding ticket once in 30 years. Though he is born again ..he is already forgiven for his sins and I am on the highway to Luck. I just don't understand people sometimes...I hope he finds his way... alone.

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You know me Michael....I'm a conversationalist. : )

Folks picked a terrible weather day to mosey on down to my neck of the woods. It's foggy, rainy and downright nippy. Winter weather....what ya gonna do?

I'm still wrestling with what to do about my newly discovered cousin too and I thought I'd made up my mind but she keeps writing me every week in spite of the fact that I wrote her a very long email explaining in detail why I didn't want to continue our conversations.

In her case, my aunt gave her up for adoption when she was born. She's had a good life. Great adoptive parents. Got married, had a family, had a good career (she's retired now). Lots of education too...she has a Master's Degree.

A few months ago my sister in law wanted my hubby to do the online genetic testing that's so popular now. She'd done it but women can only get their ancestry line from their mother's side since they don't carry the extra chromosome. So since hubby was doing it (it's just a saliva test you do through the mail) I thought I might as well do it too.

Turns out that the online sites for ancestry testing are filled with adoptees who have found a public way to find their genetic relatives even if their adoption records are sealed. It was a surprise for me. Just something I'd never given any thought too.

So I hear from my cousin, who I didn't even know existed, and I talked to her for a couple of weeks before it became clear that she was looking to go places that crossed my comfort level. More specifically, she had written to one of her brothers ...the one who my aunt (her mother) lives with....and then said snide things about him when he didn't answer her letter. You have to understand that my aunt will be 80 next year. She's always been poor...much poorer than we were and she's had a hard life. The kids she kept had a hard life too. But later in life she finally married a guy who adored her and this brother is from that marriage. Her husband is gone now...died of cancer from working in the textile industry too long and it got in his lungs. All she has is her son that lives with her and takes care of her. And she's old. She'd already made it clear when her other daughter (she left behind three children total over the years) wanted to interact with her that the past was the past. This cousin of mine had already found her sister and knew all this before she wrote to the brother who lives with my aunt.

Like you Michael, I wrestle with the whole question of what's fair and what's right. I think it's a lifelong struggle.

Like you, I'm sorry your friend's wife has passed now and like you, I'm sorry for his troubles.

Like you, I have a whole lot of people who I don't have contact with because they live a different life than I do. I respect their right to choose but not all people fit together. What's that song...it takes all kinds of kinds....Miranda Lambert.

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It truly is a freeing feeling to be able to let go...but a hard one to do.

I am sorry that you have to go through the same things Jo.

I wish your cousin the best in life...but I really can't blame her for wanting to be around you...who wouldn't ?

I do find your post very interesting and see that we all face our personal demons when we are at our weakest.

You are truly a champ Jo...one that will never be defeated by standing your ground.

I think that I'll write my friend a letter ...guess like you I have to do that much.

Now on behalf of the Razorbacks on their win over Texas...I would like to thank the Texans for letting us win this one!

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You said it Michael...."It truly is a freeing feeling to be able to let go...but a hard one to do." That sums it up perfectly.

I wish my cousin the best in life also but she barely knows me Michael. What she wants from me is my genetic analysis. The more people she can find who she can analyze and compare with her own, the more clues she has to who her father is.

I did tell her about her mom and what her life was like. How she struggled and worked hard. How she loved and lost. How she always treated me and everyone in the family with kindness. Honestly, at the beginning, I thought that's what she wanted.

I didn't understand that what she really wanted was a way to bypass sealed adoption records. The day she wrote me that she'd found a way to beat the system with me, a cold chill went up my spine. She's still trying to figure out who her biological father was and even though I have no clue, she's not interested in what's fair for him, only what she wants.

I don't know the guy. All of this happened before I was born. But I know that I've walked away from people in the past Michael. In my case, it was a man who was stalking me so society is more sympathetic. But I still walked away. Took a lot of steps to do so. Erected barriers and distance and walked a different path. Is that all gone now too?

I know that it may not seem like a logical jump but it's there because this same cousin of mine is all over the ancestry web sites and she's added in tons of information to my family tree and right there, in her unknowing version of my family tree...there he is...name, date of birth...all of it. Poof. 35 years of walking away from him and ...poof.

I feel like I got ambushed. I can only guess how my aunt feels.

....and I should be getting to my housework...floors need swept, food needs cooked, son needs fed, walking needs to be done...life goes on. : )

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Ohhhh Jo...bringing up those memories will always hurt...the scars will always be there.

I have heard some stories about your problem with people in your life.

Hard learned lessons are the ones never forgotten.

(^^^this wit must have subconsciously been stored somewhere in my brain)

Is it even possible to store so much knowledge?

Is this the reason for my memory loss...no more memory room?

Maybe my memory loss is ...really I forgot what I was going to say.

Jo maybe memory loss is a defensive mechanism...

I know that it is the anti depressants that I am on.

You can't get pissed at the past if you can't remember it.

This smile on my face is plastered there...shouldn't I feel bad sometimes?

I have a whole lot of questions...and hardly any answers.

These statements are from my gray matter to anyone who can use them.

I really like your posts Jo...I think you are right.

Maybe we will run across people from time to time on our journey

whose paths intersect that we just feel is wrong.

It is our choice to turn right or left go strait or jump on the interstate and escape.

I would choose the road under the interstate that has always been there that leads to the country.

I will be praying for peace in her life...for you I will always pray.

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I should get my propane tank tomorrow...New Years Eve...yeaaaaa!

You might ask yourself why does anyone need 1000 gallons of propane anyway?

I have asked myself the same questions and only came up with more questions.

How much wood would a person have to cut to equal the BTUs in a 1000 gallons of propane?

Fire wood is worth every penny because man...that is hard work.

Generators run on gasoline and/or propane.

My cook stove and water heater run on propane.

I have a 250 gallon propane tank already and a 100 gallon and a bunch of 5 gallon and even more of those little green bottles.

Needless to say...I am propane happy!

Just think...when the lights go out...I'll be able to cook and stay clean and warm...for quite sometime.

The best thing about propane is that it never goes bad...like gasoline.

I am looking to wait until the huge upcoming price drop before filling it.

It just makes perfect sense to surround yourself with propane when people are shooting at you in a lights out situation.

I really don't think that society will drop to that level in my lifetime...but what I do know is...

If I move on this year or 100 years from now...that propane will still be good.

If it saves someone from discomfort in the future...well my friends...that is what it is all about.

IMO anyway...

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Michael,

Hank Hill would be proud. : )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6CIveQGLs

....and thanks for the encouragement. It helped. : )

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Dec 30, 2014 16:06:17 GMT -5 @jolene said:

Michael,

Hank Hill would be proud. : )

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj6CIveQGLs

....and thanks for the encouragement. It helped. : )

I finally got it...that is funny that he is my hero and I didn't even know it!

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Hank Hill is great. : ) What's not to love...Hank is a man who cares about his fellow man, his community and his country.

I'm starting this New Year with Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" playing in my head. Thinking happy thoughts and about New Year's resolutions. I know that I want to get all my mom and dad's photographs scanned into the computer this year and have the most important ones made into a book at Walgreens so she can have it in her nursing home room. I know I want to keep working on clutter in our house so I'm deciding to watch all the stray dvd's that are floating around my bookcase and donate them this year. I know I should paint the outside of the house this year and I really should scrape off the popcorn ceiling in the living/dining room and the kitchen. Then there's the 5 pounds I gained over the holidays....gotta lose that again. That's probably enough resolutions to start the year with.

Today we're staying in ....got a couple of movies from the Redbox. Gonna have salad for lunch. Berries and yogurt for supper. ...and my usual snacks. Not sure if I mentioned this or not but the whole diabetic thing...you eat six times a day...or that's the way the dietician set it up for me to distribute my carbs and keep my blood sugar more even....so I eat breakfast, a midmorning snack, lunch, an afternoon snack, supper and a bedtime snack. Seems like I'm always eating just in smaller amounts at a time. It's worked well for me.

How's your new year?

[monkeesfan]

My day was quiet. I watched the football games at Kent's in Swansea and then at CBS Scene in Foxboro. It's back to work tomorrow.

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Jan 2, 2015 0:35:43 GMT -5 monkeesfan said:

My day was quiet. I watched the football games at Kent's in Swansea and then at CBS Scene in Foxboro. It's back to work tomorrow.

Quiet days are an underrated time in our lives...I love em.

I see The Crimson Tide lost last night...but I slept...that's a dream and a drag...to me anyway...until the Razorbacks make it to the top!

Hey Monk...how do you like your coffee?

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I was just thinking about celebrities that have passes this year and one comedian keeps sticking me in the side...no it is not Robin Williams.

This post is dedicated to Tim Wilson who passed this year...

youtu.be/a4-n7Sfzt-M

Short story of Tim Wilson... took my wife to see him and a few other comedians...got to meet them all by the merchandise stand.

Left there to see a band when in the car I noticed my wallet missing...it was cold.

I ran back to the arts center and banged on the glass unmannerly<<<(that's all spell check had) and a roadie answered the door.

I dashed back to my seats while the roadie yelled to Tim who was picking his stuff onstage.

The roadie yelled "Tim do you have this guys wallet?"

Tim yelled back "Why hell no...was there any money in it?"

I told a clean up guy that "probably so"...by the time it reached Tim's ears it was "you ought to know?"

So there you have it ...I accused Tim Wilson of swiping my wallet...that's not all.

He and the roadie came up to me and with the most earnest face Tim told me to go home.

Son...go home right now and start cancelling you credit cards and start letting everyone you know...know...you know?

I was shaking with shock when the roadie threw me a t shirt and closed the door.

I sprinted to the car and raced home 30 miles then ran in the house.

Walking around brain running I went back to the car to look.

Right in the middle of the passenger seat was my wallet...all warm and toasty.

My wife and her big coat was sitting on it the whole time...she thought it was funny.

I wrote Tims fan club later and thanked them for the T and help...they thought it was funny.

I was always hoping that Tim thought it was funny...now I may never know...but I bet he did!

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Jan 2, 2015 0:35:43 GMT -5 monkeesfan said:

My day was quiet. I watched the football games at Kent's in Swansea and then at CBS Scene in Foxboro. It's back to work tomorrow.

Quiet days are my favorite. Awesome.