On Sunday was my eldest daughter birthday. She wanted a very low key day for her birthday and her wish came through.
As a family we usually have a big family celebration for birthdays, so this was usual.
My daughter, Big Sis is such a kind person. She is like a egg, a hard shell on the outside and all gooey and soft on the inside.
She is very sensitive to everyone’s needs, so kind hearted she would give her shirt off her back to someone in need.
She always gives away her time, and the services that she provides as a business she practically gives it away.
Often times as a Mom, I would get frustrated with her for giving away so much, telling her it’s OK once in a while, but you do have expenses.
She does all this in secret for she does not like attention for her merits.
Secrets sometimes leads to misunderstanding from others. She remains quiet, but that does not stop her from doing what she does.
But a Mama knows some things.
My heart beams so proudly that I know such a quality person.
You Shine my precious little star.
May 27, 2009
May 21, 2009
Ghosts taking advantage of a poor innocent dog?
NAH!!!
It’s just a dog freshly washed and a hand quickly moving away to take a picture.
Got-ya!
May 13, 2009
I always hear stories of people finding alligators, fish, and snakes and so on in their toilet.
This story I heard the other day and really was a hum-dinger.
It happened in Taiwan, in the early hours of the morning, a man went into his bathroom to use the toilet, He sat down and the next thing he knew this rare venomous medium size yellow snake bit him in the “what’s not” (penis). The man jump up with the snake still clenched and hanging from him and ran for help. This snake apparently coiled itself inside the toilet bowl and was having a nap. This is not a usual occurrence in Taiwan.
The condition of the man who was bitten is good. He is alive with a minor injury. Although if you probably talked with him, he would say it was a major injury.
Every since I heard this story, on my late night visit to the bathroom, this story enters my head, but if I turn on the lights, it usually is blinding and then I have a tuff time going back to sleep. So I take my chances, I guess I am playing Taiwan Toilet Roulette.
May 6, 2009
Senior Moments of a past cute and crazy hippie chick
April 28, 2009
These are some popular suggestions of 10 things to do when you are bored for a short period of time
Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show.
See how long you can hold a note.
Try to not think about penguins.
Use your secret mind power
Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.
Pretend you’re a robot
Scratch yourself
Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
Pinch yourself
Pretend to be a car
Ok I never thought of doing any of those things, if I was bored. Call me crazy, but my list goes like this.
Watch TV
Listen to music
Call someone
Surf the internet
Read
Sing randomly to the dog
Eat something
Go for a walk
Doodle
Clean out my purse
Write
I guess those popular suggestions were written by a man.
April 22, 2009
Happy Earth day to you
Happy Earth day to you
Haaappy Earth day to yoooohhhoooo
Happy Earth day to you!
(sing with the Happy Birthday tune)
I am thinking what kind of stuff can I do to celebrate Earth day.
Since the weather has cooled down a bit may take a nature walk.
Use only one lamp tonight.
Try and use public transportation.
Express gratitude to our Mother Earth.
EAT CAKE!
April 16, 2009
Now that it is over whew!
Check out the few deductions that I heard people made and the IRS accepted.
Cat- as pest Control.
Dog- as a security system.
OB-GYN visit- as maintenance and repair.
Toilet paper- Office supplies.
People can sure get creative with their deductions.
April 8, 2009
I finally am able to get on the Internet again. You know it does not seem possible that I use the Internet all the often, (hehehe) I sure do. I was missing logging on and navigating from one site to the next like some seasoned explorer.
My modem died, I found it floating on it belly one afternoon after work. I was going to flush it down the toilet, but had a second thought; maybe my Internet provider would replace it for free. Yeah and gophers fly!
They did replace it but I had to take out another contract with them and wait a lifetime for the new modem to come in. Well the lifetime of a Gastrotrich, three days, if you factor in the weekend, 5 days.
When the modem arrived, I carefully hooked it up and proceeded to have a problem loading the program to my computer. I call the technical line for help.
This is how the call went.
Good afternoon this is David, I am going to provide you with technical support. Is your phone number blablabla? Who am I speaking with?
Thank you Miss. Doookind.
Me: My name is Duncan.
David. One moment please.
Thank you Miss Doookind for holding I appreciate your patience. What is the problem today and how may I assist you? I see we sent you a new modem, did you receive it?
Me: Yes I did and I am having a hard time installing… (David interrupts me)
David: We are here to provide excellent service and we are happy to help you in any way possible. Did you receive your new modem?
Me: Yes, David can you hear me ok?
David: Thank you for calling Ms. Doookind what can I do for you?
Me: I am having problem installing my… (David interrupts me again)
David: What version of windows are you running?
Me: Windows? I am not on Windows.
David: Ms. Doookind could you please log onto Internet explorer?
Me: David I cannot log onto anything, I am stuck with this pop up window… He interrupts again…
David: Ms. Dookind what is on your screen right now?
Me: David I am trying to tell you what I problem is.
This is the way it went on for the whole phone call, which made loading the new modem software take three times as long. At one point I said to David, hey you are not listening to what I am telling you. At that point he asked me, “how are you today?” Then put me on hold and came back and asked, “how are you today?” I said with frustrated voice this is the second time you have asked me that question in less the 2 minutes.
David was reading off a script and was so hung up on this script that he did not listen to my response. I know that customer service is important, but technical support representative reading from a script just does not work for me.
March 25, 2009
In March 1991, Florence Schreiber Powers, 44, a Ewing, N.J., administrative law judge on trial for shoplifting two watches, she called her psychiatrist to testify that she (Powers) was under stress at the time of the incidents. The doctor said Powers did not know what she was doing “from one minute to the next,” for the following reasons:
recent auto accident
traffic ticket
new-car purchase
overwork
husband’s kidney stones
husband’s asthma (and noisy breathing machine in their bedroom)
menopausal hot flashes
“ungodly” vaginal itch,
bad rash,
fear of breast and anal cancer,
fear of dental surgery
son’s asthma
mother’s and aunt’s illnesses
need to organize parents’ 50th wedding anniversary
need to cook Thanksgiving dinner for 20 relatives
purchase of 200 gifts for Christmas and Hanukkah
attempt to sell her house without a broker
lawsuit against wallpaper cleaners
need to return newly purchased furniture
and toilet constantly running.
(Nonetheless, she was convicted.)
The ungodly vaginal itch would definitely send me on a crime spree. ;0)
Oh the things we women have to endure!
March 12, 2009
For over 10 years I have been subscribing to the magazine called Country Living. It was my favorite magazine of all time. I kept every copy I have ever received in date order. I could tell you that three years in row two years back that they had the same cover for the Thanksgiving issue, just changing the background color slightly. I loved the real estate sampler they had in which they would advertise all these beautiful old homes across the nation. I would daydream of buying a big Victorian Mansion in some remote beautiful area and turning it into a bed and breakfast, then living peacefully and happily for the rest of my life. After looking at the real estate section, I would jump to the recipes. Some of my favorite cake recipes are from Country Living. One year I had a party for my mom and tried to copy the same decorations from an out door theme party they featured. Over the years I have ogled and aahhh the crafts and featured, check out how this person decorated their home.
Well, my love affair has ended with the magazine. I have noticed a change in the layout, articles, recipes, and infrequent real estate section. What the heck. The editor resigned a few issues ago. She had been with the magazine since the beginning. I believe the head honchos have changed. Thus leading to a different style, one I find boring.
Tell me why do good things always have to change?
Ooooooooohhhhhh man!
