Sunday, March 30, 2008

Beach Day



Saturday is a perfect day to head 14 blocks east and spend the day on the beach. That's exactly what I did yesterday. I took these with my cell phone. Isn't that wonderful invention. A camera on your phone?? I've been snapping like crazy lately..gone are the words...DAMN..I WISH I HAD A CAMERA!


After sunnin' and swimmin' I had a facial...god, life is good. Hope you are enjoying your weekend as much as I am!


Friday, March 28, 2008

Friday Fun

Yes, it's that day of the week...here are a few teasers that will while away the final hours of the work week..Have FUN and have a great weekend!

Games at Miniclip.com - Bubble Trouble
Bubble Trouble

Are you up the challenge to clear all the bubbles?

Play this free game now!!





Games at Miniclip.com - Hen Coops
Hen Coops

Find the hidden Easter Eggs, how many rounds can you go?

Play this free game now!!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

I'm back

But don't really have anything new to post...plus I'm tired of the last post being up there..

OK wait...holy smokes..check out my clustermap to the left...I sure get a lot of visitors..I wonder why they don't all leave comments...can you imagine if they did? it'd be like the comment section over at Bag wine Ruminations

HUGS!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Gone a visitin'

Hello Friends.

Just a quick update and note to let you know that I have gone a'visitin'.... Yes Hubs and I are enroute to NC to visit our dear 6 grandchildren (and their parents) for Easter.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and Easter.. Ohhhh marshmallow peeps, Robin's eggs and chocolate bunnies... YAY!! enjoy!

hugs!!

Monday, March 17, 2008

St Patrick's Day and what it means to me..


Frankly nothing...I'm 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Swedish and 1/4 English. But in honor of the day I usually cook a corned beef and cabbage dinner..'cause we like it.

I grew up in a town in Northern NJ that had a predominately Italian heritage population (hard to believe right???). When I was a kid some kids told us to wear orange on St Patrick's day if we weren't Catholic. Jeez I was raised in the Unitarian Church...my parents weren't too cool with that idea so I didn't do it. I had nothing against the Irish Catholic kids. Hell, I was one of the few kids who wasn't Catholic, the last thing I wanted to do was stand out in elementary school... I usually wore something green.


In 1977 I actually went to the NY St Patrick's Day Parade in NY..primarily to get drunk..which I did and didn't have such a great time because some guy puked on the back of my coat while we were jammed into some pub on 47th Street. Frankly it was a pretty awful experience. I never went again.


Looking back on my younger days, this day was just an excuse to get wasted ...now its just an excuse to make a yummy pot of corned beef and cabbage.


So.. Irish or not.... Enjoy your day.

Ciao!!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Friday Fun

What do you know....it's friday again.....so have fun with this



Make sure your Java is up to date.
HUGS!!

Friday, March 07, 2008

Friday Fun

It's Friday!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!! Have fun!



Click to Mix and Solve


Try this link

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Quote of the Day - Aristotle Onassis - "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

amazing how stuff comes to you just when you needed it..I needed this today...and you know what? it worked

:-)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Big Deep Breath~~~~~~~~~

I feel better now..

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Great Song

I posted this over at Kitchen Concerts...but I thought I would put it here too. Enjoy!

The Band - Chest Fever

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Floyds Knobs & Bad Sweaters


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I was just looking at my sitemeter to see who has stopped by my blog. I'm rather addicted to doing that..I have no idea why. But I digress, the latest visitor was from Floyds Knobs, IN. Have you ever heard of that place? Why, according to the Google Map, it's just down the pike from Cementville. It just strikes me funny. Perhaps because I have been over at Matt's Blog and my funny bone has been tickled to no end this morning already. So Floyds Knobs just made me giggle.

In other news, its COLD here in sunny South Florida. A couple of times a year, the jet streams dips below Orlando and we actually get a chill in the air. It was 44 outside this morning when I woke up and the temp in the house was 68. We immediately banged the heat up to like 74. We don't do "cold". Apparently neither do my fellow South Floridians. As I was coming out of the store earlier a woman looked at me in my cotton sweater and said "aren't you COLD????????????" as if I was wearing a tank top and shorts. Heck I even have socks on today. I don't do socks. She was decked out in a non-matching ensemble of a winter fleece coat, a ginormus cable knit hat, complete with pom pom on top and a scarf...it was 57 degrees outside....she said she was FREEZING!



I call it bad sweater weather.



Here's how it works. People pull out whatever vintage sweater or coat they owned when they moved to South Florida..so...if you moved here in 1972, you pull out that outerwear from that year (or earlier). It doesn't matter if it looks good OR fits properly. They wear it. Now of course I don't fit into this category. I must be fashionable. I look at boots and sweaters every fall even though its 95 degrees here....and I usually buy some..just so I can wear them for an hour on a "cold" February morning and look somewhat trendy.

So that being said..I'm off to heat up some soup...IT'S COLD IN HERE!!

Monday, February 25, 2008

9 WORDS WOMEN USE‏

This was sent to me by a guy friend..of course....and...I hate to admit it...but... it kinda rings true..ya know...for some women...not me of course...am I talking too much?....I thought so


(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says "Thanks a lot" - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say "you're welcome" ... that will bring on a "whatever").

(8) Whatever: Is a women's way of saying F*cK YOU!

(9) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking "What's wrong?" For the woman's response refer to # 3.



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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Winter Wonderland!

The weather today was simply grand...a breezy 86, so I spent a couple of hours today sitting poolside...listening to my ipod and looking at this in my backyard:




I know..I'm mean.




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Friday, February 22, 2008

I feel honored...I really do


Thanks Matt!!


HUGS!!


Friday Cool

Done Deal!


Marlins' ballpark plan approved
Stadium construction scheduled to begin in November

By Charlie Nobles / Special to MLB.com

After eight years of searching for a long-term home -- and eight years of frustration -- the Marlins on Thursday ecstatically found the answer to their dreams.

MIAMI -- After eight years of searching for a long-term home -- and eight years of frustration -- the Marlins on Thursday ecstatically found the answer to their dreams.


yippppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

That...That...Rush Limbaugh

I dislike Rush Limbaugh intensely. I won't use the word hate, because that is what he is all about. I can't believe anyone who spews as much hatred and vileness can have a listenership of millions. What's wrong with people...do they get off on this stuff????:

"The important question for John McCain today is, is he going to learn the right lesson from this? And what is the lesson? The lesson is, liberals are to be defeated. You cannot walk across the aisle with them. You cannot reach across the aisle. "

and

"Whether you're a conservative Republican or not, you are a Republican. And at some point, the people you cozy up to, either to do legislation or to get cozy media stories, are going to turn on you. They are snakes."

He's talking about fellow Americans...AMERICANS... that happen to have a different viewpoint than he does. What an awful man...what an awful American.

I would be embarrassed to associate myself with the likes of a person like that.

I feel ill. ..and I feel saddened by people like him who call themselves Americans...it's not right.

I'm going to do something nice for someone...right now!! It's the only way to counterbalance that kind of negativity.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Caddyshack

I watched Caddyshack last night for like the thousandth time. Laughed like it was the first time I ever saw it. Love this movie...enjoy it again with me.







Sunday, February 17, 2008

YAY!!

I love baseball, you may or may not know that, but I do. I love going to games most of all and have been fortunate over the years to see some excellent games with excellent players and teams.



The highlight was the 1997 Florida Marlins season. My family and I routed on the Marlins and each home game of the playoffs and the World Series. We were there when they won against the Cleveland Indians. It was an amazing experience, perhaps one of the best of my life. The energy, the excitement, I have never felt anything like that.



Our love affair with watching games in person has dwindled over the years for a number of reasons. The main one being the level of uncomfortableness watching the Marlins play on a hot and humid night in South Florida in July or August. We've gotten caught in downpours and had to leave games because of bad weather. It can be so humid that I have brought towels to sit on because the persperation just runs off the seats. We haven't ever been to a Sunday afternoon game because it's just too hot. Do I sound whiney? Just try it sometime and you'll know what I'm talking about. It's hot here..and it's humid..and it's not that fun.





Well yesterday we heard good news..... finally.....



Report: Marlins reach stadium deal
Retractable-roof park would open at Orange Bowl site in 2011



There is one caveat "The agreement still needs the approval of local leaders." But it's really looking good.



All I can say is YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!



Win or lose I can go route for my home team in the comfort of a new stadium.