I have to tell you, for the past week or so, since the head of the Taliban in Iraq was killed, all I hear is George Bush on the radio. Oh my god!!!!! I can't stand it anymore.... really, please some one tell me, are there really people out there who think he is a President...? I mean really, do you think he would win again... can there really be people out there who have a Bush bumper sticker on their car yet, and know it is there. I mean really, they have had to have forgotten that it was there, or it just keeps slipping their mind to pull that thing off.

The guy is a joke, really! My Father is suffering from advanced infarct dimensia, and he has more brain cells working than George W. Bush?

The sad thing is, this guy is just plain stupid... period, I mean really stupid... No joke people, the guy is a moron! This is not a progressive ailment he has... he was born this way. He was a giant "L" the day he was born.

Did you hear the latest, he gave a reporter at a press conference a hard time, he actually chastised this guy publicly during the press conference because he had sun glasses on. He went as far as to say to the audience, (which in turn became a TV audience) that it was not a sunny day, and that there was no reason for him to be wearing sun glasses. Turned out the guy has an dengenrative opthamalogic disease, in which he experience pain in natural light, even on over cast days. It is a disease which has caused him to be legally blind. How embarrassing, that the President of the United States is an all time, world class loser. But then again, we all know how he feels about people with disabilities.

When the main vocabulary of the President of the United States is: uhhhhhhh; heh, heh, heh...., you know you are in trouble. But again, how did he get elected. Did people actually vote for him?

I am ashamed of the leadership of my country. I am ashamed to be an American, truly. I eluded to that in a previous post, well, I am not eluding anymore. I am fully ashamed to be an American, because, as an American I am associated with the likes of those that voted for this government.

I guess this blog is getting pretty boring... no pictures, just daily boring life that most people are sick of their own, and have no interest in some one elses... I usually update this at work, so I don't have access to my hard drive with my pictures. In fact most of my pictures are on discs.

George found my blog yesterday... which is fine, don't know how he found it, probably from another blog that I posted to.

The camping trip to Fort Wilderness is in the planning stages, and all we have to do is call to make the reservations. Carol wanted her nephew to make the reservations for us to get a discount, but actually, I would rather do it all myself, and skip the discount. That is just me. For no real reason, other than I hate depending on someone else. It is just easier that way, I know what I have done, and what to expect, and in the long run, it usually works out better that way.

Tonight I am making a spaghetti squash dish. Not sure how it will turn out, but hopefully it is good. Nothing worse than anticipating something all day, preparing it, and then not liking it.

Other than that, nothing is new.

Cleaned mostly yesterday. It is such a big house to clean in one day. George helped me by vacuuming. He did a really thorough job too. Moved furniture, the whole works. I have to get the floors next week. Saturday was a bear, it was so hot, and since we take George's car to run all the errands, and he has no air, it was pretty rough.

Hope my glasses come in today. It is getting pretty hard working with glasses that are 3 and 4 years old. I can manage, but I find myself making mistakes.

I was thinking about planning a camping trip for Labor Day weekend. Another one to Fort Wilderness. I will talk to George about it and see if Carol and Richie are interested.

A tropical storm is supposed to skirt central Florida over the next few days. It rained alittle bit this morning, and hopefully will rain a fair amount more, we sure do need it. I really want to get out to the courtyard and work out there. Everything takes priority over that, and it is really starting to get to me.

Actually now that you mention it... alot is starting to get to me. I am hoping it passes really. But I can't seem to find a nitch to settle into lately.

Hmm, oh well, I guess I will see what happens. I think as always, I feel like everything is just hanging out there. No, goals, no beginnings, no end, just hanging. I think alot has to do with my Dad, and family situation. I can't explain it, but it just isn't right. I am antsy and uneasy, about everything.

I lost 3 pounds. So, 17 more to go.

Yesterday was an unbearably hot day. Without AC in George's car, made the chore of running errands a bear, and actually made us both feel sick by the end of the day.

So this morning will be spent doing house work. Hopefully by 3:00 or 4:00, I will be able to get in the court yard and work in the garden.

Sent Father's Day cards to my Dad and Uncle Richard today. Hope the staff at the nursing home sees the card I sent my Dad. He may not realize he got it, but if they do, maybe they will realize that he is someone's Dad, and he is special.

Other than that, nothing else is new. Electric bill cam in and it was pretty steep. I have turned the thermostat down 1 or 2 degrees, to see if it will help a little. It is kinda cool in here a lot of the time, so maybe we won't feel it comfort wise too much.

Two weeks before I leave for NC, and have to say, I am not looking forward to it. Not sure what I am going to run into, but it probably will not be good, what ever it is. I just don't know how I am going to handle that situation. I am not sure there is a way to handle it.

Been watching the Osprey's on the cell phone tower. I think they have babie up there. I really want to get a pair of binoculars so that I can watch them more closely. I was afraid that there was only one up there, but I have seen another one coming and going with food, so I guess there must be babies, and one has to stay by and watch them.

Ok, so that is what I want for my birthday. A pair of good binoculars and a set of paniers for my bicycle. On the record....

Short post today....

Feeling good, I think my diet this week resulted some net "loses", but we will see tomorrow...

Not going to splurge tonight, George agreed, no sense in adding a pound, that we could have potentially lost, especially with weigh-in tomorrow.

Went over on my breakfast, but I think I am under on my lunch.

Not sure what I am doing for dinner...

I am going to try and figure a nice sit down meal for the weekend...

Well, better go...

Oh yea, the fiasco from the SCDEC, Carol, Ed, Tony, et al... well, apparently someone sent an e-mail to one of Carol and Eds potential customers, a candidate with DemsLink, and said some not so nice things. Of course there are no details, but the rumor is that they are checking IP addresses and have retained an attorney...

In my opinion, it is a ruse, and they are just trying to scare some people. Unless this individual lied about their character (and what ever went on the blog, was 100% from what I could tell), there is nothing an attorney can do, and if he takes the case... he will be milking them, and potentially opening this up to the media, and not such good press.

But be that as it may...I am done with them, and it wasn't anyone that I care about, so, let them have their fun...

Recently there was an exchange on another blog, about the Seminole County DEC. I contributed to that blog, periodically, one of my contributions was deleted by the moderator... not sure why, except that I stated some facts that, more than likely did not please some, regardless of whether they were "true" facts or not.

But... alas, the debate became heated, with as would be expected, not agreement or compromise, (I am not sure if the moderator really thought that it was possible) and she took down the blog. With an essay on how she respected and cared for everyone that contributed, naming people who did and didn't. Never passing an opinion, (totally expected... wordy when it suit her purpose, but when faced with direct questions, and inquiries on her opinion, suddenly she became jello), just making excuses. Well, I am not finished.... So here I will put one piece, my piece that no one can delete, or take down.

The leadership of the Seminole DEC is a smoke and mirrors show. A giant illusion. They don't have any standing in the state, in reference to DEC's and certainly don't have any real standing in the county. Honestly, do they think that Palm Beach County DEC looks up to Seminole DEC? Give me a break, you are not measured on your website, your Power Point presentations, the facility you have your meetings in, or how attractive (? that one I don't get at allllllll!) your chair is (supposedly, personally I don't see it, now bring on the jealousy remarks...)

In reality, the DEC is measured by the members. I have to say in our height, which was right around the summer of 2002, we were big. Bob Poe was the chair. He wasn't the greatest, and eventually stepped down, but it really had no bearing on the DEC. We didn't have a website, we met in the Seminole County Library, where we were thrown out promptly at 8:45. We had a few speakers, no Power Point. But we had sincere, active and excited members. Amazingly Bob didn't treat anyone different. In fact he was indifferent to the members. He didn't surround himself with fans.... most of the people involved were the original die hards that were around before the 2000 election.

The difference was the energy was created by the membership. Well, he stepped down, and I have to say, the reason or reasons were unjustified. He happened to be the State Chair at the same time, and his stepping down from that position, probably made more sense, but that is another story....

Then came Vic. He was a good guy. Tried hard, got involved in the right things, but unfortunately after losing the Governors election in 2002, people were just tired. Along comes the presidential election in 2004. I am not sure what happened there. Other than, egos. And not those of the chair or board, but of the volunteers. We brought in alot of new people. Not alot of members, but alot of people. But, they didn't have experience, and they didn't want to listen, and everyone wanted to be a leader. I happened as it was to back away at that time. I had illness in my family, and was traveling to NC through that summer, in addition to dealing with my own health issues and concerns. I am not sure where the breakdown came in, but it did, and when it was time for a new election, Vic was voted out.

Well, Carol and Ed (they are a team, Carol is the official chair, but Ed has way too much input, and output, from his mouth that is....) eventually became the head of the DEC. Initially they were new, young, had big ideas, and wanted to bring technology into the DEC. However what they did in the process is replace the passion, and energy of the members with that technology.... Well, say what you want, when was the last time you got passionate over a Power Point production. And, I am sorry but Carols personality quotient is down in the negatives. She may be bright, she may be technologically savvy, but in the passion department.... no way. She sapped the energy out, as she become more recognized. She became closed to outside ideas. She micro-managed every single angle of the DEC. She stopped letting club presidents speak, she was destroying the grass roots aspect of the DEC. Then Ed started with his behind your back comments. He started talking about people, passing rumors, building alliances. Clicks started forming, and it was fast becoming you against them.

Well needless to say, about 7 months ago, Ed and Carol took an oppurtunity to take their click or alliance, and turn them against George and I... I actually was not part of the prey, but, I made myself such, because what you do to George, you do to me....

To make a long story short, when he realized they were not happy with him, he offered to resign, of course the two of them were shocked by the mention of this, and told him that was not necessary, however, with in 4 weeks, he received an e-mail telling him that he must want to resign, so they will accecpt his resignation.

Now some background.... The Longwood election was first week in November. Election day I had an opthamologist appointment, to check my vision after the stroke. I was told that my vision was affected by the stroke, and that it might pass, but I was also told that I was developing Glaucoma. So, that night we decided not to go to the "victory" party. I was not in a festive mood, and I also did not want to be around the likes of Carol and Ed. George complied, and we opted to stay home. The results came in, and the DEC backed candidates did not win. At about 9:30, George got a call from Carol. She told him that they were having a wrap up meeting the following night at Shari's house. It was at 7:30. We agreed to go. I told him when he hung up the phone that this was an oppurtunity to throw him under the bus, and he needed to be aware of that. Also, that when the slaughter started, I was getting up and leaving. It didn't matter if I had to walk home, I was not going to sit there and listen to them.

The next day, I left work early for a doctor and dentists appointment. When I got home, Eric, our cat was ill. He had experienced and episode of a bleeding disorder in the past, and had almost died. The vets office was closed, so I called George, and told him our only option, after calling various vets offices, was to take him to the emergency clinic after my dentists appointment. When he got home he agreed, and that was the plan. On my way home from the dentist I called Shari to tell her we might not be able to make it to the meeting, because Eric was ill. She actually chuckled on the phone. I am serious, she laughed. She apparently found it humerous that we would not want to show up for the meeting... (the meeting they were going to gather people around to have and "intervention" with George, and apparently set him straight.) I told her that if he was ok, and we felt comfertable leaving him home after the visit to the emergency clinic, we would come. She chuckled again and said, the meeting is at 7:30, you should be able to make it. I told her I knew, and I we could make it we would. Eric died that night, he bled to death internally. Needless to say we didn't go to the meeting.

Oh but the meeting went on. 45 minutes of the meeting was dedicated to slaming and slandering George. Mostly by Ed. The way we know, Richie Chapetto was there, and he said at one point that he was not going to sit there for another minute and listen to this, especially if George was not there to defend himself. In fact, it was Ed Burns, who was just blown away by the fact that it would take two people to take a cat to the vet. Shari, must have really put her spin on the whole event. And Ed, finished it. I believe Richie said to them at one point, you better hope that cat doesn't die. Well, Eric did. I still get very upset when I think about it.

About 3 days letter, Carol Cox sent George a rather nasty e-mail, stating that she was willing to accept his resignation, based on the fact that he doesn't show up for meetings, chooses to "insult" people (?) among other things.... Then come to find out that members of the board were telling people that George resigned because he didn't get his way.

Sounds like alot of nonsense doesn't it. Sounds like alot of petty individuals. Well you are right, they are, each and every one of them. And that is why Goerge and I don't care to be around any of them. Not Shari, Ed, Carol, or any that were involved at the time. Also, then come to find out that Mr. Hot Head Ed Burns starts telling members that George was fooling around with someone behind my back while I was sick.

So Martie Anderson can say what ever she wants on her blog. She can think the sun set and rises in Carol and Ed eyes. She can tell me how she admires George and I, but you know what... it doesn't matter. She chose sides. She didn't care about the kind of people they are. She didn't care how they can hurt someone so deeply, and she expects everyone to just "get along".

Not with the like of them... I will continue to tell people what they are like.

This is just my story. There are others that have affected others, but they can start their own blog and post them. I don't have the time, nor do I want to spend another minute on them.

Suffice it to say, they are not good people. Plain and simple. I don't respect them, I don't wish them well, and I really wish they would go away.....

I heard a piece on NPR this morning by Robert Reich.... It was very good, so I turned it up..loud. See, I was at work, and it was before 8:00, so, it was before regular work hours, and nobody could say anything... but there were people here, so I know that people heard it.

He was talking about repealing the estate tax. He gave some very interesting facts. I am no good are repeating this information, my mind is like a sieve and what goes in... although I comprehend it, it then goes right out... (I hate that!) I will see if I can find the clip and post it here...

On another note, I got a call from my girlfriend in Pennsylvania, NY, Orlando. Well, this is a long story. We met in NY, almost 30 years ago. She moved to Florida, then recently moved back to NY and sometimes in Pennsylvania. Any way, in August George and I are going to Philadelphia for a convention. So, she will be in Ambler, Pa., and I will go visit her. I don't want to spend all my time there, I mean in Ambler, but it will be nice to get to see her again. She is a nut, but aren't we all to some degree. She is happy, and if she is happy now, that is good.

I have learned that we have to appreciate the little things that can make us happy. There is so much crap out there, between people, and life events, that when you get a perk, you have to savor it. Especially as you get older. I worry about things now that I am getting older. Like what will happen to George and I when we get older. I mean health wise, and how will be able to take care of one another? I used to think that family was the answer to that... but my recent experiences have proven my theory on that flawed. So, now I have to concentrate on trying to cover the bases.

Oh, on the dieting note. It must be going well, because I am hungry alllllll the time. I can't say I am straving, famished, hungry, but hungry. Maybe it is boredom, and I need to occupy my time with something else other than that piece of candy. I have to admit, I am eatting... not much, but I have been eatting.... My oatmeal days are killers. That is alot of calories, (that I don't enjoy) and then the rest of the day I have to be pretty careful. George wants to make Friday night the fun night. I guess that is ok, except, we have weigh in on Saturday morning.... For example, he wants to have Mexican this Friday night... I am all for it, except this is a small privately owned Mexican Restaurant, so the chances of getting even a hint of the caloric intake will be impossible. But then again, it is impossible in Bennigans also.... Well, I will have to think about this, and try to figure out what it would be. I don't want to say no to our once a week treat, but I also don't want to suffer all week, and then blow it all, for one splurge a week.

The weekend is here, and almost gone... It turned out to be a pretty good one too. Yesterday we started out diet. I went over yesterday, but that is OK. Went to a concert in The Villages yesterday. It was a folk singer from Massachusetts, Peter Donnelly. He was very good. I bought one of his CD's and Carol bought one of his CD's.

Today I just worked around the house and the courtyard. It is a bigger house than I am used to, and usually I am alot more ambitious in the beginning of the day, and more tired than I anticipated at the end.

Also created a spread sheet for out diet. I think it works very well, I don't think George has looked at his yet. Set it up with formulas and everything. Pretty nifty.

Ate at Bennigans last night. What a shame. I really like that restaurant, but the service leaves alot to be desired. That is at any Bennigan's I have ever been to. Also, did you know that you can not get nutrition guides for Bennigan's restaurants. Not at the restaurant, not on line, no where. I wonder why that is.

Anyway, it looks like it is going to rain now. I hope it does, I love the rain, and really miss the afternoon showers we used to get here in Florida. Rain is just so cleansing. I really love the rain.

Well, still doing laundry, and need to get cleaned up for the night. I will write more tomorrow.

Happy Friday Everyone!! I am so happy it is Friday. I can sleep in tomorrow... Clean my house and maybe even work a little bit on my plants..... It don't get much better than that...

Plus, tomorrow is the first weigh in for the project. The project is that George, Me, Carol and Richie are all going to work towards (not compete necessarily) losing a goal of perhaps 20 pounds each.

The plan is that we will all meet at Publix at 9:00 every Saturday for 10 weeks, and have a weigh in. The reason this isn't a contest, is because we are supposed to helping and encouraging each other in this endeavor.

Of course George is already on the program, counting calories. I have decided to enjoy myself until I officially start. One thing I will tell you though... I have to make up some sort of tracking sheets. George has been keeping track of his calories on pieces of paper, and that is just not going to work.

The other thing we need, will be the "official" weigh-in cards. I was hoping George could make them up. Then we will trade them off, so that someone else will actually be keeping track of our weekly weights.

I made my reservations for the end of the month to go to North Carolina. I called my Mom to let her know also. Here's to hoping that everything runs smoothly, all the way around.

Other than that, nothing else is new.... Have to start finding more pictures that I can post. Always makes life more interesting.

So until the next time....

Happy Memorial Day....

One of my favorites is Garrison Keillor. Two years ago George and I went to DC for Memorial Day weekend... We saw Garrison Keillor-Prairie Home Companion, at Wolftrap National Park. He did this piece which brought alot of us in the audience to tears, including George and I...

Here is a shortcut... enjoy: Shortcut

Tell me why it is some days are a breeze to get through, and others are torture.... I mean sheer torture from the time you open your eyes, till you close them again. I know this sounds wrong, but it seems on those days the only way I can be is miserable. I want to be carefree, and I want to be "happy" in the sense of my mood, since as an over all rule, I am happy with my life, it's just that certain day are just a chore.....

Well, yesterday and today are like that. I look forward to lunch, not just because it is an hour off, but because it is an hour off that signifies that half of my day is over.

And, I hate the fact that I am wishing my life away, because, I love my life, as an over all rule.

But if you really break this down, that could be just the problem. I love "my" life. I am fed up with my employers life. And... I resent the fact that I am dependent on my employers life, in order to have "my" life.

Does that mean my job is not satisfying..... You Betchya! But I consider myself lucky to have my job. And... I am fearful of losing my job in todays market. I am getting to that age where finding another job to replace this one will be extremely difficult. Yet, I am still young enough that I have a good 15 years before I could even toy with the ideas of retiring.

Maybe this is a mid life crisis... Hmmm, need to Google "Mid Life Crisis"

But, again, I don't suffer from the MLC on the weekends, or while I am on vacation....

I guess the final diagnosis is... I am bored with my job, but feel prisoner to it. So what do I do....

Well I ain't going back to school. I am not going to look for a new one....So I might as well just wait till this passes. What is that they say...."This too shall pass..." Hope it does! Cause I sure don't want to walk around like this much longer.....

No picture today... but yesterday someone looked at my blog and read it... How exciting is that....!!! Well, they wanted more details on something I wrote, and maybe one day I will get there... Still in that, "shy" mode.

Well thanks for the comment. Maybe it is silly that I think that is neat, but I do...

Back to work!!!

I would like to introduce Putzen. She is my 17 year old kitty (approximately).

You see her here laying in her Clementine box, which she took ownership of while it was waiting on the kitchen counter to be thrown in the garbage... Leave it to Putze, the former stray, to find something that would otherwise be considered garbage, to make use of it.

Putzen is a survivor, however here standards are high, you can be sure. That is why I consider myself to be pretty lucky to have been chosen by her to be worthy enough to want to share my home.

I found Putzen in 1991, outside the office I was working in at the time. As was my habit at the time, I was just getting over the break up of a relationship (which looking back, was one of the best things that ever happened to me.... the break-up that is, not the relationship). I was walking into work, and there she was, sitting outside the door.... So I looked at her, and she looked at me, and I said to her..."Oh no, don't even think about wanting to me... I have not time for this....Just decide on someone else. Sorry, I can't help you right now..." I walked into the office, around the corner, up the ramp, and who was sitting outside the sliding glass door, looking up at me, but the soon to be Putzen. So I put down my bag, took out $5.00, and headed over to Publix to buy some cat food.

I got back, and went out in the courtyard and fed her. From that day forward (Mid August 1991 to October 1991) I spent my lunch hours with her in the courtyard. And would even stop over on Sunday night on my way to dance lessons to feed her and spend 20 or so minutes with her. (Line dancing, nothing fancy) On Sunday night I would get there, walk over to the courtyard, call her and she would coming running across the roof (it was flat), and down the tree to my feet.

So, one afternoon she was sitting outside the front doors, looking in, it was after patients (medical legal orthopaedic practice), so the doctor was doing depositions, and an attorney, Monte Shoemaker came in and saw her, and asked if I knew who the cat belonged to. I said no one really, although I was feeding her, but didn't think I could take her in because I had a dog. He said, man, she is pretty ugly, I hate to see her alone out there, and that he might have a friend that would take her. I was happy and hurt at the same time. Happy because she might have a real home, and hurt because he called her ugly. My Putzen was NOT ugly!!!

Oh, side note. Putzen is a German verb, meaning to shine, make clean, polish. I named her that because... 1. I am German, 2. She has spots on her nose, and I thought she had a dirty nose the first time I saw her, and 3. she like most cats was always cleaning her self.

So, back to the story, Monte Shoemaker said that he would check with his freind and bring her by to see if she wanted to take the cat. He called me the next day to say he would be by that afternoon with his friend. So, at 4:00, I went out and got my Putzen, brought her in and she sat with me on my desk, on my work that I was working on (typical of a cat) and waited to Monte and his friend. By 5:15 he called and said that he would not be able to make it, but would let me know when he could.

I thanked him and told Putzen, I think that attorney and his friend just missed out on a pretty special girl. Afterall, he couldn't possibly have thought very much of you if he thought you were ugly. So I told her that she could come to live with me under one circumstance, and that was she needed to tolerate long trips in a car. So, when I went home that night, I took her for a ride. And you know what... she loved it. She sat on my lap and fell asleep. So I went back to the office. Told her I was going home to tell Gretchen (that was my big girl, a dog, part lab part dobie, and the best personality of any dog. I lost her in March of 2003, she was 13 years old), and get ready for her with food and bowls, and litter box, etc. But to be ready the next night, which happend to be a Friday, to move to Winter Springs.

And that is how I got Putzen. She's old now, has an over active thyroid, a heart murmur, but she is still the Queen. She doesn't take medicine, she loves the screen porch. Loves to have her feet above everyone elses, and especially loves her Clementine box, her house (cat bed in the shape of a house), and the 36 inch dog bed in the dining room, the warmest room in the house. I am not sure how much longer Putzen will be with us, but she will always and forever be in our hearts.

She wouldn't have it any other way, and neither would we!

Ok, so this is our house.... Mine and George's and we share it with Mathie, Wesley, Elke, Putzen, Hans and Henry. Mathie and Welsey are our dogs, (Mathie was mine and Wesley was George's, so now they are ours...) Elke and Putzen are our cats, Hans is our 20 year old Cockateil, and Henry is our 10 year old rabbit. Pretty nice huh? I would like more trees, but all in good time. And if I saved my pennies, maybe some day I will be able to have that small cabin or cottage somewhere, with lots of trees, and alot less people.

The balcony or terrace boxes hanging on the railing is my idea. Looks great with the right plats. When this picture was taken, the plants in there looked GREAT. The ones I have now still have to "evolve". That isn't saying that they will.

As you may or may not be able to tell. This is a townhouse. A really nice one I might add. We have a two car garage, a little courtyard, a screen porch. Everything I could possilbly want except for the trees. But the ones that are there will get bigger given time, and care.

I used to live in a townhouse, the next town (in Florida they are "cities") over. I lived there for 17 years, and was able to plant trees. Had an Oak in the front yard the was gorgeous, and I planted 3 in the back yard. A Pine (of some sort) a Water Oak (usually regarded as garbage trees, but I like them all) and a grapefruit tree I grew from a seed, when I was 13 years old in NY. On my window sill in my bedroom. So before I left there, I took about 10 or 12 seeds from a grapefruit, and planted them, and they gave me about 9 little sprouts, and from that I got about 6 sapplings. I gave 3 of them away, and kept 3 and will try to make container trees out of them.

My courtyard in this house is a constantly evolving project. I guess that is good. I planted broccoli, tomatoes, basil, parsely, rosemary, mint. Tryed to get Eggplant and cucumbers to grow, but nothing came of them. Oh yea... Chives too. I will try them again.

Well that is it for now.. More pictures to come. Makes it more interesting with pictures....

Well, back from Daytona, and looking forward to a weekend at home, doing what ever I feel like doing. After the normal weekend chores that is.

Tonight I think we are going to go bicycle riding. I hope so anyway. I need to try and drop some weight.

Had a weird dream last night. Dreamt that our Pet Sitter could not make it the weekend we are going to North Carolina. So, I had to ask this person from work, that I happen not to be very fond of, by the way, so I am not going to mention his name, not that anyone reads this.... Anyway, needless to say I was very apprehensive leaving my precious little ones under his care. So uncomfertable I was, I made myself wake up. Have you ever done that? I hate it when that happens.

Anyway, we are now in the market for a digital camera. I will be using it too. I will make myself use it.

That is about it for now. Nothing much happening around here lately.

Reading a great book. It is by Doug Marlette, called "The Bridge". It is about a cartoonist who grows up in North Carolina, went to school at Florida State, move to NY to work for a Long Island newpaper, and then due to various circumstances moves back to North Carolina. Anyway, it is good and would recommend it to anyone.

And last but not least I am going to try and make this blog more interesting. Maybe this weekend, when I have time to play with it....

Until next time...

Well I didn't have the sweet tea, I had a Sam Adams. In fact I had two Sam Adams! And George had two Sam Adams also. And they were good. Had a Ceasar Salad and a baked potato, and a cup of coffee. Very good.

Today I mail my Mother Day card, and read my book some more. It is hot today, but I think I will sit out on the balcony and read my book some more.

Tonight is the banquet, and tomorrow we go home.

Can't wait to see my kids. If George gets elected as a delegate for the National Convention in Philly, then we will be in Philadelphia in August. That will be pretty neat, since I have never been there, and if the hotel is in a decent area, I hope there will be lots to do.

Well better get down stairs and mail this card, then get back up here and call my Mom. Then, time to read my book and get lazy!!!

Home from camping... had a great time and will tell you about it when I have more time and have the pictures developed.

There are a couple of Blogs that I find very interesting, and maybe you will to... one is

http://www.doug-greens-gardening.blogspot.com

Another is http://www.wesleycanino.blogspot.com

Well, I have to admit, the second is because it is a video of my courtyard/patio at home. And that is continually evolving, and maybe one day it will be changed or a new video will replace it.... Heck it has changed since that video was put on there. Actually it is just a place that my sweetie is playing around with putting streaming video on the web, so who knows what will show up next.

Now the other is really neat. This guy I believe is in Canada, and he gives all kinds of tips on this blog, and his website, for all kinds of gardening... And, if you e-mail him with a question, he will answer it... I e-mailed him to ask him if he has any advise or information for gardening in Florida, and he answered me.... and he was honest. I mostly look at his blog now, and it is very interesting. But then again, I love gardening....

In fact one day I hope to have a small vacation home somewhere, where I am off somewhere, can have an outdoor garden, and maybe even a change of season. Not that I don't love my home now... I do, but a house in the woods... would be perfect. Idealistic as well, but that is ok.... I can dream. I may not get exactly what I dream for, but I may get close.

Gotta go....

You are not going to believe this.... I went home and went on line to order the dress from Coldwater Creek, and it was sold out!!! That's Ok, I guess it wasn't meant to be....

We picked up our bicycles yesterday. Man was that great!! Felt good to get back on and ride again... can't wait to get my paniers, so that I can ride up to Publix and pick up groceries. We can ride up to Panera, K-Mart, Target, the mall. Visit friends... the possibilities are endless.

More news, the guy they had on trial in Virginia, was not sentenced to the death penalty.. Maybe there is hope. Don't get me wrong, the guy is a piece of garbage, but he is getting what he deserves, number one he is living out the rest of his life on US soil, which probably disgusts him, two, he is in solitary confinement, so he won't have the audience to press buttons to get the sick satisfaction he thrives on. In fact... nobody cares if he is dead or alive at this point. And lastly, but not least important, that jury is proving that they are bigger human beings, and the reaction to "kill the ba@#&rd" is not what we as humans being should be about. It isn't about instant gratification, it is about punishment and civility.

Enough about that... getting the "gear" organized to go camping. I am getting excited. Bringing the bicycles with us. Planning the meals, nothing like Eggs for breakfast in the morning, cooked on a camp stove, eatten outside, the smell of coffee. I wish we were staying more than two nights, and maybe if we have a really good time (which I think we will) George will want to go again in the fall for a long weekend.

Well, that is enough for now... pretty boring huh...? That is ok, because I am very happy, very content. Life is good, and I appreciate everyday, and hope for many, many more to come....

Ok,

So I am trying to order a dress from Coldwater Creek from the office... and I can't remember my password to get into the account...

Does anyone else have that problem? It is sooooooo frustrating, and I tell myself over and over that I should just do this kind of stuff from home where I have everything on file..... All the 350,000 user names and passwords I have accumlated over the past 5 years...

But on another note, we are going camping this weekend. It is supposed to be in the 90's all weekend, and we are going camping...

That is ok, the worst part of it will be that the kids will be at home. Really is a shame. But they would be a handful to be sure. They would be happier in their air conditioned living room, on the couch, with their scheduled visits from their best buddy Wayne....

Well, other than that, my break is almost up, and I need to get back to work!!

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