Not All Sure When This Began to Happen

Me thinks that I am becoming the Scrouge of all things holiday.  And I really don't care what holiday it is.  Let me start with Halloween.   I mean seriously it is not even a holiday, it is more of an observance.  It is National Teach Your Kid To Beg Day.  As I live on the main throughfare of a small rural town let me just say that on Halloween night I am not at home.  I would have to take a 2nd mortgage to buy candy for all the little (and not so little) ghosts and goblins that come down through here.  And since I don't even have the first mortgage that is not a possibility.  Last year I enjoyed a bonfire at some friends of Janelle and Kenneth's but as how Begging Day came on a weeknight this year we enjoyed the bonfire on Sat. night this year.  My original plan was to sit at home in the dark and pretend that I wasn't at home.  But I have a sister who enjoys giving out candy to the multitude of children that come by her house and she invited me to come and hang out with her.  Janelle and the boys came after their few stops and we enjoyed hot dogs while seeing all the little (and not so little) children. 

Based on this experience I have come up with a list of "You probably don't need to be trick or treating if:"  These are all from observations that I made tonight as all the little darlins were coming by.

You probably don't need to trick or treat:
If the baby is too young to walk or talk, it probably doesn't have enough teeth to eat candy and needs to be at home.  Mama and Daddy ya'll ain't foolin nobody, that candy is for you.
If you cannot say the words "trick or treat" even if you have to say it in your native language that nobody understands and can only hold that plastic pumpkin, 31 bag, or grocery sack out and grunt stay at home!
If you are large enough that you may or may not get carded at a night club you are TOO BIG, stay at home!
If you have ever received Medicaid for pregnant women you don't need to trick or treat.
If you are smoking when you walk in the yard you do not need to be trick or treating!
If you have boobs bigger than training bra size then you are too old to trick or treat.

I am sure there are more but these  are the ones that come to mind right off the top of my head.  Happy November!

Do It Anyway

Found a really neat poem by Mother Teresa that I wanted to share:

Do It Anyway

Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be Kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

　

Pretty well sums it up.  Have a great day.

Gag Me With a Spoon

Hiss, gag, barf, puke ......, get the idea?  What would draw such a response you may wonder or you may not.  Being bombarded with Christmas decorations as soon as I walk in the Wal-Mart or any other retail for that point.  It's not that I don't like Christmas, I really do but dang!  There are people on FB talking about how bad they want to decorate already for Christmas.  Give me a break people!  I even enjoy decorating for Christmas but not until around Thanksgiving or around the first week of Dec.  I even bought a new (or new to me) Christmas tree last year.  I really did enjoy looking at it and looking at it and looking at it.  However, by the time I took it down and got it lugged into the closet I vowed it might be like the most secretative (sp) homosexual, it may never come out of the closet.  Yet I know just as sure as I am threatening that I will drag it out and put it up again this year if for no other reason than to holler at little boys to leave the train alone that is set up around the base of the tree.  I really don't holler at them and even let them play with it.  It is almost worth fighting that tree just to see them lay down on the floor and look at the train (which doesn't work by the way).  I really am a slow learner I could just put the train out and say heck with the tree. 

Oh well, I guess I have vented enough.  Thanks for listening.  Bah humbug!

Yipeee

New energy efficent heat pump installation begins tomorrow!!!!  No more having to buy fuel oil!

Stick a Fork in Us

Well ball season is over for this year.  We lost a hard played game tonight so we are done for this year.  Already looking forward to next year.  I really will miss seeing these boys over the winter.  I will be in touch with several of them through e-mail and will see some of them over the winter but I am already looking forward to next year.  Next year is a qualifing year for nationals so we need to have a repeat at the state level next fall.  It really makes time pass quickly when you are looking at nationals in 2013.  Wow.  As if time did not pass quickly enough.

Another Neat Quote

I read another cool quote today that I just wanted to share.  "I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see."  Yep, pretty well sums it up.

Possibly the last softball game of the season tonight.  We are in our tournament for the league and already in the loser's bracket.  So if we win tonight we play again Thurs., if we lose we are done.  I am hopeful for a win since we have split with this team so far this year.  Regardless of the outcome I am still proud of these boys.

Time to get changed and get my game face on.  Toodles

You Can Run but You Can't Hide

I have said that one of the things I enjoy about living in a small town is that I don't have the stress of keeping up with my business because everybody else does it for me.  With that being said let me see if I can do this in a Reader's Digest version (condensed).

It has gotten cooler and on Fri. afternoon late I turned my heat on or I should say I turned the thermostat up.  Nothing happened.  I had measured my oil and had about 50 gallons and had ordered 100 more that would be delivered on Monday (to the turn of $343.00 for a hundred gallons, made me think it really would be a long winter).  At any rate I go down to the basement and hit the reset button cos I know to do things like that first.  It came on for about 45 seconds and then shut off.  I could smell oil so I knew the pump part was working.  I hit the reset again and it ran for about 30 seconds and shut back off.

Step 2:  Call the landlord (what I enjoy about renting) and after I assured him I would be ok Fri night he promised to have someone out here Sat. morning.  It was about 5:00 at this time. 

Step 3:  Heating and Air tech comes out Sat. morning and after spending about 45 minutes and marveling that the unit is probably at least 20 years older than he is and he has never seen one this old tells me he has to get a part for it.  He changed the filter and the nozzle but the transformer is gone.  He told me he would be back on Mon with someone else to help him disconnect the power and they would try to get it running.  I told him no problem and that I would be home on Mon.

On Sun. night around 7:30 I get a call to work Mon. morning at one of my part-time jobs.  I left home about 8:50 and he was not here yet.  Now let me interject here I did not know this boy from Adam's house cat but he was just as nice as he could be and was apologetic that he couldn't get it fixed on Sat.  So at any rate I run to the store on my way to work and as I am coming back through town I see the heating and air van at my house.  I went on to my part time job and had been there about 45 minutes when the heating and air van pulled up in front of the office.  These two little boys walked in and I asked, "are ya'll looking for me?"  And they were.  I don't know how these boys knew where to find me  but they did and had no trouble doing it.  I do have one next door neighbor who knows that I work at this job sometimes and I guess they could have asked him but nobody else close to the house would have known.

So here I was at a place I had not planned to be and these two boys who I have no idea who they are knew right where to find me when I wasn't at home.  So therefore, you might can run but you damn sure can't hide.

Oh!, and the reason they came looking for me was to get the landlord's phone number because they were going to talk to him about putting in a new unit instead of trying to repair the antique because once they got into it is needing even more work than they thought.  I am hopeful this is the case because it sure would help me to have a new energy efficent electric heat pump than the $3.00 a gallon fuel sucking old workhorse that is down there now.  Oh and that is another reason I don't mind renting.  I am thinking that is the deal because it is still not working.  Fortunately it isn't cold right now.  Oh and my little landlord and his wife stopped by on Sun to check to see if they got out here on Sat and told me if I needed to I could spend the night with them.  May not be Mayberry and it does have it's drawbacks but it has it's advantages too.  Toodles

New Motto

With all the FB funnies and inspirational post appearing like mushrooms after several days of rain I normally just kinda glance at them.  However, one of my friends posted one last night that I got a good chuckle out of and probably just my mood at the moment sounded like words to live by some days.  "Live life like a dog, if you can't eat it or hump it piss on it and walk away." 

Article came out in the paper yesterday and the lady did a really good job.  It was a sweet article and I had to send her an e-mail to thank her for a well written article.  I really am proud of those boys.  We begin our league tounament tonight so we have at least two more games left.  Boy would I love to put my shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops on for the game but alas fall has arrived.  A nippy 42 degrees this morning with quite a bit of wind.  So it will be jeans, sweatshirt, and either tennis shoes or maybe even my boots (which happen to be as comfortable as my tennis shoes.)  I much perfer those days to just slip on a sleeveless dress and flops to work in and the aforementioned shorts ensemble.

Time to go back to work.  Had a wonderful fantasy this morning thinking about the cooler weather.  It would be nice to have someone that I enjoyed spending time with pick me up Sat. morning, ride to the beach for breakfast, and just hang around the beach and come home Sat. evening.  As I have said before a girl can dream.

Have Mercy

Probably a good thing we have had the rain we have had this week.  Other than the fact that we really needed the rain it also has my yard good and damp.  Had the yard not been as wet as it was this evening I would have been very easy to track.  In other words, if it had been dusty I would have left a very noticable trail from the car to the house where my a@@ was dragging.  Not complaining mind you just stating a truth.  It has been a very busy week and for that I am thankful.  Working on getting my house cleaned up so I can finish getting ready for the weekend.  Horse sale tomorrow!!!!  YAY!!!  Leaving early in the morning and will return Sun. afternoon.  Told my daughter and her friend maybe I will get lucky (not literally) and meet me a cowboy this trip.  Every woman has her fantasies so indulge me.  Waiting for floors to dry so I thought I would chat for a moment.

Submitted my resume today for my 4th job, we will see.  You know it is really hard to start making a list of your qualifications and stuff.  I am like, I don't know, I just do what needs to be done to get the job done, whatever that job is.

Well, if I haven't shared this before this is kinda my words to live by, "It is what it is and we do what we gotta do"  Have an awesome whatever time of the day it is that you are reading.  Happy Trails!

Sweeeeeet!

I had a first happen to me today and this is just so cool!  I knew that a newspaper in a county that borders Moore Co. (where my ballteam plays) was going to do a write up on our win at senior games.  The gentleman that sponsers the team had called me one day needing the scores from the games for the reporter that is doing the article.  So today my phone rings and it is this reporter.  She wanted to talk to me about the games and the ballteam.  The sponser had told her that if there was anything she needed to know about the team she should call me because I was the scorekeeper and co-coach.  I had an interview with her and it was just so neat.  I proved my theory that you can ask people a couple of questions and they will give you much information that you may not have necessarily asked for.  (She asked me about my involvement with the team)  Only in this situation I was the one giving all the information.  I told this young lady that she didn't realize she was getting hold of the team historian!  But what was so neat is that she told me that after our conversation that it was becoming not just a report of some scores of ballgames but was more of a human interest story.  Article should come out in an edition one day next week, can't wait to see it!  May not be much but it will still be pretty cool.  Night, night.

Update on Fowl Transportation

Huey, Dewy, Louie no wait, Einy, Meanie, Miny, Moe, and Larry made the trip just fine.  As did I.  After a few miles they really did become just background noise.  The lady who brought them to me sent me a text about 3 hours into my trip to see if I had killed them yet.  Since I was driving and on a major interstate (boy that is kinda redundant (sp)) I called her instead of texting.  I was happy to report that they were making the trip fine.  But then, let me rephrase that, in about the last ten minutes they had either gone to sleep or died because they were quiet, and I had so tuned them out that I hadn't noticed.  She assured me that as it was good and dark they were probably asleep.  And they were, because I would occassionally hear what was probably guinea snores.  All five birds made it alive and I did not smother from the smell.  But remember I am not smelling a lot of things right now, thank you ragweed.

Had a really good trip and enjoyed visiting with the family.  The cook out was great fun as always and it just tickles me slap to death that my niece's friends call me Aunt Connie.  Now I don't know about ya'll but to me that is an honor.  Enjoyed the drive home today also as it provides a good opportunity to do some serious thinking about things.  Arrived home safe and sound after making serveral errand stops once back in the county, cleaned the inside of my car, cos remember I have been hauling animals, did a load of laundry, got my walk in and now am going to get my clothes all ironed for the week.

Got a really busy week, working one of my part time jobs (I'll get 35.5 hours in) all week, have a couple of appointments lined up on my real job, ballgames Tue and Thurs.nights, continuing ed on Wed night, and get ready to head back to VA for a horse sale on Sat.  Life is very good except for this coughing my fool head off.  Which by the way, I purchased a product this weekend that I have never purchased before.  Go ahead and feel free to laugh, I have.  I bought Poise pads, for bladder leakage.  I just for the life of me cannot understand how I can go to the bathroom and pee, walk out of the bathroom and start to cough and pee on myself.  I am however reminded why I chose to wear tampons for the last 40 years.  Have a good week boys and girls.  And remember the old Indian (as in Native American) proverb:  Live to fight another day.

Traveling Companions

Sometime a little later this afternoon I am heading to VA for some R & R with my brother and his family.  Looking forward to an unstructured weekend of goofing off.  (Doing nothing is much easier when you are not doing it by yourself).  With that being said, I have had many traveling companions in my life and made a lot of trips but today will mark a first.  My traveling buddies for today are Einee, Meanie, Miny, Moe, and Larry and they are guienas, not mind you the money guienas, but the birds.  My back seat is filled with a cage that has 5 guienas in it.  This should be really interesting.  I am kinda thankful right now for all the allergy crap because it means I can't smell anything.  I will let you know how this ride turns out.  Luke, Chris, Kenny and myself (Bryan, Young, Chesney) will be heading out sometime after 3-3:30.  It's kinda cute Dumbass told me he thought I should try to leave earlier cos it is getting dark earlier.  Waiting for one more client before I can leave and then I am flying north with the birds.  Wish me luck.

Busy, Busy, Busy

Hi strangers,

It has been a little hectic since my last update.  On Sat. I woke just feeling yucky!  The allergy thing again.  I think I had it about under control until I cut my grass on Thurs. evening.  Did not even get dressed until around 2 p.m on Sat. and wouldn't have done that but I needed more Nyquil.  Had a good day on Sun playing golf with my baby brother and an old family friend.  Then supper with friends and family.  Horse sale on Monday (yay!!!!).  It makes a really long day but I do love it.  Work the rest of the week on my real job. 

Had a ballgame last night and we finally won in the league we are playing in.  I was so proud of those boys.  We never led in the whole ballgame until we scored the winning run in the bottem of the 7th inning.  They hung in there and never gave up.  Anybody who doesn't know me would probably think I am about the loosest woman at the ballfield.  I am hugging all my boys after the win and as we are leaving the dugout the other team is waiting to come in and I have to hug about four of them, then met another player walking out and had to hug him too.  One of my players gets really tickled watching me and I know this because I have caught him laughing at me several times.  I told him one night, "it's worth the price of admission just to watch me ain't it?"  He laughed even more and said that it was.  Oh, and there is no admission charge.

Another game tomorrow night with our nemisis (sp?)  Really would like to beat them!  Life is good and I am above ground and vertical so it is a good day.  Ta Ta