Oh those lost pictures

Oh woe as me for those lost disney pictures. Its sad when your internet connection is slow and your computer is slow and the whole word is against you.

Small dog = Big stankie

Who knows that a little doggie could lay such a powerful stinker.

Lubs that Doxie anyway.

I would rather be Mad

So somebody decided to jump on my case friday. Monday that same person put flowers on my desk. I would have rather stayed pissed. I guess the flowers made me pissier, because I have to be nice now. I would rather have not been. One person suggested I knock the vase over his head. I liked that Idea.

My zune player

Lost all its music. Its not quite as tragic as the day the music died but it is still a wee bit sad.

Where in the world are those Disney world pictures?

Its been a month... a whole month since Disney world. I want to go back.
Where are the pictures?
On my external hard drive.
When will they be posted?
I dunno when ever I get my creepy computer working right.

What will happen with the Peanut Gang?

What will happen with the Peanut Gang this Halloween?
Will Charlie Brown get Rocks or Candy when he trick or treats?
Will the Great Pumpkin show itself to Linus in the pumpkin Patch?
Will Sally follow Linus into the pumpkin Patch?
What will Lucy actually get when she bobs for apples?

Stay Tuned Thursday Evening on ABC to answer all your Peanut questions.

Ever evolving Halloween traditions

The Ever evolving Halloween traditions date back to 1973. Thats pretty much because that is the year I was born.
My trick or treat partner was Robin my sister. She came along just in time for halloween 1974. First she she dressed up as a infant.
The first Halloweens I remember were trick or treating around DeSoto Dr. Mum would walk us around the neighborhood while grandma passed out the goodies.
They use to give money out then, it was change, but still money was money. There was one house that gave out paper pads. I always liked that. I dont think anybody else go the thrill like I did. I love paper though.
Then there was that one Halloween when my Aunt decided to change it up a bit and we did the YMCA. What a boring boring boring Halloween night. No candy, no trick or treating and no paper. What a disappointment. I think Barbara realized quickly it was a big bust.
Then we moved to Appartments. Gone are the days we need parents to go with us. We trick or treated with a group of friends that year. One of use got the bright idea to stop at the office. They were giving full candy bars. SCORE.
Then we moved to Greenhills. What stuffy old farts they were. Dont you dare trick or treat at the same house or the old lady will call you on it. Funny thing is while these were more upscale homes, the ones back on DeSoto Dr couldnt care less. I do recall somebody having a set up in their yard and had a pumpkin that talked. We smart kids caught onto the camera that was not hidden so well and somebody was watching us from within the house and had some type of microphone in the pumpkin.
Then we moved to Florida and then we moved to SC.
Now luck would have it we moved twice on Halloween. So not much trick or treating was done.
Then came the new tradition after Bill and Michelle moved to SC. They picked us up and we drove to Spring Valley and trick or treated around there. Michelle would stay home and pass out the candy while Bill Bill Robin Kathryn Harry the dog and me went around the neighbor hood. We got the bright idea that if we went to the "rich" house they had better candy. That is a myth. Remember the old fart in Green hills. That is when your still a kid but yet grown up and the grouchie cheapscates ask if your to old for trick or treating. Come on how can you ever be told old to trick or treat. On the way home from Bills and Michelles we stop and get a free donut from Dunkin donuts, cause we were in full costume.
Oh those were the days. Bill and Michelle as a couple has long been history.
Kathryn started going with friends in Shablow. I sort of lost interest in it. Though I did dress up once for work (I wore a dress) Then we moved again. By then Kathryn was too old and nobody ever tricks or treats at the house we live in. Our street is way to busy.
Robin decided to have kids and they gotton into the halloween spirit. Now Halloween is at Robins house.
Lucas went trick or treating the first time last year. He went as a toddler. Very cute one I might add. He was scared of people in costumes.
This year he is really enjoying it. I had to explain to him about the whole trick or treat thing. I asked what do you say when you ring the door bell. He says DING DONG. No no no no I say and he says yes yes yes. We practiced at Grandmas house and finally he learned it.
His mom asked him what Santa claus says and he said Trick or Treat. LOVE IT!
Conner and Jason and I went to the not so scary Halloween Party at Disney world. Oh fun! Then they went to Boo at the Zoo and by the pictures were covered in foam and had loads of fun.
Tonight is the Fall fest in Lexington. Doesnt look like there is going to be a haunted house. I am so Disappointed. Last Year just conner and I went and Conner refused to go in it. Conner dressed up as Mario for two years straight. This year Lucas is Woody from Toy Story. I was a pirate. Last year I dressed up as Singapore. Not the city, but the cat. HA! I lost my parrot though :-(

Funny Halloween Memory

The buzz in the schools class room is you could call dracula. The number was passed around and I ran straight home and tried to call. Busy signal. I tried all after noon.
These were the olden days. Before redail. Before Call waiting. It was a rotary Phone.
So I manually redialed over and over again.
Finally I got Count Drackula on the phone and he was quite eerie.

In reality, it was an advertisement for a haunted walk or something another.

It was an easy number to remember so I use to call it every year until we moved from Cincinnati.

The first year was the only year that I had the trouble gettin thru. Imagine 30 kids trying to call the count at the same time!

It was a Halloween Moon

The moon was low and eerie with whispy clouds right over the grave yard. The glowing angel only made it more creepy.

I want to go Far far far away

Maybe to Oz

Q. Where did the goblin kick the soccer ball?

A. In the ghoul

Q: What instrument does a skeleton play?

A: A trombone.

Rant and Rave

I was on my way to lunch at 12pm and there was a dude holding up the most passed rode from the road with lots of businesses to the road with all the eating places. He was mowing the lawn. Why at that time of day. He then went over the rail road tracks. Stopped so I had to stop on the tracks, back up because he missed a spot. I dont get that either.
On the way back from lunch he was cutting grass on the other side. So yes I was behind him again. This time he was at a light go across Atlass road. I was trying to go around the cars turning right to get into the center lane when this loud obnoxious suv/pick up truck (those are almost as bad as mini vans) pulls around all of use and squeezes in front of the mower. I was suppose to be there. He had his music on so loud it shook the ground. He is probably like that guy on tv for those frozen meals who says I love how much your hating this. He probably enjoys pissing people off. I guess I gave him some joy today. But I didnt give him the horn so I am proud of myself. Though I finally get onto bluff road and there was this truck pulling this trailer in the right lane. I was in the left lane. Some where from the grass I presume was another truck who decided to make a U turn. But since that truck with the trailer was blocking his view he didnt see me and pulled right out in front of me. I had to slam on the breaks and that is who I gave a good horn blasting at. If my car smashed into him I would probably reverse if possible and do it again for good measure. Then I would start screaming and crying... look what you did to my car. I have a weird attachment to that car. One reason it is paid for. LOL

Michael Bolton is on the radio at lunch. UGH. This lady is changing a diaper in the middle of the dinning room. UGH. I rather listen to Michael Bolton. The same lady comes out of the bathroom (where she should of been when she was changing the diaper) and finishes fastening her pants. Ugh.

The Industrial Department went to lunch at the fair. The petroleum people where not invited. Same thing happened last year. The industrial people are always going to lunch together etc etc etc. I on the other hand get stuck with the people who go on vacation and when your to busy doing their job you cant complete your job you get in trouble for it. So when i go on vacation do they do my job. Nope. It was so important that i got in trouble for not doing it while they were away, it wasnt so important when i left and they didnt bother to do it. I have the raw end of the deal.

I think my feelings are really hurt. I worked my butt off and everybody but the person who went on vacation said what a good job I did. He gets back and I get into trouble. Why bother working your butt off if that is the thanks you get?

Headaches ruin my life

Learned something new today

It has been to my great dismay that with my dslr camera when I take a portrait picture and rotate it in Paint shop pro and upload it to photobucket I have to re rotate it because it goes back to the original orintation.
The new thing I learned?
I dont need any program to rotate. I can right click on the file in windows explorer and they have two options rotate clock wise and counter clockwise. The tricky part is to remember which is which. If you need to rotatate it left then it is counter clockwise and if you need it to rotate to the right it is clock wise. I sent a test picture to photobucket and it stays rotated. Not only is this way easier it stays the way I want it to stay!

Well tomorrow... uh I mean today is Fair day. But first Conner's soccer game.

Disney World, by Karen

These are the pictures I am having processed for Mums album. They are not the true amount of photos taken. After I sorted and removed the blury ones and the raw files and the video files... between me and robin and kathryn we have well over 2300 pictures. Isnt that a hoot!


I'd like to share my Walgreens Photo Center photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rant and Rave

It does not benefit to be helpful at work.


The names have been reduced to first letters except for Maria. I just didn’t like her and she isn’t working there anymore anyway.

First there was Maria. She got a call from Palmetto something or another on why they were getting invoices for parts they have already paid. I tried my best to explain to Maria that the dude keeps loosing the confirmation orders and asked me to mail the invoices, so the lady at his office will get a copy. Does she listen to me? No she doesn’t. She spends 2 hours researching why the invoices were sent.

Another scenario I send D a message saying the parts should be for truck so and so on a certain order. The truck was not set up and they ordered it for the branch. D writes back that the certain order was not in part status. I wrote back and said it wasn’t I who neglected to put it in Parts status and I told him next time I wouldn’t bother to be helpful. He writes back and said he didn’t take my response the way I had intended for him to take it (which I didn’t get, but I don’t really care) and that employees should show initiative and fix the problems. I wrote him back that I was just checking on the paper work that did not have invoices and I had not noticed it. If I had I would have fixed it. I also told him that I have fixed many of these with out one complaint and certain employees should not complain about minor issues and should take the initiative and fix it themselves instead of complaining about it. I then told him it was an easy thing to forget and I am quite sure that A or myself were not doing it on purpose to annoy him. He didn’t bother to write back after that one.

And the one that caused this rant and rave. I got a request for a status of a service call. M was not in the office so I took the initiative and wrote back that M is delivering parts and when M gets back I will have the email taped to his monitor so he can respond back immediately. I only responded back to C instead of everybody because the customer was included. Well C went and forward to J and J sent me a nasty gram if I could not make decisions I need to call M on the phone in the car. I did make a decision and that was not call him. Because how would M know in his car, when he is not in front of the computer. Well I called M and M said to Call D. D said he sent the part to K on 10/12. K had some upgrades and did inventory. The last three days. I called K and asked if he received the part. He did. I asked if it was on his schedule to do today. He said his wrist was messed up and he would not be able to replace that part. So I called M and told him and asked if we had somebody else to go. M said he was 10 mins away and will make some calls when he got back in. So I sent an email telling J. Guess what? Didn’t I first say that when M gets back in the office he will give a status of when this call will be done? Wasn’t my decision correct?
If I hadn’t bothered sending D or C the email they would have left me alone and not jump on me about something. If I hadn’t tried to help Maria I wouldn’t of wasted my time. Let her waste her own time.

State Fair Here I come

I think we are gong on Saturday. Conner and Lucas were suppose to be at the house but Blah on Jason.
I need somebody to ride the tilt a whirl with me! I am bound and determined to ride that ride.
Heather may be going to.
I will see the art work
I will go into a fun house
I will get donuts.
I will look at the crafts
I will get chocolate chip cookies
I will check out the rain forest exhibit
I will get fried mushrooms with ranch dressing
I will look at the sand sculpture.
I might catch a hypnotyzing show or then again maybe I wont.
I will not get a fried candybar or a crispy creme donut.

Did you see what Alvin Green did on WISTV? He went behind the anchor man Ben Hoover who was reporting at the fair and gave him Bunny Ears. Alvin Who? Just a candidate that won his party by some kind of luck and appears to be really unqualified for the job. He isnt slinging the mud like the rest of them are doing.
But then again he thinks a great money making idea is making bobble heads and action figures of himself.


I did none of those things I got a head ache.

Skull Earings

I finally got the Earrings I so wanted. They are a starter earrings and they are black with a while skull inside it. This week my earring collection had trippled. I went from one pair to three pairs. I also got a pair of mickey mouse birthstone but I got April instead of March. I liked the classic diamond look over the aquamarine color of march.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

TRICK OR TREAT TRAINING

So I tried to instruct Lucas on how to trick or treat. I say you ring the door bell and when somebody answers you say trick or treat and then they give you candy and you say thank you.

So I says.. what do you say when you ring the door bell.

He says DING DONG

I says no no no

You say trick or treat.

He says no no no.

So I take him out side with a bag and we ring the door bell and we says Trick or Treat and Grandma gave him a bag of cookies.

So a few moments passes and I ask
Lucas what do you says you are dressed up in your woody costume and you go up to a door and you ring the door bell and what do you say?

DING DONG he says again

Everytime I ask the question I get the same answer

DING DONG

Reality Just Hit

I am no longer in a Magical Place. I am in reality.
Its back to the routine.

Its just
terrible
terrible
terrible

The state Fair is Here!

Just knowing I am at work and the state fair is going on right down the street is driving me nuts.

My feet are almost ready for some more fun!

A day of Rest from all the excitement

Day 7 of my vacation
I played on the computer some and watched some television (i have not missed the political campaigns) and ate lunch at chick fil a and got some groceries.
I tried to find that elusive post card on ebay and if I want to pay 10.00 bucks i can get a book of them. No thank you.

my vacation is now over back to work tomorrow

whats wrong with this scene?

Oh yeah Stinker Bell is sitting on me!
Then Singapore got jelous and he joined the party.
Thats what is wrong with this scene.

Downtown Disney and Going Home

Day 6 of my vacation

We got up and got breakfast. Kathryn, Mom and Me split the big breakfast. We packed up. Then we headed over to Downtown Disney. Lots of shops lots of eating places. Way to spend a lot of money.

We ate an irish fish and chips place, got some souvenirs and got a fancy cookie. So sad the fancy cookie had coconut in it.

On our way home. We stopped several places for that elusive post card. Never found it. Sigh.

Pictures to follow.

10/10/10 10:10 PM

Where were you on 10/10/10 at 10:10 PM?

I was on the observation deck of our hotel watching the fire works at the Magic Kingdom.

Animal Kingdom

Last day of Park visits. So sad. But on we go to Animal Kingdom.
We ate some more breakfast at the park and hopped the bus to the park.
These two boys just met and they talked and talked and talked all the way. Funniest thing the older boy told the younger boy. If he wore his mom's hi heels he would be able to ride the bigger rides.
The bus ride was standing room only.
We got there and met Robo and the gang by the everest Roller coaster. Thats Conner's favorite at this park. He rode it like 5 times.
My feet started hurting early on and I knew that it was a good thing we were going home tomorrow.
Kathryn said this was her favorite park.
It was a pretty cool park with rides and animals with some pretty cool shows.

Mickey snuck up behind Lucas so we could get some pictures taken.

Pictures will be soon to follow.

10/10/10 10:10 AM

Where were you on 10/10/10 10:10 AM?

I was on the bus going to Animal Kingdom.