Aug. 7, 2008

Ahhhh Yes! Once again the news is wreaking havoc in its wake. First up is the lovely Paris Hilton. My good friend Karen quickly sent me the link to the video, and I got to see for my self what money can buy. But since Paris is too young to know that by the United States law she is too young to be president and since Senator McCain is…shall we be more politically correct and say VERY mature in his years... I am once again a better choice, as I am about 20 years from both of them. Paris did start off in the right position like most politicians sitting and soaking in too much sun! You do know that it can cause muddled thinking. I too am HOT, but I doubt that Paris was talking about the ambient temperature of the earth or the heat, which is affecting McCain. I understand it affects us differently as we age, and in my case it is under control thanks to a little pretty colored pill that I take every morning, I know most women my age understand HOT and someday Paris will too. In fact we have been hot, the hottest and now our brains are FRYING with the stupidity we are seeing. I was in shock over her statement "We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. ... Energy crisis solved,” What!! A logical cohesive sentence, only to find out later that it was written for her and she memorized it, then she blew it “I'll see you at the debates, bitches!" Paris, darling they are not BITCHES. Their men, wrong gender. I too have picked my running mate for V.P. BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. - Mayor Cheye Calvo as he totally understands violations of personal rights of an American citizen and I do believe will now fight to preserve our constitutional rights that our fore fathers put in place to prevent the very thing that happened to him. I believe I have made an excellent choice. I hope he is not too traumatized to accept. Rest assured that I will not be painting the White House PINK, but I am rather fond of BLUE for both of the other houses and I’m sure orange would look good on many of the employees in the cabinet/government. So what ‘a ya say America, write me in…this message was written by, including all the poor use of grammar and typos and approved in it’s entirety by MOMZILLA ONLINE

I’m MOMZILLA an I wrote this message.

Aug. 3, 2008

And the race is on …

With the National debt 9,585,479,639,200.33 as of July 31,2008.

The cost to try to influence the 2008 election could exceed $3 billion, according to TNS Media Intelligence/Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on political television advertising. This is just for the 2-presidenital candidates NOW! This in not including what the “other” candidates already spent. And this dollar amount doesn’t include all the “other” expenses. Rumor in the press is the Democrat in this race is averaging 5.4 Million in donations per state. While I am not a mathematical genius and I don’t even deal with the money part of our lives (that was the agreement and the way that I wanted it, because I did it all before, not because my wonderful hubby is so macho…well, he’s macho in a good way even if he’s a big red neck!) Even I can figure out that 5.4 mill times 50 is an insane amount of money. According to CNN money, more than 155,000 families have lost their homes to foreclosure this year; one out of every 194 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing, and says that a record number of hybrid adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) - worth $362 billion - will reset in 2008. Let’s say the average home value was $275,000 it is now worth half of that at best depending on where the home is, some places it worth less. We are hearing analysis from Freddie Mac and large banks that their cost to foreclose on a home is about 60,000 dollars on average. So if we have candidates that REALLY care about the economy why are they spending the ENORMOUS amounts of money to be elected when we all know one of them is going to win? Wouldn’t this money better spent supporting the people that they want to govern. In the news today Kathy Hilton whom is said to be a large financial supporter of the Republican was unhappy with his TV ad because it compared her daughter Paris and the troubled young performer Brittany Spears to McCain and Obama. "It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs," Kathy Hilton said in a short article posted on the liberal Huffington Post Web site. This whole campaign is a complete waste of time and money so why did she give him the money? WHY aren’t the very wealthy people who made all their money off the millions of people losing there homes, stepping up to the plate and telling the candidates that THEY are not going to give money for something that is NOT going to help the people of this country. DO they not understand the trickle down effect…as in if the millions that can’t pay for their homes can’t buy their goods and support their business either and they could end up not being quite so wealthy? Do the math and see if 3 billion plus would help if it were funded correctly in the finance sector for home loans. For those that are out there pointing fingers saying that “they should not have bought a house that they knew that they couldn’t pay for”... to you I say why were there mortgage brokers on every street corner promising that this was the best deal since sliced bread for American families to own their own home and then stating that the interest payments wouldn’t be going up that much because the market couldn’t support it. The people of this country were once again lied to and just exacly where was the governments protection of the people. The fact that it is happening all over the county tells us that this scam was bigger than anyone could imagine. And you can bet that there are some very fat cats sitting back and laughing because they are untouchable and VERY rich and NOT in this country. Here’s the bigger down side of all this, with thier credit in shambles the people will be lucky if they can rent a cardboard box to live in and no one in the government has said what they are planning on doing about millions more families being homeless…or all those houses sitting empty.

My son Kale loves to call me a cynic and I guess I am but I’m a happy cynic, because I believe that some where along the way some one will step up to the plate and do the right thing. That’s why I still think I should be president, that and I don’t own any stock in the oil companies.

July 30,2008

Tell the world what you really think and the truth shall set you free…and possibly unemployed.

The big thing in the press over the past few week has been people in the public eye caught or deliberately saying exactly what they think, and it has gotten several of them in the news and in “politically correct” hot water. There are those like Glenn Beck and Russ Limbaugh that make their living at pretending to speak their minds…Beck might be, but has grown to be so very arrogant that he rarely stops speaking long enough to listen to any one who might have something important to say. And Limbaugh, well if you like to hear what drugs have to say, then he’s your man. He hasn’t had a cohesive thought for years. But the people that are currently in hot water is one of the biggest frauds in the world and we all know the good Rev. Jesse Jackson is holier that thou. Remember now, he has no church, and is tax exempt because he claims to have a “congregation” but where and WHO are they. I’ll bet if we dig just a little below the surface we will understand why he is making nasty comments. Could it be he wasn’t “paid” to endorse Obama, and is feeling betrayed by a fellow “black” man? Or is the press trying to tell him that he is going to be exposed for exactly what he is, a man who worships the almighty dollar. The other person in hot water is a young actress Katherine Heigl. She is in trouble for swimming against the current and not following the Hollywood trend to just be blonde, beautiful and smile for the camera. At least some one out there in the land of make believe knows it’s just make believe and the real world is not going to fall at her feet, even if the producers tell her so. If we could get so lucky as to have our candidates tell the truth they would not be the candidates running for President in fact their careers would be over in politics. Not through any fault of their own but because we don’t want to hear the truth and we don’t want to have to take care of our selves. If we did California would not be passing laws about how much or what kind of fat can be in your food, or whether a fast food restaurant should be in a part of town that has a bunch of fat people. The truth is the “fat” was made by the government in the 1950’s to make the food taste better as to sell more of the “pre packaged” foods. And the fat people are fat because they don’t desire to eat food that is not easy to fix and pre packaged. Add in cut backs in the schools such as removing play ground equipment and taking away recess because the sun is bad for us and sunscreen is bad for us and the air is polluted so breathing is bad for us. Everything is bad for us! If you walk some where the police want to know why you’re walking and where you’re going. The truth is WE have allowed this mess and we keep allowing more to take place to try to fix it. The truth is so tainted that it’s no longer black and white, but murky swirls that never end. The truth…hmmmm, how about it doesn’t set me free but at least I get it off my chest and hope that it will lower my blood pressure.

We have just gotten home from one of my very favorite things to do to relax. Taking the boat out on the lake. Not just any lake but one of the best-kept secrets of the Country. The beautiful Lake Ouachita in the Ouachita National Forest, which is where I now call home. Living just minutes from the lake has provided the boys with almost daily swims for years, which is a good thing because we missed our swimming trips to the pool that we use to take in Loveland. There are no public out door swimming pools in the area.

Today I am giving the web a taste of WHY so many of us really like Arkansas. While the mountains here will never ever be able to hold a candle to the Rocky Mountains that I had always lived in, with height and Rocky formation, the mountains of Arkansas have a beauty of their own that is hard to resist. If you can forget about the bug factor and are an outdoor enthusiast this is a place that you will defiantly want to visit. WE do not have snow sports but the water-sports seem to make up for it. There are plenty of millionaires that agree and live on the lake in million dollar houseboats that are easily as big as any yacht that I saw back east. If you want more info on the lake or Ouachita National Forest wikipedia has some good info and list contact for more. Or you could just google it.

Last week we went on Friday and there was very little boating traffic on the lake. We were out on the water for over 6 hours and only David got a little pink tinge on his belly and the tops of his feet where he didn’t get good coverage with his sunscreen factor 50 or his liquid shirt as Brett calls it. Brett calls it that because in the summer he can apply this stuff while he welds and it will block the welding flashing as well as a welding jacket. It won’t block spatter, but then neither will the heavy cotton shirt. So today to try and keep him from getting pink, I did the slathering to make sure he was covered. Last week I got a slight glow, as did the boys and the very next day it was our usual tan. Both boys have been blessed with my tanning abilities. Today we were on the lake for about half the time, because the clouds started rolling in and we heard a clash of thunder. One of the last places I want to be during a storm is on the lake on an aluminum shell boat. Can you say lighting rod…any way, David has not one speck of pink on his body, but the boys and I are all more than a tad pink, I had factor 30 on my nose and cheeks and have never needed anything else. Part on me says we have gone way to far with the sunscreen thing any way but for pretty little white skinned people like my very fair skinned hubby it’s a comfort thing as well. Sunburns hurt I know because I now have one. It’s not bad it’s just a surprise since we were not out nearly as long today. The very first thing I have been doing this summer on my trips to the lake is rock hunting. I love all the different kind of rocks with all the wonderful colors and I specifically have been looking for rocks with natural holes in them. I recently “stumbled upon” a web site that told of rocks with holes having once been used for money and were considered lucky or had magical powers. Obviously the hole went all the way through, and were formed naturally. Today I got really lucky and no sooner stepped off the boat on island #9 and looked into the water and saw a rock with a hole in it. I found a much larger one later when I was walking the shoreline. So I guess I’m lucky because I found what I was looking for. I don’t really care if the rocks have any mystical powers I just wanted to find a rock with a hole in it because I never had, if they do yeah for me! I hope you all fine what you’re looking for too…in the mean time I hope you enjoy the pics of the lake.

July 25, 2008

There is almost nothing that I like more than to read the news everyday. Not the local news paper because there is basically nothing in it. What I mean is, it is still acting like a small town news paper and focuses on mostly things in the city of Hot Springs, and frankly since we can’t get it delivered I am not willing to drive 12 miles to get it. It’s not a bad little paper, lord knows that they have been very good to us with press releases about our work. Just today a very nice young woman called and asked if she could come out and write an article about us. She spent about 2 and a half hours interviewing us and taking photos. The news I like to read is Yahoo News and I am always surprised as to what the writers of this country submit to the associated press as news worthy. The reason I like yahoo news is I don’t have to read all the fluff in an article that is based on word count. Not content. I like the fact that I can scroll through and hit on the story and get a synopsis and move on. I really enjoy the headlines. Today’s are Oil's 2-week nosedive shows up at the pump that’s very nice but what about an all time high in profit for Phillips do you think that maybe they managed to make that profit from the American people paying outrageous prices at the pump. Nosedive… a nosedive at the pump would be gas for under a dollar a gallon. FDA: Avoid jalapenos from Mexico, not US golly gee whiz…I never thought to ask if the jalapenos in my salsa was from Mexico, do you think the restaurants will know? Or do they really care since out of how many people in the United States that ate tomatoes or jalapeno peppers in a restaurant or from the store that were from Mexico got sick. Is it possible that something else made them sick? If we are afraid to eat our food are we just going to sit and stare at it and stave out of fear. Maybe we should STOP importing our food and let the US mean US as in our farmers. Like stop telling them what and how much to grow. McCain rejects 'audacity of hopelessness' for Iraq well isn’t this a nice play on words, can Obama sue for copy write infringement. Here’s the audacity of reality…we cannot stop people from hating other people! We cannot tell them what to think and we cannot say our religious beliefs are better. Why are our candidates campaigning over seas any way? Angry man shoots lawn mower for not starting and he’s not from Arkansas, but looks like he could be. They arrested him for it, and he was correct in saying that it was his lawn mower and his yard, and he should be able to shoot it if he wants too. Hey, when I first moved here, David had an alarm clock that would just do it’s own thing and he would shake the clock and threaten it. Then one day he grabbed the clock after it did something or the other and marched outside with the clock in one hand and a gun in the other, place the clock on a stump and shot it. As I stood in the doorway watching with my mouth hanging open and my eyes bugging out, he looked at me smiled and said “just killin’ time babe”, and came back in the house. NO one in Arkansas cared! And to think you all thought I had a temper! California bans restaurants from using trans fats WHAT! Restaurants in California used trans fats…I thought that was the land of fruits and nuts. With the ban will the liposuction surgeries drop and lead to economic disaster? What’s next they will be required to use real sugar and have their Governor drive an economical gas efficient car? Math study finds girls are just as good as boys…Did we really pay for a study to find this out? Wasn’t it usually the female of the house that had the checkbook and paid the bills? How did we get female accountants and doctors, scientist and such? Because they were pretty…oh, please. Let’s do the math on this one, to many dollars and not enough sense! All Pro: $7 million nice no matter how deal is cut I’m a pro I want $7 million to talk for 2 minutes and run 10 yards then sit down for fifteen. HEY, tell ya what…I’ll run fifty-yards rest for 2 minutes and run fifty again everyday for a year for 7 million. I can even carry a ball while I do it too, because I have good hands and can hold on to things. I’ll bet even as and old woman I can keep up with these fat air heads for 7 mill just let me at ‘em. That’s a lot of motivation, they won’t have to tell me not to drink or party too much. I’ll even go to bed by midnight with lights out. I want to be “All Pro”. Boy breaks canine tooth biting vicious dog Wow…I thought that Brett was the only weird kid that would bite any dog that bit him back. He’s done it for years and has never gotten anything written about him in the news for it. Boy, just think I could have made millions for having a Angry kid with alot of audacity. Missed my chance.

It just goes to show you what you might think is perfectly normal in your life and not at all news worthy is possibly tomorrows HEAD LINES.

I got Mail…and now here it is.

Hi, Bre

 I was just reading your "bucket list' on the blog and had to tell you that Cher was GREAT in concert in Las Vegas! Tommy (Romero, yes the one and the same) and I went in May. I don't think you could have seen the whites of her eyes standing next to her, the costumes were sssoooo sparklely!  I have to say that was the best concert I've ever been to. Extremely well done. Too fun and we went for just those reasons. We're getting too old to be putting off stuff for someday, if we can, we do it today. We wanted to go and see Barbra Striesand but Man! she was just too expensive. Some things are not worth the cost of the dollar.

 Anyway, hope things are going well for you and yours.

 Take care and feel better! Tom says "Hi!"

 Kalah

Hey! Well thanks for the birthday wishes, I don't care it you were late.
Every day is like my birthday - REALLY!!!
...and Darrel & I just watched the movie "The Bucket List" on Friday, July
11th!!! --we don't do the 'theater thing' either, anymore! For most of the
same reasons you listed. We got the DVD.
You've never been to the Grand Canyon or Disneyland, huh? I'm surprised!
...I would like to go to Ireland as that is where my mother's ancestors herald
from...
Skydiving, NO!!! Egypt - the pyramids? Yeah, maybe. Everest? Hmmm...
The movie definitely got us talking (more) and thinking...as it did many
people.
Thanks for acknowledging me in your blog. Love ya lots - I'll send more
later.(Thanks for the note on classmates, too!)

~K

And since it has to do with my bucket list …here we go again! Since Tommy sent a “hi” through Kalah, he’s next. A BIG “hi” back and a BIGGGGG HUG too! This is a long lost bud that I have thought about much over the years and have watched for on classmates. Tommy is one of the people that will always live in my heart. Tommy was one of the kindest, sweetest people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. I am sure he is still as pure of heart as a middle-aged man as he was when we were growing up and in school. I remember thinking what a beautiful smile his mother had when I would see her in Church with their whole family. THEY looked like a family should look in my mind. I hope that he and his family are all doing well. We also use to double date if you want to call going out with a bunch of friends that. NOT- Tommy and I as a couple…Kalah and Tommy and Benny and Me. Which swings to the other side of my list. DEAR BENNY GRIEGO…you JERK! You stood me up and then had the nerve to send me a card in the mail to congratulate me on my Graduation almost a year later, with no return address! YOU were the only time in my life I had been stood up! YOU broke my heart. Could you have just said that you were sorry…but you’re gay! I could have dealt with it! But Nooooooooo…you made a date with me told me to get really dressed and I sat and waited and waited and waited and vowed that if I ever saw you again you were in real Trouble and when I did you can thank your lucky stars that Sandy, Randy and Les stopped me from throwing that

bowling ball at you instead of down the lane. At least I got a strike! And why did I want to throw it at you, because then you could a least say you had some one big cajones’. Honestly ya would think after being together and breaking up as much as we did you would have had some backbone. I did fine YOU on classmates and I did send you and nice email saying “hi…hope you’re doing well” and you wouldn’t even open it, but you did try to make contact with me several years ago…before I paid to read my email. WE could have stayed friends like Kalah and Tommy. Good grief…I didn’t want to marry you! You were too skinny! Cute but skinny! Now, for my next big step…I forgive you, and me too for hold this in for soooooo many years. Did I ever mention that I hold grudges?

July 20,2008

The latest craze on blogs seems to be posting list of all sorts of “LIFE” lessons. If I combine David Letterman’s technique of counting down with my reasoning, I’m starting with 49…100 is just too long and that would mean I have had one for every year that I have lived. So here’s my MOMZILLA LIST on LIFE

49.This too shall pass…what ever “this” is…

48.Nothing is permanent.

47.Bummer Dude…Get over it.

46.I like my attitude!

45.If you don’t want to know, don’t ask!

44.You can use people as a ladder to reach the top, but they have a habit of moving when stepped on…

43.If you need external stimulus all the time…you are internally needing to stimulate …

42.Believe in Magic…it takes many forms.

41.Remember to use the DELETE button…it works on people too!

40.You can’t make ANY one love you, not even yourself!

39.Life happens and so does DEATH!

38.Learning is a choice.

37.How much money you have doesn’t determine YOUR value.

36.Do not follow your dreams…live them.

35.Should’a, Could’a, Would’a nothing.

34.Teachers don’t know everything, teach only what you know.

33.Thinking is good for you.

32.Laughter is NOT politically correct, but is good for you.

31.It’s okay to get angry; if it wasn’t then we would not be able to.

30.Living frugally all the time is not a good thing, remember the saying “you can’t take it  with you…”

29.If you are going to quote the bible, at least have a reading comprehension at the level that it was written.

28. Stupidity is not a virtue.

27.The trouble with criticisms is it often comes in the form of praise.

26.If you believe “we are god’s children”, don’t act like that excludes your personal prejudices.

25. Fertilizer in not necessary for growth.

24.Behave as if someone is watching, they are…children.

23.Hold on to your values.

22.Value your beliefs.

21.Ethics in life are important, but must be practiced.

20.Obsession… is not a positive thing.

19.There is no “I” in “TEAM”!

18.Your life is not a “team” sport!

17.People Lie.

16.Just because “it’s the law” doesn’t make it so.

15. In the words of Mr. Spock- “Live Long and Prosper”

14.With age comes benefits as well as pains.

13.Eat real food, use REAL sugar; your body understands it better than chemicals.

12.Create something … your older, wiser and now resourceful...use it.

11.All of the emotions are present for a reason…the human experience.

10.Anything in Excess is not good for you.

 9.What can you do with out the drugs…

 8.The reason for the growth in the human population is easy to understand if you look at any of the religions…

 7.Your needs are very simple…air, water, nourishment, shelter. Desires are another story.

 6.The people who are trying to “FIX” you are more than likely broken.

 5.No matter what, if you reading this your “fine”, because your breathing and you have a pulse.

 4.You are what you speak.

 3.”Bless your heart” is not a NICE comment!

 2. Loose the list…

 1. It’s okay to be YOU.

July 15, 2008

First up, is a person I need to tell how I feel about them…my Friend JoAnn. Some claim that she is VERY passive aggressive. Not to me, but then I’m no angel and it is said that I don’t have a passive bone in my body. JoAnn is a relatively new friend as we meet only a few years ago, and that was after 2 schmucks worked overtime to try to make sure we never met much less became friends. I’ll get to those schmucks later! The day after I posted my bucket list, I had lunch in town with JoAnn. She is the friend that would do almost everything on my list with me, and laugh the whole time. She would make me stick to the list, in fact she felt it was just fine to tell people on the site how I feel. She is a wonderful cheerleader and a beautiful woman, with a big heart and a mind that’s so very creative and brilliant, so many benefits from her gifts, and I wish for her all the happiness the universe can send to her. I am sending my request out to the universe to also send her a mate. Because she wants one! I have never seen her dark side, but like all of us I’m sure she has one. Since she said that it was okay …I am telling the world I am blessed and glad she decided to be my friend. JoAnn... Your on my LIST!

It seems only fair to post a SCHMUCK too. But my first schmuck post is for people I have never ever met. The persons, that gave my mother a loan on her house for twice what it was worth with a monthly payment that was twice her monthly income. I hope that the commission that they made on this helps them to burn in hell! And just when did this happen…in 2004. Hmmm… those “bad” loans that are coming back to bite us all, ending in foreclosures on so many homes across the country... I tried contacting officials at state and federal levels about this, at the very least they should have wanted to investigate because of her age when the loan was made. NOTHING! No one cared! My mother was just a old woman who lost her house and ALL of her money to a few very greedy…SCHMUCKS! As most of the country sits wondering what will happen in the next few months with this housing/mortgage crises, I am sitting here saying to my self why wouldn’t anybody listen to my complaint in 2005? Why in the world any one would make such a loan in the first place is beyond me…unless they knew that no good would come from it and it didn’t matter to them that this little old lady could possible end up HOMELESS! What do they care…she’s old, she’s going to die soon…the government will take care of her. SO there you have it a personal experience with the Mortgage crisis. And to all of the SCHMUCKS who made these loans and reaped a profit…remember as you sow, so shall you reap! I ask the Gods and Goddesses of ALL the religions of the ENTIRE Universe to send JUSTICE for the harm that you have done, because the United States Government is clueless.

July 10, 2008

his last year the movie “Bucket List “ came out and we are the lazy people who would rather pay to see it in the comfort of our own home for many reasons. So we waited and just saw the movie on pay for view. Mostly because I don’t like paying to see a movie in a theater that is dirty and the seats are hard and very old with my knees wrapped around my chest. I know that if I’m uncomfortable, my 6’ 2” hubby is totally miserable. Top it off with a 40 minute drive each way with the price of gas, and the fact that I can buy 2 cases of pop and 50 pounds of popcorn for what it cost for a 6 ounce cup of pop and a box with two hands full of popcorn. I can sit on my couch, with my feet up no body blocking my view, and if I have to pee I can stop the movie and do my thing without feeling like I am interrupting the other people who have paid just as much to see the movie and are now missing things because I have to go to the bathroom. To go to the movies as a family it would cost 30 bucks to get in another 30 for the pop and popcorn, plus the money for gas and at 4 dollars a gallon it would take 2 and a half gallons to get there and back if I went to the sorry theater in Hot Springs. If I went to the nice theater in Benton or Little Rock I would have to add driving time and more mileage…I got “Bucket List” for about five bucks for the 4 of us and we watched it when we wanted too! I really enjoyed the movie but it made me start thinking (which I’m sure was the point) about my own list. Keeping in mind that no “wealthy” being is going to step up and pay for every thing that I would like to do…but with my health acting funky I thought I might share and start my list here. That way if I do kick the bucket and it takes the guys a while to remember this site…you can wonder if I got to do any of the things on my list and maybe you’ll even start your own. Time is always of the essence since none of us really knows how much time we have. So here is the beginning of my list that I will move at some point to it’s own little space, but for now this is where it’s going to be.

There’s nothing like sky diving or climbing Mt. EVERST, I don’t want to ride a bull or a bucking bronco. I don’t want to own or ride anything. I am trying to loose some weight but not for my bucket list (if I KNEW that I had a very limited time I wouldn’t care because I am going to loose lots of weight real soon!), I would more than likely also start smoking again…because at that point it wouldn’t matter. I might even get drunk for the first time in my life, just to say that I did it once. But there are a few places I’d like to see…like Ireland…or New York…and my biggy the GRAND CANYON!

Bre’s Bucket List

Tell all the people who were special in my life to me why and thank them. Post a Simple list of those people’s names, because to be told publicly makes it an announcement to the world and says to all that they are very special. i have already listed a few of those special people here in other post.

Forgive the SCHMUCKS that have strolled through my life, because I learned from them too. Post those names too! Not that I really need to for their sake, but for mine…I’m sure I have already let them know that I think that their a schmuck! Now others will too! So you might want to think about being placed on someones list...I am VERY sure that I am on a few!

I would have had to list doing one monumental work of art, but I’ve done that and my name is in stone too! And I’m even listed in the Smithsonian’s guild to something or the other of large public works of some sort. So I am going to say to be remembered as a good artist…because I will never consider myself great.

I want to haunt the spammers through their computers for the rest of their days on this earth. Sending emails every hour to them that they can’t get to go to their spam box that say things like “I’m still watching you” or “I know where the goods on you is…” Or to be able to make wild moneys run randomly across they’re computer screen while they’re trying to “work”.

I would like to take a cruise on a private boat for longer than an afternoon.

I would like to see the place where I was born.

I would like to go to Disney Land.

I would like to write a book and have it published and read!

I would like to see Cher in concert up close so that I could see the whites of her eyes. I have no reason to meet her as she knows that she is wonderfully talented which would leave nothing to talk about…so I see no reason to waste her time.

I would like to have a candid talk with our country’s political leaders, and have them really listen instead of telling me how they have been working for the things that matter.

I want to go quickly and without a lot of medical interference, like in my sleep, because I’m a wuss when it comes to being on the receiving end of a needle. Besides I don’t like the drugs, they don’t stop the pain they only stop your caring about the pain.

The more I thought about this list the less became important. I don’t NEED anything if I am dying and I already have way too much “stuff” so I think I’m going to start deleting the stuff from my life and head toward living simply which should allow me to simply live.

Karma will find you…. or, God will get you for that!

I have not been staying on top of things like I should. I have forgotten to wish my lovely friend Karen a Happy Birthday or posted that My buds at Dragon Forge has opened a Black Smithing School, or even the wonderful email that I got from my old very dear friends and neighbors (that I still miss having fabulous Mexican food dinners with) Sharon and Vernell Roberts because we both moved to other states…MINE BEING MORE CONFUSION! All because once again my silly little attitude of “ I don’t need to see no stinkin’ doctor…I can cure anything with time and herbs” and that attitude has once again almost killed me! I have been preaching for years about integration of medicine…and once again by not practicing what I preach it is coming back to BITE me in the…. tush! SO first up…Happy Birthday to YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUU, HHAAAPPPPYYYY BBBIRRTHDAYYYYY Dear Karen, Happy Birthday to you! Now I can tell you that singing it this way sounded much better than if I actually sang it and you could heard it. Now to get more info on the Dragon Forge Black Smithing School you need to click on the link to their site on the right…I wish them much success! AND the email from my wonderful friends stated that they found this site and would be back to visit and look at my pictures! Mostly because they are MY friends, and they already know about my mouth. Some things don’t ever change. And because my brain is still not working because I have also forgotten to say Happy Anniversary to my wonderful loving husband David. SMACK! Now for the heath issue this time around. It is know as the silent killer and thousands of Americans have it with out knowing. I could feel it so I started watching my Blood Pressure when I went into town I’d stop and get it checked with one of the machines in the grocery store. And it just keeps climbing and I just keep feeling worst. I was trying EVERYTHING I could think of…cutting salt, exercising more, eating less, more fruits and veggies, vitamins and herbs and researched and researched and researched. Then I found the latest greatest and for many gross. Beets! This is what I found stated on line….”this hard skinned root vegetable has a sweet taste and has also been used in the past for making certain types of medicine.  Beets are rich in folate and B vitamins, which are essential for tissue growth the blood pressure reducing power or beet juice is unbelievable!  The American Heart Association journal Hypertension showed a reduction in high blood pressure in volunteers in just 1 hr after drinking 500mls or beet juice!  The reduction was more pronounced as time went on and lasted up to 24 hrs.” Well, okay I like beets well enough and I should be able to drink a BIG glass of beet juice and the Blood Pressure that is now so high I am truly worried and making it climb higher, will drop in about an hour, right……NOT! First of all I decided that I have to teach one of the guys to take my blood pressure Kale is the lucky boy and is doing well at it. Next I’m on a quest to town to get beet juice. After all how uncommon could beet juice be. I mean we have 3 health food stores in Hot Springs and all kinds of exotic juices in the groceries stores how difficult could it be. VERY, and when I did find it at the last health food store (of course) I was shocked to find out that 500 mls (which is 2 cups) was $5.99 a bottle. AND is imported from Switzerland. My first thought is beets are a major crop in Colorado why is beet juice a problem? Then I think well, I’ll just slug this down and I’ll fell better in and hour and my blood pressure will be down and all will be right in my world for my Anniversary Trip with my darling hubby. Wrong again... this stuff was yucky, not a little yucky... REALLY YUCKY and IT was not going to go down and stay! Ohhhhhh... and it’s thick, so we have this stuff that looks like it popped out of a horror film and taste like…DIRT! So I think well I should be able to just eat the beets right. Well no info on that either or how much you would have to eat to equal 2 cups of juice and do they have to be fresh because I know their aren’t any fresh ones in the stores here either. Maybe that little trip will do the trick and I will come back and my blood pressure will be down…. Nope higher. If fact stoke level and I am thinking wow I am blowing up like a balloon, nothing is fitting not even my shoes and I am feeling “FULL” and coughing … geezzz that symptoms of congestive heart failure ……time for the doctor and modern medicine. So much for self-treatment. I have a wonderful family physician, we totally understand each other, and the first question he asked is if I tried my witches brews first. Then he gave me the dreaded high blood pressure medication. The way I see it, I had a choice and you know my whole family has a history of high blood pressure and we have had many with heart disease, I chose to quit smoking and I did it cold turkey so I am not really ready to check out yet…after all who else would write this stuff! The pill is not bitter and a whole lot easier to swallow!

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