JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE-A Blue/Gray Monday

Tomorrow I will begin trying to post 30 posts in 30 days.  This is through the National Blog Posting Month, if you are interested in doing this go to NaNo and sign up.  I have been practicing in November to gear myself up.

It's a rainy cool, gray day here, and according to my mood, perfect!  Have y'all ever had a fellow employee out and out lie to your boss to get you into trouble?  Why are people that way?  It always surprises me when it happens.  I'm not sure what they're hoping to gain.  Oh well! Two more years and I can retire, I hope!

On to better things!  My daughter, who just went through a divorce, had her first "date".  I wouldn't really call it a date, they met for a drink.  She was excited as well as anxious as it had been twelve years since she went out with anyone but her ex.  This guy sounds like a nice guy, though she said she wanted to deal with her feelings before she searched for someone to be serious with.  I applaud her for that, because if you can't live with yourself, how can you live with someone else.  Of course, having been there and not taking my own advice, I can speak from experience.( lol) You ever notice how easy it is to give advice? 

My daughter, Sean and Shelby

My daughter and I are the best of friends.  I admire her, she's doing what she's always dreamed of, she's a construction project manager for a college in Oklahoma.  She's always been a physical person in that she loves sports and building things.  Her idea of having a good time is painting a room or the project she just finished, painting her kitchen cabinets.  This project took several months as she had to take the doors off the frames, sand, prime, paint and shelack or something like that.  Now me, if I do a project, I want it completed in a day.  Take for instance a project I started at 7:45 PM yesterday, a project that I was told would only take ten minutes.  Replace the ballcock on my commode.  I did fine draining the water out of the tank, did fine removing the "thingey" to release the tube the brings in the water to the tank. Even placed a towel in the tank to remove the remaining water in the tank.  Then I get to another "thingey" that screws up to the tank between the other thingey and the tank. I could not loosen this thingey! I broke stuff to get it out, it's still there!  Thankfully I had another bathroom to use.  Now I have to go home and try again tonight!  This is what I get for thinking I'm a plumber.  Just because I'm an accountant for a plumbing supply house does not make one a  plumber.  But I bet that if my daughter had attempted the job, she would have succeeded.  But then, if she tried to keep my companies books, it would have been another matter!  I happy writing, reading and doing arithmetic, she's not.  She's happy doing plumbing, painting and working out in the wet red clay, I'm not. Below are some of the jobs she's worked on and completed.

Cabinets in her laundry room that she painted

JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE-How Do You Determine Your Passions or Focus?

   The SITS Girls

One of the suggestions on a blog I follow, "The Secrets In The Sauce", which by the way is a great group, I have their button should you want to find out how they help other bloggers, anyway, one of their suggestions is that you should pick one or two of your passions, hobbies, interest, etc and stick to posting about these topics.  This will create a following, especially by those who are interested in your subjects.  You should also be consistent when you post.  If you're going to post every day, post every day, or if you're going to post only once a week, pick a specific day to post every week.  I really liked one of their comments, "Now get up and sign off your blog, go out and get a life and post about that life".

I've been thinking about the idea of posting about one or two topics.  Then I got to thinking about some of the blogs I follow such as Elizabeth Spann Craig's Mystery Writing Is Murder.  She specifically focuses on how to create characters, or how to use your daily experiences in your writing.  So her main focus is on how to write, not just mystery but other genres as well.  Then you have Lee's blog site, Tossing It Out, that is a mixture.  On Sunday's he talks about God be it about how to pray or today's subject, "God Talks To Us.  Then on Wednesday he usually does an interview of someone.  Then there's mystery Thursday and I believe it's on Friday's he does a Tossing It Out subject that is meant to raise discussions. To read a another site that makes me think, I go to Ramana's Musings.  His musings aren't always specific subjects, but they're always geared to make me pause and think. Then if I want to have a brightness in my day I go to The Mighty M Family or  On Larch Lane or Rodman's Life.  Then I have two because of the cultural interest.. a teenager from India who is very mature and interesting.  I have spent time chatting with her and sometimes I forget her age, there isn't a feeling of age, just interest MelRoXx and the first time I read Sheeza blog, her passion for her country and it's people so overwhelmed me, Youth Parliment. Her posting is that of someone writing from her heart, tentatively reaching out, learning to express her views.  Then of course one I read because of her love for her husband and her husband's love for her.  They're going through a crisis at the moment, but Geoff takes the most beautiful pictures and Agnes writes such loving posts, Agnes Pages. And if I want the best recipes or how to ideas I go to, Helen's  and Grannymar's. And if you want a good scientific in laymen's terms such as Blackholes or Theory of Everything you need to check out Stephen Tremp.

I mention all of these because we read each others blogs.  Some are on specific subjects and some are not, yet I find them all very interesting and look forward to their posts.  Maybe a focus is just posting "Just About Today In My Life", throwing in some of the past or something on my mind.  As Lee says, "It would become boring to him if it were always about the same thing".  I also have a blog that I use for my Tuesday Morning and Friday Loose Bloggers Consortium. This past Friday on LBC we were to tell of "A Journey", I wrote about 1968 when I was in the Air Force stationed on Okinawa. This was during Viet Nam.  Okinawa had the B52's assigned there. You might find it interesting, go Here

JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE-Saturday-After Thanksgiving!

After the feast-my nephew D, his wife L-my brother LWH, nephew B

sister-in-law N & me.

This Thanksgiving proved to be another great family get together.  My sister, Susan, really had a good one. Her son Carl came down from Missouri with his kids and spent Thanksgiving with her. He's the one in the Air Force and will soon be headed to Guam.

Hunter, Carl, Kennedy and wife Samone

My brother's daughter C, has been accepted in the Diplomat service.  She will be headed to Washington in January for training, at which point she will find out her assignment.  She's hoping for Egypt or Africa, as she served in the Peace Corps at Niger. She's really excited about going as she also found out she passed her New York bar exam.

C is on the right sitting next to her mom N

Me & C on our Jan08 Cruise to Cozumel, MX

I had posted that my mom had fallen last Saturday, thankfully she wasn't insured seriously.  She also made the  Thanksgiving meal.

 

Nephew B & Mom

Did any of you do shopping on Black Friday?  I wonder if the retail stores made enough money to pull out of the read to the black, which means they'll make a profit this year. Now it's on to Christmas.  Which I'm excited about as I have decided I need to see my daughter and grandchildren, so I'm going there for the holiday.

Being Saturday, there's all of these little chores I need to do, so I'm headed to try to accomplish a little house cleaning and yard work.  You remember those leaves?  Y'all have a good one!

Miss Pris

Tasha & Miss Pris

JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE- Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday!  It's all about family, and what food to bring.  There are no presents to wonder about, it's all about eating and being thankful!

Ah, family.  During the year, do you remember the moments of tension.  Such as when Aunt Sally walks in, then you remember, "Oh dear"! Or Uncle John, "Let me head to the other room." I find that I look forward to each year.  I forget about the dysfunctional parts until we're driving there or as up above, they arrive.  I still would go. There's something about getting together with family that's reassuring.  I find my roots there. Here's some things I'm thankful for:

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1.  That I have the ability to worship God.

2.  That I have the most wonderful daughter in the world

3.  That I have the best grandchildren, who are healthy and looking forward to me coming out for Christmas.

4.  That I have family to share Thanksgiving with.

5.  That I have a job.

6.  That I have food to put on the table.

7.  That I have my health.

8.  That I have people serving in the military and away from home this Thanksgiving, to guarantee my        .

     freedom.

9.  That all my family is healthy and safely at their destinations.

10.That I can post to this blog and say what I mean and mean what I say!

Shelby, Mom & Sean 09

Jennifer & Shelby, Thanksgiving 08

Sean & Jennifer Thanksgiving 08

The Turner Side having fun! My Mom's side of the family.

My cousin and nephew

Nothing like good food!

The Harper Siblings, Hazel, Flora, Bernum, Jessie, Clifford

The McCains (Flora Harper)

What a group the Harper's are!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE-Sunday

Today, our church choir presented the musical "Hymns of the Ages".  It was beautiful!  Such a Thanksgiving message! My Mom came up yesterday evening to spend the night and go to church with me.  Unfortunately, she tripped on the driveway and fell.  Hit the side of her face, mashed her glasses against her eye.  Scraped the tips of her fingers pretty bad.  Hurt one of her hands, she's on Cumadin, the blood thinner, I thought we were never going to get the bleeding to stop.  When she got up this morning, she had a red/blue left eye where her glasses hit.  She was too embarrassed to go.  I told her she should go, we'd put a sign on her back "My daughter didn't give me this black eye, I fell!"  lol  When she went home at two, she was feeling better, I thought until then I might have to take her to the emergency room for her hand.  But she finally was able to bend and move without pain.  Hope everyone had a great day!

Mom at age 15, 1946

Age 16 on her wedding day, 1947

 Me, Dad & Mom 1950

Sneaking up on her great grandson Sean with a water gun

He turned, she brought her water gun up to aim

The water battle is on! Looks like Mammaw is ahead!

JUST ABOUT TODAY IN MY LIFE-Saturday Morning

Think I'm going to be lazy today and just post pictures, some of my favorite. I'm determined to do a littlehousework today, plus get started on a canvas rug (here)  for a birthday! So I hope y'all enjoy!

Shelby (granddaughter) & Jennifer (daughter) Easter 05

Sean (grandson) & Jennifer (daughter) Easter 05

Me and Christine (my niece) at the Captain's reception on our cruise 08

New Orleans skyline from the ship as we ready to leave! (it was in the 40's)

People on deck to watch the shoreline slide by as we head out to open water (notice the coats!)

Our room-the beds were comfortable!

The shower and bathroom is on the left past Christine's bed!

The center of the ship, with one of it's glass elevators

What a difference a day makes, notice the shorts"warmer weather".

Oklahoma Thanksgiving 08-Julie (granddaughter), Sean (grandson)

Shelby (granddaughter) and Jennifer (daughter)

All the grandkids Shelby (top), Scott, Julie and Sean

My sister Pam (wheelchair), my Mom and nephew Larry

Pam her senior year of high school

I loved this jacket!

Leave you with a warm thought!

He's actually in a hole he dug!

Ahh, to feel the warmth of the glaring sun today!

It Tuesday Morning Writing Time

We had an addition this week on the Tuesday Morning Writing Time, MelRoX.  Please check out her story along with mine and gaelikaa's.

Tuesday Morning Writing

The first time Michael and I saw the house on Dover Street, we fell in love with it.  "Judith", he said, "This is the one."

The house was originally built in the 1940's by the movie actress Chezelle Mason, after she completed her last movie.  She only starred in twelve movies, though from what we understood, they were all she needed to be sought after by directors and producers of that era.  Her last movie appeared in 1951, "The Vanishing Woman".  And that's what she did, vanish.  Though later the news media discovered that she had