Music

I am always curious about what all those people at the health and wellness center with the earphones in their ears are listening to. It is my belief that one can really tell a lot about another person by the music they listen to. That being said, there are now 46 songs on my Ipod and these are the artists:

Aretha Franklin
The Beatles
Bee Gees
Bette Middler
Elvis Presley
The Four Tops
Garth Brooks
The Impressions
The Isley Brothers
Janis Joplin
Jimmy Buffett
Josh Groban
The Judds
LeeAnn Rimes
Liza Minnelli
The Lovin' Spoonful
Mark Chesnutt
Martha Reeves
Marvin Gaye
Michael Crawford
Michael Jackson
Michael W. Smith
Smokey Robinson
Three Dog Night
Vanilla Ice
Now, judging from this list, I am not at all sure I would be able to tell anything about me if I didn't KNOW ME!

Things that make you go, "Huuummmm"!!!!

Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why are there still monkeys and apes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for a lethal injection?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it #2?

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard!

If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?

Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

WOOHOOOOO! I GOT IT!!!

A mini-ipod, that is!!!! I have wanted one of these gizmos for months now and I finally broke down and spent the $200 bucks. I have been playing with the thing for hours now and finally have some awesome music downloaded on it ready to go to the gym tomorrow. My tastes are so varied that I have music on it from Michael Jackson (I know, I know, but the guy can sing!!), LeAnn Rimes, Beatles, Elvis, Phantom of the Opera, Garth Brooks, Tracy Chapman, Bob Marley, Jimmy Buffet, Barbra Streisand (I hate her politics, but I like her voice....as long as it's singing and not pontificating on stuff she isn't qualified to pontificate on!) and Mark Chesnutt. Tomorrow I will add others from CD's that are in the car. I didn't want to go get them out tonight. I can tell already that I REALLY like this gadget. Hey, Queen Elizabeth has an Ipod, so why shouldn't I? I wonder what she listens to......Queen, perhaps, or maybe Prince!

HELLLLLOOOOO!

Imagine my surprise when I walked downstairs this morning about 9 and noticed the wall of the bathroom knocked completely in and crap all over the floor. Stuff was knocked off the walls and the heavy plug for the phone recharger was knocked completely out of the opposite wall. I started to walk outside and look at the outside, but the front door would not open. The entire wall had moved enough to jam the door. The big question is, "Why didn't I hear this?" I guess someone could come in and remove everything downstairs and I wouldn't hear it. The reason is that I have a ceiling fan and another fan going at all times. They work REALLY well at drowning out noises! I didn't know how well they did work until last night. Right now everything has been removed from the bathroom and we are waiting for the insurance adjuster to show up. Police have already been. Looks like someone who had obviously had a little too much to drink tried to back their truck into the parking area by my apartment. Apparently, there was a trailor hitch on the truck that did the most damage. What am I thinking!!! Of course, there was a trailor hitch....this is, after all, TEXAS!!! There could possibly be some good to come out of this. I may actually get a new floor, which I have asked for many times before. I should have gone in there with a sledge hammer and done some more damage before I informed management and they came to take pictures!!

Yoga

I just returned from my very first yoga session. I am absolutely relaxed and feel very flexible. I think this is going to be something that I really like. Four days a week I still go to the health and wellness center for cardio and resistance training, but this is something so totally different. The sessions are twice a week for one hour each, but I think I will be doing this some at home as well. My fitness center offers Gentle Yoga, but they offer it at 7:15 AM. I'm not sure how "gentle" anything is at that hour!! Maybe when I really get into it, I will get up and go to that class as well. This one goes through July. I have wanted to try yoga for a long time and just happened to learn that the local college was offering it at a reasonable time and fee. I'm very glad I found this class!! Fortunately, there are no young cheerleader types in there to show us all up and intimidate us with their flexibility!

The Honeymooners

LAME MOVIE!!!

Madagascar

Cute movie!

Kidnapped!

Sitting home eating a bowl of watermelon and minding my own business at 9:30 last night.......when bang,bang,bang on the door and people yelling, "Sandra, Sandra, come out and go with us!" I didn't recognize the voices, but they knew my name so I assumed it was alright to answer the door. Much to my surprise, there were 3 ladies in their pajamas....Robin, Amanda, and Michelle....all former co-workers (young co-workers) to get me to go back with them just down the street to a bachelorette party for Delisa.....another former co-worker. I went and had a great time. It's been a long time since I have done something like that......OK....not so long. Just a few weeks ago I hooked up with some other old friends and went out. Seems strange after all these years. I am ALWAYS the oldest one there. I guess all the others my age are home in bed! That's probably where I should be, but I totally enjoyed the evenings.

100% Chick Flick!

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants .....I just adored this movie!

Good Explanation!

A man went to a barbershop to have his haircut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving a God who would allow all of these things."

The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."

"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside." "Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

3 weeks post CK procedure...

If my vision doesn't improve soon, I'm afraid I can't recommend this procedure to others. I can close my right eye and see distance fine;likewise, I can close my left eye and read fine. The problem arises with both eyes trying to see. My brain just hasn't adapted to this one eye thingy! I'm not very optimistic right now!

Dang! It's HOT!

I love Texas, but 99 degrees in May is just too much! The last two days broke 100 year records by 5 degrees. Now we get used to HOT gradually and usually don't see temps this high until late July or early August. Hello!!!! This is May....a time when we should be able to play golf without a complete meltdown. I just want to be on a mountain somewhere!!!!.......................... Stepping down now from my soapbox!

Recap

Well, everything that broke last week is now fixed. The windshield has been replaced at a cost of my deductible, and the tooth has been crowned at a personal cost to me of $600.00. Dental insurance is the one thing I miss most about working!!! My friend, who is a dentist, told me I would never have to pay for any dental work again. Unfortunately, she lives in Dallas.....just too far away. I would never impose on her anyway, but it is good to know!!!

CK follow-up office visit

Tomorrow will be two weeks since my CK (Conductive Keratoplasty) procedure. I was a little concerned that my vision is still blurry. He showed me that I could see distance with my right eye covered and I could see close up with my left eye covered. The bluriness is because the brain has not yet adjusted to seeing distance with one eye and close up with another. Of course, I had to know if my brain was just slow......he assured me that it wasn't (whew!!!) It usually takes 6 weeks to two months for full brain adjustment. I just hope mine does. Sometimes it happens that the brain never does adjust. I hope that doesn't happen because it is quite annoying to have blurry vision all the time.

There are days and then there are DAYS!

This one fell into the DAYS category and it isn't over,yet! The day started on the golf course where instead of being paired with beginners, like I should be, I was paired with two ladies who just came back from playing the State Seniors Golf Tournament WHERE ONE OF THEM WON A CONSOLATION PRIZE! Hello......Can we say INTIMATION!!! On hole #1 I could not hit the ball for anything and when I did, it hit every tree on the hole. I wasn't even half way to the Par 4 hole green and I already had 4 strokes. I politely told the ladies that I was going to slip off by myself and play the back nine. Well, I couldn't even do any better there where there was no one to intimidate me. I quit and went shopping.

Did my day improve there? Not one bit. Nothing looked right...nothing fit right! I have gained 5 pounds and I am not a happy camper. So....without buying anything (that's a good thing), I headed for the gym to work out. I drove around the block 3 times without turning into the parking lot. Finally, I decided just to take my butt home and stay there

Did my day improve there? Not one bit. I broke a tooth chewing on a Jelly Belly!!! Jelly Belly's are not HARD! My dentist's office is already closed and they do not open again until Monday. I guess that is God's way of telling me to STOP EATING JELLY BELLY'S!!OK...I got the message! AARGH!!!!

Mother's Day

As I left church this morning, I was handed a Mother's Day gift. It was a beautiful pen and bookmark. I guess that all women are considered mothers. I am not a mother, but it was assumed that I was. That's OK with me. I don't mind at all, but I wonder if those women who wanted to be mothers, but for some reason were not granted that joy were offended or hurt by being handed the gift. It could have reminded them of the sorrows they felt for not being a mother.

I have a wonderful 80 year old mother whom I should have been with today. Last night I attended an engagement party here in my town, which is 4 hours away from where my mother lives. It was my intention to get up early this morning and drive the 4 hours to surprise my mom at church. That didn't happen for whatever lame reason! No reason is good enough for my shortcomings on this Mother's Day. I know that future Mother's Days with my mother are numbered and I should have gotten my butt out of bed and hit the road at 6 A.M.

Even though I am not a mother, there is always one very special person who calls to wish me a Happy Mother's Day. If I had a daughter , I would want her to be just like Denise!!!

Woo Hoo...What a Ride!

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well -preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!" I cannot take credit for this quote, but I like it a lot! I wish I had said it, but since I didn't I am going to borrow it and continue to live exactly this way.

To make this ride a little smoother, I hope, I took the plunge yesterday and had a CK (conductive kerotoplasty) on one eye. It's a relatively new procedure for aging eyes that will permit me to get rid of the glasses!!! Even yesterday after the procedure, I was reading things that I couldn't read without glasses just a few minutes before. There was no pain involved, but today has been quite uncomfortable at times. My vision is blurred, but will continue to improve over the next couple of weeks...I hope!! None of this stopped me from going to my golf lesson yesterday afternoon or playing 18 holes today before going to a meeting concerning a bridal shower for which I am a hostess. I had trouble seeing the golf ball today, but the ladies with whom I was playing were very accommodating. I shot a 114, which, for me, is not a bad score. I've done worse!!!

Whew! What a whirlwind!

I have just returned from a whirlwind trip to visit my parents in North Louisiana. Today is my dad's 83rd birthday and on Wednesday of last week I took him for a heart cath. His shortness of breath is not from a blockage! Could it be nothing more than AGE! I think so, but it is hard for him to accept. Since he and Mom have been attacked by age-related infirmities, I have tried to keep their yard manicured and plant all the spring flowers. Mom loves her flowers and he loves his garden, so last week I did both! I have become quite the farmer and , yes, I can run a tiller! I work so hard while I am there that I can hardly move at night, but when I leave, the place is beautiful. Did I mention that we are talking acres here.....not a tiny little suburban yard? It takes me 3 hours to do all the mowing and that's on a riding lawn mower!!!

It didn't take me long to get back in MY world today....that would be losing golf balls on the golf course. Do golf balls have magnets in them that are attracted to water? I think mine do! Hitting a ball in the water automatically adds 3 strokes to the hole and that's only if I don't hit it in the water a second time!!! AARGH!

Tomorrow, I am very much looking forward to getting rid of my glasses by having Conductive Keratotomy on one eye. I fully expect to be on the golf course for my golf lesson at 4:30 after having the 3-5 minute procedure at 10:30 A.M. I may be expecting too much!!!

Shameful Sunday!

Today I did something that I will never do again. To set the scene, it was 49 degrees and absolutely postcard perfect in Southeast Texas this morning. The temperature was predicted to rise to the 70's only. For this time of year that is just unheard of. By now, we are usually seeing temps into the 90's with high humidities. I made the decision to bypass church today and go straight to the golf course. I justified it to myself that by going early, while EVERYONE else is in church, the course will not be crowded and I can get in a good round of 18 with a decent score and turn in the card to be used on my next handicap adjustment. WRONG! Well, I was right about the course being sparsely occupied, but I felt guilty and played horribly the entire 18 holes. Back when I was spiritually dormant, I would have done this in a heartbeat and felt no pangs of guilt. I am happy to say that those days are gone. I told a fellow player whose ball landed in my fairway that I was playing badly as well and I felt guilty because I should be in church. He told me a joke about the preacher who made a hole-in-one, but couldn't tell anyone about it because he did it on a Sunday!!!!

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This is a webpage I designed in a 2 day workshop while I was still teaching. The info is out of date and some of the links don't work, but I have NO CLUE how to get to it to change it. Ooops! I must have missed that part of the workshop!