Birthdays

                 Hello Nice People,

                           Today is a milestone in my life.  Today is my daughters 40th birthday.   Forty years.......40 years......the big 4-0.   I have to see it to actually believe it.  Melody was born on the day that Bobby Kennedy was assassinated.  So you will never hear ME say, "How long has RFK been gone?" ---40 YEARS!!  In those forty years, Melody has become a daughter to be proud of.  She is a married lady with 2 boys, one handicapped.

And never has anyone ever heard her complain or ask "Why me?"  She is absolutely the best that I could have hoped that she would become.  So Happy birthday Melody, we love you.

                   Yesterday was my mothers birthday.  She would be 102 years old, if she was still here.  She died on October 29, 1982 at 76 years old.  But now she would be celebrating 102 years.  When my mother died, she was not speaking to me.  There were lots of  family members that she cherished, but I was not one of them.   She has  been gone 26 years and I still think of her every day.  I thought of her a lot yesterday.  I wonder how many of her cherished ones had her in THEIR  thoughts yesterday. 

              Tonight we will just have some cake and tea to celebrate the big 4-0.  Just something  so the 2 boys can light the candles and  help Mommy blow them out. 

                                                            

A NICE SUNDAY...GOT EVERYTHING IN

HELLO NICE PEOPLE

        I hope everyone is having a BEEUTIFUL Sunday afternoon.  Oh, and I hate this Photobucket.  It takes me one and a half hours or more to load 5 pictures into an email to use in my Journal.  This is worse than having dial-up.

       Otherwise, today wa a fine day.  We usually go to 9:30 Mass on Sunday and then to the Sub shop for breakfast.  But son called and said "Come to Angelos ice hockey game."  Well, that means going to Mass at 6 o'clock tonight instead.

       After the ice hockey game in Atlantic city we took a ride through town,  to check out a city just waking up.  Hey, why don't we go to St. Mikes 11 o'clock Mass?  St Mike's is where hubby went to school......I went to Our Lady Star of the Sea, which is 3 blocks away.

     We haven't been to St Mikes for years and  years.  Walking into  church was like taking a step back in time.  It is the most beautiful church and where we got married years ago.

     Thankfully, I had my camera with me and took this picture.  I know,... us crazy Catholics and our statues.  (LOL)   I don't know why we don't come over here more often.  But we just do whats easiest and go to our neighborhood church.  We even met a few people that we went to school with and haven't seen for years.  Sheesh,  they're all OLD FOLKS.

       After Mass,  we called   Daughter, Melody and met her and Nick for lunch.  After a stop at a pizza joint,  we went to Nicks baseball game at The Field of Dreams.  This is where the handicapped kids play baseball.  There are kids in wheelchairs and walkers and kids that CAN  run the bases.  they use a "Buddy System where each kid has a buddy to show them  how to bat the ball and which way to go.

 

     Ice Hockey was sooo cold I needed a jacket and Buddy Ball was so hot in the sun that it was almost unbearable.   So it was a good day.  And now, fried potatoes and onions and hot dogs........I am taking it easy.

                                                               

 

                                                                          

DOES MY - - - LOOK FAT?

HELLO NICE PEOPLE

 

Weather......Rainy and wet and damp!

        I put "Annoyed" up there because this Photobucket takes so darn long to get pictures to put into an entry.  there must be a better way.  Or I am doing it wrong.  I will have  to go back and read some directions.

        I just finished supper and cleaned up the dishes.  I tried a recipe that I found on line.  I have to stop cooking from those recipes cuz they are just too rich and fattening.  This little dish was called  Grits and Shrimp.  But I  am renaming it---- Does my --- look fat after I ate this dish?

                              Tell Me what you think:

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                            Does My --- Look Fat After I Ate This

                 2 cups instant grits

                  one can chicken broth

                  4 cups whole milk

                  1 stick of butter

                   4 ounces cream cheese

                    one half cup shredded parmasan cheese

                    parsley  (at least thats healthy)

                    2 large egg whites

                     1 pound shrimp  peeled and deveined and cut into thirds.

                    Put it all together in one saucepan and then  in a really nice bowl and into the oven for 25 minutes at 375. 

                    Tuesday was our 41st Anniversary.  me and the ole boy, thats him over there on the couch------------------------------->.    Last year, I kind of made a  bigger deal out of it because it was the 40th.  I put our wedding picture in the Atlantic City Press as a surprise to hubby.  The best part was when he went to work on Monday, they had made copies, (lots of them) and tacked them all over the office.  On windows and file cabinets, in the bathroom in the bus garage, on the ceiling.  School buses   even had the picture in the back windows. 

                May 27, 1967

Well, 41 years later after too many good meals I guess.

         Please have a nice nite and a good day tomorrow.

                                                                                                            

 

                                      

IS THIS FOR REAL?

A friend sent me an email with a site that shows convicted felons in your neighborhood.  That was interesting but after I got bored with that,  I clicked on two things that are on top of the site.  When I opened each one,  I am shocked and confused.  One is a site promoting Dog fighting and the other is a site promoting adopting children to use their organs for your own benefit.  I don't know what to think about this.   I don't even know what to say or ask.  Please check it out and let me know what everyone else thinks.  I am wondering if  someone is allowed to advertise these kind of things on a regular internet site.  Or if there is anyone that this can be reported to.

http://www.felonspy.com/search.html

ANIMALS ARE CUTE, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

ANIMALS ARE CUTE...NO DOUBT ABOUT IT

First you had trouble getting out of bed ...



You had a stiff neck ...



You washed your hair and couldn't do a thing with it ...



You felt like you had a hangover and you weren't even drinking last night...



Your new diet really doesn't seem to be working out ...



You pulled a muscle when you tried to exercise ...



You keep losing things ...



The boss chewed you out at work ...



You got caught in the rain at lunchtime ...



Then the lunch you had didn't seem to agree with you ...



You feel trapped...



Uninvited guests showed up at dinnertime ...



On top of that you think you're coming down with the flu...



And finally, you're alone in the house at night when you think you hear a noise in the basement ...



Have a Purrfect Day!

Hello Nice People,

           Where have I been?  Somebody took my ADD ENTRY button.  So I sat and looked at the empty space where it used to be.  Then I X'd out the Journal and came back and sat and looked at it again.  "How the heck did I do this before? I must be losing it."  I did this for 4 days.  Then I gave up!  But it finally re-appeared and here I am.

             It has been a dreary, rainy 4 days here at the Jersey Shore.  I don't know when it is going to clear up.  And I hate driving in the rain.

 

Has anyone been watching the Eagle Mom and her baby on the EagleCAM?WVEC.com Eagle Cam

This is a live camera at the Norfolk Virginia Botanical Gardens.  Momma and Poppa Eagles lost a couple of eggs to predators, but she finally got one to hatch.  I have been watching since the little guy was just a thought in his Daddys head.  So now he is hatched as of  April 27th.  Now they have found a growth on the eaglets beak.  Thursday is the day that they are going to take baby out of the nest and do a biopsy.  Poor Mom, what will she think?  Check it out.

 

     I am watching Oprah, while I am typing this.   She is doing a show on makeovers.  Why didn't she call me?  I sure could use one.  BUT, what the heck is she wearing?  I know she is gaining weight, but it seems that all she wears lately are those big full skirts that exagerate her weight gain and that we wore in the 50's.  She will probably get a show out of it.  Like, "Does My *** look big in this rediculous skirt?"  

       

       Well, one of the Grands is on his way over.  He is going to stay here while Mommy takes his brother to the allergist.  And that is usually a long visit.

So I better get off of the computer because Nick will want to use it.

Everyone have a good rest of the day and a  nice day tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello Nice People,

          I luv this giraffe.  I think he is a cutie.   I  spend way too much time on this computer.  Between Journals and Photobucket, way too much.  Before I discovered Journals, I spent time on ITunes, snagging tags,  stupid emails and whatever else.  My problem is that the computer is right here in the kitchen and I hear the little "plick" when I get an email and the "plink" when I get a new alert for a Journal.  I have been scouring over Journals and found  Robinette/Jones Family Diary.  Then I found Dribbles by Chuck Ferris.  Now this is an Older gentleman in a nursing home.  (I think he spends way to much time on the computer too cuz he had me answering his alerts all day. ) Now I am going to work on this weeks letters and see if I can make a sentence out of NDOSTM.

      Other than that, it was an uneventful day.  Hubby and I went to the local diner for supper.  We just got back and he is going to watch one of his usual dumb movies on TV.  We absolutely do NOT have the same taste in Television.  I watch the Fox News channels mostly.    Most of the news today was about the tornadoes in  Missouri and the mid west.  I makes me wonder about Donna from My Country Life.  I don't think she has put in an entry today.  I hope the tornadoes did not come her way. 

        A few weeks ago I read in a Journal that there is a site where you can make any kind of a book.....recipes, life story, etc.....and for a price, they will put it in book form.  But for the life of me, I cannot remember which Journal it was.  If anyone can help I would be so happy and grateful.

     Well, tomorrow starts a new week of work.  Up at 5and on the road at 6.  So I will be turning in soon.  I hope everyone had a nice Mothers Day.

     G'Nite and talkatchalater.    

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