Go Eagles!!!!!!!!

Hello Nice People,

I will not start by telling all about the weather here at the Jersey Shore.  Its about the same everywhere.   Cold and dreary.  Except in the Mid West where they are getting lots of snow.  Wow, I think North Dakota is snowed in again .  I have been off from work for 11 days for the Christmas break.  Wooo Hooo!!!!!  Tomorrow is back to work.  I don't want to think about it.  I really should be ashamed to say that.  There are so many people that are out of work.  Shame, Shame on  me!!!!!!   "Shame", thats a word that you don't hear anymore.  "You should be ashamed of yourself."  "Shame on you!"   "Oh, the shame of it."  Hmmmmm, maybe this old world wouldn't be in the shape  its in if more people had some shame.  How did I get off on that subject?

Most of the Christmas decorations are put away.  All except for the tree.  I might keep that up for another week.  This whole area is in the midst of Playoff fever.  Eagles play today at 4 oclock.  We are all hoping for another day like last week when they destroyed Dallas.  I actually watched 9 hours of football yesterday.  Is that nuts or what?  Today will be another 8 or 9 hours.  Its 3:30 now, 7 minutes to go in  this game and then my full attention will go to the Philadelphia Eagles.  And the funny thing about it is Hubby is in the other room watching a movie!  Is there something wrong with this picture?  Hey, MY work is done.  Supper is in the crock pot, and a load of clothes in the  dryer. 

DIET>>>>>>>We are still on our Low Carb diet.  Hubby and I are down just about 50 pounds apiece.  And I have to say, it hasn't been all that hard.  We have spent a lifetime of dieting and not dieting, dieting and not dieting.  But I guess I shouldn't call this a diet.  This is something that we are going to have to stay on permenently.  Hubby has to keep his Sugar down and this seems to be the way to do it.  We discovered back in 1985 that he had Sugar Diabetes.  He has not touched sugar since that day.  His numbers were good til  this  past year.  It just became almost impossible to keep them down to the low 100.  So I started reading a little more about this than I ever had.  Surprise,  not only shouldn't he be eating sweets, but the cereal, rice, potatoes, beans and OMG Spaghetti are also out.  Even things like catshup.  Read the label and see how much sugar in catshup.  And today, there is SO much sugar free foods out there.  There is even sugar free Cool Whip.  Sugar free salad dressings, sugar free peanut butter, jelly, relish, pickles.  Guess how much sugar in a hot dog.  We have a weakness for Chinese Hot and Sour Soup.  Ahhh, that hits the spot on a cold night.  But seems like everytime we have Hot and Sour Soup take out, his sugar goes up.  So I asked  the nice little Chinese cook in the take out place if they put sugar in the Hot and Sour Soup.  His reply......"Evly thing in Chinese take out have sugar, thats why evelyone likes it."  Hey little Chinese cook man,  no sugar for us!

Its four o'clock, time for Eagles and Vikings.   Go Eagles!!!!!!

                                   Talkatchalater,

                                    

                                                                   Marlene

Catching Up

 

 Hello Nice People,         

            Thats my  little doggie, Gloriebelle.  When she sleeps, she really sleeps.Especially when she is in her pink pajamas.  Actually, she has no hair, so she has all kinds of sweaters and shirts.  This little  pink number, I  picked up at Walmart and it is great for nighttime because  she needs to be warm.

She hates to be ignored, so when Hubby is on the Puter, he has to hold her and eventually she falls asleep, mouth open and snoring.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!  I wish all the animals out there could be so content on this cold night.

        I have been missing for a few weeks.  Just couldn't find the time to post a new entry.  It  seems like work is taking up too much of my life.  I get home around 6 PM, tired and stiff from driving and before I know it, its time for beddie bye.  8:30 to 9 is about my latest to be up or  I am groggy driving the next morning. 

      I am catching up on some blogs today.  Boy, have I missed a lot.  Lisa, over at  "Life on a Bison Farm" lost her goat.  How sad, I got the old lump in my throat reading about it.  Donna, at "Just Me," is always losing things.  Back in Jland, she lost something? but finally found it in an old mug.  She also always puts me on track of some good sites.  She says click here and before I know it, I am off and can't find my way back.  Karen at "How I See It" is having lots of medical problems with her mother.  I know how that goes, hope all works out.  Missies's blog plays "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus."  Her pictures look like she is all organized and ready for Christmas.  Sugar has some really pretty Christmas tags......I snagged a few.  She thanked lots of people for snail mail cards.  Sorry I don't have your Addy Sugar, but Merry Christmas to ya!   And Kelly,  she is down in the dumps with the miserable weather.  And the poor chickens, they sure do need some sunshine.

         Grandson, Anthony turned 10 years old a few days ago. It seems like yesterday that I pulled up to Mels house and she was waiting at the door for me.  "Mom, I think its time, Shane is on his way home."

And 10 years later, here is the little darling

        Thats a toilet paper holder Ant got from me.  When he was about three, he came across one in the "junk drawer."  "Hey Mom Mom, can I have this, I always wanted one of these?"  So he took it home, what a treasure.  It didn't take him long though to figure out what it was and I guess he thought, "What the heck?  So the next day he brought it back and said, "Mom Mom, this is a toilet paper holder."  "Well you're the one that said you always wanted one so now you got one."  So for the following 7 years, I stick this toilet paper holder somewhere in one of his presents and I GET him  everytime, and I have the pics to prove it, LOL.

    Well, I am going to catch up on more blogs that I have missed. 

                                   Talkatchalater,

 Marlene

How Does This Work?

Hello Nice People,

                                                                                   

Now how does this work?

 

Get a calculator ready!

YOUR AGE BY DINING OUT
Don't
tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but

your waiter may know!


YOUR
AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH


This
is pretty neat < FONT s ize=2 olor="black" c>

DON'T
CHEAT BY
SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It
takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read  
Be sure you don't read
the bottom until you've worked it out! 
This is not one of
those waste of time things, it's fun. 
1.
First of all, pick the number of times a week tha t you would < BR>"like"
to 
go out to eat. 
(more than once but less
than 10) 
2.
Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold) 
3.
Add 5 
4.
Multiply it by 50 
5.
If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758... 
If you haven't, add
1757. 
6.
Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. 
You
should have a three digit number 
The
first dig i t of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times 
you want to go out to
restaurants in a week.) 
The
next two numbers are 
YOUR
AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!)

THIS
IS THE ONLY YEAR (2008) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT
LASTS

---

TRANS Siberian Orchestra

       The kids are so excited.  Today is a big day for them.  We are off to AC  Convention Hall.  Well now, it HAS been renamed "Boardwalk Hall"  but old habits die hard.  It will always be Convention Hall to me.  They've been waiting for weeks.  We're going to see Trans Siberian Orchestra.  We went last year, me and Melody.  This year we're  taking the 2 boys.

  

 

It's a great show.  And I'm excited myself.   It Classical, its Christmas and  it's a lot of Hard Rock.  Don't we ever grow up?  Somehow, I can't picture my mother going to a Rock Show when she was my age.   It should be interesting trying to find a parking place.  Tom Jones is in town at Ballys.  Kenny Rogers at Resorts and  Trans Siberian at Convention Hall.  We're parking at Trump and then we have to cross the casino floor with 2 kids to get out to the boardwalk.  Thats when you just act stupid and say, "oh sorry, I didn't know they can't be in here."  Wish  me luck.  

                                                     

                                                          Marlene

Thanksgiving and I'm staying up late.

 

Hello Nice People,

          Oh no!!!, I feel so bad.  I haven't  posted an entry for 2 weeks, and I check in here and find 15 comments to my last post.  AND three Marie Antoinette Awards.  Thank you Karen, Joyce and  Skip and  Vick; I don't know what to say.  Wow, this is almost as good as my  Chicken Chronicles  award from Kelly.  I feel like Sally Field when she said,   "You like me,  you really like me."  

            I tried to get back sooner but something always came up in the past few weeks.  A wedding shower and then last Saturday, we had  the wedding to go to.   That, along with work, I feel like I haven't had a moment to breathe.  But tonite, here I am.  And you have my undivided attention.  It is 11:30 PM and I have a turkey in the oven that has to come out at 1 AM.  So I will be propping my eyes open for the next hour and a half.  Of course Hubby just went to bed.  Somehow, men have the best of all worlds.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  I will be up early.  It's crazy.  On work days, I drag myself out of bed and off to work.  but on days off, I am up at 5 AM.  Ready to face a new day.  I love the early mornings when I don't have to work.  I enjoy my coffee and the morning paper with Fox and Friends on the TV.  Its the BESTEST time of the day.

Its been a cold end of November, and of course hubby has been working on his wood pile. 

  If he's not stacking wood, he's raking leaves.

  There's  an orange cat somewhere in those leaves.  Thats Sherwin Williams.

  He sleeps on top of an expensive doll in an antique doll coach.  Why NOT!?

        

               The turkey temperature is 170 degrees.  10 more degrees and I can go to bed.  What can I talk about?  The wedding?   Hmmmm......well it was a beautiful wedding.  I counted 18 tables of 12.  Wow thats a lot of people.  The Groom was my brothers grandson.  And I hadn't seen my brothers SON for many many many years.  It was just one of those things where you lose touch.   One day, I just picked up the phone and said lets get together.   That was about 5 or 6 years ago, and now we DO keep in touch.  I visited one of my brothers sons in Virginia and he and his family came here.   His brother here in Jersey invited us to his sons wedding.   The bride and groom were so friendly and kind.    He sure has raised nice kids, and I am sorry I missed them growing up. But he's probably wondering, "Where did this Aunt come from?"

                The turkey is 175 degrees.

Here is daughter Melody and my Grandson Nick.  When did he get so  tall?

 

Nick is the happiest kid.  He never has a bad day.  Nick has a handicap,  Apraxia of Speech.  Even though he is very hard to understand, he gets his point across.  Yippee, the turkey is 180 degrees.  Gonna put that stinker out in the enclosed porch and I am outta here.   

                                                       Nite All,

                                                       

                                                                

Its finally Over.

 Hello Nice People,

             Poor Sara.  I wonder what she is doing now.   Someone went up to Alaska and drug her down here to the lower 48.  Dressed her up in Fancy duds, told her what to say and tried to convince us that she was Presidential material.  Now those same people are tearing her down, smearing her character and making her the butt of more jokes.  All I can think is she didn't ask for any of this. What was the point? 

  

  

The idea that a woman of such limited experience should suddenly emerge on the national stage and be a heartbeat away from the presidency without a thorough vetting process is very scary.

And being a Republican, I stuck by McCain all the while wondering if I was being stupid.   This election is finally behind us and it is what it is.  I hope the good Lord looks down on us and Mr Obama and gives him all the help that  he will surely need.

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      I have found so many interesting blogs since we moved over from Jland.  The more time I spend moving from one to another, the more I want to be a follower.  I have to rein  myself in from clicking on "Follow This Blog"  on almost everyone I read.  I have to find the time to stay with the originals, let alone join too many others.  But they are just so tempting.   From Cluckin a Critter Farm,  I found Tennessee Grandaddy.  I seem to lean toward the ones that are Country or Farm  or Animals, like Kelly and her chickens.  Does that say anything about me?  Maybe I was a farmer in a former life.  Or maybe a cow???

      This is the third day of a four day weekend.  Thursday and Friday were the two New Jersey Teachers Convention days.  So all public schools are closed.  Last year it was a five day weekend that included Monday as Veterans Day.   But they discovered that when the teachers have five days off, they  go to Florida.  So this year, we are back to school on Monday, and then have Tuesday  off for Veterans Day.  And it has rained  since Wednesday.

        The little clock in the corner says 9:37 PM.  Time to call it a night.  Everyone stay well, and I will  Talkatchalater.

                      

                                      

                                             Thanx Joyce for this tag! Cute huh???

I've been up since 4:30 this morning. Had 2 CPR and First Aid classes. Took a test for each. Drove 182 miles. Took the Grandkids to Mcdonalds. Ran to church for the Rosary. I am tired and I have nothing to say. So I copied this from an Email.

 

Hello Nice People,

This made me laugh out loud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Menopause Question Ever

Q:
How many women with MENOPAUSE does it take to change a light
bulb?

Woman'sAnswer:
One!
ONLY ONE!!!! And do you know WHY? because  no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They
don't even know that the bulb is BURNED OUT!! They would sit in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it out.
And,once they figured it out, they wouldn't be able to find the #&%!* lightbulbs despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CABINET for the past 17 YEARS! But if they did, by some miracle of God, actually find them, 2 DAYS LATER, the chair they dragged to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!!!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER
THE FREAKING LIGHT BULBS CAME IN!!! BECAUSE NO ONE EVER PICKS UP OR CARRIES
OUT THE GARBAGE!!!! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT

ARE A FOOT DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE!!
IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS PLACE! AND
DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON WHO CHANGES
THE TOILET PAPER ROLL !!

I'm sorry.

What was the question?