The World May Stop Going Around and Around

*******Important News Flash*********


This Morning I found my first gray hair. Everyone watch out because the world may come to an end as we know it. Gray Hair already are you kidding me I don't want to be that old yet. Oh well the first Gray hair has appeared so I guess I might as well just embrace it and deal with it. Because where there is one more are likely to pop up along with it. Yikes!!!!!!!!! Oh well just because I am starting to get gray hair doesn't mean I have to act my age, I mean why should I start acting my age now. I have heard you are only as old as you feel. I want to feel young so I guess I will continue to act young.

****** This Concludes the End of this very important News Flash********

Wrong Number

My cell phone keeps ringing every 20 minutes or so and it is the same number every time. So like the 2nd time it rings this same number I decide to answer it.
Guy on phone: says Hi how are you.
Me: I'm fine and who is this.
Guy on phone: says what?
Me: who is this.
Guy on Phone: Oh I am looking for Sholanda Anderson
Me:Well I am not her
Guy on Phone: WHAT?
Me: I am not Sholanda Anderson
Guy on phone: Well do u know where she is
Me: No I sure don't because I don't even know her.
Guy on Phone: OK bye bye
Me: Bye

Interesting Conversation Right. LOL

So this same guy calls back again and leaves a voice mail message except it really isn't a message it is like he laid the phone down while he was checking out at Wal-mart because all I hear on the phone is some announcement over the loudspeaker at Wal-mart about something being on sale. Then you hear this guy fumbling with the phone and then he must set it back down because I hear the cash register ringing stuff up and then he picks up the phone again and ends the call.

So now he has called back again for the 4th time and I decided this moron does not get the picture that I am not Sholanda Anderson and I do not know where she is. Try a different number you Goober maybe you will find her there. LOL!!

Wonder Why?

Today I was on my way home from work and a truck pulling a trailer pulls out in front of me and then proceeds to turn at the next side road. There was nothing coming behind me so why do people insist on pulling out in front of others to just turn about 250 feet up the road. It makes absolutely no sense to me, does it make sense to you? Seriously are these people in such a hurry that they can't wait for me to go past where they want to pull out from. It would be a little different if there was a line of traffic following me or something but when there is nothing coming for a good 1/2 mile down the road could you people that insist on doing this just sit still and wait. Ok now I feel a little better since I have that off my mind. Lol!! Crazy Drivers. **** Huge SIGH*****

Have you ever been this tired??

I got these the other day in an e-mail and I thought they were really cute. So the question is:


Have you ever been this Tired??


or this tired

how about this tired?

or this tired?

how about this tired?

not sure if this kid was tired or the smell of the shoe knocked it out. LOL

Or this

Now this is tired!!

I know on several occasions in my life where I have been this tired. How about you? Hope everyone is having a great Thursday. :)

The Year 1978

I was born in August of 1978 and I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at some of the events that happened in 1978 and also the cost of some gorcery items as well as other items. So hope you enjoy reading about some of these events.

Welcome to Retroville! It's 1978!
IN THE NEWS:

• 
  Senate approves the Panama Cana Neutrality Treaty requiring the U.S. to turn over control of the Panama Canal to Panama by 2000 .

• Former Italian Premiere Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left wing terrorists who kill five of Moro's bodyguards before leaving Moro dead
  
• President Carter hosts the Framework for Peace conference at Camp David with Egypt's Sadat and Israel's Begin that results in a treaty between the nations after the 13-day summit
  
  
• Robert K. Jarvik patents the first artificial heart, the Jarvik-7
  
• The first test tube baby is born in England
  
• Actor Freddie Prinze commits suicide
  
• Pope Paul VI dies at 81
• The first Susan B. Anthony Dollar is Minted

Fads and Fashions:

• Hungry Hungry Hippos
  
• Skateboards
  
• Mattel Electronic Soccer
  
• Easy Bake MiniWave ovens
  
• Battlestar Galactica action figures

WHAT THINGS COST:
Car: $6,379
Gasoline: 65 cents per gallon
House: $62,500
Bread: 34 cents per loaf
Milk: $1.44 per gallon
Postage Stamp: 15 cents
Average Annual Salary: $20,091
Minimum Wage: $2.65 per hour

Popular Musicians:

Commodores

Rolling Stones

Boomtown Rats

Bee Gees

Turning 40

Thought I would post some interesting facts about what went on in 1969 and the cost of certain items 40 years ago. My husband turned 40 yesterday as some of you who read this blog or who know me personally already know that. :)


So in 1969:

• Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast
• Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5 into space
• Apollo 11 lands on the moon
• Richard Nixon became president
• Woodstock
• PBS was established
• Seasame Street Debuted
• 1st transplant of human eye

Cost of some food items and other items:

• Gas 35 cents a gallon
• Car- Ford Mustang $ 3,175
• Sugar .29/lb
• Tea .69/100 tea bags
• Bananas .12/lb
• Campbells Soup .10 a can

These are just some of the interesting facts and prices from 1969. Enjoy reading :)

Lucky 13

So today Ray and I are celebrating 13 years of wedded bliss. It has been an adventurous ride so far and I hope there is more adventure to come in the next 13 years. I wrote Ray a poem on our 1st anniversary and I just thought I would share it with you all today. Enjoy!!

Our First Year

Our First year of marriage has come and gone
And with it we had lots to learn.

We had to learn how to share many things
among them love, laughter, dreams and pain.

Our thoughts have been one, our sorrows have too
And with it a lot to endure.

We've learned how to soar high and to spread our wings
And also how to get over everything.

We have kept to our vows we made over a year ago
And I only hope through the years we can continue to do so.

So what I am trying to say in these few little words is
This year has been wonderful and so much fun ,
I just can't wait for the better ones to come.

With all my love to you from the bottom of my heart.

Amy

Crazy Drivers Strike Again

Before I get started here I would just like to say my nerves are completely shot. Now that I have that out of the way I will get started with the story.

Ray and I were in Downtown Charlotte this afternoon for an appointment and let me just start off by saying people in Charlotte drive like a bunch of idiots. We were about side swiped once because this guy/idiot decided that from the far left lane all of a sudden when the light turns green he wants to make a right hand turn. So what does he do he comes across in front of all lanes of traffic to make a right hand turn. In the process he about hits 2 cars one of them being ours. So my nerves were already on the downhill decent at this point.
Next where our appointment was at it was not the easiest place to find so I call to get directions and the lady that answers the phone says where are you at so I tell her the street we are on and then she says which way are you coming up the street and I tell her east so then she just says well were are directly across from the hospital. Now let me stop here and tell everyone that the hospital has 4 sides and they all face different streets. So she didn't tell me which side of the hospital they were across from. Ughhhhhhhh. So we proceed on and eventually find the place.
After we leave our appointment we are driving down the road and had to make a right turn and there in the middle of one of the lanes is a car parked on the wrong side of the street in oncoming traffic and in a no parking zone at that. So everyone is slamming on brakes trying to avoid hitting this car. Seriously what is wrong with people! My nerves are screaming they can't take much more today.
So the final incident that just sent my nerves right over the edge happened when we were almost home. This homeless guy on a bike comes across 4 lanes of traffic while looking back behind himself to see if it is clear and almost falls off the bike. Then he proceeds to run through a red light. Then he almost runs into the back of a tractor trailer. Again what is wrong with the people did they just fall off the back of a turnip truck today.

Finally we made it home and can I just tell everyone my nerves and myself are glad to be home cause my nerves are shot to pieces. But I think they may recover part way overnight.

Whew!!! What an adventurous trip. LOL. :p :P :0 :)

Fire Ant Dance

So this evening I was mowing on the back 40 ok so it was just the lower part of the back yard and there was a ton of fire ant nest down there. Most of you probably know what fire ants are or what they look like but if you don't know they love to make huge mounds/nest in the ground and then when you get near one of there land mines so to speak they come boiling out of there. They are black and red in color but mostly red and when they bite/sting it feels like you are literally on fire. So anyways back to the story. I am push mowing and I come upon the first nest so I dodge it and then the second one and i jump over that one and then the third one and I straddle it while walking really fast with the mower and so on. It is literally like walking on a land mine field but it is like a fire ant mine. You just have to guess where the next one might pop up as you are mowing. I looked like I was doing some kind of dance while mowing because I was trying to avoid all these nest. It would have been very comical to watch I was even getting a little tickled myself thinking about what I probably looked like to cars passing by. So I get the whole area almost mowed and on the final pass one of those little devilish things bites me in 2 places on my leg. So now i have a nice red blistered up place on my leg as result of this fire ant.


If you would like to know how to do the fire ant dance I can tell you how. First you zig one way and then you zag the other way. Second you jump up and over the nest. Third you zig again and if need be you zag. So that's basically what you do and just repeat the steps as needed.

So the moral to this story is: AVOID FIRE ANTS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. LOL

What is wrong with people?

So today I stopped somewhere to get something to eat for lunch and instead of going inside I just went through the drive thru. I get to the window to pay and this totally nerdy guy starts flirting with me and I am thinking to myself seriously dude what is your problem. He is all grinning and smiling and making wierd facial expressions at me and I am rolling my eyes which he couldn't see because I had my sunglasses on. Also I am trying to avoid looking at this creep during this time. So I pay and then he hands me my change and he literally says to me just wait right there your order will be right up. Like are you kidding me where the heck do you think I am going to go anyways. Duh!! You haven't given me my food yet do you think I am going to just pay for it and drive off without it. So then he finally brings my food to the window and he is all grinning and smiling and making wierd faces again. Seriously he could see I had a wedding ring on and I am thinking to myself Dude I am married and I am not interested in you in the least. So when I get ready to drive off he says Okie dokie then here is your food now you come back real soon to see us again. As I am driving off I am thinking I don't think so. I know some people might say well you should be flattered by this and so on but I was just totally creeped out by his actions. Why do some people continue to be more creepy and wierd and annoying the more you try to ignore them?? Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

What's your Name

Ok so I know this probably one of the lamest blog post ever but the other night I was on Facebook and I came across this thing called Name Generators. It is where you can type in your name and find out what your name would be for different things, such as earth name, hobbit name, soap opera name and so on. So I thought it might be fun just for the sake of nothing else better to do at the time to try it out and find out what my name would be for some of these wierd name thingys. I know others may not find this very amusing but I think some of these are absolutely hilarious. And since I don't have anything better to blog about today here are some of the results I got. If anyone is interested in doing this for their own name just go to Facebook and type in Name Generators.

Hippy name: Willow Peace
Indian Chief Name: Chief Brave Bear
Monster Name: Amy the headless fire breathing Nurse
Soap Opera Name: Dixie Buchanan
Earth Name: Poppy Light
Superhero Name: The Amazing Defender
Prank Call Name: Pat Onaback
Little Miss Name: Little Miss Whoops
Aztec Name: Cacauaxochitl
Shakespeare Name: Thaisa
GI Joe Name: Doc
Redneck Name: Molly Houston
Mermaid Name: Meredith
Fairy Name: Sunflower Moon-Beam
Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Proudfoot
Scottish Name: Morna Mackintosh

The ones I highlighted in red are the ones I like the best out of all of them. I know what some of you may be thinking it doesn't take much to humor me and for the most part that is right,I am humored very easily by alot of things but as they say Laughter is the best medicine.

Southern Veggies

So heres the thing about cooking vegetables that all Southerners don't agree on. Some say that you are only a true southerner if you eat your vegetables cooked to death. Here is where I disagree with that personally I like to still be able to identify what my vegetables are after they are cooked and what the distinct taste is to each vegetable. So as a True Southerner I don't like my vegetables cooked to death until they are mushy. I also don't like fatback or ham or bacon in my veggies. But even though I like to taste my veggies for what they are supposed to taste like and not masked with a bunch of different seasonings and flavors I am still a Southerner and I always will be. I know this is kind of a random post but there was a discussion going on earlier on facebook on the proper way to cook grean beans southern style. Well in my personal opinion that discussion could go on all day long and the right way to cook them will never be agreed on. So with that being said eat your vegetables however you like but don't tell me I am not a True Southerner if I like my green beans with a little crunch left in them. LOL!! Here is a great quote from the late comedian Lewis Grizzard “I’m southern born, and southern bred, and when I die, I’ll be southern dead.”

Are you having a bad day?

So i know that this is not an original posting that I came up with, but I have enjoyed reading this several times when I was having a bad day. When I read this I can always come to the realization that others may have had a day that was more awful then mine. So hope everyone enjoys this and maybe even a few of you can get a laugh out of it and see the humor in it. Hope everyone is having a good day.


Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue,Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit.. This time of year the water is quite cool.So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn.. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

The Blogging World

So I know I have not been very good at blogging in the past but I am going to try to do a little better. Seeing as I had almost a whole year between post that is kind of sad really if you think about it. I don't see myself as a good writer and often I struggle to find something interesting to write about that others would even want to read. So I am not really sure as of yet what this blog will really be about but right now it is just going to be about things that come to my mind that I think are worth sharing and that others may or may not get a good laugh out of. Whoever chooses to read this blog read at your own risk. LOL!! :) ;) :0

Thinking out Loud

So I know this is kind of random but the other day I was driving down the road and passed by a sign that said the following: " Concord Caskets For Sale or Lease" so I instantly said out loud who in the world would ever lease a casket. As soon as those words left my mouth I knew that it sounded so wrong. As my mother who was with me at the time pointed out you didn't read the rest of the sign. Which said Concord Casket for sale or lease 3,000 square feet-5,000 square feet. Duh!! Note to self: Always read the whole sign/message before thinking out loud. So everyone join in and have a laugh on me. :) Even the best of us have our Duh moments sometimes.