A friend of mine who works in Nashville is working as a volunteer at this Mutt Strutt. She was telling me about the great success they have had in previous years raising a lot of money and having a lot of fun with people and their pets. It is all for charity and is a different kind of fund raising event. I wonder if it would work in this area?
Something that seems so easy to prepare but something that I never make at home is the breakfast burrito. At home, I don’t even think much about breakfast during the week. I just want my coffee and maybe a muffin or piece of toast and I’m out the door.
This morning I had to drop off a friend to get a rental car before work. I decided to wait around and make sure that she got it with no problems. So I drove across the street to the Sonic and ordered a breakfast burrito with a Route 44 cherry limeade.
Fifteen minutes later my friend drove away in her rental car and I had chewed my last bite of the breakfast burrito. It was actually very tasty and a nice change of pace.
Our IT department does a fantastic job keeping our computers running and our company web site up. We have really good web hosting arrangements.
I don’t believe I have ever heard someone complain about our web site crashing or being down. That is hard to accomplish and our IT guys deserve a big pat on the back for doing a good job.
Part of their original analysis of the server and hosting decision considered managed hosting and the financial considerations as well as the technical aspects.
We’ve even considered colocation as an extra measure of security and reliability.Who ever would have thought that so many things go into what seems to be a simple decision of which server and hosting company you want to work with?
There is a theatrical production that has my interest. It’s a play based on the back story of the Wizard of Oz. It has been extremely successful and is making a ton of money.
Wicked is a Broadway production that has been on Broadway and also has toured nationally for several years. It is an “open-ended show,” which means it will continue running as long as it is making good money, and it has been playing to sold out audiences for almost every performance the past 4 years.
This play has actually been grossing more than a million dollars every week for over 7 years, whether the show has sold out or not. Wicked broke the record for highest weekly box office gross in Broadway history, at $1,610,934.
Guest post by Linda Bradshaw
Last year when my husband was going through his physical therapy for his back pain, his insurance company agreed to pay for a LG-TEC Dual Combo TENS Unit and Muscle Stimulator to help his with his attempts to find pain relief. I was really glad about that because I had heard that TENS Units, and Muscle Stimulators really help a lot of people with their pain management routines, and I was anxious to help my husband find as much relief as we could get.
When his therapist told us to Visit LGMedSupply Online to get more information about TENS units, we found that they had an interesting online customer blog that helped us to gain confidence in their products. We got the TENS Unit and it works like a charm! My husband loves it. Isn’t modern science a wonderful thing!
The Comedy Channel is usually good for a laugh or two when I find myself clicking through the cable channels looking for a quick show to watch. Laughter is after all the best medicine!
Tosh.O is one of my favorites shows that I watch on The Comedy Channel. I try to catch it at least once a week. Tosh.O is funny and nice on the eyes! Check him out, if you get the chance.
I’m hoping that my next year’s tax refund check will be a decent one. Decent enough for me to put a large down payment on a new car. My first car was an old VW Beetle and I’ve always had a spot in my heart for the VW Beetle. The New VW Beetle is mighty fine looking and I’m really tempted to go down to the local VW lot and test drive one to see how they feel and ride. A nice rich blue color would be sweet to be driving down the road.
I do like the volkswagen jetta as well, but it just doesn’t compare with my beloved Beetle or “Bug” as we used to call them back in the day. I still see a nice “Bug” going down the road once in a while and I find myself staring them down and almost drooling at the sight of it.
My mother would like to see me in a dodge challenger, I would like to buy American but I have to check an assortment out and see what best fits me and my needs. My Dad has been pushing for a new volvo c30. They are such opposites it cracks me up. Anyway I have almost a year to sort them all out and make a decision so there is no rush, but it is exciting and gives me something to look forward to. The Internet certainly will be helpful in researching this project!
Hey check out this wild looking tiny little thing, the smart fortwo, what a trip!
Here is a new portrait of two of my friends. They worked with a professional photographer to take this publicity shot.
My dilemma is that I don’t think it is very flattering of her and don’t know how to tell her that without hurting her feelings.
She is a very pretty woman and is madly in love with her boyfriend. So I can see why she likes this photo. But I wish she was not posed so awkwardly, and her shirt is not flattering at all. In fact, at first glance I thought it was an apron.
What do you think?
Really hope that the economy is starting to get better and that the stock market is going to stabilize. In fact, I truly hope the stock market gets back to being lucrative, as I am interested in finding an Online Broker and working on my retirement portfolio.
Several years ago I was learning about IRA Accounts and got a good start with an IRA. But that is not enough for a healthy portfolio.
All my friends are heavily involved in Stock Trading and I realize that it has its ups and downs. But if the economy gets a little better, I will be much more comfortable investing money and taking my chances on my financial future.
Since the I saw on the news last week that we were all out of Iraq I haven’t heard or seen much online or on the TV about the “war being over”. In fact the few people that I’ve talked to about this didn’t even know about the convoy that was videoed leaving Iraq.
Last night while doing a bit of channel surfing I did see a news headline that stated that there is actually still 50 thousand of our military troops still in Iraq. What’s going on?
Written by my friend Roosevelt Spence
When the crowd rises en masse to work itself into a lethargic frenzy, that is the signal the Jerry Springer is about to slide down the fireman’s pole and unleash another hour of mayhem. The public living room is about to host people of all walks of life that have secrets that need to be aired to cleanse the spirit of the confessor, even if the audience consists of millions of viewers. Jerry Springer is a master at getting people to bare their innermost secrets in a usually vain attempt at redemption.
The host will begin with some questions to get to the root of the issue and then match the antagonist and protagonist onstage with the peripheral players in these dramas that almost always involve residents from the lower social strata. Sex is the driving issue that fuels these fires and the wronged party will resort to controlled violence in an effort to get some sort of aggrieved payback. The best part is the number of people that have nothing better to do than mess around with the neighbors or old flames and then admit the indiscretions on national television. When surfing the guide on my Cannon Satellite tv, I always look for episodes of “The Jerry Springer Show” to keep me entertained.
I have never been a big fan of the Pringles that have become so popular lately. The texture of their chips just don’t float my boat. I like the traditional chips to go alongside a sandwich at lunch. If I have some dip on hand, I like the Ruffles with the ridges.
I do have to say that they other day I had the pleasure of tasting their sour cream and onion chip and was surprised that I actually liked the darn thing. Life is full of surprises!
My father has always been interested in conservation – even before it became “cool” to be “green.” Part of his attempts at conservation have always included rain harvesting. Ever since I can recall we have had rain water barrels at the corners of our house and our garage. We would use the water collected from the rain barrels to water our gardens and wash the cars.
The only thing that worries me about doing this is the reports that I hear about acid rain. That’s the biggest reason we don’t use it for potable water. I don’t know if there even exists a filter system that could be purchased by a homeowner that would make it safe to drink. That is one of the things that makes me very angry about the slowing down of environmental protection acts – the air that is being polluted hundreds of miles away from us is ruining our air and water. I know that there are technologies available to scrub the pollutants from the factories at the source, but they aren’t being installed and maintained as fast or as well as they need to be done.
Well…. I’ll get off my soapbox now! Conserving water is still a good thing.
Looking around YouTube for a little entertainment, I came across an oldie but goodie – a Trunk Monkey commercial. I really enjoyed those commercials! I could certainly use one of my own!
Since the weather wasn’t all that great over the weekend I took a drive around in my old neighborhood and strolled down memory lane for a few hours. The house that I grew up in is totally different on the outside these days. I’d love to be able to go inside and see how it looks in there, but I’d never get the nerve up to knock on the door and ask. But once in a great while I’ll drive by and check the place out.
The front porch is now enclosed and another house has been built where we used to play in the side yard. It was the perfect house and yard to grow up in. My mother and father took a lot of pride in keeping the place looking nice even with 5 kids running around creating havoc. My mother had the most wonderful window flower boxes in stalled in the windows on the front of the house. She was very proud of how her window boxes looked all year round. And plenty of neighbors were envious of her taste and talents and went out and purchased their own garden window boxes to experiment with, but hers always looked the best.
Most days I bring my lunch to work and either make a sandwich or just reheat something so I don’t have to go out to eat. This saves both money and time.
Today I am going to try a new frozen dinner. This is a new brand to me – an entre by a company called Boston Market. It looks delicious on the box – I hope it is filling and tasty.
I’ve just discovered Robert Earl Keene. This man is a great songwriter! I had no idea his work has been covered by so many big name artists as well as his own very successful performing career. I hope to hear him in a live show if he comes to this area.
One of my co-workers just asked me to give them a lift after work today. They had car trouble this morning and broke down on a back road several miles from her home. She had to catch a ride from a complete stranger, who was kind enough to stop when they saw her on the road next to her car.
I don’t mind giving her a ride home, even though it is out of my way. In fact, I am flattered that she thought she could ask me.
It will give us some nice time together for about 20 minutes on the ride to her house. We can chit chat and get to know each other better. Of course, I’ll be late getting to my own home, but I don’t mind just this once.
Parents want to help their children do well in school. But, let’s face it, not everyone who has kids did well in math while in school, and not everyone can effectively help their child with their math homework. Even 5th grade math can cause trouble for parents. Imagine the horror of “helping” your child with their homework and having it come back as “Fail” by the teacher!
How many blue collar workers have to worry about adding fractions in their every day life? To be honest with you, the only time I have to worry about adding fractions is on the very rare occasions that I am cooking something and I have to either cut the recipe in half or double the size of the recipe.
When I needed an Algebra solver to finish my school work, asking my parents was the last thing I would do. I had a tutor and I knew that the tutor was going to help me find the right answer.
I can remember seeing the movie Deliverance and the only scene I enjoyed was the dueling banjos scene. The rest of the movie was just too creepy for me.
I found this video of the dueling banjos just now and thought I’d share it with you. Hope you enjoy it.