um... this posting area looks different.. HTH do you post a video now? I hate when things change. Little help here?

gee, I bet you will.

....... "In the meantime, scores of illegal immigrant families have been abandoning their homes and jobs and leaving the state, Reuters reported. "

they left out.. and moving to California

has it really been this long since I've been on here? heh.. stupid Farmville. yes, I'm still hooked on that dumb game.

I just came back from the store... I bought two things...

this.. for the kitchen sink

and a bag of these

for me... to keep my mind off of killing the person that tried to stuff a side of beef sized mess down the garbage disposal.

LOL!!!

I was doing a google search this morning for my best friend in high school. We went through so much together and have only had sporadic contact over the years. I wanted to find her again and see how her life is.

When nothing came up on her, I tried her Mom... and found her obituary. She died on July 4, 2008. That made me so incredibly sad - she was an amazing lady. She took me in, no questions asked/no strings attached, when I ran away from home at 17. I lived there for about 4 months while I finished high school.

I think what makes me so sad is as an adult, I never went back and thanked her for everything she did for me. She showed me that not all Moms were insane, abusive and drunk (that was my world at 17) - she loved me and took care of me like one of her own. I called her Mom for all the years that I knew her and I have so many warm memories of her.  She was Venezuelan and seemed so exotic, which fascinated me. I loved listening to her stories and just the sound of her voice.

Her obituary says "We all share in the loss of a unique, gracious and elegant woman who touched our lives indelibly by being who she was".  That description is so fitting... she was all that and so much more.

I feel that same loss today and it makes my heart hurt.

I know the clematis, peonies and dutch iris... otherwise, nada. The strawberries are growing good in the topsy-turvy. The yard is beautiful right now!

how sad that we are letting the shuttle program end with no replacements in sight. I hate the fact that the USA is basically out of the space business. Very shortsighted IMHO

watch history here