Sisters

Kim & Kaye Christmas 1969

I love my sis! She has always been everything that I'm not. During the 70's she was the one who had to have big loud flowers on everything while I stayed with the calico prints. She never seemed afraid to step out there and be herself whereas I felt like I just followed the flow.

She is the one who introduced me to the world of blogging. Whenever I need some humor in my life I know that I can always go to her blog http://digiziners.blogspot.com/ and get a good laugh. She sees the world through my dad's eyes (my dad is also someone who doesn't take the world too seriously). I've decided that God must have a sense of humor, or at least this is my hope. Who else can laugh off all of the bad haircuts and color jobs that she has had, and then humorously write about them. However, her blog "Hair Whore" always gets me kicked off of the internet at work (you'd think I'd learn to stay away from that one!).

Growing up we had our own language. Slobobovitch - someone who looks like a slob; aka the one whose half of the room was the messiest. Ramona - a name used for each other when the other one did something unheard of. Tard - a term used for someone who did something stupid.

Here's to sisters everywhere! Oh the things we shared! Here's to you Kim!

Corporate America

I'm not sure if there is a law against posting more than one blog in a single day, but if there is please don't send the blog police here!

I'm here at work and bored to pieces. We are having a real slow day and I have to get in my 8 3/4 hours so that I don't lose benefits. Who thought of this? They get mad if you get over time but they don't mind if you sit around twiddling your thumbs trying to get in your hours.

Seems I could be doing alot more useful things such as laundry, floors, dishes, etc..

Remembering

This last Monday was Memorial Day. Growing up I always thought this holiday was for decorating the graves of any one you might ever have met that had died. It wasn't until I got older that I realized why the holiday was really created....for remembering those who died fighting for this great country of ours.
I was reading USA Today the weekend edition and saw the story "A Club Nobody Wants To Be In" about the soldiers from the Iraq war buried in a special section of Arlington Cemetery and the loved ones left behind to mourn them. It tells about the bonds that have formed of those loved ones left behind to mourn. I think it is this part of the war that we don't see. My heart goes out to the many mothers, fathers, wifes, husbands, sisters, brothers, daughters and sons of those lost in this war and at the same time I am grateful that it wasn't my son.
My son served his time in Iraq from March 2005-Feb 2006 and thankfully returned! He served because this is what he wanted to do! He wanted to fight for the freedoms we enjoy and make sure that another 9/11 never happens again on U.S. soil. I am proud of his unselfish service as I am grateful for all of the other men and women who have volunteered for this duty! May God keep them safe and return them home to their loved ones soon!!!
God Bless America!

Electronic Lunatics

It looks like the age of electronics is turning all of us in to raving lunatics!

The other day I was headed in to the grocery store when I noticed a woman in the parking lot just standing there talking and no one was around her. My first thought was that she must be psycho, then I noticed that she had a bluetooth in her ear and I realized that she was just talking on the phone.

Maybe we should buy all the schizos a bluetooth so that they won't seem so crazy just standing there talking to themselves....we will just think they are talking on the phone!