Thank You Susie Q

Susie Q loves to walk around on my desk.



This is my desk top…..(the wine glass is not there on a daily basis).  Susie really likes to walk around on it because of the windows.  The other day she was walking around on my desk and went across my laptop keyboard-which I strongly try to discourage her from doing.  Sometimes I am successful and sometimes I’m not.  Anyway after her prance across my keyboard I ended up with this---




See that cute little calendar date in the corner of my screen?  I love it, I am always wondering what day it is and if I click on it I can see the whole month!!  How cool is that??

Anyway Susie, I have no idea which key you hit to get this on my laptop screen but I really like it.

Thank you Susie Q!!  It was the a really nice Christmas gift.

P.S.  Did anyone read the comments on the blog about the grocery carts?  Someone used the word-anencephaly in their comment.  Since I was not familiar with that word and I love words, I looked it up.  It means “congenital absence of all or a major part of the brain”.  Just a FYI tidbit.

HO HO HO!!!

We want to take this opportunity to wish one and all a very Merry Christmas!!  Also our sincerest wishes for a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2010 for us all.

This Is Christmas??

Does this look like Christmas to you??

 

It doesn’t look like Christmas to me either.  This is why I just can’t get into the Christmas spirit.  Christmas should include family and snow (as much as I hate it).  If I didn’t have a calendar and hear people wishing each other “Happy Holidays”, etc., Christmas would entirely escape my notice.

It doesn’t help to always have to work on Christmas Day either.  The last two years Rex’s Mother was here during Christmas, but this year she decided not to come to Arizona  so we don’t even have her to visit.

Christmas is only one day of the year and many people really get into it so to them and everyone else…

Have a very Merry Christmas!!

 

SHOTS

I THOUGHT ONLY NURSES AND DOCTORS GAVE YOU SHOTS.

 RECENTLY I’VE I HAD A HOST OF PEOPLE GIVING ME SHOTS.
AT THE DENTIST OFFICE THE LAST FOUR MONDAYS, MY DAY OFF, I’VE HAD THE DENTAL HYGENIST GIVING ME MULTIPLE SHOTS OF NOVICANE.  THE LAST TIME, SIX YEARS AGO, I HAD THIS ROOT PLANEING, OR DEEP CLEANING DONE, THE DENTIST GAVE ME THE NOVICANE, AND THEN THE HYGENIST DID HER THING.

THEN AT WORK WE LINED UP FOR OUR ANNUAL SEASONAL FLU SHOT, AND IF IT WAS A NURSE THAT GAVE ME THE FLU SHOT, WELL IT HAD TO BE CASUAL FRIDAY THE WAY SHE WAS DRESSED.

THEN IT WAS OFF TO WALGREENS DRUG STORE TO BUY A SWINE FLU SHOT FOR $18.  FIRST THE COUNTERMAN IN BROKEN ENGLISH TELLING ME TO FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK.  THEN HE ASKED ME TO WAIT IN THE WAITING AREA.  I THOUGHT I WAS WAITING FOR THE NURSE, AS THESE SHOTS ARE ONLY SOLD ON MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS FOR A FEW HOURS. EVENTUALLY THE COUNTER MAN COMES OUT AND SAYS ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE.

ONLY DOCTORS AND NURSES GIVING YOU SHOTS IS HISTORY.  NOW THE ONLY TRAINING YOU NEED TO GIVE A SHOT IS TO WEAR RUBBER LATEX GLOVES, I GUESS.

BY THE WAY, THEY HAVEN’T CHANGED THE SIZE OF THAT SYRINGE AT THE DENTIST OFFICE, IT STILL LOOKS LIKE THEY BOUGHT THEM FROM A VET SUPPLIER.

Mish Mash

Did you notice all of the “Hoy, Hoy, Hoys”  on the blog this week?  I have 5 grand daughters.  Three of them have “M” as their first initial AND also have their birthdays this week.  Is that poor planning or what?  Oh hell it might be OK…at least if the birthdays come in clusters, I can’t forget them.  I have been reading book on PMA-positive mental attitude and have started looking at the silver lining instead of the cloud.  It’s  a nice change of pace.

I went to Wal-Mart the other day and happened to have the camera in the car so I decided to take pictures of and write about one my pet peeves.






I absolutely have a fit about people not putting their carts in the cart corrals.  This is just pure laziness… you see the cart corral??  It looks to be about 20 steps away.  Forget about laziness, what about common courtesy?


 


This one appears even closer than 20 steps.  A few years ago one of these runaway carts slammed into my car and cost me $600 to get it fixed…at the time my car had 7,000 miles on it.

Good thing that was a while ago….finding a silver lining in that situation would have been impossible!!





Tis the season….The Salvation Army bell ringers with their red buckets are out.  I did find this picture really interesting—no bell ringer but a purse hanging on the post. 

If you closely at the waste container, the bell ringer is sitting behind it.  My next question is:  Is it her purse?  Or did someone donate it?


I am trying to follow my tradition of putting $1 in the buckets every time I see one.  As I said—Tis the season!!