Maryanne & Joel will be coming by to hang out Tuesday starting with her show 1st thing on Camz @ 11am est. So come on by and visit us, just look for Maryanne on the CamZ list and let us tease you to completion………grin

Just spent the weekend working. I didn’t feel like I was really with the program.

I actually took time and read some fiction, (Harry Potter : Goblet of Fire). I haven’t read it in years and I couldn’t remember what it was about. Felt good to escape reality for awhile. Debating whether or not to re-read the “Order of the Phoenix”. That one has some annoying things about it (his constant anger…….150-200 pages of unneccessary details)…….but it would be good to read it again & then re-read the “Half-Blood Prince”. Maybe I could pick up some more details. =)

When, I’ve had a long day and going to get myself off to bed soon.

Night

For my day off, I had one of those days were you don’t get the time to get what you wanted done, cuz the one thing you got done took a heck of a lot longer then it was suppose to do. =( Lets just say I didn’t get to enjoy my day off & it was beautiful out. =(

Lets hope today goes better, even if I’m taking off for work.

Today is Torn & my 12 anniversity to getting together……….going on 13yrs now….wow, time has flown.

The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin.

Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded.

Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old man and was considered a roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart. The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

***Found on a board………………lol

Torn picked “Batman Begins” the other day & we just got done watching it……….Dang!! It was great! The best of all the Batman movies. Really developed the Bruce Wayne character.

Batman is my favorite of “super hero” characters. Cuz he is human, his mind is his power. I’ve always loved the dark, dangerous, but good guy characters & he is the ultimate example of it.

I so hope that, if they make another, that they maintain the diginity of the development of the characters. Maybe that they learned after they screwed up that last Batmans and with Xmen & Spiderman doing great by sticking with the true developement that they won’t mess with this one.

One can only hope. =)

For those who hadn’t seen it, but a great activitist has passed on : Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies

Well, the winds really slowed down around 3pm & the sun came out. It is going to be cooler then usual, thankfully, for the next few days. I’m going to enjoy that. =)

Here is the pictures from Buffalo & the Falls. I tried to get some pictures of the fall colors, but didn’t really get the full beauty of it. But at least I got to see them first hand.

It is now clear out as the sun goes down and 67degrees. It is the beautiful fall weather that I love, allowing us to turn off the air condition and open the windows. So other then some minor things, all is right in my little corner of the world. =)

Well……….we just had a few power bumps and seemed to have lost internet connection…..at least it is….it is on and off. Our pool looks to have a bunch of tree debris on the bottom of it. We pulled the truck into the garage to protect it, but our luck has other ideas. The attic cover (a piece of dry wall) fell on to my truck and busted. It doesn’t look that there was any damage just the irony of it.

The eye is now in the Atlantic, we have about 1-2hr left of it. A friend of ours lives in the Ft. Lauderdale area and said it was the worst she has seen. She has her generator going.

We had a tornado touch down across town. Found out it was in my boss’ and my other manager’s complex that it hit. They are all right, but it jarred the window seals so now they are leaking. =(

I should be finding something to do more productive….laundry, cleaning, resizing pics…..something………but I just don’t quite feel like it.

We were going to get some more stuff so we could paint the master bath & put a new toilet in there, but Wilma had other ideas.

This sucks!

We have Wilma heading our way. We are on the east coast south of Cape Carnveral & Wilma will hit the south west coast and will head back out to the Alantic just south of us. So we aren’t getting the direct hit but the county south of us is under tornado watch and had a few warnings & sightings. Hurricane bands are good for brewing those hated tornados.

Wilma is scheduled to hit the west coast (about Naples) about 7-8am est & she’ll take about 5hrs to get across the state.

Luckly I have tomorrow off so I don’t have to work about it unless they call me. We were open through Jeane & Frances so I expect us to be open though tomorrow as long as we have power.

But on the other hand, unfortunately I have tomorrow off…………lol So our plans for errands is out, I can play catch up here at home while we are still connected.

I haven’t stressed this as much as last year. It helps that I’m working, that has keep my mind off of it, thankfully. But that changes with not working tomorrow……gggrrr

I just hope it goes through quickly so we can get it over with & so I can enjoy the rest of my day off.

Have a good night, lets hope we don’t get blown away. =)

**A friend of mine posted this on a board that we go to.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!