It was well recognized that Martha Raye endured less comfort and more danger than any other Vietnam entertainer.
The most unforgivable oversight of TV is that her shows were not taped.
I was unaware of her credentials or where she is buried.
Somehow I just can't see Brittany Spears, Paris Hilton, or Jessica Simpson doing what this woman (and the other…
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.Anne Rice
I love fining quotes and passing them along! This really says how I feel about writing.
I have had my own online business for a month now and am still struggling with getting sales. In fact I have got a total of ZERO sales. I know I suck at marketing, but I have been trying to promote. I know the economy sucks right now, but it is also the perfect opportunity to try to start a new home-based business to gain some extra money. With Kitsy Lane you get your own website that you can customize as your own, 25% commission and 100% commission on everything you buy, and you get to choose which 300, of all the many products Kitsy Lane has to offer.
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So this weekend my kids spent 2 night s at my brother’s house. My husband and I were helping his train club at the train show the were participating in. I was managing sales of raffle tickets and sales of items the club members were selling. I was having fun and I was bringing in money for the club. The second day was going very good with ticket sales and we were going to pick the winner that afternoon. We had been selling tickets for about 9 months out of the year. The club president had asked me to help this time. I figured this ahead of time and asked for the time off from work. About an hour before we were going to pull the winners my husband and I went for a walk to check out the other vendors. Then I get an urgent text from my sis-in-law, “your son fell half way down the basement steps”. At first he was just generally upset from the fall. Then she texts me again about an hour later “your son is puking!!!”. So after debating what to do with my husband and another text from my sis-in-law “he looks like death warmed over”, we decided to leave after we pulled the winners. We packed up our stuff and left to get our kids and see if my son was ok. We took him straight to the ER. They said he had a 101 fever, but other than that he was fine just keep an eye on him over night. Well today he is fighting with his sister and running around so I know he’s good to go. Just kind of scary when kids bump their heads. This is the second time in less than a year, but with how active and fearless he is I know it’s going to happen again. I will then again take him to the ER to make sure he is ok. I just hope it’s later rather than sooner.
In this post I would like to say that I am blessed to have a job. I may get stressed out and tired and all that good stuff at work, but at least I have a job when I know there are others out there who have been laid off, been fired, or have quit in hopes of finding a new job. I have worked at the some place for a little over 2 years now. The longest job I’ve ever held. Oh it’s not because I’ve gotten fired a lot, only once, but because of the fact that I get stressed easily and I get frustrated and I bail. This job I have want to ditch, but know that it is hard finding a job and even harder to find one that has been as lenient with me as they have. I do hope to find something I do enjoy in the future, but for now I am just going to keep plugging away at it and know I am blessed to have work.
Well I have finally decided I am ready to loose some weight I have been a big girl all my life and I was depressed and unmotivated and just didn’t think I could do it. Well I have thought a lot about it lately and I know there are health concerns in my family that I know being over weight is a major factor for I decided I needed to do this. I am moderately motivated now and I know I would feel better if I lost the weight. I have a lot of weight to loose, but I am trying to be positive and do what my doctor suggested, lower my calorie intake and do 30 minutes of exercise each day. So hopefully I can get down to where I need to be and not over a hundred pounds overweight. I can feel it is time. I want to be able to post aanother body pic of me in a few months and say “Hey I lost __ number of pounds! I feel great!”. Wish me luck!
I found this on the Huffington Post page written by Lindsey Mead Russell titled 10 things I want my daughter to know before she turns 10. I had to share because these are 10 things all daughters should know. Here is the link to the original post
I do not intend any infringement with this post. This was too good not to share.
1. It is not your job to keep the people you love happy. Not me, not Daddy, not your brother, not your friends. I promise, it’s not. The hard truth is that you can’t, anyway.
2. Your physical fearlessness is a strength. Please continue using your body in the world: run, jump, climb, throw. I love watching you streaking down the soccer field, or swinging proudly along a row of monkey bars, or climbing into the high branches of a tree. There is both health and a sense of mastery in physical activity and challenges.
3. You should never be afraid to share your passions. You are sometimes embarrassed that you still like to play with dolls, for example, and you worry that your friends will make fun of you. Anyone who teases you for what you love to do is not a true friend. This is hard to realize, but essential.
4. It is okay to disagree with me, and others. You are old enough to have a point of view, and I want to hear it. So do those who love you. Don’t pick fights for the sake of it, of course, but when you really feel I’m wrong, please say so. You have heard me say that you are right, and you’ve heard me apologize for my behavior or point of view when I realize they were wrong. Your perspective is both valid and valuable. Don’t shy away from expressing it.
5. You are so very beautiful. Your face now holds the baby you were and the young woman you are rapidly becoming. My eyes and cleft chin and your father’s coloring combine into someone unique, someone purely you. I can see the clouds of society’s beauty myth hovering, manifest in your own growing self-consciousness. I beg of you not to lose sight with your own beauty, so much of which comes from the fact that your spirit runs so close to the surface.
6. Reading is essential. It is the central leisure-time joy of my life, as you know. I am immensely proud and pleased to see that you seem to share it. That identification you feel with characters, that sense of slipping into another world, of getting lost there in the best possible way? Those never go away. Welcome.
7. You are not me. We are very alike, but you are your own person, entirely, completely, fully. I know this, I promise, even when I lose sight of it. I know that separation from me is one of the fundamental tasks of your adolescence, which I can see glinting over the horizon. I dread it like ice in my stomach, that space, that distance, that essential cleaving, but I want you to know I know how vital it is. I’m going to be here, no matter what, Grace. The red string that ties us together will stretch. I know it will. And once the transition is accomplished there will be a new, even better closeness. I know that too.
8. It is almost never about you. What I mean is that when people act in a way that hurts or makes you feel insecure, it is almost certainly about something happening inside of them, and not about you. I struggle with this one mightily, and I have tried very, very hard never once to tell you you are being “too sensitive” or to “get over it” when you feel hurt. Believe me, I know how feelings can slice your heart, even if your head knows otherwise. But maybe, just maybe, it will help to remember that almost always other people are struggling with their own demons, even if they bump into you by accident.
9. There is no single person who can be your everything. Be very careful about bestowing this power on any one person. I suspect you are trying to fill a gnawing loneliness, and if you are you inherited it from me. That feeling, Woolf’s “emptiness about the heart of life,” is just part of the deal. Trying to fill that ache with other people (or with anything else, like food, alcohol, numbing behaviors of a zillion sorts you don’t even know of yet) is a lost cause, and nobody will be up to the task. You will feel let down, and, worse, that loneliness will be there no matter what. I’m learning to embrace it, to accept it as part of who I am. I hope to help you do the same.
10. I am trying my best. I know I’m not good enough and not the mother you deserve. I am impatient and fallible and I raise my voice. I am sorry. I love you and your brother more than I love anyone else in the entire world and I always wish I could be better for you. I’ll admit I don’t always love your behavior, and I’m quick to tell you that. But every single day, I love you with every fiber of my being. No matter what.
This weekend has been laid back so far, but I really am missing the extra cash working Saturdays brought in. I have been pursuing the work-a- home site to see what extra cash I can drum up. I am finding all these people who have pages about making thousands of dollars working from home. I sit back and ask myself is it really possible?
I have high hopes for this year and am ready to take my life to better and brighter things and not have to worry about my finances. I have applied to a couple seeming to be legit. They tell you up front what it entails and don’t ask for one red cent of your hard earned cash. But it takes time and effort and hard work and sweat to get your links out there and if you don’t know where to put your ads for affiliate work or for your own site is it really worth it?
I know there are sites out there guaranteeing fast money and those are scams. How can anyone make a living just sitting back and doing nothing? Maybe if you have an established business, but not when your starting out.
My emotions are behaving somewhat and I have been more positive this last week or two. Don’t get me wrong I still have my stressed out/angry/ stay away from me moments, but then who doesn’t, and they aren’t as frequent as last year.
I just got to keep plugging at it and see what sticks. I was also considering self publishing on Amazon too. I just got to do more research about it. Anyway I am doing better than last year and I will try to be more positive.
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, but I have been really busy. Lots of things going on in my life right now. I have made a few amends with my sister. I have been helping her with a women’s group she has started. I have lost my overtime at my ft job so I have been perusing the web for ways to make extra cash. I have gotten back into being a phone actress and started camming again as well and have made a few bucks there. I will also be posting a link to my new jewelry boutique.
I have to admit I think all in all 2012 was a crappy year for many people I know as well as myself. I was struggling with emotional issues and as I realize they will probably never go away, I can always find a better way to deal with them. I know alot of my friends had lost loved ones young and old this year and my heart goes out to them with a prayer that 2013 will bring them joy as they deal with their losses. I have high hopes for this year and have been excited that my outlook has brightened alot. We’ll see how long it will last.
To all my blogging friends I have missed you and your posts and I will try to set aside time to read and comment.
Here’s to a New Year with better results and to many happier blogging posts!
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Music has always flowed through me. I am partial to country, because I grew up with it. When I was a little girl working out in my grandfathers small farm helping with milking cows and feeding the calves he would always have the radio on and it was always on Country 106.5 WYRK. I grew up with Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill and Trisha Yearwood. When I was a teen I discovered that I also like pop rock and techno with bands like Backstreet Boys and N’sync and Hanson and Aqua. I have further my musical listenings to Evanescence and Disturbed and Fun. Music has always been there for me when it seemed like everything else had failed. I could always find a song to express how I felt better than I could put into my own words. Recently I have heard of a band called First Aid Kit. They are sisters from Sweden. They kind of sound like Loretta Lynn, to me, set to Simon and Garfunkel. Their lilting voices are folksy and sweet. Klara and Johanna have captured my ear and my heart with their music. If you want to check them out you can find their website here http://www.thisisfirstaidkit.com/. These young girls sound like they have been singing for many many years and The Lion’s Roar and Emmylou are my 2 favorite songs of theirs. I wish life came with it’s soundtrack!
