Everyone have a great Mother's Day!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Ooops, I've been gone..but here's how my week has been!
A peek in Shawn's life this past week:
First, I had trouble getting out of bed.
Then I had a stiff neck
I washed my hair and couldn't do a THING with it!
My new diet doesn't seem to be working out.
I pulled a muscle when I tried to work out,
and then my boss chewed me out at work.
To top it off, lunch didn't seem to agree with me.
I feel trapped.
Univited guests showed up at dinnertime,
and on top of that, I think I'm coming down with the flu.
Last night, I was hearing strange sounds coming from the basement.
I hope next week is better!
From now on, I'm going to handle stressful situations like a dog.
If I can't eat it or play with it,
I'm going to pee on it and walk away.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Family Makeovers! Before and After.
I don't know what everyone is complaining about all the time. I find it very easy to whip everyone into shape and mold them into the person I want them to be.
For example. take my son Magnet. Just a few short weeks ago he was just sitting around, playing video games, caring primarily only about himself and the dog.
Now look at him. I just put him through my paces and voila! A new Magnet has emerged!
I next sighted on someone a little more difficult. I mean, I haven't known this kid his whole life and I thought I might have a little trouble here.
I don't know why I worried though. The Dude turned out awesome.
I decided to try out my new system with Da Man.
Mmmmmm, me likey.
Oh me? You are wondering if I put myself through my new program?
What do you think?
For example. take my son Magnet. Just a few short weeks ago he was just sitting around, playing video games, caring primarily only about himself and the dog.
Now look at him. I just put him through my paces and voila! A new Magnet has emerged!
I next sighted on someone a little more difficult. I mean, I haven't known this kid his whole life and I thought I might have a little trouble here.
I don't know why I worried though. The Dude turned out awesome.
I decided to try out my new system with Da Man.
Mmmmmm, me likey.
Oh me? You are wondering if I put myself through my new program?
What do you think?
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Two years ago today...
The evening was getting dark, the clouds were building. It was tornado season here in Kansas and this evening sure had all the signs.
I ran across the street to our small hospital to check on the staff and patients. We all huddled around the television set for weather updates.
Tornado sirens were going off but we knew it was forming mainly to the north of us. The regular TV programming just wasn't going to happen on this day..the weatherman were jumping out of their skin with this storm system.
We started hearing the weirdest thing coming across the scanner. EMS was heading up to the next town because we were getting reports that it had been hit. They were saying that half of the town had been wiped out.
I have to admit that I rolled my eyes at that report. It was dark, the electricity was out. I figured the truth would come out in the morning and things wouldn't be as bad. I mean really...half a town?
A patient showed at our emergency room. He'd been taking a shower when the storm hit his house which was on the highway north of our town. He heard the tradition 'train was coming' sound and he ran to get his family safe and was struck be flying debris. He said the road was completely blocked north of his house. Trees, telephone poles and power lines were lying around as if someone had blown around a pile of toothpicks.
Our ambulances were having trouble getting up north. A road would be impassable. They'd go around to find another impassable road. It took an hour and a half to travel a distance that normally only took about 20 minutes.
We were beginning to have a sinking feeling that things were bad up north. Real bad.
We found out that the hospital had been hit by the tornado also and there wasn't anyway that not only the people injured by the tornado could be cared for but that the patients already in the hospital were now exposed, wet, without any medications or even their basic possessions.
Before that night was over our hospital was full to overflowing with the most stable patients from the tornado. There were a few broken bones that were splinted. Lots of elderly people that were physically and mentally debilitated.
The news continued to get worse as the night progressed and it was as bad as we could have ever imagined by the light of day.
The town north of us is Greensburg. The destruction was 90% of this town was destroyed. Not just damaged..but destroyed.
It has been two years and I still drive through this town at least once a week. It is slowly beginning to come back. There are still a LOT of vacant lots. There is still not a downtown to speak of. The hospital is still operating out of a series of connected trailers. The school has farmed the kids out to surrounding towns.
But the people are still there. They are rebuilding. They are rebuilding things better than ever. The trees still have an alien quality to them but here and there you can see a flowerbed that has been restored. There is a park with playground equipment standing in the middle of vacant lots and a few brand new homes. The street lights have been replaced. A grocery story now stands. The John Deere dealership is rebuilt.
I love my state. I love my neighbors. We are truly solid people in this part of the world. Here's to you Greensburg.
I ran across the street to our small hospital to check on the staff and patients. We all huddled around the television set for weather updates.
Tornado sirens were going off but we knew it was forming mainly to the north of us. The regular TV programming just wasn't going to happen on this day..the weatherman were jumping out of their skin with this storm system.
We started hearing the weirdest thing coming across the scanner. EMS was heading up to the next town because we were getting reports that it had been hit. They were saying that half of the town had been wiped out.
I have to admit that I rolled my eyes at that report. It was dark, the electricity was out. I figured the truth would come out in the morning and things wouldn't be as bad. I mean really...half a town?
A patient showed at our emergency room. He'd been taking a shower when the storm hit his house which was on the highway north of our town. He heard the tradition 'train was coming' sound and he ran to get his family safe and was struck be flying debris. He said the road was completely blocked north of his house. Trees, telephone poles and power lines were lying around as if someone had blown around a pile of toothpicks.
Our ambulances were having trouble getting up north. A road would be impassable. They'd go around to find another impassable road. It took an hour and a half to travel a distance that normally only took about 20 minutes.
We were beginning to have a sinking feeling that things were bad up north. Real bad.
We found out that the hospital had been hit by the tornado also and there wasn't anyway that not only the people injured by the tornado could be cared for but that the patients already in the hospital were now exposed, wet, without any medications or even their basic possessions.
Before that night was over our hospital was full to overflowing with the most stable patients from the tornado. There were a few broken bones that were splinted. Lots of elderly people that were physically and mentally debilitated.
The news continued to get worse as the night progressed and it was as bad as we could have ever imagined by the light of day.
The town north of us is Greensburg. The destruction was 90% of this town was destroyed. Not just damaged..but destroyed.
It has been two years and I still drive through this town at least once a week. It is slowly beginning to come back. There are still a LOT of vacant lots. There is still not a downtown to speak of. The hospital is still operating out of a series of connected trailers. The school has farmed the kids out to surrounding towns.
But the people are still there. They are rebuilding. They are rebuilding things better than ever. The trees still have an alien quality to them but here and there you can see a flowerbed that has been restored. There is a park with playground equipment standing in the middle of vacant lots and a few brand new homes. The street lights have been replaced. A grocery story now stands. The John Deere dealership is rebuilt.
I love my state. I love my neighbors. We are truly solid people in this part of the world. Here's to you Greensburg.
An awesome giveaway that I don't want to tell you about.
This Italian lady walks into a bar...a SNACK bar that is! Bwahahaha!
Okay, okay, ya'll probably don't get that if you haven't been reading An Italian Mama Gone Crazy! She's a hoot. She's also someone I don't think I'd want be on the bad side of. Not because of the whole Italian thing...well, actually, yeah, because of the whole Italian thing!
Anyway, she hit her 500th post. Wow. She's decided to celebrate that with a giveaway. A really cool giveaway. A Pampered Chef giveaway. I get extra brownie points for tell you all about it. I didn't want to tell you. I really really didn't because I want to hog all the entries for myself.
I'd cloak her site in some sort of invisi-shield if I could.
But I can't so I'm just going to have to try to win fair and square. But don't go over there cause I said so. She'll just talk your ear off anyway and she won't let you work in the snack bar...so don't even ask! Ha!
Okay, okay, ya'll probably don't get that if you haven't been reading An Italian Mama Gone Crazy! She's a hoot. She's also someone I don't think I'd want be on the bad side of. Not because of the whole Italian thing...well, actually, yeah, because of the whole Italian thing!
Anyway, she hit her 500th post. Wow. She's decided to celebrate that with a giveaway. A really cool giveaway. A Pampered Chef giveaway. I get extra brownie points for tell you all about it. I didn't want to tell you. I really really didn't because I want to hog all the entries for myself.
I'd cloak her site in some sort of invisi-shield if I could.
But I can't so I'm just going to have to try to win fair and square. But don't go over there cause I said so. She'll just talk your ear off anyway and she won't let you work in the snack bar...so don't even ask! Ha!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Sock City
I brought up my bizarre imagination a couple of posts ago and my mom brought up some other things too. That I saw burps also (actually I saw those first) and I could hear the worms scream when we'd put them on a fishing hook. Oddly enough, it didn't really traumatize me but there's nothing quite like a worm scream.
Anyway, this morning while helping my son find some socks to wear today I started wondering where in the h e double hockeysticks do all of the socks go?
I suddenly had a vision of an entire sock city that lies in a parallel universe. You have to be 100% cotton to get there.
There would be sock bars...where all the single socks would be looking for their perfect mate.
Hobo socks would be piled up against the walls...all grungy with lint stuck to them.
Old, threadbare mated socks would be walking hand in hand in the parks. Or would that be heel in heel?
Lots of runaway kid socks, out on their own. Argyle pimp socks trying to take advantage of them.
All the old tube socks with stretched out heels would be wolf-whistling at the silk stocking walking by.
I'm thinking I'm going to wear sandals today.
Anyway, this morning while helping my son find some socks to wear today I started wondering where in the h e double hockeysticks do all of the socks go?
I suddenly had a vision of an entire sock city that lies in a parallel universe. You have to be 100% cotton to get there.
There would be sock bars...where all the single socks would be looking for their perfect mate.
Hobo socks would be piled up against the walls...all grungy with lint stuck to them.
Old, threadbare mated socks would be walking hand in hand in the parks. Or would that be heel in heel?
Lots of runaway kid socks, out on their own. Argyle pimp socks trying to take advantage of them.
All the old tube socks with stretched out heels would be wolf-whistling at the silk stocking walking by.
I'm thinking I'm going to wear sandals today.
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