Just want you to know....I'm thankful that we are both weird....




*kissykissy*

We had to show our knowledge of Microsoft Word. I got a 7 out of 7 on it. It's one of my favorite poems:

Holy Crap! I'm sitting here watching the National Geography Bee on the National Geographic Channel hosted by, of course, Alex Trebek. He's currently showing them graphs and naming cities that I've never ever heard of......And I've come to the realization that I'm dumb as box of hair.

The road to success is always under construction.
-Woody Paige



People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
FORGIVE THEM ANYWAY
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
BE KIND ANYWAY
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
SUCCEED ANYWAY
If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you.
BE HONEST & SINCERE ANYWAY
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
BE HAPPY ANYWAY
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
DO GOOD ANYWAY
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
GIVE THEM YOUR BEST ANYWAY
In the final analysis, it is between you & God.
IT NEVER WAS BETWEEN YOU AND THEM ANYWAY
-Mother Theresa

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
-Nora Ephron

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
-Alexander Pope

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky

Here is a "LowL" I made:



Get it...I know, bad pun, but I couldn't resist. *lol* Not much going on today. I do have to do some domestic work later. I've got to sew a button back on to drbear's britches. I may not be much of a seamstress, but I do know how to sew a button on.

I'm able to access my grades for my last two classes and I've gotten B+'s in both. Yay for me!! Life is fairly good right now.

"HOW WARM WAS IT????", you chorus out.

This is a picture that we caught of Tikit:



drbear said she looked up once when the flash went off and then went right back to the way she was when he first went to take the picture.

Temptation, thy name is beautiful nail polish...and you tempt me sorely. *sigh* I know we can't afford for me to go on buying sprees for something so frivolous as nail polish, so why does it tempt me so much? No, I am not buying it. I even despise myself for wanting it. It's so pretty.

I made a LoL....I think it turned out pretty well...*grin*

Not much going on here today. I've done much school work this morning. I've just finished my third class and now I've started on my fourth class. So far, my GPA is 3.65. When I look at how many classes I have yet to take, I think I'm going to be in school for the rest of my life...*wry smile*...Ah well, I've always advocated lifelong learning.

Anyway another thing I need to do today is wash dishes. And YAY!!!! I've finally ordered my Kindle! It's on its way to me....YAY!!! I had a $25 Amazon GC and with buying a used one, I got a Kindle Keyboard for about $40. Life is good. I have promised drbear that the first book I buy for it will be his...*grin* I'm hoping, like everything, I'll be able to use the Kindle lending library.

“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Ambrose Bierce

“The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
Stanley Kunitz

“Books can be dangerous. The very best ones should be labeled, this could change your life.”
Helen Exley

“There is no place like home.”
L. Frank Baum

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
Peter Shaffer

I've already wished my mom a Happy Mother's Day. I've not spoken with my sister yet. She called just before we got up this morning and left a message says that she was going to be taking a nap. She works 3rd shift, so I don't want to wake her up.

We are cleaning again this weekend. Hunbear is currently breaking down boxes. I'm wanting to move one of the bookcases out of the bedroom into the dining room. That way, I can put my paperback swap books on it, so that, instead of having to search through the boxes like I am having to do now when one is requested, I will just be able to look on the shelf.

Other than that, it seems very warm in here today. It's only in the low 70's, but it still feels really warm. Oh, and I also found out why my tailbone has been hurting me so much over the last few weeks. It is not broken, no, it is dislocated. Now, how in the heck is that supposed to get fixed??? At least broken bones will knit together, a dislocated bone has to be snapped into place. I really don't think they can snap anything in my but back into place....*sigh*

Anyway...That's how life is going just now. I hope all of y'all are doing well.

Hey, y'all....I made a LoL....So, here's another pic for you....Sorry...

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Christopher Morley

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
Orson Welles

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
J.M. Barrie

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
William Ralph Inge

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
- Maxim Gorky

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
- Robert Frost

This, honestly, has to be the best thing I've seen, heard, or read all year, or may in the last 10 years...

Here's the Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142153/US-Marine-welcomed-home-son-cerebral-palsy-WALKS-time.html

I don't think I can put the story here, it has pics that you have to see and the best way to see them is to go and read the article. It honestly will bring a tear to your eye.

Sorry, I didn't put this behind an lj cut.

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You know, once and for all....


Just as an aside, I know how to spell intelligent...It wasn't me who made this card...*grin*

Well, no S.W.A.T. Team busting down the door to arrest me yet, so that's a good thing. We did a lot of cleaning over the weekend and still have a lot of cleaning left to do, but our house is starting to look amazing. The cats don't recognize the place...*grin* Tomorrow is the recall election primary, so I'll be at the polls all day. No online at all..*sigh* And I just realized, NO MUNCHIES or SODAS!!!!! AAAAYYYYEEEEEHHHHHH!!!! Just put in a call to my sweet Hunbear and left a message for him to call me when he goes on break. He pawned my ring today so we'd have a little cash to last until tomorrow, so hopefully he'll have enough to bring me home a 6-pk of Coke Zero. Heck, he told me to be in bed when he got home tonight to make sure I got enough sleep, but I think I'm going to have to stay up a little later so that we can run over to the store and pick me up some munchies. I can't work a 14 hour day without munchies. Yes, I will be there for 14 hours. We're there from 6:30 in the morning until 8:30 at night here, happily working for a mere pittance, so y'all be nice to your poll-workers...you hear me! And, if you live in Wisconsin, dang it, GO Vote! We spent all that money, we might as well have something to show for it...*rolling my eyes..grin*

And as for the rest of y'all that don't live in Wisconsin, have a nice day tomorrow...*smile*



*laughing*....Don't I sound like a civics teacher or harpy or something....*lol*

10. "I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."
9. "Home is where I hang my hair."
8. "It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."
7. "Find out who you are and do it on purpose!"
6. "When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he's looking. If he's looking at my eyes, he's looking for intelligence. If he's looking at my mouth, he's looking for wisdom. If he's looking anywhere else except my chest, he's looking for another man."
5. "It takes a lot of time and money to look this cheap."
4. "If I see something saggin', baggin', or draggin', I'm gone have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!"
3. "They think I'm simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn't I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that's the key: simple."
2. "I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb ... and I also know that I'm not blonde."
1. "That I can look totally artificial and be totally real is perfectly fine with me.''

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
-Terry Prachett

"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
-Ronald Reagan

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
-Robert J Sawyer

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
-Joseph Heller

“Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.”
-Ernest Hemingway

”Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
-Dodie Smith

On the Brewers' pitching.....

I think that Yovanni Gallardo is trying to pitch himself out of the title of "Ace".

Just one my thoughts.

LoL Bunnies....I made it from a pic I got from cheezeburger....





*lol* Couldn't resist...

So, my resume has been out there for, OH, I don't know....Months!....and what happens? I get three calls over the last two days. And now, I have three interviews over the next three days. I'm not holding out a whole lotta hope, but hey, we'll see.

Had breathing tests at the hospital yesterday and they turned out to be good...YaY! I didn't get yelled out by the Pulmonologist's PA.

drbear is still hollering at me, ever chance he gets...*rolling my eyes* I thought it would get better once he started working. It's mostly my fault for waking him up earlier than he wants to get up, I'll have to be better about that in the future.

I'm almost done with my third class and my grade is still at the "A" mark....YAY for me!! I'm doing English Comp now, will be doing Computer Lit next. I'm really hoping I'll breeze through that one. *fingers crossed*

Well, gotta run, gotta get my showering and dressing done and get ready for my interview.

Love Y'all!

And here I was worried that I would squall during the movie Warhorse if I saw it in the theater. In fact, my sister told me that, yes, I would squall. I will admit that I did tear-up, but squalling? Nope, just didn't happen.

Which brings me to The Help....OMG!!! I actually had to stop the movie because I was crying so hard. Why did no one warn me of this??? What if I had seen it in the theater??? I mean it's unlikely, but it could have happened...That movie deserved every acclamation that it deserved as did the actresses who starred in it. It was wonderful and beautiful and sad and it made you angry, all at the same time.

If you've not seen it...You need to. It's so worth it.

Now this is a perfect game....


Here's the link to the story on Yahoo Sports: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/connecticut-softball-pitcher-throws-incredible-strikeout-perfect-game-153319491.html


<lj-cut text="Connecticut Softball Pitcher Actually Does Strike Out 27 In A Game Connecticut softball pitcher throws incredible all-strikeout perfect game By Cameron Smith | Prep Rally – Mon, Apr 23, 2012 11:33 AM EDT When Stonington (Conn.) High softball pitcher Andrea Chiaradio woke up on Saturday morning, she had no idea she was about to complete the most perfect game anyone could ever perform. Stonington softball ace Andrea Chiaradio — The Westerly Sun As reported by the Westerly Sun and New London Day, just hours later, Chiaradio would close out a perfect game comprised of 21 strikeouts, cementing her legacy as a Connecticut legend after all but single-handedly ensuring that Stonington would knock off Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy in Stonington's 3-0 win. Chiaradio's perfect perfect game came just hours before White Sox pitcher Philip Humber tossed the 21st perfect game in MLB history, making Saturday one heck of a day for shutdown pitching. She seemed like she just had confidence, Stonington coach Ann-Marie Houle told the New London Day. I don't know what the heck was going on in her mind. I'm superstitious, so people were sitting on the same buckets for seven innings. But she played center field all last year and she never complained. When the coach gives you that moment and you take it ... good for her. All the parents stood up and gave her a standing ovation at the end. While an all-strikeout perfect game might seem incredible enough, the circumstances surrounding Chiaradio's accomplishment make the feat all the more incredible. Norwich Free Academy entered Saturday's game on the back of a 27-hit, 26-7 victory on Thursday. That stood in stark contrast to Chiaradio's previous start, when the teen had been topped by a tough East Lyme squad. After the victory, Chiaradio -- who boasts a 3-1 record and 1.26 ERA after the perfect game, according to the Sun -- admitted she had been nervous about her chances against NFA based on those stats, despite previous impressive outings like her three-hit victory against Westerly (R.I.) High in Stonington's season opener. In the end, the only thing the pitcher had to be concerned about was holding on to an ever elusive 21-strikeout perfect game, with only NFA's final hitter -- Emily Devito -- instilling any significant fear in the Stonington pitcher after Devito gamely fouled off a number of pitches to keep the game alive. Considering the fact that Chiaradio had never thrown a no-hitter before, the fact that she could calmly plow through a perfect game was a truly remarkable achievement, one the pitcher was still coming to grips with after the game. Andrea Chiaradio, who tossed a perfect game — The Westerly Sun This was my first no-hitter in high school, Chiaradio told the Sun. I probably was aware of it in about the fifth inning when a few of the girls on the bench said something about it when we were at bat. I knocked on wood. I tried not to think about it and not to psyche myself out. I just concentrated on getting the rest of the outs. I had a few 3-2 counts so that was close. And they tried bunting a few times, but they either fouled it off or just couldn't get it down. The last batter was left-handed and fouled a few pitches off. I got kind of nervous. Then I threw a fastball on the outside corner for the last strike and it was all over. With that outside fastball, Devito went down, as had all previous 20 batters, sewing up a truly remarkable day for a player who had never even pitched at the varsity level before the 2012 season. Something tells Prep Rally that based on her most recent success, Chiaradio will get plenty of chances to pitch in the future.

Some quotes for your edification:


Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
-Peter S. Beagle

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
-William Shakespeare

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
-Garrison Keillor

Leap Year Poem
Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year
-Mother Goose

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
-John de la Fontaine

I've had a girl come to the door 4 times now wanting to use our computer. What the heck??? This is just some random girl that I've never met before, who's name I don't even know....and she's wanting to use our computer!?!?!? What is going on? We've had people come to our door asking if we had weed and now they're wanting to use our computer, I have to wonder what they'll want next. By the way, the answer to the random girl was, "Sorry, but we have personal information on our computer and don't feel comfortable with that".

The scary thing is, this is all happening while I'm at home alone. I'm really not happy about this.

This pic inspires my favorite Christmas song:

I had Anodyne Therapy again this morning and found out that this is going to be my last week of it at the hospital. They are cutting me off. The therapy was only supposed to last for four weeks, but it has gone on much longer, they have been very nice about it. It has become cost prohibitive for them, though. They have provided me with the information to buy my own Anodyne machine. I or we (drbear and I) would have to pay full price for it, as it is not covered by any insurance, especially Medicare. The cheapest machine the company has is $597 plus $9.95 for shipping. They will let us break it up into 4 payments of $149, but it is still going to have to wait a while, since we're not going to have any free money any time soon.

Now for the Cool News.

On the way to and from the hospital this morning, I saw 2 or 3 egrets. I know that they were because that's what I thought they were and I came home and looked them up to see. This is the bird that we saw:




They was beautiful. I saw 2 while on the way to the hospital and both Hunbear and I saw 1 on the way back from the hospital. They were so beautiful.