WHY DO OLD PEOPLE TALK TO ME????????


I'm in K-Mart this afternoon and in the femine product aisle - there is an old lady there looking at 'male protection' - I can't seem to type THAT word - and something to help her out - again, I can't actually type it out!! She's got a couple tubes in one hand and boxes in the other, reading and studying intently. Her basket is in the middle of the aisle and I can't get around her. I say excuse me several times and she's so intensely studying these products she doesn't even hear me. Finally she sees me and proceeds to ask me -

"Excuse me young lady, do you know which one of these feel better for the man? I want him to be comfortable." OH MY GOSH. I kind of froze, seriously, I didn't say a word, I couldn't move, I couldn't blink. Then she asks me, "Have you used one of these lub.....t's before, is one brand better than the other?" Then I started laughing. I apologized for laughing and she started laughing and said, "Oh honey, I know I'm old at 82 years but I'm dating a 75-year-old so things still work."

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH - PLUG MY EARS!!!!!!!!! At this point I'm laughing so hard I had to walk away. I backed up out of the aisle, laughing and waving good-bye at her.

Maybe she's dating the old guy that commented on my big hiney (see below).

I'm going to start hiding from old people - the scare me!!

GREG LAURIE'S SORROW -

Greg Laurie's son, Christopher, died in a car accident yesterday. I have listened to Greg's sermons a lot and know many people who came to know the Lord through his ministry.

As I was reading about Christopher this morning my heart became heavy for his wife, a woman I have never met and probably will never meet - but since yesterday I can't get her off my mind. Christopher was only 33 years old, he has an adorable red haired little girl and his wife is currently pregnant with their second child due in November. I cannot even imagine what this young mother is experiencing.

Please keep this family in your prayers.

www.harvest.org

MY BIG HINEY!

Okay, so this morning I took a walk - I'm trying to walk again, be healthier, etc. Plus, my doctor told me to! Anyway, I walked from my house, around the golf course, back up, a decent distance - when I'm on my way home and there's an old man sitting in his little motorized scooter of a wheelchair and he says to me..."Hey there young lady, if you want to get rid of your big hiney you better double time your steps."

OH MY GOSH - so I tell him I've walked around the golf course as well as several blocks and I'm actually in "cool down" mode on my way home. Then he says, "well, if you say so." Like he didn't believe me.

I suddenly got a burst of energy, pushed him in his wheelchair to El Dorado Park and proceeded to push him in the lake!

Okay, that's not true - but does anybody want to go TP'ing with me tonight!!! :o)

THE LONG BEACH BUZZ!!



Apparently Long Beach and the surrounding towns can't live without their Starbucks. There are 26 stores in a very small mile radius and none of those Starbucks are closing. Check out the list below of those stores closing - if it's listed more than once, then another store in that town is closing.


ALHAMBRA CA
ANAHEIM CA
ATWATER CA
BAKER CA
BENICIA CA
BERKELEY CA
BREA CA
BREA CA
BRENTWOOD CA
CASTAIC CA
CATHEDRAL CITY
CHULA VISTA CA
CHULA VISTA CA
CONCORD CA
CORONA CA
CORONA CA
EL MONTE CA
ELK GROVE CA
EMERYVILLE CA
EXETER CA
FONTANA CA
FONTANA CA
FRESNO CA
FRESNO CA
GONZALES CA
HAYWARD CA
HEMET CA
HEMET CA
HOLLISTER CA
HUNTINGTON PARK CA
JACKSON CA
LA MIRADA CA
LAGUNA BEACH CA
LAKE ARROWHEAD
LAKE FOREST CA
LINCOLN CA
LODI CA
LOS ANGELES CA
LOS ANGELES CA
MAMMOTH LAKES CA
MIRA LOMA CA
MISSION VIEJO CA
MISSION VIEJO CA
MODESTO CA
MONTCLAIR CA
MONTEREY PARK CA
MORENO VALLEY CA
NORWALK
ONTARIO CA
ONTARIO CA
ONTARIO CA
RANCHO CUCAMONGA CA
RANCHO MIRAGE CA
REDDING CA
REDDING CA
RIVERSIDE CA
RIVERSIDE CA
SACRAMENTO CA
SACRAMENTO CA
SACRAMENTO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN DIEGO CA
SAN FRANCISCO CA
SAN FRANCISCO CA
SAN JOSE CA
SANTA ANA CA
SANTA CLARITA CA
SANTA MONICA CA
SANTA ROSA CA
SIMI VALLEY CA
SOUTHGATE CA
TAHOE CITY CA
TUSTIN CA
TUSTIN CA
UPLAND CA
VICTORVILLE CA
VICTORVILLE


What does that say about Long Beach/surroundings....we are on a constant caffeine buzz?!

I'm waiting for some transcription work to download and had a few minutes to kill....I knew you just couldn't live without this information!! :o)

MY HUSBAND THE MOVIE DORK......




This is get to know my husband week, I guess, since I really don't have anything else to blog about! "The much anticipated" Batman movie opens tonight. Darren and one of his BFF's Glenn Garvin are going to one of the midnight shows tonight. Darren loves to do that and does it all the time. Thankfully he has Glenn, as most of his friends have the attitude of, "yeah, I'll see it when the crowds go down," his friends and his wife!! I went up to Edwards to get their tickets just now and holy cow...NINE theaters have sold out and the tenth is very close. They have even sold tickets for a couple of the 3:20 a.m. shows. I'm sure the tenth screen will sell out by late afternoon as there was a line. Yes, a line at noon on a Thursday. Who knew??!!

Enjoy boys - and don't wake me up when you get home!! :o)

MY HANDY DANDY HUSBAND!!

I have the handiest husband on the planet. The guy can do anything...seriously. And if he can't do it, then he'll investigate, read, watch, trial and error until he does know how to do it. He has the patience of Job, which is good, yet at the same time can make some projects last ffffooooorrrrrrrreeeevvvvveeeeeeerrrr!! Case in point - "The Hackett House!" The 'flipper' - or as I call it, the "slow roll over!" Gosh, it's been like two years since we sold it and I'm still rubbing it in!! :o)

Anyway, back to my post - I'm VERY thankful he's so handy as he's saved us lots of money through the years when we didn't have to call a handyman. He actually enjoys this too. There are times he's been Bob the Builder and others where he's been Tim the Tool Man!! Thankfully more Bob than Tim!

Here's a couple of his projects - today he's installing a new attic fan. We don't have central air, so this really helps cool the house down. I was standing on the attic ladder and asked him to turn around and as he did he cut his finger..oops.




Here is Simon helping to cut the wood to secure the fan.



Here is something cool he did for me. I have these super duper Shure earphones I used for transcribing. Darren being Darren, he got me the kind that rockstars use to only hear what they need to. You never know when my boyfriend Jon Bon Jovi will be coming by to perform!! They are great because I hear everything the physicians and speakers are saying, but I can't hear a bloomin' thing outside of that. He has come home, talked to me from behind, dropped off his keys, etc. on the area in the office where we leave that kind of stuff, turned the TV on, etc., and I didn't know he was home. The UPS guy just knows now to bang hard on the door or come around to my office window! So, Darren installed a little camera in the front of the house and I pull up a screen that is of our front yard/porch. I can see what's going on at all times. It's great! Here is what it looks like on the computer screen.



Here's a close up of the D-Link window. I love it!



Again, we don't have central air and sometimes the office can get pretty warm by mid afternoon and that's when I start to pooter out. I'm usually up by 5:00 a.m. working, which is my preferred time, so by 1:00 p.m., my eyes start to get a little heavy and with the warm room, it's hard to stay focused. The Gisberts gave us a window unit a couple years ago, brand new, that we haven't used because it didn't fit any window, so Darren came up with a way to cool the room. He put it in the attic, venting to the outside vent, and then plugged it to where the cool air shoots down to the office.


Here is the little vent that is right above the desk. It works perfectly. In fact, if I shut the door within 30 minutes it's almost cold in here! Of course now that he's made the room more comfortable, he's probably going to expect me to produce more lines/more money!!



How do I turn the airconditioner on you ask?? No, I do not crawl up the ladder to the attic, don't be silly, remember who this blog is about - Darren - he hooked it up to a wireless control box that sits on the desk. I can turn it on and off from here.



Don't I just have the handiest of husbands!!

LANCE BASS ON "DANCING WITH STARS" - WITH A MALE PARTNER.........



I just read that and UGH!!! I think I'm going to stop watching TV all together. Darren and I didn't have TV for the first 12 years of our marriage..seriously. Now, we have movies galore and rent TV series on Netflix, so we sort of had it. We purchased and connected an antenna back in January so we could host one of the Super Bowl parties...Life Center actually cancelled church and encouraged parties!! Since we paid the money to have the antenna, it's staying up. But I'm about ready to chuck the whole TV. I haven't missed TV and I'm not one that can get sucked in for hours at a time. I can watch a 30 minute program and be done and walk away. Darren on the other hand...well, the house can be burning down around him and he wouldn't notice!

We have the internet connected to the TV, so I've been watching a lot of TV shows that are POD casts, all cooking shows of course....several from cable shows, but the POD casts are free. Even the History Channel and Discovery and similar channels now have free programs on-line, which is what Darren likes.

But last night I looked at the TV Guide...choices were Baby Borrowers; Wife Swap; repeat of Swingers.....and then I read this about Lance Bass having a male dance partner because DWTS wants to show they support everyone.

I'm kind of sounding all 'churchy' huh?! But seriously, what's up with TV these days?