Have you ever had a day
where a year's worth of events all happens in one
morning?
This morning, I was exercising in the park and came
across a friend who walks with me sometimes. She had
recently lost her husband of 50 years to a long-term
disease. I had not seen her for weeks, but she came
today -- we walked and cried. It was so very sad.
While online, a good friend IMs me that he has heart
problems and is going through the full battery of tests
- scary, but I am glad he seems to have caught the
problem early. It will curtail much of the charity work
he does, alas. He is a very hard worker for charities - a
true saint.
Then my youngest brother calls. We ordered stylized
license plates about the same time and his had just come
in the mail. After that, my husband brought in our own
mail and there were our new plates! (See
ROOTS.)
Next, I tried out a just-released flash creation
program. I was excited - only to find that the program
is too buggy to be useful - much frustration over the
lost time in discovering this. I had such high hopes and
wrote a full report to the program author. I think the
bug is easily fixed, though.
Then, the son of a dear
coworker who had just passed away, told us that he
wanted to keep his mother's genealogy website alive, but
needed an expert in the same field to accept e-mail
questions which arise (French-Canadian genealogy). We've
been working on finding someone to take it over. So
sweet of him to want to do this.
In
the middle of all this, my cell phone dings with a new
text message -- MY DAUGHTER IS PREGNANT! I sit in a
stunned but happy coma, unable to do anything. When my
wits settle down, I try to call my daughter so I can
scream in joy, deafening her to all future sounds, but
her cell phone is just out of range and even though she
answers, I only get static. Argh! But then, maybe it is
better to wait until I stop feeling this need to make my
daughter go deaf, so I called my own mom instead. She
has heard me scream for many decades and is used to it.
I am going to be a Grandma! Needless to say, my husband
and I have been calling each other "Grandma" and
"Grandpa" ever since. Not only that, but my parents
will be great grandparents for the first time.
However, looking back over this day, I think I have aged
10 years in just a few hours - and it is still afternoon!
[Addendum: The evening to
this day was even more dramatic. My
husband and I ate at a salad buffet restaurant that we
had not visited in eons. A couple
of hours later, I got sick and spent most of the night
in the bathroom and doing laundry - I should have
figured I would not get a peaceful evening to this
kind of day.]
(P.S. In my ever-going
complaints about products being packaged in a way to
fool us, my husband opened a bottle of vitamins this
morning and it was HALF FULL! What a waste of plastic -
to make a bottle too big for the product. The only
reason I can imagine a bottle being half full is just to
mislead consumers. This really stinks.)
My
friend,
EyeQ, made a doll of me. You can make one, too, at
eLouai's Candybar Doll Maker. I love the moon
and blue sky. Heck, I love all of this, especially the
cute little white kitty at the bottom left of this
image.
This site is so much fun. EyeQ always has wonderful
links to share.
I
just got back from the grocery store and I have a few
gripes. I was looking at the "ALL" brand of washing
detergent. The large bottle costs MORE per ounce than
the smaller bottle! What gives? Doesn't the company save
money by being able to use less bottles? Isn't this
supposed to be cheaper per ounce because it costs the
company less to produce per ounce? What happened to a
quantity discount?
I had grabbed the larger bottle, but I put it back. The
same with Charmin toilet paper. They are pushing their
new "mega roll." It even involves using a new toilet
paper holder insert that they include. Okay, it sounded
interesting, but the big rolls cost MORE PER SHEET than
the smaller rolls! This seems like such a ripoff. Aren't
we saving the company production costs by purchasing in
quantity? Shouldn't it be cheaper per sheet?
And I am still griped about 15-oz or even 14.34-oz cans
of pumpkin, tomato sauce, etc. Old family recipes call
for 16-oz cans. These smaller cans seem like a ripoff.
Argh!
Oh my gosh, this is SO fun!
Thanks to a posting on
Becka's Simply Cute blog, I tried this link
to create
Google Montage
(scroll down the page and click on "Launch Project."
You don't need to have any photos on hand - this will
search Google images using any keywords you specify and
create a nice montage. I managed to come up with one
that displayed all of my own photos using the words,
muddy, bamablog and textamerica (no
quotes).
Here's a smaller version of the image. To see the
full-sized version, click on the image to go to my photo
blog, then select "original image" on the page that
comes up.
As promised to Bonnie, who
posted on the previous page, here's a photo of our
delectable lunch --> Frito Haystacks.
I hope none of our friends were hurt in Hurricane Rita's
aftermath. We had tornado sirens going off this
afternoon and had to stay alert. Fortunately, nothing
happened to our city.
Did
you ever want to be famous? Here's a site that will
present you with your own Hollywood
Walk of Fame Star. Scroll down the page
to see the box where you can insert your name.
I
always knew this blog would be famous someday.
(P.S. My prayers and concern go out to all the Rita
refugees and those who have been suffering from the
recent weather.)