Doesn't it seem like a lot of things go crazy this time of year?  Cars, furnaces, etc. die at the least opportune time.  You get a big snow and your snowblower quits (this happened to me last week).  The test of your luck is how things work out in the end. I haven't decided if my luck is good or just weird.  Bad stuff often happens at very inopportune times but it usually ends up okay.  I realize things could be a lot worse afterward but at the time I just figure, "wh...

Today really should have been a snow day but our school decided instead to only cancel PM kindergarten.  Oh, but they didn't let me know until about 25mins before I was supposed to drop my son at school.  I was supposed to go to a Dr appt so I then had to scramble to find someone to watch my son. After several unsuccessful calls to friends and neighbors, my husband said I could take him to his office.  I was all set to do so but was wise enough to call the Dr to see if he was r...

My 9yr old son always seems to have deep thoughts right before bed and right when he gets up in the morning.  He usually has interesting questions regarding how things work or why God made things they way they are.  I just felt like sharing his latest with you.  Yesterday he woke up and immediately asked "How come in baseball a strike is a bad thing but in bowling it's a really good thing?" Clever, isn't he.  Can you answer that one?

I think the saying that only you hold the key to your own happiness is true.  My problem is, it seems like everyone else on the planet seems to have the key to your unhappiness.  That doesn't seem fair! I am generally a happy person.  I don't know if it is ignorant bliss or I am just a simple person.  Maybe I have found inner peace that other, less happy people haven't.  It doesn't usually take much to start me off on a happy note. My problem is how others affect m...

I have been enjoying the discussions on JU regarding Zero Tolerance.  It seems there is some debate about what the term means even though I have read the policy and seen it in action.  In a nutshell, here are the rules, here are the punishments.  Break rule A even if it is a technicality and you get punishment B.  What if that applied to teachers?  I see them breaking rules all the time.  Sometimes it is even to the extent of endangering their students.  Fo...

To any of my friends that usually email me, I am not ignoring you.  My computer is hosed and totally wiped out my email again.  I am hoping my hero, a.k.a. my husband, can get it back for me eventually.  I feel lost without email.  It is usually my connection with people I wouldn't be able to contact otherwise. Luckily I can still get to the internet and post on here....for now.  I am expecting this laptop to completely die at any time though.  The hard drive has...

My "big" boy is 9 today.  I just can't believe it!  He asked me last night about the story of his birth.  He is such a little smarty!  I told him that his big brain made things difficult but he sure was a cutie!  He asked how big his head was and when I said 38cm he said "Wow!  1cm = .5 inches.  That is like 19 inches!"  I said, "Yep.  It was a big Wow! for me." I told him how excited everyone was to meet him.  What a cute, sweet baby he was.&...

I was recently made aware of the new PC movement to call Christmas trees "Holiday" trees.  Oh come on!  You don't have to be christian to call it a Christmas tree!  I personally wouldn't buy a "holiday" tree or "holiday tree ornaments".  Why are Americans bent on trying to change such well established traditions?  I find it interesting that a lot of these people leading this movement are liberal whackos who are always pointing at how much better Europeans do things.&...

For anyone who isn't familiar with Michigan, there is a saying here, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute."  It is so true!  Thanksgiving day it was 17 degrees and we had plenty of snow on the ground.  Two days later it was up to 62!  Now it is back down to 29 and falling. I am one who would prefer the snow over rainy gloom any day.  My problem is what the back and forth weather does to my sinuses.  I think any sinus sufferer will agree that they don't l...

Maybe it's because I think of my cell phone as just another tool I use to get through each day, but I really don't see the big hoopla over ringtones.  I picked one of the rings that came with my phone.  I can see why you wouldn't want everyone's phone ringing the same way since that causes the, "everyone check to see if it's yours" problem.  But that is the extent of my interest in ringtones. I am aware people shop for songs to use as their ringtone.  I've seen the commerc...

My headline just reminded me of a comic bit where the comedian said that "sort of" doesn't mean anything except in certain phrases like: "I love you....sort of" or "You're going to live....sort of"  Anywho, I have been scarce around JU for quite some time.  I read and commented on the occasional blog but haven't written anything in ages.  I have been busy doing house stuff, holiday stuff, kid stuff, well, just stuff I guess.  I hadn't felt the inkling to write during tha...

When someone is described as "high maintenance" I think most people instantly think it means they are picky, difficult or perhaps, if it's a woman, someone who has a lot of financial upkeep.  My definition of a High Maintenance Person is someone who relies on outside influences to obtain any sense of joy in their lives.  I think everything else stems from that. If you are a self fulfilled person, outside influences such as material goods or praise from others is just icing.  Yo...

We have a local church that has a corner of land that you can see very well off from a major intersection.  Each Halloween they display a graveyard of crosses which are supposed to represent the number of abortions performed in the US each day.  The only reason I know this is I inquired.  The church is soooo misguided!  First of all, I don't think the "graveyard" is effective anyway but it certainly isn't when displayed on Halloween!  Everyone just assumes it's a Hal...

Yesterday it took me over 20mins to drive a straight line of 5 miles!  Why, because there were to spots of road construction.  The second area I was aware of but the first had no warning.  There was no "Road work ahead" sign.  No ones anywhere.  Just a couple of doofs with signs in their hands standing in the intersection holding up north/south traffic for no apparent reason! Evreyone was very tolerant for the first two lights we were kept waiting.  By the time t...

I don't know how many of you out there have seen and or heard Dane Cook perform but you really should (unless you are disgusted by the F word).  This guy will make you wet yourself laughing!  He made me do that laugh where you feel like you can't breathe and your eyes start watering.  He is that funny! Check him out for yourself on www.danecook.com .  Let me know what you think.  One of the bits that is running on the site right now is that there is one person in eve...