Holy Cow, It’s going to be December!

Where has the year gone? I can’t believe it’s going to be December tomorrow! In some ways it feels like it’s gone be really fast and others it feels like it’s will never end! I swear when I was young, time moved so slow. But after I graduated from high school, time just seems to [...]

Leslie Nielsen Dies

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen I will remember him from his role in  The Poseidon Adventure and the Airplane! movies. Legendary funny man Leslie Nielsen died today of complications of pneumonia in a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, this according to his agent. He was 84. His agent tells TMZ Nielsen passed surrounded by his [...]

Rolling Stone Playlists

I was renewing my subscription to Rolling Stone magazine and found this on their website: Fifty Artists Pick Their Personal Top 10s. Fifty top artists talk about the music they love the most: Rolling Stone reveals their playlists over five weeks, from Mick Jagger on the Blues to Drake on Jimi Hendrix. I love playlists [...]

Weekend Wrap-up

Well, the end of the four-day weekend is coming to an end. It was a pretty good one. I was around family for Thanksgiving and it made it a a little easier not having my mom here. Then there was my road trip to Corpus Christi, Padre Island and Port Aransas. It was nice and [...]

Road Trip

Today I am taking my annual (as of last year) road trip to Corpus Christi, Padre Island and Port Aransas, Texas. This is the third time that I have taken this road trip. The first was in January or February of 2008. It was my first time at the coast and seeing the Gulf of [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had good Thanksgiving. Saw this and thought it was interesting. RANDOM TIDBITS The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest [...]

Mom’s Green Jell-O

As long as I can remember my mom made her Green Jell-0 for Thanksgiving. This will be our first Thanksgiving without her here with us. So I wanted to keep the tradition alive and try to make it. The first problem I encountered was, I failed to pay attention to my mom whenever she made [...]

Dr. Oz’s 7 Secrets to Stay Cold-Free All Winter Long

I got found this in my daily newsletters from Oprah.com. I thought I would pass it along. I work in a building that use to be a Super K-Mart with over 250 people and I am convinced that there are a ton of germs flying through the air. So good luck in staying cold-free this [...]

Monday Random Thoughts

OK, I said that I was going to boycott Dancing with the Stars after last weeks show. Well… I half way boycotted watching the show. I was flipping the channels watching other stuff too. I’m still disappointed in this season’s show. It wasn’t one of their best. The best song of the night — “Tootsee [...]

Weekly Random Thoughts

Well, once again I am slacking in my daily blog postings. So here are my weekly (bi-weekly or semi-monthly) random thoughts. It’s not fair… There is this person I know that seems to be the luckiest person in the world. This person gets away with things that I would I would get caught doing. This [...]