As Forest Gump said."you nevah know what your gonna get". the contrasts in life are what are striking me the most this last week.
My daughter pregnant with our first grandchild,who will be welcomed into life with so many people already loving him contrasts with pictures of starving children or children that are victims of war.
I am planning a baby shower while a person very close to me will be soon planning a wake.....
Time seems to fly by for me these days . I just want to yell "Stop!" can we rewind? Time has no respect, I find. It just keeps moving on weather we move on with it or we don't.
People get upset with each other over stupid things. Is it worth it? Not with time going by so fast it's not.
I love my family and friends even when we disagree or don't see eye to eye. If time was to be taken from me this night,I just want all of you to have known that.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Blog disclaimer
May I just say this. If you read this blog you are reading my random thoughts on any given week or day. Just as the title of my blog says. I write another blog that is dedicated to the profession I work in and it is mostly business related type of blog. On this blog you will get my thoughts at the moment. They might be pissed off thoughts or they could be warm happy thoughts. Depends on the mood of the day or week.
I may give opinions that you do not agree with. Fine. I'm not asking for your permission ,but i will respect a different point of view if given to me in a respectful way. This is my blog after all. If you like to read it I am happy that you give a *rap about me to want to see the fluctuating moods that may be presented here.
If you are pissed off by it ,well than maybe its not your cup of tea. There are a gazillion blogs that may offend you less,or differently.:-)
Thank you for tuning in and have a good day.
I may give opinions that you do not agree with. Fine. I'm not asking for your permission ,but i will respect a different point of view if given to me in a respectful way. This is my blog after all. If you like to read it I am happy that you give a *rap about me to want to see the fluctuating moods that may be presented here.
If you are pissed off by it ,well than maybe its not your cup of tea. There are a gazillion blogs that may offend you less,or differently.:-)
Thank you for tuning in and have a good day.
Monday, April 16, 2012
The showers a comin
Well the baby shower is a mear five weeks away and I am excited to see everyone and watch them open all the cute baby things. Getting pretty excited to meet this new grandchild of mine! I will confess that I am worried for my daughter with all the risks and all. But I am also feeling very positive and hopeful at the same time.
Scary flood of emotions for sure!I wonder what this new guy will be like. Will he be strong and steady like his dad? Or smart and active like his mother? Will be look like mom or dad or maybe his Grandmother ? :-).Or will he just look mostly like himself . Whatever we get blessed with,this child will be coming into this world with so much love around him!
It really seems like time has been speeding up these last couple months and before you know it he will be here!
I need to bone up on my childcare skills. It's been a really long time since I watched a little one!
Scary flood of emotions for sure!I wonder what this new guy will be like. Will he be strong and steady like his dad? Or smart and active like his mother? Will be look like mom or dad or maybe his Grandmother ? :-).Or will he just look mostly like himself . Whatever we get blessed with,this child will be coming into this world with so much love around him!
It really seems like time has been speeding up these last couple months and before you know it he will be here!
I need to bone up on my childcare skills. It's been a really long time since I watched a little one!
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Proud to be an American? or why my foreign brand car could actually be more American than your domestic..
The subject of buying an American or domestic brand car vs a foreign car came up once again this week on FB . It is hard having the views I do on this car issue living in the "motor city" or what was once the motor city. Automobiles were conceived here! We Detroiters are very proud of our legacy. As well we should be. But we should not over look how this industry has also held back this city from other areas of progress. Prime example is the fact that Detroit is one of the only major metropolitan areas that has never had a good public transportation system.
Hmmm ? you think, why is that? well DUH the big three as they used to be referred to, wanted us all to buy cars! Every family needs 2 or three of them! and we will build our roads to spindle out in all directions so that it will be pretty impossible to make a good mass transit system and people will just have to have cars to get around. Prime example just recently the Bus system for Detroit and surrounding areas was in a huge crisis. They can not afford to keep up and repair the buses.
The Auto makers just paid out some bonuses this first quarter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/detroit-auto-workers-have_n_808496.html
Maybe they could donate some of that profit to the bus system? would show good faith in the city. And help people get to jobs that can not currently afford to buy one of their cars. I would stand up and applaud such a move. Nope,they had to pull a large amount of buses off the routes and now people have even less choices to get to where they need to go.Not the Auto companies problem?? Really? How many people riding buses to get to jobs would rather own a car? maybe 70%. Help them out! and it also shows good faith in the city that you want to stand behind your product.
I am sick to death of people that judge me for the car I drive. Screw them and their attitude. You are not paying my bills and you are not looking at my financial situation.I find many people will bend their convictions when it suits their own situation. I all along have not accepted the bullshit that me buying a Ford car is going to keep these companies alive. Them giving me a good product to buy with a good warranty,fair price and great gas mileage will keep me buying their cars. I truly believe that is what keeps people buying a product. Do you really think our DOMESTIC auto companies would have stepped up the game if they had not had competition from the foreign companies?
And don't tell me well the foreign auto companies were given all these breaks to open shop here ,blah blah. Write your congress people! That sucks on all levels of business, not just with the auto companies.
The Auto companies paid workers very well here for many years. The unions helped with that for sure! But then the unions got to greedy and to powerful and the auto companies could not compete. I do not begrudge ANYONE from making a good wage. But seriously people. I would have killed to have just half the benefits they had.We all know a few pretty lazy auto workers. Come on,how many do you know that were paid for a full day but just read books for half the day?. The stories are endless in this regard.The unions made it impossible to get rid of bad workers. I worked in a Teamsters company for 3 1/2 years. Good pay, Good insurance. And lazy ass people sleeping in the warehouse that they couldn't let go because the union protected them beyond reason. Well you get the good with the bad I suppose. I am not going to down unions because I feel they helped workers for many years and without them in most cases the companies would not offer a fair wage. But they should also not protect lazy good for nothings.
When I look to buy a car I look over all my choices. This is a HUGE purchase for me. Its right under buying a home as far as I am concerned. I don't make allot of money. I raised a child ,and helped her through college by buying smart. I tend to keep my cars for ten to twelve years if possible. So I look for warranty ,durability,what the car comes with (options) etc. And Price!Example I have say $15,000 to spend ,what car is going to give me the best value for this amount.I have owned Volkswagen,Chrysler,Toyota,Ford,Hyundai.in my driving life. So about half foreign half domestic. Lets not even talk about the Chrysler piece of craps (had two of them) ugh.
Overall Toyota had the best car. Best for my money,best warranty,great gas mileage. Repairs could be a bit costly,but it hardly ever needed any so that was never an issue.The 2002 Hyundai I am driving now is about neck to neck with the Fords I had,BUT the warranty is 40,000 miles better and it is better on gas. So there you have it. If my husband and I need to get a car soon . And we very well may as his Ford Escort ,14 years old!! is about to bite it. We will look at Ford products first. I do give the domestics brands a chance to wow me,I really do. But when I am making such an important buying choice I am going to go with what I feel is the best buy for me.
The article below was a very good one! Put out by Car and Driver Magazine (available at New Horizons Book Shop 13 mile and little mack roseville michigan .)
Sorry a plug for my brothers independent book store!! LOL!
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/proud-to-be-american-buy
Hmmm ? you think, why is that? well DUH the big three as they used to be referred to, wanted us all to buy cars! Every family needs 2 or three of them! and we will build our roads to spindle out in all directions so that it will be pretty impossible to make a good mass transit system and people will just have to have cars to get around. Prime example just recently the Bus system for Detroit and surrounding areas was in a huge crisis. They can not afford to keep up and repair the buses.
The Auto makers just paid out some bonuses this first quarter.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/13/detroit-auto-workers-have_n_808496.html
Maybe they could donate some of that profit to the bus system? would show good faith in the city. And help people get to jobs that can not currently afford to buy one of their cars. I would stand up and applaud such a move. Nope,they had to pull a large amount of buses off the routes and now people have even less choices to get to where they need to go.Not the Auto companies problem?? Really? How many people riding buses to get to jobs would rather own a car? maybe 70%. Help them out! and it also shows good faith in the city that you want to stand behind your product.
I am sick to death of people that judge me for the car I drive. Screw them and their attitude. You are not paying my bills and you are not looking at my financial situation.I find many people will bend their convictions when it suits their own situation. I all along have not accepted the bullshit that me buying a Ford car is going to keep these companies alive. Them giving me a good product to buy with a good warranty,fair price and great gas mileage will keep me buying their cars. I truly believe that is what keeps people buying a product. Do you really think our DOMESTIC auto companies would have stepped up the game if they had not had competition from the foreign companies?
And don't tell me well the foreign auto companies were given all these breaks to open shop here ,blah blah. Write your congress people! That sucks on all levels of business, not just with the auto companies.
The Auto companies paid workers very well here for many years. The unions helped with that for sure! But then the unions got to greedy and to powerful and the auto companies could not compete. I do not begrudge ANYONE from making a good wage. But seriously people. I would have killed to have just half the benefits they had.We all know a few pretty lazy auto workers. Come on,how many do you know that were paid for a full day but just read books for half the day?. The stories are endless in this regard.The unions made it impossible to get rid of bad workers. I worked in a Teamsters company for 3 1/2 years. Good pay, Good insurance. And lazy ass people sleeping in the warehouse that they couldn't let go because the union protected them beyond reason. Well you get the good with the bad I suppose. I am not going to down unions because I feel they helped workers for many years and without them in most cases the companies would not offer a fair wage. But they should also not protect lazy good for nothings.
When I look to buy a car I look over all my choices. This is a HUGE purchase for me. Its right under buying a home as far as I am concerned. I don't make allot of money. I raised a child ,and helped her through college by buying smart. I tend to keep my cars for ten to twelve years if possible. So I look for warranty ,durability,what the car comes with (options) etc. And Price!Example I have say $15,000 to spend ,what car is going to give me the best value for this amount.I have owned Volkswagen,Chrysler,Toyota,Ford,Hyundai.in my driving life. So about half foreign half domestic. Lets not even talk about the Chrysler piece of craps (had two of them) ugh.
Overall Toyota had the best car. Best for my money,best warranty,great gas mileage. Repairs could be a bit costly,but it hardly ever needed any so that was never an issue.The 2002 Hyundai I am driving now is about neck to neck with the Fords I had,BUT the warranty is 40,000 miles better and it is better on gas. So there you have it. If my husband and I need to get a car soon . And we very well may as his Ford Escort ,14 years old!! is about to bite it. We will look at Ford products first. I do give the domestics brands a chance to wow me,I really do. But when I am making such an important buying choice I am going to go with what I feel is the best buy for me.
The article below was a very good one! Put out by Car and Driver Magazine (available at New Horizons Book Shop 13 mile and little mack roseville michigan .)
Sorry a plug for my brothers independent book store!! LOL!
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/proud-to-be-american-buy
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
and the crap just keeps on crappin along :-)
Can not believe how crappy I've been feeling once again this week. You must all be pretty sick of hearing about my crappy health. Well I had two weeks of absolutely WONDERFUL. My ear pressure was down and I had energy and felt good. This week,well it started last Sunday with a crappy stomach and has tumbled into ear buzzing and lethargy and general feelin crappyness. Of course this week is VERY busy at work. Which I am very grateful for. But it is also the worst week to be feeling under the weather.
I'm not sure if its allergies or I'm just fighting something. To top it all off I have had some sciatica pain in my hip pretty bad all week also. Man I sound a gazillion years old . Sorry,really sorry. Anyway,I hope that the morning brings some renewed health because the next two days at work are insanely busy. I'm talking a fifteen minute break in a 10 hour day busy!
So I am off to an early bed to get as much rest as possible. I hope you are all doing well and as excited about spring as I am.!
I'm not sure if its allergies or I'm just fighting something. To top it all off I have had some sciatica pain in my hip pretty bad all week also. Man I sound a gazillion years old . Sorry,really sorry. Anyway,I hope that the morning brings some renewed health because the next two days at work are insanely busy. I'm talking a fifteen minute break in a 10 hour day busy!
So I am off to an early bed to get as much rest as possible. I hope you are all doing well and as excited about spring as I am.!
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