Madness
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Posted:Jun 19, 2006 9:00 am
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2008 11:55 am 6082 Views
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Today I read this...
The definition of madness is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.
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Internet Gone!!
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Posted:Jun 18, 2006 2:58 pm
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2017 1:26 pm 7630 Views
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Friday morning there was a blog asking if we were addicted to SFF and all it offers, I admitted I was! Sooo, Friday after I got home from work, I read blogs and messages and went to the store. After I got home I checked the e-mail and SFF, both said...This Page Cannot Be Displayed. I made cookies and checked again, still the same message. I tried for about 4 hours and finally called my internet server. Seems I have a problem with that and the tech said they will send someone Monday afternoon and I may or may not get it back over the weekend. Panic set in!! haha I even went to the library and used a computer there for a bit to check messages and clear the junk that always comes on. I checked off and on the rest of the day and nothing. We had a storm last night and I shut everything off. This afternoon I turned it on and Voila!! Here it is, for how long I don't know but am taking full advantage while I can. I have missed my friends on blogs and the chatrooms!! Yup, guess I truly am addicted!! Will there be meetings??? Ann
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WHOOPS!
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Posted:May 29, 2006 7:53 am
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2017 1:31 pm 8208 Views
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If we can't laugh at ourselves we are in big trouble...I hope you can chuckle at my stupidity but as the saying goes - I can explain! First explaination is...I used to be a blonde!
There had been a leak under the sink so being the handy person I am, I put a plastic wash basin under it to catch the drips. It worked for some time. I had gone in the living room to read the paper in my recliner...anyone that knows me knows once I am in it it isn't long before I take a power nap.
My stepson came in and his dad and I were both asleep in our chairs. He said - there is water under the sink! I woke and said, yeah there is a small leak under there, to which he replied, no it is a lot of water. I went in and the pan was overflowing and running onto the floor. The elbow of the pipe under the sink had somehow unscrewed, probably from the vibration of the garbage disposal over time. I picked up the pan and said...it is a good thing I had that under here and proceeded to dump it in the sink.....water went everywere and I laughed until I cried! He stood there horrified and his Dad came in saying what happened...I hated that! lol
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I had used my iron skillet, washed it and put it on the burner to dry, went in to read the newspaper and you guessed it, power nap time in the chair. The other stepson came in with his cousin and said - is this skillet supposed to be this red? I realized what I had done and went in the kitchen. He had turned off the stove. I said darn (or something like that) I am going to have to re season it, grabbed the bacon grease container and put a big spoonful in the skillet. He said, you aren't going to do that are you and I told him that was how you season it. Uh huh, the flames were quite high! My ex was asleep in his recliner in the other room. I told my stepson to grab the fire extinguisher and the 2 guys sprayed everything in the general area. Man that stuff goes everywhere and stinks to high heaven! In comes his dad saying, what is that smell and What the H... happened! By then the hysterics started and I was laughing and crying and slid down the wall to sit on the floor and carry on. None of them had ever seen me do that! I still get a kick out of both of these incidents! I have always told people DO NOT wake me with an emergency, I don't react well!
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The Cookie Jar
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Posted:May 15, 2006 6:48 am
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2017 8:24 am 8320 Views
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My brother and I went out of state to visit relatives. We stayed with our Aunt...as I have found out, quite a character! The 3 of us were standing in the kitchen talking and I kept looking at a Quaker Oats box on top of her refrigerator. I thought it was too shiny to just be an oatmeal box. I asked her if that was a cookie jar and she reached up and brought it down saying no it was Uncle Paul! My brother and I stood there and I'm thinking, huh? She opened it and said here are his ashes, do you want to see and there is a great story to go with it. Naturally I wanted to see but my brother kept saying NO, haha. My cousin saw a contest on the computer to give the best reason why you should win a Quaker Oats Cookie Jar. She quickly typed an entry saying, My Dad ate oatmeal every single day and it was always Quaker Oats, he made oatmeal cookies often and only used Quaker Oats, he had donated his body to a college and when they were finished with his body, they cremated him and sent the ashes to her Mom and she thought it would be a great place to keep his ashes. She submitted it. Time passed and she hadn't heard anything. She thought since it was almost the end of the contest it was too late. One day my Aunt received a big heavy box, opened it and there was a cookie jar!
My Aunt called my cousin and said, "You won the cookie jar"!
On Thanksgiving she put 2 cups of "Uncle Paul" in bags, tied them with a ribbon and put them at each of her 4 's places. To remember their Dad! She kept the remainder in the cookie jar.
Believe me...he would have loved knowing that is where he wound up!
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Getts Remembering Triggered a Memory
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Posted:May 7, 2006 1:07 pm
Last Updated:Jul 25, 2017 8:26 am 8412 Views
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My Dad was quite a character...he was always telling stories and my Mom, Brother and I wondered how true they were. He told a story several times about he and his "cronies" stealing 2 cows when they were in their late years and turning them loose in the high school gym of our small town. Someone found them the next morning, one was in the bleachers bellowing and the other was spread eagled on the basketball court. Cow manure was everywhere!! They had to redo the floor of course.
The police went to Dad and the guys and they too were out of town that evening and knew nothing about it but would ask around and see if anyone would know anything about it.
Fast forward 40 years...I was living in California and Dad had passed away about 5 years before. I had subscribed to the little hometown newspaper. There was a column called Looking Back - 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 years ago. Under 40 years was...Halloween is drawing close, windows are being soaped downtown and 2 cows were found in the high school gym!! My Mom was visiting and I started laughing saying...Oh my God Mom it is true!! Counted back and he would have been 17. He would have loved seeing that article!! Funny they never found out who did it for sure!
I still chuckle whenever I remember it! Thanks Getts for letting me remember again.
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Are You My Sister?
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Posted:Apr 24, 2006 7:15 pm
Last Updated:Apr 16, 2019 4:52 pm 8252 Views
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I just got home from a sorority banquet and wondered - do I have sisters in SFF. Tonight was the 75th Founder's Day Banquet celebration of the founding of Beta Sigma Phi, the world's largest social sorority. It actually started April 30, 1931 in Abilene, Kansas, USA by Walter W. Ross. It has been kept alive and active by members of his family. The International headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
If you are my sister, please comment or send me a SFF message, I would love to hear from you. If you know someone that is a member, have them contact me the same way. I have been a member for 28 1/2 years.
Thanks!! Ann
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RETIREMENT
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Posted:Apr 21, 2006 8:49 am
Last Updated:Jan 24, 2016 11:06 am 8187 Views
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Retirees: Read and remember...If You Still Can
If someone should ask a retiree one of these questions, you will have an answer.
QUESTION: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
QUESTION: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: 3 hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
QUESTION: How many retirees does it take to change a lightbulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
QUESTION: What is the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
QUESTION: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% discount.
QUESTION: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Tied shoes.
QUESTION: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have time.
QUESTION: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
QUESTION: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult will want to store stuff there.
QUESTION: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal.
QUESTION: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answer: The never ending coffee break.
QUESTION: What is the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
QUESTION: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Share this one with all the retirees that you know. I'm sure they can relate to some of them!
AND, if you have not yet retired, look what you have to look forward to.....
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One Block
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Posted:Apr 19, 2006 7:20 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2017 12:26 am 8633 Views
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This is my first blog, I have commented on lots but have never written one...today I will.
On April 2nd our town got hit with strong tornado like storms after dark. Later they said they weren't sure if it was a tornado or straight line winds. Whatever it was was in excess of 100 miles per hour. I was getting into the shower, heard the winds and heard a whistle, looked out and quickly dressed not knowing what was ahead. I saw the trees in my yard bending from west to east and things flying. There were no sirens so I wasn't sure just what it was. It ended as suddenly as it started. I saw the neighbor outside with a flashlight and asked if they were all right. They were and I was. He said there was a house in the next block that a power line fell on and was burning, you could see the flames shooting in the air. There were trees, branches and power lines and poles down. It stopped 1 block from my house!! We lost power from several hours to almost 3 days. Mine came on the next morning about 10 am. I drove west the next day where I heard there was a lot of destruction, it was like a war zone in some areas, next to it nothing. There was a church totally destroyed and for some reason they had their Sunday services in a Fellowship Hall 1 block from my house. They were all ok that night.
Last night...we had a very strong storm roll in with lightning, winds, hail and almost 5 inches of rain in less than 1-1/2 hours. We lost power for just a couple of seconds, but some parts of town lost it longer. This morning when my clock radio came on they were saying it was the worst flooding the mayor had ever seen here. They rescued 30 people with boats and cars had water up to the tops of the doors. The church Fellowship Hall lost all their chairs and benches they had brought from the destroyed church. This was 1 block away, where the straight line winds/tornado type winds were earlier this month. My basement had a small amount of water, I have a sump pump, thank God. The neighbor next to me and his neighbor had flooded basements.
It is amazing that both of these stopped ONE BLOCK AWAY!!
Wow, for a first blog...I got carried away!!
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