How Lasagna Gave Me a Cold!!

Welcome to my chokefest! What's that you say? You never heard that word before? What does it mean? Hold on and I'll explain. Welcome to my chokefest means that every morning for atleast a minimum of 30 mins up to 1 hour, I cough continuously and have to blow my nose and other ICKY stuff. I can barely get a word in edgewise and I hate every last minute of it. I have to continuously run to the bathroom and clear my sinuses! Yeah, I know gross to hear and read. lol

Let me tell you how I came down with this malady. It all started last weekend when I picked up my grandson. We missed him or rather pop-pop missed him so much that we HAD to pick him up. lol So our "gordie" comes home with us. The next day he doesnt want to eat bkfst. So I said to myself just wait till he's hungry enough. So about 230 I start to warm up the previous night's dinner...Lasagna. We asked if he was hungry and he said no. So I left it alone and put a small piece of Lasagna for him on my plate anyway. I reached into the fridge and pulled out a cold can of soda. I plopped myself down on the couch and pop-pop on the recliner. Gordie comes over and reaches for the soda. I was like nope. Not one drop till you eat your food. so he took a small bite. then he goes over to his pop-pop and is given a small bite but looks at him and puckers his lip and promptly deposits the piece back on the plate. Pop-pop had taken the bait. He's sick and cant eat. dont force him. I was like he's not sick. Watch. He kept gunning for the soda and I kept saying NO way, not a drop till you eat. Well needless to say that his piece of lasagna was eaten...even the crumbs! And then he got his reward! His beloved soda. And before you say anything it really wasnt soda, it was iced tea! lol Pop pop had been fooled and gordie's plan had been fouled! lolol However, the story doesnt end here. After he had eaten I realized that the little bugar had a cold and I didnt use a separate utensil! What an idiot! So now I have a nice cold courtesy of my gordie! lol

Anywho, here I am at work. I dont want to be here. I want to leave. I've been home 2 days and I plan to leave early today. Even tho my boss says "hang in"....easy for him to say. Im not beat. Im tired of working for a workaholic who lives and breathes for this job. Dont get me wrong Im grateful for working here cause times are tough all over, but I think I'd be happier if he took interest in more familial (my own word thank you very much) things.

Our co-creator is also sicky poo. Keep her in your prayers. Well this is all for now. Just wanted to keep my fans abreast of all the wonderful goings on in my life. Love you all. Ciao!

L'est We Forget--HAPPY THREE KINGS DAY!!

What is that? Well when I was a child it was merely another day to get more gifts!! Well and technically for many children, it still is!! Living in New Jersey and coming from descendants of Puerto Rico, as a child, I had the best time this time of year. It started Christmas Eve and ended in mid-January. It was the best.
Christmas Eve would usually be spent at my uncle Johnny's house (his was biggest). The adults all got drunk and danced the night away. The children ate more than they should and got to stay up all night!! Around midnight, the kids would open up their presents. We'd rest up Christmas morning and play with our new toys. Then on the 26th or 27th we'd be on a plane headed to the beautiful isla of Puerto Rico. There would be a welcoming party with great food! On the 31st the entire family would gather with a huge a@@ lechon (pork) and music. We'd ring in the new year!
Then we'd hang out some more but on the evening of January 5th, all the children went to gather some hay or grass and a bowl of water and place these under the bed before going to bed that night. These were intended for the camels of the Three Kings who would supposedly be exhausted after their trip from the Orient to Puerto Rico. The camels would eat and drink while the kings left you gifts. In the morning on the 6th, we'd awaken with the cockadoodledoo to get some more gifts.
This night would mark the beginning of the "octavitas" (eights) --8 nights of parties with "parrandas" (sort of like a chorus that got bigger as the night went on because they'd pick up more straggler chorus people from home to home; a group would go knocking on someone's house, usually unannounced and even sometimes wake you from your sleep, singing folk songs and start a party in your house that would last unil the wee hours of the morning; one or two people from your house would join the party and continue to the next house).

It was extra nice for me because Santa had given me gifts on December 25th and now the Three Kings on January 6th. I was doubly blessed. So Happy Three Kings Day everyone. May your blessings be doubled this year!!

Brrrrrrrr!

14 degrees outside! It's super, bitter, icy cold! I know its winter and its suppose to be cold, but wowza!! I walked perhaps 1/2 a block and my head literally ached, my eyes were spouting waterfalls, and they hurt! And my thighs felt like they were being attacked. It was so cold. And I had only walked 1/2 block. Can you imagine those pour souls who walk 5 or so blocks to the train station? yikes!
I truly despise taking the bus home. Its an hour and a half ride on a good day. It makes me antsy. sigh...I can just feel old age settling in for a warm winter's(summer, spring, fall) night. I remember years ago...a scant 5 years ago when I would be on the bus for HOURS and it never bothered me. And now I've grown intolerant of the bus and all the traffic. Nonetheless I have my latest read to keep me company. Im currently reading Faithless by Karin Slaughter. I'll post a micro review when Im done with it. And with that dang 90 min bus ride that review could be coming sooner than you think your way! lol

I got a very encouraging email from my pastor. It just put a smile on my face. I loved it. :) It's good to know that the pastor cares. I need to hightail it back to My Father's house and pronto.

Anyway, ms dyslexix here transposed the numbers on her checking acct and I overspent thinking I had more money than I did. Now I have 4 bags of laundry and NO money to do them. I have nobody to borrow from and Im super annoyed! Im so dumb sometimes its not funny! Now I have to wait another 12 days until payday. Ima have to wash some clothes by hand cause I seriously dont got it. How pathetic.

Which leads me to my next statment. BAH HUMBUG! For the gazillionth time I agree with our cocreator. We spend so much money on other ppl and we waste all this effort and for what?? For a few bratty kids to smile? For a few fond memories? Yeah whatever. I say let's boycott next christmas! the shopping part anyway! My sister made a stmt. She said that next year she will focus her energy on her household. Heck that's what I've been telling everyone for YEARS. But I see that the gravy train is running out. I've decided to boycott. My husband is adamant that next year the only ppl getting gifts are the grandchildren (Gordo, Wiggles and baby jennifer), his kids, my parents and my 2 best friends). And I agree with him. check out the list of ppl we gave to this year.

Mom & Dad (2 ppl)
His Sister, Husband and 3 kids (5 ppl)
My sister, fiancee and 2 kids (4 ppl)
My other sister, boyfriend, his son, wiggles and soon to be baby jennifer (5 ppl)
My brother, wife, 4 kids (6 ppl)
My other brother, wife, 2 kids (4 ppl)
His 2 sons in VA (2 ppl)
His 1 daughter in middlesex cty, her sister and grandmother (3 ppl)
His dad (1)
Boss and wife (2 ppl)
Misc ppl (3 ppl)
best friend, daughter (2 ppl)

If you kept track, that's a total of 40 people. Ok mind you that I didnt spend a fortune on everyone. But when you come to add it all up, I spent quite a few hundred dollars. Plus I didnt put what I got my hubs. Here's what he got:

Authentic Jean Paul Gautier Cologne
CD made at Walmart with all his favorite music
Kenneth Cole Watch
$100
2 Pair of leather shoes that actually fit the width of his feet
2 dvd's
1 pair of Jeans

I think he made out like a bandit. I didnt do so bad myself. Check out what I got:

Sister gave me a nice watch with matching bracelet from Walmart. It's really nice! I loved it. And it comes with a mini jewelry box!

Brother gave me a toothbrush disinfectant, coach wallet, photo album with stickers and a coco chanel cologne!!

Our co-creator gave me Season 10 of FRIENDS! Yay!! I love them! And a small Bansai tree for my desk at work.

Mom gave me a beautiful Mikasa collectible plate. Very nice! I need to buy the holder for it.

sister-in-law gave me a purse. very cute.

So I did pretty good this year. Normally, I only get a gift from my co-creator and my sister, but this year I was blessed big time.

Anyway, I've rambled on long enough. Continue with your regularly scheduled programming! lol Feel free to drop me a line if you want. I welcome hearing from my fans.

Update: omG. I found myself SAVING my post and I did it by mistake. But hey you never know, what with the computer age and stuff, so I didnt think anything about it. I hit "publish post" only to get an error msg and it seemed to erase the post. Thankfully I had hit save and was able to pull it up! whew! I would not have been able to recreate this post. Ya'll know Im lazy, so I wouldnt have been updating any time soon either. Thank you JESUS!! I will now always hit SAVE first before I publish. Word to the wise...do the same.

Robert Frost's Summer Home Vandalized??

I saw this small news article today on AOL news. The headline actually read: "Famed Writer's Home Vandalized Teens' Party Got Wild, Cops Say". I thought that was going to be some funny story about a published author's feisty teen children. I was pretty feisty myself. So I thought it would be funny but what this story is actually about is some people and some are allegedly teens, breaking into the historic summer home of Robert Frost in Ripton, Vermont!!! I was speechless when I saw the pictures and so depressed. I mean when we aren't even respecting the memory of Robert Frost!! They broke a window to get in and proceeded to drink and leave blue plastic cups strewn about the floors. They also broke much of the antique furniture. I find this so totally despicable. I mean it's one thing to break into a currently vacant house and hang out with your friends (I told you I was feisty--LOL) but why destroy property too? And irreplaceable property--we're not talking build it yourself IKEA here! And I'm not upset just because it was Robert Frost (I like him but he wasn't one of my favorites). But the house clearly states that this is a historic site and it says Robert Frost. And I'm sure it's local kids so they must've know who this is because I'm sure the town boasts about it. I'm sad that teens today no longer seem to respect anything. I hear it from my own goddaughter at times--"I'll respect her if she respects me," she says referring to one of her teachers. She fails to realize that respect is not something you are given. Respect is not something you are born with. Respect is earned! Yea it may sound like cliche but it's the truth. Blood, sweat and tears--but it is earned.


ON ANOTHER NOTE

Ok I've been watching the news lately--not on purpose. I leave the TV on as I type on my blog because I like having the background noise. After the shows are over, the news start and I get too lazy to change the channel or can't find the remote. I had given up the news because there is always bad news on--and how often do we have to hear about who got shot or who got hit by a drunk driver or who died in a tragic fire.

Well I was flabbergasted! (LOL) at the news today about an Arizona pageant queen, who by the way is a law student and a law intern, so I'm assuming she cannot possibly say she didn't know better; well, she kidnaps her ex-boyfriend and gets two other females involved. They duct tape him and threaten him. She holds a gun or maybe a butcher knife to him (I lost this part). They show her beauty shot and admittedly, she is very pretty. Then the mugshot--OMG!! What a difference!! Can I just tell you that there is a reason why women put on make-up and why some women put on make-up for an hour or more. It gives new meaning to the phrase "putting on my face." But what really amazed me was that she was released on a $50,000 bond!! She takes this man against his will, locks him up, gags and bounds him for two days and threatens his life and is given $50,000 bond. So we know her sentence will be a mix between probation and community service!! Talk about an unjust system!
I know someone who for whatever reason (because I don't know the reason or if there can even be a reason) fired a gun at a building wall and two hookers see him. Both hookers state that he slowed down when he drove by them and that they saw the "fire" and heard it once he drove past down the block. Does sound crazy right? It doesn't make sense to me as to why he would do this. Kind of stupid but I'm getting off track. He gets a $150,000 bail!!
And I've been hearing a lot of crazy things like this lately--you kill someone and you also get $150,000 bail and you do 5-7 years!!! That doesn't seem right for a life. Same as it doesn't seem right to do three years for getting high and ruining your own stupid life. There are too many things in our system that just don't make sense. Like "correctional institutions." What exactly are they "correcting?" A first-timer's ability to pick locks? Because they aren't correcting or doing anything about the problem to begin with, which in my opinion, starts with a poor education and poverty. If more isn't done about the immense level of poverty in our cities, then it's just going to be a never-ending cycle.

Another thing that didn't ever make sense was when I worked at Hudson County Welfare, I found that a person convicted of a a drug offense could be denied food stamps unless they went through some type of rehabilitation program (like a correctional institution--that counted!). However if all you'd done was molest a child; well you could eat for free every month! Isn't the system great?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Just a quick note before the first day of the year ends. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
May 2008 be full of blessing, miracles, more money, less bills, true friendship and peace!