Friday, November 1, 2013

A Breach.. dear goodness no!!!

There has been a breach...

RED 1: HQ, the Pig has been attacked.

HQ: Repeat RED 1?
...
RED 1: HQ, the Pig has been attacked, I repeat the Pig has been attacked.

HQ: Rescue the Pig, RED 1, Rescue the Pig.

RED 1: There are snipers everywhere HQ.

HQ: Rescue the Pig, I repeat .. Rescue the Pig.

(yelling, meowing and thumping)

RED 1: HQ, the Pig has been recovered. The bell and tail are intact, there were minimal losses. I repeat the Pig has been recovered. We are coming home.

HQ: Well done RED 1, Over.
 
 

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Changing of the Guard

I am losing family members. While I know this is the natural order of things, I DO NOT LIKE IT. I am missing having those family members. Even if I didn't see them every day, it was a comfort knowing they were there.

We (my generation of cousins) are now the Old Guard. I don't mind being the old guard, but not at the cost of losing those before me. I loved the stories that were shared, their laughter and smiles. Us kids looking up to those before us. I don't mind getting older, I am really not scared of dying either. Actually, I have a plan to help me go like I want. (That is a story for another day) I am really saddened by them aging and leaving us, leaving a wound that will heal, but will definitely leave a scar. We can't even begin to take their place and I am pretty sure we don't want to.

I Salute those who were the "Old Guard" before us, alive and gone:

Francis (Chicky) Lundy     
Susan Basham                  
Pinky Bishop                                   
Johnny Bishop                  
Taffy Bishop                     
Jerry Taylor                      
Jerry Basham                       
Jack Cornwell
Mike Cornwell
Sharon Ellingson
Jesse Ellingson
Patty Basham
Johnny (Jr) O'Neil
Val Burbank Cornwell
Larry O'Neil

Family and Friends, feel free to add to this list in a comment if you remember names I might have forgetten.

T~

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

 
 
Misty Water Colored Memories
 
 
I can't begin to tell you how much it warms my heart, that my mother shared a love of "old" movies with me. I remember the Disney movies that she would take us to see, my brother and I.
Of course their are a bunch of remakes of many of the Disney movies I have seen, but they will never be as good as what I grew up on. I have some of the most wonderful memories of my mother and I watching Lana Turner
and Sandra Dee in Imitation of Life, by the end of it we were both in tears
with boxes of tissure each. I cherish that more than any gift I ever got.
 
There are so many wonderful old movies out there. A few of my favorites are:
 
National Velvet
The Aristocats
Candleshoe
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Dumbo
The Original Incredible Journey
Mary Poppins
Swiss Family Robinson
Pollyanna
The Ugly Dachshund
So many wonderful childrens movies.
 
When we got older we enjoyed things like:
 
The Bad News Bears
The Original Willy Wonka
Charlottes Web
The Original Where the Red Fern Grows
 
Then of course when they are older please make sure they see
 
Meet me in St. Louis
The Harvey Girls
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brigadoon
 
so many.. so so many wonderful movies that your children will miss
out on. These movies have heart and soul. They are cookie cutter
shoot em up and kill movies. Wonderful stories
with amazing actors and actresses that shouldn't be
forgotten.
Make some of your own wonderful memories with your children
and grandchildren.. snuggled up on the couch, eating popcorn
and just watching something magickal, an era that we will
only get to see on the screen.
 
Thank you Mother, I love you~
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Fabric Whoredom

 
 
Fabric Whore
 
 
Some things run in us, genetic or hereditary. There is hair color, eye color, personalities.. I believe things like alcholism and such. I also think that things like: collecting things might be inherent. I think my father has a genetic affinity for collecting junk. If there is a garage sale he will find it and buy something. Then he will drag it to my house and then tell me I have way to much shit at my house. I think to myself, "hmmm ~ could any of that crap be yours?" When half of it is! lol

Anyways, I don't know who I would have inherited this from, but I believe I have an affinity for fabric. I am a fabric whore. Is this something that runs in my family? I know my mother could sew clothes and make outfits amazingly well! My grandmother could crochet and draw beautifully. I make quilts, they are alright.. I like them and they keep us warm. But I just have this affliction, I need fabric. More and more fabric. There is never enough. I am always seeing quilt patterns that I want to make so I need fabric for them. I have lots and lots of fabric together for certain quilts I want to make, but I crave more! MORE! The fabric whore comes out in me at JoAnn's and Lori's Pins and Needles and Quilter's Nest.
 
So, I will embrace my fabric whoriness. I will indulge and gorge my quilters
heart and desires with fabric. Gimme, gimme, gimme. Is there a cure for this? A pill? I guess it could be worse, I could be a tequila whore and my clothes could fall off.
 

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Kitty Picture Corral

I have been collecting some kitty pictures and thought would share some of the cute ones~


 
This definately happens to me!
 

 
Just a funny
 

 
Add fabric on that list and this is me~
 
 

 
Made me smile
 
 

 
The funny things they do!





 
Would make for an awesome tattoo

Sunday, August 12, 2012

OWN THAT SHIT!

It seems to me that people don't own the things they say and the things they do. If it is a good thing, they are all over it like white on rice, if it is a bad, stupid, dumb ass thing, they try and shine that on. Like "what?" I don't know what you are talking about it.
I just wish that people would own the shit they say and the shit they do~ So I found some pictures and sayings that just tap in to how I feel about this, so here goes...




If you ask me a question, be prepared for an answer you might not like. If you are a true friend you will want the truth.  I WILL tell it to you. 





It amazes me that the people that are the backstabbing dilholes, think they get away with it. They think they can talk shit and trash you and that you will never find out.  I am glad they live in their bubble of delusional brilliance. It makes it more fun because they seem to be oblivious to my sarcastic response... :D





That saying "keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I just as soon, get rid of the enemies and the negative baggage they bring. Maybe they should call them enemas, instead of enemies..  get rid of that shit!




I can relate to this, but it will be my pleasure to be sarcastic and rude if the occasion calls for it!





Then you get the people that don't realize you are being rude and sarcastick because they think you don't know what stink ass, backstabbing turds they are. Oh, but you do.. you do.





I do believe that what you put out, you will get back, times 3. So if you are insecure about yourself, and bad mouth others to make yourself feel better, if you are just mean and get off on treating people like shit, Karma will find you. You won't know when, that makes it awesome~




Just know, I will call you out, and I won't have a problem telling you to your face. I don't need friends like that and I sure as hell don't want them.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Faith in humanity

Today my father went with me to a Dr Appt. On the way we have nice chats, for the most part. He brought something to my attention. He told me that he thinks that today's kids are more cruel today, than of days gone by. For some reason this got me to thinking of a story I saw on FB about some teen boys that had hung a puppy. They had smiles on their faces, like they were proud of what they had done, thought it was funny or cool. It broke my heart. I had to hide the post, I couldn't look at it. Supposedly it was taken a couple years ago, but that doesn't make it any easier to see. I have also heard about another "fun" pastime that some people seem to think is cool... kitten stomping. Makes me nauseous just talking about it.
Do these young people lack any kind of concsious, any empathy? How do they live with themselves. Are they monsters at home. Is the public the chosen few that get to see this behaviour?  How do these young people learn these horrendous patterns.
I never understood how a child could see something being beaten and think it is alright. Don't they have a twinge inside themselves that say, "don't do this, this is wrong in so many ways". Even if that is what they are seeing their parents do. All of this "leaned condition" makes me want to vomit. You either know something is right or something is wrong. Don't most people have that sense? That brings up this.. I don't want to hear that they see their parents are telling them it is alright so they do it. There are children raised in vile situations that totally go the other way and never do this kind of crap.
This makes me almost lose hope for our future generations. I think the US is going to hell in a handbasket, but can you imagine having these youngsters running our government and military, etc.. It makes me weep. I hope things change for the better, but the way things are going now, I am glad, I hopefully, won't be alive to see it.
I guess I am just kind of rambling, but I had to get this off of my chest. It has just been popping up, here and there. Maybe I will get some peace now, I can't change it and I can't fix it.. I can only do the best I can with those I live with and those I love and those who are my friends. Here's to hope: hope that things change and that my "Faith in Humanity" isn't a lost cause.