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Good Things Happen To Me

It’s not very fun to write about the good stuff, but I have to say that good things have been coming my way. Here are a few of them. The doctor who charged me $50 for a no-show when my car wouldn’t start took the charge off my account I wrecked my car and have been driving a rental--the rental company gave me a free upgrade We found a wonderful painter who is not overcharging me We found a carpet layer who is great and did not overcharge us We found a laborer who is strong and grateful to have work so we can afford him as well We have rented all of our rental property I did not get a lung infection this time when I had my recent allergy attack The dog is housebroken We found a great place to buy appliances new and used I love the classes I am teaching My grandchildren e-mail me every day We have money in the bank Tarzan and I really like each other Direct TV gave me Showtime free for 3 months I find life solutions in the Book of Mormon I have lost 6 pounds

A fun hour

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I saw this on Lindsey ’s blog (she is my cousin’s daughter) and thought it would be a great way to spend an hour. And, since Lindsey was so kind as to share the instructions for how to create this gem, I thought I would follow suit. Now you too can make a photo mosaic all about YOU! How to: a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. b. Using only the first page, pick an imagen (I browsed, lots of pictures not just the first page). c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker . d. Copy the mosaic image (right click, save image as -- or just drag image to desktop) to your computer. e. Upload image to blog and voila! Here are the questions: 1. What is your first name? Sandi 2. What is your favorite food? Tacos 3. What high school did you go to? St. Johns 4. What is your favorite color? Red 5. Who is your celebrity crush? Brad Pitt (lame, I know) 6. Favorite drink? Virgin Margarita 7. Dream vacation? Italy 8. Favorite dessert? Peach

Thank you!

We seem to go through life just doing what we do, trying to be contributing member to society and not expecting any recognition for it. However, every once in awhile, someone says "thank you" and it feels so good. This week I had two thank you's, the first has a funny story (of course, nothing happens to me without a funny story, right?) Sunday night I was home alone and I had Dottie in the house with me. She was sleeping under my desk and I was working on grading papers when I heard someone knock rather loud on the kitchen door. I was expecting Tarzan to come home and figured he had his hands full and needed me to open the door for him. I went to the door and yelled out--"who is it?" NO ANSWER . I got a little spooked and peaked out the window-- NO ONE THERE . I looked out the front window-- NO ONE THERE . Yikes, now I was really spooked. Dottie was running around in a panic feeling my emotions. I turned OFF all the lights in the house and turned ON all the l

How sad...

It is so sad that there are still people in this world who cannot see past the color of your skin. We recently had a business person give us a quote for some work we needed done. When the quote was too high, we looked for another alternative to get the work done. When he did not hear back from us, he send us a rude e-mail accusing us fo using him and wasting his time. He has never met me, only Tarzan and in the e-mail he said among other things---"I am use to working with white people that have integrity, not random ghetto acts of 'take advantage of whomever, whenever.'" What a huge dissappointment to have someone be so small and unthinking that they can say such cruel words with no remorse.

I pray for good things to happen to me.

I pray for good things to happen to me. I was in a wreck; the other guy was on the phone, and would not stay for the police. The good thing: I have insurance and they consider it a no-fault accident and will cover everything, including a rental car. It will only cost me the $500 deductible. I pray for good things to happen to me. We took the trash to the Gila Bend dump and drove the trailer over the edge and cut a big gash in the trailer tire. The good thing: It was going to cost us $150 to get a new one, but Tarzan talked the guy into $32. I pray for good things to happen to me. Tarzan has been the victim of identity theft. The good thing: The government has put in place a path to follow to get it corrected. I pray for good things to happen to me. I have had a migraine for two days. The good thing: This only happens a couple of times a year, it used to happen twice a month. I pray for good things to happen to me.

Camping with Tarzan and the Boyz

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This weekend I realized, that I do not just casually experience life. Rather, I see events. I see big happy occasions, and devastating sad occasions. I see happy things as more than passing moments, but stories to tell, stupid things as funny or irritating and story worthy. I also see the actions of others as great or even pitiful. With that said, let me tell you about fishing with Tarzan and the boyz. I had a headache for three days last week and needed some true down time, when I didn’t think about (in alphabetical order) car trouble, children, church, cleaning house, dogs, etc., grandchildren, health, heat, money, redecorating, rental property, work. Tarzan was going fishing with the boyz this weekend, so I asked if I could go. I said, “I either need to go away with you this weekend or I need to get a hotel and watch old movies while I eat ice cream and pizza.” He said I could go. I went out to get in the truck after packing up a few things, putting together four meals to cook for t

Do you know what this is?

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After the big rains we had over the past week, I went down the hill this morning and saw these strange creatures growing up along the edge of our property. Any idea what they are? The only thing I am sure of is that they don't look like mushrooms.

Catch that water drip

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I was at Sharon's desk and she had a Starbucks Plastic cup with the cutest crocheted holder on it to catch that liquid that runs all over your desk when you have a cold glass of any liquid. She told me her grandmother crocheted it and she has not been able to duplicate the pattern. I told her I could get the pattern off of it and she carefully put it in a plastic bag and gave it to me to take just over night. I was able to get the pattern and made one last night for my Fresh and Easy water bottle. Isn't it cute? I am going to make one the size of a soda can next. Here it is, I L-O-V-E it. My hand didn't get cold while I held my Ginger Ale to drink it.