Yeah!!!!

My big sis naa naa stopped by with her daughter Tayler. It was a short visit but a very welcome one. My sis Robbie and her hubby and daughter cousin IT! are coming for turkey day! Yeah!!!!! They are going to stop and pick up Joel on there way. It will be a very nice time. I am excited.

Hey there Hootie Owl, you got your ears on?

What?? Is that English? Who is Hootie Owl? LOL! Well, Hootie Owl is Chad. When we were little and living in California, we were in a CB Radio club for awhile. I will speculate that I was in 4th grade. That would make Misti in 6th and Chad in 1st or 2nd. This was of course before cell phones and the internet. Imagine, people actually communicated via talking on a "house phone" OR face to face. Unheard of right?! Also there was the really exciting CB radio. My Barbie corvette had a CB Radio in it. If Barbie had one it was cool..... CB Radio was how truckers communicated, how the police communicated, and how kids who wanted to be in the club communicated. One of the interesting things about it was that everyone had a handle. Misti was Curly Q- cuz the had curly hair. I was Strawberry Girl- cuz I had strawberry blonde hair(that's what they told me anyway) and Chad was Hootie Owl- cuz-.........well no one seems to really remember why. I asked Mom, Misti and Chad and also racked my own brain. I got nothing. Other than Give a Hoot Dont Pollute being a commercial of the day we cannot figure out why Chad chose that handle. It doesn't really matter of course but leads us to a fun mystery of sorts. Maybe he just liked owls....lol! This doesn't seem to be a mystery we will ever solve, it is kinda of fun to remember Roll Call- and hearing things like "hey there Hootie Owl, you got your ears on"? For all you non CB folk, that means "are you there?".

Absent for Awhile

I have not been writing for awhile. I ask myself why not. I have been having problems with my vision which I have been trying to ignore. I need to get it checked. I get headaches a lot especially at the computer. By the way my job is sitting at a computer most of the day. Sometimes its just easier to ignore things. Or is it. Ignoring it isn't going to make the problem I am having any better. Only action and an eye doctor can do that. Ignoring things hasn't really worked out for me my whole life, I am trying to grow and improve on that but sometimes I fall back into old comfortable patterns. I read a quote that I share with some colleagues, I can't remember exactly who said it but it speaks volumes. "We must become the change we want to see". OUCH! You mean there is no easy way for my eyes to get better, for my vision to be 20/20 again. That is so not fair, right? Who is with me? Wait, I'm not with me either. Change is inevitable. What sets us apart is how we handle it. Who we turn to during it, and what we do after it is over.

Life

I wonder why these days so many fancy words or phrases are used in health care. example Quality of life. Ok i am not too worried by any other one than this right now. Who has been given the right or privilege to decide such things? Insurance companies want expiration dates??!!!!!!! Really???!!!!! You do not qualify for certain monies or programs if your loved one doesn't have an expiration date. I am serious!!! It is written in their fancy fine print something to the affect, a determinable amount of time of EXPIRATION, or end of life and or death may lead to delays in the processing of certain monies to them or their spouses. I am not putting that in quotes because it is not worth my time or effort in thinking someone had the ..... lets say guts to say that without losing a day of sleep. I who write this by law in my companies procedures claim to have more power than God and have no conscience as to this and will never personally have to deal with any form of tragedy especially death or illness. As to my interpretation to this is simple. What??????? Why does anyone want someone have to give anyone an EXPERIATION date????? Life??? Who gave anyone the responsibility or right to determine MY Quality of life? How do you know my life????? Oh, i forgot the new goevernment health care reform will make it all better. I have no qualms with our president, just our governments inablity to make itself better wants to make My life better!!

Time

With my free time i dont do alot. I have found some what of a way to give at the school my son attends. I have only run into a few people who are.....lets say difficult. I helped with the football team and now help with my favorite pastime or sport, basketball. It gives me such great pleasure knowing i can still give in some way. Last years coach was let go and this years coach whom ive known is a great person. I watch listen and learnn how he wants to do things, how he wants his kids to perform, what he expects. I fill in with either encouragment or motivation. Coach comes to me for advice and even direction at times. I dont pretend to know more than anyone or try to change anyones direction. we all experience through trial and error, if i can give by only sharing my experience than i am happy. The youth of today is......... confused. they are torn and directed by the media sometimes more than there parents. Some, dont even get it from their parents. I wonder by even comparing my childhood to today what happend? Todays world wants everything given to them and not by earning it but just because. Todays children boys and girls lack respect for everyone. Who gave up? Who started this? I remember my days coaching with my brother Kevin. We had great days and bad. I miss them, I miss him, I miss making a difference. I hope i still can do both. I guess Time will only know. And God of course