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First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets - and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

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So, I’m watching TV the other night and on comes a commercial. I ignore most of them, but I heard “fried macaroni and cheese” and thought I was hearing wrong. Nope. It was a commercial for TGI Fridays. Not only that, they now have “CRISPY GREEN BEAN FRIES” — Crunchy and crisp battered green beans with a cool creamy Cucumber-Wasabi Ranch dip.”

Now, fried macaroni cheese is a scoopful of elbow macaroni, smothered in fake Velveeta cheese, then covered with batter and deep fried.

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Yes indeedy, folks, it’s almost time for the series to begin again!

The wait is almost over. The premiere of American Idol will be a 2-Night 4-Hour event. Don’t miss it Tuesday & Wednesday, January 16th & 17th, starting at 8/7c, only on FOX!

Since this show has become such a phenomenom, one can only imagine the horrible singers who will try out so they can have their 15 minutes of fame during the tryout shows.

I don’t hear much about this year’s winner, Taylor Hicks. I know he had an album coming out at the end of the year, but it’s the end of the year, so where is it? I’ve been waiting patiently for it. I know Kellie Pickler has released an album but thanks, I’ll pass on it!

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So, as you’ve noticed, the blog has a new look. I joined the masses and switched to Word Press for software. I also found a new theme design and while I loved the old one, I like this one, too.

I lost a lot of the old posts but that’s ok since I saved most of the ones I liked!

Do you like this?

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1. The Doctor - Because he says, “Take off your clothes.”

2. The Dentist - Because he says, “Open wide.”

3. The Milkman - Because he says, “Do you want it in the front or back?”

4. The Hairdresser - Because he says, “Do you want it teased or blown?”

5. The Interior Decorator - Because he says, “Once it’s in, you’ll love it.”

6. The Banker - Because he says, “If you take it out too soon, you’ll lose interest.”

7. The Hunter - Because he always goes deep in the bush, he always shoots twice, and he always eats what he shoots.

8. The Stock Broker - Because he says, “It will rise right up, fluctuate for a while, and then slowly fall back again.”

9. The Telephone Guy - Because he says, “Would you like it on the table or up against the wall?

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Some days I want to scream and yell when telemarketers bug me. Usually they call my business line, and businesses can’t register with the national Do Not Call registry, so I play with them — when they ask to speak to the person who handles our phone service I pause, then say, “oh, we don’t have a phone” and you can hear the stunned silence on the other end of the phone. Other people tell me they simply say “hold on” and put the phone down to run up the other person’s phone bill.

Wednesday at 5:15 PM my home line rang while I was eating dinner. Anyone who knows me knows I ignore my phone when I’m busy, but with elderly parents, I sometimes check who it is just in case. I saw a toll-free number, assumed it was a telemarketer, and went back to eating. Last night the same thing happened. I then called the number and it was my bank. Now, if there were an issue with my account, I would think they would call me during regular business hours. But, to be safe, I called them and was on hold no less than 15 minutes, and gave up, figuring if it was important, they would call me.

Tonight, at 5 PM, I sat down for dinner and sure enough, the phone rings. I check it and it’s the same toll-free number, so I picked it up.

“Hello”

“Hello, I’m calling from such-and-such bank about your checking account

“Yes?”

(At this point, I knew it wasn’t an issue, because a real bank employee would ask to speak to me by name since they only talk to the account holder when there is a problem).

“I’m calling to let you know about some specials ….” and I interrupted.

“Look, you’re interrupting my dinner. Calling me and disturbing my dinner is the way to make me leave the bank, not want to open yet another account. Next time I’m at the bank making a deposit or withdrawal, while you have me captive, then and only then can you try to sell me something new. Until then, do not call me again to try to sell me something.”

And, I hung up.

Think they’ll call again? I bet they do

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1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
“If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.”

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
“You better pray that will come out of the carpet.”

3 My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
“If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!”

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
” Because I said so, that’s why.”

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
“If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
“Make sure you wear clean underwear,! in case you’re in an accident.”

7. My mother taught me IRONY.
“Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.”

8. My mother taught me about OSMOSIS.
“Shut your mouth and eat your supper.”

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONIST.
“Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!”

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
“You’ll sit there until all those peas are gone.”

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
“This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.”

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
“If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!”

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
“I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
“Stop acting like your father!”

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
“There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.”

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
“Just wait until we get home.”

17.. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
“You are going to get it when you get home!”

18 My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
“If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.”

19. My mother taught me ESP.
“Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?”

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.”When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me.”

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
“If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.”

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
“You’re just like your father.”

23. My ! mother taught me about my ROOTS.
“Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?”

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
“When you get to be my age, you’ll understand”

25. And my favorite: - My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
“One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!”

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I was reading a local newspaper today about the capture of a fugitive who has been on the lam for 20 years. This man apparently was arrested for smuggling tons and tons of marijuana into the port in his fishing boat which had been specially rigged with false walls to conceal drugs.

For a few years the attorneys went back and forth, but he then skipped town, not even telling his wife or family where he was going. On a tip, they investigated and found him 3,000 miles away in California. He’d been living a clean life with a new wife and spent time golfing when not working. He’d never been in any trouble.

Now, they want to extradite him back to this area and put him on trial, I guess. But, why? He’s a man in his mid-60’s and he’s living a trouble-feel life for the past 20 years. Sure, he did something wrong, but should the state again spent millions of dollars to put him on trial, then probably jail him at an expense of $40k per year, when he won’t be around that many years?

Part of me knows that if he did something wrong, he should be punished for it. But, another part feels he went on the straight and narrow and deserves a break. He didn’t kill anyone, right?

Our prisons are overcrowded as it is. They’re building new jails around the country to house all the criminals, and don’t they say that 80% of the crimes are drug-related in one way, shape or form?

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SIDNEY, Neb. - A judge said a 5-foot-1 man convicted of sexually assaulting a child was too small to survive in prison, and gave him 10 years of probation instead.

His crimes deserved a long sentence, District Judge Kristine Cecava said, but she worried that Richard W. Thompson, 50, would be especially imperiled by prison dangers.

“You are a sex offender, and you did it to a child,” she said.

But, she said, “That doesn’t make you a hunter. You do not fit in that category.”

Thompson will be electronically monitored the first four months of his probation, and he was told to never be alone with someone under age 18 or date or live with a woman whose children were under 18. Cecava also ordered Thompson to get rid of his pornography.

He faces 30 days of jail each year of his probation unless he follows its conditions closely.

“I want control of you until I know you have integrated change into your life,” the judge told Thompson. “I truly hope that my bet on you being OK out in society is not misplaced.”

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“The nation’s largest beverage distributors have agreed to halt nearly all sales of sodas to public schools — a step that will remove the sugary, caloric drinks from vending machines and cafeterias around the country.”

Huh? They have soda machines in schools? This blows me away! When I was in junior high school and high school, there were cafeterias. In junior high school they separated those who bought lunch from those who brought their own lunch. I never bought lunch but did see other who did, and all they had available was milk. It was in those little half-pint containers and cost a nickle each. They didn’t have coffee flavored or chocolate flavored milk. There were no vending machines. The school lunches were pretty disgusting if you ask me! I remember lots of fat and carbs and salty foods and my mother would not allow me to buy lunch at school.

When I got to high school, we could sit with those who bought lunch, but there were no vending machines. Again, you could buy milk and that was it. They didn’t sell bottled water, either.

I read about these kids who buy soft drinks and candy bars during class breaks, or during lunch. They showed a television special with the kids buying french fries and cookies for lunch. Fries? What the hell do they feed these kids these days??!! They had nothing like that, it was full lunch or nothing, period. They didn’t sell bags of chips out of a machine or anywhere else, either.

Lunches were spaghetti with cubes of cheese and lots of bread (a carb lovers delight!), meatloaf and potatoes and salty gravy, bologna sandwiches with butter (ick!), frozen pizza, etc. Today you read school lunch menus and they have special veggies, special fruits, all veggie meals, etc.

What’s funny is I don’t think those sugary sodas AT SCHOOL are causing obesity at all. It’s the stuff they eat outside of school, and the fact most kids are on the computer 5 hours a day or playing video games. In my day we went outside after school and were active. We walked to school, a mile-and-a-half each way, every day. And no, we didn’t walk 5 miles through the snow with no boots after milking the cows at 5 am!!

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