Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Frustrated with son's school
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Here is a picture of my son Matt
This is the new shirt my shirt, he isn't old enough to vote, but he has his opinions :)
Friday, September 05, 2008
digital scrapbook page
I did this page of my friend Andrea and her daughter, l like this one better then the one below.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
picture of Justin and Brayden
The 3 year anniversary of Justin's passing is coming up, I really thought I could handle this, but I guess I am not, I am trying so hard, but I miss him so much, no one can understand unless they have been through this. I am not sure what I am doing, I am trying to deal with this, but it is so incredibly hard, I am going to grief counseling, that does help, but it brings up the emotions that I dont want to bring, I guess it is easier to just be in denial that he died. I keep playing the funeral over and over in my head, that is so hard, I just cant believe it.
I did find this picture of Justin and his son Brayden, I love this picture, he is so happy here.
I miss you Justin. RIP
Monday, July 28, 2008
1. "Phoenix" actually consists of Scottsdale, Chandler, Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria, Tolleson, Avondale, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Sun City, Sun City West, Sun Lakes, Surprise, and half of the Mexican border
.2. The morning rush hour is from 5:00 am to noon. The evening rush hour is from noon to 9:00 PM. Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning.
3. The minimum acceptable speed on most freeways is 85 mph. On Loop 101, your speed is expected to match the highway number. Anything less is considered "Wussy".
4. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Phoenix has its own version of traffic rules. For example, cars/trucks with the loudest mufflers go first at a four-way stop; the trucks with the biggest tires go second. However, in the East Valley , SUV-driving, cell phone-talking moms ALWAYS have the right of way.
5. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended.
6. Never honk at anyone. Ever. Seriously. It's an offense that can get you shot.
7. Road construction is permanent in Phoenix . Detour barrels are moved around for your entertainment pleasure during the middle of the night to make the next day's driving a bit more exciting.
8. Watch carefully for road hazards such as drunks, dogs, barrels, cones, cats, mattresses, shredded tires, rabbits, vultures, javelinas, roadrunners, and the coyotes feeding on any of these items.
9. Maricopa Freeway, Papago Freeway and the "I-10" are the same road. SR202 is the same road as The Red Mountain FWY. Dunlap and Olive are the same street too. Jefferson becomes Washington , but they are not the same street. I-17 is also called The Black Canyon Freeway as well as The Veterans Memorial Highway. The SR51 has recently been renamed to Piestewa Freeway because Squaw Peak Parkway was too easy to pronounce. SR101 is also the Pima FWY except west of I-17, which is also The Black Canyon FWY, and The Veterans Memorial HWY. Lastly, Thunderbird Rd. Becomes Cactus Rd. -- but, Cactus Rd. Doesn't become Thunderbird Rd. Because it dead ends at a mountain.
10. If someone actually has their turn signal on, wave them to the shoulder immediately to let them know it has been "accidentally activated."
11. If you are in the left lane and only driving 70 in a 55-65 mph zone, you are considered a road hazard and will be "flipped off" accordingly. If you return the flip, you'll be shot.
12. For summer driving, it is advisable to wear potholders on your hands.
13. Please note that there are many, MANY more issues to the phenomenon of driving in Phoenix -- like the 4-cars-through-a-red-light rule -- but these will at least get you acquainted with our unique life on the road.
mini mint tin ablum
I have been trying to work on a mini mint tin album, for a few weeks and I finally had the chance, I did get the template online http://blogscrapgirls.blogspot.com/2007/08/mint-tin-mania.html which helped a lot. I am just finishing the outside of the tin today, but it did take me a little longer then I thought it would, I had to first decide on pictures, then I had to decide what colors to use and what kit to use, but I think the final results came back great, not sure what my boys will think but that is there problem.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
summertime fun
This is a digital page I did of Derrick and his friend swimming in our pool, trying to stay cool.I got the template and the digital kit off the web, not sure where, somewhere though.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
scrapbook page of Justin
I found this picture of Justin, that was taken when he was in Mexico, thought I would scrapbook this picture, this is a digital scrapbook page. I think he looks great, I really miss him. I wish I could tell him one more time how much I love him and how wonderful he is, and what a great son he was to me and that I was so glad that I got to be his Mom.Monday, June 09, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
YOu know you live In Arizona when
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-Yogi Berra
Derrick
This is Derrick at SunSplash, it is a water park in Arizona, we had a lot of fun. Derrick is trying to cross the lily pads, he had more fun in the water.
Acronyms
Acronyms and What They Mean
PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN It Still Does Nothing
SCSI System Can't See It
DOS Defunct Operating System
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
IBM I Blame Microsoft
DEC Do Expect Cuts
CD-ROM Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
OS/2 Obsolete Soon, Too.
WWW World Wide Wait
MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
Addicted to the net
- Tech Support calls "You" for help.
- Someone at work tells you a joke and you say LOL.
- You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.
- You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.
- You keep begging your friends to get an account "so we can hang out."
- Three words: Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- You want to meet a girl/guy and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
- you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
- you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
- You have ever joined "Si habla Espanol" (Spanish chat room) "just to work on my Spanish."
- you've ever typed "drinking on AOL is better than drinking alone."
- you go into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail message letting everyone know you're going to be away.
- you have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it (oops thats me twice!).
- you no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences.
- you have met over 100 AOLers.
- you begin to say heh heh heh instead of laughing.
- when someone says "What did you say?" you reply "Scroll up!"
- you find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.
- you turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you are online again.
- you know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouse's.
- you find yourself lying to others about your time on-line and when they complain that your phone was busy you claim it was off the hook
- you have an identity crisis if someone else is using an s/n close to your own
- you would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (all night online).
- you change s/n's so much that you have to get your profile to see who you are (identity crisis here).
- you're broke, your modem burns out and you go out onto the streets to sell your body to get a new one.
- you open your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have computers and cool s/n's.
- your kids are standing at your side saying "mommy, please come cook dinner" and you would rather type another "LOL"
- you marry your cyberboyfriend/cybergirlfriend and you both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room.
- you type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.
- you won't work at a job that doesn't have a modem involved.
- your dog leaves you.
- you have to ask what year it is.
- you are doing things more and more that you swore you would never, ever do when you first found chat.
- you write a letter like this..."dear tom, hiyas! how r u doin well i gotta go bbl!"
- you name your pets after people with whom you talk online.
- you smile sideways. :-)
- you sign on and immediately get 10 messages from people who have you on their buddy lists (::cringe::).
- you have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people you have met are.
- you look at an annoying person off-line and wish you had your ignore button handy.
- you bring a bag lunch and a cooler to the computer.
- your significant other kisses your neck while you are chatting and you think "uh oh, cybersex pervo."
- you have withdrawal symptoms if you are away from the puter for more than a few hours.
- you use AOL lingo in everyday life (if you still have one... hehehe).
- you take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling.
- your buddy list has over 100 people on it.
- you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is get online before you have your first cup of coffee.
- you have to inject No-Doz into your butt to keep it awake.
- you have your computer set up so that it goes directly into AOL's welcome screen.
- you wait 6 hours online for a certain "special" person to come home from work.
- you don't know where the time has gone.
- you end sentences with three (or more) periods while writing letters in pen/pencil.
- your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you have had.
- you get up at 2 am to go the bathroom but go turn on your computer instead.
- you spell things out loud instead of actually saying the word.
- you don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo.
- when you enter a room and 23 people greet you with {{{Hugs}}} or ***Kisses***
- you stop typing whole words and use things like ppl, dunno and lemme
- your voicemail/answering machine message is "BRB, leave your s/n and I will TTYL."
- you type faster than you think.
- you got your psychiatrist addicted to AOL, too, and are now undergoing therapy in private rooms instead of at his office.
- you want to be buried with your computer when it dies...or vice versa
- you actually enjoy the fact that you are addicted.
- you can actually read and follow all the names of the cast that scrolls up your tv screen at the end of a movie.
- people say, if it weren't for your super reflexes in your eyes and fingers, you would have long been classified as a vegetable.
- you dream in text.
- being called a newbie is a *MAJOR* insult.
- there is absolutely no interesting chat any room and you are really bored....yet you don't want to leave in case you miss something.
- you double click your tv remote.
- you can now type at more than 70 wpm.
- you think about starting a 12-step recovery group for AOL junkies.
- you are on the phone for a minute and need to do something else you say "BRB" or "BBL"
- you check your e-mail and forget you have real mail aka snail mail
- you go into withdrawals during dinner
- you spend at least 30 minutes making sure you say goodbye to everyone in a room
- you stop speaking in full sentences
- you have gone into an unstaffed tech support room and ended up "giving" tech support to other AOLers
- you have to be pried from your computer with the Jaws-of-Life
- your last sexual experience was really just a "textual" experience
- you set your kitchen on fire while cooking dinner because you wanted to "check your mail" and while you were there you "just wanted to see who's on"
- you meet people from AOL in public and have no idea what their real name is, so you call them by their s/n.
BTW, IMHO this also applies to CompuServe, Prodigy, GNN, Delphi, Microsoft Net, ATT's Worldnet and, most of all, the World Wide Web. (That's just in case you thought only AOL had addicts.)
From Tech support
A Few Words From Tech Support
1. Don't write anything down. We can play back the error messages from here.
2. When a tech says he's coming right over, go for coffee. It's nothing to us to remember 481 screen saver passwords.
3. When you call us to have your computer moved, be sure to leave it buried under half a ton of postcards, baby pictures, stuffed animals, dried flowers, bowling trophies and Popsicle art. We don't have a life, and we find it deeply moving to catch a fleeting glimpse of yours.
4. When you call the help desk, state what you want, not what's keeping you from getting it. We don't need to know that you can't get into your mail because your computer won't power on at all.
5. Don't put your phone extension in your emails to the help desk. We need to keep an eye on the address book performance.
6. When tech support sends you an email with high importance, delete it at once. We're just testing the public groups.
7. When a tech is eating lunch in his cube, walk right in and spill your guts right out. We exist only to serve.
8. When a tech is having a smoke outside, ask him a computer question. The only reason why we smoke at all is to ferret out those clients who don't have email or a telephone line.
9. Send urgent email all in uppercase. The mail server picks it up and flags it as a rush delivery.
10. When you call a tech's direct line, press 5 to skip the bilingual greeting that says he's out of town for a week, record your message and wait exactly 24 hours before you send an email straight to the director because no one ever returned your call. After all, you're entitled to common courtesy.
11. When the photocopier doesn't work, call computer support. There's electronics in it.
12. When you're getting a NO DIAL TONE message at home, call computer support. We can fix your line from here.
13. When you have a dozen CGA monitors to get rid of, call computer support. We're collectors.
14. When some
ame, no phone number and no description of the problem. We love a puzzle.
15. If you hate your mouse, get some other pointing device and discard the manual. We know all the keyboard accelerators.
16. When a tech tells you that computer monitors don't have cartridges in them, argue. We love a good argument.
17. When you get a message about insufficient disk space, delete everything in the Windows directory. It's nothing but trouble anyway.
18. When you get a message about a hard disk controller failure, and then you reboot and it looks okay, don't call tech support. We'd much rather troubleshoot it when it's dead as a doornail.
19. When you have a tech on the phone walking you through changing a setting, read the paper. We don't actually mean for you to do anything. We just love to hear ourselves talk.
20. When a tech tells you that he'll be there shortly, reply in a scathing tone of voice: "And just how many weeks do you mean by shortly?" That'll get us going.
21. If you have a 14-inch monitor that says VGA on it, set the display to true color, 1024 x 768. You'll never again have to worry about people reading confidential files over your shoulder.
22. When we offer training on the upcoming OS upgrade, don't bother. We'll be there to hold your hand after it's done.
23. When the printer won't print, re-send the job at least 20 times. Print jobs frequently get sucked into black holes.
24. When the printer still won't print after 20 tries, send the job to all 68 printers in the building. One of them is bound to work.
25. Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy's outta whack".
26. Don't use online help. Online help is for wimps.
27. If you're taking night classes in computer science, feel free to go around and update the network drivers for your all your co-workers. We're grateful for the overtime money.
28. When a tech makes popcorn, help yourself while he's checking out your access rights. And we keep chocolate in the top drawer, too.
29. When you have a tech fixing your computer at a quarter past noon, eat your lunch in his face. We function better when slightly dizzy.
30. Don't ever thank us. We're getting paid for this.
31. If you're an intern, feel free to bring in all your friends from college and have your Daddy complain to our boss when we won't let them use the scanner. We had no friends when we were in college; that's why we're such a bunch of tight-assed little twerps.
32. When a tech asks you whether you've installed any new software on this computer, lie. It's nothing's wrong with your home PC, dump it on a tech's chair with no nbody's business what you've got on your computer.
33. When a tech finds the AOL shortcuts in your Recycle Bin, tell him you've never seen those before. We couldn't tell bullshit if it kicked us in the face.
34. If you have NT, feel free to change the local administrator's password to "blowjob" and promptly forget it. We like installing NT.
35. If the mouse cable keeps knocking down the framed picture of your dog, lift the computer and stuff the cable under it. Mouse cables were designed to have 45 lbs. of computer sitting on top of them.
36. If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin crumbs and nail clippings in them.
37. When you receive the new Yanni CD for your birthday, shove it into any slot on the front of your computer. We like getting physical with 5.25 floppy drives.
38. When you get a message saying "Are you sure?", click on that Yes button as fast as you can. Hell, if you weren't sure, you wouldn't be doing it, would you?
39. When you find a tech on the phone with his bank, sit uninvited on the corner of his desk and stare at him until he hangs up. We don't have any money to speak of anyway.
40. Feel perfectly free to say things like "I don't know nothing about that computer crap". We don't mind at all hearing our area of professional expertise referred to as crap.
41. When you need to change the toner cartridge, call tech support. Changing a toner cartridge is an extremely complex task, and Hewlett-Packard recommends that it be performed only by a professional engineer with a master's degree in nuclear physics.
42. When you can't find someone in the government directory, call tech support. Due to budget restrictions, we double as 411.
43. When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call tech support. We love to hack.
44. When something's the matter with your computer, ask your secretary to call the help desk. We enjoy the challenge of having to deal with a third party who doesn't know jack about the problem.
45. When you receive a 30-meg movie file, send it to everyone as a mail attachment. We got lots of disk space on that mail server.
46. Don't even think of breaking large print jobs down into smaller chunks. Somebody else might get a chance to squeeze a memo into the queue.
47. When your eyes fall on the family pictures on a tech's desk, exclaim in a flabbergasted tone of voice: "YOU have a child?!?" We need to be reminded of how lucky we were to ever have gotten laid.
48. When a tech gets on the elevator pushing 15,000 kilograms worth of computer equipment on a cart, ask in a very loud voice: "Good grief, you take the elevator to go DOWN one floor?!?" That's another one that cracks us up no end.
49. When the Finance folks are printing a 100-page spreadsheet on the LaserJet, send your black and white print job to the color printer. We get the black toner for free.
50. When you lose your car keys, send an email to the entire department. People out in Yellowknife like to keep abreast of what's going on.
51. When you bump into a tech at the grocery store on a Saturday, ask a computer question. We don't do weekends.
52. When you see a tech having a beer with a member of the opposite sex on a Friday night, walk right up to them and ask a computer question. We don't do dating; the reason why we have that horny look on our faces is because we're discussing the new Intel processor.
53. Don't bother to tell us when you move computers around on your own. Computer names are just a cosmetic feature in NT 4.0; they won't be doing anything useful until the next major release.
54. When you can't access some shared directory on your boss's machine, just tell us that you've lost your X: drive. We know all that shit by heart.
55. If you need to buy a computer for your daughter in college, feel free to pick our brains while we're taking a leak. We're good at talking shop with our dicks in our hands.
56. If your son is a student in computer science, have him come in on the weekends and do his projects on your office computer. We'll be there for you when his illegal copy of Visual Basic 6.0 makes your Access 95 database flip out.
57. When you bring your own personal home PC for repair at the office, leave the documentation at home. We'll find the jumper settings on the Internet.
58. We're aware of that problem with computers just sitting there and not doing anything. We're confident that with the next service pack they'll be able to dance the jig.
59. The correct location to store important files is the Recycle Bin. It's just like a real office, where you keep your tax receipts in the blue can under your desk.
60. If you curse every morning when you start to type your password and the Virus Shield splash screen pops up in your face, disable the Virus Shield. Again, this is just like real life: if you don't like condoms, just don't use them, that's all.
61. If you hate PCs, get on the Internet and download one of those desktop enhancements that make your computer look just like a Mac, down to the sad faces replacing verbose error messages. We find it refreshing to troubleshoot the nuances in that sad little face instead of some cold forbidding hexadecimal integer.
62. When you detect a French accent in a tech's voice, switch to French. We don't mind that your level of fluency is that of a mildly retarded 4-year-old; you don't make a whole lot of sense in your own mother tongue either.
63. We don't really believe that you're a bunch of ungrateful twits. It hurts our feelings that you could even think such a thing. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of clueless losers portrayed herein, without whom none of this would have been remotely possible.
64. Have you ever wondered what Tech Support does while you are on hold? Think about how long it takes to write a 64 point memo!
Top Ten Signs The Government Is Spying On You
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Top Ten Signs You Have A Bad Commencement Speaker
From the David Letterman show
10- The entire speech is "Testing 1, 2, 3...testing"
09- He's wearing a cap, but no gown -- boing!
08- Only bit of wisdom: "There's a white Ford Taurus with its lights on"
07- His introduction: "And now, the equipment manager for your
06- The repeated references to how delicious grape jelly is
05- Halfway through the speech he chokes on his tassel
04- He leaves early to beat the traffic
03- Angrily denounces so-called "book-learnin'"
02- Thanks to the honorary degree, he's now Dr. Hasselhoff
01- It's Oprah, But it's not the Oprah
late nite jokes
Recent Quips from Late Night
"I don't know if you're aware of this. We just passed a big milestone yesterday. True story. Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of President Bush's speech in front of the 'Mission Accomplished' banner. Yeah, to celebrate, today, President Bush gave a speech in front of a banner that said 'Economic Recession Over.'" --Conan O'Brien
"According to the latest CNN poll, President Bush's disapproval rating is 71%. 71%. That's unbelievable, isn't it? That 29% still approve? Who are these people?" --Jay Leno
"In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has lost the election, but he refuses to step down, saying he still has a chance to win. That's right. Yeah, Mugabe said he got this idea from Hillary Clinton. Apparently, it's a good idea." --Conan O'Brien
"Because of where John McCain was born, he was born in the Panama Canal Zone, you know, not in the United States. There was a question as to whether he could legally become president. You have to be born here to become president. Well, this week, the Senate declared McCain is eligible to become president, and listen to this, because of his age, also eligible to be a greeter at Wal-Mart. So that worked out great for him." --Jay Leno
"Speaking of Hillary, I don't know if you've seen this. One of the most popular videos on YouTube right now is footage of Hillary Clinton trying to make herself is a cup of coffee, but not being able to get the machine to work. Yeah, when he saw the video, Bill Clinton said, 'Yeah, she's not very good at turning things on.'" --Conan O'Brien
"A federal study released today shows that President Bush's $1 billion-a-year 'Reading First' program has done nothing to increase the reading skills of young students. However, his 'Oil Company First' program is going like gangbusters." --Jay Leno
joke
New Domain Names
Recently Gregory Nemitz and a handful of space enthusiasts proposed creating specialdomains, including ".luna" and ".moon," for Web sites based on the moon.
But why stop there? Here are some new proposed domains, and what you can expect from the sites in them..
".trek"--contains audio files of William Shatner
".bill"--Microsoft has bought this company
".love"--for people who would rather cuddle
".slow"--based in a distant country with no T3 lines
".geek"--assumes you know what all the acronyms mean
".404"--we stopped maintaining our servers in 1996
".y2k"--contains theories about the end of the world
".burn"--huge multimedia files will crash your computer
".*"--contains gossip about celebrity melt downs
".duh"--explains, in detail, stuff you already know
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Moonlight
I really love the ShowMoonlight and am so sad that is has been canceled. I am going to miss my favorite Friday night show and of course I am going to miss Mick St John and Beth, great show.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
-Albert Schweitzer
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Today Quotes
Monday, April 21, 2008
Derrick's baseball
This is a quick page I did, of Derrick up to bat.I found this page at-craftyscraps.blogspot.com