Month: November 2006

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Reporting Abuse Got Me An Unexpected Response

Good morning everyone. Yippie I have today off so I can play in the snow. Wait a minute, I meant shovel the snow in my driveway! I was not surprized to see you know who leaving more gibberish for us to read. I imediately contacted every and any person connected to MSN and all their servises and left this comment. Maybe I went overboard but the last time I reported this abuse MSN responded by telling me I had to make the changes on my site. 
 
   EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!    
 
  Does this mean that MSN approves of this kind of behavior from its customers? That bothers me more than the comments left by the person that obviously needs pychiatric help. So what do I do? Hmmmmm? Well I could delete the comments but by the time I read them everyone else has already read them. That’s out! I could strike back but then I wouldn’t be any better than the cyber demon!
  I think what tops it all off is that the cyber demon doesn’t even leave a comment pertaining to the blog where he leaves the comment!  He obviously needs help of some sort and is phycologically obsessed with making quotes from the literature he reads. It’s like watching a Coen Brothers movie. Very strange indeed.
 
Hey Cyber Demon!
 
What about my beautiful collage that I put a lot of work into?
 
LOL…LOL…LOL
 
  Okay maybe I need a little psychiatric help too. Let’s see if anything get’s done. To all my fellow bloggers, hope all is good and please let me know what your opinion is on this. 
  Pam     
 
 
 
 
 
I am very dissapointed with the way reports of abuse are handled. There is a man that is constantly leaving rude, lude and threatening comments and your only response is to change my site. I think that there should be a program that like the "this is spam" program that is on my email. I want my site public but I don’t want all the friends I have made to be at the mercy of this jerk that leaves these terrible comments. Here is an example of his comments. and this is one of the nice ones.His site is listed but most of the time he just leaves a no name comment. If you go to my site you can read more lousy comments. I deleted most of them but my friends still have to read the deroguritory things written about them their family and their children. Things that would put you in jail if it were said anywhere but on the computer. It amazes me that someone can be allowed to use MSN Live Messenger for these purpose of targeting and harrassing individuals of their choosing. Please do something. The elytis website is not what is offensive it is his comments left on your other customers blog sites. Thankyou, please email me with a response. Or leave a comment on my blogsite. Well here is that comment and the guy who sent it………
 
elytis
forbearance to cretins like Thotman-Russ Schneider is an insult to the Greek gods. Forbearance to Thotman-Russ Schneider who was arrested by the Italian police(when he was a mormon missionary,ofcourse now in his 52 years is always the same "ugly weasel",thats why he never shows his face) as a distorted peeper,is an insult to the human logic. Forbearance to Thotman-Russ Schneider with his childish political analysis or his childish romantic (as he thinks) texts is an insult to the literature.Forbearance to his existence is an insult to the human race.
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Photo Fun

  Well it took me all day but I finally figured out how to make a collage of my sunrise/sunset photos. I just love our Colorado sky and I knew I had to do something with all my pictures and this is what I came up with. I have at least a hundred pictures of the sky and would like to make a poster. Well we shall see. Tell me what you think.  My big wish is for a Nikon D80 SLR pro camera. Yeah at $1200 I am dreaming. I keep thinking that I would be able to go so much farther that just taking great pictures to look at and then putting them in an album to be forgotten. You can tell that I enjoy taking pictures. I think I will start saving and hopefully in about a year or two I will be able to get my dream camera.
  Pam  
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A Cyber Thorn in my Side

  Well, here we go again. If I were the the charismatic religious type I would lay hands on my computer and slay our cyber demon with the spirit of God!  Sorry that anyone had to see that, but we know how that silly cyber demon’s imagination can run wild. I sent yet another complaint to MSN.
  I was wondering why this demon has not picked on me.  I am a perfect target. I have a low self esteem and I have done everything that any "Good Book" tells you that you shouldn’t do with the acception of murder. I was wild when I was young.
  So as I write this I think to myself shoot, that’s it! If the cyber demon wrote about me it would probably be true and that wouldn’t be any fun now would it? LOL, So do you think he is irritated, probably not but I was. But then as we all know I get irritated about…well about everything.
  I was also thinking, does this demon go to church? Maybe he belongs to one of those group that bomb abortion clinics to make a statement!  I have wondered what this demon is capable of. Oh my goodness I am starting to sound like the demon! LOL
  Hope you all know that I am trying to poke fun at all this. Although I must admit, yes, I was a wild child! LOL
  Pam
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Our Olive Tree

  As I read Storytellers blog I couldn’t help but travel back to my childhood. I was one year old when my mother became a single mom with two kids, her little brother, and her mother to care for. She worked sometimes as many as two fulltime jobs, one as a waitress and the other a cocktail waitress in a restaurant that back then would be considered pretty ritzy!  She also had a part time job in a mortuary. How creepy is that? She did the makeup on the corpses.
  My grandma, we all called her Lala, pretty much raised us for the next nine years. We, correction, I was always getting into things I shouldn’t get into. Things like my mothers makeup, her clothes, her jewelry, etc. We all had our chores and could not go out and play till they were done. We all helped with the dishes after any meal. Dishes were never left in the sink, never!  It was my job to dust the furniture, everyday, yes everyday. I also vaccuumed everyday. I helped hang the clothes on the clothesline. All we had is a washing machine and to this day all my mom has is a washing machine. I can’t imagine waiting for half a day for my clothes to dry, let alone having to hang clothes up everyday. Luxuries have made me lazy. When I visited my parents house this past summer I had to hang my clothes and I got t tell you I enjoyed being out in the sun. I love walking inbetween the clothes when they are dry and the wind blows through the sheets.
  Lala used to make us fresh mint tea from the plants in the backyard. I can still smell the see the mint filled steam coming from the boiling pot of water. MMmmmmm it was so good. One time I got into something, don’t remember what it was, but I do remember my grandma cutting a branch off the olive tree. She was yelling at me, "I told you not to touch that!" I immediately tried to run away from her. She came after me, "No please Lala, I’m sorry, I’m sorry." I ran into the bedroom where there was a queen size bed pushed up against the wall. There I was backed into the corner, jumping up and down, and my grandma was leaning across the bed trying to reach me with the switch. She kept swatting at my ankles till she got me a few times and then she told me to stay in my room till she said I could come out. I wish I could remember what it was that I got into because that was the only time my grandma ever hit me with a switch.
  Lala used to crochet little doilies that were neatly placed underneath anything that was on any table. Oh and all of our kitchen towels were white linen and Lala crocheted a pretty little trim on one of the ends of every towel. Some were embroidered with beautiful intricate stitching.  One of my chores was to do the ironing. I remember Lala teaching me how to iron the clothes. Can you believe it, we used to iron our pilocases and our kitchen towels! LOL Things have changed. My mom still has those same towels. My mother has never had an answering maching, not even call waiting. Her phone plugs into the wall, nope, it is not a wireless phone. That would drive me nuts because I have to pace from room to room when I talk on the phone. My hubby does the same thing. He will be on his cell phone and I will be on the other phone and we will both be pacing passing each other as we talk. It’s very strange.
  I think I already in another blog mentioned that my parents never had a microwave till I bought them one earlier this year. They use it all the time.
   My Uncle Paul and Lala moved out when my mom remarried. They bought some property in Maywood,
California that had a duplex and two other houses on it. I really missed not having them there when I woke up in the morning. Well as you can tell thes blob is not really well thought out just a bunch of random thoughts. But that is the way these thoughts come to my mind.
  Oh goody, Jeff boiled some water, and I am going to have me a cup of mint tea.  It is not near as good as Lala’s fresh mint tea, but mmmmm, the smell of mint. Well, I don’t know why but I am getting all teary eyed so I am going to stop this reminissing for now and dring my tea.
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Playstation 3 Released!

  Okay! The customers are camping out in front of my store waiting for the clock to strike midnight. These people have been here for about 2 days so they can purchase their new toy, the Playstation 3. Our store only got in 4 Playstations, 2  with 20ghz and 2 with 60ghz $599.00. I remember when the X Box 360 came out there were about 10 people lined up in the electronics department for almost a week. And since we are a 24 hour store they set up their chair and took turns sleeping.
  Looking at this crew outside the store I had to ask myself, "Where are they getting this kind of money?" They look like a bunch of college kids, with a bohemein look. Maybe from Boulder! LOL There were only a couple of them sitting outside their tents and as soon as I mentioned taking a picture, one by one they all crawled out of their tents. Some of which, they told me were purchased at Wal-Mart for only $29 bucks! Not a bad price.
  They were all very nice and were happy to pose for the picture. What people will do to satisfy their obsession with video games.  I bought Jeff an X Box for Christmas last year and he played for about 2 or three months and hasn’t touched it since, that I know of. All that money for what? Oh well, that’s the end of this blog.  LOL
  Pam  
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Wal-Mart Humor

Got home frome work and an old friend I used to work with sent me this email. LOL Wal-Mart humor Hee Hee!

 

PREGNANT BLONDE

My wife, who is blonde, came running up to me in the driveway, the
other day, just jumping for joy!

I didn’t know why she was jumping for joy but I thought what the heck

 And I started jumping up and down along with her.

When she said, "Honey, I have some really great news for you!"
I said, "Great. Tell me what you’re so happy about."

She stopped jumping and was breathing heavily from all the  jumping
up and down, when she told me that she was pregnant!
I was ecstatic! We had been trying for a while, so I grabbed her
and kissed her on the lips and told her,

"That’s great! I couldn’t be happier!"
Then, she said "Oh, honey, there’s more."

I asked, "What do you  mean ‘more’?"
She said, "Well, we are not having just one baby.

We are going to have TWINS!"

 

Amazed at how she could know so soon after getting pregnant,

 I asked her how she knew.

She said…..

 

(You’re going to love this!)

 

 

"Well, that was the easy part.

I went to WalMart and they  actually had a home pregnancy kit in a twin-pack.

 

Both tests came out positive!"

 

WAL-MART ! Strikes! AGAIN!!!!!!   

 
 
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Turkey Dinner and More!

  Holiday’s are coming way too fast. We have nothing planned for Thanksgiving. I’m off and so I will probably make a turky. Don’t you just love looking in the fridge for something to eat and there it is, the leftover carcus. Hot turkey sandwiches the first day, turkey fettucinni, and then about the 5th day, LOL, I just stand there with the refrigerator door open scavanging the skeleton for nibbles of meat.  Then it’s time for the soup pot.
  I remember when I was a little girl I could never sleep after eating soooo much and I would sneak into the kitchen to pick at the bird. There was always another member of my family with their head in the fridge that had the same problem. So there we would be at 2am eating even more turkey! Now you would expect me to tell you  how mad my mother would get, but she was usually the one with her head in the fridge, LOL. Oh, and my mom made the best stuffing in the world. I love cold stuffing.
  My specialty is the gravy and I make killer yam casserole. I cut fresh yams into big chunks and put them in a buttered casserole dish. cover them with lots of brown sugar. Add a pinch or 2 or 3 of cayenne pepper. Then pour lots of rum over the yams. Brandy works too. While that is baking I make a mixture of brown sugar butter egg whites from one egg add pecans and reconstituted dries cranberries then spread it over the top of the yams and bake for another 20 minutes or so. MMMMmmmmm sound good?  It is, LOL.  Booze, bad for the liver, but will make any dish taste better. Actually all the alcohol gets cooked off.  This blog is making me hungry!
  Well I could go on and on about food  so I better stop here. I do have to go to work today and time seems to slip by when I’m in bloggerville. Hope everyone is having a great week.
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Veterans’ Day and My Family

Veterans’ Day (formerly Armistice Day)
   November 11, is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, after four years of conflict. 
   At 5 A.M. on Monday, November 11, 1918 the Germans signed the Armistice, an order was issued for all firing to cease; so the hostilities of the First World War ended.  This day began with the laying down of arms, blowing of whistles, impromptu parades, closing of places of business.  All over the globe there were many demonstrations; no doubt the world has never before witnessed such rejoicing.
   In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued his Armistice Day proclamation.  The last paragraph set the tone for future observances:
   To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nation.

   In 1927 Congress issued a resolution requesting President Calvin Coolidge to issue a proclamation calling upon officials to display the Flag of the United States on all government buildings on November 11, and inviting the people to observe the day in schools and churches…But it was not until 1938 that Congress passed a bill that each November 11 "shall be dedicated to the cause of world peace and …hereafter celebrated and known as Armistice Day." 
   That same year President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill making the day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. For sixteen years the United States formally observed Armistice Day, with impressive ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where the Chief Executive or his representative placed a wreath.  In many other communities, the American Legion was in charge of the observance, which included parades and religious services.  At 11 A.M. all traffic stopped, in tribute to the dead, then volleys were fired and taps sounded.
   After World War II, there were many new veterans who had little or no association with World War I.  The word, "armistice," means simply a truce; therefore as years passed, the significance of the name of this holiday changed.  Leaders of Veterans’ groups decided to try to correct this and make November 11 the time to honor all who had fought in various American wars, not just in World War I.
   In Emporia, Kansas, on November 11, 1953, instead of an Armistice Day program, there was a Veterans’ Day observance.  Ed Rees, of Emporia, was so impressed that he introduced a bill into the House to change the name to Veterans’ Day.  After this passed, Mr. Rees wrote to all state governors and asked for their approval and cooperation in observing the changed holiday.  The name was changed to Veterans’ Day by Act of Congress on May 24, 1954.  In October of that year, President Eisenhower called on all citizens to observe the day by remembering the sacrifices of all those who fought so gallantly, and through rededication to the task of promoting an enduring peace.  The President referred to the change of name to Veterans’ Day in honor of the servicemen of all America’s wars. 

There are a few importantant people in my life that I would like to honor this Veterans Day. First my father, Walter Martin Yoho, who served in the Navy on the USS Chinango, an escort aircraft carrier. My father used to talk about the P-40 Warhawks. I think he secretly wished he could have been a pilot. 

  Then there in my father in-law, Jim Hubbard, who was stationed at the Stead Air Force base in Reno, NV as a survival instructor. With humility he stated that there was nothing very exciting to tell about his service to the United States Air Force, but I’m sure there are those who survived because of what they learned from Jim’s survival class. And his son, Jeffrey Hubbard, my hubby, served in the Navy on the USS Kitty Hawk. That is where he got his education in electronics. He did repair work and there is a picture of Jeff happy at work. LOL  He is still reading airplane magazines. Jeff was on the 1987 World Cruise while he was in the Navy. He got to travel to many countries and enjoy many memorable expieriences. Oh yes he love to tell those stories! I don’t have any pictures of Jim in uniform but I thought you would get a kick out of comparing father son pictures. Jeff is definitely a cookie cut out of his father in looks as well as his sense of humor.

  My Uncle Paul was drafted into the Army and luckily was stationed  Fort Richardson in Alaska where he worked as a turret technician. We were very thankful that he was not sent to Viet Nam. We held our breath til we found out his destination.

  Sharon is a Captain in the Army and is serving in Iraq. Computer security is her specialty. The military is her career and a promotion to Major is in her near future. We are very proud of her. I am lucky to be able to talk to her on the web cam. She always has a smile on her face. She works hard, is inteligent, considerate, forgiving, and has too many great attributes to mention in this blog. I am amazed at how she keeps her spirits up. We are all praying for her safe return. This is her second trip to Iraq and hopefully it will be her last. She only has about 6 months to go,  and I’m sure time moves slowly for her. "Come home, Sharon, we love and miss you"

And last but certainly not least, is my daughter Sargeant Colleen Stephens. She is currantly on active duty with the Army Reserves.  She was just recently promoted to Sergeant and is quickly working her way up the ranks. She has always strived to be the best at whatever she does and I have no doubt that she will have a positive impact, You go girl !!! I am very proud of you and love you more that you could imagine. Oh yes I can’t forget, did I mention that she is a great mom!!  

  In honor of all who have  sacrificed and contributed to the the goal of world peace I write this with my deepest appreciation. It’s not very much but I do want to thank you. 

  Pam  

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Pendulem Swing

  That’s my son when he was only 3 years old and living "free". Freedom is taken for granted. He knows this all too well now that he is 30 years old and in jail. I love that picture. People used to mistake him for a girl because of his curly long hair and sparkling eyes. Had to use that picture for this blog!
 And now the political pendulem begins to swing to the other side. Checks and balances are in place and things will start to appear to be getting better. Have you noticed that as soon as one party is in control all hell breaks loose.  I know I am not a real brain on this subject but it seems that things are not as extreme when when government is more equally devided. There is that saying…"Two heads are better than one"  LOL. Well I am expecting the democrats to boast about their lead and point out all the mistakes that the republicans made. G. B. has the worst timing. He waited way too long to get rid of Rumsfeld. Now it just appears to be a last ditch effort of appeal on behalf of the republican party.
  Some people I have talked to believe G. B. is a Fascist, and is leading "his" country in that direction. That is a little extreme. I know so little about all this kind of stuff but am learning. What sparked my new interest was my daughter’s decision to join the Army Reserves. And of course Sharon"s deployment to Iraq. I so enjoy reading other blogs and comments on this subject.
  My lack of knowledge has lead me to the end of this blog. I am excited to see which road our newly elected leaders will take us to.  Now we are at that four way stop. Left turn, right turn, going straight, Just don’t make a u-turn!  LOL   
  Love and Peace not War
Here is where we make the first turn!
    
Hope you enjoyed my little peace rally.
  Pam