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Today is my sister Eydie's B Day. She is 57. WOW. I will be 59 on my next B Day and my sister Jessie just turned 60. That all seems so old.
Jessie had a party for her 60th (she called it a family reunion). I was able to attend and so was Eydie. We have another sister, Della, who was moving that weekend and couldn't be there.
The other day I received some pictures in the mail from my sister Jessie. Her third (she has 5) oldest son took her rapelling. (May not be spelled correctly. I was once a very good speller. Now I am forgetful of how to spell some things.) It looked like fun. I have been rapelling before and I liked it. I did that back before 1997. I remember because it was before my daughter graduated from high school. I would go again, if I had the chance. Kenyon's back is bad and so he doesn't want to do that anymore. Maybe I'll go without him.
He's home from SLC. The seminar was great. It made him excited to do some stock market trading. If he had a job, we could probably put some money aside for that.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
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Not a long post today. It is my day off today and I am going to the temple this AM. I like to go in the morning because then I feel like I have a good start to the day, plus it gives me the feeling that I still have all day left to do stuff. Ever feel that way?
Yessterday, I ran across a program that I had purchased but didn't realize it had as many applications as it did. Kinda like the guy who sold us our digital baby grand piano 12 years ago. He told us that it had applications that we would never use and I am sure it does. I only use it to play the piano. Kenyon doesn't play the piano, but he likes it for all the fun stuff it does. You can program a song into it and it plays like a player piano, you can also use those 3 1/2 inch discs that have pre-recorded music on them and program it to play the disc. It will only play one disc at a time, but hey who's complaining.
The program that I ran across is a CD fulfillment program. It will take the CDs I produce and mass produce them for me for mailing to my customers. Cool, huh.
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Yessterday, I ran across a program that I had purchased but didn't realize it had as many applications as it did. Kinda like the guy who sold us our digital baby grand piano 12 years ago. He told us that it had applications that we would never use and I am sure it does. I only use it to play the piano. Kenyon doesn't play the piano, but he likes it for all the fun stuff it does. You can program a song into it and it plays like a player piano, you can also use those 3 1/2 inch discs that have pre-recorded music on them and program it to play the disc. It will only play one disc at a time, but hey who's complaining.
The program that I ran across is a CD fulfillment program. It will take the CDs I produce and mass produce them for me for mailing to my customers. Cool, huh.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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Kenyon is gone again. He is gone so often I have decided he must not like the fact that I don't feed him. HEEHEE. I am a lousy cook, but our daughter and her boyfriend are both very good cooks and he eats at their house. He makes his own breakfast, but that is only because I am already gone by the time he gets up. I am an early bird; he is a night owl. Back when he had a regular job and had to get up at a certain time every morning, then I did fix his breakfast, but now he has to fix his own. He rarely eats lunch because I am not there and he won't come over to Emily's to eat, so he just doesn't get fed much. Is there a law against that?
He went to a big rally recently with Colin Powell and Sarah Palin and others. One of the others was a man teaching about how to find success in the stock market. Kenyon really liked that and has decided that he wants to do some stock market trading and so today in SLC was the first workshop and that is where he is. It runs through tomorrow so he should be home tomorrow night.
Sometimes I want to cry, but mostly I just dig into my work building an online business. Maybe I'll cry tonight. HEEHEE
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He went to a big rally recently with Colin Powell and Sarah Palin and others. One of the others was a man teaching about how to find success in the stock market. Kenyon really liked that and has decided that he wants to do some stock market trading and so today in SLC was the first workshop and that is where he is. It runs through tomorrow so he should be home tomorrow night.
Sometimes I want to cry, but mostly I just dig into my work building an online business. Maybe I'll cry tonight. HEEHEE
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Just watched a video on Sally Lloyd-Jones blog. It was fun. It was a spoof on the old movie, "Ghostbusters." Some of the library patrons were younger than the movie itself. Her address is
http://sallylloyd-jones.blogspot.com I'll bet you enjoy it.
Kenyon and our son and his girlfriend and one of our granddaughters were in Yellowstone National Park the last two days. Kenyon and I were able to visit there last year and my daughter and her family were there last month. My daughter actually saw a grizzly bear. I was talking to a friend of mine and told her how they were all going to the Park and she had been in Yellowstone just the week before and she saw a grizzly.
Have you ever seen a cartoon character named Yogi Bear. Well, he lives in Jellystone Park with his little buddy BooBoo and a park ranger named Ranger Smith (maybe Jones). Yogi is constantly getting in trouble because he likes to steal picnic baskets.
When I was a young girl, we could go to the Park and the bears would be sitting at the side of the road waiting for you to throw food at them. Some of the bears started getting agressive and so the bears were moved to the more central part of the park. Yogi and his buddy BooBoo were actually supposed to represent those bears who were sitting and begging for food. At the time there was a famous football coach, Notre Dame I believe, who was named Yogi Berra and the Hanna/Barbera team took Yogi's name from him.
When last I was in Yellowstone Park, a tour guide explained some of the paintings on the walls of the famous Old Faithful Lodge. There were bears depicting all sorts of human activities ie. doing dishes, doing laundry, eating at restaurants, etc. These paintings were famous all over the U.S. It was an advertising gimmic and it worked. I asked the tour guide if they had ever been told that Hanna and Barbera were ever at the Park, but if the two of them were, they didn't announce themselves.
No one in my husband's group saw a grizzly.
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http://sallylloyd-jones.blogspot.com I'll bet you enjoy it.
Kenyon and our son and his girlfriend and one of our granddaughters were in Yellowstone National Park the last two days. Kenyon and I were able to visit there last year and my daughter and her family were there last month. My daughter actually saw a grizzly bear. I was talking to a friend of mine and told her how they were all going to the Park and she had been in Yellowstone just the week before and she saw a grizzly.
Have you ever seen a cartoon character named Yogi Bear. Well, he lives in Jellystone Park with his little buddy BooBoo and a park ranger named Ranger Smith (maybe Jones). Yogi is constantly getting in trouble because he likes to steal picnic baskets.
When I was a young girl, we could go to the Park and the bears would be sitting at the side of the road waiting for you to throw food at them. Some of the bears started getting agressive and so the bears were moved to the more central part of the park. Yogi and his buddy BooBoo were actually supposed to represent those bears who were sitting and begging for food. At the time there was a famous football coach, Notre Dame I believe, who was named Yogi Berra and the Hanna/Barbera team took Yogi's name from him.
When last I was in Yellowstone Park, a tour guide explained some of the paintings on the walls of the famous Old Faithful Lodge. There were bears depicting all sorts of human activities ie. doing dishes, doing laundry, eating at restaurants, etc. These paintings were famous all over the U.S. It was an advertising gimmic and it worked. I asked the tour guide if they had ever been told that Hanna and Barbera were ever at the Park, but if the two of them were, they didn't announce themselves.
No one in my husband's group saw a grizzly.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Got a phone call yesterday from my son's wife. They live just three blocks from me. Their dog had gotten out in the street and was hit by a car. She was taking her oldest son to a basketball camp and found him. The boys really liked their dog. Maddie was her name. She was feeling pretty bad herself. I was also. I don't really like dogs, but I still felt bad. It was only about three months ago that our next door neighbor's dog was hit and killed by a car. The boys would play with that dog through the fence.
I was driving home after picking up the four year old from pre-school. I turned the corner onto our road and Taz was in the street. In fact I had to swerve to miss him. I was thinking I should get him and put him in my car where he would be safe but at the same time I had three kids in the car and I thought it would be too big a hassle. Kenyon was not at home so I couldn't tell him to go get Taz, so I tried to call the dog's owner's. Neither of them were at work. In fact a co-worker told me that they were away for the weekend. Their daughter lives in the same subdivision but she was at work. I decided I would call her anyway because her husband only worked part time and maybe he was at home.
Well, he wasn't at home and when I told her about Taz, all she could do was say, "Oh dear." So I called my husband again to see when he would be home. While on the phone with Kenyon, the six year old that I babysit came home from kindergarten and said that from the school bus window he could see that Taz was laying out in the street. When he told me that I knew it was too late. We all went outside and looked over the fence and he was there. I started to cry. I went back into the house and called the daughter again and say, "It's too late, Chelsea. He's been hit."
Just at that time, a cousin of Kenyon's who lives in Hawaii called me and I told him about the dog and he said, "Did you ever see the movie All Dogs Go To Heaven.." I said yes, and he said OK, remember where he is. I'll call you later and we can talk. Also right then my son's wife who lives three blocks away came over to drop off one of her kids while she went to a doctor's appointment. She saw the dog out in the street and knew it was the neighbor's. So she tried to comfort all of us. Then at the same time Kenyon's mom called about something and she could tell that I was crying so I told her the story and she also tried to comfort me and the boys.
All in all there were lots of people comforting us over the loss of the next door neighbor's dog.
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I was driving home after picking up the four year old from pre-school. I turned the corner onto our road and Taz was in the street. In fact I had to swerve to miss him. I was thinking I should get him and put him in my car where he would be safe but at the same time I had three kids in the car and I thought it would be too big a hassle. Kenyon was not at home so I couldn't tell him to go get Taz, so I tried to call the dog's owner's. Neither of them were at work. In fact a co-worker told me that they were away for the weekend. Their daughter lives in the same subdivision but she was at work. I decided I would call her anyway because her husband only worked part time and maybe he was at home.
Well, he wasn't at home and when I told her about Taz, all she could do was say, "Oh dear." So I called my husband again to see when he would be home. While on the phone with Kenyon, the six year old that I babysit came home from kindergarten and said that from the school bus window he could see that Taz was laying out in the street. When he told me that I knew it was too late. We all went outside and looked over the fence and he was there. I started to cry. I went back into the house and called the daughter again and say, "It's too late, Chelsea. He's been hit."
Just at that time, a cousin of Kenyon's who lives in Hawaii called me and I told him about the dog and he said, "Did you ever see the movie All Dogs Go To Heaven.." I said yes, and he said OK, remember where he is. I'll call you later and we can talk. Also right then my son's wife who lives three blocks away came over to drop off one of her kids while she went to a doctor's appointment. She saw the dog out in the street and knew it was the neighbor's. So she tried to comfort all of us. Then at the same time Kenyon's mom called about something and she could tell that I was crying so I told her the story and she also tried to comfort me and the boys.
All in all there were lots of people comforting us over the loss of the next door neighbor's dog.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
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WOW. Got home late last night. We left Anaheim at about 4:30P and after being routed through Denver, we arrived back in to Idaho Falls at 11. Don't you just love jet lag?
In Denver, Kenyon and I were just sitting there minding our own business when Kenyon looked up and said (as he was getting up out of his chair), "Now Wait A Minute", and then he was gone. I watched as he thumped on a soldier in the gate waiting area next to ours. The two hugged each other and talked a few seconds and then started walking towards me. He was one of the soldiers in Kenyon's unit. He stayed longer in Iraq and was just then getting home. Actually he was on his way to Ft. Bliss for out processing, so he wouldn't technically be getting home for 3 or 4 more days.
Kenyon told me a story about how during one drill in SLC, he and this soldier got in Kenyon's Smart car, (the other soldier is 6'6" and Kenyon is 6'4"), and how they spent one entire evening after drill just driving around and getting out of the car. It was fun for them because so many people would comment about seeing those two very tall men getting out of that itty bitty little car.
He was a very good friend to Kenyon. They took some time talking about their lives in Iraq and catching up. Seeing him just topped off the great weekend we had just had. We plan to attend another Yellow Ribbon event and also a Strong Bonds event. Strong Bonds is geared just to married folks and strengthening the marriage bond.
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In Denver, Kenyon and I were just sitting there minding our own business when Kenyon looked up and said (as he was getting up out of his chair), "Now Wait A Minute", and then he was gone. I watched as he thumped on a soldier in the gate waiting area next to ours. The two hugged each other and talked a few seconds and then started walking towards me. He was one of the soldiers in Kenyon's unit. He stayed longer in Iraq and was just then getting home. Actually he was on his way to Ft. Bliss for out processing, so he wouldn't technically be getting home for 3 or 4 more days.
Kenyon told me a story about how during one drill in SLC, he and this soldier got in Kenyon's Smart car, (the other soldier is 6'6" and Kenyon is 6'4"), and how they spent one entire evening after drill just driving around and getting out of the car. It was fun for them because so many people would comment about seeing those two very tall men getting out of that itty bitty little car.
He was a very good friend to Kenyon. They took some time talking about their lives in Iraq and catching up. Seeing him just topped off the great weekend we had just had. We plan to attend another Yellow Ribbon event and also a Strong Bonds event. Strong Bonds is geared just to married folks and strengthening the marriage bond.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
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Happy Father's Day! We celebrated at the Yellow Ribbon event here in Anaheim. When we arrived here on Friday afternoon, we walked down on the Garden Walk which is near the Hilton where we are staying. What a sad sight. Half of the businesses in that area were closed up. One of the shops posted a sign that they were only accepting cash "from here on out". The atmosphere was still enjoyable, but there just were not as many people as we expected.
We ate at an establishment called McCormicks. Kenyon had the Father's Day special which was prime rib and creme' bruele' for dessert. He really enjoyed it. I had a chicken dinner. I told Kenyon that the prime rib was his Father's Day Gift. There were also very few people in the restaurant and it was 6PM. We were both thinking that maybe that restaurant would be the next to go, but the waiter told us that the dinner crowd didn't show up until 8PM.
Last night after the last meeting, we took a little walk and ended up at a Mall near Disney Adventure. We went into the World of Disney shop and bought a bouquet of suckers for the grandkids and Kenyon bought a Mickey Mouse shot glass for our daughter who collects shot glasses.
We are finished with our meetings today and are packing up to leave. I am very glad that I attended this event with Kenyon. I didn't want to go. I thought it would be another boing, "this is the form you fill out and this is how you fill it out," meeting, but it was a very interractive, informative, and networking meeting. I learned a few things about some of Kenyon's emotions that he had not shared with me. Some of the power point presentations were focused on communicating with your soldier and helping him get his feelings out in the open, some taught the soldier's family what to expect from him (like crazy sleeping habits) and why he does them. Yes, I am very happy that I came.
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We ate at an establishment called McCormicks. Kenyon had the Father's Day special which was prime rib and creme' bruele' for dessert. He really enjoyed it. I had a chicken dinner. I told Kenyon that the prime rib was his Father's Day Gift. There were also very few people in the restaurant and it was 6PM. We were both thinking that maybe that restaurant would be the next to go, but the waiter told us that the dinner crowd didn't show up until 8PM.
Last night after the last meeting, we took a little walk and ended up at a Mall near Disney Adventure. We went into the World of Disney shop and bought a bouquet of suckers for the grandkids and Kenyon bought a Mickey Mouse shot glass for our daughter who collects shot glasses.
We are finished with our meetings today and are packing up to leave. I am very glad that I attended this event with Kenyon. I didn't want to go. I thought it would be another boing, "this is the form you fill out and this is how you fill it out," meeting, but it was a very interractive, informative, and networking meeting. I learned a few things about some of Kenyon's emotions that he had not shared with me. Some of the power point presentations were focused on communicating with your soldier and helping him get his feelings out in the open, some taught the soldier's family what to expect from him (like crazy sleeping habits) and why he does them. Yes, I am very happy that I came.
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