Monday, February 22, 2010

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!


So this afternoon I caught the last 30 minutes of Armageddon with Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck on T.V. Oh my gosh, this movie moved me to tears again. Mark & I went to see this on the "big screen" when it first came out late 90's. Then I turned the channel to see "Philadephia" with Tom Hanks and Antonio Banderas. I have to admit that Antonio makes a hot homosexual.rrrr. Anyhow the ending to this movie is super sad also and it gets me teary-eyed again!. Plus the soundtrack is outstanding and Neil Young's Philadephia is haunting and beautiful. why do I have to watch sappy movies because..... I like them. :0)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

CPT Paul W. Pena


The reason I'm writing about Paul Pena is that his death is the first one ever that I can remember that has impacted my sleepy little town of San Marcos. Here is a San Marcos Native who bravely served and died for his country in Afghanistan by a IED. Today around 1:30 p.m. his remains arrived in San Marcos escorted by local law enforcement and a veteran motorcycle group. People lined up on both sides of LBJ dr. to honor Our fallen hero. We go about our daily lives not giving any thought to all those men and women in our armed forces who are living their lives in danger. Plz take a moment to give thanks and pray for their safety. Thank you.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

belated Happy New Year!!


Yup it's been awhile that I've written and I just wanted to quickly update my blog. We went to Pennsyvania for Christmas and met up with our granddaughter and her parents (:0)
We then followed them home to Wisconsin and spent the New Year with them and stayed until the 2nd to help our Summer celebrate her 1st Birthday!! It went by quick and she's a hoot! We love her dearly and really miss terribly. And I'm making some progress on my new year's resolutions.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Everything's bigger in Texas


Well due to the last time's post, that's why I'm writing this one. Just checked myself out in the mirror and I Didn't like what I saw. I try to watch what I'm eating but sometimes something sneaks in that I'm not supposed to eat. Or I don't eat "everything in moderation". My fault. I knew that coming "home" wasn't going to be easy because, Texas barbeque and mexican food aren't anywhere on the food pyramid of good eating. Fat is where it's at around here and I'm not talking about the people. There must be a reason why Fat and Flavor start with the same alphabet letter and one without the other can't be. Sacrifice the flavor by taking out the fat. But I need to feel better about my appearance and so I need to make changes. Slowly.. I don't want to go into shock.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Can there be too much of a good thing?


Honestly, can this be a real question? So sad it's true. My DD sent me an email for the 12 days of Christmas at Whataburger, a local favorite and we have been going there almost every other day for their "freebie" of the day. I'm not Compulsive, Cheap yes. I'd like to think myself frugal and during these hard times, I would like to thank all those businesses who put out all those great offers! My sister Linda, calls me the coupon queen. I invited her out yesterday for some shopping and sister-time. We "hook" up meeting at the HEB parking lot and informs me that after a quick stop at Panda Express for lunch we're heading for San Antonio. After a quick misquided run to find the place she wanted to go we stopped at Beall's dept store for some last minute Christmas shopping. Hadn't a clue what to get my mother, we were looking at the ladies sleepwear where of course we always check out the clearance rack. Where we found a lovely frock coat and nightgown set clearanced at $16.00. We look around some more and I find a nice blouse to go with my new pants. Well we go to check out and my sleepwear purchase came out to $7.50! What joy!! My sister was totally upset at my good fortune. She had to settle for a Beall's giftcard. When you have the gift well what can I say? .......:0)
We have been blessed this past year and hope that Everyone will be also.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Waist not, want not

It's going to be a good day. I was actually able to zip up my pants today. Have to wear long pants because it's a balmy 27 degrees. We were supposed to get snow yesterday but.... false alarm. Excuse me we have to cut this short going out to Breakfast :0)lol

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Short changed


So, I was at Hobby Lobby today and picked up a couple of things and while I was checking out, I did my good deed for today and passed a 40% coupon to the lady behind me.:0)
Also while at the register I spotted the book on the guy who came with the idea of Hobby Lobby, the name escapes me at the time. Anyhow it read that with only $600 he started the business. Long story short, why can't "I" come up with some new and great idea that will make me rich? This was not the first time I've asked myself that.
Probably because everything has been done before, Yeah, that's it. Everything is alright with the world again.