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About This Author
A changeling spirit,
constantly evolving,
revolving around an inner core,
spinning forth legend and lore,
stories and lives
as I come to grips
with who and what I am,
have been and may be.
I am a phoenix:
rising ever above and beyond!
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The White Board
The White Board
 
For meandering thoughts, and mindful walks...for rants and pouts, and blowing off steam. For happy days and sad days, for crazy adventures and delightful victories! :)
September 30, 2007 at 9:39am September 30, 2007 at 9:39am
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so in my neck of the woods there is a flurry of last minute fussing to be sure my other half has everything ready. Of course he does...silly man. At 20 yards he can fit three arrows inside a quarter...his gear is packed and waiting, my screened in porch looks like a mini Cabellas with all the gear and he is hyped city!
Tomorrow morning at O-dark-thirty he'll be awakened by Ted Nugent's 'Fred bear' playing at FULL BLAST and we will proceed to wake up the entire neighborhood with it!! (Good thing EVERYONE will be getting up anyway to head out to hunt or to see their other half out the door.)
With luck and skill working together, it will be backstraps for dinner tomorrow night! 
Today I'm heading into work for a while...probably a long while.  The end of the month 'stuff' that needs doing. I've got a gazillion price changes to put in the computer, all the new POP to put up for October and I'm going to get a couple of reports out of the way to make things easier for Monday morning when my mind will be out in the woods in the treestand.
We also (it looks like) will have the statewide shutdown of Michigan to contend with. They may manage to avoid a shutdown, but I'd rather have the shutdown than their raising both the state income tax and the state sales tax!!!!!! If it goes the way it is looking like, another 600 bucks a year will go to the state on the state income tax alone! They are adding a bunch more to the 'taxable' items for sales tax too...
*imagines*.....let's see what else can we tax? Greens fees-yeah, let's get the golfers, (they do already tax the hunting licenses along with raising those fees this year)...oh yes...a car tax...on top of all the taxes and fees already in place....another tax on gas sales (oh gee...why not raise prices HIGHER?)-and that's on top of Mich being one of the few states to charge sales tax on gas!...'intangible sales'...what ever THAT might be.....
Folks are leaving Michigan in droves....wish Grantholm and all her cronies would vacate....haven't heard a positive word about her yet...guessing the folks who voted for her live elsewhere in the state...but they aren't around here! In Pinckney, people get out and vote and we all (basically) voted against her!--and 93% of voters in my town voted! (Pretty good, eh?)--for all the good it did...lol
ANYwho...if they shut down, no lottery sales, we can only get smokes until the ones tagged already are sold out, no liquor sales, no licenses or registration type stuff will be done, --least the hunting areas on state land are open...guess they do not even want to mess with all the hunters who they've already gotten with the new license fees!!!
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...whew!
Oh yes, and clean the house as an appraiser is coming Monday or Tuesday and we want the house to appraise for as much as possible :)
Busy, busy day :) Have a good one all!
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September 21, 2007 at 9:34pm September 21, 2007 at 9:34pm
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The week from flipping HELL...and i do not mean the town!
My boss was fired this Monday. Don't know why...doesn't much matter, the why. But with the folks i work for, it must have been really, really bad! You trust someone...you have faith in them and they do something ridiculously STUPID, blow their future with the company and possibly their future existence and let down a whole lot of people and for what???? Nothing is that important.
I am so disappointed in him. He let all of us managers down big time! Sigh.......
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September 15, 2007 at 9:50pm September 15, 2007 at 9:50pm
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Geography lesson. Michigan has a few towns with shall we say unusual names. For example we have Paradise, Perdition and then we have Hell. I happen to live 4 miles North/Northeast of Hell. I manage a gas station, which is on the way to Hell. So, given the nature of the beast, a lot of folks stop in to ask directions. You can imagine the questions....'Can you tell me how to get to hell?' and 'How do I get to Hell?' Which of course is answered by, 'You want me to tell you how to go to Hell? Oh do we ever have fun with it!
The other day a 'little old lady and her little old man...stereotypical...grey haired, both with canes...sweet little old grandparents came in looking for Hell. They were meeting their children there because their kids said they had to go to Hell. Too funny. She actually blushed when asking. So I told them to take the road my station is on up to the last stop sign and take a right....go four miles and they'd be in Hell. 'Oh', she said, 'You folks are really close to hell then.' 'Yeah,' I answered, ' We are pretty much next door to hell.'
We have a race here in Michigan called the "Press On Regardless" which goes from Hell to Perdition to Limbo to Paradise and back again...24 hours of back roads, dirt roads, off roads, lousy roads and about 1000 cars hell bent for leather to win. Got to love it tho...makes for lots of jokes....and you can even get a post card sent from the Hell Post Office with burned edges! Looks kind of cool on your driver's license too! |
September 11, 2007 at 8:59pm September 11, 2007 at 8:59pm
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Jerky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Home-made, still hot from the oven venison jerky!!!! YUM! It just doesn't get any better than this!!!!!! YUM YUM YUM!!!!!!!!
Another 'yummy' thing is tonight I talked to a friend I haven't been able to yack with in AGES! Lisa loves2mumble has surfaced again after a time away and we were able to get all caught up! I've really missed her!!! All kinds of wonderful things are going on in her life now and it was so exciting to hear all the new and happy stuff going on with her!
Someone else i am missing tho is Lexi...now that she's 'on the road' it is hard to catch up with her. I'm awfully happy that her new job is going so well tho!
Well, off to grab some more jerky.....fall is so coming! That will mean fresh backstraps!! Double-yum! |
September 6, 2007 at 4:37pm September 6, 2007 at 4:37pm
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I got my wdc ceramic mug in the mail today!! I love it!!!
Been wanting one for over two years now. It arrived on a day when I was less than a happy camper. Why? I'll tell you. I am an American. Generations ago my family came to the US from Holland, Germany, Ireland, France, England and Scotland. Somewhere along the way, I am also part mohawk as well. But I am an American. I'm not Caucasion-American, nor am I Someotherpartoftheworld-American. I am an American. I was born in the US, therefore i am an American as is every single other person born here. I am not hyphenated!
I speak English. I speak a smattering of several other languages...just about enough anymore to get myself in trouble. But when I lived in Denmark, I learned (and have since forgotten) Danish. When I lived in Canada, in a French speaking town, I learned enough French to get by, deal with my children's teachers in French and to buy what i needed at the stores where the products were labeled in French.
Today at the bank, I had to 'press one' to get the menu in English. On the phone to a vendor, I had the choice of 'press 1 for Spanish or press 2 for English. When i had to assemble the new rack that arrived, I had to search to even FIND directions in English. What the hell is going on? I live in a tiny town. In America. Yet the signs in my store are now English/Spanish. I don't live in Spain. I don't live in Mexico. I live in Michigan, US of A. Why the hell should I need signs in Spanish? I someone wants to move here, then they darn well should learn to speak English!!!! And if someone is born here, then they are American, not some hyphenated mumbo-jumbo about whence they came several generation ago! Who cares? I can just see if I were to say I was an English-Scots-French-Irish-Dutch-German-Native American-American. How silly is that? *steps off her soapbox---I feel better now!* *smile*
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. But I also am at the point where I don't know how to feel or act. I hope you are doing well, and I also hope to see you around the community soon.
Remember, 60 is the new 40. I consider age to be really reverse logarithmic. 
I am beyond excited for you and can't wait to get my hands on a copy for niece and nephews .... 
umm .. okay ... and ...errr ... for myself because I'm just a big kid at heart. 
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