HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 VALENTINE'S DAY FUNNIES

Interpreting Dreams

After she woke up, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day. What do you think it means?"

"You'll know tonight." he said.

That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it - to find a book entitled "The meaning of dreams"

A woman walks into a post office and notices a middle-aged,
well-dressed man standing at the counter methodically placing
"Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. As he seals
each envelop he sprays it with a puff of perfume.

The woman's curiosity gets the better of her, so she goes up to the
man and asks what he is doing. The man replies, "I'm
sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

"But why?" she asks.

"Because I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.

 

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OSAMA'S VALENTINE

Little David comes home from first grade and tells his father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," he asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?" David's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?" "Osama Bin Laden," David says. "Why Osama Bin Laden," his father asks in shock. "Well," David says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish boy could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore." His father's heart swells and he looks at his boy with newfound pride. "David, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard." "I know," David says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines shoot him."

Just Thinking about job stuff.

I've been doing some painting and light construction. I love to paint, but I'd like to get out of the physical stuff. I need a direction to go in. In which to go. Prepositions drive me nuts. I'm checking into getting a teaching certificate. I got a liberal arts BA in 1998, I might be able to get a teaching certificate fairly easily. Do I want to be a teacher? Can I be a teacher? What if I got stressed and went home? I did that on a couple of telemarketing jobs. (I hate to sit down, we had to ask permission to potty, and often the answer was no! Do I want to go back into Social Work? Do I want to have another computer tech job? I don't know. I just don't know.

I've read to do what you love, and the money will follow. I "like" to do a lot of things. I love to do a couple.  I love to read, read several books a week. I love to be at home. Not necessarily where I live now, but home in general, wherever it is at the moment. Hey, I love to eat and cook. So I could ummm...review cookbooks at home, yeah, they're gonna pay me for that, huh? I work on computers at home, and make some money from that, but not enough to live on. I don't think anyone will pay me to stay home and read and eat. lol.

Babies, I love babies. My ideal situation would be to find a guy raising 5 kids on his own and needs a stay at home mom for his kids.

I do well with people, people like me and like spending time with me. I like people, but get overwhelmed easily when I'm out. I have social anxiety, but am not shy. It's weird. So most of the time, I can have a people job, but sometimes I can't.  When I can't, I have panic attacks. I'm working on this, taking a course for it.

Things I'm thinking about doing/being:  Firedog at Circuit City; working in grocery store management; stocking at night for anywhere not too heavy (over 50 pounds); trying to start a tutoring business. Things I'm thinking about that take more education or training: teaching, librarian (master's degree, can't get right now), therapist (master's degree and tons of intern hours, not feasible, but it's what I was in school for to begin with).

Some Things I've done: Sorted by date:

Cookie hander outer in Kindergarten.

In charge of Play-Doh until I mentioned it was good and salty. (only job I was ever fired from)

Restaurant: Everything-management, cook, waitress.

Boat builder.

Publix Deli Manager

Meat, fish, and cashier at grocery stores.

Construction: Too much to list.

Landscaper, own business and worked for County in Florida.

Garden Center manager.

Day Care owner, teacher.

Social Work:  abused kids, domestic violence, counselor, taught parenting and life skills, ran support groups, case management.

Tech support for aol, msn, webtv, various companies.

Telemarketing, about 4 jobs, none which lasted more than a month.

A day at a box factory, put together boxes.

An hour at a Clorox factory.

A half day at a styrofoam factory.

Networking, tech support, and media and event audio/visual/tech support for Museum at Boeing.

Oprah makes me cry

Awww...I'm sitting here with Oprah on, crying. There's a woman with 4 kids, on her own after her abusive husband commited suicide. He was an a** and canceled all insurance...etc...before he died.

The wonderful thing in all this, is that she's not being abused, and Oprah and Suze Orman are helping her. Her relatives are stepping up to the plate and helping with whatever she needs. She has NO money, has to sell her house, move into a one bedroom apartment. I love her. I wish Suze and Oprah would spend five minutes talking to me. They need to be strict and tell me to get my act together and stop floundering around. I feel like I can't do it.

BIRTHDAY

I was so surprised to find so many birthday wishes when I signed on. Thank You All so very very much!

I was saving you all a piece of Chocolate Birthday Pie, but something....umm...well...it seems to be gone now. Maybe the puppies found it and ate it. Or....maybe, perhaps, possibly I might have accidently eaten it. Yum!

I went to my daughter's in Newport News for the weekend. I had not been in that part of the country before, so it was a big treat for me. What a beautiful drive and place NN is. My cousin Pat went, and even drove her truck. That was a great b'day present in itself! We drove north from Kingsport to Roanoke, over to Richmond and then down to Newport News. Not the most direct route, but the fastest according to Gabby, (her Garmin GPS). About a 6 hour drive. Friday was a beautiful day to travel, temps in the upper 60's, and sunny, more of the same on Saturday. Coming home last night, it was very windy and around 20. We stopped at an exit where all the power was off, everywhere, and we also passed a lot of brushfires. 

My daughter and her boyfriend and my grandson took really good care of us, and we were so comfortable and very well fed. My grandson, who is 11, shared his movies and video games with me. I watched Rattatouille, which I had not wanted to see...rats?? But it was very cute, and I liked the cooking parts. But no, I still don't want rats around. Living in Florida most of my life, I used to go to the beach on my birthday. It was nearly always around 45 degrees and dark and rainy. Saturday we went to the beach and it was perfect. 65, sunny, no wind. Gorgeous day.

Today though, I woke up with a sinus headache and sore throat, I hope it's just allergies or a plain ol' cold. 

Much Love To You All, I missed Spaces!  Jan

SuperBowl

The best thing about the Super Bowl is that Tom Petty is on right now! Even better than the commercials. I didn't realize how much I miss him. And my cousins are having wings in the living room, and I've got a mess of 'em in here with me. And pizza. Joy Joy. Yep, I think I like to eat way too much. I've got to say, I'm disappointed in the commercials so far. As you can probably tell, I'm not a football fan, I do actually know who's playing, but don't know who's winning. I think Tom Petty is by far. The only things I like about football are when they cuddle or get in a cuddle and have turnovers. Or something like that.    I don't like the emoticons we have to choose from, can we use some other ones? How?     Jan

Thanks

I've noticed when I make lists on here, sometimes the number order gets changed around. The order seems to vary. huh.

I have been having so much fun visiting sites, is that called blog walking? I go to one of my friends sites, then I find things I like and click on the link and find a lot of other great sites like that. I'm trying to not have 200 friends my first couple of weeks on here, but it's hard not to. I'm amazed at the personalities and talents of the people I'm getting to know. And my favorite thing, is coming across women like me, my age group, a lot of the same interests, from or living in the south, and just....real people. Do you know what I mean? There I go again, talking to myself. At this point I've learned that some people are reading my blogs so I guess I can start feeling like I'm talking to somebody other than myself. I don't know why, but that's a really good feeling. I thank everyone who reads this for taking the time to make spaces and post blogs and photos and share yourselves.   Jan

GROUNDHOG DAY ON THE MOON

I don't know about that Puxat Punxa Pucksa Umm... That Groundhog. There's a LOT of groundhogs around here and they definitely can see their shadows today. Maybe that means we'll have an early spring and Pennsylvania won't. I have never understood that anyway. It's sunny if you can see a shadow...why wouldn't sunny weather mean spring is closer than cloudy weather. I don't get it.

AND ANOTHER THING...I see the saying "Reach for the moon. Even if you miss you'll still be among the stars" a lot. That ain't right...the moon is far closer than the stars, you won't be near a star even if you're ON the moon. Geez, I just don't know about people. lol

Does this sound like those wireless phone commercials where the people are thinking too much about nothing?   Jan