Ouch Ouch

I tried to find a picture to go with this post but everything looked so gory and well just disgusting. So we will have to do this without visual effects. I decided the other afternoon that I would pull one of the folding camp type chairs from outside into our bedroom so that I would have a chair to sit in. Well that worked great for a while until I decided to get up for some unknown reason. When I came back to sit down I put my hand on the front of the chair to do exactly what I am not sure. But nevertheless I did it and immediately jumped up out of the chair in excruciating pain. Well it hurt a lot OK? I had somehow pinched my finger in some of the folding mechanism and cut the crap out of it. I am here to tell you I bled like a stuck pig. When we finally got the bleeding stopped and got it bandaged it throbbed like nobodies business. But today I am down to just a band aid on it. Which still makes for some pretty difficult typing.

Too Funny

I think I have said all of these things at least a million times and if not to my own girls then I have said them to my grandchildren. Some of these things I have said to both of them. But they did not have Ipods when my girls were growing up. I know that means my girls grew up in the dark ages.

Design it

I remember there was a company that I used to work for and they decided it was time to jump into that world wide web thing and have a web designed. They should have found a company that was better than the one they used cause it was a nightmare. If they had used a good company such as webdesign Denver I am sure things would have been much easier to deal with. My boss was thinking that you needed to go with a local company so that they could come to you and sit and design the web site. But actually that isn't the case at all. All you need is a top notch web designer and tell them what you want and you just sit back and wait for the final miracle to take place. When you use a great web designer all you need to do is to give them the information and possibly photos that you want used on your web and let them create their magic. The problem we had was the company that my boss hired would not listen to us. We would try to tell them what we wanted and we always seemed to get what they wanted. But a great web design company listens to the customer that is how they get the project done and done quickly and quick means everybody makes money in the end. So if you are in the market for not just a good web site but a great web site you have got to check out Notion 3 web design

Full House

Ok so these are not quite the animals that we have in our house but if we get one more animal I swear I am going to contact someone to start building an Ark. We have 1 dog, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs and now 1 hamster. Although the hamster is supposed to be here for only the summer I am not completely convinced that the teacher at the school really wants the little darling back when school resumes in the fall. I happened to think last night when I saw one of the cats downstairs that I sure hope they don't think the hamster is a mouse. Cause we all know what cats do with mice. I know the hamster is bigger than a mouse but have you seen our cats. They are bigger than most cats they weigh in about 20 pounds each. Such is life living in the animal house.

Pack those bags

I remember the one time that Randy and I came home from Haiti. We made the big mistake of scheduling the last flight out of Port Au Prince airport. Never, never, never should have done that and never would do that again. Well due to some problems in Haiti that we did not know about the airlines decided to just cancel our flight. Our friends had dropped us off at the airport and there they are not allowed in the airport with you so it is a drop and go sort of thing. Now in Haiti the airport does not stay open all night long like it does here in the states. After the last flight leaves they all go home and lock the airport up. So we were told we needed to leave the airport. I tried to call our friends but got no answer on their phones. So then I tried calling our great American Embassy and the Marine Sargent told me that he did not deem it to be an emergency. So you see we had no place to go. It is not like America where you would have just called a cab and gone to a nearby hotel. In Haiti if you just call a cab you might never be seen alive or dead again. I knew we could not go out on the street and survive until morning. So to make a long story short I finally found probably one of the very few honest police officers in Haiti and he finally got the Airport to agree to let us and about 15 other Haitians spend the night in the airport. We were not allowed to go anywhere but the check in area. There were a few wooden tables where they go through your luggage if they so desire and the check in area with the baggage scales. I managed to find one folding chair for Randy and He sat in it all night and I sat on a rolling luggage cart all night. Notice I said sat and did not say sleep. We spend the night making sure our new Haitian friends did not rob us or kill us there in the airport and also making sure that the rats did not carry us away. Because trust me I saw a rat that I was sure could have carried me on his back with little to no problem. Well by the time we finally arrived back home I had extra baggage with me in the form of bags under my eyes. I have never been one to use any sort of eye creams and such but trust me right then I would have given anything for some of the best eye cream I could have found. I am sure at that time I could have been a great spokes person for the product and been able to have given them great before and after pictures of the bags under my eyes. My girls were really shocked to see how we looked when we got home. Oh yes I forgot to say that by spending that night we missed our flight out of Miami and had to spend the next night in the Miami airport cause we then did not have enough money for a Miami Airport hotel.

Nosey Cat

I got up in the middle of the night to go potty. OK like my last post said I am old and that is what old people do. Well sitting in the middle of the family room floor was Joy's cat Snickers. She only comes down stairs after we all go to bed. She wanders around and checks things out I guess. But if I go near her she runs back up the steps. I have only once seen Jill's cat Carmela down here and that was right before I went to bed last night. Jill had gone out on the front porch and guess Carmela wanted to see why she was all alone up stairs by herself.

Name game

What Roberta Means: R is for Remarkable

R is for Remarkable O is for Old B is for Bouncy E is for Energetic R is for Radiant T is for Tempting A is for Adventurous

What Does Your Name Mean?

Ok I might by the remarkable, and I know I have gotten old. But come on I sure do not feel bouncy, energentic or radiant. I know I am tempting but only the only thing tempting me is maybe going back to bed since it is still only 7:15 in the morning and right now I do not feel very adventurous at all. Not sure that I have actually felt anything but old for a while now.

Name it

I know that when you go to a start page on any browser they always have it personalized. Well now you can have your own browser start page. You can use your name or your web or blog name. It is really cool. You can set it to become your home browser page and always be greeted with your own personal name or blog name.

Good ole Summer Time

Well it is officially summer time here in Florida and the kids are out of school. So Yipee Yay. I just wonder how long it will take for one of them to say they are bored. I could take bets in the family. I bet myself it won't take them very long to be bored. They have a ton of things to do. They have bikes, scooters, Wii and not to mention a ton of DVD's they can watch. Anyone want to jump in and place their bets.

Yet another addition

Well we just found out today that we are the unlucky winners of a raffle at school. We are going to keep the class hamster for the summer. My grandson is so excited that he won the raffle. Well he actually won it by default. He says that every other student forgot to return their form for the drawing. No we say that all of the parents were smarter than we were. So now in addition to my little Chihuahua doggie. We got 2 guinea pigs, then my daughters each got a full grown cat (2 cats) and now the hamster. So we now have 6 pets in the house. Oh goodie.