Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Local Family Loses Everything
A local Lancaster family lost everything when their house collapsed this week. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have your house one day and have nothing the next day. Such a freak accident and they have little kids too. If you'd like to find out how you can help with donations, check out this link: www.newjoy-bic.org
Friday, December 18, 2009
Woo Hoo! Vacation!
Is it wrong that this entire week, this song has been pumping through my head? "Vacation, all I ever wanted. Vacation, had to get away."
I couldn't be more happy to be taking vacation right now. Still have no idea what I'm gonna do until I have to be back on January 4th, but just the fact that I can sleep in is wonderful.
I couldn't be more happy to be taking vacation right now. Still have no idea what I'm gonna do until I have to be back on January 4th, but just the fact that I can sleep in is wonderful.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Trees for Troops
Got an email from Jenn, who's family owns Landis Christmas Trees located at 1099 Fruitville Pike in Lititz (next to the Bent Creek Country Club) and they're doing something pretty awesome for our troops that I thought you might be interested in being part of. It's called Trees for Troops and you can pick out and purchase a Christmas tree at Landis Christmas Trees and they'll ship it to military bases around the country. If you want more info, you can give Jenn a call at 717.380.3182.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Feels Good....
....to have the whole house clean! I absolutely hate to clean, but will be the first to admit that when the house is sparkling from top to bottom it feels amazing. I had my first whole weekend off in a long time this past weekend and spent all day Saturday and Sunday cleaning the carpets (got a new carpet cleaner), washing the other floors, doing laundry, dusting and pretty much everything else you could imagine. My house feels so fresh and is completely ready for family and friends to come over for Thanksgiving. I think I'm gonna try to cut back on some of the cooking chaos this year by making a few of my Thanksgiving dishes ahead of time so that all I have to do is pop them in the microwave to heat them up. Might go so far as to peel and cut up the potatoes. Did you know if you do that and then put them in a bowl filled with water, they won't turn brown? Would much rather do all that stuff before the guests come....that way there's less work and more time to spend with them. Good idea, right?!?
Friday, November 20, 2009
AMAZING!!!
A lot of people think that this is a computer generated video, but it's not. I used to live near this house in Cincinnati and while I never made it over to see it for myself, I have friends who did and they said it was even more spectacular in person than it is in video!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Holiday Mail for Heroes
If you're looking for info on Holiday Mail for Heroes, here it is:
~Pennsylvanians are encouraged to help make the holidays a little more merry for our troops. Holiday cards will be accepted until December 7th and all collected will be delivered to US veterans and soldiers all over the world.
~Cards need to be addressed to:
Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791
~Pennsylvanians are encouraged to help make the holidays a little more merry for our troops. Holiday cards will be accepted until December 7th and all collected will be delivered to US veterans and soldiers all over the world.
~Cards need to be addressed to:
Holiday Mail for Heroes
PO Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791
Thursday, November 12, 2009
It Goes On and On and On......
Remember that post from February when I told you about my horrible issue with the dentist? Well....here's what happened today (I've pasted from my FB page). You'll get the idea:
Traci Taylor: Sitting at the dentist. My wait time is usually an hour except there was a time they let me sit and wait for almost 3 hours. Wasn't that kind of them? Cross your fingers it goes faster today.
Yvonne Colleen Bachman-Johnson: <--- doesnt like dentists... terrified of them.
Heather Kunkel: fingers crossed
Traci Taylor: Thanks!
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: We run on time in my office.. any longer than 20 minutes is totally UNACCEPTABLE !!!!!
Traci Taylor: Where are you located? Does your dentist take time to talk and listen (I'm needy when it comes to my teeth)? Do you accept Ameritas?
Traci Taylor: The one day I had to wait for 3 hours it was just to have the dentist look at my molds and the whole thing lasted just 5 minutes. Crazy, right? Especially since I go to a place that has 4 dentists...
J.J. Duling: agree with Olivia- frankly, I show up at mine 5 min. early and expect to get in on time. I understand and appreciate emergencies, etc., but making you wait more than 10-15 minutes is quite unacceptable and motivation to find a more customer-friendly DDS.
Angie Messersmith: I don't enjoy going to the dentist!
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: The dentist I work for.. is my hubby. We're on Lincoln Hwy East by the Brassierie Restaurant, Lancaster. Yea, he talks.. to much... LOL. I'm here right now and we do have Ameritis patients.
Traci Taylor: Good news- only had to wait an hour. Bad news-have to go back at 4pm. Dr. broke something & can't fix until then. Want this fixed and done. Been up since 2:30am and still have other things to do today. Yep- havin' a pitty party.
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: Wait.. did he break something IN your mouth????
I am dying to know where you go?
Jennifer Mears Arrigo: I barely sit down in a chair in the waiting room and I am called back to visit the dentist. Never a wait. Now my medical doctor is another story.....two or three hours is the norm there. He talks to everyone.....about everything.......and you continue to wait your turn.....but he is the best doctor on earth!
Traci Taylor: He broke a chunk off my lower temporary partial when he was trying to reshape the wire. Said I didn't need it since I'm getting my permanent in 2 weeks, but I want it fixed because I paid for it and want it as backup in case something happens to the permanent...
Traci Taylor: Ready for this? I'm back at the dentist and they've told me they need to take another impression because the one they took earlier today broke. I couldn't even make this stuff up. I want to scream out to all the women sitting in the waiting room to run.
Traci Taylor: Sitting at the dentist. My wait time is usually an hour except there was a time they let me sit and wait for almost 3 hours. Wasn't that kind of them? Cross your fingers it goes faster today.
Yvonne Colleen Bachman-Johnson: <--- doesnt like dentists... terrified of them.
Heather Kunkel: fingers crossed
Traci Taylor: Thanks!
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: We run on time in my office.. any longer than 20 minutes is totally UNACCEPTABLE !!!!!
Traci Taylor: Where are you located? Does your dentist take time to talk and listen (I'm needy when it comes to my teeth)? Do you accept Ameritas?
Traci Taylor: The one day I had to wait for 3 hours it was just to have the dentist look at my molds and the whole thing lasted just 5 minutes. Crazy, right? Especially since I go to a place that has 4 dentists...
J.J. Duling: agree with Olivia- frankly, I show up at mine 5 min. early and expect to get in on time. I understand and appreciate emergencies, etc., but making you wait more than 10-15 minutes is quite unacceptable and motivation to find a more customer-friendly DDS.
Angie Messersmith: I don't enjoy going to the dentist!
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: The dentist I work for.. is my hubby. We're on Lincoln Hwy East by the Brassierie Restaurant, Lancaster. Yea, he talks.. to much... LOL. I'm here right now and we do have Ameritis patients.
Traci Taylor: Good news- only had to wait an hour. Bad news-have to go back at 4pm. Dr. broke something & can't fix until then. Want this fixed and done. Been up since 2:30am and still have other things to do today. Yep- havin' a pitty party.
Olivia Westcott Lancaster: Wait.. did he break something IN your mouth????
I am dying to know where you go?
Jennifer Mears Arrigo: I barely sit down in a chair in the waiting room and I am called back to visit the dentist. Never a wait. Now my medical doctor is another story.....two or three hours is the norm there. He talks to everyone.....about everything.......and you continue to wait your turn.....but he is the best doctor on earth!
Traci Taylor: He broke a chunk off my lower temporary partial when he was trying to reshape the wire. Said I didn't need it since I'm getting my permanent in 2 weeks, but I want it fixed because I paid for it and want it as backup in case something happens to the permanent...
Traci Taylor: Ready for this? I'm back at the dentist and they've told me they need to take another impression because the one they took earlier today broke. I couldn't even make this stuff up. I want to scream out to all the women sitting in the waiting room to run.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Snakes
Snakes also known as Garter Snakes (Thamnophissirtalis) can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes. Here's why.
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.
It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream.
The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw
it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth
on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
And that's when he shot her.
A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants. During a recent cold spell, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze.
It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants. When it had warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa.
She let out a very loud scream.
The husband (who was taking a shower) ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the behind. He thought the snake had bitten him, so he screamed and fell over on the floor.
His wife thought he had had a heart attack, so she covered him up, told him to lie still and called an ambulance.
The attendants rushed in, would not listen to his protests, loaded him on the stretcher, and started carrying him out.
About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa and the Emergency Medical Technician saw
it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he is still in the hospital.
The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor who volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief.
But while relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa.
The neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.
The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth
on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.
The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed that the snake had bitten him. She went to the kitchen and got a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat.
By now, the police had arrived.
Breathe here...
They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the women tried to explain how it all happened over a little garden snake!
The police called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.
Now, the little snake again crawled out from under the sofa and one of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the end table. The table fell over, the lamp on it shattered and, as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.
The other policeman tried to beat out the flames, and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog who, startled, jumped out and raced into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.
Meanwhile, neighbors saw the burning drapes and called in the fire department. The firemen had started raising the fire ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires, put out the power, and disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area (but they did get the house fire out).
Time passed! Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was repaired, the dog came home, the police acquired a new car and all was right with their world.
A while later they were watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The wife asked her husband if he thought they should bring in their plants for the night.
And that's when he shot her.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
You've GOTTA check this out!
I'm in love with this baby! He can't be more than a year old and already playing DJ. Check out the adorable video...
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Sick as a dog....
Man! I can't remember the last time I felt this sick. My whole body aches and I feel like a semi is sitting on my chest. Loaded up on cold meds. Hope they kick in soon...
Friday, October 16, 2009
Lucky me....
....I have the once in a lifetime opportunity to take advantage of male enhancement products!
Aren't these emails annoying? Apparently the people who send them don't check the gender of the person they're sending them to. What in the world do I need with make enhancement products?
Aren't these emails annoying? Apparently the people who send them don't check the gender of the person they're sending them to. What in the world do I need with make enhancement products?
Monday, October 12, 2009
Apple Harvest Festival!
What a beautiful day it was yesterday for the Apple Harvest Festival in Bigglersville! My friend Linda drove up from Jersey to check it out with me and we literally spent hours walking around, eating food and dancing along to some great music. If you've never been, you really should try to go next year. Apple Harvest Festival is the first 2 full weekends in October.
My friend Linda munching on pulled pork.
I LOVE pumpkin ice cream!
Thought this blanket was really cool.
Have scarecrow, will travel.....
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Back on the blogwagon.....
.....yep, I fell off the blog wagon, but I'm hopping back on. There've been so many things going on in my personal and professional life that I took a hiatus, so it does feel good to be writing again.
Let's see.....what's new?
I broke down and bought a Blackberry. Now I've become a crackberry!
My family came to visit twice this summer and both times they were here it was awesome! I'm hoping to get to NY to visit them and friends sometime before the end of the year. I've got 2 weeks of vacation to use up before the end of the year or it's gone. I don't get paid for unused days :(
I already know what I'm doing for my birthday and it's not until February. My very good friends Anne and Leo are getting married in Vermont on Valentine's Day, my birthday....so I'll be going to Vermont for the wedding. Two wonderful things wrapped up in one....my friends are geting married and I get to spend my birthday in my favorite place in all the world. How lucky can a girl get?!?
Still hating my house and wishing the market would get better so I can sell it and buy a bigger place. When I moved here, I didn't want a place that I'd have to fix up, so settled for a smaller new home. Since my work schedule has changed, I have time now to work on renovations in the afternoon, so I'm going to keep a fixer upper in the back of my mind as a possible next buy.
Gotta run....have an appearance at Shurfine in Spry.
Will write more tomorrow.....
Let's see.....what's new?
I broke down and bought a Blackberry. Now I've become a crackberry!
My family came to visit twice this summer and both times they were here it was awesome! I'm hoping to get to NY to visit them and friends sometime before the end of the year. I've got 2 weeks of vacation to use up before the end of the year or it's gone. I don't get paid for unused days :(
I already know what I'm doing for my birthday and it's not until February. My very good friends Anne and Leo are getting married in Vermont on Valentine's Day, my birthday....so I'll be going to Vermont for the wedding. Two wonderful things wrapped up in one....my friends are geting married and I get to spend my birthday in my favorite place in all the world. How lucky can a girl get?!?
Still hating my house and wishing the market would get better so I can sell it and buy a bigger place. When I moved here, I didn't want a place that I'd have to fix up, so settled for a smaller new home. Since my work schedule has changed, I have time now to work on renovations in the afternoon, so I'm going to keep a fixer upper in the back of my mind as a possible next buy.
Gotta run....have an appearance at Shurfine in Spry.
Will write more tomorrow.....
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I'm horrible.....
It's been forever since I wrote and new blog. So much has been going on that I've not had time to sit down and write it all out, so here goes.....
I had jaw surgery in March. Every thing's good except for the occasional pain here and there.
I've dropped 10 pounds since I got sick in February. I've started working out and feel great. Another 10 pounds to go and I'll be happier with my body.
My sister is getting divorced. 21 years old with a baby. Feel for her.
I've been working like a maniac. 10 hour days most days and then taking work home. I'm working really hard on not working so much. It's just not healthy, not to mention my personal life is suffering.
I bit off all of my nails. Got really mad one day and chewed them off. I hate myself for doing that.
I've started wearing heels more often. Love the way they make me feel.
Fell in love with a new body spray. It's called Sexiest Musk. Yum.
Been to a bunch of concerts in the past 2 months- Bryan Adams, David Cook, Eddie Money and American Idols Live. My favorite was the Bryan Adams show. He's SO hot. Can't believe he'll be 50 this year. Looks like he's in his 30's.
I'm starting to feel unsettled again. Happens every now and then. Start thinking about my life and wondering if I'm really happy or not. Ever get feelings like that?
Really want to go to the beach.
Went shopping with a friend and she helped me pick out some clothes that make me feel great when I wear them.
Keep getting bills in the mail for my hospital visits in February. Keep paying off the bills as soon as they come in, but seems like every week there's a new charge popping up. Wonder if I'll ever have this paid off.
Thinking about moving. Been looking for a new house. It's not really such a buyers market as everyone says. Might move to York because taxes are cheaper there, as are the house prices. Although, I love where I live right now. Beautiful development with views of the mountains and river and a corn field in the backyard...but the house is too cramped and I'm not close to anything. Maybe I'm just too picky.
One of my brothers and one of my sisters (I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters) are planning a trip to see me. Hope they'll really be able to come. I miss my family.
Getting a bunch of money back in taxes. Yea!
I had jaw surgery in March. Every thing's good except for the occasional pain here and there.
I've dropped 10 pounds since I got sick in February. I've started working out and feel great. Another 10 pounds to go and I'll be happier with my body.
My sister is getting divorced. 21 years old with a baby. Feel for her.
I've been working like a maniac. 10 hour days most days and then taking work home. I'm working really hard on not working so much. It's just not healthy, not to mention my personal life is suffering.
I bit off all of my nails. Got really mad one day and chewed them off. I hate myself for doing that.
I've started wearing heels more often. Love the way they make me feel.
Fell in love with a new body spray. It's called Sexiest Musk. Yum.
Been to a bunch of concerts in the past 2 months- Bryan Adams, David Cook, Eddie Money and American Idols Live. My favorite was the Bryan Adams show. He's SO hot. Can't believe he'll be 50 this year. Looks like he's in his 30's.
I'm starting to feel unsettled again. Happens every now and then. Start thinking about my life and wondering if I'm really happy or not. Ever get feelings like that?
Really want to go to the beach.
Went shopping with a friend and she helped me pick out some clothes that make me feel great when I wear them.
Keep getting bills in the mail for my hospital visits in February. Keep paying off the bills as soon as they come in, but seems like every week there's a new charge popping up. Wonder if I'll ever have this paid off.
Thinking about moving. Been looking for a new house. It's not really such a buyers market as everyone says. Might move to York because taxes are cheaper there, as are the house prices. Although, I love where I live right now. Beautiful development with views of the mountains and river and a corn field in the backyard...but the house is too cramped and I'm not close to anything. Maybe I'm just too picky.
One of my brothers and one of my sisters (I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters) are planning a trip to see me. Hope they'll really be able to come. I miss my family.
Getting a bunch of money back in taxes. Yea!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Surgery Outcome
My surgery on Thursday went well, but I have to go back because they weren't able to get everything. So I've spent the past few days in bed doing nothing. I'm so drugged up that I keep forgetting things. For instance, I called my Mom and forgot I called her, so called her back to tell her everything I'd already said. I only know this because I was told that's what I did. In addition to the pain of the surgery, I've developed a bad cold. My entire body aches and my back hurts from laying on it, but when I sit for too long, I get dizzy. I've also been sleeping non stop since Thursday afternoon. I find that I can only stay awake for 2 or so hours at a time. Guess I really need the rest. It's nice to know the pain I've been in for so long has almost come to an end. Hopefully, I'll be able to beat this cold and the pain from the surgery will go down by Tuesday because that's when I've got to go back to work.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Meltdown
I kinda lost it last night. Ok, maybe not kinda. I had a complete and utter meltdown. I'm having extensive jaw surgery this morning and last night it all just caught up with me. I had one of those "somebody just died" cries. I'm thinking it was a combination of realizing how big my surgery is and getting no sleep this week. I've been averaging only 4 hours of sleep a night and I'm an 8 hour a night kinda girl, so if I don't get 8 hours....look out. This morning has been kinda tough because I can't eat or drink anything before surgery, so I'm not able to get my coffee fix. How do you get up at 3am and do a morning show without coffee?
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