September 25, 2008

Lindsay Lohan Gay!

Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

Who would have thought? That was a shock to me. I knew about Clay Aiken. Who did not know about him. That hairdo said it all. Those perfect clothes. He had the look. A baby for him? Wrong! That child will be confused. Having 2 daddies and a mommie.


Lindsay? Kind of a surprise. Maybe because I did not really follow her in the news. She has had a troubled teen life. This may pass we well. She may just be experimenting. Who knows? Look at Anne Heche. She has now gone back to men. It is sad that the people who have all the money and fame are so twisted. They certainly are not role models for the young girls out there. I guess we will all just have to wait and see what Hanna Montana does with her teen years.



September 22, 2008

Thought Police

Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

The thought police just walked in about 10 minutes ago. When then the big boss is out, he sends in his wife who walks in like she has worked everyday in the office. Last week she caused a ruckus. We had not seen her in months and boom, in she comes. Making requests and making work requests. She policed how many people take cigarette breaks, counting butts in the outside ashtray and keeping track of how many times people laugh. She thought we were laughing too much as we worked. She wants it morgue like and in a state of deadly silence. Everyone was up in arms. Especially the smokers with all that butt counting.

All suddenly has gotten quieter. The thought police are here.

Friends in Debt


Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

About 6 months ago a friend of mine and a former co-worker just walked off the job one afternoon. She told me she was leaving and just left. Gone. She was tired of the job. It is a very strange job that we have. Odd. About a month after she left she called me in tears needing money. She was just a co-worker. Not a friend. She had a son who was 8 and after speaking to her I decided that I had a little money I could part with, so I decided to loan---really that means give her $150.00. Only because of her child. He might be in need.

After I gave it to her I found out that she had gotten rid of her perfectly good car and traded it for a very expensive BIG truck. Okay. I figured that I would never hear from her again and I have not. It was like she racked up all these big debts and she had no job. Her boyfriend did not have a stable job either. I know they are in need of being able to consolidate debt. They lived in drama mode 24/7. Always a crisis. Always about money.

There are ways now to help with personal debt. I tried recently to reach this woman and her phone was turned off. I wonder it they still have that truck or was it repossessed? If you or I am in trouble there is now help with consolidating debt. Bills.com is the way to go. With so many options from credit counseling to debt settlement to refinancing of a mortgage, there is a way out. There is a debt relief glossary to help you understand what each option entails so that you can make the decision about what to do. They even have a debt relief bootcamp. I know we have all be in touch with what has been happening in the financial world in the past 2 weeks. Things are falling apart! Saving money is a vital necessity we all must strive to do.

When I think of my former co-worker I think the best option for her would be the credit counseling. An expensive truck with no job to pay for it does no good, just because you MAY have had the good credit to get it at that time. That good credit of hers is most likely gone now. She needs to live within her budget and money or lackof money coming in. She has a child to think about. He does not need to be all caught up in her bad financial decisions and drama.

Bill.com has something for everyone. It is a resource to help us find, learn and save. It is a way for us to have a better understanding about money and provide a ways to save for a rainy day. With all the financial bad buzz out now, I would recommend that everyone take a gander. We all may be in dire straights given the economy.

disclosure

Survivor Gabon



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Of My Time.....Hauntings.

I am a great fan of this show. I have seen every season of Survivor! I applied once about 3 years ago. I am going to apply again in the very near future. I really want to go on this show or The Amazing Race. I have applied for that one as well. A girl friend of mine from high school and college is my race partner. We applied live and in person when the CBS producers were in our area. These are about the only two shows I watch on tv...well those and BBC television. Dr. Who, Torchwood, Masterpiece Theatre, Nova and other PBS specials are always good.

I can't wait!

Spring Cleaning



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Of My Time.....Hauntings.

About a month ago, my mother finally decided to clear out the back garage. We moved into that house when I was in the 4th grade, so they literally had things from back then packed up. We went thru it and just put gobs and gobs of things out on the street. I had things there from college days.

All these things used to be treasures. Once we put them out, all the ebayers and garage sale hunters came to scavenge through it. They came with cars and trucks and just loaded up all sorts of stuff. For years I had been telling my mom to let me help her with a garage sale or sell on ebay. Now it is all gone. For the best I say. Some of it was now so old that it was no good.


In the above picture I see one skate from my disco days. See it?! Just one. I paid $100 for those white leather skates and so did many friends of mine. We skated in the local disco bars when that was big back in the 1980's. Those were the days. I wanted to keep them but my brother convinced me to let them go. What would I do these days on those skates? Fall down and most likely bust my butt!! I still have the memories. Disco is not dead! It lives in me!

September 17, 2008

Wordless Thursday: Floating On the Amazon River

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Of My Time.....Hauntings.






Looking for Love on the Dark Side


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Of My Time.....Hauntings.

The world of dating has been transformed by the internet. It seemed to start out small with just a few large dating sites that anyone could join. Now dating sites are very specialized with them being catogorized by race, gender, religion, fitness and even hobbies. People have the chance to narrow the dating field to just the type of people they are interested in. How's that for giving yourself the very best opportunity to find your Mr. of Mrs. Right?

That is even true for young people today who are on the dark side. There is even a Goth Dating site. Membership is absolutely free and once you join you have the chance to set up your free profile, add a picture and begin your search for other goth singles in your area or not! There is even a picture gallery so you can begin looking for other goths who have the same interests as you. A nice feature of the site is the search box. It allows you to put in who ou are looking for and it will bring back all the search results of people meeting your criteria. Dating has never been easier. Living on the dark side? Looking for dark love? Then be sure to check out GothScene.com!

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September 16, 2008

Bookmania! Again!


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Of My Time.....Hauntings.

I have bought quite a collection of books to read in the past 3 months. I have not had the time to read all of them. They are just collecting in my room and den and still I buy more. Here are just a FEW of the books I have to crack open or, if they are cracked open, I need to finish. Can you read 4 books at once? I am. Will I ever finish one of them? Maybe. In 2010!

Here is my current reading list. Check some of them out! Enjoy!

What's so Amazing About Grace
The Shack
The Idiot
The Power of Now
The Mind of the Soul
When the Ground Turns in it's Sleep
American Visa
2012
How To Seduce a Ghost
A Billion Bootstraps
The Prince and Other Writings
There's a Business in Every Woman

The above list is in no way inclusive of all that I have recently bought. I just thought I would stop here. If you can get through all of those any time soon, it will be a miracle. Happy Reading!

AHHHHH! Freedom!


Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

It is a good thing to feel free to be yourself again! In the year and a half since my father passed away, my very light social drinking has been limited. When I lived on my own before I moved into my mother's house I would drink wine or beer occasionally. I even would have a drink, mixed with a friend. Once my father died I had to limit any type of social drinking as my mother would not approve. So. What did that mean? I had about 8 bottles of wine in a wine rack, Absolute vodka in the freezer, tequila...just a very little left, a new bottle of Courvoisier, a new bottle of Canadian Club and a bottle of Vermouth. I had just discovered Martinis. Well. I was not about to throw away my bar supplies. I packed them all in boxes and they lived in the trunk of my car for the past year and a half. Unused. Finally I unpacked it all last week. I just knew that the wine had all turned to vinegar having to withstand the cold of 2 winters and the extreem heat of a 100+ degree summer. All was well. I am sipping on some now. boy it is good to be back to my old freedoms. I will never give it up again! Never!

Dating Scene


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Of My Time.....Hauntings.


The dating scene is not what it used to be. I grew up with dating meaning visiting at someone's home with parents accompanying me on dates. Can you imagine? I can't now. With the dawning of the internet, there are now dating sites all over the web. I am looking for a date but have not quite become brave enough to put my info online yet. There are many other girls who have. Check out Black Girls. After looking at some of the profiles, I know I COULD do it...but, I guess I will have to think about it a little more. It is a free singles site for African Americans. You can even do a search for dates right in your local areas. The site also features a chat room for networking and talking. Check it out. It is free, has thousands of members and pictures to browse. Who knows! True love might be just around the corner!

Disclosure

Palin Got A Baby Daddy!


Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

I was listening to the radio and the local announcers made uop a parody song about Palin having a baby daddy. Sad. The young man who is the fatherhad on his face book site that he wanted no kids. Imagine the pressure. Now he has to get married and you know he really does now want to. I so not predict that marrage lasting at all! He has a giant shotgun pointed at his head. Palin got a baby daddy!

September 06, 2008

My Happy Place!



Snapshots In My Time...
Of My Time.....Hauntings.

The stress of the last year and 3 months will soon be relieved almost 100%. After moving in with my mother to help her, I have moved out. You can pick your friends but we are all stuck with our relatives. We can't pick them...if only we could. I have decided that I can't help her. She has too many issues that go too far back and have nothing to do with me. Out of her hell-hole and into my bliss and happy place. What a difference a little piece of mind makes! Never will I do that again. Never. We all need to have a happy place to go to. If you do not have that, life will be just miserable. Home. Don't ever take home for granted.