Archive for January, 2009

Saturday Six

1. Which of the following methods of travel do you most prefer: plane, train or automobile? Road trips are FUN. I vote for them. I get a migraine from the pressure changes on planes, and the only trains I’ve ever been on are the local Chicago (RTA & CTA) trains. 2. What is the furthest [...]

Wiiiiiii!!

I spent the majority of my Christmas cash on the way home today. I LOVE spending other people’s money .  I’m fortunate to be in a job where I help a lot of people and around the holidays, they occasionally reward me. This year I got 3 different gift cards that I could use at [...]

The year of “enough”

I am the daughter of parents who lived through the depression.  Mom was definitely a saver of everything. I get a little of that from her, but I have weird things that I like to surround myself with. For example: for the last several years, at this time of year, I have purchased and/or been [...]

Pride

The little girl in the picture below was one lucky girl. Both of her parents loved her very much but she was definitely Daddy’s little girl. Her daddy was a good man that had a hard life. By the time she came around he had worked hard enough so that she never had to experience [...]

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! I’ve got a lot to write about, but it needs to swim around my head for a couple more days. Here’s a meme in the mean time. Sorry about the formatting, I tried to figure it out, but the HTML isn’t showing the bullet points so I can’t delete them. What did [...]