hahahahahahaha!!

My  husband is so outrageously funny sometimes.

Yesterday, while we were watching Epic America on the Smithsonian channel, there was a commercial for the movie Aloha. (I had to look it up) Alec Baldwin is in it. Being the ultra conservative my guy is, he hates Alec Baldwin with the heat of a billion suns. And even though we weren't watching the commercial, he saw Alec's face flash across the TV screen and said....
"I would pay $100 to kick Alec Baldwin in the balls."
I laughed right out loud!! THAT was funny!

random crap

It always makes me happy when somebody sees something and they think of me. Like this; 

How funny is that. Minion tic tacs! When I came back to work today, they were on my desk. That plus a 3lb bag of gummy worms from some famous candy place in northern Indiana.. I'm not really a gummy worm fan but they are kind of good. Apparently, you can get a giant bag of 'irregulars' for $3. One of our field guys was up there and bought a bunch bags and brought me one. It was nice of him to think of me. 

A few weeks ago, we over at my Mom's doing some stuff for her. Bill and I had to run up to the local hardware store and this was the view when we returned;

Notice Greta, over there away from all the other 'dogs.' She's such a priss  :-)

This local news made me shake my head - Starting July 1, speeders will get the right-of-way in the left lane, while those obeying the speed limit could face a $500 fine.

So that dumb ass in the fast lane, who is only going the speed limit, can get a ticket? I fail to see how that motivates anyone to do the actual speed limit. I mean really, if you're abiding by the law you can get a ticket?? I don't know. 

Last - LOVE my new eyeball lens! Everything is so dang bright! 

time off

Well, we've made it through a week and a half of retirement. I'd like to say that he thinks it's awesome! I would really like to say that. But no. It's challenging for sure. He's sarcastic and snarky and mopey. However, he has done an excellent job pacing himself and his first project. I would have bet that he would have knocked it out in 2 or 3 days. But he hasn't. He works a little bit on it, he reads, he watches TV, he cleans the kitchen. He's doing pretty good in that vein. And I haven't told him I want a divorce yet so I guess all in all, we're hanging in there. I hope it gets easier- for him and for me!!! 

I get the next 5 days off! Tomorrow morning I'll be getting a new lense in my eyeball. That makes me happy. And I have a super cool, cheerful, awesome craft/library room, complete w/TV and DVD player...you know...in case I need to remove myself from his orbit! Whew.

no respect

Here's a fella with no respect for life. Com'on now. If you're literally risking your life to do something that isn't remotely akin to an act of heroism, you have no respect for life OR the people that love you. I'm sure some people will say that he was an adrenaline junkie and that's why he did those things. Stop it! He was just a nut.

Extreme athlete Dean Potter dies in BASE jumping accident

Posted: May 18, 2015 8:05 AM EDT

Updated: May 18, 2015 8:05 AM EDT

By The Associated Press

Yosemite National Park, Calif. -

A Yosemite National Park spokesman says extreme athlete Dean Potter and another man have died in a BASE jumping accident.

The spokesman says Potter and Graham Hunt died late Saturday after attempting a wingsuit flight from a 7,500-foot promontory called Taft Point.

A search-and-rescue mission began overnight when the jumpers' spotter lost contact with them. Crews found their bodies Sunday in the Yosemite Valley. No parachutes had been deployed.

Potter is renowned for his bold and sometimes rogue climbs and BASE jumps, in which he would parachute from a fixed structure or cliff. BASE jumping is illegal in Yosemite.

Potter was 43. He completed solo ascents and tightrope walks across some of the world's most famous rocks, and recently appeared in a film BASE jumping with his dog.

My tax dollars hard at work...

State drops $750K to rehab image after RFRA, with more expected

 Tony Cook, tony.cook@indystar.com 6:49 p.m. EDT May 14, 2015

PR firm Porter Novelli to develop a campaign to "strengthen and enhance Indiana's reputation."

The state has signed an initial $750,000 contract with global public relations firm Porter Novelli to help restore Indiana's tarnished image in the wake of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act fiasco.

The agreement signed Wednesday calls on Porter Novelli to assess perceptions of Indiana and develop a campaign to reach a "broad and diverse audience" to "strengthen and enhance Indiana's reputation."

The contract between the company and the Indiana Economic Development Corp. includes a $300,000 retainer fee and up to $450,000 for media buys, production costs, travel and other expenses. It runs through Sept. 30.

The deal anticipates a second contract to be negotiated before the launch of the campaign. The cost of "phase two" will depend on the scale and duration of the campaign, the contract says.

IEDC officials previously said they expect to spend at least $2 million with Porter Novelli.

Although the agreement doesn't mention the controversial "religious freedom" law, it does reference the state's "new reputation enhancement initiative to strengthen Indiana's global brand reputation as a welcoming place to live, visit and do business."

Indiana took a major public relations hit with the swirl of negative attention surrounding Gov. Mike Pence's March 26 signing of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Opponents feared the act could allow businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians — a claim supporters of the law denied.

After a national backlash, the law was clarified by the legislature at Pence's urging, explicitly forbidding the erosion of local ordinances that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

There is little doubt that Indiana's national image took a hit, but nobody has been able to quantify exactly how much damage was done. Repercussions continued to surface this week with news that the International Association of Fairs and Expositions passed up Indianapolis for its 2018 and 2019 conventions, in part because of RFRA, according to an email from State Fair Commission Executive Director Cindy Hoye.

Pence, who is on an economic development trip to China this week, said he was "really not familiar with the basis of that decision and would not want to comment on it."

I need that!

You know I'm going to have to have one of these...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=1121955&gclid=CIil3YDxwcUCFQYHaQodxGoAZQ&is=REG&Q=&A=details

the golden years

Well, today is my husbands last day on the job, officially. At 4:30 this afternoon, he will join the ranks of the unemployed/retired/slackers, the "golden years." He's had some time to get used to the idea now. I think he's happy to not be an employee anymore but he's still struggling with some other things. Like, being old and not having any money. I can't help him with the being old part. He is, in fact, old. I've done my best to assure him that we aren't going to end up in the poor house though. I guess that would be hard to accept - that you aren't working but you still have an income. Granted, he won't be able to buy any ol' gun he wants anymore but geeze, he's not an octopus! How many do you need? And, I think he's wondering about what he's going to do with all his time, while he's waiting for ME to retire. I'm working on a folder in Pinterest, just for him. I named it, 'honey do this for me.'
It's filled with all the things I think he could build and/or make for me. I'm pretty sure between the things that need to be done around the house and my 'honey do' list, he won't be totally bored. Plus!!! We should get another dog!!!!!! THAT would keep him busy!!!


DON'T FORGET YOUR MOMS THIS WEEKEND!!!

being different

When I was a lot younger, I always liked being different, sort of.

I didn't ever expect to actually be different though!

The first time I saw a chiropractor, she informed me that I had an extra vertebra, (2 L5 vertebrae) an extra pair of ribs, (little ones at the very top) and a little bony bridge connecting my hip bone to my spine. I think all of this explains why I wasn't born w/all my teeth. 

Also, I have cataracts. Not the regular, getting old kind either. Nope, not me. I have the third kind;

It's called, 

• Subcapsular cataracts affect the back of your lens and usually progress more quickly than other types. Subcapsular cataracts cause blurriness and glare, and are more likely to strike those with diabetes, extreme nearsightedness, retinitus pigmentosa or people who take steroid medications

Yesterday, I went to the eye surgeon for my evaluation and he gave me the big thumbs up for cataract surgery. Yessssss! It's been almost 5 years since I had the other done so I'll be SO happy to have this one done and be able to see true colors again! But...while I was there, he also told me I have something called Fuchs Dystrophy. I know, right?! What the hell is that?! 

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/fuchs-corneal-dystrophy.htm

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/fuchs-dystrophy/basics/definition/con-20023893

He made it sound like it wasn't really that big of a problem, mine is mild. But still. Normal is just better sometimes!

Things in the news that bug me

First of all, I just want to throw this out there - in regard to all those rioters and protesters in Baltimore, the most interesting (to me) point made was this; none of those people give a shit about Freddie Gray or his family. Think about that. Sad but true. you can't move forward if you're stuck in the past people!

Next up, I saw a story on the local news this morning about a LGBT wedding expo being held at the convention center, downtown. You know what I thought when the story was over? The same thing I always think. This doesn't have anything to do with you being gay or not. It's all about another minority wanting YOU to accept them based on them being a minority. This kind of thinking really pisses me off. You know, I used to work for a gay optometrist. So naturally, A LOT of his patient base was gay. Big deal. You know what I learned? That some gay people want you to like them because they are gay. And if you don't like them, it must be because they are gay. People don't like Rosie O'Donnell because she's an ugly person not because she's gay. People still love Ellen DeGeneres because she's the same person she always was. I used to like Rosie. I don't now because she's a mean spirited, angry, negative, person. She's made her whole identity about being gay and discriminated against. Blah, blah, blah. The other thing I learned is that most gay people don't even care if you know that they are gay. Most of them don't go around introducing themselves as gay because it's really not any of your business. Think about that too.
(by the way, equal rights are supposed to give you equal rights not special rights)

And the last, geez you're so dumb, thing is; I read an article a couple weeks ago that was titled something like, why women have affairs with married men. It was probably dumber than that, but that kind of thing is interesting sometimes. I thought is was going to be about what the lure is, etc. It wasn't. It was a story about this dimwit who had an affair with a married man for 25 years and then was devastated to learn that he didn't plan on taking care of her in some financial manner when he kicked the bucket. It wasn't until then that she realized she threw away 25 years of her life on a man who didn't really love her. Umm, yeah. What I was left with was, what was the point of this article? And, why on earth did you devote space to this article?

I guess I'm just missing the "good old days" when the news really was just news. You know, facts about what was happening. Not 'here's what we want you to think about that.'

sigh