Yesterday was my 56th birthday. It was the best ever. So I was just back after 3 days of celebrations with Linda, fammily and friends to be greeted at work with cards, angelfood cake from my friend Jen Eldridge, a balloon and well wishes from all. I heard from EVERYONE Facebook. It was a day full of rememberances from all.
Thank you! My life is the best it's ever been.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
My Life Art In 2010
Linda and I are today celebrating our 11 year anniversary of our commitment to our life partnership. It is the best art of my life. This love is the basis of all I do and all I care about. Linda is my equal and my most beloved.
Weigh in at the OSF Weight Loss Challenge resulted in 255.5#. Very good. Tonight I weigh in at my weekly Weight Watchers right before we leave town for our dinner celebration at Alexander's Steak House in Peoria. Wednesday it's my bff Patty's and mine weekly Canasta Blasta. Then on Thursday Linda, me, Patty, Mom, Virginia (Linda's Mom), Matilda and Maryanne are going to The Packinghouse for my Birthday celebration dinner. Oh, the weight loss will suffer but the good times will roll.
I don't care to go to politics much in my art life but somethings I am compelled to mention to help sculpt our composite art.
Small memo to all "important" people. President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Our Pope, Bill Gates, Diane Sawyer, Barbra Walters, Dean Trantalis, and all of those (allot) I fail to mention.
Cease all major sports activities for 10 years. All monies to education. Up pay of the teachers. Hire more teachers don't lay off. National focus on teaching children values, morals and general knowledge.
Allow each person with a social security number a voting button. Each person votes on issues as presented to Congress. ALL voting takes place in this manner. From elections to laws. Senators and "representatives" no longer vote. The merely present issues in the walls of Congress, and we the TAXPAYERS vote.
All Federal prisoners are shuttled to the moon where we have built a prison. Offenders stay there. The guards are the second highest paid persons in our society - second to teachers.
The IRS is disbanded. Flat tax. It will never happen as long as our "LEADERS" are millionaires. There is not a Congress person who is not a millionaire.
Somehow we need to take things back.
I think this will make a difference.
President Obama is doing a great thing with trying to fix healthcare. He's right. If you worked in a hospital as I do you would see that much of what goes on is not right. One instance. Room #1 there is a woman who has a terminal disease but her insurance refuses to pay any longer for whatever reason. Luckily I work at a place where everyone gets care. In Room #2 there is a 20 year old girl who has a headache, no insurance, and is on her phone playing a game to pass time. Who is paying for here? Me and you. This goes on all of the time. I know that the system needs work to make it right . I know that all of this " excess" and "unnecessary" situations are my job security. But I feel it worth it for me to have a disrupution in my lovely life somehow to make the broken system work.
Dear Jesus, hear my prayer...
Weigh in at the OSF Weight Loss Challenge resulted in 255.5#. Very good. Tonight I weigh in at my weekly Weight Watchers right before we leave town for our dinner celebration at Alexander's Steak House in Peoria. Wednesday it's my bff Patty's and mine weekly Canasta Blasta. Then on Thursday Linda, me, Patty, Mom, Virginia (Linda's Mom), Matilda and Maryanne are going to The Packinghouse for my Birthday celebration dinner. Oh, the weight loss will suffer but the good times will roll.
I don't care to go to politics much in my art life but somethings I am compelled to mention to help sculpt our composite art.
Small memo to all "important" people. President Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Our Pope, Bill Gates, Diane Sawyer, Barbra Walters, Dean Trantalis, and all of those (allot) I fail to mention.
Cease all major sports activities for 10 years. All monies to education. Up pay of the teachers. Hire more teachers don't lay off. National focus on teaching children values, morals and general knowledge.
Allow each person with a social security number a voting button. Each person votes on issues as presented to Congress. ALL voting takes place in this manner. From elections to laws. Senators and "representatives" no longer vote. The merely present issues in the walls of Congress, and we the TAXPAYERS vote.
All Federal prisoners are shuttled to the moon where we have built a prison. Offenders stay there. The guards are the second highest paid persons in our society - second to teachers.
The IRS is disbanded. Flat tax. It will never happen as long as our "LEADERS" are millionaires. There is not a Congress person who is not a millionaire.
Somehow we need to take things back.
I think this will make a difference.
President Obama is doing a great thing with trying to fix healthcare. He's right. If you worked in a hospital as I do you would see that much of what goes on is not right. One instance. Room #1 there is a woman who has a terminal disease but her insurance refuses to pay any longer for whatever reason. Luckily I work at a place where everyone gets care. In Room #2 there is a 20 year old girl who has a headache, no insurance, and is on her phone playing a game to pass time. Who is paying for here? Me and you. This goes on all of the time. I know that the system needs work to make it right . I know that all of this " excess" and "unnecessary" situations are my job security. But I feel it worth it for me to have a disrupution in my lovely life somehow to make the broken system work.
Dear Jesus, hear my prayer...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My Boat Art From 2004 to Now - 2010
In 2004 Linda and I lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in a ground floor level conda which was situated on the water. We had a boat dock 20 feet from our back door. This is the year I graduated from Radiology Technology school. As a graduation present, Linda bought me a 22 foot pontoon boat. It was beautiful. Two years later when we decided to move to Illinois we still owed a bunch of money on the boat but wanted to get rid of it the easiest way possible. So we left it in the hands of a shyster nad moved away. In 2008 the boat sold to a guy who lived in Galesburg, IL. In the end we were left with paying for the boat and not having anything to show for it. And it left us knowing we had been screwed. But we carried on ad recovered. Sort of like....just one of those things.
And so now in 2010 we have no debt. Our home is paid off, we have no credit card debt, no car loans and two GREAT jobs. I an x-ray tech and Linda an RN!!!! We are the luckiest people I know!!
My weight at WW yesterday was 256.8. Yippee!! Down 20.6 pounds!
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