Gingerbread House Disaster

Mom and I ventured to create a totally edible Gingerbread house, it was tough as you can see. Go ahead and laugh, we sure did!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

35 and holding.....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.....
I want to thank everyone for making this Birthday very special!
My husband, family, and friends showered me with gifts and attention. And as always the dinner at El Gaucho's was unforgettable. Love you guys!

Aaron's Surprise 40th Birthday pictures

The party was a hit!
Thanks for your help!! :-)

Getting Older Quotes: Mine first, yours last?

The older folks are eager to share the wisdom from life experiences. So why do the youngsters never listen? Because they need to learn it for themselves - - - Jeni Storck

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
- - - - Dave Allen

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
- - - - Lady Nancy Astor

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- - - - Lucille Ball

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- - - - Coco Chanel

I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- - - - T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- - - - Bob Hope

At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves.
- - - - George Orwell

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
- - - - Satchel Paige

Old Age: First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
- - - - Leo Rosenberg

When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
- - - - Gail Sheehy

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- - - - Kurt Vonnegut

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
- - - - Oscar Wilde

Jobless in Seattle

Well here we go again folks; job hunting is such a treat in this challenging economy.
I have been taking this time to catch up on some home projects and enjoying the quiet. I am looking into some local community colleges to complete my degree as well. I guess everything happens for a reason as they say... Thanks for the continued encourgement everyone!
And good luck to all of you searching.

Goodbye Mr. Clarke, you inspired many.

Arthur C. Clarke with his satellite antenna

at home in Colombo, Sri Lanka in January 1977.


Science-fiction writer, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke has died, leaving fans bereft at the loss of his brilliance and creativity.
Clarke died early Wednesday after suffering from breathing problems, the Associated Press reported. He was 90 years old. He suffered from post-polio syndrome and was confined to a wheelchair toward the end of his life.
Clarke wrote more than 100 sci-fi books, including "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Clarke hosted such investigative programs as "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World", "World of Strange Powers" and "Mysterious Universe."
Among his many honors, Clarke was one of only 17 writers ever named a Science Fiction Grand Master.

In addition, he received the UNESCO Kalinga Award for advancing interest in science, as well as nominations for both an Academy Award nomination, for "2001" (shared with Stanley Kubrick), and a Nobel Peace Prize, for laying the conceptual groundwork for the creation of orbital communications satellites.

With such an impressive resume, it would be easy to forget that Clarke's greatest significance was as one of the 20th century's great popularizers of scientific thought, especially through the medium of science fiction.

Clarke so relentlessly promoted the exploration of space, while celebrating cultural and geographic differences here on Earth, that he was called "our solar system's first regionalist."
Thanks to his deep love for his adopted Sri Lanka and its people, Clarke became a true citizen of the global village he helped to create.

The international popularity of his work transcended political boundaries, allowing him to bridge the chasm between the U.S. space program, the Russians and his native United Kingdom throughout the Cold War era.


How many men of the 20th century could count both Alexei Leonov and Walter Cronkite as friends?

In 2007, Clarke celebrated his 90th birthday.

"Sometimes I am asked how I would like to be remembered," Clarke said at the celebration. "I have had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these I would like to be remembered as a writer."
He listed three wishes on his birthday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings.
"I have always believed that we are not alone in this universe," Clarke said.
Humans are waiting until extraterrestrial beings "call us or give us a sign," he said. "We have no way of guessing when this might happen. I hope sooner rather than later."