If you enjoy eating meat do NOT see Food Inc.  Food Inc will do to the meat industry what “Super Size Me” tried to do to McDonalds.  Only it is a lot harder to erase the images you wil see in Food Inc.  I saw a film like this over 20years ago.  I was a Veggie for over 12 years before I was diagnosed with CD 10 years ago then I slowly got back to meat.  Now I am getting Gregg back to the Veggie lifestyle.  They are even making fake meat now without the wheat gluten.  I remember back in the 80’s that it was reported that 1 in 3 chicken pieces in normal grocery stores were infected with Salmonella, hence the need for better contamination procedures and antibacterials.

If you dare to see the film you will know what I mean.  I cn not bear to see it again but I suggest everyone to watch and decide the best choices for yourself.

I still have my views on Lost coming soon.  Suffice it to say I see a lot of biblical references but I do promise I will get to that once things start to slow down.  JJ has been bloody busy and so have I.  I promise to print some thought provoking ideas and would like some great responses.

report back soon.

NIk

Didn’t know what to name this blog and that was the first thing that came to my head.

First….a big hug to Baxter, Mouse’s boyfriend.  I hope you are feeling bette.  You didn’t need those stinky toes any way!!!!!  Less toes in your paw but the same amount of love in your heart.  You can still hug minus a toe or two.  An even bigger hug to Julie who I know is just beside herself.  I wish I were there to hug on you and tell you everything is going to be alright.  I miss you and Baxter.  I can’t believe he is ten already.  HOLY COW!  It seems like just yesterday you brought him home and he was jumping our fence to play with Mouse.  Oh the noise she would make when they would play.  I would love to see Mouse like that again.  AHH those were good times.  BBQ’s and Mike’s Hard Lemonade and of course Profiler before court tv went to shit!

This is going to be a random post, hence the title

Noah is stating his independence now.  The boy doesn’t want to cut his hair and he is starting to look like a hippy.  Today he even wanted to dress himself and I felt like I was taking a peasant to school.  I think back to my parents and what they allowed me to do.  They always said as long as I got good grades I could dress and look however I wanted.  My dad tried to give suggestions but I was dancing to a different beat.  I survived so I guess Noah will too.  It’s hard to let go.  He is too cute and too precocious.  We went to math night last night per Noah’s request.  I was quite happy being a math teacher and all.  He has always excelled verbally so it was nice to see his interest in math.  They played fun math games and we continued the math lessons at home.  He really loves to learn.  It is so nice and refreshing to have someone so interested in learning.  I work with kids who have failed the Math TAKS test and some of them could care less.  It is nice to come home and talk to someone who cares.  The other night he even brought up the civil war.  At one point in the conversation I had to remember I was talking to a kindergartner.  The funny loop was he asked me if “our” state was a slave state.  I told him Michigan was in the north and was not and then he replied NO I mean our state.  LOL, as much as I am getting acclimated to Texas, Noah is a Texan.  We had to make a few calls for the answer(it was and that is why its stateshood was delayed 10  years).

Cooper is doing well too.  He has a new teacher at school and really seems to like her.  Miss Rachel was nice too but Coop seems to be sweet on miss Sonya.  He knows his ABC’s even though l-m-n-o-p sounds like some obscure dialect.  He can count to 20 thanks to the hide and seek games we play.  The one thing he doesn’t like is to go to the potty.  He is obssessed with his WII games and computer games.  He would rather pee in his pants and wait for me to catch him than go to the potty.  That is a work in prgress but we are getting serious now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jungle Java is GREAT!!!!!!!!!  Oh my we are birthday central.  It is fun and rewarding.  I love our little regulars that I get to see everyday as well as those kids who are so excited to have a birthday.  Nothing is greater than to see their little faces light up when they get to the door and can’t wait to get in.  It’s like seeing a birthday for the first time over and over again.  It doesn’t get old.  I love kids and it is so sweet to see their happy faces.  If I had started earlier I would imagine I would have had a whole gaggle of children.  Alas I don’t want to pay for college in my 80’s.  So I get to live vicariously through the other babies.

Tomorrow is Gregg’s birthday.  He will catch up to me in age so he can’t say I am his old broad(or lost in the tsunami).  Sunday we are planning on going to the Kite Festival with Mark and Mary and maybe Rachel and Brandon too.  The past two years we have had so much fun there.  This Sun. might be a bit cooler but hey today is 87.  It’s humid a bit too so it feels almost like a Michigan day.  I think it is suppose to be in the upper 60’s Sun.

Uncle Chris is moving here on Monday.  WE can’t wait to see him and get him used to the Texas way of life.  This will be his thrid trip to TExas in less than a month.  I’m sure he will be happy to set some roots now.  As I have said there are plenty of jobs here and if you are looking to get out fo where you are you couldn’t pick a better community than the greater Austin area.  They are hiring for all sorts of jobs.

I can’t believe Hosea won Top Chef.  I was rooting for Carla but she was lead astray.  I was happy when she was teamed with what’s her name for sous chef but I wish Carla would have told her that she had her own way of doing food.  She would have won had it not been for the sous chef.  I’m glad Stefan didn’t win.

Lost is still good.  I’m enjoying the twists. I knew when the guy said sorry about your friend that we would see him again.  It will be interesting to see how that crash plays out.  I’m guessing a few of them have been there before.

Survivor is not as good as they said it would be. Surprise!  I swore off th Trump shit but I might catch a glimpse or so because of the  disaster it may be.  I haven’t watched any yet but I hate the man so it might be hard.

Hope all is well with you and I will try to write again soon!

The Swallows are Back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spring is springing here in Austin.  We finally got some rain the last two days which should help the buds that have already appeared on all the bushes and trees.

One Swallow has come home.  Much to the dismay of my husband, and I imagine neighbors, a swallow has returned.  I was a bit surprised.  I don’t remember  them coming this early.  Perhaps that means they will start a family early and leave earlier.  That would be nice.  I think they are so cute but Gregg would like to get rid of them.  They do make a poopy mess and the nest is in our front porch.  It may mean having to use the garage door once the babies are hatched.  However they eat a tremendous amt. of mosquitoes and since I am a mosquito magnet that makes me happy.  We had hardly any problems with them last year.

On a sad note Mouse is not long for this Earth.  Last Sat. she had a bad day and Gregg decided it may be time.  He called the vet and set up the “rainbow” trip on Sunday.  On Sunday he thought she looked better and decided he didn’t want to do it.  She is still having a hard time getting down the porch steps and looks awkward when she tries to lie down.  I think Gregg just has to get more comfortable with the idea.  It’s hard on him.  He has had Mouse longer than me and the kids.  It’s hard to see her the way she is.  She was such a playful pooch.  She loved the ball like nothing I have ever seen.  She would fetch that thing for hours.  She would bark and bark if you didn’t throw it fast enough.  As she got older she would run herself to the point that the next day we would have to give her meds as she would be limping.  Finally we had to retire the ball for her own safety.  That is a far cry from the dog I see now.  Poor dear!

Survivor time.  Gregg said that he heard this season Survivor is suppose to be hands down the best and that the first 5 minutes of the show this Thursday should not be missed.  I’m hooked, let’s see how it goes. 

I am loving Lost and wishing it were on for 2 hours every night.  I haven’t caught up on the Heroes of last season so I’m not really watching the Heroes of this season.  I kind of lost touch last time because it was so bad.  I’m going to give it a second chance.

Top Chef is winding down now but I’m not really hip to who is left.  I’m still surprised that Leah has made it this far.  I know I keep saying this.  I thought Jamie’s food was better although she did rely on scallops a little too much.   I think the winner is going to be Stefan even though he is a pompous arse but Fabio will be a star.

 I haven’t been online in a while.  If you have been emailing me I’m sorry but I will get to it soon.  It would help if I didn’t get so much spam from my friends.  I don’t need jokes or Obama updates sent daily it just clogs my email box.  I hate going to check my mail and having 120 messages and over 75% is spam from my friends.  I don’t have time for all the jokes(oh that sounds sad/bad).  Once I delete all the spam I don’t feel like reading the rest or responding.  Sorry if that sounds like hate but it takes so long……..

I hope everyone has a Happy Valentine’s Day and a GREAT weekend.

TTFN

OK so obviously from my lack of posts I have been a little busy.  The JJ is booming and things couldn’t be better.  Only my blogging is greatly suffering.  Before I go to bed I wanted to make some quick comments on shows.

1) It has been over a year since my beloved Court TV has been turned to SHIT!  I am on central time so I can’t really see any good trials(8-2) and after that they are just a remake of the God Awful FOX channel.  Everything is most daring or bloody beach battles or drunk people gone wild.  FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE, CHRIST ON A BIKE, get this thing back on track.  It is a joke that you put something educational like Forensic Files or Dayle on this site.  It makes me sick.  I find myslef now watching more the Investigative Discovery Channel.  Thank God for that channel.  There is now another channel on Direct that you have to pay for that is something like that but so far there are only 24 episodes and things I don’t care for.  If it was forensic files 24/7I would buy it.  I’ld even take Dateline for Discovery 24/7.  Give me some real life mysteries not drunk people doing stupid stuff.  If I wanted that I would have stayed at home and gone to Windsor!

2)  Lost,  Some have said it has jumped the shark but I would suggest you give this season a second chance.  It has been very interesting even though every time I have tried to watch the season finale or opening show we have lost power.  LOL.  I am caught up now and am very intrigued by Charles Widmore having been on the island.  More great things to come and not much time to talk aobut it now.

3)  Top Chef.  I’m kind of bummed Jeff was voted off.  I liked him.  DOn’t know why, maybe the blonde hair and blue eyes.  Either way I love Fabio and his slaughter of the English language but consistently his food has been lacking flavor(whether salt or seasoning).  I can’t believe Leah is still kicking.  I have been waiting for her to fly for a while.  Good God she is so unimaginitive.  I have been getting great ideas for a catering business.  Any way I see Jaime and Stefan as the two front runners.

4)  Heroes.  I loved this show until last season when I stopped watching.  There was no secret that I was in LOVE with Mohinder.  Then they made him a character I didn’t even notice and then things went downhill from there.  I stopped watching midseason last year.  I have a few episodes taped and may watch them and the pick up with the next arc to see if things have changed.  If you have any input let me know! 

So that is just a little of what I was thinking.  Let me know your thoughts and anything else.  I ill watch Grey’s for a good cry but not too hip on the dead Denny thing other than he is a hot piece.

OK gotta go to bed.  I’ve got TIVO to watch tomorrow!

OK cheesy opening considering…….

I finally saw the end of las season’s Lost.  I am so happy that at least Desmond and Penny got a nice reunion.  I can’t wait to watch tonight.  I hope they go back to the island tonight.  I don’t want to wait forever.  I wonder what John was doing back and what happened back on the island that was so bad.  I guess we will find out some tonight.  Nice to have that back!

Noah has a second wiggly tooth.  I think the toothfairy may come this weekend.

We have been having a great time with G-ma.  Her timing couldn’t have better.  THe kids had Mon and Fri off and have had tons of fun with her.  Cooper has been asking every day when she is going home and telling her he is going to miss her when she leaves.  Last month when we visited he cried uncontrolably for an hour.  I hope that doesn’t happen this time.

Her timing was good for us at JJ.  It has been going bonkers since Dec..  It was nice not to have the boys around while we were crazy busy.  Part of it was my bad scheduling.  I thought on a day with 70+ weather that no one would come in to play.  I was wrong.  WE had the biggest weekend ever and the next few weeks have even more parties than EVER.  We have been open a little over 6 months now and it is growing daily.  I am still surprised how many people are coming for the first time.  We were a bit apprehensive about opening a buisness in a place that has so many nice weather months a year but that is proving not to be a problem.  I think this is good for the other people thinking of opening a JJ in the Carolinas or Florida.

I had great fun and joy yesterday watching the inauguration.  SSOOOOOOO Happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is what you heard at my house on Thursday night around 9:43.  Right in the middle of the Lost Finale we lost power.  The whole neighborhood lost power.  The island had just disappeared and the helicopter was going down.  Yep that is where my tivo left off.  I still haven’t seen the end yet.  I’m going to watch it today during nap time.

Wednesday I played volleyball.  I thought I was crazy playing volleyball in 90 degree heat but it wasn’t bad at all.  I wish I could say the same thing for our team.  Not bad for a group that hadn’t played in YEARS.  I even subbed for another team after our game and hurt my hand.  I din’t know how bad until the next day when the whole wrist and thumb turned black and blue.  Ouch.  Getting old sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had another nice weekend.  We had a nice family fun night complete with appetizers that I made.  I pigged out.  Saturday the community had a BBQ cook off.  Mike and Mandy and Jaime and Joel teamed up to make some killer (2 kinds)Brisket, ribs, and cobbler.  Mike Smith also entered his pasta salad.  It was guys against the girls.  Everything had to be made on site and the girls had a secret weapon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000A76V2E/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=1919547581&ref=pd_sl_4v6kwcbshp_b  This cute little thing brought them the gold.  They won best “other ” for their cobbler.  The judges even came over to see how they cooked it.  That CajaChina was pretty cool.  THe guys would not be outdone they won for best ribs.  So our friends won 2 out of the 4 categories.  I don’t know who won for best brisket but I really liked Mike and Joels Brisket.  We ate soooooo well that day.  They even had a slip and slide, wet slides, and a dunk tank.  The kids had a blast.  I took the boys to the pool earlier that day for the kindergarten round up.  We stayed there for 2 1/2 hours.  It was fun.  WE are going to spend a lot of time at the pool this summer(at least until I have to work).  AND……….later that night Cooper took it upon himself to ride the big two wheeler bike.  It does have training wheels but it is still a big step.  Noah even tried it again.  The ever cautious one wasn’t sure it was a good idea.

Yesterday we cleaned cleaned cleaned.  The guys on the path helped Gregg build a work bench on Saturday(thank you) and Gregg and I cleaned and put things away.  We are going to clean out the garage and take the top off the jeep and leave it off all year long.  Now with a cleaned out garage we can put it in when it rains.  Back to the garage.  Gregg is going to pimp it out.  He has a nice size TV and Sat. TV.  He even has his stereo with Sirius there.  He can hook that up to the tv and get surround sound.  And of course we live in TExas so you have to have a fridge.  Right now he just has a small(dorm) fridge but I think that is all that will fit right now.  LOL

Fun things.  Gotta go check the paint progress at Jungle Java.  They said they will be done with the construction in 3 weeks.  WOOHOO

OH am I procrastinating.  I have a bunch of work to do but I haven’t posted in a while.  I even watched some Wiggles with Cooper to get out of doing this(balancing the books).  I will get right on it as soon as I am done here.

Well it is a hot one here today.  Suppose to get up to 100 degrees.  I love it love it love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That’s not to say that it isn’t hot but it feels good.  It’s still spring so we get nice cooler nights.  The kids have been having fun in the pool that Aunt Jan bought them.  I think we are going to be playing in it again today!

While in Michigan we traded in our minivan early.  We were already over on miles and weren’t due to turn it in til November.  Well they had some great deals and we got a new car for the same price.  I didn’t really get to drive it much til we got back here.  What a great car.  It is much better than the last model.  WE got the same Walter P Town and Country but it has so many more options.  I like the layout and Gregg loves the touch screen radio.  He loved being able to plug his Ipod into the stereo and download his stuff into the car.  It was nice for him when he had to drive home.  I LOVE the autostart.  I knew it would pay off.  Yesterday we went grocery shopping and we were able to cool down the car before we got to it and put in the kids and groceries.  Perfect!

I have a bunch to say aobut Lost.  I finally watched all 4-5 episodes in one sitting.  I have some thoughts but will share them later.  I still have thoughts on Aaron but we will share those later.

OK well I should get back to work.  I can find nothing to say all day here.  The JJ is moving right along.  I bet they are sanding the drywall as we speak.  We need to get up there.  We go once in the am and once in the pm.

OK gotta get to work.  

Having celiac in Texas sucks.  They do not have all the stuff we had in Michigan.  In Philly I had two stores, Giant and Wegmans that I could find a great selection of GF foods.  Here there is nothing.  I have to drive down to Whole Foods.  The selection at my HEB is bad.  They used to have some good stuff but don’t anymore.  I’m going old school and ordering stuff online again.

Good News/Bad News……………..Taco Bueno doesn’t have a GF menu……..yet the good news is that in talking to the owner he told me that they are building a Whole Foods in Cedar Park area.  That is closer than downtown!  woohoo!!!!

OK some Lost speculation.  I have to be fast cuz I have to get the kids.

I meant to watch the episode with Jin and Sun again.  Seeing Michael and Walt on the outside world had me thinking.  Perhaps even though they say Oceanic 6 some others may me back but not with their families.  They don’t count Walt as an oceanic six or even Ben.  Michael go to go home to his mom but couldn’t talk about anything.  That still would have been risky and I am surprised Ben trusted a hot head like Michael.  I was thinking perhaps the Jin flash was the future like 2012.  That is a bit of a jump though.  However 2000 was the year of the dragon and wasn’t Jin a poor fisherman’s son.  What would he have been doing courting a business client in 2000?  He said he wasn’t married.  Remember he got a job as a door bellman at Sun’s dad’s office.  Then her dad hired him to be a hitman.  That is what got me thinking about Jin and the future.  We already know there is a time Rift.  Desmond would be gone from his “body” for a longer time than when he was in the future.  I think it was something like 5 minutes in the future was 40 minutes or so he was in a dazed state.  So it’s not like it couldn’t have been a future flash.  Hurley had asked if anyone had showed up for the birth and such and Sun said no and he said good.  That had me wondering.  Why was that good unless he meant some of the “other oceanic” people.  You know wanting to keep them hidden and all.  And when Sun said she missed Jin it seemed like she missed him not Missed him.  ya know what I mean?

What the hell is up with Ben?  I am even more determined that they are some rogue government body.  That would only make sense and how they can get off and on the island and have dossiers of everyone.  Don’t ya love that the big other guy is gay.  LOL  I’m guessing and that is the point isn’t it that Mr. Whitmore is the bad guy.  I mean Ben hasn’t tried to make money off the island and its healing powers.  However, what was up with him setting up his daughter.  I knew he was going to kill the guy.  They showed him put his arm around her and Ben cringe.  But poor Danielle.  Why kill her.  She has been on the island forever.  I don’t think she would have ever left but come on.  Not sure what the plan is with that but again precision shooting only leads me back to rogue govt. agency.

Locke is usually smarter than listening to Ben.  I don’t know what is going on with him.  I wish he would get his mojo back but I am afraid he won’t because of the comment that Hurley made to Jack when they got back to the mainland.  “I’m sorry I listened to Locke.”  Locke was one of my favorites.

Speaking of being smarter.  What is the deal with Sayeed?  Yes Michael betrayed them but he came back to try to make a mends.  I would think you would want all the allies you could get on that boat.  I would trust none of them yet keep them all close.  Don’t know what he was thinking but he may have traded away a good source of info.

Well I fogto what else I was going to write and I have to get the boys.  If I remember(3 am) I will write more or add it to this weeks episode.

I’m glad we finally got more story on Desmond.  I have always liked him.  I guess his shipwrecking would explain how he got the power to see into the future but why then didn’t the airplane passengers experience the same fate.  Unless they will blame his future seeing on the blast of electromagnetic waves he suffered when he had to turn the key.

I wonder if he knew what it meant when Penny said that she got Charlie’s message.  Does he even remember Charlie and what Charlie had said.  I know Sayeed does but I don’t know if he was privy to the conversation.  Did Desmond have speaker phone on?  Now they know for sure it isn’t Penny’s boat.  I’m guessing they already knew that with the warm welcome they received on the boat.

I won’t go over the obvious in this post but I will say I had a thought…………

When Daniel looked at his book and said that Desmond Hume would be his constant I realized almost everyone there has a constant from the past to the future.  Most of these people from Oceanic 815 have a connection to one another in some way.  Now whether or not they know they have the connection is another thing.  It will be interesting.  Then again there would have to be a problem for them to need a constant.  Sayeed managed the trip just fine.

I have a headache so I won’t write anymore but if you have any thougths feel free to email me or leave a comment.  I may add more later.

Well there isn’t as much to speculate about but it was still fun.  It was nice to see what happened to Kate when she got back.  We also got to hear about the “story” of the crash.  I wonder who the 8 people who made it were and the two of that 8 that died.

I knew the child was going to be Aaron.  It just seemed obvious that there wasn’t enough time for her to have been pregnant, given birth and lost the baby weight in the time it would have taken them to get a trial started.  Plus Jack was still in tact.

I’m REALLY worried about what happens to Claire.  It has been mentioned that “you never got over the Claire.” but what on Earth happened to her.  I thought Charlie gave his life because Desmond said it would mean her and her baby would be rescued by a helicopter.  Remember though that every tarot card reader ran away from Claire when she was pregnant.  They did not like what they saw when they looked into her.  I guess that was a premonition.

Mile’s situation didn’t shed too much light.  OK there is a big guy out ther hunting Ben down and spending lots of money to do it.  What on EArth did Ben do.  I thought he was always on that island since he was a child.  I want to say he is a rogue spy still that has access to all the things you would imagine a super covert spy would have….aliases(passports), differing currencies, dossiers on anyone, mind game screwing etc.

OK well that is enough for now I may add on to this but I need to get back to work.