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Further details to come.

Stamps and Mustaches

As time is passing on my Monday afternoon I was thinking. While thinking I had the thought that it would be fabulous to have a rubber stamp in the design of a mustache. Then I could stamp mustaches on whatever I want. Crazy, I know.. but yet also entertaining.

News Reporters

Tuesday night Jon and I are at dinner enjoying some lovely cheese fries and dipping sauce at the training table. We did order sandwiches too. Just so all of you don't think we didn't have a partially sensible dinner. When my cell phone rang. It was an out of state number, 206 area code. Rather than be distracted and possibly miss out on my share of the cheese fries I decide to pass on answering the call. To my surprise the person calling actually left a message. Sadly most phone calls I get from numbers I don't know, the person doesn't leave a message so ends up being a mystery who ended up calling.

Later after we got home I decided to listen to the voicemail and see who the "mystery caller" was. Once again to my surprise it was a news reporter from Kiro TV in Seattle Washington, named Kyle Moore. In his message he said that he was doing a news story on a Jon Pomeroy, and when he looked that individual up I showed as being linked to him. This intrigued me so I called the guy back. I did, however, search the TV station's website to make sure this Kyle Moore guy was legit first though.

The reporter seemed shocked that I had called him back. He reiterated to me that he was doing a news story on Jon Pomeroy. It was nice he gave the guy's name again because I couldn't understand what last name he had said in the message. He asked me if I knew the guy. I said I wasn't sure and asked if he could tell him a little about him to jog my memory. The reporter then began to apologize for inconveniencing me. He then told me that he was hoping that I was the guy's wife. I informed him that wasn't the case, which he was already aware of - since I didn't appear to know Mr. Pomeroy. The reporter thanked me for my time and ended the call.

I then went and told Jon this story and how crazy it was, and how I felt the reporter might have gotten my cellphone number.. blah blah blah. I then made a mental note of checking the Kiro TV website later in the week to see what the actual story was about.

The next day at work a co-worker stopped me when I was on my way to lunch and jokingly told me that my name was all over the internet in some news story. Not quite making the connection, probably due to low blood sugar, I mentioned something about the odd phone call I got from the news reporter and asked the co-worker to send me the link to the article. When I came back from lunch I found this link:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17713956/detail.html

Apparently, "Rebecca Long" was being charged with starving her 14 year old stepdaughter. Wow! Heartbreaking!

Although there is a spelling difference, and anyone who knows me knows that the individual in the article is not me - it catches me off guard that the reporter somehow ended up with me. He said he had contacted several people. I imagine he just searched that name.

Nails on chalkboards...

have got to be the worst sound ever! Thankfully such a sound will not be made on my chalkboard.


Currently I am in the process of re-organizing my craft room. Once that is done I will find the perfect spot to hang my chalkboard on the wall.

Books

I have been looking for a new book to read. Lately I have just been reading magazines and the readers digest. The book Twilight was suggested to me, however, with the recommendation I was told - "If you loved Harry Potter you will love this!". I never read any of the Harry Potter books. I am sure this declaration is making some of you gasp. I just never had any desire to read them. But anyway, back to Twilight. I have asked a few people who have read it their opinions and got good feedback. I am still a little nervous though. Why? I am not sure.

I did order a hardcover copy off of Half.com the other day and hopefully it will be here shortly. I'll update the internet world on my opinion once I start to read it.

On a side note if anyone else is looking for something to read I recommend the author Wally Lamb. I have read both I know this much is true and She is Coming undone and loved both of them. He has another book coming out in November and I am anxiously waiting it's release.

Quirks

As was pointed out by my cousin Kim I really haven't blogged in a long time. Not for lack of anything going on, but rather there has been so much going on I just haven't had a moment to.

Since I was tagged by Kim for this.. Here are the rules:

-Link the Person who Tagged you
-Mention rules on your blog
-Tell about 6 quirks of yours
-Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same
-Leave a comment to let them know


I am sure I have more than 6 quirks - it's just a matter of if I want to talk about them in public or not. :)

1 - I have a very unhealthy fascination with ric rac. If you don't know what I am talking about it's the zig zag trim that is sewn onto clothing and other things. I *LOVE* this stuff!! I want to put it on everything. I have several colors of the stuff and probably a total of more than 300 yards. I would have more but I have controlled myself.

2 - When I am driving in my car and stop at a light I don't like to keep my foot on the clutch so I put my car in neutral. Even though I do this 99% of the time, I sometimes still forget it's in neutral and try to take off - revving my engine.

3 - I like to name cars. I haven't ever owned a car that I haven't named. The 2003 Mazda P5 is Ghertrude. I call her Gherti for short. The 1962 Mercury Comet is Lucy.

4 - If I get hot when I am under the covers I stick my foot outside the blankets to regulate my temperature. When my foot gets cold, I have usually cooled down enough and so I pull my foot back in.

5 - I don't like paperback books, only hardbound. If I try to read a paperback book I usually end up breaking the spine and then the pages fall out.

6 - Just as with ric rac I love stationary and pens. Whenever I go to a store that sells either of these items I have to personally restrain myself from purchasing one or both. I don't know what it is about those two things, but they get me every time.

Now to tag 6 people who must say their quirks.. I pick - Jon, Megan, Niki, Jennifer R., Tyson and Stacy.

Dear inconsiderate man at Taco Time

We patiently waited behind you in line as you chose to hold a conversation through your Bluetooth headset and order simultaneously, thus confusing the lady taking your order. Then after placing our order remarkably fast in comparison to you, we were once again held up by you at the condiment bar. You once again felt that your phone conversation was a priority and made a mess of the condiments, left your iphone in front of the condiments and then glared at us as we waited for you to finish.

Upon settling into our booth and beginning to enjoy our lunch your booming voice once again intruded into our afternoon. This time we had to endure your endless conversations with various individuals as you informed them about a guy named "Joe". Also, your eloquence in dropping the f-bomb multiple times during your conversations for all dinners to hear was more than enough for us to handle.

Thankfully, you then stood up as though you were going to finally exit the restaurant. However, you had to confuse the lady at the counter just one more time as you approached her and asked for bag while you once again were involved in a conversation via your bluetooth headset.

In the future, inconsiderate man, may I suggest that your conduct your "work" phone calls in privacy so that the rest of us do not have to listen to you carry on regarding Joe and your opinions of how many people really should be involved in that project.

It's that time of the year...

Wedding Season. And in honor of those new and soon to be brides I thought I would post some tips I recently came across. This is from Woman's World, 1957. I don't know who has the time to be the wife described in this article, because I sure don't.


All he wants is the basic love, companionship, warmth and fun of a good wife and mother. He wants to be able to bring his friends home unexpectedly and find the house in order, a meal miraculously brought out of the hat without any fuss, and a warm welcome for everyone.

A man is the envy of his friends if he has a wife who does not greet him at the door saying, "Why didn't you ring me and say you were bringing someone home?" He likes to know she'll say, "What nice friends you have," instead of "I can't think why you bother about that awful bore....besides he doesn't stop drinking. He hasn't left a drop in the house."

She sees that his clothes are always spotless and well pressed. Looking at him, his friends know that he has a good wife because he always looks well-groomed and his expression is contented.

There are some women who can't wait to tell their husbands what kind of day they had, what they bought, what their neighbors had to say. Every woman might as well accept the fact that to make a marriage work she MUST put her husband first. Before she tackles her own affairs she should ask tenderly, gaily, kindly, brightly, thoughtfully, according to type, what his day was like. There are plenty of wives who complain that their husbands never tell them a thing. Are they sure it isn't their own fault?

A wise woman plans for her man in an encouraging way. She won't ever say, "Why can't you earn as much as Bill Jones? You started at the same time and he makes twice as much as you do." This is fatal. She'll say instead, "Fancy that silly old Bill Jones doing so well. I bet he wouldn't have got there without YOUR help, darling....I'm really proud of you."

With this wonderful spur, she'll gently lead her husband the way she wants him to go, tactfully, with a word of praise. She neither pushes nor persuades. She simply angles whenever she sees the opportunities until, in the end, he takes the bit between his teeth and bolts just where he has been led; but he still thinks it was his idea and she is happy with his male misapprehension.

The sensible wife dodges sarcasm unless she is really witty. She may be so capable that she would make a strong man wilt, but she plays up her feminine weaknesses. While she does most things well - she never makes it a point to do so - she never neglects her appearance. She never seems to have moments with her hair in curlers, her make-up messy, or her face all greasy. She manages this sort of thing when her husband is at work.

She is probably a little extravagant - it's the only way to be impeccable, whatever anyone may say.

And tired though she is from bringing up the children and all the other chores, she somehow or other manages to appear bright and interested to her husband when he arrives home. She never puts the children before her husband but gives them a lot of loving when father's not about; and she builds up a picture in her children's mind that their father is a wonderful man.

She never nags - it's the quickest route to the divorce courts, and even grounds for divorce these days. She often flatters, but never so much that she appears false, and she never picks on her husband's weaknesses unless as an indulgent joke.

She realizes that no one ever really outgrows their weaknesses but knows that a slight awareness of them isn't a bad idea. He might overcome them one day. She didn't marry the man with the idea of changing him. She just makes the most of the things she likes about her man.