July 3, 2009 by tina.

No longer will the aging body stay up late AND wake up early without SEVERE difficulty.

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July 2, 2009 by tina.

I’m trying a new adventure. You may or may not have heard about about Twitter but I’m trying to figure it out. As with most things, it takes me a little while. But if you’re in for the new fan-dangled technologies, come follow my Tweets. I promise, there will be occasional coupons that will make it worth your while!

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July 1, 2009 by tina.

I’m trying! Really, really trying! I screwed it up again! The last two Wednesdays I have taken subs and salads out to the Gundersen-Lutheran clinic in Onalaska to sell to the peeps out there. They don’t have a cafeteria so local restaurants bring in selected items and sell them in their employee break room. They told me to expect about 75 people on average; summer is usually slower, Wednesday is usually a busy day, Fridays not as much. There was also a “Lunch and Learn” that first time so we also catered for the pharmeceutical rep that was presenting that day. They also told me that may cut into sales. Well, I took out 75 subs and a ton of chips and some pasta salad….and everything was gone by 12:15. Nice, right? I’m sure that was really great for the people that don’t get a lunch break until 12:30. So today, I take out 85 subs (they said that the fast approaching holiday weekend may affect attendance), three times as much salad but less chips and cookies. Again, sold out at 12:15. Now I’m really grovelling to the people that come after that. I even used the words “I suck.”

All I can hope is that the late lunch crowd is a forgiving bunch! So I promise to try even harder the next time later this month. Of course, next time is a Friday….

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June 30, 2009 by tina.

Today, I got up close and personal with the reasons that smart people pay someone else to trim their trees and hedges. Lance and I trimmed and loaded and picked up leaves and sticks for 5 hours. (Fortunately, someone decided to turn off the summer today so it wasn’t like we could have done any sun worshiping.) The trimming, of course, isn’t so bad. Pick out the branches that hang too low to mow under, hang over the deck or the roof, died three years ago…cut those bad boys off, hope the kids are clear of the action, and move on to the next one. But then, when your children wise up to what you’re asking them to do and disappear on their bikes, you are left to load up the branches and take them to the yard waste site, and worst of all, there are countless sticks and multitudes of leaves lying around making your yard look like tornado season in Kansas. And they are all at ground level.

Professionals would have taken the mess away with them.

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June 29, 2009 by tina.

And who doesn’t need a good laugh more than once every day?!?

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

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June 28, 2009 by tina.

Does anyone believe in osmosis and subliminal messages? Wouldn’t it be great if we could go to sleep with a book under our head or an educational subject on the tv or playing on a cd and wake up the next morning, or even after a few mornings because it takes more than one, and be able to speak a new language or decifer the quartic formula? And what about subliminal messaging? (Who was the only president never to marry?) Does that work? Should I have messages telling you to buy the phenomenal $25 per pound Gruyere and run it under the Magic 105 that we usually have playing in the store? Have I asked enough questions for one blog?

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June 26, 2009 by tina.

Remember when your birthday was the most super spectacular, monumentally important day in the UNIVERSE? Our youngest daughter turned 8 this week and in her under-rested summer state there were some actual tears when she said “But I don’t want to sit at a softball game on my birthday.” (Lance was supposed to play softball that night.) Now the mother in me would have reacted differently had I not known that she was over tired and, of course, if she would have said it in the ridiculously-spoiled-throwing-a-fit kind of way I would have kicked her to the curb. But she was genuinely sad and disappointed and the tears were real, not forced. So I gently informed her that when she’s 8 she can stop the world with her birthday but that she shouldn’t get used to that. For all the rest of us, a birthday is just another day and sometimes you might have to sit at a softball game even if you really don’t want to.

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June 25, 2009 by tina.

You’ve all seen the big yellow billboard, but today we got a blue and white striped stage! We’re all giddy with anticipation ‘cuz the party’s almost here!!! The weather is going to be beautiful, the bands and dancers will be awesome, the food will be amazing and the sales will be outstanding! Make sure you’ve got the neighborhood blockparty in your day planner-it will be ALL THAT!

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June 23, 2009 by tina.

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June 22, 2009 by tina.

I have another book review for you. Because I am the next host for one of my book clubs and the host picks the book, they are all (hopefully) reading “Water for Elephants” by Sara Gruen. If you are looking for a wonderful, endearing summer read, look no further. It all starts as the residents of a nursing home are excited about the coming circus. One boasts of carrying water for the elephants when he was young. Our hero grumpily calls him out as a liar and, after being sent to his room, reminisces of his time as a transient worker for the Benzini Brothers circus during the depression. While young and in his last semester of veterinary school, he loses his parents suddenly and soon finds himself wandering. Fortunately for him, and all of us, he happens to end up on a circus train.
The story is absolutely wonderful! Obviously, he works with the animals after the powers that be discover his veterinary training, but he also befriends his reluctant, belligerent, midget bunk-mate, falls in love with the beautiful equestrian performer, and cares for the alcoholic road-crew member that pulled him on board in the first place.
I’m sorry, I really stink at book reviews because I don’t want to give away too much so then I might end up selling the book short…you should just read it because it’s a really nice book!

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