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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Quick Rolls and Corn - Oat Pones
Want to remind everyone that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's Recipes that are posted here can all be viewed on one page in the blog's archives at:
Here's a repost of an old favorite from June 7, 2006:
Here is another of Grandmother Vera's recipes that Dad has typed up...
Several years ago Vera gave me an envelope with a large amount of recipes in it. Over 50 are in her hand writing and the rest came from just everywhere she could clip them out . I will be sending these out typed. All that I send will be from Vera's own hand writing and the best I can read them. Some are dated in the 70s and one seems to be from Claudene's high school days (Over 15 years ago).
Vera's Quick Rolls
Stir together :
2 packages dry yeast, 1 cup white flour
2/3 cup powdered milk
3 tablespoons sugar, 1 teaspoon salt
Now add:
2 1/2 tablespoons soft margerine
one & 1/2 cup "HOT" water
Stir until margerine melts. At very last stir in 3 cups unsifted whole wheat flour. Cover & let rise for 15 minutes. Turn out on floured board and knead until it doesn't stick to hands. Pat it out to 3/4 inch thickness and cut with glass or cookie cutter. Put on greased cookie sheet and let rise for about 15 minutes. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes or looks done.
Corn - Oat Pones
1 cup chopped pecans , 2 cups yellow corn meal
2 cups oats , 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup olive oil, 1 & 3/4 cup boiling water
Mix first 4 ingredients. Add oil & boiling water. Mix well and let stand 30 minutes. Make out in cakes. Put thum prints in cakes . Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then turn oven to 300 & bake for 2-3 hours . Bake slow until crisp. Best when not too brown. Keep in air tight container. (I doubt the time she said to cook these. Then who am I to question Vera)
Hope everyone has a Very Wonderful Valentines Day, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Sunday, February 11, 2007
It's Crepe Myrtle Pruning Time Again!
As I mentioned at this time last year, under the guidance of Randy Lemmon, by listening to his show Gardenline on AM740 KTRH in Houston (also available online in streaming audio), I've been relandscaping the front yard for the last 5 years, mostly by myself, which has included sculpting what are turning into some pretty wicked looking Crepe Myrtle trees...
According to Randy's advice, which has worked very, very well so far, to get maximum blooms you are to prune Crepe Myrtles during the time frame one week either side of Valentines Day, I take my time, pruning off everything smaller than a number 2 pencil and twist the smaller branches back into the tree, I also have to be careful of the Jasmine, that I have winding around one of the Crepe Myrtles so they won't be so ugly during the winter (note, if you do this, don't have them going around the trunk), which are just now beginning to bloom, should have the pruning finished before the two weeks are over with...
Here's photos of the Crepe Myrtles from last year...
Will post photos again this year when they bloom...
Will also be pruning the rose bushes during this time (but will be pruning hardly any off of them), as well as the Mimosa Tree that I'm also sculpting, hope everyone has a Wonderful Week, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Oven Fried Green Tomatoes and No Name Cake!
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Here's a repost of two more of "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's recipes that Dad had typed up...
From June 6, 2006:
Several years ago Vera gave me an envelope with a large amount of recipes in it. Over 50 are in her hand writing and the rest came from just everywhere she could clip them out . I will be sending these out typed. All that I send will be from Vera's own hand writing and the best I can read them. Some are dated in the 70s and one seems to be from Claudene's high school days (Over 15 years ago).
Oven Fried Green Tomatoes
1/2 cup corn meal, salt/pepper
1 egg, 1 tablespoon water
Combine cornmeal, salt, pepper and set it aside. Egg & water, beat well. Dip sliced green tomatoes in egg mixture & cover well with cornmeal mixture. Lightly coat big cookie pan with cooking spray. Place tomato slices in single layer in pan. Bake at 450 for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden brown. Turn once. Enjoy!
No Name Cake
20 ounce can cherry pie filling
20 ounce can crushed pineapple with juice
1 box yellow cake mix, 1 cup coconut
1 cup chopped pecans, 3/4 cup melted oleo
Mix ingredients in order given. Bake in loaf or flat pan. 350 degree oven.
Have a really Terrific Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Lemon Jello Cake!
The "MySpace Friends" page for business and band banners is now up:
It's already being crawled by Google, if you would like to add your banner to the page, all you have to do is check out the February 05, 2007 blog entry for details and send me your info...
And if you know of anyone that is not a MySpace friend who would like to have their banner on it, have them add me as a friend and send the info...
Here's a repost of an old favorite from March 28, 2006:
Here is another of Grandmother Vera's recipes that Dad has typed up...
Several years ago Vera gave me an envelope with a large amount of recipes in it. Over 50 are in her hand writing and the rest came from just everywhere she could clip them out . I will be sending these out typed. All that I send will be from Vera's own hand writing and the best I can read them. Some are dated in the 70s and one seems to be from Claudene's high school days (Over 15 years ago).
LEMON JELLO CAKE
1 3 ounce package of Lemon Jello 3/4 Cup of Boiling water, 2/3 Cup Wesson Oil
4 whole eggs, 1 Box Lemon Supreme cake mix
Dissolve jello in hot water. Add oil, eggs, cake mix. Blend well. Grease and flour a 9 X 13 pan.Bake in 300 degree oven for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out dry and clear...
While baking, make icing...
5 Tablespoons of oleo or butter
Juice of 2 lemons, 2 cups of powdered sugar
Blend until smooth and have ready to spread on cake while the cake is hot. The icing will soak into the cake.
Take care, God Bless and have a Wonderful Day.....Mike
Monday, February 05, 2007
New MySpace Friends Banner Page...
Hey everyone! In the next day or two I will be putting up a new page at MikeyWear.Com (where this blog's archives is) to post banners of the businesses of my MySpace friends and blog readers...
The banners should be no larger than 690X95, banners that are 468X60 will be given top priority on a first messgaed/first posted basis and the rest will be fit in underneath the 468X60 banners in a way that I feel that I can post them neatly...
You will need to host the banners yourself...
To get your banner posted on the page, just send me a MySpace message with the url of your banner and the url of where it is to be linked to...
Although not neccesary (but it would be nice), if you would like to post my banner on one of your pages, the url of the banner is:
And it should be linked to:
And please let me know if you link it so I can thank you! Hope everyone has a Really Terrific Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Mississippi Mud Cake!
Want to remind everyone that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's Recipes that are posted here can all be viewed on one page in the blog's archives at:
Here's a repost of an old favorite from March 22, 2006:
Here is another of Grandmother Vera's recipes that Dad has typed up...
Several years ago Vera gave me an envelope with a large amount of recipes in it. Over 50 are in her hand writing and the rest came from just everywhere she could clip them out . I will be sending these out typed. All that I send will be from Vera's own hand writing and the best I can read them. Some are dated in the 70s and one seems to be from Claudene's high school days (Over 15 years ago).
1 cup butter , 2 cups sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa
4 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 cup shreaded coconut, 1 1/2 cup chopped nuts
1 large jar marshmallow cream
Cream butter , sugar , cocoa (mix well). Add eggs , vanilla , flour , coconut & nuts . Beat 2 minutes, bake in greased & floured pan for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Can bake in 2 cake pans or one 9 X 13 aluminum pan. When done spread Marshmallow Cream on hot cake & let cool.
Icing For Mud Cake
1 one pound box powdered sugar,
1/2 cup butter (oleo), 1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup cocoa, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Beat ingredients and spread on cake. Let icing & cake cool.
Take care, God Bless, and have a Terrific Weekend.....Mikey
Friday, February 02, 2007
Happy Happy Friday!!!
Hope everyone has a Super Wonderful Weekend! Take care and God Bless.....Mikey
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Salmon Croquettes & Potato Salad!
Want to remind everyone that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's Recipes that are posted here can all be viewed on one page in the blog's archives at:
Busy and almost forgot to post a new recipe today, going to have to post a couple of the earlier ones...
From March 01, 2006:
My Dad found a bunch of recipes that Grandmother Vera had written for him and is typing them up, one or two of them will be featured here every Wednesday...
Several years ago Vera gave me an envelope with a large amount of recipes in it. Over 50 are in her hand writing and the rest came from just everywhere she could clip them out . I will be sending these out typed. All that I send will be from Vera's own hand writing and the best I can read them. Some are dated in the 70s and one seems to be from Claudene's high school days (Over 15 years ago).
1 (15 oz) can Salmon , 1 egg
1/2 cup flour , 1 teaspoon baking powder.
Drain juice , add 1 beaten egg , flour & Baking powder. Beat with a fork . Drop by the spoonfuls into hot grease.
4 large boiled potatoes cut in small squares,
1/2 cup finely chopped onions
1/4 cup real lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar, 1 cup mayonaise
Boil potatoes until tender. Mix lemon juice, sugar & mayonaise and salt & onions - pour over potatoes and mix.
Take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Roswell (NM) Aliens...
Note: These views and others can be found in this blog's archives at:
From June 01, 2006:
As mentioned in my profile, I attended Roswell High School in Roswell, New Mexico, so am asked a lot about the Roswell Aliens, have no idea if the claims made by the folks are true, so I just tell those who ask what I know...
When living there, with so much land available in the city (there was more than one trail where a kid could ride a dirt bike, popping off the bike to walk it across the streets, all the way around Roswell) the City of Roswell was constantly trying to get folks to move there, at the time they were trying to make it a retirement haven...
While going to Middle School and High School in Roswell for four years, aliens were mentioned only one time in 7th grade, where some of the local kids told me about how the Bottomless Lakes in Bottomless Lakes State Park (some miles away from where the aliens landed) were craters created by aliens landing in their space ships...
I was a Rock Hound as a kid and spent a lot of time during my Sophomore year in the area near where the aliens landed, after discovering there was a great abundance of Rose Quartz specimens and some geodes there...
Whether you believe in the Roswell Aliens or not, the Roswell Alien Museum (formerly the old Plains Theater) is a fun place to visit, but if you are going to buy souvenirs, the Alien Gift Shops near it are a lot cheaper...
I saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Plains Theater, it was a double feature with Joe Cocker's/Leon Russell's Mad Dogs and Englishmen, but liked The Kansas City Bomber and Billy Jack (which I also saw there) better...
The only other thing I know about this is that I am not an alien, or if i am, I don't know it, hope everyone is having a really Great Thusday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Sunday, January 28, 2007
It Was A Dark And Stormy Tuesday...
You can read this Angleton City Council report and others, as well as other posts about the City of Angleton, Texas in this blog's archives at:
From March 29, 2006:
We finally got some rain here and a bunch of it, all the soil in this area was soaking it up too, the land was so dry that when I took the MikeyWearMobile in the middle of the storm to Lake Jackson to take Debbie lunch I didn't see any street flooding, but BarbedWire Bob told me that the Weather Chanel said it's going to rain every day this week except Thursday, so that may change, don't know how that is going to affect the Great Texas Trash Off, will go down the street to TXDOT tomorrow to see what they suggest we do if there is that much rain...
The rain cleared right before it was time to go to the Angleton City Council meeting, Charlie was there and I was ready to take notes of him giving them a piece of his mind and photos after getting it OKed with Charlie and Angleton's Public Works Director (because I had his email address) Robert Heinemeyer...
I decided to go ahead and read to the Council the statement I had prepared...
To market my new line of quality infant and toddler clothing, I am mixing old and new marketing techniques in a unique way to combine real world Angleton and the Brazosport Area with virtual world America, writing about and posting photos of this city, what it is doing, and some of it's characters, on MikeyWear.Com and it's blog...
Since most cities would not put up with what I am doing because it's so odd, I would like to thank the city of Angleton and it's residents for allowing me the opportunity to pursue the American dream in this city...
I would like to thank the Angleton Police Department, for keeping a close eye on my Flea Market booth to keep it from being vandalized...
And I would like to assure everyone I will continue to give credit to Angleton for this opportunity and tell others around the county, that although Angleton does have it's problems, some of which Charlie will address shortly, as I state in MikeyWear.Com's Frequently Asked Questions, "If you are looking for a city with opportunities galore, check out what the City of Angleton, AISD, the Angleton Chamber of Commerce, as well as the businesses and Citizens in Angleton are doing to make things happen and you will find that you need to look no further."
Now as I've written before, I am terrible at speaking to a bunch of people, I stumbled over it a lot, but even with all the stuttering I think everybody understood what I said and the Council appreciated it, spoke to Angleton's City Manager Micheal Stoldt during the break about a possible mini series here on Angleton's preparation of it's infrastructure for the upcoming population boom and he was enthusiastic about us getting together to get it started...
There was one big problem, when I gave the lead in for Charlie I could see Mayor Sebesta looking over at Michael and Michael tearing through all of his papers, then after I was done they said there was one more and it wasn't Charlie, but a man complaining about Pit Bulls on his street (and immediately after he spoke, Angleton's Police Chief spoke with him in the hallway to address the problem), it ended up that Charlie had filled out the form and left it on the table instead of giving it to Michael, when I mentioned this to Michael, he said if someone had spoken up that Charlie would have been more than welcome to speak...
At the Coucil meetings I'm looking at the Mayor and Council members, thinking "better them than me," it's beyond me why anyone would willingly work so hard to be elected to the thankless jobs they have, having to pull double duty, keeping the city going and preparing it for when Angleton becomes a part of the Houston Metropolitan Area so the transition will be as smooth as possible...
Now while accomplishing their goals to make this transition as smooth as possible within the budget they have, some of the needs of the citizens already living here have at times been neglected, the difference here is that the city has it's doors open to any citizen that wants to voice a grief or concern, they listen to them too and will do their best to correct the problems that it's citizens bring to their attention, for example: when the street that our zoo is on was torn up to put in new sewer lines and they forgot to repave the street, after a bunch of us went to City Hall to give them a piece of our minds, the street had fresh pavement laid, so when Charlie does give them a piece of his mind, I'm sure that they will do their best to address what Charlie speaks about...
I don't see how the Angleton City Council does it without pulling all their hair out...
Case in point, Angleton very, very, very, etc... desperately needs more child care facilities and a piece of property was bought to build one of these facilities on, the problem is, it's in one of Angleton's oldest residential neighborhoods, so it's obviously not zoned correctly to have a daycare center on it and the owner was, by following the set guidelines, asking the City of Angleton to re-zone that property and make it a Commecial Property, she also made some very valid points to back up her request...
So they had a public hearing on the request, with the sides unevenly divided, more folks were wanting the property to be re-zoned into a commercial property, but both sides were heated in the discusion, at one point it seemed there was a clapping contest going on, I politely clapped for all that spoke, because all of them had valid points, and would get some dirty looks when I clapped for the property's neighbors, but understood why, because Angleton very, very, very, etc... desperately needs more child care facilities...
The Council unanimously voted to turn down the re-zoning request and each one of them politely gave an explaination why they voted that way, because although Angleton very, very, very, etc... desperately needs more child care facilities, it would set a bad precedent for future re-zoning requests, and you could tell that each had given a lot of thought to what they said...
In spite of the tension after the Council made their descision, the owner of the property accepted the decision with no ill will and said that she was not giving up and would find another property she could afford in Angleton to build a daycare center on, and guess what? As soon as the break began right after that, the Mayor and a few of the Council members went up to her immediately to pledge their support to help her achieve her goal...
And none of them appeared to be wearing a hairpiece, so...
Getting too tired to type any more, so take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce
"Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's Recipes that are posted here can all be viewed on one page in the blog's archives at:
www.mikeywear.com/page17.html
Apple Cake
3 eggs - 2 cups flour
3/4 cup butter - 2 cups sugar
2 tps ground cinnamon - 2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg - 1 tsp vanilla extract
4 1/2 cups peeled apples finely chopped
Cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Sift together dry ingedients and add egg mixture with apples. Stir in vanilla. Pour into two 8 inch greased and floured pans and bake 40 to 50 minutes at 350. Cool for 5 minutes and serve warm.
Caramel Sauce
3/4 cup butter - 1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar - 3/4 cup heavy cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine all ingediants and bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and spoon over individual servings of warm cake.
Hope eveyone has a Truly Wonderful Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Friday, January 26, 2007
If You Have A Great Product, Sell It!
Would like to thank everyone for their prayers for Debbie, it's been a rough few days, two days of psuedo seizures and two specialists, but looks like Neurologist #5 (that she saw Wednesday) might be able to help us pin it down, taking her to her massage therapist today...
Note: These entrepreneurial tips and others can be found in the blog's archives at:
From July 26, 2006:
To help the new readers understand why the Blog Bunch Merchandise project is called iamnotagenious.com and why we are all sticking our tongues out, here's a re-post from May 25, 2006 when this idea began...
For an easy way to get to the older posts I refer to, click here, then scroll down a little till you see the "Blog Archive" box on your left, enter the date of the older post in it, and click "Go"
Although he should have known better, in his reply to May 22nd's post, Kent Hutchison of the CJ Baxter Group (the #1 Guru Behind MikeyWear's success) mistakenly referred to me as a "genious" and I am going to address this now, before it gets out of hand...
As I wrote in May 14th's post, after discovering three voids in the infant and toddler clothing market, with no marketing experience I decided to pursue the American Dream by having them made and selling MikeyWear, and have used the time it's taken to get he word out to learn as much as I can, about not only infant and toddler clothing, but business and making an honest living in general, then taken what I have learned and given serious thought to it all, you could say that what the drugs I had done (note: been off them for a little over 16 years) to my brain have given me an advantage, because I have no other choice than to do this to be successful with MikeyWear, and this in no way whatsoever makes me a "genious."
While doing this I've found that a lot of the stuff I've been told that I must do or does not work is not based on the experience of the person telling me, but I don't automatically discard what I've been told and take a closer look at it to find variations of it that will work, for example...
I've been told uncountable times that I won't be able to sell my products online, unless I am able to get keywords like "infant clothing" and "toddler clothing" to rank MikeyWear.Com high in search engines, by folks that did not have experience at significantly increasing the sales of their products with high search engine rankings, so as was written in January 13th's post, I went to Houston to hear one of the experts at a clinic he speaks at monthly and I have to try to be humble (and it's hard!) when I agree that he is, in fact, an expert, because he spoke about how you should not depend on search engine placement and he explained ways to not have to depend on it, which I was already doing a lot of, and after still giving a lot of thought to what he said, remembered that he spoke about how search engines base their placement on how they think it will make them the most profit, so once I start selling MikeyWear, they will obviously move MikeyWear.Com's placement on up there, which will improve sales...
Every time a major retailer has one of those Entrepreneur Fairs (or whatever they decide to call them) I get emails from friends and family about them, one would think that going to them would be a good idea, but not only would the retailers make more money off all my work than myself, but unless I already had sales going I wouldn't have much to bargain with when we agree on the terms of the contract, including my being able to control the quality of MikeyWear, and if one of the executives gets mad at me after the contract is signed, all of my efforts will have been wasted and I will have to get a real job, however, if I decide to speak to them after the sales have kicked off, I will have better leverage to set my own terms...
I've been told over and over and over, etc... that junk mail doesn't work and, well, you are going to have to wait for this month's Angleton City Council report to find out about that...
I have given what I have been told about 30 second elevator speeches a whole lot of thought and have yet to be able to figure out how to actually turn one into sales...
And regarding discussions in business meetings about how everyone should be thinking outside of the box, well, I've already covered that very extensively on this blog...
Now with that in mind, there are two groups of friends here on MySpace that I see most of them trying to sell their products in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out...
There are MLMers out there who have a product that will sell itself, trying to sell the product by establishing a downline, instead of using the product to make sales, which would result in the downline coming to them...
And I see so many extremely talented musicians busting their behinds to get the attention of the record labels, so they can sell their souls to them and be packaged by folks in the company with no imagination whatsoever and have no control over their music, and actually their lives too, while under the contract, that it makes me want to cry, when, not including all the other online resources they have available to them, with MySpace alone they can use the opportunity it gives them to be able to affordably produce and sell their CDs, as well as be able to take look at the MySpace friends in their profiles and communicate with them to schedule very profitable sold out tours, then if they want to talk to a major record label, since they are already making good money they will have the leverage to set the terms and be able to control their music and their lives, and for those that did this, if the record labels wouldn't be able to give many of them a better deal than the ones they have already made for themselves I would be very surprised...
So anyway, that's something for folks to give some thought to, hope everyone has a really great Thursday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Then Kent wrote: "But you are a genious!"
And I replied: Kent, if I can be serious for just a moment...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Plug for a good friend...
Note: This plug and other plugs can be found in the blog's archives at:
Buddy Scott of His Love Christian Counseling (a portion of the profits of MikeyWear sold with the "God Bless Texas" and "Jesus Loves Me!" designs goes to His Love) has written a wonderful book...
This book helps parents, grandparents, or guardians recover their children or grandchildren from the wrong crowd and/or inappropriate attitudes and behaviors. Buddy shows you what to do and gives you examples of how to do it. He explains what to say and gives you examples of how to say it. In addition, Relief serves as a how-to book for preparing younger children for less dangerous journeys through teen years.
Buddy has helped Deb and I make it through the "family matters" that I have refered to and his book has been a part of it, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Grandmother Vera's Coffee Icing!
Would like to remind everyone that "Chickasha Oklahoma Legend" Grandmother Vera's Recipes that are posted here can all be viewed on one page in the blog's archives at:
Coffee Icing
3 tbs soft oleo - 1/8 tsp salt
3 drops of vanilla extract
1/4 cup hot stong coffee
3 cups confectioner's sugar
Mix oleo, salt, vanilla, and coffee in a blender until smooth. Gradually add sugar at slow speed. If the frosting is watery add a little more sugar. If it's too thick add a little hot water or more coffee.
Hope everyone is having a Wonderful Wednesday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Resolutions...
Well, I'm a little late on this, but it's for a reason...
Bringing in the new year 1989, I made a new year's resolution to stop trying to quit drinking and drugging, which was basically a resolution to give up and die, fortunately I contiunued my failure record on new year's resolutions and didn't keep that one either and in October of that year I wasn't dead and couldn't take it any more and started doing something about my drinking and drugging, since then I've continued to do something about my drinking and drugging, so I haven't drank or done drugs since then...
Considering what the consequences would have been if I had kept that new year's resolution (especially since the doctors had told me that I wouldn't live to see 1991 if I didn't quit drinking and drugging, and yeah, October of 1989 was cutting it pretty close), I've made a point of not making any more new year's resolutions since then...
Then coming up to 2007, coffee was tearing me up and the tax on cigarettes in Texas was going up $1 a pack at the stroke of midnight...
So about a week before new year's eve, I gave up coffee, then mailed my Mikey Cartoon coffee mug to a man I look up to (more on him when I complete his course), have had a few cups since then, but didn't have a 2nd cup (which was the problem) on the few times I had a cup, so that's working out OK so far...
Now regarding cigarettes, since January 2nd I've been asking God to help me quit smoking, still smoking and I continue to pray, it's probably a good thing I didn't try to quit on the 2nd, because Debbie's health problems started back up and she was in another hospital emergency room on the 10th, so I had some Marlboros with me when it happened and didn't have to apologize to the hospital staff this time, and God will help me stop smoking when he decides it's time...
Meanwhile, although we haven't found a doctor that's been able to figure out what's wrong with Debbie (at the end of this month, she will have been going to emergency rooms and different specialist for three years now, even had an optometrist check her out a couple of weeks ago, and he has a relative that's going through the same thing that's happening to Debbie, go figure), the only thing they have all agreed on, other than she is not having seizures, is that stress has something to do with her problems...
So today I took Debbie to a registered massage therapist friend and he worked on her for an hour, he found bunches and bunches and bunches etc... of stress bumps on her and worked on as many of them as he could in that hour, hope to take her back to him on Tuesday (finally getting a cable connection for this computer on Monday to go with the gig of RAM I got for it Saturday) and Friday next week, then schedule her for weekly visits after that...
And on Wednesday I will be signing her up with one of the local gyms (probably Curves) so she can work out her stress that way a few times a week...
In the mean time, after today's massage therapy, she went to bed early and is sleeping like a baby, so after posting this I'm going to go outside for a Marlboro and then join her in bed, hope everyone has a Truly Wonderful Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Ps: Dream Big, Expect Much, And Laugh While Accomplishing Greatness!
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