tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81391402024-03-08T00:36:09.730-08:00Gina's Random ThoughtsWho am I? Daughter, Friend, Sister, Aunt, God Mother,Teacher, Disabilty Advocate, Breast Cancer Survivor, Liberal, Proud Christian, Denver Bronco's Diehard, Alpha Phi Alumnea, WSU Shocker Fan, Poker Girl, Rosie Fan & so much more.Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1540675376731577082007-04-15T21:31:00.000-07:002007-04-15T21:41:57.477-07:00Pinks words, My thoughts<div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>PINK LYRICS</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>"Dear Mr. President"(feat. Indigo Girls)</strong></span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Dear Mr. President,Come take a walk with me.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Let's pretend we're just two people andYou're not better than me.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>What do you feel when you look in the mirror?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Are you proud?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you walk with your head held high?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Can you even look me in the eye</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>And tell me why?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Dear Mr. President,Were you a lonely boy?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Are you a lonely boy?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Are you a lonely boy?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How can you say</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>No child is left behind?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>We're not dumb and we're not blind.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>They're all sitting in your cells</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>While you pave the road to hell.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>I can only imagine what the first lady has to say</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you walk with your head held high?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Can you even look me in the eye?</strong></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Let me tell you 'bout hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Minimum wage with a baby on the way</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Let me tell you 'bout hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Let me tell you 'bout hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Building a bed out of a cardboard box</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Let me tell you 'bout hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>You don't know nothing 'bout hard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Hard workHard work</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>OhHow do you sleep at night?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>How do you walk with your head held high?</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Dear Mr. President,You'd never take a walk with me.</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>Would you?</strong></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font 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You have to type the <strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">1ST</span></strong> thing that comes to mind whenever you hear these 38 things. You can't think and go back and change your answers. Feel free to repost it. Here we go:<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">1. Beer:<br />Ice cold w/ Tomato juice<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">2. Anorexic:<br />sad sickness<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc33;"><strong>3. Relationship:<br />commitment<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">4. Purple:<br />Dawn & Heather love purple<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">5. Power Rangers:<br />ick<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">6. weed:<br />dandelions<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">7. Steroids:<br />small balls<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">8. Cartoons:</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">Family Guy<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">9. The President:<br />Sucks ASS & many other bad things<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">10. Tupperware:<br />expensive<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc33;"><strong>11. Florida:<br />Disney World<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">12. Santa Clause:<br />Jolly happy dude<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">13. Halloween:<br />spooky</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">14. Bon Jovi:<br />Hot<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">15. Grammar:<br />Love it<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#993399;">16: Myspace:<br />.com<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">17. Worst fear:<br />failure<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">18. Marriage:<br />divorce<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>19. Paris Hilton:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>rich bitch<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">21. Redheads:<br />Freckles</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#00cccc;">22. Bleach Blonde's:<br />Blonde jokes<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">23. Pass the time:<br />huh?</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">24. One night stands:<br />plead the 5th</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#993399;">25. Donald Trump:<br />Dump Truck /Asshole<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#cc0000;">26. Neverland:<br />Peter Pan<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">27. Pixie Stix:<br />Camp guys snorting</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>28. Vanilla Ice cream?<br />chocolate sauce<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">30. High school:<br />West High</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#00cccc;">31. Pajamas:<br />comfy<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">32. Woody:</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">Woodpecker</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">33. Wet Sock:</span><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Gross</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">34. Alcohol:</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Rubbing?</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">35. Love:</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">complicated</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>36. My best friends:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>Rock</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;">37. The Bible:</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">truth</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#339999;">38. Heartache:</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Sucks</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-86626154292216193882007-04-01T08:12:00.000-07:002007-04-09T09:39:07.279-07:00PatheticOver 2 months have passed since my last post.<br />Pathetic!<br />No excuse. I have no idea where time goes.<br />Oh well. <br />All I can do is try harder.<br />Wish me luck.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-28494592813346560392007-01-18T09:38:00.000-08:002007-01-21T19:26:12.873-08:00Another Borrowed Meme<strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">Ten movies you’d watch over and over:<br />1. Grease<br />2. Jerry McGuire<br />3. Mannequin<br />4. How To Lose A Guy in 10 days<br />5. Both Miss Congeniality<br />6. Clerks<br />7. 50 First Dates<br />8. Mr. Deeds<br />9. Jersey Girl<br />10. Pretty Woman</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Nine people you enjoy the company of:<br />1. Jenn U<br />2. Jenni<br />3. Jen W<br />4. Laurie<br />5. My Mom<br />6. All of my poker buddies<br />7. Suz<br />8. Tammy<br />9. All of my </strong></span><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong><span style="color:#990000;">children</span><br /><br />Eight things you’re wearing:<br />1. Glasses<br />2. Watch</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">3. T-shirt<br />4. Pants<br />5. Bracelets<br />6. Socks<br />7. Bra<br />8. Shoes</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong><span style="color:#ff9900;">Seven things on your mind:<br />1. Tonight's</span> <span style="color:#ff9900;">Shocker</span> <span style="color:#ff9900;">game.<br />2. How tired I get typing</span>.<br /><span style="color:#ff9900;">3. Money struggles<br />4. Did Dawn make it back</span> <span style="color:#ff9900;">NOLA?<br />5. My visit with Jenn B and Jaxon.<br />6. Friends I haven't heard from in a long time!!<br />7. How much I LOVE blogging.</span><br /></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"><strong>Six objects you touch every day:<br />1. Soda can<br />2. Brush<br /></strong></span><strong><span style="color:#009900;">3. Glasses<br />4. Wheelchair<br />5. Phone<br />6. My washcloth<br /></span></strong><span style="color:#006600;"><br /><strong>Five things you do everyday:<br />1. Drive chair<br />2. Take Medicine<br />3. Brush hair<br />4. Wash face<br />5. Put on glasses</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><strong>Four bands or musical artists that you couldn’t live without:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><strong>1. Chris Cagle</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><strong>2. Alabama</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><strong>3. Rascal Flatts</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#336666;"><strong>4. Martina McBride</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Three of your favorite songs of the moment:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1. She's Everythjng</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2. I Wonder--Kellie Pickler</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>3. Wasted-Carrie U.</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;"><strong>Two people who have influenced your life the most:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#330099;"><strong>1. My parents</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#330099;"><strong>2. My Best girl friends</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#663366;"><strong>One person who has been nice to you today:</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"><strong>1. Tammy</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-41209003787679419642006-12-26T18:42:00.000-08:002006-12-26T19:51:38.881-08:00The Top 25 Highs and Lows of 2006<em>Although there have been so many bad, crappy, horrible, rotten, awful, (and the list goes on...) things this year, there have some pretty great things this year. I'll bet you'll be able to seperate them as you read the list. They are going to be in no particular order.<br /><br /></em><span style="color:#990000;">1. The loss of my father. It was quick, unexpected and one of the worst happenings of not only the year but, my entire life.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">2. The loss of my dear friend Regina. Also quick and unexpected. The worst part is that I had no idea how much I loved her before she was gone. She was truly one of best friends! I'll NEVER forget her.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">3. The end of / or close to the end of some of best friends marriages. I'm happy when they are happy. These things started out bad but, could be viewed as good. Depends on who you ask.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;">4. Laurie got rid of Jesse and together with who we all hope is her true love. Soul mate if you please. My nephew Dustin.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#009900;">5. Tammy's moving home!!! Yes!!!! I'll be glad to have home. Close to me! </span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"><br /></span><span style="color:#3333ff;">6. Baby Jaxon was born. He's made so many people happy. Especially his mommy & daddy!<br />Changed their lives forever!<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#ff6600;">7. Baby Amelia was born to Paul & Shannon. The waited and worked so hard to get their blessing. Words could never truly express hoe terrific this event was.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#6666cc;">8. The Democrats took control back. Yippee!!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">9. Rosie's back on T.V. I love the view. Down with DT!!!!<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#33cc00;">10. Jennifer moved in with Chris.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">11. My nephew graduated from high school. (Dustin) I'm so proud!!!!<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">12. Robert and Jen shacked up... ummm he's not just visiting I'm tellin!!!!!!!!!!!!:)<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#009900;">13. Jen went back to school. Can't wait for her to be rich!!!:)<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#ff6600;">14. My mom and I have gotten closer. We spend lots of time together enjoying our favorite past time POKER!!!!!<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">15. My mom lost her job. She worked there for 11 years before they closed the doors..<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#ffcc00;">16. I got some Sugar Gliders. Ace and Jackson are their names. We got them from some good poker friends.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#3366ff;">17. My good friends spent a Saturday giving my mom's room a makeover. Garage sale still to come.<br /><br /></span>18. Laurie broke her foot... This made for a long 6 weeks.<br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">19. Denise quit. Tanner came back.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#00cccc;">20. I recently spent 4 days in the hospital with a lung infection... Came home with oxygen.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff9900;">21. Started fifth year cancer free. 4 down 1 to go.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#cc66cc;">22. Jasmine turned 12. Half a cat life.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">23. Dawn finally got to go back to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">24. Trisha (One from Nebraska) got engaged. Can't wait to meet him.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">25. Laurie moved across the parking lot. See next year's list to find out if this is good or bad.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-86190961112679933852006-11-24T07:55:00.000-08:002006-11-24T08:17:18.982-08:00Borrowed from Jennifer B<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4484/993/1600/880550/Candy.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4484/993/320/165107/Candy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#006600;">Holiday</span><span style="color:#cc0000;"> Time</span> <span style="color:#006600;">Meme<br /></span><span style="color:#cc0000;">1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Neither...Coffee with Cream and Sugar</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Santa doesn't have time to wrap the gifts. Besides, that delays how long before we can play with them</span>.</div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? colored</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">4. Do you hang mistletoe? Who doesn't love mistletoe?</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">5. When do you put up your decorations?Usually right before Thanksgiving...Running late this year.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?Stuffing</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? When I was young we spent Christmas eve with my grandparents and then on Christmas day EVERYONE even 3rd cousins went to Tammy's for Christmas day. This was our tradition for many years.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What truth about Santa?</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">9.</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?Yes, with my mom!</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">10</span><span style="color:#006600;">. What kind of decorations are on your tree? mix & match</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">11.</span> <span style="color:#cc0000;">Snow! Love it or dread it? Dread going out in it but, love to look at it.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">12</span>. <span style="color:#006600;">Can you ice skate? hmmmm</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Kitchen set from Santa.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?being with my family</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Choc Pie & Frosted Sugar Cookies</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? See # 7</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">17. What tops your tree? A Star</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">18. Which do you prefer? Giving</span></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">19. What is your favorite Christmas song?Frosty the Snowman & I'll be home for Christmas.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">20. Candy canes: Yuck or yummy?YUCK TO EAT BUT CUTE TO LOOK AT!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-27567789904787907592006-11-13T18:13:00.000-08:002006-11-13T18:20:48.950-08:00Borrowed From MichelleThought this was cute!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color:#006600;">~<strong>WORDS WOMEN USE~</strong></span><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;">FINE<br />This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.<br /></span><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#6600cc;">FIVE MINUTES<br />If she is getting dressed, this is half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given 5 more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.</span><br /><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;">NOTHING<br />This is the calm before the storm. This means "something," and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with 'Nothing' usually end in "Fine."<br /></span><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#ff6600;">GO AHEAD<br />This is a dare, not permission. Don't do it.<br /></span><br /></strong><span style="color:#cc9933;"><strong>LOUD SIGH<br />This is not actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A "Loud Sigh" means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you over "Nothing". <span style="color:#000000;">THAD's Favorite ;)</span></strong></span><strong><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#006600;">THAT'S OKAY<br />This is one of the most dangerous statements that a woman can make to a man. "That's Okay" means that she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.</span><br /><br /></strong><strong><span style="color:#000099;">THANKS<br />A woman is thanking you. Do not question it or faint. Just say you're welcome.</span><br /><br /></strong><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>WHATEVER<br />It's a woman's way of saying *!#@ YOU!</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1163309536466744592006-11-11T20:55:00.000-08:002006-11-13T18:13:28.129-08:00Where I've been...<strong>Still here -- Borrowed Dawn's Layout for catching up.<br /></strong><br />-- I'm still very much enjoying <span style="color:#cc0000;">Texas Hold'em</span> along with all of my poker pals as well as my momma. We play every chance we get. On a good week, we fit in 5-7 sessions. I find this is often what keeps me going. Great stress relief.<br /><br />--With the loss of <span style="color:#ff0000;">Regina</span>, I've taken on as much as possible to help Jake with <span style="color:#ff6600;">Cody & Kaylee</span>. I have them anywhere from 2-4 evenings and some Saturdays. I'm actually going to have them all day tomorrow while Jake puts tile down in the kitchen and does some other repairs. I'm also helping Cody with homework 2 nights a week. Huge improvements in <span style="color:#000099;">reading and spelling</span> over the last few weeks. Love That!!!<br /><br />--<span style="color:#006600;">Trying to teach atleast 2-3 times a week</span>. I've been at Bryant (where Cody & Laurie are) and at Rea Woodman. Both are great schools.<br /><br />--Aside from <span style="color:#663366;">sub finder and reading your blogs</span>, I spend very little time on the computer. By the time I'm alone and ready to blog, my arms are too tired!<br /><br />--It's Football and Basketball season. Go <span style="color:#000099;">Broncos</span> and <span style="color:#ffcc33;"><strong>Shocks</strong></span>!<br /><br />--I went to Jay's <strong><span style="color:#cc33cc;">wedding.</span></strong> Got to see Suz. Was fun!<br /><br />--I won <span style="color:#6633ff;">free hotel stay in Vegas</span> by playing poker. Hope to go by Spring.<br /><br />--My poor mom is super stressed. Rick and Chris are very little help. She might sell the house. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Sad!!!</span><br /><br />--I can't wait for <span style="color:#990000;">Tammy</span> to move home!<br /><br />--<span style="color:#ff6600;">Bre and I</span> need to get our pics ASAP!<br /><br />--Looking forward to seeing<strong> </strong><span style="color:#ffcc00;"><strong>Suz</strong> </span>at Christmas.<br /><br />--Hope to get to see <span style="color:#006600;">Dawn and Jenn B</span> too.<br /><br />--<span style="color:#000099;">Jenni and Jason</span> went to a <span style="color:#cc0000;">NE football game</span>.<br /><br />--<span style="color:#6600cc;">Jen W</span> is moving in with <span style="color:#6600cc;">Chris</span>! ooooooooo<br /><br />--<span style="color:#990000;">Jen U and Robert</span> are moving on up to a bigger better pad.<br /><br />--<span style="color:#ff6600;">Laurie </span>is excited for Dustin to move in soon.<br /><br />--<span style="color:#006600;">Trisha Girmus</span> is excited to get married in July. Yippee!<br /><br />OK--I'm exhausted.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1159928654917796182006-10-03T19:07:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.995-08:00Gimp's, Rosie & Clean Sweep<strong>I had no idea there were so many Gimp/Crip based blogs out there. </strong><br /><strong>Go to the </strong><a href="http://thegimpparade.blogspot.com/"><strong>Gimp Parade</strong></a><strong> to check them out. </strong><br /><strong>There are tons of links on the right side. </strong><br /><strong>I really like the Angry Gimp.</strong><br /><strong>Enjoy!</strong><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Rosie's on Nip / Tuck tonight.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>She plays a woman who wins big in the lottery.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>$381 Million</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Buys Lypo & sex w/ one of the hottie doctors.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Love her!</strong></span><br /><strong></strong><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>So this last weekend was the big "Clean Sweep" @ my mom's.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Thanks to my best friends who slaved away all of Sat.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Digging, Sorting & Painting.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Thanks so much!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Jenni, Jen U, Laurie, Robert, Dustin & Rick.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Also thank you Robert & Dustin for picking up TV stand.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>My mom also worked her buns off.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Thanks to my Aunt's who helped with supplies</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>and getting my mom a new bed, shades, throw rug & lamp.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Also thanks to my sister-in-law Jenn who helped to put the room</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>back together on Sun.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"><strong>Stay tuned for before & after pictures.<br /><br /></strong></span><span style="color:#990000;"><strong></strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1159839663194192692006-10-02T18:35:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.910-08:00Picture of Laurie's Tatoo<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/1600/tattoo%20001.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/320/tattoo%20001.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />I went with her to get it.<br />My pleasure.<br />Electric Chair... Cool place.<br />I'm looking forward to going back.<br />My tatoo needs help.<br />Stay tuned for updates...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1158718301516206632006-09-19T19:01:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.801-08:00My Semi-Lame Life<span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Oh where to start?</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I have a few thing going on but, nothing too exciting.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I've decided that's not all bad.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I'm teaching.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Love it!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I actually get excited to go to work.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I'm still playing as much hold 'em as I can.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Sometimes I even play well. </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Last week was okay.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Hope this week is even better.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I'm doing what I can to help Jake with K & C.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I love every minute with them.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I'm going to be tutoring Cody two times a week.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Love them so!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>I have great friends.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Some are getting divorced,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Some are trying to stay together,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Some are VERY happy (the ones who are dating not married).</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Laurie got a tattoo.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Got to go watch. </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Oh so fun. </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Check her site to see pictures soon.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Excited Kim has blog.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong>Wish Suz would too!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"><strong></strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1157941719830857262006-09-10T19:16:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.687-08:00Saw Carrie at the Fair<span style="font-size:130%;"><em>Words of hope and advice for a couple of struggling friends.</em></span><br /><br /><strong>Wasted</strong><br />Carrie Underwood<br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">Standing at the back door she tried to make it fast<br />One tear hit the hardwood, it fell like broken glass<br />She said sometimes love slips away<br />And you just can’t get it back lets face it<br />For one split second she almost turned around<br />But that would be like pouring raindrops back into a cloud<br />So she took another step and said<br />I see the way out and i’m gonna take it<br /><br />I don’t wanna spend my life jaded, waiting<br />To wake up one day and find<br />That i let all of these years go by wasted<br /><br />Another glass of whiskey, but it still don’t kill the pain<br />He stumbles to the sink and pours it down the drain<br /><br />He said it’s time to be a man and stop<br />living for yesterday<br />Gotta face it<br /><br />I don’t wanna spend my life jaded, waiting<br />To wake up one day and find<br />That i let all of these years go by wasted<br />I don’t wanna keep on wishing, missing<br />The still of the morning, the color of the night<br />I ain’t spending no more time wasted<br /><br />She kept driving along ‘til the moon and the sun<br />Were floating side by side<br />He looked in the mirror and his eyes were clear<br />For the first time in a while<br /><br />I don’t wanna spend my life jaded, waiting<br />To wake up one day and find That i let all of these years go by wasted<br />I don’t wanna keep on wishing, missing<br />The still of the morning, the color of the night<br />I ain’t spending no more time wasted</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1157505778140689932006-09-05T18:21:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.559-08:003-0 in Canada.<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/1600/wsubanner.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/320/wsubanner.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><strong>Unselfish play keys WSU trip to Canada<br />BY PAUL SUELLENTROP<br />The Wichita Eagle</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Forget about the new guys for a minute, because intriguing as they are, they will only be as successful as the old guys allow.<br /><br />That should be no problem. Delay conclusions on Wichita State's basketball season until the Shockers play real games. However, it does appear the 10 days of practice and three exhibition games confirmed that the Shockers are willing to play the kind of unselfish, ego-free basketball that carried them to the Missouri Valley Conference title and NCAA Tournament last season.<br /><br />"Coach beats that into our head," WSU senior Ryan Martin said. "Guys that are back from last year, we already know what coach expects. It's just getting the new guys accustomed to how we play."<br /><br />The Shockers were not always perfect in victories over Simon Fraser (87-62) and Trinity Western (92-63) on Saturday and British Columbia (72-66) on Sunday. But their eagerness to pass up mostly open shots to get a teammate a totally open one stood out. The Shockers spent a lot of time trying to make their teammates look good.<br /><br />Saturday night, forward Phil Thomasson turned down a short jumper to throw crosscourt to P.J. Couisnard, who had an open three from the wing. Couisnard passed to the top of the key, and the ball made its way to the opposite wing, then inside to Thomasson, who was fouled. That was typical for the Shockers, whether it was junior Matt Braeuer or freshman Gal Mekel on the fast break, or Couisnard or Kyle Wilson reversing the ball around the perimeter. The Shockers forced some shots and got wild with some passes, but never for long periods.<br /><br />"They are extremely well coached and a very disciplined team," British Columbia coach Kevin Hanson said.<br /><br />That showed up even late in blowouts, when WSU coach Mark Turgeon tried to run plays for walk-ons David King and Derek Brown. Reserve guard Wendell Preadom and center Ryan Bradley got the same treatment at other times. Kyle Wilson led WSU in scoring twice, Martin once. Four other Shockers reached double figures at least once in the three games and Mekel and Preadom each topped out at nine.<br /><br />WSU junior Sean Ogirri calls that attitude his favorite part of the August practice sessions.<br /><br />"Everyone's unselfish," he said last week. "No one really cares who scores. Everyone's just playing as well as they can and as hard as they can. That's what made us Wichita State."<a name="recent_comm"></a><br /><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>WHAT'S NEXT???</strong><br /><br /><strong>BACKCOURT</strong><br />WSU coach Mark Turgeon has many options in his backcourt. Matt Braeuer looked fast and in charge and he shot well in Canada. Sean Ogirri did not shoot well, but that will not last. Karon Bradley only played one game, but he is a known quantity. Unknown quantities Gal Mekel and Wendell Preadom showed enough. Mekel is a lot like a running back who has not learned to follow his blockers. He will make fewer mistakes when he grows more patient.<br /><br /><strong>FRONTCOURT</strong><br />The frontcourt situation is not as settled, and that is where decisions await. The Shockers are small, and that showed up at times in Canada when they allowed opponents to rebound and score inside.<br />Seniors Kyle Wilson and Ryan Martin are set. They are both experienced and both play hard. Wilson's offense will be more important this season without Paul Miller around, and he should be ready. What's not to love about Martin? He hustles on every play, digs for rebounds and plays smart. Turgeon made sure to play P.J. Couisnard at the power forward spot, because he may be needed.<br />Junior Phil Thomasson looked comfortable in Canada, and should step in right away. However, he hasn't done it over the grind of the season. Neither has sophomore Ryan Bradley, who looked improved in Canada. This is likely where the redshirt decision comes in. How many of the three freshmen big men can help this season? Does Turgeon go with Arbry Butler, an athletic shot blocker? J.T. Durley and his inside scoring? Or Chris Brown, who can a little of everything, and is probably the best outside shooter of the group?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1157422981290716692006-09-04T19:14:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.465-08:00Oh Happy Tuesday! Rosie's Back!!!!<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/1600/rosie-barbara-4.jpg"><strong><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/320/rosie-barbara-4.jpg" border="0" /></strong></a><strong> Rosie Outlook for "The View"by Joal Ryan </strong><br /><strong>Apr 29, 2006, 10:30 AM PT</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,25993,00.html">Rosie O'Donnell</a> is the latest aftershock in the <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,46066,00.html">Katie Couric</a> earthquake.<br /><br />With Couric <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18729,00.html">leaving</a> NBC's Today to anchor CBS' Evening News and <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,70768,00.html">Meredith Vieira</a> <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18740,00.html">leaving</a> ABC's The View to replace Couric on Today, O'Donnell will leave her house to replace Vieira on The View.<br /><br />"We were amazed when she said yes, and we were thrilled," said View maven <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,18033,00.html">Barbara Walters</a> in formally introducing O'Donnell as her show's new cohost at the <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18919,00.html">Daytime Emmys</a> Friday, one day after word of the hire was first reported by Extra.<br /><br />O'Donnell, who joined Walters on the Emmys stage, said she was honored to be asked.<br />"Thank God," O'Donnell quipped, "it was either that or Celebrity Fit Club."<br /><br />In a posting on her blog early Saturday, O'Donnell wrote that Walters extended the View invite at a screening of "the hbo [sic] documentary," presumably, All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise, about her <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14492,00.html">cruise-ship trips</a> for gay and lesbian families.<br /><br />O'Donnell wrote that she said yes immediately to Walters' offer. She said Walters, a "feminist super hero," the first woman to coanchor a network nightly news program, belonged to her "4 u anything--file."<br /><br />Blogged O'Donnell: "this one soared/b4 women were allowed."<br /><br />O'Donnell will start her new job in September, the same month Couric and Vieira are to start their new jobs.<br /><br />In scoring the gig, O'Donnell trumps chief rumored Vieira replacement <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,70093,00.html">Patricia Heaton</a>, late of <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Tv/0,1588,21,00.html">Everybody Loves Raymond</a>.<br /><br />There was no mention of O'Donnell on Friday morning's edition of the The View as the episode was pre-taped in order to allow the New York-based cast to fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys. And it was impossible to tell what the cast thought of O'Donnell at the Emmys as there were no reaction shots of the incumbent cohosts as the announcement was made on the telecast.<br /><br />Barring a cast overhaul, O'Donnell's View counterpoints will be longtime coffee-klatch members Walters, Joy Behar, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,71925,00.html">Star Jones Reynolds</a> and <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,70330,00.html">Elizabeth Hasselbeck</a>. O'Donnell and Reynolds go way back: Reynolds has lost 150 pounds in the last two years; O'Donnell has taken jabs at Reynolds for attributing her weight loss to "pilates [sic] and will power."<br /><br />In "Star View," a March 29 free-form entry on her blog, O'Donnell wrote, "any fatty will tell u/it is nearly impossible to go/from where she was/to where she is/without medical intervention."<br />Reynolds, who recently confirmed a <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,18658,00.html">breast lift</a>, has denied having had gastric bypass surgery.<br />As for O'Donnell, she is a "fat 43-year-old menopausal ex-talk show host," according to her somewhat-inaccurate blog bio. (She's actually 44.) She is better known as a stand-up comic turned character actress (<a href="http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/0,60,30206,00.html">Sleepless in Seattle</a>, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/0,60,27739,00.html">A League of Their Own</a>) turned daytime TV queen.<br /><br />From 1996 to 2002, as the Broadway-boosting, <a href="http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/Bio/0,128,34,00.html">Tom Cruise</a>-crushing star of The Rosie O'Donnell Show, O'Donnell won six Daytime Emmys as Outstanding Talk Host. In the late 1990s, Newsweek dubbed her the Queen of Nice for being a bright light in a murky sea of Sally Jessy Raphaels, Geraldos and Jerry Springers.<br /><br />O'Donnell <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,9989,00.html">vacated her desk job</a> for the same reason she originally sought it out: To spend more time with family. She and partner Kelli Carpenter are parents to four children, one of whom Carpenter <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10909,00.html">gave birth</a> to in 2002. (O'Donnell gave her version of Ellen DeGeneres' "Yup, I'm gay" <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,9656,00.html">interview</a> to ABC News in 2002.)<br /><br />After her show ended, O'Donnell developed a reputation for being not nice. Much of her image was fueled by a <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13134,00.html">protracted legal battle</a> over her <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10693,00.html">defunct women's magazine</a>, Rosie.<br />In recent years, O'Donnell has maintained a low profile, even while producing a <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,12431,00.html">Broadway flop</a>, launching the cruise line, and venting about <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,16421,00.html">David Letterman's show</a> others on her blog.<br /><br />In a round-about way, O'Donnell has President Bush, of whom she is a vocal critic, to thank for her View appointment. If the CBS Evening News hadn't been gotten into <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15005,00.html">hot water</a> for its reporting on the President's National Guard years, anchor Dan Rather might not have been <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,15402,00.html">pushed to resign</a>, Couric might not have been <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,17896,00.html">wooed</a> by CBS to replace him, Vieira might not have been pursued by NBC to replace Couric, and O'Donnell might not have been asked by Walters to replace Vieira.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"><strong>Funny but, Rosie owe the horrible man nothing!!!!!!!</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1157422414907248792006-09-04T19:06:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.332-08:00On A Lighter Note...<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/1600/invescologo.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/320/invescologo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>Football Starts this Sunday! Go Broncos!</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>The Broncos will kickoff their season aggainst the St. Louis Rams.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>I can hardly wait!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>It'll be a great way to relax after a full day at the fair. </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>We're going to see Carrie Underwood!</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><strong>Yippee!</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1157420803471349692006-09-04T18:27:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.241-08:00Reflection<span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>It occured to me this morning just how odd life can be.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>For years Labor Day Week-end meant one thing.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Telethon.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Now that word Telethon didn't stand for what you think.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>It didn't really mean... Raise lots of money for Jerry's Kids.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Not to me atleast.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Sure,It meant, I'd work my butt off to raise that money to help the best way I could.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>The difference is the motivation.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Telethon meant </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>I got to go to KAKE,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Stay up ALL Night,<br />See all of my best camp friends,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Relive that one week in the summer when EVERYTHING was perfect.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>We'd talk about it the whole two months between camp & telethon.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Then we'd gather in the studio to watch camp clips, </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>or stories of our friends lives... I'd feel touched.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Now when I watch it as the Adult they pushed away.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>I watch those same clips without those warm feelings of the previous camp.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Instead of warm and touched, I feel sick.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Not because I'm not a part of it but, because I can truly see threw it.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>MDA started out as a good organization but, somewhere along the way...</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>The lost it.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Every plea was about a cure.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>A cure would be great for the future but, </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>What about those of us who already live with it day to day?</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>MDA should remember those who have MD and buy</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Wheelchairs, Ramps, Lifts and other assitive devices intead of focusing soley on Research.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>That's only half of my whole rant...</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>The other can be summed up in one word. </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>If you know me you'll understand.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>MDA needs to lose the PITY plea.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Sick...Sick...Sick</strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1156295594554520092006-08-22T18:10:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.093-08:00So Glad We Got Ours!<strong>WSU season tickets gone<br />Sales reflect growing basketball excitement</strong><br />BY PAUL SUELLENTROP<br />The Wichita Eagle<br /><br />Two of the best seats in Koch Arena lasted until the very end. Wichitan Larry Kloefkorn bought the last two season tickets available this season for Wichita State basketball Monday morning. He spent more than he planned, and he and his wife, Mary, will sit nine rows apart in Section 106. But he did it, providing another example of the over-the-top excitement for the Shockers.<br /><br />WSU season tickets are sold out -- more than two months before the first game -- likely for the first time since the era of Antoine Carr and Cliff Levingston in the early 1980s. Koch Arena is the place to be once again in Wichita, and fans will gladly sit in the last row with an unobstructed view to be part of the yellow-and-black craziness.<br /><br />Kloefkorn, 44, won't have to sit in the last row. His seats are close to the action, maybe too close for his taste. He is a big college basketball fan who watched the Shockers on TV last season. He put his name on the waiting list in March.<br /><br />When WSU coach Mark Turgeon signed a 10-year extension on his contract in April -- after the Shockers' run to the NCAA Sweet 16 -- Kloefkorn decided the program's future would be worth the investment. He has lived in Wichita since 1988 and attended games on occasion. This is his first run as a season-ticket holder.<br /><br />"The difference is Mark Turgeon," Kloefkorn said. "He signed an extension -- and I know those don't mean a whole lot -- but I hope it means a little something."<br /><br />WSU had 40 tickets remaining Thursday, and sold 38 of those by closing time Friday. Two people on the waiting list called Monday morning and weren't interested. A third visited Koch Arena and declined.<br /><br />That gave Kloefkorn his shot at two seats near center court. The seats -- Row 2, Seat 5 and Row 11, Seat 7 -- lasted until the end in large part because they require a $2,000 donation to the Shocker Athletic Scholarship Association.<br /><br />The donation -- plus $439 for the two tickets -- caused Kloefkorn to reconsider, but he decided it was worth it to get in the building. He wants to be able to move his seats in future seasons.<br />Monday, he considered himself fortunate to be in the right spot on a waiting list that still numbers around 250.<br /><br />In the WSU ticket office, assistant athletic director Megan McKenna planned to reward her staff with an ice cream party Monday afternoon. WSU officials can't be sure when or if the arena was previously sold out. The 1981-82 season -- when the Shockers averaged 10,631 fans at Levitt Arena -- is regarded as a sold-out season, but it's not known whether all season tickets were sold in advance.<br /><br />This season, WSU has sold around 8,900 season tickets -- the number isn't specific because complimentary and staff tickets are still in limbo -- which leaves 1,000 for students and around 100 for athletic department use. Koch Arena's capacity is listed at 10,478, and WSU sold out 14 of its 16 home games last season.<br /><br />WSU athletic director Jim Schaus and Turgeon have often talked about selling out Koch Arena. Monday, after six seasons of progress under Turgeon, Kloefkorn made it happen.<br />"It seems like we dreamed of this day," Schaus said. "It's another way of substantiating that our program has moved to another level. We've created an atmosphere at Koch Arena that's renowned."<br /><br />McKenna said fans were happy to buy less-than-perfect seats Thursday as the available seats dwindled.<br /><br />"The people who came to the arena were excited to have those seats," she said. "Even behind a pole, you can see most of the game."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1156180927003914792006-08-21T10:11:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:27.006-08:00Regina will not be soon be forgotten...<span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Although she's not here with us on Earth,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>She'll always be in our hearts.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Regina died on August 16th, 2006</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>A day that will lay heavy on my heart for years to come.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>She left behind Parents,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>A Husband,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Two BEAUTIFUL Children,</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>and many friends.</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>I look forward to seeing her again...</strong></span> <br /><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>When I Get Where I'm Going -- </strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><strong>Brad Paisley with Dolly Parton</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>When I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>On the far side of the sky </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>The first thing that I'm gonna do I spread my wings and fly </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I'm gonna land beside a lion </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>And run my fingers through his mane </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Or I might find out what it's like </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>To ride a drop of rain </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>CHORUS </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Yeah, when I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>There'll be only happy tears </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I will shed the sins and struggles </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I have carried all these years </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>And I'll leave my heart wide open </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I will love and have no fear </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Yeah, when I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Don't cry for me down here</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong> </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I'm gonna walk with my grandaddy </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>And he'll match me step for step </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>And I'll tell him how I missed him </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Every moment since he left </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Then I'll hug his neck </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>CHORUS </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>So much pain and so much darkness </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>In this world we stumble through </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>All these questions I can't answer </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>So much work to do </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>But when I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>And I see my Maker's face </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>I'll stand forever in the light </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Of His amazing grace </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Yeah when I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>There'll be only happy tears </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Hallelujah I will love and have no fear </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>When I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong>Yeah, when I get where I'm going </strong></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"><strong></strong></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' 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type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1154363896350091642006-07-31T09:38:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.782-08:00Sugar Glider'sMom & I have had our babies for a full week now. We've grown pretty attached in that short amount of time. They are both male. Brothers actually. They are named after poker. Seeing as how it's our favorite pasttime and we got them from our super cool poker friends, it seems only fitting that the be named Ace & Jack. My mom say's Jack is only short for Jackson. Jack just fits the poker theme better. The sleep most of the day but, LOVE to play at night. They're so cute. Here's some info on Sugar Glidders. As soon as I get some pics, I'll post them.<br /><br /><strong>What is a Sugar Glider?</strong><br />Sugar Gliders (petarurus breviceps) are small, arboreal marsupials which originate from New Guinea and Southern Australia. As their common name entails, they possess a gliding membrane (similar to that of the flying squirrel¹s) that stretches from their wrists to their ankles and allows them to Œglide¹ from tree to tree. As with all marsupials, female sugar gliders also possess a pouch, in which they raise their young. Sugar gliders are nocturnal animals which spend almost their entire live in trees. In the wild, they live in colonies of between 6-10 gliders and spendmuch of their time foraging for food.<br /><br /><strong>What do Sugar Gliders look like?</strong><br />Sugar gliders grow to about 5-6 inches in length (excluding their long tails) and have long, bushy tails which they use for balance and can easily be the length of the body or longer. Their fur is usually grey/silver with white bellies and a black stripe which extends from the tops of their heads to the end of their tails. Males develop bald spots at the base of their heads after reaching maturity [1.5]. They have fairly large, pointy ears and large black eyes. Their face is similar to that of a possum¹s or a bat's. <br /><br />To see what they look out visit this address.<br /><a href="http://www.sugar-gliders.com/sugar-glider-photos.htm">http://www.sugar-gliders.com/sugar-glider-photos.htm</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1152757378532049492006-07-12T19:03:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.580-08:00The Miracle of LifeCongrats to my friend Kim!!!<br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Top Stories </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Firefighters, EMTs aid quick delivery </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">By Lisa Scheller, News Editor </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Wednesday, July 12, 2006 When Kim and Pete Feyerabend bought their Chrysler Stow 'n' Go van last year, they knew it would be handy. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"> advertisement </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">But until last week, the Eudora couple didn't imagine just how handy it would be. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">On the evening of July 3, three days before her due date, Kim went into labor. The couple, and their 4-year-old daughter Ashleigh, were in Basehor celebrating an early Fourth of July at the home of Pete's parents, Bob and Betty Feyerabend. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Kim had visited her doctor earlier that day. But during the afternoon and evening she had sporadic contractions, none of which were strong. Her first child had been born after a 4 1/2-hour labor, and Kim and Pete didn't expect this delivery to be much different. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Even if the baby did decide to come that evening -- sometime between the family dinner and fireworks -- they knew Basehor was a mere 25-minute drive from Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where she planned to deliver. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">But the best of plans can go awry. And in this case, they did. At 8 p.m. Kim's water broke. Almost immediately her contractions accelerated to a minute apart. They were strong. Kim and Pete both knew these contractions were for real. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">They left Ashleigh with her grandparents and headed west on U.S. Highway 24-40. By the time they neared Tonganoxie, they knew the birth was imminent. Pete dialed 911. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Then he pulled off at Tonganoxie's Laming Road -- and swung into the first driveway on the right, thinking the water tower landmark would make it easy for an ambulance to find them. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">By coincidence, the driveway into which he turned was that of the Leavenworth County Annex, which houses the county's emergency medical unit. But Pete hadn't known that. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"We had no idea," Kim said Monday. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Though they were in the right place, the ambulance was out on another call. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"About a minute later the EMS showed up, the volunteers, without the ambulance," Kim said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">At the time, Kim was still in the front passenger seat. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Pete knew there was no place to have the baby, so he rushed to lower the van's back seats, which flatten flush to the floor. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"I think I had them down in about half a minute," Pete said. "I was just kind of throwing things out of there pretty quick. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">He helped Kim into the van and sat at her head as emergency workers swirled around. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"I was more or less just helping her hold her head up ... because in the back of the van we didn't have any pillows," Pete said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">And within minutes, the couple's second daughter was born. "Goodness gracious, obviously it was pretty exciting there for a while," Pete said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"Thank goodness the EMTs or EMS, they were there so quick. That's what made it not quite so critical. They seemed to calm it down pretty well for us." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Tonganoxie Fire Chief Dave Bennett said he and other Tonganoxie firefighters had just returned from a call to check on another pregnant woman, one who didn't have her baby at that time. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"In fact, we were just getting off another pregnancy call and we hadn't even made it back to the station when we got this call," Bennett said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Bennett responded with five firefighters and EMS official Patrick Morey. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"Contractions were a minute apart when we got there," Bennett said. "And about 20 minutes later we had a baby girl named Sydney Rose." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">For Pete's parents, the evening was anxious as well. "</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">They got in the car and left," Better Feyerabend said. "Then, 10 minutes later the phone's ringing, he says Mom we're in Tonganoxie, we're not going to make it to the hospital." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Betty asked where they were. "He said, ‘We're under the blue water tower,'" Betty said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Thinking they might need their help, Betty and Bob left Ashleigh with relatives and headed to Tonganoxie. "</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">There was all kinds of help," Betty said, adding that she and her husband decided to stay out of the way. "We sat on the back of our van." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">But they soon learned everything was OK, and they even caught a fleeting glimpse of their new -- and perfectly healthy -- granddaughter bundled in a towel as she was carried to the ambulance to be taken to the hospital with Kim, who also was doing well. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">That's when Bennett, and everyone else who helped with the delivery, also could breathe a little easier. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"You would think with all the experience I've had with my own children, six of my own, I wouldn't be a big sissy, but I am," Bennett said. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">He expressed gratitude for the emergency workers, particularly two of them. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"Thank God for Pat Morey, though, and Jamie McCutchen," </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Bennett said. Bennett said a nurse practitioner also had stopped to help, but he didn't know her name. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Kim said she wasn't alarmed by the fact that her child was going to be born without her doctor present. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"I just knew that they were the ones that had to deliver her," Kim said. "There was no one else there and I knew the ambulance (even if it arrived soon) wasn't going to get me to the hospital in time." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Kim hadn't taken birthing classes. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"They coached me," she said of the emergency workers. "They told me to take deep breaths and try to stay calm." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">And shortly afterward Sydney, who weighed 7 pounds 9 ounces and was 19 inches long, was born. But Kim said she realized that even if the ambulance had been at the annex when they arrived, it's likely her baby still would have been born not at a hospital, but "in transit," as Sydney's birth certificate reads. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Mother and daughter spent two nights at Lawrence Memorial, and everything's going fine. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"I was very happy," Kim said. "Everything went good and she's doing good." </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Kim and Pete didn't know the people who delivered their baby -- including a nameless-to-them nurse practitioner who stopped to help. But, now that things have calmed down they hope to contact them. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">"We'd like to send them thank you's and thank them," Kim said. "They were calm and kept me calm, they did a good job." </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1152676290168794122006-07-11T20:48:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.443-08:00Israeli star guard set to play for Shockers<strong>Gal Mekel, the captain of the 18-and-under national team in Israel, opts for college ball in the U.S. over a shot at playing professionally at home.<br /></strong>BY PAUL SUELLENTROP<br />The Wichita Eagle<br /><br /> Former Shocker Nick Rogers got his first look at future Shocker Gal Mekel when he watched the Israeli guard throw a between-the-legs bounce pass to a cutting Kyle Wilson for a layup.<br />"He did a lot of that," Rogers said, remembering a pickup game in June at Koch Arena. "He completed most of them. He's a pass-first player."<br /> Mekel (6-foot-3, 195 pounds) said Friday he will attend Wichita State. He is regarded as one of the top talents in Europe and will captain Israel's 18-and-under team later this month in the European championships. WSU coach Mark Turgeon cannot comment on Mekel's commitment until he receives a signed financial aid agreement.<br /> Mekel visited WSU and Providence in June and also had an offer to play professionally for Maccabi Tel Aviv in his hometown. He eliminated Providence last week and decided playing time at Maccabi might be limited.<br /> "We think the best way for me to develop is in college basketball," Mekel said. "I really connected right away with (coaches) Mark and Scott (Spinelli)." He also connected with the university and city. He's a little nervous about moving a 19-hour flight from home, but he feels good about Wichita.<br /> "To leave the family, it will be very tough for me," he said. "But you have to sacrifice things to make your dream and develop. I need to do this. If all the people in Wichita take care of me and welcome me, it will be easy to leave home."<br /> Mekel visited Wichita with his father, Alon, and both liked the city and his future teammates. They believe it's the best atmosphere for Mekel to develop his skills. "He is very, very focused and very, very hard working," Alon Mekel said. "Wichita and Providence are two totally different places. Gal liked the way of life. Wichita is more quiet."<br /> Rogers, a senior on last season's WSU team, said Shocker fans will enjoy Mekel. He describes him as similar to NBA star Steve Nash, while also hesitating to start the hype on Mekel after watching a few pickup games. Nash or not, Rogers said Mekel is talented, smart and confident. He dribbles well, loves to pass and does it all on offense. Rogers was so enthralled by his ball skills, he didn't pay much attention to Mekel's defense.<br /> Turgeon might tone down Mekel's flashy passes, but Rogers said the passes usually work.<br />"He likes to have the ball in his hands," Rogers said. "He's unselfish. He won't be the quickest guard we have, but he always found a way to get his shot off. He always found a way to get all the way to the basket."<br /> Mekel wants his college experience to prepare him to become the first Israeli in the NBA. Or it could prepare him for a return to Israel and a contract with Maccabi.<br /> It wouldn't be unusual for a European player to spend a season or two in the NCAA, then return home to play professionally. WSU dipped into the foreign pool in 2001, when it signed center Sasha Mijajlovic, a Yugoslavian from Hutchinson Community College. Mijajlovic returned home during the summer and never played for WSU.<br /> Mekel said he has no plans for how long his stay at WSU might last. "I don't want to look far from this point of time," he said. "I want to get better."<br /> Mekel said playing basketball at an American university will allow him to delay the military service required of Israelis after the age of 18.<br /> Mekel attracted a lot of attention with his play in the Albert Schweitzer under-18 tournament in Germany this spring. He scored 31 points with five assists (and eight turnovers) against Spain and 29 points with six assists against the United States. He averaged 17.2 points in the tournament. He will play for the Israeli team in the European championships beginning July 18 in Greece. He said he has been invited to the Adidas SuperStar Camp in Berlin in August, then plans to come to Wichita.<br /> Mekel cannot sign a letter of intent because the NCAA signing period is over. Mekel's commitment reserves WSU's 13th and final scholarship.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1152636432243019662006-07-11T09:26:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.349-08:00I got this in an e-mail from JB<span style="color:#ff0000;">Rather than fill people's e-mail with my boring information, thought I'd share this with you all here. If you care, great. Feel free to share your answers in my comment section or to repost on your blog. If you don't care, too bad! This is my blog :)</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">4 THINGS you may not have known about me..... </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">A) Four jobs I have had in my life:<br />1. Teacher<br />2. Dispatcher<br />3. Student Assistant for Admissions @ WSU</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">4. Customer Service for Spiegel, Eddie Bauer & Newport Ne</span>ws<br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">B) Four movies I would watch over and over:<br />1. EverAfter </span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">2. Girls Just Want To Have Fun</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">3. Grease 1 & 2<br />4. ANYTHING with Matthew McConaughey ooooooh baby!<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">C)Four places I have lived....</span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">1. Concordia</span><br /><span style="color:#000066;">2. Wichita State Dorms (Fairmount & Brennan)<br />3. Scary Apartment on Battin in SE Wichita<br />4. Eaton Place in Downtown Wichita</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">D) Four TV shows I love to watch:<br />1. Gilmore Girls<br />2. ER<br />3. American Idol<br />4. Days of Our Lives</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">D2)Four Shows I miss--Loved to watch:</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">1. ED--Oh how I miss ED!!!!</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">2. Rosie's Talkshow</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">3. Third Watch</span><br /><span style="color:#3333ff;">4. 90210<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">E) Four places I have been on vacation:<br />1. Denver, Colorado<br />2. Nashville, TN<br />3. Billoxi, MS</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">4. Las Vegas</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">F) Four websites I visit daily:<br />1. Jennifer B's baby page--Cute Jaxon</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">2. Rosie's Page<br />3. Dawn's page<br />4. Hotmail</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#330099;">G) Four of my favorite foods:</span><br /><span style="color:#330099;">1. Peanut Butter Cup mix in Ice Cream from Marble slab or Cold Stone<br />2. Mexican Everything--love Tacos!<br />3. BLT's<br />4. Chicken Fried Steak and Mashed Potatoes</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#663366;">H) Four places I would rather be right now:</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">1. Las Vegas</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">2 Colorado<br />3. Tennessee<br />4. Cruise Ship</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1151460556074698862006-06-27T19:00:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.240-08:00Isn't She Cute?<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/1600/Picture%20002.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3790/537/320/Picture%20002.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Back in September, I wrote about Miss Kaylee's birthday. I promised to post some pictures when I got </strong>them<strong>. Well, for some reason I could never get them to post. Anyway, here's one Tammy took of her about 3 weeks ago. Isn't she adorable? She looks a lot like her brother. I always thought he would have made a pretty girl. Looks like I was right. Hopefully I'll have better luck with her second birthday party pictures.</strong><strong> </strong></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139140.post-1151172669812946552006-06-24T10:13:00.000-07:002006-11-13T18:13:26.124-08:00Everything Happens For A Reason...<span style="color:#ff0000;">True or False? Do you believe everything happens for a reason? I've spent the last several days thinking about this post. What to say. How to explain the happenings of the last 12 days. How to write what needs to be written. So here we go.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><em><strong>7am on Wednesday June 14th, 2006</strong></em><br />Check in at St. Francis to get PICC line IV going. By 8:15am the IV team shows up & is ready to go to work. I have horrible veins so this is a normal thing for me to need before surgery. After surveying my right arm the IV team of one man & one woman along with the help a doppler machine choose a site to begin working on my IV. Due to the length of the events that took place over the next 2.5 hours, I'm going to sum up my IV experience by saying after all that time and 12 needle sticks later we were still without an IV.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><em>About 11am</em></strong><br />They send to the 3rd floor to wait to go to Pre-Op. This is the part of the process where the re ask you all of the questions they asked you </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">during the pre admit phone call that takes about an hour. Family History, Past Illness, allergies, Medications & so on...</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong><em>Somewhere between 12:00am & 1:00pm<br /></em></strong>It's time for me to go to Pre-OP where they are going to go over all of the above again as well as hopefully get a central line in to use as the IV site. As my cart is being rolled away I begin to feel very nervous. Very unsure of this decision to have surgery. After about 5 mins or so the anesthetist came in. After looking me over, he tells me he needs to insert the breathing tube while I'm still awake. He explains how this is the only safe way to put me under anesthetia due to my MD. I have a small mouth and getting the tube down with all of those muscles under anesthetia would make inserting the tube too difficult. Not having an airway while that deeply asleep is very dangerous. Although I think this sounds horrible, I'm going to suck it up & go through with it. After we continue to visit, the anesthetist goes on to tell me I may need to remain on the ventilator for a few hours or a few days after the surgery. As you can imagine. I freaked out! That was the end of the road for me. There's no way! Imagine waking up. No glasses on. You can't move any part of your body. You can't talk. You can't reach the nurses button BUT, you need something. You feels rushes of pain and anxiety rush through your whole body. As you know, often times it's hard to people with weak lungs to get off Vents that are used for very long. Scary.<br /></span><p><span style="color:#ff0000;">Needless to say, I didn't go through with the surgery. For me the risks were far higher that I was willing to go for. What good does a pain free hip do me if I can't breathe on my own. The next day or so I doubted my decision. Now I know I made the right decision. Here's why...</span></p><p><span style="color:#000099;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Charlie Cotton</span></strong><br />Cotton, Charlie, 73, retired Aerospace Materials employee, died June 16, 2006. Visitation with family 6 - 8 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral service 10 a.m. Wednesday, both at Broadway Mortuary Chapel. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leslie and Jewell Cotton, two brothers and two sisters. Survivors include his wife, Suzette; sons, David Cotton of Towanda, Rick Cotton and Brian Cotton, both of Wichita, and Terry Cotton of Bel Aire; daughters, Gina Bauer and Amanda Cotton, both of Wichita; brothers, Carl Cotton and Claudis Lee Cotton, both of Wichita; 18 grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. Services by Broadway Mortuary.<br />Published in the Wichita Eagle from 6/18/2006 - 6/19/2006</span></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;">I can't imagine being stuck in the hospital. Not getting to go to the funeral. Missing that oh so needed family time. I loved him so much. He'll never be forgotten.</span></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><embed name='RAOCXplayer' src='http://www.videocodezone.com/playlist/1/0/6/10682_143041_1650_210548_10681_169109_671_102978_675_116912_672_713643_673_100709_10479_242884_10478_126532_679_748137_676_559478_7554_221503_11085_301799.asx' type='application/x-mplayer2' width='300' height='300' ShowControls='1' ShowStatusBar='0' loop='true' EnableContextMenu='0' DisplaySize='0' pluginspage='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/Products/MediaPlayer/'></embed><br><font style='font-size: 15px;'><a href='http://www.VideoCodeZone.com'>Music Video Codes</a> by VideoCodeZone.com</font></div>Ginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05659789853130139185noreply@blogger.com3